Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Musk remains inside the navel/9
laughing at your ignorance. You need to only open your eyes, you need not wander looking for him.
The lamp is alight. It has neither oil nor wick, and yet it is alight. 'Appa deepo bhava' (Be a famp yourself). You are such a lamp which the storm would fail to extinguish. Recognise that lamp. Its flame, its light is not coming out. The screens, which have covered that light, need to be removed. The lamp was never extinguished; it has been alight since ages. The final end arrives when that gets extinguished. The lamp within never gets extinguished, it is eternal. It has become always alight, it is alight, and would continue to be alight. However virtuous, or however sinful a man becomes or goes into the embrace of death or to the lap of life, this eternal lamp would remain alight. There is no way whatsoever to extinguish it. Even in the worst deluge, this lamp is not to be extinguished. The only thing needed is to open the eyes :
“Tero tere paas hai, apne mahin tatol,
Rai ghatai; na til barhe, hari bolo, hari bol" [Yours is with you, search it within yourself. Neither a drachm increases nor a grain decreases, such is the glory of God.]
The words are very simple. I wish you could look for, what is yours around you, inside your own self. After all, our shadow must be somewhere close to us, not a hundred kilometers away from us. What would you call the man whose purse is in his pocket, and he is going to the police station in search of it. His own eye-sight is connected with outside, therefore the man is beginning his search outwardly. The outside light belongs to someone else; your light is connected but with your own self. Its possibilities exist in your own self. When my possibility is connected with me, then why to search for it anywhere else ? You are Hari (God). Just call yourself with some love. To love your originalities is to find yourself in the spiritual world.
One thing more : It is not just sufficient to chant 'Hari-Hari' (God-God). Just by uttering ‘jap-jap' (Chant-Chant), 'jap' does not occur. 'Jap' occurs in becoming. Do you know the real meaning of 'Hari'?