March 7, 2025: Discernment of Reality

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Meditation: Discernment of Reality 

March 7, 2025 

Om Om Om 

(Silence) 

Meditate inquiring to know your existence as it is. Meditate inquiring, “Who am I?”, discerning your real nature, which is bodiless, indestructible, indivisible, and eternal. Trace the sense of identity of “I” inward to its real nature. Trace the discernment of reality inward to the actual existence. Existence knowing itself as it is, is knowledge. Your effort to discern or understand such knowledge, suffusing the whole of you, is meditation. Meditate, “Who am I?”. 

(Silence) 

Questioner: 

When tracing the sense of identity inward, though it is not a doing, the tracing seems to be thought-driven. The instruction is to try and trace it at the sense of the knowledge of existence of oneself, but it ends up being driven by thought, and truly tracing the sense of identity inward is leaving the thought outside. 

Nome:  

How can the knowledge of existence be driven by thought? Don’t you exist whether there is thought or not?  

Q: I meant the instruction earlier has always been that the sense of existence is there without thought, and the inquiry should happen at that level of knowledge of existence. Similarly, the tracing of the sense of identity has to be done without thought. I was finding it difficult to follow that instruction while meditating. What actually is meant by tracing the sense of identity within?  

N: What is within? Is within a thought, or is within more subjective than thought? What is within should not be misidentified with thought. You should not confuse thought with your existence. Existence is the identity, what you are. With or without thought, it is the same and unbounded. Your existence, the Self, does not depend on thought in order to exist,or to know itself, for existence is the source of its own knowledge of itself. Who are you? Find it deeper than thought.  

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om