THE INTENTION

Our thoughts are scattered all over the mental field.  Our task is to collect them again and to direct them toward a single goal--knowledge of the Atman.

This knowledge, however, is not intellectual knowledge but spiritual knowledge, which comes only from one-pointed concentration and meditation on the Atman. 

Here, our minds are not laden with ideas about the Atman and our assessment of those ideas, but rather, by comparison, are infused with stillness.  All that is present is attention, focus, awareness, what the Atman itself is.

We must remind ourselves that the Atman, like its source the Brahman, is not up in the sky somewhere, which it takes a great effort to get to.  We need not dance and shout and work ourselves into a frenzy to get to it.  It is a short step to get to.

But the step must be deliberate and certain, with no doubt as to its intention.