Truth is that, which does not change with time. A policeman wears his uniform and performs his duty. When you see him, you think that is the truth. After his duty, he goes home and changes to a night-dress. Now too he is a policeman! Though the clothes he wore has changed, his body does not change. Similarly, ‘Dehi’ your indweller, does not undergo any change. Your body is associated with Satvic, Rajasic and Tamasic qualities. Remove them and you will see the divine ‘Brahman’.
In a cold hill station, you wear vest, shirt and then a protective coat on top of it. If you want to see your heart (chest), you must remove your coat, shirt and vest; only then you can see your heart. Similarly, the body of a human being is covered with many qualities. When you go beyond these, you will be able to see the Divine in your heart.
In a cold hill station, you wear vest, shirt and then a protective coat on top of it. If you want to see your heart (chest), you must remove your coat, shirt and vest; only then you can see your heart. Similarly, the body of a human being is covered with many qualities. When you go beyond these, you will be able to see the Divine in your heart.
Baba (thought for the day)
In thinking it over and writing about it we can get deeper into the meaning of the wisdom in his words and find him. This is such great wisdom. First it tells us that we have to reach a non changing level, how do we do that? It helps to see it with the opposite value, we know it is not relative, because everything relative is changing, therefore, it is absolute. It cannot be limited by time and space, it has to go beyond it to be only one without a second. We can only recognize what is passing by, because there is something which is always the same and not moving. We see the limited, because behind is the ocean of consciousness and the unlimited being.
Look at that policeman and what we think of him, We think he is truly a policeman doing his duty, because he is wearing the uniform and we hold on to that trust, that he is a policeman, even if he will put on a night-dress, he is anyhow a policeman. It doesn't change and it explains the value of 'Dehi', the indweller, there is no change, even if we change the dress, the indweller is the 'I', it is always the same and it cannot change. The body is first a child, after it will become an adult and a grown up and later it will get old, but the 'I' in that body is always the same.
And after Baba talks about the body, because we have here two levels the Dehi, the non changing level and the body and that is always changing and on that level we have the sathvic, rajasic and tamasic tendencies and we have to discriminate between them and go beyond, that means transcend.
Light has no color, it is just light, but seen through the glasses of the body it will be red or blue or green or black and black is Tamas, and red is Rajas and white beautiful light is Sathva. It is good to know the light because it is like a compass, it shows us the direction to go. We don't go in direction of darkness, we go on when it is light blue and beautiful, because we know there will be the save shore and there will be the right answer, there we will be home and find our own self and not get lost, while in darkness we will not see anything and not find the right path and get lost. If it is dark we wait until we see the light, because without light we don't know the right direction to travel.
The policeman is related to duty and our job, that is what we are doing in the present.
And the hill station is not the same, it is about the body and when it is cold, we wear a shirt and a vest and even a coat because it is cold and we have to remove it first before we can reach the heart or chest.
What does that tell us? It is the level of 'neti, neti', not this and not that. We remove the coat first and think not that, we are not the body and we remove the vest next and not that, we are not the mind and finally we still have the shirt and we could think that are our thoughts, also not that and we remove it, what is left, after we removed everything what is conceptual, what is left is pure being, consciousness, nothing but 'that', it is called that, it has no name and no form, just 'that'.
So first we recognize the reality of the 'Dehi' the 'I' and its eternal value, non-changing and always true and from there we go to the body and we remove all the qualities of the body until we realize the divinity in the heart. It is the, 'I am that'.
If we remove everything we get to the essence and that is just being, but on a subjective level is is the 'Dehi', the 'I' and in the the objective level it is just 'that'. 'I am that', that is the essence, it is that what is still there, after we have removed everything.
The 'I' is the watcher and subject and 'that' is what is watched, the object and in between we have the state of being or watching. There are always three, we have the level of the 'I' as the knower and the level of 'that' is the known and in between is just being and knowledge.
Only the body is on a changing relative level and therefore, there are the different levels, sathvic, rajasic and tamasic qualities, and it is different from the 'Dehi', because the Dehi doesn't change, but the body does always change. That is the joy of going deep into his wisdom and to absorb, it is such an amazing wisdom.
Dehi doesn't change, body does change.
If we remove the qualities, we get to the divine 'Brahman'.
If we remove the qualities, we get to the divine 'Brahman'.
And probably we think it gets difficult, because we don't really know for sure what is 'Brahman'?
The 'I' is different from ‘that’; the perceiver is different from the perceived and there is the third - that is perceiving.
To get aware of who am I, it is 'I am that', unlimited, consciousness, divine universal being, 'that'. It is all included in that, but not the name and the form; they belong to the changing and manifested level of the body.
The 'I' is different from ‘that’; the perceiver is different from the perceived and there is the third - that is perceiving.
To get aware of who am I, it is 'I am that', unlimited, consciousness, divine universal being, 'that'. It is all included in that, but not the name and the form; they belong to the changing and manifested level of the body.
To think it over and see it in our own life, is a different level of relationship, what seems to be the past, is kind of riding on the waves of consciousness and going through atrocity of the feeling is to remember the storm, but in the end it doesn't matter about waves and how we have travelled, but just that we crossed over.
And thinking it over, long ago past, what happened, it is love, and whatever that was. It doesn't matter if it was emptiness, the feeling of not knowing and the search for answers, if it was suffering or not, it is the inner child knowing that it is at home, all is part of life and okay as it is, because it is a wonderful experience to be alive.
The inner peace of knowing the presence of the inner master, of Baba in our life, is to know life is beautiful as it is.
If we see truth as that deep level of awareness in us it is what doesn't change with time, it feels like getting aware that we are journeying. And if it is not a path, what is it? How about getting aware of the endlessness of the ocean?
We know the water is salty and we cannot drink it, but we can dissolve in it, merge with the waves and feel one with the ocean.
The color of the waves matters if it is light blue transparent and sunny or dark black and scary. If it is light blue and sunny we like to stay there and to enjoy the warmth of the sunshine, there is a shore in the end and love, but if it is dark black and even pitch dark black, we know there we should not go, because we will see nothing and it will not be possible to cross over, we will have to wait until the light is going one again. We are just the traveler and not the storm.
And it is different to think it over when we look at Baba's words and to enjoy that in finding our own view in our own life and the answer it to feel it.
In his presence we were lucky to just feel it first and now we have to go the retour path and think it over first to be in the end able to just feel it again and in that inner feeling he is present and in that feeling is bliss and we would like to merge with it.
The study circle is a means to make Baba present in his words in thinking it over, going with other through their experiences and thoughts and to just allow it to happen, whatever will be there, but if it is a circle, he will be there in that inner presence and if he is there, we get that sweet nectar of his divine presence and want more of it and the good thing is to know we can get more of it, because there is an ocean of it, we just have to get aware of it.
But as he said, if we don't go deep in the meaning of his words, it can go on half a circle forever and be only on the surface of the mind level and wonder why we don't go deeper and why we don't get the nectar in his wisdom.
It is like with the devas and assuras, they were churning the ocean of bliss, the ocean of the universe to get the nectar of bliss. What came up first was poison and there was Lord Shiva and he drank the poison that they were able to go on in their task of producing the nectar of immortality.
And thinking it over, long ago past, what happened, it is love, and whatever that was. It doesn't matter if it was emptiness, the feeling of not knowing and the search for answers, if it was suffering or not, it is the inner child knowing that it is at home, all is part of life and okay as it is, because it is a wonderful experience to be alive.
The inner peace of knowing the presence of the inner master, of Baba in our life, is to know life is beautiful as it is.
If we see truth as that deep level of awareness in us it is what doesn't change with time, it feels like getting aware that we are journeying. And if it is not a path, what is it? How about getting aware of the endlessness of the ocean?
We know the water is salty and we cannot drink it, but we can dissolve in it, merge with the waves and feel one with the ocean.
The color of the waves matters if it is light blue transparent and sunny or dark black and scary. If it is light blue and sunny we like to stay there and to enjoy the warmth of the sunshine, there is a shore in the end and love, but if it is dark black and even pitch dark black, we know there we should not go, because we will see nothing and it will not be possible to cross over, we will have to wait until the light is going one again. We are just the traveler and not the storm.
And it is different to think it over when we look at Baba's words and to enjoy that in finding our own view in our own life and the answer it to feel it.
In his presence we were lucky to just feel it first and now we have to go the retour path and think it over first to be in the end able to just feel it again and in that inner feeling he is present and in that feeling is bliss and we would like to merge with it.
The study circle is a means to make Baba present in his words in thinking it over, going with other through their experiences and thoughts and to just allow it to happen, whatever will be there, but if it is a circle, he will be there in that inner presence and if he is there, we get that sweet nectar of his divine presence and want more of it and the good thing is to know we can get more of it, because there is an ocean of it, we just have to get aware of it.
But as he said, if we don't go deep in the meaning of his words, it can go on half a circle forever and be only on the surface of the mind level and wonder why we don't go deeper and why we don't get the nectar in his wisdom.
It is like with the devas and assuras, they were churning the ocean of bliss, the ocean of the universe to get the nectar of bliss. What came up first was poison and there was Lord Shiva and he drank the poison that they were able to go on in their task of producing the nectar of immortality.
That is a metaphor how and why we have to go on and see it in our own life and go on no matter what obstacles are there ..., to get to that discrimination, the difference between what is mind and what churning the ocean of bliss.
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