[Chaturamnaya] Enquiry and Sadhana - 4

[Sankaran Kartik Jayanarayanan]

(Continued from previous post)

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D: Which books are most helpful in
swadhyaya during spare time (for quick
training of the mind for the enquiry)?

M: You may read whichever book you
like. Self (Atma) is the real book. You can
look into it whenever you like. Nobody can
take it away. It is always at hand, to be
read. Hold on to your Self in your spare time
also, and then you can read any book.

D: If doubts, fears and worries harrass
me during meditation, how can they be most
effectively removed?

M: Ask yourself "To whom do these
doubts, fears and worries occur?" — and
they will vanish. Cease to pay attention to
them. Pay attention to the Self within.
Fears etc. can only arise when there are
two, or when anybody else exists apart
from, or separate from or outside of you. If
you turn the mind inward towards the Self,
fears etc. will disappear.

If you try to remove a doubt or fear,
another doubt or fear will arise. There will
be no end to it. The best method to annihilate
them is to ask "To whom do they
occur?" — and they will disappear. Destroying
a tree by plucking its leaves one by
one is impossible. Other leaves will grow by
the time you pluck a few. Remove the root
of the tree — the ego — and the whole tree
with its leaves and branches will be destroyed.
Prevention is better than cure.

D: Should I look for the source within
the body?

M: The ego arises within the body. Hence
in the first instance you may look within the
body for its source. When you reach the
source there will be no inside or outside,
because the source or the Self is all-pervading.
After realisation everything will be
inside the Self.


(To be Continued)
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