Mind : ( 24/10/2012. )

This is meditation. If anybody asks you what meditation is, tell them this is meditation. Toward the achievement of this apex of meditational practice, you are given recipes of a lesser category so that you may adjust yourself gradually, stage by stage, in the higher wholes which are the dimensions of larger and larger wholes of consciousness. You are the maker of yourself. Your peace of mind is within you only. You are the culprit – if at all there is one – and, therefore, complain not. Complain against your inadequacies, your imperfections and the lack of power of will that you are sunk in, by which you are unable to understand how you are connected to the world, to people, to the atmosphere, to ecological conditions, to the world as a whole. Find fault with yourself only. Do not find fault with anybody else, because the world is a whole, and wholeness cannot have imperfections. Again I tell you, look at that wonderful Viratsvarupa, the cosmic consciousness, th...

So, each level of wholeness gets identified with the larger whole of which it is an integral part, from which it cannot separate itself. This is the art of administration, the art of thinking properly, the art of education and the teaching process, learning – everything. This is the knowledge of the Self, as you may call it. It is said that the greatest knowledge is knowledge of the Self. But do not be under the impression that the Self is sitting inside the body. I mentioned to you that the Self is a wholeness that you feel within yourself, a consciousness rather than a limbed body with bones and flesh and nerves, etc. that you are not. You are the operation of consciousness. Remember very well – what would you be if consciousness were not there? You would not be there at all. If consciousness is not there, you also are not there. So when you are there, it is consciousness that is really there. Satisfaction is not in you or in somebody else. It is in consciousness itself. ...

This is not religion, this is not spirituality, this is not any kind of esoteric doctrine, but a scientific fact of the law of nature that everything is cohesive and fitted into one another so that each one is everything and everything is each one. This is a highly developed consciousness of democracy, if you can think in this manner. It is a feeling that consciousness is an ideal that gathers itself into a cohesive force by which it becomes inseparable from what it regards as something that is outside. Here is the characteristic of a saint or a sage. Nothing is outside the saint and, therefore, he needs nothing from outside. One should not want anything from outside, because the outside thing does not exist apart from you and you do not exist outside that thing which you consider as outside. The saints and the sages ask not anything. They do not require anything because they have got everything by being united with that which you regard as outside you. The thing which you ...

 You will not have satisfaction of any kind unless you are adjusted to the conditions prevailing outside. Unless you are well-adjusted, the family to which you belong cannot be well-adjusted, because every member of the family is just like yourself. So, you do not know what a family is. It is an organism of individuals like your own self. This little organism which is yourself becomes a slightly larger organism called the family. The family organism becomes a community organism. The community organism becomes a village, a state or a nation organism. The nation is an organism, a living body. The world, the country, the nation is not a bundle of trees and mountains and rivers and roads and buildings – nothing of the kind. It is a consciousness. It is an ideology. It is an adjustment of consciousness to a particular objective which transcends one's own self. That is what is known as national consciousness. That may be called social consciousness. That may be called natural or u...

If you are torn asunder – away from the total to which you organically belong and cannot unite yourself – then you cannot have peace. Peace is the total consciousness of total existence. We are far from it. We are torn individuals in every manner, socially and psychologically. We require, therefore, not peace of mind, but education. Education is the art of knowing oneself, first of all, before knowing anything else. You may know the stars in the heavens, but you may know nothing about your own self. You can count the stars in the heavens, but you do not know the number of doors in your own house. You have to look around to find out how many doors and windows there are. You know very much about the world outside, but nothing, practically, about yourself. But you must know that you cannot stand outside the world. So, knowledge of the world implies knowledge of the self also and, vice versa, knowledge of the self is knowledge of the world. Atmanam viddhi – know thyself and be...

Meditation is the attention of the total mind in the direction of that which is the total above oneself. The lower total adjusts itself to the conditions of the higher total. This applies to human organisms, society, government, and nature as a whole. Therefore, to sum up, peace is an outcome of the adjustment of oneself with the various wholes that are inextricably related to the cosmic whole. Suffice it to say, you are slowly being led to the conclusion that unless you are friendly with the whole cosmos, you cannot have peace of mind. What is meant by friendship with the cosmos? You have to be adjusted in your total personality to the requirements of cosmic operation, the evolutionary process. The world does not contain unwanted things, because if anything is unwanted, it cannot exist within the jurisdiction of the whole of creation. Everything has a particular context, and in that context it is perfectly fitted to the cosmic requirement – as in a large mechanism or...

Unfortunately, that is not so. The judge is involved in the very circumstance of judging. A judgment is an organic action. It is not an individual's predilection, or thinking as one would like. The judiciary is an organism which includes the judge, the lawyers and the people who are connected with the case. They are not isolated units scattered out in a disabled manner, but they form a complete whole. If the judge knows that the whole atmosphere of judiciary functioning is a complete whole, the judgment also is a complete whole without any kind of partisanship. This is a psychology that is applicable to every kind of experience in your life, every duty that you perform, every work with which you are acquainted. It is not possible to have peace unless you know the source of peace. The source of peace is the balance that has to be struck in your own mind. The balance is disturbed on account of the mind working as the medium of the sense organs, which move towards objects ou...