Darshan of Swami Krishnananda in 1998

by Swami Krishnananda

27. The Highest Meditation

(Darshan given in September 1998)

Swamiji: The past has become present, and the moment you think of the present, it has become the future. There is no cut-and-dried departmental section of the time process. It is a continuity. It is not a continuity of something taking place outside you; it is a continuity of something taking place inside your mind. There is no space and time. This is a discovery of modern science, Einstein's theory of relativity. There is no space, there is no time.

A hard object is like a stone. It is only a condensation of the energy of space, and this includes everyone like us. We are looking like heavy bodies, but there is no such thing as heaviness unless there is gravitation, and gravitation is only possible if there is a heavy body. The heavy body is nothing but a condensation of the space-time complex, so the gravitational force also is not as we think it to be. There is no such thing as gravitation except as an action of space and time, and we exist as space and time only. We are only a dramatically conceived consequence of the action of space and time. Now, who is prior and who is posterior? You cannot say. It is the mind only creating this problem of past, present and future, as without this concept of space, past, present and future, you cannot conceive time.

Modern science is the great eye-opener. There is no distance. This is one of the discoveries. How much time it takes for a fax to move to America? It doesn't take time. It doesn't take space also. There is no distance for it. How it travels such a distance when actually there is no distance? If there is a real distance, it cannot work like that. It proves the distancelessness of space.

Now, going a little deeper. If you think of somebody staying in London, immediately you have contacted that person. This is the philosophy of telepathic action. I can deeply think of you, and you will start slowly moving in the direction of my thinking. That is influence. You can influence anything by deep identification with it. In a more sophisticated language, this is called samadhi. Samadhi is nothing but being that thing which you are thinking. I become you only, with all your spectacles and crop and shirt. I put on that form in my mind, and you will feel that you are not as you are. You are something else. You will start thinking as I am thinking if I do samadhi on you. You can move anything with the power of thought.

So all this trouble about past, present, future, distance and succession are created by a peculiar dramatic action taking place inside this consciousness. The whole world is consciousness. There is no sun, moon, stars, or anything. They are only vibrations. The sun is up; you are seeing it. It is a heightened form of vibration. A very high rate of vibration becomes heat. A little lower, it becomes cold. And wireless and fax are some examples of there being no distance as such. These instruments prove the distancelessness of things which appear to be having distance.

In this context, we may come to the conclusion that we ourselves do not exist. There is no distance between Delhi and this place. Distance is an illusion, as time is an illusion. We suffer due to a maladjustment of our thoughts, not because of trouble created by things outside. There is no such thing called 'outside'. There is only universal action taking place. Somebody said something, somebody did something. These ideas are all crude. Total action is taking place. When you do some work, it is not you as an individual Mr. So-and-so doing. The central apex of the cosmos starts moving in some direction. If the central government of the universe does not act, you cannot lift even a finger. In order to lift the finger, the whole physical frame should operate. Merely the finger itself cannot act. It requires the cooperation of the whole neural system. That system cannot operate unless the entire universal force cooperates with it, which is another way of saying God has to will it. Otherwise, nothing will take place. In the Bhagavadgita, Lord Krishna says, “I am doing everything. Outside Me there is nothing.”

Forget the word 'Krishna'. It is the supreme Creator speaking: “Outside Me there is nothing.” Then you are also nothing. Outside Him, you don't exist. Then where are you existing? You are inside Him only. Can you imagine that you are inside the total universe, and brush aside the idea that the universe is made up of hard stones and trees and mountains and all that? They are vibrations. So if you are inseparable from this universal vibration, which is the beginning of creation, as people say, you are existing as a universal centre. Then you will never say, “I have done something.” The universe is doing. But you must assert it with great faith. You should not doubt: I am doing, I am doing. This ahamkara, as they call it, egoism, does not leave us. You always attribute something to yourself only: “I am like this. I go there. I do this.” You cannot do that until the order comes from the central government, and you ignore it completely by your egoism.

So this is actually what I am leading you to, a meditation. Meditation is an assertion of your involvement in everything. You are involved in everything that you call the universe, so your action is universal action, and outside you, nothing can exist. Your whole body will start feeling a tremor at that time because you are introducing into your mind a state of consciousness which the body is not accustomed to tolerate. So if you do deep meditation like this, you will feel a jerk. The jerk is caused by the inability of the prana, or vital energy, to accommodate this kind of thought. When your thoughts are at a high rate, high tension, the body will shake. And if you do it too much, the body can fall sick. It will say, “Enough, not more than that.”

This kind of meditation is the highest type that you can imagine anywhere. I am telling you the highest type of meditation, what it is. It has to be done gradually, little by little, without giving a shock to the body. Even when you eat food, you eat it little by little, little by little. You don't simply take so much and pour it into the mouth. That the body cannot tolerate. Go very slowly, so that the mind may not feel that something is happening. Very gradually, gradually. It will take months for the whole physical system and nervous system to get accommodated to this kind of lofty thought.

This is yoga, this is meditation, this is movement towards God. You are just now sitting on the lap of God, but still the egoism says, “I am separate.” And it will create a distance called space and a succession of events called time. It is all a jugglery of the mind only. They don't exist. If this kind of self-analysis is possible, then you will be not an ordinary human being. Your face will show that you are different from an ordinary person. Even when people look at you, they will find out there is some important thing in this person, not an ordinary person. From your eyes they can know this is not an ordinary person. You will be calm and quiet always. You will not want anything. There are no things at all. They don't exist. If distance does not exist, things also don't exist. Time and distance and things, all vanish in one minute, and you also go away. And what exists then? A supreme, indescribable universality. There are no proper words to describe this condition. You cannot describe what God is. We can only try our best. Even the word 'universal' is a very, very poor way of explaining the nature of the ultimate Truth. There is no distance, there is no time, and no events, and no objects exist. Then what exists? God only exists. This is the highest meditation. So I have answered your question.