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A man should surrender the
personal selfishness which binds him to this
world. Giving up the false self is the true
renunciation.
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The life of action need not be
renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two
every day you can then carry on with your
duties. If you meditate in the right manner then
the current of mind induced will continue to
flow even in the midst of your work.
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Setting apart time for
meditation is only for the merest spiritual
novices. A man who is advancing will begin to
enjoy the deeper beatitude whether he is at work
or not. While his hands are in society, he keeps
his head cool in solitude.
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What is the ego? Enquire. The
body is insentient and cannot say `I'. The Self
is pure consciousness and non-dual. It cannot
say `I'. No one says `I' in sleep. What is the
ego then? It is something intermediate between
the inert body and the Self. It has no locus
standi. If sought for it vanishes like a ghost.
At night a man may imagine that there is a ghost
by his side because of the play of shadows. If
he looks closely he discovers that the ghost is
not really there, and what he imagined to be a
ghost was merely a tree or a post. If he does
not look closely the ghost may terrify him. All
that is required is to look closely and the
ghost vanishes. The ghost was never there. So
also with the ego.
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Peace is your natural state. It
is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Investigate what the mind is,
and it will disappear. There is no such thing as
mind apart from thought. Nevertheless, because
of the emergence of thought, you surmise
something from which it starts and term that the
mind. When you probe to see what it is, you find
there is really no such thing as mind. When the
mind has thus vanished, you realize eternal
peace.
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Abhyasa [spiritual practice]
consists in withdrawal within the Self every
time you are disturbed by thought. It is not
concentration or destruction of the mind but
withdrawal into the Self.
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To ask the mind to kill the mind
is like making the thief the policeman. He will
go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but
nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward
and see from where the mind rises and then it
will cease to exist.
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When you give up thinking of
outward objects and prevent your mind from going
outwards by turning it inwards and fixing it in
the Self, the Self alone remains.
