The Bedrock of Understanding and Dharma

When the waves of egotist fear or greed drives one into the privacy of the home, the loneliness of the forest, or anywhere else, it is impossible to escape suffering. However in daily practice, when one’s acts are motivated by the basic principle of the reality of the Atma, every act becomes stamped with the seal of dharma (righteousness). On the other hand, when acts are motivated by convenience and selfish interest, the dharma becomes pseudo-dharma. Why, even the feeling ‘he is a friend’ or ‘she is an enemy’ is an error. This delusion has to be given up. The Lord, the embodiment of love, is the only constant friend, relative, companion, guide, and protector. Know this and live in that knowledge. This is dharma built on the bedrock of understanding, this is life built on the bedrock of dharma.

How do we think it over? Knowing that we are all the same, no difference between us and we experience it only together, not alone, the waves of egoist fear or greed driving one into the privacy of the home is nearly everybody not understanding that we are the same. Swami talks here also about the loneliness of the forest, what some tend to see as advanced.

When the waves of egotist fear or greed drives one into the privacy of the home, the loneliness of the forest, or anywhere else, it is impossible to escape suffering.

We cannot experience that we are the same alone in the forest. If we live alone, we have no mirror to reflect and not means of getting aware that we are the same. If we keep private we also don’t have a mirror. Whatever the reason, if it is an egotist fear or greed, the result is the same, but if we don't feel well, what to do? 
There was no Swami in it and that was painful to meet with others we don't do it to just socialze, but to be with the divine and we feel that if we feel Swami’s presence.

Did we think it over, what was it? 
Is it egoist fear or greed or both?

We can go on thinking it over and seeing it in our own life. There had to be egotist fear on some level as we were driven in the privacy of the home.

And if someone died we had been with for so long and we seem to just not be able to go over that pain and that is just why Swami is telling us to go on no matter what obstacles are there. If the pain seems that big, it will probably take some time until we get over it and the divine presence is healing, but if we don't feel his presence, it will pain even more. 
That was my pain, he didn’t feel present, because there was passion, Rajas and not Sathva and Swami is only felt in Sathva and not Rajas.

How do we get on a sathvic level? 
With thinking over his words we transcend the passions in the mind and in seeing it in our own life we transcend as well the past impressions in our mind colored by Tamas and Rajas and our insight is that we have to see it in the light of Sathva and that is Swami’s presence.

He is omnipresent and everywhere, if we feel his healing presence, we realize that it is all the mind only, also the pain is rooted in illusion it is rooted in the experience we had together and we have to realize the divine presence, he is always there, if lost, we have to find oneself again.

It doesn’t help to stay home and to avoid the company, but sometimes we have to wait until we are able to take that step, but it is what can help us. 
I mentioned that the divine presence is healing, but it felt like someone was talking loud and it went by unheard and unnoticed. It seems the mind has its own voice as well and it is on a common level understood and that loud that even if we tell it, it cannot be heard. The mind is talking too loud, understood on a level everybody knows of course, that loud we cannot hear it? 

Only in the silence of the heart the voice of God can be heard. (Swami) 

It felt to me like, he doesn’t want to hear it or he is not able to hear it.

And even if it only the mind, he has to realize that divinity is everywhere and it is eternal and omnipresent and omniscient and nothing is ever lost. 
That experience is not that easy to get …, we need to focus on the Atma to be able to transcend the mind. It is not possible to just get out of pain, something has to happen in our insight to transform it helping us getting out of it. 
The divine presence can still be felt, even if the situation has changed, if it is death or divorce, the family which had felt real in the divine presence is nevertheless gone, it is the same experience of not permanent and it seems we cannot find it anymore, but if we realize the divine presence, we also realize that inside nothing has changed.

However in daily practice, when one’s acts are motivated by the basic principle of the reality of the Atma, every act becomes stamped with the seal of dharma (righteousness). On the other hand, when acts are motivated by convenience and selfish interest, the dharma becomes pseudo-dharma. 

If we know the basic principle, every act is the seal of dharma, but if we don’t know it, how can we act in the reality of the Atma? He knows, therefore, if we listen to his words and use his words, he is never not right.
If we are all the same, we can only experience oneness in good company and together, if we stay home alone we have no mirror, we cannot experience that we are not alone and one, if we stay private and alone and on the other hand, if our acts are motivated by convenience and that we experienced enough, motivated by convenience and selfish interest thinking it was a Baba Lila and then Swami said, ‘he only took advantage of it’. We created a pseudo-dharma, as it had nothing to do with him or his hand dealing in the background when it is only self-interest making it look like it would be him, it creates a pseudo-dharma. In thinking it over we feel it and we understand it, we get into it and by thinking it over it begins to make sense.

If we think about the divine words, we get close to the divine, the real duty we have as he explained to us as selfless-service, by practice we transcend the mind and the wrong impressions in the mind. The mind is based on wrong perception and illusion, it is not real, whatever is in the mind back in the past will also be transformed and seen in the right light. It is not only the present, it is also the past.

Why, even the feeling ‘he is a friend’ or ‘she is an enemy’ is an error. This delusion has to be given up. The Lord, the embodiment of love, is the only constant friend, relative, companion, guide, and protector. Know this and live in that knowledge. This is dharma built on the bedrock of understanding, this is life built on the bedrock of dharma.

That seems a problem or very difficult as it is about our own private life. 
He is in it and he is also beyond it. To get to the feeling that nothing got lost and we can enjoy it still today, like we lost the mother, she died, but she was old and we can remember her still in joy, as she is our mother and alive in the Lord, without feeling constantly the pain that she is gone. 
The real mother never dies. It has to become our experience. If we experience her presence in the divine, no pain will be present in remembering the mother, the joy of motherhood is always present and not the pain of having lost her.

The same with friends and enemies, Baba calls it here delusion, but he also is telling us that yogis are our friends and why they are our friends? The discipline of yoga is always positive, never negative and therefore, the only friendship is on that level, but it is the same as the divine.

If there is pain of heart and it is mostly in our private life, it is not that easy to accept, as long as we don't feel the healing omnipresence of the Lord. We can know it, but we have to make the experience of his omnipresence and then the heart will not hurt anymore, knowing that nothing has changed at the inside at least, not at the outside. The changes on the outside are inevitable. 
We have to go on no matter what obstacles are there and seeing it in our own life until we experience that omnipresent reality of the Lord and then we can feel and understand it.

Know this and live in that knowledge. This is dharma built on the bedrock of understanding, this is life built on the bedrock of dharma.

The knowledge makes us strong even if the heart is in pain. The dharma builds on the bedrock of understanding. If we understand it right, if there is truth, right action and peace, we will be able to make the experience of pure love.

It is not an imaginative love on the mind level creating a pseudo-dharma and a mind idea that we know actaully, when he is the knower and we don't know. We hold on to the mind if we live in a pseudo-dharma.The millions of people that old-fashioned in the inner view felt like they were holding on to a pseudo-dharma, not listening to the divine words, the mind in the idea that they know how, that they are the doer and the knower and if we do that, we are back in the ind. 
Some think to be enlightened, thinking God only, when it has to be real and true, we have to live Dharma, not only on the thought level, but on the being level. 
We have to be who we are and we can be it together in good company with those who also want to realize it and do everything going beyond the mind, if we are with someone who doesn't care and is in the mind, it is not possible. There is no difference; divinity is only one without a second, we cannot realize it if there is no discrimination and only differences in the mind.

A pseudo-dharma keeps us in the mind, because it is not true, it is pseudo and we think we do the right thing, when in reality no real values are behind it and no discrimination and we go on living in illusion claiming it to be our dharma. 
We are thinking it is our duty by staying in the mind and in illusion, it keeps us on the mind level and it is perpetuating the mind level, there is no way out.

That is the same if we follow a not right path and we think we know it all and we think will arrive in that manner holding on to it and in reality we might get even lost in it and it is not possible to wake up. That is the meaning of being lost, there is no way out, because we think it is known already, nothing to be known anymore, we foolishly think we do the right thing and in reality it is a pseudo-dharma.

Or we fell down and we are in the mind again and see that pseudo-dharma as duty, unaware that we fell down and that we hold on to a pseudo-dharma. 
Swami explained that the ignorance and illusion is getting worse if someone is falling down, it is worse than normal ignorance. The mind has build a huge obstacle in seeing the wrong as the right and there is no way we can get aware of it, as we think it is right, that is the pseudo-dharma and we end up not only blinded, but double blindfolded.