Don't hesitate, jump into nothingness - Poonjaji

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Question: If one is aware that that is one's nature, but when there is any

concept of time or movement there, then fear arises and there is hesitation.

 

Poonja: This is the fear of facing the emptiness, because you are living in

so many things, so many concepts, you see. You are meant to face the

emptiness, face to face, and you lose everything - all concepts of the

past, present and future which you consider to be your life. You're holding

on to them because the feeling is that you're living along with them. So,

when they leave, you have the fear of dying in the ocean of nectar. The

fear of death in the nectar. And what's the meaning of nectar? Eternity,

deathlessness. So, we have fear of eternity, that 'I' will become eternal.

This is a fear because we want to cling onto something for our safety. We

find that we are already holding on to the body, mind and senses. This is

for our safety and we do not know that when we get rid of these things, we

will have peace.

 

When we go from the waking state to the sleep state, we lose everything.

What we held onto during the waking state - our relationships with people,

our relations - all this will leave. When we enter into the sleep state, we

have lost everything. At that time we have no fear. But we are afraid of

entering into emptiness, because we have never heard about it, nor have we

experienced it. Sleep, we've experienced and we're not afraid of it. We

love to get into sleep, get into the state of conceptlessness. Getting into

the state of emptiness is the same, there is no difference. We cannot

experience it because we are already in it. You cannot have an experience

of what your true nature is. Therefore, don't get the idea that you have to

achieve something by practise at some time later. You have to get rid of

this concept. By doing something at a later date, you will enter, or

receive or achieve the same thing which you are now. So, why not do it at

this very moment? What will be the difference? This moment is available to

you right now! Look into this moment, look into this instant of time. Look

into it just now and see how you feel. You cannot speak of this instant.

 

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