| |
|||
| Om. |
|||
|
|
|||
| No
Effort
|
|||
|
You
must have come here for freedom, to get rid of sorrow, to get rid
of suffering. Life is a repeating cycle of death, disease, and old
age; but you can abandon this by simply listening. Listen to me, listen
to what I am saying and all is over.
I don't give you
any task or any work to do. This is not the Olympics; you don't have
to run. This is satsang. No exertion is needed here. Without even
needing to think a single thought you can be liberated this moment.
If you are not ready in this life you might as well wait a thousand
lives. You simply need to listen very carefully. It is very easy for
those who are serious, sincere, and devoted to themselves. People
who come for tamashia will not get the point.
You have to simply
become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless
trouble. That something is actually arising out of consciousness is
only a concept, and it is this which gives rise to the myth of an
individual identity. How much time does it take for the mind to arise
or for it to be stopped? One movement of thought causes this endless
creation to appear, complete with its creators, preservers, and destroyers.
If the mind is checked it is all over. But it is not going to end
on its own. If it were real it could end, but because it is only a
notion it will end only if you see the source of the notion as it
is arising. The idea that, "I am so-and-so" and "You
are so-and-so" is the movement of the mind. "I am"
is the first movement of the mind; and from here arises the trouble.
When you get up in
the morning you feel rested and happy. There is a movement in consciousness
and you call this the waking state. The world appears to you with
its mountains, rivers, forests, people, birds and animals, and you
call it waking up. The same thing happens at night in dreams. There
are no objects to experience, but even in sleep the mind is not quiet;
it creates another world. Who is responsible for that creation? Who?
You cannot say God, or the Creator, or any other person. It is you
who are sleeping comfortably, but you cannot rest even in sleep and
so you create another world within yourself. You see mountains, rivers,
elephants, tigers, although they are not there in your apartment -
you are alone. Neither are there objects nor is there any subject.
Only the ego is projecting its own world.
Just like the chicks
return in the evening under the wings of the mother hen the ego says,
“Keep quiet.” Because of ego, darkness, next morning they will jump
out of the wings of again the same thing, you see. The mind is exhausted
from the transactions of subject-object relationship. Give it a little
rest.
Transcending these
three states you will find another state where you have peace. Few
people know this peaceful state of consciousness, of happiness, of
bliss, of existence. Even beyond this turiya there is yet another
state which a few rare ones reach and return to speak about it. In
this discovery everything ends - from here all also starts. This is
the substratum which has always been concealed by thoughts, from where
they arise. This supreme state of consciousness is concealed by conceptual
understanding itself.
If I show you a handkerchief
you will see its form, its length, width, thickness, its uses, and
its name – “handkerchief.” You
will not see the cotton from which it is made; you will not call it
"cotton." If I show you this kerchief even - this is a kerchief
- length, width, height, its uses, name is “kerchief”. Form is this
you see, but you know the cotton you can't see. Cotton is not seen.
No one can say it's cotton… kerchief! If you remove the name and form
you will see the cotton.
If you remove the
name and form, all that you see here and now - whatever you see -
remove the name and form. You are in that state beyond the fourth
which I described, you see. It will appear itself. It is here. That's
not to be gained, it is already there. Because you are already otherwise
engaged in your fantasies you have no time to look. What is concealed?
You only give importance to what is seen. Importance to form and your
notions, you see.
So, if you check
your notion - one word - if you check your notion and intention simply
for that reason. Don't allow any notion to arise or any intention
in the mind, you see, for just this instant of time. What's going
to happen? So this is one word. How to do it? Not to give rise. You
must ask me question, why? How to do it? How not to give rise to this
movement at all, you see.
So this can be done
when you make inquiry… when you make inquiry into this process of
movement. What is the movement going on? That's all you have got to
do it. And this inquiry is enough instruction from someone, and this
is enough to listen from someone. That's all you have to do as a student,
and this is enough for the teacher to speak, and there's nothing beyond
this to speak, and nothing beyond this to listen either. What else
can you read in any book if you don't listen to this? That, I have
to inquire into the movement of the mind itself - strike at the root
of the mind. If you see a mango tree in the seed you don't see leaves
nor the fruits but in the seed, in the small seed of a tree there
are leaves, there are branches, there are flowers, there are fruits
that you can't see, you see. So to see this you have to inquire. This
is the minutest of the minute; may it take a millionth part of the
tip of your hair. That's what is said. The millionth part of the tip
so minute, so subtle it is. And only how will you reach it? You can't
see with your eyes, you can't touch with your hands. Only by inquiry
you are going to reach the most subtle place and it is reaching you
there. Inquire.
This inquiry is not
going to end. This inquiry is not going to end unless this subject
who is inquiring is itself consumed into the inquiry. First let the
inquirer consume itself into the inquiry itself, and then the inquiry
will be consumed into that which has not yet been described - and
you are that. Not that you are going to become something else at some
other time. No, you are already that. You're not going to gain anything.
Not going to gain anything, not to achieve anything, not to learn
anything. If you get rid of all that you have learned till now, heard
till now, read till now, seen till now, what's left? All what you've
acquired is only hearsay. You have borrowed… you have borrowed from
someone else. It's not your nature; it's not your true Self. You will
return to your own Self and nobody knows what the Self is. You attribute
Self to some particular form or name that can be seen, smelt, touched
or heard about which cannot be seen or touched, that I am going to
refer. So, how to do it? Simply inquire into the nature of what is
seen, what this universe is, and what its origin.
Its origin is not
other than your own notion because you have become first, "I
am so and so," and then there is the world. There are relations
and this is the world, and it's your notion. Now if you find out the
substratum of the notion, the source of the notion, and how to do
it? By simply inquiring, "What is the source of the notion?"
Simply look down - there's no other way. You don't need do anything.
Simply keep quiet and don't think. That's all. You have not to do
anything.
You have not seen
this moment of quietness for the last millions of years - you have
never been quiet. And we are going to speak of this quietness which
is your nature and which is the substratum of everything that is seen.
Without this we cannot have rest. And this is what is called Freedom,
Enlightenment, Wisdom, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, satyam-shivam-sundaram,
whatsoever you call it - and yet it has no name. Yet it has no name
- not even consciousness. It is so empty of even emptiness how can
you describe it?
When you see a star,
you can see a star because of the skies. You can't see a star without
the background of sky. When you see the universe there must be something
– consciousness - which compels you to see the universe. When you
see your own body there must be consciousness through which you have
experience of your body. What is this consciousness? You have never
before thought of it. What is the basis that you see? Even to start
with your body, how this body is seen? There must be some basis through
which you are aware. There must be some substratum, some source through
which you are experiencing the body itself. What is that?
If you keep quiet,
then only you will know it; not with the moving of the mind. If you
move the mind there is body, and if you move the mind to know the
cause, the source of the body, you multiply it. So, how to do it?
By not doing anything; not thinking anything. Just imagine if you
do not think - just to see the source of the body you have not to
think. What is the source now? You are multiplying only. So if you
understand this thing, even if you understand you miss it. You
have not to understand it. If you understand you are thinking,
still you are thinking. So free. You have to be so free not even to
put activity to even your understanding - so free. No one has seen
this freedom before.
You will really enjoy
whatever you do in the world. I don't advise you to run away from
your activity. May you be active, whatever you are doing already 200%
better than other people are doing. Other people will be suffering.
You can't pay attention
if relaxed like this. You have to pay absolute attention. Some say,
"I'll just find out what has been spoken. I'll just go back to
the hotel and find out." That will not do, you see. What's the
use of the rain when the crop is dried up. It's no use. This moment
is very important. You can after all… you need only one, this instant
is needed; and if this instant you can't be quiet what's the use of
coming here? Some, if not now, after all you have to get only one
word today, now, today, tomorrow, day after. Everyday, same thing
I am saying because you have to get at it some word, someday - now.
You have to get one word. It will ignite like explosive. It will ignite.
Because you are not listening, not paying attention therefore it's
not working. It has to work, it has to work. How much time does it
take to burn? Instantly, instantly it has to burn. Like that you have
to ready, when the satsang is there you must be very ready.
Come, come - be ignited
like camphor! This word, this instruction is fire - let it ignite
your heart like camphor and destroy your darkness! If a room has been
shut up for twenty or thirty years and you switch on the light the
darkness in the room will not say, "I will depart slowly. I have
been here for thirty years." When you switch the light on there
is light immediately; the darkness will not linger simply because
she has been there for thirty years. You may have lived in darkness
for thirty five million years, but one click of the switch can switch
on the light and instantly destroy the whole forest of ignorance.
This is the power of the teacher: to remove ignorance instantly. If
the fire does not burn the camphor something is wrong somewhere. Either
the fire is not fire or the camphor is a stone. If it does not react
instantly something is wrong somewhere. You will feel the presence
of a true teacher - he will ignite your heart.
24 August, 1992
|
