[b] Self Enquiry [/b]

[shivraj]

Seeker: Why should we engage in self-enquiry?

Teacher: Behind everything that you do, isn't it happiness that you seek? Every action you perform is for this happiness. But that bliss is lost in the hurricane of thoughts that cloud the radiance of the Self. When you are in deep sleep, there are no thoughts. There is only pure consciousness.
The way a spider weaves a web out of itself and then takes back everything into itself, thoughts arise from the ocean of the Self and manifest our world. They disappear during deep sleep and along with them the world, too, disappears. This illusory game goes on uninterrupted.
To clear the cobwebs of illusion, you have to go to the source of these thoughts. When you do rigorous self-enquiry and see all the facets of the mind and its colours, then the mind weakens and finally disappears; it never truly existed. This mind is ego, the false 'I'. Enquiry is for the death of the mind. It is also called the 'contrast mind', which keeps coming between the seeker and the sought (the Self). The meaning of God is love and love can never be unhappy.

Seeker: What has observation or seeing got to do with transformation?

Teacher: Lots. With correct observation, the wrong automatically ends. You cannot get angry, or kill in awareness. You can only harm others when you lack awareness. We can be selfish only when we are not aware; when we are unable to feel the other person's unhappiness. If you start seeing yourself in every situation, then soon you will be transformed. For the first time you will begin to understand the mind.