Sublime

‘Do not meditate – be! Do not think that you are – be! Don't think about being – you are!'

To say this in another way, “God is all! Let go and let God be. It is not I but the Father who worketh through me.” We must let go of the ego sense, which is the original sense of our separation-from the All-and allow our natural Being to just be, and then everything will fall perfectly into line.

guru is not a person but the eternal reality that always exists and shines in our heart as our own being, ‘I am’.

They are however only in the mind. If you see the mind, time and space are transcended and the Self is realised.

If it is investigated in this way, ego will disappear, ceasing to exist, and what will then be experienced is not a place on the right side of the chest in the body but only ātman (our real nature) – which is devoid of the body, devoid of inside and outside, devoid of right and left, and devoid of the constraints of time and place.

Completely giving up identification with the body alone is exhalation [rechaka]; merging within through the enquiry ‘Who am I?’ along is inhalation [puraka]; abiding as the one reality ‘I am that' alone is retention [kumbhaka]. This is the real pranayama.11

Verse 11: Knowing anything other than oneself is ignorance, but when one knows the reality of oneself, knowledge and ignorance of everything else will cease.