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So we shouldn't concern
ourselves with history too much, or get involved in the world situation too much, because it can
pull you into it, but rather we should work on ourselves and then everything will take care of
itself.
- Robert Adams, Ts 4
~Rupert Spira
A visitor asked Bhagavan, “When I try to be without all thoughts, I pass into sleep. What should
I do about it?”
Bhagavan: Once you go to sleep, you can do nothing in that state. But while you are awake, try
to keep away all thoughts. Why think about sleep? Even that is a thought, is it not? If you are
able to be without any thought while you are awake, that is enough.
When you pass into sleep, that state, in which you were before falling asleep, will continue and
again, when you wake up, you will continue from where you had left off when you fell into
slumber.
So long as there are thoughts of activity, so long would there be sleep also. Thought and sleep
are counterparts of one and the same thing.
Bhoga Vasanas
AS: Nothing can cause bondage for the jnani because his mind is dead. In the absence of a mind,
he knows himself only as consciousness. Because the mind is dead, he is no longer able to
identify himself with the body. But even though he knows that he is not the body, it is a fact that
the body is still alive. That body will continue to live, and the jnani will continue to be aware of
it until its own karma is exhausted.
Because the jnani is still aware of the body, he will also be aware of the thoughts and vasanas
that arise in that body. None of these vasanas has the power to cause bondage for him because he
never identifies with them, but they do have the power to make the body behave in certain ways.
The body of the jnani enjoys and experiences these vasanas although the jnani himself is not
affected by them. That is why it is sometimes said that for the jnani there are bhoga vasanas but
no bhanda vasanas. (Vasanas that are enjoyable but not binding).
Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 273
"Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence."
All of the gods that you've been praying to all of your life,
all of the buddhas you've taken refuge in,
the krishnas, the Kali-mas, the Shivas, the Christ, Allah,
they're all within you. You are That!
There is no god that is external to you.
There is no Buddha and god and you.
There is only the one Self and you are That.
Ponder this.