Here and
now liberation for me from the shackles of my body.
My
awareness is a mirror. It reflects me to myself. So I see myself only. All that
I see, all that I experience, is my own self. This whole world is me, a
reflection of myself. I contain this world which has arisen in me as an
experience. Space and time are thoughts in me. I am not delimited by a subset of
my thoughts. So I exist beyond space and time. I am immortal. I am free.
Since I
am the whole world and beyond it too, I cannot die. I exist, my awareness
exists, when time itself is not there. So I was never born, I can never die.
Since I
am the whole world, I am not a part of it, particularly, the part which appears
to me as my body. When others say I am dead, no more, and my body is burning, I
see myself through the millions of others' eyes I have. When I am seeing my body
burn, how could I have died?
What is
death? Moving awareness away from a particular time or place makes that
particular time or place die. Lack of awareness is death. It's like sleeping.
But, I wake up in a different body, casting away all my previous ideas into the
waste paper basket of the past. Some times, I may pick up a discarded paper from
the basket. That's when I remember a past life experience.
The
process of death is not unfamiliar to me. I can be aware of my foot. Now, I can
be aware of my hand. When I am aware of my foot, I am not aware of my hand, I
don't know if it was there. Next moment when I become aware of it, it came ito
being. Birth and death, these are continuously happening every moment. They are
painless. I cannot be afraid of birth, I cannot be afraid of death, since I am
not afraid of passage of time. Then why and how can I be afraid of death? Of
stoppage of time? Death is my friend not to be afraid of, nor wept for. Death is
a celebration, to be enjoyed, like throwing away useless torn clothes.
Death
does not exist. Nor does birth. Nor does growth. The world is a constant
invariant. That contains all experiences which flow in time. It is full when
time flows. It is empty when time does not flow.
Whatever
I see is myself. This is a fundamental truth. From this all possible
interpretations of truth flow. What is truth?
Truth is
that which is not limited by space, time or matter. It exists everywhere,
always, in every thing. So it is called pervasive (Vishnu), immortal (Kaala),
and matter (Brahma). Truth is also called existence (Brahma), consciousness
(Shiva), and bliss (vishnu).
Each
aspect of truth implies the other two; so there is only one, the unity of the
three. How is that?
Deny
existence. Can anything that does not exist be conscious or bliss? Deny
consciousness. Can anything exist or be blissful? Deny bliss. Can any
consciousness or existence be without pain or pleasure or peace (all three
aspects of bliss)? So each implies the other two. They are all one.
I love
myself. I am the world. Put these two together. I get: I love the world, the
whole of it, because it is a part of me. I love this world as it is; all its
vices, all its virtues.
If I see
something I don't like, it is like a bad thought in me. I do not hate it, I love
it still, because it is also me. Now I get the idea: love overcomes hate, it is
the answer to hate.
I believe
in myself. What else is there to believe in, when the whole world is myself? My
belief in myself means that I believe in the world.
I have a
choice. To be morose and depressed. To be happy and joyful. No matter what
happens to me, or to my kith and kin. I choose to be happy and joyful. No matter
what happens.
Sometimes
things do go wrong. Like sometimes, I get bad thoughts in me. Let them go wrong.
Its alright to let go off things. To happen the way they want to. This is the
formula for peace. To let go of control. This is sometimes called surrender.
Suppose a
part of me, say my little finger of my leg is hurting. I don't take a stone and
hurt it more, because it is hurting me. On the contrary, I take pains to nurture
it, to relieve the pain. Suppose someone hurts me badly. That one is a part of
me. It is my duty to nourish that one, remove the ignorance there. All I have to
do to remove my hurt, my injury is to take away my awareness from that
experience. That gives me an idea; my awareness gives energy to a thought.
My
awareness is like a magnifying glass. It amplifies what I focus it on. It
manifests that, by not lending my awareness. I will not afford the luxury of
allowing negative thoughts. Because they are nourished by awareness, they grow
on it, they manifest it, they attract everything that increases that particular
brand of negativity.
The
answer to violence is love and reconstruction of the lost links of
communication. The answer to violence is never fresh violence. In this lies the
art of survival, in the mundane sense.
I will
lend my thoughts to harmony. My whole existence is devoted to that single cause.
Harmony allows different notes to play without interfering with each other.
Harmony allows freedom and discipline. Harmony is an aesthetic combination of
liberty and bondage. I love it. It pleases me. It pleases everyone.
Knowing
that poison cannot kill me (the whole world), I choose still to eat food, not
poison. That is my choice. I take what nourishes me.
I am
nourished by love. Love that I can give to other parts of me. And the love other
parts of me give to me. If I can be of any use to anyone, I will let them use
it. If this particular body, mind or intellect are any use to some `others',
what better pleasure is there for me than offer it in service? Is it not like my
hand taking a soap and washing other parts of my body to help them become fresh?
I love to
see beauty all around me. I love to see people's happiness. It is my commitment
to see every living being happy. I nourish my love by expressing it, not
containing it. The more I give love, the more I get it. So the more I give. It
is my nature to give, to share my love, peace, happiness with everyone. Not
silently in my mind, but by and through actions.
I nourish
my negatives, such as fears, lust, anger, greed, possessiveness, pride, jealousy
and hatred by containing them, not expressing them. I transform them into
fearlessness, love, calm, sharing, letting go, humility, fun and regard
respectively by not lending my awareness or thinking to them.
