Return to the enquirer. Ask yourself "Who am I?", "Who is looking at the samsara?", "Who is meditating?", "Who is it that feels bondage?", "Who is it that will win freedom through this enquiry?" While meditating, find out: "Who is the meditator?" and "Who is being meditated upon?" Look at this trinity - the subject, the object and that which is between them, the meditation itself. This trinity is nothing but your own creation - the meditator, the object of meditation [which is freedom] and the meditation itself. You have become the meditator and you have objectified freedom. But freedom, wisdom, or light can never be objectified because no one can ever experience it. In freedom there is no experiencer. When the experiencer is absent, That which is remains as It is.
~ Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)
The right way to inquire is to simply ask: "Who am I?" and "where does this inquiry come from?" Simply relax and look at what happens and then discriminate where the 'I' is living. First clarify your mind and find out where the 'I' is. Once this is ascertained follow the path to where it is. You will find that you do not need to go anywhere to get to the 'I'. Instead all that you have to do is stop all the movement of the mind and you are Here.
~ Papaji ~
You cannot achieve anything other than what you are. Anything gained afresh or achieved for the first time - anything which is new to you - you will certainly lose because it was not there at all. All that is natural to you is already there. Do not try to achieve anything or gain anything or attain anything which is not already there. This is not a fresh gain. People think, "At the end of this sadhana I am going to be free." But it is not like that. You have been looking for something else, not freedom. Freedom is already here.
~ Papaji ~
Constant reflection and meditation on the Self until your last breath will liberate you from the samsara forever. After liberation, you will have the firm conviction that the "I am", the personal self, is an illusion and that the samsara is also an illusion. All is your own projection, a trick of the mind. You will remain quiet in your eternal, blissful Self and you will never return to the samsara again. Self is here and now. Have this firm conviction at all times: "I am eternal Self, I am eternal Reality." Your long journey back home ends here, in satsang, in association with Truth, beauty, love and existence. Fall in love with the unchanging, permanent nectar of Self. Do it now and today!
~ Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)
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