You are That!
Beloved spiritual aspirants!
You are seeking something, you are devoted to something, you are practising
something all with one single ultimate objective. The inner motivation is the
same. It is the attainment of Divine-experience, God-experience, the
realisation of the Absolute, the realisation of what you are.
Classical philosophy and all
the great mandaleshwars say that this world is an obstacle to that achievement.
Sense objects are tempting snares. The unwise jivatma is caught and enslaved by
his own desires, and these temptations draw him out and catch him in their
coils. The jivatma is helpless, caught by maya.
All this may be said in books
and scriptures and by mandaleshwars giving discourses, but we must know better.
And the better truth has been expounded to us, revealed to us. But you will
know this only if you make right enquiry, vichara. Right enquiry will suddenly
bring you light, reveal to you many things that you did not know. It will bring
you so many truths.
And then suddenly you will
develop a new skill, a new qualification, a new ability to know what it is that
stands in your way and what it is that can be favourable to you in moving
towards the supreme goal. You will know what you must gladly accept and make
part of your life and what you must uproot and throw away, eradicate, even if
it is part of your present life: "No, no, now I know better. I am not
going to allow this to remain. It is an obstacle that is within myself. I will
throw it out."
So this skill of
discrimination, viveka, and the ability to know what is helpful to your
spiritual life and what is not helpful and constantly discriminating between
these two, then at every step rejecting that which is not favourable to your
spiritual life and cultivating and augmenting that which is helpful, becomes a
constant exercise of a wise and awakened seeker. So right enquiry and
discrimination help move you towards the truth that you are seeking.
And at one stroke, in one
declaration-a grand declaration, a great declaration-the whole problem has been
solved by a super being. He declared to us that all these things that we think
constitute our great obstacle, our great problem, which we constantly have to
battle with, are a mere non-existing myth, a nothing. We make it formidable by
our lack of right enquiry and discrimination. We have given it importance by
endowing it with a strength it does not have: "Do away with this
foolishness. It is not formidable. You are always immune to it, above it, unaffected
by it."
The great teacher taught a
super devise: "No barrier exists, nothing exists. You are already That
which you are seeking to make yourself. Remove this delusion that you are not
yet That. You are the divine perfection that you are seeking. The goal is right
here-not to be reached, not to be attained, but to be known."
'Brahma satyam jagan-mithya
jivo-brahmaiva naparah.' This so-called universe that you are endowing with a
reality is a non-existent myth. One alone is real. One alone is the solid truth
and fact, and that is satchidananda Brahman, the non-dual Reality, the
ever-present, eternal, never-changing Reality. That alone is the Reality, and
you are no other than that great Reality, with some imagined accretions that
have been added on to your ever-present, all-perfect Divine Reality-something
added on.
"Get rid of these
accretions. The moment you get rid of these accretions, you are what you are.
You don't have to become something. You are already That." And to
emphasise it: "You are That and That alone, and you are no other!"
What a great truth! What a liberating truth! What a wonderfully strengthening
truth!
So this is something you have
right in your hand. It is yours. Apply this formula and obstacles will be no
obstacles, bondage will be no bondage. You will revel, you will rejoice in your
eternally liberated, ever-free state. Brahma satyam jagan-mithya jivo-brahmaiva
naparah. This is the truth, this is the fact. And this truth is an immediately
liberating fact to which you have immediate access. Realise this and be free!
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