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Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation

Contents Title

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Editorial

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Walk alone

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Truth is solitary

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Come under the vast open sky

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You are a drop

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You are born unnamed

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Existence watches you

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Being witness to inner

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Awakening of the Being

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Meditation is witnessing

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Truth is timeless

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Truth is solitary (Spanish)

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Who am I?

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Truth never compromises

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Word has soul…seek it

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Thoughts are not reality

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Sex and aural energy

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What is surrender?

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Love and Relationship

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Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013

Inner Sight

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Inner Sight A journal of meditation…

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ithin each one of you there is virgin space. Nothing is written on it. This space remains a vast dark spread until the light of the being begins to lurk from behinds the trees. Light implies clarity. Light implies awareness. And awareness leads to inner flowing as enlightenment. When this light begins to emerge forth its rays are the inner sights. This is the beginning of inward journey. Awareness comes with its hue to deepen the inner serenity and bliss overflows. Meditation is the way to attain to this light or awakening. Meditation does only a simple and single thing. Verily it makes you capable of turning the mind off by making it open to inner light. And once mind is turned off and it disappears there explodes immense light.That is the dawn of new awakening I am talking about. This is the dawn beyond darkness, all finiteness, dualities, and a journey into new dimensionless horizon. Words are the outcome of this inner flowering. It is the silence overflowing as words for a true seeker who

needs no verbal answer. Instead he seeks something existential – a penetration of heart into the heart, a penetration of soul into the soul. Indeed the real seeker wants the master to overlap him. The real seeker wants the master to go into his innermost and stir the sleeping soul. I call this INNER SIGHTS beyond time and space – the way of the masters to bring about transformation and transcendence beyond to the realm of the unknown and unknowable. This is the beginning of a new monthly on line free for download e-journal INNER SIGHT from Taoshobuddha meditations International. Love!!!

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alk alone along the inner path only then as you walk you create the thoroughfare. Inward journey is no super highway that you can speed up. The path is narrow. You have to walk alone. There are no footprints. And miles to go before you reach the inner sanctum. Also when you find you have reached you are no more to 3|Pa ge

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 say…. You create your footprints along the journey as you move forward and you look behind those footprints that you consider leaving behind are no more there. Only your awareness remains with you as the beacon light. The master stands like your shadow as the assurance that you are on path. Never swerve he assures you. However when you reach you are all alone. Then even the master is no more because master and disciple is the game until you reach the inner sanctum. Then all duality vanishes. Therefore always remember to befriend with those who are on the path at least as much as you are. They are fellow travelers. Maybe they may not take you forward, but certainly they do not impede your journey forward and set backward gear on your quest. If this is not possible then just walk alone because that is the only way. The companionship of fools who consider themselves knowledgeable and propagate wisdom is not good. Remember one thing, you have come alone in this world and shall leave this world alone one day. Therefore between these two shores learn to be alone. The so-called togetherness is on the surface. Deep down there is chaos and disharmony. The ideal and pretension of togetherness is just a way to make you feel better. That is why it is important to learn the art of solitude. In the company of a person who has gone deeper into his innerness, you will experience your solitude. Know this as meditation. This is the essence of life eternal. Outer religions are just crowds comprising of people who are focused on the external – the superfluous and ephemeral. They have not yet set Outer religions are just crowds foot on inward journey. Indeed it is a miracle to see that there are no comprising of people who are focused crowds to be seen when you are with people who are focused in and within themselves. When there are several meditative individuals sitting on the external – the superfluous and in a room, it is not that they exist in numbers. Verily each individual is ephemeral. sitting alone by him. And this is not a crowd. Meditative you are alone even amidst crowd of fools or wise. The crowd prattles that it knows. And the wise simply rejoices the cumulative silence of the meditators creating an aura of awareness. In the naturalness and nakedness of your solitude dwells your pristine state. Your aloneness, your silence remains untouched and pure. Each respects the boundaries. But never disturbs your solitude. They provide company without invading your space and serenity. When you call them, they come near to you. Only as near as you call them and no more. They leave you alone when you want to go inside of yourself. 4|Pa ge


Truth is solitary…

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ruth is solitary – sovereign yet formless. You cannot imprison it in finiteness of form. Solitary it is the incandescence of the both Cosmic and Inner oneness. This oneness beyond time and space is its essential nature. It was in the beginning of the creation. It is now and it shall be verily in dissolution and beyond too. Describe it differently in myriad ways and languages but its nature is solitary – oneness beyond all finiteness. Truth is life. Truth is the essence of living. Truth is the way of living. Learn the art of living truth each finite moment as it unravels out of the womb of the unknown. Life seeks examples. Search the examples and live it. You can go on repeating truth as scriptures. But all in vain. To repeat truth is verbal and useless. Living truth is the way of the man of awareness. Repetition and living truth are two diverse things. Repetition is futile and the way of the outer religions. To live and imbibe truth is the essence of your existence. Various art forms help you in living truth moment to moment. Man is the symbol of infinite possibilities. Recognize this. Allow the flower to blossom. And let its fragrance dissolve in the existence. Then bliss will come as its echo. Verily no one can lead another to truth. Remember Truth exists as Cosmic Oneness in myriad ways. Truth is a pathless land, and no one can tell you how to find it. Just as no one can teach you to be an artist someone can only give you the brushes and canvas and show you the colors to use but you have to fill the colors on the canvas according to your consciousness so too you are given the inner canvas. Your awareness is the brush. Use the brush of awareness to paint many colors and hues of truth on the inner canvas.

Truth is life. Truth is the essence of living. Truth is the way of living. Learn the art of living truth each finite moment as it unravels out of the womb of the unknown.

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ou are encaged within the narrow boundaries of finiteness. Then suddenly you reach a distant land full of greenery basking in the glory of the sun. You rejoice. As you behold the horizon through a small window a single green leaf, a small patch of the vast blue sky, you verily began to perceive Thee – the Unknown and the Unknowable in myriad hues and colors. Before you come out under the vast infinite canopy all things as the leaf faded and withered, the patch covered as with dark cloud, so didst you fade and vanish, but to be reborn again as the single 7|Pa ge

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 green leaf, as the small patch of the blue sky. It is a new beginning a dawn or inner awakening. This time you are reborn out of awareness. For many lives you have seen the bleak winter and the green spring all prisoned in your little room. From there you could not behold the entire tree nor the infinite blueness of the sky. But you dared to come of the narrow shell and swore but there was neither tree, nor the vast sky…. What was it then you wondered. Indeed that was the Truth. Through creation and dissolution. As you continue the aperture of your vision grew wider and wider. You beheld now, a branch with many leaves, and a greater area of the blue with many clouds in different shapes. You will verily forget the single green leaf, the small patch of the vast blue. You will swore but there will neither be tree, nor the immense sky. That will be the Truth spread as vast infinite sky in its pristine glory and splendor. Weary of this prison like his small cell, one day you raged at your window. With bleeding fingers you tore away brick after brick and then you beheld, now, the entire tree, its great trunk, its myriad branches, its thousand leaves, and an immense sky lurking through the threes. I swore but there was neither tree, nor the iota of the sky. Instead that was the Truth. This prison will no longer hold you. And then like bird freed from the cage you flew away through the window to behold every tree and the vast expanse of the limitless sky. Living in every single leaf and in every small patch of the vast blue sky, verily you will live in every prison, looking out through every small casement but certainly as Liberated One. Lo! Then not a thing shall bind you in any finiteness. Such is the Truth.

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he ancient Vedic literature is the very edifice of Indian heritage. It has verily been handed down in that country and thus the world at large in an unbroken succession from the earliest times within the recollection of man to now. This heritage became known for the first time beyond the frontiers of India through the Upanishads.

Upanishads formed the essential core of the Vedic Heritage for the transformation of human consciousness. The Upanishads were translated from Sanskrit into Persian by, or, it may be, for Dara Shukoh, the eldest son of Shah Jehan. Dara was an enlightened prince, who openly professed the liberal religious tenets of the great Emperor Akbar, and even wrote a book intended to reconcile the religious doctrines of Hindus and Mohammedans as SIRRE AKBAR. He seems first to have heard of the Upanishads during his stay in Kashmir in 1640. He afterwards invited several Pundits from Benares to Delhi, who were to assist him in the work of translation. The translation was finished in 1657. Three years after the accomplishment of this work, in 1659, the prince was put to death by his brother Aurangzeb. When the Upanishads had once been translated from Sanskrit into Persian, at that time the most widely read language of the East and understood likewise by many European scholars, these became generally accessible to all who took an interest in the religious literature of India. It is true that under Akbar’s reign (1556-1586) similar translations had been prepared, but neither those nor the translations of Dârâ Shukoh attracted the attention of European scholars till the year 1775. Indeed it was in that year Anquetil Duperron, the famous traveler and discoverer of the Zend-avesta, received one MS. of the Persian translation of the Upanishads, sent to him by M. Genti l, the French resident at the court of Shuja ud daula, and brought to France by M. Bernier. After receiving another MS., Anquetil Duperron collated the two, and translated the Persian translation into French and into Latin. The French translation was not published however the Latin translation was published in 1801 and 1802, under the title of ‘Oupnek’hat, id est, Secretum tegendum: opus ipsa in India rarissimum, continens antiquam et arcanam, seu theologicam et philosophicam doctrinam, e quatuor sacris Indorum libris Rak baid, Djedjer baid, Sam baid, Athrban baid excerptam; ad verbum, e Persico idiomate, Samkreticis vocabulis intermixto, in Latinum conversum: 10 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 Dissertationibus et Annotationibus difficiliora explanantibus, illustratum: studio et opera Anqu etil Duperron, Indicopleustæ. Argentorati, typis et impensis fratrum Levrault, vol. I, 1801; vol. II, 1802 3.’ This translation attracted considerable interest among scholars. However it was written in an utterly unintelligible style, that it required the lynx like perspicacity of an intrepid philosopher, such as Schopenhauer, to discover a thread through such a labyrinth. Unless one transcends such narrow Schopenhauer, however, not only found and followed such a thread, but he had the courage to proclaim to an incredulous age the vast treasures of thought which were lying buried beneath that fearful jargon. And the interest continues unabated. The entire literature contains truth beyond the narrowness of caste, creed, religions, and ethnicities. But human mind is narrow and conditioned by sectarian finiteness that fails to understand the essence of truth as the basis of transformation. Unless one transcends such narrow boundaries the inward journey cannot commence. At the most one can pretend and that is what all the outer religions continue to do in keeping man in ignorance.

boundaries the inward journey cannot commence. At the most one can pretend and that is what all the outer religions continue to do in keeping man in ignorance.

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ou are born unnamed, innocent with inner sky clear. You assumed human as the fresh breeze of the mountains. No shelter, the wandering waters! No sanctuary, like the dark gods! You assumed existence from infinite into finite realm. Neither do you exist in the shadow of deep Temples nor Mosques nor Churches. With no sacred books to lean on or any well-seasoned in tradition you are born unnamed and innocent. Neither in the incense filling the nostrils from the high altars, nor in the pomp of ceremonies ever pulsating with life force you verily assume 12 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 human existence. Neither in the graven image nor in the rich chant of a melodious voice verily you are the echo of the cosmos ever serene and unheard. Neither bound by theories, nor corrupted by beliefs is your essence. Your essence cannot be held in the bondage of religions, nor in the pious agony of their priests. You are not entrapped by philosophies, nor held in the power of their sects. Neither low nor high, indeed are you the worshipper and the worshipped together. You are born free. And this freedom is your essence. A song - the song of the river Calls you for the open seas. Indeed you are Life and its Essence. Unnamed you, then assume human form. Journeying through life’s woods you wonder, how unattainable are the mountains to the valley, though the mountains hold the valley! How mysterious is the darkness that brings forth the watching stars, and yet the night is born of day! You are in love with Life. As the mountain lake that receives many streams and sends forth great rivers, however holds its unknown depths alone. Such is your love and its essence too. Calm and clear, as the mountains in the morning is your thought, born of love. Indeed happy is the one who has found the harmony of Life, for then he creates in the light of eternity.

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Existence watches you…

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ou are not unknown to the existence. You are existence. Existence is infinite. You are unaware of this infinite essence.

The master represents the entire existence. He has attained to inner harmony and fruition. You are yet to attain to this inner harmony and fruition. Indeed both harmony and fruition are synonymous. Ones leads to the other. Until this happens you remain vulnerable dwindling between the two extremes. The diversity of master-disciple continues. As the pulse of the cosmos the master continues watching you silently grow. Continue until you reach the other end of the tunnel. Then you are reborn once again. Then you will realize that the master-disciple is a game. Conscious for the master and unconscious for the seeker yet the game continues. Sometimes the master initiates this inner process by giving you a new name. Osho has given S anyas name to begin the process of inward journey. However Sufis wait until you are on the borderline of psychological sleep before initiating into the fold. Matters not whatever way the master chooses. The process of inner transformation continues even without such initiation. No one can give you a name. You have to decide for yourself and then one day choose a new name for yourself. Allow this to happen naturally.... The society will disagreed with the name and so will others. But it should never bother you. You are born alone yet unnamed. No one knows the size of your shoe, shirt, trouser etc. These you have to choose for you. So too is the name that identifies your innerness only you can choose. First name is OK. It was given when you were unconscious. As you grow in awareness one day the new name will emerge from deep within. That alone will signify you.... In the final or the ultimate both master-hood and the disciple-hood dissolve into oceanic oneness. Not that they have to do this instead this happens spontaneously. Both the master, and the disciple stays together and they disappear together as well. What then remains is utter silence, a non-dual state of tranquility. Generally the master keeps the disciple yoked to him and does not allow the freedom to soar in the infinite sky. No other master in the world has been able to pinpoint it so clearly and in such a sophisticated way that you never think he is asking you to dissolve. You start thinking he is asking you to kill him. He will certainly meet you on the path. He will meet you only at the last, when all other 15 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 attachments and relationships are gone. He will meet you and it is going to be hard. It is going to be very hard to kill your own master. But it is only a metaphor, it only indicates to say good-bye to Gautama Buddha: ‘You have been enough for me, now leave me alone. Just move out of the way.’ I will not tell you to kill. Gautama Buddha belonged to a warrior clan. He was trained as a prince in swordsmanship. Therefore he talks the same language: ‘If you meet me on the way, kill me immediately.’ Sufis are more sophisticated in saying so. Sufis say along the inward journey you have to abandon three things in the same chronological order: First: You have to abandon argument, logic, conditioning, and your so-called wisdom. Second: You have to abandon all desires – even the desire for the other world. And lastly. Third: You have to abandon the master as the last impediment in the process of inner fruition.

In the final or the ultimate both master-hood and the disciple-hood dissolve into oceanic oneness. Not that they have to do this instead this happens spontaneously. Both the master, and the disciple stays together and they disappear together as well.

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Being witness to inner…

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eing a witness to innerness is meditation. Being such witness is the essence of your infinite existence. To be a witness and watch your bodily activity, the way you walk, the way you talk, the way you sit, the movements of your hands and so on is the beginning of the process of awareness and thus witnessing. The process of witnessing also implies that now you are capable to witness to all the words you use, your thoughts and emotions as these float on the inner sky, and subsequently your reaction to these thoughts and emotions. Thoughts and emotions float on the inner sky when you interact with the objects and beings. This is followed by reactions and responses. Being aware of this is the first step towards witnessing. This is called mindfulness. Verily witness includes awareness of the unconscious, its traditions, its instinctual knowledge, instinctual reactions, and the immense sorrow it has accumulated as the personal sorrow, and also the sorrow of man. You have to be aware of all that. Certainly you cannot be aware of it if you are merely judging, evaluating, or saying, ‘This is good and that is bad, this I will keep and that I will reject,’ all of these only make the mind dull, insensitive and thus incapable of inward journey. From awareness comes attention and mindfulness. Attention flows from awareness when in that awareness there is no choice, no personal choosing, and no experiencing instead merely observing. And, to observe, you must have in the mind a great deal of space. A mind that is caught in ambition, greed, en vy, in the pursuit of pleasure and self-fulfillment, with its inevitable sorrow, pain, despair, anguish has no space to observe, and to attend. It is crowded with its own desires, going round and round in its own backwaters of reaction. You cannot attend if your mind is not highly sensitive, sharp, reasonable, logical, sane, healthy, and without the slightest shadow of neuroticism. The mind has to explore every corner of itself, leaving no spot uncovered, because if there is a single dark corner of your mind which is afraid to explore, from that springs illusion. It is only in the state of attention that you can be a light unto yourself, and then every action and response of your day to day life springs from that light. Every action - whether you are doing your job, cooking, going for a walk, 18 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 mending clothes, or anything else will emerge from the deepest core of your being. This is the beginning of mindfulness. This whole process is meditation....

In that perception that comes when the mind is empty of thoughts neither the soul exists, nor the body, nor God, nor nature – but there is something that cannot be given a name.

Remember in meditation, when you are moving inwards, you will discover many things, layers of unconscious, layers of consciousness, moods etc. Some of these are so subtle that you will not understand their nature. You will meet your repressed desires, your incomplete experiences, and your ambitions, but it is easy to ignore them. But to understand these you need awareness. Then you can dissolve these and thus it is easy to go beyond them once you this process of mindfulness. Finally you will meet your master within as the inner voice. Remember that is your last love. You have left everything for him, now only the master has remained. But even that small clinging is enough to prevent your eyes from seeing the truth. You have to be free of the master as well. In that perception that comes when the mind is empty of thoughts neither the soul exists, nor the body, nor God, nor nature – but there is something that cannot be given a name. For the sake of convenience, let me call it the universal soul. That unknown, nameless, undivided unity is Truth. When you try to think about it, it appears in different pieces – but when you are free from thoughts it manifests in its undivided form. That is its original form; that is its Real Face.

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Awakening of the Being…

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ndeed knowledge is that indeed brings freedom. I would like to change the word knowledge to awareness because with the passage of time the word knowledge got contaminated.

Thus awareness is the essence of the Being. Awareness is that which frees from all competitions, bondage, pain, pleasure, suffering, ignorance, duality, separation, you and I. Jiva is atma or being. It is form and that which exists beyond time and space is formless. However because of the influence of ignorance and illusion you consider you to be mind, and intellect. Not you consider you to be mind and intellect instead you identify with the finiteness of mind, and intellect. Thus you experience the world of cognition. To consider non-being as being, thought as thoughtless is ignorance veiled by illusion. Both ignorance and illusion are two sides of the same coin that support one another. When you consider the visible and the known as real leads to illusion and ignorance. Seeing the false as the false and the true as the true is transformation, because when you see something very clearly as the truth that truth liberates. When you see that something is false, that false thing drops away. When you see that ceremonies are mere vain repetitions and rituals, when you see the truth of it and do not justify it, there is transformation. Is it not so? Indeed it happens because another bondage is gone. When you see that class distinction is false, that it creates conflict, creates misery, division between people - when you see the truth of it that very truth liberates. The very perception of that truth is transformation. We are surrounded by so much that is false, then perceiving the falseness from moment to moment leads to transformation. Truth is not cumulative. It is from moment to moment. That which is cumulative, accumulated, is memory, and through memory you can never find truth. Remember memory belongs to the finite realm of time - as the past, the present and the future. Time, which is continuity, can never find that which is eternal. 21 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 Eternity is not continuity. That which endures is not eternal. Eternity is in the moment. Eternity is in the now and here. The now is not the reflection of the past nor the continuance of the past through the present to the future. Knowledge as awareness is light. It gives you the vision so that you can recognize your cosmic form. When inner light is incandescent then all duality vanishes. You cannot even say that you are learned or self-realized one. Only silence and a celebration remains. Can one know or attain to such a state through logic? No certainly not! However logic can be of help in the process. Then can one attain to such a state through devotion and prayer? Again no! You cannot attain to that state through devotion and prayer. However your devotion and prayer can be of help to some extent. Then the mind again enquires can that unknowable be attained through yoga and meditation. Once again the answer is capital No! However alike logic, devotion and prayer yoga and meditation can be of some help. All these logic, devotion, prayer, yoga and meditation belong to the realm of the known. Known can help but ultimately you have to go beyond the known to enter the realm of the unknown and unknowable. When I say that awareness can help, yes indeed awareness is the way. But awareness is beyond the mind. It cannot be attained by mind. Certainly you cannot attain awareness by thinking about it. You can go on thinking about and about, but you will be moving in an unending circle. When I say that it cannot be attained by the mind, I mean that it cannot be attained by thinking as the process of the mind. You have to practice it, and then you have to do it. You have to begin with mindfulness. It can be attained only by doing, not by thinking. That is the first thing to remember and aspire for. So do not go on thinking about what awareness is, or what meditation is or how to achieve it or what will be the result. No! Do not go on thinking. Instead start doing it. When walking on the street, walk with awareness. Do all the activities mindfully. It is difficult in the beginning. Your mind will forget it again and again, but there is no need be afraid. Whenever you remember again, be alert. Take every step with full alertness, knowingly, remaining with the step, not allowing the mind to move somewhere else. While eating, eat; chew with awareness. Watching a beautiful flower be 22 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 aware of the innerness of beauty. Whatsoever you are doing be mindful. Never do anything mechanically – and that is different. But this is the only way. And when I say that it can be felt only, this implies, for example, I can raise my hand mechanically, but then I can also raise my hand with total mindfulness. And when my hand is raised mindfully then it becomes the act of meditativeness. My mind is conscious that my hand is being raised. Do it, try it – once mechanically and then with alertness. You will feel the change. The quality changes immediately. Walk with alertness, and you walk differently; a different grace comes to your walking. You move more slowly, more beautifully. If you walk mechanically – only because you know how to walk and there is no need to be alert, then the walking is ugly, there is no grace in it. Awareness takes you beyond. Do whatsoever you are doing with alertness, and feel the difference. When I say ‘feel,’ I mean observe. First do it mechanically and then with awareness, and feel the difference. And you will be able to feel the difference. For example, if you eat with awareness, then you cannot eat more than is needed by the body. People come to me with many questions. Questions relating to both bodily and mental conditions like weight-loss, anger etc. are quite common. The problem of obesity implies the body is constantly hoarding. Obesity cannot be overcome through thinking of diet, instead think of consciousness. By dieting nothing will happen. All dieting programs are futile. You cannot do it. You will do it one day and the next day it will go. You cannot continue it. Rather, eat with awareness. The quality changes. If you eat with awareness, you will chew more. With unconscious, mechanical habits, you simply go on pushing things into your stomach. You are not chewing at all, you are just stuffing. Then there is no pleasure, and because there is no pleasure you need more food in order to get the pleasure. There is no taste, so you need more food. And the same applies to emotions relating to the mind. Just be alert and see what happens. If you are alert, you will chew more, you will feel the taste more, you will feel the pleasure of eating, and much more time will be taken. If you take half an hour to eat your meal, then by taking the same quantity of a meal with full awareness you will need one and a half hours – thrice the time. In half an hour you will have eaten only one-third of the quantity, and you will feel more fulfilled; you will have enjoyed the meal more. 23 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 And when the body enjoys, it tells you when to stop. When the body has not enjoyed at all, it never says when to stop, so you go on. Then the body becomes dull. You never hear what the body is saying. You are eating without being there; that creates the problem. Be there, and every process will be slowed down. The body will itself say, ‘No more!’ And when the body says indeed that is the right moment. If you are aware, you cannot trespass the body’s command. You will stop. So allow your body to say something. The body is saying things every moment, but you are not there to hear it. Be alert and you will hear it. Try to understand the language of the body.

It can be attained only by doing, not by thinking.

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Meditation is witnessing…

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he last words of Gautama the Buddha to his disciples were: ‘Be a lamp unto yourself.’ Buddha did not say to chant scriptures, do rituals, or meditate or any other thing instead he told the seekers to be alight unto yourself. This is the most pregnant message ever. The whole secret of meditation is contained in this message. Once you understand and be this nothing else is needed to be done. This is the ultimate in the process of transformation – the summon bonumn. Meditation means that no outer light is going to help, no outer treasure is going to make you rich, and no outer conquest is going to make you a real conqueror. You have to seek all that is inner. First let the inner lamp be lit and then the rest happens on its own. The real treasure is within you and the real conquest has to be made there. It is such a ridiculous thing that we go on searching for something which we have already got, but we never look within. We look everywhere else we can go to the very corners of the earth or even to the moon in search of some illusory pleasure — just one territory we never enter, and that is our own being. An ecstatic Kabir sings:

Maea kae kha~ FUFe re bNde, mE tae ter e pas me<. You are searching for me in vain here there and everywhere in this and that. Verily I am embedded in your being – your innerness. Seek within. Meditation is a simple technique of entering it or discovering your virgin innerness or inner space. Meditation means awareness, alertness, watchfulness, and witnessing. Witness your actions, witness your thoughts witness your feelings so that slowly slow you can see you are neither the body nor the mind nor heart — that you are the witness of it all. This is what Adi Shankar told Govind Pada Acharya while the two met wandering in Himalayas: Shankar composed Nirvana Shatkam or Atma Shatkam: I am neither mind, nor ego, nor attachment nor intellect. My essential nature is eternal indestructible being beyond time and space. Neither am I the sense organs nor the feelings within verily am I beyond all these…. Shankar is referring to Witnessing. The word Shivoham implies Witnessing in the Sutras. 26 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 The moment you know that you are only a witness, a pure mirror reflecting everything, and you are not identified with any reflection bodily, emotional or psychological suddenly you discover your inner light. The inner light is already there, but we have to shift our consciousness through mindfulness. Indeed it is onehundred-and-eighty degree turn. Remember it happens only by witnessing, there is no other way. When you are witnessing, everything becomes clear, that you are not the thing that you are witnessing. Instead you are the witness of it. Continue deeper and deeper until nothing is left to witness. Certainly you have witnessed all objects that you can witness and you have rejected them knowing ‘I am not this or that,’ when everything is eliminated, only you are left — just the mirror and nothing else. With this suddenly the shift comes: consciousness turns upon itself. That moment of turning in is the greatest moment in life. In that very moment you know who you are and you know what god is, and you know what bliss is, you know what truth is, freedom is, and also what eternity is. All that is worth knowing is known — immediately, instantly. And then you can go on living in the world but you will be living with a totally different center, with a totally different perspective. You will be in the world but the world will not be there within. That is the way of people on path: to be in the world and absolutely out of it. Then the moment negative emptiness or anything dark comes in front of this inner lamp suddenly it is joined with awareness, it becomes positive, the miracle happens. That very moment the alchemy transforms you. Let me repeat: negative nothingness plus awareness equals to positive nothingness.

Continue deeper and deeper until nothing is left to witness. Certainly you have witnessed all objects that you can witness and you have rejected them knowing ‘I am not this or that,’ when everything is eliminated, only you are left — just the mirror and nothing else. With this suddenly the shift comes: consciousness turns upon itself.

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Truth is timeless…

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ruth is a pathless land, and no one can tell you how to find it.

Just as no one can teach you to be an artist someone can only give you the brushes and canvas and show you the colors to use but you have to fill the colors on the canvas according to your consciousness so too you are give n the inner canvas. Your awareness is the brush. Use the brush of awareness to paint many colors and hues of truth on the inner canvas. La verdad es una tierra sin camino, nadie puede decirte como encontrarla. Asi como nadie puede decirte como ser artista, solo pueden darte los pinceles y el lienzo, y mostrarte los colores a usar, pero tu tienes que poner los colores en el lienzo de acuerdo a tu consciencia, asi te es dado el lienzo interno. Tu entendimiento es el pincel. Usa el pincel del entendimiento para pintar muchos solores y matices de la verdad sobre tu lienzo interno. [Note: Translated by Dhyan Preeti in Spanish]

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Truth is solitary…

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ruth is solitary - sovereign. Oneness beyond time and space is its essential nature. It was in the beginning of the creation. It is now and it shall be verily in dissolution and beyond too. Describe it differently in myriad ways and languages but its nature is solitary – oneness beyond all finiteness.

Truth is life. Truth is the essence of living. Truth is the way of living. ...Learn the art living truth each finite moment as it unravels out of the womb of the unknown. La verdad es solitaria... La verdad es solitaria- soberana. Unidad mas alla del tiempo y del espacio es la escencial naturaleza. Fue el comienzo de la creacion. Es ahora, y sera diluida y mas alla tambien. Puedes decribirla en variedad de formas y lenguas, pero es solitaria-unidad mas alla de la finitud. La verdad es vida. La verdad es la escencia de la vida.La verdad es el camino de la vida...Aprende el arte de vivr la verdad, a cada momento , minetras se desenreda el utero de lo deconocido. [Note: Spanish translation by Dhyan Preeti]

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Who am I…?

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ho am I? Indeed it is the essence of entire Eastern Inner Search. When you begin this journey ultimately you reach the inner space. With this begins the science of the being. This science and its awareness is the treasure of buddhas. And the immortality of this beingness is the realization of knowledge or awakening.

Truth is not confined to any particular religion. Hindus call this science of knowing truth as Veda. Scriptures envisage the science of discovering truth. The word Veda comes from the root Vid - implying to know. Vedas are the books of life. The Vedas - Sanskrit वेद ाः véda, - knowledge are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. The Vedas are apauruṣeya and are therefore considered not of human agency. These are supposed to have been directly revealed, and thus are called śruti that which is heard. Therefore these distinguish them from other religious texts, which are called smṛti – that which is remembered. These are also known as Shruti – the art of listening. No other system has given so much emphasis to listening besides Nanak. Listening is an art and if you listen really you will be transformed. Through the outer ears only the words reach you however through listening you reach to the essential core of the message. Vedas are the understanding of life. The ancient sages divided the entire inner science of knowing in to four parts. The Vedic texts or śruti are organized around four canonical collections of metrical material known as Saṃhitās, of which the first three are related to the performance of yajna - sacrifice in historical Vedic religion: 1. The Rigveda, containing hymns to be recited by the hotṛ. Its compositions are in poetic meter. 2. The Yajurveda, containing formulas to be recited by the adhvaryu or officiating priest. These are composed in prosaic form. 3. The Samaveda, containing formulas to be sung by the udgātṛ. These contain the art of singing. 4. The fourth is the Atharvaveda, a collection of spells and incantations, apotropaic charms and speculative hymns. 32 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 Of these the first three are also known as the confluence of the three – Triveni. The individual verses contained in these compilations are known as mantras. Some selected Vedic mantras are still recited at prayers, religious functions and other auspicious occasions in contemporary Hinduism.

The Rig Veda is a collection of inspired songs or hymns and is a main source of information on the Rig Vedic civilization. It is the oldest book in any Indo-European language and contains the earliest form of all Sanskrit mantras that date back to 1500 B.C. - 1000 B.C. Certain scholars date the Rig Veda as early as 12000 BC - 4000 B.C. The Rig-Vedic ‘samhita’ or collection of mantras consists of 1,017 hymns or ‘suktas’, covering about 10,600 stanzas. These are divided into eight ‘astakas’ each having eight ‘adhayayas’ or chapters, which are sub-divided into various groups. The hymns are the work of many authors or seers called ‘rishis’. There are seven primary seers identified: Atri, Kanwa, Vashistha, Vishwamitra, Jamadagni, Gotama and Bharadwaja. The rig Veda accounts in detail the social, religious, political and economic background of the Rig-Vedic civilization. Even though monotheism characterizes some of the hymns of Rig Veda, naturalistic polytheism and monism can be discerned in the religion of the hymns of Rig Veda. The Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda were however compiled after the age of the Rig Veda and are ascribed to the Vedic period.

The Sama Veda: The Book of Song The Sama Veda is purely a liturgical collection of melodies called ‘saman’. The hymns in the Sama Veda, used as musical notes, were almost completely drawn from the Rig Veda and have no distinctive lessons of their own. Hence, its text is a reduced version of the Rig Veda. Vedic Scholar David Frawley says, if the Rig Veda is the word, Sama Veda is the song or the meaning, if Rig Veda is the knowledge, Sama Veda is its realization, if Rig Veda is the wife, and the Sama Veda is her husband. 33 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 The Yajur Veda: The Book of Ritual The Yajur Veda is also a liturgical collection and was made to meet the demands of a ceremonial religion. The Yajur Veda practically served as a guidebook for the priests who execute sacrificial acts muttering simultaneously the prose prayers and the sacrificial formulae (‘yajus’). It is similar to ancient Egypt’s ‘Book of the Dead’. There are no less than six complete recessions of Yajur Veda - Madyandina, Kanva, Taittiriya, Kathaka, Maitrayani and Kapishthala.

The Atharva Veda: The Book of Spell The last of the Vedas, this is completely different from the other three Vedas and is next in importance to Rig-Veda with regard to history and its sociology. A different spirit pervades this Veda. Its hymns are of a more diverse character than the Rig Veda and are also simpler in language. In fact, many scholars do not consider it part of the Vedas at all. The Atharva Veda consists of spells and charms prevalent at its time, and portrays a clearer picture of the Vedic society. Therefore all the scriptures contain the science of life and the methodology of transformation. These are the embodiment of truth. You can put truth in any language but its nature and sanctity never changes.

Structure of the Vedas Each Veda consists of four parts – the Samhitas - hymns, the Brahmanas - rituals, the Aranyakas - theologies and the Upanishads – philosophies – the deepest message. The collection of mantras or hymns is called the Samhita. The Brahmanas are ritualistic texts that include precepts and religious duties. Each Veda has several Brahmanas attached to it. The Upanishads form the concluding portions of the Veda and therefore called the ‘Vedanta’ or the end of the Veda and contains the essence of Vedic teachings. The Upanishads and the Aranyakas are the concluding portions of the Brahmanas, which discuss philosophical problems. The Aryanyakas (forest texts) intend to serve as objects of meditation for ascetics who live in forests and deal with mysticism and symbolism.

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Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 The Mother of All Scriptures Although the Vedas are seldom read or understood today, even by the devout, they no doubt form the bedrock of the universal religion or ‘Sanatana Dharma’ that all Hindus follow world over. The Vedas have guided our religious direction for ages and will continue to do so for generations to come. And they will forever remain the most comprehensive and universal of all ancient scriptures. The Vedas are not texts of empty eulogy and ritualism, extolling the virtues of gods and goddesses who appear more like human beings with the same number of defects as we find in ourselves. The texts are impregnated with tremendous degree of divine wisdom. They reveal innumerable secrets to those who have the interest. Sri Aurobindo has revealed the hidden secrets and tried to understand their true meaning. Those who have any doubts in this regard should read his book, the Secret of the Vedas to understand what the Vedic texts actually means. Those who do not have the time or opportunity should go through the article on the hidden symbolism of Hinduism. Throughout the Samhita, Rigveda talks of strength, vigor, determination, ready to attack the evil ones and promote the protection of noble ones. We Hindus have to recover that spirit in our daily life. For long, we have lived and suffered as Dhimmis, slaves, struggling just to survive under dishonorable conditions. That time is now over, the Hindu Race is rising and will rise to the top of the world with the principles of Veda firmly in our minds. No weakness, no meanness, but strength and boldness in our daily behavior. Grant us your friendship, have mercy upon us! Do not overwhelm us with your fierce attack! May your anger and evil intention be assuaged! Let the brown dice proceed to ensnare another! Rig Veda X, 34, 14

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Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 That great, unborn Self, which is identified with the intellect (vijnanamaya) and which dwells in the midst of the organs, lies in the akasa within the heart. It is the controller of all, the lord of all, the ruler of all. It does not become greater through good deeds or smaller through evil deeds. It is the lord of all, the ruler of all beings, the protector of all beings. It is the dam that serves as the boundary to keep the different worlds apart. The brahmins seek to realize it through the study of the Vedas, through sacrifices, through gifts and through austerity which does not lead to annihilation. Knowing it alone one becomes a sage (muni). Wishing for this World (i.e. the Self) alone, monks renounce their homes. In the Rig Veda, the universal truths propounded explain the universal order of life in three planes 1. Internal (to the Soul) 2. External (to the body in terms of Dharma or worldly life) 3. Spiritual (in terms of the cosmos) The universal order of life at these three planes is then linked to the Supreme encompassing the three planes. Thus all terms or names mentioned such as Indra, Agni, Vayu etc. have exoteric and esoteric significance in each of the three planes as understood by the individual Soul depending on the spiritual evolution of the Soul The Sama Veda consists of hymns - many of them common with the Rig Veda, which when sung in the appropriate manner will enable one to understand the universal truths and order of life depending on their stage of spiritual evolution. The source of the musical patterns of the Sama Veda hymns is derived from the vibration or sounds of the cosmos. This reveals that spiritual evolution can be achieved through music by hearing as well as singing. The Yajur Veda consists of hymns from the Rig Veda along with other hymns which when recited in the performance of a yajna - havan will enable the Soul or the beneficiaries to understand the universal truths of the Veda in any or all of the three planes of its meanings depending on the individual’s stage of spiritual evolution. Though the Yajur Veda is associated with performance of Yajna for worldly gains, it is understood that the individual beneficiaries will ultimately evolve spiritually and subsequently undertake these Yajnas for the spiritual and material benefits of mankind as a whole. The Yajur Veda has two distinct schools of presentation and following as explained below.

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Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 This Veda is followed in the Northern parts of India and has mantras in the form of the Veda and Brahmanas – the explanatory notes to the mantras presented in the Satapatha Brahmana. The Shukla Yajur Veda is said to have been taught by the ‘Sun’ to sage Yajnavalkya and hence this is called ‘Shukla’ or ‘White’ Yajur Veda. This is followed in the Southern parts of India and has Veda mantras and Brahmanas intermixed - that is, the Brahmanas follow the mantras as explanatory notes in the Veda text itself. Since Shukl a Yajur Veda is known as ‘White’, this Yajur Veda has been denoted as ‘Krishna’ or ‘Black’ Yajur Veda. Both the versions are accepted as authentic and both schools are practiced widely. The Atharva Veda, when understood in the external plane, is generally known to contain hymns common to the Rig Veda including others for the sole purpose of performing ‘Magic’ or to communicate with ghosts and spirits or for curing ailments. However, when viewed in the spiritual plane, the Atharva Veda expounds universal truths of the oneness of the universe, the way to live in communion with the world of evolved souls, to pray for a healthy life and finally to merge with the Supreme.

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Truth never compromises….

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ruth never compromises. You cannot bring truth to the level of the people. In doing so truth gets contaminated. Certainly you can take the seeker to the level of truth. In doing so there is transformation.

Along the inward journey this will happen to every seeker. And once you have decided on the path of truth and begin to listen to inner voice and live by consciousness you will generate many enemies. Those who follow the path of truth are always misunderstood because following the path of truth implies you are living by your consciousness. And those who live by their consciousness are rare ones. People around can only understand the set patterns and the ways of the known. In a particular situation you are bound to act one way. Your behavior can be predicted. But when you are living by your consciousness your behavior cannot be predicted and this creates the problem. You are bound to be misunderstood and create many enemies. Even your friends will turn out to be enemies. Remember the day you start turning friends more and more as enemies and all your friends start leaving you realize perfectly well that you are on the path. On the contrary when you find people becoming your friends and everybody begins saying yes to you and everything feels right certainly it is the sign that you are compromising. No one can ever satisfy oneself and now you are trying to satisfy your family, friends and your neighbors. In that case satisfying all these people with diverse opinions and desires how you can satisfy yourself. You are entering the life of hypocrisy. Remember only a hypocrite and the false can have friends. 38 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 Verily the person on the path to inward journey has no friends really. He can be friendly with any one if it be necessary to relate but he is established in pure and virgin aloneness. No one can decide this for you but you. You have to decide to walk the path in spite of millions against you or compromise with others and thus live an insipid yet comfortable life. As a seeker of truth you have to you have to be a rebel with every breath. And then slowly and slowly you have to find the way back to yourself without compromising. Certainly you will have to pay the price but there is no shortcut to this and you cannot compromise on the inner journey. The moment you compromise once you have to compromise twice and then again and again you will have to compromise at each step. In the process you will start listening to other people’s opinions and their judgments too. This will make you afraid of their judgments and their opinions because you are now living with their judgments and their opinions.

No one can decide this for you but you. You have to decide to walk the path in spite of millions against you or compromise with others and thus live an insipid yet comfortable life.

They say you are a beautiful person you do not want that person to say you are ugly the next day. This is a trick. They have given you a beautiful word to hang around and then from the next day you are stuck to that compliment. Never live with the judgments of others instead just follow your inner being.

If somebody says something to you just listen and move on. Somebody says something good you accept and when somebody says something bad you reject. This way you remain yoked to their judgments. Be a witness but do not be attached to any compliment

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Word has soul…seek it…

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ach word has a soul embedded deep within. Its resonance assumes the form of the message. The word has a sound. Sound is energy. And this energy cannot be destroyed in any way. The way of transformation is to listen to that sound. This listening requires a space within.

Generally you listen not as the whisper of the unknown, or chirping of the birds or rustling of the wind through the tree leaves or water flowing down the stream. Instead while listening you are busy translating what is being said and in the process you have moved from listening. And you are trying to fit all that is said into your own prejudices and your own pleasurable or unpleasable processes. Certainly then you are not listening at all. You have moved into the realm of the known. Can you listen not only to what is being said instead your own reaction to what is being said, and not correct your reaction to conform to what is being said? Then there is a process going on as under current. The speaker is saying something that you are listening to, and you are also listening to your own reactions to what is being said, and you give space to the sound of your own reactions and also to what is being said. It requires tremendous awareness, not just getting into a kind of trance and going off. If you listen, in that listening the miracle happens. And the miracle is that you are completely with what is being said and also listening to that, and listening also to your own responses. It is a simultaneous process. You listen to what is being said and your reaction to what is being said, which is instantaneous, and you listen to the whole sound of it, which means having space. So you are giving your whole attention to listening.

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Thoughts are not reality…

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houghts and emotions are not reality. However man considers these as reality and even bigger than life. These are like pebbles on the shore of life. You have to cross the pebbles to reach the stream of life. Life is neither thought process nor flow of emotions. Life is beyond these.

These are like sign post directing towards something. When you consider thoughts and emotions ultimate without experiencing these you enter the realm of hallucination. That is what your so-called religions are – hallucinatory. Because these tend you to believe something or phenomena that has not yet become your experience. Thoughts and emotions can certainly pave the way towards the ultimate, but in itself both are hallucinatory. 42 | P a g e


Sex and aural energy…

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exual energy affects the Aural Energy creatively when you enter into a sex relation meditatively even if it is between husband and wife. A meditative interaction at intimate level transcends the aural energy of the couple. This is the very essence of male-female relation. It is only at this level sex is allowed. Sex is nothing more than a mere sneeze otherwise. Meditation gives it a new dimension beyond the known. Otherwise sex is mere cerebral. When the energy reaches the cerebrum one becomes slave to this. Awareness is lost and in place there is envelop of unconsciousness. In such a state when you enter a Sexual relationship with anyone it affects your Aural Energy! It can transmit you psychologically good or bad things of others! It is therefore essential to pay attention to who you share your intimate energy with. Intimacy at this level intertwines your aural energy with the aural energy of the other person. When you enter the intimate relation unconsciously these powerful connections, regardless of how insignificant you think they are, leave spiritual rubbish, particularly within people who do not practice any type of cleansing, physical, emotional or spiritual. The more you interact intimately with someone and the deeper the connection the more the two auras get intertwined with one another. 43 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 The aura of someone who sleeps with multiple people carries around these diverse multiple energies within. These create tremendous confusion within. What you may not realize is that others can feel that energy which can repel positive energy and attract negative energy into your aura and life. This is dangerous. Therefore, never sleep with someone you would not want to be. And even if at any time you do not feel comfortable to share such intimate moments with your spouse never enter because then you are gripped with unconsciousness. The aggregate of such moments damage your auric energy. Each female and male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth sharing their aural energies with one another. This is the essence of intimate male-female relation. They want to begin the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them in the transcendence of the aural energy through sexual relation. When the energy reaches its pinnacle that is the ultimate of male-female relation. Having attained to that peak of aural energy they consult with each other. They are more friends than lovers. Love has transcended to a new The aura of someone who sleeps with multiple people carries around dimension beyond the known. They laugh a lot. They these diverse multiple energies within. These create tremendous are equals operating at the same plane. That is what confusion within. What you may not realize is that others can feel that a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between energy which can repel positive energy and attract negative energy EQUALS for the purpose of spiritual growth is the into your aura and life. This is dangerous. essence of intimate male-female relation. In each relation the highest calling is to lead one another to one’s innerness so as to unite with the Ultimate. The lowest calling of a woman is to seduce, separating man from his innerness leaving him aimlessly wandering. A man’s highest calling is to protect woman, so she is free to walk the earth unharmed. Man’s lowest calling is to ambush and force his way into the life of a woman. - Cherokee Proverb

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hat is the nature of surrender? Have you seen the birds flying in the sky? For flying the birds need wings. Birds flap the wings and thus soar high in the sky. And then a state comes when the bird does flap the wings no more. It simply lays its wings stretched. And then just floats high in the vastness of the sky. So too when your consciousness attains to such a state of floating! No ripples! No struggle! You just begin to float with the wind. You are weightless. This is surrender. Individual will is merged in the infiniteness of the divine will. You are light like a feather. Egoless! Just floating! Remember weight comes with struggle. Weight comes with struggle! Weight comes because of ego. The more you are ignorant the more your struggle continues. And also ego nourishes ignorance. And ignorance protects ego. Together ego and ignorance creates a veil or a barrier. Nanak calls this Maya or ‘koor.’ And when this veil dissolves, Nanak says, truth manifests. The more you struggle, the more despondent you are. Struggle strengthens ego and creates misery and thus veils truth. Weight drowns you. And weightless you float. Or, reach the infinite heights. Nanak says, the moment you drop struggle, you attain to the abode of godliness. Ego is the stone hanging around your neck. And the more you struggle the more ego strengthens. Nanak says be weightless and you will attain to oneness. 45 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 It happened. Once Nanak came to a village of Sufis! He stayed outskirts. The whole village belonged to Sufi followers. When the Sufi Sheikh got the message that Nanak is staying, he sent a glass of milk brimmed to top. Outskirts Nanak was staying near a well. Seeing that the attendant brought a glass of milk brimmed, Nanak picked a small flower from the nearby bush and placed in the cup of milk. The flower floated on the surface. A flower is weightless. The flower requires no space in the glass. This surprised Mardana. He wanted to know the reason for Nanak’s action. Nanak explained the Sufi Sheikh has sent the message the village is full of the enlightened master. Therefore no one else is needed. This is the meaning that the Sheikh communicated through the glass of milk brimmed to top. ‘And what about you action’, Mardana enquired further. Nanak said, ‘I sent him the message back. I am weightless. Therefore I will not occupy any space at the physical plane. Like a flower I will float on the surface. Like the fragrance of a flower or its beauty I will sanctify every being and fill the aura with an infatuating fragrance.’ Such is the way of a master. And Nanak is a master. One who is weightless is indeed the man of awakening. Only such a person is ‘Gyani’ - the learned one. Only an ignorant one can harm the other. When you are weightless then your life undergoes transformation. Life changes! Such a person can harm no one. Love springs forth. Non-violence springs. All these are the outcome of weightlessness. Like shadow compassion, love, and understanding follows such a being. Only such a being is capable of transforming all those who come in association. Hatred, jealousy, anger, violence etc follows the ignorant one like a shadow. Nanak says the basic question is of dissolving the ignorance. How can ego dissolve and you attain to weightlessness? Only one way is for this. Hindu scriptures: Vedas call this as ‘Rik’. Lau Tzu calls this as ‘Tao’. Buddha Called this as ‘Dhamma’. Mahavira called this ‘Dharma’. Nanak calls this as ‘Hukum’. These are various names for that which is existential. No name can really explain or encompass the magnanimity of that which is existential. Love all these names. Love all these expressions. Understand this. Live a life beyond duality and ego. Only then you can understand a Nanak, or a Buddha, or a Lau Tzu. Only then you are religious really. Only then you are a ‘Sikh’ of Nanak. Nanak has given a unique definition of a religious person. ‘One who lives in ‘Hukum’ is indeed religious.’ One who is in harmony with ‘Hukum’-the existential law; the synergistic harmony attains to bliss. Nanak says this is the only way. This implies you are now facing God. How can you see the light of the sun if you go on running away from the sun with your back facing the sun? The moment you are facing that light - noor ignorance of many lives will vanish. 46 | P a g e


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ove is the flowering of your heart. It is unseen but realization of truth that we are part of this cosmic oneness. Verily therefore its color is white. White contains all the colors in its womb. This all-inclusiveness is the beauty of white. White does not belong to the category of color. It is beyond any category. White therefore contains the whole rainbow. 47 | P a g e

Inner Sights – A Journal of Meditation 2013 White means all the seven colors are now in symphony. White is multidimensional. So too love is multidimensional. No other color is so colorful and comprehensive. In each color the remaining six other colors are missing. But in white they are all embedded. It is the richness of this colorless color. Certainly one needs eyes to see the richness of white. Relationship or the other hand is a structure and one color. Love is unstructured. You cannot capture love into finite boundaries. Love is infinite, unknown and unknowable. Relationship is finite and belongs to the realm of the known. You can predict a relationship. Certainly you cannot predict love. It comes like a fresh breeze. You cannot capture love in any finite boundary. The moment you try to capture it in a relation you will find it overflowing one moment and the next moment it has evaporated. But certainly love cannot become a relationship. Love verily is a moment to moment process. Remember this. Love indeed is the state of the being not a relationship. The word relationship belongs to outer realm. There are loving people and unloving people too. And these unloving people pretend to be loving through the relationship. They never attain to fruition in love. Life remains barren. Loving people need not have any relationship. They can simply relate in any form or situation. Love alone is enough. Seek love not a relationship. Love is the light within whose fragrance glows through the eyes. Touching love never defile it as relationship. Indeed it is a realization deep within the inner sanctum. Experience its magnanimity within and through the being. Let love remain love alone. Never give it name, form or shape. Love is wordless! Love is soundless! It is the silence that echoes. And its echoes lingers like never ending dissolving notes. It is simply the echo of deep serenity that listens. Like a flame it is ever incandescent but never extinguishes. Love’s stream never stops yet continues to overflow incessantly. Like a dew drop it has been flowing from times immemorial. Simply a realization, feel love deep within the serene recess of your being. Verily let love remain sacred as love. Give it neither name nor any form. As the flower of love blossoms always there remains a tacit smile spread and a glow too. Lips are sealed as these are incapable to chant its glory. Myriad unsaid and unheard expressions glow through the eyes. Let love remain love alone – formless yet a realization deep within but never give it any name, or form or relationship.

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