Nirvanic Layer🔗

The nirvanic layer is so subtle it almost doesn’t exist. Almost its’ the Atman, but it’s the last step. What is the way to explore this last step? What is the way to bring out the energy of this last step? Totally cutting yourself from the past.

No evolution, only revolution. It is the moment, when the seed takes the decision to sprout. The seed is sprouting, the last moment, the seed will have agony. The dark night of the soul is what it is called in Christianity. The last moment you take the decision to make the jump, you take the decision to go beyond. You take the decision with all your consciousness, with all your energy to go beyond the body and mind.

When you know that all things are conditioning, just read once more what you’ve written. Is this life worth living? So many desires, so many sufferings, so much of guilt, so much of pain. Only one layer of joy, that also is through the layers of pain.

Look at the whole past actually, almost for everybody I can say, the past is more like a wound which needs to be operated, or thrown out from the being.

When you decide consciously to drop the past you actually can drop the past. Understand a few things, it is simply conditioning, when you understand it is the conditioning can’t you drop it? As long as you think it is you, you can’t drop it. Understand and you can simply drop. When you psychologically drop, even physically the whole thing changes.

The nirvanic layer is where the master is always in. So, how do we relate with the master? When you come in front of the Master, just feel a deep love, that is all. Feel a deep love in front of the master, that is enough. Nothing else is needed. Nothing else needs to be done. There is no other code of conduct to be conducted.

Many people come in front of me and do all sorts of these things like showing too much of humility, but I can always see people who show too much of humility are cunning fellows. Really innocent people, they do not even bother, they will just come and sit on the seat on which I am sitting, just next to me.

And I always find, these people are not only good to me, they are good to everybody. People who put up all sorts of show know only how to act, not how to be. So there is no need to know how to act, just be, that’s enough.

A small story from Ramana Maharishi’s life: One farmer went to Ramana Maharishi’s ashram and tried to sit with him, because he had a knee pain, he tried to sit on a small stool. Some of the ashramites shouted, ‘Oh, you cannot sit in front of Bhagavan on a stool; you are to sit only on the ground.’ Bhagavan showed his hand up and laughed. On the roof, one monkey was sitting exactly on the thatched roof. He asked, ‘What will you do about this monkey? He is sitting right above my head.’

So, all these codes and methods and conducting all these things are just foolishness, I don’t see any juice in it. You see when you have the tears of love, tears of gratitude in your eyes, that is the real thing. That is the real way to conduct yourself in the presence of the master, nothing else.

If you really understand whatever is taught, whatever is spoken, will you be the same person when you go back? No, you will never be the same person, you can never be the same person. So naturally when you meet the master, you will be reborn, you will have a second birth.

There are three types of garbha (womb). One is the garbha which is carried in the womb, which gives birth to a child. The next is hridgarbha. If you carry a great ideology in your heart, if you give birth to a book, or a painting or a great scripture, these are all from hridgarbha. If you carry the master’s presence or the meditation in the sahasrara, you give birth to yourself, this is gnanagarba. So the master just totally destroys your past. Totally he makes you drop from your past, and totally makes you start living as a new being.

A total disconnection from the past only can help you to grow. There is no question of evolution, it is only revolution. Evolution can never happen, only revolution can happen. So just drop from your past, just decide totally, consciously, drop from your past, and simply start living. Don’t think, ‘Oh I do not know how to put this whole thing into practice.’ No! Simply throw the whole personality out, don’t respect the old habits, don’t respect the old body, don’t respect the old mind, don’t respect the old conditionings.

Simply decide, this is how I am going to live from now onwards. This is the way I will live, over.

A small story, which is a very powerful story: Once there was a rat in the palace of a king. The king wanted to kill the rat. One day he called his soldier to kill it. When the soldier entered the room, suddenly from somewhere the rat jumped on his face, so he lost his balance, got frightened and ran out of the room, shouting, ‘No, no,no! Oh king, the rat is too big. I do not think the rat can be killed by anybody.’ Seeing the frightened, shivering shape of the soldier, the king got frightened and thought, ‘Oh, this rat is something totally different, I do not know what to do.’

He called the palace cat and ordered to go and kill the rat, the soldier told, ‘Don’t think it is an ordinary rat, I went and was totally shaken, so be careful.’ Anyway the palace cat went and got ready with all his paraphernalia. It had two-three days of exercise at the gym and had his special diet. On the day of the fight, he entered the room. Again the rat jumped on the cat’s face, and cat totally got frightened and lost its balance and ran away, came out.

Now the rat has become a challenge for the whole country, even the palace cat could not do anything about it. So the king announced, throughout the whole country, 'Anybody who kills the rat will be given a special prize. So every cat was brought, and every cat knew that the palace cat could not do anything. Two or three cats tried and came out unsuccessful.

In a remote village, an old man had one cat. He said, 'Why not? Let me try my cat.' He asked the cat, 'Will you kill the rat in the king's palace?' The cat said, 'Why not? Let us go.'

The man brought the cat, it was looking very thin and lean. He let the cat inside, the cat simply killed the rat, and came out.

The king in utter disbelief asked, 'How did you do it? Even the palace cat could not do. How did you have the courage? How did you do it?' The cat replied, 'What! I am a cat. It is my nature to kill the rat. Simply I can catch the rat, over.'

So simply your bothering about the things only makes the things worse. Don't bother about old experiences. You always think, 'No, last time, I tried. I always tried to stop smoking, nothing worked, I think this time the same thing only is going to happen.'

Don't have all those past things. Even that is past, even the idea 'the last time I failed' is also the past. Cut from the very root, drop from the very root, even the idea I failed, is nothing but the past.

Someone came and told me, 'Swamiji, last year alone, 27 times I stopped smoking.' Of course, it is you who gives energy to it, not the past. The past is just dead, it is you who decides.