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becomes oblivious to the world. Still, such a person will
accomplish great work in the world. The greater the awareness,
the greater will be your experience of bliss. The greater your
level of awareness, the greater your experience of liberation
(moksha). Awakened awareness (jagruti) itself is moksha.
This is the place where you can attain awareness of the Self. I
awaken you here.
Just as a heartbroken person sinks into some deeper
corner of his mind, a person with samadhi (mental samadhi)
sinks deep into some corner of his mind and finds happiness
there. What is real samadhi? It is one where a person has
complete external, as well as internal awareness. He is aware
everywhere. Real samadhi will not leave him even while he is
eating, drinking or sitting around. If the samadhi remains
constantly, even in situations of mental (aadhi), physical
(vyadhi) or external (upadhi) problems, then it is real samadhi.
That is called natural and spontaneous samadhi (sahaj samadhi);
it is the blissful state of the Self (nirvikalp samadhi).
Knowing ‘Who Am I’ Blossoms the Awareness
of the Self
Questioner: Ordinarily, what is considered awareness?
Dadashri: The whole day passes by in which one gets to
eat and drink, according to his karmic account. Because of lack
of awareness, he remains entangled in one thing or another. What
you understand as awareness, is when one is involved in any
worldly subject. That is called “awareness of a subject.” People
in the world have awareness only in sexuality and money matters;
whereas exact awareness is everywhere; it is all encompassing.
Every activity of the world is for attaining ekagrata
(concentration through unity in mind, speech and body resulting
in transient stillness). Any activity that gives rise to restlessness
(vyagra), means that a wrong application has been undertaken.