Janujee, Author at FISU Meditation

How to Improve Your life? Transforming Life Through Meditation

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QUIETNESS OF THE MIND OPENS THE HEART Because you are Divine, every cell in your body is Divine. If we say God is omnipresent, He should be present in every cell of you. The only failure man has is that he does not recognise or have the cognition to know that he is Divine. If you stand down on the street, you will only see part of the road. But climbing a hill will give you a panoramic view of the city. Another thing happens when the person meditates besides the physical and psychological benefits. The person becomes more aware of himself and his environment. Your awareness expands, and with expanded awareness, all your actions will be the right actions. Then, not only does the mind develop, but it also goes to its quieter self and quieter centre – and that quietness experienced by the mind opens up the heart. When the heart, which is the core of the human being, the core of the human personality, opens up, there is greater coordination between the mind and heart, so you become more loving. Someone tells me, for example, “No one loves me.” So, it is very easy: become loveable, and everyone will love you. You do not need to go to call the butterflies. They will not come. Make your garden beautiful, grow beautiful flowers, and automatically, the butterflies will come. IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH MEDITATION Through meditation, one adds that extra depth to one’s life. One discovers oneself, and thereby, life becomes better. When life becomes better, everything around you becomes much more enjoyable. There is joy. You are made of joy, but we have lost the art of enjoying joy, but this art can be regained. Through meditation, you will find that your entire environment improves. A greater understanding develops between husband and wife, employee and employer. You will also learn how to forgive and love. People talk of love and say, “Love thy neighbour as thyself.” But how can you do that when you do not know yourself? Through these spiritual practices, you start knowing yourself, you start understanding your true worth, and you will begin saying one day, “I and my Father are One.” For you are at-one-ment with Him all the time. The only thing lacking is the recognition or the realisation of that oneness. When you discover this oneness, how can you hate another, for there is no one else to hate except you, and do not hate yourself? Then you would say, “I am my brother’s keeper” in its truest sense. ACHIEVING THE TRUE GOAL OF LIFE From these straightforward meditational practices, you achieve the true goal of life, for man’s goal is to recognise his reality. We are living only on the surface level. Like the ocean’s surface waves, the turbulent waves, and those waves are tossing us around. But if you dive just a bit deeper within yourself, you will find the ocean calm, and once you experience the calmness, you will appreciate the beauty of the waves. Then you would not say, “Oh, look at these waves, how turbulent they are!” But you will become a surfer and enjoy surfing on the waves. What do you learn there? You learn acceptance of life. With the growth of awareness, you become more and more accepting, and when you learn to accept things or situations as they are, you will naturally start surrendering. You see how all these virtues, all these good qualities which religion talks about, which all theologies speak about, are so interrelated that when one quality is developed, you automatically start creating the other attributes. BECOMING FEARLESS AND GUILTLESS Fear is the greatest bugbear in the life of man today. He fears everything. Everything becomes fearful when there is nothing to fear. You go down a dark road, and because your mind is filled with fear, you would think that a shadow you would see there on this road is a mugger that is going to mug you. Meanwhile, it could be a tree stump, but you would be afraid to go through the road. If you have fearlessness, by recognising and experiencing that Divinity within you, every aspect and every facet of your life will improve if you do not fear. Another significant problem that human beings suffer from is the sense of guilt. Guilt they are riddled with guilt, and that causes untold psychological problems. But in a way, it is suitable for some people to be guilty, or else the psychologists and psychiatrists would starve. The idea that is implanted in us since childhood is the sense of guilt, and you grow up with the idea that “I am a sinner, I am a sinner, I am a sinner.” You do not need that. You are not a sinner. You are placed in certain circumstances by the various impressions that whirl in your subconscious mind, which you must work through. In Sanskrit, they call it karma. That is a different subject altogether. How about approaching life with the attitude, “I am strong, I am strong, I am strong.” Not with the attitude of “I am weak, I am weak; I am weak.” For if you say you are weak, you will become weaker. A Frenchman started a clinic in France, and many clinics opened afterwards, but there was only one principle he used. He used to tell his patients that when you wake up in the morning and before you go to sleep at night, you say that I feel better and better. I feel better and better. I feel stronger and stronger. The cures were remarkable. They started feeling better and better, and today, doctors agree that all illnesses come first from the mind. They used to say that about sixty per cent of diseases were of mental origin, but now they have started saying that a hundred per cent of illnesses come from the mind. BECOMING JOYFUL You think, and your thoughts make

Attitude and Divinity: Shaping Attitudes in the Light of Divinity

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ALL IS WORTHY An injunction from the scriptures says, “Lord, I am not worthy to gather the crumbs from under Thy table.” No man, woman or child is unworthy, and Divinity regards no one as unworthy. Divinity itself, the neutral force, knows of no unworthiness. He is like the rain falling on fertile fields, barren ground, rocks, rivers, and oceans where water is not required. So, who is unworthy? None is unworthy. But this injunction has some meaning, and the purpose is to make man realise that he lives with an inflated ego and that inflated ego must be clarified. This inflation has to be deflated. Nevertheless, there is meaning in that teaching there that I am so unworthy. It means total deflation of one’s ego. It means a form of surrender to something higher. That unworthiness, that feeling of insignificance in the presence of the Lord, is something good because one has to become insignificant and reach rock bottom. Then, the upward turn comes where you feel all significance. For then, you have understood and realised what life is: that “His” life is my life, my life is “His” life. We are one, and I am just as significant as my maker. That made is non-apart from the maker, and that oneness is formed. But this outstanding teaching has also brought about things that are not good for people. How this is interpreted today has produced so much guilt in people’s minds, and guilt, you know yourself, is the greatest disorder – the most significant illness, for you keep dwelling in that guilty feeling as if you are in a whirlpool. You cannot get out into the vastness of the ocean. Theologies, unfortunately, have been so, so misinterpreted. Most of these injunctions have profound meanings. Therefore, true masters are always meticulous in what knowledge they give to whom. Is the recipient ready enough to understand what is said? A passage in a Sanskrit work written about three or four thousand years ago says that if a person of low understanding hears a sacred word, then lead should be poured into his ears. As a child, I found this to be terrible. I did not understand. I said, “How can this be? If something is sacred, let everyone hear it, from the saint to the sinner.” But later, I started discovering what it truly meant. What it meant was this: that deep, mystical, esoteric knowledge given to undeveloped minds can be misused. Specific knowledge can release within oneself a profound force, an intense power, and if you are not sufficiently evolved, you can destructively use the power. Hitler is an example. He was a brilliant man. He must have been clever enough to command what he had commanded and take over practically all of Europe until he lost the war. That power was misused – destructive power. That happens in all theologies; teachers must clarify truths as they were initially meant. THE GIFT OF FORGETFULNESS Deflating the ego means one has to work with one’s samskaras. But how can you work with your samskaras when you do not know them? Man is in certain circumstances now, and the present circumstances are only the total of all previous existences. Man does not know his samskaras and does not need to know them. What man needs to know is where he is today. He does not need to analyse all these various samskaras, impressions, and experiences he has gained over many lifetimes. So, what does one do? One does spiritual practices. The greatest gift given to mankind is the gift of being able to forget. If you have to remember all that has happened in this life or previous existences, your life would be very sorry. You might have been a murderer. You might have been a thief. You might have been a rapist. You might have been all kinds of things. The lessons that have brought you to this stage now are to become spiritual seekers in the path of the Lord. If you had to remember all those things, you would dwell on them all the time, and you would feel guilty: Oh, I was a murderer. I am unworthy to even feed on the crumbs under the table. THE PAST IS THE PAST So why can we not use that with our knowledge of ourselves today? The primary precept is to accept that I am worthy, not unworthy. We start from strength. If you say, I am sick, and I am sick, I am sick, you will become ill. If you say to yourself, I am strong, and I am strong, I am strong, you will become strong. However, this functions entirely on the mind level. But the functioning is necessary. The mind is essential, for it is not apart from the Spirit or this body apart from the Spirit. For example, suppose one starts with the affirmation that one is worthy, for there is nothing in this entire manifestation of the universe that is unworthy. In that case, Everything emanates from that Divine Force and anything emanating from something worthy has to be worthy. Let us get rid of this sickness that makes you sick: guilt. I did not treat my mother too well; I did not treat my father well, or they have not treated me well; I have done this to my boss; I have done that. That is the past! Seeing that you have realised, it is the past; the cure has begun. That is the proper diagnosis. The correct diagnosis is half the cure. THERE SHOULD BE A PROPER UNDERSTANDING These injunctions have to be correctly understood. It is not so easy. It could be words playing around in the mind saying, I am worthy, I am worthy, I am worthy. It could inflate the ego more. There should be a proper understanding that my worthiness is there in this vast scheme of things, and I am humble in the path of worthiness.

Connecting to the Kingdom Within: The Practical Benefits of Meditation

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THE MECHANISM OF MEDITATION Meditation is an art whereby you dive deep within yourself in a very systematic and scientific way. You lead the little conscious mind through all the layers of the subconscious mind and then still deeper to the Superconscious level of yourself. As far as our mind is concerned, we have these three factors: the conscious mind, the subconscious mind and the Superconscious Mind. The conscious mind is a fractional part of our mind. Even Einstein used about 8% of the totality of the mind. But man can use a more significant portion of their mind, for, in reality, only one mind is as vast as the universe. We can reach this vastness. Man has 12 billion cells in this little brain, which weighs about two and a half to three pounds, and we only use one-millionth of the 12 billion cells. This shows that we are not using our full capacity. Through meditation, we can explore the more significant part of our mind by putting more dormant cells into action. This action would naturally bring forth a more important and substantial part of yourself. Meditation takes you deep within yourself to the Kingdom of Heaven, within which is a reservoir of a vast amount of energy—an infinite amount of energy, but you have got to tap that energy. Using the tiny conscious mind, we go through the various layers of the subconscious mind. You would know more or less what the conscious mind is. The conscious mind functions from the brain’s left hemisphere, which is rational and analytical. But we forget the brain’s right hemisphere, which is intuitional, and that the intuitional part of the brain is connected more to the Spirit within you. When you meditate, you have greater synaptic control over your brain. The neurons you have would function more orderly and at a higher rate of vibration so that the conscious mind picks up from the intuitional level and every action you perform becomes the right action. Of course, the right action is proceeded by proper thought. THE CONSCIOUS MIND IS FOREVER IN CONFLICT All this tension is because your conscious mind is forever in conflict. There are conflicting ideas, and you do not know what to do. These ideas come, again, from the subconsciousness level, which is a storehouse of memories. If you believe in other lives, perhaps the subconscious mind contains all the impressions of what you have done since childhood or even before that. From this vast storehouse of memory, which is in the subconscious mind, these impressions get stimulated by the environment that you are in. By combining the environment and the subconscious mind, your conscious mind is set into action. But what is forgotten and not properly used is the Superconscious level of the mind, which knows of stillness. Scriptures would say, “Be still and know that I am God.” Every religion says that. Judaism also says, “Yahweh, I am, that I am.” They talk of the stillness. Through meditational practices, you are individually taught how to reach that superconscious level of yourself and find that stillness. And I always say if you spend half an hour in a perfume factory, you will come out smelling like perfume. These are ancient teachings that people have forgotten. We are just reviving these ancient teachings to bring them to their practical level. All world philosophies are useless if they are not brought into practice. Then they remain mental gymnastics; as I said, ancient teachings have been lost or watered down. All the ancient teachings have been watered down. Man’s goal and aim is to find his true nature, his true Self, which is still. Suppose you can experience that stillness through a systematic process of meditation. In that case, naturally, the tension and stress will go away because that stillness, that calmness, that peace that passes all understanding, is brought to its practical level in daily living. MEDITATION IS SOMETHING NATURAL I am not against medical doctors, but tranquillisers; that is what they give. Valiums and Librium and all these tranquillisers to make you calm and quiet. But it is so temporary, and it has many side effects. Suppose you, through a systematic meditation process, can experience that stillness. In that case, naturally, the tension and stress will go away because that stillness, that calmness, that peace that passes all understanding, is brought to its practical level in daily living. It takes about an hour a day. Half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening, you will gradually find that your quality of life improves by 23 hours apart from the one hour of meditation. You will find it improving – your sleep will improve – insomnia will disappear, and tensions will be released. You do not feel stressed. It is like the poem “IF” by Rudyard Kipling, where the whole world can go haywire around you, and you still maintain the stillness, the equilibrium. The significant thing meditation does for you is make you quiet and in harmony with yourself. If you are in harmony with yourself, naturally, you will not be tense or stressed. It strengthens your nerves. You will not have nervous breakdowns. Your inherent right is that harmony is produced within you; you are born with that harmony. Everything within you functions harmoniously. Measure your heartbeat, for example. It has a definite rhythm of beating harmoniously. Bills of cells in this body are working in harmony to keep this body going. Only the mind produces this disharmony. It is straightforward to meditate. Meditation is, to a certain degree, a mental process whereby you become relaxed by activating it and using it systematically. You will find your metabolic rate dropping, the tension disappearing, and you can be so busy in your work-a-day life. You can work sixteen hours a day and yet not feel tired. You function relaxed, and by functioning calmly, you become more efficient. You can perform more work

The Paradox of Purpose: Embracing the Purposeless Purpose

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IS THERE A PURPOSE, AS SOMETIMES LIFE SEEMS PURPOSELESS? From the narrowness of one’s mental analysis, everything in life seems purposeless. The idea of purposelessness is the very idea that has put man forth into a search for life. What is seemingly purposeless to me now, could it contain a purpose? If we believe in manifestation or creation, as all Theologies and Scriptures would say, then the Divinity that one knows about, experiences or even believes that he exists or that exists must be purposeless too. Could we ever tell ourselves that all creation and universe are without purpose? If everything is without purpose, what is necessary for the higher value of life? What is required for great personages like Jesus, Krishna, and Buddha to take birth on this earth to teach higher principles? What purpose is there? Why should all this be happening? Why should you be suffering? Why are you not integrated? What purpose is there? Is there something missing in our lives that we are searching for? Why are we here at this Course, for example? Because we are searching for something, we are searching for a purpose. That search might not be a conscious search. The mind is a funny animal. The mind can delude you to say that all this is purposeless. The mind will say that, but if we ask ourselves deep within ourselves, then we feel there is something, and we are trying to find what that something is. There again, the question arises, “Who am I?” Suppose your mind thinks everything is purposeless and that everything is floating around without aim, object, hazardously, or in chaos. In that case, we are wrong because the very scientists who would say that, in the next breath, also tell us that everything exists in accurate precision. The usual analogy of the flower growing: the sun is there, the air is there, minerals in the ground are there, the fertiliser is there, yet there is some coordinating factor that brings all these various things to the seed in its proper proportion to make this flower grow. What is that force that coordinates? The purpose of life is to find the essence and the meaning of that force. To find the meaning and the nature of that force, we also need to know what the essence is in us, and when we see the essence in us, we also know the essence in others. IF WE REGARD IT ALL AS A MANIFESTATION, THERE IS A PURPOSE The theory about the black hole is beautiful, but do you know that many more holes existed before the present black hole of the cycle? The universe is an eternal thing because all matter is infinite, too, and it goes through this process of flux. People of Theology will say that all this creation is an expression of God. Who requires expression? God does not require expression. Anything involving expression is imperfect, and if Divinity is considered perfect, why should it express itself? An artist paints a picture to find perfection in his expression. A composer composes to see perfection as an expression in its composition. So, you require expression; you must be imperfect and lead yourself to perfection. That is where certain forms of theology do not convince scientists. But if we should regard it all as a manifestation and not a creation, it is a different angle from how we would look at things. The angle would be such that there is a purpose even in purposelessness. There is a purpose if we view things in the sense of manifestation. Then, we could use the analogy that the fire does not create heat, but it is the nature of the fire to give off heat. MAKING YOUR OWN LIFE SMOOTHER, IS THAT NOT A PURPOSE? My friend has said God is good, yet he finds evil in that goodness. What has seen evil, God or you? Is evil not a conception of your mind, or is evil the conception of God’s mind? Good or evil are two ends of the stick we have spoken about, the ends of polarity, for there is no evil in existence to the person who has transcended the pairs of opposites. So, when we speak from a very, very limited point of view, if we talk from the finite mind, which is incapable of appreciating the infinite, then that finite, limited view will see separations, will see divisions, will see good and will see evil. Evil and sound are a conditioning of the mind. Because of the collective conditioning of individual minds, a whole social thing is built up whereby society determines what is good and what is evil. That is the creation of man’s mind. Divinity is so above it that it is not concerned with your little goodness and evils. But when you are in the relative aspect of life, and you can weigh, you can discriminate what is harmful and not dangerous, and then you try to proceed to that which is harmless and not toxic, thereby making your own life smoother. To make your own life smoother and to make your own life integrated, is that not a purpose? I ask you, “Is that not a purpose”? How can we ever say that life is purposeless? THE RELATIVE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO FIND HAPPINESS The relative purpose of life is to find happiness. It is a straightforward word but the most difficult thing to attain if we keep thinking everything is purposeless. If the ultimate is purposeless, then the relative must be more purposeless. You have to admit that. If we are trying to find purpose in this life, the purpose constitutes a totality within ourselves where we can function as a total being and not as a fragmented person torn apart. If the purpose of this life is to bring together ourselves, our minds, our hearts, our souls, our spirits, or whatever you want to call it,

The Eternal Wanderer: The Purpose and Path of the Incarnation

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AVATARAS – INCARNATIONS Occasionally, when imbalances occur, a great force descends to Earth to bring about a balance. That is what the Bhagavad Gita says. What are the mechanics of this? How does it happen? The Avatara is forever the eternal wanderer. He might live his life here on Earth, but in the concept of time that we have spoken about, he lives but a moment here and does what has to be done. Great teachers have come about, have come to Earth to give their teachings to suit the times, and those teachings are eternal. Over time, our teachings erode. They lose their force. So many misinterpretations take place. For people with their organisational needs, which has happened in Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism, the true teachings have been distorted. There was a chap called Nasrudin, and his friend brought him a duck as a present. So Nasrudin made a lovely soup with this duck, and he ate a good portion of it, and there was a bit left. Then there was a knock on the door, and a person came. Nasrudin asks, “What do you want?” he says, “I am the friend of the person who gave you the duck, and I am hungry.” So Nasrudin gave him a little of the soup. A while later, someone else knocks on the door, and Nasrudin asks, “What do you want?” He says, “I am the friend of the friend of the person who gave you the duck.” There was not much soup left. So, Nasrudin took a bit of the soup, added some water to make up a bowl and gave it to this person. Then, a while later, another knock on the door came, and this person came and said, “I am the friend of the friend who is the friend of the person that gave you the duck.” Now, there was very little soup left. So Nasrudin added in water to make up the bowl and gave it to him. And this happened again until the soup was nothing but pure water. Then, this person said, “This is just like water!” So, Nasrudin replied, “You are the friend of the friend of the friend of the friend of the friend who gave me the duck, so this is the soup of the soup of the soup. This happens with teachings. They get watered down, and the original essence is lost. That is why the eternal wanderer, the incarnation, has to come again and again to revive the original teachings of Love, faith, and peace. The Avatara, or the Incarnation, is a person who will not merge into unity consciousness, for merging away in that consciousness would not be necessary for him to take birth. But he always sits on the fence, and it is his choice to merge away in that unity consciousness or come back into this world. Remember, it is not only this world that the incarnation is interested in. He goes from planet to planet. You will remember that this world of ours is duplicated and replicated thousands of times. There are people similar to us on other planets that have not yet been discovered beyond our solar system or even beyond our galaxy. There are other planets where there are beings more evolved than us that do not need verbal communication. Communication is just done by thought, just done on the feeling level. You have a feeling, and I know it, and I have a feeling, and you know it. More evolved, that operate on a subtler level, like that. There are so many worlds and worlds and worlds, and the incarnation travels everywhere where he is needed, where a more significant imbalance has taken place, where truth has been buried, and where he comes with the spade and digs. THE INCARNATION IS FOREVER READY Every person emanates something. A town emanates something. A city, a country, and the whole world emanate a particular force. That force could be reasonable, so the Avatara does not need to come. But if the force is of such nature that shows a significant imbalance, it becomes a magnet, a magnetic force that pulls the Avatara to where he is needed. The incarnation is forever ready. His ever-readiness and the magnetic pull from the Earth are the two factors that bring the incarnation, such as Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Mahavir, and Moses, down to Earth. His primary purpose is to awaken people’s hearts to show them the way home. Therefore, Christ rightly said, “I am the way; I am the life,” which is true. Yet, if you study the lives of these great men, these incarnations, their lives have been so simple, beautiful, and ordinary. I have said to you, perhaps, that man must become more ordinary than ordinary to be extraordinary. You will find this portrayed in the lives of these great incarnations. Buddha, Christ, and Krishna never cared for pedestals, all the show and sham. That is good for those that are not capable. They must put on a front, show, and wear fancy clothes. When you go into a shop, and the suit or the dress is not of such good quality, you will find in the window all the different lights highlighting that particular suit or dress to make it attractive. But it is of cheap quality, and they charge you double for the lighting! However, in the actual incarnation, he does not care what people think because respect or disrespect is immaterial to him. It is all the same because he has risen above it. THE INCARNATION HAS TO SHOW HIMSELF AS A HUMAN The question would remain: once the Avatara has given birth, why does he not start his teachings from the very birth? Here, the incarnation comes from this vastness and embodies himself in this little body; he, too, has to open himself up. He, too, has to know who he is. He, too, has to take a bath after travelling

Knowing God: From Abstract to Living Presence

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IS THERE REALLY A GOD? What caused man to be separated from God in the first place is a total misconception fostered by so-called church organisations. There has never been any separation between man and God. If God is regarded to be omnipresent, then where is the separation? It is He who is present within you all the time. Man feels that he is separated because of an undeveloped consciousness or an undeveloped awareness in which he does not seem to realise his real Self. He finds himself separated because of all the problems he experiences, all the anxieties he has, and all the troubles he might suffer. Then he says, “Is there a God?” He questions that. If there was a God, which is usually what the theologians call a kind and passionate Father, why should he be so unkind to people and make them suffer? Yet, they do not seem to realise that Divinity is a neutral energy, an all-pervading, all-permeating neutral energy, and you, yourself, bring suffering upon yourself. The suffering comes about by the various mental conflicts you have created, so Divinity is not to be blamed. How many times a day do you ever think of Divinity? You do not. You would believe that instead of dinner, you will cook the clothes you wear or the work you do at your workplace. You do not think of Divinity at all. The only time you think of God is when you are in trouble. You say, “Oh, God, please help me.” He will not, that is for sure! He will tell you, “Help yourself.” Therefore, the old saying we know so well, “God only helps those who help themselves.” This means that you are activating that divine energy to help yourself to bring the calmness into your mind. And, by bringing calmness into your mind, your anxieties disappear. People have analytical minds but do not analyse their thought processes properly. They always negatively analyse them, and 99.9 percent of the world’s people still like to think of the dark side of things and never about the silver lining behind every cloud. People do not see the opportunity that lies in every adversity, and this very adversity that you are going through makes you feel that you are separate from God, where, in reality, no separation has ever occurred. Divinity is said to be infinite and eternal, and so are you, infinite and eternal. BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD Dropping one body and picking up the next body is like changing from one suit to the other. Yet, that inner Self forever remains in its stillness. It is said in theology, “Be still and know that I am God.” Who is to be still? You are to be still and know that you are God within yourself. God does not need to be still; He is stillness. The cognition must come from you; a systematic meditation process can quickly achieve this. You lead the conscious mind through the subconscious layers and then to the Superconscious mind, where you contact Divinity. I have said this before, somewhere, talking around the world: I do not believe in God. I do not. I know God! And that is what everyone must strive for to know God. By knowing God, you will find the living God and not an abstract conception of some old man sitting on his throne somewhere up there. The separation is not a separation, but it is based upon our ignorance. Through evolution, from the primal atom I spoke about, one goes through so many different experiences, and all these experiences go into the memory bank of your mind. Unpleasant experiences have a habit of clinging more and more to you than good experiences. When these unpleasant experiences cling to you, your faith in Divinity diminishes. It clouds up everything. The sun is always shining up there but is covered by clouds. Who created the clouds? The sun itself. It drew up the water vapour, which condensed itself to become a cloud and obscured the sun, and yet, the sun is untouched. So, we live in obscurity and ignorance by denying the universality and eternity of that which Is. Through spiritual practices, you develop a sense of Is-ness. I am That I am: Yahweh. You develop the sense of Is-ness, and the more you create the feeling of Is-ness, the more you will live a life of here and now and not a life in the past or projected into the future. DEVELOPING THE SENSE OF IS-NESS How does one develop a sense of Is-ness? Is-ness is a consciousness of the highest level. There are many, many levels of consciousness. You have gross consciousness that works on stimuli and sensual inputs, and it is just floundering around there on the senses. Only when you flounder in the senses, do you feel separate from God because the stimuli you receive are forever changing. It is changing, changing, changing. One day, you might eat one particular dish and like it very much, and the next time, the same dish would seem tasteless to you, yet it is the same dish of food. This means mental conditioning. If your mind is continuously conditioned to separation, you can also recondition or repattern the mind to non-separation. The most significant trouble in the world has been caused by duality, the separation between you and Divinity. That is the most essential cause of all problems: duality. When you have two, there is friction, but when there is one, there is no friction. With what can it have friction? There is no second factor or object with which it can have friction. To the ignorant people, Jesus would say, “Pray to thy Father in Heaven,” because that is what the peasants would understand. He would say to the others a little more advanced, “You are a part of God.” But to those who knew the teachings and could understand Jesus,

Perfection Within: Awakening to Your True Self

Belief, Bliss, Divine, Force, God, Heart, I am That I am, I and my Father are one, Joy, Manifestation, Mental Patternings, Mind, Self-Realization, Spiritual Practices, Wisdom

YOU ARE PERFECT BEINGS How can you differentiate between beauty and God, and how can you draw a line between God and truth? So I am that beauty, and if I am that beauty, I am that God. And if I am the God, I am that truth. That is the totality of self-realisation. You, as you are sitting here, are already self-realised. You are perfect beings. You are total perfection, but the veils you have drawn across your eyes do not allow you to see how perfect you are. And because you cannot see the perfection within yourselves, everything else you view outside you will seem imperfect too. By our spiritual practices, we find ourselves first. Man know thyself, and when you know yourself, you will at the same time, also know that you are perfect. For nothing in creation could be imperfect. Otherwise, it would not be creation or manifestation if there was a single iota of imperfection there. So do not lose heart, my beloveds. But know, and know this hopefully well, that you and the Father are one. There is no contradiction. Man’s mind only created a contradiction. MAN’S MIND INTERPRET TRUTH IMPERFECTLY Man’s mind, meaning the interpreters of what truth is. Because their minds are imperfect, they interpreted truth imperfectly. They try their best, so much, so hard they try, do they not. All theologies try very hard to make you feel that you are imperfect so they could have a grip on you. But know this well that you are perfect. You do not need any theology. You do not need any belief system. You do need any dogmas. You do not need any creeds when you can honestly say that I and He are one. Brahmasmi. I am Brahma. Tat twam asi. Thou art That, as well as I. When these distinctions cease, you will live on this earth but in a different dimension. You will live in the dimension that I live in. For I have gone beyond all discrimination, there is nothing ugly at all. Everything is just beauty, beauty, beauty. You slap my face now, and my immediate reaction would be, “Ah, how beautiful that you have touched me.” Why slap my cheek only? Slap my heart as well, and by you slapping my heart, remember I will impart those feelings of my heart to thee. What would be the unevolved mind’s normal reaction to this? Oh, that bloody “B” slapped me, and you get filled with anger, and when you are filled with anger, you are losing the joy which is inherent in thee. From where does that anger come? Is it not only your creation? Is it not the patterning of your mind that creates anger? Or hatred or lust or greed or whatever? Is it not just those patternings? TREAT LIFE AS A JOKE We try to and must unpattern the patternings until the slate of life is clean. All those squiggles are gone. In that slate that is clean or the mirror that is not dirty, we can truly see ourselves. How many times do you look in the mirror and see yourself? You do not. You see your face, and then you use all that lipstick. Then you pull your eyes and put some eyeshadow over there, and then you take false hair, and you know from where that false hair comes? And you glue it onto your eyes to make your eyelashes longer. Look at my eyelashes, totally natural, normal, and long. When I tell you people “open your eyes slowly,” I cannot do it because my eyelashes are too long. I have got to give it a bit of a jerk. You see, life is nothing else but a joke. Then you put on this rouge, and then my beloved puts on her lipstick and then I cannot kiss her. Because then she will have to do it all over again. Life is a joke. Treat life as a joke, for it is the divine play. Regard it to be a play, do not take life so seriously for God’s sake. In any case, you cannot get out of life alive. ENJOY THE JOY Enjoy the joy which life is, and this is the knowledge I impart to you. That there will be ups and downs, so what. What does it matter? Let me enjoy the downs just as much as I enjoy the ups. Because you have got to go down to go up, it happens in every situation, even in lovemaking. I am trying to point out the frivolity, the stupidity, and not seeing life in its true perspective. No one needs to be unhappy because your true nature is total bliss and not misery. Know for sure, that the misery you feel now and then is superimposed upon the bliss you are. Take away the misery, and live in that Is-ness, which is devoid of misery. As I said, life is nothing else but a joke. But even jokes have to be understood because you could never laugh if you cannot understand the joke. Now is that not deep truth or deep wisdom? Develop this understanding. Therefore, I travel around the world, giving these courses so that people could understand and look at life from a different perspective, to rid themselves of misery and their suffering. Then I give the tools that you can work with, your spiritual practices that will help you gain a greater understanding of yourself. Of course, you need regularity, and that is no joke. You need regularity in your spiritual practices because that makes you draw from deep within yourself that energy that is so powerful, so forceful, that will lessen the burdens of your life. And at the same time, you get the understanding of life from me through our talks and lectures. That is what we need. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1985 – 11

The Harmony of Energy: Exploring Chakras and the Journey to Enlightenment

Awareness, Conscious Mind, Consciousness, Enlightenment, Evolution, God, Harmony, I and my Father are one, Mind, Relationships, Samskaras, Self, Self-Realization, Spirit, Spiritual, Spiritual Master, Spiritual Practices, Universal

CHAKRA MEANS WHEEL The brain is not only centred in the head, but the brain goes right down your back through the spinal column. The spinal cord is part of your brain. For the physical system to function, it must have certain energy vortexes. Chakra means wheel, and a wheel forever turns. Therefore, it is a vortex forever spinning, spinning, spinning. You have seven hundred chakras. In other words, there are seven hundred centres from which energies are emitted, but there are seven main ones. You have the Muladhara, Swadhistan, Manipura, Anhata, Vissuda, Ajna, and, of course, the Sahasrara, which is the sum totality of all the brain cells in your two-and-a-half-pound weight organ called the brain. That is called the Sahasrara. We know that the navel centre has a complex of nerves. There is also a very complex nervous system in the heart area, which is gathered in a bunch and likewise in various parts of the body. What we are doing is just discovering the extension of the brain, which contains billions of cells. The spinal cord continues the brain with its various nerve centres. Without these nerve centres, you cannot function. The solar plexus has its vortex of energies, and so does the heart area, the Muladhara, the Vishuddha and the Svadhishthana. These are energy centres and vortexes in the brain. Certain parts of the brain, at least ninety-odd per cent of the brain, are dormant. The cells are functioning but not totally connected to your consciousness. Through spiritual practices, we set those energy centres or chakras at a proper vibration rate so that the brain’s left hemisphere can work in conjunction with the right hemisphere through synapses. Neurons flash across at such a high vibratory rate that you can recognise things you have not known before, which is the meaning of awareness. You are awakening the dormant brain cells by activating these various energy vortexes. EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS AN EXPRESSION With the physical body, we have the subtle body, a duplicate of the physical body in a subtle form. All mental illnesses or psychosomatic illnesses stem from the subtle body; the subtle body cannot contain it within itself but has to transmit it, has to express itself. Everything in life is an expression. Everything in life has to express itself to rid itself of these various energies. More energies come to you only by dissipating or throwing off them. So, it is always by giving that you are gaining. When the subtle body functions in harmony, that harmony is transmitted to the physical body or the waking conscious mind, where cognition occurs; without the subtle body, you will have no perception. All five senses – seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting – will never function if your subtle body is not working correctly. As with lousy hearing, your subtle body is affected first. IN HEALING, WE TREAT THE SUBTLE BODY When we heal, we treat the subtle body and bring all its energies into a harmonious state, bringing them to the right vibration pitch. That, in turn, reflects upon the physical body and righted the wrongs of the physical body. The subtle body is but a continuum of the physical body, and so is the Spiritual Self of man, a continuum of the subtle body. It is all but one superimposed one upon the other. This means that there is no separation whatsoever. When you water a plant, you do not water the branches or the leaves; you water the root. You treat the roots—that is where the fertiliser goes. That is where the water goes. Once the root of yourself is strengthened, once your subtle body is strengthened, you will not find ill effects in the grosser counterpart, which we know as the physical body. In healing, we treat the subtle body. Just as the physical body has its physical nervous system, so does the subtle body and its subtle nervous system. By energising that subtle nervous system and bringing it into greater harmony, you feel well-being. Your specific organs could be destroyed, but the feeling of well-being can always be maintained by exercising the subtle body. That is why certain chakra practices are prescribed to people wherever required. THE SUBTLE BODY AND THE PHYSICAL BODY WORKS TOGETHER Do not ever think the physical body is separate from the subtle body. It works in a continuum; the only time a so-called separation occurs is when you discard the physical body. The physical body is just an instrument, a piece of wood, through which the subtle body or the mental body or you could call it the samskaric body, transmits itself. When you like someone or fall in love with someone, you are not falling in love with the physical self. You are falling in love with that subtle body transmitting itself through the physical body. Therefore, people who do not understand the ramifications and the subtle body’s complexities concentrate only on the physical body. What has to be righted there is the subtle body. That is where healing comes into the picture; healing is to make whole. That is healing. When you, as healers, become the channel and are taught how to become the channel, these energies are transferred to you to use wisely without any gain or sense of gain. These energies of the Universal Spirit flow through your subtle body, then through your physical body, and contact the object or the patient’s physical body to penetrate the subtle body and make the subtle body function harmoniously. The subtle body is the vehicle that leads one to enlightenment, where all the chakras function at a much finer level and are in total harmony. SPIRITUAL PRACTICES HARMONISE AND HEIGHTEN THE ENERGIES The subtle bodies of ninety-nine-point 99999 percent of the world’s people are not functioning in harmony, which is why conflicts occur. That is why one samskara is battling against another, and disputes are produced. Conflicts are expressed in all kinds of relationships

Astrology and Self-Mastery: Embracing Divinity as Your True Compass

Ancient Sages, Freedom, Heart, Karma, Mind, Samskaras

ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS Whether you call it our movement or organisation, it has no do’s or don’ts. It is not dogmatic but filled with freedom. Ancient sages conceived of specific ideas; studying stars, for example, led to astronomy, and the mystics took astronomical calculations and formed astrology from them. This is not to deny astrology, but astrology must be viewed only in the light of the astrologer. For astrology, it could only be as good as the astrologer. For example, if I want to study your life, I do not need to study planets. I need to look into your eyes, see your totality there, and do an entire life chart on what life holds for you. These methods were devised as specific guidelines. But then the guidelines were taken too literally instead of figuratively. As far as astrology or numerology, or phrenology or any “ology” goes, it is the intuitional insight of the person concerned that would understand what underlies the currents that underlie the subject on whom a chart is drawn. Who says you have a chart in life? Are you not formulating your chart day by day? MAN IS THE MASTER OF HIS DESTINY I admit to one thing: that every human being since birth is born with certain tendencies that extend back to previous samskaras and karmas and previous doings. They are born with certain tendencies, but that does not mean they must be followed to the “T”. Tendencies can be changed. For example, this person whose father was an alcoholic and believed that because his father was an alcoholic, he too tended to be an alcoholic. This is not scientifically correct, but there is a tendency. But the son does not need to become an alcoholic. Though the tendencies might be there, you can formulate what you want to take unto yourself. Every day, every moment is a new moment, and you are forever formulating the next moment. This moment formulates the next moment, the next moment formulates the third moment, and the third formulates the fourth, and like that, it goes on. That is why we say man is a master of his destiny. YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF CONDITIONING I might have told you this story before, where this man is living in Johannesburg, and of course, I am living in Cape Town, a thousand miles away. He phoned me and said, “Guruji, I have a problem, and I want to fly down to talk to you about something. It is essential in my life.” I turned up my diary and said, “Look, come down such and such a day.” So, he came down. We sat down and chatted a bit, and then, as the first thing, he pulled out a horoscope, a life chart done by one of the most famous astrologers in South Africa. It was written that if you get married, your marriage will only last for two years and will be the unhappiest days of your life. I closed my eyes and started meditating. Immediately after that, I took that 8,9,10 pages; the more pages, the more you can change. I tore it to bits, threw it in my wastebasket, and said, “You fly back to Ingrid, propose to her, and get married.” They have been married for several years, talking about ten years ago. They have two kids now, and they are thrilled. So, astrologers can harm people because that thought will be working on their minds all the time, and when an idea works in your mind all the time, you can materialise the thought. Be it good or bad. After all, you are a product of conditioning, conditioning of your mind. Therefore, I always say, call yourself, “I am weak, I am weak, I am weak”, and you will get weaker. But say, “I am strong, strong, strong,” and you will get stronger. EACH PERSON IS A CATEGORY UNTO HIMSELF That is from the astrologer’s point of view. Let us take the point of view of the person who goes to an astrologer. Why does the person go to an astrologer or a numerologist or blah, blah, blah? You know the essential factors are only these: a sense of unsafeness, a sense of no self-confidence, a sense of insecurity or inadequacy. You are so afraid of yourself. Do you know that the horoscope chart in some newspapers increases the circulation of some newspapers? Thousands of people, when they buy a newspaper, the first page they open is the horoscope page. They look at that, and their whole day is governed by what the morning paper says about what will happen to them that day. 4000 MILLION PEOPLE How can you divide up 4000 million people into 12 zodiacal signs? How can 4000 million people fall into 12 categories only? When is each of the 4,000 million people a category unto himself or herself? So, we must not rely on these things. Instead of getting out of conditioning, they are conditioning themselves more. You will meet a girl with red hair this afternoon. Will you avoid her or take her to tea? Does the man meet the girl with the red hair? He does not. So, stop looking at horoscopes! What is the sense of it? No sense. Instead, wake up every morning and tell yourself that I am Divinity. I am a product of Divinity itself. I am a product of Divinity; Divinity shines through me, and I am that Divinity. A simple little prayer in the Heart. Thank you, the powers that be, for seeing a new day. And let this day be practical. Or, say, “Help me make it a good day.” All these thousands of books published on astrology and all these “ologies.” You talk of junk foods in this country. I call these junk sciences. They are unnecessary because you are formulating your life every moment of the day. Therefore, you are the master of your destiny and not some astrologer. He

There is only Beauty: Transcending the Illusion of Separation

Christ, Consciousness, Divinity, Duality, Ego, Eternity, God, Happiness, I and my Father are one, Manifestation, Manifestor, Peace, Purity, Self, Separation, Spiritual Practices, Surrender

I AM THE FATHER, AND I AM THE SON There is no contradiction between “My” will and “Thy will”. The contradiction only lies in the fact on which we put greater emphasis. For if I and my Father are one, how can there ever be a division between “His will” and “My will”. Because I do not exist, nor does He exist, and that is something very revolutionary that I am telling you. Because if He exists and I exist, I am forming a separation between Him and me. But when I cease to form the separation between Him and me, there could be nothing but existence itself. And when existence exists by itself, there is no such thing as “I and my Father are one.” Because I am the Father, and I am the son because there is no separation. You regard yourself as a tiny entity, and you believe Him as a significant entity. Why? It is just your mind, your thought processes. Because you do not feel happy or satisfied with yourself, you are looking for a big entity to help you make yourself happy. Is that not what you are doing? When Jesus said, “I and my Father are one,” he realised the oneness: that he is the Father and that he is also the Son encapsulated in a tiny little body. That is the son. Yet the body does not matter, and neither does your mind matter. For matter does not mind, and mind does not matter. LOSING THE SENSE OF INDIVIDUALITY When we lose the sense of I am John, Jack, Laura, Mary, and that sense of that small I-ness, all separation will cease immediately. One has to align oneself with this immediacy because it is not so far away. It is there on the spot. What is not there is the realisation of the fact. That is not there. How do we get rid of this conceptual being? It can only be got rid of by saying, “I am not,” and if you cannot say “I am not,” you are knotted up. All the wrinkles are there, and the knot is so tight in the string of life that you find so much trouble untying the knot, and the trouble you go through in untying the knot – that is your suffering and your misery. If this life has no knots, then there is no misery. When there are no knots in this string of life, remember that this string is not composed of individuality because individuality is a knot but a continuum into eternity, into infinity. Then you would say, “I and my Father are one.” YOU ARE PURE ENERGY This realisation can only dawn through spiritual practices. When that realisation comes, all sufferings and miseries will disappear from your life because that which you call the Father is devoid of any suffering or sorrow. It is pure energy. What are you? Tell me, what are you? You are also just energy. What makes you live? What makes your mind function? How can you move your limbs if you are only energy? With realisation, individualised, so-called individualised energy merges into universal energy. In other words, you have left individuality and found your real self, universality. How do you go to reach that stage? One way is to say, “I am not. Only He is, and I am He.” That means total surrender, total letting go of that little ego self that is boiling and brewing up within you all the time—no wonder you are all intoxicated. Be intoxicated, but be intoxicated in divine love. And Scotch can never achieve that purpose. Please do not ask me for sanity; ask me for insanity. I am sane if I could bring that “in” within sanity. Otherwise, you are insane. Ninety-nine point nine, nine percent of four thousand million people existing on this little planet are insane. Only a fraction knows true sanity because they instilled the “in” into sanity. And by instilling that “in” into sanity, they find themselves. That is called divine intoxication. The question disappears. The question disappears because the question of the Father and the Son disappears. When the concept of the Father and the Son disappears, naturally, all questions disappear. They have no value at all. THE GREATEST QUESTION IN LIFE What is the most significant question in life? Do you know? The most outstanding question would remain a non-question. Only the searching, seeking, scorching mind wants to find that inner peace and equilibrium that asks a question. The mind asks a question. But no questions are left when the mind is balanced and merged in that Divinity. These questions are so necessary for the process of mind. You have to walk with your feet from here to that road there; otherwise, you will not reach the road. But once you have reached the road, the question of walking or the effort of walking is no longer necessary. The most significant question has to be, and that is within yourselves all the time. You might not recognise it consciously, but subconsciously, it is there, and that question is, “Who am I?” Everyone in this world is questing to find the answer, “Who am I, what am I?” But the emphasis is wrong, and I would challenge Ramana Maharshi or any of these so-called Maharishis. Who am I? What “I” are you talking about? The “I” people mostly talk about is that little self, so they have to ask, “Who am I.” Because if you are in a state of realisation of the big I, then that question will never come up. So, you are questioning who you are as your little self. I am Gururaj. Who the devil is he? There is no such thing; there is no Gururaj Ananda Yogi. He does not exist. He is an illusion presented to you to bring you the message of truth, the basis of truth, and all that truth stands for.

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