For
concentration, such purity of life is essential. Thought of outward
objects should be avoided. Man's life is not long but he has the
power, even in this brief life, to taste the bliss of God. Two men
may appear to be cast in the same mould - two eyes, a nose in
between and two nostrils. Thus the two men are similar, and yet one
is like a god, the other a beast. Why so? Both are children of the
same God - "all pots of the same clay" - but why this
difference? One can hardly believe they belong to the same species.
While one is a god in human form, the other is a monkey!
12. Both in past ages and amongst
us today, there have been men who know what heights man can rise to.
This is a matter of experience. Now as in the past, there have been
men to show what power there is in the human body. If man can
achieve such miracles, dwelling in the body, why then can I not? Why
should I set limits to my imagination? I too have the same human
body with which others have become heroes of humanity; why then
should I be in this plight? I am making some mistake. My mind is
always roaming abroad. It is so busy judging others. But where is
the need for me to judge others?
"Why look at the good and bad in
others;
Are my own faults few?"
If I am always absorbed in observing tiny
little things in others, how can my mind become one-pointed? In this
condition, I can only be one of two things, asleep (in a state of
nothingness) or distracted (at many points). I am caught in tamas
or rajas. It is true that the Lord tells us how to sit, how
to direct the eyes and so on, to make the mind one-pointed. But it
is only when we have first realized the need for one-pointedness,
that these have value. Once a man is firmly convinced of the
indispensability of one-pointedness, then he will seek and find for
himself the means to attain it. |
