Thou are that

Sri Sri: When you experience joy, your mind is expanding; when you experience pain, your mind is getting concentrated, focused. It comes to one point. We experience pain through out life, but never encounter it, never stayed with it, went deep into it. In love you experience pain, in that pain it brings a depth to yourself. Joy is expansion and height. Pain is contraction & depth.In pain you consolidate your whole energy, Consciousness gets deeper, intense.

And when you feel that pain, intensity, you are very delicate, very subtle inside. Have you noticed? Very vulnerable.



Love makes you very vulnerable. Love is very delicate, it makes you very vulnerable deep inside. Love makes you weak. However strong you may be, in love you become so weak. Yet it is the greatest strength on this planet. When you are in love, you are so vulnerable. Your whole being is so delicate, so etheric, ethereal. Your whole being becomes ethereal. You are not like a rock, solid rock. When you are sad, upset, you are like a rock. But in pain of love, longing, you are still ethereal, isn’t it?

Lord of the meek, means this is it. The divine loves the meek. Experience of divine is so delicate, so subtle, so ethereal. That’s why it’s akin to love. It’s a simulator.

Love is God, God is love, because both are of the same ethereal phenomenon. When you come and sit near the master, you cannot but catch this etherealness and when it happens, a master said what do you think you are? You think you are a solid body, you think a set of thoughts? You are set of concepts, ideas, a set of different emotions? No No No, Don’t mistake it. This love that you are feeling, that is what you are.



Say – “Thou are that.”



Close your eyes and look inside. What is there? You are all love. Every particle of your being is vibrant with this ethereal, something. Cannot be named, cannot be expressed, that for which you are longing. That which is longing. The very longing is divine. That very longing, that heart beating for, is divine, is God.



Say – Thou are that.

You are nothing but a burning longing. You are nothing but an alive glow of Love. So, Thou are that. You are that. “Tatvam Asi”. You are that.



This is called the great sentence. This is the first great sentence that the master departs to the students. First great sentence. You are that longing that you have for me, that love you have for me. You are that. Be with that.