So, I advise you, at least for half an hour with your open eyes,
think that you are also connected with God.
So slowly, you will be able to practice this with your open eyes,
then it will become closed eyes, and then the whole thing becomes
meditative all 24 x 7.
This is from Dr. Saab.
How do we accidentally push ourselves away from the Centre,
even when we are trying to get closer?
One can never go away from the Center when the
desire is so strong.
It is like, you know, if you were a satellite,
for example,
and as a satellite you are moving around one heavenly object, let us say,
it is the Earth; you are moving around the Earth.
Your purpose is to
consider this Earth as the center and move around it.
What are you going to do, when you are nearing Jupiter?
The pull of Jupiter is so strong that it will knock you
out of the orbit of Earth.
This is natural,
this is going to happen, this follows the physical law of gravitation.
Now, what drives us from inside?
No gravitational law applies to the world inside of us.
All these laws of Newton, they fail within us.
There is no greater attraction or lesser attraction.
It is my paying attention to it,
my ‘tawajjo’ (attention, focus) to it.
It is, after all, training of our mind;
slowly and slowly we train our mind
so that it becomes immune to that outside thing.
When I am mesmerized by the beauty of the Center (the Source),
truly mesmerized, then there is no way
that I am going to look outward.
So, we are waiting for that moment actually;
moving around, watching this Center from all angles, and seeing
which part of the Center can take me off
– take me into itself.
I know, no amount of answers can convince anyone
how to settle down in the Center.
What is the process?
There is no process except meditation.
We have a question from Morocco.
When the heart is closed, it has a past experience,
what could be the feeling when we go from a closed
heart to an open heart?
Well, all these experiences of closing of the heart
are mainly because of the broken hearts;
broken hearts, because of the love affairs,
or because your very dear ones, your friends, or your brother,
or your sister who may have misunderstood you, or may have misjudged you.
And the heart hurts a lot and it closes
down, “Okay, No more of this love, , no more of this relationship,
no more of my brother, or my sister, or my friends”.
But when we close our hearts, whom are we punishing?
Let us say that you want to take revenge
on your lover and you close your heart.
And you never love anybody else, the rest of your life.
Whom are you punishing?
Yourself only.
Chariji Maharaj, somewhere he says, “Let the river keep flowing”
The moment the river stops flowing, it becomes a pond.
And pond, ipso facto (by the very fact)
because it is closed will become dirty one day, it will start stagnating.
Stagnation will create a stink in it, it will become dirty.
A time will come when you will not be able to go near this pond.
It will be smelling so horrible.
So, as long as the heart is open, flowing
like a river, when love keeps flowing then life is worth living.
The moment it is closed and you say, “No, I will not love anybody else,
I will not look at anybody else with love”, then there is a problem.
It is not that anything is wrong with love.
Daaji, there is a practical question about the regularity of practice.
With so many aspects of sadhana (Heartfulness practice),
is there a smarter way to integrate
all other practices and also practice regularly, and in the event
one or two sessions are missing, is that okay?
This is from Morocco.
Abhyasi (apractitioner) says,
‘I am not able to practice
meditation regularly,’
Babuji writes, “Hum bi nahi karthe hai, aap bhi nahi karthe hai.
Hum dhono ek ho gaye”.
He says, “You are not doing it,
I am also not doing meditation.
Now we have become both alike.’
So, it is quite humorous, for me.
But then, Babuji Maharaj argues that “Sometimes I do not do it,
but I think that I am connected
with my Master very intensely.”
So, I advise you, at least
for half an hour with your open eyes,
think that you are also connected with God.
So, slowly you will be able to practice this with your open eyes,
then it will become closed eyes, and then the whole thing becomes meditative all 24 x 7.
Also, it is a matter of interest.
Do I really want it so badly at any cost?
Then something is possible.