SOHAM

The usual reason, we are attracted to each other, is our bodies. Because, you like the body or because you have a good body, you attract others and you get attracted to others. We, thus, are fundamentally, attracted to the physical. Now, nothing new in it. This is very much happening, all over. This is all about the physical and hence, is worldly i.e. just an attraction to the body and by the body.   Our attraction to the opposite sex, is nothing but just an attraction, to the bodies only. Now, you may think, that you are attracted to a particular man or woman but this is not the case, because that attraction, is not to that particular man or woman but just an attraction to the body of that man or woman only. In fact, the same will happen to you, when you see other men and women also, because attraction is not to a particular person, as you may think, but to the bodies, in general.   Attraction to the bodies is physical, which usually translates into bodies meeting, at th...

…….you went on to visit your Guru. When I say Guru, I mean, by the one who, has become aware of the dimension which, we know as spiritual or divine. I am referring to the one who, has realized his stillness within. So, you went to see him and obviously, you talked to him, about the tragedy which, struck upon your family, recently. If you pay little attention, you will observe, from the response of your Guru, as if nothing has, really, happened. And, let me tell you that, yes, that is the truth because, in reality, nothing has happened. As far as this existence is concerned, there is no such thing as happening – nothing really has happened so far, nothing really is happening now and nothing really will happen tomorrow.   Happenings i.e. coming and going, appearing and disappearing; making and unmaking etc are a movement and movement is in the mind. As far as the ‘Center’ or core of this existence is concerned, is always fixed, is always still and unmoved and is always ‘as it is’ ...

In your waking, I mean, during the day, you do few things, on the outside. Now, by doing these few things, in the world, if you think that you have done all, then you are mistaken. This is for two reasons - firstly, worldly or material things have limited relevance, in the sense, that all what you do, on the outside, are nothing but just physical only because they all have, to do with the physical and physical is relevant to you only, so long, you are in this body.   Once, you lose this body, then the physical i.e. the world and worldly, too, lose relevance for you. Thus, material well-being is passing and not lasting. Secondly, whatever you do, on the outside, may bring material riches to you, which, in turn, will make your surroundings and living, here, better but these material riches, can never bring, spiritual well-being to you.   Please know that, spiritual well-being, has to do with your spirit, with your interiority i.e. with your fundamentals and hence, has nothi...

Did you notice, that in your sleep, you exist peacefully, without any disturbance? Not only, that you exist peacefully, but you also exist totally and fully, because, in your sleep nothing else exists for you and yet you exist i.e. you remain alive. Sleep, therefore, is your natural state because, in sleep, nothing else but your nature alone, does exist. In sleep, you exist in, what is integral to your existence.   However, with your waking up, your peace is disturbed. In your waking, you become sad, you suffer and you become miserable. Why so? Why this change, in your waking? The answer is - your mind. In sleep, you exist in your nature i.e. in total peace because mind is absent. In sleep, mind too goes to sleep. Though, peace is your original nature but because the mind is active, in your waking and hence, your peace is disturbed.   Please remember that, mind is the seer, mind is the cognizer. Mind is not integral to your existence but is external to your nature. Mind i...

If you can enter your sleep, in awareness and can also maintain the same awareness, in your sleep, then please know, that you have come full circle, which is that you are awake in metaphysical sense, which we traditionally, know, as awakening or ‘Self-realization’. That is the reason that only a realized being, can enter and maintain awareness in sleep, because he has become total awareness, he as realized his true identity and he thus always exist in the company of the 'Self' only. That’s why it is said about a yogi, that he is awake, even in his sleep. We cannot enter sleep in awareness because we are yet total unconsciousness and hence, we enter sleep only in unconsciousness. That is the reason that, before sleep we fall unconscious and we never ever remember or come to know, as when we entered into our sleep.   Now, sleep though is unconsciousness and yet is our natural state or our reality because in sleep, nothing else but the reality alone exists. Nothing else exists ...