MOKO KAHAN DHUNDHE RE BANDHE MAIN TO TERE PASS ME….. ‘WHERE ARE YOU SEARCHING ME? I AM THERE, ALWAYS WITH YOU…’

This body which we are so much in love with and yet upon death we are so much scared of the same body that we do not want to be with it anymore and want to consign the same body to the flames as quickly as possible. Why this is so? Isn’t it the same body which we loved and lived with our whole life? What has, then, changed now which has changed our attitude towards this body? 

The way we treat the body, post-death, makes it obvious to us, that this body, per se, is not the reality. Further, we also know, not experientially but intuitively, that reality is ‘something’ else because that ‘something’ really made the difference in the way we treat the body pre and post-death. That ‘something’ when it was present in the body, the body was alive and the body moved around. Now, because that ‘something’ has disappeared from the body and hence, we have pronounced it as dead. 

Thus, we all know, again intuitively, not experientially, that ‘something’ which is the reality is, for sure, within this body itself because presence and absence of that ‘something’ really made the difference. Now, there are two obvious dimensions to this – firstly, what we know as Self-realization (atma-sakashatakar) is nothing but experientially knowing that ‘something’ which keeps this body alive and secondly, which is more important, is that if we too want to become Self-realized then our search should obviously be focused within because that ‘something’ or that reality is within this body and not on the outside. We should never be searching that ‘something’ on the outside because doing that, is a waste of life. It is as simple as that.   

Yet, please see the irony, - that ‘something’ is closest of all i.e. within this body itself, with which we live our whole life and yet most of us miss the same. Only a few and rare ones could become aware of this reality. Why? The answer lies in the fact that we are too outwardly focused. We are too much busy ‘doing’ things on the outside. A large part of humanity is, anyway, completely outward bound because for them what matters are worldly achievements. They are happy ‘doing’ things on the outside. They are, thus, bound to miss the reality. 

Even those, a tiny part of the whole, who are a bit interested in Self-realization too are wrongly focused because they too are busy searching this dimension on the outside in worldly things such as books, religious places; discourses etc. We are, thus, missing the reality simply because though the reality is within but either because we are too busy doing things on the outside and thus never paid attention to the inside or though claiming to search HIM but the search itself is in the wrong direction. 

This is like you want to go to Delhi and you are heading in the opposite direction. Now, you may still reach Delhi, going around the whole earth. But this roundabout journey may take years which otherwise could be completed, say, in days. So, if you are not in hurry and do not mind searching your destination even in the wrong direction say for another 100 lives then there is no issue. Because later or sooner we all are heading towards the same direction and to the same destination. But if you are in hurry and want to make it in this life itself, then better make a U-turn and change direction now. 

In order to know or realize that which is within, you must change your direction; shift your focus from outward to inward. In fact, those who could become aware of this reality, could do so because they dared to shift their focus from outside to inside. Only a shift in focus from outward to inward could make you Self-realized because that reality or ‘something’ is always with you. In fact, in this moment you can read this post only because that ‘something’ is present within you right now; only because that ‘aliveness’ is present within you right now. 

That’s why Kabira said Moko kahan dhundhe re bandhe mein to tere pass me…’where are you searching me? I am always there with you….’ Hence for realizing that ‘something’ you do not have to do anything big. The only and simple thing needed to be done is to turn inward because inward is your home and outward is straying (bhatakav) from home. If all the time, you are away from home, obviously you will never know your home. Being home or turning inward, simply, means, you do whatever you want to do, but you keep your focus (dhyana), always, within i.e. you keep your dhyana (focus) gathered and not spread around all over the place which is what bhatakav is. 

In fact, this bhatakav on the outside into many things is because we failed to do the right thing which is to pay attention within. If you shift your attention within, your bhatakav will stop automatically and you will become gathered or centered within which is what turning inward is. Turning inward is an answer to all your problems; all your sufferings, all your questions. Hence, if you want to be saved of this roundabout journey, then please turn inward and be home all the time. Meditation is turning inward. Meditation is being home. Meditation is to practice as how to be centered or gathered within.