What is the daily and hourly state of mind of a realised man?

[Guest guest]

Q: I cannot say that I am now a different man. But I did discover new things

about myself, states so unlike what I knew before that I feel justified in

calling them new.

 

M: The old self is your own self. The state which sprouts suddenly and without

cause, carries no stain of self; you may call it 'god'. What is seedless and

rootless, what does not sprout and grow, flower and fruit, what comes into being

suddenly and in full glory, mysteriously and marvellously, you may call that

'god'.

 

It is entirely unexpected yet inevitable, infinitely familiar yet most

surprising, beyond all hope yet absolutely certain. Because it is without cause,

it is without hindrance. It obeys one law only; the law of freedom. Anything

that implies a continuity, a sequence, a passing from stage to stage cannot be

the real. There is no progress in reality, it is final, perfect, unrelated.

 

 

Q: How can I bring it about?

 

M: You can do nothing to bring it about, but you can avoid creating obstacles.

Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your

mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only

watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of

light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is.

 

Go back to that source and abide there. It is not in the sky nor in the

all-pervading ether. God is all that is great and wonderful; I am nothing, have

nothing, can do nothing. Yet all comes out of me -- the source is me; the root,

the origin is me.

 

When reality explodes in you, you may call it experience of God. Or, rather, it

is God experiencing you. God knows you when you know yourself. Reality is not

the result of a process; it is an explosion. It is definitely beyond the mind,

but all you can do is to know your mind well.

 

Not that the mind will help you, but by knowing your mind you may avoid your

mind disabling you. You have to be very alert, or else your mind will play false

with you. It is like watching a thief -- not that you expect anything from a

thief, but you do not want to be robbed. In the same way you give a lot of

attention to the mind without expecting anything from it.

 

Or, take another example. We wake and we sleep. After a day's work sleep comes.

Now, do I go to sleep or does inadvertence -- characteristic of the sleeping

state -- come to me? In other words -- we are awake because we are asleep. We do

not wake up into a really waking state.

 

In the waking state the world emerges due to ignorance and takes one into a

waking-dream state. Both sleep and waking are misnomers. We are only dreaming.

True waking and true sleeping only the jnani knows. We dream that we are awake,

we dream that we are asleep. The three states are only varieties of the dream

state. Treating everything as a dream liberates.

 

As long as you give reality to dreams, you are their slave. By imagining that

you are born as so-and-so, you become a slave to the so-and-so. The essence of

slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process, to have past and future, to have

history. In fact, we have no history, we are not a process, we do not develop,

nor decay; also see all as a dream and stay out of it.

 

 

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