Book Title: Realize What You Are
Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Centre

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________________ REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE: poles of our existence brought into unity and harmony. So is God, the universe, the divine, the Higher Self, the real Self. Hum is this human being, the microcosm, the subconscious, the accumulation of thought and the mind. Hum is form and so is formless. When you use sohum regularly, you are changing or altering your consciousness. That which was commonplace becomes meaningful. Going deep, you are aware not only of your body and mind, but of your indestructible energy. You are not perishable. You were, you are, you will be; this you experience in meditation. Form in this life is always changing, but at the center of all form is the changeless. We can see this center in all the forms. For example, look at pictures of yourself in infancy, childhood, youth and today. On careful reflection you will realize that you are still that essence which was within the changing forms in all the pictures. Then you know, “I was. I am. I will be.” If you experience this changelessness, you will always know that “I am here.” We must break our fear of annihilation, of losing our self. This fear goes very deep in our mind. When you truly know “I am," then you realize “I will be” and “I can do." On the inside you feel the passive “I am," and on the outside you experience the active “I can do » When you have that experience, then you no longer are concerned with inferiority or superiority. Seeing all life, you know you are equal to all, even the greatest Masters, the sages and the Enlightened Ones. You must go beyond the intellectual level, beyond words and concepts, to real experience; then you break the barriers between the saints

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