Page 48 - Imperience Beckons

of the Heavens. These samskaras have got accumulated. We are now trying individual annihilation. We are trying to get back to that original condition which was there at the time of Dawn. That is the Dawn of creation; this is the Dawn of the Sun. This Reality at Dawn at the physical plane asks us to think about Reality at the time of Creation our Base. The dawn of the Sun reminds us about that Reality of the Master, of God.
Master in the last paragraph of the commentary on this particular commandment says that we should distinguish between the power of the Sun and the power of the Source. The Sun is more gross; there is more heat, whereas at the Base, it is not. That is an indication to us to understand that at that stage of development in our journey to the Infinite we do not expect this particular type of heat that we are having, when we are sitting for meditation in the early hours of the day, however nominal it may be. Now this brings the awareness of our dawn, links us up firmly. We know we should get back and that is going to be the type of condition we would experience or imperience. It is not as many of my brothers and sisters ask me, Sir, do you feel grey, do you feel brown, do you feel red; it does not make any sense at all. Before creation, as the child came, as the baby was born, what exactly was the condition? It is that stage of stillness, that state of calmness, whatever it is, that image also is stated in one of the commandments. So the morningSandhya makes us remember the source and to get back. Revered Babuji does not stop with that. Nor he does go to the evening Sandhya. He says in tradition the Sandhya, is offered in the afternoon as Madhyahnika. The sandhyopasana includes the Madhyahnika. But it has become convenient for most of the persons who are enjoined to do this worship according to tradition to ignore this for whatever reason it might be. Revered Babuji says it is deleted as a practice in this system not because it is inconvenient to us but because the heat at that time is more than what is necessary and we do not consider it necessary for us to use that heat to go to the source, to remind us about the power of the Base. He does not deny the validity of meditation at that time. He puts it very clearly, if we meditate at noon our thoughts get unconsciously attached to the powers of the Centre or the Ultimate. It is a fact the material heat at that time is also great. We do not treat Sandhya at noon as compulsory in our system. It is not compulsory, but nothing prohibits us from doing meditation at noon. It is not mandatory; by implication the other practices of Sandhya are compulsory. The Master has given himself the exceptions and following them strictly is the best to gain maximum advantage of the system.