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the light is darkness? "If light can thus hide, why not life," said Blanco white! We all know that sunlight hides the stars. When night comes and the sun has gone down, then it is that we see the beauty of the heavens above us!
We have got to develop this direct contact with God in order to realize ourselves as part and parcel of the Ultimate. Let us start this. It is possible that I may go up, and then come down and not in His middle. Or I may go down, and then go up, or I may start at the middle and go up or down. All that does not matter. But let us start this, with energy and sincerity, to bring down this force from above. Can God be brought down? Yes, in my personal experience! I felt deeply light and most of my thoughts were stilled. I reached the thoughtless condition.
If only my friends who are seekers will read the Bhagavad Gita from back to front, all our troubles will be over. That is how it should be read. Surrender first to the higher consciousness, so that it can then reveal to you the meaning of what you read. Please do the saranagati first. After you have done that, you may not read the first few chapters of the Gita. Please do the saranagati first and then see.
You want to achieve God. Why not let God achieve you? As Sankara said, this is a pratibimba, an image. Or as Plato said, the world is a mirror. Therefore, the only way to read the Gita is to start with the last chapter and digest it, the first few need not be read at all!
As in the Veda it is necessary to give up this way of looking at life as an abnormal specialization. Brahmacharya means life of Brahma, or life dedicated to the Brahman, that is, in union with Brahman. It is a simple word with a perfectly simple and clear meaning. But latterly it has been made a peculiar doctrine of non-sexuality! This is our modern difficulty. To practice yoga, they think, needs denial. First get into touch with God.
Then we have to know that Yoga is for the grihastha. This I must emphasize. Have we here a Vanaprastha? Leave alone a Sannyasi! I have not found in the whole range of the Yoga Sutras that you shall not practise yoga at home. There are of course a few yogas which are sannyasa yogas, and as such are not meant for all. But others are for grihasthas. In fact, I