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but God, a higher power, was in control. Now as his awareness
increases even further, he will come to realize that everything
around him is an illusion, a wrong belief and that God is not in
control of anything. As his awareness increases, he realizes that
circumstances alone are in control and that is when he experiences
bliss of freedom from circumstances. In this way a change is
taking place only in his awareness. If the experimenter becomes
one with the experiment, if he becomes the experiment, it is a
grave state of ignorance. But when he gains the awareness that
he is separate from the circumstances around him, then he
becomes free. Only then he will taste freedom.
Innumerable circumstances are constantly arising – if you
become absorbed in them, you will sow new seeds. How can
you solve this problem? If you can remain just a Seer and
Knower of circumstances, then no new seeds will be sown.
There are infinite circumstances but as long as they do not result
in any new sowing, there will be liberation.
Every human being is bound by circumstances. My
Mahatmas are surrounded by circumstances, but they remain
only the Knower and the Seer of these circumstances. Your
energies become obscured if you become trapped and bound
by circumstances. For a Gnani, circumstances come and go but
He does not stop to greet them. All I do is observe them from
afar and the circumstances disperse. Because the Self is self-
illuminating, as well as non-Self illuminating, every circumstance
will be illuminated through it. For this illumination, one has to
acquire enlightened vision.
There is no chetan (consciousness) in circumstances. Our
(the Self’s) real nature is beyond circumstances. Positive or
negative feelings towards anyone, is a circumstance and that
circumstance is not Yours – it does not belong to the Self. No
circumstance remains forever. That, which is transitory, that which