This morning, as usual I was into certain breathing
exercises. I am fairly regular with them. They cleanse one’s energy field, fill
one with great vitality. They also are practice for the capacity for focussing
by simply staying with the breath and
letting one’s auto-nervous system relax.
Inhaling – there is awareness of in-breath
Exhaling – there is awareness of out-breath.
I simply stay with the breath. It’s wonderful. The body is
still. Yes I have the capacity to move, yet I simply suspend that capacity and
keep the body still. The mind calms down as I stay with my breath and notice
that there is awareness of in-breath and out-breath.
Soon there is awareness of body being still, the breath
being smooth and the mind being quiet.
I am a simple awareful being – a simple conscious being,
witness to the stillness in the body, the smoothness of breath and the
quietness of the mind. Now it is easy for me to acknowledge this fact that the
awareness that I am, the consciousness that I am, is whole, is peace.
At this moment of understanding there is total fulfilment in
my self - there is nothing to gain. I am not looking for anything new to
happen. There is no resistance to anything whatsoever – I simply am. This ‘am-ness’
is purna. There is no need for words – yes the capacity to form words and understand
is there – yet I do not have to form any words. This is a wordless being ....
and the Being is whole.
Am I going to lose this wholeness when the mind come’s back,
when resistance to facts comes back?
No – I cannot lose this wholeness that is the Self, ever –
even when there loss of peace of mind.
Why? Because what shine’s here as Self is the Being who is independent of the mind, the breath, the body. Certainly the mind,
the breath, the body are not independent of me, the self-evident,
self-revealing consciousness – yet I am independent of the mind, the breath,
the body.
In ignorance, I totally
identify with the body, the breath, the mind and in ignorance and ignorance
alone, my wholeness seems to depend on the quietness of the mind, the
smoothness of the breath and the stillness of the body. Oh what a miserable wholeness
I must be then, totally dependent on the condition of the mind, the breath and
the body.
When I recognize the self to be independent of the body,
breath and mind, the wholeness of the self is not dependent on their condition.
This is real freedom.
In wholeness there is no ‘becoming’. One does not ‘become’
whole because of certain conditions. If that were so, one’s wholeness could not
be whole – because it will be lost when the conditions change. The truth must
be that what shines here as self-revealing, self-evident Consciousness-I is whole – here and now, no matter what the
condition of the body, the breath or the mind.
Dear Lord, may we all revel in that knowledge of wholeness,
which apparently manifests as all that is here. I am whole, You are Whole. All
That Is is Whole.
Om Tat Sat
