Articles for Saadhana

Harih Om Tat Sat. Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.

I was wondering what I should talk this morning.

What a beautiful statement is this! People will study the subject of self-knowledge, self-knowledge, self-knowledge, self-knowledge, but what is this self knowledge? What is the effect it will bring about, both at the pursuit level and at the perfection level? Unless you start thinking ahead in this manner, you will not be able to get anywhere.

samyagālokanātsatyāt vāsanā pravilīyate

Suppose you try to think about, comprehend the truth. What is the truth? What is the truth? There is only one existence, one reality, one God, one Self. And that is all-pervading. If it is all-pervading, can there be a second existence? No. So it is only one, one and one. If you are thinking about this one, one, one, one, one, so that one cannot attract another, one cannot be attracted by another because there is only one. One cannot hate another because there is only one. So, you will find it is a panacea for all our mind’s distractions and problems.

Samyag - Sufficiently well.

Ālokanāt satyāt. You start perceiving this truth very well, very well, thinking about it, thinking about it, reflecting upon it, reflecting upon it. Then what will happen? It will produce an outcome and an effect in you. Where, in the body? No. This is a mento-intellectual science. So, it will bring about its beautiful and distinct effect on your mind. What is that effect? Vāsanā pravilīyate. The desires your mind fosters, it is not one desire, multiplicity of desires. If one desire is fulfilled, another will crop up, then a third will crop up, and you will find our mind stores quite a number of desires. It is a process of desiring, desiring, desiring, desiring, desiring. So, this situation, this habit will change.

Samyagālokanātsatyāt vāsanā pravilīyate. Look into your mind and the mind is generally motivated by desire, ambition, greed and possessiveness. The intensity or the strength of this desireful nature of the mind will reduce drastically. The more and more you contemplate upon the singular truth, the more and more will fall your desires.

Vāsanāvilaye cetaḥ, cetaḥ means the mind. Vāsanāvilaye means when the desires get dissolved, śāmyati asneha-dīpavat, the mind itself will settle to quietude like the flame of a lamp getting extinguished when the oil is run out. You know, it is a very simple proposition. Whenever you see such propositions which are final and absolute, easy to comprehend, what should you do? Immediately pocket it, learn it, think about it, love it, be fond of it, foster it. Then, the more and more the effort at contemplating upon, grasping, assimilating the message of oneness, the more and more it takes place, there is a direct effect on the mind. This contemplation is done by the mind. Comprehension is done by the intelligence. When they comprehend, comprehend, comprehend, automatically the desire will fall, fall, fall, fall and fall. When they fall in full, the desirefulness itself will become extinct.

Just see this one verse. Stop talking about the self. Stop talking about God also. Only focus on this proposition.

Now this is said with regard to your mind, your inner being. Because it is said about your inner being, it applies to you in full. So, why don’t you learn it? Take it as a mantra and apply it on your mind. And every time you apply, it is like pouring drops of water into a hundred litre bottle, empty bottle. Every drop of water will start filling the bottle. In the same manner, the more and more you contemplate upon the singular nature of the truth, existence is only one, only one, only one, then this is going to be the effect. Unfortunately, people don’t know this. They will go on reading this Upanishad, that Upanishad, Bhagavad Gita, here, there, what? Where is that subtle finality from where we can pick up the practice and perfect it?

At one time, we are told repeatedly that the body is not the self. Body and self are different, different, different, different, different. And so many arguments and clarifications are brought down with a view to emphasize and drive home this truth. And we start growing. Body is useless, body is useless, soul alone is, soul alone is. You are saying this because of the body, you are understanding this because of your brain. If there is no body and no brain, where is the question of speaking about this wisdom? Ultimately, when you are able to conceive of the soul, what is the soul? It is the most subtle presence, most subtle presence, like the sky. Initially, how do you show the sky to a child or to a young mind? Look at the stars, how many are there? There is a distance between every two, so there is a gap. This gap is more than the space occupied by the stars. As I have told earlier also my audience, if all the celestial bodies were collected together and put, made into a mass-aggregate, it will be .00000000000000000001 of the total space. Why don’t you think about it? I find a lot of interest in such contemplations. So, we generally show the space as besides the celestial bodies, besides the celestial bodies. And once you have grasped the nature of space, it is unlike solid earth, fluid water, gaseous air and energial fire. It is something all-pervading, so that all-pervading idea will gradually get into you.

Space is all-pervading, it is inter-penetrating and surrounding every solid object in the atmosphere. When you understand that, don’t you think everywhere, in everything, everything and all are nothing but space and its manifestation? Exactly like this your understanding will grow. It is not that the body is different from the soul, the soul itself is everything and the body also is itself. When you refer to the body, you are referring to a living body. If you are a living body, you tell me whether the body is important or the livingness in it is more important? So when you look at living body, what is it that you are capturing or comprehending? You are comprehending the life in it. Otherwise you will say it is a dead body. So, between the body and the presence that activates and animates it, the second is the most important. How will you define it? You will define it as interpenetrating everything, everything, everything. In that sense, body is the self. It is included in the self, it is a manifestation of the self. Senses are, everything is! So you will reach a state where self alone is, God alone is, reality alone is. No more distinction. What is there to be distinguished? In an all-pervading presence, there is no scope for a second item at all. See? This is how you have to catch the statements. Think about them and grow, grow, grow.

Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru.