My Guru Pilot Baba
Among all great truths, the greatest is humanism — a truth directed toward the refinement of human nature. It is this truth that most surely brings us closer to the Supreme, to Paramatma. This alone can be called true Yoga. Yoga is a truth that enables a person to realize it through direct experience, to come closer to one’s own essence, and to attain enlightenment.
Action carries intention, and it also has an outer manifestation of that intention. Through intention, time assists in the emergence of individuality. Individual consciousness is illumined; it becomes aware of itself and strives toward self-expression. This is the manifested world, the world of living beings — this is God Himself. This process gives a sense of inner power and draws us closer to the subtle world, closer to the boundless. When a person begins to realize what the material world is, what life is, and what maya — the great illusion — is, such a person becomes extraordinary. This is true Yoga: a genuine union between human and nature, action and time, spirituality and illusion, intention and its realization.
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All physical bodies have an immovable center of gravity around which they revolve or toward which they are simply drawn. This center is Shiva, who manifests at times in His own form and at times in the form of Shakti—when He temporarily moves away from the center (Shakti) and when He returns to it (Shiva). This is God: Brahma, Allah.
Within the boundless, a center exists. The subtle expresses its activity within the infinite. Time and action exist, as do mind and movement. It is through movement that consciousness reveals itself.
Every cell, every part of nature is ensouled. Shiva is present everywhere; within every thing resides Brahma. In every thing you will find Allah and see that the Supreme governs even the smallest particle. Every material manifestation is ensouled; it possesses its own consciousness. In the phenomena of the material world, both the spiritual principle (Shiva) and energy (Shakti) are expressed. The same is true of the human being. Every person is Shiva, Brahma, Allah—the Supreme. It is precisely in the human being that Shiva is present, and it is through the human being that the divine energy, Shakti, is manifested.
The realization of one’s true Self brings us closer to the understanding of Truth, which manifests on the outer plane by transforming into words and sounds. When spoken or written, words express this Truth in a manifested form. In this way, a person is able to convey this Truth to others. However, spoken or written words are conditioned by the time and circumstances in which they are uttered or recorded. That is why the truth of one person cannot become the truth of another—unless it arises from the very Center, unless the Higher Truth itself has chosen that person as its own mouthpiece.
All living beings possess a body of their own. Each body occupies a certain position in space, exists in a particular state, moves in a specific manner and at a certain speed, and strives toward self-knowledge. For all living beings, the body is an instrument for knowing the surrounding world, situations, gaining experience, and self-expression. It is through the body that matter and consciousness can be realized. Through the body, we come to know the difference between darkness and light.
If there is no physical body, then nothing exists for it. There is neither the self, nor the surrounding world, nor the Cosmos, nor God. If there is a body, then there is its center, its inner essence, and its development. If there is a body, the sense organs also function. When these processes are active, a person perceives the surrounding world and becomes aware of their own center of gravity. This is how the world of living beings comes to know God.
The body bathes in waves of sensations and emotions, immersing itself in its inner world. The body functions—it sees, hears, reads, writes, and feels. This experience is perceived as the lived process of knowing the external world.
A human being exists in both states. Their thoughts dwell in subtle forms—in words, intentions, and the expression of intentions. Everything connected with a person is built upon this foundation: their past, present, and future.
In the past, present, and future, the body plays a crucial role. Through the physical body, a person becomes aware of these three states. If there is a body, everything exists; if there is no body, nothing exists. I say this from personal experience. I know what it means to exist beyond the limits of one’s body, and what it means to be present within it. I am also familiar with the state in which one fully withdraws into the inner world. If a person is not present simultaneously in both worlds—the outer and the inner—then nothing exists. For the whole world truly belongs to a person only when there is knowledge. To reach a state of maximum awareness is to draw near to enlightenment. And one who has attained this state can truly be called a spiritual being.
It is precisely then that true Yoga takes place—the union within creation, from the subtlest to the boundless, and from the boundless back to the subtlest.
...For the instrument of human seeking is the physical body. In whatever field of activity a person may engage, without true union, without true Yoga, nothing will come of it—they will be unable to understand either the surrounding world or themselves.
Quotes from the book Pilot Babaji
