Those who practice the sadhana of focusing their minds on ‘I am' may feel related to others who have followed the same sadhana & succeeded.
The ‘Nine Masters' tradition, Navnath Parampara, is like a river—it flows into the ocean of reality & whoever enters it is carried along.
The legend says that our first teacher was Rishi Dattatreya, the great incarnation of the Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
If you accept a Navnath Sampradaya teacher as your Guru, you join his Sampradaya. Usually you receive a token of his grace.
Your belonging is a matter of your own feeling and conviction. After all, it is all verbal and formal.
In reality there is neither Guru nor disciple, neither theory nor practice, neither ignorance nor realization.
Call yourself by any name—as long as you are intensely mindful of yourself, the…obstacles to self-knowledge are bound to be swept away.
There is no reality in ideas. The fact is that without you, neither the universe nor its cause could have come into being.
The mind obsessed by the idea of causality invents creation and then wonders 'who is the creator?' The mind itself is the creator.
Even this is not quite true, for the created and its creator are one. The mind and the world are not separate.
Do understand that what you think to be the world is your own mind.
I know no sin, nor sinner…Everybody behaves according to his nature. It cannot be helped, nor need it be regretted.
Life lives on life. In nature the process is compulsory, in society it should be voluntary. There can be no life without sacrifice.
The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful & transient. See it as it is & divest yourself of all desire & fear.
You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.
With being arising in consciousness, the ideas of what you are arise in your mind as well as what you should be. This brings forth desire and action and the process of becoming begins. Becoming has, apparently, no beginning and no end, for it restarts every moment. With the cessation of imagination and desire, becoming ceases and the being this or that merges into pure being, which is not describable, only experienceable.
A day will come when you will long for the ending of the dream, with all your heart and mind, and be willing to pay any price.
The price will be dispassion and detachment, the loss of interest in the dream itself.
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