Q: What is this sense of a separate existence?
M: It is a reflection in a separate body of the one reality.
In this reflection the unlimited and the limited are confused and taken to be
the same. To undo this confusion is the purpose of Yoga.
Q: Does not death undo this confusion?
M: In death only the body dies. Life does not, consciousness
does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death.
Q: But does one get reborn?
M: What was born must die. Only the unborn is deathless.
Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is
our sense of 'I'.
Q: How am I to go about this finding out?
M: How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your
mind and heart in it. Interest there must be and steady remembrance. To
remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to it
through earnestness.
Q: Do you mean to say that mere wanting to find out is
enough? Surely, both qualifications and opportunities are needed.
M: These will come with earnestness. What is supremely
important is to be free from contradictions: the goal and the way must not be
on different levels; life and light must not quarrel; behavior must not betray
belief. Call it honesty, integrity, wholeness; you must not go back, undo,
uproot, abandon the conquered ground. Tenacity of purpose and honesty in
pursuit will bring you to your goal.
Q: Tenacity and honesty are endowments, surely! Not a trace
of them I have.
M: All will come as you go on. Take the first step first.
All blessings come from within. Turn within. 'l am' you know. Be with it all
the time you can spare, until you revert to it spontaneously. There is no
simpler and easier way.
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