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CHAPTER 7. MEDITATION IS THE SEED
In the state of ’just sitting’, in the state of meditation, your own body becomes a womb for you. In this
state when all activities quiet down, when all thoughts are lost, your mind and your body become the
circumference and you enter the womb once again. This is why we call a meditative person ’DVIJ’,
which means twice-born. There is one birth in which you pass through your mother’s womb; this is
the birth you get through your parents. And there is a second birth in which you have to give birth to
yourself. It is this birth which makes you a dvij.
In the state of ’just sitting’ a person is naturally bathed in the lake of the supreme being. And to
be bathed in the ocean of consciousness.... When the ocean of the body has given you so much
pleasure, imagine how much more the ocean of consciousness can give you! It is more than your
powers of imagination can grasp, infinitely more. It is boundless. The bliss you tasted in your
mother’s womb was the bliss that comes from drowning in the body, but the bliss you will know when
you sink into the soul, that is the real bliss. The Hindus have called it brahma. No taste can equal
the taste of Brahma. It is sat-chit-ananda, truth-consciousness-bliss.
As soon as you drown in the ocean of consciousness you become dvij, for now the soul is born in
you. At present your soul is hidden within the seed. It is the present and it is not present; it is present
as a seed, but not as a tree. You are still only a potential, a promise of becoming. You have not yet
become the tree, and this is your trouble; this is your anguish. It is this that makes you distressed
and anxious.
If all this distress is correctly analyzed, it is the pain of being born. As long as you are not twice-born,
dvij, this trouble will persist. He who undergoes the second birth finds that the first birth ceases for
him, for now it is of no use to him; otherwise, you will be born, you will die and you will be born again.
You will reincarnate again and again, but when you become twice-born there is no need to return to
the body again.
Those of the brahmin caste are called ’dvij’, twice-born. It would be more fitting to call a dvij, a
brahmin; for all brahmins are not dvij, but all dvij’s are brahmins. No one truly becomes a brahmin
just by being born into a brahmin family. He only becomes a brahmin when he is dissolved in
Brahma, when he is born of Brahma.
The Hindus have a unique concept. Each of us is born into the lowest cast, sudras, and only a few
attain Brahmahood. So, whatever caste the child is born into, by birth we are all sudras. The child
of a brahmin family is initiated with the sacred thread. This is just to make him aware that he is now
a brahmin and not a member of a lower caste. It is only a custom. To be a brahmin is not so easy
that it can be done merely by putting a thread around your neck. To become a brahmin is the most
difficult process in the world; it only happens when a person is drowned completely in his soul.
He who gives a new birth to his self is twice-born, dvij. Now he is his own mother, his own father.
He is not born through an outside agency. His relationships with the world are broken. He is now
united with Brahma.
This sutra says: MEDITATION IS THE SEED. He who attains the state of meditation, he who just
sits, is immersed in his self. This gives birth to his soul. He is now ’twice-born’.
Leave aside all the second-rate methods, shun them. Don’t be satisfied with the sacred thread
around your body. If only it were so cheap and easy to attain Brahmahood, to become one with
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