Sri Annamalai Swami
If you abide as the Self, you will see the world as the Self. In fact, there will be no world at all. No world, no maya, no mind, no distinctions of any kind. It is like the state of seeing only wood in the carved elephant, only threads in the dyed cloth. In that state of being and knowing the Self, ideas of right and wrong, things to do and things to avoid doing, will vanish. You will know that they were just mental concepts. In that state you will know that the mind is the Self, bondage is the Self, everything is the Self. With that vision, nothing will bind you; nothing will cause you misery.
The Self may appear as the manifest world, as different separate objects, but the underlying reality, the only real substance is the Self in which they are all appearing and disappearing. Things and people may appear in this substratum, and you may use them and interact with them, but your peace will never be disturbed.
When you abide as the Self, there is no one left to choose and decide. Life goes on automatically. You will pick up the things that are needed, and not pick up the things that are not needed. What you pick up and what you don't pick up will not be a consequence of what you like or dislike. These preferences will not be there anymore.
This perspective will be yours when you give up or cease to believe the idea, 'I am different from the world'. Giving up this thought is a great sadhana in itself. Abandoning this false idea will be enough to give you peace.
When the thought is there, the world seems to be full of good and bad people, all busily engaged in doing what appear to you to be good things and bad things. When the thought is absent, you know them all to be your own Self. In that state you won't like them, dislike them or judge them, or be aware of them as being other than your own Self. This absence of likes, dislikes and judgments will leave you in your original natural state of peace.
Teeth and tongue are both parts of you, and they will function in harmony, without fighting or struggling. When there is the knowledge that mind and Self are one, there will be no be fights, no struggles, and no attempts to judge or attain. To have this harmony, place the mind in the Self and keep it there. This is the real meditation.
However, until you reach this state where there are no distinctions and preferences, you should use a little discrimination with regard to who and what you associate with. Avoid bad company and bad thoughts, and try to keep the conviction that nothing is separate from you.
During sleep you have no likes and dislikes. Jnanis and babies manage this while they are awake. Baby mind is good; jnani mind is good; 'I am the body' mind is very, very bad.
The Self may appear as the manifest world, as different separate objects, but the underlying reality, the only real substance is the Self in which they are all appearing and disappearing. Things and people may appear in this substratum, and you may use them and interact with them, but your peace will never be disturbed.
When you abide as the Self, there is no one left to choose and decide. Life goes on automatically. You will pick up the things that are needed, and not pick up the things that are not needed. What you pick up and what you don't pick up will not be a consequence of what you like or dislike. These preferences will not be there anymore.
This perspective will be yours when you give up or cease to believe the idea, 'I am different from the world'. Giving up this thought is a great sadhana in itself. Abandoning this false idea will be enough to give you peace.
When the thought is there, the world seems to be full of good and bad people, all busily engaged in doing what appear to you to be good things and bad things. When the thought is absent, you know them all to be your own Self. In that state you won't like them, dislike them or judge them, or be aware of them as being other than your own Self. This absence of likes, dislikes and judgments will leave you in your original natural state of peace.
Teeth and tongue are both parts of you, and they will function in harmony, without fighting or struggling. When there is the knowledge that mind and Self are one, there will be no be fights, no struggles, and no attempts to judge or attain. To have this harmony, place the mind in the Self and keep it there. This is the real meditation.
However, until you reach this state where there are no distinctions and preferences, you should use a little discrimination with regard to who and what you associate with. Avoid bad company and bad thoughts, and try to keep the conviction that nothing is separate from you.
During sleep you have no likes and dislikes. Jnanis and babies manage this while they are awake. Baby mind is good; jnani mind is good; 'I am the body' mind is very, very bad.
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