Sandeha Nivarini - Post 52

Devotee: Swami, some people say that if we do not get some visions and sounds and lights during meditation, we can take it that our meditation has not progressed! Do You say that they are wrong?

Swami: It is the image of their own idea. Perhaps they do meditation in order to get such sights and sounds! Therefore, they experience them. They are things by which each one of them is deluded; they don’t analyse the truth underlying the visions! Really speaking, they should not seek these impermanent delusions.

Devotee: Then what are we to seek, Swami?

Swami: Seek and desire the Principle of everything: that which, if known, everything is known; that which, if seen, all is seen and understood. Don’t seek drops in your attempt to know the flood. When you have attained the Ocean (the basis of all the drops), you won’t have the delusion of the drop.

Ponder this. If you seek direct experience of the Lord Atma, (Atma-sakshatkara), you have to install in your meditation the form of the Lord (the universal Atma) that you like most, and not the picture of your guru. It is not proper. The Lord is of a status higher than the guru, right? Of course, have His words as the foundation and try to attain the origin of all things; that will give the fruition of all efforts.

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Dear All,

That completes the penultimate chapter in Sandeha Nivarini.

We will move on to the next and final chapter from tomorrow onwards.

Love.

Swami Krishnananda

ON BRAHMAN EXPLAINED IN BHAGWAD GITA 

The Absolute is Brahman Great,

With no beginning or an end,

Know what it is in fullness now,

The Glory surpassing reason.

With hands and feet spread everywhere,

With eyes and heads and mouths and ears,

As infinite encompassing, 

All worlds at once it envelops.

Looking like all the senses' science

It stands above all sensations;

It's Unattached, though holding all, 

And Undefined, yet beauty grand.

It's out and in amidst all things,

Unchanging, still in greatest speed, 

Subtlest is it as Subjectness

Of all that seems as objective.

- Swami Krishnananda