Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Mountain Home
Friday, June 18, 2021
Shrine Of God
Me : I feel Your presence so strongly in the Shrine.
Voice : It would be a mistake to confine Me to a Shrine.
Me : I know you are Omnipresent. But, I feel so drawn to visit your Tomb-Shrine. You are clearly more present here than anywhere else. Thousands of people feel the same, too. Its undeniably soothing for the heart inside.
Voice : That is true. But, do you know why everyone feels that ?
Me : Why?
Voice : I am All-pervading and everywhere. I am in the Tomb, too. But, you feel My presence stronger inside than anywhere else because when you step in, your mind spontaneously brings wholehearted awareness of My Being. This is Divine Awareness. Your awareness of Me creates My presence wherever you are.
When the number of people holding the same Divine Awareness increase, the atmosphere surcharges with this deep common feeling from the heart and it contributes to creating even a stronger presence of Me in one spot.
To find Me at one place and not the other, is only an oscillating awareness of Me.
As man struggles to quieten his mind, statues, images of God and places of worship will remain, to help keep awareness of God in a confinement as they understand - until the inner awakening will bring man to feel My presence in the gentle caress of a breeze, as much as in a Tomb.
Friday, January 22, 2021
Saw God In The Clouds
Me : I saw your face in the clouds today !! Yay !
Voice : Did I look good ?
Me : You looked awesome !
Voice : Sometimes, I feel my hair looks unkempt..
Me : Haha. You were looking perfect. Was so thrilled to see that sight today. Your face emerged very clearly in the clouds. Made me feel happy and connected to you. Thank you so much.
Voice : You like to see me more often ?
Me : Of course. It fills my heart with joy !!
Voice : Then, next time watch the cloud closely. So closely that you realise I am not in the cloud, but I AM the cloud.
Know that I am not ‘in’ anything - I am it. Then, you will see me very moment.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Meditation, Chanting - Unneeded Rituals ?
Voice : Hello
Me : Hi. Whatever it is..it wasn’t me.
Voice : Haha. Struggling with that mind, again ?
Me : Isn't everyone ? Since you are already in my head, how about offering me some solutions ?
Voice : I did. But you had your reasons to abandon it. So, I am working to pick another one you might like..
Me : Now, what did I reject ?
Voice : Daily practise of withdrawal from the senses and anchoring into infinite consciousness and also spending some time in silence repeating the Divine name.
Me : Oh, you mean meditation ?
Voice : If that is what you like to call it.
Me: I don’t want to do anything that seems like a ritual.
voice : Fair. And you don’t have to.
Voice : Did you brush your teeth, have a shower, eat your three meals a day, have that evening tea, exercise hard, do that office work, buy groceries and walk your dog yesterday ?
Me : Yes
Voice : And today ?
Me : Yes, I did all that today
Voice : And, you feel you are likely to do this, the day after ?
Me : ….Yes. What you getting at ?
Voice : Nothing. It’s a pretty ritualistic life you have there. I can roll the days back and forth and see that you have been doing the exact same thing for years. That reminds me..it is time to change your brush.
Me : These are not rituals. It’s something that has to be done to live normally. Everyone has to do it.
Voice : When you are already living a pre-prescribed life with repetitive and patterned behaviour and more often than not, you do this without being totally involved in the action by simply going through the motions …what can be more ritualistic than this ?
And the irony is that you have abandoned conscious act of meditation or repeating God’s name because it falls under your understanding of a ritual.
The one who is really free from all rites and rituals including prayers, chanting or meditation is also free from all the rituals of the worldly living. His absorption is whole and complete. This brings him natural detachment, freedom and joy. His thoughts, words and deeds flow from only the dictates of Inner Communion with God. His every moment is a natural and spontaneous expression of Divinity. His surrenderance is so complete that he experiences his life as not his own, but of God living though him. He does not strive, but just IS. Such connection is rare and for such a one, rituals have no place.
Do you have this experience ?
Me : No.
Voice : The one time during the day when you open your heart for communion with the Divine is discarded because it seemed ritualistic and you feel you want to be natural. How natural is your life in this world ? Does living with worry, anxiety and fears feel natural to you ? Your only natural state is being God.
It is perfect that you do not forsake the world, but live in it to the fullest. When you are living discarding nothing from the world, why choose to only discard a divine practice while living in the world ? You can do so, but do it with the right understanding.
Me : But, shouldn’t we live by the heart. I feel it to be another dogma ?
Voice : Yes, live by the heart. The deep feeling within you, is your guide. Be conscious when the mind masquerades as the heart. Let me give you an example..for the longest time, weren’t your workouts just a regime …another ritual ?
Me : I used to do my workouts based on a schedule I had set for myself.
Voice : But sometime back, you had discovered something that books and courses don’t teach you. You discarded your workout timetable and used your heightened awareness. You paused, felt the energy for the day and after a deep communion with your body, you let your heart dictate the physical activity for the day and this is what you do daily. The dry motions turned into body movements of joy and energetic upliftment. You begin your exercises with listening, feeling and connecting, not on a doctrine.
Me : Yeah and this has begun to work really well with me now. Having no pattern govern me, it’s opened something at an inner level and I feel renewed.
Voice : In the same way, what may begin as a ritual always has an opportunity to become a deeper experience and it always lies in your hands to change the way you do the same things. Nothing is a ritual when do it with your heart. And, over time you will know how the power of falseness can prompt you to embrace and discard beliefs through the mental trickery that you are going through.
If remembering God becomes a ritual - know that you have turned it so. If you are determined to seek something higher, you don’t discard the ritual, you transform it instead, by bringing love and higher wisdom.
Meditation, rituals, prayers, chanting - these are words. Your feeling about it gives them the meaning.
Me : So I can continue with what I abandoned as a ritualistic meditation ?
Voice : What is meditation ? Everyone meditates. When you making a sales pitch you are meditating on your client, if you are playing, you are meditating on the game, when you are cooking you are meditating on the food, when you are writing you are meditating on your content, but when the subject is God, meditations and prayers become rituals that a 'liberal aspirant’ can discard with very good reasoning.
Me : Hmm..
Voice : Anything done without love is a ritual and in the same way anything done with your heart is meditation in action.
Me : My logic was that God is beyond doctrines, rites and regimentation.
Voice : And that is true. If you have spontaneous, effortless and wholehearted remembrance of God each moment - who needs anything ? If not, maybe, you need to choose your so-called ‘rituals' wisely. Everything will depend on what you want desperately and your honest efforts towards it.
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate your behaviour. You can find profound liberation and live life intentionally and in freedom. A well tuned mind helps to conserve vital energy wasted in unserving emotions. This loss of vitality leads to illness.
When you know how to rightly handle any turmoil in the mind, your own power comes in your hands and you effortlessly become someone who can live with love and share this love with so many others. You have so much to give especially in times like right now - can you afford to waste your vital energy in just battling for your personal equipoise and mental equilibrium ?
Me : But chanting a Divine name is certainly mechanical and ritualistic, especially when the mind drifts everywhere. Isn’t it just a dry and mechanical process ?
Voice : Yes, chanting of a Divine name or repeating prayers may certainly seem mechanical and even trifling. If you try to use your intellect, you will fail to comprehend the most powerful secret. Do you know the ancient wisdom behind it ?
Me : What’s that ?
Voice : The chanting of a Divine name is a simple spiritual formula of tremendous power that has been transmitted from age to age. The Divine name has the potency to stamp and mould the consciousness. When repeated with such faith for long, the Divine name goes on creating vibrations which press upon the layers of the inner consciousness till one day there comes a sudden opening and the power hidden in the Divine Name reveals itself to the being. Even as fire is naturally endowed with the capacity to burn combustible substances, the Divine name has the natural capacity to burn away impressions that bind.
Me : Wow. But, one needs to have that kind of faith to chant ..
Voice : The factor of reverence is not essential. This seemingly mechanical exercise is the most potent ancient tool for any spiritual aspirant. It is no empty repetition, for each repetition has a new meaning carrying you near and nearer to God. This frequent service of lips imperceptibly becomes a genuine appeal of the heart and sinks down to an inward life, becomes a delight, becomes as it were, natural to the soul, bringing nourishment and fulfilment.
Just the way you have made an unconscious ritual to consume certain things everyday that weaken your body, why not choose another 'ritual’ if it helps you move from anguish to love ? Remember, your inner reserves of love and wisdom are infinite.
Me : The mind is tricky...
Voice : It’s an age old battle - between mind and the heart. Meditation on God and chanting the divine name itself can be the remedy. If remembrance of God is a ritual, I would say it’s a lofty choice amongst all the other rituals that interlace your life.
You have jettisoned the time that you would have spent on prayers, meditation or chanting. How have you been substituting that extra time ?
Me : Well, many things.....ahmm…..look, it’s not like I am absorbed in God every moment, but I get your point.
Voice : Whatever your way..deep absorption in divine consciousness fills your heart with what you seek. Then, what happens around you, or to you will become crystal clear and the false existence will loosen it’s grip on you. You are able to live with freedom, love, joy and importantly, this joy is your inner creation.
The heart goes by this inner feeling to pursue what it must. The mind draws it’s own conclusions. You are free to choose. But, do so in total awareness.
Even if you abandon God, you are ever assured of God’s love. You just decide how you want to feel each day, while on a divine sojourn.
And when your life becomes a divine example of God's love, truth and purity in the world, you don’t have to worry about meditating…you become a living meditation.
Here’s a tip - meditate on God, but be utterly oblivious to the idea that you are meditating.
Me : How the hell do I do that now ?
Voice : In time, you will know.
Me : Ok
Voice : Do you believe this world is an illusion and only God is real ? And that all that happens is divinely ordained ?
Me : Yes. But it’s not something I experience. But, I am convinced of that in theory.
Voice : Then, know that your entire living existence and all that you do is nothing but a ritual.
Me : Hmm
Voice : Prayers, Chants or Meditation on God is not about emptying your mind, but should be about filling it with God’s Love. Not a harmful ritual to choose, especially when your life is nothing but one big living ritual.
When you believe nothing and nobody is separate from you and everything in life is interconnected, you will realise you don’t meditate for yourself, but for the whole world.
Friday, August 28, 2020
Form of God, An Illusion ?
Me : I don’t believe God has a form.
Voice : True
Me : I think most of the idols and images are from people’s imagination. Are they even real forms of Divinity ?
Voice : How can anything in duality be real ?
Me : Then why would the world pray to forms of Jesus, Ganesha, Krishna, Durga, Buddha, Mahavir, Zeus, etc ?
Voice : Tell me, who are you?
Me : Somit.
Voice : So as long as you identify your own form as Somit, you will identify yourself externally with forms and God becomes one of them.
Just as your form is not your real identity, in the same way the various forms of God are not real. The form of God as you know, is an illusion.
But, the form of God will be real to people, as long as their own form is real to them.
Me : Then, why do Spiritual Masters not actively discourage attachment to forms?
Voice : Because of your own identification with falsehood, finite, separative and limited existence, you have a reference point for God through a form. This reference is the start of a divine journey for a soul from finite to infinite, from separateness to oneness, from the form to the formless.
Divine Forms represent incarnations of love in the gross world. Thus, to ignite and propel love within people, there is an object of love for mankind to express devotion and longing. God is formless, but because of your own existence in duality, a human form of God brings relatedness, instead of an abstract understanding of the presence of divine love.
God is pure love and when you hold His form in your heart, you ignite your entire being with the same love. And, what you hold in your thoughts deeply, is who you become. The very simplicity of gaining Illumination, seems to have become it's own impediment.
Remember, the form is God but God is not the form.
Monday, August 17, 2020
www.voicelesspoetry.blogspot.com
Just thought I should create a separate blog link for poetry...
https://voicelesspoetry.blogspot.com
" When life begins to flow, everything comes afloat."
This poetry is about the hiding flutist in the high mountains:
https://voicelesspoetry.blogspot.com/2020/08/hiding-flutist.html
While some Somit is the name behind this blog, the real author is the One in everyone.
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Open That Door

Staying with secure hand and foot holds will keep you safe, but will also keep you away from the summit. Many times, you have advanced on the vertical rock without a guarantee of safe footing, but you knew this was the only way to make it to the top of the pinnacle. There is no other way. And once you make it to the summit, the feeling inside your heart supersedes all pain, blood, sweat and suffering.
It’s natural for our relationship to thrive when you are in rough waters and I am your Guide. That way we create deeper connection and a special companionship. Your love and faith in Divinity grows with doing things that are difficult..sometimes supremely difficult. But, if you choose safety and comfort over living to your highest potential, what role is left for Me to play in your life ?
Your climbing pursuits taught you through experience that the reward often lied on other side of great fear.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Serving God
Me : How can I serve You ? I want to make a significant difference…want to offer myself in service to God’s work.
Voice : Why do you feel so ?
Me : Isn’t living a life working for God a privileged opportunity ?
Voice : What do you have in mind ?
Me : Hold gatherings, read books, talk to people, write, spread messages, create awareness about God….
Voice : Wonderful. But, you do know that it's also possible for Me to do that on My Own ? Being God, I can be resourceful.
Me : So, what are you saying ?
Voice : There is no higher or lower service, there is no unprivileged or privileged work and in the same way there is no such as thing as serving God, if you fully comprehend Infinity.
God by being God, is fully adequate and complete. How can the Infinite be served by the finite ? How can one from the separateness serve Oneness ? Wouldn't an All-powerful and All-knowing be in total charge of his own creation ? Could God the creator, in a moment create and destroy ? What help can one offer Him ? In reality, is this idea of 'serving God' even possible ?
When you are offered any opportunity to be involved in the cause of Truth, you are only helping your ownself. God is beyond help. Every act of service is only an act that serves your ownself. You only do service because that is who you have become. You begin to know that you are not serving anyone or cannot serve God, but you have become helpless in your spontaneous expression.
Me : If service is about serving oneself, then does it matter what one does to serve ?
Voice : It is not ‘what' service, but ‘how' you serve. Love must be the reason for everything. He who never propagates about God, but lives from the deepest love in his heart serves best. On the other hand, if you were working for God, but failed to live from the highest ideal, all so-called service in the name of God has little meaning.
Your own growth lies in the act of service, not in it's accomplishment, because I am beyond results. And the only result that matters, is the manifestation of love within.
Service presents you an opportunity to serve your ownself with love. True service is when love pours out of you because this is what really changes your world. If you believe your world needs Love, you have to become the carrier of it yourself, first.
You have developed this notion that only a certain type of service is serving God. Once again, you have succeeded in creating distinctions of higher and lower. Once again, you hold judgements that restrain the flow of pure love. A lofty ideal to serve for God can also lie in making a cup of tea with so much love that God flows in each sip to the one who drinks it.
Everytime you hold Me in your heart and 'give-in’ for love and choose being called wrong, in spite of being right for the sake of love, is one of the highest ways to serve.
Me : What about possessing qualities of selfless service ?
Voice : Why nuture any idea of possession ? You do not ‘possess’ anything. You only become or unbecome. If you strive to live from this ideal, you don’t have to worry about selfless service because in time, you will become that.
Me : What about our repeated failures to make this world a better place ?
Voice : You mean repeated failures to make your heart a better place ? There is no 'other place’.
Me : Wow
Voice : Do you imply that I have lost charge of My Creation or something missed my attention or I messed up an outcome because I was busy handling an overload of prayer requests ?
Me : Hahahaha. You are funny. But importantly, you are Infinite Consciousness...and I get your point clearly now.
Voice : You may accomplish the greatest humanitarian work or you may fail in all your efforts to serve as the world understands, but remember this, if there was any failure for man - it will be failing to operate out of Love.
The idea of service needs to be carefully understood. Since you come from a race that is used to classifying and standardising everything over the years, you seem to have done the same to human activity or what you call work. Social service, philanthropy or service to God are the many 'graded activity titles'. Yes, for some people it can be a beautiful and a natural form of expression of love. Each one is free to choose and do what helps them develop love, express love and live with love. What you do does not matter, but how you do it.
The full weight of any accomplishment lies in the process, not the result. Opportunities will come into your life to make this love flourish within you. The kind of work or outcome becomes utterly insignificant, if you have already achieved the prized result of love. Then, know that you have served very well.
And, for the one who knows Infinity deeply will know that I am already aware of the result...aeons ago.
Me : I just sometimes feel left out when I watch and know of people doing great work in service to God..
Voice : Be you. Be Love. Because a river of love can flow only in one direction - towards the Ocean of Love. What else can be your goal ?
Can losing the love within your heart to work for My Cause, be higher than being Love ? Having Love in your heart, is in itself serving the world.
Friday, July 31, 2020
Divine Silence
Me : Why is silence so spiritually important ?
Voice : If you wanted to paint, would you prefer to choose a blank canvas or just paint over another painting?
Me : Anyone would want a blank canvas..
Voice : Silence creates a blank canvas for your soul. The painting on this canvas unfolds from within in its own free way, in this inner silence.
Me : How does one create that blank canvas ?
Voice : In total surrenderance to the moment.
Me : Always sounds great, but what does that even mean ?
Voice : Just the way you choose a bank canvas to paint, you empty your mind to create magic. You become so empty that you do not even hold the painting brush. You observe. The unfoldment of the painting of your life finds its own colours, textures and size. The result will be the most magnificent work of art from the hands of the Divine.
A mind that has surrendered is not rushing anywhere. It remains silent and allows.
It is when you want to paint over another painting, that you begin to get flustered. And most of humanity is lost to the noise, instead of living with the sound of silence.
When you create moments of silence within you, you create blank spaces which fill up with inspiration. In those moments, you hear the voiceless voice, the silent sound of Divinity.
Me : Wow. How does one find this silence ?
Voice : In many ways..
Me : Tell me an easy one I can do now.
Voice : Ok.
Now, close your eyes only for a small moment. Believe there is nowhere to go and nothing to become. Drop all the titles you live with. Desire for absolutely nothing..not even God. There are no goals. Be still. Know that nothing belongs to you, not your body nor your mind. Drop all your beliefs of time and know that past and future do not exist. Only bring your awareness to this present moment. Become free like the wind. This moment belongs to your soul.
Me : Wow
Voice : You will find your real self here. It will open your life to freedom, vibrancy, wisdom, joy and love. When you feel this moment with all your heart and trueness, you will find your highest state of being.
Me : Why can’t we all find this small measure of peace, if it's so simple ? What's coming in the way ?
Voice : You. You are coming in your own way. Nothing binds you except your ownself. How many of you live in the awareness of inner silence ? How many of you want nothing ? How many of you embrace the present moment ? How many of you welcome losing everything to find the reward of nothing ?
If your canvas is not blank, how can the painting be special ? You have held the painting brush so tight, that I only remain waiting for you to release your hold, so I can create, that which can fill you with unbounded love and joy.
Release. Release more and more. What are you holding to ?
When the floodgates open within you, rivers of love will gush in it's silent flow through your entire being, filling emptyness with life-giving love. Seeds will bloom with the nurture of your heart. A Divine garden will spring forth in perfect silence, while you remain only a witness.
When you begin to live with Divine Silence, your senses will feel the vibration, instead of the sound of words.
















