Song of the Soul

Look Within to see Yourself

In the spiritual heart of everyone, there is a deep craving for expression. It gets sidelined, nullified and even distorted in the mental confusion of terrestrial existence. True expression is that of our real self. Man searches for temporary glories and paltry achievements. Man rolls through these short-lived glories till death and continues again in another life. We fail to understand that our mind is lingering on temporary happiness given by trivial pleasures while searching for permanent happiness.   Time after time, life after life, many wise men have tried their best to get the man out of his illusions. They tried to guide man to himself. Still, man cannot understand who he actually is!!! Many got stuck in ritualistic spiritual practices. Many wandered on intellectual plane all their life, which gave them a false feeling of spiritual supremacy and social elevation, mistaking intellectual knowledge for spiritual experience. Many tried to categorize and compare. Very few reached the other bank of the river, using the available boat and boatman. Their only possession was faith and patience. So simple. That was enough to cross the river.

An Avadhoot Remains Liberated, Unbound

The deepest craving of every man is a sincere spiritual expression. Since it is intangible, man sought tangible terrestrial expressions as a substitute for the real one. It never gave him lasting happiness. It also gave him false appetite which eventually hindered one’s spiritual digestive system. The true reality always eluded his understanding.

Expressions of an Avadhoota

I am the source. I am the powerhouse. I do not become tired or  depleted, ever. I am just like the candle that can light many candles and still maintain the same glow and glory. Just like one sun gets reflected in many objects without losing its intensity and energy, through the cycle of generation, I exist. I am the string that kept the generations together. I am the only imperishable entity in this highly perishable earthly existence. Sun, moon and stars are formed out of me. Galaxies are within me. All forms of deities are formed out of me. Darkness is non-existence of light. Being me is non – existence of Maya or illusion. I am everything. I am the in-dweller of all beings. There is no hierarchy or supremacy. I exist with the same intensity in all beings. Beings are different, in looks, in feel, in characteristics. I am the same. I am changeless. I am everywhere. I am One-ness.

I have no form. I assume the form of the vessel that contains me. I assume the characteristics of the being that encases me. Even though I remain neutral always, I empower actions, words and thoughts. No one can touch or feel me. One can only realize me. One has to become me, reach my subtlety, to realize me. One has to shed a lot of gross-ness to reach me, recognize me and understand me. I have no agenda. I assume the agenda of the being and, like a faithful and non-interfering servant, serve the embodied entity till the end. I allow myself to be trapped in the body. I assume the body. I allow myself to be called the body. I even pretend I am the limited body. I never interfere. I liberate myself at will.

Possessions and money cannot buy me, because I am that. Relationships cannot bind me, because I am that and beyond that. What ever you offer me is mine. What ever you cannot give me is also mine. All are expressions of myself. Nothing is ever separate from me. You can only achieve me by being me.

All Masters are ONE

Over time, I have expressed my essence through a multitude of characters in the Divine play that I had created. I chose the characters. I chose the drama. I have been both, the demon and the Savior. I have also been the worshiper and the worshiped. My intense form is considered as God. My weaker expression is considered as embodied beings. I am not attached to any of the characteristics that the body portrays. I am beyond all afflictions that the body and mind are vulnerable to. Just like the rain, I enter terrestrial existence. Just like the water becomes vapor, I dissolve in thin air. I come and go at will. I exist at will and exit at will.

Those who have found me, recognized me and become one with me, become all powerful. They will be freed from all terrestrial needs. Elements will not bind them or bother them anymore. Earth just becomes a platform for their seemingly gross expression and existence.

Those who only pretend to have become one with me, will reveal their anxieties and fears time after time. They will crave for name, money and fame, using my name and status called Self-Realization. I cannot be achieved through books or rituals. I cannot be reached by searching outside. I can only be reached through introversion, introspection, contemplation and meditation on one’s own self.

I can only be reached through constant elevation of one’s deserving levels. Deserving levels cannot be elevated when terrestrial pulls are equally strong. A man who has firm desire to reach me, but also cannot leave the terrestrial vasanas, will reach only lower branches of the tree, but will never attain the fruit situated at the higher branches. They may see the fruit afar, and even boast that they have got the fruit. However, desire cannot become deserving level and it will definitely show, if the society who entertains such people has keen eyes to see the reality. One can only wake up those who are actually asleep, not the ones who pretend to sleep. Only those who have eyes will see. Blind cannot and will not. They chose this spiritual reality. This is fine for them. Leave them alone. Do not disturb them.

When a man sees his own reflection in all beings around him, and due to that, when love and compassion overflows from his heart, he becomes me, he realizes me. When a man sees his own reflection in the eyes of all beings around him, he becomes one with all the beings. His personality merges with them and theirs with him. All differences disappear. All forms disappears. Then what remains is pure consciousness, oneness. In this oneness, all identities vanish. The man becomes me, my form. The man becomes one with the universe. He moves from ignorance of limited existence to the vastness of super conscious existence. There are no aspirations anymore. There is only awareness of who he is, of his full stature and the associated bliss. Ignorance is darkness. Bliss is awareness. Man merges with all entities to form one universal entity.

Deserving levels are increased through detachment from all that earth can offer. Being happy, non-resistant and staying beyond expectations makes one fully liberated. For them, existence becomes bliss. They are not worried about their physical defects or discomforts. They fall in tune with the rhythm of creation. When expectations leave the mind completely, I fill in. When resistance leaves the mind, mind becomes subtle and I fill in. When needs of the body are not quiet, I cannot express. In the profound depth of silence, the only voice that you will hear is that of my heartbeat. This is the father of all the sounds. This was the declaration of duality as a possibility -the sound and the listener. When the sound becomes the listener, we come back home again and realise –  I am THAT.

Love

M

Your Self is your True Guru

Conviction & Passion

Conviction Empowers Action

Conviction is all it takes. Conviction breaks all mental barriers. When a man performs out of conviction, he does not wait for approvals nor will he care to prove to others about his mission or reason for a particular action. He will never depend his action on others’ opinions and applauses. He will be supremely self-sufficient. Man’s clarity and confidence depends on his conviction. Conviction leaves no room for indifference. Conviction travels in a chariot drawn by confidence. A man who is unsure will remain unsure and will almost always blame others for his follies. Those who gossip or blame others all the time are usually people who are unsure about their own existence, path and destination. Those who try to change others into their own image or character are also insecure and ignorant. They need company. They are afraid to walk alone.

All great masters lived their life with conviction. Jesus was very much sure what his purpose of existence was. He never looked back to see if anyone was indeed following him. Nor did he look ahead in anxiety, hoping that he would eventually fulfill his tasks at hand. He was immune to both anxiety and dilemma. He was immune to others’ opinions about him and his mission. He behaved very much like the “son of man” all the while holding the Divine in its full glory, in his heart. Conviction was unshakable. Time was scarce, but that never bothered him. He was not bothered whether everyone understood him all the time. He never cared if anyone became too frustrated with his profound teachings and left him to ease his/her confused mind. Some went and came back. Some got caught up in regular existence which demanded no particular eligibilities and criterion to exist in the society. Knowledge and ignorance are both approved. Everyone has his room in the society. So, why follow an unknown language and make oneself insane? Let Jesus have his peace and we ours. This is the way some thought and spoke.

Some said similar things to Jesus’s mother. She would never answer to such questions. She knew that her son had conviction, he was purpose-bound, and what ever he spoke was apt and accurate for the existing society. There was not a grain more nor a grain less. This was the exact medicine for the society of chosen men reeling in gross inertia. If the society failed to measure the quality of the grain, how can a son of man be blamed for that? The mother’s smile was deep and pregnant.  To a neighbor who kept nagging her about the obscurity of Jesus’s words, she said “Serve the helpless, mother, and you will understand him. The only God a hungry man can understand is food. The only god for a thirsty man is water. Mother, listen to him. He is only telling these truths which you already know”.

 

The Son of Man

The mother of Jesus never interfered nor interpreted what her son taught. That would have been nonsensical. That would have been inappropriate. A man of firm conviction is walking the earth, talking his subject. If there was more clarity needed, he would have arranged that himself. Why do we need another interpreter existing as a contemporary?  The future may need interpreters, as the subject matter will get distorted with time. It happens all the time. Men adapt truths the way it suits them. The real truth has nothing to do with the adapted truths.

 

Society is filled with cowards. Brave hearts have always been a rarity. Even those who approved his thoughts and words, seldom expressed it and were too cautious. Some of those who were truly convinced, expressed and dared discrimination. Those who opposed him and thought about him as a menace to the society, always voiced their concerns. Negative matters definitely find tongues. Positive and benevolent thoughts often do not find tongues at the appropriate time and invariably suffers a premature death. Society has always been brimming with cowards who could never stay with their understanding and conviction. This kind of passive society only expresses stoic indifference. They are good for nothing.

Jesus was equally indifferent about death. Mother knew that her son is walking a tight rope. He is always treading danger zones. This was part of his mission. Dare the storms and prove your point. The storms might knock you down. Still dare the storms. The whole world will have to pay heed. That was essential to shake the world from induced slumber. Those who needed power created fear and through fear absolute control over passive people. The sleep was thus induced for convenience’s sake. It needed a lion’s heart to shake the unshakable slumber. Someone had to wake up and roar. The society needed this shake up. The danger has always been complete annihilation of thoughts words and action, ethnic cleansing. There was no choice. Either accept the available opportunity to sleep or fight against the sleep of generations and wake them up at the cost of own life. Jesus braved death. And finally, to ward off the slumber and create a new light, he embraced crucification. This was also part of his agenda. And the mother knew it. She had learned to accept anything and everything. Whether it were thorns or roses, it never mattered to the mother. She knew that, after the bloodshed, compassion will prevail. Compassion must prevail. How more can hearts shrink with pain and hatred? How more can generations grow in suffocation and lack of expression? How long? Everything was worth it, even the sacrifice of her own beloved son, for the sake of a larger good, LIBERATION!!!

Liberation it was. Jesus liberated himself and showed the path to those who had just woken up. The expression-less people looked at the whole episode in awe and disbelief. Those who cared deeply about possessions, relationships and greedily safeguarded their own good old physical bodies could never digest the message of imminent perishability that Jesus so blatantly demonstrated or gave forth. Also, it was quite intangible to believe that he could, would – or even we could – actually “re-create” the body in a short while – say –  just three days!!! All these were bizarre and inconceivable. But, the son of man did prove his point. He had conviction which was well beyond self-annihilation. He was not afraid of anyone. He was truly THAT. The divine within. The father element. The FATHER…. “Me and my father are ONE”, he roared with absolute conviction.

God Bless All

Love

M

Picture of Jesus - Materialised by BABA

The Dance of Shiva

In the depth of beingness....

In deep silence, in the depth of inner consciousness, the inherent rhythm of life, of heartbeat, reverberates. The cosmic dance begins. The entire cosmos rejoices and participates in the dance of Shiva. In the depth of extreme being-ness, the need for expression takes place. Shiva Dances, pumping up extreme rajas. Satwa paves way to diverse creativity and shift of energies. From the base of non-doingness, forms the expression of extreme action. The whole cosmos gets shaken up from inertia. Energy shifts and matter gets formed.

In the silence of beingness, energy gets conglomerated and with the external expression of cosmic dance, matter gets thrown out as a natural process. Extreme rajas destroys tamas – the evil in the path of spiritual evolution and puts everything into an action mode – only to fall back again into the being-ness of inherent guna-less state. External expressions are not remembered then. It is only the internal calmness and absolute peace. It is only the expansion and omni presence. It is only being-ness and nothing else.

When Shiva dances, the nature dances. Nature gets into the vibration of the one who dissolves. Nature echoes the universal heartbeat. Nature expresses the cosmic choreography. Every being dances in perfect rhythm and understanding. Everyone falls into perfect synchronization. There is no fear of dissolution. There is no fear caused by limitedness or limitations. There is only the relief of expansion. There is only the objectivity and peace of being-ness, or the bliss of being one with everything.

In the dance of Shiva, the senses gives way to awareness of music. There is no listening to music, there is only being music. The music becomes the listener and the dancer becomes the dance. There are no dualities. There is only perfect alignment and dissolution. There is no past or future. There is only the present or the present which also contains the past and the future. Nothing is apart from one another.

Man Carries His Abode

Shiva breaks into extreme rajas to shake up and speed up the creation. Then he dissolves back into being-ness. As easily he broke into extreme action, he retreats into extreme inaction or the state of non-doing. The whole cosmos merges into His consciousness. The heartbeat of the whole universe becomes his inherent rhythm. He carries the universe within himself.

The dance of Shiva is a momentous interlude of maya or illusion in the depth of unity of being-ness or being the truth. The seeker and the sought becomes the dancer and the witness. When the dance ends, there is no dancer and witness as separate entities. Everything becomes one again. The dance is an expression of creativity as well as duality. The dance is an expression of relativity too. The dance is an expression of the bliss of being-ness.The dance is an expression of time and space. The dance also is an expression of vitality and dynamism of creation. The dance is also a reminder of ultimate dissolution. The dance becomes Shiva. Shiva becomes the dance. Dance cannot exist without Shiva and Shiva cannot express without His dance. All beings remain in awe of the immensity of His expression and creation.

Man carries his expression. Man carries his abode. Man cannot exist without his abode. Man cannot express without his abode. Man is the in-dweller and the temple is the abode. Shiva expresses the fundamental dynamism of creation of the universe through his dance. When the whole universe becomes His dance, He is everywhere, but nowhere. His omnipresence gets expressed through His duality as well as dissolution. The action and inaction are also symbols and signs of life. The being-ness and doing-ness are two sides of the same coin of existence. Without each other, there is no duality – there is no expression-able life.

Life is a continuous stream in the dance of Shiva. Shiva continues His dance, eternally. Before time began, Shiva existed. His Dance continues through the time into the absolute timelessness.

Bless All

Love

M

Consciousness is Everything

Consciousness is Everything

Once upon a time, there was no you and I. There was no earth. There was no cosmos. There were no galaxies. There was no life as we see it around us now. There was no up and the down. There was no black and white. There was no darkness. There was no duality. There was no relativity. There was no time. There was nothing. There was only consciousness. Undiluted supreme consciousness.

In the womb of the absolute consciousness, in the depth of silence, began the song of silence. The deep hum.  It pulsated within the consciousness. The sound of life – the heartbeats. Energy started to move and conglomerate. In the intensified hum from within, energy exploded into trillions and trillions of pieces. It further  conglomerated into matter. Duality happened. Space happened. Relativity was born. Consciousness saw itself in multitude. Consciousness saw itself in everything. It allowed the multitude of consciousness to awaken into positions that were suitable for each. When duality happened with the internal explosion, time began. Consciousness could measure itself from here to there and beyond. It could see itself as separate from the other. Relativity got transformed into more tangible relationships.

Relativity gave billions of options for creativity to take place. One consciousness in many forms. Then the challenge became to come together, come back and become one consciousness again.  The option was always open for experimentation. Each unit had its power as it was essentially one with the supreme consciousness. However, in the darkness of duality, it forgot its true identity and wandered in search of its home. The supreme never interfered in its pursuit. It just allowed the experiences. The free will of the present with the destiny of past karma formed lives, existence and terrestrial experiences.

Consciousness experienced itself in various levels. The devil and angel were two sides of the same consciousness. From the barbaric dense state, to the supreme consciousness state which was all-encompassing, the options were huge and varied. The denser it went, the deeper was its alienation from the supreme. The lighter it became, the easier it was to get contaminated. Consciousness never experienced any happiness or sorrow. It was always supreme bliss of perfect awareness. There was no form and no death. There was only the detached state of witness-hood.

Embodied beings cleanse themselves over lives and elevate themselves to higher consciousness. Still, when they cease to express gratitude to the beings that helped their existence, they come back to pay. They pay their dues, sometimes over life-times and when they finally get the “no objection to travel” from the mother earth, they elevate themselves to the lighter zones. Once that is achieved, they never come back to exhaust their karmic agenda, because they have none. However, they may come back – out of compassion – to elevate a few more to the lighter existence.

In the varied levels of consciousness, from the gross noisy existence, a soul grows into the zones of silence. Words are gross there. In still lighter zones, even thoughts are gross. Those zones deliver absolute bliss of silence. They are not reachable until years of shedding and existence based on detachment that deeply segregate the embodied into a state of seeming disembody-ness happens. It is called the avadhoot state. The detachment is applicable towards everything that is gross, which includes food, weather, air, earth and even space. When the elements are won over, the body is in control. When the body is in control, coming in, living and going out of it, is part of one’s free will and not destiny which amounts to past karma.

Denser consciousness is lived out through fears, possessiveness, hatred, revenge, soap operas ( HA HA) – so on and so forth. The one who gets attracted to a particular object, person or a life style usually has a similar level of consciousness. It is easy to recognize.  Some attribute all enviable qualities to themselves. They are living in borrowed state of consciousness. They do not have their own identity. Their consciousness is limited.

Our universe is full of beings with diverse consciousness. Each are expressing it in their own way all the time. Birds of the same feather flock together. Similar consciousness attract similar beings. They come together and create events. Consciousness creates events. When a generation is glued to Television, watching soap operas which are narrating stories of hatred, treachery and deceit, people will carry the same consciousness to their next lives too. This is their existence. They are part of the role play. They live that and they experience that. Some people cannot agree with one another, and some people feel too alienated from a particular society because of the difference in their levels of consciousness. Thus, consciousness is much more deeper than it seems to be.

Furthermore, physical beauty or appearance has nothing to do with inner consciousness. Great saints may look like nothing – too ordinary. Ordinary people fall for physical appearance and vocabulary. Even an avid reader can be a good speaker at public functions. He also can handle portable knowledge effectively. If we assume that his gift of gab represents his actual stature, we will be terribly mistaken. Consciousness has its own compatibility. A boy of lower school can never fathom the thought process of a post graduate student. He has to rise up in stature through hard work, spread over a period of time, in order to understand and fathom the higher consciousness. Some people believe that cramming up knowledge will give them stature. No way. It might get them status – definitely not stature.  We respect intellectuals because they are visible and tangible.  Intellect believes in constructing. Being spiritual amounts to demolishing or destroying even own identity. That is the essential difference. We are eternal de-constructors.

Men of higher consciousness are usually not street smart on the gross terrestrial plane. They might even be considered as failures or misfits in the gross society. Gross works well with gross.  When subtle has to co exist with gross, even for the sake of providing duality, the subtle always gets shoved around. We can see many people with superior consciousness levels not making both ends meet. They indeed brought this reality upon themselves because they are in an alien land!!!

Different species are in different consciousness planes too. There are still high and low amongst them. Leaders of the pack display higher consciousness than their subjects. An ant has its consciousness. An elephant, a lion, a leopard, a whale or a dolphin has its own consciousness. Men also display different consciousness. Some are base and barbaric. Some are born to lead. Some talk too much and add to the sound pollution that is already plaguing the world. Some pretend and display stature which they do not have. Some are silent, quiet and effective. Some dare to be different even at the cost of their own existence. Some dare to walk alone. Some are greedy, some are benevolent. Some love. Some complain…. so on and so forth.

There is collective consciousness also. A group of people thinking alike creates events suitable to their consciousness. In daily life itself we can see the “mob”effect. A group of people nullifies individual consciousness and displays collective consciousness. They often display, in groups, the kind of courage and determination which they individually never display.

People of lower consciousness dwell as victims of the up and down swings of life. Their life goes on like a pendulum. For those who are of higher consciousness, there is no resistance. They have no tragedies. They consider everything as experiences, lessons. Life is only about experiences.

Consciousness is everything. That is the only thread that runs through all our states, such as waking, dream state, deep sleep state, as well as the turiya state. That is the only thread that runs through all our lives. That is the only thread that began before time began and exists in the absolute plane of timelessness.

I hope I have given you sufficient food for thought. Those who understood this have already found the thread. Those who contemplate on it, will find the thread. Those who ignore it will be caught up in the samsara. Everything is fine. Everything is life. Everything is consciousness.

Love All

M

Bless The World

Bless All. It'll make you Serene and Light.

Blessing expands you. It makes you light. When we bless all the people we like and all the people we dislike, we truly become the perfect expression of the Almighty. His true expression is Unconditional Love. When we remove all the hatreds and fears from our mind, we become embodiments of LOVE. Love expands. Love makes our life enjoyable. When we express sincere gratitude to all the objects and beings that helped our existence on earth, we become universal. Once we understand the true relevance of the food that we have consumed so far, the houses that sheltered us, the books that gave us knowledge, our parents and our teachers, above all, the element of  Divinity that sustained us, we will be filled with humility and deep gratitude. Most of our vital functions including respiration, circulation, digestion, heartbeat and even sleep for that matter, are controlled by our sub-conscious mind. All these things are working in perfect synchronization because our conscious mind has nothing to do with it.  We are given the time, space, intellect and situation to act out our inherent traits. What do we have in our control? Why do we blame others? Why do we entertain guilt at all? What is there to be afraid of?  All experiences have been lessons. We could not have changed anything. So, what else can we do except express unconditional love and compassion? What else can we do but to bless everybody and everything? When we realize that we are not really the one who does everything, we will see our ego getting nullified and our doer-ship getting dissolved. We will then operate in perfect awareness and gratitude.

God is within us. God is to be LOVED not Feared. The soul element that fuels our existence is the God within all of us. The one who Generates, Operates and Dissolves. Hence, all of us possess the same God element. None are inferior nor superior to anyone. Some evolved higher through rigorous practices, contemplation and meditation. Through lifetimes of efforts, they attained higher awareness. Thats all. In principle, all are one and the same. The same soul element fuels the existence of all the living beings, which includes plants, animals and birds. Just like the same electricity is used to operate various equipments, the same soul operates various bodies; and some of them are human bodies.

All of us are temporary custodians of this body, money and all our possessions. It is the same with relationships too. Everything is temporary. Everything has a definite longevity. There is no room for egocentric expressions, if we digest this truth. All we can do is forgive everything. Bless everything.

When we shift our consciousness to the spine and to 360 degrees, the impact, the wear and tear of the events that we are exposed to, will be very less. Nothing will touch us deeply. Nothing will overwhelm us. You will maintain perfect equanimity and deep gratitude. Nothing happens by accident. Everything has a perfect reason. We often cannot understand the reason from our level of consciousness. That’s all. Our inability should not be interpreted as cosmic deficiency. Cosmic perfection is infinite and incomparable.

Bless The World Meditation is two years old. In October 2007, we started BTW classes in Dubai. Till date, people have experienced BTW meditations in UAE, India, Qatar, UK, Germany, Russia, USA, Africa, Oman and many other places. BTW meditations have transformed many lives. Some have stayed and evolved. Some came and left, perhaps choosing different paths. As always, each person responded according to his/her inherent consciousness and constitution. We did everything with the purest of intentions without any selfish motives. That’s the best we could do.

All of us exist in various planes of consciousness. We carry the conditionings of our immediate past as well as other lives, without having clarity about it. We cannot usually figure out which conditioning provoked which response in us. But, invariably we are victims of our conditionings.  Hence, it is important to touch base with our own consciousness; our real Self. BTW meditations are designed to bring you to your Self.

All our classes are conducted with the spirit of service, free of cost. The aim of BTW has always been to elevate as many people as we can, to higher consciousness. Many people actually experienced the difference from where they began and where they are now. We uploaded the meditations in http://www.mohanji.org with the intention to make the meditations available to many or any, without any conditions.

Without a few acknowledgements, this text would be incomplete. This meditation came to me at least six months before we actually started teaching it in Dubai. It was Biljana Radonic (Biba) who literally pulled me out of my introversion and put me in front of the people. Biba started it all. Divinity worked through her to make it happen. Then it started spreading continuously through Dr.Manjari Rao, Shernaz, Mother Ines, Pradeep Sukhrani, Pradeep Ullal, Simran Kaur, Yashi Aunty, Dr. Samata, Reeta Verma, Krishnaji, Mr.Chandrasekhar, Dr.Malini, Easwar, Murali, Jennifer Randive, Marina, Sandi Saxena, Jaya Chopra, Devang Kapadia, Danijela, Marija Govedarica, Mark and many others. My sincere gratitude to all of them for their selflessness, purity and sincere love.

We wish you great spiritual evolution in this life. We are one. We are one family and one consciousness. We will never be separate from one another.

God Bless All

Love

M

Living with a Saint

Saints have always been ordinary men. External glitters never mattered to a true saint. The halo in the picture is a reflection of the viewer’s mind. In real life we hardly see any halo. When Shirdi Baba lived, some people considered him as mentally unstable. He used to talk to entities invisible to human eyes. He used to behave in strange manners. He was living the larger truth. Who can understand that? Only those who dare to rise up to his stature.

Saints who chose to operate in the market place have always run the risk of ending up in mental asylums. Many never understood them. Many underestimated them. The extra ordinary powers that we read about, creates mental images. People live within that images and when they chose to live with a saint, the whole glass house starts to crack and eventually fall. Truth is one. One who lives in truth also is one with the truth. Everything else is illusion for him. He does not need to pretend. He cares not for ordinary glories, which we are usually victim to. There is nothing to prove. There is nothing to see. Look through my eyes, you will see truth. Truth is as stark as the blazing sun. You chose the dark glasses. That was your choice. Truth is always stark and non-dual.

When you chose the company of a saint, you chose uncertainties also. Thats actually  the essence of life. Saints live impermenance externally and experience permenance internally. This is the irony. They enjoy the growth and decay of cells, and do nothing about it, even if they had the power to change, reverse or recreate anything. When you are with the truth, you also possess the power of the supreme truth. That becomes part of your existence. Yet, you will do nothing for yourself. Thats the way true Masters are. They need nothing. No favors nor sacrifices. They live as moving monuments of selflessness. As signposts of liberation. If you read the life story of Shirdi Sai Baba carefully, you will understand what this text is all about. We need to see through His image to know the Master. A great master has to be the most ordinary. Empty pots are noisy. Filled up pots maintain deep,

pregnant silence.

Truth is Unreal to Ordinary Eyes

When they die, we see them in pictures. Monks sitting naked with a big halo around their head. We bow to them. We revere them. We meditate on them. This is all fine, because we do not have their physical proximity. Physical proximity is the problem. They eat and drink. They use toilet. They sweat. They display human emotions. They love and they abuse too. Sometimes they even display seeming cruelty. It is bound to shatter all our concepts and mental images. It shatters expectations. Only through dissolution is re-creation possible. You have to empty first to fill in again. This is the bottom-line.

So, as the saying goes, do not get too close to a saint. HA HA. Accept and enjoy his teachings, if you may. This is important if you want to maintain your mental picture about the saint. If that is what you choose. Getting closer to fire will burn you. Getting close to a saint will burn your expectations and even certain inherent traits. Beware!!!

God Bless All

M

Doubts…

Life is a joke? Smile Anyways

Conscious mind creates doubts. It also creates fear of the unknown. It is the inherent characteristic of the conscious mind to create doubts and subsequent insecurity. Doubts are based on the level of consciousness. On a sunny morning, when basking in the warm rays, the conscious mind is sure that its morning and there is sunshine. But, a person who sleeps inside a blanket with curtains blocking rays from entering the room can never be sure of the situation outside his windows. His mind speculates. So, the available data and the level of consciousness creates the doubt.

Doubts block progress. Doubt about anything is a hindrance. Those who dare has always found some result. Sometimes it is just a mediocre experience. Sometimes its blinding truths. It is certainly good to be brave.  The roots of doubts rest in inertia (Tamas). The more tamasic a person is, the more doubts he will have.

Reasonable risks always helps progress and self esteem. Foolish risks often ruin the man. Reasonable risks are stemmed out of the intellect. Foolish risks are offsprings of emotions. What ever gets born out of intellect has longivity while every action born out of emotion usually carries the seeds of catastrophes.

All doubts will vanish with higher awareness. When we have doubts about the weather outside, just open the curtains and look outside. Likewise, whenever doubts arise, do the action and do not resort to speculation. The best way to beat doubts and even inertia is by resorting to ACT.

Best Wishes

Mohan