Talk 254.

[Guest guest]

Talk 254.

 

Mr. Duncan Greenlees quoted a few verses from Srimad Bhagavatam

to the following effect:

“See the Self in yourself like the pure ether in all beings, in and out.”

“Unashamed, fall prostrate before even an outcast, a cow or an ass.”

“So long as ‘I’ am not perceived in all, worship all with body

and mind.”

“With right knowledge see all as Brahma. This once clear, all doubts

are at an end and you will remain withdrawn in the Self.”

 

He then raised the following questions:

 

D.: Is this a True Path to the realisation of the, One Self? Is it not

easier for some thus to practise seeing Bhagavan in whatever meets

the mind than to seek the Super-Mental through the mental inquiry

“Who am I?”

Maharshi.: Yes. When you see God in all, do you think of God or do you not?

You should certainly keep God in your mind for seeing God all

round you. Keeping God in your mind becomes dhyana. Dhyana is

the stage before realisation. Realisation is in the Self only. Dhyana

must precede it. Whether you make dhyana of God or of Self, it is

immaterial. The goal is the same.

But you cannot escape the Self. You want to see God in all, but not

in yourself? If all are God, are you not included in that all? Yourself

being God, is it a wonder that all are God? There must be a seer

and thinker for even the practice. Who is he?

 

D.: Through poetry, music, japa, bhajan, beautiful landscapes, reading

the lives of spiritual heroes, etc., one sometimes experiences a true

sense of all-unity. Is that feeling of deep blissful quiet (wherein the

personal self has no place) the “entering into the heart” whereof

Bhagavan speaks? Will practice of that lead to a deeper samadhi,

and so ultimately to a full vision of the Real?

 

Maharshi: Again, there is happiness at agreeable sights, etc. It is the

happiness inherent in the Self. That happiness is not alien and

after. You are diving into the Pure Self on occasions which you

consider pleasurable. That diving reveals the Self-existent Bliss.