From Daily Speeches of Swami Omkarananda Saraswati

The Non-Enjoyer within
You Are God
True Happiness is More than Joviality
Be a Lightning Conductor
Everything Is within Us
It is not Sufficient to Read the Universe by Intellect alone
Durga - The Power of Transformation 
Be Established in Infinite Peace

The Non-Enjoyer within

There is in you a non-enjoyer - in this world of enjoyment, in this body of enjoyment, in this mind of enjoyment there is a non-enjoyer. There is a non-suffering person in your suffering body, someone who is beyond your enjoyment and suffering. This person you have to know and experience. You have to be this person! You have to identify yourself with this person. For in Him there is infinite, absolute perfection. He does not need to enjoy anything, because He Himself is infinite delight. He does not need to suffer, because He is beyond every conceivable suffering. He is all-perfect. This all-perfect person in you you have to discover, recognize, perceive, experience and constantly identify yourself with.

You are in search of perfect love. You will find it nowhere outside this person. You are in search of perfect joy. You will find it nowhere outside this person in you. Tat tvam asi. This you are. If you love This, do you need anything from the world then? - Money? Food? Family? Friendship? Never. You are beyond everything: Master of life, death and world.

When you know this person in you, you are the greatest Sannyasin, best Sannyasin, true Sannyasin. It becomes very easy for you to renounce everything, because you have that, which fills you with boundless peace and joy, absolute perfection. You go beyond mind, body, suffering, sorrow, anxiety, worry, disease and death.

This person in you - the ever uninvolved observer of all experiences and events - is the true Lakshmi. He is Narayana. He is Light. He is always a witness. He is the Light of lights in you. He is neither woman nor man. If you think you are a woman or a man you submit yourself to cheap pleasures and endless misery. You are neither man nor woman. It is your mind that is involved in experiences, events, problems, worries and sorrows. In every woman and man there is this person beyond all gender, full of light, perfect, uninvolved.

To be this person is true life, divine life, a life in an Ashram. All other forms of life are imperfect and lead to problems. You think you are lucky, but in this luck there is the germ of all misery. It creates karma. It binds you to the body, to mind, to circumstances and conditions, anxiety and death.

This is the quintessence of every conceivable religious teaching, the teaching of every Mystic. A true religion, a true philosophy revolves around this message. All life should revolve around this message, that is rooted in Truth.

You Are God                                                                                                                     

God cannot separate Himself from you in spite of his omnipotence! Why? God is your own true nature, your true face, true body, true heart, true soul! Never can God separate himself from anyone. He is the Soul of every soul. It sounds like a contradiction, that an almighty God is powerless to separate himself from you. But it is the Truth. The question itself, whether God may be far from you, is senseless, a stupid question. God is the Soul of your soul, the Consciousness of your consciousness, the Intelligence of your intelligence, the Observer in you, the Life of your life. And the Life of your life is eternal, infinite, absolute, all-perfect.

An all-perfect God dwells in you as You - as your own Self, your own very nature, your infinite Bliss, which you experience in deep-sleep unknowingly. You can enjoy this Bliss in deep meditation, in mystic experience, in spiritual, divine experience.

So great is God's mercy, that He dwells in you always as God, as your own true Self! God and you cannot be separated. God is your constant companion, God is your true countenance, your true life. It is possible to separate you from your nose, from your ears, from your body, from your mind, even from your subconscious; but never can you ever be separated from the God within you. God is you. You are God.

Is that you: your ears, your mind, your heart - the outer heart of emotions ? Never! The You is the observer - not that which is involved, but that which observes. It is the uninvolved absolute perfection in you. Do you suffer as God and God as you, when your mind or body suffers? No. Within a suffering body there is a non-suffering, absolute, perfect being. It is the You in you. It is God in you.

God is your true Self, true nature, true life. Like bubbles on the surface of the sea, all that is foreign to you will one day disappear. But God is never foreign to you. He is yourself. How should you separate yourself from yourself? Such a thing is never possible. In this sense God is unable, powerless, to separate Himself from you. He is you.

When the body dies, you never die, because you are the immortal God. So great is God's mercy that He installs Himself in you in all His perfection. When you are reasonable, when you have developed discrimination power and find out what is foreign to you and what isn't, what remains with you and what doesn't, what is eternal and what is transitory, when your heart is calm and pure so that it sees clearly where your treasure is - the Treasure above all treasures, the source of true joy, true peace, true intelligence, true knowledge, true beauty and true freedom ', when your intelligence is enlightened, you find that you are yourself the source of all peace and joy - timeless peace and joy - as you experience in deep-sleep state: a timeless silence and bliss.

It is a shame if we do not seek our happiness here within ourselves, where God dwells, but chase after fleeting sensual pleasures and lose our soul, our paradise. Our paradise is within ourselves! It is the Soul of your soul, and this is the true source. Here there is joy, not in outer things and people. People, objects, circumstances and conditions can never give us true joy, peace and strength, real knowledge and perfection. These values are within ourselves - in God.

The goal of life is the unfolding of this Divinity in us, the experience of this Divinity in us. Nothing pleases God as much as your striving after and becoming God. You already are God - as we have said before 'you only have to experience this fact instead of experiencing the transitory phenomena that are the body, the world and circumstances. All these are fleeting. All are foreign to you. All are changing. Nothing belongs to you: your hair, your nose, your eyes, your hands, your feet, all are foreign to you. Your possessions, your wealth, your fortune and misfortune, all are foreign to you and therefore disappear. That which belongs to you never disappears. That is God.

Dreams come and go. They are foreign to you. Worlds come and go. They are foreign to you. No father and no mother belong to us. All things and all persons are foreign to us. Only God alone remains with us, because He is the Self of our self. We are this God.

If you are reasonable, if you are rational, if you are realistic, if you want your life to be built on truth, reality, not on illusions, then seek this God that you yourself are. You must become aware of this God-presence in you. You must experience Him - grow one with Him in your consciousness and experience. All spiritual exercises, all exercises of reason lead to this experience. No life is great unless it seeks and has found God. All religions preach that God is in you.

Great purity is necessary. Otherwise one pursues illusions and falls victim to mind and its states. What is the nature of mind? Affection and disaffection, opposing thoughts and feelings, suffering, crying, little pleasures and great worries, all that is mind. One has to discipline mind. One has to attain moral perfection. One has to overcome all weaknesses and be consciously rooted in God, in one's true Self, just as one is rooted in timeless, spaceless peace, joy and perfection during deep-sleep - a state where desires can never arise, because you enjoy and are Perfection.

True Happiness is More than Joviality                                                                       

Does one need merriment to enjoy true happiness? Do you need fun in deep-sleep, where you enjoy timeless, spaceless, wonderful happiness? Never. On the other hand, do depressions hinder your enjoyment of this fantastic true joy in deep-sleep? No.

Human beings are like animals. Every animal is the slave of joy and depression, laughter, crying, good and bad feelings, good and bad thoughts, good and bad actions, and so on. Human beings, like animals, are slaves of their thoughts and feelings, jealousy, envy, anger, egoism. Can egoism help sustain true happiness? Never. You do not need egoism. Without egoism you enjoy true, boundless, wonderful, everlasting happiness. The lover of the Divine remains above merriment and egoism and enjoys timeless, spaceless, true Peace in all situations and conditions, however challenging they may be.

Anger, pride and vanity enslave common man, he is lost, and becomes a puppet of moods, and as a result is suffering.

The lover of the Divine has no need of any merriment or pleasure in the world. He renounces these and therefore does not know depression, aggression or jealousy either. All these are laughable, childish, animal affairs. One has to be Master of one's mind. This is the first requisite for spiritual life. - No crying or cheap laughter. Laughter and crying mean, you are a slave of the mind, slave of the states of mind, depression, cheerfulness, good feelings, bad feelings, body feelings, all kinds of feelings.

Do you need delicious food to be happy in deep-sleep? No. Your true being is timeless, everlasting, all-independent joy. In all situations the true lover of the Divine dwells in this joy, beyond gaiety and depression. It is a shame to be depressed. One should immediately counter it with cheerfulness. First make use of cheerfulness as an antidote. Use a good thought to get rid of a bad thought. Then drop even the good thought, and bring into expression the being and nature of the Divine, which is the absolute goodness that is needed, the absolute joy, absolute peace and absolute self-mastery that are needed. This is our true being. Spiritual life means mastery of oneself - no tears, no stupidities, no depression, no complaints, no praise, no blame. The opposites collapse.

Where there are opposites there is no peace, no true happiness, no power. Human beings and animals are the victims and slaves of joy and sorrow, hatred and love. The lover of the Divine is above this. He does not lose his head - always calm, always in self-control, always in the same state, always all-independent. In disease and in death, in merriment and in happiness, he remains above mind.

Guru is such a person. He lives in the Light, in that, which you experience in deep-sleep as all-independent silence, peace and joy. Silence is not without. Silence is within yourself, as the deep-sleep state shows. Restlessness is the result of the activity of the mind. Mind is ever restless, the slave of a continuous flow of thoughts and feelings - useless thoughts, wrong thoughts, misguiding thoughts, proud thoughts, vain thoughts, body-related thoughts. Where is your strength? Where is your freedom? The lover of the Divine remains above thoughts and feelings. He does not need joviality or depression. He transcends both. The spiritual life means to train oneself to be like this, to be rooted in timeless, all-independent joy, not to ask for joy and pleasure from the outer world and sense-organs. What is human spoils us, leads us into misery, worries, sorrow, suffering, anxiety, sickness and death.

A person, who bases his values on little pleasures or on a person or an object, looses it. Nothing in this world can be depended on. However loving a person be, he or she is not dependable. He or she dies, changes. One should enjoy the timeless joy that is our true being and remain independent.

Joy does not derive from a person or an object. What derives from a person or an object is an illusory, impermanent joy that dulls the intelligence and reason, a joy that makes a slave and an animal of a human being.

At all times one should enjoy inner happiness. This divine joy is always accessible. True happiness is our true nature. There we are masters. There we are independent. There is true freedom. No one who is a slave of his own contrasting feelings is free. As long as one is ruled by mind one is not a free human being. As long as urges and instincts are present no one is free.

A person in deep-sleep state is free from all these. But deep-sleep is neither a permanent state, nor is it at all our real state. We have to experience this everlasting, all-perfect joy consciously in waking state. That is the goal of spiritual life.

Be a Lightning Conductor                                                                                             

Make someone a little present and he feels elated. This is a weakness. One is enslaved by this state. Never be a slave of praise and recognition or offence and slander. In the life of a truly God-loving, wise person there is no space for depression. He is beyond offence and does not know depression. None of life's circumstances can put him down. And no circumstances, however heavenly and paradise like, no possession can elevate him. In both states he remains the same - serene. He is above these opposites.

In society we sometimes have to deal with silly persons or egoistic persons. If you are vulnerable you are lost, you are a slave of the offensive word. The master of an offence remains unhurt. He simply rejects the insult. He has an inner immune system. No power can overcome it so easily. Any challenge, any insult, any stroke of fate can be mastered. Human society is full of all kinds of moods. You should never allow yourself to be a slave of your own moods or the moods of another.

Sometimes a person may be cheerful and good-natured and praise you. You feel great. That is wrong. You have become a slave of this emotional attack. Be that an agreeable or a damaging attack, you should remain untouched, like a person in deep-sleep.

Tell a baby: 'You're an idiot!' It laughs. Say the same to a sleeping person. No reaction. Say the same to a Saint. No reaction. Tell it to a good, self-disciplined person, who is in control of himself, a Swami. He is like a lightning conductor. No effect.

A stroke of fate attacks like a stroke of lightning, but there is a lightning conductor, that prevents harm. When lightning hits a tree it burns. When the stroke of defamation hits a man he burns. It takes him days, weeks, months, a life long to get over it. He never forgives. He is full of vengeance.

One has to learn to live with bad people as if they were God Himself. And in deed, they are God Himself, within, in their innermost being. And we are concerned only with this innermost being, not with the outer appearance, the outer expressions and moods, the outer values and gestures. These all should not touch us. Like a lotus, we have to remain untouched, like a baby, like a sleeping person.

Throw a lotus bud into dirty water, it remains unpolluted, ever pure. The sewage drips off. One can never really wet the lotus, neither with dirty, nor with poisonous, nor with good water. So untouched the lover of the Divine remains, too. This is the prerequisite for God-experience. When you are filled with hurt feelings, where is there space for God in you?

You are mad at the insult, you suffer, and thereby you show your weakness. And who is the winner? The person who insulted you. He hurt you. You are the slave. He can cheer you with a little praise, or hurt you with an insult.

The lover of the Divine is above these matters. No space for such experiences. Poverty and prosperity don't touch him. Good clothes or bad clothes mean nothing to him. Good circumstances and bad circumstances do not affect him. He remains unruffled - always Master.

The lover of the Divine is like a lightning conductor. He is the Master of life, Master of the universe, Master of all states and conditions. In any company he is happy, at every place he is in the same state of happiness. Life or death, gain or loss, praise or defamation, nothing touches him. He is independent.

When you observe yourself and find you are hurt, that is the time for spiritual exercises to overcome this state. This sensitivity shows you that you are weak. In absence of such an indication you would not become aware of your weakness.

An Ashram is a place where we leave no stone unturned to overcome this limited personality - not any outer power but this vulnerable human nature.

Everything Is within Us                                                                                                 

In the world we learn - and the world teaches us - that the world is something outside ourselves. We can travel, go on holidays, enjoy outer things, and so on. In the Ashram we learn that the world is within us.

Where is the world of dream-state? In sleep you dream of the entire world; you experience it all so real. It is so alive, you cannot deny it. Where is this dream world? It is within you. In the same way the world of waking-state, too, is within us - in our own consciousness. Our consciousness is infinitely greater than the entire cosmos, the entire universe, the entire world.

Everything is within us, like in dream-state. In the world you are seduced by sense-objects. You think, sense-objects can give you joy. In the Ashram we learn that true joy is within us. We ourselves are this boundless joy.

In deep-sleep you experience yourself as timeless, spaceless joy. This is true joy, all-independent joy, problem-free joy, a joy that does not cause disease, a joy that is not gained by hard effort but which is all-independent and perfect. This is our being. This we learn and experience in the Ashram.

In the world it is said: time and space are real. Everything goes by time. In the Ashram we learn that time and space are within us, as in dream, and we are timeless, as in deep-sleep. This is our true nature. This we have to know. This we have to pursue. This we have to experience, this we have to be - a timeless, spaceless, all-perfect being.

All joy is within. The entire universe is within. There is no necessity of going anywhere. Going and coming happen in time and space, while we are beyond these. The world says: 'Come to the restaurant. Eat and drink. Come to the bar and dance. Gain possession of this and that, and you will have pleasure!'

All this is proved an illusion in daily life. True peace, true joy and true perfection are within ourselves. To know, strive after and experience this wonderful world of absolute perfection is the aim and purpose of life. This the Ashram teaches us, and it gives us the opportunity to pursue these absolute values. All these values are in us. We ourselves are these values.

To all problems there is but one solution. Worldly people try to solve the problems of life through objects in life itself - through what is perceived by the sense organs. But that does not help. The solution to the problem of life is beyond life; in something else than life.

The solution to the problem of mind lies beyond mind, not in the things in which mind plays a role. It is always something beyond life that is the solution of the problems of life.

The spiritual aspirant has a hold on this 'beyond life'. Paradoxically, that which is beyond life is in life itself. It is our own Self. Yet it is beyond us, beyond life, beyond thoughts, feelings, mind, society - beyond the universe.

Only in that which is beyond life is every conceivable solution to life's every imaginable problem to be found. There is no other real solution to the problem of life.

Our own Self is beyond us, and yet, paradoxically within us.

It is not Sufficient to Read the Universe by Intellect alone                                   

Reason commits great mistakes, as has happened to Darwin, Copernicus, Freud and others. The human being possesses infinite dignity. Man is an image of God - the eternal Witness. This Witness does not perish. He was before the universe, and remains after its dissolution. He possesses infinite dignity. He is an immortal being in a mortal universe. From time to time he changes his body - which is what you call birth and death. This is a passing, fleeting phenomenon. It is a finite part of the infinite Witness that man is in himself.

Copernicus is right: Yes, the earth is insignificant in this gigantic universe, even in this galaxy. But he has not realized that it is a fantastic divine world, where we can live. On this earth there is the possibility for God-experience, and the earth is therefore something grand, not an insignificant grain of dust in a boundless space. It has a fantastic, central spiritual importance, in furthering the spiritual development of man, in assisting the unity of man with God and enabling in each finite human being the experience of his inner Infinitude.

Darwin is wrong. He thinks, man evolved from ape, our great-grandfather is an ape. Here Darwin, too, has robbed man of his meaning and has no idea of the true source of the human soul and human life. The dignity of man is God's own dignity - boundless, fantastic.

Man's father, grandfather and great-grandfather is God Himself. Man comes from God, though his body is from nature. But body comes and goes. Body is a tiny part of his great, eternal life.

Freud, too, commits mistakes. He says man is a puppet of the powers in the unconscious. He says, man is of low nature and base instincts govern his life. This is not so. This is not the whole of the story. It is only a tiny passing portion.

Every human being longs for beauty, love, joy and perfection. Every human being strives for these and these impulses come from God. God is beauty, and everyone longs for beauty. God is perfection and everyone longs for perfection. God is unlimited knowledge and everyone longs for unlimited knowledge. The pleasures of life satisfy no one. Everyone one day comes to God.

Call your neighbour a fool. He gets angry and may start a fight in which you loose your teeth or your head. Why so? Because every human being wants to be a knowledgeable person. Everyone strives for wisdom. Everyone plays the role of a learned or knowing person. Why this impulse? Because it is an impulse of divine nature. Man is a child of boundless knowledge and wants to return to boundless knowledge. He does not accept ignorance. Man is nothing but a fantastic revelation of God Himself. His goal and destiny is God-experience.
 

Durga - The Power of Transformation                                                                        

When we attain the grace of the Divine, the experience of the Value of all values in us becomes possible. The grace of God has to destroy our ignorance that covers and veils this Value, hides this Value from our sight and misleads us, seduces us into sensual pleasures and constantly directs our attention to the sensory universe, which, to reason and discernment, is nothing but a valley of tears and sorrow.

This ignorance has to be destroyed by the grace of Durga. Durga destroys this ignorance and reveals the true value and treasure in us - this 20-million treasure in us.

Take an example: On the surface of the ocean there are so many bubbles - big bubbles and small bubbles. These bubbles suffer from ignorance: They take themselves to be something different from the ocean. One bubble seeks friendship with other bubbles and strives for power, joy, and so on, which it can never find in that, which is limited. There is no happiness in this. Now, a wave of the ocean, which is the grace of the Divine Mother, has to come and swallow this bubble to make it one with the ocean, the boundless, majestic, wonderful, mighty ocean.

This is what the Divine Mother Durga does. The wave of Her grace dissolves our ignorance and reveals our absolute strength, the immortal life, absolute perfection.

You have appreciated the fact, that in every human being there is this infinite value, the immortal life, an inexhaustible treasure. We measure the value and estimate the dignity of man by this reality, from the standpoint of this fact. We call every human being God, Satchidananda, Truth, eternal life. When you understand, that you are that, you are a completely different person. You become fearless and free from problems and enjoy here and now, in this biologic body, the timeless spaceless peace, joy and perfection of the Divine.

Therefore we address our fellow-beings as God-incarnations, Satchidananda, Divinity. We see and experience it and cash this 20-million cheque in daily life.

Be Established in Infinite Peace                                                                                 

When you sink into deep-sleep state and enjoy timeless silence, investigate the beginning of this timeless silence. This timeless silence has not begun with your deep-sleep state, but has been there always and shall remain. Even after discarding your body you will enjoy the same timeless silence. Why? Because your being is independent of the body. The physical state cannot affect the timeless silence, joy and peace in you. No cancer can influence it. No atom bomb, no house fire that burns your body, can ever touch this timeless perfection in you, this timeless perfect life in you.

The point is, you have to get out of this bondage of the body. This happens in deep-sleep. There you are no longer attached to the body, to possessions, to anxieties, to disease; you are no longer connected with friends or foes. You are free from all, and yet you are alive - you haven't died. And yet you are happy, though the foes, problems and disease are still surrounding you. You remain ever untouched.

In the same way as you switch off the mind while asleep and sink with your entire being into the timeless stillness, you should do so also in waking-state. How is that possible? By constant instruction to your mind: 'O mind, you are not the body, you are not the possessions you have, you are not your fears and diseases, your cancer, your headache or toothache. You are not your eatables. You are infinitely more. You are all-independent fullness. You can hear without ears, you can see without eyes, you can eat and talk without a tongue.' Consciousness is all-perfect. This is your being. It is Brahman, absolute perfection. And the nature of this Brahman is joy, absolute joy. Where there is absolute joy, your perfection is absolute, your peace is absolute, your freedom is absolute, your beauty is absolute. You need no cosmetics. You are born with absolute beauty. Unborn, imperishable beauty is there in your heart always, inseparable from you. When you sink into this unborn beauty you are liberated, you have Brahmananda Consciousness, the consciousness of infinite life and boundless joy.

Again and again we have to tell our mind: 'That which is in me is boundless love, unending joy, infinite silence. I am infinite silence. I am unending peace. I am boundless love. I am eternal life.' But in order to prevent the ego from destroying your inner spiritual life you should avoid saying: 'I am infinite joy,' but rather: 'That which is within me - the God in me, that which I experience in deep-sleep as timeless peace and joy - is boundless love and unending peace. This I am. Therefore I know no fear, no worries about the future.'

One has to be obsessed by these spiritual facts, truths, realities. In such a state you do not sin. As long as you believe you need outward help - joy derived from sense objects, or peace and silence at a holiday resort - as long as you think you depend on outer things, you find no peace. You remain the victim of disease, anxiety, misery and depression.

One has to get rid of this. In all states - while working, during waking state, in sleep and dream - one should keep oneself occupied with the Divine, i.e. with what we essentially are. What are you in essence? When you think of your body, mind tells you, your body has such and such height, that it faces such and such problem, that you are hungry and have to eat, that your legs are paining, that you have to go to work or to school, and do this and that. Is this you? No! These are fleeting states of the body that keep changing and go by.

Are you the body during deep-sleep? No, you are timeless silence. Are you the body in the state of God-consciousness, in deep meditation, true meditation? No, you are timeless joy.

In true meditation you forget everything, leave everything aside, like in deep-sleep. Everything! You sink into the wonderful presence of light, love, life, joy and peace. This peace and joy is Reality. The outer pleasures and pains are no realities.

Again and again we have to be obsessed with God's endless love, infinite life and boundless silence, which is there not only in our deep-sleep, but also outside us, also in others, in all nature, in the stones, in the trees, in the stars, in the air, fire and water. It is everywhere within and without. This timeless stillness is God. God is silence. God alone is eternal life, and when you sink into God you experience eternal, perfect, absolute life. The purpose of this passing, fleeting life here on earth is to take advantage of our time in the body to attain the permanent, everlasting experience of this Brahmananda.

Think about it: What in you is real - what is lasting? Not your thoughts, not your feelings, not your physical states. Yesterday you were a baby, today you are old, tomorrow you will be gone. Everything changes. But what is that in you which never changes? Timeless stillness. It was when you were a baby - as a baby you slept and experienced it. Has it changed with age? It has never changed.

Everything within you and around you changes. Fifty years ago there was no computer, no telefax, no cordless phone. The world is a river. Every moment the water below your feet is a different one. Everything keeps changing, changing and passing, and while it is there, it causes fear and problems.

Man wants a happy life that never changes and unchanging love. But such a thing does not exist. When Princess Diana weds Prince Charles, she says, 'Our marriage will be forever happy'. The second or third day fighting starts, brawls, attempted suicide, scandals, endless problems. Times change and one cannot hold on to good luck.

But within you there is bliss, an empire that never changes. And this never-changing part in you is the true life, the true intelligence, the true consciousness. In this true life you are ever the same. Your joy is ever the same. Your peace is ever the same.

Analyse your deep-sleep. There you experience a state that is always the same stillness - today, tomorrow, day after tomorrow. A cancer patient knows the state of deep-sleep and experiences timeless peace, joy, fearlessness and freedom from problems. A poor person sleeps and experiences absolute satisfaction. A rich person experiences the same. A healthy person, a young person, an old person, a sick person - all experience the same. This timeless life is always there, in all, even in stones and trees and birds. And the nature of this timeless existence is timeless silence. The being of this timeless existence in all and in everything is called God. It is not mere life, existence or being, but it is happiness, bliss and peace. This timeless silence is joy, absolute satisfaction, freedom from anxiety. It is true freedom.

In this state of our soul in deep-sleep - or in the mystic state, where we consciously experience this timeless silence, God - there is nothing to limit our freedom. This is our true being.

It is a shame to be obsessed with sense-objects, emotions and sentiments, and to sell our soul - this unending perfection - to these sense-objects and sense-experiences.

We would recommend sense-pleasures, if these would lead to true happiness, true peace and joy, true life, true freedom and true love. Is there in these sense-objects true love, true freedom, freedom from anxiety, inexhaustible strength and wisdom? No. But all these qualities are your own nature. They are ever present in the Soul of your soul, which is so subtle that nothing can limit it. That which is beginningless and endless, ever the same, alone is reality. Do you have access to this soul? Yes, you have access every night in deep-sleep, every instant in meditation, every moment in God-consciousness.
 
In order that this deadly enemy, the mind, which keeps us separated from this divine realm within us, may be conquered, we have to employ some exercises and disciplines. This deadly enemy in us is the cause of our human state - the limited state of anxieties, problems, worries, sorrow and misery. This Mahishasura has to be killed. And here we need the grace of Divine Mother, Mahishasuramardini. Her grace enables us to kill the mind, dissolve the mind, transform this negative energy into positive energy, radiant divine energy.