1. My approach to Spirituality

Spirituality is: knowing who you are. It is something like this: you already know who you are but you are not sure. When you will come to know what I am saying you will be thrilled.

The Spiritual Paradox is this : what you really are is already a fact, you don't have to do anything about it, you only have to understand. Even your not knowing who you are does not change your reality but if you know it makes your life a play, you become spontaneous & you start enjoying your life wherever you are & whatever your life is. If you don't know who you are your life remains a struggle & the restlessness continues whatever may be your achievement & however well you may be placed.

A person who has realized himself expresses the Truth in his way, it is incomparable with any other realized one. So my expression may have common basic statements with someone else but you cannot reconcile me with anybody because in reconciling you will be making an effort to convince yourself that you already know & in that case these writings won't open your mind.

The only way for you to find whether you have realized or not is to see for yourself whether you are comfortable in all life situations & if you are having a light mood almost all the time. Your realization is your own declaration it is not somebody else's endorsement.

The basic foundation of my writing is very simple & obvious, it is like this:

The entire existence is made of two things : one the Forms & other the Formless. The forms are made out of the formless & dissolve into the formless. When I say form I mean anything & everything that can be sensed through basic sensories : eyes, ears, smell, test or touch. For example a musical note is a form & requires silence to manifest, so the note is a form & silence is the formless. The Sun for example is a form & requires Space to manifest & move around so Sun is a form & the space is the formless.

The formless is simply your capacity to know. This capacity to know is impersonal, in the sense it is the same for everyone. A musician may be having a highly sensitive capacity to listen but a deaf also knows that he cannot hear, so we are not concerned with the extra-ordinary abilities but just the basic ability to know. If you go further you will also come to know that this ability to know does not depend upon the sensories. One may refine the sensories but the ability to know remains the same for everyone.

This ability to know has one more mysterious thing, you cannot locate where it is. It is believed that this ability is in the brain but it is not so, brain only decodes a sensory perception, or records a sensory perception, the ability to know is not located in the brain. Even if you land on the moon this capacity to know will be there so it cannot be localised & still it is everywhere.

This ability to know is called the Truth, the Timeless, the Formless, the Deathless, the Virginity, the Uncreated, the Zero, the Silence & so on but all names are only words, it is the realization that brings you liberation.

This capacity to know has a very great quality, It can know Itself; if you have understood this, you have known yourself, because You are this ability to know.

All of us have a single dilemma that we consider ourselves to be a person. The entire fear, restlessness, conflict are a result of this single misunderstanding. If you have understood that you are this formless ability to know you have realized yourself!


Sanjay