THE QUANTUM JUMP BEYOND
No evolution will help; only revolution will help. This moment of touching the nirvanic body is the moment when the seed takes the decision to sprout. When the seed is sprouting, the seed will experience agony. In Christianity, this is called as 'The dark night of the soul'. The moment when you take the decision to make the jump, you take the decision to go beyond. You take the decision with all your consciousness, with all your energy, to go beyond the body and mind.
When you realize that everything you are experiencing is just your own conditioning, you suddenly wonder, 'Is this life really worth living? So many desires, so many sufferings, so much of guilt, so much of pain… Only one layer of joy, and that also is through the layers of pain!'
Look at your whole past. Read what you have actually written. Almost for everybody, the past is more like a wound which needs to be operated upon, or thrown out from the being.
When you consciously decide to drop the past, you can actually drop it. Understand a few things: your past is simply your conditioning. When you understand it is only conditioning, can't you drop it? As long as you think it is you, you can't drop it. But if you understand that it is your conditioning, you can simply drop it. When you psychologically drop it, even physically the whole thing will change! That is the beauty of it.
RELATING WITH THE MASTER - JUST LOVE
The nirvanic layer is the layer that the master is always in. So how do we relate with the master? When you come in front of the master, just feel a deep love, that is all. Feel a deep love in front of him, that is enough. Nothing else is needed. Nothing else needs to be done. There is no other code of conduct to be followed.
Many people come in front of me and do all sorts of things like either showing off too much or displaying too much humility. The ones who show too much humility are the cunning ones. The really innocent ones will just come and sit on the seat on which I am sitting or just next to me! And I always find that these innocent people are not only good to me, they are good to
everybody. People who put up all sorts of show know only how to act, not how to be. So there is no need to know how to act, just be, that's enough.
A small story from Ramana Maharishi's life:
A farmer went to Ramana Maharishi's ashram and tried to sit with him. Because he had knee pain, he sat on a small stool. Some of the ashramites shouted, 'Oh, you cannot sit in front of Bhagavan on a stool. You are to sit only on the ground.' Bhagavan gestured to them and laughed. On the roof, a monkey was sitting right above Ramana's head. He asked, 'What will you do about this monkey? He is sitting right above my head!'
So understand that all these codes and protocols are just foolishness. I don't see any juice in it. When you can have tears of love, tears of gratitude in your eyes, that is the real thing. That is the real way to conduct yourself in the presence of the master, nothing else is needed.