LET HIM BE PRESENT AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE.
Q: What meditation will help me?
Sri Bhagwan: No meditation on an object is helpful, for this reason. You must learn to realize the subject and object as one; and in meditating on an object, whether concrete or abstract, you are destroying that sense of oneness, and creating duality. Meditate on the Self. Try to realize that the body is not you, the emotions are not you, the intellect is not you. When all desires are stilled, you will find--something else is there; hold it that it will reveal itself.
Q: But when I have stilled all I almost fall asleep?
Sri Bhagwan: That does not matter. Put yourself into the condition as deep as sleep, and then watch; be asleep consciously; then there is only the Consciousness.
Q: Is yoga a good method of approach?
Sri Bhagwan: In the end there is only one approach to the Goal, and that is through the realization of the Self, so why waste time on other roads which at the best will only lead on to the final path; better to be on the final path itself all the time, than on an auxiliary road. Meditate on what the Self is; that is all, there is nothing else but to find the answer to that. See the Self in all; act spontaneously, so to speak, and let 'it' be present and it will always be available. Do not look to results; do what is right and leave it.
Conscious Immortality
Dear Devotees,
When one meditates on the Self, sooner or later, experience of being the Self is gained. One must learn to experience oneself as formless and therefore worldless through meditation on the Self. When one is intellectually convinced that the Self is the Eye of Infinite Consciousness, why should one continue to pursue dualistic sadhana, which destroys the sense of oneness or the unity, by creating subject-object divide, is beyond my understanding. If one wants to realize the Atma-swarupa in this very life-time, and attain the Goal for which one has been born, meditation on the Self alone is the Path of least distance. If only one is not able to pursue this sadhana, one should resort to dualistic spiritual practices, which, as Sri Bhagwan has assured, will ultimately lead on to the final sadhana.
Body, emotions, intellect, etc. , pertain to the spurious ego, and when one gravitates within deeper and deeper to one's Core, by persevering on the meditating on the Self, becomes Source-aware or the Self-aware, and this appearing and disappearing sense of 'I'-ness is seen clearly as to what really it is, and realization dawns that one is not the body, one is not one's emotions and one is not the intellect. What I wish to say is that the Self-enquiry itself enables one to understand and realize the illusoriness of the ego-mind, even before the completion of the sadhana, and with it is revealed the untenability of the body, emotions and intellect. Of course, Grace is needed, but if one is seized with this quest and meditation, this is clear proof of showering of His Grace, and divine fervor. This is how I have understood and practiced Sri Bhagwan's Teaching , and experienced peace even amidst turmoil.
Dear devotees, lastly I wish to say that one should practice Enquiry as one has understood, and persevere in this practice. Self-enquiry is its own guide and will lead one to that variant of the Enquiry which is most appropriate for one, depending on one's maturity. If one wants to learn to play guitar, one starts practice with a guitar and not with a flute. LET HIM BE PRESENT, HE WILL HIMSELF REMOVE ALL THE OBSTACLES ON THE PATH. It is His Job. Our job is to do only what we have been told to do.
Thanks very much.
Pranam,
Anil