Why complain that the ground cannot be seen when all the while
your gaze is fixed on the sky? Watch the ground and look at the sheet of water that
reflects the sky —then you can see, at the same time, the sky above and the
earth below. So too, to adhere to the law of
truth (sathya-dharma), in your every act, you must see the reflection
of the glory of the Divine (Atma); then this attachment to the Lord
will transmute your attachment to the world into a pure offering. Adherence to
the law of truth is in fact the practice of the immanent Atmic principle. The
goal of purity should not be altered or lowered; the essentials should be kept
intact. Righteousness (Dharma) does not depend on the various names
and forms that its application entails; they are not so basic. Dharma
depends more on the motives and the feelings that direct and channelize your
every act.
If
our attention is at the sky how can we see what is on the ground? If we
look at the sky in a fixed gaze, the Attention is fixed and not even flexible,
it means with other words they are convinced that the sky is the answer and it
is the always sign of Maya, Illusion that we are looking for it at the wrong
place.
Why complain that the ground cannot be seen when all the while
your gaze is fixed on the sky? Watch the ground and look at the sheet of water
that reflects the sky —then you can see, at the same time, the sky above and
the earth below.
The difference of height in the inner view when Swami was sitting in the wheelchair on a podium and the others were separate by height, it was not only an insight in the dream, but also a feeling and if that feeling of agony would not have been there, it would probably not feel the way it did. It is dividing the mind to see a difference, he is the knower, he is the teacher, we have to listen to him to get the lesson, but otherwise on the body level is no difference, body is body that is what he said.
The
insight and the seven Million looking old-fashioned like out of another
century having the attention as it seems on tradition, probably not
on Veda, they would look different if they would, they seem also part of
those fixed with their gaze at the sky.
If
our highest duty is to be who we are, first of all we have to get
aware of the principle of the ‘I am that’. It is dividing the mind if we
make that difference in height.
His
teaching is oneness and most of all that we have to see the same and no
differences.
People
don’t know how therefore, it seems easier to stay fixed gazing at the sky
looking for an answer where no answer can be.
If
we see many there is separation and we are in the parts and not in wholeness
and that is the mind level. He is the knower telling us to listen, to
think it over to be able to absorb and if we don’t do it, we also have fixed
our gaze on the sky thinking it will be one day wherever it will be. If we
don’t listen and think he is everywhere, it is as well gazing at the sky,
because it is not based on our experience. If we are gazing at the sky
fixed in our mind and not flexible and not thinking it over that something
could be wrong in our direction and that we should do what he told us always to
do, we should look for the sheet of water on the ground, what is real and not
in the clouds and we will be able to see both levels we see the earth and
we see the sky. If we are gazing at the sky we challenge by that
reality, we have to walk on the ground and not like the fool in the air with
one leg in the abyss.
Why complain that the ground cannot be seen when all the while
your gaze is fixed on the sky?
Watch the ground and look at the sheet of water that reflects
the sky —then you can see, at the same time, the sky above and the earth below.
Where
is the ground? How do we understand it right, in thinking it over we get
the right answer, we know in the heart is the mirror and we know in his words
we find the reflection, listening to his words we get aware of the reflection
in the sheet of water on the ground and we make the experience that we see the
earth and the sky and that is how we get the right answer in his
words.
We
watch our own heart, feelings, emotions, words and actions and we get
aware of the reflection in the sheet of water on the ground, it is the mirror,
Atma is a mirror as it is non-changing and always the same, the relative
reality gets reflected in that sheet of water.
How
do we get aware of the sheet of water on the ground and the reflection?
It
has to do with reality, it is absolute truth, the sheet of water is the mirror
of that absolute, non-changing level of truth and the reflection is the natural
consequence if we have our attention on the mirror in the heart instead of
gazing fixed in our mind at the sky.
That
is what happens by doing, we are with his words and we listen to it and we
think it over, that is how we think it over by reflecting on it and thinking
about it and by that we feel the difference, we get the allegory of
the sky and the mind fixed in that gaze and we can see the
ground, reality, the mirror and the reflection in the mirror.
We
see the reflection in his words in thinking it over, that is the ground, the
earth we walk on, it is real and not a dream, not like a fool with one leg
in the abyss, in the air, the fool in the tarot card is very much just a
symbol for that state of foolish mind.
The
law of truth he calls it, sathya-dharma and we should see in every act the
reflection of the glory of the divine.
So too, to adhere to the law of
truth (sathya-dharma), in your every act, you must see the reflection
of the glory of the Divine (Atma); then this attachment to the Lord
will transmute your attachment to the world into a pure offering.
It
will transmute into a pure offering, if every act sees the reflection of the
glory of the divine Atma. The ground, the earth has to do with what is real, the
sky with what we imagine to be real. It is not what we imagine what it
will be that transmutation into a pure offering, it is the ground and
therefore, what it really is, our own experience, not what we think it
is.
We
have to get aware that it is not what we think it is, but what we know it is if
we have made the experience of it, but first we have to get to that direct
experience and that is not gazing at the sky with a fix and inflexible mind,
but that is looking for the sheet of water on the ground and getting aware of
it that the earth and the sky are reflected in it.
What
is truth, that we look for it outside and project an image in the sky of a
divinity which is not inside in our own heart, but somewhere above in the
sky and different from us. If we make a difference the mind gets divided and
that means conflict, there are two or more and not only one. Truth is only one,
we may not make a difference, but if we imagine the one outside, we cannot
because we cannot think anymore if there is all done, the intellect is not
working anymore. We see multiplicity with our eyes and we have the oneness in
our heart, the law of truth is in the heart is only one, outside on the level
of our eyes is multiplicity and we have many. We have to see the one in the many.
Adherence to the law of truth is in fact the practice of the
immanent Atmic principle.
We
have to practice the immanent Atmic principle, what is it? It is what cannot be
transcended, what is always true, nobody can transcend it and that is why it is
always true. If it is separated, if there is a difference, we can transcend it
and that is not true.
We
can take everything what is non-conceptual and take it away in thinking not
that, to get what is left finally …, a state of pure being, it is what
remains after we think it away what can be thought away and by that
transcend, ‘not that’ is the method until we get to the truth of
‘that’, we cannot transcend it anymore and therefore, it is a state of pure
being, of non-conceptual being, it is a state of pure love.
The goal of purity should not be altered or lowered; the
essentials should be kept intact.
It
should not be altered and lowered, there should not be a difference of height,
we are all the same, the only difference is he is the Avatar, he is the
knower, he is it the realization of it, he is a divine incarnation and we
have to learn from him. We don’t learn if we don’t listen and we are very bad
students indeed if we go in a school and we think we know it all, we adore him
instead of listening to him and we sleep during the lesson and when waking up
we get on adoring him, so we don’t have to listen actually, we get the
Impression that it causes pain to have to think.
Righteousness (Dharma) does not depend on the various
names and forms that its application entails; they are not so
basic. Dharma depends more on the motives and the feelings that direct and
channelize your every act.
The
first part of this words are about truth, now he talks about right action and
that they are not independent from each other, if we have to accept truth, we
have to accept right action. If we listened to him before we know that
there is no independence of the human values and we don’t hear it for the first
time.
We
talk a lot about it and mention it again and again, we have to accept truth and
we have to accept right action, we have to accept both and we have to
understand peace. If we cannot accept truth we will have also a problem we
accepting right action.
If
we don’t get aware that our gaze is fixed on the sky and in reality it should
be on the ground and the sheet of water to see the mirror and the
reflection in that mirror, if don’t get aware of it, we are not able to accept
truth.
If
people look at it as family, what is understood on the mind level, we are also
all the same mind and we think we know, there is like a common agreement that
we think that way and not in another way. We expect the others to
understand it a certain way, the mind we all know as we all live in the mind.
If we talk about family, the family consciousness is activated; we are
family … how nice. What does it really mean? Is there a difference between one
and another family? Of course there is, there are many families, but Baba talks
about the principle of Atma and if we call it family, we cannot divide it,
that means it is the whole humanity a family, no difference, not color matters,
not the name and not the form, if we see a difference the mind gets divided. As
he is telling us here, they are not that basic, we have to go to the Basic
truth only what cannot be transcended anymore, only that can be true.
Dharma depends more on the motives and the feelings that direct
and channelize your every act.
If
we don’t know the absolute and it is knowledge only that can help us to know
the Atmic principle, we cannot just feel it. It has to be realized. It
is not a blind love with eyes closed tapping in life in ignorance and
going downwards as we usually do falling in love that is why it is said falling
and it is not the upward direction of pure love.
We
know that human values are not independent from each other; we should know it
as we always talk about it again and again.
We
have to accept truth and if we accept truth we have to accept right action and
understand peace and if we have those three things, we are able to get the
experience of pure love.
We
can think we are in the kitchen of Atma and we need three things, truth, right
action and peace to prepare the meal of pure love.
Only
if we have those three things we can make the experience of pure love, there is
no use to just feel it and think that we know love, it is not that love, it is
another love, it is pure love and we don’t know that love if we didn’t get the
experience of it.
The
human values are not independent from each other; we have to know the
difference between right and not right.
We
have to listen to his words to see the reflection in his words reflected
in our heart and that is how we get aware of the sheet of water that
reflects the sky. In that reflection our self is the same and therefore, we
realize that it is our self as well, awakened from the inside by the man
who comes in our dreams to awake us.
It
is the reflection in his words and the insights we get it in dreams
that grows into wisdom and knowledge of that Atma and that is him, he is ‘that’
and if we realize that he is that, ‘we are that’ and we can realize that, ‘all
are that’.
If
we are in the egotistic privacy of home only, we cannot get aware of
the mirror in the heart. We can meditate and get to a state of pure being, but
to get aware of the reflection in the sheet of water we need a mirror and
therefore, we have to get out of that state of privacy or greed and that
happens if we are in the group.
If one or two are in my name together, I am in the midst of it.
(Baba)
The
law of truth, if we don’t listen to him and we have no idea what he means
really with truth, we probably don’t feel that comfortable about it, it is like
a duvet which is not warm enough, but when we thought it over and we know in
time the concept of it from all sides and it is always the same as we know, we
begin to feel comfortable, we just had to do the work which needs to be done to
be able to get the concept of that ‘truth’, but without knowledge it doesn’t
work, we cannot think love and have no idea about it that it is pure love and
not independent from the other human values, we always have to see the whole,
we cannot see a part and if we think about love only and forget that all human
values have to be present in that love, the love we think we know is usually
just mind.
So too, to adhere to the law of
truth (sathya-dharma), in your every act, you must see the reflection
of the glory of the Divine (Atma); then this attachment to the Lord
will transmute your attachment to the world into a pure offering.
If
we want to make the experience of his divine omnipresence, we don’t get it in
the privacy of the home, we have to share it and that is his presence, it
is not only privacy of the home or the egotistic privacy using his words and
thinking it over and reflecting on it together in the privacy of the home and
then it is no more egotistic.
Adherence to the law of truth is in fact the practice of the
immanent Atmic principle.
We
have to understand the principle, it is from all sides always the same truth if
we cannot transcend it, it is on three level non-conceptual being, but not only
being, but also the I (subject) and that (object) and it is always and to all
times true.
Think
that we would sit down and meditate together and we both have the man in our
dream who is there to awake us. When coming out of our meditation we share
our experience and get aware that we are the same ‘I’. The man in the
dream was in out Mediation and told to both of us as we sat down and thought
the Mantra, there was no reason why we should realize that the I is
not different, but when he comes in our dream telling us in the dream, ‘I am
the One’, what means the I in you are the same one. He tells it to you in the
mirror of the heart or in the sheet of water, ‘I am the One’ and he did
the same in my heart and in my mirror or sheet of water, he said, ‘I am
that One’ if there is only one, there can be only one I and that is the
conclusion of it. We are the same I as there is only one. It is the level
that cannot be transcended, the subjective level, the I is everywhere in
everything manifested on the conceptual relative manifestation level, but it is
always the same One.
And
we sit down again and we don’t only do it like we did before in meditation, we
sat down and we transcended everything and we didn’t get aware of it, but there
was only ‘pure being’ and if the man would be in the dream and waking us up he
would tell, ‘amness’ or just being (I am) and we would sit down a third time
and meditate and this time the man who comes in our dreams to awaken would be
there and he would tell us, ‘pure love’ and when we open the eyes we would realize
that he is that, that we are that and because he is present all are that – pure
love that is the objective level and that cannot be transcended anymore on the
objective level. That is the experience of the ‘I am that’, the Atmic
principle.
That
is the goal of purity – pure love.
There
are three levels we cannot transcend and that means it is only one, the same,
no difference, but the experience is on three levels and results in the
principle of, 'I am that'.
If
we see it in him as different from us, we alter it and we lower it and if there
is a difference of height because he is the divine and we are not, there is
division in the mind. There is no oneness and that is the essential which needs
to be kept intact. We cannot realize the divine if we don’t experience it and
gaze at the sky and think it is up there and different from us.
The goal of purity should not be altered or lowered; the
essentials should be kept intact.
He
talks always about oneness and if there is no oneness, but there are differences,
no matter what differences, all differences, we are not basic, basic is only
the ‘I am that’ – what cannot be transcended and therefore is always true.
Righteousness (Dharma) does not depend on the various
names and forms that its application entails; they are not so
basic. Dharma depends more on the motives and the feelings that direct and
channelize your every act.
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