The basic quality of devotion is the yearning for realizing oneness with the Divine. - Baba
Look at a piece of cloth. Truly it is a bundle of threads; and if you examine it more carefully, you will say that it is just cotton. The first stage is cotton, second stage is thread, and the final stage is the cloth. What would you do if you do not like that cloth? You remove the threads one by one and the cloth disappears! In the same manner, your mind does not have any specific form. It is simply a bundle of desires. These desires themselves come from the thoughts of your mind which can be compared to the cotton. Thus in this analogy the three stages are the cotton or the thoughts, the thread or the desires, and finally the desires constitute the mind which is the cloth. So you must try to diminish these desires as far as possible. Desires are like heavy luggage in the journey of your life. Less luggage, more comfort for you!
If we ask about the basic quality as oneness, what does it mean in our practical everyday life?
There is only one and we have to be at the side of that oneness and not on the side of all what is not real and doesn't exist, what is called illusion. We need to discriminate. Oneness actually knows no second, but we live in the world and there everything has two sides, therefore, to be able to be one we have to use discrimination.
In the West if we hold up the ideal of argumentation and the right of it, with other words we use our critical mind trained already in schools to be argumentative, we talk in the spiritual sense about an obstacles. And why an obstacle? It doesn't allow us to realize the underlying oneness. It is based on duality.
If we don't use right discrimination and we don't know how to get to a right conclusion, we look at oneness and call in a kind of confused and stupid way everything God as we had a meeting where we talked about everything and never got to the point, it seems he didn't know how. What was said was in other words that the satsang was also the divine behind and it made the question come up, what is he talking about as he didn't get to the point. If it is not a right conclusion, it is not right no matter how we look at it. It was just the confused notion of oneness and we all had to listen to it.
It felt like a kind of immature way of seeing it everywhere, opposed to being in the body, where we don't see it in the West anyhow and we have difficulties to get the ideal of it and we even don't believe it. Divinity is universal, we don't see it in the body, we all agree that it is everywhere. The effort of some devotees getting together in a conflict to discuss the matter and to get it to the point was of no avail or not getting what they were meeting for. If we don't know really how to do it that has nothing to do with him being everywhere, but with the lack of wisdom or words or knowledge, it is more like the gathering of a few confused minds trying to understand that teaching by getting nowhere really.
Unaware that it was not a right conclusion, unable to bring it to the point he was telling us trying to comfort himself more than the people listening that it was all his and he was the organizer so he didn't have to take the responsibility for it that he was unable to get to the point, he just didn't know how. In that sense we also can get to the not right conclusion that critics is part of it, what we see it the confusion about the concept of oneness and no understanding of the 'I am that' principle. If we don't have the experience of it and we don't have meditation experience it gets difficult, it is based on meditation and the breath constantly telling us, 'I am that' or 'I am God' or as Swami said in the interview room, 'I am Shiva' we are not able to get aware of that 'I am that' if we don't meditate.
Basically it means 'I am that', the identification with the universal, divine reality and I am not the body and the mind and if we don't do that, we just think we are the body, we feel we are the body and the mind. And we call it illusion. If we are able to be identified with the 'I am that', we live in truth as opposed to illusion. It is called truth and everything what happens in our mind and in the body is not truth if it is based on the natural feeling of body and mind consciousness.
If we don't get to a right conclusion we are in the mind and think that God is everything, what includes the obstacles like critics and arguing about something we cannot argue about because we can only share oneness. There is no use of talking about it if we are not able to get to a right conclusion. That is what we meet in those satsangs always again, no right conclusion and at the end we get to the conclusion that nothing has changed.
Some people gathering not knowing how to get to a right conclusion, some singing is going on, some devotional songs, the rest is boring as they have no right conclusion. Some devotees are cooking some good food by that proving their devotion and service, what makes it go on.
The Westerners try and try and try and get nowhere in trying really, but over the years they got quite good in devotional singing. We can do that without understanding the spiritual wisdom and without that we have to listen to his words, it is based on knowing how to keep the tune, it is based on music and not on spiritual wisdom and as they know how to sing, they got always better in singing, but otherwise, it feels like no change, but less people.
The basic quality of devotion is the yearning for realizing oneness with the Divine. - Baba
How do we realize the oneness with the divine? One way is singing devotional songs, it got better over the years. Another way is meditation and most of them never went for it and are not sure what they are doing, so no oneness with meditation practice and that is not really good.
Look at a piece of cloth. Truly it is a bundle of threads; and if you examine it more carefully, you will say that it is just cotton. The first stage is cotton, second stage is thread, and the final stage is the cloth. What would you do if you do not like that cloth? You remove the threads one by one and the cloth disappears!
What does that example with the cloth tell us? If we have someone in front of us telling us, all is divine and he even gets to the conclusion that his words are that as well, what feels kind of ridiculous or strange or we may call it in a nice way confused really. It is a way of trying to understand oneness and that it is everywhere.
If we would use that example of the cloth using his words, it would sound all different standing in front of people tell that Swami uses the example of the cloth and it is cotton and made out of threads and when we remove the treads what is left, we have no more cloth.
It would be a much better approach to talk about that example really and to see at the end, it is all gone, no more cloth. As he explains to us he talks about the mind. The mind has no reality to it, but it looks like cotton, that is enough to think it over and if we remove the threads, nothing left. The cotton is gone what is left is a bundle of now useless threads.
In the same manner, your mind does not have any specific form. It is simply a bundle of desires. These desires themselves come from the thoughts of your mind which can be compared to the cotton.
Therefore, Swami uses the cotton and the treads to show us that our mind is basically made out of desires, if we let go of desires, what is left? We have to make the experience and practice. He even explains that the analogy is in three stages, we have the cotton of our thoughts, the thread of the desires what makes the cloth and all that is the mind.
If we would use examples like that things get clear and we get to a right conclusion if we use the right analogy. We don't tell in a satsang that the words we use is also divine what makes no sense if they are not, just telling to everybody that he is everywhere. If we use his words, we would do that. There is cotton and that are our thoughts and it is made of threats and that are the desires and the analogy of desires is in that sense explained by him. We should ask ourselves if we got rid of desires after all and how we are able to get rid of it.
If the mind is made out of thoughts, looking at the picture we are listening to his words and we would be careful to call our own words him as well, what sound not right calling that his will, it is just telling us that there is our confused mind thinking about oneness not knowing how to get to a right conclusion.
He can we get to a right conclusion. If we use the analogy least it would made us more careful about using the right words and that is why Swami is telling us, 'abc, always be careful'.
We don't understand also this really if it is not practiced. If things are done in ignorance, the mind is used and our thinking how it should be based on our education, we are putting things in question, we cannot get to the reality of oneness. If we want to realize the divine oneness and love we have to go by certain rules and that means no critics. If we don't know that we are in ignorance.
If we think like a an normal business man and we gather people together and make teamwork out of it in the name of Swami to get to better spiritual results, it will not work. It is not the aim of realizing such organized all doing the same thing on the surface level.
If we would use the analogy like Swami, it would result in being more careful and as he is telling us, 'abc, always be careful'. Therefore, we should remember the analogy and use his words, it helps to understand that it is different then we think in our mind it is and we should better not go into a mind projection. And if we would use his words we would maybe be not only be more careful, but also get to a right and not a wrong conclusion. When in reality our words are based on our thoughts and they are based on our desires, whatever we do and tell is the reflection of our mind only and nothing else as long as we don't use his words.
Thus in this analogy the three stages are the cotton or the thoughts, the thread or the desires, and finally the desires constitute the mind which is the cloth. So you must try to diminish these desires as far as possible. Desires are like heavy luggage in the journey of your life. Less luggage, more comfort for you!
We should use that analogy to get to the point. After all it is about desires and getting rid of desires, putting it into action is practicing it. It is about getting to a right conclusion.
The basic quality of devotion is the yearning for realizing oneness with the Divine. - Baba
Oneness, Atman, the divine, people think and get to a mind conclusion and we don't know that we don't know. If we get to a not a right conclusion and we are not aware of it, we don't know. In using his words in thinking over his words we think about reality and don't just get to a not right mind conclusion.
It is kind of naive of devotees after so many years to still think that they are able to get with the mind to a right conclusion and not knowing still that it is the mind and there is no way the mind can get to a right and not wrong conclusion. The main thing which leads us to a right conclusion is actually neglected still, they don't listen to his words and they don't know how to listen to his words.
What is the secret to being happy in our daily life? Bhagawan lovingly explains a powerful secret with a memorable example today.
That is the question asked with this thought for the day. Is it answered in that thought for the day? He is telling us to get rid of desires and that is our happiness?
Living in the mind our desires are the result that we think we get happy in fulfilling our desires and that is the illusion of it, we don't get happy as it is based on desires only. When one desire is fulfilled a new desire is following.
Thus in this analogy the three stages are the cotton or the thoughts, the thread or the desires, and finally the desires constitute the mind which is the cloth. So you must try to diminish these desires as far as possible. Desires are like heavy luggage in the journey of your life. Less luggage, more comfort for you!
Why nobody seems to have any connection with his words, with exception of the people at the ashram sending away the thought for the day to the world. As they write it like that they have to be thinking about it, don't they? They would not ask those types of question if they wouldn't inquire about it and that makes the whole difference of it, they practice, they actually do it.
Look at a piece of cloth. Truly it is a bundle of threads; and if you examine it more carefully, you will say that it is just cotton. The first stage is cotton, second stage is thread, and the final stage is the cloth. What would you do if you do not like that cloth? You remove the threads one by one and the cloth disappears! In the same manner, your mind does not have any specific form. It is simply a bundle of desires. These desires themselves come from the thoughts of your mind which can be compared to the cotton. Thus in this analogy the three stages are the cotton or the thoughts, the thread or the desires, and finally the desires constitute the mind which is the cloth. So you must try to diminish these desires as far as possible. Desires are like heavy luggage in the journey of your life. Less luggage, more comfort for you! If we ask about the basic quality as oneness, what does it mean in our practical everyday life?
There is only one and we have to be at the side of that oneness and not on the side of all what is not real and doesn't exist, what is called illusion. We need to discriminate. Oneness actually knows no second, but we live in the world and there everything has two sides, therefore, to be able to be one we have to use discrimination.
In the West if we hold up the ideal of argumentation and the right of it, with other words we use our critical mind trained already in schools to be argumentative, we talk in the spiritual sense about an obstacles. And why an obstacle? It doesn't allow us to realize the underlying oneness. It is based on duality.
If we don't use right discrimination and we don't know how to get to a right conclusion, we look at oneness and call in a kind of confused and stupid way everything God as we had a meeting where we talked about everything and never got to the point, it seems he didn't know how. What was said was in other words that the satsang was also the divine behind and it made the question come up, what is he talking about as he didn't get to the point. If it is not a right conclusion, it is not right no matter how we look at it. It was just the confused notion of oneness and we all had to listen to it.
It felt like a kind of immature way of seeing it everywhere, opposed to being in the body, where we don't see it in the West anyhow and we have difficulties to get the ideal of it and we even don't believe it. Divinity is universal, we don't see it in the body, we all agree that it is everywhere. The effort of some devotees getting together in a conflict to discuss the matter and to get it to the point was of no avail or not getting what they were meeting for. If we don't know really how to do it that has nothing to do with him being everywhere, but with the lack of wisdom or words or knowledge, it is more like the gathering of a few confused minds trying to understand that teaching by getting nowhere really.
Unaware that it was not a right conclusion, unable to bring it to the point he was telling us trying to comfort himself more than the people listening that it was all his and he was the organizer so he didn't have to take the responsibility for it that he was unable to get to the point, he just didn't know how. In that sense we also can get to the not right conclusion that critics is part of it, what we see it the confusion about the concept of oneness and no understanding of the 'I am that' principle. If we don't have the experience of it and we don't have meditation experience it gets difficult, it is based on meditation and the breath constantly telling us, 'I am that' or 'I am God' or as Swami said in the interview room, 'I am Shiva' we are not able to get aware of that 'I am that' if we don't meditate.
Basically it means 'I am that', the identification with the universal, divine reality and I am not the body and the mind and if we don't do that, we just think we are the body, we feel we are the body and the mind. And we call it illusion. If we are able to be identified with the 'I am that', we live in truth as opposed to illusion. It is called truth and everything what happens in our mind and in the body is not truth if it is based on the natural feeling of body and mind consciousness.
If we don't get to a right conclusion we are in the mind and think that God is everything, what includes the obstacles like critics and arguing about something we cannot argue about because we can only share oneness. There is no use of talking about it if we are not able to get to a right conclusion. That is what we meet in those satsangs always again, no right conclusion and at the end we get to the conclusion that nothing has changed.
Some people gathering not knowing how to get to a right conclusion, some singing is going on, some devotional songs, the rest is boring as they have no right conclusion. Some devotees are cooking some good food by that proving their devotion and service, what makes it go on.
The Westerners try and try and try and get nowhere in trying really, but over the years they got quite good in devotional singing. We can do that without understanding the spiritual wisdom and without that we have to listen to his words, it is based on knowing how to keep the tune, it is based on music and not on spiritual wisdom and as they know how to sing, they got always better in singing, but otherwise, it feels like no change, but less people.
The basic quality of devotion is the yearning for realizing oneness with the Divine. - Baba
How do we realize the oneness with the divine? One way is singing devotional songs, it got better over the years. Another way is meditation and most of them never went for it and are not sure what they are doing, so no oneness with meditation practice and that is not really good.
Look at a piece of cloth. Truly it is a bundle of threads; and if you examine it more carefully, you will say that it is just cotton. The first stage is cotton, second stage is thread, and the final stage is the cloth. What would you do if you do not like that cloth? You remove the threads one by one and the cloth disappears!
What does that example with the cloth tell us? If we have someone in front of us telling us, all is divine and he even gets to the conclusion that his words are that as well, what feels kind of ridiculous or strange or we may call it in a nice way confused really. It is a way of trying to understand oneness and that it is everywhere.
If we would use that example of the cloth using his words, it would sound all different standing in front of people tell that Swami uses the example of the cloth and it is cotton and made out of threads and when we remove the treads what is left, we have no more cloth.
It would be a much better approach to talk about that example really and to see at the end, it is all gone, no more cloth. As he explains to us he talks about the mind. The mind has no reality to it, but it looks like cotton, that is enough to think it over and if we remove the threads, nothing left. The cotton is gone what is left is a bundle of now useless threads.
In the same manner, your mind does not have any specific form. It is simply a bundle of desires. These desires themselves come from the thoughts of your mind which can be compared to the cotton.
Therefore, Swami uses the cotton and the treads to show us that our mind is basically made out of desires, if we let go of desires, what is left? We have to make the experience and practice. He even explains that the analogy is in three stages, we have the cotton of our thoughts, the thread of the desires what makes the cloth and all that is the mind.
If we would use examples like that things get clear and we get to a right conclusion if we use the right analogy. We don't tell in a satsang that the words we use is also divine what makes no sense if they are not, just telling to everybody that he is everywhere. If we use his words, we would do that. There is cotton and that are our thoughts and it is made of threats and that are the desires and the analogy of desires is in that sense explained by him. We should ask ourselves if we got rid of desires after all and how we are able to get rid of it.
If the mind is made out of thoughts, looking at the picture we are listening to his words and we would be careful to call our own words him as well, what sound not right calling that his will, it is just telling us that there is our confused mind thinking about oneness not knowing how to get to a right conclusion.
He can we get to a right conclusion. If we use the analogy least it would made us more careful about using the right words and that is why Swami is telling us, 'abc, always be careful'.
We don't understand also this really if it is not practiced. If things are done in ignorance, the mind is used and our thinking how it should be based on our education, we are putting things in question, we cannot get to the reality of oneness. If we want to realize the divine oneness and love we have to go by certain rules and that means no critics. If we don't know that we are in ignorance.
If we think like a an normal business man and we gather people together and make teamwork out of it in the name of Swami to get to better spiritual results, it will not work. It is not the aim of realizing such organized all doing the same thing on the surface level.
If we would use the analogy like Swami, it would result in being more careful and as he is telling us, 'abc, always be careful'. Therefore, we should remember the analogy and use his words, it helps to understand that it is different then we think in our mind it is and we should better not go into a mind projection. And if we would use his words we would maybe be not only be more careful, but also get to a right and not a wrong conclusion. When in reality our words are based on our thoughts and they are based on our desires, whatever we do and tell is the reflection of our mind only and nothing else as long as we don't use his words.
Thus in this analogy the three stages are the cotton or the thoughts, the thread or the desires, and finally the desires constitute the mind which is the cloth. So you must try to diminish these desires as far as possible. Desires are like heavy luggage in the journey of your life. Less luggage, more comfort for you!
We should use that analogy to get to the point. After all it is about desires and getting rid of desires, putting it into action is practicing it. It is about getting to a right conclusion.
The basic quality of devotion is the yearning for realizing oneness with the Divine. - Baba
Oneness, Atman, the divine, people think and get to a mind conclusion and we don't know that we don't know. If we get to a not a right conclusion and we are not aware of it, we don't know. In using his words in thinking over his words we think about reality and don't just get to a not right mind conclusion.
It is kind of naive of devotees after so many years to still think that they are able to get with the mind to a right conclusion and not knowing still that it is the mind and there is no way the mind can get to a right and not wrong conclusion. The main thing which leads us to a right conclusion is actually neglected still, they don't listen to his words and they don't know how to listen to his words.
What is the secret to being happy in our daily life? Bhagawan lovingly explains a powerful secret with a memorable example today.
That is the question asked with this thought for the day. Is it answered in that thought for the day? He is telling us to get rid of desires and that is our happiness?
Living in the mind our desires are the result that we think we get happy in fulfilling our desires and that is the illusion of it, we don't get happy as it is based on desires only. When one desire is fulfilled a new desire is following.
Thus in this analogy the three stages are the cotton or the thoughts, the thread or the desires, and finally the desires constitute the mind which is the cloth. So you must try to diminish these desires as far as possible. Desires are like heavy luggage in the journey of your life. Less luggage, more comfort for you!
Why nobody seems to have any connection with his words, with exception of the people at the ashram sending away the thought for the day to the world. As they write it like that they have to be thinking about it, don't they? They would not ask those types of question if they wouldn't inquire about it and that makes the whole difference of it, they practice, they actually do it.
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