Sri Bhagavan said:
"Why do you think you are a grihasta? If you go out as a sanyasi,
a similar thought (that you are a sanyasi) will haunt you. Whether
you continue in the household, or renounce it and go to the forest,
your mind haunts you. The ego is the source of thoughts. It creates
the body and the world and makes you think you are a grihasta. If
you renounce the world, it will only substitute the thought sanyasi
for grihasta and the environments of the forest for those of the
household. But the mental obstacles are always there. They even
increase in new surroundings. There is no help in the change of
environment. The obstacle is the mind. It must be got over whether
at home or in the forest. If you can do it in the forest, why not in
the home?
Therefore why change the environment? Your efforts
can be made even now, in whatever environment you may be.
The environment never abandons you, according to your desire.
Look at me. I left home. Look at yourselves. You have come
here leaving the home environment. What do you find here?
Is this different from what you left? Even if one is immersed
in nirvikalpa samadhi for years together, when he emerges from
it he will find himself in the environment which he is bound to
have. That is the reason for the Acharya emphasising sahaja
samadhi in preference to nirvikalpa samadhi in his excellent
work Viveka Chudamani.
One should be in spontaneous samadhi - that is, in one’s pristine
state - in the midst of every environment."
