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Is The Self?
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This
the proper time for all of us to introduce the mind to the Self. What
is the Self? It is your own original nature: satyam, shivam, sundaram
- which means truth, consciousness, bliss. This is the Self which
was before the origin and which is going to be after the end. That
is the place where you always are.
It is not that you
have to become something or that you have to attain something, or
that you have gain something afresh. You are going to lose anything
which is gained or obtained because it is not your nature. Anything
gained is not permanent because you did not possess it previously
- you got it through effort. It was absent before you attained it
so you cannot keep it forever.
Somehow this notion
arises and this notion becomes mind. This notion is only mind, which
is not distinct from ‘I’. ‘I’ arises - this is what is called mind.
'I' is not separate from ego. How did it all start? The ego is not
separate from the body; the body is not separate from the senses nor
their respective objects, nor the entire manifestation with the notion
of time - beginning, middle, and end. It all started with 'I'. We
got involved in it.
This is the appropriate
time to return home. You have to do this here and now by withdrawing
the outgoing tendencies of the mind. That is how we meditate: We sit
quiet. During meditation the mind is running outwards following its
own tendencies, its own desires for respective objects and enjoyments
that are deep-rooted in the mind.
During meditation
this has to be checked. This is the meaning of meditation: to bring
back all the outgoing tendencies of the mind wherever they are going.
Check them! Bring them back to 'I'. From here you have to be very
vigilant, very attentive. Do not make any effort. Do not become involved
in any thinking process. Simply keep quiet. Through incessant vigilance
allow it to happen, allow this revelation to take place, without keeping
any gain in your mind, without making any effort to become anything
else. This is an unfoldment - this is called revelation.
At this point bring
everything back, bring all these tendencies back to the 'I' thought.
Be very vigilant and find out how this notion of 'I' arises. It is
absolutely necessary to keep quiet, to remain without thinking, without
making any effort.
I don't think anybody
could describe what is going to happen beyond this. It has never been
described. It is for you to dive into your own source, to arrive back
home. You don't need anyone else to lead you, you don't need any companion.
You have to do it alone - without the mind, without the intellect,
without the ego, without the body, without the senses, without their
objects. Only vigilance is needed, natural vigilance with no effort,
without even a thought. That can be had here and now… or never. This
is up to you.
8 April, 1992
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