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So you, once you are in thoughtless awareness what happens
that no thoughts bombard your mind.
Wherever you may be, you may be in America, you may be in any place.
You are not bombarded by thoughts.
So, what does that mean? Into very simple language we can say,
it means that you do not reflect.
You do not have a reflecting mind.
Now this is the basic problem of Sahaja Yogis of today,
which one should try to conquer.
That you do not reflect.
That's the only way you can achieve your steadiness.
For example I have seen people,
for nothing at all they'll just start laughing,
nothing at all.
They see somebody, immediately they react
"This was nice but not so good."
They start giving their opinions, especially in the West, about everything.
Everybody seems to be very knowledgeable
and start telling what is best
and what is not the best, what is not good.
And once they start saying something like that,
mind becomes reflective.
If the mind is not reflective, then you are thoughtless awareness.
Watch anything, just you watch.
Just witness. You should not reflect.
If you are using your mental power, then this power subsides.
This is a very common defect with people because,
I think, you people
are more intelligent, you think. Maybe
I think, you are well educated, might be.
I don't know, whatever you think.
But this reflecting mind
is a very dangerous thing for spirituality.
You'll never grow. And then with the reflecting mind,
you have different emotions with something you reflect on somebody.
Now if it's your son or daughter or something, you get identified.
Identification with some is artificial.
It's not in reality.
But because this mind reflects, it identifies.
Now many identifications you have dropped out.
For example your bias about religion,
about races,
about maybe nationalities, you have dropped out.
But still I would say, the reflecting mind still acts
and this is the greatest hurdle for the progress of Sahaja Yogis of today.
I've been thinking "Why is it the reflecting mind
is so active in Sahaja Yogis of today?"
If you could stop reflecting,
immediately you establish yourself
in the ocean of peace.
You watch something, just watch.
There's no ripple of thought in your mind.
Then you become extremely creative.
You become extremely dynamic,
you become extremely compassionate.
You have no fear.
Some people think, "If you are compassionate
you see this man might lynch me". You have no fear.
All virtues that you have to enjoy
you can only enjoy
when you do not reflect.
That means that you leave everything to the Divine.
You are not in charge.
You don't see that you have to be reflecting on something.
This is the greatest power you have got, is not to reflect,
not to look at somebody with that kind of thing.
I have seen this is still there lingering.
Perhaps I never told you about it, maybe one of the reasons.
I don't say that it's only your fault but maybe Mine,
because I couldn't find what was exactly wrong,
that is the reflection that you have about others.
Now I told you, have introspection.
For introspection also it can be reflection,
but that at least gives you idea as to where you are.
But with that psychologically you can become extremely depressed.
You can condemn yourself.
Then you may not understand yourself
as a personality that you are
and you'll go on, sort of,
losing your vibrations, losing your power.
Because you are not control of yourself.
So introspection, also, if it brings
about depression and demeaning of your personality,
best is not to introspect also.
Because all these mental activities, I have seen, create problems.
But in a state where you are thoughtlessly aware,
introspection comes to you automatically.
You see it automatically.
You understand it automatically. You do not think about it,
it just comes to you. The whole picture comes to you
and you are at peace with yourself.
You are never in turmoil,
never in trouble.
Then you don't get angry.
Then you do not argue,
then you do not discuss,
but you become as if dropped in to the ocean of awareness
and you don't have to worry
as to solve something.
When you are reflecting,
then you find that this power works.
Now it becomes very contradictory to say that you have to project
and you don't have to reflect.
Now when we reflect we absorb.
When we reflect on something, we absorb that thing.
And mostly our attention goes to the defects of others,
"This person is no good, that is not good, this is,
her hair is not all right, the sari's not all right."
This, that and all nonsense.
So what are we doing, we are absorbing all the bad things also.
Now when you start admiration of something.
Then what happens that you may not get the bad things
but at least you are on a better line.
But still, the admiration in thoughtless awareness
is really very deep.
I saw this in the eyes of this great scientist.
Absolutely he was just one with Me,
and his eyes were like an ocean of peace.
He was just looking at Me,
and for quite some time and then he came to his thoughts
and he told Me that "This is what we can do with Your photograph."
So the depth in you will only come when you do not reflect.
But it's very common with human beings, specially in the West,
"this carpet is no good, that is no good,
this smell is coming, that is there,"
always trying to judge others,
judge other things.
This is important? What is so important?
If you are sitting in the garden of heavens
what does it matter where you are sitting, what you are doing?
This sets in, this reflection, sets in waves of thoughts in our mind.
I have already, once, described it by drawing.
How the energy that falls on the right side
goes to the left side
and the falls on the left goes to the right.
Crosses over because of two types of cells we have.
Then out of this energy that goes to the right,
the energy that goes to the left
it is sucked in partly into the sympathetic.
Now whatever is left out is the one that reflects.
That is the way it goes on reflecting.
Now if you can suck in all that energy and put it on our sympathetic,
then all our energies will be thousand fold much more.