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the inner light.

      That light is definitely there

      and once it is met all darkness in life disappears.

      Each step taken within

      peels away the darkness layer by layer

      unfolding a world of light in which everything is new.

      This experience cuts away all bondage –

      and then comes the realization that it was never there!

      Liberation happens to that which is eternally free!

      I am pleased with your progress.

      Your letter was received long back

      but as I was busy there was delay in replying,

      but my memory of you is always there,

      along with all those eager for the light.

      My good wishes flow for ever towards them.

      We have to keep going.

      Many times one becomes disheartened on the path

      but ultimately the thirsty pilgrim reaches the spring.

      In fact the water is there before the thirst.

      My kind regards to all.

      6. My respects to you.

      I was away, but your letter followed me here.

      I am pleased to have it.

      I see life as full of bliss.

      Ordinarily, we do not have the eyes to see this

      and so are deprived of it,

      but this seeing can be created.

      Perhaps it is not correct to say it can be created;

      it is already there,

      it is only a matter of opening the eyes,

      and then – everything changes.

      Meditation achieves this.

      Meditation means: peace; emptiness.

      This emptiness is there

      but is concealed by the flow of thoughts.

      As thoughts cease it comes into view.

      It seems difficult to become free of thoughts

      but it is very simple.

      The mind seems very restless

      but it can easily settle.

      The key to this transcendence is witnessing.

      One has to be a witness,

      an observer of the mind.

      One has to watch it,

      just watch it.

      The moment the witness state dawns,

      that very moment one becomes free of thoughts.

      This in turn opens the door to bliss

      and then this very world changes

      into a new world altogether.

      Keep meditating.

      Results will come slowly.

      You are not to worry about that,

      their coming is certain.

      My kind regards to all.

      7. Love.

      It is a long time since I received your letter.

      I am happy that you long for peace –

      but drop this idea that you are way behind.

      Nobody is lagging behind.

      It is just a matter of turning in –

      and the drop becomes the ocean.

      Actually the drop is the ocean

      but it does not know it –

      that is the only separation.

      In the emptiness of meditation even this separation goes.

      Meditation is the center of life’s sadhana.

      The thought process will slow down

      and in its place will come peace and emptiness.

      When thoughts vanish

      the seer, the witness, becomes visible

      and the complex of the unconscious disappears.

      This complex is the cause of bondage.

      In the beginning it appears as hard as stone

      but the seeker who practices patiently

      finds one day that it was just a dream,

      a puff of air.

      May the seed of your meditation

      blossom into the flower of samadhi!

      My kind regards to all.

      The rest when we meet.

      1963

      8. My respects to you.

      Moving around for the whole of May affected my health so all

      programs for June – Bombay, Calcutta, Jaipur – were canceled.

      I am glad to hear you are experimenting with

      samadhi yoga.

      Don’t worry about results,

      just be with the experimenting.

      The return is bound to come one day – not gradually

      but all of a sudden, effortlessly,

      without one’s knowing, it happens.

      Within a moment life becomes wonderfully different!

      I am not writing anything on

      Bhagwan Mahavir at the moment.

      There is no urge whatsoever in me to write.

      But if you persuade me it is a different thing!

      Everything else is fine.

      9. Love.

      I read your letter on the way here.

      It has touched my heart.

      If your desire to know life’s truth becomes strong

      then what is longing today

      becomes one day the attainment.

      Burning desire is all that is needed

      and nothing else.

      As rivers seek out the ocean

      so man if he wants to can find the truth.

      No peak, no mountain can stop him,

      in fact their challenge awakens his sense of adventure.

      Truth is within everyone.

      Rivers have to find the ocean

      but our ocean is inside us –

      it is a wonder that so many remain thirsty still without it.

      Actually they cannot really want it.

      There is a saying of Christ’s: Ask and ye shall receive.

      But if you don’t ask, whose fault is it?

      There is no better bargain than the attainment of God.

      We have only to ask, nothing more.

      As the asking grows stronger and stronger

      so he who asks starts vanishing.

      A limit is reached,

      a point of evaporation is reached,

      where the seeker utterly disappears

      and only the asking remains.

      This is the very moment of attainment.

      Truth