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has called me!"
The newspapers printed the news that he had committed suicide. It is true, the newspapers were also right. He jumped into the river and committed suicide. But if anyone asked Ram he would say, "You say I committed suicide? I only broke the bounds and became one with the universe. I removed the barrier in between. I have not died. I was as if dead, now I have become alive, now I am one with the universe. Now that small stream of life has become the ocean. I let go of the limitaton, not of life itself. Now I have achieved real life, by letting go of the limitation."
Hence it is necessary to remember this always that when samadhi becomes stronger inside of you, when the clouds of samadhi gather within you, the rain is not of your ego, your I-ness. That rain comes from beyond you, it transcends you.
In this moment Janak's personality is going.
THE UNIVERSE WHICH HAS EMANATED FROM ME WILL DISSOLVE INTO ME JUST AS A POT DISSOLVES INTO CLAY, A WAVE INTO WATER, OR A BRACELET INTO GOLD.
When there was nothing god was, when there will be nothing god will be. I am drowned in being, if I were not then what would be?
'I am drowned in being' ... we will say Ramteerth committed suicide. Ramteerth will say, "'I am drowned in being' ... it was when I drowned in the Ganges that for the first time I existed. As long as 'I' was, I was drowned."
When there was nothing god was, when there will be nothing god will be. I am drowned in being, if I were not then what would be?
' -- god will be.' Existence is!
This I, this limitation of being -- when someone removes it as if taking off his clothes, he sees the truth.
Like a snake sloughing off its old skin as it slides along -- this is exactly how it happened to Janak. Ashtavakra was there as a catalyst.
Scientists have discovered catalytic agents. They say that some substances don't take an active part in certain reactions, but without their presence the reaction will not take place.
You have seen lightning flashing in the rains. Scientists say that water is made from combining oxygen with hydrogen, but hydrogen and oxygen will combine only
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