Where Bliss is, there is God

God is wisdom. God dwells in all beings. God is known by various names and of these, the greatest and the most fitting is Satchitananda. Sat means that which remains unchanged in all the three periods of time – the past, the present, and the future. Strict adherence to Truth would enable you to experience Sat. Chit means total awareness or complete knowledge; it is that which enables one to experience Divinity in all its aspects. Once Sat and Chit are experienced, Ananda or bliss would follow automatically. The human body is temporary; the pleasure that it can give also is fleeting. It is meaningless to seek eternal bliss by way of instruments that are impermanent. The body only gives temporary, bodily pleasure, and the mind can at best give only mental satisfaction for a little while. Therefore you must seek that which is permanent - Bliss. God is Truth, God is Bliss. Hence seek God and live in Bliss.

Baba (thought for the day)

God is wisdom and as Baba said in our interview, ‚'where God is there is bliss'. And he goes on and tells us, 'God dwells in all beings.'

That are Baba's words and he informs us that God has various names, but the greatest and most fitting is 'Sat-chit-ananda'.

Imagine being in a study circle and now everybody should say something about it.

Why do you think 'sat-chit-ananda' is the greatest of the divine names?

We read his words and what is happening in our mind, we think maybe, 'God is wisdom, we just think, wisdom … do we know it?

And he tells, 'God dwells in all beings' and we think, all being, how good he is also in me. God has various names and forms … okay... that is still somehow understood and the most fitting is Sat-chit-ananda, and the mind goes, what's that?'

Someone who has never thought over Baba's words has maybe a vague idea about it or some notions hidden in the mind because he said it before, but what is sat-chit-ananda really? Why is it the greatest of all names?

If we would be thinking it over and put it into practice it would not feel that theoretical and far away only.

If we study and we have to deal with new concepts, we have to study it and get a feeling for it, we think it over and by doing it again we are able to absorb finally and after when we have to pass a test, we either know it or we don't know it and if we don't pass the test, we have to repeat it again. After some time we will have a very clear notion about it.

The same happens here with the spiritual wisdom, only we are not in college and therefore, we have to do it on our own.

We don't go and copy a page in the internet and print it and bring it in the study circle and if possible not only one page but four small and filled with text about it to show others what we found about it and that we are serious devotees, no joke – that happens. No teacher will copied stuff accept as good enough to pass the test.

A teacher wants to know that we understand it and that we think it over ourselves and that we have absorbed it good enough to be able to give the answer out of our own inner wisdom. Therefore, we have to answer the questions without copy from the internet and we have to think it over and relate it to our experience and for that we have to study it.

It is not the first time I hope we hear it, but do we understand it? What is sat-chit-ananda and how to we make the experience of it? And if we are still in kindergarten and we didn't start school yet, we still have no idea what Baba is really talking about here. That is not so good after all. We should have all a clear understanding about it.

We go on and listen to him; he hopefully will tell us why it is the greatest.

Sat means that which remains unchanged in all the three periods of time – the past, the present, and the future.

With other words it transcends time and space, it goes beyond the mind and that is meditation. We have to reach a place where there are no changes anymore.

Some will tell God doesn't change and where do we find God in our own self? We have to turn inside and beyond the mind into a state of 'pure being', that will never change and therefore, it is 'sat'. It is what doesn't change.

How do we experience it? If we have meditation practice we know, it is there when we transcend the body and the mind and in the moment when thoughts are there again, we are back in the mind and the body.

He is explaining us that if we always would strict adhere to truth we would be able to experience Sat. And who is always adhering to truth? What is truth?

Or we wonder if we are able to always adhere to truth and meditators think, I meditate and every time when I transcend I make the experience of 'pure being', 'pure consciousness' and that is truth, but in the moment I am again in my thoughts it is not true anymore. How do I stay in touch with truth, in practicing - what means meditation every day.

We have to accept truth, but that is in this moment also right action and that is the need to make the experience of 'truth' and for that we need meditation.  

How do the others understand it? All those who don't meditate are they just going to talk out their minds thinking that it is truth or does it mean being honest every moment in our life and as people are not listening to that or not understanding it, what are they doing actually in their minds?

What is going on in a mind hearing it and not knowing what it is …? We think - good Baba is that – divinity is non-changing truth, therefore, it is in him and we adore him, but that doesn't mean finding it in our own self. It means we recognize that he is it and we are not and that is duality not oneness and we have to get aware that it is in our own self.  

So we don't know really how to experience 'sat' and not all have meditation experience and don't know what to think about that 'pure being' state and truth which never changes of 'sat' when we transcend the body.

  

Strict adherence to Truth would enable you to experience Sat.

But Baba is already with the next expression and that is chit. If we don't understand 'sat' how can we understand 'chit'?

Chit means total awareness or complete knowledge; it is that which enables one to experience Divinity in all its aspects.

If we talk about that sentence in the study circle I can assure you nobody has an idea about that experience of the divine in all its aspects. What is that, they will ask and even more so all aspects? Chit is also called growing awareness, growing consciousness, and expanding consciousness. Sat is the experience of it and direct practice what we establish with regular meditation, but knowing it and realizing the insights and experience that is about chit, it is also called expanding consciousness, it is that part which contemplates over it and listens to it and thinks it over and studies it. If we have Sat, we have the non-moving mirror of Atma and in that mirror are reflected the experiences and the objects of the relative world are in that mirror and we have to get aware of it. Chit is thinking it over, but that is only possible if we adhere to truth and who is truth? We have seen that God is truth. What is truth, the scriptures are truth. Veda is truth and if we listen to his words, we listen to Veda. He is the enlightened one and if we try to answer with our own words, we are in the mind.

Is there any truth in the mind? No there is no truth in the mind, so to find truth we have to listen to his words and use his words to be able to understand it to think it over, see it in our own life and we will be able to absorb the meaning of it.

Once Sat and Chit are experienced, Ananda or bliss would follow automatically.

And once we have the experience of both, that non-changing sat we experience with meditation and the experience of the divine as total awareness or complete knowledge, it allows us to experience the divine in all aspects …

When we listen to that in a study circles people push it far away usually somewhere maybe in the future. That means we have postponed it into the mind.

The mind is future and past and only if we stay in the present we actually are able to understand it. And if ananda will follow automatically it means it is the sweet fruit of it.

We know ananda is bliss, but as sat and chit seems that far away and we don't think we are able to put it into practice now; also ananda goes far, far away.

And why we are not able to make that experience?

He is telling us here we are too attached to the human body. Even if Baba is telling us that the human body is temporary, as long as we do not sit down and meditate and focus on 'sat' the non-changing truth in our own inner being and inner awareness, we are attached on the human body. And if we will not sit down today and meditate and do it regularly, we have no connection to the never changing sat and we forget it again that we should actually practice and we postpone it and it is forgotten that the human body is temporary and if we don't do it, even if the pleasure is fleeting, we are not in touch with truth or sat and we are not putting it into practice.

The human body is temporary; the pleasure that it can give also is fleeting. It is meaningless to seek eternal bliss by way of instruments that are impermanent.

If we want to have the experience of the non-changing 'sat', what is an experience of pure being, on a regular basis, we have to meditate.

The body only gives temporary, bodily pleasure, and the mind can at best give only mental satisfaction for a little while. Therefore you must seek that which is permanent - Bliss. God is Truth, God is Bliss. Hence seek God and live in Bliss.

With other words he is telling us here, meditate – morning and evening as he said once to always be in touch with that level of non-changing being in our own self – what is known as ‚sat' and if we do that, we will be able on that base knowing that sat is established in our inner awareness, it is part of our life and we look in the inner self as a mirror,  it is a non-changing mirror we can listen to Baba or to him, the Veda and divinity mirrored in his words and we recognize the reflection of him in that mirror and he is God, he is Veda, he is all knowledge, but he is also the man who is in our dream to awake us.

He is God and by listening to him and contemplating over his words we find what he calls here all knowledge and all facets of the Divine.

How do we seek God if God is what is non-changing and always true? We have to meditate, our meditation is like the office hours and being in touch with God and service to him also if we so it as our office hours to be in touch with 'sat' and on that basis we are able of listening to him and thinking it over to develop chit and experience all knowledge and experience the divine and if we have sat and chit the sweet fruit will be present as ananda.

God is Truth, God is Bliss. Hence seek God and live in Bliss.

Truth is non-changing and pure consciousness, truth is pure being and truth is God and therefore, 'pure love' and if we seek God and what is true always we will also listen to him and think it over and by that study it and find the reality in our own practice of chit and if we have sat and chit, ananda will follow as the sweet fruit of bliss.

Hence seek God and live in Bliss.

If we meditate and sit down and do it like a prayer to experience God and we do it regularly we are directly in touch with 'sat' and it is our own experience and 'sat' is a pure state of truth and the mind is not a pure state of truth, so we have to go beyond the mind and that is done with meditation. With regular meditation we establish 'sat' and with listening, thinking it over and getting able to 'absorb' what is present in 'sat' we realize all knowledge and divinity in our own self. If the sweet fruit of ananda is following, we are God. 

As Baba said in our interview, 'where bliss is, there is God'.