Universal Light of Love

You can light more than thousand candles from a single lamp. Remember only a burning lamp or candle can be used to light other candles. An unlit candle cannot light the other unlit candles. So too only the one who earned wisdom can enlighten others who are in ignorance. One who is not illumined cannot illumine others who are dwelling in the darkness of maya: So you must strive to light your own lamp from the Universal Light of Love and from there transmit illumination to all who seek and strive. All lamps shine alike, since they are all sparks of that Param-jyothi, the Universal Luminosity, which is God. Lamps are many but light is one. Every patch of water on earth has the reflection of the sun in it but the original sun is one. Just as the one sun is seen in a million pots, lakes or wells the one same Divine (Paramjyothi) shines as wisdom in a million hearts.

We have to earn the wisdom, it tells us also that it is not just given, it has to be realized and if we see it in our own life, we feel it and if we have developed a feeling for it without that we are aware of it, but it has changed and transformed into inner wisdom and it is no more only on the thought level and theoretical knowledge. We have to make it our own, we have to feel it.

You can light more than thousand candles from a single lamp. Remember only a burning lamp or candle can be used to light other candles. An unlit candle cannot light the other unlit candles. So too only the one who earned wisdom can enlighten others who are in ignorance. One who is not illumined cannot illumine others who are dwelling in the darkness of maya: So you must strive to light your own lamp from the Universal Light of Love and from there transmit illumination to all who seek and strive.

The Highest and Holiest Spiritual Maxim - Thou-art-That

Utilize your authority over this body to foster the welfare of the world. This body is but an instrument, an implement given by God. Let it serve its intended purpose. Until the Realisation of the purpose for which the implement is given, it is your duty to watch over it vigilantly and protect it from injury and disablement. During winter, woollen clothes are worn to withstand the rigour of the cold gales, but when the cold subsides, they are discarded. So too when the cold gales of material life don't affect us in the least, the material body will no longer become essential. "Thou-art-That" - this is the highest and holiest spiritual maxim! You are the indestructible Atmic principle (Divine Soul). It is to realise and experience this Atmic principle, you have this body! In the process to realise the Supreme Lord here and now, you must take good care of yourself. 

We cannot talk about things we have not experienced. There is a certain integrity in it if we have the experience of it, we don‘t talk about it if we don’t have the experience.

There I was every day in Darshan and wondered what we experienced here, it was love, but the question was for me, why there was that much love?

We knew from meditation how to purify our mind and our thoughts and we knew it was precious, but we didn’t know how to get to one result only, love.  

It means not only insight, but also the right knowledge and it needs to be confirmed. 

I didn’t know that, we didn’t know that. 

Some had to know, but who is talking about it? 

I listened to speeches and look for it, the same message Swami had been talking constantly about, that love, love only, the Atmic principle, it had to be there, it had to be in our thoughts, it had to be in our words, where did it go? 

And we knew that he said, He is the doer and we had to wait.

We had practiced sutras and now all those sutras were in Swami, he was it, he is the doer. That was the answer, that he was the doer, but we didn’t understand how it had switched from being a sutra to being Swami. 

We can see it as reflection. We knew it was Patanjali, that is high wisdom, but what is the highest? 

How do we know, we know only if we listen to him, he knows. 

First we get wisdom, we find sutras and we realize that those sutras are the quality of the divine and they are all in him.

We listen for immortality.

He will not give us what we want, he gives us what we need. I listen to a speaker and he has been a long time with Swami. I begin to listen to get a feeling for it how it has been realized that divine wisdom.

He is omnipresent and omniscient, he can be anytime present, we have to be ready always, because he can be in that very moment present or he can be it also in some years.

Utilize your authority over this body to foster the welfare of the world. This body is but an instrument, an implement given by God. Let it serve its intended purpose.

Light is a Lamp at Dusk

From this day onwards, you must win over everyone through love and compassion. Nara (man) falls into Naraka (hell), through over-indulgence. Senses generally run wild and like raging floods, spell destruction. The festival of Deepavali is to express gratitude at the defeat of the demonic (Naraka) tendencies in humans, which drag them down from Divinity. Naraka is the name for hell, and the demon whose death at the hands of Krishna is celebrated today is called Narakasura, the personification of all the traits of character that obstruct the upward impulses of every person. The home (griha) where the Name of the Lord is not heard is a cave (guha), and nothing more. As you enter it or leave it, and while you are in it, perfume it, illumine it, and purify it with the Lord's name. Light it as a lamp at dusk and welcome it at dawn as you welcome the Sun. That is the genuine Deepavali, the Festival of Lights. 

In my morning Sadhana I went into the sutras as we did years ago, but in the light of how Swami said yesterday seeing it as an inside journey and putting on the light, we just repeated it, but we began with an inside journey. That was the reason why we went for meditation. We did those sutras regularly twice a day for years and in the end I was just a good feeling, but we didn’t get aware that it is ‘He the knower’, we thought we did it and that was not right and if we know it is He anyhow, we can relax and just watch and that feels like home.

When I asked Swami about it and he said years ago in an interview that this is very difficult to understand, that means I didn’t know what it was, but something was wrong. That means the doubt that had been created before was expanding to everything I did before. And in doubt we cannot relax and  if I would have liked to do it so it was not just like that possible and if I felt home with it before, I couldn’t find that home anymore. Even if I tried, I remembered the sutras, but it was not clear and therefore, I couldn’t do it.

The human being is a composite of man, beast and God, and in the inevitable struggle among the three for ascendency, you must ensure that God wins, suppressing the merely human and the lowly beast. Man must know the Universe as basically Brahman or Divine. You and the Universe are one; all are subsumed in the same unique entity. The cosmic vision can be acquired either by watching the Universe or one's own inner Cosmos. One has only to discover oneself. In the citadel of the body, there is the lotus temple of the heart, with subtle akasha (space) within. In it are contained heaven and earth, fire and air, sun and moon, stars and planets - all that is in the visible world and all that sustains it, and all into which it submerges. Instead of rotating round the earth in the higher realms of space and planning to land on the moon or Mars, if only one plans and prepares to travel into one’s own inner realm, what sublime joy and peace can be attained!

Plans to Travel to the Inner Realm

The human being is a composite of man, beast and God, and in the inevitable struggle among the three for ascendency, you must ensure that God wins, suppressing the merely human and the lowly beast. Man must know the Universe as basically Brahman or Divine. You and the Universe are one; all are subsumed in the same unique entity. The cosmic vision can be acquired either by watching the Universe or one's own inner Cosmos. One has only to discover oneself. In the citadel of the body, there is the lotus temple of the heart, with subtle akasha (space) within. In it are contained heaven and earth, fire and air, sun and moon, stars and planets - all that is in the visible world and all that sustains it, and all into which it submerges. Instead of rotating round the earth in the higher realms of space and planning to land on the moon or Mars, if only one plans and prepares to travel into one’s own inner realm, what sublime joy and peace can be attained!

We are a composite of man and beast and in the insights we move between those differences and it is not that easy because we have limitations in the mind and it feels actually quite bad and really scary when we get aware of the beastly level in the insight, it would have no impact on us if it would not be scary, to make the difference between the divine and the beast we have to see it in a certain way and it is often more like a shock than what we think a dream should be or it is that far away that we wonder if it is real. We often omit everything what we don’t like and that is certainly true when it is about the beastly level.

 If he is telling us that we must ensure that God wins, it is about immortality, with other words we pray to never die, we have to suppress the only human and the lowly beast and everything we can think we are we have to transcend anyhow, in the Atmic principle, the I am that, we have the realization of the threefold truth  and it just tells us we cannot transcend those three levels anymore and we are on the level of truth, it is not changing anymore and we cannot go beyond it.

There are again three levels, beast, human, divinity.

The human being is a composite of man, beast and God, and in the inevitable struggle among the three for ascendency, you must ensure that God wins, suppressing the merely human and the lowly beast.

Man must know the Universe as basically Brahman or Divine. You and the Universe are one; all are subsumed in the same unique entity. The cosmic vision can be acquired either by watching the Universe or one's own inner Cosmos. One has only to discover oneself.

Straight, Honest and the Kali Yuga

Some profess that since this is Kali yuga, falsehood alone can succeed. No! In spite of all appearances, honesty is still the best policy. One lie must be couched by a hundred others; whereas uttering truth is the easiest, simplest and safest. Be what you profess to be; speak what you intend to do; utter what you have experienced; no more, no less. It is a hard job to maintain a false stand, while it is always safe to be straight and honest. Do not take the first false step and then be led, on and on, to perdition. Truth is one's real nature and when you are yourself, there comes a great flood of joy welling up within you. When you deny and deceive yourself, shame darkens your mind and breeds fear. You take the path of falsehood because of the Rajasik passions of lust, greed, hate and pride. Contentment, humility and detachment - these keep you on the path of Truth.

Kali yuga and falsehood, finding examples in our life getting aware of it. 

We remember our life experience, there is nothing but that, we have an experience and have to get aware of the feeling of it, it is feeling only. 
We cannot just think that we are it and that's it, would be great if it would be like that.

We have to work on it to become immortal beings, it is not just by believing in the existence of the divine and everything is done and live happily ever after. We only live happily ever after if we have realized that we are immortal beings.

Sharing is Caring and Caring is Loving and Loving is Living, with other Words only Felt Experience is True

To a superficial observer, life appears to revolve around eating and drinking, working, and sleeping. But verily life has a much deeper significance. Life is a sacrifice (yajna). Every little act is an offering to the Lord. If your days are spent in deeds performed in this spirit of surrender, your sleep would be a total immersion in the Divine Consciousness (Samadhi)! Most people commit the great fault of identifying themselves with the body and accumulate a variety of things for its upkeep and comfort. When the body becomes weak and decrepit with age, they still attempt to bolster it by one means or the other. How long can death be postponed? When Yama's (Lord of Death's) warrant comes, everyone must depart. Position, pride, and power - all vanish before death. Remember, you are not this body! It is your vehicle to serve all. Realising this, strive day and night, with purity in body, mind and spirit, to realise the Higher Self.

If we sit in Swami's audience and we listen to Swami's speech, we listen and we understand only sentences and then we agree and think that's the law, that is what Swami tells. I have read somewhere that we can compare it with a balance, it goes down on one side and up on the other side, it was not equal, it was not balanced, one side was up and the other side was down and we cannot seriously think that this is true knowledge if we don't make any effort to realize it.

He talked about that joy when it is about truth and I had that experience of that joy in his presence, in waves it was and overflowing, it seemed like a cup of tea and there was always more tea the cup could take and the feeling was overflowing joy.