What Is Constant Remembrance?
Remembering is not thinking about. Unfortunately,
there is this confusion between remembering and thinking about
a thing. They are supposed to be synonymous, but they are
not. I can think of food without even being hungry, but when
I am hungry my stomach remembers my food. That is what hunger
really is. I can think of my wife, but do I remember my wife?
I think of my Master, but am I remembering Him? So you see,
when there is too much talk of Babuji, there is too little
remembering of Babuji. Remembrance is a silent activity.
Something which goes on inside, which is simmering inside
like water simmering on the fire, and boils. This creates
longing, craving, and that gives us the motivating force which
becomes the gravity which will push me towards Him.
Apart from meditation, we need other processes like cleaning
and constant remembrance, to make it possible that meditation
succeeds, eventually, in our plunging into ourselves, and
finding out that my Self is much more immense than any cosmic
universe, or super-cosmic universe outside me. The cleaning
removes what I have created for myself as samskaras, which
have been pushing me and pulling me here and there, and
makes me now do things by myself. Constant remembrance
is to keep the mind employed so that it doesn't wander.
So constant remembrance is only a practice to keep Him
whom I remember, close to me! Close, in what sense? It is
not physical, It is not mental. It is not the memory of
the person. It has to be His Essence. Now, the Essence is
what every time the Master transmits to us. He transmits
His Prana!
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