Going Beyond Thoughts

There are two ways in this world. One is swimming against the current. Another is submitting to the current like a log of wood.

When you swim in the ocean, for how long can you keep striking your arms against the waves? After some time, you will be exhausted and drown.

On the other hand, a corpse cannot be overwhelmed even by large waves. It drifts along with the current. So, become like a corpse. Conduct yourself as a dead person would do, doing your duty but submitting yourself to God’s Will.

If you want to swim, if you want to win, Die! Then you need not do anything, because nothing can sink you. You can flow along with the current to where it leads, frolicking along with the waves.

That is a better way than battling with the current. Lose everything – not in the worldly sense, but in the spiritual sense–what we call as Nirvana–the state of ‘beyond thoughts’ – Vacha magocharam. The state of ‘Transcending everything including the Self-consciousness’.

When you attain this state, you will become like a corpse. You will have no thoughts. There is no name, no person, neither the one who experiences, nor the experience. Everything vanishes.

When you surrender yourself to the Merciful Lord, with the absolute conviction that He knows what is good for you, then you will not be affected by anything that happens.