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surrender yourself completely to the guru, to surrender your
notion of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. If these are surrendered, what remains
is the Reality. Then, it becomes impossible to state what further
time it would take to attain Brahma jnana. It would be wrong
to state that it takes as much time as a man would require to put
his other foot into the second stirrup after having placed one
foot in the first stirrup. The moment when ego is completely
surrendered, the Self shines.”
Proceeding, Bhagavan quoted the last two lines of the
following stanza from Yoga Vasishta: “Sôù]àm ùTôÚsLô
÷úRôo Oô]Yô LôVe Lô÷o. Sôù]àm ùTôÚ}d
LiúPôo Oô]Yô LôV UôYôo; Sôù]à ULeLôWeLs
Oô]®i U§ûVê¥ öù]m TWU YômT ]uUXo
®¬VôRuú\.” which state that unless the cloud of the ‘I’ or
‘ego-sense’ which covers the moon of the Divine consciousness
(chidakasa) is removed, the lily of the heart which knows nothing
of the sense of ‘I’ (ahankara) will not open out in full bloom.
Bhagavan also added, “We have to contend against agelong
samskaras. They will all go. Only, they go
comparatively soon in the case of those who have already
made sadhana in the past, and late in the case of the others.”
In this connection I asked, “Do these samskaras go gradually
or will they suddenly disappear one day? I ask this, because
though I have remained fairly long here I do not perceive
any gradual change in me.” Bhagavan asked, “When the sun
rises, does the darkness go gradually or all at once?”
Another visitor asked, “How to conquer passions?”
Bhagavan said, “If the passions are something external to us
we can take arms and ammunition and conquer them. They
all come from within us. If, by looking into the source whence
they issue, we see that they don’t come out of us, we shall
conquer them. It is the world and the objects in it that arouse
our passions. But the world and these objects are only created
by our mind. They don’t exist during our sleep.”
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