Aham Brahmasmi (I am Divine)

You may ask: "How am I to declare, Aham Brahmasmi (I am Divine)?” Yes, you can do so. But, first understand the Aham, the ‘I’, the Divine Principle. Scriptures declare - Ekam Eva adhvitheyam Brahma - The Absolute is One without a second. Though people worship the Absolute with different names and forms, the Supreme Reality is only one. Just as the same person is called in different names by different people at different times, God has many names and forms - all these are creations of the human mind. Scriptures emphatically declare that the Lord is the nameless and attributeless Eternal Reality. Understand properly the true and Divine nature of the Aham ('I'). The ‘I’ is the master of your body, senses and the intellect, and is the power that permeates the entire cosmos.

Baba (thought for the day)

What great words of our beloved Swami! 

Thinking it over I actually get the feeling of being in Prasanthi Nilayam and he is standing in front of us giving us one of those great and divine speeches and it was always such a joy listening to him and to sit there and to just let his words rain on us and all the people sitting there and it felt like cool nectar and divine bliss. It is like in the bible, the sower soweth the word.

And if we learn to listen, but we have to practice, we find that merging place where he said is bliss.

Love is my form, truth is my breath, bliss is my food.

We find the love in singing Bhajans, but we have to listen to his words to find the sower that sowed the word and we get the experience of the divine truth and the bliss of his divine presence.

We have to know when we concentrate on the mantra and that it is waking stage and we transcend the mind and it is non-conceptual, never changing transcendental awareness, without any notion of time and space and meditation and we have to realize the difference on the borderline between concentration and meditation, what is contemplation, constant integrated awareness and constant unceasing contemplation on the Lord, if we know it, we feel his presence, we listen to his speech, we see him talk, we see him move, we see him in front of all the people sitting at his feet and he is showering the divine nectar and it feels like divine shower refreshing and comforting and what a blessing. His words are magic, the word is all there is, it is the principle and it is always true.

In his words he lives and he will be always living, it is Veda, he is the prove of the living divinity in Veda and it is that beautiful.

How can he declare that he is divine? 

He is the embodiment of the scriptures, he is Veda and everybody who is living that principle will be the same, Veda is the song of the divine and the song of truth, that is the         same, we just don’t know it, but in listening to him and thinking it over we get able to absorb and that is the way we can realize it.

Without contemplation there is no detachment possible and it is like with meditation only if we practice, only if we do it, we get actually the benefit of contemplation, it is the borderline and the level that merges the waking stage and the dream stage and when we realize on that level that we are the Atmic principle, we can feel it what he is telling here:

You may ask: "How am I to declare, Aham Brahmasmi (I am Divine)?” Yes, you can do so. But, first understand the Aham, the ‘I’, the Divine Principle. Scriptures declare - Ekam Eva adhvitheyam Brahma –

The Absolute is One without a second.

That is why he can declare, ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (I am Divine). He is the very prove of the eternal, non-changing, always present reality we find in the scriptures. He is the divine word.

Though people worship the Absolute with different names and forms, the Supreme Reality is only one.

Just as the same person is called in different names by different people at different times, God has many names and forms - all these are creations of the human mind. Scriptures emphatically declare that the Lord is the nameless and attributeless Eternal Reality.

In listening to the divine word, in thinking it over and only if we practice actually we get the experience of it. It is like with mediation, it is of no use to tell that we meditate, if we don’t do it, in the opposite, it is doing only harm and it is not good, because it is not true, we don’t become good in telling we do it and we don’t, we become bad, the same with the divine word, if we don’t practice and think it over to be able to absorb the wisdom, we cannot get aware of it.

Understand properly the true and Divine nature of the Aham ('I'). The ‘I’ is the master of your body, senses and the intellect, and is the power that permeates the entire cosmos.