Chapter 4
Beyond the layers of existence
🌻 Day 37 🌻
महतः परमव्यक्तमव्यक्तात्पुरुषः परः ।
पुरुषान्न परं किञ्चित्सा काष्ठा सा परा गतिः ॥
Beyond the intellect is ego. Ego arises from undifferentiated Consciousness. Consciousness arises from Brahman. Brahman is the first cause and the last refuge! Beyond the ego is Mahat Tattva. Take a strand of hair and cut it vertically 100 times. Take one of these strands and again cut it 100 times, the tip of that one strand is the size of an atom. Ego is a 100 times finer than the atom. They have described the dimension of the ego! 100 times finer than that ego is mahat tattva, the principle called mahat! The word Mahatma is a title, which means the one who has transcended the ego. All saints are called mahatmas. In Sanskrit, mahatma means one who has become one with the mahat tattva. Many times finer, 1000 times or more, is the Brahman, the Divinity.
Brahman, the hidden Self in everyone doesn’t shine forth. It is revealed to those who keep their mind one pointed on the Lord of love, and thus develop a super-conscious manner of knowing.
Why love? They have scientific reason for love. It makes your consciousness very subtle, refined. Hatred, negativity makes your consciousness very gross. But love makes you very subtle. This is the only cause. If you could get subtle through hatred
then they would have told, you can know through hatred. Hatred doesn’t make your mind subtle. You can’t make a rope go through a needle. You need a small thread that can go through a needle. Thread is subtle, rope is so thick. Gross mind can’t attain the subtlest state of consciousness, Brahman. It says the Lord of love because love makes you very subtle. Subtler than subtlest being can be known only through subtle state of mind, of consciousness. At any cost, don’t let hatred of any sort enter the mind, with any justification or reason!
I have spoken to many terrorist. Do you know how much hatred they are filled with? If you listen to them for half an hour, you will join their gang. They are so convincing, their level of commitment is so high. I tell you, you can’t win over Maoists and Naxalites in India in an argument. You will only nod to what they say. They are so full of hatred and violence. They justify everything they do. It is the intellect which justifies hatred and allows it to be kept there. They will give you such beautiful arguments. One-third of India is in that sway. Last year, one of the commanders came and met with me. He had 1000 people under him and ruled 6 districts. He came and did the basic course and advance course. He surrendered
along with 1000 other people. Logic cannot win them. It is only silence that makes
them realize that what they were doing is wrong.
A simple question they ask, “If people can put you into power, they can bring you down also. What power is that? Did Napoleon go on asking for vote from everybody? Did Mao go door to door in China to become powerful? We will come to power by our
own strength.” What do you say? What reply you can give? It is correct, very logical. Even the Mahabharat war was fought and so many people were killed. If some people die in the process of betterment of society, what is wrong in it? What do I say to them? They ask, “What has 60 years of democracy done? Nothing. No water, no electricity. All politicians are corrupt. What do you want us to do? Be subservient
to these people? No. we want our own rule.” What do you say? Do you say, “Ok, sign me up?”
