Always Watch

Thanks to the speech by Ramakrishnananda a few ideas became stronger today.

Its easy to be the watcher for short amount of time, but needs a new subconscious programming for maintainning that state for longer periods. Every time the little "i" tries to come forward and dominate the awareness by identifying itself with the instruments of watching such as eyes, ears, tongue, body, stomach etc

Even brief amounts of time being the watcher gives an idea, a sort of eye opener on the amount of external engagement and ramification the mind undergoes ever minute.

Krishna says in the Gita:

NA HI KASHCHIT KSHANAMAPI JATU TISHTATI AKARMA KRIT
KARYATE HY AVASHAHA KARMA SARVAHA PRAKRITIJAIR GUNAIH.

No one can ever remain, even for a moment, without performing action. Everyone, with-out his will, is made to do and be in action by the qualities born of prakriti.

The difference between a normal person and a jnani is this, a normal person can experience the "now" state for short amounts of time, eventually the watcher identification with the instruments of watching occurs and the person finds himself roaming around and around in the ramifications of the conscious and the subconscious mind circles (samsara)

A Jnani on the other hand, by the results of his tapas and sadhana, is able to be in the state of the watcher, where the will to be and remain the watcher dominates the mind, his subconscious is so programmed by the results of tapas that his superconscious faculties are functioning in him. Thus one of the first qualities of the soul -- which is that of observation becomes prominent.

Excerpt from Merging with Siva:


'When you are in meditation, you watch the mind. Here and there the mind is hopping. One, two, three,...a hundred. In a few seconds the mind goes to a hundred places. Let him be. You also watch very carefully. Here and there this mind is running. Don't forget Self for a second. Let him go anywhere, but if he goes to a hundred places, you must follow him to a hundred places. You must not miss even a single one. Follow him and note,He is going here. Now he is going there.' You must not miss even a single one. That is the prescription Satguru Yogaswami gave me to open this inner book. He said, 'Watch very attentively and learn to pick up things coming from within. Those messages are very valuable. You can't value them. Realize Self by self and open this inner book. Why don't you open your own book? Why don't you make use of it? Why don't you open your own book? What an easy path I am prescribing for you!' "

Another approach to de-identifying oneself from the ego is by using the Ramana Maharshi approach, im not this eyes, not the senses, not the mind, not the ego, not the form, not even the one who says "not this not this". This method is particularly effective followed by "seeing" how the mind and body was sooo consumed in a particular area of thought and its associated ramifications

Read Merging with Siva chapter here

Last but not the least, always remember that Siva is the life within your life -- and only through him the correct understanding comes to face the prarabdha karma for this lifetime and beyond

Aum namah sivaya