Janujee, Author at FISU Meditation

Work for the Sake of Work: The Spiritual Power of Selfless Action

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THE VALUE OF GOOD INTENTIONS? Most people have good intentions, but the question is, what is behind the good intentions? What is the motivation for the work that one wants to do? I have encountered people who would join various organisations and societies and do excellent work. Yet, that fantastic work brings no spiritual gain because the intention, the motivation, is for self-aggrandisement. It is for ego fulfilment, saying, “I did this, and I did that.” The very moment you think that you have done a good deed, then that deed is valueless as far as your Spiritual Self is concerned. As far as spiritual unfoldment is concerned, it holds no value whatsoever because one works or does things for the sake of the work or the sake of doing it and not for the reward. Many people with good intentions and doing good work want a reward to have the recognition that they did so and so. It has some limited value but does not have the spiritual value we are after. I remember an instance where I was involved in building a community centre which comprised a temple, a school and a hall. So, this person approached me and said, “I would like to give fifty thousand pounds to the organisation.” I said, “Very good. That is very generous and kind of you.” But then he said, “There is one condition. I want a plaque put up, saying that so much was donated by so and so in memory of his mother and father.” So, I said, “No, I am very sorry. We do not need your fifty thousand pounds. We are not here to boost your ego.” He is a multi-millionaire, so fifty thousand pounds means nothing to him. “The very deed you are doing, you want to perpetuate the memory of your deed. You are not being charitable; you are trying to buy a memory so that after you pass away, the memory will still linger when people say, Ah, Mr So and So donated this and that.” GOOD WORKS HAVE TO BE DONE FOR THE SAKE OF DOING IT It is the same thing with everything else regarding good works. It has to be done for the sake of doing it and not necessarily as a duty, because duty too has strings attached, that I have to do this duty and you force yourself to do that duty. There should be no force and neither any compulsion in the act. It has to be a spontaneous giving where you just do. The Bhagavad Gita tells you that your job is to do the work; you are not entitled to the results thereof. So, when we do any kind of work without any idea of any return, that is when the entire return is given to you. It gives you a far greater awareness and a deeper insight into life. It gives you an insight into yourself because that is an unfoldment. It is straightforward to say, “work for the sake of work,” but the person who can work is necessarily highly integrated. For example, I always tell teachers in our organisation that when you teach, remember you benefit more. The analogy I love to use is this: when you water the garden, even before the water reaches the flowers, the water cleans the hose first. You see the great benefits of this total dedication and unselfishness. What do we mean by dedication? Dedication, in essence, contains a devotion, for if there is no devotion, there can be no dedication, and if there is no dedication, there is no commitment. What are you committed to? You are committed to yourself. And when you feel that you are committed to yourself, that you are responsible for yourself, that you are responsible for your evolution, then all your actions would be spontaneous. So have the motivation because no one in this mundane world could be entirely desireless. So, have desire, but that desire should be towards self-unfoldment, which means becoming closer to God or Divinity. That is a divine desire, and as one progresses on the spiritual path, even that desire disappears. Because when you become one with Divinity, there is no question of desire anymore, for Divinity is desireless. DIVINE WILL IS THE WILL OF NATURE Divine Will is a phrase so misunderstood. Divinity does not will anything. “Let Thy will be done” is a common saying. Will in itself implies a thought process. Without thought, you cannot will, which is more for the human mind than the Divine mind. So, what do we mean by Divine Will? It means that within the laws of nature, things have to function in a certain way. It is the law of nature that water will run down the hill and not up the mountain. The law of nature states that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It is the mechanism of the world’s functioning. It is the mechanism of the laws of nature, which is will, which is Divine Will that was not created or pre-meditated but came about as a manifestation. If you plant onions, you will not expect potatoes to grow, yet if you think Divine Will is so powerful, that can be changed. You can plant potato seeds, and onions will grow because we have given so much emphasis and power to the Divine Will, a miraculous power that does not operate miraculously. That, too, is bound within the laws of nature, for that which we understand as that Supreme Will is only nature’s will and not God’s. For that Divine essence is beyond all thought. It does not think. It is a neutral energy; as I would always say, it is like electricity that could be used in a stove to produce heat or in a refrigerator to produce coldness. So, man with good intentions would say, “I am acting within Supreme Will, Divine Will”. What he means is

Divine Decisions: Guided from Within

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WITH PROPER EFFORT, ANY CHOICE CAN BE SUCCESSFUL Many people have beliefs in omens, and omens are superstitions. They are creations of your mind. You would find that if a cat sneezes in some countries, they would say rain will come. If a cat sneezes in China, they say it is bad luck. So, omens are never to be relied upon. They make no sense whatsoever, and as far as choices are concerned, omens are never to be considered. But man is put into a dilemma when faced with two propositions: what shall I decide upon? He comes to a fork in the road. Shall I take the left, or shall I take the right? What would be the significant factor he could rely upon in making the right choice? What does man do? He sets his mind to work. He analyses the pros and cons of which direction to take. But how valid is his analysis? That is the question. When man thinks, that thought will be guided by his personal experiences, conditionings and patternings, and how accurate his patternings are. Man may go through false experiences in life. Then, the analysis, too, could become false. In other words, it means that his decision there could be biased. Shall I take the left or the right? It is based upon insecurity, and all insecurities are based upon fear, which comes from a lack of confidence. So here we have three factors: fear, insecurity, and lack of confidence. There is another aspect. If a person has studied the map well before embarking on a journey and knows his subject well, the decisions will come automatically. However, there is a particular element of bias in it. But then there are situations where no experience could help one to choose. You meet a person who gives you a business proposition. You do not know the person too well, so you have to decide whether this business proposition will be dependent upon him for its success or will it be dependent upon you for success. The choice is a thing that every person worries about in their daily life, and you can rest assured that the more you worry about the choice, the more wrong the choice can be. There is a difference between contemplation and worrying about that. Contemplation comes from a cool-headedness, which will give you a calculated risk. So, in all things of life, be it marriage, business, and everything, you are there to take a risk, but a calculated risk. Why think only in terms of the success that choice might bring? Though man desires success, why not think of it as an adventure? Why only worry about whether it will be successful or unsuccessful? And why do choices become difficult? It is because all choices are based on mundane things, wanting maximum returns. Sometimes with work and sometimes without work, like putting ten dollars on a horse; wanting to gain five hundred dollars, you choose a horse. How valid is that trying to get something for nothing? Any choice you make, the left or right road, can become successful if proper effort is put into it. WITH PROPER INTEGRATION, CHOICES BECOME CHOICELESS You can turn back if you find the path thorny and go the other way, but the adventure is in man’s spirit. Life itself is an adventure. The path to Divinity is an adventure. It is a discovery, and therein lies the joy of discovering oneself. The purpose should be that through the path, how much will I find out about myself, and how much potential do I have in mundane things? That should be the first thought, not the idea of what will be chosen. In marriage, a boy meets a girl, they seem to fall in love, and then they choose to marry. If it does not work out. Whose fault is it? It is not because of the imperfect choice but our imperfections that make it not work out. Everything can fail because we have not gained a certain amount of integration. Without integration, the wisest choice, the surest path, can also fail. So, spiritual practices and meditation become essential because, with proper integration within oneself, you can never make a wrong choice. Then, the choice becomes choiceless, and you spontaneously do the right things at the right time. Here in the West, we have one divorce in every three marriages. In the East, although they do not have a romance period, boy sees girl, girl sees boy, it looks all right, and the parents arrange the marriage. This is still happening even in modern India today, and yet the divorce rate is one in ten thousand. Because they have been taught, they are brought up in a particular culture where acceptance becomes the primary factor. With acceptance, there is a surrender, not a fatalistic surrender, but a surrender in the form of acceptance that my wife is such or my husband is such, but I accept that. And by that acceptance, one develops a beautiful kind of humility, and that humility is the most significant force on Earth that could draw the required grace to you. So that choice which might have seemed wrong becomes right. That choice that was seemingly wrong becomes the right choice. That choice finds the right voice – that inner voice. TRUE DECISIONS COME FROM WITHIN So valid decisions, true choices, are not necessarily from the mind. They come from within. We have the ability. Meditators have the know-how to tap the inner resources, and by tapping the inner resources through spiritual practices, all they do will be right and conducive to their evolution. This does not mean it will have immediate results, but it has long-term benefits that are far more beneficial than immediate temporary ones. One thing to remember is that the laws of nature are forever supporting you on the right path. It never leads you astray unless you close your eyes and

Choiceless Choices: He Chooses, I Flow

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DIVINITY IS AN ENERGY AND HAS NO WILL In the largest sense, there is nothing else that exists but divine will. Man tends to narrow down the vastness of divine will to their own will, which consists of nothing else but their egos! The ego says, “I do this, and I do that,” yet it does nothing at all. For how could the ego function at all without that energizing force that is there of divine will? The concept of Divine Will is a misnomer; it is a fallacy. Divinity has no will at all. Divinity is an energy. But where the will comes in is in manifestation, for as every kind of energy, that energy has to express itself in some way or the other, and that energy expresses itself in manifestation. This manifestation, in turn, is what has created you and your very existence; your very creation is nothing else but a manifestation. DIVINE WILL CONSISTS OF MOTION, BUT IN UNDERLYING MOTION, THERE IS STILLNESS What is manifestation? Manifestation is the relativity of life from its grossest level to its highest level. Yet it remains manifestation, which that energy empowers. This manifestation is called Divine Will. When we say, “Thy will be done,” what does it mean? That means, may the totality of manifestation cooperate with me. Let me not fragment it or cut it into pieces by my little self. We try to gather the pieces that we have cut up into the totality of manifestation so that we can merge into manifestation itself. The totality of manifestation. This mergence is the first step that will take place for you to become one with the energy. Manifestation is like waves on the ocean, rising and falling, rising and falling, rising and falling. But yet, what creates those waves? That is the question. The creation of those waves is because of the energy currents that flow deeper down in the ocean, and that is the energy man has to reach to become Divinity itself and not the will. So here is a process of elimination all the time, where you go from your ego will to divine will, and then you merge away into that infinite energy because divine will is not limitless. It has its limitations. It is limited to the structure of this universe, while the energy that we talk about, the impersonal God, if you wish to call it that, is beyond this universe. Yet, it penetrates every atom of the universe. Thus, through this penetration of energy, we find the entire universe functioning. Because the very act of functioning is a process, it is constantly filled with motion. Nothing can exist in this universe without motion. Everything is moving. Even as we sit in this room, we are hurtling through space at thousands of miles per minute. You take the example of light: it moves a hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second. Everything is moving. You think you are sitting still there; no, you are moving. Every cell in your body is in motion. Otherwise, you would not be sitting here. Otherwise, you would not exist; you would disintegrate. So, divine will consists of motion. But, underlying this motion, there is the stillness that man has to reach and will reach in time to come. And achieving that stillness, you will become part of the motion that controls this entire universe and still be apart from it. You become the observer of the motion, and in that observation, you will find that stillness, and yet, you are involved in the motion of divine will. DIVINE WILL DOES NOT CHOOSE FOR YOU; YOUR EGO CHOOSES FOR YOU When it comes to choices, who chooses for you? Your ego chooses. Because the ego is patterned, and according to its patterning, it makes its choice. You are fond of mountains, or someone is fond of the sea. Because you are used to mountains, you are attracted to the mountains, and if you are fond of the sea, you are attracted to the sea. But man can combine within himself the mountains and the sea together. What is the difference between the mountain and the sea? You would have just as much ozone up in the hills, the mountains, as you would have at the seaside. What is the difference between the molecular structure between the mountain and the sea? None whatsoever. And where did the mountain come from? It was an eruption in the sea that caused the mountain to rise. In my younger days, I used to love mountaineering, and on the mountains, I used to find sea shells. So, did the mountain not rise from the sea itself? So why do I discriminate between the mountain and the sea? If I could bring myself to find the oneness of everything, the mountain and the sea and the land in between them, then I comply with divine will. Therefore, choices are made based on your preferences, and these preferences are influenced by preconditioning. That is why you choose the mountain or you choose the sea. So, choices are made because of your ego self, and your ego self is nothing else but thought formation. The process is simple. You inform the formation. When you can do that, you will learn to observe yourself and the various methods of the mind that lead you to certain kinds of choices. You have a two-week vacation. Are you planning to visit New York or Los Angeles? How does that choice come about? You may have read some articles about New York, which has attracted you to the city. You want to see the Empire State Building, or perhaps you have read articles about California’s 17-mile drive. Therefore, you are attracted to that. The choice is a matter of conditioning that repeats itself. Divine will does not choose for you. It is your ego self that decides, and the ego self, as I have said before, is nothing

Awakening to Your Divine Nature: Beyond the Drama of the Mind

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AWAKENING TO YOUR DIVINE NATURE Do we live only for our five physical senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling? Is that the meaning of life, or is there a higher meaning? Happiness can only be found if you strive for the higher meaning of life. You are Divine. You imagine yourself to be non-Divine, and that causes you the miseries of life. But if you think, “I am born in the image of God; I am that Divinity,” then all miseries will disappear. Nothing can affect you if you can only reset from the externalities of life and bring yourself into the internality. Affectation is a product of your mind, and your mind as everyone else’s in the world, ninety-nine point nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine percent is affected by the mind. Are you ruling your mind, or is your mind ruling you? If you say to yourself, “I am feeling sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick,” you will feel sick. But if you say to yourself, “I am well,” you will find that energy welling up within you because your mind is the greatest obstacle to your misery, and it is the most significant help to your development and non-misery. ACCEPTANCE BRINGS FREEDOM Misery means that you feel uncomfortable within yourself, and conflicting thoughts fly through your mind, thoughts where one thought conflicts with the other and causes friction that makes you feel miserable. But if you eliminate conflict, it is natural and logical that you will feel non-conflict. The secret to non-conflict is not controlling the mind. The more you try to control your mind, the greater the conflict will occur because you are pressurizing a non-conflicting force against a conflicting force, and because of these two opposites, you create greater conflict. But if we can allow our minds just to flow. Someone has said a bad word to me; how will I accept those words? How will I allow what this someone has said to me or anyone else has said to me? Whose business is it? It is my business because I am the one who is allowing myself to be affected. You go out now, and you find it to be cold. Who is feeling cold? Not the weather. You are feeling chilly. If you go outside and if it is warm, you will feel warm. So why not treat the mind similarly, where you could say to yourself, “Ah, it is cold. Why not? Let it be cold.” If it is raining, why not let it rain? Does that rain not give us food, flowers, and beauty? If it is so hot, can we not just think that the food, flowers, and everything grows because of the heat? Is it not the heat and the rain that sustains life to its fullest? So, whose fault is it? Here is something I am going to tell you which is revolutionary. It is not your fault, nor the fault of the weather, the environment, or anything else. The fault lies in the patterning of your mind. If your mind can be patterned in the way of total acceptance, whatever befalls you, then the mind will unconditionally accept the patterns because the mind becomes unpatterned. You walk out of this room and put on your jersey and coat, which is cold outside. You are going to feel cold outside. But if your mind says, “Oh well, if it is cold outside, so what.” It is also part of nature as you are a part of nature. Because nature can only interact with nature, nature can never interact with anything which is not natural. So, if you have the attitude of saying, “Ah, it is going to be cold when I walk outside. So what!” There is always a remedy for it. I will have a hot cup of coffee or a scotch. Your whole attitude will change, and that cold you will find outside will not be felt because your attitude has changed and is not discordant with natural laws. So, when you develop the acceptance of your environment, life becomes happier. Your attitude influences everything in your life. I have known of a person who was in a wheelchair, suffering so many diseases, and yet this lady, who must be about sixty years old, was the happiest person I have found in the world because she accepted her condition. She received her position. She accepted the Serenity Prayer, “Let me accept the things that I cannot change and change the things which I can change.” FINDING STRENGTH THROUGH SIMPLICITY AND AWARENESS Many things in our lives can be changed. You study your work situations, you study whatever you want to study in every aspect of your life, and if you can look at it from a positive angle, you will find that everything can be changed immediately. What you need are very, very simple principles. We are one family. I am not apart from you, and you are not apart from me. The same Spirit creates us, and the same Spirit flows through us all. So, when people talk to me about misery, I say it is not necessary to suffer misery. You can be so happy, and the principles are so simple. That is the tragedy that I feel and suffer for, that the principles are so simple, and people just do not do it. If you only meditate, quiet the mind, and become the observer of these thoughts that flow through your mind, the mind could never be empty. Observe them as they play on the cinema screen; do not allow them to affect you. Because whatever is happening on the cinema’s screen, you cannot influence it; you are sitting in the audience. Things are happening. You watch it, yet you know that what you see on the screen is not reality. It is a play. So, if it is just a play, why should it allow

How to Find Happiness? Tricked by the Mind, Freed by the Spirit

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THE ILLUSION OF UNHAPPINESS Happiness is latent in man, but he cannot find it. Happiness is synonymous with Divinity. Happiness is joy, and if that joy, that Divine something, is omnipresent, then what is there to find? It is there, here, and now. But why do we feel sad, why do we suffer, and where does that suffering come from? The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. The peace is always there within you, yet that peace is so clouded over, coloured over, that we do not seem to see it. What comes in the way? Most people think that the suffering they have is always external – the mother-in-law is terrible, the boss is awful, you want to punch him in the nose. The wife sometimes gets cross and gives you a sour face, and the husbands are not too perfect either. So, we blame all our suffering and misery on the environment, but there is no suffering and despair in the environment. If someone swears at you, you will feel hurt, and that hurt is done; you will be unhappy. But if you are deaf and do not hear him swearing, will you be disappointed? No, you have not heard it. So, the point is this: the unhappiness is in your mind. Happiness is not in the mind, but unhappiness, so-called, is in the mind because it is only the mind that interprets and evaluates a situation. So, what qualities of the mind can assess a situation? Can the mind evaluate a situation? No, because every situation is evaluated differently by different people. Something that might be joyful to one might be painful to another, yet it is still the same situation and environment. If you go to live in the Himalayas, you will find it so cold, unbearably cold, while the people living there will find it very pleasant. I might come to England and find your weather so overcast and dull. It gets dark at half past three or four o’clock, while in South Africa, the sun shines until late, at seven, eight, or nine, even in winter. So, it is ‘I’ that interprets things. The man is in business trouble; for example, he has a load of creditors knocking on his door, and it worries him, and naturally, it should. But how much do we allow circumstances to affect us? There lies the secret of a good, happy life. AWARENESS TRANSFORMS EVERYTHING One’s previous experiences usually guide the interpretation of a situation. In the subconscious mind, we have these cubbyholes of stored information, so when any situation arises, the conscious mind immediately and automatically transmits the present situation to the subconscious. It draws out from those cubby holes things that have happened before, distasteful things. So, the distastefulness of the present situation is amplified and strengthened. What is the answer for us human beings? What can be done about it? There is only one way, and that is to go beyond the mind, for then only the peace beyond understanding can be found. Understanding is of the mind. As greater and greater awareness is gained, as more and more of the brain cells, twelve billion of them, in this little box up here, as more and more of them are enlivened through meditational and spiritual practices, more and more of the Inner Self can filter through, and greater awareness develops. Greater awareness means not looking at anything from a narrow perspective. When we stand down here and view an object, it appears small. However, when we reach a greater height of understanding, as if standing on a hill, a more panoramic view becomes visible. This occurs through meditative practices. So, when this happens through meditational practices and greater awareness develops, all happenings assume a different proportion. A greater understanding filters through into the conscious, evaluating mind, where things will be seen more positively. There is nothing in this world that is bad. I told someone the other day that even human excrement is not harmful. Without that ability, that biological function, you will die, so is it not good? It can then be used as a fertilizer to aid in plant growth. Various manures are recycled into the food, and the energy is given to the ground and the food you eat. So, what are you eating, and what is so bad about it? Everything goes in cycles. This entire universe exists in its cyclical form, which might seem like misery today, but looking back on it in retrospect, you will find that it was not misery; it was an excellent lesson. Why did I not have the sense at that time to recognise the lesson contained therein? Why did I look upon it as misery? So, my wife divorced me. Being human, it will naturally be a jar; she runs off with another man. But because of a lack of understanding and looking back at that temporary hurt, you will find that you have opened yourself more and more because of the hammering you received. Examining the hatred poured upon you, you will discover the meaning of love. Sometimes the opposite is needed to bring out certain truths that lie within you, and the knowledge of truth, the knowing of truth, brings you happiness. I want to share an example from my life: I was involved in a large business, and my partners took nearly two million Rand from me, leaving me financially broke. But what an opportunity in that adversity. I might still be wallowing in that mire of wealth, not doing what I am doing today, serving humanity. Do you see the great advantage in everything? I felt very miserable. They were thieves. We find thieves like that in this world. One day, a woman was in church and left her handbag behind. She got into her car and suddenly remembered her handbag, so she returned to the church. When she looked where she had been sitting, the handbag was

What Is a Miracle? Unveiling the Power of Faith and Divine Grace

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WHAT IS A MIRACLE? Christ did not perform more miracles than other Masters. We feel that because we are more oriented to our background and what we have learned. But if we study other Scriptures and mythologies, we will find many more miracles being performed. But what is a miracle? I have said before that there are no miracles whatsoever. We regard things that we cannot understand to be a miracle. When a person reaches a very high level of consciousness and can become one with subtle forces, he can direct these subtle forces into certain acts, which would seem to be a miracle to our eyes. The typical examples would be the aeroplane, the television, and the telephone, which a hundred years ago would have seemed a miracle, and today, it is such a reality that we hardly notice it. So, there are no miracles. But what did Jesus do? I am sure that thousands and thousands of people were blind at the time of his ministry. Thousands and thousands of people were lame, and I am sure thousands and thousands of people had died during that time. Why did he not cure all of their blindness? Why did he not make all the boring walk and not raise all from the dead? That is the question to consider. We know that he was a man of love. Why did he love one more than the other? Why should he give sight to one or legs to another and not to others? Therefore, Jesus always said one thing: “Thy faith has healed thee.” It is your faith that heals you. Jesus was the focal point for you to gather that faith within you into a togetherness, and when you were ready, these things just happened. When the child passes standard three, he goes to standard four, but if he has passed standard four, you cannot put him in Bachelor of Arts. So, that faith was there, that faith which defies all analysis. Science demands pro, of which religion defies proof. A LITTLE STORY I will tell you a little story. The Prime Minister of a particular country had passed away. The Prime Minister was a very, very wise, a very learned man. You can be learned and yet not wise. But here, there was a happy combination of being learned and wise. He passed away, and it was difficult to find his equal. So, they searched and searched and searched, and these three were the best choices that could be found. There was a scientist, one of the world’s most brilliant mathematicians, there was a philosopher, and there was a man of religion. These three were contenders to become the new Prime Minister. The King said, “I will have to put you through a test, and whoever passes the test will become the Prime Minister.” They were all given a few days to rest, so the Scientist was worrying all the time about what kind of problem this was going to be that I would have to solve. He worried and thought and thought and thought, and he had sleepless nights, and by the time he reached the Palace, he was exhausted. The Philosopher, the second contender, tried to work all kinds of theories. He had studied Plato and Socrates and Shankaracharya and Aristotle and Ramanuja and Madhva and the whole lot put together, and he said, what possible problem could this King pose to me? He was worrying and worrying, and even before the problem was presented, he created problems in his mind. So, when they both went to the Palace for this test, they were still worried and exhausted. But the man of religion did not care anything. He did nothing during those few days that they gave them to rest. He sang, and he ate, and he drank, and he was happy. So, while on the way to the Palace, the Scientist and the Philosopher asked this man, “Look, you have been doing nothing.” He said, “What is there to do? There is nothing to do.” So, these two felt so confident; he was a natural loser. In the meantime, the King had built a room where all three would be locked in. The lock did not have a key, but it might have been one of the number combinations or some such device whereby safe doors are opened. The three got locked in the room and asked to find their way out. The Scientist immediately took pen and paper and started working out all possible solutions, all the permutations of the numbers, and he was so brilliant that if he existed today, he would have won every horse race with all his permutations. The Philosopher was busy with all his theories, so there must be a theory on how this door can be opened. There must be some theory because there is a solution behind every problem, which necessitates a theory to work upon. Meanwhile, the man of religion just sat back in a corner, and he was so happy within himself, meditating away and such a joy. A few hours passed, and the Scientist and Philosopher looked at him and said, “Oh, he is out; he is just sitting still doing nothing.” Then suddenly, the man of religion thought: let me go to the door and try to open it. And he went to the door, and he opened the door because the door was never locked. So, the scientists and the philosophers were creating non-existent problems, but the man of faith just knew within himself without using analysis or logic. Because the Scientist experiments, the Philosopher uses logic, but the man of truth, the man of religion, he experiences. Experiment, logic, experience. While he was meditating, he just experienced “let me go.” Something pushed him, and he did not know, and he did not care either about what pushed him. He just had faith to get up and open the door. He

The End of Fear: Embracing Unity and Letting Go of the Ego

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IF FREE WILL IS USED POSITIVELY, THEN HATRED WILL BECOME LOVE When we suffer from emotional problems, we do suffer them without the realisation of Divinity. In other words, fear suffers within itself. Jealousy suffers within itself. Any form of negativity is perpetuated by itself. If there was a recognition of what Divinity was, and if those fears had to come about inspired or energised by it with a conscious knowledge of it, then these mechanisms of fear, greed and lust could be used to overcome various defects in us. In other words, with a defect, we overcome another defect. As in homoeopathy, we use one thorn to remove the other. But when the thorn has been taken out, what do we do? We throw both thorns away. This comes with a higher realisation that all this happening within us is also the work of Divinity. With that realisation, fear becomes fearlessness, anger becomes love, hatred becomes love. The same energy is converted within us in its positive aspect. Having certain pent-up feelings does not mean we will get rid of the negativity within us by releasing those feelings. We have to release the pent-up energy, and the pent-up energy can be released positively. So why not choose the positive path? There is a skinny dividing line between love and hatred, and there is a skinny dividing line between fear and fearlessness. A fragile veil separates the two. The whole crux lies in the energy that brings positivity or negativity. The crux of the matter, the basis of the question, is based upon energy and how that energy is used, utilised, and expressed. There comes free will; if free will is used positively, then that hatred will become love. ALL FEARS STEM FROM OURSELVES How do we use free will positively? Any energy can be used positively if an understanding is gained of that energy. Without understanding the power, we are in confusion, and whenever anyone is in confusion, you can be sure that that is within us. So, we start by getting rid of the confusion, and the best way to get rid of the confusion is to understand the situation, why do I fear? Once one has an understanding of the reason why one fears or why one hates, then half the problem is solved because of the very process of analysing the reason. If you go to a good psychiatrist or a good psychoanalyst, he makes you talk, and while he makes you talk, he will guide you slowly, he will guide you very subtly sometimes, to make you see the faulty reasoning that you have. He will make you see the fallacy, the misunderstanding you have. On the spiritual path, we do the same; in Jnana Yoga, the yoga of discrimination, we can actively discriminate. With discriminative power, we can find the reason why we are hating, angry, and afraid. Once we know why, I fear, it would be getting rid of half the problem, and the other half can be got rid of by gaining strength within us. It is like a person walking through a dark road, and he sees a rope lying there. At first sight, it might seem to be a snake, and he has that fear. But when he looks closer, he sees that it is not a snake but a piece of rope, and immediately, his fear vanishes. This situation can be applied to everything in life. A woman fears that her husband is going out, the husband says, “I am going out with the boys,” but in the heart, the woman fears that he might see a girlfriend. She fears that. Why does she have that fear? The fear is there because of her inadequacy. It could be a conscious inadequacy or a sub-conscious inadequacy planted in her mind since childhood, perhaps because of happenings in her environment. She might have had specific experiences in life that would produce that fear in her. The fear stems from insecurity. She feels insecure, and therefore, she feels inadequate. She feels I cannot please or look after my husband in the way he should be looked after, and consequently, he might find another girlfriend. When that woman fears this, she has to analyse herself. I am not talking of morbid fears or fears that are created by an imbalanced mind. However, some concerns come about in people’s well-balanced minds, but the thinking process is wrong. In that fear, so much attachment could make her think that her husband will be unfaithful to her. Meanwhile, he could be the finest man on earth. If she analyses the situation, “Where have I gone wrong to produce this fear in me?” If she analyses herself, she feels that she has been doing her duty correctly, that she has been loving as a wife should be loving, and that she has been caring for the husband as she should be caring. Firstly, he married her because he was attracted to her. Is she doing her best to remain just as attractive as in the honeymoon period, or is that past, and is she taking things for granted? If she analyses all these things and the answer is in the affirmative, that fear would be lost. Then she would say, “John, why are you sitting around at home tonight? Go out and have a good time with the boys.” That is good; she will develop. So that very fear that caused this attachment, insecurity, and inadequacy can now be turned to love and adequacy and security, where she would say, “Stop sitting around watching the telly, if you feel like going out for a game of snooker with the boys, go!” She will say that. It is the same energy that has been used, but it has taken a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn. So, all fears stem from ourselves and not necessarily from the environment, and even if the climate creates a fear, it depends upon our ability

The Role of Christ in Easing Karma: Understanding the Spiritual Force of Grace

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DID CHRIST REMOVE KARMA? Healing is meant to bring about wholeness. Healing does not necessarily mean that if you are lame, your leg will grow again, and you will start walking. We call it healing, but it is just part of it. A person has cancer, and healing is done, and the cancer disappears. That is just a superficial, superfluous physical manifestation of a force that already exists, always there in everyone and everywhere. Real healing is finding the wholeness of body, mind, and spirit. Did Christ take over their karma by doing these healings or bringing wholeness to a person? This is an impossibility. No one can take over anyone else’s karma. This principle is difficult to accept because we have been raised in a tradition where we have expected something for nothing. Why should any being no matter how evolved he might be, or the incarnation of Divinity take over your karma and not the karma of someone else? Man has not changed so much in history. People are the same today as they were two thousand years ago, two and a half thousand years ago when Buddha existed or five thousand years ago when Krishna existed. People today are still basically the same, and technological advancement is no criteria or measure of evolution whatsoever because people commit the same follies. People of today do the same things that they did ages ago. THE SPIRITUAL FORCE MAKES THE REPAYMENT OF KARMA EASIER A child writes an examination, and the teacher knows that the child has been doing very well throughout the year, but at the time of assessment, the child might have been nervous. People get these frightened feelings when writing an exam, and instead of getting a passing mark of fifty percent, he gets forty-eight. Knowing the child’s history throughout the year and learning the record, the teacher would award those two or three percent extra and push the child over to the following standard. That is possible. There is a little pushing but no taking away of karma. We cannot judge a holy or righteous person because we can never understand his actions. His actions might seem so contradictory to us. But he knows what he is doing. He is a law into himself. But in the presence of such a person, there is a force that emanates. He does not do it consciously. It is an automatic emanation like heat from fire or fragrance from a flower. It is an automatic emanation, and by being near that person, that Force has some effect upon us, and the impact would be enlightening. It gives a lightness of Heart. It spurs one on to betterment, to better ourselves. That one little thing happens. But the proper removal of karma has to be done by oneself. But by being bathed by this Force, by this Grace that automatically emanates from this being, it helps us to smoothen our path. The karma is not taken away, but because of that spiritual Force, because of the attunement of mind to mind, Heart to Heart, it makes the repayment of karma easier. KARMA IS GOOD ACTION AS WELL AS BAD ACTION The word karma has always been very confused with bad action. Karma means action, and there is good and bad action, but a good action is enhanced more. The beautiful flower is there, but it is so well dressed up in the vase with the lovely leaves and looks gorgeous. The beauty of the flower is enhanced. So, in the company of a righteous, holy person, he might not need to be near because that Grace, that universal Force, is forever there, everywhere, although people are thousands of miles apart. But there has to be that attunement whereby we open the window to allow the fresh air to come in. Good karma is enhanced by giving it more extraordinary beauty, and by giving it more excellent beauty, life can become more joyous. Every joy becomes more enhanced. It is like having a meal. The Missis might cook a lovely meal, but the feast will lose some value if the table is not nicely laid. So, dressing the table for that lovely dinner is very important. That is how good karma is enhanced. When it comes to bad karma, by this Force, we lose the sting of the reaction, for every action must react. Suitable action will have a good response, nasty action a lousy reaction. Still, we automatically repent by being aware of our wrong actions and tuning in to that grace. If I realise that I have done something wrong, that realisation is a form of repentance, and that repentance is strengthened by not performing that same action again. GRACE CAN HELP US UNPATTERN OUR MINDS AND MAKE OUR KARMA EASIER Of course, most people do not do that. To use an analogy from Ramakrishna, he says, “The camel loves eating thorns. It knows its mouth bleeds but still keeps eating the thorns.” Many people do that. But as soon as the sincere seeker realises this action is not good, he has a dawning realisation that I should not perform this again. But the mind is so patterned that he will want to achieve that action again because of the patterned mind. How many alcoholics are there in the world that does not hate every drink they take? They wish they could get out of it. They suffer, but because of the chemistry built up in their system, it could be physiological as well as psychological, and they just cannot do without that drink. The same thing applies to drug addicts. They hate themselves for it. So, what can they do because they cannot unpattern their patterned mind? They need outside help, and that outside help is Grace, and to draw that Grace, one has to have some faith, as the people had in Jesus. They must believe, “Look, I cannot do anything anymore; I have tried my

How to Make Divinity Concrete? Embodying the Infinite into the Finite

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IN MEDITATION, THERE IS NO FOCUS REQUIRED Focusing does necessarily involve some kind of concentration, and concentration is something which is at a level not as deep as meditation. In meditation, we go beyond focusing or concentration; we go beyond contemplation, and then we enter into the field of meditation, where it just is. When we focus our attention, specific mechanisms of the mind start functioning. In that very focus process, we activate the brain’s left hemisphere. In the process of focusing, you will find various analyses coming up. Rationalizations will take place, and a weighing takes place, while in meditation, we go beyond the process of weighing or analyzing. When we start weighing, we want to see which weighs more or less. So, it is a complete mental process which would lead one into contemplation. Contemplation is reasonable, and I have often said that true contemplation is like pouring oil from one vessel into another in an unbroken stream. When you think, you will always have thoughts that do not deal with the subject. The mind floats away onto other topics, and then you bring it back. For example, you start reading a book, and the mind will think, “What am I going to cook for supper tonight?” Then you bring your attention back. Your focus goes back to the book. When you are meditating, there is no focus required at all. If you are contemplating accurately and adequately, the doorbell will ring, you will be alert, answer the door, and then sit down to meditate again. The very process of getting up and answering the door forms part and parcel of your meditation. If your mind focused on something, you would not hear the doorbell. The ears and inner organs of perception are there, yet you will not hear the doorbell because your mind is focused. THE FINITE MIND IS INCAPABLE OF CONCEIVING THAT WHICH IS INFINITE Focusing serves its purposes, but when it comes to consciousness, you are not conscious of your consciousness. You and Christ have the same consciousness as I would have; the difference is that you are unaware of what consciousness is because your awareness is limited. In other words, the finite mind, the little section that is not even 10% of the mind that you use, cannot conceive of the infinite. The limited is incapable of creating that which is infinite by mental processes, and total consciousness is infinite. So, if rationalization, or the workings of the mind, cannot reach that level, then we cannot conceive of the whole. Then, with our rationalizations, we become judgmental, start judging, and start comparing. I DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN JESUS AND CHRIST Embodied beings like Krishna, Buddha and Christ have limitations, for the very consciousness becoming embodied implies limitations, and in an embodied form, there can never be a perfect man. It is impossible. Therefore, I differentiated between Jesus and Christ. If we study the life of Christ, we will find him doing various things in the embodied form. He was given to great anger. He was a passionate man, and he was a loving man, loving as a man would love. As Jesus, his love also required a kind of reciprocation. When he was tortured and tormented, his emotional self also felt the torture and the torment, and that was the suffering that theology speaks about. Theology speaks about all those tortures and torments as far as the embodied Jesus was concerned. But one thing is sure: what differentiates you and me from Jesus is that he had developed that awareness; he had gone beyond the 10% conscious mind and delved into deeper and deeper realms of that mind, which is universal. Having explored all the territories of the various layers of the conscious mind and all the various layers of the subconscious mind and reaching the subtlest, the finest layer of relativity known as the superconscious mind, he could conceive of, perceive, and comprehend the entire universe. So there lies the difference. Our view is narrow because the conscious mind acts only as a vehicle for the upper strata of the subconscious to flow through it. In other words, the patterns in the upper strata of the subconscious mind are expressed through the conscious mind. That is why you have different behaviour patterns, which are dependent upon the conditioning of one’s mind. Meditation and spiritual practices are designed to rid oneself of the patternings, and the patterning is the stains or the dirt on the glass window. The spiritual practices help one to cleanse the window so that more profound layers of the subconscious mind come to the fore. That dirt is washed away until we reach the superconscious level, which is closest to what we could describe as the Absolute, and the full force of the Absolute can shine through. But when the personage, the embodied person, has reached that level, we are beyond the area of questioning such a man, for he becomes a law unto himself. He has transcended the law of opposites and the polarities; he has brought into a oneness between himself, the entire universe, and the Absolute, the Father. This mechanism is essential. The reason why one person is born with a limited consciousness or awareness and another with a vaster awareness is not only dependent upon hereditary factors, but it goes further back right to the time of the Big Bang where all these minute particles, all this sub, sub, subatomic matter was expelled in this explosion. This very expulsion, this very force, is what constitutes evolution. That mere particle can duplicate itself, replicate itself, and interchange itself with other particles so that various forms of life occur on this planet and everywhere else. But let us think of this planet where it progresses from the mineral to the plant to the animal and the kingdom of man. THE ONE CAN ONLY BE EXPERIENCED We are not after a comparison between the embodied person or the guru or

Preparing for Grace: Finding Grace Through Spiritual Practices

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THE POWER OF GRACE CAN ONLY BE KNOWN THROUGH EXPERIENCE All problems in our lives begin the way we live in duality, viewing everything as separate from us. Speaking, all issues have their solutions built in. No man needs to suffer. No man needs to drive grace away from oneself, for it is there, it is there, it is there. Look how the sun gives off its heat to draw up water to shower the earth with grace so food and flowers can grow. Everything in the universe is in motion; everything is working. We are supposed to be the highest species on this earth, the so-called most evolved, because we can think; we should be able to be in a position to believe in the right way so that we can draw grace far more quickly to and understand it better than the flower which is non-thinking or the stone that is non-thinking or the poor little animal. Do you know how much a dog or a cat does not think and showers their love to you? Do you know how close they can be to you? Even before the master turns the corner, the dog runs to the gate. Even the cat will come and curl up in your lap so lovingly. Why? Because it does not think. It feels, and what feels is the Heart. So, when we approach the core of our personality called the Heart, that can never remain a vacuum, then as the Heart expands or unfolds more and more, it becomes more and more filled with grace. Grace is something one can never explain. Never mind how intellectual you are; the mind can never demonstrate grace. One can talk about it, but one can only know the power of grace when one experiences it, and the preparation for this is within oneself through our spiritual practices. REWARDS WILL COME ON THEIR OWN No obstacle cannot be overcome; obstacles are the most outstanding teachers. It is not the pleasures of life that teach you much, but the pains of life teach you, and if there are obstacles, you should develop the attitude that this obstacle is necessary for you to experience grace. Funny enough, all Spiritual Masters go through severe pain. Take Ramakrishna, who had cancer, Vivekananda with asthma, and Ram Thirtha, who had some incurable disease. Many of you do not know that, but Jesus Christ was a very sickly man. He was very emaciated. He had very little strength, travelling from village to village and town to town on foot. Many times, there was food for him, and many times, there was not – many times, feasts and many beggar’s bowls. He went through a lot of torture, but finally, he could say that “I and my Father are one. I, this little body, and that father within are one.” That is the final realisation of Unity Consciousness. Despite his theory of relativity, even Einstein had to admit that “There is a vast field which I cannot explain.” He was a spiritual man, or he would not admit to that unified field he mentioned. For that, you had an excellent series on British television a little while ago where this man, Don Cupid, spoke about Jung, Darwin, Freud, and all these people. They, too, especially Jung, after going through all the various facets of psychoanalysis, had to admit that there is a power, there is a God, there is something that moves the world. I think the Greek Philosopher Archimedes said, “If you can give me a standing place apart from the earth, I could move the whole earth.” But there is no standing place outside the earth. The upright place is inside the planet, and you have got to move the earth, and it can be done by pushing yourself. Whenever you do your spiritual practices, never have the desire for self-realisation or passion for grace because that will only breed begging and bargaining. Just do them innocently, and you will find the rewards on their own. Try chasing your shadow, running away from the light; you will never catch it. But try running towards the light, and your shadow will be behind you – behind me, the devil. I stand free, and you, the devil, stand behind me. By the devil, I mean all the suffering and the obstacles, for that is the evil created by ourselves, by our little mental selves. And yet, the mind is so vast. It is as vast as the universe; even poor old Einstein could only use eight per cent of it. So, what is the sense of chasing that little mind when even Einstein could reach eight per cent only? You will not even be able to get one per cent. Instead, pursue the Heart within and capture it. YOU ARE GRACE I do not know if I told you this story before. There was a King who had a big gala party in his Palace. He was generous, and all kinds of beautiful things were displayed in his Palace. The King said that anything you touch will be yours after the party. So, of course, people went for the jewels, diamonds, various golden statuettes, and all the fine things. But the King had a maidservant who, when everything was over, went to the King and asked, “Sire, you said that anything that people here would touch would be theirs.” The King repeated his promise, and the maidservant touched the King. The King was hers; if you have the King, you have all his treasury. Touch the King through your spiritual practices so that grace is there; you have caught grace and got grace. Kiss her, cuddle her, love her, for no one else but you are loving you. It is the small self of yours loving the big self. But that love becomes so strong that the big self interpenetrates the small self and makes the small Self Divine. So, the

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