Chidakash is the expanse of awareness, the mental space of time, perception and cognition.

Paramakash is the timeless and spaceless reality, mindless, undifferentiated, the infinite potentiality, the source and origin, the substance and the essence, both matter and consciousness -- yet beyond both.

It cannot be perceived, but can be experienced as ever witnessing the witness, perceiving the perceiver, the origin and the end of all manifestation, the root of time and space, the prime cause in every chain of causation.

It is like light and daylight.

The universe is full of light which you do not see; but the same light you see as daylight.

And what the daylight reveals is the vyakti, The person is always the object, the witness is the subject and their relation of mutual dependence is the reflection of their absolute identity.

You imagine that they are distinct and separate states.

They are not.

They are the same consciousness at rest and in movement, each state conscious of the other.

In chit man knows God and God knows man.

In chit the man shapes the world and the world shapes man.

Chit is the link, the bridge between extremes, the balancing and uniting factor in every experience.

The totality of the perceived is what you call matter.

The totality of all perceivers is what you call the universal mind.

The identity of the two, manifesting itself as perceptibility and perceiving, harmony and intelligence, loveliness and loving, reasserts itself eternally.

It is only the absolute that is beyond gunas.

In fact, these are but points of view, ways of looking.

They exist only in the mind.

Beyond the mind all distinctions cease.

The mind with its five organs of perception, five organs of action, and five vehicles of consciousness appears as memory, thought, reason and selfhood.

Are they not again images in your own mind?

Once you accept time and space as real, you will consider yourself minute and short- lived.

But are they real?

Do they depend on you, or you on them?

As body, you are in space.

As mind, you are in time.

But are you mere body with a mind in it?

Have you ever investigated?

But the actual work of insight and detachment (viveka-vairagya) is yours.

The true and effective motive is love.

You see people suffer and you seek the best way of helping them.

The answer is obvious -- first put yourself beyond the need of help.

Be sure your attitude is of pure goodwill, free of expectation of any kind.

Those who seek mere happiness may end up in sublime indifference, while love will never rest.

As to method, there is only one -- you must come to know yourself -- both what you appear to be and what you are.

Clarity and charity go together -- each needs and strengthens the other.

Compassion is but another word for the refusal to suffer for imaginary reasons.

Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy -- truth liberates.

You have grievously misunderstood yourself; to understand rightly -- investigate.

Enquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others.

To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate.

Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd: both logic and experience contradict it.

Hence the entire universe is your body.

In that sense -- I agree.

realise your real self and even drugs will have no power over you.

There is no harm in them.

I eat very little -- and make no fuss.

I make no claims of consistency.

You think absolute consistency is possible; prove it by example.

Don't preach what you do not practise.

Coming back to the idea of having been born.

You are stuck with what your parents told you: all about conception, pregnancy and birth, infant, child, youngster, teenager, and so on.

Now, divest yourself of the idea that you are the body with the help of the contrary idea that you are not the body.

It is also an idea, no doubt; treat it like something to be abandoned when its work is done.

The idea that I am not the body gives reality to the body, when in fact, there is no such thing as body, it is but a state of mind.

You can have as many bodies and as diverse as you like; just remember steadily what you want and reject the incompatibles.

But here and now, through all your bodies and souls shines awareness, the pure light of chit.

Hold on to it unswervingly.

Without awareness, the body would not last a second.

There is in the body a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energises the body.

Discover that current and stay with it.

Of course, all these are manners of speaking.

Words are as much a barrier, as a bridge.

Find the spark of life that weaves the tissues of your body and be with it.

It is the only reality the body has.

Birth and death are but points in time.

Life weaves eternally its many webs.

The weaving is in time, but life itself is timeless.

Whatever name and shape you give to its expressions, it is like the ocean -- never changing, ever changing.

You omit the element of pure cognition, of awareness free from all personal distortions.

Unless you admit the reality of chit, you will never know yourself.

Behave as if what I say is true and judge by what actually happens.

All I ask is the little faith needed for making the first step.

With experience will come confidence and you will not need me any more.

I know what you are and I am telling you.

Trust me for a while.

Behave as if you were pure awareness, bodiless and mindless, spaceless and timeless, beyond 'where' and 'when' and 'how'.

Dwell on it, think of it, learn to accept its reality.

Don't oppose it and deny it all the time.

Keep an open mind at least.

Yoga is bending the outer to the inner.

Make your mind and body express the real which is all and beyond all.

By doing you succeed, not by arguing.

Awareness comes first.

A bundle of memories and mental habits attracts attention, awareness gets focalised and a person suddenly appears.

Remove the light of awareness, go to sleep or swoon away -- and the person disappears.

The person (vyakti) flickers, awareness (vyakta) contains all space and time, the absolute (avyakta) is.