Passage 7

In English

The shines within the cave of the heart

The announce It to be "" (farther than the farthest, also closer than the closest). "" ("Thou") is the body-sense-mind-reason complex. This too is That, as confirmed by the verb, (art). When you are engaged in reading the prayers of a book, what exactly is happening? The hand is holding, the eyes are seeing, reason is judging, and the mind is reacting to the flood of feeling. "Thou" is the composite of hand and eye, reason and mind. "Thou" is the mould, the (the form). "That" is the core, the genuineness, the . To realise the identity of the two, one has to resort to the (spiritual discipline) of meditation. Meditation is the process of sublimating concentration (which concerns itself with the realm of the senses), leading into contemplation (which concerns itself with the realm of mind and reason), resulting in real meditation (which concerns itself with the realm unreachable by logic or .thought or even imagination). This declaration is enshrined in the , whose hymns are musical and have to be sung as part of holy rites. Music is an excellent medium for harmonising Thou and That, the Human with the Divine. Of course, the song/ms to emerge from (selfless love), not from greed for fame or profit. When rain pours, the sheet of water brings together earth and sky. So too, the shower of Love-lit song can bring Thou and That together. (art) can be consummated. is the Holy Declaration of the , the Fourth among the . It means, "This is ." It implies' 'that the Individual Self is the untarnished, unaffected Witness of the activities of the Body-Mind Complex. The lamp illumines the area around it. One person falsities accounts so that he can escape paying tax; another writes the Name of as a ; another person takes advantage of the light to lay his hands on articles to steal. The lamp is the witness. The too shines within the cave of the heart. One should engage oneself in sacred activity, with the inspiration of that illumination. Many people who come to Me ask, "! We are striving to control the mind but it runs about like a maddened dog. How am I to succeed?" Therein lies a wrong step. The mind is beyond contact, for it is attached to the senses. Control the senses; let them not draw you into the objective world. By this means, the mind can be made an instrument of illumination and not of delusion. The truth will then dawn, this is . The splendour of this awareness will drive away the darkness of ignorance. There can be no (ignorance) where there is (light). The (Self) is (self-luminous). The helps to uproot nescience by invoking the splendour of the Sun to illumine the (intellect), the faculty of thought. That splendour will reveal the identity of , of this self (individualised) with (the Cosmic Overself).