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O my dear aspirants! I send you the thought-currents of
peace from the peaceful atmosphere of the sacred Himalayas,
the abode of Rishis.
The goal of life is the attainment of final beatitude or
Moksha. Moksha can be attained by constant meditation.
Reality or Brahman can be realised by man. Many have attained
Self-realisation. Many have enjoyed the Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
Sankara, Dattatreya, Mansoor, Shams Tabriez, Jesus,
Buddha were all realised souls who had direct perception of the
Truth.
The Ultimate Truth or Brahman or the Absolute can be experienced
by all persons by regular practice of meditation with a
pure heart. Mere abstract reasoning and study of books will not
do. What is wanted is direct experience. The direct experience
is the source for higher intuitional knowledge or divine wisdom.
This experience is superconscious or transcendental. There is
neither the play of the senses nor the intellect here. This is not an
emotional experience. The senses, mind and intellect are at perfect
rest. They do not function a bit. This experience is not an
imaginary experience of a visionary dreamer. It is not a reverie-
It is not a hypnotic trance. It is solid living Truth like the
Amalaka fruit on the palm of your hand. The third eye or the eye
of wisdom is opened in the experiencer. The extraordinary experience
comes from cognition through the spiritual eye or the
eye of intuition. This eye of wisdom can be opened when the
senses, mind and intellect cease functioning.
Samadhi or blissful divine experience arises when the ego
and the mind are dissolved. It is a state to be attained by one's
own effort. It is limitless, divisionless and infinite, an experience
of being and of pure consciousness. When this experience
is realised, the mind, desires, actions, and feelings of joy and
sorrow vanish into a void.
He who has controlled his mind is really happy and free.
Physical freedom is no freedom at all. Ifyou are easily carried
away by surging emotions and impulses, if you are under the
grip of moods, cravings and passions, how can you be really
happy, O sweet beloved child! You are like a rudderless boat.
You are tossed about hither and thither like a piece of straw in
the vast expanse on the ocean. You laugh for five minutes and
weep for five hours. What can wife, son, friends, money, fame
and power do for you when you are under the sway of the impulses
ofyour own mind? He is the true hero who has controlled
his mind. There is an adage: "He who has controlled his mind
has controlled the world." True victory is over the mind. That is
real freedom. Thorough rigorous discipline and self-imposed
restrictiohs will eventually eradicate all desires, thoughts, impulses,
cravings and passions. Only then, and not until then, can
you expect to be free from the thralldom of the mind. You
should not give any leniency to the mind. The mind is mischievous
imp. Curb it by drastic measures. Become a perfect Yogi.
Money canriot give you freedom. Freedom is not a commodity
that can be purchased in the Crawford Market. It is a rare, hidden
treasure guarded by a five-hooded serpent. Unless you kill
or tame this serpent, you cannot have access to that treasure.
That treasure is Spiritual Wealth, that is Freedom, that is Bliss.
The serpent is your mind. The five hoods are the five senses
through which the mind-serpent hisses.
People are immersed in worldliness. They madly run after
money and women. They have no time to think of God and
higher spiritual things. The sun dawns and the mind runs again
in its old, usual, sensual grooves of eating, drinking, amusing
and sleeping. The day has passed. In this way the whole life
passes away. There is neither moral development nor spiritual
progress.
Really, there is no pleasure in objects. Atma gives a push to
the mind and sets it in motion. AVritti or thought-wave arises in
the mind on account of the force of a Vasana or latent subtle
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IMTPODACnOnt
O my dear aspirants! I send you the thought-currents of
peace from the peaceful atmosphere of the sacred Himalayas,
the abode of Rishis.
The goal of life is the attainment o…