Qn: We are like animal running vainly. Is there a way out?
Ans: When you are awake, you are conscious; when asleep, you are only alive. Consciousness and life, you may call God, but you are beyond both, beyond God, beyond being and non-being. What prevents you from knowing yourself as all and beyond all, is the mind based on memory.
It has power over you as long as you trust it. Don't struggle with it. Just disregard it. Deprived of attention it will slow down. Life and death do not create problems. Pains and pleasures come and go; experienced and forgotten.
It is memory and anticipation that create problems. Truth and love are man's real nature and mind and heart are the means of its expression.
Qn: How to bring the mind under control? And the heart which does not know what it wants.
Ans: They need the light of pure awareness. Memory is a good servant, but a bad master. It prevents discovery. There is no place for effort in Reality. Selfishness can be removed only by clear insight into its causes and effects.
Effort is a sign of conflict between incomparable desires. They should be seen so that they dissolve.
Qn: And what remains?
Ans: That which cannot change. The great peace, the deep silence, the hidden beauty of Reality remain. While it cannot be conveyed by words, it is waiting for you to experience.
Qn: Must not one be fit for realization? Our nature is animal to the core. Unless it is conquered, how can Reality dawn?
Ans: Leave the animal alone. Use every incident to remind you that without you as the witness, there is neither animal nor God. Understand you are both, the essence and substance of all there is.
What more tangible proof do you need than your own existence. Go beyond the 'I am the body' idea and you will find space and time within you, not you in them.
Qn: What is realization beyond understanding?
Ans: Imagine a forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. You watch the tigers fearlessly. Next you find the tigers in the cage and you roaming freely. Last, the cage disappears and you ride the tigers!
Qn: Why do people go for frenzy and self abandonment in meditation sessions?
Ans: These are inventions of a restless mind, to disgorge suppressed memories. Ultimately, they leave you worse. Every seeker invents or accepts a method, which suits him and his temperament, builds it into a system, establishes a tradition and admits others to his school. No such school is indispensable or valueless.
The true teacher does not imprison the disciple. Sat-Sang does not mould, it liberates. Self surrender is surrender of all Self concern.
Qn: In Rigveda, there is mention of Adhi-Yoga, the primordial Yoga consisting of the marriage of Pragna and Prana, which means the union of wisdom and life. Is it also union of Dharma and Karma?
Ans: Yes, provided, by 'righteousness' you mean 'harmony with one’s true nature' and by 'action' — only 'unselfish and desireless action'. In Adhi-yoga, life itself is the Guru and the mind- the disciple.
A man deprived of outer or inner sensations blanks out or goes beyond consciousness and unconsciousness- into the birthless and deathless state. To know yourself, turn away your attention from the world and turn within. What you see is nothing but yourself. Through the film of destiny, your own light depicts pictures on the screen.
You are the viewer, the light, the picture and the screen. Even the film of destiny is self-selected and self-imposed. The spirit is a sport and enjoys to overcome obstacles. The harder the task, the deeper and wider the Self realization.
Ans: When you are awake, you are conscious; when asleep, you are only alive. Consciousness and life, you may call God, but you are beyond both, beyond God, beyond being and non-being. What prevents you from knowing yourself as all and beyond all, is the mind based on memory.
It has power over you as long as you trust it. Don't struggle with it. Just disregard it. Deprived of attention it will slow down. Life and death do not create problems. Pains and pleasures come and go; experienced and forgotten.
It is memory and anticipation that create problems. Truth and love are man's real nature and mind and heart are the means of its expression.
Qn: How to bring the mind under control? And the heart which does not know what it wants.
Ans: They need the light of pure awareness. Memory is a good servant, but a bad master. It prevents discovery. There is no place for effort in Reality. Selfishness can be removed only by clear insight into its causes and effects.
Effort is a sign of conflict between incomparable desires. They should be seen so that they dissolve.
Qn: And what remains?
Ans: That which cannot change. The great peace, the deep silence, the hidden beauty of Reality remain. While it cannot be conveyed by words, it is waiting for you to experience.
Qn: Must not one be fit for realization? Our nature is animal to the core. Unless it is conquered, how can Reality dawn?
Ans: Leave the animal alone. Use every incident to remind you that without you as the witness, there is neither animal nor God. Understand you are both, the essence and substance of all there is.
What more tangible proof do you need than your own existence. Go beyond the 'I am the body' idea and you will find space and time within you, not you in them.
Qn: What is realization beyond understanding?
Ans: Imagine a forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. You watch the tigers fearlessly. Next you find the tigers in the cage and you roaming freely. Last, the cage disappears and you ride the tigers!
Qn: Why do people go for frenzy and self abandonment in meditation sessions?
Ans: These are inventions of a restless mind, to disgorge suppressed memories. Ultimately, they leave you worse. Every seeker invents or accepts a method, which suits him and his temperament, builds it into a system, establishes a tradition and admits others to his school. No such school is indispensable or valueless.
The true teacher does not imprison the disciple. Sat-Sang does not mould, it liberates. Self surrender is surrender of all Self concern.
Qn: In Rigveda, there is mention of Adhi-Yoga, the primordial Yoga consisting of the marriage of Pragna and Prana, which means the union of wisdom and life. Is it also union of Dharma and Karma?
Ans: Yes, provided, by 'righteousness' you mean 'harmony with one’s true nature' and by 'action' — only 'unselfish and desireless action'. In Adhi-yoga, life itself is the Guru and the mind- the disciple.
A man deprived of outer or inner sensations blanks out or goes beyond consciousness and unconsciousness- into the birthless and deathless state. To know yourself, turn away your attention from the world and turn within. What you see is nothing but yourself. Through the film of destiny, your own light depicts pictures on the screen.
You are the viewer, the light, the picture and the screen. Even the film of destiny is self-selected and self-imposed. The spirit is a sport and enjoys to overcome obstacles. The harder the task, the deeper and wider the Self realization.
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