Q: l am trying all the time to be constantly aware of ‘I-I'. I feel that this ‘I’ is a center from which I am looking at my personality and mind. I feel that the mind has come out of this center. Sometimes I feel that even this center should disappear. Is this correct?
AS: When one is in the center, the 'I am’, there is no coming in or going out. It is as it is. If you are not aware of it as it really is, it might appear to you that things are coming in or going out of this center. If you have the correct awareness of the center, the Heart, you understand that there is no coming or going, no movement and no change.
Q: Is it better to meditate for long periods of time or for short periods?
AS: Except when one is in the sleep state, the effort to meditate should continue always. Just like the river which is flowing constantly towards the sea, our awareness should flow without a
break. We should not have this concept that we should meditate at certain times. The meditation on the Self should continue while walking, working, eating, etc. It should be naturally flowing in all places at all times.
Q: How did this single, unbroken ‘I’ become the many different things and people that we see in the world?
AS: It didn’t. It always remains single and unbroken. Your defective vision and your misperceptions give you the impression that the one became the many. The Self has never undergone any change or transformation except in your imagination. When we identify ourselves with the body the mind, the one appears to become many. When one’s energy is diverted from the mind and the outside world towards the Self, the illusion of multiplicity fades away.
Go deeply into this feeling of ‘I’. Be aware of it so strongly and so intensely that no other thoughts have the energy to arise and distract you. If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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