Life Conveys Oneness to Those
Who Have Reached Oneness

The nature of water is fluidity, which means that fluidity is its swabhaav. Water is swa, or water itself, and in that swa is bhaav, which means fluidity. So bhaav is some becoming or appearing, which is not there and which is not born. Fluidity is not born, for it is water throughout—fluidity is water’s swabhaav. In this way, the Self has fluidity, and its fluidity is knowing. This fluidity, or knowing of the Self, creates an illusion in a human being that fluidity is a wave which is separate from the water. In this way, when Knowingness creates the sense of fluidity, or the I-sense, then the very Being, or Knowingness, says, "I am a wave and I am the knower." So see, there are not two, I the water and I the fluidity. Rather, there is only one: I the Knowingness and I the wave—which is the so-called second, or the swabhaav of the very water, of Knowingness.

The swabhaav of Knowingness is I. Therefore, a human being cannot be treated as being ignorant of I. Why? Because it is his swabhaav. They have given I the name "ego," as if some ball came on your shoulder, as if the ball is other than your shoulder; the shoulder is also like a ball, although it is not a ball. So the swabhaav of Knowingness is the body child, and the child is Knowingness. So this boy [Avinaash, the son of Dr. Gaurav from Kanpur and grandson of Dr. Awadh] is Knowingness. His body is there, and its system—with nerves, senses, legs, hands, and mouth—is all there, yet the system is not developed, because it is not a full wave of water. You cannot surf ride on it, as it is a very slim wave. But when it will be a wave worth surf riding, it will be a huge tide. Then people will say that it is separate from the water—although a wave is not born. Water’s fluidity is not born. The water has fluidity, or mobility. Mobility is not born in water. In the same way, action is not born in a child. Action is the same Knowingness. The child’s speech, legs, eyes, hands, action, and moving will all be the same action, or Knowingness. … [At nearly each break in the satsang flow, indicated here by ellipses, Swamiji is interacting with Avinaash.]

Oneness is lost as soon as the body appears to be. When the wave appears to be, then Consciousness is lost and the water develops the sense that the wave is separate. If Guru also develops the sense that the disciple is separate, then he is not a Guru. If the disciple develops it, then he is right, because the wave will say, "I want to know what I am. I want to know why water is not a wave and I am a wave, for I am up; so there is some difference." So the disciple, devotee, knowledgeable one, knowledge, or knower—all this—will be a human being who has the sense of separation. This sense of separation is maayaa— indescribable, although realizable.

You cannot say that Avinaash should sit quiet and start doing some yoga, concentration, meditation, or samaadhi [awareness of Oneness]. How is it that you have patience with him? But why is it that you do not have patience with your friends? That is the rigidity of maayaa. The rigidity of maayaa means that maayaa made you, the water, completely forget that the water and wave are one and the same reality. By this I do not mean that there is anything which is a fault or wrong, which is incorrect thinking, hearing, or speaking—because it is one Reality. But it is I who have come to know that it is one Reality. If you have not come to know this, then it is alright. You should have patience that this is your standpoint or your stage, that this is what you are.

When I say that "You are one in Me," it means that the wave says, "Water, am I one in you?" This is language used for a human being, to whom it is said, "The wave is in the water." That is not correct. So I say that a human being has come to know that which is incorrect—yet he calls it correct. That is called the ego. When you say that the wave is, it is alright. The knowledgeable one, the realized one, will also say this. … You say that I am not realized and I say that you are realized. Every single event of life which can be experienced conveys Oneness to you—but only to one who has reached the stage of Oneness. Otherwise, it is a kind of courtesy, or a behaviour of Oneness. Many people have such Oneness. …

Originally, all of you are Knowledge, but you do not say that you are Guru. That is the problem. Because you have seen Guru as a form and disciple as a form—as a son, a daughter, or a mother—just as you have seen many forms. If you analyze or examine, you will find that some years before nobody who is here now was there. That is where it is said that a human being has the deficiency of knowing that I am One: because I never became two, so I am One. But a human being asks, "Am I one with you?" This type of knowledge appears. He asks, "When shall I be one with you?" Then people answer, "Eat this, do this, do that." But once you see two moons in the sky, then you need an eye doctor. …

Action does not only mean the action of hands or playing. The mind’s knowledge is also action. When air moves, it is action and it is one with the air. When you don’t see air moving, it does not mean that it died. That means that air is not that which moves and air is not that when movement stops. So if you come in your air and say "I am only this mobile being," then this is called the ego-sense, or duality. Then we say that you made form, you got attached with form, and you say, "I am only air when I move." So a human being says, "I am only me when I act." Me is whether you act or don’t. …

Human beings are all conditioned. To break the condition does not mean that you have a habit of drinking and so you break it. It is not like that. It means to break the condition of ignorance which a human being has developed—which is intoxication, forgetfulness, the sense of separation, or the sense of duality, and which he is now using with his senses and body and acting for his whole life. … There is no such thing as liberation before or after death, but we say this because a human being is bound, which means conditioned. So I have told you today that that is your standard. Now, it is for you to work. Many times all of you say, "Guruji is working. He is really firm enough, he has decided, he is committed to see us realized." Forget about it! [Laughter] But it is nice language with which you describe Guru and disciple, professor and student, doctor and patient, husband and wife, father and child, and so many names and professions, but that is what a condition is: a condition of language. Avinaash does not know all those words or have all the sanskaars [dualistic mental impressions] that you have. As soon as he had gone to school, he was trained and taught. The teachers brought something to him which they know. The child is told repeatedly, "Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are…" Nothing! You are. You are Me. He [Avinaash, who was enjoying Swamiji singing this to him] could identify with this; he must have heard it. So whatever and wherever he has learned, he will be that. There is no possibility for him to learn that he is born Free, Guru, or enlightened. …

Everywhere there is the sense of separation. If a human being is perpetuated with the sense of separation, when will the time come that the sense of Oneness will click to him? It will never be possible. If it is not possible and Guru knows this, then outwardly he says everything. But he knows that the disciple is now a human being and he has to pass through all that—in the way that the Self himself has made himself to grow. So nobody else can act upon you. And you know this. How do you know it? Nobody can digest food for you. Maybe like a bird he can put a pick in your mouth, but the birdie will have to digest it. That is the type of independence that exists. The birdie tries to swallow the pick, for it is its swabhaav. The Self, the Swa, became bhaav, it is the fluidity of the water. So all that which has been designed in the beginning, that is what you are. But all that which you have learned is not what you are. At the time of learning, everybody became ignorant of the Self. Those people will need birth and death. For those who have known the Reality, even in this lifetime there is no birth and no death, no appearance and no disappearance. It is all one Reality. …

[Avinaash comes and says Amaram Hum Madhuram Hum in the microphone, and everyone applauds.] So he knows the success of his action—he knows when we clap for his having said Amaram Hum Madhuram Hum. So he knows receiving and he knows giving. This is a human being. When he will be out of receiving and giving, treat it that he is the Self. … [Avinaash wants to stay up on the stage with Swamiji, and he cries and resists when his father tries to remove him.] Everybody feels to be secure with Guru, to be near Guru, because there he feels protected from ignorance. Ignorance is the creator of pain; and the representative of the pain creator is the mind; and the mind is always with you because you have accepted its company. That is what happens. …