Q.: Sometimes I feel that it is selfish to want Self-realization .. It seems that I must pursue sadhana by myself and be indifferent to all the suffering people that I see around me. .. How can I deliberately ignore all this suffering that I see around me without feeling guilty about it?
Annamalai Swami: There is no society, there is no suffering and there is no world. (They) are all part of your dream. They have no reality except in your own mind. ...
The world is like a reflection in a mirror. The world which we see is merely a reflection of our gunas, our own state of mind. We see the reflection, forget the mirror, and imagine that we are looking at a real world which is separate from us.
You are continuously radiating a mental energy which affects everything and everyone around you. If you are in a rajasic or tamasic state you are automatically infecting the world with your unwholesome state of mind. The jnani, who is established in the reality beyond the gunas, experiences only continuous peace and bliss. He alone can help other people by radiating this peace and bliss to them. If you try to help this world with some physical activity, the good you may do may be more than wiped out by the negative mental vibrations which you inflict on this world. ...
If you see suffering around you it is just a reflection of your own inner suffering. If you want to alleviate suffering go to the root cause which is the suffering inside yourself. Immerse yourself in the Self. End the maya dream and wake up to the real world of jnana. Your ideas about the world are all wrong because you are misperceiving it. Your mind is processing what you see in such away that it makes you think that there is a suffering world outside and apart from you. .. You must eliminate the mental processes that make you misperceive it. When you reach the state of jnana there will be no misperceptions. Your vision will be completely clear. You will be aware that there is no suffering and no world. You will be aware that the Self alone exists.
- Living by the words of Bhagavan, p. 336
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