Chapter Four: Shaking the Mind🔗

Beloved Master, I have heard You mentioning to us about how easy it is to drop the mind and our egos. Yet I am not able to do so. I have not been able to drop the mind. So by telling us that it is easy to drop, are You installing some sort of hope within us so that it may happen to us?

First thing: understand that this very question has come from the root of your ego. The ego is fed with logic, with reason and questions. And you have thought, you have thought quite a bit over this question na?! As long as you continue to remain host to such questions, not only remain host, but going on reasoning over such questions, be very clear: you are very much in the mind.

Second thing: when I tell you about the easiness of dropping the mind I am telling you based on whatever has happened within me. It may appear like a very big thing now, but once you have overcome the mind, you will simply not be able to understand how you were clinging to it for so long.

And one more thing: this feeling like you are not able to overcome the mind is also being felt from the mind only. Just see the conspiracy with which you are living! The mind is only telling you that it will be difficult to drop and you are getting confused! The mind wants to cling to you, it wants to confuse you and you are falling as bate to it. So do not make this mistake!

When you are thinking that you are not able to drop the mind and all these things, simply turn within your self and see from where this doubt is coming. You will see it coming from the mind only. It is one of the ego's efforts to cling to you. So simply say to your mind, 'Keep Quiet!' And you will see the mind silencing itself. It all depends on the intensity with which you try to silence such doubts. If you put forth your whole inner strength, the mind itself will be shaken!

So I am not trying to install any such hope within you. You see: the very concept of hope is also from the ego. Hope is the derivation of a very beautiful thing- faith. Faith is beautiful. It is a branch of bhakti, devotion. And bhakti can only be achieved when the mind is no more.

Hope has been created by our egos. It has been created as a means to pacify our fate. It serves as a shield for the ego to face what may come. And I am not trying to shield you of what is. My purpose is to throw you into reality by the dropping of your ego. It would be completely contradictory to give you hope. If I were to give you hope it would serve as a cushion to make your ego feel comfortable with whatever may come. And by making the ego comfortable, it will tighten its grip on you. So understand: first drop this question, first drop your doubts and simply be in this space.

This is more than enough.

The rest will be taken care.

Beloved Master, Could You tell us something about the energy involved during meditation?

Energy is the greatest phenomenon. The first thing that you must understand about all energies is that in order for there to be a certain energy, the opposite pole should also be there. See, happiness cannot exist without depression. If there were no depression, happiness would simply be the way of life, there would be no word for it.

Energy moves in a polarity. For any energy to become alive, the opposite pole is needed. It is just like electricity. If there is only negative polarity, electricity will not happen. And in the same way, if there is only positive polarity, electricity will not be possible. So both polarities are needed to make electricity a reality. So the same holds true for energy. And not only for energy, but it holds true for Existence itself.

If there were only man, life would not be possible. And if there were only women, there would be no life; both are needed. Between man and woman, there exists a balance. So between man and woman- between these two poles flows the river of life. Just look around you and see, without two opposite poles of something, nothing can be possible.

I have explained this concept to you because polarity is a very prominent factor in meditation. You see: the mind operates through logic whereas life is completely dialectical. When I say that the mind is logical, it means that the mind moves in a line. And when I say that life is dialectical I mean that it moves in the completely opposite manner. It continuously moves between the negative and positive poles. It uses the opposites.

See: the mind simply moves in a straight line. It never moves to the opposites; it denies the opposites. The mind feels comfortable with staying in the same dull, straight line. It feels uneasy towards change. So the mind believes in one and life believes in two.

There comes a time when you become aware of the noise which the mind creates. It is at this time that your mind becomes silent. And if the mind chooses to be silent, just imagine the way in which life will become. Now instead of completely going with the noise, the mind will completely move towards silence. But still there will be no polarity. According to me, whether the mind chooses noise or silence, it is one and the same. It is contradictory for the mind to choose silence because the mind itself is noise. So even if the mind tries to be silent, it is something like one thread of the same cloth.

When the mind tries to be silent, it will still be like a straight line. However when there are polarities, the very quality will be different. Understand the difference. The silence of the first is a dead silence. Concentration may be there, but if it is dead silence it is meaningless.

Silence must happen when you are totally alive. When you are silent, you should radiate vitality. When a person is truly silent, I say the quality will be different because it is an explosion of life. When this happens, your silence will be meaningful. So this silence will not be dull, it will be alive. You will be able to see very clearly a subtle balance between the two polarities.

Such a person will be able to remain silent in the markets and noisy in the mountains. They will be able to remain balanced with the polarities.

One more thing that you all should understand: the opposite energy should never be denied or rejected. It should be used. The only way to create this balance is through accepting both energies. When you would like to be happy, the depression must first be accepted. Do not reject the depression; do not deny it. If you can accept it, happiness is bound to follow. And once this happiness comes, a balance must be created between the two polarities.

It is as if there are two banks to one river. You are the river who will use both banks; both poles unconditionally. You will remain balanced between the two. So move in life as freely as possible with all the banks. Keep all the banks with you and create a balance for which you can remain blissfully silent within your self.

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