Even a small oil drop falling in the ocean can never merge in the ocean
It will remain floating forever.
So the prerequisite is: my nature must become like the nature of God.
Yujyate ithi yogah – one that joins, one that integrates my being with the Ultimate,
my little soul with God’s, my atman with Paramatman
That is all there is to it. But we do not understand much about what happens
truly what happens at that culmination.
No one can speak about it and if a person says,
“I know what happens there”, he is simply lying to you
If we understand Lord Kabir
Kabir saheb used to say, “It is like rain drops falling in the ocean.”
And when this rain drop drops in the ocean and merges in the ocean
it becomes the ocean. There is no drop left behind to talk about, “How I experienced this ocean”
You are not there. So it is a Catch-22 situation, you see. When you go to banks for loans
what is your backing? If I had the backing, why would I go to the bank?
And when you have a lot of money, the bank will say, “Why don't you take out some loan?”
It is good for their business. God is perhaps like that also
God is perhaps like that also When you need Him the most, He remains away
When you merge in Him, there is nothing to complain about. That is the end of the whole journey
But how to arrive at that total union? If we consider water, ocean water
Even a small oil drop falling in the ocean can never merge in the ocean
It will remain floating forever.
So the prerequisite is: my nature must become like the nature of God.
I cannot be, let us say, 99.99 percent.
No, I have to be one hundred percent, at the vibratory level of God.
Nothing less will do. Level of purity and simplicity
we will have to elevate ourselves to that extent, so that we can merge easily
That is a spiritual aspect of it, you see
And many things develop because of that union with the highest
What prevents us is fundamentally this.
Many people say, “We all have the soul. We are part of God.” Then how come we lost that purity?
On the way, we lost it somewhere
We became more egoistic, we became individualised. That was the number one fall
Second thing, there is an infinite number of desires we have.
All this adds up and forms karma, we call samskaras.
In order to undo all these impressions and samskaras, we take birth,
time and again to exhaust these karmas
But while undergoing good karmas, or while undergoing bad karmas, we go on forming more and more
So the baggage is never reduced, it is always increasing
As we take more and more births, we are adding more and more to this polluted being, you see.
Soul, in itself, is very pure. But the baggage we add, it is like, you know if you imagine
a lantern in the old times – perhaps most of you are familiar – old time lanterns in 1960s and 70s
In villages we used to clean the glass every evening, light up the candle
Every evening your mother would insist, “Bete finish this.” We would do it.
The day you do not do it, what happens? We cannot read properly, we cannot see the light properly.
So this cleaning is a must.
In Heartfulness Way, we teach this Cleaning, atleast get rid of our daily accumulation
Lamp did not go out anywhere. Yet, it formed a dark soot within itself.
Doing nothing, it formed it.
We are consciously collecting such dirt and filth and that black soot
all around our soul and it darkens our being
We are not able to see through this being. Though we have soul, we are ignorant about it altogether
because of these layers of darkness.
So if we can manage to clean ourselves every evening
then you will see the beauty of your inner being radiating.
People will wonder what has become of you and you yourself will be very happy with yourself.