Nothingness and Fullness

To Hislop with Blessings

My dear! You will find it deep within yourself. Think it many times. Ponder it. It tells you about your true na-true. It gives you hope, it gives you new life, it points the way, it proves to you that God is within you and you are not man, man is God. It shows you that it is possible for you to realize God (Swamiji). But, you and you alone must ponder this work deeply. You will find that you will begin to know what is meant by the statement “the Self cannot be explained.” The mind knows its existence. “The Self-GOD” is within man. You are that Self, all else is illusion of the mind’s creation, the mind that creates, preserves and destroys.

My Love! The great joy, the subtlety of the bliss, that you will feel as you come closer and closer to your Real Self if you strive to find yourself by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain. Because the mind cannot give you the Truth. A lie cannot give you the truth; a lie can only entangle you in a web of deceit. But if you sensitize yourself, awaken your true, fine, beautiful qualities – above you nothing, below you nothing, to the right of you – or to the left of you – nothing; and dissolve yourself in that nothingness. That would be that best way you could explain the realization of the Self and yet that nothingness would not be the absence of something like the nothingness. That nothingness is the fullness of everything, the power of the existence of that appears to be everything.

Baba

(Note from Baba hand-delivered by messenger to Jack Hislop at the ashram)