Mere Cleverness has no Place in Spiritual Affairs

Realize that mere cleverness has no place in spiritual affairs.
Artifice and artificiality are truly impediments to spiritual progress. It is when cleverness increases and chokes sincerity and straightforwardness in spiritual matters, and in the relationship between God and Man, that the Avatar comes.
You may have a costly transistor or watch with you, but if you do not know how to use it efficiently they are mere lumber.
Now think what a wonderful machine you yourself are! Should you not know how to operate it and get the best results out of it?
Ancient Indian seers discovered the art of operating this human machine, but their descendants have allowed that art to decline. If you have the thirst to know it, you can light the lamp of your life from that of the sages and experience joy and bliss.
Baba (thought for the day)

This morning we had a hail and pieces about two inches thick came down from the sky, the noise was horrendous and I am aware of the nightmare this is for farmers and gardeners, as I remember it from my childhood, when in no time the crop gets destroyed and all what they worked for in the fields this year. And now it is silent and even blue sky again.

The TM stuff came up because I meditated with the sutra, that is why several time inside was said 'cut off' and it is not possible to end that past time properly and finish with it in integrating it.

It is when cleverness increases and chokes sincerity and straightforwardness in spiritual matters, and in the relationship between God and Man, that the Avatar comes.

That increased cleverness we find with TM which seems to answer everything and when we look closer at it we find that there is not one right answer, but it is just appearance and illusion and nothing is right and in fact, nothing is answered and the sutras are used to arose the interest in people and to program their minds and projected on a wrong level.

It is the intensity which was created during those long rounding sessions in the WP-Assemblies during that TM time which is difficult to integrate.

It is like taking drugs and not being able later to recall the experience, because the drug is not there to help to make it come up again and the self got somehow lost in it.
Yoga and Sutra




And in this thought for the day Baba tells us that is the reason the Avatar comes.

I had several interviews with Baba, he made me aware of what is right and that I had to follow the inner master, he makes the issue come up.

But to realize it I have to do it in myself and out of the inner self and he will not tell. Those things are buried in the past, the attention is not on it anymore and it seems far away, when in reality it is going on creating problems for our spiritual progress, because we cannot properly integrate it in our today’s experience.

Now think what a wonderful machine you yourself are! Should you not know how to operate it and get the best results out of it?

How do we integrate the past in our today’s consciousness and realize it is just a transition state?
Getting aware of the divine nature is going beyond birth and death. If our divine heritage is with Krishna, it has a tradition back to being devotee, but we have to remember it.
How do we wake up and get aware of it, if we cannot even remember our intensity during a TM-Siddhis program because it is gone, because we have stopped the program as we had realized it didn’t work?

But the knowledge, the sutras come from a highly respected master who is called the father of Yoga, Patanjali. He is a holy man and the meditation is OM, the direct connection with divinity. TM uses not the OM, but the sutras of Patanjali to create fascination in the mind, and it seems just that cleverness of how it is used which makes it all wrong.

You may have a costly transistor or watch with you, but if you do not know how to use it efficiently they are mere lumber.

Patanjali's sutras are like that costly transistor or watch and we don't know how to use it efficiently and therefore, it is mere lumber, we just do what we had been told and repeat,

'relationship between body and akasha - lightness of a cotton fibre'. We don't even reflect on what we repeat like a formula in our conscious mind.
It was Baba who brought it up inside in telling, ‘I wanted to fly’.

I had been meditating during our stay in Ooty and forgot time and space and when I opened the eyes, Baba was standing just in front and there were the school boys as Ooty was a school and they where looking at him and above in the air was ‘I am that’.
I was that lost in my meditation that I didn't get aware that it had to do with meditation, I just wanted to close my eyes and go on meditating and it felt like all boys were thinking the same thought.
I began only years later to question it.
It was Darshan, sight of truth about that meditation state.
We had afterwards in that week three interviews and he looked a long time in my eyes until the thought came up, 'what is he looking for'?
But I still went on thinking that the boys were thinking the same thought not aware that I was not able to think and reflect in that state of mind, I just had seen it without discrimination. 
I wanted to close my eyes and go on meditating and realized only years later that it was a wrong conclusion what I saw with my eyes on the sense level. The intellect didn't work properly.
It was Darshan and not all the boys thinking the same thought.
I was not able to think or to reflect or to get aware of it during that meditation state, it was kind of standing still in mantra repetition and no awarness of what really happened. We believed what we were told that it was meditation and all problems solved.
Not aware of the thought process and the wrong answer in my mind I went on thinking the boys had all the same thought, even if I knew it was Darshan and I should have realized it was all wrong, but I didn't. 
Instead I closed the eyes and left it to my meditation and that didn't work, because in meditation we don't think, we don't use the intellect, we meditate.
That is how it got lost - lost. I didn't get aware of it, only years later I began to inquire and think about it.
It was Darshan and identification with space and Baba being that very space and not the body. And during the time he was holding speeches every day I noticed the mistake in my own perception and that TM on that level rather enforced the tendency to go asleep and we didn't wake up, it set the mind at rest, it didn't make alert and awake, all problems solved made go asleep and trust in something which was not real.  
I was lost in a meditation state, convinced and brainwashed about - no problem, just go on meditating and all problems will be solved, not even aware of what happened around me or in my own thoughts. I didn’t think, I went just on meditating thinking all problems solved. No questioning if it was right, why it was all wrong, that it might could be wrong - that conclusion - boys thinking all the same - was completly wrong. It was much worse, I didn't even know anymore how to ask questions, because TM said always everything was answered and no questions anymore. We had lost the knowledge of how to inquire. We began with TM and thought it would make more intelligent and realized it had made fools out of us. And it had nothing to do with the boys, but with Darshan, sight of truth.

As he said, ‘I wanted to fly’ there is a hidden reason, it means he is the motivator and he is also the motivator to the flying sutra of Patanjali.

In reading Patanjali, as I am still interested in the sutras, there is an all different way to understand it and not just that clever interpretation of the Maharishi. Instead of using it as a mathematical formula, we understand the relationship to the body as already being in the body and we don’t need to think ‘body’. It means ‘Akasha’ is related to body level.

We are in the body, we don’t need to recall it and in just remembering - Akasha, as it is in relationship to the body, we breath in - Akasha - as we do with Soham - taking in the light, but Soham is not on body level, but 'Akasha' is, therefore, no need to think body. With Soham every inhale takes in 'light' and we exhale darkness and what is left is 'light'. The Soham mantra is actually translated as ‘I am that’, and when he said ‘engaged’ between us it was that ‘I am that’.

Only the level of 'Akasha' is on the physical body level and therefore, it means breathing in 'light' and breathing out all 'heaviness' on body level and what remains is a state of 'lightness of a cotton fiber' on body level.
Meditating with that sutra on breath level works better than it ever had worked before and it is related to the innate divinity and the self gets like magical awaken in it, it is in the higher self in us and that is consciousness and not mechanical and lost.
I began to meditate with that sutra and that brought up the TM past and the essence of self-awareness.
In finding myself in it, I realized what got lost by the cleverness of those practices.

Realize that mere cleverness has no place in spiritual affairs.
Artifice and artificiality are truly impediments to spiritual progress.

What was experienced during that time was not the self, but the programs. We get lost in mechanical mantra repetition it means the effect is dangerous, because it stops the thinking process. That creates rest, as we don't bother to think, but also it enforces sleep and not getting awake. In meditating with the sutra on that simple level of the breath, the self gets aware of the reality in it and wakes up and remembers itself in it - it had been lost because it was just repeated without any second thought. It is a matter of waking up.

When we wake up we realize that it was lost in that unconscious practice and just mechanical mental repetition of the mantra and the sutras, because they were not seen in a relationship to the divine and therefore, the flying sutra gets projected on body level, what reverses the yoga path.
It is just too simple, it doesn't work and actually we know it, we always thought it was just too simple. What we were not told and not aware of was that with that practice of mechanical repetition our thinking was manipulated and therefore, even if we noticed it we still went on with the practice thinking it was the right thing to do, because it relaxed the mind. TM is clever and dangerious.

The aim of yoga is detachment from the body and not to get in the body to make it fly … That change of yogic purpose is Tamas, darkness, upside down and misleading.

If we wake-up to our self in it, we can recall what had happened during that time and understand it and see it uninterrupted to our own self, it has to be uninterrupted to be a continuity of transition.

It is of no help to get lost in a spiritual cleverness which is changing the yoga path into something else, claiming to be the only path which knows truth which had been forgotten in the past.
If we get lost it means we don’t realize it, we think it has to be like that and it just feels not okay – lost is lost. The self got lost, and we need to realize it to understand it.   

It is when cleverness increases and chokes sincerity and straightforwardness in spiritual matters, and in the relationship between God and Man, that the Avatar comes.