Duet of One

During the satsang, broadcast live over the internet from Thiruvannamalai, Mooji asked the audience," What have you to show? What have you found in your search?" . Assuming for a moment, that the Guru finally deems me worthy and reveals my true identity and places this shimmering thing that is God on my trembling palms, I would have to exist to see it. That is, if I can find IT, it is not IT. IT has to be inseparable from me. I'm IT. I thought I can attain God and then the realization happened that I is just a thought.

On the canvas of the universe, if humans can be represented by small circles with a dot in the center, the dots represent the sense of an individual controller or sense of personal doer ship. This center provided the impetus to negotiate the world and collect things with an intent to own or possess. This also drives ambition and the need for bigger and greater achievements. At some point , when most of the needs are met, the center begins to look for the ultimate achievement- happiness and absolute bliss , and so one turns to religion , scripture or spiritual pursuits. The seeking intensifies as the effort is not easily rewarded. The search presupposes that something is lost and that the individual knows what it is that needs to be found. This invariably leads to frustration and a revaluation of ones efforts and introspection happens. It may be then realized that neither the seeking of spiritual achievements nor all the other life-time successes and failures were the direct resu...