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are doing. In that case, the doing has no meaning and will
bring no fruit. If the doing is a process of the manifestation of
our own existence, it is union with the fact of the process of
action. And the so-called fruit of such an action will not
produce reaction. Karma yoga does not produce reaction it
does not bind but all other actions bind because they are
outside us.
A professor in the college may be an ordinary person in
his own home, so there is no advantage to his being
educated. If his professorial knowledge is his existence itself,
even in the bathroom he would be full of knowledge, and not
merely in the classroom. The foolishness of being different
people under different circumstances is the cause of our
sorrow here. You cannot be something here and something
else somewhere else. When you know that you are the same
thing everywhere, you will find everything becomes friendly
with you. Everything embraces you, and even the leaves on
the trees start smiling at you in friendship.
Honesty is necessary here. You must know what you
actually expect and want. Do not dabble in a thing which you
cannot understand. Again, I repeat, you require a guide. This
is such a difficult subject that the mind refuses to think along
these lines. It revolts, and kicks you back, saying, No, not for
me. At that time, you require a power which will guide you.
That power is your spiritual teacher, without whom you
cannot stand on this path. Cyclones will blow from all sides;
tornadoes will push you in a direction which is quite
different from the direction that you are trying to take. The
world forces that are wrongly considered as external will
attack you, and make you feel that you are helpless in this
matter. Many people fail even in the act of meditation
because the mind is like a fool, imagining it is something
when it is really something else.
Every day you must check yourself. Every day you have
to verify your own feelings and actions: What have I done
today from morning onwards, up to this time? What have I
done, and if I have done anything, has it benefitted me in any
way? Or have I foolishly been running about here and there?
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A self-check is essential every day. But we may check
ourselves wrongly due to a kind of complacency that we may
erroneously attribute to ourselves. That is why we require a
guide to whom we can tell our experiences and ask if we are
on the right path. Since the Teacher s experience is much
greater than your experience, he will tell you where your
mistake is. Self-estimation may be right or wrong, and it
cannot be corrected unless there is another rectifying factor,
which is the guide.
Go slowly, therefore, in the path of yoga. But be sure that
you will achieve something, and do not have doubts about it.
Do not say it is too hard. All great achievements in the world
are the result of hard effort. You cannot dilly-dally because
you think that nothing will come of it. You must be sure that
it is going to be achieved. You must be sure that you are on
the right path. You must also be sure why you are doing it.
Do not have any notions which are totally disassociated
from the nature of things. Why do you meditate? Many
people do not know. They say they want peace of mind, or
that they want to be alone. These are all childish answers to
the great question of why you should be in Reality. It is like
asking why you should be real at all.
Yoga is nothing but the conscious adjustment of your
personality with your originality which, as I said, is above
this world. Every one of you is a transcendental individual.
You are eternity parading in this world of temporality,
looking like ordinary persons and things. This conviction
should be driven into your heart with great force, and that
itself will be a great blessing to you.
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Chapter 6
THE SEVEN STAGES OF SAMADHI
There are supposed to be seven stages in the attainment
of samadhi, and what I described to you yesterday is the
lowest type, though even that initial stage might have
appeared to you as a very hard step indeed. However, to the
extent you have understood what was said, you have taken a
very bold step in the right direction. These stages mentioned
are the processes of the disentanglement of consciousness
from involvement in the various levels of the manifestation
of the universe. In deep meditation, bordering upon samadhi,
you are contemplating the whole universe in front of you.
The accepted categories of the descent of consciousness
in the process of evolution and involution are elaborately
described both in the Sankhya and Vedanta doctrines. The
lowest manifestation in the process of creation or evolution
is Earthly existence. We are now in the lowest category of
life, involved in material associations. Not merely that, but
things are utterly differentiated from one another.
Diversification goes to the utmost extent when we reach the
Earth plane. Nothing has any connection with anything else,
and everything stands by itself. You can see for yourself that
in this world, nothing seems to have any connection with
anything else. Each one for himself and let the devil take the
hindmost is the kind of doctrine that prevails in the lowest
category of manifestation. We call it worldly existence,
earthly existence.
Corresponding to the levels in our own psychophysical
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