“If you focus your mind on this ‘I am’, this immanent consciousness, and if you can establish yourself there for some time, you will begin to experience some peace. When the thought processes are not present, even for a moment, one gets a lot of spiritual energy. When that energy and that feeling of peace come, one gets more encouragement, more enthusiasm. When you have had a little experience of the peace and bliss of the Self you always feel a determination, the feeling of struggling unnecessarily gradually diminishes.”
Sri Annamalai Swami, Living By The Words Of Bhagwan
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Dear Sri Subramanian Sir and Sri cefnbrithdir,
Yes, how can it be otherwise, or other way round. There is One Unitary Awareness without a second, Unmoving, All-pervading, and Unchanging. I mean only to convey what Sri Annamalai Swami indicated through the quoted Teaching. If one can focus one’s mind on the Immanent Consciousness, ‘I AM’, and if one can establish oneself even for some time, one begins to experience some peace and starts to gradually understand, experientially, that one is ‘Awareness’ rather than the insentient body. SUCCESS BEGETS SUCCESS. One gets more encouragement, more enthusiasm. Thought processes slow down, and gradually, are few and far between. Sri Bhagwan has taught that we should not fancy that there is no end of thoughts. If each thought is dealt as it emerges by the divine weapon of Vichara, like the enemy soldiers as they emerge from a fortress. Mind increasingly becomes quiescent and quiescent mind merges in the Self easily, like a dust-free needle drawn to a powerful magnet. One then understands that one is Awareness rather than this insignificant body-mind complex. However, if all attachments have not been rooted out from the heart, mind, now and then, is sure to rise and go out to sense-objects. This, I said metaphorically, that one begins to understand experientially and not merely intellectually, that one is Awareness which now and then falls into mind. By the phrase ‘falling into mind’, I simply meant that mind is certain to rise again and again even at this stage, if residual attachments are not rooted out by progressively longer and longer abidance in the Self, and thereby mind is not irreversibly merged in the Self.
Dear devotees, in my view, Grace, Focus and Perseverance are essential for Self-Realisation. Effort must go on till, by His Grace, state of effortlessness is not achieved. Our duty is thus far. Hereafter, it is the Self and only the Self. Sri Bhagwan assures that the SELF IS WAITING FOR US TO TAKE US IN.
Thanks very much, sir.
Regards,
Anil