Darshan of Swami Krishnananda in 1998

by Swami Krishnananda

16. The Law of Inseparability

(Darshan given on April 7th, 1998)

Swamiji: Can you ever believe that what is outside you is not really outside you?

An ashramite: I can believe, Swamiji, but...

Swamiji: Why 'but' comes? This 'but' spoils the whole thing. Why do you bring 'but'? I am telling you a great fact of life. How will you say 'but' in that? It is daytime, but 'but' you should not say: “But it may not be daytime.”

Another ashramite: It is very difficult to believe it, Swamiji.

Swamiji: It requires deep study, continuous satsanga with mahatmas. Being over-busy with the business of life is not a great virtue. I have got parivar, I have got family, I have got work. This kind of complaint will not work. God is not going to listen to any complaints. His law is final. He has not taken amendments. There is no but, git, and all that before God. It is one thing. He has one law. Human beings have hundreds of laws. Every country has its own law, but God has one law only: the law of inseparability. There is nothing outside Him, and therefore, there is nothing outside you also. That's all. The entire spirituality is only this much. People read huge books unnecessarily, wasting time reading encyclopedias and all that. It is a simple matter.

Another ashramite: Still, how can I understand that He is within me?

Swamiji: He is not in you. This is another mistake. You both are in something else.

Ashramite: So we are somewhere together. Somewhere we are together.

Swamiji: Both of you are connected to another thing, and therefore, it cannot be outside you. So don't say 'inside', 'outside'. This idea of inside, outside also must be removed.

This hand is not outside this hand. Because of the fact both are connected to the body, both these hands are this body only. So all the millions of people are one person finally. It is the Supreme Person, whom you call God. Is it possible to think like that? And even if you think like that, how many minutes will you think it in a day? How many minutes?

Ashramite: That needs practice, Swamiji. That needs practice.

Swamiji: What is the problem in thinking like this? You're not going to dig the earth. Only it is a manipulation of thought. Even for that you have no time?

Ashramite: The mind doesn't accept it. I don't want to accept that we are all one only. I want to think that no, we are all separate.

Swamiji: What is the purpose of coming to Sivananda Ashram? If you think that everything is different, you can think that anywhere. What good is there in coming here if you are thinking the same way as before?

If this idea enters into you, you will never be reborn again. There is no need of reading huge books. It is simply a little bit of adjustment of consciousness with the consciousness of everything. Simple thing I told you. Somebody is not inside you, nor are you inside another, but both of you, all the people, are inside something. The whole universe is inside something, and therefore everybody is connected to everybody else in an integrated manner, and not outside somebody or inside somebody. There is no outside, inside. Has anybody understood this? What do you understand?

A visitor: I understand that I have to think in the same way as you say. I think like you say, but I cannot feel like you say.

Swamiji: Okay. Thinking and feeling should become together. You are from Germany?

Visitor: Yes.

Swamiji: Is it a thinking or feeling?

Visitor: A thinking.

Swamiji: Not feeling? You don't feel that you are German?

Visitor: No.

Swamiji: You told me you are German, and now you're saying you are not feeling it.

Visitor: It's in my passport.

Swamiji: Oh, passport says like that, but you are not German? Be careful. You should not say like that. It is the passport that is German, or you are German?

Visitor: I am born in this land, but...

Swamiji: Don't avoid the point. You are German. Everywhere you will say, “I am from Munich.”

When the mind is convinced of a thought, it enters into the feeling. If the mind is not convinced, the feeling will not accept it.

Now I have said whatever I have to say. You take it for what it is worth. You will have liberation in this birth itself if you want, if your heart is intent on it. God does not want any prasad from you. He wants you only. If you are convinced of the inseparability of yourself from the whole of creation, then you will have no problems in life. The sun and the moon and the stars will come and assist you. Even the sun and the moon will assist you, the stars will assist you, the rivers and mountains will assist you, whom you are thinking are dead. The mountains are not dead. There is no dead thing in the universe. Everything is alive. Everything has eyes and ears because they are expressions of God only. We are living in a living universe, not a dead universe. Nobody is dead. Not even a sand particle is dead. It can vibrate into action at any time.

What is the use of meditation if the heart is not accepting it? You must sink into it and melt into it if you really want freedom, liberation. Be careful.