We had a study circle and someone else was doing it and she was good. Our text was from the study help we got and that are selected quotes of Swami and when studying it we get ot a certain insight about his message, it is a great text and also the questions at the end of each chapter are great as they know what they are doing and why those questions and not others are asked. We talked about love only, but one passage it was mentioned that someone afflicted with ego is unable to have compassion and a danger for society.
It is kind of sad that we have those study circles for I don’t know how long in the meantime and there is one lady she is always participating, but she doesn’t get it.
She did the study circle some time ago and she had not even a text of Swami and it was not about studying and the text was mostly about th fruits of meditation, but Swami we cannot enjoy the fruits before we have a big tree and first we have to take care that the seddlings are growing and for that we have to water the roots with regular meditation.
Swami explained that we have to purify the field of the heart and when I mentioned that they looked at me with big eyes like they never had heard something like that. If we purify the field of the heart we meditate regularly in the purpose to get a big tree it and it will bear fruits, all the nice fruits like love, compassion, service, equanimty and self-enquiry and the grace of God. It is all part of the fruits and when we water the roots we shouldn’t bother about the fruits, we first have to water the roots and get a tree, the fruits will be there when ever the tree is big enough to have fruits.
We have to take care of it that the field of the heart is pure to make the seedling grow and become a big tree, that we can directly influence with Sadhana, spiritual work and meditation, the fruits we cannot influence, that is a matter of time, when the tree is big enought the fruits will be there. We have to water the roots. One of those things we can or should do to water the roots is meditation and regularly otherwise the tree will not grow.
In today’s thought for the day Baba mentions body attachment and all types of hardship and misery will haunt.
If body attachment is the root cause for thoughts, we have to give up body attachment and Baba refers to the scriptures and Lord Krishna.
If we meditate and trascend the mind we get inside, in transcendence is no feeling for time and space and no thoughts and also no I notion, in the moment we have thoughts we are back in the mind and the body. Meditation is beyond the body, if we are in the body it is concentration and on the border line it is contemplation. What we are doing here in thinking it over is part of contemplation. Listening to the words of the master we have to see it in our own life that gives us a feeling for it and when we develop that feeling for it we can understand it and next time when we read it again we remember as we had it before and we are able to absorb it in our own self and that is how the self is growing, it is about self-realization. Our body we can compare to a glass full of water and when the water is pure, we see the sunshine reflected in the water and it can tell, ‘I am that’. That is self-realization, but it happens again and again and it grows with every scentence when we are thinking it over and we have to take care that the water stays clean in that glass and if we don't purify it we know what happens with water after a certain time it gets green and we don't see the reflection in it anymore, that is why we purify the field of the heart to be keep it pure.
Swami doesn’t mention that we have to water the roots so that the seedling will grow, it is understood that we have to do that if we want a seedling grow into a tree. But the key he mentions is that we should experience unity in diversity.
If we are in meditation we are one, but we don’t even notice it, we are gone, there is nobody to notice it no I notion and just pure being.
So long as a person is immersed in body attachment, all types of hardships and misery will haunt. Body attachment is the root cause of thoughts (sankalpas). Hence Lord Krishna exhorted people to give up body attachment. The key derivation from this statement is that every being should experience unity in diversity.
So the key he is talking about is unity in diversity it is present in the, ‘I am that’. We all are ‘that’, we can experience it in singing together it is the heart that melts in love when that divine love is there, that is present when the devotees sing and we can get aware that all are that, there is only one, but we have to get aware of it.
He talks about the society and the individual and that we are all connected. And if we clearly see the role of the individual, we can understand the principle of society what in return leads to the understanding of creation.
That is not that easy as we see it a different way. The world was before the society and when we realize that oneness and the principle of the ‘I am that’ and all are one, God is the basis of it. And Swami is going on telling us one who understands creation becomes God.
He talks about oneness and the principle of oneness. And he explains Sanskrit words and loses the attention of the Westerners. How do we get the relationship between the individual and God? Most of people we meet in the center are somehow confused about the Sanskrit words and even if we tell them again and again that we don’t need to know it is just relating us to the source and if there is a question about it we know where to look for it also the Sanskrit has much more expressions in one word and meaning than our words usually. It is like giving us the message go and look at Wikipedia, there was find everything if it is about the definition of the words.
But he explains that as long as we are identified with the body leading a very ordinary life, it is quite boring and always the same. If there is no body we get aware of the oneness. That is why we meditate, we go beyond the body and we purify the mind and by that we get aware of the oneness. Or we put aside the ‘you and I’ and we are together already one and the focus on him is He, Swami or ‘I am I’. If we are all the same ‘I am that’ and of course behind it is Swami and we are all the same, there should be only love if we get aware of it at least we find that there is love that is the aim of it to get the experience of that pure love.
Anyhow today in the study circle it felt good again. If we take Swami’s words and we study just his words and we don’t just share our experiences by doing that we will get aware of the great energy that is created and that is after all also his presence.
He said, without enthusiasm, courage, devotion, energy, sincerity and readiness, nothing can be achieved.
We should watch what we are doing and just sitting together and sharing experiences is not the same as listening to his words and study of his teachings, the energy has a different quality.
If we just share no matter what it tends to feel like just a sharing circle and another word for socializing, mostly it is done like a workshop, we talk and we all listen and wheneverbody has ended, we go home and we didn't study Swami's words and we didn't get to the conclusion in thinking over his words and the right feeling of it, we don't feel his divine presence and that is always present when study his words. That is the main thing in the practice of the study circle and some kind of therapy work, even if it also takes care of that as it is uplifting the energy. If we are in such a circle and we see that Swami's message is there at once all lighten up and the energy of all the people changed in an instance.
Without an individual (vyashti), there cannot be a society (samashti). Without a society, there is no creation (srishti). So all these are connected, and we must first clearly recognise the role of an individual (vyashti). Only then can we understand the principle of samashti, which will in turn lead to the understanding of srishti. One who understands srishti becomes one with paramesthi (God).Vyashti symbolises the individual whereas Samashti stands for God. So long as vyashti identifies themselves with the body, they lead a very ordinary life. Shed the body attachment, then you will find that the individual soul is indeed one with the Cosmic Spirit.
It was for a change again a good experience. We had two guests and they told me that it was good and that feedback was nice after all.
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