The following is a compilation of Sri Sri Babathakur's verbal testimony by Sri Tushar Bhattacharya (appearing in Brahma Atma Vidya, Volume 2, pages 126-128).

 

 

1) We lead our lives with the idea of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. Whatever we use with the idea of ‘mine’ is ‘indirect’, and whatever we use with ‘I’, in and through I-Consciousness, is ‘direct’.

2) The more the influence of ‘indirect’, the more obscured or less is the influence of ‘direct’. As a result, more modifications and distortions prevail. Again, when the influence of ‘direct’ is more, the influence of ‘indirect’ is less. Then our stability grows i.e., we gradually become calm and composed, steady and wise.

3) When our conduct is with the use of ‘I’, then it is rational, then it is the ‘Reality’; and when it is with the use of ‘mine’, then it is ‘relativity’— relative.

4) The use of mine-consciousness is accomplished by experience, but the use of I-Consciousness is perfected by Self-Conscious Awareness (Swanubhuti).

5) So long as one is not connected with ‘I’ i.e., all things are not united with Consciousness, till then Self-Conscious Awareness (Swanubhuti) will not function or play. Whatever little consciousness is there in one’s ego, only that much consciousness will function or play, nothing more than that.

6) It is something like this— suppose you have prepared a meal with lot of care, but at the time of partaking you find that you forgot to add salt to the dish with vegetables. Whatever is done without the Consciousness of this ‘I’, that verily is imperfect.

7) If we commit a mistake in the first step while working out a mathematical sum, then all the following steps that we will take shall be erroneous. We have committed a mistake in the very first step of our life. What is that? We revel in ‘mine’, excluding the ‘I’.

8) We give more importance to our my-ness or all possessions that we enjoy. Okay, all right, you just establish the Self (the ‘I’) there.“Manmana Bhava Madbhakta”— be the devotee of that ‘I’, serve that One ‘I’ only, think that One ‘I’, use that One ‘I’, knowing One ‘I’ get pervaded by that ‘I’. This is the ‘sportful dramatic sameside game of Self-Consciousness’. Then what will be clear to you? ‘All-Divine for All Time, as It Is’— only this will establish the Age of Truth (Satya Yuga) in a new way.

9) You establish ‘I’ in everything. Ultimately, ‘I’ will only remain standing, ‘mine’ will not be there. …. Whatever you will use with this Absolute I, all that shall be fully pervaded by the ‘I’. ‘I is pervaded by Consciousness and Consciousness is pervaded by I’ (Bodhamoy Ami Amimoy Bodh)— this is my formula.

10) If you are to worship, you worship your Real I with the help of your ‘I’. The use of I-Consciousness by I-Consciousness is called Self-sacrifice (Atma-Yajna), worship of the Self (Atma-Puja).

11) Customarily it is said (that the fourfold end of human life is) Dharma (righteousness), Artha (wealth), Kama (desire) and Moksha (liberation). On this subject Saccidanandamoyee Maa (the Supreme Divine Mother) has revealed this time sixfold end of human life. After liberation, the fifth is to accept Guruvani (verbal testimony of the Guru) and the sixth is the use of that in one’s Own Consciousness (Apanbodh) i.e., the use of everything in and through one’s Own Self. Then seventh plane of Consciousness can be attained. There contradictions and modifications do not affect.

12) The right use of life or everything in life is perfected only in Self-Consciousness or one’s Own Consciousness, not in any other consciousness. If life is not conducted by the use of Self-Consciousness, then Supreme Grace cannot be realized.

13) Use of one’s own Consciousness means the use of Even Consciousness, use of non-dual Consciousness or the use One I-Consciousness. Through this, all kinds of demerits and defects of the use of dual consciousness is totally uprooted.

14) To accept everything by the ‘I’ is one-pointedness; and the habit of seeing, hearing and knowing everything by ‘mine’ is the ‘sense of otherness’, idea of diversities.

15) When ‘I’ is used for ‘I’, then that use is ‘Mene Maniye Chola’ (all-acceptance and all-embrace), but when ‘I’ is used for ‘mine’, then that use is not ‘Maniye Chola’ (leading a life by embracing all).

16) ‘Mene Maniye Chola’ i.e., ‘All Divine for All Time, as It Is’ is to be accepted. There is no time to waste by reciting other Mantra (secret mystical formula). We must ‘accept all’, ‘embrace all’. How? In One Consciousness, in Even Consciousness— that is the ‘Science of Oneness’.

17) Hence, if the use of Consciousness is by ‘acceptance’, and if that acceptance is done consciously, knowingly and with understanding, not by mere speculation, then only ‘Maniye Chola’ is accomplished. Simply put, it means ‘use of Consciousness by Consciousness’. It is not the use of Consciousness without awareness or in ignorance. I am using‘I’ by and for ‘I’, not using ‘I’ for ‘mine’.

18) Do not degrade your Self, “Na Atmanam Abasadayet”. When do we degrade the Self? Excluding our Own Self, when we think of anything, then we are degrading the Self. If we do that by associating with Own Self, then no harm is done. Unless and until one is able to unite anything and everything with one’s Own Consciousness, till then one cannot find Supreme Peace and Bliss.

19) Discover your Self on your own, in and through your Own Self. It means— see in and through your Own Self, know in and through your Own Self, understand in and through your Own Self, conduct yourself in and through your Own Self — you will yourself remain as the Absolute. This itself is called the ‘right use’, the Self-Science.

20) Hence, ‘right use’ is to use everything in and through ‘I’, ‘wrong use’ is to use everything in and through ‘mine’ i.e., when in and through my Own Self I will be able to accept everything within and without as verily my Own Self, then I am the Absolute.

21) Right Knowledge has to be acquired first, then processed and then put to ‘right use’. Unless there is ‘right use’ of Right Knowledge, it will no longer remain as Knowledge. It must reveal in each and every practice of life.

22) How would I know whether I am doing ‘right use’ or not? Every single day there will be cheerfulness within me, naturalness within me, an easiness shall be there, worries will reduce, aberrations and modifications of the body shall reduce, will become healthy and all the deviations from my natural state shall be removed.

23) Peace and happiness in life depends on the ‘right use’ of everything. No one has the right to willfully destroy his life bestowed by the Lord through reckless use in life. After properly learning the skill of ‘right use’, one should dedicate a healthy, strong and beautiful life to Him.

24) In Sri Gita this verily has been proclaimed— one has to face many adversities, sorrows and sufferings to know That Supreme Unmanifest, the Unknown. But, if you can accept and make right use of whatever is manifested, then you will be easily able to discover that Truth within you.

25) Self-I never likes to spoil anything. Even the tiniest of thing is Own Self to ‘this One’ (pointing to Himself, Prajnanpurush Sri Sri Babathakur says), the worst thing is also my Own Self, but the mundane relative existence is important to ‘this One’. ‘I exist in everything— your utensils, starting from your broom to each and everything in this universe, I exist’, says Prajnanpurush Sri Sri Babathakur.

26) Then you think for yourself as to how this I-Consciousness will take you to Perfection in life. You do not have to leave anything, It will reveal unto you from within on Its Own. Then you will discover a strange experience in everything— that is the Right Understanding, Knowledge of Knowledge.

 

This draft transliterated by Ramen Basu and finalized by Sri P.C. Lahiri, is offered at the lotus feet of Sri Sri Babathakur.