February 2020

The ‘sukshma sharira’ – subtle body is much more beautiful, finer than the ‘sthula sharira’, gross body which you have.

It’s still there so you carry all of this and go away.

The Gita says it beautifully saying, when the soul leaves the body and goes off carrying the seeds of it’s karmas like the wind carrying the fragrance of the flowers

20. If you advance in your sadhana, you will come to a point where you will actually know that you are not this body.

The best thing would be to move forward in spiritual training or sadhana till we are in a position to see if we are something other than the body.

Shiva is a perfect example, perfect representation of a yogi.

The whole process of sublimating the lower to the higher is the meaning of ‘Shivaratri’.

Kashi is called the city of light.

If this little ‘I’, when it completely disappears when it becomes the ‘I’ of the little child, then you’ll know what is ‘Turiya’.

If you really want to have an anubhava (experience) of that Turiya,

The recognition of Turiya is Self-recognition.

Suppose, in deep sleep, in the heavenly state of bliss, the mind wakes up as a witness and sees it.