Be faithful to your Meditation.

19th Jan,1978

Both reading & listening are necessary, but what is read and listened should be in accordance with the knowledge received from the Guru. ‘I am exactly like what I have heard and read and what Guru has told me.’ This is the way. That which remains after dismissing one’s own consciousness is the truth. Union with God is Yoga. After the union, both of them get extinguished and the one who witnesses is the Supreme Self – The non-manifest state of being.

The body is Prakriti (nature) and the one who resides in the body is Purusha (Self). The one who acts is Prakriti, while Purusha is the passive witness. In other words, the Prana (vital force) is the movement and its knower is consciousness. Both the energies have no form. Prakriti and Purusha are not separate. So long as you take yourself as the body, there is no peace. Keep in mind what you have heard, and discriminate constantly. One who has realized Prakriti and Purusha becomes liberated.

In the body, God is experiencing himself with the feeling ‘I AM’ . The Guru’s word means you beingness; this should be your conviction. Surrender yourself to the Prana; drop the identification with the body. One who knows the power of Prana is a Jnani. The meditation continues all through the waking hours when the consciousness understands. Concentrate on the source of the Vital Energy (Shakti). This meditation is carried out with the same energy. Everlasting peace is the great accomplishment. When both Prakriti and Purusha are forgotten, the [that] is real rest. By virtue of meditation, the feeling “I am so and so” is lost. To make meditation successful, be faithful to it. Concentrate on the energy of the Prana. When this energy is arrested, the consciousness becomes one with it and Samadhi ensues. The knowledge received from the books has to be tested with one’s own experience. 

When we get up from deep sleep, first appears the microscopic consciousness with the feeling ‘I AM’, before any words. This seed consciousness is the cause of all the experiences. In no time, it takes on the form of the Universe. But you have to see how this consciousness in unreal. The experience goes along with the one who experiences. When an operation is done under anesthesia, there is no pain. If a man dies in that unconscious state, is there any pain of death?

While listening to these talks, you forget yourself and thereby forget the world. You remain in your natural state of being. Is it not a great benefit? The devotion to the Guru rewards you with Self-realization.