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Sai Ram. Human beings are multitudes and no one is identical. We are different in our body shape and in our psychology. Our views and ideas are not identical. The western mind is different from the eastern mind; the western mind has used the logical and scientific part more. And the eastern mind has developed the mystical mind more and goes by faith. What to do is to make a combination of both and to realize that inside everyone there is a mystical irrational mind and a logical rational mind. We have to accept both sides scientific and mystical in us and in our mind. They both exist and work together and it is the beginning of growth to understand and accept all parts of us.

Scientifically we cannot explain the three biggest mysterious of life; birth, love and death. A lot of things in between these three can be explained scientifically if we live a normal life in the society. It is difficult to explain logically why we are born in a specific country in a specific family.

The process of death is mystical; age, time, place reason and situation is unscientific. If it was a fully known process and if death would happen in a step by step manner now one would allow himself to die.

Recently a famous film star died and the day before he died he said in public that he would live till he was 90 years old not less than that. That man had practiced yoga and said a day without yoga is not worth to live. What happened; he had his yoga in the morning climbed down the steps fell down and died nicely.  

We like to explain everything with words and understand everything with the mind. We go to wise people to hear from them, we want everything to fit into words. This way of collecting information is not fully correct. There are many things that cannot be said and sometimes this unsaid word means more than those that are said.

If we sit with a close friend we do not have to talk all the time, the connection is powerfully established in each other even though they do not talk and there is harmony between them. This is what is called love. That which is unspoken: it is the depth of inner feelings which also can be felt by the other. This is what meditation is.    

Some talk and talk with everybody and it doesn’t mean anything. Some talk in anger in disagreement, and confusion might be the result.

Between one thought and the next thought there is a small gap or a small space, that gap the space is silence; that is meditation. All the words that is said, that is spoken do not mean anything, but the spirit between two words, between two thoughts is the state of silence. Meditation is the gap and the silences within. The words might be different but the gap between will always be the same. The gap is one, this oneness is meditation.

It is the same with the breath. Before the breath is going in or going out there is a gap a moment when you are not breathing. When your breath comes in observe, for a single moment there is no breathing. With sincere observation and attention you will be able to feel that gap; if you do you are blessed.

A meditative mind is inwards, a meditative mind is always in a state of silence. The oneness or union of silence which is beyond the physical state is meditation. It is beyond the physical oneness, which can be said to be the unconscious unity of oneness.

“Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with God, that is the state of meditation.”Baba.

A meditative mind which is conscious will find union in silence. So my friends all the oneness we usually speak about is physical oneness, which gets disturbed quite often. Meditation is conscious oneness in silence, beyond words, and we have to find that space within all by ourselves.

The process to find this inner space, inner silence, bliss, and oneness is individual. Meditation is not one single technique or a mechanical happening, no it is a process. A conditioned programmed routine is not alive. A process is full of life and it is continuously.

Please understand that meditation is a process and not one method. No one can meditate on your behalf; no one can grow in awareness on your behalf. You have to search and find the method which is suitable for your temperament and personality. The state of awareness and bliss which can be felt in true meditation cannot be transported or given to you as if I give you a book.

Ultimately we will find it through seeking and searching; that which always has been there, The Union with the Divine, the Silence, the Bliss. Simple example; when there is darkness because of power cut you will go on searching for something you know is there somewhere. You will know when you find the right thing and you will also know when you find a thing you do not looking for. 

When you find it you have to welcome it and you have to take good care of it; gently and carefully trying to follow the inner wisdom and guidance. That will be possible when we have found the state of meditation. You are not the doer you are the watcher. You can do small things and big things, only one thing is not allowed in meditation and that is your center should not be lost. That awareness, that watchfulness, should remain unclouded, undisturbed. Then we do not have to be a disciple of anyone we are the disciple to the whole existence.

Everything will be your teacher, everything will speak to you, and everything will guide you. You are the disciple of the whole universe. You will establish a connection with the whole universe and the whole creation around. Oneness with the totality of the whole is meditation. Unfortunately meditation is known mostly as sitting alone, imaging pictures or repeating mantras, which is also a part but not the whole truth.

If sitting in meditation and Jappa takes you to sleep you have missed the point. The other day when a program was going on and I had to get up very early in the morning and somehow I did not find the program fully to my taste and I do not know when I started to sleep and the man close to me woke me up when I started to snore. Anything that makes you to go to sleep is not meditation.

On the other hand when you repeat a mantra there is a state when you don’t repeat any longer, just you are awake and your mind is silent. That is meditation; silence, peace, bliss, love and kindness is a sign of a meditative mind.

The silence and the gap between all the noise, words and other disturbance of the mind is what we should try to reach and aspire for. Inner silence as well as outer silence is the attitude and quality to experience in the spiritual sense.

I spoke about meditation this morning because many people ask me about it, while we walk on the spiritual path the whole life should be a meditation. Instead of asking why and how to meditate we should ask ourselves way we do not meditate. What is the obstacles and hindrances in the process of having a meditative mind? Once these problems are gone you will be in a blissful state.

In the beginning you start to think of one object, you like to have a rose flower and you go to the garden where many different flowers grow. You search for a rose only, others will not do in this case. If you have that single pointedness to find a rose you will find it. This is concentration. Then what will you do with the rose? You bring one beautiful rose to where you are; enjoy its beauty, and its fragrance, that is contemplation. In the process of meditation there is no contemplation. Meditation is not concentration, in other words, contemplation should take you to meditation or to a meditative mind.

Concentration can be explained, contemplation can also be explained. Meditation is not to be explained, it belongs to the unknown, to that which is beyond the mind, beyond words. It is closer to the heart than the head, if something has to be said. Express less expression, a thought free thought.

I hope you appreciate that I could make the meaning of meditation clear and understandable. It is a deep subject and it calls for your own eagerness to learn and know more. We cannot play with our toys all our life, we have to evolve. I hope you haven’t gone into any state of sleep during this first part of the talk.

The rest of the time I leave for questions.

    What does true love means? If true love is not expressed in words or feelings?

The sun and the moon are not separated; they are one and the same. Gold and glitter are one and the same. Love is not a character it is a quality. Love as a quality is different from Love as a character. If you play a role and your Love is based on others mercy or what you can get your love will change like the wind. Human love is fragile, very delicate. In the morning it is there in the evening it is gone. All small things can destroy it.

 If Love comes from within it is natural it is the essential nature of the soul. Love will have the intention of giving and forgiving. When you do something out of love you will feel joy in it. Love and peace are the strongest forces that transform your life

Fire burns and the burning is the quality of fire, cold is the quality of ice, similarly Love is the quality, of your nature. It is what you are now, not something to become or which will be removed from you tomorrow. If your love is pure deep and intense you will feel the presence of Divine. Give Love to others and it will come back to you without seeking.

This true Love is unconditional beyond time and space. To search for truth is, as it were a love affair of the seeker with God, the Absolute Consciousness. People full of love and deep joy, are those who are one way or the other aware of the Divine.

 Love is non possessive. Attachment is possessive. You cannot manipulate love it happens when it happens. It is something transcendental, you cannot manage it. Love is freedom not bondage. You cannot put a person you love in a cave and lock the door as a pet parrot. That is possessiveness we do not own anyone or anything in this life. Not even your own body is yours, if you really were the owner of your body you would never allow it to go or to age.

If you are Love there is no question of hating someone, this Love is universal, existential. You love the wonder of nature, the wonder of how life unfolds. Your love is felt by others, without any special expression of words or feelings. Baba doesn’t express so many words or feeling during His Darshan but we all feel His presence in some way or another. Love is a quality not a character, am I clear?

    Baba talks about the power of discrimination and on another side he is saying everything is God. Does discrimination exist in Advaita, the non dual teaching?

Discrimination is a faculty, inborn intelligence and it is given to us by the Divinity. The bulb is shining not all by itself, but because the current has gone in. The flow of the current is the flow of Divinity which gets into the mind and intellect and makes it think and develop a sense of discrimination. A dead body cannot discriminate.

Advaita is non-dualism, non-identification. Advaita is the source, the seed which expresses into many. Advaita establishes unity, connects person to person in Oneness. It will make you to grow above hatred, enmity, difference of opinion because in the Advaita state you are uniform, full of Love and Bliss. Christ loved his friends and enemies alike, rich and poor; that is Advaita Consciousness. It is only an Advaiti or a non dualist who can love all because he looks at the Consciousness which is present in everyone, which is uniform.

Thank you very much for being here this morning I thank the Divine schedule and the Divine arrangement for the possibility, it is nothing personally.

God bless you, Sai Ram