LISTEN🔗

See what is going on in your mind and what is going on outside your being. When you talk to someone, witness and listen to how he talks and how you respond. Even before he finishes his statement, notice how you come to conclusions and how you are ready to jump on him with your own opinions! automatically disappear. Continuously

See and listen to how you prepare your speech before he finishes his statement. Witness, continuously try to witness. Continuously listen. You will see the influence of desires, guilt and pain on your being

WITNESS THE MOMENT

The moment you create a gap between you and your body-mind, immediately the suffering disappears. Suffering is due to attachment to your body and mind.

All your sufferings disappear the moment you witness, that very moment. Actually, you may fail the first few times. After you face failure, you think, 'It is difficult, I cannot do it, ' and you create an idea that it is difficult.

Somebody goes to Ramaṇa Mahaṛṣi, the enlightened saint from Bharat, and asks, 'Master, is ātma vidya (knowledge of the self) difficult?' He says, 'The word difficult is the only difficulty.' He sings beautifully in Tamil, 'Aiyye ati sulabham atma viddai, aiyye ati sulabham'— Oh! So easy! The knowledge of the Self is so easy! He sings beautifully, 'To achieve money you must work, to achieve name and fame you must work, to achieve anything else you must work. To achieve the knowledge of the Self, you need to just keep quiet. Nothing else needs to be done.' Such a simple thing; a few moments of witnessing consciousness is enough.

TASTE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Even if you stay in that consciousness for five minutes, it is a big blessing. When you experience the relief that happens when you remain as the witness, even once or twice, when you experience the relief, you can see how the stress disappears from your being.

Then you will automatically stay in that same state, because now you have tasted it. Once you know the taste, you will automatically come back to the same state, the same mood again and again. If we just experience the relaxation that happens once, when we witness the body and mind, we will automatically come back for that experience, for that peace, again and again.

If we feel witnessing is difficult, witness that thought also; be aware and authentically listen to that thought also. Go into the consciousness of your being. Experience samādhi so that all hindrances disappear. You will experience the ultimate, eternal consciousness.

In the next verse Kṛṣṇa says, 'At the time of death, fix your mind between the eyebrows.' He adds, ' without being distracted and with devotion.' See, all this is not in our control at the time when the life force is about to leave the body. We cannot decide at that time, 'Ok, let me focus between the eyebrows, let me think of devotion, let me not be distracted.'

But if we have led a life in such higher consciousness, this automatically happens at that time! When Kṛṣṇa talks about the space between the eyebrows, He speaks of the higher cakra or energy center in the body, related to higher consciousness. Our mind is nothing but a bunch of conditionings.