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Q.: Will chanting “A-HAM” [Self] mentally lead to realisation of the Self?
B.: Whilst doing it, fix your attention at the source of the japam[ ] in you. That is, scrutinize where from within yourself the japam arises and retain your faculty of attention exclusively at such source.
Q.: Bhagavan means the right-hand side of the chest – am I correct?
B.: Trace back the feeling of “I” or the japam until it merges back there. Concentrating on that spot in the body may result in freedom from thoughts for the time being. If you are seeking Realisation the mind must be traced back into the Heart. Fixing one’s attention or concentration on anything is mental activity. Only subsidence or cessation of mental activity Reveals the Heart.
When you are asked to merge back into the Heart, whence you have come, it does not mean this is to be accomplished by means of “doing”. To “do” is to use the mind or permit it to function, that is, to encourage it to drift away from the Heart. Not to “do” is to not stand in the way of the mind becoming permanently engulfed in the Shining of the Heart. You need not try to assist the mind to reach the Heart.
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