Fw: [PracticeofSelfInquiry] From Day by Day with Bhagavan

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Monday, August 29, 2005 8:37 AM

[PracticeofSelfInquiry] From Day by Day with Bhagavan

Q.: In the fifth stanza of "Arunachala Panchratna," reference is made to seeing "Your form in everything." What is the form referred to?Bhagavan said: The stanza says that one should completely surrender one's mind, turn it inward, and see "you" the Self within and then see the Self in "you" in everything. It is only after seeing the Self within that one will be able to see the Self in everything. One must first realize that there is nothing but the Self and that he is that Self, and then only he can see everything as the form of the Self. That is the meaning of saying, "See the Self in everything and everything in the Self" as is stated in the Gita and other books. It is the same truth that is taught in stanza 4 of the "Reality in Forty Verses." If you have the idea that you are something with form, that you are limited by this body, and that being within this body you have to see through these eyes, God and the world also will appear to you as form. If you realize that you are without form, that you are unlimited, that you alone exist, that you are the eye, the infinite eye, what is there to be seen apart from the infinite eye? Apart from the eye, there is nothing to be seen. There must be a seer for an object to be seen. And there must be space, time, etc. But if the Self alone exists, it is both seer and seen, and above seeing or being seen.Not two,Richard