From Day by day with Bhagavan

[Guest guest]

The Asramam compounder asked some questions about his experiences

during meditation. Bhagavan explained that the Self is the one reality

that always exists, and it is by its light all other things are seen.

We forget it and concentrate on the appearances. The light in the hall

burns, both when persons are present there and when they are absent,

both when persons are enacting something as in a theatre and when

nothing is being enacted. It is the light which enabled us to see the

hall, the persons and the acting. We are so engrossed with the objects

or appearances revealed by the light that we pay no attention to the

light. In the waking state or dream state, in which things appear, and

in the sleep state, in which we see nothing, there is always the light

of Consciousness or Self, like the hall-lamp always burning. The thing

to do is to concentrate on the Seer and not on the seen, not on the

objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

 

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Not two,

Richard