Words from the Master

Swamiji, do you always feel blissful? Don’t you ever feel the sway of emotions?

(Swamiji laughs…) Yes! I am blissful always – 24x7 in your language! This is because plurality has disappeared from my Being. When there is bliss, there cannot be plurality. Only when plurality disappears, bliss can happen.

In my Being, there is no lust or fear, attachment or hatred or any of the opposing emotions. The only emotion is Bliss! It would be difficult for you to relate to what I am saying. Unless it becomes an experiential understanding for you, it will be difficult for you to understand this. You might understand it at the intellectual level. As of now, understand that I am always blissful, that is enough!

Understand: The first step to bliss is to become a watcher. Simply watch life as if it were a drama. When you watch, your mind will become still. When it becomes still, you have caught the thread. When you experience that stillness at least once, you have caught the thread.

That thread will guide you into periods of longer stillness. This stillness is your Master. The outer Master helps to find your inner Master, that’s all. When you have found the stillness, you will understand that all emotions are a mere play of the mind.

Understand, you can never drop any emotion by consciously trying to drop it. The more you try to drop it the more attached you will become to it and it will become a torture for you. The emotion will haunt you. The only way is to watch your emotions. As you watch your emotions, the distance between your emotions and you will start increasing.

Right now, you are so entangled with your emotions that you simply cannot see yourself apart from them. When you start watching, you will start creating a distance between you and your emotions. Slowly, the distance will increase and one day, the watcher will disappear from the scene.

Then, you need not put any effort to drop your emotions. They will simply drop of their own accord and you will feel disconnected from them. You will no more be able to relate with them. They will simply disappear from your Being. A shift in Consciousness happens in you. You then become a new person.

When you become a watcher, there will be no room for worries or pain. There will be only love in you. You will then understand the love of Existence, the infinite love that Existence showers on you every minute.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.