A barrister from Bombay asked
Bhagawan
“I have read the works of
Bhagawan and others and though I can understand them intellectually ,I have not
been able to realise anything in experience have tried bhagawan’s method for
about six years and uyet I have
not made any progress. When I meditate, other
thoughts come. For people like me, living in cities and doing
our work and
coming here only occasionally, what sadhana
would Bhagawan advise so that we may
succeed better than I have so far been
able to do?
Bhagawan: Your real nature is
always there your meditation etc. come only temporarily. Reality being your
Self, there is nothing for you to realise. All that is required is that you
should give up regarding the unreal as
real, which is what all are doing. The
object of all meditatiojn , dhyana or
japa is only that to give up all
thoughts regarding the not –self, to give up many thoughts and to keep to the
one –thought.
As for Sadhana here are many
methods. You may do vichara asking
yourself Who am I ? orif that does not
appeal you may do dhyana “I am Brahman” or you may concentrate on a mantra or name in japa .the
object is to make the mind one-pointed, to concentrate it
on one thought and thus exclude our many
thoughts
and if we do this, eventually
even the one thought will do and the mind will get extinguished in its source.
Visitor: In actual practice I find Ia m not able to succeed in my
efforts .Unless Bhagawan’s grace descends
on me I cannot succeed.
Bhagawan: Guru’s grace is always there .You imagine it is something,
somewhere high up in the sky, far away
and has to descend. It is really inside
you, in your heart and the moment (by any of the methods) you affect
subsidence
or merger of the mind into tits source, the grace rushes forth, sprouting as
from a spring, from
within you.
Visitor: What should one, who is an absolute beginner, do in this line?
Bhagawan : The very fact that you put this question shows you know what to do. It is because you feel the
want of peace that you are anxious to take some steps to secure peace. Because I have a little pain in my
foot, I am applying this ointment
Visitor: What is the method to be adopted for securing peace?
Bhagawan: The conception that there is a goal and a path to it is wrong. We are the goal or the peace
always. To get rid of the notion that we are not peace is all that is required.
Visitor: All books say that the guidance of Guru is necessary.
Bhagawan: The Guru will say only what I am saying now. He will not give you anything you have not already.
It is impossible for anyone to get what he has not got already .Even if he gets any such thing; it will go as it
came .What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain. The guru cannot give you anything new,
which you have not already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required.
We are always the Self. Only, we don’t realize iT.
Visitor: What should one, who is an absolute beginner, do in this line?
Bhagawan : The very fact that you put this question shows you know what to do. It is because you feel the
want of peace that you are anxious to take some steps to secure peace. Because I have a little pain in my
foot, I am applying this ointment
Visitor: What is the method to be adopted for securing peace?
Bhagawan: The conception that there is a goal and a path to it is wrong. We are the goal or the peace
always. To get rid of the notion that we are not peace is all that is required.
Visitor: All books say that the guidance of Guru is necessary.
Bhagawan: The Guru will say only what I am saying now. He will not give you anything you have not already.
It is impossible for anyone to get what he has not got already .Even if he gets any such thing; it will go as it
came .What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain. The guru cannot give you anything new,
which you have not already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required.
We are always the Self. Only, we don’t realize iT.
