SOHAM

Are you the one who existed in deep sleep (dreamless sleep) last night or are you the one who is existing now in your waking hours? In your deep sleep, you were free from all worries but now in your waking state, you are unhappy and miserable. You knew nothing about struggle and conflict in your deep sleep but the same has suddenly appeared now in your waking state. Why? Are you the same person or two different persons – one who existed in deep sleep and another who is existing now? The answer, obviously, is that you are not two different persons but one and the same who not only existed in deep sleep but also the one who continue existing now. If you are the same person then why you are suddenly unhappy and miserable now? Why this unhappiness and misery did not exist for you in your deep sleep though you were very much alive and existed in your sleep?   What has changed between the two states? What is the new which has now suddenly appeared with your waking that you are unhappy...

Involvement is divine. All the physical movements which we see around us is because of the involvement – involvement of the energy or existence which we know as consciousness. This body, which otherwise is insentient ( jada ) is active only because of involvement of that sentient force or energy. Even while one is alive, all what he does in his life is possible only due to involvement of this energy with that body. The moment this involvement of energy with the body stops, the body will no longer remain active which is what we know as death. Thus death is non-involvement and life is involvement of energy with the body.   Involvement means ‘you’ – the real you or consciousness - are where you are and with what you are doing. Thus whatever you may be doing, say for example, walking and if your energy or consciousness travels with your walking ‘you’ are said to be in involvement with the divine. This is true for whatever else you may be doing. Similarly, when not doing anything, if...

  IT’S WRONG TO ASSUME or say that happiness comes from the objects of the world. This only appears to be but is not true because happiness comes from within. Happiness is your nature. That’s why this existence is referred to as satchitananda which is that existence or being ( sat ) is consciousness ( chitta ) and consciousness is bliss ( ananda). The happiness which you experience is of your existence; of your being, of your chitta . This bliss is that happiness which has no opposites and hence beyond duality.   The only condition that you need to fulfill for experiencing this bliss is that you must be established in your existence or in your consciousness because nature of consciousness is bliss. Whenever you are centered which is that you are not split within or spread into many directions, you are in your being. No-mind or no-thought state is the state of your being; is the state of your consciousness. Thought is a disturbance. You can try and experience this. Become s...

Whatever the age for which you have lived so far, please do one little exercise – just look back and try to find out that one thing, precisely one thing, which has really kept you alive for all these years. Though you might say or claim to have done so many things but could you pinpoint that single thing which has really kept you ‘on’ for all these years? The most obvious thing which would come to your mind is the food that you ate. Though food is essential for this body but it’s not food which kept you alive. Because if the food is the reason then the rich would never die. We also know that food is of no use and of no help once a person is dead. The food cannot bring him back. A dead cannot eat food. You cannot force-feed the dead.   One could also name breath and vital force as the reason for one’s living. Though breath is the reason for life and death but breath too is physical which happens in the body like other happenings in the body while you are alive. Again breath is no...