Sahaj Samadhi – In Gita Verse 9.28 In this way you will be freed from bondage to work and its auspicious and inauspicious results. With your mind fixed on Me in this principle of renunciation, you will be liberated and come to Me.
Krishna is talking about Sahaj Samadhi in this verse.
If you trust the word of the mystic, then there is a possibility it may create a little ripple in you.
Otherwise, with doubt, even that ripple disappears. Remember we have to be with the ripple and not with the words.
Listening to Kabir, or to Christ, or to Krishna, remember it – they have to be heard in a certain way; it is no ordinary listening. They have to be heard in such love, trust, that you don’t stand separate from them, that you become all ears, that you become feminine, that you become just receptive, that you simply drink. You don’t have any ideas and you don’t try to translate them. Rather than being in a hurry to translate it inside you, to interpret it, and to think whether it is right or wrong, you simply listen as you listen to music.
When Ravi Shankar is playing, you don’t bother about whether he is right or wrong. What do you mean by “right” or “wrong”? Music is music – good or bad, but not right or wrong. You don’t bother; you simply listen. and because the music has no language, you cannot translate it. You are simply in the presence of the music, surrounded by it, overwhelmed by it, taken off your feet to a faraway journey by it. But you are not deciding whether it is right or wrong, whether it appeals to your logic or not. You listen from the heart.
The mystic has to be listened to as if you are listening to music. and yes, I say to you: It is a music, far deeper than any musician can create. Once you start translating it, things become difficult.
When Krishna says – With your mind fixed on Me in this principle of renunciation, you will be liberated and come to Me.
Now when your mind is fixed in whole, Krishna, or God, means your mind is still now.
And only God can still the mind. It is a gift. It is a grace that descends on you, it is not something that YOU do – because whatsoever you do, YOU will remain. Your doing cannot dissolve you. Your doing will strengthen you more and more. Your effort will become a food to your ego.
How can you, still your mind? Who is this one who is going to still mind? It is the mind itself. It will be just like a dog chasing its own tail.
Information is knowledge received by tuition; knowing is knowledge unfolded in intuition.
In the words of Kabir Still Mind means – Kabir says, “Think of the SAHAJ: the spontaneous, the simple, that which is not created by you, that which is not manufactured by you – because whatsoever YOU manufacture is going to be useless, worthless. You ARE worthless, so whatsoever you manufacture is going to be naturally worthless. Your signature will be on it.”
SAHAJ SAMADHI means: it is not made by you. It is not homemade, it is God-given.
Two things are easy: doing something is easy or falling asleep is easy. Whenever you are not doing something, suddenly you feel sleepy. You know only two ways: either do something – then you can remain awake; or don’t do something – and you start feeling sleepy, you start feeling like falling into sleep. Just between the two is the thing: don’t do anything, be as quiet as you are in sleep, and yet as alert as when you are doing something – as alert as if you are fighting your enemy with a sword, and as quiet as if you have fallen asleep. Where sleep and awareness meet together, there is SAHAJ SAMADHI, there is that spontaneous ecstasy. And in that moment you suddenly feel your whole energy has shifted towards the heart. The head disappears; you become headless.
This happens when the energy starts moving towards the heart: one day suddenly you realize that there is no head. Not that your physical head disappears – it is there, but no more the center of your being; it is there, but no more on the central stage, no more the controller, no more the manager, no more the boss.
Krishna when saying that – you will be freed from bondage to work and its auspicious and inauspicious results – means the mind settled, the moving has become non-moving. The mind, when it is not moving, is a no- mind – because movement is the mind itself. When your mind is not moving, where will the mind be? Thought, to be, has to move. If there is no movement in your mind and all thought processes have stopped, the mind has disappeared – because the mind is nothing but a thought process. “When the mind is not, my heart is radiant”: then suddenly a sun rises in your heart. You are full of light, you are full of joy, you are full of love. When your heart is radiant for Krishna this is libration. Renunciation of a moving mind is liberation.
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