*Chapter 1 - Introduction*
*Day 4*
Now the real peace starts. There may be external peace, you may be in a quiet and peaceful state, but if your mind is boiling with hatred, there is no peace. The external peace means nothing. That is why internal peace has to be there.
Unless you get a spiritual path to walk on, the Soul is restless. The Spirit is restless. Ambitions burn inside you when there is no inner peace in the spirit, in the soul.
When that confidence is there that, I am in the right train and the train is going to take me to my destination, there is no point in running from coach to coach with your luggage.
You are not going to reach any faster. This sort of inner restlessness kills one. That's why he said, "Peace," Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantihi. You have boarded the plane, you are on the path, now relax.
Take your seat, keep your luggage and now relax. There is no need to run inside the flight. You are not going to reach any faster. For many seekers this is the problem they embark on the train and keep running inside the train, thinking they will reach faster.
It's not going to happen. Relax. Though the master has no hatred for anybody. He says, "Let us not hate anybody". Then the student gets the courage, "Yes let's do it. Yes. We will not hate anybody."
Then, "Yes mind" starts happening. If you sit together learn something you don't know with a "no mind", you are not going to learn anything. "No mind" is a negative mind set.
So, you need to be in a "Yes Mind". Your ability to recognize the way things are great is essential. You can be taken to a nice museum but if your eyes are shut and you don't want to see, nobody can make you open your eyes and see what's around in the museum.
All this is a part of the infinity, the Brahman. This is all made up of it, the finite is part of the infinity. The space inside a bowl is part of the entire space outside and around it. Every cell of your body is made up of God.
Your eyes, ears, nose, bones, blood, hair, nails, everything in you is made up of one substance, one truth, one reality, one infinity. There is nothing in you that is not God. Because nothing else exists.
This entire finite universe is made up of infinity. Infinity means it is permeating all the finite, all the small things as well. The space is permeating the entire creation but we do not realise it.
The space inside the pot doesn't feel it is part of the space that is all around it. So does the mind inside the body doesn't realize that is part of the universal mind that is enveloping all other minds. Why?
This is because our organs are weak, our senses are weak, our prana is low. When prana is low nothing appears good- your perception is blurred and your mind catches on to negative things.
When the prana is higher you are able to recognise. So the prayer is : “May my senses and prana be uplifted, be strong enough to recognize the infinity in the finite. May I be bestowed with the strength to recognize it and live it, live the truth”.