Very few people know how to pray—they do not pray; they do business. They would start off by saying, “Oh, Lord, if my son passes his examination, I will donate a hundred dollars to the FISU.”
The Divine Resonance: How Mantra Practice Awakens the Inner Guru
THE NATURE OF MANTRA? When practices are given by a person who has reached a state of self-realization, not only the verbal mantra is given; when the guru perceives the mantra in a state of meditation and utters that mantra, his whole being is contained in that sound. When you practice the mantra, the entirety of the Guru, the entirety of the spiritual Force, is outlined in Bliss form in that mantra, and it is received by the chela, by the meditator. When that meditator sincerely practices that mantra as instructed, then the person with gradual practice becomes the mantra and experiences not only the grosser form of the mantra but the subtler form of the mantra, and at its subtlest level, it is not only you but also the Guru’s Bliss mixed in that mantra. And that is why the benefits are felt. The benefits are felt whereby, through a tangible vehicle of the audible mantra, one reaches the subtleness of the mantra where your Spirit and the Guru’s Spirit become one. There starts the awakening of the internal guru, which is forever internal and eternal. That is the stage we have to reach through our spiritual practices. Some people tell you that you are immediately taken to Bliss when you are given a technique. Do not believe that. It is a process, but a worthy process. ATTAINING BLISS What is worth attaining is worth striving for. We know that. The real Guru, having experienced this Bliss, which he cannot describe in words, can allow you to experience it. His purpose, the purpose of the Light, is to rid darkness. And the Light is so powerful that all the dark corners of our Hearts are lit up, and darkness disappears. The purpose of attaining that blissful state is so that the blissful state can be shared with those who are earnestly seeking Bliss, and finding Bliss is finding God. That is the goal, that is the aim, that is the purpose of our lives. The purpose of our lives is not material accumulation. There is nothing wrong with material accumulation. But remember one thing: let the man have sufficient for his needs. That is the basic principle. You will find that if you want a million dollars, once you have the million dollars, you will surely want two million dollars. You will surely want five million dollars when you have two million dollars. It is a never-ending process of being enmeshed in total materiality. But if we remember that these are my needs, Why not? We are entitled to it. Good food is sufficient to look after our families. Perhaps a bit for the rainy day? There is nothing wrong with that in this modern society. That is a natural want. It is a practical need and not the accumulation of something needless because I would still like to meet the man who has made ten million dollars and take it with him when he passes off. We live our lives according to our needs, and if our lives are well regulated in the path of spirituality, you will find that our needs become more and more simpler. And the simpler the needs become, the simpler our lives become. The path to joy and happiness and Bliss is to find the simplicity of life, for within simplicity lies Divinity, and Divinity is another name for Bliss. To have a blissful existence is the birthright of every one of us. Essentially, man is not born to be unhappy. Within man are all the elements that constitute Bliss. The veils of samskaras just cover up this Bliss, yet this highly polished diamond is there but covered with dust. Through spiritual practices, we blow the dust away so that the sparkle, the bliss, of this diamond is experienced. We are orientated a lot towards mental analysis. There is nothing wrong with that. Let us have our analysis, but let us also try to experience what we analyse. The experience grows so much that it not only reaches the level of analysis but goes far beyond it. The analysis is the stepping stone. WE WANT TO EXPERIENCE BLISS Did Buddha or Christ ever go into deep analytical philosophies? No. They spoke of personal experience. They did not talk about knowledge but gave forth wisdom, which does not require analysis. Wisdom is at a level where analysis falls short. At that level of wisdom, another aspect of Bliss is Love. So all these are different, not different qualities, but different aspects of Bliss, and Bliss is Divinity itself. We want to experience. We do not take the sugar to the laboratory before we put it in our tea. We know sugar is sweet, and by putting it in our tea, we experience the sweetness of sugar. We know intuitively, without analysis, that there is Bliss, and we do our practices to experience the Bliss. Experiencing something means becoming one with something. To become one with that which is forever existent and eternal. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1977 – 10
Embracing the Infinite: The Unspoken Essence of Bliss
WHAT IS BLISS? Bliss is an experience which is indefinable, like love. There are certain inferences which could tell us about Bliss but not what Bliss really is. The same things happen in universities, where they would tell you all about something but not really what something is. That is the difficulty one has in trying to define a quality that stems from so deep within oneself. We have all experienced joys, we have all experienced pleasures, and yet it is so difficult to define what joy is or what pleasure is. We can say, “Oh, pleasure is such a pleasant feeling,” and there it ends. Or you could say, “I feel joyful,” and the person would understand what you mean because that person to has experienced joy. When you describe to a person that you feel joyful, that person will know what you are talking about because that person has, to some measure, experienced joy. When you tell a person that you have a toothache, that person will immediately know what your toothache is if he has experienced a toothache himself. Bliss is a quality that very few people have experienced in the existence of this world. The description of Bliss could not be verbalised, and even if it could be verbalised, it could never be understood. To describe Bliss would be synonymous with describing God. Yet to infer to Bliss one could say that a feeling wells up within oneself, a feeling that becomes so universal that you could embrace the entire universe within yourself, that you become identified with everything and everybody. Bliss contains so much joy that you feel the pain of others, and you feel the pleasures of others. Bliss contains all the elements whereby the pain of others could be uplifted because you radiate the quality of Bliss. When you radiate this quality of Bliss which you experience, then the entire atmosphere is enlightened. A self-realised man could never explain to you what self-realisation is. He can tell you that self-realisation, which also is synonymous with Bliss, and self-realisation, as we know, is God-realization. Being synonymous, it defies all description, yet it is experienceable. When a person experiences Bliss, and he cannot describe it, then what purpose does that Bliss serve? It would be very selfish for a person to experience Bliss and not being able to share it. So, the blissful person, even without trying to share it, automatically shares it, because one of the expressions of Bliss is a love that is generated. All of you on this course have experienced some of it. It can so clearly be seen on every face here. The Bliss which I experience I cannot explain to you in words. It would be like explaining God. Once you can explain any object, you are limiting the object, while Bliss is an experience which is limitless. And if it is limitless, then the experiencer of Bliss emanates it to the furthest extent of the universe. Those that are close to the experience of Bliss naturally feel it. They may not understand it because it defies all mental analysis, but something happens in the physical, mental and spiritual chemistry. Something just lights up. So, Bliss, though inexplicable, is definitely sharable. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1977 – 10
The Divine Love Affair: The Guru-Chela Journey to Divine Unity
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In the guru-chela relationship, the greatest fallacy for a chela is to project a particular ideal. You do not approach a guru with a preconceived idea. If you have a preconceived notion, then you are not a seeker. You do not go to a guru. You go with an open, unbiased, blank mind.
Beyond Worship: A Journey of Love and Devotion with the True Guru
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No one could ever create a thought. Like the old saying, there is nothing new under the sun. For example, when a poet composes a poem, he attains a higher level of consciousness, where others have thought these thoughts.
Diving Deep: From Surface Turbulence to Inner Peace
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THE BEAUTY WITHIN IN YOU REQUIRES NO INTRODUCTION BECAUSE YOU ARE IT! The beauty within you requires no introduction because you are It. Only the three gunas by which this entire universe is run, created and dissolved cause these conflicts and do not allow your real Self to shine through. Through our systems of meditation, we rise above the three gunas. That is the only way. You cannot change them, and you cannot destroy them, for everything is indestructible. Nothing is ever destroyed. You cannot destroy the teeniest, tiniest atom. Even when we depart from this body, this body is not destroyed. It goes back into its original elements. Everything in this universe is indestructible. You cannot add a single ounce of energy to it, nor can a single ounce of energy detract from it. In these circumstances, we have got to make some plans, and the only way, the royal way, the royal road of Love, Life and Truth, is to go beyond the three gunas, and we go beyond the three gunas by being established in the Self. That is achieved through meditation, where we observe all happening around us. It is as if we are sitting in a cinema and watching a film on the screen. You can do nothing to influence the action on the screen. You become an observer. If you can be established in the Self through our practices, and I am happy to say that many, many of us are reaching there at quite a good speed, then you become an observer of all the happenings in the world. All this will go on and on and on, but you, as the observer, are non-affected. This is not a question of believing or having faith. It is a question of experience. You are transcending the laws of nature and living in your real Self. You are transcending the small “I” that is you and living in the big “I” that is you too, for the small “I” is transient and illusory, while the big “I” is changeless and permanent. Here lies the calm. Why do we only think of the world’s troubles, for they are but the turbulent waves on the ocean’s surface? Just dive deep, deeper through your spiritual practices. Dive deep into the ocean; when you go below the sea’s surface, it is so calm and at rest and peace. Believing in things and having faith in things has value, but experiencing this has a different value. WE ARE ONLY OBSERVING THE SURFACE We only observe the surface when we look at the world’s problems, such as poverty and unemployment. I do not say that you should not observe the surface; by all means, be aware of it, and to satisfy your little mind, the little conscious level of the mind, do something about it if you can. Lend a helping hand. Why not? But do not lend a helping hand to inflate your ego. “Auntie Mary was sick, and I went to Auntie Mary’s home and looked after her for three weeks. Ah! What a wonderful person I am.” Self-sacrificing? No, you are only boosting and strengthening your little ego, which is causing more trouble because when Auntie Mary dies and leaves you nothing in the will, you will start swearing at her. That is how it works. If it were a selfless service with true mercy and compassion that Auntie Mary is ill and let me offer my services in whichever way I can to help her ease her dis-ease, then that would come from a spiritual level. It can only come from the deeper level if you have some integration between body, mind and spirit. Everyone in this world would like to see this entire world at peace, the world as a whole joyful. That has even been promised by some so-called gurus: the age of enlightenment. That will never happen. Enlightenment on an individual basis, yes, and the more individuals that find greater and greater peace, the more slight changes can be brought about, but not total change. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF You are responsible for yourself, and at the same time, you are also your brother’s keeper. If you do not know what being responsible for oneself is, you can never be your brother’s keeper. To be your brother’s keeper, you would have to be able to love him: love thy neighbour as thyself. One of the world’s most extraordinary injunctions. But what do we know about it? How can we love our neighbour when we cannot even love ourselves? And that love for ourselves can only come from integration within ourselves by experiencing that love within ourselves. Very few people know what love is all about. It is only the integrated man that would love his neighbour as himself because he knows very well that that which is within me is within him. My brother and I are non-apart. This separation seems to be there is no separation at all. A person sitting on this side of the room and another sitting on that side would think they are separate. But there are millions of atoms and molecules joining the two people. They are not separate even in the physical sense, and physics would prove this to you. In the spiritual sense, although there is apparent separation, one realises that we are both in the same pond, little bubbles containing the same energy and water floating in the same pond of Divinity. When one comes to realise this through personal integration, then only could you genuinely say, “I love my brother as myself,” and then you can honestly say, “Do unto others as I expect it to be done unto me.” EXPERIENCE THAT STILLNESS How beautiful things are, but they are not understood. For it is only when man becomes integrated through spiritual practices, when man slowly goes through the layers of the small conscious mind through the various layers of the subconscious
Finding Balance: Unfolding Inner Peace for a Balanced World
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THE LAW OF OPPOSITES OPERATING If we study the history of the world, we can find that there has always been pestilence, wars, turmoil, strife, turbulence, and killings, and millions of people have died in the name of religion. We know the history of the Crusaders and all that. That will never change in this world. We are in a process of evolution. What we are seeing is just a tiny segment of this vast continuum. Evolution is always progressive, you would find that in this little segment which we call this Earth, you would find souls evolving to a higher plane and leaving this dimension, and you would find souls from a lower plane entering this dimension. This world requires wars, and it involves peace. This has been so for thousands and thousands of years, and the main reason for it being so is that without conflict, this world cannot go on. Without conflict of opposing forces, the entire universe cannot function. It will become static, and this very conflict causes evolution. Wherever there is a more significant push, there will be more substantial resistance. The universe is constituted of that, which is a necessary must. Yet behind all these forces, you have your economic problem, and all these wars are caused mainly by economics. If we take economics as the basis of all these wars, we can judge the present state of man’s evolution very well. It means that if he is economically oriented, then that implies greed. Many of the wars are created to provide employment. On the one hand, we are trying to make people live by giving them food, and on the other hand, to provide them with food, we are killing people. What a contradiction. Look at the law of opposites operating again. FINDING BALANCE This has happened before, all the time, and will always occur. This world will never have total peace on a collective basis. But there could be peace individually; as you would know, society is composed of units. Units compose the society, and it is by the units finding peace that there could come a more excellent balance, not a total balance, but a more excellent balance, in this world of ours. This inner peace can be gained through meditation and spiritual practices. Inner peace is the creation of harmony within us. We are composed of the physical body, the mental body, and the spiritual body. When these three bodies are not in alignment, they are at dis-ease. They are in disharmony. The purpose of spiritual practices is to balance these three aspects of oneself, which is called integration. An integrated man is a peaceful man. An integrated man is a self-realized man. So, it starts with the individual. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE MOTION Yet the gunas we have spoken about many times, Tamas, Rajas, and Sattva, have to function. They are the balancing, motivating, and motion-producing factors in this universe. Tamas is inertia, and Sattva is that stillness. In between is Rajas, the activating element that is forever trying to infuse the two, trying to infuse Tamas with Sattva all the time. Rajas created this motion and is forever there trying to bring this infusion. In the process of this infusion, the conflicts are unending, for as soon as you destroy these three elements that constitute this universe, you would automatically destroy the universe, for the universe is composed of these elements. So, motion is there all the time. Even in the peaceful man, there is motion, but that motion is of a different level. It is like a top, which children play with at high speed; it seems to be standing still and yet insignificant motion. Because it is in equilibrium, the top appears to be standing still. The motion has been brought to equilibrium, so it seems to be standing still. That is the highest stage in man’s present state of evolution that he can reach while still being embodied. When these conflicts continue, you will find all these wars will go on, and you cannot stop them. You cannot stop these wars because there will always be reasons for them. Yet, if not on a worldly scale, the war is still going on inside of man, where conflicts and the rule of the three gunas are forever functioning. If the world is at war, remember that you are at war; as we said, units form society. When you are at war, it will naturally reflect itself in the environment. The nature of the flower is to grow beautiful, but that is not the only thing it does; it also enhances the garden’s beauty. Likewise, if you are fragmented, the atmosphere created around you will also be fragmented and not of that unity. There will never be an end to wars on a global level, but war can be stopped within you. The conflicts, the various gunas, could be brought into a state of equilibrium, and when you are at peace, your environment will also be at peace. Here again, I would repeat that because of the evolutionary process, as a certain number of beings move to a different dimension, a higher dimension, a certain number will move from a lower dimension into this dimension. THE INNER CONFLICT IN MAN CAN STOP So, there is no answer to the problem of wars. The only explanation that could be given individually is where the inner war, the inner conflict in man, can stop! Wars are necessary for the politicians who rule the world. We think that we live in a democratic society. We do not. We will vote for someone that makes all the promises. But show me any politician who has ever kept all his promises. There were these three chaps: a surgeon, an architect, and a politician, and they were discussing the creation of this world. The surgeon says that if Eve was made out of Adam’s rib, it was a surgical matter. So, creation
Beyond Karma: Discovering God Within Life Itself
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BURN THE SEEDS OF KARMA Why do we find a situation painful or hurtful? We dive into the mind and go through the cubbyholes in the subconscious mind to find another experience. That, in turn, finds some other experience and another experience, which all combine there. And then, you compare this experience with those previous experiences, and then the subconscious mind translates itself into the conscious mind and says, “This is pain,” or “This is ugly.” Ugliness does not come from the object. It comes from the impressions or samskaras already in the subconscious mind, and we need to rid ourselves of them. The only way to get rid of this is through meditation, where we burn the seeds of karma so they do not grow. We use the Universal Force that gets rid of all the karma. Then you go beyond this minimal relative law that whatever you have sown shall reap. It is very true but in a minimal form. Man has the ability, and this is the message for this century and the next six centuries to come: do not feel guilty about the things you have done or the things you have caused to have been done, for you can go beyond it all. It can all be discarded like a dirty garment. It can all be washed away under the shower of that Light deep down within us, and we have to interpret it in life’s daily actions. We must never say, “Oh, my baby is crying, so I cannot sit down to meditate. I have to look after the baby.” True, you must look after the baby. But let the baby’s cry become a meditation to you instead of disturbing you. You comfort the child with love, and is it a meditation, not something that generates that love? You have been allowed there to generate love. Vivekananda tells a nice story. He says you sit down to meditate, and the doorbell rings. You get up from your meditation, answer the door and do whatever is required, come back and sit down again to meditate. But remember one thing: regard yourself getting up, answering the door, and coming back to be a part of your meditation. LIFE CAN NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM SPIRITUALITY Life can never be separated from spirituality because, to repeat, again and again, it was never separate. The separation we find between life and God is just a creation of our mind, like a projection on a cinema screen, a movie screen, which is not real. Here on the screen, you will have thousands of people killed in a war. Yet there is no reality, but it seems so real. Many times, people go to the cinema, see a sad scene, and start crying. Handkerchiefs come out, and yet they know that it is not real; it is just a picture being projected, but it is done because you get involved in it. It affects your emotions, your feelings, it triggers off something in your mind, something that has happened to you, although you are not conscious of it. Below the conscious level, in the subconscious mind, it triggers some happening, and then tears come rolling down from your eyes. But what would happen if you never had such an impression in your mind? Then you will not cry, for you still know this is just a picture there. What do we have to do to alleviate and rub away these things, these impressions, is to draw out that potent Light, that beam that will banish the darkness? The little flame, the ego-self, has no force or power compared to the bright sun. You do not even notice the flame. You can only notice the little flame in a dark room. But if you put the candle outside in the sun, you do not even see the flame. Bathe in the sun. Even if you get sunburned, the guru is there. He will advise you of some sunburn lotion, and it is in that heat that one finds total purity, something already there, but the effort lies in cognizing, realizing that purity is inherent within you all the time. ACCEPT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF LIFE Accept all the circumstances of life. Many people have a false notion that I will become better if I do not accept them. But it does not work that way—it is a false notion. You cannot ignore them. To ignore something is ignorance, but accept it, accept the circumstance, and do something about it. We bring down all these complexities of philosophy and metaphysics into practical daily living. If your action is performed unselfishly, then you are a karma yogi. When you perform this action unselfishly, there will naturally be devotion to those actions, and you will automatically become a bhakti yogi. When you combine bhakti and karma, some understanding will naturally dawn within you, and you are a jnana yogi. You can see how all these different yogas combine. They interpenetrate with each other, which leads you on and spurs you on to do spiritual practices, such as raja yoga. All this is combined with the slightest thing. We had a little girl at home, and I was passing her one day. Here in the West, it is tough to find servants and costly; very few people can afford it. But in African countries, you can hire a servant for about twenty to twenty-five dollars monthly. Here, you go out for dinner for two people and will spend twenty-five dollars. We have this little maid, Lena, and she has been with us for eighteen years. She is a little thing. She looks like a little monkey, but the love she has. I call her Hanuman because her service is so excellent. I am sure Hanuman never served Rama as well as she serves us. And Lata, my wife, cooks for five people, so what is it to fit in an extra person? It does not cost
Awakening the Inner Kingdom: Embracing Inner Peace and Joy
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TO BE IS TRUE JOY It is familiar and true that purity attracts purity; impurity attracts impurity. Any impure thought from the mind is not destroyed but will be attracted to those that have made themselves conducive to its attraction. And any pure thought from your mind also goes to that area where it finds its brother: birds of a feather flock together. That is why it is permanently enjoined upon us to have thoughts of purity always in the mind. That thought does not need to be good or bad; it is just a reminder that all is divine. I swim in this ocean of Divinity. I am that bit of salt thrown in the sea that does not make the water saltier, but I am absorbed in its saltiness—that remembrance of that Grace that allows you to merge into the Divine. Also, let the mind say that I want to merge into Divinity. But how can you integrate when you have not ever been separated? Where have you come, friend? And where are you going, friend? Nowhere. If Divinity is omnipresent and present everywhere, where is there for you to go to or come from? You just are. And the secret of true joy is just to be, for you are here and now. You come from nowhere, and you go nowhere. Look at the spelling of this word: nowhere. Nowhere. Just shift the w to the side of the no – now here. All that nowhereness, uncertainties, and insecurities that the mind puts you through take you nowhere because you are now here, forever in the presence, for you are the presence. How can you separate the bubble from the pond? Is the bubble not just an expression of the pond? The expression, the joy, the dance of the pond, and the currents in the pond, which are an integral part of the pond, create those bubbles, do they not? Is it not the dance, the play of the pond? You are the play. You are the player, the same water. And you are the playwright. So, from where are you coming, friend? And where are you going to? It remains no question. PHILOSOPHY IS GOOD Philosophy is good—excellent. It is suitable for philosophers and religions, of course. Different religions are not really different. They are all but the same; the essence, the basis, remains the same all the time. Exercises of the mind. That is what we are doing, which is happening in this world, exercising in the mind. How you relate to the world and the world’s happenings depends a lot upon you. What you do to yourself and how you relate to the world depends on you and not the world. You can be in the world and yet not of it and be non-attached to the world’s happenings where it will not affect you. Attachment and non-attachment are different things altogether. But there, too, the mind comes into play where some exercise is necessary. How we exercise our minds is essential, for joy is forever there. Joy is not something apart from you but a part of you. You can interpret the most unpleasant scene with proper awareness into something beautiful. Therefore, we say, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It’s a simple saying, but it’s not understood. The man of true awareness will not be ruffled by the happening around him. What happens is part of a pattern you cannot entirely control. You can prevent the exercise to a certain degree. You can go on a diet and lose some weight, or eat more and put on weight. Certain things are within the cyclical framework of the mind, yet so many, the mind cannot control many things. ARE YOUR FREE WILL TRULY FREE? People pride themselves on having a free will. How accessible is your will? You think you are free because you have developed a certain amount of consciousness to think. Are you free? Where is free will? There is no free will. The will you think is free will is bondage will, a will bound by your experiences and impressions that you have gained over many, many ages, perhaps, and that has set a pattern for you. All happenings are but effects of the causes that you have brought into being, that your mind has brought into being, and all our actions are determined by the amount of awareness we have unfolded within us. When we say, “The Lord is graceful,” what does it mean? He is not going to take the miseries away, just like that. But He allows you to remove those miseries. By properly using the mind, by lifting yourself from the grosser conscious level of the mind through the subconscious mind and then to the deeper layers of the Superconscious mind at its purest and subtlest level, you can change the pattern of your life. For what seemed miserable yesterday can be so joyous today. For here, through meditation and spiritual practices, you are tapping that source of that pure level within yourself and bringing it out so that it, too, will find expression and make everything around you glorious and joyful. By doing that, you still have to go through the effects, the law of cause and effect, and the law of retribution: you shall reap what you have sown. You will have to go through that, but by the law of Grace that you have now invoked or expressed from the deeper levels of yourself, you can do it on the easy payment plan, as I always say—no cash on demand. Easy payment plan, so you do not suffer as much from it as you would have. The sting is taken out. The balm of Grace covers the wound. Yet, it is not an anaesthetic that puts you away from consciousness. You are still conscious of all your surroundings, but it becomes beautiful. Your surface consciousness starts appreciating beauty, but we
Unfolding Awareness: Embracing the Divine Essence in Life
It all depends upon one’s awareness, how much one is aware of things. If we unfold our awareness through meditation and spiritual practices, we can view anything from its larger perspective.