SADHANA AND GURU'S GRACE

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.