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OM
OM. OM. OM.
Let There be Peace
Among All Beings of the Universe.
Let There be Peace.
Let There be Peace.
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
Namaskar, Namaskar, Welcome.
Welcome to Satsang.
Knowledge
and practice. Jnana and austerities.
This question has
often been asked for thousands of years. So in reply to one king, who had
left his kingdom and become a hermit, one sage came near him and asked
this question to help him: “Who are you?”
The king said, “I am a
king. I left my kingdom, my queen, ministers.”
“What
for?”
“For
freedom.”
The king was living in a
thatched hut, and instead of a royal robe he had opted to have a sack
around him. This has got nothing to do with freedom.
And the sage said: “I
will give you enlightenment or freedom here and now. Freedom can be
attained here and now. There is no need of any tapas, penance,
austerities, sadhanas,
practices. Wisdom can be attained here and now. Even if you practice, you
have a certain notion to attain something finally, and it is the notion,
your notion, that will be fulfilled. It is your desire that will be
fulfilled in the end. So when you have to entertain a notion to have
something else, why don’t
you entertain the notion for the first intent, to have knowledge, to be
free?”
How,
can this freedom be won? Close association with a saint is quite enough;
you will resolve your doubts and your mind will be purified to receive. If
your mind is not pure, even if God gives you instruction, you will not be
able to get it. You have first to purify your mind. Your mind must be
purified. Not in one janma, many janmas, you
have to be born, reborn, and then the mind will be purified. So in the
last janma, in the last
incarnation, there will be the desire to be free and this is going to
work. You will be asking, you will be wanting the company of a holy
person. Somehow you will be led to him, you will be led to him, somehow
you will reach him and stay with him. That is on your part, you have
fulfilled your part. The rest depends upon your teacher.
***
The knowledge is
supreme, and if you cannot assimilate it, you cannot get it, then you have
to take up your austerities for a long time, not for one age, many
incarnations you will have to take, you see, to fulfill your austerities
and purify your mind and get ready to receive knowledge. As all rivers
enter the ocean, so all the austerities, practices, will lead you to
knowledge. That’s how it’s
described in the sutras. So those who follow the knowledge or understand
the freedom, its not for the first time that they have been successful,
because we see some people who say, “We came here this morning and we
have finished our job with you. We
go back to our home.” It’s
not for this. Some people take a week, and some a month. They don’t see
their roots. So whatever time we are spending here, it will not go waste.
Surely you will be rewarded by this thing. So best of all is going to be
to remove your impediments, hindrances. Only you are going to remove your
hindrances and not to achieve freedom-- freedom is already there. Freedom
is already there.
***
Only you have to remove
what stands between you and the freedom in front of you. Some veil is in
front of you and that veil is ego. Ego. If you remove the ego by your own
self, or someone who can do it, surrender to that person and he will do
it. Only you have to remove this ego. When ego is gone, then the mind is
gone and when the mind goes, you are placed in a state of no-mind, and
this no-mind is very close to freedom, very close to freedom.
****
So this is what has been
told and what has been done previously by all those people who got
enlightened. No need of leaving the kingdoms and going to the forest now.
Again and again we speak of this thing: only get rid of your impediments,
and simply stay quiet, that’s all. With the very burning desire, like
somebody who is burning, and will run to a well, or a river, or a stream,
only for water. Someone who is burning must go to the water; he will not
go anywhere else. Like this, if you have the burning desire, “I want to
be free, in this life, before the end of this life”, this must be a
longing always in your mind, then you will be successful. You will have
won the game and you will be very happy always because freedom and
happiness and bliss go together. All kinds of other pleasures that we seek
fade away immediately with their contact itself. As soon as you contact
any touch, any pleasure, it will bite like a serpent. Any pleasure, any
rose that you pick, you will have a thorn underneath the rose. That’s
how it is described by one Persian poet:
when you pick up a rose you’ll have a thorn also near the rose.
Like this, when you enjoy any sense pleasure it will bite you, you see.
Therefore we have to search for very pure freedom, where there is no
unhappiness. Otherwise in the world there is sometimes happiness,
sometimes unhappiness. They go on alternating and this is called the
world, and this is the experience of the ignorant ones. When there is
unhappiness, they don’t like it; when there is happiness they like it.
So in the case of wisdom, there will be only serenity. There will be no
unhappiness, and no happiness either, you see. There will be total peace.
Peace is something else. It has got nothing to do with pleasures and
displeasures that belong to the contact of the senses. Bliss has got
nothing to do with the senses or the mind or the intellect or even the
personality, or the jiva or individual soul. This is a very
transcendental, fourth state. Not waking, not dreaming, not sleeping. That
fourth state is called Turiya
in yoga terminology. This state is always available to everyone, you see.
***
You know that you sleep, you know that you dream, you know that
this is the waking state, so when these states are projected in front of
you, you must be somewhere other then these states, witnessing these
states, you see. If we give
thought to this, we are experiencing, we are seeing this is the waking
state. We see it, we witness the waking state. Dream also. We had a dream
last night: it means we had witnessed the dream. When we are in deep
sleep, we enjoy the bliss of deep
sleep. All these three sates
we witness, projected in front of us. We do not question who has been
witnessing all these three states, who must be out of these three states.
Who is it, that was out of these three states and has projected these
three states in front of him? So if he turns his head to this state he
will be in the transcendental position and he
is in the fourth state. So this is to reject the three states. This
fourth state is called the fourth state because there is no name for it,
yet it is connected with the three states, so it is called the fourth.
***
So
to win complete, perfect freedom is yet beyond it, you see. That has no
name. Witness these states, that I am not these three states. I am the
enjoyer of all these three states, but I am not the three states. So
staying here for a long time, you will find yourself that you are the
absolute substratum. Absolute essence. And you will see that you
have been before the creation of the creator itself. And that’s
called peace, quietness, emptiness, from where everything rises like
ripples, like waves,
all silence you see. That is where we all will have to return -- not
return, we are there. But we are otherwise engaged. Therefore we do not
know who we are. Who we are in reality, who we had been -- due to some
reason we forgot. So this is the
matter. This satsang is association -- all of us belonging to the same
thought, the same longing, is only for this, just to remind ourselves that
we all are living in that peaceful, in that blissful, in that conscious,
empty state, which cannot be described by anyone so far. None has ever
reached there. None
has ever described it.
----Papaji
Satsang in Lucknow
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