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   Swami J's Newsletter

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February 25, 2002



Dear Friends,



The Self, having enjoyed the pleasures of the senses in the waking

state, going here and there, experiencing good and not good, hastily

goes back again to dreams.



As a large fish moves from one bank of a river to the other, so also

does the Self move between dreaming and waking reality.



As a hawk or a falcon becomes tired when flying in the sky, after

stretching its wings comes back to the nest, so also does the Self

hasten back to that state of deep sleep, wherein no more desires are

desired, and no more dreams are dreamed.



Indeed, the Self, in its True Nature, is free from all craving, free

from wicked doing, and free from fear.



As one may embrace their spouse and know nothing outside in that

moment, nor nothing that is within, so also does one in union with

the Self know nothing that is outside and nothing that is inside, for

in that state all desires are satisfied.



The Self is then the only desire; one is then free from desire, and

goes beyond sorrow.*





In loving service,



Swami J



* Brihadaranyaka Upanishad



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