First of all, I have to tell you the mind about which we speak and depend upon is a myth. There’s nothing like mind. Brain is reality, not the mind. Mind is created by us reacting to outside, either we react to conditionings or to our ego. Thus this mind is created like bubbles on the ocean of reality, but that’s not reality. With this mind whatever we decide, we know is very limited, illusive and sometimes shocking. The mind always moves in a linear direction, and because there’s no reality in it, it recoils and boomerangs. Thus all the enterprises, all the projections so far we have done, it seems, come back to us. Whatever they discover comes back to us as a big destructive power or a very big shock. So one has to decide what to do, how to be out of this track of our mind. Kundalini is the solution. When she’s awakened, she takes you with that awakening, she takes you beyond your mind. The first thing is to go beyond your mind. With mind you’ll do many things but it will not be satisfying, it will be not a solution, it will not help you. And when we start depending too much on our mind we develop all kinds of physical, mental, emotional problem. Now the latest is the stress. Stress, and this stress has no solution they say, but in Sahaja Yoga we find the solution by crossing over this mind. It’s like a barrier for our advancement. So, when you get your realization, you must understand that your Kundalini has taken your attention beyond the mind. Now, this reaction to outside has come because we human beings have a prism-like brain, or we can say a prism-like skull, and when the energy passes into it, I have explained it in my books, it goes into bifurcations or you can say refractions by which our attention goes out and we react. If we react too much then these bubbles create a very horrible mind which can lead to any kind of thing. It justifies itself, it pampers your ego. The ego and the conditioning that creates this mind start using and – this mind, for the purpose of their fulfillment, of their all the accumulation of ideas and thoughts which has no backing, which has no reality with it. It’s like we make the computer, ultimately we become slaves of the computer. We make the watches ourselves and then we become slaves of the watches. That’s how it dominates human beings and when a person who has a very strong mind decides to destroy, like Hitler did, with some idea he can go on destroying which has a very far-fetched effect on our culture, on our spirituality. Now the first step is to become thoughtlessly aware, where you cross your mind. You go above your mind. Mind cannot affect you. This is the first stage as we call is thoughtless awareness. Now this happening of achieving thoughtless awareness is very simple and easy, but to maintain at that point is difficult. We still react and we think. Anything you see you react. To get to that point in thoughtless awareness is first, to change your attention. Now for example, once we were climbing a very high mountain to see one temple called Palitana. Myself, my son-in-law and my daughter. And we were really tired because we had to climb – I don’t know how many steps and when we went up we were tired and there was a little canopy made of beautiful marble carving, so we just laid down ourselves. They were very tired and they said, “What is this kind of a temple,” they were grudging. While I looked up and I saw lots of beautiful elephants were carved. So I told my son-in-law, “Look at these elephants, they all have tails of different types.” He said, “Mommy, we are all dying, how can you see the tails of elephants?” But is just to divert their attention from that tiredness, I told them that, why not see these tails of the elephant, which is very different. So what happens that when you are putting your attention so much to outside all the time, then you must first of all also divert your attention. For example, you see these beautifully made things here. Your attention is something else, just try to enjoy the beauty of that. See there are beautiful carpets here, just look at them without thinking, because they don’t belong to you so no headache, they belong to somebody else is very good. Otherwise if it belongs to you, you’ll will start thinking, “Oh my God, I’ve spreading them here what will happen, they have to be insured” or some sort of thing like that. That’s common human reaction but if it doesn’t belong to you, you can watch it nicely. Now you watch it and don’t think, you’ll be amazed when you see the beauty that is put inside this. You’ll see the artist who has put his joy, his exuberance into it and you’ll be amazed after realization that this exuberance will fill into you and a cool kind of a relaxation will come into you and this Kundalini will rise and you’ll become steady in your thoughtless awareness. All these things happen when your attention is diverted from criticising, from reacting, just you watch, become the witness, try to witness everything. It’s not so very yet practiced, so far I’ve seen, that whenever even we get our, achieve our realization we don’t realize that we have to witness everything. When you start witnessing through your spirit, then you don’t see the bad points of another, but you see the good points. We just pick up a person with very good points. So once you see that the witness state enlarges and you start enjoying another person, you start enjoying everything that is there. Even a small blade of grass you can enjoy if you have that capacity. In Japan Zen system started on these lines. And he made – Viditama was the person who started it. He made a garden out of moss, different moss, very small, small. There were little, little flowers also. And hardly about five feet of the garden, which looks like the shape of a question mark, you can say. You have to go on a lift and you reach that platform on top of a hill or a mountain where you see this. All little, little mosses are there and you see differently arranged a beautiful garden. When you start seeing it your thought stops. Because such a marvelous thing, when you put attention to it, to its creation, your thoughts stop. So you must practice as to find out what stops your thoughts. What makes you the witness? Once you develop this habit, you will station yourself nicely in the thoughtless awareness. Then you start watching how Sahaja Yoga has helped you. How it has been blissful. What you have achieved through Sahaja Yoga. Now the mind will still try to say some things… don’t listen, just watch. The effect of Sahaja Yoga you should watch, on yourself, on your body. Don’t think about it, but watch it and you’ll be amazed how you have changed.
03.03.1996
