Spontaneity

Awareness With Spontaneity

A new combination, a new synthesis is needed: awareness with spontaneity. That is what Kabir means when he says sahaj samadhi. Sahaj means spontaneity, samadhi means awareness: spontaneous awareness. If awareness interferes with your spontaneity, you have missed. If your spontaneity goes against awareness, you have missed. A seeker is one who is both together: sahajai kaya sadho.

Says Kabir: O seeker! Purify your body in the simple, natural, spontaneous way. Don’t fight with the body – that is the message. The body is yours, the body is you; don’t create any enmity with the body. The Christians, the Hindus, the Mohammedans, the Jainas have all been fighting with the body. Somehow, a very wrong notion has become very prevalent: that the body is the obstacle toward God. It is not so, not at all!

The body has nothing to do with it. The body is a vehicle: if you want to use the vehicle to go to hell, it will take you to hell; if you want to go to heaven, it will take you to heaven. The vehicle is simply available, wherever you want to go. If you want to go outside, it will take you outside; if you want to go inward, it will take you inward. The vehicle is just a vehicle; it is tremendously beautiful, tremendously cooperative. The body is so cooperative that even when you start destroying the body it cooperates. You can take a whip and whip yourself, and your hand will be cooperating. Look at the tremendous cooperation: you can whip your body with your own hands; you can drink poison with your own hands and with your own mouth, and the body will cooperate. Its cooperation is unconditional.

Such a beautiful body, such a friendly body – and you have been taught to be against it. You have been taught that the body is evil, or that the body belongs to the Devil: “Don’t listen to the body.” You are embodied in it, you are rooted in it. It is your soil; you have to grow out of it, you have to be nourished by it.

The first thing Kabir says is: O seeker! Purify your body in the simple way. Don’t fight with it; cooperate with it. Befriend it, and be spontaneous with it. Fulfill bodily needs because the body is a chariot and you can make it go to the ultimate consciousness. It will become your passage, it will take you, you can ride on it. It has been given to you for a particular goal. It is a very valuable mechanism. Science has not yet been able to create anything comparable to the body – and I don’t think scientists will ever be able to create anything comparable to the body. The body is the divine’s most beautiful mechanism.

As the seed is within the banyan tree, and within the seed are the flowers, the fruits, and the shade, so the germ is within the body, and within that germ is the body again.

Kabir says that the life spark is hidden in your body. The germ that can become a flowering, the seed that can become God – the potentiality is hidden in the body. Don’t fight with it because that potentiality is very fragile; if you fight with the body you will destroy that potentiality. It is very delicate. If you become aggressive, masochistic, if you start torturing yourself, that delicacy will disappear.

The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

The fire, the air, the water, the earth, and the ether; you cannot have these outside of him.

And Kabir says this body is not outside of God, it is in God. Nothing is outside of him. The air, the earth, the ether, the fire, the water – nothing is outside of him, because nothing is outside him. God has no outside.