from part 2 'Living by the words of Bhagvan'
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AS:
When I say, ‘Meditate on the Self’ I am asking you 'To be the Self'.
Not think about it.
Be aware of what remains when thoughts stop.
Be aware of the consciousness that is the origin of all your thoughts.
Be that consciousness.
Feel that that is what you really are.
If you do this you are meditating on the Self.
But if you cannot stabilise in that consciousness because your vasanas are too strong and too active, it is beneficial to hold onto the thought ‘I am the Self; I am everything’.
If you meditate in this way you will not be cooperating with the vasanas that are blocking your Self-awareness.
If you don’t cooperate with your vasanas, sooner or later they are bound to leave you.
If this method doesn’t appeal to you, then just watch the mind with full attention. Whenever the mind wanders, become aware of it.
See how thoughts connect with each other and watch how this ghost called mind catches hold of all your thoughts and says This is my thought’.
Watch the ways of the mind without identifying with them in any way. If you give your mind your full, detached attention, you begin to understand the futility of all mental activities.
Watch the mind wandering here and there, seeking out useless or unnecessary things or ideas which will ultimately only create misery for itself.
Watching the mind gives us a knowledge of its inner processes.
It gives us an incentive to stay detached from all our thoughts.
Ultimately, if we try hard enough, it gives us the ability to remain as consciousness, unaffected by transient thoughts.
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Saint Manikkavachagar once said: ‘Lord Siva gave me the boon of not being able to give reality to this maya life.’
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Tayumanuvar once asked Siva to give him a boon:
You who carry all the troubles of the world, please take all my troubles too.
Take the sense that I am the doer away from me.
You alone act.
You do everything through me.
Surrender completely and accept that everything that happens to you and the world is God’s will.
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Q: How to distinguish between acts which occur as God's will and acts which are brought about by the ego?
AS: This is very simple. When surrender is complete, everything is God.
Everything that happens is then His action. In that state there is peace, harmony and an absence of
thoughts.
Until that stage is reached, all acts are by the ego.
Liberation comes when you fully understand and experience that there is no one who needs liberation.
That understanding and that experience only arise when the mind and its in-built ideas of time have ceased to function.
If you think about time and start to worry about how much longer it will be before you realise the Self, your attention will be on the mind and not on the Self.
You can only make progress while the mind is on the Self.
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part 1
If you see the sastras , sastra jnana [knowledge of the scriptures] will come.
(However),
If you see the Self, Self-knowledge will shine.
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While he was looking at a small child in the hall he suddenly remarked, ‘One can attain the bliss of Brahman only when the mind becomes pure and humble, like this child’s’.
The one who does not think that he is the one who is doing all his actions is superior to the one who thinks that he has renounced everything.
To remain temporarily subsided in the reality, without any thought, is nirvikalpa samadhi.
Permanently abiding in the Self without forgetting it is sahaja samadhi.
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Bhagavan summarised these views a little later by saying,
‘Every jiva [individual self] is seeing a separate world but
a jnani does not see anything other than himself.
This is the state of truth.’
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Then Bhagavan quoted verse thirty-one of Ulladu Narpadu which describes the real state of liberation:
To one who has destroyed himself [his ego] and is awake to his nature as bliss, what remains to be accomplished?
He does not see anything, as being other than himself.
Who can comprehend his state?
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Frydman: What is manonasa ?
Bhagavan: Remaining permanently as one is
without the rising of any doubt or thought
such as, ‘Nothing is known,’ or ‘Something is known’, alone is manonasa .
Sam: Remaining As Is = Mano-nasha.
Sam: Mano Nasha = staying as 'Sva-Bhava'.
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Why do you think, ‘Why didn’t I meditate?’ or ‘Why didn’t I work?’
If the thoughts ‘I did’ and ‘I didn’t’ are given up,
then all actions will end up as meditation.
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In that state meditation cannot be given up.
This is the state of sahaja samadhi
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AS: This ‘little self’ will only give way to the real Self if you meditate constantly.
You cannot wish it away with a few stray thoughts.
Your vasanas [mental habits and tendencies] and all the wrong ideas you have about yourself are blocking and hiding the experience of the real Self.
If you don’t identify with the wrong ideas, your Self-nature will not be hidden from you.
If you can resist the impulse to claim each and every thought as your own, you will come to a startling conclusion:
you will discover that you are the consciousness in which the thoughts appear and disappear.
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Establish yourself in the conviction that you are the Self and that nothing can stick to you or affect you.
Once you have that conviction you will find that you automatically ignore the habits of the mind.
When the rejection of mental activities becomes continuous and automatic, you will begin to have the
experience of the Self.
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Rest quietly in the feeling of ‘I am’, which is consciousness, and cultivate the attitude that all thoughts, all perceptions are ‘not me’.
When you have learned to regard your mind as a distant stranger, you will not pay any attention to all the obstacles it keeps inventing for you.
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