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The Teachings of Sri Tirtha Lal Mahanandhar
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AM I DOG OR GOD?
IF YOU PUT THIS QUESTION
HERE IN THIS PHYSICAL PLANE,
IN THIS UNIVERSE,
YOU WILL GET THE ANSWER
YOU ARE
- DOG -
YOU WILL HEAR WITHOUT DELAY
YOU ARE MR. SO-AND-SO,
OR
MISS OR MRS. SO-AND-SO,
SON OR DAUGHTER
OF MR. & MRS. SO-AND-SO
FOR YOU ARE STANDING
WITH THE BODY
AND WITH THIS QUESTION
ARE POINTING OUT THE BODY
- THE MASK OF DOG -
THAT IS WHY YOU GET THIS ANSWER
FROM MR, MISS OR MRS.
WHO AGAIN IS A BODY
- A MASK OF DOG -
BODY RECOGNISES BODY
MASK REPLIES TO MASK
MAN IDENTIFIES AS MAN
ANIMAL SEES ANIMAL
INSECTS AGREE WITH INSECTS
THIS IS HOW ALL CREATURES
REPLY TO YOU -
AS MR. MASK
X - Y - Z
BUT
NOT STANDING WITH
THIS, THAT, OR ANY OTHER
FORM OR MASK -
WHERE YOUR EXISTENCE
COMPLETELY DISSOLVES,
MELTS AWAY LIKE A PIECE OF ICE -
THERE,
YOU AND YOUR EACH AND EVERY OBJECT,
INCLUDING YOUR UNIVERSE,
HAVE NO EXISTENCE AT ALL
AND DISAPPEAR WITHOUT ANY TRACE -
WHERE THE MELTED ICE
OF YOUR EGO
RETURNS TO ITS ORIGINALITY.
NO ANSWER
ALONG WITH YOU (EGO)
AND YOUR IGNORANCE
WHEN YOU SEE
WHEN YOU FEEL
YOU ARE INSIDE THE STATE
OF
KNOWLEDGE
YOU HAVE CROSSED
THE BOUNDARY OF 'QUESTION',
THE BOUNDARY OF 'EGO',
THE BOUNDARY OF 'IGNORANCE',
THE BOUNDARY OF 'DARKNESS'.
YOU ARE BEYOND ILLUSION.
NOW
YOU ARE INSIDE LIGHT
YOU ARE INSIDE
SELF-ILLUMINED
ETERNAL LIGHT
LOOK!
NOWHERE IS THERE DARKNESS,
NO DARK SPOT IS EVER IN YOU
BECAUSE
YOU ARE NO MORE EGO
SO
YOU ARE NOT IN THE GRIP OF
QUESTION - THIS IGNORANCE
STILL,
YOU MAY BE THINKING
'I AM A PART OF KNOWLEDGE'
BUT HERE YOUR THINKING
HAS NO EXISTENCE,
SO YOU AND YOUR ASSUMPTION
ARE STILL NOT TO THE POINT
AND ARE A PART OF IGNORANCE.
YOU ARE NOT ONLY
PART OFTHE ETERNAL LIGHT
BUT YOU ARE
THE ILLUMINATION
YOU ARE
ETERNAL LIGHT
THIS EXPERIENCE
THIS PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF YOURS
IS ITSELF
THE RIGHT ANSWER,
THE CORRECT REPLY,
TO YOUR EGOISTIC QUESTION
WHEN YOU COME TO THIS POINT
THE HIGHEST SUMMIT OF KNOWLEDGE
YOUR WHOLE QUESTION,
YOUR WHOLE PROBLEM,
WILL BE SOLVED
AUTOMATICALLY.
WITHOUT UTTERING
A SINGLE WORD,
WITHOUT DOING
ANYTHING,
YOUR DOUBTS WILL END
ALONG WITH YOUR EGO
- THIS DELUSIVE IGNORANCE
FOR GOOD
FOR YOU ARE
THE KNOWLEDGE,
THE
- ETERNAL YOU ARE -
SO YOU ARE INEXPRESSIBLE.
YOU ARE
BEYOND WORD
BEYOND SOUND
THAT IS WHY
YOU ARE
GOD
THIS IS HOW
IGNORANCE TURNS INTO
KNOWLEDGE
D - O - G
TURNS INTO
G - O - D
IN THE EYES OF DOG THERE IS ONLY DOG
THERE IS NO GOD.
IN THE EYES OF GOD
HE IS ALL ALONE
UNBORN
ONE SINGLE TRUTH
REALIsE THIS ETERNITY
REMOVING THE MASK OF DOG
COMPLETELY
AND KNOW YOU ARE
GOD
ETERNAL CALMNESS
A DROP OF MILK
(THE NECTAR OF SPIRITUAL CALMNESS)
WILL NOT KILL
BUT
WILL GIVE LIFE
TO THE FLY (EGO)
SAY IT AGAIN
A DROP OF MILK
(THE POISON OF WORLDLY OBJECTS)
WILL NOT GIVE LIFE
BUT
WILL KILL THE FLY
TURN YOUR FACE
FROM THIS MORTAL WORLD
TO IMMORTAL SELF
ETERNAL CALMNESS
WHICH WILL HELP
YOU TO REALISE
'THOU ART THAT'
HOGGISH EGO
The common mind of egoistic people is fastidious. Such a sensitive ego always runs after objects of this delusive world.
Ambitious ego ever keeps in its mind to give defeat to others. This nature of mind develops a destructive environment and always
thinks evil of others.
Showing arrogance, ego moves in the world to entrap others and then finally breathes its last breath, with great humiliation, being
caught in the trap it had designed to catch others.
This is how hoggish ego ends its most precious human life for nothing.
Rise above your selfish ego, this ignorance. Only then will you be ever immortal. Liberalism is life. This broad-mindedness is
knowledge. Miserliness is death. This selfishness is ignorance.
MAN OF SIN
When a man fails to discriminate between right and wrong, he perishes.
Lack of memory ruins the power of discrimination.
Anger ever keeps a man in delusion and causes him to lose his memory.
Anger breeds only when a man is unable to achieve the desired object to which he is attached.
He who always thinks of sense-objects develops attachment for them.
Instead of meditating on the ETERNAL SELF within him, if a man starts to think too much about delusive
sense-objects, definitely he will prove himself to be a man of sin.
MAYA the DIVINE
The Lord of Maya, who is in the heart of all beings, causes the universe to revolve.
To go beyond Maya, this divine illusion, and to attain the everlasting abode, HIS grace is essential.
Hence, aspirants, with all their heart must fix their mind in HIM to overcome all the difficulties which are inherent in HER (Maya).
He who takes refuge in HIM alone, crossing this delusive ignorance, realises the Lord of Maya without fail.
ORIGIN IS TRUTH
To reveal the initial cause of ignorance, aspirants must fill their mind completely with the Lord of all through single-minded
devotion.
Only then will they vividly visualise everything that evolves from inexpressible Truth - the origin of all.
They who take refuge in Self-splendour, being one with the Truth, attain peace eternal and at the end become one with the Supreme
Self - for they are no other than Truth Eternal.
PROMISE
First evacuate worldly objects completely from the field of mind, meditating on the Lord at all times.
This one-pointed devotion will help you to renounce all enjoyments - this delusive world of ignorance.
They who practise, giving up all attachment and desire and sit firmly in the one single Truth - I do promise that such devotees of
Mine will come to Me without doubt - says the Lord of all.
RESTLESS MIND
To control the vagaries of the restless mind, aspirants must dive deep in meditation without fail.
Do this practice patiently and with full faith.
This firm hold on continuous practice alone will achieve victory over your restless mind at the end.
Worry not.
HIGHEST YOGA
Yogis should know this truth that yoga puts an end to all the sorrows of this illusive world of ignorance.
To come out safely from the pain and pleasure of this nasty nattle-dream, one must know what mind is, because control of mind is
the highest yoga.
When the mind is well-controlled with this yoga, the only way of atonement - only then the practitioner's prayer and meditation is
known to be fruitful.
Yoga means to be ever united with the Lord of all. They who sit in yoga are ever fear-free and serene because they are united with
the Supreme Reality at all times and in all conditions.
Yoga is known to be the highest devotional practice of all practices because it changes the mortal yogi to immortal.
This is how yoga puts an end to all the sorrows of mankind.