AFVOA Newletters of Year 2004

Page 143 of 153 blossom. 109. Ahimsa, the non-violence. Be non violent, not just in your action, but also in your heart, in your speech, in your thoughts. You may be non-violent in action due to fear of the law. But in the mind when you said, “I am going to kill them! I am going to choke them!” you have already choked them. Follow the non-violence. 110. Satya, the Truth. Follow the Truth. Be with the Truth. Be with the existence. It means live in the moment, express this moment in you fully. Existence is Truth. The word, sat, is the same for Truth and existence in Sanskrit. Often we mistake ‘Be truthful’ to mean just speaking the truth. It’s not just speaking truth; but expressing Truth by your whole life. You be full of Truth; you be in the moment, express this moment. That’s why three things are said: satyam bruyat, speak truth; priyam bruyat, speak the pleasant truth; and satyam priyam hitam, do speak beneficial truth. 111. If you tell someone who is blind, “You are a blind man,” you’re telling the truth, no doubt, but it can hurt that person. So, though it is true, do not speak unpleasant truth. And then hitam, that which is good for them. A patient is really sick. If you tell them, “You are going to die tomorrow,” he may die right now! A doctor will have to tell him some lie for his own good. Satyam means express the existence this moment as it is but with sincerity. 112. Saucha, the Purity. Keep the purity of your mind, speech, and body. Purity is not mixing up things. If some rice is mixed with wheat, and mixed with soap powder, and mixed with sand, that mixture is impure. But if the same things are presented to you in different cups, you would say this is pure sand, this is pure soap powder, and this is pure rice and pure wheat. Non-mixing of things is purity. And what is impure? When a substance is mixed with another substance, which is not of the same, quality or same type then you call it impure. 113. So when you become witness to the body, mind, intellect, memory and all your different faculties, and don’t get mixed up with them, that is purity. Observing the observer, being very pure; this is a further, advanced meaning of saucha. It is when your own mind becomes a witness of its own actions and finds a gap between its own senses, and does not mix with any outer objects. 114. In a deeper sense, it’s even more beautifully experienced, when the consciousness detaches itself from its own body and does not contact other bodies. This is a little difficult, though. That is why when you go deep in your meditation, you feel very pure. If you are constantly in touch with something outside at some moment you feel some uneasiness; you don’t feel so pure. But when the consciousness is perceived, as full and total one feels pure. That’s why after the Sudarshan Kriya, many people feel so pure and so clear, so complete, because the Consciousness which was stuck in the matter, material, which is foreign to itself, got released from that and came back to its home. 115. Dayaa, the Compassion. The greatest joy is in compassion. Just stand in a corner and see the whole world. If you can just feel compassion for the whole world, a shift has already happened in your consciousness. Look at all the people who are indulging in all that you don’t like. What triggers anger in you is when people engage in some activity or behave in certain manner, which you don’t like. Just for a moment, have compassion for them all, for the way they are. Then a shift happens; you become big; your Self expands. It stands there and laughs at the smallness of events, of behaviours. Having compassion in your heart, you become untouched by these events; you cross the maya, the illusion.