Unknown Fragrance – In Gita Verse 18.61 The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.
Krishna says that God is not outside of you but he is residing within you. In your heart. He is formless in your form. He directs the form.
So all the self-realised people guide us to move inside of us. They say move in and you will meet. There is no God outside of you. It is present in everybody as emptiness.
AN OLD ZEN MASTER SAID: TURN YOUR HEART ROUND AND ENTER THE ORIGIN. DO NOT SEARCH FOR WHAT HAS SPRUNG OUT OF IT! WHEN YOU HAVE GAINED THE ORIGIN, WHAT HAS SPRUNG OUT OF IT WILL COME TO YOU OF ITSELF.
We are born looking outwards. Our eyes open outwards, our hands reach outwards, all of our senses are ready to receive the outward vibrations. But we don’t have any sense available which gives us information about our inner being.
Meditation is the search for that hidden eye that can see your origin. It is called the buddha-eye. But a great turning is needed. You have to close off the world completely, even if just for a single moment, and give a turn to your whole being, to look inside the well from where you are coming.
And don’t think about anything else, because this experience of looking into yourself will explain everything that was a question to you. Thousands of answers were there, but no answer was able to satisfy it.
When you experience looking into yourself, you will find Emptiness, you realise Emptiness.
When you enter this emptiness for the first time, you will feel this is the same emptiness – naturally, because you have never known it before. Allow it, remain with it. That’s what I would like to say to you. Don’t try to think beyond it in any way. Be it. And suddenly the focus changes, the gestalt changes. The attention shifts and you look into it – and it is no longer loneliness, it is aloneness; it is no longer isolation, it is infinite presence. You have disappeared, and in that disappearance God has appeared.
God and you are just gestalts. If you are there, God remains hidden. When you disappear, he becomes manifest. When you come back again, he becomes hidden. Your very presence hides him; your presence functions as a cloud.
Enjoy it, allow it, love it. And remain more and more in it. Whenever you have time, don’t waste it anywhere. Close your eyes, be empty, and soon the beauty of it will be revealed to you. By and by, you will have a taste of the new wine, absolutely new, because you have not known it before – although it has always been there but you have never contacted it before. It will intoxicate you, it will make you ecstatic. You will be transformed through it.
So don’t try to find a way out. There is no way out of it because that is all. You cannot go anywhere else. The only way out is for you to bring Humpty Dumpty back in. The only way out is for the mind to start functioning again – in fear. You gather thoughts around, you make relationships; you go to the marketplace, you get lost in the crowd. Then you are not empty. You have missed. You have missed the door you have been seeking for lives.
MASTER OTSU, COMMENTING ON THIS EMPTYING OF THE HEART, SAID:
THE HEART BECOMES EMPTY, THE SITUATION QUIET, AND THE BODY JUST
AS IT IS.
Everything remains the same, nothing changes. This does not mean that the man who has approached the very origin of existence becomes somebody special. Everything remains the same. But on the other hand, everything starts looking different. Now he can see the beauty of the flower that you cannot see. His eyes are so fresh that he can see the beauty of a sunset that you cannot see. Your eyes are so full of dust, you are hardly able to see. You cannot penetrate to the very origin of a flower.
But a man who knows his origin knows the origin of everything. He never makes any judgement. This is a great contribution to human consciousness: not to make judgments. That is a very low kind of morality, a very low kind of religion, which goes on making judgments about good and bad.
Krishna says the cosmic origin of things is beyond our intellect, our mind, our words, our body, and circumstances. But in deep silence we reach it. We feel the dance of it, we hear the music of it, we feel the unknown fragrance of it.
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