Thank the Inner Lord

Transcript

I turn again to these passages from Chitshakti Vilas, The Play on Conciousness the autobiography of our teacher Baba Muktananda.

On page 40 baba says to us: Keep your mind empty, when you are wake you will experience a few moments where your mind is free of thoughts. You should make your mind peaceful and thought free like this so that it becomes no different from the self.

This is progress in meditation. Let me tell you one more thing, look upon everything you see as good with God. The visible world whole world is complete in God, to have this understanding is a great meditation. It is the true way of seeing and brings liberation from birth and death.

Here Baba quotes, actually as he was writing this book this was spoken to one of his servants. Baba knew many of the important passages from holy books by wrote, here he quotes from the Bhagavad Gita

He speaks sakalamidamaham cha vāsudevah parama pumān parameshvarah sa ekah iti matirachalā bhavatyanante hridayagate vraja tān vihāya dūrāt.

The translation is Yamaraja the lord of death said to his messengers, this phenomenonal world and I are the one world god Vasudeva. Whoever has an unshakable feeling for the lord affixes in the heart, then all messengers leave him alone, leave him alone and come away. What an exalted meditation, what an exalted spirit. Those who meditate on god on the North, the south, the east and the west. On god before behind, on god above and below very quickly attain liberation.

The Gopis used to meditate like this. Wherever they looked they saw Krishna, for the Gopis a river was Krishna, the bowels of the forest were Krishna, the four directions were Krishna, their husbands were Krishna, their children were Krishna, the cows were Krishna.

They themselves were Krishna, Krishna was in their minds. Krishna was in their bodies, its everywhere. They saw nothing other than Krishna.

This kind of meditation is perfect in itself – you don’t have to go to a mountain or a cave. This is the meditation that follows knowledge; in this the knowledge of God is vital. It is really true that the whole world is the perfect form of God.

Now, for myself I have noticed as I try more and more frequently to apply this teaching and message of Kashmir Shaivism that everything is divine, everything is God. I find myself looking within.

Many times there are emotional disturbances, how do we look at these perhaps with resistance wishing they weren’t the way they were but they are they way they are and in fact what they are is God. How different is our experience of life when instead of trying to push away our own emotions or circumstances, we welcome them?

Just as a man or Holy King would welcome an angel that he met in the street, these disturbances in our spirit are pure gifts for us. In face they are god itself.

As Jesus said “As you do to the least of me, you do to me.”

That applies to everything within us. If we have some frustration, some inquietude, find out for yourself, I invite you to find out what happens when you pray, when you thank that inner lord?