Hi:) This is a commentary on a verse of the Chidakasha Gita, a collection of the sayings of Paramahansa Nityananda of Ganeshpuri
You have a certain thing in your hand; if you look for it somewhere else, you will not find it. If you sit in an upper-story, light a lamp there, and close the doors, those who are below cannot see the light. See the bioscope! see the drama!–all these are seen in the head. Everything should be seen from the same place; you need not go to several places to see several things. The city of Madras can be seen from there as well as from here. It is better to see it from one place. We must “idealize” it in our brain.”
“What we call the heart is not below; it is above (the neck). When we are cooking, the flames go upwards; so is the heart upwards. There is light in the heart; there is no darkness in it. If a man’s head be struck off, we cannot say who the man is by simply looking at his trunk. It is the heart which sees through the eye. A man must have the internal eye. What is called the heart-space is the face which is triangular. We can know a certain man by looking at his face. A man must know his own secret. A man must know himself.”
• You have a certain thing in your hand; if you look for it somewhere else, you will not find it.
The subject of head-awareness (which should be maintained both in and out of meditation) is being continued. The “hand” in which spiritual consciousness is held is the sahasrara, the physical/astra/causal brain. If we look for it somewhere else we will not find it. This is an immensely valuable fact, and one that can make the difference between success and failure in our sadhana.
• If you sit in an upper-story, light a lamp there, and close the doors, those who are below cannot see the light.
Now Nityananda describes meditation. We fix our awareness in the upper story of the brain (sahasrara), close the doors of the sense through interiorization of the mind, and behold the Light that the lesser chakras cannot touch, nor be seen by the minds of those who are centered in them. This is the difference between living in the transcendental Absolute and immersion in the relative world of samsara–even if we are meditating.
• See the bioscope! see the drama!–all these are seen in the head.
Potential omniscience is in the sahasrara awaiting development through tapasya. There are many other seeds there, as well, including omnipresence and omnipotence, which can be germinated and brought to fruition by the sadhaka who knows the way.
• Everything should be seen from the same place; you need not go to several places to see several things. The city of Madras can be seen from there as well as from here. It is better to see it from one place. We must “idealize” it in our brain.
We can both see and “be” anywhere in the cosmos through the cosmic faculties embedded in the sahasrara. The “one place” from which it is better to see all things is the awakened sahasrara.
• What we call the heart is not below; it is above.
This has already been discussed: the true, spiritual heart is not in the trunk of the body, but is the Chidakasha, the Hridayakasha, in the head.
• When we are cooking, the flames go upwards; so is the heart upwards.
That is, the subtle spiritual faculties, the “flames,” rise upward into the sahasrara-heart.
• There is light in the heart; there is no darkness in it. If a man’s head be struck off, we cannot say who the man is by simply looking at his trunk. It is the heart which sees through the eye. A man must have the internal eye. What is called the heart-space is the face which is triangular. We can know a certain man by looking at his face.
The principle here is simple: Pure Consciousness is seated in the sahasrara, which is the real heart. The Eye of Spirit is the Chidakasha itself.
• A man must know his own secret. A man must know himself.
That is what Yoga is all about.
