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From
Silence you came and to Silence you return. This is the ultimate Truth.
The concept that
there was any work to complete has in itself been completed. This
is all. What is there to complete? What was the work? To keep quiet.
When you know this you have completed everything. Otherwise you will
be hitchhiking for millions of years thinking that you have not completed
your work. There is no work to be completed. The idea that you have
to complete some work - that you are bound, that you have to be free
- is all conceptual. You are fundamentally free all the time, and
to know this is the completion of everything. The only hindrance
was that you thought that you were bound. That was the obstacle. Removing
this obstacle you can call, "completion of the work."
Please remove all
doubt by leaving it nowhere to reside. You call it doubt but there
is no doubt at all. What is meant by doubt? Will you have any doubt
if someone says, "You are not called so-and-so?" You know
what your name is. In the same way you are That itself. In
a dream you forgot your real nature and doubt arose. You will have
to either remove doubt by yourself, or go to one who knows how to
remove it - to one who will help you remove your doubt. Nobody can
change you; you will remain what you are. A doubt arose: "I am
not what I am." The idea that "I am the body." was
this doubt. You are the in-dweller of the body, not the body itself.
This simple understanding comes easily in satsang, but it will not
arise outside in the world - or it will take millions of years - simply
because everybody is clinging to the concept that, "I am the
body." In actually you are not the body; you are the one who
is aware of the body. When you are aware of something it is an object
in awareness. You are aware of everything including the body. What
is this awareness? Who is aware?
Do not think. Do
not even meditate. Meditation means postponing for old age or at least
for next year that which is available now. Meditation means rejecting
the rose flower and hunting for the thorn. Don't meditate here. Just
now! Sit quietly! Don't think! Whenever you meditate you are postponing
Now! Why postpone this until some other time, until some other moment?
Have you ever seen the next moment? Why not now? Isn't it available
now? What kind of meditation do you need? There are people here who
have been meditating for many years with all the teachers of the world
and still they are not free. Meditation is only postponement. You
may have made a habit of sitting in meditation every morning from
six to eight, but the mind is very happy to have cheated you. You
can do everything - there are some very professional meditators here
- but still there is nothing inside.
You can complete
this instantly because the Self -
the Atman - is ever present. For whom are you seeking
through method, through meditation, through thought? For whom? It
is here and now. Even before you sit for meditation it is already
here. Even the instinct to meditate came from the same source, to
find the same thing. You are running away from it, never turning back.
Whatever thought comes, whatever it is, even the thought of meditation:
Stop. Discover the source of these thoughts: "I have to meditate,
I have to be free. I need freedom." Keep quiet and wait. Find
out from where these thoughts are coming. Return back to the source
of these same thoughts and tell me what you see. What do you call
this? Where will it lead you? It will strike at your mind forever
and you will become what you have always been. You will not find this
through any method. Don't be deceived once again by your mind.
You are here to be
free in this very instant without doing anything, without even stirring
a single thought. That's why you are here. I don't tell you to go
to the Himalayas or to the caves or to the forest. I have seen many
people with head hanging down doing penance. I have seen many in the
higher altitudes of the Himalayas. They did not discover freedom.
It is here and now. What is there to think about this? Even without
thinking you are That. The habit of thinking, of doing something,
is your only impediment. Give at least one second to yourself without
doing anything, without even thinking. Do not make any kind of effort,
and see the result. 5 December, 1992
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