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The Chidakash Gita, verses 1-50

See also: verses 51-100, 101-150, 151-200, 201-250, 251-286.

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1. Jnanis are mindless. To Jnanis, all are the same. They have no slumber, no dreams, nor sleep. They
are always in sleep. The sun and the moon are the same to them. To them, it is always sunrise. The
glass of a chimney lamp, when covered with carbon, is not transparent. Similarly, the carbon of the
mind should be removed.

2. There are three nerves in the body: the sun or the Sushumna; the moon or the Ida; the star or the
Pingala. The first is red in color, the second, blue, and the third, green.

3. Where these three nerves meet is the heart space. As we go on practicing yoga, the Bindu-sound
is heard in the head. This sound is one, indivisible.

4. Just as camphor is consumed by the flames of fire, so also, mind must be consumed by soul-fire.

5. The copra, detached from the shell, makes a dull sound when shaken; so also the soul and body
must be thought of as separate. The first is light; by that light, all vices are consumed.

6. Just as we draw water from a well, we should draw breath. When we breathe out, it should be like
letting down the bucket into the well. When we breathe out, it is the carbon (the impurities of the
body); when we breathe in, it is the breath of Omkar. Breath of Omkar is the manas (mind).

7. Manas is Jiva; but their positions are different. Jivatman is Paramatman.

8. A man or woman should be educated. What is education? Jiva should know the secret that He is
the Paramatman.

9. Paramatman is in Jivatman. The real Mukti is to know the subtle in the gross.

10. We should leave off the gross sleep and sleep the subtle sleep. We should enjoy the sleep
obtained from the practice of Pranayam.

11. The upgoing breath is like the wheels inside a clock. Its movement is inside. When the movement
of the breath is internal, one will see the world in himself.

12. Just as we see the sky reflected in the water in an earthen pot, so also, to the internal vision, the
sky of consciousness becomes visible.

13. If food is prepared in a gold vessel, the dog eats it. If it is prepared in an earthen vessel, then also
the dog eats it.

14. The sunlight is reflected in the salt water of the sea. It is also reflected in the clear water of a
tank at the top of a hill. It is not enough if we see with the eye but we should experience it.

15. On a tree grow numberless flowers. The flowers all perish but the tree does not perish for a long
time. The visible is like flowers; the invisible is like the tree.
16. There are matches in a matchbox. Fire is produced only when the match is rubbed against the
side of the box. So also, the Manas is the match; intelligence (Buddhi) is the side of the box. We
should rub the Manas against Buddhi and then we get the kingdom of Self which is the same as the
liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

17. A man should be quite indifferent to honor and dishonor. He should not have the least love for
his body; such a man will see the Supreme Being in everything and everywhere.

18. The Supreme Light and the Universal Light are identical.

19. From a plank, are manufactured tables, chairs, etc. So also, Brahman is the primordial substance
from which numberless worlds are formed.

20. Manas and the Atman are the same to all people. At the final stage of the universe, all is one. At
the present stage, there is difference in their mode of breathing, thinking, and their mental
tendencies.

21. Fire, air, water, and earth are common to all. These may be used by all people alike. Similarly,
well-water may be used by a brahmin, a pariah, and children alike.

22. Manas is the gingilly; Buddhi is the oil mill; Amrita (ambrosia) is the oil.

23. Buddhi is the king. Manas is the minister. Manas should be subordinated to Buddhi.

24. When a road is crowded with five or six thousand people, it is almost impossible to drive a horse
carriage along the road. The driver must be careful in driving the carriage. A cyclist's attention is not
directed towards himself but towards the passerby.

25. When a man is entirely sunk in cold water, he no longer feels the cold of the cold water. A
perfect man is not subject to anger.

26. When a seed is fried, it cannot sprout. When a lamp contains no oil, we do not call it a 'lamp'.
When the sun is shining, a gaslight becomes dim. It is the sun that gives light to the whole world. If
Manas is regarded as the king, Buddhi may be regarded as the prime minister. When a tree does not
bear fruits, it has no beauty. There is no effect without cause. In darkness light persists. Darkness is
ignorance. Light is Jnana (knowledge). One must see oneself. One must return to the place from
whence one started. We must return the thing we have borrowed.

27. A guru (spiritual teacher) will lead any sort of man from a thorny path to the royal road. Such
preceptors are of two kinds. One is the primary preceptor and the other, the secondary preceptor.
Mind is the primary preceptor and the other, the secondary preceptor. One is not the preceptor of
the other. He is only the secondary preceptor. The secondary preceptor is one who shows the water
in the well. The guru who exists in the heart of all beings is the Jagad-Guru (universal preceptor).

28. People generally think that a teacher's body is guru. A man does not become a guru by simply
wearing sandals and counting beads on a rosary. One who talks 'Brahma Jnana' and gives stones to
his disciples is not a guru. Whatever a guru speaks in words, he must show it in action. First one
must practice and after realisation, he must begin to teach others.

29. One who has thoroughly wiped off the idea 'I am the body' is fit to be called a guru. There is
none higher than such a one. There is no god above such a guru. Such a guru is God, and God is such
a guru.
30. If you keep sugar apart from us, we cannot have experience of its sweetness. If we eat it, then
only we know its taste. A man cannot get Mukti if he simply repeats 'Rama, Krishna, or Govinda' for
a thousand years. He must repeat it heartily (knowing the secret).

31. Cow milk can never be bitter. The stone fixed in the earth cannot speak. By visiting places of
pilgrimage like Benares and Rameshvaram, a man cannot attain Mukti. What is essential is keeping
the mind steady for a moment by introversion. Seeing earthen and stone images is not seeing God. It
is mind's hallucination when you regard images as God. Without true Jnana, Mukti cannot be
attained. Our taking the human birth is the effect. Giving it back is the cause. We must know the
cause and effect. Likewise, we must know the good and the evil; the right and the wrong. Knowing
all, peace must be attained.

32. If a building has no doors, we cannot call it a 'house'. Without fire, we cannot heat water.
Without air, fire cannot burn. Without food and sleep, a man can live for a few days but without air
(breathing), a man cannot live even for a few seconds.

33. Destruction of the world means transforming it into Vayu (air with its blue color). Raja Yoga is the
place of indivisible monism. If you enter the ONE, you lose sight of the MANY.

34. In the infinite, there is no finite. To a Jnani, there is no Ajnani. To an Ajnani, there is no Jnani. If
all the children beat a mother, she does not throw them away.

35. You must not leave the feet of a guru. Your mind should not flicker like the reflection of the sun
in the shaking water.

36. The sea water is boundless. The tank water has a boundary. Our mind must be like the tank
water. Mind is the cause of good and evil. A man may be good and bad according to his good or bad
thoughts. God does not do good or evil to any man. The reason is, intelligence and knowledge are
the divine faculties in man. A man protected by good thoughts cannot be harmed even by a cannon
shot. Without yoga, liberation from karma is impossible.

37. Without knowing the secret (truth), if we simply decorate the exterior skin, our karma will not
leave us. One cannot be a Sannyasi by external signs if he is internally a hypocri