In plain words
I have told you this before. There is another way too of looking within. When we close our eyes, a black dot stays there. If we try to look at it, it runs away. Only when you hold it still so that it does not run away does dhyāna come to you. That is true dhyāna. That very dot is the prajñāna within Ajñāna, the sujñāna within prajñāna, the Supreme Light within sujñāna. Where is it, you ask? Praśānti within aśānti itself, prakānti within praśānti itself, the Supreme Light within prakānti itself. That the Supreme Light itself is the principle of the Paramātma, we come to know within aśānti itself.
The principle of the Ātma comes only within the level of these four: aṅga, jaṅgama, saṅgha and liṅga. Aṅga is the body. This body is made up of all the limbs. Within this aṅga there is a saṅgha. It is a society. What is that society? There are six members in it. They are lust, anger, greed, pride, delusion and envy. These six gather in this body. They get no work done. If one wants one thing, another wants something else. In this meeting they cannot decide on a single thing. In this saṅgha there is one called jaṅgama. He is the one who makes this whole saṅgha one. That is the jīva. That principle of the jīva is the very reflection of the Supreme Principle. He is the liṅga. What is meant by liṅga? ‘Līyate gamyate iti liṅgaḥ’, they said. He has no beginning and no end, they said. There is the liṅga. You may set it on any side and do pūjā. It has no beginning and no end. That is the shape of the liṅga. Whichever way you do it, the fruit comes to you. Many of you will know this. When the rainy season comes, they plough the land and sow seeds. Sow this seed whichever way you like and the plant comes up; whichever way you sow it, the plant comes up all the same. So in this dhyāna, fill yourself with the principle of God, with Prema, and whatever way you do it, it becomes dhyāna. Sālokya itself comes to be sāmīpya. What is sāmīpya? It comes very near. What has come near takes shape as sārūpya. A small example. A river is running along well and fast. That is sārūpya. That is, it looks like such a great ocean, doesn't it, and we think it a big river. But it is not the ocean. It looks like the ocean, but it is not the ocean. Sārūpya appears only as a likeness, whenever it appears as sārūpya. Sāmīpya is seen only when it goes near the ocean. The reason. This ocean is not one to agree. This river too says, “I won't go.” The ocean pushes it back. This is what is called the ebb and flow. The river goes to join the ocean. The ocean thrusts it out, saying, “Do not join me.” Coming back, it looks like the ocean. Between this one and that one there is a time of twelve hours only.