Meditation and No Birth and No Death

When you face hardships and struggle in life, cling and hold on to the Lord. To instill courage in an infant, its mother persuades it to walk a few steps and turn, but she won’t allow it to fall. If it totters and is about to lose balance, she hurries behind and catches it! The Lord too has His eyes fixed on each individual (jivi). He has in His hand the string of the kite, which is humanity! Sometimes He may pull it, and at other times He may loosen the grip! Whatever He does, be confident and carefree, for it is He who holds the string of your life. That solid faith will fill you with the essence of love (prema-rasa). The string is the bond of love and grace and every individual (kite) is thus bound to the Lord. All you must do is to walk the path so that the bond of love and grace is strong. 

Baba (thought for the day)

If we look at the higher self and only love and beauty and light as we know it from Baba, it has nothing to do with struggle and hardship. But Baba is telling us here that clinging to the Lord he will be there.

Now that is what we did when we said always, he will know a way and he did after all. But there is another aspect to it. If we meditate with Soham as So inhale and it is light as Baba also said and Ham exhale darkness, we get a relationship to our own higher self in the breath and in such a meditation it is reflected as ‘I am that’.

The Lord too has His eyes fixed on each individual (jivi). He has in His hand the string of the kite, which is humanity! Sometimes He may pull it, and at other times He may loosen the grip! Whatever He does, be confident and carefree, for it is He who holds the string of your life.

If we breathe in light and what is good, whatever we would like only good qualities, as it has to do with light, it is the positive level of light and as we should acquire good tendencies in the mind and we exhale the body part and it is dark. 

We breathe in light and we breathe out darkness, we breathe in perfect health and breathe out sickness, we can breathe in feeling young and strength and we breathe out feeling old and tiredness.

That is not about desires, that is about light and if we breath in the light we get those qualities we know from meditation as perfect orderliness, more mental potential, strength, youth, the siddhis are part of light and the divine and what is related to the body is dark and if we breathe in light we fill the body with light and good qualities and by breathing out the dark we get rid of everything we don’t want.

That solid faith will fill you with the essence of love (prema-rasa). The string is the bond of love and grace and every individual (kite) is thus bound to the Lord. All you must do is to walk the path so that the bond of love and grace is strong.

If take in love and light, it will fill us with the essence of love and it will be all natural that we have to accept truth, because we also inhale light and by it truth and we also inhale right action and peace, it is all part of light and only on the relative level we have a choice and we can instead of going for light and truth go for falsehood and not right action.

But if we breathe in light we also breathe in the rest and what is good only.

In Soham is divinity and that means our own higher self it is in the inhale and in the outward movement of the breath is that what is related to the body and therefore, it is dark. If we go in direction of light, our relationship is related to light.

If we are in such a meditation we understand the difference and why it is not the mind level and if we don’t meditate we cannot understand it because we are in the mind.

The Breath is what YOU ARE.  It is inside the Breath, Wholly. Every cell of Your body is filled with its Power in order to have Life. That is what YOU ARE.  YOU ARE the Life.  YOU ARE the Breath."

Mafu

 

I guess that is how and why we can have a Darshan if we are focused on the mantra Soham, if we get aware that the So is the light and the higher self and it can feel like Darshan, it is not different from being in Baba’s presence, the level of ‘I am the One’, I don’t think it is possible if we have not yet realized the universal love and it is just the individual self, only the Paramatma is on the level of the One and the universal level of the self, but love is love and why Baba is telling us always … love only. 

The mind is without age. What age gives to the human body so that it can return to the earth, time reveals to the mind wisdom, generosity of heart. Meditation produces an awareness of this... that you have never been born and that you can never die."

The mind has no age. The mind is what we put in and that is why we had a Siddhis program to put in positive thoughts and to develop divine qualities. And that is what meditation does, it produces the awareness that we have never been born and that we can never die …

Thus we know Baba has not been born, he took a body and he didn’t die, he left the body.

We have been born and as long as we have been born, we will also die.

We have with mediation to get to the reality that we have never been born and therefore, we also will not die.

And the key is in the sentence, ‘we and He is I’ if we realize that we are ‘that’ the same oneness – we realize that we are not different from the universal ‘I’, Baba’s I and not our, that I is identified with the body.

So how do we get away from body consciousness, with his words we focus on ‘love’ only and ‘love’ is light and beauty and the higher self and what we inhale only and what we exhale is dark and the small I and the body.

That solid faith will fill you with the essence of love (prema-rasa). The string is the bond of love and grace and every individual (kite) is thus bound to the Lord. All you must do is to walk the path so that the bond of love and grace is strong.

It needs to be realized that our bond of love is in every individual bound to the Lord. We know why it has to be realized, as we are thinking that we are the body and if we think we are the body we project love in the other and the mind and not in the Lord.

How do we walk the path to realize that the bond of love and grace is strong?

We have to realize also that the others (mind) is not pure love or not love, but delusion. It needs quite a bit of listening, thinking over to be able to absorb truth, we have to use discrimination and we have to see it in our own life and we have to go on no matter what obstacles are there. (Baba)

If we use discrimination we also have to accept truth and when we see it in our own life we also have to accept right action and if we go on no matter what obstacles are there, we also have to understand peace and when three things are present, truth, right action and peace, we are able to make the experience of pure love.

The answer that Baba asked, ‘to whom does she belong?’ I saw it on the level of the mind, because he asked that other devotee who I was and I just translated. 

I was not able to get to the conclusion that if the higher self was love only and if everybody is that same ‘higher self’ and the universal ‘higher self’ is manifested as ‘I am that’ or as ‘I am the One’, that our relationship can only be with the Lord and not with anybody else telling us, ‘you just belong to me’.

The question is why it was not possible to get to that conclusion at that time after he had asked those questions. 

He asked three times, who is that girl? And I guess the right answer would have been, ‘the one I think I am is the body and the one others think I am that is the mind and the one I really am is Atma or the higher self.

In that interview were three people and he asked that question to the lady who was at my side and I had to translate for her. He asked her the questions and it confused me totally only now I get closer to it as it seems. The one I think I am is the body, the one she thinks I am is the mind and the one He thinks I am that is Atma, because he knows.

But at that time I didn’t get it and I asked others about it and nobody had an idea about it and my ex said that he knew that I belonged to him only and so we went into that relationship and he warned him that in this room will not be the right answer. Today it does make sense at that time it didn't. 

In the meantime it looks different and I wonder why it was not possible to get to the right conclusion? It was even worse as he said we lived in a mud hole and it was not possible to even think about spiritual issues without that he began to argue about it and I was let down by the family and my ex took only advantage of it, all that seems to have had an influence that it was not possible to get to that insight that there were actually three persons present, he - Baba and I and ‘her’ and that was also ‘we’ … we were devotees and He is ‘I’, as Baba is telling us, 'you and I are we' first step and 'we and He is I', second step or 'we and He is One'.

If we don’t get the insight and if we don’t see it in our own life we cannot understand it … and nobody can as it seems. Who is talking about it? 

Baba talked about nothing else but that, we were just not on the right level or the mirror was not right and there was too much development of imaginative faculty in the mind instead of truth and love.
We and He is in the meditation also 'I', the higher self - but the higher self is not the presence of I, but of 'we' ... and if that 'we' doesn't work like with my ex who took only advantage of it, it was not possible to get aware that the 'higher self', the light in our meditation is indeed not different from the divine.
Soham doesn't work if we don't make the difference between the higher self and the body. It is not only mediation, it is breath, it is getting aware that we are that and that there is nothing else but 'that' and we have to accept truth ... and the conclusion is - there cannot be any birth and if there is no birth, there will be no death.
We should think that part over again and again ... to really get there. 

That is who we really are!