Q: What happened? What was the change?
M: Pleasure and pain lost their
sway over me. I was free from desire and fear. I found myself full, needing nothing. I saw that in the
ocean of pure awareness, on the surface of the universal consciousness, the
numberless waves of the phenomenal worlds arise and subside beginninglessly and
endlessly. As consciousness, they are all me. As events they are all mine. There
is a mysterious power that looks after them. That power is awareness, Self,
Life, God, whatever name you give it. It is the foundation, the ultimate
support of all that is, just like gold is the basis for all gold jewellery. And
it is so intimately ours! Abstract the name and shape from the jewellery and
the gold becomes obvious. Be free of name and form and of the desires and fears
they create, then what remains?
***
Q:How did you come to it?
M: By
my trust in my Guru. He told me 'You alone are' and I did not doubt him. I was
merely puzzling over it, until I
realised that it is absolutely true.
Q: Conviction by repetition?
M: By self-realisation. I found that I am conscious
and happy absolutely and only by mistake I
