SOHAM

For journey, from one place to the other,  what you do is that, you sit in the bus and relax and the bus reaches you to your destination. So, for reaching to your destination, what’s important is that, after getting into the bus, you must relax. If you don’t know, how to relax, then you suffer your journey. Even, after sitting in the bus, if you don’t relax but instead, if you become anxious, you become agitated in your mind, by thinking whether the bus will reach me to my destination or not, will there be an accident of the bus, will the bus be hijacked on the way etc then you will suffer your whole journey.  However, after sitting in the bus, if you just relax, if you just doze off, then not only, you reach to your destination but you also enjoy your whole journey. So, the secret of making to the destination, is to just ride the bus. Nothing more or nothing less because, anyway, the bus is going to its destination and if you know how to ride it, then the bus will take you, t...

What you know, as your wakefulness and sleep, are nothing but just two different states of the same mind only. Your assuming or thinking that ‘I’m awake’ or ‘I’m asleep’, is not at all true because, not you but your mind is actually awake, in your wakefulness and your mind is asleep, in your sleep. Fundamentally, what you know, as sleep, is nothing but your mind, going to sleep temporarily and your waking or wakefulness, is nothing but the same mind, waking up again, from sleep only.   Thus, what you know as life, is nothing but you alternating between these two states of your mind only. So, in reality, not you but your mind is actually living in this body, which you ignorantly know or identify as ‘I’m’. In reality, there is no such thing as ‘I’m’ but it’s the mind, the subtle body, which we also know as jivatma, which actually lives in and drives this body.   So, sleep means, mind going to sleep, or mind going to rest, temporarily. With mind going to sleep, the world st...

Peace is your nature, peace is your reality but noise is of your individuality, of your ego, which keeps happening, all the time, in your waking. That’s why, you remain disturbed and you never find a moment of peace, in your waking, because this noise of your thoughts, keeps happening non-stop in your mind. Only, when your go to sleep, this noise stops and you become peaceful for a while.   That’s why, you must have noticed that, after deep sleep, you wake up, fully rested and afresh. Now, this feeling of freshness or having rested enough, is not a result of your sleep but is for the reason that your thoughts, your individuality had stopped, for a while. As a result of which, you existed, in total peace, in your sleep. Thought is a disturbance to your peace. In sleep, you exist in complete peace and silence because thought is not.   However, with your waking up, you become disturbed again and you suffer, simply for the reason, that with your waking up, your individuality, you...

क्या आप जानते है की घानी का बैल, चलता तो दिन भर है, लेकिन पहुँचता कहीं भी नहीं है ? दिन भर चलने के बाद भी, वह वहीं पर होता है, जहां से उसने चलना शुरू किया था। अब ऐसा क्यों ? ऐसा इसलिये, क्योंकि घानी का बैल, कभी सीधा नहीं चलता, बल्कि हमेशा वहीं एक ही जगह पर, एक घेरे में, चक्कर लगाता है यानि की सीधा लाइन में ना, चलकर वहीं एक ही जगह पर राउंडस मारता है और इसीलिये वह कहीं नहीं पहुँच पाता और इस तरह दिन भर की यात्रा के बाद भी, वह वहीं होता है, जहां वह शुरू में था। यही बैल यदि सीधा चलता, तो अवश्य कहीं पहुँचता।   अब ऐसी ही स्थिति, कुछ हमारी भी है। हम भी चूँकि, सीधे नही चलकर, बल्कि एक ही घेरे में चक्कर लगा रहे है और इसलिये हम वहाँ नहीं पहुँच पा रहे है, जहां हमे पहुँचना चाहिये। घेरे में घूमना या घानी के बैल की तरह चक्कर लगाने का मतलब, यहाँ अपनी आदतों के अधीन होना है। आदत एक चक्कर यानि घेरे की तरह है, जो आपको वही काम बार-बार यानि आदतन करवाती है और इस तरह आप उस आदत से बंधे रहते है। आदत से बंधे होना, मतलब कोल्हू के बैल की ही तरह, एक घेरे में घुमना ही है यानि की केवल चक्कर लगाना है। आदत...

Do you know that, in reality there is no world, there is no physical? The world exists in and by your recognition only. The physical exists for you, because you recognise it. If you stop recognising it, if you stop acknowledging it, then the world is not, then there is no such thing, as physical or the world, out there. Your recognition, in the form of your reaction and expression alone, makes the world, exist, for you.   Now, your recognition i.e. your reaction, is in your mind, because the mind is the cognisor or the watcher. In consciousness, there is no seeing, there is no watching. That’s what happens to you, in your deep sleep. In your sleep, the world suddenly disappears for you, the world or the physical or others don’t exist for you, because, in sleep, the cognisor, I mean, the watcher i.e. the mind is not and because the watcher or the observer is not and therefore, the observed or the seen, too, is not. In sleep, because the mind is not and hence, there is no one to r...

अब इस मुहावरे का, जिसे हम अपनी आम भाषा में रोजाना इस्तेमाल करते है , सांसारिक संदर्भ में क्या मतलब है, वह मैं आपको नहीं बताऊँगा, क्योंकि वह तो हम सब जानते है। लेकिन इसका अध्यात्म के संदर्भ में क्या मतलब और महत्व है, वह मैं आपको बताना चाहूँगा।   देखिये यहाँ बंद मुट्ठी से, मेरा मतलब उर्जा के बंधें होने से है. यानि की , आपकी ऊर्जा जब तक बँधी हुई है , आपकी , चेतना जब तक एकजुट है, एकत्र है, स्थिर या ठहरी हुई है, तो यह बँधी हुई ऊर्जा, ठहरी हुई ऊर्जा, आपको अध्यात्म के शिखर तक ले जा सकती है। वास्तव में, मैं आपको बताऊँ की, अध्यात्म के शिखर यानि बुद्धत्व तक पहुँचने के लिये आपको और कुछ नहीं करना है, बल्कि अपनी ऊर्जा को ही संभालना है। अपनी ऊर्जा को ही एकत्र करके रखना है। और ऐसा इसलिये, क्योंकि बुद्धत्व की उपलब्धि, ऊर्जा को बांध कर यानि समेट कर ही संभव है। बिखरी हुई ऊर्जा, की क़ीमत ख़ाक यानि मिट्टी से ज़्यादा नही है। क्योंकि बिखरी हुई ऊर्जा, यानि उर्जा जो संसार की ओर बह रही है , वह आपके लिये, केवल और केवल संसार ही इकट्ठा कर सकती है। संसार मतलब, भौतिक और भौतिक मिट्टी से ज़्यादा नही है।...

Did you ever drive on highways? What happens that, while driving on highways, a time comes, when you really, don’t have to do much except, that you just use your one foot and keep applying gentle pressure on the accelerator pedal and the vehicle just rolls on, at the desired speed. Driving on highways, becomes even much easier and virtually entails no effort, on your part, if you have the cruise control device, in your vehicle and you just put it on. The vehicle, then, just moves, at the chosen speed. What, I’m trying to say is that, if you remain, in one state of consciousness, for long, then one of the two things are bound to happen to you – either, you will, fall asleep i.e. you will slip into unconsciousness, which is the usual case with us, or you will come awake, in metaphysical sense, commonly known as enlightenment, which is very rare. That’s why, frequent and terrible accidents on highways.      Now, why, I’m talking about highway driving? What, highway driving h...