in the midst of the sounds of traffic and children, Maharaj speaks of happiness and enlightenment.
How one can be happy
How one can be happy, that is the main thing.
You see, suddenly sun does not disappear from noon and darkness does not come. So all should be in its own rotation — words, sounds, light — then it is happiness. If after so much light, suddenly darkness, then one feels in mind depression. So everything should change gradually. As earth is rotating, to face its different parts towards sun, our mind is also moving round our interests and love. But there is a hidden happiness within our being, when the mind is fully absorbed with the entire world around, within, past, present or future.
In our pure consciousness we realize that self is nothing but pure happiness. It is the mind without love, but selfishness. It is that mind without reasons or judgment but desires creates a temporary covering over the being of our happiness within.
Before or after the accomplishment of any action, when our being becomes free from any mind or desire, we find our joy.
When our mind is absorbed in any beautiful thing or music or truth or any kind of achievement, which fulfills our life and love, we find our happiness. Happiness does not come and go, it is in our own being. It is our own existence. That is always with us. Only it is mind being amalgamated with our ego, complexes and different unfair circumstances our self feels bitter.
When our heart cannot be placed on the love, we feel contraction, because it is with love alone self feels one with everything. True happiness or pure happiness is a state of pure consciousness of that oneness of the universe. Creator, creation and self. That consciousness is our basic being of every existence. At the background of that existence, the Supreme Father, or the Supreme Cause of creation, is lying with all potentialities of his further manifestation. And He is omnipresent in every existence, every atom, with different qualities, with different potentialities and instincts.
He is omniscient as pure responsive consciousness everywhere. You are all within Him, existing, and holding Him within you. Only that consciousness of a separate entity as you, or small ‘I’, creating your ignorant mind to overlook it.
The moment your ego is dissolved in Universal Love of Lord — Universal Love means Lord — you become omniscient and you feel that omnipresent, omnipotent reality of your life. You can call Him Supreme Cause or your Originality, or your Real Self, or your state of Salvation.
To reach to that condition the easiest method for the present world — love is the common method. Without love and faith, life is chaos. So apart from that Universal Love, which is also latent in you, there are easiest processes.
Those processes are three. One is, in contact with a realized soul and being one with his consciousness and heart, one can easily become enlightened. As electricity -— the current of electric waves — glows as light, the current of self glows as pure consciousness. And that is the enlightenment of the soul.
When this self current is pushed by all passions, emotions, ego, desires and all hallucination, those who are binding the self should be made to understand that they should push the self. So annihilation of ego, emotion or passion from life is not the path, but sublimation of all the emotions towards The Love.
Love is nothing but a unifying force of all these emotions towards one for the fulfillment of the Beloved. Love is nothing but feelings of oneness. And this very Love, born out of all emotions, becomes the self, or self becomes The Love. And then this becomes that current and reaches to its condition where that consciousness of love or self is one wave, you can take it as negative, meets with another wave, you can take it as positive. When they become one then the fibres glow in super consciousness.
So it is the combination of self, which is also part of that Real Self or God and the own self, the Reality, the Real Self. When they combine they become conscious, ‘O, I am this, not that’. This is one process of enlightenment in contact with an enlightened soul.
Another process. You have to accept any Mediator in your life, living in physical form or in spirit form, and tune your thoughts with those waves which he carries and follow his dictations as your guide, and think yourself always you are loving like him, you are holy like him, you are beautiful in your character, mind and self like him. Trust about those feelings. That is called the process of autosuggestion.
As you will suggest yourself, you are this. ‘I am free from jealousy, hatred. I am free from idleness, free from narrowness. I am ever pure, ever active, ever serviceable, ever truthful, I am ever cheerful, I am ever happy’.
What are those qualities? You conceive it! Feel that is you. And that is your meditation and that is your concentration. That is your spiritual practice. You feel you are that what you want to be and act accordingly, you will achieve that condition
And third one. As you want to be, if you want to be holy, to attain your Father, if you want to be free from all bondages, then you help others to be so. As you nurture others, so you are nurtured by. If you nurture somebody’s jealousy, you will be very much jealous of something. If you nurture anybody’s any particular emotion, you will carry that emotion instantaneously. So if you nurture others to be free from bondages, to attain godhood, to remain in peace eternal through your love, nice behaviour, sympathetic service, through your humbleness, through your greatness of all-embracing feelings of oneness with them, you will be godly.
You see, suddenly sun does not disappear from noon and darkness does not come. So all should be in its own rotation — words, sounds, light — then it is happiness. If after so much light, suddenly darkness, then one feels in mind depression. So everything should change gradually. As earth is rotating, to face its different parts towards sun, our mind is also moving round our interests and love. But there is a hidden happiness within our being, when the mind is fully absorbed with the entire world around, within, past, present or future.
In our pure consciousness we realize that self is nothing but pure happiness. It is the mind without love, but selfishness. It is that mind without reasons or judgment but desires creates a temporary covering over the being of our happiness within.
Before or after the accomplishment of any action, when our being becomes free from any mind or desire, we find our joy.
When our mind is absorbed in any beautiful thing or music or truth or any kind of achievement, which fulfills our life and love, we find our happiness. Happiness does not come and go, it is in our own being. It is our own existence. That is always with us. Only it is mind being amalgamated with our ego, complexes and different unfair circumstances our self feels bitter.
When our heart cannot be placed on the love, we feel contraction, because it is with love alone self feels one with everything. True happiness or pure happiness is a state of pure consciousness of that oneness of the universe. Creator, creation and self. That consciousness is our basic being of every existence. At the background of that existence, the Supreme Father, or the Supreme Cause of creation, is lying with all potentialities of his further manifestation. And He is omnipresent in every existence, every atom, with different qualities, with different potentialities and instincts.
He is omniscient as pure responsive consciousness everywhere. You are all within Him, existing, and holding Him within you. Only that consciousness of a separate entity as you, or small ‘I’, creating your ignorant mind to overlook it.
The moment your ego is dissolved in Universal Love of Lord — Universal Love means Lord — you become omniscient and you feel that omnipresent, omnipotent reality of your life. You can call Him Supreme Cause or your Originality, or your Real Self, or your state of Salvation.
To reach to that condition the easiest method for the present world — love is the common method. Without love and faith, life is chaos. So apart from that Universal Love, which is also latent in you, there are easiest processes.
Those processes are three. One is, in contact with a realized soul and being one with his consciousness and heart, one can easily become enlightened. As electricity -— the current of electric waves — glows as light, the current of self glows as pure consciousness. And that is the enlightenment of the soul.
When this self current is pushed by all passions, emotions, ego, desires and all hallucination, those who are binding the self should be made to understand that they should push the self. So annihilation of ego, emotion or passion from life is not the path, but sublimation of all the emotions towards The Love.
Love is nothing but a unifying force of all these emotions towards one for the fulfillment of the Beloved. Love is nothing but feelings of oneness. And this very Love, born out of all emotions, becomes the self, or self becomes The Love. And then this becomes that current and reaches to its condition where that consciousness of love or self is one wave, you can take it as negative, meets with another wave, you can take it as positive. When they become one then the fibres glow in super consciousness.
So it is the combination of self, which is also part of that Real Self or God and the own self, the Reality, the Real Self. When they combine they become conscious, ‘O, I am this, not that’. This is one process of enlightenment in contact with an enlightened soul.
Another process. You have to accept any Mediator in your life, living in physical form or in spirit form, and tune your thoughts with those waves which he carries and follow his dictations as your guide, and think yourself always you are loving like him, you are holy like him, you are beautiful in your character, mind and self like him. Trust about those feelings. That is called the process of autosuggestion.
As you will suggest yourself, you are this. ‘I am free from jealousy, hatred. I am free from idleness, free from narrowness. I am ever pure, ever active, ever serviceable, ever truthful, I am ever cheerful, I am ever happy’.
What are those qualities? You conceive it! Feel that is you. And that is your meditation and that is your concentration. That is your spiritual practice. You feel you are that what you want to be and act accordingly, you will achieve that condition
And third one. As you want to be, if you want to be holy, to attain your Father, if you want to be free from all bondages, then you help others to be so. As you nurture others, so you are nurtured by. If you nurture somebody’s jealousy, you will be very much jealous of something. If you nurture anybody’s any particular emotion, you will carry that emotion instantaneously. So if you nurture others to be free from bondages, to attain godhood, to remain in peace eternal through your love, nice behaviour, sympathetic service, through your humbleness, through your greatness of all-embracing feelings of oneness with them, you will be godly.