All that happens in your consciousness is your Guru. And pure awareness beyond consciousness is the supreme Guru.
Somebody, anybody, will tell you that you are pure consciousness, not a body-mind. Accept it as a possibility and investigate earnestly.
Sadhana consists in shifting the emphasis from the superficial and changeful person to the immutable and ever-present witness.
If you have no problem of suffering and release from suffering, you will not find the energy and persistence needed for self-enquiry.
The door that locks you in, is also the door that lets you out. The ‘I am’ is the door. Stay at it until it opens…
As a matter of fact, it is open, only you are not at it. You are waiting at the non-existent painted doors, which will never open.
Trust nobody, not even yourself. Search, find out, remove & reject every assumption till you reach the living waters and the rock of truth.
Get busy with your ego—leave me alone. As long as you are locked up within your mind, my state is beyond your grasp.
At present you are moved by the pleasure-pain principle which is the ego. You are going along with the ego, you are not fighting it.
A man should always revolt against himself.
Keep the ‘I am’ in the focus of awareness, remember that you are, watch yourself ceaselessly and the unconscious will flow into the conscious without any special effort on your part. Wrong desires and fears, false ideas, social inhibitions are blocking and preventing its free interplay with the conscious. Once free to mingle, the two become one and the one becomes all. The person merges into the witness, the witness into awareness, awareness into pure being, yet identity is not lost, only its limitations are lost. It is transfigured, and becomes the real Self, the sadguru, the eternal friend and guide. You cannot approach it in worship. No external activity can reach the inner self; worship and prayers remain on the surface only; to go deeper meditation is essential, the striving to go beyond the states of sleep, dream and waking. In the beginning the attempts are irregular, then they recur more often, become regular, then continuous and intense, until all obstacles are conquered.
The clarification and purification needed at the very start of the journey, only awareness can give. Love and will shall have their turn.
Give all your attention to the question: ‘What is it that makes me conscious?’, until your mind becomes the question itself.
The sun of awareness must rise first—all else will follow.
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