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Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru.
I will continue the discussion which we had last night. These are some very, very sublime and subtle points which every one of you should spend a lot of time to absorb. After you absorb it, the knowledge remains constant with you. Then the question of applying it, applying it, applying it arises.
What is the difference between meditation and the non-meditational hours? In the meditational hours, the mind and the intelligence tries spiritually in the absence of sensory and bodily activities. The sensory and bodily activities are totally stopped, arrested and the mind and the intelligence strive completely without any diversion or distraction in the spiritual way. That is called meditation.
Now, what about the non-meditational hours? In the non-meditational hours, the senses and the body are acting and interacting. So the mind cannot exclusively strive for spirituality. So we must develop a bridging. What is that bridge? We must bring the non-meditational, active and interactive spell under the meditational fold. How can it be had? That is where you must have an expanse in your mind.
What is this whole world? This whole world – is it secular or divine? Generally we consider things like the world and worldly to be secular and then we think God and godly things to be divine. But, what about this world? This world is actually divinity itself in a concrete, gross, manifest form.
Gold by making it into an ornament and wearing it, it does not lose its gold-ness. Water by flowing as a river does not lose its waterness. Fire, by making it functional in various forms does not loose either its heat or its brilliance. Likewise, God by manifesting Himself as the world, matter, energy, pancabhūtās etc., He has only demonstrated that He can also become solid and gross. But what has become solid and gross is God Himself.
So by looking at the world we need not say it is separate from, distanced from God. It is just like water becoming cold, it turns into solid, white ice. But the water-ness in it, it’s true character does not change. Similarly this world is God alone manifested. And what are you? You are only one small item in this world. So either you or the world with which you interact, neither can become secular. Both of them are equally divine. It is within the fold of divinity that you do whatever you like or whatever you want.
Can you develop this kind of a comprehensive thinking as a result of which whatever I try to achieve in my meditation, the same thing I am trying to pursue in the non-meditational hours also but coupled with sensory and bodily activities and interactions? Bodily and sensory interactions and activities do not change my divine character or the world’s divine nature.
Is it that while sleeping alone I am ‘I’? When I wake up I became non-‘I’? When I dreamt, I became non-‘I’? in sleep I was totally absorbed in myself, non-active I was. But in the wakefulness I am wakeful and I am interactive. Both are equally potentials and possibilities of my personality. Whatever I was in sleep, the same thing I am in waking, equally the same thing I am in dreaming. Wakefulness shows one possibility and potential of myself. Dream shows another possibilities and potentials of myself.
What does dream show? The dream clearly evidences that I am capable of creating the whole world without any assistance. Here in the wakefulness it apparently means I am interacting with things which I have not created. They are already there. “It is not so! The creator is the same.” is the truth evidenced by dream. In the dream, all the products I have created. In the wakefulness also all the products you have created.
So can you bring the post meditational, active and interactive spell also under the meditational fold is a question that you should take up. Go on introspecting over it as much as you want until at last you start feeling that “In meditation I am dissociated with activity and interaction and still I meditate. But in wakefulness I am associated with activities and interactions. This association does not in any way change my seeking character or the sādhana I am doing. I have to transform my post-meditational active spell in such a manner that it will continue to be an extension of my meditative sadhana.”
I wonder whether you get my point. My dear souls, unless you are able to break this feeling of difference, I think the great loss that we are suffering from cannot be redressed.
Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.