Janujee, Author at FISU Meditation

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

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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.

Clearing the Slate: The Journey of Forgiving and Forgetting

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CAN I FORGIVE AND FORGET? Shall we forgive and forget, and should we innocently approach the person who has wronged us? It is so easy to forgive because after a deed has been done and one reflects upon the act that has been completed, something stirs within us. For within every one of us, there is this power of goodness. But most times, this power of goodness can be overshadowed by the experiences, especially by the bitter experiences of life. But why does a person forgive or want to forgive? Because the act perpetrated upon one could be of such an emotional character that the mind would dwell on the problem, and when the mind dwells on the issue, it makes one go into deeper recesses of the mind. One concludes that: why should I keep this in my heart? What benefit is it giving me or the other person? The best thing is to forgive. Forgive. That is one of the injunctions laid down by all the world’s theologies. But that is not the trouble. To forgive is easy, but the real problem lies in forgetting. You can forgive, but it is tough to ignore. What are the mechanisms as far as forgetting is concerned? The human mind has been patterned through all the various life experiences, and the present strengthens the impressions gained from those experiences. When that is strengthened, it is not only the present act of playing but all those similar experiences we have had. And when they bunch together in the mind, it becomes challenging to forget. It is not Auntie Mary saying a bad word to you that is so important in forgetting because if that were the only thing, then forgetting would become easy. But because Auntie Mary has said something to you, it automatically associates itself with past experiences of this life and perhaps of previous lives if you believe in that, and thereby, memories are awakened. You might not be aware of those past experiences because they are deep down in the various layers of the subconscious mind. But every happening to which you are attached must have its effect, and the effect is that it associates itself with previous experiences of like nature. So here you put in one ounce, and you gather to yourself in that realm five hundred pounds in weight. This becomes a burden when one has to forget. What is the solution? That is the crux of the question: how can we forget? Because this thought that has been activated has become so powerful that the seed planted so deeply within the subconscious mind is coming to the conscious mind, and the conscious mind translates all that is in the subconscious. The subconscious mind is a storehouse of memories. All the experiences you have gained in lifetimes are all there alive. In Sanskrit, they are called samskaras; a loose interpretation of the word would be impressions. All these impressions that are there in the subconscious mind cannot be destroyed. They are there. But they can be shed off like water on a duck’s back. You can get rid of them, but you cannot destroy them. Once you get rid of those impressions, they return and attach themselves to other conditions that are conducive or like nature. Birds of a feather flock together. But you become free of those impressions. THERE ARE MILLIONS OF IMPRESSIONS IN OUR MIND Like that, with millions and millions of impressions in your mind, how will you free them all? Do you want to struggle through that which is called life for millions of years, or do you want freedom in this lifetime? There is only one way, the royal way, and it is this: through a systematic process of meditation and spiritual practices, one can form a direct link from the conscious mind through the subconscious mind and then to the Superconscious mind. No amount of analysis could rid one of those impressions because the more you analyze them, the more you rationalize, and the more firmly planted those memories and thoughts are in the subconscious, which is the repository of all those impressions. In order to clean the dirt in the subconscious, one has to go even deeper, beyond the subconscious to the Superconscious. The conscious mind is at a gross level, and the Superconscious mind is at the subtlest level, the subtlest level of relativity. Being so slight, it is closest to the Divinity within us. Because of its very subtlety and clarity, greater force and more light could shine through the superconscious mind and into the subconscious mind. Through a systematic, individually designed practice of meditation, we can dive deep down into the subtlest forms of relativity, and by reaching the edge of the subtlest relative existence of the mind, one is in direct touch with that which is divine within man. By creating this direct channel, this hotline, to the Superconscious mind, you can draw from these universal energies within you and allow it to bypass all the impressions contained in the subconscious to the conscious mind. If done in a systematic, focused manner, you can forget. That is the only way. Most of you will remember many instances that have happened in your lives, and when that memory comes up, you even feel as if you are re-experiencing that happening again. This is because nothing has been done about it. The greatest gift given to man by God is forgetfulness. If you had to remember all the experiences of this lifetime or other lifetimes, you would become totally insane, and you would be taken away to the lunatic asylum. So, what a great gift Divinity has given us the ability to forget. But the tragedy is that we are not using this gift; that is our problem. As we dive deeper and deeper, we are causing a certain balance in the mind through spiritual practices. The universe is composed of what is known in Sanskrit

Transcending Karma: A Journey to Inner Harmony

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Thought is an activity that sets certain energy particles into motion in a very subtle form of matter. Combining it with previous karmas forms a specific reaction. Wherever there is action, physical or mental, there would be a reaction. That means that wherever there is a cause, there is an effect. This must be remembered in the context of relative life only – as far as relativity extends, just as far as karma extends.

Love Without Judgment: Embracing Humanity’s Imperfections

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With our spiritual practices, we automatically and spontaneously unfold within ourselves a spiritual force that will permeate our every action. On the surface, an action might not seem right, but who knows the man’s mind? Who can understand the workings of the mind and body of anybody?

A Teacher for the Worldly Path: Spirituality for the Everyday Householder

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Ramakrishna’s movement was mainly composed of monks. He wanted a group of people that would be prepared to become monks. He wanted people to become celibates and not enter the householder’s life, for he knew that their energies would be divided once they entered the householder’s life. He wanted their full attention to be concentrated not on gold, which meant finding work or starting a business. He did not want the attention directed towards achieving gold, nor did he want their attention to go to women. So, for his immediate monks, like Swami Vivekananda, Swami Brahmananda, and Swami Ramakrishnananda, he wanted them to avoid gold and women. That was Ramakrishna’s idea.

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