As you sit in meditation,
What is preventing you from meditating?
It is yourself.
It's not,
You may blame it on the telephone ringing or you may blame it on the stress you have because your life is difficult or you may blame it on this or that,
But in the end it's yourself.
See,
This is what makes Jainism so very empowering.
There is no external aspect that is the reason to your suffering.
It is the self that doesn't allow you to see what is right there in front of your heart,
Right there within your heart,
Right there creating your heart,
Right there before even you can think of what heart means,
Right there before you can even think,
Right there before you were born,
Right there before you even thought what born means.
See,
If there is no beginning and no end then time becomes infinite and that is the true nature of reality.
It is not your perception and that perception that you have is what creates the constrictions that don't allow knowledge to be,
To be what knowledge is and that is the truth.
And if you are not connected to the truth then you are not free and you will never be free,
You will be attached to the self that creates all sorts of pictures,
All sorts of interesting pictures which I call karma,
All sorts of belief systems,
All sorts of impurities that then veil your being,
Veil the brightness of your being from shining,
The being that you are,
You are perfect.
Even if you don't understand,
Even if you don't see,
Even if you don't comprehend this,
It doesn't make any difference,
You are.
But the space that you are in is not where you are perfect,
The space that you are in is ahead in the future or in the past or caught by some impurity of belief system,
The inner saboteur or the victim.
So what can you do?
You know now the situation so don't blame it on anything,
Don't even blame it on yourself because this is another game that gets played out many times.
Don't blame it on anyone or anything inside or outside,
Just embrace,
Embrace the knowledge from the space of effortlessness,
From the space where there is no need to put energy into anything.
That is purification when you begin to pull the energy out of the constellations that you are holding onto that are creating these veils and you just relax,
You just breathe in.
Srimad Rajasandra,
The famous Jain mystic says be careful,
Be careful what you surround yourself with,
Be careful what you listen to,
Be careful.
That the world that you are attaching yourself to is not the world that pulls you away from the space of purification,
That what you are doing is the spiritual practice which is purifying and letting go of those forces that make you believe that you are separate,
The real self which is you,
The real,
The pure,
The blissful,
The present,
That which is beyond the need for purification.
You don't know,
You don't understand,
You are not connected to,
It is present within the space that you are not present to.
So the suffering of the I creates eternal pain.
Hence why he says,
So suffered I eternal pain.
Eternal pain is being caught by the karmic forces.
When you allow for the space of your consciousness to be trapped by the constrictions of karma,
Hence why you need to bow to your true master.
Hence why you,
Which is of course the I that is suffering,
Needs to transcend the space of suffering and see and experience and allow the self that is identifying with the I see that it is not chained to that eternal pain,
It is not chained to the pictures that are created through that eternal pain that we like to bring ourselves down to the inner saboteur,
The victim,
But that as you raise your consciousness,
Your true master inside of yourself,
Your heart that is free of everything is pure and can sing the language of love directly so that you understand and feel and experience this.
This breaks the eternal chain of karma,
That is true self realization and the path of liberation.
As you do this,
Then you understand that anything else is a waste of time.
That is the eternal chain that Srimad Rajasandra speaks of and this is what the Guru says to purify.
Your work is not to blame the world or to blame situations or to blame even yourself,
But to use all that energy that you are utilizing to blame things and to feel sorry for yourself or to feel in a victim space or to be caught by the inner saboteur,
To use all that energy so that these constrictions stay miles away from your spiritual practice.
Right knowledge was first spoken of thousands and thousands of years ago,
Was spoken about by mystics who in Jainism are known as the Tirthankaras.
These are people that have reached,
People who actually physically existed,
Who have reached the state of Siddha,
Which means the state that is totally free of karma and eternally present to the bliss of the soul.
And when this is the case,
We know that it is possible for us to reach the same.
It is a natural evolution.
Be discerning in how you live your life,
Be discerning in how you utilize every moment of your life so that the space of purification is the real practice and you're not caught by your ego and you're not caught by other egoic realms that want your attention.
May your state of presence be single pointed,
So powerful that there is nothing else than the presence to your awareness.
Thank you.
