Janujee, Author at FISU Meditation

The Adventure of Death: Embracing the Journey Beyond

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DEATH IS NOT TO BE FEARED You can only cope with death if you understand what death is about. To us poor mortals, death seems so frightening, and that is because you are frightened of the unknown, and that which is unknown is always fearful. Knowing the unknown is not difficult at all, and once you see a thing, you lose the fear of the item. We feel terrified if we have to go up a very steep hill. How are we ever going to climb that rock-faced mountain and feel afraid? But once we have some practice in climbing that rock face, the fear will go away. Therefore, how about trying to die while you are living? When you reach the highest height of meditation, you are dead and yet alive. After every meditation, you rise again from the ashes of death and find renewed life. So, when we finally leave this physical frame, there will not be any fear, for death is such a beautiful experience. It is passing from the shackles of this body and letting the mind go free. There are no heavens and no hells at all. Heavens and hells are always here in this body, and whichever thought we train our mind to, we shall find on the other side. WHATEVER WE THINK, WE ARE If you feel fearful of the red guy with horns and a tail, you are going to meet that. And if you think, believe, and experience that beautiful bliss during your spiritual practices, you will find that, too, when your mental body is in another plane of existence. So, while in your body, you create the conditions of your experiences or encounters on the other side. This means that the plane of existence beyond this body is a projection of our minds. If you believe in an older man sitting on a throne with a long beard, that is precisely what you will see. If you think you will find beautiful mansions and gardens filled with the most exquisite flowers up there, that is what you will encounter. You will discover this because the mental body, or the subtle body as we call it, goes beyond the physical body and is conditioned. Whatever conditions it makes for itself, it has to pass through those conditions. Remember that, like the physical body, the subtle body is also conditioned until the person is fully enlightened. So as the old saying goes, “Whatever we think, we are,” and that applies not only to the physical body but also to the subtle body. When a person is in the subtle body, there is no evolution, only evaluation. At the moment of death – and I have died a thousand times – your entire life flashes across your mind; every detail in a second, you will see the entirety of your whole life that you have lived on this earth. And then, the subtle body leaves the physical body, and we regard the person as dead. In the evaluation of the subtle body, you will see in front of you all the lifetimes you had lived since the time you were the primal atom that came about through the Big Bang, through that explosion when you, that tiny atom, shot forth, and that shooting forth, that journey itself is evolving. So, when that journey, that force behind that atom, going through various stages of existence, when it loses its momentum, settles back into its source. Evolution is nothing else but the primary momentum that you started with, but in this journey, you have encountered many things. And when one comes to that complete stillness, one has merged into the original energy that we have come from, called Nirvana, into that nothingness which is the everythingness of all existence. EVERYTHING IS ALREADY EXISTING WITHIN YOU A few books, such as “Life after Life” and “Life after Death,” have been written by doctors examining and questioning people on the verge of death, and then they sort of came back. I am sure many of you have read them, and the reports they got from people were that everyone seemed to go through a tunnel, and at the other end of the tunnel, a light came to them. That is the experience of people that the doctors have reported. But that is not true. There is no tunnel. What seems to be a tunnel is the sinking of your conscious mind into the subconscious mind and then the subconscious mind sinking into the Superconscious Mind. The deliberate sinking into the subconscious and then the subconscious and the conscious descent into the Superconscious, that sinking seems to be a tunnel. No light comes to you, and what you see is your inner Light at the finest level of the Superconscious Mind. Nothing comes to you because everything already exists within you. AFTER PASSING OVER, AN EVALUATION TAKES PLACE I said before that whatever you desire is precisely what you will see; if your desire before death is powerful to see Auntie Mary, you will see Auntie Mary. If you want to see husband John or wife Alice, you will see her. But it is not the honest John or the real Alice you knew on this earth. You will see the projection of your mind of John, Alice, or Auntie Mary. In other words, you are conjuring up Auntie Mary, John, and Alice. Because those souls of John or Alice might have been reborn again, or if not, they are so busy evaluating themselves to take the next birth because nothing happens but an evaluation in that plane of existence. And when that subtle body finalises itself or comes to terms with itself, it will only seek the right channel, according to its karma, the right track of parents to be born through. So, your parents do not choose you, but you choose your parents. While the other souls are so busy evaluating themselves, they got no

True Success: Finding Freedom and Peace in the Stillness Within

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TRUE SUCCESS LIES IN FINDING THE PEACE WITHIN What we regard to be polarities are no polarities at all. These polarities could never exist; it is all but just oneness. The polarities are created by man’s mind and his analysis using the brain’s left hemisphere. Surrender has its value, and activity has its value as well. Activity is striving for something you in your mind project to succeed. But what is a success, after all? Is it the acquisition of material possessions? Would you call that success? No, it could be a significant loss, a total loss. I have known many millionaires worldwide, and I travel about three-quarters of the year around the world lecturing. I still must meet a successful millionaire though they look successful with ten Rolls Royce, or seventy-one of them, or big mansions. Are they successful? They are not successful. The outsider who sees their immense wealth would think that they are successful, but they are not. Real success is the peace one finds within the Kingdom of God. Seek ye first that, and all else shall be added unto thee. You know that scriptural saying very well. True success in life is to find that beautiful peace within you, inherent in you, which is your birthright, and to reach your birthright, to reach that which is inherent within you, that constitutes success. ACT FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL THAT ARE NEEDED WILL COME TO YOU There are many paths to this; one is total acceptance of life. Because every millionaire that owns, say, ten million wants to have twenty million. If you have ten Rolls Royce, you want twenty Rolls Royce. Therefore, you are constantly striving, and that mightily striving is creating turmoil and conflicts within your mind, and then you start scheming how to acquire these things that are born of your desire. There is a difference here. I do not say be desireless. To have the desire and to crave are two different things altogether. You can desire something within your limitations. People try to demand things in life. They demand from their mothers, fathers, wives, and brothers. They demand from the guru, and when they fail, they require from God. But you do not get what you demand; you will only get what you need. That is what you will get: what you need, not what you demand. Because ordering is a mental projection, you request this, and you demand that, and if you examine your minds most of the time, you will start demanding the impossible. But the theory is that in the word “impossible”, put an apostrophe and say, “I’m possible.” Then striving disappears. You do not need to seek things, just act for the sake of action, and all required items will come to you. STRIVING AND ACCEPTANCE MUST WORK HAND IN HAND Eastern philosophers have different ideas. They become very fatalistic. They say, “Oh, God gives me this, or God gives me that, or if he does not give it is alright.” Through all my travels in the Himalayas, I met a family in India, and they had seven children like a stepladder. They were an impoverished family; they could hardly support the children. So, I said, “Why do you have so many children?” The man replied to me, “Oh, God gives. What can I do?” I said, “Do you sleep in separate bedrooms? So why blame it on God?” Here we have two polarities. One is striving, and one is total acceptance of things. Both are wrong, wrong in the sense that both can be reconciled. You have to seek your needs, and that is necessary. You need bread, butter, and sometimes a bit of jam. But that does not mean I will sit on my backside and expect that bread to fall on my lap. I must strive to get that bread, but I must also be satisfied at the same time that if it is a dry piece of bread, okay. If there is some butter or peanut butter on it, okay. Striving and acceptance must work hand in hand to make life prosperous and peaceful. For that is the only way you will find peace. To be totally in favour of whatever there be has brought India down to its poverty, famines, and hunger. Extreme poverty because they say, “Okay, God gives.” And yet thousands and thousands and thousands of square miles are lying barren. Go and till those fields and find your food instead of being in famine or hungry. While in the Western world, you keep on striving and striving for more excellent material gain. You are externalizing yourself all the time: just externality. You are just looking outwardly at things. Acquisition. Mrs Jones has a specific home, so Mrs Thomas will say, “Oh, Mrs Jones has this kind of home, so I must make my home better.” Then she will get into debt by getting a mortgage loan. To pay off that mortgage, she has to go through a lot of problems. Perhaps her husband loses his job; then the mortgage is not paid. The instalments are not paid, and the home is lost. Is it not a form of greed for trying to do better than the next-door neighbour? And if you try to do one better than your next-door neighbour, how can you love your neighbour? You cannot. You cannot love your neighbour because you are too self-centred. I must do better than Mrs Jones. That is the one wrong extreme. The other extreme of the East is also wrong, where they say, oh, karma rules my life, and things will fall in my lap. That is also wrong. But if a combination is formed between the two, effort and acceptance, it could very easily be reconciled, combined, consolidated, and then what happens is this: there is no polarity. FIND YOUR CENTRE, AND YOU WILL FIND THE STILLNESS WITHIN From opposite ends, you try to reach

Boundless Within Boundaries: Unveiling the Journey to Liberation

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YOUR REAL SELF IS FOREVER PLAYING IN FREEDOM Every person is a liberated person. Everyone on all planets throughout the universe is liberated, and we feel we are bound. Let us ask the question, who is bound? Am I really in bondage? Which part of me is in bondage, and what are the conditions that produce the bondage which I think to be bondage? And if I am bound, why am I bound? Which part of me is bound, and which part is free? In essence, in the spiritual self of man, everyone is a liberated being, for the spirit is beyond all kinds of bondage, and you are none else than the spirit itself. So, the whole idea of bondage is a fallacy. It is a fallacy because bondage is a superimposition upon liberation. This superimposition comes from what we call the mind. So, here we stand in the position to say that the mind is in bondage. The mind, which constitutes the ego self of man, is in bondage and forever will remain in bondage. You cannot free the mind from its boundaries because the mind has its peculiarities and limitations. A limited mind can never be limitless. So, we are just swimming on the surface of the ocean where all the waves are, and those waves are tossing the little self around here, there and everywhere. The ocean currents control your mind, and who has produced the currents in this ocean? The mind itself. So, whatever bondage you assume to be in is a creation of yourself, for your authentic self, your actual self is forever playing in freedom. THE SCIENTIST EXPERIMENTS, THE PHILOSOPHER USE LOGIC, THE MYSTIC EXPERIENCE There is only one problem: that this freedom, this liberation, cannot be communicated. It cannot be transmitted to another because the mind plays, and the communication would be from mind to mind. But it can be shown by communion. There is a difference between communication and communion. In communion, the heart speaks to the heart. If you could understand my heart, see my heart, and feel the communication with my heart, then your heart would feel what liberation is all about. In all these various philosophies of the world, they base all their philosophies on logic. The scientist experiments with things outside him and can only reach a certain point dealing with exterior substances. He wants to capture Divinity in a test tube, yet the very test tube is made of that subtle energy which is Divine. So, he is trying to capture Divinity with something Divine. For scientists, dealing only with external matter through experiments could never be done. The philosopher does not experiment; he uses logic systematically, from point A to point B to point C to point D; he wants to work it out logically, and his tool is only the mind. But for the mystic, he throws away logic, he throws away experiments, and he talks of experience. So, here you have an experiment, you have logic, and you have experience. The mind can never communicate expertise. You have something very nice to eat; you could never logically communicate what that niceness is all about. You can talk about it but not show what it is. So, we require communion to know what liberation is all about: the genuine guru-chela relationship that goes beyond the mind level. However, the mind is necessary for certain kinds of explanations, for the mind, too, wants to be pleased. But the actual effect is in communication, in that spark where heart meets heart. It is a love affair, and then the experience of this universal orgasm occurs. That is the experience of liberation. THE EXPERIENCE OF KNOWLEDGE, BLISS AND EXISTENCE IS A MENTAL EXPERIENCE What is this experience of liberation? It is no experience. It is a process. But we can talk about the results of the process, where life is joyous, where you are divided into two. You live in the relative, yet you live in the Absolute. The Absolute provides the impetus. The Absolute provides the joy that is there, and yet, in self-realization or liberation, joy is just but a secondary, more grossified aspect. So, in the experience of liberation, which is no experience, no experience condenses itself through some form, where the mind is needed, and joy is experienced. Do you see the process that because of the superimposition of the mind, the no experience is somewhat glimpsed at as an experience, and that experience is joy and bliss? The Vedantist tries to qualify Brahman or Divinity as absolute existence, absolute bliss, and absolute knowledge, and I tell the Vedantists that this is a contradiction of terms. They have reached a far way. Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, has reached a specific limitation. They have not reached the limitless. By saying Divinity is absolute bliss, existence, and knowledge, we automatically qualify for it. IT: capital I, capital T. This qualification brings limitations, for limitless people cannot be qualified. Therefore, the experience of knowledge, bliss, and existence is still a mental experience at the finest level. TO EXPERIENCE LIBERATION, WE HAVE TO REACH THE SUPERCONSCIOUS STATE OF MIND Our teachings go beyond Vedanta, and here is precisely where we go beyond. Because bliss, knowledge, and existence are only expressions, they are only outward manifestations of the unmanifest, and when you merge into the unmanifest, all qualifications cease. How can you qualify or quantify that which is limitless? Yet the human mind can only reach that state of knowledge, bliss and existence. It is not just an ordinary cognition but a total assimilation, a total realization of that in its subtlest form, which is experienced by the mind, making life joyous. Although the mind is a superimposition and limited in its power, it still covers the entirety of Divinity, and therefore we call it manifestation. Consequently, we also call the mind limitless in that aspect. However, its very limitation lies in superimposition, and anything superimposed is inaccurate. So,

Transcending Inhibitions: A Spiritual Approach to Overcoming Inhibitions

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HOW TO GET RID OF INHIBITIONS? Inhibitions are generally caused by one’s method of thinking, one’s schooling, one’s childhood environment, in many cases, perhaps churches, and if you do believe in things, it could even go further into past lives. Inhibitions are patternings of the mind, and the human mind is forever patterned in one form or the other. You could have very positive patternings, and you could have negative patternings, and yet both remain within the realms of inhibitions. A few of the things that are closely allied to inhibitions are the sense of guilt and fear. These very fears and guilts cause those inhibitions, which become a stumbling block or an obstacle to your creativity. To get rid of inhibitions, you have to go through some processes. Be very careful in listening to this; one of the processes is a mental process, but not by dwelling upon inhibitions. There is the difference – not to dwell upon the inhibitions or that which becomes an obstacle to you – but to analyse the inhibition. In that analysis, you ask yourself, “Why do you feel inhibited?” YOU ARE THE SUM TOTALITY OF ALL YOUR IMPRESSIONS I have had many cases where people come to me with all inhibitions. A young man comes to me and tells me, “I love my girl very, very much, but when I am with her, I fail to make love to her,” and analysing his problem, we found that he had this fear in him that would not make him be able to make love to the woman he loved so much. That was a kind of inhibition. Inhibition is also associated with repression; they are blood brothers. You often go through a particular experience, and then instead of analysing the experience or shedding off that experience with analysis, you press it deeper and deeper and deeper within yourself. So, these inhibitions and repressions cause impressions. Those impressions are first on the conscious level of the mind. Still, as you dwell more upon it, they go deeper and deeper into your subconscious mind, which is nothing else but a whole extensive collection of all the impressions you had from millions of ages, from the time when you were the first sub, sub-atomic being, until you reach the stage of the amoeba and then through the laws of evolution, you progress through the various layers that evolution takes you through until you have become a human being. You are the sum totality of all those impressions you have gained; in Sanskrit, they call it Samskaras. The Samskaric mind, or the subconscious mind, to use the psychological terminology for it, is continually impressing itself or flowing through your conscious level of the mind, and that governs your actions. You are all grown-up people, so that I can speak very frankly; this young man that came to see me before he met his girlfriend had met some other girl, and this girl teased him in a manner telling him, “Oh, you are so small”, and this created a blockage in his mind, so when he met the girl he loved, he could not make love to her. THROUGH SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, YOU WILL OVERCOME INHIBITING THOUGHTS The mind is a very, very susceptible mind. A child’s mind is susceptible but innocent, while a grown-up’s mind is equally susceptible but not innocent. When some experience is gained, or something happens, immediately, the conscious mind sends an express telegram or a hotline to the subconscious mind. In the subconscious mind, the experience you are having now is being compared. Then in all the cubby holes of the subconscious mind, you draw out the file, and by drawing out that file, you are strengthening the negativity or inhibition of the present experience. In psychoanalysis, psychologists try to dig deep within your mind to find out the reason for that inhibition, and they dig and dig and dig until, through a psychoanalytical process, they try to find the cause of things. Then they try to eradicate the cause by explanations, making you see things from a different perspective. This has some value, but it is not a cure. As I have said many times before, it is a shifting of energies from one area of the brain to another area of the brain, and those very energies might erupt differently altogether. You are clearing yourself of one kind of inhibition, and then that energy shifted will create another type of inhibition. People suffer primarily because of a sense of guilt and fear which, as I said a moment ago, causes these inhibitions and repressions. Let us tell you went to apply for a job, went to 4 or 5 places, and was refused a job. Now you go to the sixth place, and with this fear in your mind, you say, “Five interviews I have had, and they refused me, so the sixth interview, I will also be rejected.” You go with that attitude. Naturally, you are emanating an opposing force from yourself by having that attitude. Everything emanates something. Everything is forever emanating; a flower stems fragrance, and fire emanates heat. Likewise, a human derives a specific energy from within himself, and if that energy is coupled with a thought that he will not get this job, he will not get it. So, the secret here would lie with meditation and spiritual practices where you neutralise your mind. By neutralising your mind through straightforward spiritual practices, you bring in the positive thought, and then that positive thought takes heed. When you go for that interview with this in your mind and heart, you feel that “I am going to get this job.” You look straight into the employer’s eyes and say, “I am getting this job; you are going to give me this job.” You do not tell him that aloud; he might kick you out, but you think it and feel that you will give me this bloody job. You

The Way, the Truth, and the Life: The Universal Message of Truth and Love

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THERE IS ONLY ONE CONSCIOUSNESS When Jesus said: “I am the way. I am the life. I am the truth.” Which “I” did he speak about? Jesus never said that as Jesus the body, but he said that as Christ. There is a difference between Jesus, the embodied little being and Christ, the Universal Consciousness. To become one with the Father, one has to reach that level of consciousness, and that level assumes or becomes just as vast as God, and then honestly, you can say, “I and my Father are One” – for there is no other way at all without achieving this consciousness. You could call it Christ consciousness, Buddha consciousness, or Krishna consciousness; it means the same: the emphasis is not on the man’s name. The emphasis is on consciousness, the totality of consciousness, pure consciousness, which embraces the entire universe. So those sayings are very accurate, and that is the only way, and the only way can be the truth. THERE IS ONLY LIFE, AND LIFE IS LOVE, AND LOVE IS GOD Everything is alive. There is no such thing as death. Nothing can die. It is only because of your conception that you say when I leave this body, “I am dead”. Which part of you says you are dead? You will not even know it. Someone else will say, “Oh, Guruji died.” No, they will never say that. The day I say, “He passed over.” There is only life, and life is that love, and love is that God. The way, the truth, and life are different aspects of the same thing. He who can live life lives God. But we do not live life; we only exist like anything else, like even a piece of stone that exists. But we think we live because we walk around, talk, believe, do this, and do that. Is that life? If it was life, then why are there contradictions in our lives? Life itself has no contradiction. How come all the conflicts come about if we live life? So, we have forgotten what life is. We only have a peripheral view of things and not the centre. We live off-centred. How will the wheels go if you have a cart and the hub is not in the centre? They will not turn smoothly, and that is why our lives are not turning smoothly. Therefore, you go through this guff, guff, guff. THE INNER SELF OF MAN REQUIRES NO TRANSFORMATION Our spiritual practices aim to bring us to our centre; the centre is life. The centre should control the periphery, like in a wheel with its spokes and the rim, so that the wheel can run smoothly. We live in the peripheral world that we are so conversant with, and only the true spiritual seeker will try to find the centre. I made a massive study where I found that when people join a spiritual organisation in the beginning, ninety-eight per cent of people do not enter it because they want to see the centre or find Divinity; they join it because of all kinds of troubles they go through. This could be emotional, physical, domestic, or job problems. That is why they start on the spiritual path, but they have started, which is begun. These things would smooth themselves out, by going nearer and nearer to the centre. We have been hearing of many of the experiences of our meditators, and they just find it so miraculous this mercy, which we call Gurushakti, that such transformations come. You are not transforming the centre; the centre is perfect. You are changing the spokes and the periphery and fitting it into the centre. That is the transformation of man; for the inner self, the centre, no transformation is required. Transformation means change, while the centre in man is changeless. As soon as Divinity starts changing, it loses its Divineness, and yet, the periphery we see, the unbalanced wheel, is an expression. WHEN ONE APPROACHES THE CENTER OF ONESELF, THE PERIPHERY BECOMES PERFECT TOO Now let us look at this differently: if everything emanates from the centre, why is the rim buckled and not running smoothly? Goodness can only come from goodness. Manifestation comes from the Manifestor, and every Manifestor is Divine, so its manifestation must be Divine. From a rose, you will have a rose fragrance. From a Jasmine, you will have a jasmine fragrance. True or not, but then why this? Is there any reality at all in this? There is no reality in the world you see around you. We live primarily in an illusory world. In his Vedantic philosophy, Shankara would say that you perhaps go through a street in the semi-dark, see a piece of rope lying there, and mistake it for a snake. But on close examination, you find it is not a snake. It is a piece of rope. So, when one approaches the centre of oneself, what happens to the periphery that seems imperfect? They, too, become perfect, and when you observe the perfection even in the manifestation, only you would say, “I am the way, the truth and the life,” for then you see everything to be Divine, even the buckled wheel is Divine. So why not “That guff, guff, guff.” IT IS ONLY THE EGO SELF THAT EXPERIENCE THE BUMP We are experiencing that because we bumped the cart through our samskaras and past lives, and it is only the ego self that is experiencing that, not the authentic self in you. When we have eyes to see and ears to hear, we will look at everything from the hub, the centre and every imperfection which the ego self conceives of; you will find that, too, will seem perfect by not looking at it from the mind and ego centre. Therefore, we say, “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.” But which part of you is the beholder? Your centre or the periphery? As we go deeper

The Essence of Union: Understanding the True Purpose of Marriage

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WHY GET MARRIED? In every man, there is a bit of a woman, and there is a bit of a man in every woman. But if they are in equal proportion, then you become a homosexual. No man can achieve enlightenment without going through the experiences of a woman. So, in a previous life, all of you guys must have had some lives as women as well, and therefore, that bit of woman in a man is a carry-over from previous lifetimes. You will find that men and women are built with different qualities. The man is the breadwinner, the hunter. Since primitive times, he has been the one who brings home the bread and beans. At the same time, the woman has certain qualities like tolerance, patience, kindness, and compassion. She has all those gentler qualities to make her fit to become a mother. A mother could never look after a child well if she has not got kindness, patience, compassion and all those things. So, marriage is for one purpose, where the qualities of man and woman can combine. In love for each other, the woman imparts her qualities to the man, and the man imparts his qualities to the woman so that wholeness can occur. And marriage is one of the best ways to learn these qualities. MARRIAGE IS A PARTNERSHIP Linda loves David very much. Why? It is because it is an overwhelming thing that wells up in her heart. She does not analyse it that David is so handsome and his lovely blue eyes and what-have-you. No, that does not matter. I told my wife so many, many times she is a beautiful woman, that even, God forbid, even if she has an accident and gets shrivelled and burned, I will love her just as much because I do not love the outer shape that she is. I love her inner Self, which is God. So, before you love your spouse, you love God first because God is love. Marriage is a partnership, in or out of wedlock. In wedlock, there is more caring, more responsibility and things like that, and it helps them grow and evolve. So, it is an outstanding institution. And then, little Bubba is born, and both care for the little child. Look at all the goodness that is coming out of us. We will do anything for the child. Even if the child is crying, the mother or father will wake up at two, three, or four in the morning to see the child. A woman has a certain quality; you can call it a kind of telepathy, that if something is going wrong with the child, she just suddenly wakes up and goes and sees the child. Some of you married women that have children, you will know. These things happen, and this forms coordination. If this coordination can be formed between two or three people, it can expand more and more so that you start loving the whole town, the whole country, the whole world, and the entire universe. Of course, the love between husband and wife is different from the universal love you develop, and that is what life is all about. THE INNER SELF IS THE IMPORTANT THING Marriage is an institution created by man. God did not create marriage, and man created marriage for more significant social stability. Till death do us part. That is one of the things you say when you get married. I say, “Even death shall not part us.” That is my view because my Spirit has become so at-one-ment with yours that even death, shedding these stupid little bodies, cannot affect you. Do you know what this body is worth? It is worth one dollar and twenty cents if it is brought down into its chemical components. That is taking into consideration inflation as well. The important thing is our inner Self, which is helped so, so much through meditation and spiritual practices. Through sincerity, through self-help, you try to help yourself. You know the saying; God only helps those that help themselves. We do not just sit in our seats; we do something about it, also. And combining all these things makes our lives much happier and more conducive to living. And we feel the throb of energy going through us vibrating, jubilant, joyous, blissful, ecstatic. I could empty the whole dictionary for you there. THE WEDDING FORM IS FOR SECURITY Many times, mainly in Western countries, we find people that live together without being legally married or without a piece of paper, and they feel guilty about it. And they come and speak to me, and I say you do not feel guilty about it. That piece of paper is of no sense, of no use. That is just made for the security of the woman or the man’s safety so that no economic injustice is done to them and the children can also be protected. That is all there is. The paper we find in the toilet is even better than marriage certificate paper and is much nicer and softer. But if you live together, by all means, you have my blessing, but be sincere. Be sincere, be truthful. Be truthful. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1984 – 43

The Absolute Within: Discovering Your True Pure Self

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EVERYTHING IS PURE The absolute is forever a pure entity, and being a pure entity is always a simple entity. All the relativity that we perceive around us is always very complex. Primal simplicity has become complicated, and we have forgotten how to recognise clarity because of the complexity. It is through this process that the pure seems to become impure. It is in the same way that the water vapour becomes a solid block of ice. Water vapour does not harm you, you walk through it, but the solid block of ice blocks you. So, melt the block of ice, and that block of ice is there in the Heart, and as that is melted, it becomes vapour, and when it becomes vapour, we march through it to our real nature, which is Divinity, the forever pure. What is the reason why and wherefore, and how has simplicity become a complexity? This has been a philosophical question debated throughout the ages, and no philosopher has ever been able to give an intellectual answer. The reason is that the primal simplicity, which we know as Divinity, is infinite, and man’s mind is finite. The finite mind could never comprehend that which is infinite. A question of this nature can only be answered in a parable form, which is why great teachers like Krishna, Buddha and Christ used the parables because the abstract value of Divinity can only be interpreted to a limited degree in symbol form. All parables are symbols because the mind works linearly from A to Z. The infinite existence does not operate in a linear form because it does not need to progress from A, B, and C to Z, it is a continued existence, and all the A, B, C, D, E, F, G exists at the same time. When it exists at the same time, then there is no space and no time. All the dimensions man’s mind can think of is here and now, but because the intellect does not have the full comprehensive ability of comprehension, it cannot take in the entire existence at one glance, that is, in the area of Divinity. Man can only see a section at a time, yet the units one sees one at a time are not perfect because if you put five people together and each one sees the same object, they will have a different interpretation of the same object. This proves that man’s mind functions according to its particular level. Because of these levels, comprehension is incomplete, which is why the mind cannot see the whole. Because it cannot see the whole, it sees parts which logical, and all the problems and all the inconsistencies and all those things that seem impure we see to be impure because of our limited vision. Meanwhile, in reality, everything is pure. Only the unreality of the mind imparts impurity to that which is pure, and that is why we have the old saying that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. A particular object might seem ugly and impure to one person, while the same thing would seem very beautiful to another person. That is why a highly evolved person in communion with Divinity only sees the good in everything, and there have been men of that stature like Buddha, Krishna and Christ. BE YOUR REAL PURE SELF When the greatest sinner like Mary Magdalene, the prostitute, came to the Lord Jesus Christ, he saw in Mary the inner essence of purity, and that is why he said, “I forgive you, my daughter, but sin no more,” that means that be your real pure Self and discard this limited view which your mind and body has given to you. Jesus could see the person as a total whole, while the ordinary people at that time could only see her as a bad woman, and everyone wanted to stone her. To comprehend purity, we must have that developed awareness, achieved through meditation. I will give you an example; we can use the sun analogy. It is through the sun’s heat that water vaporises into the sky, the same water vapour raised by the sun becomes condensed, and when it becomes condensed, it forms a cloud, and most times dark clouds, the sun is not affected. Yet, the cloud created by the sun obscures the sun and down here on earth, we find it dark. So, the pure sun has been the cause of the cloud, and that cloud has produced darkness, which is the process of nature. So, because of our limited conceptions, we only see the darkness and the cloud and never think of the sun above, which is pure. Yet, the essence of the sun is there in the darkness and the cloud because it is light that has created darkness. THE RELATIVE SPHERE OF LIFE ALWAYS HAS ITS OPPOSITES When we see light and darkness, we look at the pair of opposites, and everything in the relative sphere of life always has its opposites. Pain and pleasure, light and dark, black and white, everything has its pair of opposites; it has polarity. It is like a stick with two ends, where pleasure is at one end and pain is at the other end. Goodness at one end and badness at the other end because one cannot exist without the other. Through understanding and realisations, awareness of the mind and opening of the Heart through our practices, we perceive from the ends of the stick to the middle, and when we reach the centre, the limitations do not affect us; we are in the middle. If you take a stick and try to put it on your finger at the end, it cannot balance; it falls, but if you put the stick right in the middle of your finger, it stays in balance. It is, therefore, a practical demonstration. In our lives, the same thing happens through our spiritual practices. We leave the ends

Meditation and Spiritual Practices: The Spiritual Art of Transforming Aggression

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HOW TO HANDLE AGGRESSION? You can become non-aggressive yourself, but you cannot change this world. Rama tried nine thousand years ago. Buddha tried two and a half thousand years ago. Jesus tried two thousand years ago, yet the same form of aggression remains. Even in Jesus’ time, there was so much aggression that he was hanged on the cross. Look at that aggression against such a God on earth. Aggression will always be there, but we, as meditators or some of you that are not yet, would become so; we take away the aggression from ourselves through meditation and spiritual practices. When you are freed from aggression, remember that the people you encounter will feel that non-aggressiveness in you. In Sanskrit, it is called Ahimsa, non-aggression. You will feel it within yourself, and when you feel it within yourself and live it, then whoever’s path you cross, they too will become non-aggressive because everything emanates a specific force, a certain energy. ALL OF US ARE EMANATING A CERTAIN ENERGY Every one of you is emanating a special force, a specific energy. Even this flower is emanating its fragrance or whatever. There is an emanation all the time, and if you emanate peace because you are peaceful inside, then others around you will feel that peace too. I have never known anyone in this world, and I do not speak from books; I only speak from personal experiences; I do not know anyone who hates me because I love everyone. So how can they hate me if I love everyone? You radiate that peace; you radiate that power; you radiate that force of Divinity. So how can you hate? And hatred is behind all aggression. An imbalance also backs up aggression; you can call it psychosis, neurosis or whatever terminology you want to use. But that, too, is created by oneself. Anything that you make, you can uncreate always. There is no such thing as impossible. If I quarrel with my wife, for example, it must have happened about thirty-odd years ago, but by the time I get to bed, there is no quarrel. Therefore, if you sleep in twin beds, chuck them out and buy a double bed. An average person has an aura; it radiates to the extent of six feet around him. A Spiritual Master, his aura extends your whole city. But we are not talking of Spiritual Masters; we are talking of us here now; we develop an aura or an emanation – aura is a word used in occultism, and we are not interested in occultism, extending this emanation for six feet. Husband and wife sleeping together bathe each other in each other’s emanations, so more effective and greater closeness forms. You are imbibing from your partner, and your partner is imbibing from you, and those same energies that you are exuding become one energy between the two, and then there are no two left anymore. There is only one left: the emanation. That emanation is always there, even during sleep, intermingling with your beloved. I would still like to find someone who has slept in the same room with me and not feel better about it the next day. They definitely would, and that is true. ALL GREAT MASTERS HAVE TAUGHT UNDER THE NEED OF THEIR TIME Many reformers came upon this Mother Earth, and yet people that lived during the time of Jesus are non-better than the people that are living today. The teachings I give are the same as all the great Masters have taught. There is only one difference that I teach according to these times. I teach according to the times when people can understand. In Jesus’ time, he had to teach those fishermen and peasants differently. In Buddha’s time, he had to in his way, in Krishna’s time in his way, in Mahavir’s time in his way, to suit the times of the people. If there were a group of University Professors here to whom I have lectured many times, I would make it according to their needs, technically correct, which they would appreciate more. But that kind of talk will not help here. You want to drive a message home into the human heart and not talk above their heads. When you know what you are talking about, you can speak of the most profound truths in the simplest terms. That is what I learned at Santiniketan, the Institution which Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Prize winner, founded, Santiniketan. He won the Nobel Prize in nineteen thirteen for his book “Gitanjali.” It is a beautiful book. You must read a slim little volume; just try to get it. I remember there is one poem in there which is so beautiful. I have quoted it so often, not only quoting but living it, even before I read Gitanjali “I am nothing else but an instrument, a piece of wood, and He blows his Divine melodies through this little piece of wood so that the world could enjoy the beautiful symphony.” I am not the doer; He is the doer, the blower. If you ask me half an hour later what I spoke about, I will not remember. DARSHAN, TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF A MAN OF GOD Back to aggression – how aggressive do you feel sitting there? After speaking for about forty-five minutes now, do you think you are less aggressive within yourself, yes or no? Put up your hands. Nearly everyone. What caused this? Ask yourself what caused this. I will tell you what caused it. He is blowing the tune, and you are listening to what He is blowing through this little piece of wood. All your troubles and problems get forgotten immediately, called “Dharshan,” a Sanskrit word; it means to be in the presence of a man of God. That is what it means, Dharshan. The day will come one day when I will just sit here, just quiet with my eyes closed, and you

Living the Essence of All Religions: The Universal Message of Love in All Faiths

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IN OUR TEACHING, WE GO BEYOND ALL DOGMATIC BELIEFS If someone asks me, “Are you a Christian?” I would say, “Yes.” If someone asks me, “Are you a Muslim?” I would say, “Yes.” If someone asks me, “Are you a Buddhist? Hindu?” I would say “Yes” all along. We can say yes that I am a Christian, I am a Buddhist, I am a Hindu because we do not get tied up in the dogmas of religion. It has to be remembered that all dogmas in religion were inserted afterwards for the organisation of religion. A certain kind of organisation was required to make religion go on for ages and ages. Therefore one gets tied down to various types of rituals and multiple varieties of beliefs within specific confines. But behind it all, if we study Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism and examine the essence of these religions, then we come face to face with what truth really is. You get the bare facts without the trimmings. In our teachings, we go beyond all dogmatic beliefs because there is nothing in the world that has caused more harm than religion, and nothing in the world has done more good than religion. In the name of religion, thousands and thousands of people have been massacred, as you know. Some religions rose with the power of the sword. Take the example of the crusaders; rivers of blood flowed. Following dogmatic theology, one develops a fanaticism that my religion is correct, and your religion is wrong, and the other would repeat the same. All the conflicts begin between various beliefs, while the true purpose of theology, the true meaning of religion, is to resolve disputes, not create conflicts. That is how the definition of religion has been defeated over thousands of years. This has happened in every religion, even 5000 years ago. If you study Hinduism, there have been conflicts and fights and fights and fights. The Shaivites (worshippers of Shiva) would say this, and the Vaishnavites (worshippers of Vishnu) would say that conflicts are forever created. THE BASIS OF ALL RELIGIONS True religion is found when one transcends the dogmatism of religion, then the essence of the Bible is known, then the essence of the Gita is known, and then the essence of the Quran is known as well as others. Our purpose and what we teach here is to go down to the fundamental nature of religion, and the basic essence of religion is so simple, there is only one word that covers every religion and the meaning of all religions, and that word is love. Show me one religion that denies love. All of them say God is love, and love is God. To make the abstract quality of God a practical living reality, we must practice love. Love thy neighbour as thyself. That quality can be consciously created and enhanced through meditational and spiritual practices. Through meditational and spiritual practices, a greater integration occurs within us, and we are more able to give and portray love as a living reality. In other words, we do not believe in God anymore, but we live God, day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute. That is the purpose of all religions. Religion promises you a realised God, excellent; where will I meet him? Where am I going to meet that God? Some place called heaven, am I going to go there to meet him there? I want to meet him here and now, for heaven and hell are here and now. When one develops this quality of love, consciously, all the positive virtues that constitute or should constitute religion are associated with that. If you can love, you become more compassionate; you become kinder; you become self-sacrificing; you become giving. With that love, when you start thinking lovingly, your thoughts become positive, and positivity attracts positivity; negativity attracts negativity. By following this one simple principle which is the basis of all religion, we automatically and very spontaneously gather to ourselves all the virtues that are required to live a religious life, and to live a religious life is to live the living God, for He is here and now. I LECTURE TO GIVE A CONSCIOUS RECOGNITION OF WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT This is the basis of our teachings; it does not conflict with any religion. You have heard me say this many times before, if you are a Christian, become a better Christian, and understand the essence of Christianity. If you are a Hindu, become a better Hindu, and understand the meaning of Hinduism. That which I teach is the essence underlying all these religions. I am a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Hindu, yet I am above it all because we try to grasp religion. I do not discourage anyone from having any religion, for the greatest disfavour one could do to another is to break his faith. Perhaps today, his faith is a little faith; maybe it is entangled in dogmatism, but be sure that once that seed is there, it will grow where he will go beyond all the dogmatism. We teach to live a practical living god and not deny the beliefs of others. We encourage them, and at the same time, by encouraging their religions, we also point out the essence of it, and you do not need to make a big detour or send the man in the opposite direction. He is walking on this road, and we teach the person to develop greater awareness. This greater awareness is developed through our meditational and spiritual practices so that the target is in view. Still, at the same time, everything else connected around the target, the entire environment, is also perceived, which is called an altered state of consciousness. An altered state of consciousness means that you are more aware. At first, it was in a narrow channel, but now the same mind, the same consciousness, takes a greater panoramic view of what life

Turning Difficulties into Treasures: A Spiritual Perspective on Life’s Challenges

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WORK CAN ALSO BECOME A SPIRITUAL PATH Being on this spiritual path does not mean one must shirk all one’s worldly responsibilities. The body needs food; after all, what is your body? Nothing but food. It is the food that is eaten by a person that produces the muscles and the blood cells and all that, and all these things are necessary. You know the saying that the world owes you a living, but you have got to work for it. You got to work, and work is also a form of spirituality. To do one’s job well can lead you to the highest spiritual goals. A doctor does his work dedicatedly and filled with devotion; this can also become a spiritual path. A shoemaker puts all of his energies and whatever power he has into making that pair of shoes to such perfection that he brings forth that eternal spiritual energy within him. IN THE BEGINNING, STRICT DISCIPLINE WITHIN OURSELVES IS NECESSARY Many people want to be on a spiritual path not with total dedication but with wishful thinking that “I wish I were on a spiritual path,” and because I wish that, I am on the spiritual path. The wishful thinker is not necessarily a seeker. That very search you have in you must bring about specific difficulties because, as I have said many times, there are always polarities in this worldly life. The more you try to pull in the right direction, the wrong direction has some hold over you and tries to hold you back. The reason is due to your own making. Remember, we are creatures not just of today but of many, many lives before this one, and we are set in certain grooves, specific ways, and certain modes of thinking. One has to overcome that by exercising strict discipline within oneself. Discipline is necessary until we are well-established on the spiritual path. Then conscious discipline does not become essential because your life is a discipline, not within the norms of artificial laws, but within the norms of spiritual laws where everything you do is just right. It is suitable for your spiritual evolution and your spiritual unfoldment. DIFFICULTIES ARE THE GREATEST TEACHER When there are these difficulties, they must be welcomed because the problem is the most outstanding teacher in life. If you had all the happiness and things you think you want, then you would forget God and Divinity. You never remember Divinity when you are totally happy, and no one is really happy, but you remember Divinity mostly when you are in trouble. You say, “Oh God! What a life, what a business. Oh, Lord, if you are so merciful, then why all these troubles and difficulties?” But the poor Lord has nothing to do with our difficulties. The Lord does not give you pleasure, and he does not provide you with pain. It is a neutral energy, delivered to you as your birthright, from which you have originated, and you are that Divine energy. Still, because of all the conditionings of the experiences of previous lives and in this life, you block the Divinity from shining through. You, you, and no one else but you produce this Divinity. EVERY ADVERSITY CONTAINS WITHIN ITSELF AN OPPORTUNITY These talks and spiritual practices aim to bring about a particular understanding of the difficulties, for as we know, every adversity contains an opportunity within itself. What do we see? Do we see the adversities only, or do we see the opportunities? If our attention through understanding is led to opportunities, the sting of the difficulties and adversities disappear. They just disappear, and all the difficulties people have are typically exaggerated. There is no foundation in problem, a little perhaps, and that is necessary to goad you on. If that were not there, you would just become a vegetable, a non-thinking being, unable to function. So, if you have some difficulty, may you have some more. It keeps man awake. If I have a business that runs independently, with no opposition and no competition, I will become so self-satisfied that the business will not progress. But, if there is competition, it will put me on my toes, I will be on my toes to try to overcome competition to do better, and that is how the business will expand. Otherwise, expansion is not possible. Likewise, difficulties in our lives are there for growth, greater awareness, and a greater understanding of life. So, the difficulty is a blessing in disguise. But when a man’s mind is wrapped up in difficulty, he loses balance. He just sees darkness and not light. He considers the adversities and not the opportunities that are there in those very so-called adversities. No man in this world has difficulties if you look at it from the right angle. They are lessons to be learnt forever; after all, life is but a school. If your whole mental make-up, if your entire Karmic self, were not composed of difficulties, you would not have taken on this birth. Great Saints and Sages purposely take on life and difficulties, as Christ, Krishna or Buddha, or Mahavir did; they purposely take on an incarnation, a life, to be able to help people and give them some understanding of what difficulty is to take the sting out of difficulty. The snake of difficulty will bite, but it will have taken out the poison from its fangs. It will not poison you. Why should we live poisoned lives and get our minds entwined in those difficulties all the time? This comes through understanding; understandings are, of course, realisations, and a realisation is knowledge gained and assimilated. And when it is assimilated, when it forms part and parcel of the entire process of our mind and body, then it is called assimilation. Then you have digested it, for assimilation will have no digestion. It is only when food is not well assimilated into the system that you have indigestion.

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