Janujee, Author at FISU Meditation

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

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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.

Beyond Purpose: Discovering the Essence of Existence

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THE PURPOSE OF LIFE What is the purpose of life? To answer this question, it would imply another question within the question that life could be purposeless. Yet, we try to find purpose in purposelessness. The nothingness of life becomes something. Who makes life into something? We do, with mental meanderings that add importance to living, life, and existence. There lies the purpose of purposelessness. Without purpose, you cannot exist, yet existence by itself, on its being, does not have any pretence for any purpose.Purpose is added to everything we do by ourselves, and then we get messed up by trying to find too much purpose in it. Our little thoughts and thoughts make a purpose out of nothing. According to one’s imaginings or imagination, the most significant purpose is to reach the goal. But then also consider one thing: where is there that one has to go? Because you have reached there – you are there – you are the totality of all existence. If you would say, “I have to realise that I am all existence,” then purpose disappears. Then there is no purpose to life because you are it all. But when you find the shortcoming within yourself to say, “I have a goal to reach,” you indulge in the factor of purpose, which is factoring purposelessness into purpose. So, we are chasing rainbows, are we not? And yet the rainbow is so beautiful, with all its seven colours that begin nowhere and end nowhere. However, seemingly or within your thoughts, you think there is a golden pot there, where there is no golden pot at all, for the rainbow is only seen through the prism of your mind, for it does not exist. So, those who think that life is purposeful are chasing rainbows. Yet, behind it all, there is that white light, and through the prism of that light, we see all the varied colours of which life is constituted. Where do we go? From purposelessness to purposefulness and then back again to purposelessness. That is the cycle. Yet, I do not think I could exist if I could not hold Sujay in my arms, mother, or my beloveds here. To keep them so close to my bosom and make them feel the beat which is beating within me, and at the same time merge in the beating of their hearts so there is that beautiful unity in which I would flow and flow and flow and express that divine love. As some of you would express your entirety when cooking a dish to feed yourself and your guru, who are you feeding? You are feeding divinity. You are feeding no one else, no one else. So, you are the one that is the sustenance of the embodiment of divinity. Though Lord, the sustainer may Thou be, but remember this, that I sustain Thee. So, where is the problem of the sustainer and sustenance? And then you melt away in that beauty, float away, and do not care where you are. For the entirety of all the oceans and the vast blue sky, the swaying grass, the trees, and the flowers are all sustaining you. Look at those trees out there. They absorb all the carbon dioxide and all the poisons you breathe out. In that breathing, it is sacrificing themselves by taking in the carbons and exuding from themselves the oxygen that makes you live. Where is the difference? There is no difference in anything. There is always a dependency from one to the other. Everything that seemingly has no meaning becomes meaningful to us because we are mixed up in meaninglessness and, at the same time, meaningfulness. EVERYTHING IS CONSCIOUS Where is your attention? You have these do-gooders. What are they doing? Ego feeding. The true doer of good does not make himself apparent at all. He does what is to be done even without being conscious of what he is doing. From the vast Jungian collective unconsciousness, we find conscious existence. Yet, Jung, I wish I could have him here now; he talks a lot about bulls. When everything is conscious, where is the place for collective unconsciousness? For we could never exist, the entire universe could never exist, without consciousness, because the very existence of oneself, or all around you, is composed of nothing else but consciousness. Everything is conscious. When I tell you this, would you believe that even this arm that rests here on this chair is listening to me? It has consciousness. Perhaps it might not be able to imbibe the wine of my song as you would, for even with my words, I will make you drunk—drunk, intoxicated, in the glory of that which is existence itself. But you live only in the reflection of actual existence. You are only a reflection of that which Is. You are looking in the mirror, and do you know why you think things are wrong? Because of the mirror image, your right side seems to be the left side in the mirror, and your left side seems to be the right. Yet I have seen mirrors that make you seem topsy turvy. These are mirrors you must install in your hearts and realise that you are damn topsy-turvy. To stand up straight, that is all. To know the beauty of the little child’s voice there. How beautiful. What a symphony it is. To merge away in the gurgle of the mother’s breast or in the babe’s cry. The child does not cry because it is unhappy. The child cries because it is happy and recognises the happiness within. Yet it has to cry that I have been brought into so-called unhappiness. Look at the conflict within the boundaries of its particular form of consciousness, limited though it be. Yet, that baby is more conscious of divinity than what you are. Because there is that innocence, there is that purity, and forever I would pray, “Lord, regress me back to

From Devotion to Unity: The Path of Bhakti in Christianity

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CHRISTIANITY IS PRIMARILY BASED ON BHAKTI-YOGA Christianity is primarily based on bhakti-yoga—bhakti yoga meaning devotion. When any theology is based on devotion, there must always be the “I” and “Thou” aspects. This “I and Thou” aspect is essential for the wayfarer. The person on the path has to have a goal, and what greater goal could there be than to discover the glory of the Lord? Bhakti yoga, jnana yoga, and all these are combined in Christianity, but because of specific times and for certain people, certain paths were more emphasised. Bhakti yoga is essential for a person to be in tune, for bhakti is nothing but devotion. One can never be devoted to something abstract. Therefore, we symbolise that abstraction or the abstract idea in the concrete form of Jesus, so there is someone that one could be devoted to or even worship. This is a critical path for most people, so what are the mechanics? That is what we have to discover. The mechanics would be simple: strictly observe certain precepts, injunctions, and laws laid down to help us on the path. These precepts cannot be determined generally, but they must be resolved individually, which is how they apply to every individual on the path. If you were driving to Los Angeles, you know that you have to reach Los Angeles, and having the goal in mind, you would know what road to take, and the road you take would be the one most convenient to you. If you live in downtown Los Angeles, perhaps another road would be good for you. If you live in Van Nuys, there may be a shorter road to it. RITUALS PREPARE YOUR MIND Bhakti, or bhakti-yoga, is essentially Christianity. It shows you all these paths of devotion and worship. There are also many ritualisms, and the person who has passed the necessity, who does not need ritual, can still be involved in that devotion. Ritual plays its part, and the role it plays is that it prepares your mind and brings you into a certain mood. You will also find it in Hinduism and Buddhism; as you get up in the morning, you have your bath, which is a preparation for worshipping. Bodily cleanliness is essential because you will sit down to worship and do your prayers. While you are having the bath, cleansing the body, your mind is also filled with the teachings of That, the “Thou” of God – so, it becomes a certain kind of conditioning. With the Hindus, for example, the lamp has to be put in a particular place, and it has to be cleaned and polished personally. While doing all that, your mind slowly leads to higher and better thoughts, and then you put your flowers down with that devotion. With this build-up that is taking place in you, you are tuning yourself; you are preparing your mind. Your mind is going into a devotional mood, whereby prayer becomes more effective when you pray. We find this in Hinduism, the Catholic faith, and practically all other branches of the Christian religion. With this, one always has God’s glory and majesty in mind. You go to one city, and you do not like the city. Why? If you are at a certain stage of evolution and go to a particular town which is, perhaps, incompatible with your vibrations, then you would not like it. It is not because of the buildings, gardens, scenery, or whatever. It is because of the emanations that are there. Because of all the people involved, there might be a lot of permissiveness. Then all of these vibrations are totalled up into a collective consciousness, which, being incompatible with you, you want to get away. That is why many people like to get away from the cities and go into the country, where there are natural vibrations that are not interfered with by too many people’s thoughts and too many people’s vibrations. That is why you want to get away from the country. That is the real reason, the underlying reason. It is not running away from the job or the home. But inwardly, subconsciously, you want to get away to something purer. AVATARAS – INCARNATIONS OF GOD Man creates the personal God, but the impersonal God manifests the personal God. It is essential to understand this concept. Man creates the personal God and gives him all the glory, majesty, and compassion. That is why he finds it very hard when the great personage descends to Earth. That is also what we know as the suffering of Christ. Here, in that freedom, enjoying the totality of the vibratory value of the entire universe, he has to condense all those energies into a little frame. Going from that vastness, like a vast funnel, like an ice cream cone, this vastness, to that little outlet down here, which is the body. Those in Sanskrit are called the Avataras or the incarnations of God. This is true and possible. Yet, having come down in this little frame, he is subjected to the laws of opposites that govern this particular world and is involved in all these various laws. He has to, otherwise, he cannot function as a normal human being, and they show their normality, their ordinariness in so many, many different ways. People do not understand what is meant: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. No. They do not believe in that. Jesus tells the prostitute, “I forgive you, my daughter – but sin no more. Be on your way.” He wines and dines with the Pharisees, the moneylenders because he knows this world will always have that. Only a certain percentage could be brought to a deeper understanding of the glorious life to preserve the balance. There has to be that balance, or the see-saw will rock up and down and up and down and up and down. A certain equilibrium has to be maintained, and there comes

The School of Life: Life as a Journey of Uncovering the Divine

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People ask, “Who are we, where did we come from, and why are we here?” Instead, say, “Who am I, where did I come from, and why am I here”? You have come from nowhere, and you are going nowhere. You are the universe itself, and to where can this vast universe go? You are like a bubble in a pond, and the bubble bursts. You are still in the pond. Nothing has been detracted. Not a single ounce of energy can be detracted from this universe, and not a single ounce can be added to it.

The Glory of God: The Path to the Impersonal Glory of the Divine

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The glory and majesty of God start with a mental concept. Because you do not have known God, you idealize Him to be something super, beyond man. You are then worshipping an ideal. This is good. At least you have something to clutch. You are climbing the stairs and have the rail to hold onto lest you slip. Having the various ideas of God, He is all-powerful, all-merciful, all-compassionate, and has all the greatest virtues and the most significant things a man could ever think about.

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