The Voice That Calls Your Name — Rupert Spira on the Inner Witness

I have [clears throat] a question from the meditation this morning and other meditation I have. >> Poets don't like to have to explain their work. >> [laughter] >> No, but it it was a glimpse I had. So, I have a question about that because it was in a deep state of stillness. And I I think I'm a little bit crazy when I say this, but this happened many times. This morning I heard a cough and it not was not from me and not from the anybody here. And it was very loud. And it's like a kind of opening and it's always strange because I feel not connected to this it was cough cough. Other times it's been like uh uh ringing bells from church and other times it's been my own voice. I heard my name. And it's like a voice from it's not from a dream, it's not my it's not from my thoughts. Uh it's very powerful and I I wonder who is this voice? Is is I can hear my own voice sometimes when it's coming very short. >> And it it speaks your name? Teresa? Sometimes? Mhm? >> It it speaks your name. You hear the voice yeah? >> Yeah, it says my name very very very loud and it's like it's it's There's a beautiful line. It it's Teresa, isn't it? Yes. >> Yeah, yeah. There's a beautiful line in in the Old Testament in Isaiah. I have called you by your name. You are mine. Imagine Teresa that one of the staff were to walk into the room now and to say so sorry to interrupt you. Is Teresa here? What What would happen in all of you? Nothing. You wouldn't respond, but what would happen in you? You You hear the words is Teresa here? You You would respond, I am here. Now, to what experience did you refer in between the words is Teresa here and your response I am here? Where did you go in between those two experiences? Her question, your response. You went somewhere. You went somewhere that enabled you to say I am here. Where did you go? I am here. Did you go to the sensation of the soles of your feet? Uh no, I didn't actually. >> Did you go to the memory of breakfast? >> No. No, you went somewhere. Uh otherwise nobody else went anywhere. Nobody else went I am here. Why? Because the words is Teresa here didn't take them to that place. But the word the sound of the name Teresa resonated you. It resonated with an experience. What experience did it resonate with? Don't say I don't know because if you didn't know, you wouldn't have said yes, I am here. I didn't say. It was actually I was It's very like I was witness my own observing this voice. >> No, no. That's very tricky. >> than that. You hear the name Teresa Yeah. and you go yes. Something happens in between the name Teresa and the yes. Yeah. Where do you go to? To what experience do you refer? The name, it takes you somewhere. It takes you to yourself. Yeah. >> It takes you to yourself. Not to your thoughts, not your sensations, not your relationships, not your It takes you to It takes you to the experience of being. I have called you by your name. You are mine. It's so beautiful. Yeah. In that moment of hearing your name, you're taken to your true nature momentarily. And in response to that experience, you go yes, I am here. Not I a person, of course the mind says I a person, I a body, I'm here, but the real experience is yes, I pure pure being I'm I'm here in this placeless place of consciousness. Yeah. And that's what's happening when this So, now to to respond to your question, when when you when you hear your own name, when your own mind sounds your own name within itself your own mind is your name Teresa is a symbol in your mind of your true nature. And your own mind is sounding your It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Your own mind is sounding its own name in order to take itself to its essence. Yeah. It's beautiful. >> Yeah, I I could feel it. It was actually it's it's always I have this when I go very deep and I'm dissolving. This happened without control. It's really like and it's a light. It's very much light in it. So, it's It's why it in in It's why we refer to our names as Christian names. Yeah. It means the name of the Christ principle in us. So, each of our Christian names is our individual name for the Christ principle, the I am in us. Yeah. So, each of our Christian names is a symbol in each of our minds for who we truly are. Our surname that identifies us in a family, in a town, in in in in a country, but our Christian names refers to who we truly are, the Christ principle, the I am within us. And that's why you sound your name. It's beautiful. Your your mind sounds your own name once and takes you to your true nature. I have called you by your name. You are mine. But who is this voice? >> [laughter] >> It's very It's It's It's is it the calling? It's It's like it's Teresa, you're overthinking it. I'm trying to >> [laughter] >> I'm trying to I understand it, but I'm still a little bit is it the because I feel it's like in in it's Your your your name is a symbol. Yeah. It's a sound. It's a symbol of of the of the I am principle in you. >> I I got it. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> I understand. Thank you.