The real enables the unreal to appear and causes it to disappear. the succession of transient moments creates the illusion of time.
The timeless reality of pure being is not in movement, for all movement requires a motionless background. It is itself the background.
When all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality.
The effort to understand yourself is Yoga. Be a Yogi, give your life to it, brood, wonder, search, till you come to the root of error.
Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. In a way it is like having death under control.
One begins with the lowest levels: social circumstances, customs and habits; physical surroundings, the posture and the breathing of the body, the senses, their sensations and perceptions; the mind, its thoughts and feelings; until the entire mechanism of personality is grasped and firmly held.
The final stage of meditation is reached when the sense of identity goes beyond the 'I-am-so-and-so', beyond 'so-I-am', beyond 'I-am-the-witness-only', beyond 'there-is', beyond all ideas into the impersonally personal pure being.
But you must be energetic when you take to meditation. It is definitely not a part-time occupation. Limit your interests and activities to what is needed for you and your dependents' barest needs. Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.
At the end of your meditation all is known directly, no proofs whatsoever are required.
Reality is not a concept, nor the manifestation of a concept. It has nothing to do with concepts.
Give your heart and mind to brooding over the 'I am', what is it, how is it, what is its source, its life, its meaning.
The limited only is perfectible. The unlimited is already perfect. You are perfect, only you don't know it.
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love.
Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors.
Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self.
All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing.
Give your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.
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