Buddha experienced the unity of all creation. There was total transformation in Him once He attained the vision of ekatma (oneness of the atma). He realised that all worldly relations were false. He transcended body consciousness. That is why he earned the appellation Buddha (the enlightened one). Man should use his buddhi (intellect) to understand this principle of unity. Buddhi is of two types: the buddhi that sees diversity in unity is worldly intelligence. You should develop adhyatmic buddhi (spiritual intelligence) in order to realise the underlying unity of all creation. It gives you the experience of the atmic principle which is the same in the entire creation. Buddha attained the vision of the atma. Truly speaking, Buddha is not just one individual. All of you are Buddhas. You will see unity everywhere once you understand this truth.
Baba (thought for the day)
Here Baba tells us why we should get to that insight of ekatma, 'oneness' of the atma, with other words, 'I am the One. It is the conclusion of the inner view by getting that insight that there is only 'One' and that 'I' in all of us is the manifestation of the 'One' only.
How do we get to that insight? 'I am the One', it is him telling that, it is possible if we follow him. It is in our inner view, the insight, in our dream we follow the man in our dreams who is there to awake us.
He is able in our dreams to awaken us and we get to that insight if we follow the inner master, fight to the end and finish the game.
Following needs trust, it is like sitting in a small boat sometimes in the waves of the ocean and we go up and down and try to understand it, but it is in vain, our understanding is yet just getting there and we go on in the first type of the buddhi hoping the in the end it will make sense after all.
Buddhi is of two types: the buddhi that sees diversity in unity is worldly intelligence. You should develop adhyatmic buddhi (spiritual intelligence) in order to realise the underlying unity of all creation. It gives you the experience of the atmic principle which is the same in the entire creation.
We know we are part of the ocean and we know that maybe one day will develop that adhyatmic buddhi. And finishing the game feels kind of like thinking it over in that thought for the day and getting aware that we did nothing else but develop the adhyatmic buddhi sight of it in order to realize the unity of all creation. We are in the waves of the ocean and we go up and down the waves. We are in the watcher observing the movement of it to be able finally to realize that we are part of the ocean.
If we get to that insight we know we are part of the ocean.
There seems to be hardly any better way to explain that ocean as 'I am the one'. But for me in my inner understanding it means that between your I and my I is no difference, it is the same 'I' present everywhere and in that light we do see our worldly relations in a different light.
Why does it transcend body consciousness?
What I think I am is the body, what the others think I am is the mind and who I really am that is the atma.
If the atma is the only real 'I' and the only one, we can conclude that all body consciousness is wrong identification. It happens in our senses, we look at the body and we think I am that body and that results in body consciousness. It is easier to realize that the body is the instrument of the atma if we know that the I is the atma. If Buddha got enlightened in realizing the oneness of the atma and he was called the enlightened one, we should probably do the same. We should use our intellect (buddhi) to understand the principle of unity.
And then Baba explains the intellect and that buddhi is of two types: Our buddhi we all know as discriminating and being aware of the diversity in unity and that is our worldly intelligence, but we have to develop the adhyatmic buddhi (spiritual intelligence) in order to realize the underlying unit of creation.
That is what we went for when going to Sai Baba, it is based on inner view and the teaching was happening mostly in our dreams. If we realize the experience of the atmic principle which is the same in the entire creation and know that Baba is the embodiment of that principle, we know why it results in non-argumentative exchange of view, a principle doesn't change, it is always the same and everybody will get to the same conclusion, there is only one.
We have to get to the vision of Atma and that is in the insight, it is in our dream that he will tell us, 'I am the One' and following him we will develop that adhyatmic buddhi.
What exactly is a dream ? It is a dream within a dream. It is a dream, which unfolds before you even while you are "awake", another dream. It tries to shed some light, some joy, some courage, some faith, some hope, and some meaning on the dream called Life.
Naturally, man has to seek all means of discovering the meaning of Life. For, without knowing it, he is lost; he wanders from birth to birth, receiving knock after knock and is seldom the better for all the experience. (Baba)
It is like sitting in a small boat and moving up and down in the ocean we call life and we don't know really why and we try to just watch to be able to understand it sometimes and we have no idea how long it will take. And He is the One who has realized it and He guides us through the up and downs on that journey. The atmic principle is the same in the entire creation. As it is the same, we have to realize that it is not in our small 'I', but it is nevertheless the 'I', but it is the big 'I'.
And he knows, we don't know because we are in the small I, we have to get aware of the big 'I' and that is He, not my small body, that is body consciousness. In our dream he can get us to the insight that 'I am the One', he is the man in our dream who is there to awake us. In the dream we know that this 'I' is big and that my small 'I' is also part of it, we are not different, but 'He knows it, because he is on that universal level, therefore, it is He who has to tell us in the inner view or in our dream, 'I am the One'.
And that is great.
Therefore, he calls us all Buddhas, that means if we realize that atmic principle we are all the same, there is no difference on that level, there is just 'that' and if it is realized it is possible to get aware that 'I am that' you are 'that', we are all 'that'.
Once we understand that truth we will see unity everywhere, but it is still growing. We have seen it but it is not realized just like that without thinking it over. The principle is – listen, think it over – absorb.
Out of my own experience I can tell I had all those dreams and insights I didn't understand, felt kind of like sitting on the waves of the ocean moving up and down and we just had to go through it, but probably when we least expected it in the inner view he said, 'I am the One'.
And in reading it and thinking about the thought for the days, in reflecting on his words we are able to get aware that it is about 'that', the athmic buddhi.
It takes time to realize it and in thinking over Baba's words getting aware of it. If we do not listen to his words and do not think it over, as it is in our dream, we can also just not get aware of it.
He is our mirror in his words we understand what happens in that inner view, if I do not think it over, we might even think it is a dream only and forget about it.
We should be awake and alert and follow the inner master and trust that he leads us to the right insight and that is what we develop with Baba's presence it is that atmic buddhi … so that we will all be like Buddhas and know that oneness of the universe.
With our intellect we can understand the difference between conceptual and the non-conceptual reality, on that level our intellect is functioning, we discriminate between relative and absolute and how to go beyond the relative to get the experience of 'that', but it goes a step further if we are in the adhyatmic buddhi, that is the second part of buddhi, it is based on inner seeing, we have to get the inner view and he is the insight and he is the following step.
As he is the man who is in the dream to awake us, he is the knower and he is the one. By getting aware of it who he is, we get aware of it who we are. In that inner view is only the one and we are not different from that one. By following the inner master we get to the insight – that he is telling us in the inner view, 'I am the One' and that is how we will be able to understand the two different parts of the buddhi.
It is great and we should enjoy the bliss in it.
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