The Highest Consolation

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He was ever the same, never allowing anything to affect him or to

alter his inner state of absolute equanimity, his inner state of

being established firmly in the Self, established in the supreme

Yoga of oneness with the eternal Reality. We wanted to see a

yogasthah kurukarmani (one performing action remaining stadfast in

Yoga). We found it in Gurudev. He was ever in a state of Yoga and

ever active in the service of the virat, the visible God in

manifestation. We saw it with our own eyes.

 

Waht is the secret of this samatva? How do these great ones keep

themselves in a state of absolute serenity? Is it due to their

wisdom? Is it due to their devotion? Is it due to their meditation?

It is due to all of these. For in Gurudev we found them all --

highest devotion, supreme wisdom and perfect meditation -- and the

result was his absolute serenity.

 

How is it that these great ones, who have approached the state of

illumination and Reality-consciousness, God-experience, through

seemingly varied and different paths, are seen to be established in

the same state? What is their inner spiritual content that makes

them impervious to all the assailments of the constantly ever-

changing dvandvas (pairs of opposites) of the universe?

 

The content is ultimately the same. The jnani is establilshed in the

full knowledge and perception; brahma satyam jaganmithya (God alone

is real, the world is unreal). He is established in the full

awareness of this experience. There is only one ultimate, unchanging

Reality. All else is mainly a play of vanishing names and forms. It

is an ever-changing phenomenal appearance only. Everything that is

perceived as a sense-object is subject to change, decay and

disoolution -- yaddrisyam tannasyam (everything perceived is subject

to decay). Everything here perceived through any one of the five

senses -- seen, heard, tated, touched or smelt -- is subject to

change, decay and disoolution, even before your very eyes.

 

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