You and I become We - Cultivation of Feelings

When you perform an activity (kriya) as an offering to the Lord, your own good, what is good for others, and the highest good (swartha, parartha, and paramaartha) all merge! First, you and I become we. Next we and He becomes One. The individual soul, the ‘I’ (jiva) should accomplish identity first with the creation (prakriti) and then with the Supreme Divine (Paramatma). This indeed is the significance of the mantra Om Tat Sat (which connects the identity of the individual with the Universal Brahman). ‘He’ and ‘I’ are always there; the spiritual practice (sadhana) is always there too. Just as the sun is inseparable and is never apart from its rays, under no circumstances should any aspirant part with one’s sadhana. It is only then they can be said to be one with Om. (Prema Vahini)

  

 Baba is telling us here that we merge; all merge when it is good for all.

First, you and I become we. Next we and He becomes One.

There is no He if there is no We. And if there is only ‘I’ as he said no more husband nothing left but an empty Western shoe, there has to be someone and he took care of it that there is someone else.

We don’t exactly know why just an empty shoe, but he is one, no doubt about that or two shoes in the insight, old, brown and worn out, used old Western shoes.

He makes you and I become ‘we’. What is ‘we’? A relationship or just a ‘we’?

If we take it just as a ‘we’, we get to the conclusion that only if there is a ‘we’, there will be ‘he’. To make we and He one, we have to go on to be ‘we’.

‘You and I’ are We and we is He. That is what he said and it was an insight after he left the body. In the insight, (dream) there was a deep dip and we went down that dip and there was only little water left and it went up again and on the way up he dropped the body and it fell into  dust and it went further up and on top was Krishna and his brother. There was not only Krishna after he dropped the body, but ‘we’ it was Krishna with his brother or brother in law, Arjuna.

Not only one, not only Krishna, not only Baba, but ‘we’ to be ‘he’, two people actually, that is why I repeated it again and again, it was kind of triggering me as well, I mean, I only got aware of the importance of that ‘we’ after he left the body.

If we come with the Avatar it is just because of that reason, he doesn’t come alone, he is incarnating with some souls near and dear to him. To be able to get the message that God and devotee are One, there are not two only one, but there are two first to become one. It is not possible to become one if there are not two first.

The individual soul, the ‘I’ (jiva) should accomplish identity first with the creation (prakriti) and then with the Supreme Divine (Paramatma). This indeed is the significance of the mantra Om Tat Sat (which connects the identity of the individual with the Universal Brahman).

The ‘I’ if identified with the body it is what we think we are, the body. But here he mentions the jiva, the soul and the ‘I’ is not with the body, but with creation, prakriti, mother nature and afterwards with the supreme divine. The ‘I’ as ‘I am Shiva in the mantra ‘Soham’ or ‘I am that’ is the first awakening in the heart of all created beings all are one. He also explained that. That is the identification with nature or mother nature and with Him it is different, we have to be first two to become one. That is not the same process. To begin with we have to understand it as principle of awareness in all hearts of being, the heart of all hearts and if we are two first and ‘we’, we are he, because there is the reflection in the mirror. One is the mirror the other the seer and the images are mirrored in a shared relationship, therefore, we and He become one.

This indeed is the significance of the mantra Om Tat Sat (which connects the identity of the individual with the Universal Brahman).

Do you call that experience part of your own self?

‘He’ and ‘I’ are always there; the spiritual practice (sadhana) is always there too. Just as the sun is inseparable and is never apart from its rays, under no circumstances should any aspirant part with one’s sadhana. It is only then they can be said to be one with Om. (Prema Vahini).

There is never a state of no ‘we’, as he is telling us here, he and I are always there and spiritual practice is always there too, it never ends.

As it was in the insight, ‘he dropped the body and there was Krishna and Arjuna, Krishna is He and the brother is ‘I’.

Just as the sun is never inseparable and never apart from its rays, divinity or the path of love is always ‘two’, always based on the relationship between the devotee and the Lord, there cannot be any love if there are not two, there is the lover and the beloved and love.

And under no circumstances should an aspirant part with one’s Sadhana, spiritual practice and that is why I went always on with meditation and it transformed into contemplation, but meditation is still there.

It is only then they can be said to be one with Om. (Prema Vahini).