Day 16
They made it even clearer. When you think it is everywhere you have an idea of it being stagnant. No. This space is lively, scintillating. It is not dead. It is farther than the farthest and nearer than the nearest. You are your self.
Have you thought about where you are in your body? Are you in your arms, heart or brain? Where are you? You are everywhere and yet nowhere. The heart transplant happens and people continue living. Many people who have undergone brain surgery had a portion of their brain removed. Still they are complete.
So, where are you? Inside as well as outside. There is no outside to it (self), there is no inside it. It’s something that is so subtle, difficult to explain, The Rishis have made an effort, the Upanishad have made an effort to bring it to your awareness.
It is closer than the closest and farther than the farthest. How do you like that? If anyone says something is very close to you, yet it is very far, our linear thinking mind says "Hey, wait. What are you saying? How is it possible? Something is either close or it is far."
The conditioning of mind here breaks and it is given the opportunity to see beyond what it knew and perceived all the time to be truth, something more and another dimension gets added to you. Even if a glimpse of this Reality comes into your attention, in your conscious awareness, what is the first thing that would happen to you?
Hatred towards anybody, that egocentric dislike that you had harboured for lifetimes simply evaporates. Because "Hey, it's the same". Any sensitive person would have made this observation - if one kid cries, the other kid start crying. As a child we have all had this experience.
If there are a bunch of kids in the playschool, and you just
pinch one kid and make him cry you will see all of them will start crying. Because ego is not very dominant there, so that Oneness comes naturally to them. It happens to everyone. Any sensitive, sane person feels the pain and happiness of others.
If someone is sharing their life experience of either misery or gratefulness, you will see that everyone else also feels, something touches everyone's heart and they start crying. The entertainment industry knows this very well and they make movies with all special effects, play certain music and everybody starts laughing or crying.
There are no barriers in emotions. Similarly there is no barrier when you step beyond ego and I am again telling you that you don't have to dismiss the ego. If the ego is there, let it be there. Ego will remain there in either one of three forms - Sattvik, Rajasik or Tamasik.
It is the Sattvik ego through which you can see this. A Sattvik ego is the one where there is no hatred or aversion towards anybody. Again it is like a catch 22 situation. Once you have a glimpse of your Self as part of the whole, the aversion disappears, hatred disappears. And when the hatred disappears, you are able to see the Oneness in everybody. It is possible either way.
