Deva means god, animesh means without blinking the eyes: searching for god without blinking your eyes, looking for god continuously, constantly.
Not only when one is awake but even when one is fast asleep the search should continue; it should become an undercurrent.
You may be involved in the market-place but deep inside the remembrance goes on.
Thats what Sufis call jikr: remembrance. One has to do many things, life requires them you have to earn your bread, you have to work but still something deep inside you can go on remembering god. And god can only be remembered that way.
People try to remember god at a particular time. Every day, early in the morning they will say a little prayer, or in the night going to bed, for two or three minutes they will pray to god and fall asleep.
This is not going to help. This prayer remains superficial; it cannot go to the very core. A constant hammering is needed.
It is just like breathing. If you breathe for only two, three minutes in twenty-four hours, you cannot be alive. Breathing has to be there for twenty-four hours; even while you are asleep it has to be there. You may be in a coma but the breathing continues.
Remembrance of god has to become just like breathing. Do you remember your breathing? You remember only when there is some trouble: you have a cold, breathing trouble or something; otherwise, who remembers breathing?
Thats why people remember God only when they are in trouble. Otherwise, who remembers? And God is closer than your breathing, closer than you are to yourself; He is more close than yourself.
One tends to forget. Have you watched it? If you dont have something, you remember. When you have it, you forget you take it for granted. Because God cannot be lost, it is very difficult to remember.
Only very rare people become capable of remembering God. To remember that which we have never been away from is very difficult.
A fish in the ocean forgets the ocean. Throw the fish on the shore, in the sands, hot sands, and then the fish knows, then the fish remembers.
But there is no way to throw you out of God; there is no shore to Him God is a shoreless ocean. And you are not like a fish, you are like a wave.
You are exactly like God; your nature and Gods nature are the same.
That is the situation: nobody has lost God, nobody can. It is impossible. God is your very being, how can we lose him? And if we can lose him we will immediately die, because he is our life.
If we lose him then there is no possibility of finding him; so the question is not of finding God, the question is only of remembering.
We have only forgotten. Thats why Sufis say zikr, remembrance, is all. That is their very fundamental: just remember, just make yourself alert and remember.
Just become more aware and you will start laughing that you had never left the place and you were thinking how to get back, what methods to use, what paths to follow, what maps are needed.
And you were consulting maps and books and teachers and this and that, and all the time you Were simply fast asleep in your own home.
Take Care and Keep Smiling....
Himanshu Kumar Singh.
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