1/ Just Be Aware And Await
Dear Bhakti,
Love.
I am thrilled with great expectations about you.
Oh! Much is to happen within you and without also.
You are on the verge of the explosion.
So, be alone.
Not lonely, but Alone.
And live with that Aloneness.
Rather BE that Aloneness.
That is the only meditation to you Now.
Loneliness is negative.
To be lonely is to be aware of the absence of others.
But to be alone is the most positive state of the mind.
It is to be aware of the PRESENCE of Oneself.
Be aware of the presence that is YOU.
Just be aware.
And Await.
Await the happening.
Near - very near is the Moment.
And remember that I am always with you.
I have been always with you.
Even when you did not know me.
And always feel my blessings.
17-8-1970
2/ Let Meditation Be Thy Very Existence
Dear Saraswati,
Love.
I hope you will be in deep meditation.
Breathe in it, sleep in it, live in it.
Let meditation be thy very existence.
Only then is the HAPPENING.
Don't do it, but BE IT.
And, my blessings are always with you.
If you need any help from me, just ask when you are
thoughtless.
And, it will be GIVEN to you.
25-10-1970
3/ Let The Meditation Ripen You
Dear Henrotte,
Love.
Come here.
Whenever it is possible.
You will always be welcomed.
And, stay with me for a little longer.
And, let me help.
It will be difficult for you, because, you will have to
LET GO yourself completely.
But it is not impossible.
And with you especially.
Because, I have seen in you the great potential that is
awaiting its opportunity.
With you much impossible is possible.
The seed is there which is longing to explode.
Its very longing is the source of your search.
Its longing is the Tension that you are today.
And its longing will be the Freedom that you will be
tomorrow.
The essence is there and the existence will follow it, if
you so wish,
Please, follow its call to the conclusion.
Go on doing meditation.
Do not seek results.
They will come by themselves, when the time is ripe.
And The Time Is Ripe.
But still you are not.
Let meditation ripen you.
25-10-1970
4/ Say Wholeheartedly: `Thy Will be Done’
Dear Bhakti,
Love.
Your letter.
I know your inner condition more than you know
yourself.
Because, NOW, your inner is not my outer.
Things that are happening to you unconsciously AND
even against your conscious will are GOOD.
WELCOME them and be grateful.
Because, nothing divine can happen with you and your
will.
Rather, your will is the only barrier in the way.
Say wholeheartedly: "Thy will be done".
And feel it.
And live it.
Come HOME soon.
I am waiting for you.
And much more is waiting to happen to you; also I know
you are sceptical.
That is not bad.
But a good beginning to begin with.
Wherever, there is mind, there is skepticism
Mind is scepticism.
And therefore conflict.
That is the way of the mind.
And its Nature.
Please do not fight with it.
And neither be identified with it.
These are the obvious alternatives.
But both false.
And aspects of the same coin.
You will have to walk in-between.
Come, and be with me and you will understand.
P.S. You know better than me,
Whether I am coming to the U.S.A. or not
Because, I will not come, unless you call me there.
This much is decided now - the remaining
will be decided when you meet me.
27-10-1970
5/ The Call from Beyond Has Come
Dear Ananda Prema,
Love and blessings.
Received your letter. I was waiting for it daily, since you
left.
I know that you have gone far away from here; but I also
know that NOW you cannot go away from ME.
And, that nearness is all that counts.
You have come near to me in a non-spatial and nontemporal
sense.
The meeting has taken place in the NO-WHERE.
Or, in the EVERY-WHERE.
Because, they both mean the same thing.
And, the real MEETING takes place only in this way.
All else is illusion.
Remember me whenever you need and you will find me
then and there.
Ask, anything - and WAIT and you will be answered.
The barriers have fallen down from your mind.
And, you have entered the meditative state.
Now the DOORS of the divine are open.
DO NOT HESITATE AND TAKE THE PLUNGE.
You are completely ready - just only be courageous to
enter the uncharted and the unknown.
The CALL from BEYOND has come - now accept the
challenge and be FULFILLED.
Now, close your eyes and feel me and see me and let my
blessings be showered on you.
Send Bhakti soon and convey my love to her.
27-11-1970
6/ Freedom From Becoming
My Beloved One,
Love.
Freedom from becoming means freedom for BEING.
Becoming is desiring.
BEING is That-Which-Is.
Becoming is longing for the future.
BEING is to be in the present.
Becoming is mental.
BEING is existential.
That is why - becoming must cease for the BEING to
reveal itself.
Becoming is just like the smoke around the flame.
Or, just like the outer covering around the seed.
So, please let the smoke go for the flame to explode in its
complete glory and splendour.
And, let the seed die to its outer shell so that it may be
what it is in its inner most depth.
7-1-1971
7/ In ThisWay, The Ocean Drops into the Drop
Beloved Bhakti,
Love.
Be in the crowd as if you are alone.
And vice versa.
Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when
alone. And, when alone, maintain the same attitude you
have in receiving guests.
In this way, the drop drops in the Ocean.
Upon retiring, sleep as if you have entered your last sleep.
And, upon awakening be reborn again.
In this way, the ocean drops into the drop.
15-1-1971
8/ Be Open, And Let Things Happen
Beloved Bhakti,
Love.When you are with me be completely at ease and
relaxed; that is, be totally yourself.
If you feel like crying then cry.
If you feel like weeping then weep.
But just be uninterruptedly aware.
Do not think about what you are doing - just be the doing
and when your senses are shaken like leaves in the wind -
then enter this shaking.
Because, only in such situations the being is revealed.
If a mood against someone or for someone arises do not
place it on the person in question but remain centered in
yourself and you will know a transcendence which is not
of this world at all.
16-1-1971
9/ Carefulness for Spiritual Crisis
Dear Atmananda,
Love. Bhakti needs only time to absorb the shock she has
come across her deep meditations.
Remember: only TIME and nothing else.
The shock is nothing new.
It happens whenever the deeper layers of the unconscious
are encountered.
Before any mutation this is absolutely necessary.
Be grateful to the Divine because this is a good omen.
Bhakti needed it badly; and when she is out of it, she will
be a new person totally.
Soon she will be twice-born.
Presently she is passing through a great spiritual crisis -
so you be with her but just as if you are not.
Be present but with absolute absence.
This is the only way you can be helpful to her.
Let her be alone as much as possible.
Do not talk with her except it is needed absolutely.
And, then too, be telegraphic.
But if she herself wants to talk, let her talk as much as she
likes - and you yourself be just a passive listener.
Let her do whatsoever she wants to do or not to do.
And soon everything will be O.K.
Do not worry at all.
I will be there besides you always - and if you can see
you will be able to see me also.
Of course, Bhakti will feel my Presence and will become
aware of me these days so many times.
Convey my blessings to Bhakti.
27-1-1971
10/Ecstasy and Bliss of Living
Moment to Moment
Dear Saraswati,
Love. I live not by planning and I also feel that that is the
only way to be alive at all.
In fact, I live a wild life - absolutely unplanned - not
knowing anything about the future, not even about the next
moment.
Today is enough for me - really more than enough!
The moment that is present is the only living moment - the
past is dead in the sense that it is no more and the future is
also dead in the sense that it is not yet born.
And, so to be concerned with the past is to be dead and to
be concerned with the future is also to be dead.
The only way to be alive is to be here and now - in the
moment and totally in it.
Living moment to moment I have found that Ecstasy and
bliss which is not of this world at all.
The single moment lived totally transcends time itself.
It becomes the gap between two moments of time.
And, if one can be in this gap then one is beyond death.
Because, time is death; and timelessness is life.
Life is not something fixed and finished - Life is living
that is - a process - just river like - flowing always into the
unknown - from the shores of the known to the shores of
the unknown.
27-1-1971
11/ Spiritual Sleep and Constant Awareness
Dear Ananda Prema,
Love. Do not forget the search for the Divine for even a
single moment.
Because, the time is always short and the task is great.
And, besides, the mind is wavering.
In fact, the mind is the wavering.
Remember this - and remain aware of this fact as much as
you can.
Because, the moment one is aware the wavering stops.
And in the intervals are the glimpses - glimpses of oneself
- glimpses of no-mind.
One has to transcend the wavering of the mind absolutely
before one comes to the doors of the Beloved.
NO-MINDNESS is the Door.
And the door is not far off.
But the seeker is asleep.
MIND is the SLEEP.
That is why you will have to be attentive and alert of
everything that passes before your consciousness - even
be attentive of the in-attentive moments.
Through constant awareness the spiritual sleep will be
broken and you will be transformed.
This is your potentiality - this is every ones
potentiality.
And, for you the time is RIPE.
But the seed can remain a seed and die.
The opportunity can be lost.
You are free to be that which you are meant to be - or to
be that which you are not meant to be.
Man is free to be or not to be.
This is the glory and this is the burden.
Freedom means responsibility.
So be careful.
If you can be that which is your potentiality - if you can
flower to your fullness - then there is bliss - then there is
ECSTASY; otherwise ashes are in hands and anguish in
the heart.
And, ultimately everything depends on you.
Heaven or Hell - and you and only you will be responsible
for it.
So be careful.
My blessings are always with you.
28-1-1971
11/ Spiritual Sleep and Constant Awareness
Dear Ananda Prema,
Love. Do not forget the search for the Divine for even a
single moment.
Because, the time is always short and the task is great.
And, besides, the mind is wavering.
In fact, the mind is the wavering.
Remember this - and remain aware of this fact as much as
you can.
Because, the moment one is aware the wavering stops.
And in the intervals are the glimpses - glimpses of oneself
- glimpses of no-mind.
One has to transcend the wavering of the mind absolutely
before one comes to the doors of the Beloved.
NO-MINDNESS is the Door.
And the door is not far off.
But the seeker is asleep.
MIND is the SLEEP.
That is why you will have to be attentive and alert of
everything that passes before your consciousness - even
be attentive of the in-attentive moments.
Through constant awareness the spiritual sleep will be
broken and you will be transformed.
This is your potentiality - this is every ones
potentiality.
And, for you the time is RIPE.
But the seed can remain a seed and die.
The opportunity can be lost.
You are free to be that which you are meant to be - or to
be that which you are not meant to be.
Man is free to be or not to be.
This is the glory and this is the burden.
Freedom means responsibility.
So be careful.
If you can be that which is your potentiality - if you can
flower to your fullness - then there is bliss - then there is
ECSTASY; otherwise ashes are in hands and anguish in
the heart.
And, ultimately everything depends on you.
Heaven or Hell - and you and only you will be responsible
for it.
So be careful.
My blessings are always with you.
28-1-1971
12/ Meditation Is Encountering
Yourself In Total Nakedness
Beloved Bhakti,
Love. Everything has happened, as it should happen.
And I was surprised not because you ran away from here,
but because I never thought that you could be so
predictable!
It is not from here that you have escaped; it is only a vain
effort to escape from yourself.
Which is impossible.
How can one escape from oneself?
But, in meditation a moment comes necessarily when the
mind tries the impossible - for the mind this is the last
defensive act.
Meditation is ultimately suicidal to the mind.
And, of course, the mind must be given a chance!
And, you have given it!
Meditation is encountering yourself - directly and in your
total nakedness.
This creates fear and the futile effort to escape.
The effort is futile because whatsoever is known once - it
is known for ever and you cannot be the old ignorant
again.
There is no way to go back.
And there is no bridge.
This escape too will make you more mature; and you will
come back strengthened through it and because of it.
NOW - RELAX there under the sky and besides the sea -
and I will be there.
Whenever you are relaxed you will feel my presence.
And, when you feel like coming - come back.
And soon you will feel.
I will be waiting here for you as ever.
COME and recontinue the arduous journey towards your
self.
Convey my love and blessings to Anand Prema.
25- 2-1971
13/ Divineness and Beauty of Being No-Body
Dear Krishna Christ.
Love. Oh! Don’t take life so seriously!
Because seriousness is a great dis-ease.
And not only a disease but a suicide also.
Be playful - totally.
Because that is the only way to be living.
Life is a play - a leela.
And to know it so is religion.
And to live it so is sannyas - renunciation.
If you can act and live as if acting and living in a dream
and still be a witness to it then you will be in the cosmic
flow - the TAO.
And to be in the cosmic flow is to be free - free from
oneself - the EGO.
The EGO is the seriousness - the disease.
And the TAO - the egoless existence is the bliss - the
ecstasy.
That is why I have given you a name - so absurd!
But I have given it to you knowingly.
I have given it to you so that you may never be identified
with it.
The name is so absurd that you will have to remain
nameless and no-body behind it.
And the name is such that not only others but you yourself
will be able to laugh at it.
SWAMI KRISHNA CHRIST!
Oh!What a name?
But perfectly suitable in a dream-drama.
Is it not so?
So feel at ease with it - and laugh with it and sing and
dance with it and be SWAMI KRISHNA CHRIST with all
the letters in capital!
And - always remember that you are no-body.
And always be aware that you are neither a Swami - nor a
Krishna - nor a Christ.
This is what is meant by a Swami!
And, Krishna himself is not a Krishna and Christ himself
is not a Christ - because they are nameless - absolutely
nameless.
They are no-bodies - and that is what makes them divine.
The moment one is identified with any name, one is lost to
one's divinity.
Either one can be a name or a reality.
And no one can be both simultaneously.
Be a name really - and your reality is lost.
Be a reality really - and your name is just a dream - maya.
And, what non-sense to be a Swami!
But once one is at ease with the non-sense one transcends
it.
Please! Don't try to be sensible otherwise you will never
be with any sense at all!
Because only stupidity tries to be sensible!
The existence is absurd.
And meaningless.
And irrational.
And that is why it is so beautiful.
And to be in it is such a blessing!
14- 4-1971
14/ Dance In Ecstasy to Welcome
the Divine Happening
Beloved Tao,
Love. I know what is happening to you.
The nothingness is descending.
The emptiness is increasing.
Welcome it - and rejoice in its coming.
Dance in ecstasy - because there is no other way to
welcome it.
And the more you dance, the more you will die.
And when you are dead completely you will be reborn.
And that moment is near - very near - just by the corner.
You have passed through the entrance-explosion and now
be ready for the ultimate.
Look at yourself once more as the river looks at itself
before falling into the ocean - because after falling into the
ocean there will be no one to look - and no one to be
looked at!
16-4-1971
15/ Surrender Happens
Beloved Tao,
Love. Don't think about Surrender at all - because
that-which-thinks about it is the only barrier.
And therefore no one can surrender; it is not a doing at all.
It happens - you cannot go to it - it comes to you.
And, any effort on your part will hinder its coming.
Be open and effortless - relaxed and passive.
And it will come - it always comes.
I am a witness to it.
16-4-1971
Compilation
and Editing:
Swami Yoga Chinmaya
