You are You and God is God

To hate or injure other beings is as bad as hating and injuring oneself. The reason being that the injurer is as much a living being with God as the core, as the injured is. Until you become aware of your own Divinity (Deva-tatwa) so long as you are conscious of your distinct individuality (Jiva-tatwa) - till you feel you are you and God is God, you struggle, with some attitudes and objectives. This is called the Sadhaka stage. During that stage, you must endeavor to equip yourself with the qualities of love, sympathy and compassion. For, without these, Yoga and Jnana (wisdom) cannot be secured. Love is vital, it is divine. To render an act fit to be offered to God and pure enough to win His Grace, it must be a manifestation of Love. The brighter the manifestation, the nearer you are to God.

Baba (thought for the day)

It was a great experience to get aware of Baba’s presence during singing, but if we analyze it what happened really, it is natural law. After singing someone said, today it was just great and Baba was always present without interruption and it is also my experience.

Isn’t it great to share that?

It seems so easy to tell he is the ocean, we are the waves and we are one, but to live it, don’t you agree, it is not that easy. We should not hate another, because he is inside also part of the self as he tells us in that thought for the day.

To hate or injure other beings is as bad as hating and injuring oneself. The reason being that the injurer is as much a living being with God as the core, as the injured is.

If there is manipulation, we are injuring not only others, but also our own self.

There is no reflection in the heart; there is no reflection at all or the reflection of a ruin as we have experienced it already. It is part of the insight and Baba in the inner view, the man who is in our heart to awake us, by watching we get aware of it.

In Hislop’s book he asked Baba about illusion and Baba said if there are four things involved it makes it real. It has to be a decision, there has to be work and time involved and a result.

If we watch in silence, we have already two levels, the decision to watch in silence, it is work to just watch and time involved, there will be a result. The result is ‘insight’, the object reflects in the mirror of the silence in the heart. It is the watcher, but only if the mirror is pure enough to get the reflection.

If it is about manipulation there is a decision as well and time is involved and it leads to a result and that result will be self-reflecting, but it will not be good, it is only mind and the Karma is coming back to people who are the doers.

If it is about watching, we get aware of it that he is the doer; his reflection is in the silence of the heart. If it is about manipulation, it is mind and for the mind, for the senses and sense-gratification. If we do not get aware of it, we are like sheeple lost in it.

I began to watch and the decision was for the higher self, there was love, it began to be felt because it is a level of reality and it transformed into divinity, because he is positive and because he is beyond he mind and everything in the mind is negative, that is natural law.  

It needs a decision, our decision for him, to go in an upward direction our tools are on one side the breath and meditation and on the other side discrimination and the intellect, we have to go beyond the mind, the mind goes downwards in the senses and sense-gratification.

And by that we get into the level heart and there we find Ananda.

He is the ocean and we are the waves and it is present in silence. He is the doer. We should not even try to understand it with the mind. It is beyond the mind; therefore, it will always be ‘silence’ for the mind. Silence is the ocean, no end, no limitations, no second.

I remember once in the insight in the ashram there was in the dream the life-tree and we could see the roots and at the roots was a reservoir of water and I jumped head forward into that pond, it is natural law. It felt limited and it looked like a pond, but when I was in the water I opened the eyes and got aware that it was the ocean.

There was nothing but silence above and below and around me and I felt scared and called out for Swami and I woke up and that got me back in the mind and the body. That is why I had to go back to the beginning, the pillars of the temple, knowledge, courage, volition and silence.

That is how I began to watch years ago.

If there is knowledge or discrimination and silence and we watch and if there are good qualities we get the reflection, it depends if the mirror is pure enough to get to the reflection.

It needs courage to see it in our own life and the result will reflect in the silence of our heart.

We are on that level not in the mind.

The silence is the level of the ocean and if the water is clear and silent, even if it is in a small pond and silent and individual, it is anyhow possible to get aware of ‘I am that’. It will not be the sea, nevertheless, we can get aware of the reflection of the sunshine in it and we think, ‘I am that’, I am part of it. It is all part of silence.

The self-realization is between the object and its image. And if for some reason we are not able to get aware of the image, we are cut off our own self and we are manipulated by someone who knows the image and we got lost in it, not knowing what happened, but at once we were cut off and not anymore in our own self, because the self is the image of the object. If we are manipulated or controlled by someone else, we are not able to experience our own self anymore, because at the place of our own self is the other person. That is part of the reflection with my ex as well and how he took advantage of it, but it was a state created by TM, therefore, he could take advantage of it. We were controlled and manipulated by the leaders of the TM-movement.  

The higher self is the reflection of our good qualities and our good doing.

If we look in the pond it is individual, if we look in it together with all others, like by singing, we can get aware of it that we are all the same and ‘that’ and the experience becomes a reflection of oneness. We experience Baba’s presence and Prasanthi Nilayam even if we are here in the center singing.

We sing and we listen, we don’t forget that all are singing and one. The reflection of the object is the same reflection; it is our higher self or divinity.

It will always be in silence getting aware of the reflection, the mind is silent and sleeping in the dream, that is why he is in the dream to awake us, because in that state the mind is silent.

The mind doesn’t matter in the East, only it the West we try to heal the mind.

In the East we go beyond the mind to find truth. But we have in the West more difficulties to understand it. In the East they go beyond the mind and they have an old culture. In the West it is new and therefore, there are so many misunderstandings.

It is natural law. The energy has to go upwards to be spiritual; if it goes downwards it goes into the mind and the senses. If we are not aware of it, the mind comes in through the backdoor. If we are in illusion, we have to get aware of truth; we have to know if our energy flow is upwards or downwards … if we are not aware of it, we can easily be manipulated and think it is upwards when in reality it is downwards, that is what happened with TM.

Until you become aware of your own Divinity (Deva-tatwa) so long as you are conscious of your distinct individuality (Jiva-tatwa) - till you feel you are you and God is God, you struggle, with some attitudes and objectives. This is called the Sadhaka stage.

In what stage are we?

If we are both in silence, the reflection is the watcher, if there are good qualities, if not we are not able to see the reflection in the heart. Only in silence we will get aware of it, it has to be sathva to reflect and it is not possible to see it in silence, there is no sharing. If we sing together devotional songs and listen, if Baba is present, we get aware of the oneness.

That is again natural law or the divine law.

We have to watch to get aware of it. Some self-enquiry is needed to understand it right, it grows and in time we get aware that the reflection is the same.

With TM it also happened and we meditated together, but nobody was aware of it. It had an influence on consciousness, the effect was stronger in the group, but no ‘insight’, just meditating together and because of no insight the self gets lost and that way it turns into manipulation of the mind. Nothing does make sense if there is no ‘insight’ and no following step; it is just the mind telling us that it does make sense.  

If someone else takes over we can be manipulated easily. If we are not aware of it and it is based on ‘illusion’ to think we can get enlightened, that is not enlightening. To get enlightened we have be aware of it. It is no enlightenment if we are not aware of it or worse if we take being lost for ‘enlightenment’ and in reality we are just manipulated and like sheeple.

We have to get the experience of ‘oneness’, he is the ocean and we are the waves, it is present in the ‘I am that’. But everybody has his own way to get aware of it and Baba leads from the inside to awake us.

This is called the Sadhaka stage. During that stage, you must endeavor to equip yourself with the qualities of love, sympathy and compassion. For, without these, Yoga and Jnana (wisdom) cannot be secured. Love is vital, it is divine.

Love does get us to the reflection in the silence of the heart. We begin with silence and watching and time is involved and love.

Baba tells us during that stage we have to equip ourselves with the quality of love, sympathy and compassion. Those qualities will reflect as the higher self in the silence of the heart and it can only reflect if the mirror is pure, in that quality of love, sympathy and compassion is purity already included. We meditate to get to a purified mind to get to those qualities and without these – Yoga or Jnana (wisdom) cannot be secured. It is essential.

It is natural law, if the mirror is not pure, there will not be a reflection.

If we are manipulated by someone else yoga is not possible, because in the mind we go in direction of the senses, sense gratification.

The pleasure of the mind, like yesterday the full moon night, is silent, quiet and clear, in that state we see the reflection.

Love is vital, it is divine. To render an act fit to be offered to God and pure enough to win His Grace, it must be a manifestation of Love. The brighter the manifestation, the nearer you are to God.

Baba calls it manifestation, brighter it is, nearer we get to God. 
Silence and watching, but it is also knowledge, because it has to be love and we meditate to get a pure mind to be able to get the reflection in the silence of the heart, it is not the mind. It is different from the mind and it needs courage to go for it until it is present in the heart.

If there is love, there will be the reflection of love and divinity in the silence of the heart, it is a reflection and it is God. 

I always call it the reflection of the object, not like a light body, it is just the reflection of it. Atman reacts, reflects and resounds.  
Our decision to be in silence and to watch is object. It can reflect and love reflects in the silence of the heart. If we are focused on good qualities it is a pure mind. 

If we see it as light body and manifestation, it is in the mind, it is not the reflection in the heart, it is outside and not inside. 
The silent level in the heart is beyond the mind. 
The mind doesn’t understand a reflection in the heart. It is 'insight' and it needs self-enquiry to understand it and that is the following step, but it is he who understands it. He is the insight and the following step, it all belongs to the following step.

It is definitely not on the level of appearance of a light body and talking with a group of students. 
He is present if we sing Bhajans. We don’t need to find Baba in a light body, he is present always, we get aware of it during Bhajans. It is enough to sing and to listen and self-enquiry to realize that he is present; we don’t need to look for a light body answering question. If we are aware that we are the same 'I am that', we are not different from God, but he is the ocean and we are the waves, that is how we get aware that 'I am I and God is God, we are the same 'I am that', but when it is God we are all together the same and one and I am that. Smaller than the smallest and bigger than the biggest together in sharing the experience in devotional singing. 

He has all question answered, he said that it is done, his mission is complete. There is nothing open and no need for him to answer questions. He is always present; we just have to get aware of it. There is no difference between the ocean and the waves, we are the ocean, we are one with the ocean, and we have to realize it.