The Voice of Babaji: A Trilogy On Kriya Yoga – Quotes
∗ We generally enjoy this Divine Bliss like dumb animals without understanding. But we should be able to do so always consciously, at our will. We should live in unbroken contact with the source of all life, in the state of jagrath and svapna, as well. If we don’t learn to keep ourselves awake in super consciousness, it means we really waste much of our life in sleep by being unconscious of the universal Presence..
∗ It is the experience of the perfect Ones, that on the death of quality, Atman manifests. That state is samadhi..
∗ In samadhi, the mind is as it was, is utterly annihilated, having lost its deluding nature. Along with the annihilation of the mind, the mundane phenomena are negated entirely and the Atman shines without a second, in its infinite bliss and glory. In sushupti, the mind is full with its contents. The world is dormant in it. But in samadhi the mind is contentless. The seed of mind in sushupti retains the capability of manifesting itself in the state of jagrath, on its coming back to that state, whereas, in samadhi, the mind is like roasted seed that can sprout out no more. Hence, the delusion of this world cannot reappear. The false snake vision is lost once and for all and the man of Realization is ever conscious of the reality of the rope alone. The vision of the snake has no power to cheat or delude him as before, as he stands now firm and fast, one with Reality. The dualistic world with all its forces of attraction and repulsion, has now become lifeless to him who realizes its unrivalled self-effulgent, self-resplendent and self-conscious state. As Sri Shankara describes “With eyes he is without eyes, as it were with ears without ears, with speech without speech, with mind without a mind and with vital airs without vital airs.
∗ Further, just as the mirage loses its power of deluding a person who has once realized its empty nature, the world with all its charms has no meaning to a jivanmukta. The mirage may come into his view again and again as long as he goes traveling in the desert, but he stands undeceived, not at all deluded, since he has already solved its mystery. Similarly, the world may come unto his cognition as long as there is a body, yet he will stand firm like a rock, unshaken and unshakable seeing the same self in everything and everything in himself. Name and form appear before him labeled plainly with the word “unreality”..
∗ Generally man is found to be rotating on the cycle of jagrath, svapna and sushupti. These belong to the first personal pronoun “I”, which is the cause of all misery..
p.194-195 /The Voice of Babaji: A Trilogy On Kriya Yoga/
