Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The Consciousness of Separation

"Kill all separation consciousness." The mind thinks in terms of separation, division, analysis.Via the mind life is divided into many pieces.Life itself is not divided; life itself is one.Life itself is still indivisible, but the mind thinks in fragments, so whatever the mind says is bound to be false.The trees are there, the sky is above you, the earth, you and everything are deeply one.The tree appears to be separate from you, but it is not so, and it cannot be separate.The sun is so far away, but you can't survive if the sun dies.You cease to exist here immediately.You wouldn't be here without the sun ten trillion miles away.If the sun doesn't exist, we have absolutely no way of knowing that it doesn't exist, because no one will exist to know it.We are part of the sun's rays.

The whole great world is a cosmic unity.You are not alone; you are not like an island.You are connected; you are rooted in the ocean of existence, like a wave. Unless one feels this deeply, one cannot enter into samadhi, one cannot enter into the total ecstasy of being; because if you think yourself separate you cannot merge, you cannot surrender.Surrender becomes easy if you think you are not separate; it happens.If you feel you are one with life, you can trust it.Then there will be no fear.Then you can die happily, ecstatically, in it.Then there is no fear of death. The fear of death comes into being because you think you are separate.Then you start fighting, and then you start defending.You start to see yourself as the enemy in conflict.You think in terms of conquest, victory.But when the time comes you will be defeated; your defeat is certain.

You are only part of the whole, but you are always fighting the whole.That's why everyone you see everywhere is a failure: they are defeated, they are frustrated.And in the end, everyone will understand that life has been just a long-term failure.And it's not just those who aren't successful who feel this.Those who are successful feel this too.Napoleon, Alexander, even their kind felt defeated. Why is it the way it is?For you are not separate from the whole.If a person thinks he is separate from life, I would call him non-religious; and if a person understands that he is an organic part of life, I would call him religious.When I say an organic part of life, I don't mean a mechanical part, because the mechanical part can be taken out; the organic part cannot be taken out.In fact it is not a part, it is deeply one with the whole.

A pious man goes beyond worry, beyond the fear of death, because now he knows that he does not exist, but the whole exists.So how can there be fear?Even death becomes a communication, a meeting.It is not dissolved.Instead it is fusion.It's not something against you.It's something that relaxes you deeply. Life is a tense state of worry.Death is beautiful.You just go into deep relaxation.You are back at the source again.The wave will rise again, but for this moment it has stopped; it has entered into the sea of ​​rest.Death is a deep rest.And before the freshman, that rest is necessary.

Once you understand this there is no fear.Once you accept and become aware of a deep, organic, oceanic oneness, you accept everything.You know that everything is one, existence is one.It appears to have many, many different forms, but only the forms are different.Its substance, its innermost core, is still one. This attitude will help you to go into meditation very easily.Remember, if you are afraid of death, you will also be afraid of meditation.That is a logical inference.If you are afraid of death, you cannot allow yourself to be in meditation completely, because meditation is a kind of death.You consciously and voluntarily merge yourself with the whole.You die as the individual, the ego, and become one with the egoless being.

If you are afraid of death, you will also be afraid of meditation.But if you fall in love with meditation, you will not be afraid of death.If you go into meditation without fear, you become immortal, because there will be no death waiting for you.You are already dead, so how can you die again?A man who has entered into meditation is dead.Now you cannot die again, now death cannot destroy you.You have surrendered; you are not you anymore.Death will enter an empty room.It won't find you there. Only the ego can die, not you.Your life is eternal, but the ego is temporary.The ego is just a created, fabricated phenomenon.You created it.It is necessary, it serves a purpose.In society you need an ego; but in life, in existence, the same ego becomes a hindrance.

To disciple means to go beyond society, because it is to surrender the self.In society, ego is needed.You have to have some reference points for who you are.In the case of discipleship, there is no need for that point of reference.You don't have to say who you are; you can just be.It is enough that you exist.There is no need to tell people who you are.The "who" is what society needs.Existence never asks who you are. When you drop the ego, you are ready to become one with the whole.These are two ways of saying the same thing: you can think that the whole existence is one, or you can think that you have no ego.Both will do the same thing and the result will be the same.You become an oceanic oneness.And once that oneness is known, it is impossible to lose it.

"Kill all separation consciousness." Just become a drop, a drop that falls into the ocean and becomes one with the ocean.Don't be afraid of death, because in fact there is no death for you. A person who is afraid is a false phenomenon, a false entity, an entity created by separate consciousness.In meditation, remember that you are jumping back to the source, into the source.You are moving from the ego to a being without ego. Be ready to die in meditation.If you can die in meditation, you will have eternal life.You will become immortal.