Spiritual aspirants must carefully understand the distinction between the conduct of the ordinary (sahaja) person and spiritual aspirant. The ordinary person has no fortitude (sahana), is conceited (ahamkara), and is full of desires related to the world, through which the person is trying to have a contented existence. Aspirants engaged in contemplation of the Lord (Sarveswara-chinthana) as ceaselessly as the waves of the sea, accumulate the wealth of equality and equal love to all, and are content in the thought that all is the Lord's and nothing is theirs. Unlike the ordinary person, the spiritual seeker won't easily bend before grief, loss, anger or hatred or selfishness, hunger, thirst or fickleness. Aspirants should master all good things as much as possible and journey through life in fortitude, courage, joy, peace, charity, and humility. Realise that tending the body is not all-important, and bear even hunger and thirst patiently and engage uninterruptedly in contemplation of the Lord.
Do you know how to carefully understand? If we think it over, we do actually. There is a way we can get to the right answer.
What is the conduct of an ordinary person and the difference to a sadhaka, a spiritual spirant? An ordinary person has no interest in spiritual issues, right?
Spiritual aspirants must carefully understand the distinction between the conduct of the ordinary (sahaja) person and spiritual aspirant.
Swami is telling us about the difference. And how can make sure we understand it so that we get to correct understanding? We know the principle.
Truth is threefold, if we think about a circle, we know in the circle is a triangle, we need to be aware of it working with a circle or with truth, it is about the circle, the circle is the symbol for wholeness and truth.
We get to the insight by doing it, by practicing. If someone is arguing, there are two and not three, if there are two only we get to half a circle only. Swami explained in the interview, 'you and I are We. We and He is I'.
You and I is 1 and 1 = 2 - it is geometry. It is one point, two points, 3 points, the triangle,
I and you are we.
It has to become a circle. If there is only one point and another point we have a straight line segment between two points and that results in half a circle.
That is how he explains to us the way to get there - he is telling - We and He is I.
We are the circle and it is always 'we' only and no I and no you, that is the sacrifice of it and We and He is the energy level, we get to the insight of truth, Swami's divine darshan, it means in our study circle it is his divine energy and presence, he always said that he is not the body and not the mind. If we let go of 'you' and we let go of 'I' and we keep on going with only We and talk about the highest wisdom, it will be divine energy.
If it is about truth or circle and it makes sense, it can only be a right answer confirmed by his words. A circle is 'we' always focus on the divine words, his wisdom, it has to become Darshan, divine energy, the same energy we experience in his Darshan.
How do we make sure it is a circle?
We let go of you and I and talk only about 'we', that is the self-sacrifice, for some it is more difficult for some impossible to understand and we just go on with the we and He (truth in the text) is I, (the I am I, divine I).
We go back to his words always as we and He, to experience of the divine presence of his divine energy and his truth. Therefore, we it is always we and not you and not I, only WE and in a study circle we have the text, his words, we have also his words here in the thought for the day - we think over his words, that is how we get insights and answers.
We take care of it that we get back to the text always.
If someone is on the I and you level it looks like two points and they are only two and a different level, to not get on that level, we have to answer by 'we only'.
It makes it possible to stay with the text and Swami's words and it reveals his divine energy, in telling 'we have to…, we should … we go back to the text…, we, the circle, never we should use 'I or you' as it makes the resistance of the ego come up and people feel uncomfortable.
Someone can tell, 'I don't agree', we tell, we need to go on with the text and truth is always threefold.
The ordinary person has no fortitude (sahana), is conceited (ahamkara), and is full of desires related to the world, through which the person is trying to have a contented existence.
Let's look at it on the base of threefold truth.
We have three levels of knowledge, sense-knowledge, based on our instinct, intellectual knowledge, we find it in arts, science and decision making, inference and we have highest knowledge, the knowledge reflected in his words, divine knowledge, based on intuition.
Only the last form of knowledge is always right, it goes beyond the body and the mind, it transcends the relative realm and the conceptual being level, therefore, only on the intuition level we can tell it is non-conceptual and always right, it is not thinking, it is based on inner seeing, on higher insights on the man coming in our dreams to awake us.
If Baba talks about the ordinary people, they are on the level of sense-knowledge and intellectual knowledge based on the senses.
When he mentions the spiritual aspirant it is a different level, as he calls it here it is the contemplation of the Lord, as it is none conceptual and not relative, it is ceaselessly as the waves of the sea.
Why is that not conceptual? It is not based on the sense-knowledge or the intellect, it moves with the wind, it goes with the divine words, tomorrow he will talk about something else and it moves in the waves of the ocean. It is not what we think, even if it colored by our life and our thoughts, we can only see it in our life, otherwise, we don't understand it.
That is why it is not conceptual, it is contemplative. If he is breathing that way, we move with his breath in that way, if he breathes the other way, we move with his breath the other way, we tell always the same about our life, but we move with him as the waves in the sea.
The wealth is here equality, not difference, no you and no I, only We, there is no difference as it was in Darshan, all people sitting for Darshan, we didn't see a difference or nearly not, some people saw differences when they looked for it. In the ashram we didn't talk about it, but some who were somehow in touch with the people around Swami, otherwise, it was not possible to know. But we see it in the Internet and the comments of some, it doesn't mean that we cannot fall down if the principle is not understood. It is the level of all possibilities, we can move upwards, but we also can go down.
Aspirants engaged in contemplation of the Lord (Sarveswara-chinthana) as ceaselessly as the waves of the sea, accumulate the wealth of equality and equal love to all, and are content in the thought that all is the Lord's and nothing is theirs.
The mistake we made in the past was because of the meditation technique we did and we thought we could only go upwards and the imagination of all possiblities opened up to everything, but we thought it was only good and it was not, it was always a realm of all possiblity it could go up or down.
We know that state of all possibilities, we thought it was only good and we imagined it as positive only as opening up to all possibilities, it was not real, it was illusion, in reality it means something else, we are on the surface of the ocean like the waves of the sea if we are in contemplation in a state of all possibilities, we can go on and we always have the possiblity to go up or down.
Unlike the ordinary person, the spiritual seeker won't easily bend before grief, loss, anger or hatred or selfishness, hunger, thirst or fickleness.
The spiritual seeker knowing that will be careful to not go down and it was actually misunderstood as a level of all possibilities, only upwards towards invincibiliy and we thought it would last, that was the danger and what happened, it went not upwards, but it went down. If we think in terms of invincibiliy we think it has to go upwards when in reality we are already a long time going down or standing still not going anywhere anymore, what means going down.
The presence of Swami is no guarantee that it will go up as we can see from the people in the Internet, people who had been working in the movement, permanent people who had lots of time in Swami's presence and people who got interviews, falling down and really we can see how they struggle to find on the intellectual and sense-level the explanation for everything that happened and it cannot be understood on that level, it is in the mind and that divine energy goes beyond the mind and if we look for the answer on the sense-level or intellectual level, we will never get to correct understanding.
Aspirants should master all good things as much as possible and journey through life in fortitude, courage, joy, peace, charity, and humility. Realise that tending the body is not all-important, and bear even hunger and thirst patiently and engage uninterruptedly in contemplation of the Lord.
He is encouraging the aspirant go journey through life with joy and realizing that the body is not all-important.
But if we listen, that tells us also about the others, the ordinary people and in fact they take their body for all-important, their life is based on body only and on wrong decisions, illusion and ignorance and reasoning on the mind level level, they have not even that much understanding to know that it is different and we have to first discriminate and see the difference between sense-knowledge, inference and intuition, the words of a self-realized authority. He always said first we have to use discrimination, we can see it with all of them they don't use discrimination, they go in it with passion and awful mind conclusions and they have more or less all lost their minds. They didn't acquire what is needed to be able to live that high energy level and that doesn't work without discrimination. We cannot take the energy if there is no discrimination.
He is also telling us that it is self-sacrifice if there is hunger and thirst, what we know as basic needs of the body and it is usually on the sense level we have to bear it patiently and engage in contemplation of the Lord.
Here is the word again, engaged in contemplation of the Lord and there is no doubt that it is the right answer, by telling us to be patient and to go on in contemplation of the Lord, however long it takes and we don't know if someone is hearing it or listening.
We should listen, we have to listen and see the word 'engaged' beyond every doubt on that level, it can only be on that level, because everything else is in the mind and on the body level and only when we go beyond it we know it is for sure correct understanding and we cannot go wrong.
There is only one correct answer, but there are many false answers. We have wrong knowledge, we have imagination, memory and sleep it is all part of the mind, but only the right knowledge is getting us out of it.
It cannot be anything else but that, on that level we are always right, when it is about the difference between the ordinary person and the spiritual aspirant, we are engaged in the contemplation of the divine truth, divine energy and everything else is a wrong answer, because it is either in the senses or on the level of inference and it can only be a hundred percent right if it is on the level of contemplation and like the waves in the sea, he is the ocean breeze and we move with that breeze, don't we?
The Lord is not a body, he is beyond the body, he is truth, he is the divine principle, he is in the truth of the divine energy we experience in the circle focused on truth, the same energy we experienced in Darshan.
He always said, he is not the mind, not the body, he is truth ... and we find that truth in his words and in the reality of 'we and he is I'.
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