You are beyond your thoughts
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February 10, 2011
I have a question here from a satsang center.
Q. Dear Swamiji, who is an Avatar?
Today I am giving an answer to this important question.
A person who can radiate grace, joy, ecstasy, and experience without words is an Avatar.
In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali reveals his very experience, the greatest truth called nirodha parinamah: the gap between thoughts. In that gap between one thought and the next, your Self, your atman, shines automatically.
Understand, you are not just a train of thoughts. No. You are a sky where clouds of thoughts come and go once in a while. If you are just a chain of thoughts or a train of thoughts, then your whole life is depression, nothing else.
Don’t learn from people whose silence is depressive. It is dangerous. It means that the fellow is only a train of thoughts. Learn only from a person who can radiate grace without using words, whose silence is an intense energy experience. Learn only from the people who have experienced their sky, and the thoughts and words they are using is just a cloud which comes and goes.
Consciousness is beyond thoughts. Thoughts are like clouds in the sky, and emotions are like the Raman Effect, the blue layer! Stars are like the clicks and the satori experiences which you have once in a while in
your life, or the great clicks that happen to you in the Master's presence. Beyond that, the indescribable, is you.
That which is beyond all these three is what I call You: Consciousness.
But unfortunately, you are stuck with the clouds.
There is something more than words. That pure space can be experienced just by simple trusting and relaxing. Nothing else is required except simple trusting and relaxing.
Contemplation
Is there anything beyond body and mind, beyond thoughts?
Do I really have a gap between my thoughts?
This is the question I want you to contemplate on the whole day today.