#advai

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When you realize you are not the doer it means that your body is going through the experience but not you. The next thing you do is you ask yourself, "Who is having this experience? To whom does it come? It comes to me. I'm feeling depression. I feel hurt. I feel out of sort. I feel that I've been robbed or hit by a car. I'm angry. I'm mad." Who is this I? How can the I be so many things, angry, mad, depressed, hurt, out of sort. You therefore hold onto the feeling of I. You hold onto that feeling and you follow it through to its source. Tthe source of I is always consciousness or absolute awareness, when you follow it to its source. But now, the only way you can follow it to its source is to forget about your problem , for y ou can't do both at once. So, you have to turn resolutely away from your problem, totally away from your problem, as if it doesn't exist, and hold on to the "me". Hold onto the "me" who thinks it has a problem. As soon as you begin to hold onto "me" or "I" the problem will begin to dissipate all by itself. And, you'll start to laugh. You will. For it is virtually impossible for your real Self to have a problem. For your real Self is omnipresent, absolute. Your real Self is emptiness, nirvana, pure intelligence. Your real Self is omnipresent. As if two of you were present at the same time. When you understand who you are nothing will ever disturb you again. New people ask me , "If I develop a sense of `I' and I follow it to its culmination, does that mean I will never have a problem again?" and I have to laugh when people ask me that , for as long as you identify with "I", it is the "I" that has the problem. So when you say, "Will I never have a problem again, you're defeating your own purpose. For "I" is filled with problems, not only from this life but from previous existences. The trick is to follow the "I" to the source, and then the "I" will disappear, totally, completely, absolutely. And when the "I" disappears, so does your problem. In other words, the world doesn't change but you do. Your reaction changes. Just like the screen and it's images. When the time comes when you have transcended "I" you become like the screen and like the images shown on the screen. It will not be attached to you anymore. You will now have identification with the screen or with the Self. Am I clear in this? In other words, the screen and the images are the same, but the screen is aware of itself and also of it's images, and it's not affected by the kinds of images you show. You can show a bank robbery taking place on the screen. How does that affect the screen? It does not. The screen is never affected. New images change, one after the other. In the same way, your Self is like the screen. It is never affected by problems of any kind or any sort. The problems come upon the screen. They come and they go, but you remain the Self forever. You never change. How do you begin to become this way? Every time you think you have a problem you must ask yourself, "To whom does the problem come? After all, I am not the doer. I am not the body. I am not the mind. So to whom does the problem come?" And of course the answer will be, "To me. I feel this problem. The problem comes to me." You hold onto the me. You abide in the me. And you go deeper and deeper and deeper within yourself, abiding in the I consciousness. As you keep doing this everyday, every time a problem appears, the day will finally come soon when you transcend your sense of I. You totally transcend it. The sense of I disappears and you will become pure consciousness. That's it.