Chapter 3
The grace of the divine
🌻 Day 25 🌻
एतध्द्येवाक्षरं ब्रह्म एतध्द्येवाक्षरं परम् ।
एतध्द्येवाक्षरं ज्ञात्वा यो यदिच्छति तस्य तत् ॥
'Aum' consolidates all that I am telling you. Death gives you the sound 'aum'. In Buddhist tradition it is called the sound of one hand clapping. Go deep in meditation, there is a sound that resonates in you–'Aum'. When you die the sound that remains with you is Aum.
I said two things will stay with you – sound and sight. Sound is Aum, sight is light. So, death is nothing but a light and sound show! This world is nothing but a light and sound show. Just remove all the images from your mind – images means light, and there is no world! Remove all the sounds, there is no sorrow. What is sorrow? When somebody blames you, someone says something wrong to you. What is that? It is sound. Remove all the sounds and sorrow is gone. Remove all the light and all the forms are gone.
There are five aspects to reality – Asti, Bhati, Preeti, Nama and Rupa.
Asti is existence.
Bhati is effulgence, truth, consciousness, shining.
Preeti is Love.
Nama is sound and Rupa is light.
Nama and rupa are of the relative world- maya. Asti, Bhati and Preeti are the nature of the Spirit, the Self. Spirit is Existence, Consciousness and Love. Love is not an emotion. Love is not what we call love these days. It is only a shadow of love. Love, the emotion, is just the shadow of the Existence.
If sound and light are removed, then your subtle body dies and only the causal body
remains. And the causal body is all basis. It is the subtle body that makes you miserable. It is sound and light. How to cross over the sound and light? You can only cross over the sound by sound.
Yama said, “That which is required for this, which is eternal is that secret I am telling you.”
