In the Bible there is a beautiful statement: "Be still and know that I am God."
What does it mean?
“And know that I am God.”
What does it mean?
In this sentence two things are told.
Be still, so it is a direction given to Moses by the Lord himself, be still.
When you will be still then you will know me.
I am God.
If you are not still, you are restless, how can you know me?
Gurudev changed the sentence a little bit.
He said: "Be still and know that you are God."
Be still and know that you are God.
If you are really still you will experience your own divine nature
you will find you are God.
Aham brahmasmi.
So stillness is essential in spiritual journey.
Lahiri Mahasaya said: (Sanskrit)
Stillness of four.
Stillness of body, stillness of look, stillness of breath, then stillness of mind.
Do you know, some people sit and their hands will be moving.
In the classroom, because I was a teacher teaching,
now I am teaching, do you know, from my childhood I have been teaching.
When I was a schoolboy, I was also teaching my friends.
The same subject.
And my classmates who loved me told: You are teaching better than our teacher.
So teach us.
However I have seen the students sit and the hand is moving.
Sometimes they sit there, their legs are moving.
Here in this class you will find some people they cannot sit still, the leg is moving.
Why?
Can you not sit still?
Be still.
Stillness of body.
Stillness of look.
Those who are really restless, restless mind, agitated mind, their eyes move very fast.
Those who are peaceful calm and quiet their eyes don't move or blink too much.
Either eyeball will move or blinking.
I don't know if you have observed,
those who are mothers can easily tell or agree with me.
When the baby is sleeping but although their eyes are closed the eyeball is moving.
Sleeping baby.
Eyes closed and why are the eyeballs moving?
Because the baby is inwardly mentally little bit...
Am I clear?
Something is happening, dreaming.
The baby is sleeping to you.
The baby is sleeping but the baby is dreaming
and because the mind is functioning during the dream the eyes are also moving inwardly.
You can see the eyeball moving.
Those who are mothers will agree with me.
And I have seen it many times.
Okay.
Stillness of body, stillness of look, stillness of breath.
The breath should be so slow, so feeble it should not move.
It will come in the Gita.
Then the mind will be still.