Page 383 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

In India we all talk. We are great talkers, we Indians. We are fascinated by oratory; by the voice. We do very little. That is our main difficulty. Take Dr. S. Radhakrishnan. His voice, his oration. We are all carried away by it. So it is with others. I used to be fascinated by Satyamurthy. He had a grand voice and manner. I used to be just fascinated. So you see, the voice is a dangerous thing.
Mana therefore is a very important thing. I tell my Master "you speak silence!" You will see that Yoga is the real induction of the Divine consciousness of God.
To recall my experience with my Master, on the second day the unbelievable happened! I found myself in contact with the Divine. I didn't believe it. I thought it was hypnotism. But my Master said that it wasn't false. I found a great peace! The Pranasya Pranah ... it had become the eye of my eye, the ear of my ear.
Here I must tell you one thing. What is natural to an animal is unnatural to me; and what is natural to a God is unnatural to me. What is the Real nature? It is a spark of the Divine! You have to gain that status of the spark of the Divine, the Sesha of the Divine, the Shakthi of the Divine!
Your goal is to become a zero, an akinchana. Have nothing! Become nothing! If you can face up to it as Buddha said, you will find that the more you empty out yourself, the more the Divine will enter into you. You are a patra, a vessel. If it is empty, He can enter. You will then be told, "you do not exist, I exist".
Francis Thompson, in his "Hound of Heaven" tells the story of a wood- cutter, who kept dropping his load as he was going through the jungle, and God was following him, and kept picking up the dropped lumber, and He carried all his lumber for him. The wood-cutter turned and saw him, and called Him a robber. "I am no robber, you are my robber,' said God.
When you can place yourself in the natural path of the Divine, then the Divine Life is your life. "Asat" is what all of us are. That is why the Vedas say "Asato ma satgamaya". But then we have "Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya", from darkness lead me to light, and this gives us difficulty. Who knows that