Freedom Is Not Dependent on a Particular State- 18 May 2015

Shivam says, "Father, the strong undercurrent of bliss has disappeared. It has been like this for a few days. However, there is still a strong energy which shakes me up and stretching the body." Then you say also the mind seems to have creeped in behind the eyes as Shrimuji says, but it's all okay.

Yes. And it is good that bliss has disappeared because if you confuse freedom to be a blissed out state then know that all states are coming and going no matter how beautiful and auspicious. So in the search for freedom, if you're actually searching for some state, then you will definitely be disappointed at some point or the other. There is no state that comes in states. And even if it did, you would forget that you are in that state because that would become natural. If you were eating sugar all of the time and there was no salt, then sugar would just taste normal. You see, there was no contrast. So if bliss was always there, you would forget about bliss.

So freedom must be that it cannot be a constricted state where we are dependent on a particular state. Shiva is not saying give me only joy, give me only bliss. Shiva is untouched, unaffected by everything which is coming and going. So bliss has disappeared. It's completely fine. If it remains this just simple sober seeing then no trouble with that. The witnessing is not concerned by what is appearing. It is only the mind, the ego, which comes and says I want this, I don't want that. That which resists what is is the ego. So all energies, all bliss, all of these forces they can come and go as they please. You are that which remains untouched by all of this play.

And then Shivam said also the mind seems to have creeped in behind the eyes like Shrimuji says but it's all okay. Now if you refuse to believe your next thought then show me what power the mind has. And it is only the thought which will come and say but this is difficult or this is complicated. It happens on its own. Let all thoughts come and let them go. Just be completely open. Don't give them any room including behind the eyes.

What does it mean when we say the mind seems to have creeped in behind the eyes? That means our vision seems to be sort of constricted, isn't it? The personal eyes are always looking at everything saying what's in it for me? What's in it for me? What's in it for me? Always everything is about me, me, me, me, me. And when we let go of these personal eyes, they may not grasping at everything that comes in front of us. Then our vision becomes more global. And once you lose the me, this individual sense of me, then the mind can try all its tricks. But you cannot come back to this personal form of living.