Yogic Wisdom Blog

In the sea of eternity, there are highs and lows. There are untold worlds of living beings, multiple universes, and different dimensions of reality. It is a vast, interwoven, interconnected manifestation.
 
Yet it is very simple. To know this vast, eternal, cosmic essence, you only need to know your own self. For within every drop of water lies the sea. Within the sea lies eternal being. You, like a grain of sand on an endless beach, are part of a vast, interwoven, interconnected web of life.
 
To know that web of life, know your own self. For within you lies the whole universe, as you lie within that creation. Infinite, eternal, everlasting, the flow of cosmic being is unbound. There is no beginning; there is no end; there is no time when there has not been this eternal cosmos.
 
Timeless, immortal is the essential essence of all that is. The dream of your life is a dream within the consciousness, the awareness of the eternal being. That eternal one is the source of all that is and is the essence of everything. There is nothing outside of it.
 
When you go within, stop the racing of the mind in the dream of creation, in the dream of your life, you settle the restless thoughts; there is within you a quietness, a peace, a love so great it cannot be defined. As you sink into that peace, into that love, the sense of self begins to thin, to evaporate like a mist. For it is a dream; it is an idea in the mind of the infinite. And you, what are you; who are you? Is there a you?
 
As your awareness flows to the depths, the idea of you dissipates. There is an eternal being, known not with the mind, but known through knowingness. It transcends the brain, and the body. It is a knowingness that the "I" and the "you" that knows the knowing melt together.
 
That divine infinite peace, love that surpasses understanding short circuits the brain and the intellect. They dissolve. The sense of the doer goes away. Who is there to do anything? For this love, this great peace, this infinite Self, infinite being, has no beginning, has no end. There is no one apart from the whole. There is an ocean of love, a peace that has always been.
 
And you have always been in this peace, in this love. It is natural; it is your home. As you sink into it, you sink into your own natural state of being, eternal, immortal, infinite. You have always been here. You will always be. The dream of your life, a fleeting moment in eternity, is a drop of water, a grain of sand on an endless shore. The peace and love, the one, has always been, will always be. There is no time, no place. All places, all times abide within this eternal essence.
 
Consciousness, attention, and awareness move between, are fluid. Always, in essence, it is the Self, eternal, unmoving. And within it lies the dream of infinite planets, untold beings. The cosmos lies within this peace, in the dream of creation. And in that dream, there is you, the grain of sand on the endless shore.
 
You come, you exist for a while, and then you dissolve into the peace, the love; timeless, always existing. There is no past; there is no future; always, all has been and will be ever present, now.
 
You have always been free; you will always be free. It is your natural state of being. You dream the dream of the past and future. You dream the dream of unique separateness. You enjoy the birdsong, the beauty of creation, and the pain and the contrast. You love, you feel, and you pass away. From dust to dust.
 
But that which is you has never changed, will always be, was never born, and will never die: eternal, immortal, infinite, a love that cannot be defined, a peace beyond understanding. The attention, the awareness returns home. But you have never left. The you that you have known dissolves like a drop of water in the sea. Your dream of you is gone. There is only this ocean of love.
 
You have always been free. To break the dream, all you need to do is remember your natural state of being. Let go. Let go of the dream.
 
All right? Namaskar.
 

Today is a new beginning, a new day. Every day of your life is a new beginning, a new day, a new opportunity to be all that you can be. Never think, “My life is useless. My life is downcast. I’m doing nothing.” 

On each day you awake you have the opportunity to bring your life in connection to all life, in connection to all living beings, and to live in service to all living beings. This is the opportunity that presents itself every day.

So never dwell in the past, in regret, in guilt, in fear, in worry. They do no good. Rather, wake up each day and think, “This is my opportunity. This is my new beginning. This is my connection, here and now.” What has been gone. What will be is not here. What is now, that is what you have.

And so, every day, arise, brush yourself off, forget the past. And live your day afresh.

Every moment is an opportunity to know the supreme, for that one lies within you, all around you. The Self of yourself, the nearest and dearest to you, infinite beyond description, beyond words. That one always is, always has been, and always will be. It is your innate nature. 

That infinite consciousness, that aware self-being that knows who you are, that knows everything that you think, feel, see, hear, experience. Everything is known to that divine one, to Parama Purusha, the supreme entity, the supreme aware being.
For that is the real Self within you. There is the ego self, the small self that says, “I am the person who lives in this body and perceives and does this and does that and suffers this and is accomplishing that.” That I-person, that small person, that’s not you. That is a function.

But the Self within, the real Self, is not that small person. It is the self-aware intelligent consciousness that knows you, knows your existence, sees out of your eyes, hears with your ears, and is in every other living being, even in the rock, though it is quiescent in the rock. But in the cat, in the dog, in the bird it is alive. It is seeing out of eyes, hearing out of ears, feeling the feelings. It is alive in the being.

But it isn’t limited to that being. It is everywhere, this intelligent, self-aware being alive. And its flavor, its nature, is love unconditional. It is the base of everything that is, the substance of all that exists.

That substance, that solid Self, is the one true reality that doesn’t change. It never changes. It appears to change in all the colors and forms of creation, in the appearance of past and present and future. It appears to change, but it doesn’t change. It’s unchanging. It is this quiescent, infinite love. It is the Self of yourself. You exist—you feel you exist in the body, the mind, and the senses that your awareness is attuned to. But the reality is you exist in all living beings and all living beings exist within you. 

You exist in all of creation, and all creation exists within you. For your true nature is this undying, quiescent beingness, awareness which abides, conscious, intelligent, infinite love, beyond description with words and language. It abides. You abide. For that is your nature. And you abide in all beings. All beings abide in you.

You are those suffering the horrors of war. You are those seeking power. You are those being born. You are those loving. You are the deer in the wood, the bear prowling, the coyote, the squirrel, the bird. You are in all that is. And all that is, is within you. 

The you that identifies as a little body and mind is only a speck, a grain of sand on the great sea of creation. But your true nature abides in all that is. You are vast beyond comprehension. You are in the smallest of the small, in the tiniest molecules, in the subatomic materials. You are in space itself. You are born in the stars. You are in multiple dimensions. There is no end to the vastness of the true Self.

The human mind cannot comprehend the nature of the Self. It is better understood with the heart. Its quality is more akin to love, though the love that is the nature of being is beyond words.

This is the reality of your existence. Lives come and go. Identities come and go. But the Self remains always, unblemished, unchanged. Forms a rise and fall within you, but you remain ever as you are, the infinite supreme unending bliss of being. Even the bliss is but a passing form. 

In the true nature of Self, there is all form and no form, quiescent; a deep peace beyond the comprehension of the mind abides. An infinite love draws all existence into itself. From the one abiding in the one drawn back into the one, creation unfolds, exists for a time, and returns to the quiescent peace, the eternal nature of being.

So, you identify as a person in a body. You identify with the senses, with experiences from the past, with reactions to those experiences, with Samskara, Karma. You identify and you dance the dance, believing that to be your reality, until one day, awareness, your awareness turns away from that and looks at your nature. 
And when that aware self-beingness becomes self-conscious, aware of your own nature, you become timeless. You become unbound, undefined. Time and space do not tether you. 

For you to realize that witnessing consciousness, that infinite aware intelligence—and intelligence is not simply the mind, it is the heart that is intelligent—that intelligence lives eternally. That intelligence of unbound love, of quiescent peace in which all of the features of creation, time, and space abide.

When you become self-reflective, your aware intelligent mind becomes immersed in this divine Self, in your Baba, in your Ma, in your divine father, in the divine mother, and you feel that you are forever immersed in this eternal, infinite Self. Where is there to go; what is there to do? That restlessness that searches always is, that wants to go, to do, to find, that restlessness comes from that feeling of separation. 

But when your light of aware intelligence moves to the divinity within, to the self-resplendent eternal being, you realize that is yourself, the Self of yourself. There is no separation. The drop of water is not separate from the sea.  You, your beingness, your aware self, is not separate from the eternal, immortal beingness, the great love, the quiescent peace, the eternal one.

Dissolve the small, separate sense of yourself into an immortal being. Then there is no death, for you have always been you will always be you are eternal quiescent peace beyond thought, beyond mind. And you are expressed in the whole of creation. 

The smallest of creatures, their pain is your pain. The ones who suffer—you are those. The ones who exploit—you are those. The ones who live simple lives enjoy being alive, are those. You are a small woodland creature. You are the whale in the sea. You are the stars being born. You abide in all things and all things abide in you. 

Quiescent in the rock and the inanimate objects, yet their forms abide within you. Quiescent, asleep to eternal nature. But even those sleeping objects, that consciousness, will return. All is drawn. There is a restlessness in creation, a small memory. Ah, there is something more. And that something more draws back to eternal being, where there is no separation, no “I” and “thou,” no differentiation. Eternal one life, one existence, one truth. And this truth is your Self.

Let go; let go of the constructs in your mind, the beliefs of your identity. Let go.