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- Your ultimate need is to get established in the changeless peace
of the Self. For this you have to give up all thoughts.
- Remember that nothing that happens in the mind is 'you', and
none of it is your business. You don't have to worry about the
thoughts that rise up inside you. It is enough that you remember
that the thoughts are not you.
- If you can hold on to this knowledge 'I am Self' at all
times, no further practice is necessary.
- Tayumanuvar, a Tamil saint whom Bhagavan often quoted, wrote in
one of his poems: 'My Guru merely told me that I am consciousness.
Having heard this, I held onto consciousness. What he told me was
just one sentence, but I cannot describe the bliss I attained from
holding onto that one simple sentence. Through that one sentence I
attained a peace and a happiness that can never be explained in
words.'
- There are so many thoughts in the mind. Thought after thought
after thought. But there is one thought that is continuous, though
it is mostly sub-conscious: 'I am the body'. This is the string on
which all other thoughts are threaded. Once we identify ourselves
with the body by thinking this thought, maya follows. It also
follows that if we cease to identify with the body, maya will not
affect us anymore.
- If you are having trouble with your enthusiasm for sadhana, just
tell yourself, 'I may be dead in seven days'. Let go of all the
things that you pretend are important in your daily life and instead
focus on the Self for twenty-four hours a day. Do it and see what
happens.
- Go deeply into this feeling of 'I'. Be aware of it so strongly
and so intensely that no other thoughts have the energy to arise and
distract you. If you hold this feeling of 'I' long enough and
strongly enough, the false 'I' wll vanish leaving only the unbroken
awareness of the real, immanent 'I', consciousness itself.
- Sadhana is a battlefield. You have to be vigilant. Don't take
delivery of wrong beliefs and don't identify with the incoming
thoughts that will give you pain and suffering. But if these things
start happening to you, fight back by affirming, 'I am the Self; I
am the Self; I am the Self;'. These affirmations will lessen the
power of the 'I am the body' arrows and eventually they will armour-plate
you so successfully, the 'I am the body' thoughts that come your way
will no longer have the power to touch you, affect you or make you
suffer.
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