THE PURPOSE OF EVOLUTION IS TO REACH BACK TO STILLNESS
There are no old souls, nor are there any young souls. Since the primordial Big Bang, all the particles that were shot forth have the same age. There is no old soul, and there is no young soul. The soul is not what was shot forth. A primal energy was shot forth, and the primal energy, becoming duplicated and replicated and mixing with other sub, sub, subatomic matter, assumed certain peculiarities which still exist in you today, and the purpose of this existence is to evolve not because of your so-called soul but because of the propulsion of that explosion. No wonder people explode so much nowadays.
So, because of this primal explosion and its duplication, replication, and intermixing with various factors that accompany it, individualisation began, and each, because of its various combinations, assumed different characteristics. When they assume different characteristics, they naturally seem to separate from one another. Yet there is only one primal source, but because of the mental mechanisms of Manas, Chitta, Ahankara, and Buddhi, they feel themselves to be apart from everything else.
Firstly, they came from a unified state, from that stillness, and the purpose of evolution is to return to that stillness; then one could say, “I am God, be still and know that you are God.”
THE REAL STILLNESS COMES WHEN THE SAMSKARAS ARE TUCKED AWAY, AND THE EGO IS EXPANDED
How does the mental mechanism affect the heart area? By heart, let us not confuse it with our emotions or feelings. The core of a person’s real self is the heart. That which is usually known as the heart is just emotion and feeling. I love you. From what level do I love you? I love you, or you love me, only because of an emotional feeling, or because you have found something attractive in me. He is the handsomest Guru in the World, and he talks a lot of sense, nonsense and common sense. So those feeling of your love for me stems not from your heart, the core of your personality. They stem from the emotions and feelings which are created by your mind, by the ego self within its own expectations, for the ego self can never remain without expectations. It is always expecting more and more and more, all the time.
Because the ego self is being empowered with that Divine energy, it is really searching for the Divine energy, but instead of internalising itself and going deeper to the spiritual level, which is far deeper than the soul, being empowered by it, it is always expecting more and more, and those very expectations is the mother of disappointment. So, you have an appointment with Divinity, but you miss it out of disappointment. When you are disappointed at that level, you try to find it objectively, and you lose the stillness within you all the time. You can never exist without that stillness of the mind. Thank God you sleep; there is some stillness there. Although the subconscious is working all the time, it is churning, churning, churning, swirling, swirling, swirling in its own self. But the real stillness comes when the subconscious samskaras, or impressions, or the memory box, are tucked away,, and the ego is expanded, not sublimated. Remember, you can never sublimate the ego. The word sublimation is a fallacy. You can never sublimate anything. It is just a subliminal conjecture conjured up by the thinking level of the mind.
WHEN THE MIND IS RELAXED THE HEART CONNECTS ITSELF TO THE MIND
So how do we connect the mind with the heart? The mind cannot connect with the heart until the mind relaxes, and then the heart connects with the mind. The inner core of your personality overrides your emotional self, the feeling self, the thinking self, and the intellectual self, and the heart overpowers all the workings there, so turbulent. In other words, it also means that you do not go to God. You do not go to stillness, but that stillness and God come to you. If the mind is placid enough through the expansion of the ego, so that it becomes transparent, then God comes to you; the stillness comes to you, because it is forever there. It is a matter of realisation. You are still as you are; it is just the realisation, knowing that it is there. You start off by knowing the Chitta and the Manas and the ego I, you know or rather, you think you know. There again, knowing becomes a falsity and thinking becomes a falsity. It has its value in the beginning stages, but when realisation dawns, which is a total assimilation of the stillness, where the soul finds that quietude, then that Divinity dawns upon you automatically.
WHEN A CLARITY IS BROUGHT ABOUT THROUGH OUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, YOU BECOME STILL
What is this automatic mechanism? None. There are no mechanics involved in Divinity dawning upon you and finding that stillness and elevating the soul, which is nothing else but the mind empowered by that Divine energy. So, when clarity through our Spiritual Practices is brought about, you become still. I do not know if you have noticed me – you must watch me – I go into meditation before we start our Satsangs, and of course, there is work from four in the morning until late at night, and that naturally produces tension. When I go into meditation for a minute, look at my face, and you will notice that within a few seconds, all my facial muscles will relax. Because in those few seconds, I have touched the stillness, I have let go of the mind and the soul, and I am there within the spirit, and that is what speaks to you, not my little mind or the soul or the ego-self, the Ahankara, the Chitta is gone. Therefore, as I have told you before, if you ask me half an hour later, “Guruji, what did you talk about?” I would say “I do not know.” I might have a dim little memory of it, nothing more. Because the real Self of you does not remember. The flower cannot remember the fragrance it gives off. Ask it if it does. It is the nature of the flower to give off that fragrance, and in that stillness, all is known.
“BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD,” REFERS TO EACH AND EVERYONE
There is a stanza in the Upanishad which says, “What is there which one can know by which everything else is known?” Therefore, quoting Biblical Scriptures again it says, “Man know Thyself.” Which self? Because they do not clarify. Not this body, not this mind that is not yourself, thyself is the inner Self, the Spiritual Self that enforces everything, that makes you walk and talk and breathe, in its own peculiar expression. But when you know the real Self, everything becomes unnecessary. Everything seems such an illusion, and when everything is an illusion, you do not suffer any hurts because all the hurts come from the mind and disturb the stillness. So, the soul is your own personality, your own mental make-up, which is energised with the Spiritual Self, and to be able to recognise even on the mental level, for that is where you have to start, that there is something greater than me. Then you lose the sense of me, and if you take “me”, M E, put a mirror under those words, and the reflection would be “we.” So, we are here. “We” means not just the people in this hall; by “we” I mean the entirety of existence, and when this identification occurs, the soul disappears. Then the mind merges into the heart, the core of one’s personality and what you have to do is so simple.
Your mind takes one step, and the heart takes ten steps towards you. When you open the tap – you call it a faucet, do you not – just open it a little and the water will keep on running and running and running for days and days and months and months. The reservoir is so vast and filled with water that a slight turn of the faucet keeps the water running. Likewise, when we open up just a little faucet of the mind, you will find that beautiful, exhilarating stream just gushing forth through us, and in that very gushing, refreshing stillness comes. So “Be still and know that I am God” does not refer only to our beloved Jesus. It refers to each and every one. He never spoke from the ego self as that little “i” called Jesus. He spoke as all existent humanity. So, everyone has that ability inborn.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang CAN 1985 – 07
