Janujee, Author at FISU Meditation

The How of Life: The Path of Pure Consciousness

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PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ESSENCE OF OUR LIVES Pure consciousness is the essence of our lives. Pure consciousness is all life force, undying, never-ending and forever there. So, what do we want? Do we want to be tossed around from pillar to post, or do we want to stand still? As the Scriptures say, “Be still and know that I am God.” Pure consciousness is God, and we express it through love, right doing, right actions, and right thought. For example, the eight-fold path of Buddha gives you a guideline. Our Commandments give you a guideline. “Love thy neighbour as thyself”. But the trouble is, they do not say how. I speak about the same principle, but the major ruling factor in my teachings is the how. It is nice to say, “Oh, cook a beautiful cake,” but I must show you how to bake it. The how of life, how to do it. Forget the why and the wherefore, how it will turn out, and whether it will fall flat or not. Do not go for the results; go for the action. The Bhagavad Gita again says, “Act for the sake of acting, not for the fruits thereof.” Fruits will come. Plant and nurture the seeds, and the fruits will come; it is inevitable. I am not going to hanker after the fruit; that is what all people do. The first thing in their minds is what the fruit will be. They do not think of the work involved in planting. When a young man goes to apply for a job, the first thought he has in his mind is how much salary he is going to get. Forget the pay, do the work, and if the boss finds that you are a good worker, your wage will increase. Put in the spade work, so to say. WHATEVER HAPPENS TO US, WE FACE IT BRAVELY That is how, similarly, the result of our self-help and efforts will be pure consciousness. It is a beautiful, blissful world. I see all this terrorism around me, around the world – Nicaragua, the Middle East, Iran, and the Arabs and India – everywhere there is turmoil, trouble, and bloodshed. I look at it with compassion, but I say, “They have brought it upon themselves and maybe a lesson from which they could learn.” Not that we approve of it, but we can do nothing to help it. I wish I could go to stop all the fighting there in India, in Iran, Beirut and all those places, but you cannot; you just cannot. The best thing we can do is offer prayers, that is all, and send spiritual forces to them for some betterment. On the other hand, we must not be sad about all the happenings around us or in our personal lives. We take it as it comes, with the realisation that whatever is happening to us is for my good. No one has made it happen to me. I do not blame anyone else. I do not blame my wife, I do not blame my boss, I do not blame my guru, and I do not blame my God. I deserve it, and I will face it, but I will not face it like a coward. I am facing it bravely, come, wind, hail or storm, for that too shall pass. THE STRENGTH WITHIN IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS This comes from the strength within oneself, which is the pure consciousness within yourself, unaffected by all the happenings. So, to find pure consciousness, one has to sublimate that ego. You cannot eradicate it, and we cannot destroy it, but like a piece of rubber, we can stretch it and make it transparent to see through it. All the Light that is within, the pure consciousness that is within, can shine through it into our daily living and lives. Many people regard philosophy, religion and metaphysics to be something up in the air, something to think about, mental gymnastics. To me, it is not so. If any knowledge or wisdom is not practised and brought into our daily lives, into our minute-by-minute living, it is of no value, and that does not mean that you must not enjoy life. No, it does not tell that, by all means, you want life but in a different sense. You make love to your wife; why, nothing stops you. You should. Every organ that man or woman is born with is not there to be atrophied; it is there to be used. You have eyes; you want to see. You have ears; you want to hear. A nose, you want to smell. A mouth, you want to eat, taste – feet, legs, arms. Every organ of your body is to be used, and when a man goes to bed with his wife, it should not be for lust because lust is a craving, and where there is a craving, there is attachment. You are attached to your desire, which becomes lust. But if there is no craving in lovemaking and just a flow of love where two people want to be unified and find a physical expression, it is very holy. The same thing is happening but in a different aspect, with a different attitude. AN OPEN HEART BRINGS A GREATER AMOUNT OF AWARENESS Like that in everything in our lives, life must flow and not be stunted by our mental aberrations, for because of our thoughts and preconceived ideas, we block that pure consciousness from flowing. Therefore, every action must be in such innocence, which is not difficult to achieve. Spiritual practices bring about that gentleness in you; it brings about that love in you, opens your Heart, and make you kind and compassionate. Because the Heart is opened, it brings you a more significant amount of awareness, where you do not see a particular act but all the circumstances that make a person perform that specific action. Because in your awareness, you can

The Householder’s Path: How Spirituality and Daily Life Become One

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THE HOUSEHOLDER’S PATH You cannot differentiate between the path of the householder and the path of the spiritual seeker because householding itself is a spiritual path. Being a spiritual seeker means one is on the path to achieving that total integration within himself. By total integration, we mean where the body, mind and Spirit function in unison, in oneness. To become a spiritual seeker does not mean that you have to be away from this world, that you have to indulge in any form of escapism, for, as I have said before, so-called spiritual seekers that want to find that Divinity and run away from this world might not do so because they are seeking something higher than themselves. If they were seeking something higher than themselves, that highness or Divinity is all-pervading. It is everywhere, and if it is everywhere, why can it not be in the householder’s path? In spiritual seeking, you do not need to become a recluse. Some believe that by being a hermit, you could focus all your attention on that search. That is very true, but how about looking at it from a different angle where all that concentration could be in the householder’s path, and the householder’s path is the easiest? You can ask any Psychiatrist if a person has no temperament of being a recluse, and if he locks himself up in a cave, he could very well develop dementia. I have come across many such seekers who thought that by just going away from it all, they would find what they are seeking, but this has very seldom worked out because, firstly, they are deprived of what they have been used to. They are thrown into a kind of loneliness, and they would indulge in certain practices for which their nervous systems are not ready, which could drive them to insanity. People who live in the world have specific patterns in life, and those same patterns make you and me what we are. So, we must begin from where we are and we are on the householder’s path. We have our responsibilities, wife, children, whatever. The first step in the search is to accept that responsibility. Suppose any responsibility is carried out to its fullest and done to the best of our ability. In that case, automatically, that becomes a stepping stone to stir up that within us. For in the responsibleness of life, you meet many challenges and without challenges there could be no search, you become complacent. When we have difficulties in life and attack them responsibly, we automatically develop the quality of acceptance. When we accept our position and become responsible, we start doing something to alter the adverse circumstances. We start acting in a way that would change the events and try to find opportunity in every adversity. I would wish that for people to progress faster, they must have more troubles. A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCEPTANCE IS A PREREQUISITE ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH What a lovely wish, but let me qualify that to have adversities and view them in their proper perspective, for really speaking, it is not an adversity. For example, you have a job and earn one thousand pounds a month; it might be a lot of money, so what will you do? Perhaps you will have nights out at various restaurants and all the so-called mundane, temporary, pleasure-giving enjoyments. Now you come into a position where you lose the job. The job becomes redundant, not because you do not have the ability, but the job becomes redundant. So, you find another job. You have responsibilities with your wife and kids at home, so you take on a job for five hundred pounds to make do. What a blessing that is. It is a blessing because, in that blessing of making do with five hundred pounds, you are developing discipline that you will budget now, all those nightclubs will be forgotten, and you will not have a hangover the following day. So, responsibility, acceptance and discipline come about. Now, you discipline yourself and your mode of life so that it automatically becomes a search. These are the prerequisites on the spiritual path, a sense of responsibility and a sense of acceptance. Like the Serenity Prayer that you all know – “God, give me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.” THE SUREST WAY TO RECEIVE IS BY DOING By exercising that discipline, you are altering the patterns of your mind, altering the old grooves that have been taking you downhill, and by this discipline, you are going up, up, up. That is a spiritual search in itself, perhaps couched in other words. You do not need to sit cross-legged in a cave and “Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama.” Ah! Idle repetition. When life becomes regulated, you will find that many physiological, biological, and psychological changes will occur in you. Because of that lot of money, you used to eat junk foods, you will now balance it by eating nutritional foods. No more of those restaurants, which are a waste of time; you do not know what goes on in the kitchens. Here you are forced to cook at home, and you will see that for your family, you would get the most nutritional food at a quarter of the cost, which the restaurants would charge, or even less. So, it helps you physiologically, and that, of course, is connected to your biological self of yourselves. Now you have developed an attitude of service to your family. Before, when the money was plentiful, that service to the family was not there. It was, superficially, but it never came from inside. Now you say, “I make do for my family”. You are a householder; remember that, and by doing that, what a tremendous psychological reward you are receiving that I am doing something. Now

The Master’s Gift: The Spiritual Journey with a True Master

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WE ARE BORN WITH A BURDEN To attain total integration of body, mind and Spirit, no one can do it for you; you must do it yourself. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. No man can take your sins away from you. It is also said in many scriptures of the world that sins are taken away from you, but it has been misunderstood and taken very literally instead of the real essence of it. The real essence is that you follow these teachings, and your sins are taken away. It is not removed from you as if by a magic wand. I wish I could do that as if all your burdens were like a giant boulder on your chest, and I could just come along and lift it off, and all problems would be gone. I wish I could do that. But it is impossible; it is against all laws of nature. It is against the Divine will. It is against Divinity itself because man is responsible for his actions. Whatever you sow, you will reap. Then if a person says, “I died for your sins,” look at the contradiction; when, on the other hand, it is also said, “You reap what you sow.” These things must not be taken literally. There is a deep, beautiful symbolic meaning, and therefore it is said that “this is the life, this is the way,” and buddy, that is the truth. Philosophy is not something dry as dust. You can have a lot of fun with it. We have been born in this world with a load, a burden. Without the limitation of past samskaras or past karma, taking birth would not have been necessary. The reason why we take delivery is to unload the load that we created ourselves. The true guru shows the path and how one’s burdens can become less and less and less. Firstly, there are specific techniques involved, mental techniques, whereby the mind could be brought to a certain level whereby it could cooperate with the Heart. Here mental awareness expands, the mind expands, and simultaneously, the Heart expands. THE CONSCIOUSNESS WHERE EVERYTHING IS ONE Other systems and other movements in the world concentrate primarily on mind expansion because Western people are perhaps much more orientated towards mental awareness. That is very good. Nothing wrong with that. If the Western mind were not orientated toward greater mental understanding, they would not have progressed so much technologically. All the finest and most significant inventions that are helpful, perhaps constructive, or destructive to the world are because of this high intellectual and mental development and the ability to channel those energies creatively. But a greater danger could exist here because this ability can be misused for destructive purposes, as we have seen what has been done with the atomic bom In our system, a simultaneous development occurs where the Heart opens up, and the mind is extended to its full awareness. When we say “Heart”, we do not mean this little organ; we mean the core of the human personality, and at the core of the human personality resides that which we call Divine. We do not say spiritual development; the Spirit does not require developing; it is fully developed, it requires unfolding. Our practices are so designed that the mind achieves excellent awareness, and the Heart unfolds; one unfolds spiritually. The combination of mental awareness and the opening of the Heart creates that channel whereby all the energies of the universe are drawn to us. We use a photograph as you would use a cross or as the Jewish use the two inverted triangles. These are nothing but symbols. Photographs are symbols, and they are reminders. But the most important thing is the opening up of the Heart. When the Heart opens up in love and devotion without effort and without trying, you draw those forces of Divine energy towards yourself for your upliftment. Plenty of electricity in the river flows nearby, but you need the generator to harness the power of the electricity so that we can have light in the room. The guru acts as the generator. He is not the power; he is just the machine. The power is there in the water, that eternally flowing river with water here, there and everywhere. He is like the material that acts as a conductor. A generator that you can harness or get the electricity from the water. And that is what we do when closeness develops between Guru and Chela. Later, the development becomes so great that no differences or separation exists. The guru and the chela become one. When the lover, love, and the beloved become one. This is the purpose of life: to find that unification. All problems in this world are because of a sense of duality. When there are two, there is friction. But where there is one, how could there be conflict? Finding that consciousness where everything is just one is the purpose of life, which is called unity consciousness. THE GURU PASS ON A SPIRITUAL FORCE Even gurus, God, Chela, and everything around us is just but one, and that oneness is not of yesterday or tomorrow but here and now. By opening the Heart in that love and devotion, you are drawing a force to yourself to strengthen yourself, and by strengthening yourself, the problem becomes no problem. That is how it works, and it is so simple. It is always best to use a self-realised object as the channel. This, too, can be achieved through one’s husband or wife. If you can love your husband or wife deeply enough and objectively enough, you can see Divinity in your husband or wife. But people fail to see that because there is an emotional entanglement. While between guru and chela, there is a deep, sincere link and love and yet no emotional entanglement. You see the difference; you know why the teacher is required? You can ask

The Value of Symbols: Reaching the Absolute Through the Concrete

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REACHING THE ABSOLUTE THROUGH THE CONCRETE Everything can be valueless, and everything can be invaluable. There is a significant difference between the two words. Something can be invaluable, priceless, something on which a value cannot be put. At the same time, another thing could be valueless, of no use whatsoever. The infallibility of any object or the valuelessness of any entity is subjective. So, if it is a subjective matter, then the value of a thing is naturally an individual thing. You have a photograph of your wife, husband, father, or mother in your home, without sentiment attached, that reminds you how your mother and father brought you up. It produces within you a feeling of gratitude that it is good to be alive today, and if it were not for them, I would not be alive. You go to a Hindu temple, and there you will find a statue of Krishna or Rama, whichever Gods they would believe in. The idea here is not idolatry, as it has been misinterpreted today, the idea there is that through the teachings of that teacher, I can achieve a specific goal in life, or I am on the path of achieving that goal. So, through the concrete form, one reaches the abstract. The abstract is inconceivable to the human mind. The conscious human mind can only think in words and symbols, and its conceptions and perceptions are limited. The mind can only conceive or perceive things in a concrete form. So, to reach the Absolute or the abstract, one uses the medium of the concrete, which might not have any value in itself, but you can subjectively make it invaluable as a focal point. HOW TO GAIN ONE-POINTEDNESS OF MIND Most human minds are fragmented. All energies of the mind are pushing or pulling in various directions; they are not one-pointed. By using an object, one can achieve a one-pointedness of mind. Trying to concentrate becomes very difficult; when you try to concentrate on something, you defeat the purpose of concentration because you become too aware of concentration itself. When you become too aware of concentration, you add another concentration to the initial concentration. That is where confusion occurs, detracting from the power of attention itself. The proper practice would be gentle awareness of the object, and gentle awareness of the object-directed to the thing gathers one’s attention to the object, you go through the object, and that is how the abstract is reached through the concrete. This could be any object – it could be a piece of stone that you could use to gather all your mental energies because it is only by gathering one’s mental energies and becoming one-pointed that you can reach the pointless. You have to understand this very correctly. It is only by gathering one’s mental energies into a one-pointedness that one can reach that which is pointless, and by “pointless”, we mean that which is an invaluable point. I am so much opposed to the sense of the usual way to use the word “pointlessness.” That doing such and such a thing is pointless or of no value. This has inestimable value, that pointlessness that we reach, or in Buddhistic language, the state of no mind that we reach is all minds. THE VALUE OF SYMBOLS So, to gain the one-pointedness of the mind, we use an object as a focal point. If we follow the teachings of a particular teacher, Christ, Krishna, or Buddha, we use their specific symbols. In our movement, people use a picture of their guru to be able to remember certain teachings that are given to them and particular practices that are given to them. Every time that photo stares at you, you remind yourself, did I do my meditation this morning? It serves as a reminder. There are certain practices in our system called Gurushakti practices, which some of you might know about, and some of you might practice. In this Gurushakti practice, by using all your energies in a one-pointed fashion, you are directly linking to the outward personality you see in the picture, which means nothing; the face could be blank. Still, the awareness of the guru should be there. By creating this link, you use all your energies gathered through that channel to the universal forces everywhere. Here again, is the example of reaching the abstract through the concrete. A real guru will always teach moral principles and ethical principles. He will always give you an understanding of the values of life. To those intellectually orientated, he will explain how things work, for the mind, too, requires satisfaction. It is the nature of the mind to inquire, and because of its core, it requires answers. So, the guru answers the questions that are uppermost in your mind. That picture there reminds you that I had this problem, which is what the guru told me. Now let me mull over that, not accept it blindly. That would be very, very wrong. That is in a different sphere of faith. We are talking of just bare facts. The picture serves the purpose of having heard, having thought about, and putting it into practice. It is not the theory; in some communist countries, Big Brother’s watching you. No, this big brother does not watch you; he protects you. This protection is achieved by channelling yourself through a concrete object to all the universal forces that are there, and they are there at your command just for the asking. Fresh air is outside, but open the window; fresh air is always there. THE ENTIRETY OF DIVINITY IS WITHIN YOU If you do not open the window, how will fresh air enter this room? You would think that the divine, universal forces are so vast that how can you, as a little human being, contain it all? You do manage it all. You have the entirety of Divinity within you, which is everywhere and in everyone. If you open the

The Art of Living: A Practical Approach to Spirituality

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TIME AND SPACE Relative existence is controlled by time, while the absolute existence is timeless. Only the conception of man’s mind could ever consider anything like time. So, time could be a reality for relative existence; time could be a reality within the framework of evolution, where an atom progresses from one point to the other. Whenever we consider time, space is also considered. If we take two minutes to reach from this room to that house over there, that two minutes taken is also measured in space. Therefore, time and space work hand in hand, while the concept of the Absolute is beyond time and space. It is of an entirely different dimension where time does not exist, and space does not exist, and that is why some great poets say that eternity is in the moment, and the moment is eternity. This is said to explain to us the timeless nature of actual reality, the Absolute. The mind and circumstances always measure time. Every housewife will know that when she watches the kettle boiling, it takes a longer time, it takes so much longer. It has taken the same time, but the anxiety of the mind in boiling the water quickly extends the time and makes it longer. There too, in reality, the time has not become longer, but the concept of our mind has become longer. So, time is governed by man’s mind. In this small example of boiling water, we have found that time expands and contracts. We have talked about the expansion and lengthening of time, but for example, if you are engrossed in an excellent book and absorbed in it, then two hours will pass, and you think it was only two minutes. So, to recapitulate, time expands or contracts according to man’s mind, and because of its expansion and contraction, it has no true reality of its own, but the reality is imposed upon it by our minds. The same thing applies to space; if you take a walk of two miles with an attractive friend and you are having a fascinating conversation, that two miles will seem very short, but if you have to take that walk alone and are feeling bored, then the two miles do not seem to end. WE ARE SUBJECTED TO THE LAWS OF NATURE So, time and space are but two sides of the same coin subject to contraction and expansion according to our concept, and our conceptions are nothing but conditionings of the mind. Through meditation, we discover one thing: the unreality of time, which has been experienced in some measure by everyone. I can go into meditation for two hours, and when I come out of meditation, it seems that only two minutes have passed. What has happened there is that I have transcended or gone beyond the boundaries of the mind, and when you go beyond limitations, you go to the boundless, and there is no time in that boundlessness. Being in the relative and having a body and subject to the laws of nature, we have to consider the time we know of. We must add practicality to time as we know it, and that practicality must be helpful and not useless. We spend one-third of our lives sleeping and one-third of our lives doing useless work. We call work useless because most of us lack interest in our work, and we only do the job to fill our stomachs. So, we are using our time, firstly in losing ourselves in sleep one third, and another third of the time in useless works to fill the stomach. WE HAVE TO WORK TO MAKE A LIVING We know many people that out of the eight hours left, they will spend two hours in the bar, two hours perhaps studying the race card, two hours or three hours with the television, and another few hours talking rubbish with their companions. Feeding the stomach is necessary, and living in this world, there are necessities of life. God has given us the air to breathe, but you have to pay for the air you breathe in taxes. Just to be able to walk on the Lord’s Earth, you pay for it also, in taxes. So, we have to pay for everything around us, and therefore we have to work. But work can be made interesting because there is nothing uninteresting in this world. If I find a dull person, I find something interesting there, too; I find interest in boredom. So, even if you are a shopkeeper or working behind a counter, many customers are walking into the shop. By observing the various kinds of people, so much interest can be found because every person is a unique person. By having the ability of deep perception created by meditation, you will find an exciting story in every face. If you can develop sympathy and empathy for the person, that same work of serving over the counter could become exciting. And the same principle applies to the carpenter, the bricklayer, or the professor at the university. We have one meditator in one country who is a typist. Typing can become tedious if you are just a copy-typist because no creative intelligence is involved, and you are operating like a machine. Still, whenever she has to press the key G, this typist’s thoughts flow in her mind of Guru, Gurushakti and God. And her typing has become very interesting to her. So, we have to work to provide a living for ourselves or our families, and whatever work we do can be made interesting, and every job in the world that provides us with an honest living is noble. When we are working for a boss, if we feel in our hearts that we are doing duty and being immersed in the task and the sense of responsibility, then the boredom too goes away because when we have a sense of duty, we find that we are walking

Meditation and the Journey Home: Awakening to Your Divine Nature

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EVERYONE WILL REACH HOME When a person is unkind, uncharitable, and intolerant, it is a sure sign that he only functions with a tiny part of his mind. At the same time, through meditation, one gradually starts to work in totality, body, mind and Spirit. Naturally, when you function in total, you would become the reverse of what you have been. If you are uncharitable, you will become charitable. If you are unkind, you become kind. If you are uncompassionate, you become more compassionate because you function in totality. So, there is no danger in meditation as far as the ego build-up goes because meditation rids one of the egoistic samskaras you have. Your ego is formed of samskaras, which, as you know, means the impressions and the experiences that you have had. That builds you into an individual being. Once you recognise yourself exclusively as an individual being, you become a personal ego, expressing all the impressions already implanted in your mind, while meditation does the reverse. Meditation takes you away from that exclusive individuality without discarding it, and it takes you away from that individual individuality, exclusive individuality into a universality. Therein lies the message of love. Because if you cannot feel that universalness of everything, then as I might have said before, you would not know the meaning of love. So, the process is to gain that awareness that all is one, and this process is simple. You do not lose individuality. You are still human, and there has been no perfect human being on this earth. They could only reach ninety-eight per cent perfection, including Krishna, Buddha, Christ and the lot. Because without the two per cent imperfection, you would never be able to maintain this body. You would become unaware of your physiological and biological functions and things like that. So, that bit of “I-ness”, the ego, will remain. That little bit of “me and mine” will remain, rather than “Thee and Thine.” For example, you take the word me, “ME”, and put a mirror under it, and the reflection would be we, “WE.” That is the sense we develop from that Me to We. One. That awareness does not only apply to human beings, but it also applies to everything where you identify yourself. Feel that oneness with the entire creation and existence, and when you can feel that oneness, all will be there in you. For example, if there is a flea in my bed, and travelling around the world, I change beds every few nights, I would not have the heart to kill the flea because it is life. I would pick up the flea and throw it out of the window. Let it go into the next-door people’s bedroom. You do develop that sense. THE MEANING OF “RESIST NOT EVIL” Everything is conscious; even a stone has consciousness, but in man, consciousness is more developed because it is more evolved than a stone, plant, or animal. But that consciousness could be misused, where you only become conscious of yourself. You feel that the entire universe revolves around you, that I am the most important person and to hell with the rest. That is where the expansion of consciousness or awareness lies. Awareness and consciousness are synonymous. The more conscious you become, the more aware you become. All the consciousness is there in you, and to use a word, for the lack of a better word, you reach the area of pure consciousness where the consciousness is such that no evil thought could ever enter your mind. That is how to live a positive life when no evil thought is allowed to enter your mind, and you do not block it off. You do not resist the evil idea. As the Scriptures would say, “Resist not evil.” This is what is meant. But at the stage of pure consciousness, that never happens; the evil thought never comes about, and another word for pure consciousness is total love. MEDITATION GIVES YOU THE STRENGTH TO FACE YOUR PROBLEMS All these things happen through meditation, and meditation can never cause any harm. In the beginning, stages, when a person starts, in that stillness of mind through meditation, you look at yourself squarely and discover your weakness. For example, if a doctor does not diagnose your problem correctly, he cannot give you the right medicine. So, this is self-diagnosis, where you find your weakness and try to correct your deficiency, which requires meditation and a certain measure of self-help. Many people are incapable of helping themselves for one reason only; they not have got the strength. Meditation leads you to greater integration, giving you the power to face your problems. Problems will always be there. But how we look at the problems is the critical issue. Through a more significant amount of awareness, we look at problems from a different perspective. For example, if someone passes away, say a close one to me, my children, my wife, my beloveds, I will not tear up. I will not. Not because I have no sympathy, love, or feelings, but because I have realised that the person has not passed away. He is alive, has thrown off his body, and will take on another body, but that eternal Spirit in him is active and there. It is a matter of how we look at things. It is a matter of perspective. So, you go crying and moping for weeks and weeks; what will it help? It is not going to help anyone. AT THE STEM, WE ARE ALL ONE Therefore, a more significant amount of awareness is needed by the people of this world. When they develop this awareness, many of the world’s individual and international problems will disappear. If the people of America feel that the Russians are non-separate from us, we all belong to one human race, and the Russians feel the same way that we are blood brothers. I am not talking of Adam and

The Mystery of Coma: Understanding Coma from a Spiritual Perspective

Acceptance, Awareness, Belief, Divinity, Eternal, Faith, Heart, Joy, Karma, Meditation, Mind, Peace, Spirit, Spiritual Force, Spiritual Practices, Universe, Yoga

WHAT IS A COMA? When a person is in a coma, nothing happens to the Spirit, for to be is to be the Spirit. What else can you be? But something happens to the mind, and science will tell you that certain brain areas will send you off into a coma or a suspension because the brain cannot act in a particular manner. That suspension is a coma, whereby you cannot relate to the body, the mind and the Spirit, and you cannot become functional. That is a coma. A coma can be brought about by some kinds of chemical deficiencies in the system, and a coma can be brought about by a traumatic experience where the mind blocks off totally There is some similarity between the highest state of meditation, called Nivrikalpa samadhi and a coma. The difference is that in a coma, the mind becomes non-functional, while in samadhi, total stillness is gained in the mind, yet awareness remains. While in a coma, that stillness is there because it has become a vegetable at that moment or for the duration of the coma. But the awareness is lost. The ability to be aware is lost, but this does not mean that awareness is gone. As long as the Spirit is unaffected, awareness is always there, but the ability to cognize awareness is gone because of the non-functioning of the brain. HOW TO TREAT A COMA? Can this be remedied? I have heard of a case in America where a child was in a coma, and a decision had to be made whether the child had to be put away or left in that vegetable state. I do not know what happened in this case; I just read very briefly about it. But there are ways to bring the child back to awareness of himself. In other words, there are ways in which the person can be brought out of the coma without all the drugs that are used today. Medical science is still in its infancy. They have not touched the edge or dipped their toes in this vast ocean; the same applies to psychiatry. That is why when psychiatrists cannot do anything for their patients, they refer them to me. They say, “Guruji, we have done what we can as far as we have learned. Now you do.” There are practices where a person can be taken out of that coma. A spiritual force can be imparted whereby the Spirit within the person can be so enlivened that the energies within that Spirit can be so drawn out that the mind becomes activated and starts acting. I hope medical science one day will combine this ancient wisdom and knowledge in their practices. Because all these sciences operate as separate portions instead of treating a person holistically, I have had many experiences with people in comas and many other problems. At home, I get called to the hospital at least twice or thrice weekly to deal with a patient. For example, a cardiac patient who needs to be relaxed must have a better mind to make the operation successful. You know, greater acceptance of what is going to be and what is going to happen. Teaching them to relax through spiritual practices to bring forth that cheer and joy, to eliminate their fear, “Oh, I am going into major surgery.” If the person dies in the surgery, know one thing, it would be of two factors, and half would be fear. The other half could be the inability of the medical man or something that just cannot be done medically. Those are the two factors. The Spirit forever remains untouched – and the Spirit in the child or the man is eternal. As the Bhagavad Gita would put it, it cannot be burnt or wetted by water, and a sword cannot pierce it. It is immortal, and it cannot die. THERE IS STILL A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND THE BODY When we talk of a coma, we also have to think, why did this person go into the coma? Why was this suffering necessary for this person? I can assure you that a person in a coma is not suffering. That person finds total peace. That person is at peace because the mind creates misery, and when the mind is non-functional, how could it feel despair? It feels neither pleasure nor pain. Rest assured of one thing, firstly, the person in the coma is not suffering, and secondly, the Spirit is not affected. This should be heartening to people who might have these problems so that the person does not feel pain or pleasure. One has to look at it from the karmic point of view. There is life left in the body, and I do not agree in most cases, and this is 99 percent of the time, to release that life through artificial means. They call it “Euthanasia.” I disagree with that. There is life in that body for a while, but there is still some opening. That mind might be dormant and asleep in that coma state, but there is still a connection between the Spirit to the body. The body becomes a vegetable. But a vegetable, too, has life. THE KARMIC VALUES HAVE TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION We have to study the karmic value of that person, and yogis, true yogis, can go back to find if that person should remain in the coma and have that rest or be brought back out of the coma. And if the yogi considers that a little push should be given to help without causing any detriment, he would just be too glad to remove the dormancy, the sleep of the mind, into awareness. In the subtle body, which I prefer to call it because no one could interpret what a mind is. After all, the mind composes the entire universe; some areas are found that could be activated to bring the person out

The End of Suffering: Releasing Suffering Through Meditation

Bliss, Conscious Mind, Divine, Divinity, Evolution, Impressions, Joy, Karma, Light, Meditation, Mind, Samskaras, Self, Self-Realization, Spiritual, Spiritual Practices, Universe

IS SUFFERING NECESSARY? Man is not born to suffer. There is an innate Divinity in man, which would proclaim, over and over again, that “Thou art Divine,” By recognising the Divinity within us, all suffering would cease, or there would be no cognition of any form of suffering. Man is not born to suffer. But we find suffering in the world and our existence. The question would be, “Why should a man suffer?” For that, we will have to define karma’s law. Karma, basically and interpreted, would be the law of action. In other words, whatever you sow, that shall you reap. In our terms, when we talk of suffering, it is also a law of retribution, perhaps. If man is basically divine, what are the mechanics? What happens in man that causes him to suffer, and where is this suffering located? Because if the inner core of man is Divine and the nature of Divinity is bliss, then naturally, we could assume that the suffering does not take place in the inner core, which is bliss. So, we can exclude the Divinity in man from all suffering. The Divine in man does not suffer because its nature is bliss. The part of man that suffers would be mind and body. Doctors have discovered that most illnesses and over ninety per cent of hospital beds are psychosomatic. In other words, the diseases man suffers stem from the mind or the mental processes of man. THE MIND HAS TO BE REPATTERNED How can we alter those processes that go through the mind, and how can we repattern the mind so that the body does not suffer? Those are the questions. Firstly, the mind is conditioned. All our minds, as individual minds, if you wish to call them such, are necessarily prepared by our past actions, where we were born, in what family we were brought up, by our environment, and supposedly by the inflictions inflicted upon us by the environment. If the mind is patterned to receive outside inflictions or if the mind is conditioned to create these inflictions upon ourselves, then we could go through an immense amount of emotional turmoil and apart from an emotional crisis, we could go through a process of mental imbalance. Those are psychological diseases, psychosomatically speaking, those very imbalances in the mind can be interpreted through man’s organic self, which is man’s physical self. And this is the contention of most doctors’ argument that even those diseases we find to be organic would have a psychological origin. So, to find a healthier body, we have to tackle the root source, which is the mind. This is in the sphere of modern psychoanalysis, which psychologists practise, and it is also in the sphere of psychiatrists. But because psychology and psychiatry are still in the stage of infancy, most of the treatments are done in such a manner that does not always heal, and more failures are found than successes. And even in the achievements, we find that the successes are temporary because the whole mind, the conditioned mind has to be re-patterned. A conditioned mind means that the mind has been patterned not only by the happenings in this life but could go further back into past lives if you believe in past lives. If you believe in past lives, do take it for granted that what we are today is the total of all the words, thoughts and deeds that we have been through, that which we have thought in our minds and the actions we have performed in those lifetimes. All those things have created samskaras, a Sanskrit term that could be interpreted very loosely in the form of impressions. So, the human mind contains the images of many, many lifetimes of living. The extent of the human mind is to the extent of the universe. In other words, we have progressed through evolutionary processes, from the mineral kingdom to the plant, to the animal, and now we have reached the stage of man. Yet, man’s mind can contain all the impressions implanted in this memory box through all those varied existences. WE GO RIGHT TO THE SOURCE OF DIVINITY AND DRAW ON THOSE ENERGIES When we think of illnesses that stem primarily from the mind, there could have been specific imbalances caused by the happenings to us in those existences. Therefore, man suffers; man suffers because of inequalities. Psychologists and psychiatrists probe just to the extent of the knowledge they have of man’s mind, and as we know and as they would admit, we only know, or we are only conscious of ten per cent of the human mind. So, the treatment given by psychologists and psychiatrists is necessarily limited to ten per cent of the mind, while ninety per cent remains dormant. Therefore, the failures we find in these treatments are because the causes might lie in the ninety percent mind of which we know nothing. Human knowledge of that field is minimal. There are practices devised whereby the ten percent mind does not need to rationalise and does not need to cognise the ninety percent, which is dormant. Through meditational and spiritual practices, we have the method where we traverse the ninety percent, which is static. By crossing the ninety percent, that is dormant; we go right to the core of ourselves, which is commonly termed the Spiritual Self. The Spiritual Self could be equated with that Divinity we have spoken about earlier, that infinite capacity inherent in every man. So, to alleviate the suffering that we have brought upon ourselves because of the conditioning of our minds, we dive deep within ourselves through meditational practices whereby we draw from the inner core, from the reservoir, that divine energy, and bring it through to the ninety percent dormant mind and then further on through the ten percent mind that we know of and then from there to the body. Through spiritual practices, we have found that the body and

Pure Consciousness: The Power of a Clear Mind

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THE REALITY OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS Pure consciousness is the Manifestor, and when that pure consciousness assumes different forms through the interaction of its very nature, which is composed of all forms, they become grosser and grosser and grosser, right to the level of the mineral kingdom. When it reaches a grosser level, we consider it a manifestation of the Manifestor. So, the goal of man is to get back home, meaning going away from the grosser levels to which we have come, back to the purity of pure consciousness. Pure consciousness, though the absolute reality, could never be comprehended by the mind because the mind, having become gross, is away from the primal subtleness it battles on. Therefore because of its very grossness, it cannot recognise pure consciousness. You could say that if everything existent is pure consciousness; by the same token, you could say that pure consciousness has varying degrees, from the subtlest to the grossest. We refer to pure consciousness when we talk of the purity of man’s mind. WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? Consciousness is the totalness of awareness. If you are totally aware of the universe around you then you can say you are swimming in pure consciousness. Pure consciousness cannot be qualified, and neither quantifies qualities, but its manifestation has qualities. The manifestations we see in all things existent around us have various names and forms, yet names and forms are the creations and projections of our limited minds. So, the greater the limitation of the mind created by ourselves, deviating from pure consciousness, we naturally would see differentiation. For example, people look at the flowers but fail to see the invisible sap that gives life, for the flower could never exist without that hidden, energising sap. A human being can never live without that pure consciousness or, in other words, life force. You can only observe the lights burning in this room, but you cannot see the electricity in its proper form, and many scientists have tried to define electricity, but they have not succeeded. And then the very same electricity attracts to itself a magnetic force, and we have the law of magnetism. Then that very electricity is the foundation stone of the law of gravity. So, as far as the field of electricity is concerned, all these various factors are combined in the electricity itself, so in like manner, pure consciousness combines in itself all its grosser counterparts which we know as manifestation. This brings us to the conclusion that manifestation is none other than the Manifestor. So, pure consciousness is the Manifestor, and once the pure consciousness assumes its grosser forms, it is still the manifestation of the Manifestor. Manifestation could never exist without the Manifestor. Such as heat could never live without fire, and fragrance could never exist without the flower. How are you going to differentiate the aroma from the flower? There is no differentiation at all. If you analyse it scientifically, every time you breathe fragrance, you will find that you are breathing particles of the flower, so you are imbibing and consuming it. So every action man performs through pure consciousness in its grosser forms. This realisation will remind us that we are not the doer. The Divinity is the doer, for Divinity is pure consciousness. WHAT IS PURITY? Purity is a factor which is uncompounded; it exists in its essence. So, when we reach the core of ourselves, we start realising that it is only the essence that matters. For example, there is a murderer, a thief, a rapist, or any of the acts we regard as immoral in our society, as it should be because, without these man-made laws, the man-made world can never function in a man-made way. But if we look deep within the murderer or the thief, the very essence that makes him do the things he does, is the same essence that makes the thing a Sage does for the benefit of humanity. It is the same essence. The one is going through rough waters and compounded by factors not commensurate or compatible with society. While the other, the Sage, who does good, is also using the same essence, the same energy, and is using it for all for the good of humanity. But who is going to judge the spiritual quality of the murderer, and who will judge the apparent good attributes of the excellent doer? We have many good-doers in the world doing good to satisfy their egos. Their doing good does not stem from deep within themselves – it does not. They escape their problems by doing good, but how much heart is there? Mr X donates fifty thousand pounds to some charitable work – does it come from his mind, his ego self? If it does, it is useless because he is just going for aggrandisement for his prestige. “Oh, the world will say I, Mr X am such a great man.” That is selfish. While the murderer might murder with a pure Heart, the trouble might have been just a sick mind. And the action he might have performed in his sickness might be even of more excellent value to his evolution than the do-gooder who is just doing it to inflate his ego. The inflation of the ego is something that takes you away from your essence, takes you away from Divinity. At the same time, the man in sincerity, whatever act he performs, could be evolutionary to him. It could be a path in his progress that he has to overcome. JUDGE YE NOT THAT YE BE NOT JUDGED Therefore, we do not condemn anyone. Thus, the Bible says, “Judge Ye not that Ye be not Judged.” For whom am I the judge of another person? I cannot. I can only judge with my little mind and what my mind thinks is right; only by that would I judge, and everybody does not measure with the same ruler. Some people’s rulers are eight inches, and

The Power of an Open Mind: Choosing Your Own Path to Truth

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TO BE ABLE TO KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH, ONE HAS TO STAND APART Everything can be explained in very high philosophical, metaphysical terms. But metaphysical and philosophical terms and philosophical language could just remain mental gymnastics. Therefore, we try to be as simple as possible. After taking the most profound philosophy into its most practical day-to-day value. I teach that all these various kinds of meditation and all these paths that there are, are like rivers coming from different directions, which ultimately become one in the same ocean. There have always been fights and disputes between various religions, whereby one claims that “My way is right,” and the other says, “My way is right,” and they fight. It is like a little story where four blind men came up into a forest, and there was an elephant in the woods. One blind man grabbed the trunk, the other one held the leg, the third one grabbed the tail, and the fourth grabbed the ear, and they started fighting. The one that grabbed the tail said, “Ah, I have found the truth; it is like a rope.” The other one that grabbed the leg said, “Ah, I have found the truth; it is like a pole,” They argued until a man with sight came along. He stood at a distance, and because he had sight and was standing a bit further away, he could see that these people only knew a fraction of the truth. They did not know the whole truth. To understand the whole truth, one has to stand apart. So, it was the man that could see the entire elephant that could say that this is the real elephant, and this has been the trouble with religions; they grab one section of a truth and claim it to be the entire truth. MAN MUST DECIDE FOR HIMSELF WHICH PATH TO TAKE I teach that whatever path you take, I am not interested. You might take a route from here to London with many traffic lights and traffic, which will delay your journey. It might take a long time to reach London, but there might be a very clear highway with no speed limits, and you can get to London much more quicker. So, man must decide for himself which path he wants to take. All ways are good. There is not a single path, nor a single worthwhile religion, that teaches you that you must not love, or you must not have charity, or you must not have compassion. All faiths and all teachings say this. So, the path a person teaches or the path a person practises, he practises because his temperament has a particular inclination towards that path. What I would like to see is the upliftment of humanity. I am not concerned about paths. If one practises a particular form of meditation and does it honestly and sincerely, and if there is any value in his form of meditation and if he finds progress in himself, I do not convert him to my way of thinking. That would be wrong. If the man progresses well, by all means, do that. But I would say that we should all have an open mind. We knew one road to London before that was filled with traffic, and it took us four hours to reach there. There might be another path, a smoother one, that could make us get there in one hour, perhaps. So, man must decide by himself, and to determine by himself, he should have an open mind. That is the primary quality. Because when the mind is closed, he becomes dogmatic. He becomes fanatical, and becoming dogmatic or fanatical could impede his progress. His car might get punctured. So, one must have an open mind. Each one teaching his method should be given all the opportunity and all the privilege to present his views, and it is us that must decide for ourselves, shall I take path number A or path number B or path number C or XYZ? That depends on us. But that also should come with a certain amount of rationality. Firstly, we rationalise, intellectualise, weigh the pros and cons, and base our judgements on experience. Because to find the Divinity within us, to make our lives smoother, the intellect only goes part of the way. The finite mind cannot comprehend that which is infinite. We know that. But the infinite can be experienced. If there is a direct road to the infinite that is within ourselves, by all means, we should at least try. We should try, which is why I always say that we do not condemn or condone any path. The whole idea should be to let humanity be uplifted, allow their minds and bodies to be more and more refined, and let all humans improve. Some teachers go up on a stage and say, “Everyone else is wrong; only I am right,” and perhaps he might be more wrong than others. The finding of a man and his salvation should always remain a very, very personal thing. If there are four thousand million people on earth, there should be four thousand million religions or ways of life. Each man must formulate his plan, his method, and his way to his salvation. Each man must do that, but of course, he can take the major religions as a guide, draw from them, and formulate his life for the more significant good. That is his dharma, the purpose of life, and how we reach the Maker. MEDITATION IS A PROVEN SCIENTIFIC PROCESS We might have people in the audience here who are not interested in religion, which is fine, and I do not think any man should have the right to shove Divinity down their throat. I have started to talk from the angle of Divinity because we have some people here whose faces I could see very, very clearly, that they are very devout. It is so

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