The True Nature of Self.

1st,April 1978

Thoughts come, and go the way they came. They linger if there is a need. A Jnani has not even the need for himself. How does the household of the Jnani work? The same One that nourishes the child for nine months in the womb makes the Jnani's household work. How is the child looked after and protected until he gets this knowingness that he is someone who has a body? The answer is, the universal Consciousness that he is, does everything. Even if you live for a thousand years, your identification with the body will still be there. How can the one who is light and pure existence be a body? The experience of your beingness without pronouncing a single word is correct knowledge.

The Body is made of five elements. Its essence is the consciousness that resides in the body. Know with certainty that you are not the body. You are without form; you are of the nature of light. You can see darkness because of your own light. Om symbolizes the hum of assent (of breath), the guarantee of our beingness. When you know Consciousness itself, you gradually become liberated. If you are not the body, how are you going to act and with whom? That is an unshakable, immovable state. Once it is known that your nature is of the nature of light then there is no further coming and going. You are of the nature of that self-luminous light by virtue of which you can see things, yet, you still believe that 'I am so and so, having a body'. When the body falls, the Prana (Vital breath) leaves. No one says that Prana is dead. If the Prana is pure, the mind and intellect are also pure. If the Prana is pleased, can one have the experience of pain or misery? The power of Prana is the same as power of life - the vital force. The Prana force is the same as the primordial Maya - it is same as the power of Brahman. Some on may become very great; it is only by the power of Prana.

There is Love for the word as long as there is ignorance. After Knowledge, there is no use of words. After realization, the news 'I AM' is still there, but the attitude of the mind is entirely changed.

Continue your chanting of the Mantra, taking in the meaning of it as it is. Think of who should worship whom and why? If you want Guru's grace, take the word of the Guru as authority.