Learn from Elements

Space does not interfere in our fights, and it doesn't feel proud of itself for supporting the whole creation

Air does not apologize, neither it feels guilty for blowing hard and hurting someone. Also one cannot flatter air and make it blow smoothly

Fire does not feel sad if it burns something valuable and it does not take revenge

Earth does not expect you to thank it for supporting you unconditionally

Water can even crush mountains with its force, but it does not claim its victory

These elements make up our identities and still we are deluded. Is this not illusion? Is this not maya?

O' mother Parameshwari, mahamaaye! shower grace on us and free us from delusions.

Ignorant, Seeker and Master

Ignorant always wants and desires something, he works for it and gets it.

Seeker whenever desires something, most of the times he doesn't get it.

Master can get everything by his will, but he never desires for or wants anything.

Not Mine Then It's Universe's

If I don't claim something as mine, then that something becomes universes's property.

If I don't claim myself, then I become universes's property, I become universe itself.

More Conscious -- Less Desires and Vice Versa

Lets consider two important cases to discuss this topic:

1. Deep sleep state
2. Waking state

I am not discussing dream state because I see it as identical to waking state. 

In the first case, in deep sleep, we do not have any desires, did you notice why? Because there are no gaps in consciousness and infact you are pure consciousness itself which means fully conscious of consciousness. Consciousness in it's totality means no illusion, no individuality, no duality or fragmented reality. When there is no duality or no individual then there cannot be any desires. 

Second case, waking state is tricky. In waking state, there are gaps in consciousness. Now what does this mean? When you are present in now and here, then you are actually intensely conscious. When you are lost in past and future, which are illusory concepts then you are not completely conscious. You are then kind of sleep walking. So in other words, delving in past and future creates gaps in consciousness in waking state. On the other hand, if you notice, imagining past and future creates a personality or existence of an individual. When individual comes to an existence then desires become part and parcel of such an individual. Hence, more the gaps in consciousness more will be the desires and more individuality and bondage caused by duality.

Good and Bad

From standpoint of reality and ultimate, there is no Good and Bad, because of their dependency on each other for existence.

From standpoint of a seeker, anything that frees you is Good, anything that binds you is Bad.

 But on top of everything, see that you are already free, but to know it, you need to entertain concept of Good and pursue it through Sadhana.

Seeing is Freeing

Many people complain that certain enlightened person does not practice what he/she preaches. Why take example of someone? I read somewhere criticism about Jiddu Krishnamurti that he didn't bother to practice what he taught world. Even I used to criticize sharply people who used to not practice what they used to teach.

Finally I understand that you can't do anything about anything. All you can do is see and be aware. That's all is there to do. So don't expect anyone to practice what he/she says, it is not possible. If someone practices what he teaches, then that's just a coincidence. Enlightened people are great witness of everything that happens around and inside themselves. They don't need to be part of some action or pattern.

At the end seeing is freeing. Neither any action, nor any effort can free you. You may also debate that seeing itself is action. I would say no. I will end this post here, words doesn't reach beyond this.

Doer and Identity

If I think everything I do is done by Shiva

Then I am Shiva

If I attribute everything that Vishnu does is done by me

Then I am Vishnu

If I say everything I say is said by Nisargadatta and not by me

Then I become Nisargadatta

Whoever is doer in you becomes your identity

If I think no one is doer 

Then I become Absolute

Seeker is no Special

My dear Seeker,

It is good to know that you have started seeking your source.

It is also good to know that you have read so many scriptures and met so many gurus etc and have learned about Vedanta blah blah.

I am sure deep somewhere, you have a feeling that you are special and close to something very great. No!

Believe me you are greatest fools of all. Ignorant do not even know the hint of truth, so he is suffering, but you atleast have pointers to that and still you are so miserable.

Shame on you, I say!

Be sure that there is nothing special about you. If Gold finds out after great effort that it is Gold, how terribly foolish that sounds. You are like that.

Regards,
Seeker

Divine Mother

Oh divine mother!

You have been taking care of me always

How did I not notice you before :(

Like mother watches closely while baby sleeps

You have been looking at me and taking care of me, when I am still sleep walking in this world

Oh divine mother!

Here and now is your presence

Every experience I have is touch of your body cloth 

When I go beyond my experiences, you include me in you

Oh divine mother!

I have learned that I cannot love anyone while sleep walking

I am not bothered too, why should I? When greatest mother is with me in me.

Oh divine mother!

I am that spoilt child of yours! oh mother

Who takes you for granted for everything, 

Knowing that you are incapable of not taking care of me :)

Oh divine mother!

Awake or sleep, I am not bothered at all.

Awake me when you like and I will be one with you

Or let me sleep or sleep walk and responsibility is anyways yours.

With little left expression in me, I bow to you oh divine mother.

I bow to you!

Fear, Enemy and Problems

You know funny thing is that we fear our enemies and problems throughout our lifes. This is indication that we are trapped in the abyss of maya. We are just sleep walking.

How does an effort of trying to wake up looks like?

Start seeing your fear as your enemy and root of problems. Result is that you will shift your focus from external world of enemies and so called problems to your inner self. External to internal. self to Self.

This internal enemy is more dangerous than any other enemy in this entire Universe. External enemy attacks only when he is strong and when you are weak. You can be at peace when your external enemy is occupied with something else etc. But internal enemy is so dreadful that he will be awake always even when you are asleep and while you are having dreams he can attack you ruthlessly. He will hide behind your ignorance, he can even hide behind your greatest knowledge, for you fear the losing of your acquired knowledge.

Fight back, I say! it is extremely easy as well as extremely difficult to kill this internal enemy. Extremely easy in the sense that you need to just witness your fear and it will disappear. Extremely difficult in the sense, that you don't even know that fear is your enemy and root of problems, how will you even decide to fight back. You are so engrossed in dealing with external enemies that you have never given attention to deadliest enemies of all, enemy of enemies, enemy of self :). Wake up son, wake up and all dreams will come to an end.

Power of "I do not know"

You need immense courage and absolute purity to say "I do not know".

Fools are those who don't witness this beautiful expression "I do not know". This expression is pointer to the reality.

Because of your limited and incomplete identity, you are bound to not know majority of the things at any point of time, how much ever you learn or gain knowledge.

You see, greatest tragedy is that you don't want to see your own being which is hidden in your "I do not know" expression.

How do you expect to be completely free and talk of mukti by holding on to these biases?

Have courage, no matter what to say without second thought "I do not know". Great blessings and grace will be showered, key to your existence will be revealed.

Don't Confuse Expression with Reality

Expression, it may be in any form, for example: language, behaviour, scientific blah blah so on so forth manifests through body-mind. So it can never be complete in itself, it will always have limitations. It is nowhere an indication of reality, not even close.

When someone shouts at you, don't judge him by saying he will go to hell or he will suffer. No! one who knows reality is the most perfect actor in the world, expression is servant at his feet. Expression has nothing to do with reality. It is just that. That 'it is'.

Mysterious Bias

Suppose I have two concepts A and B. Lets say existence of one is impossible without other. For example: A doesn't exist or cannot be defined without asserting the existence of B.

So A and B depend on each other. Till now there is no bias in A and B. A is in potential same as B. Mathematically they carry same weightage.

Now if someone out of nowhere believes that A is better than B, it is absurd, isn't it.

Concepts like "Good" and "Bad", "Right" and "Wrong" etc are of the same nature as A and B. Potentially they are same, but there is this mysterious bias that we have assimilated from nowhere in us that Good is better than Bad and Right is superior to Wrong.

How does that happen? Did you ever wonder.

For me this mysterious bias is Maya. The great illusion.

Magnify your perception and give credit to things as they are without attaching bias. Enlightenment is all about that.

Trap of Cause and Effect

Concept of cause and effect is created by the mind.

Reasoning about cause and effect is a trap. Bondage is nothing but chain of cause and effect.

There are two ways you can get rid of illusion of cause and effect trap.

First is, to realize that effect itself is it's own cause. Cause doesn't exist apart from the effect.

Second is, even if you entertain the concept of cause and effect. Every effect has infinite number of causes linked to each other. Also every cause can bring about infinite numbers of effects.

Any one of the understanding should free you from cause-effect trap.

Infinite Point of Views = God

If you can see things with infinite point of views, you are God. Actually you are aware of your Godlyness.

Even without awareness of Godlyness you are a God, nothing can deny that.

New born baby which has no mind sees things same as a person with infinite point of views.

Infinite point of views takes you to a plane where mind is absent because it is the nature of mind to point it's finger on a particular thing or a particular point of view and show it as a reason.