Sahaj means being comfortable with who you are. It is accepting yourself exactly as you are. The meaning of Sahaj is that which is your true nature; that which you have not learnt from others; that which you have to search and discover within yourself. Sahaj means that which arises out of you. The opposite of Sahaj is Asahaj, which means it has been imposed from the outside.

Your personality has been imposed on you. It is cultivated, it is asahaj. It has not come from inside you; the society has given it to you. The society has made you wear it like a cloak. If you are born in a Sikh family, you will live your life in a certain way, whereas if you were born in a Hindu family you would live differently. Yet, when you were born, you came without these bondages. When you were born, you came without these labels and without these masks. These labels and masks have covered your true nature, which is Sahaj. That state of being is still there within you but hidden by millions of coverings. You have to go on digging, one layer after another, to get to that space where you find your self in the state of sahaj.

Sahaj is to become like air and water that move freely. Sahaj is to let whatever is happening, happen. Sahaj is not to try and change whatever is. Sahaj is to know, live and accept whatever is happening. And this knowing, living and acceptance will bring about the change, mutation and transformation. And, that transformation will take you where God is.

There is no need to go anywhere. There is no need to do anything. All you need to do is to learn the knack of a peaceful way of being. A way of being in which there is waiting, there is patience. A way of being which is prayerful, which is loving. A way of being in which the centre is watchfulness, seeing, awareness. Whatever you do, don’t do it without seeing. All you need to do is to practise the art of seeing so that you do nothing without full awareness. The state of bliss is to go on watching whatever life unfolds before you.

Sahaj is a synonym of hukam and bhana. Sahaj is to subordinate your ego before the will of God. Sahaj is to know that whatever is happening is right and whatever is right is happening. Sahaj is not to question anything. Sahaj is to know that your ego is the only impediment in your way. It is the tiny speck of dust that has gone into your eye and has blocked your view. You have no idea how vast the sky is, and you want to dictate it through the tiny key hole from where you are looking at it. Nothing can be more absurd than that.

Sahaj is the art of being an emperor. When you are comfortable with what you are, you don’t strive to change. You don’t endeavour to achieve what others have achieved. You don’t go far and wide looking for something. You don’t shout and scream; you don’t perform rituals and observe austerities. All you do is to keep looking at whatever life unfolds before you. If anger comes, you look at it dispassionately, without judging it, without getting carried away with it, without denying it. Just observe it like you watch the clouds in the sky. They come; they float; and they depart. Look at all that happens in the inner sky like you look at the sky outside.

Sahaj means acceptance. Acceptance of day-to-day life. Acceptance of the fact that you are whatever you are. And, you have to do nothing to accept this fact. If you are lazy, you are lazy. If you are short-tempered, you are short-tempered. If you are dishonest, you are dishonest. If this dishonest person tries to change his dishonesty, he will only make a dishonest effort, even in this. Therefore, why waste your effort which is not going to bring about the desire results?

However, if you accept yourself as you are, your ego will have no prop to stand on, because what you see within is not something to be proud of. Once the ego weakens, there will be fewer reasons to be angry or dishonest. Gradually, all the superfluous elements will start disappearing and what will remain is what is your true nature.

Sahaj means that there is nothing worth doing. Just accept whatever comes your way. Sahaj means whatever is, is. Accept it. It is difficult. It means if anger comes, let it come. Don’t stop it. Let whatever is happening, happen. Certainly, it will lead to certain consequences. Suffer that too. This is the difficulty. We are not perturbed by anger, but by its consequences. The outcome of anger is misery. Suffer this misery totally, and you will see that your anger starts weakening. Every time that anger arises you will remember the misery it caused. That memory alone is enough to weaken the anger. Soon it will disappear completely.

Sahaj means leave yourself free to do what you do and to bear the fruit of your actions. This will bring about a revolution in your life. You will have tasted the poison of being angry and suffering the consequences as well. You saw the cloud of anger emerging; you saw it shower venom; and then you saw the result in all its fury. Then it will not take you long to drop the whole cycle at once. Anger and its consequences will drop together, without any effort on your part. It is important to remember that you cannot do anything with anger directly. Any effort you make will only make matters worse.