We are a moving cosmic operation taking place, and really we do
not exist by ourselves.
But there is a kind of ego, an assertion of the individuality of
an otherwise mere floating bubble. The bubble is asserting its individuality,
which makes it feel that it is existing as a person; but it is not existing. It
is blown off by the operation of another force, and that blowing off is called
death. The force can blow another way, and it is called rebirth. Every action,
birth, death or experience is an operation of the centre of the cosmos. We do
not exist here. The ego, or ahamkara, is the reason why we understand
nothing. This great stigma on everyone will not allow us to think properly.
Therefore, you must seek deep meditation and expand your
consciousness to the existence of everything in the universe so that when you
think, you are thinking the whole universe at one stroke. You are not thinking
any particular place – neither a place, nor a country, nor anything. The entire
cosmic distance is yourself. In the Vaishvanara Vidya of the Upanishads it is
said that you enter the cosmos, and the cosmos enters you, so that you do not
exist at all. When you meditate, the cosmos meditates. The cosmos meditates on
itself like a river entering the ocean, and there is no river afterwards. When
the ocean thinks, it does not think like a river. The rivers are inside it.
Though all the rivers are inside the ocean, the ocean does not think, “I am so
many rivers.” It will not think like that. It thinks, “I am one mass of
existence.”
Swami Krishnanda
