Effortless and choice-less awareness is our Real State. If we can attain It or be in It, it is all right. But one cannot reach It without effort, the effort of deliberate meditation. All the age-long vasanas carry the mind outwards and turn it to external objects. All such thoughts have to be given up and the mind turned inward. For most people effort is necessary. Of course, everybody and every book says (Summa Iru,) be quiet or still. But it is not easy. That is why all this effort is necessary. Even if you find one who has effortlessly achieved the mouna (silence) or Supreme State indicated by (Summa Iru),you may take it that the effort necessary has already been completed in a previous life. Such effortless and choice-less awareness is reached only after deliberate meditation. The books no doubt speak of Sravana, (hearing), manana (reflection) nididhyasana (one pointed concentration, Samadhi and Sakshatkaram (Realization). We are always the Sakshat (Real) and what is there for one to attain (kaaram) after that? We call this word Sakshat or pratyaksha (directly present). What is changing, what appears and disappears, what is not Sakshat, we regard it as Sakshat. We ARE always, and nothing can be more directly present than we, and about that we have to attain Sakshatkaram after all these Sadhanas. Nothing can be more strange than this. The Self is not attained by doing anything other than remaining still and being as we are. We say that what we see with the eyes alone is pratyaksha. There must first be the seer before anything could be seen.You are yourself the eye that sees, andhamilaak kaN, the Infinite Eye referred to in Ulladu Narpadu. People are afraid that when the ego or the mind is killed, the result may be mere blank and not happiness. What really happens is that the thinker, the object of thought and thinking all merge into the one Source, which is Consciousness and Bliss itself, and thus that state is neither inert nor blank. I do not understand why people should be afraid of that state in which all thoughts cease to exist and the mind is killed. Every day they experience that state in deep sleep. There is no mind or thought in sleep. Yet when one arises from sleep one says, I slept happily. Sleep is so dear to everyone that no one, prince or beggar, can do without it. ( Source:Gems from Bhagavan.-Devaraja Mudaliar.)
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:44:49 +0000
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