This and That

 There is no 'this'.

There is only 'that'.

Then why worry about 'this'?

Why analyse that which doesn't exist?

why describe that which doesn't exist?

why worry about that which doesn't exist?

why try to change that which doesn't exist?

Why try to polish that which doesn't exist?

why stay in the company of fools who try to polish that which doesn't exist?

But I experience only 'this'!

And that's the problem.

However I'm 'That.'

And not 'this' that I experience.

Which means my experience deceives me.

Really?

For  a common man,

yes, his experience deceives him.

So stop being common then.

It is due to 'that', that 'this' is experienced.

There isn't even a single experience of 'this', without the 'that'.

Knowing 'this' would take a million lives.

and still 'this' will never be known?

If you wish to count each and every star in the sky 

and then analyse and describe it?

Why?

Leave it to the fools.

They are aplenty

As much as the stars in the sky.

However, 'that' can never be known 'intellectually'

But, you can be 'that'.

Because you are 'that' all the time.

That 'being' is knowledge, Dnyan.

Attempts to intellectualise it, are in vain.

It is the nature of the 'mind' to intellectualise.

It is the nature of the mind to always dwell in 'filth'.

Just like the pig who loves to roll in filth.

Mind does it so naturally and spontaneously.

Yoga vashishtha describes mind as a filthy crow,

and Vashishtha muni urges Ram to drive it far, far away.

For nothing good comes of it.

When the one who wishes to know the million stars 

Is known as a fake or a non existing entity,

What a load off?

The reflection dies with the dried lake.

The seeking stops for the lack of a knower.

'This' is aplenty. In millions.

'That' is only one.

'That' is alone that matters.

for, 'that' is alone what exists.

Sant Dnyaneshwar says in 'Amrutanubhava':

A shadow doesn't exist where it doesn't fall

But does it  exist where it falls?

I do not exist as 'this'.

I only exist as 'that'.

I experience 'I'.

'I' am 'That'.

Says Ramana and Nisarga.

Swami Vidyaranya in Panchadashi asks to bring out the 'I', the Atma like munja grass, from the five sheaths.

Like oil in sesame, says Kabir.

Like butter in milk says Ramakrishna.

Abhor all experiences of the non I.

How?

By 'complete' 'Silence'.

How to achieve it?

By 'complete' 'Surrender'.

Self Enquiry is the same as 'Complete Self Surrender'

Says Ramana.

There is no other option, clarifies Ramana

'Atma', 'I', the 'Self', 

or 'That',

cannot be gained by the one who is weak 

warns the upanishads.

Atma na balahine labhyata.

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