When the Question Disappears

Excerpt from Wake Up and Roar, 1992 edition

Satsang with H.W.L. Poonja, page 20

Who am I? Investigate it. Start with the question itself. First, investigate who. Next, investigate am. Next, investigate I. When you return to the I, the question will disappear and no answer will be there.

That is your answer — that no answer is the answer. The river returns to the source from which it arises —the ocean – and disappears. No further inquiry to search for the river is needed. The river becomes the source.

We are all returning to the source. Every sentence that we speak returns. Every activity is moving towards itself. You only have to be aware and your journey will be ended. We are in the source itself. Even if you don’t try, you are already there. Make this choice. Choose “I am free,” and you are free. Choose “I am bound,” and you are bound.

It is your choice. You choose to be bound. You choose to suffer. So, if you have the choice, choose happiness and freedom. Let it be a good choice of love.

When all other choices have failed miserably and the result is suffering, we have been cheated. So let us go the other way. Nothing known has ever given us lasting happiness. Anything known is not permanent. Anything that has name and form is not permanent. Let us try nameless and formless emptiness this time, in this blessed span of life.