Sri Annamalai SwamiQ: The wheel of life - manifestation, samsara - seems to continue whether one is established in that peace or not. Is there nothing in this manifestation that provides a key to peace?
AS: If you understand the true nature of this wheel of life, this wheel that is giving everyone so much alternating happiness and misery, this understanding will lead you to where is no wheel, no change, no movement. This wheel is spinning in the substratum of the changeless Self. If you take your position in the still, peaceful centre of the Self you will know, simultaneously, that the Self is motionless peace, and that the spinning wheel is also the Self.
Q: Why is there a need to have this spinning wheel in the Self? Why a need for manifestation at all?
AS: This question is happening only in your mind. If you remain in the Self, as the Self, the question will not arise. Whether you move your hand or keep it still, it is still a hand. Its nature is not changed in either case. Maya is the Self. All is the Self. If you give up all distinctions, you will know this for yourself. That's all you need to do.
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Kabir, on seeing a woman grinding corn, said to his Guru, Nipathiranjana, "I am weeping because I feel the agony of being crushed in this wheel of wordly existence like the corn in the hand-mill." Nipathiranjana replied, "Do not be afraid; hold fast to the handle of knowledge of this mill, as I do, and do not wander far away from the same but turn inward to the Centre, and you are sure to be saved." - From Sri Shirdi Sai Satcharitra
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