Evolution of Love 2

MEDITATIONS

Your beliefs will give you relevant experiences. Keep reciting your mantra. It will enable you to understand your true identity. You will come to know that you are not the body. For Self-realization it is necessary that consciousness and the vital force be united. This happens by reciting the mantra. It has to be done with love
and a sense of urgency. In fact it is the vital force that recites the mantra. A persistent commitment is needed. There is no part-time spiritual effort.

The body is created out of food. The hum of consciousness comes through the essence of the body. That is the same as ‘I am’. There is no true sense of individuality, right from an insect to God. There is
manifestation for a duration of time. Maya means ignorance, which means fear. Under her influence, the jiva takes on an identity and accordingly gets experiences. The basis of your life is consciousness. It depends upon food.

What is said will not be understood until the ‘sins’ are eradicated. Concepts are the sins. Beingness has no meaning. It is just a movement (activity because of Gunas), but the resulting nuisance has to be suffered.
The body is a form of food. In that food-object there is a taste of ‘I am’. It is gone when the food material is exhausted.

Talk about this only if you understand it. Your thoughts and your words are bubbles in consciousness. When understood, the jnani is not bothered by thought. When the vital force is present in the body, there are an infinite variety of thoughts and actions. None of these is everlasting. Consciousness is of the essence of
food. When it is finished, it disappears. Then who dies, a man or a woman? Root-consciousness is created out of the essence (Sattva) and it is felt as the sensation ‘I am’.

The name of God is your own word. Your faith in your word will manifest as God. The devotional word (bhajan) has great importance. With time, this word has greater meaning. Your conviction also grows.
Atman can take any form. Words reside in the heart and emerge as thoughts. The idea of the ‘wishing tree’ implies that your concepts will materialize. With fear in your heart, your actions will be fearful.

Krishna says: ‘My devotees are the manifestation of My true nature’. It is love, the Self, the knowingness or the knowledge that ‘you are’. This knowledge is formless. The nature of time is tied to the body. Your life span, place, activities, etc., are included in time. The realization of Self is bliss. It brings true happiness. The true devotee knows this. If we do not sense ourselves like this, then what is meditation? There is no other God except consciousness. It is the feet of the Guru. One deals with others knowing that there is no difference between him and other beings. They have the same consciousness. As God lives in all beings, he treats them all as God. When it is understood that God and I are the same, all actions become an offering to Him.

Consciousness that has come over you unknowingly has awakened as the ‘I’. It carries out all the actions.
One who knows that he is not the body, remains in constant self-attentiveness. The ego that says, ‘I am so-and-so’ is the doer of actions. Pay attention to the seed consciousness, the atomic wakefulness that arises at dawn. After listening to the Guru, what change has come over you? Has one sentence created a conviction in
you? All creeds imply concepts that are agreeable to them. You should know that the one who knows is in the present. Then everything will be revealed.

All the incarnations have had different kinds of behavior. Each sage presents a different concept. Why is it so? If you want to know this, you must merge into your true nature. From the point of view of a true devotee
there is nothing bad in the world. One who understands this has no value for his person. He does not have a single concept left with him. The state of being in which one does not know whether one ‘is’ or ‘is not’ is called the Absolute.

Your thinking creates your destiny. Your concept of yourself creates your circumstances accordingly.
Therefore, see that you become nothing. When you see your true identity, it is called Self-realization. The knowledge ‘I am’ is the supreme God. Surrender to it without duality. You are not different from
consciousness. It is your true nature.