N MEDITATION AND SAMADHI¹ YOU CALM YOUR MIND in such a way that you get back to the Source of all these vibrations. Then you will know everything. Get to the Source and by that time the problem has straightened out. You will see that there was no problem; it was a wave, a vibration only. Whatever characteristic it has is immaterial when you touch the Source. But if you are trying to solve problems by your phenomenal laws of cause and effect, it is an unending process. Therefore we never solve problems unless either we surrender to the Lord or we let go in such a way that the mind subsides and gets back to the Substance.
      The mind doesn’t die; ego doesn’t die. Those vibrations only straighten out and calm down. They lose what we call their personality, the form. Once you lose that personality you are again that Substance. Otherwise, in between, this astral form goes on reincarnating. “I” controls those vibrations, gets reincarnated and carries the karmas with it. Often you have read in Oriental books, “We want release from birth and death.” You may wonder, “What is wrong with being reborn?” Probably very few ask this question. What is meant by release from birth or death or rebirth? The real inner meaning is that somewhere in our corridor of consciousness we know that if we are free from birth and death, we will have no karmas or vibrations left; we will be in that perfect, quiet silence of Consciousness, which is blissful. Maybe from eons back in your consciousness you are remembering that taste of bliss of the Substance, the bliss of being Conscious. That is what you are recollecting, and you are saying, “I don’t want more birth and death,” meaning: ruffling, motion, cause and effect. This is exactly the point, but still we carry on for millions of births.

¹ samadhi: absorption into God Consciousness

      As soon as you are awakened, your karmas leave you; right away they vanish. Release, meaning: no waves, no motion, calm and quiet; therefore it is bliss, Conscious, Substance. I wish I could show you through apparatus how it actually works so that it would be realistic for you. Assume a hologram as an entity. Now you know it is a hologram; it doesn’t exist although the lady in the hologram winks at you. And if you go on her other side, she winks at you on that side too. Because you know it is a hologram, therefore you cannot imagine it as a living entity, but if you were a two-dimensional being, to you the three-dimensional hologram would be a reality. In the same way, if you knew the Substance, the Pure Consciousness, this dimension would not look real to you at all. The living entity that you are now calling real will be a holographic entity for you. It is a projected vibration, our materialization, nothing else. Take away the thought or the projection of vibrations from each person—they will fall flat. If you were to merge into Pure Consciousness, this entity that is a physical body will disintegrate or vanish. Take the vibrations out of the human or any form and it will vanish. This is exactly what happens if you travel at the speed of light. You vanish because your vibrations get straightened out.
      All these fantastic, mysterious phenomena, in one word you can call illusion. It is maya, shakti. It is the will of the Lord. Why are you and I existing as we are? It is just the will of the Lord. The whole crux of spirituality is that this realistic phenomenon, perfectly born through cause and effect, is also an illusion. At the same time it is working as perfect law so that you could easily predict the outcome. If you knew this science, you could easily predict what is going to happen tomorrow to anyone, even though it is illusory, because the vibrations work within the basic laws of science. That cause and effect sequence is perfect. Vibrations will work accordingly.