Excerpt from Heavenly Christmas Tree & a Blissful New Year

Hold on to “I-Am” beyond the body and mind.  Then you can witness your whole mind in the form of nadam, cosmic music, light and vibration.  When the unconscious and superconscious meet together, then and then only your mind becomes like the full moon and is transformed into sahaja samadhi, natural samadhi, pure cognition.  Then your mind reflects the light of the sun of “I-Am”, awareness. 

Without forgetting the old year, you cannot have a New Year, can you?  The body and mind cannot work without time and space.  Our memory cannot work without time and space, cause and effect.  But the principle of “I-Am” operates beyond time, space, cause and effect.

We need both, time-space and beyond time and space, because physically and mentally we live in the universe of the senses, that is to say, the universe of genesis, the six days of creation.  Mind and body are part of the created universe, the universe of genesis, the six days of creation representing the five senses and, sixth, the mind.

Without going beyond the body and mind, you cannot forget the universe of the senses.  When you forget the universe of senses, then and then alone you have a happy, blissful New Year.  Otherwise not.  I am asking you, honestly, can you have a New Year without forgetting the old year?  You cannot forget, and as long as you do not forget the old year, so long you cannot have the New Year.

  ~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

Heavenly Christmas Tree & a Blissful New Year

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