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will benefit from listening to these songs despite his inability to
understand the meaning behind the words. Should one speak
without absorbing and supporting? When you speak these
words of ‘ours’ with absorption and inner support, the sins
within you are all washed away during that time period. You
know how to clean your clothes on the outside, but how can
you clean the dirt within? In this world the medicine to purify the
chit is in very short supply. Singing spiritual songs for duration of
twenty years on the outside will not have as much effect on the
purification of the chit as singing it just once here in ‘our’
presence. When one speaks and then holds (support and
absorption) them within (dharan) and speaks the same again,
then amazing purification of the chit occurs.
Laksha is only attained when dhyata, dhyeya and dhyan,
all three become one. Awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’ (laksha)
can only be attained upon the union of the one who is seeking
the Self (dhyata), the goal (dhyeya, the Self) and the process
(dhyan). Here in ‘our’ presence, there is no need for you to
perform dhyan, as you have already attained the Self. When the
duration of awareness (laksha of ‘I am pure Soul’) increases,
then the experience of the Self (anubhav) takes hold. To remain
in the awareness of the Self is shukla dhyan. When you are in
the dhyan of the Self (Shuddhatma i.e. the pure Soul) and a ‘file’
comes, settling it with equanimity is dharma dhyan. Of what use
is the meditation (dhyan) on the object (dhyeya, Self) once it has
been attained, i.e. when the goal has been reached? Once the
seeker has attained the goal (dhyeya, Self), and has become the
knower (dhyata, the Self), of what use is meditation (dhyan) to
him?
All worldly paths are instrumental paths but the Akram
path is the only path of real attainment. In the other paths there
is no dhyata (Real dhyata is one who has realized the Self;
realized ‘who am I?’), and yet they seek it. In other words,
without knowing the Self, they are reaching out towards it.