Listen, Think it over, Absorb

The Kaivalya Upanishad declares: "Not by means of works, not by means of human power, not by means of wealth, but by renunciation alone can immortality be attained." The 'works' referred to are rituals like sacrifices, vows, charities, donations, pilgrimages, etc. Through such activities, one cannot achieve liberation; that is to say, one cannot get rid of the veil of ignorance. 'Human power' means acquisition of positions of authority, of skill and intelligence which can manipulate people and things, of fame and supremacy, of personal charm, of health and happiness, or of a large family with many children - these cannot confer liberation. The works mentioned above and the acquisition referred to can succeed only when one has 'wealth'. But the Upanishad announces that spiritual wisdom is not related to riches. So liberation cannot be earned by means of wealth. Renunciation alone can confer immortality.

(Thought for the day)

Do we understand that thought for the day? Understanding in the sense of getting Baba's insight and seeing it in our own life. 

Baba's words are about truth and insights and we have to read it a very different way. I guess we just read it and think we understand it or if we don't, we think we will understand it later. But listen, think it over and absorb - is a different meaning.

If we read it and think that we understand it, we are in the mind.

It is a mind conclusion, because we just think we know, it has nothing to do with right or wrong or good and bad or truth and untruth. 

But when we listen to Baba we see it all differently, because we know that it is the mind only getting to that conclusion that it does understand and as he told us in a thought for the day just some time ago, we have to resort to scriptures if we want to know the difference between good and bad, and if that is the case for good and bad, we also have to do the same with right and wrong. 
If we just read it and think that we understand it or maybe we will understand it later, we are in the mind and it is illusion. 


If we listen to him, we think it over because we know we are in the mind and thinking it over is about accepting the truth in his words, he is the scriptures. And when we accept that path of truth and therefore, we listen, we think it over to be able to absorb it, we are aware that it is the mind only and not true, therefore, we have to think it over to find that truth and we have to see it in our own life to be able to understand it.
And if we want to get to the experience of 'pure love', we have to understand peace and to be able to understand peace, we have to accept right action and if we accept the path of right action, we have to accept the path of truth.
If we want to make the experience of pure love, we need three things: truth, right action and peace. 
Just reading it is not enough. In his words is truth and that is based on insights and if we think it over we see that truth in our own self and by that we are able to realize the same principle of truth, therefore, we need to go on no matter what obstacles are there.

He tells us if we are able to see nature and the created objects in the light of our inner vision and with the insights resulting from that inner view, the attachment will slide away. 
The way to detachment is therefore, that we listen to his words and develop by that inner view and we have to listen carefully and accept the truth in his words in the light of our own life and that is how we get insights. 
If we listen to his words, we do not just read them, we listen and in thinking it over we find the truth in our life which is reflected in his words and that is how we can understand the principles and we develop inner view. And we have to go on no matter what obstacles are there. 
We cannot just read his words and think we understand it, because it is not true, it is a mind conclusion and if we accept that truth, we also have to accept right action and that means we have to listen differently and think it over, because it is about accepting truth. 
Accepting truth means also to get aware of the difference between mind and truth or Atma. We cannot accept a mind decision as truth. If we do that we are in delusion. 
If we want to know the difference between good and bad, we have to resort to scriptures. 
The conclusion that we are able to just read his words and we understand it is therefore not right, we do not accept truth and we don't know how to accept right action.

We have to know the difference between the man who comes in our dreams to awake us and the mind or the relative, created objects and nature. First discrimination, second is seeing it in our own life and third is going on no matter what obstacles are that, that way we develop inner vision and insights. 
We have to see our nature and our life and the created objective world in the light of the insights and the inner vision and if we arrive to see it in the inner vision, the attachment will slide away.

Therefore, is discrimination the first step. We have to know the difference between insights and the mind. As Baba said in the inner vision he is the insight and he is the following step and we know that he is not the mind and not the body. We have to know how to get to that discrimination and that happens in listening to his words. We cannot only listen, we have to accept the truth in it and by that we also accept the right action and will be able to understand peace and only if we do that, we will be able to have all three things, truth, right action and peace and we will be able to make the experience of pure love.  

The Kaivalya Upanishad declares: "Not by means of works, not by means of human power, not by means of wealth, but by renunciation alone can immortality be attained." The 'works' referred to are rituals like sacrifices, vows, charities, donations, pilgrimages, etc. Through such activities, one cannot achieve liberation; that is to say, one cannot get rid of the veil of ignorance.

Work, even if it is right action, is in the field of created objects and it is not on the level of insights and therefore, when people do Christmas plays and try to get some message they don't understand as Baba, it is just about Christian cultural values, but that doesn't tell us how to accept truth and it is not what we find in the Upanishads. The unity of all religions we are all in him, but he is not in them.

Human power is the mind, not divine power, wealth is on the level of the worldly wealth and mind and not divine power, renunciation knows the difference between Atma and mind and therefore only it is divine power. As soon as it is divine immortality can be attained.

The 'works' referred to are rituals like sacrifices, vows, charities, donations, pilgrimages, etc. Through such activities, one cannot achieve liberation; that is to say, one cannot get rid of the veil of ignorance.

Whatever we do as works, it is on the outer level and therefore, in the mind and it is not on the level of insights, inner vision, and not the man who is in our dreams to awake us. But listening to his words, if we listen, we think it over because we are aware of the truth in it and seeing it in our own life  we are able to understand that truth and the inner vision is by that growing, we have to go on no matter what obstacles are there to get to the right insight. We see the truth in Baba's words reflected in our own insights.

The veil of ignorance cannot get away on the outer level, but only by inner vision and insights.

Human power' means acquisition of positions of authority, of skill and intelligence which can manipulate people and things, of fame and supremacy, of personal charm, of health and happiness, or of a large family with many children - these cannot confer liberation. The works mentioned above and the acquisition referred to can succeed only when one has 'wealth'.

It can only succeed if one has 'wealth', that we can see on many levels, but it is still the worldly level and not inner vision. 
Seeing it in our own life we get aware of it only in thinking it over we get a relationship to the insights and recognize why he said it like that and not differently. It is all based on insight only. 
Truth is insight. When Baba tells that there are devotees looking like water taps and that it has to be connected to the tank of Grace of God by 'pure love', what we have to do is getting that experience of 'pure love'. He tells us also that the world will be okay if God's grace can flow, he will take care of it, but that is only possible if we are able to connect the water taps to the tank of grace of God and that is only possible if there is 'pure love'.

People think they 'know love' and do nothing to get to that 'pure love'. 
But he is telling us that we need three things to get to the experience of pure love, 'truth, right action, peace', if we would know it, we would also know that we don't know. 
Only when we have that experience of 'pure love', we are able to connect to the infinite tank of Grace of God. 
It is like with meditation, without doing it and going beyond the mind we cannot experience a state of 'pure being', the same is if we do not know how, we cannot get to the experience of 'pure love'. It is a process of growing and expanding inner awareness and self-realization.

The difficulty is that everybody thinks they know love and we don't know that 'pure love' and what we think is love, he tells us is not love at all, so how do we get to that difference between love or what we think love is and 'pure love'? 
We have to accept truth. 
It gets purified with truth, like our thoughts get purified with meditation and when it gets purified, we know that we have to resort to scriptures and we don't just know truth, but we know we have to accept truth first and if we accept the path of truth, we have to accept that path of right action and that means we have to listen to be able to absorb the truth. 
If we understand it on outer cultural values, it is based on a wrong conclusion, it cannot be right. It is a mind level only. We get to conclusions without accepting truth and that we are in the mind and therefore, we don't know truth, we have to listen to his words and by listening and thinking it over we find truth. 

If we think we know love and it is only the mind and we are not aware of it, the cultural values are projected on our culture and that is mind. It gets old-fashioned and there is the tendency to revive traditions and that has nothing to do with truth. 
There was an insight with old-fashioned looking people focused on outer culture and it said seven million people. That means everybody is more or less in the grip of the mind and illusion.

But the Upanishad announces that spiritual wisdom is not related to riches. So liberation cannot be earned by means of wealth. Renunciation alone can confer immortality.

Renunciation is seeing it in the inner vision nature and the created, conceptual objects in the light of insights and inner vision and by that attachment will slide away.

How do we get detached? In carefully listening to Baba's words and if we think it over it is about accepting truth and if we see it in our own life we get aware of the truth in our life reflected in his words. 

Going on no matter what obstacles are there is a kind of brainstorming. Whatever is in the mind, in the end we only take truth which is reflected in his words and we have to get to a right conclusion and by that the inner view is growing. 
We all have to get detached and that is how he tells us attachment will slide away, it is by seeing the objects, whatever has form and name, our thoughts are part of objects, the conceptual and relative reality what is created and outside, we have to see it in the light of our inner vision and insights. That is how we get to detachment. That is what he is telling us if we listen to his words and think it over to accept the truth in it. 
And if we accept the path of truth, we also have to accept right action and that means we have to listen and we have to think it over, it is a must, because we want the experience of 'pure love'. We get it only if we have three things: truth, right action and peace. 

We have to get to that inner vision and it happens when we listen to Baba's words and accept by thinking it over the truth in it. 
How do we get to the inner vision? With the right focus, it has to be on truth or 'pure love' only, if the focus is on material stuff, we cannot get there. If we are focused on truth, as Baba is truth, listening to his words, we find the truth and are able to accept the truth and that tells us again that right action is to think it over. 

We had a similar experience with meditation, but as it was based on technique only and not insights, it turns into routine and that is the level of the mind and if there have been insights, there were no answers, because the master was not present. 

There were insights, but it was not possible to understand it, we need to listen to his words and to think it over to get the right answer to the insights. If the master is not there, we cannot face the truth in our insights. The reflection was upside down, because the master was not present.

We only get to right conclusions in our insights if we listen to Baba's words, he is the master and the level of truth and confirming by that and reflecting the universal truth, it is always the same truth and by thinking it over we find it in our own being.

We cannot get it without listening to him. That is why he said we have to resort to scriptures, he is the scriptures. 
So we all should listen carefully to Baba's words and respect the process happening in our own consciousness and self-awareness by listening to him. 
If we would do that, we hopefully would get less to outer wrong conclusion in the mind about cultural values which are not reflected in the inner view, but only in the mind and think that it is Baba, what is all based on wrong conclusion and mind only.

As he said yesterday to know the difference between good and bad we have to resort to scriptures and those scriptures are in the Vedas and in being-consciousness-bliss, Sat-Chit-Ananda and we find it not in our cultural values. We have to accept truth and that is the difference between Atman and mind and if we don't see it in his words, there is no truth, the value of our culture is seeing it in our own life, it has to be put into our own life, otherwise, we are not able to understand it and it stays like on another level and it is not practical, but only theoretical knowledge. By seeing it in our own life we are able to understand it. 
Listening to Baba and thinking it over is the way to develop our inner vision and to get to insights and it leads to detachment.

That is what he is telling us, but we have to listen and people are just reading it and they think that is enough. It is not enough just reading it, we have to be able to absorb the truth in his words in our own self. 
We have to know the difference between reading only and listening and thinking it over to be able to absorb. One is only in the mind, the other is aware that it is the mind and by that goes beyond the mind. If we just read it and think we understand it, we are in the mind and if we listen and think it over, we know we are in the mind and we have to accept truth that it is only the mind and by that we go beyond the mind and into inner self-awareness and it leads to spiritual growth and development of our consciousness.

We cannot know the difference between good and bad without resorting to scriptures and we have to accept truth, there is only one truth and if we accept that path of truth, we have to accept the path of right action and there is only one right action and that only makes us understand peace.
Right action is listening and thinking it over. That is the way to absorb the universal truth in our own self and to get to self-experience. 

Only if those three things are there, 'truth, right action and peace', we are able to make the experience of 'pure love' and that is the essence of Baba and why we go to him, it is all about 'pure love' only and nothing else. 

To discriminate between good and bad, one must resort to scriptures. The Vedas emerged from the Divine Himself and were 'heard' by sages attuned to the voice of the Divine, who in turn, taught them to their disciples. This process of imparting the Vedas and the wisdom enshrined in them has continued through many generations of Gurus and disciples until now. The Upanishads, the Brahma Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita contain the very essence of the Vedas. Hence these are designated as 'three fundamental texts (Prasthana traya)' of the science of spirituality. Acquisition of higher knowledge alone can fulfill the main purpose of human life; it makes one aware that one is not the inert non-sentient body but an embodiment of being-awareness-bliss. When this truth dawns and is experienced, you are freed from the fog of ignorance and are liberated, in this very life.