Teachings of Brahmananda


Meditate and you shall see the real, everlasting teacher in your mind." - baba Bhagvandas, brahmananda's guru. Whatever you want to get in this world - remember that you already have everything in your body. Therefore, sit down and try to relax completely, to dominate the wandering of your mind, and try to see what is going on within yourself. The more one relaxes the more power is concentrated, and then the body is electrified. When the outside windows are closed, the inner windows open. The real force of the mind is atomic and nuclear. Due to its atomic force, the mind can penetrate anything. The power of mind can reach a million miles away. Man is a conscious being and uses the superior power of his nature, which is called wisdom, to understand the situations and conditions, the goal and result of the struggle. Meditation is an unfailing means for fulfilling this very reasonable desire to know. Philosophy is nothing but the theory of self-analysis or meditation, and meditation is the philosophy of life. The difference is that the world of a sincere thinker is great, like heaven, while the world of the thoughtless is contracted and like hell. It is entirely impossible to find happiness in evil thoughts. Therefore the prime duty of the seeker is practice thinking in a right way. Meditation does not mean to sit like a stone. We become silent in order to talk with the supreme soul. The word meditation means expansion of wisdom into infinity. It is the process of gathering our scattered energy. Meditation on OM, the inner current, makes the mind enlightened. A man of realization becomes free. Meditate and obtain the absolute. He who attains concentration attains samadhi. Make every possible effort to make your mind happy and peaceful. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. OM or nadam, anahata nada is the word. The light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. Word means giver of light or truth in Sanskrit. Nadam, observed through silence is the life and light of the universe. A mighty ocean of nadam is flowing everywhere. It is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. Amen, omni have the same meaning. Listen carefully to the sound of OM. All impurities of your mind are removed from listening and meditating on OM. You will identify yourself with that eternal Self, one without the second. Practice it secretly, it will transform you into nirvana state. One destroys the ignorance of the mind by meditating on the sound of nadam. One can identify Self with OM in samadhi, reaching the state of Brahman. Use your power for positivity, never transmit evil thoughts. Conquer your obstacles and attain full freedom in the realm of the spirit. Books alone will not answer your curiosity. The happiness which includes everything and is beyond everything is Brahman. There is a mighty eternal sound current vibrating entire nature. When the self opens the inner eye, finds that that the whole of creation is transformed into the music of nature, nadam, stream of eternal life, then the limitation of mind and matter are overcome. This sound current is master and teacher. When this teacher is realized, instructions of external teachers are accomplished. This experience is the personal god. The personality is not limited to self but includes all. The seeker finds the greatest happiness. Without this teacher, there is no salvation, no freedom. The relationship between sound current and universe is like energy and matter, substance and reflection, sun and rays, meaning and word. Atman, the self is immanent and transcendent. It fills all things inside and out like akasha, ether. It is beyond the concept of time, past, present and future. It fills the whole universe, inside and out. Meditation on saguna Brahman, god with form, the experience of nada nullifies all karma. It comes from beyond the region of mind and maya. If the meditator submits the psychological consciousness to it, he will be able to reach the source and origin, god or Brahman. One should devote Self to nadam. Sound current is the vehicle by means of which one crosses the ocean of suffering and ignorance, reaches the destination, I AM, collective consciousness.