Satchitananda - Part 3

 

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Satchitananda – Part 3

It is possible that the seeker stops at this stage, and almost everyone stops at this stage for several births because there seems to be nothing ahead. Hence, the Brahma gyani – the one who has attained the realisation of Brahman will stop here and go no further. Why is this so difficult to stop? Because at this stage there is nothing to cross to – everything has been covered. One needs space to cross to isn’t it! If I want to leave this room there should be a room to go to – but the room itself has now become so enormous, so beginningless and endless – so infinite, so boundless, that there is nowhere to go! Because of this feeling of everything has been covered, nothing remains to be found, so the journey may halt at this stage for infinite births.

Brahman thus is the ultimate obstacle – the last barrier in the ultimate quest of the seeker. At this stage only the being remains, but non-being has yet to be realised. The is-ness is known, but the non-being has yet to be realised – that which is not still remains to be known. Therefore, the final plane is the Nirvanic body and its chakra is the sahastrar or crown chakra.

Until the fifth body the search progresses in a scientific manner as everything can be explained. On the sixth plane the horizon begins to fade; everything appears meaningless. Therefore, those who seek Brahman will meditate on the Agya chakra which is between the eyes and is connected to the cosmic body.

One more journey remains – the journey to non-being, non-existence. Existence is only half the story - non-existence is also there. Light is, but darkness is there on the other side; similarly, life is one part, but there is also death.

Nirvana means the void from where we jump from the being into the non-being. In the cosmic body something yet remains to be known. That too has to be known – what it is not to be, what it is to be completely erased. Therefore, the seventh plane in a sense is the ultimate death. It is the extinguishing of the flame – that which was I is extinct, that which was am, is extinct. But now we have again come into being by being one with all.

So, we still have to go forth and seek. It is our search which will take us to the ultimate truth. As we penetrate within ourselves, we will find the two sides of each chakra. One is given by nature and one we have to discover. Anger is given to us; forgiveness we have to find. Sex is given to us, Brahmacharya we have to develop. Dreams we have, vision has to evolve.

What is there beyond Brahman? Keep asking, keep seeking. Then one day we will step into the seventh body, where being and non-being, light and darkness, life and death, occur together. That is the attainment of the ultimate….and there are no means of communicating this state!

Based on Osho lectures