The ego hates light and truth

Question: Sir, there is a person who is enjoying his conditioning? What if he gets satisfaction in doing conditioned jobs? Why will he ever consider to leave that conditioning? What is the need of leaving that conditioning, if he is enjoying it? Is it not so that people want to remove conditioning from their lives because they are not able to enjoy it?

Answer: Simple. Joy is at the centre. Conditioning is away from the centre.

Joy by definition is the absence of conditioning. In this absence there is a simple purity.

Joy is your inner nature. Conditioning is an outer insertion that hides the inner nature.

Enjoyment is not at all a ‘motive’. The moment there is a motive, there can be no enjoyment. Motive means discontentment.

Joy is the simple space which is available to all of us effortlessly. Without doing anything.

Joy is like silence. It is there always. But when you run after it(conditioning, motives), the noise of your own footsteps destroys the silence.

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Question: Is there anything called as ‘healthy competition’?

Answer: A basic question: Do we compete in love? Do we compare our beloved?

When you are really sure of yourself, do you compare?

When you are really happy (joyful), do you bother to check whether you are more/less joyful than others?

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Question: Sir, there is a quote by Rumi. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

What does it imply? How does light enter a wound?

Answer: Yes. When the ego is hurt, it gets a wound.

But there can be no awakening without the shattering of ego.

Do you see why we (ego) resist awakening so much? Do you see why so few people opt for opportunities of realization?

Because awakening means wounds (for the ego). The ego hates light and truth.

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Question: Sir, in one of your quotes you have said, “Peace does not mean that the mind is in an unchanging tranquil state. Mind is change. Peace means that in all states of mind, I am at peace.”

What is difference between ‘peace’ and ‘constant’?

Answer: ‘Constant’ is a state of mind – something happening continuously in time and space, like the flow of a river. Peace is to bathe in the flow, and yet be untouched.

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Question: If the Self is calm and composed then one can concentrate in any atmosphere.

Answer: When you react suddenly without thinking or planning, that is a very good occasion to know about the basement – our deepest conditioning.

The basement can be known through many of our day to day reactions. For example,

These movements of the mind must be attended to. Observing them will tell us about the conditioning of the mind. Witnessing them will bring peace.

-Based on my interactions on various e-forums.

Dated: 21st December,’14.

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