January 30 2004

Transcript

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Whenever you are in long face, remember this. Vivekananda says, “Whenever you are in a depressed mood with a long face, lock yourself in the room. You have no right to spread sorrow or sadness in the life, in the world, in the society.” You have no right to spread depression or the sorrow in the world. There are enough of people who are depressed, there is enough of depression, there is enough of sorrow in the world. You have no right to add something more. Whenever you are dull, dead, depressed, lock yourself in the room. Then all of us has to be in the room throughout the day.

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Whenever you come out, as you wear the dress, wear a smile, wear a dancing mood, public joy and don’t tell, I have seen many people I don’t feel, how can I express Swamiji? When you express only, you start experiencing. Expression and the experience go hand in hand. Start expressing, you will start seeing, you will start experiencing. Don’t wait for the experience to happen, then we will express. Express, then you will see experience happens. Wait for the experience, whatever experience comes, you know how to make it as a worry. Anything you can see, you can make it as a worry, because you have mastered the art, you have mastered the art.

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A small story. A man was sitting outside his house and weeping and wailing very badly. His friend came and enquired, ‘What happened, what happened? Why are you weeping so much?’ He said, ‘No, no. Just three days ago, my grandfather passed away, writing a will, leaving a will all his properties to me.’ The man said, ‘What is wrong in it? You yourself sixty, your grandfather must have been above hundred. It is too late, it has come, no problem. I know your grandfather. He had lot of properties and you got that properties. You should be happy. You should be joyful.’ ‘No, no, no. You don’t know. One month ago, my uncle also passed away leaving all his properties to me.’ ‘Perfectly alright. I know your uncle. He also must be above eighty and he also had millions of dollars. Now you are rich. Why are you bothering so much about it?’ ‘No, no, no. You don’t know. Three months ago, my grandmother passed away leaving all her properties.’ This man thought, ‘Really he has gone crazy or what? Three relatives leaving their properties and passing away. This is the moment we celebrate it.’ Then he started advising, ‘Are you really sensitive? You feel lonely because they have all died? What is happening? What is the reason? At least tell me the reason. You can… by sharing your dukkha, sharing your sorrow, you can be relaxed. He said, ‘No, no. It is not my problem. You don’t understand. Now I have no more relatives who will leave their properties and die. I have nobody else who will give their properties and die!’

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How much you get, your mind asks, ‘What next? What next? What next?’ You take everything as your birthright. Till you get the properties of your father, you will think, ‘When it will come? When it will come?’ When it comes, you take it as a birthright. When you start thinking, the neighbours what next. Because you have mastered the art of worrying. Anything you can make it as a worry. That’s what, there is a saying. ‘Before you get, even the mustard seed, looks like a mountain. Once you attain, achieve, even the mountain looks like a mustard seed.’ When it is in your garage, even the mountain looks like a mustard seed. That’s what is mind.

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So never think, expect that joy will come from inside. You can even jump around or move around it. Now itself make your being alive, carry a smile with you always. It is not for the sake of somebody else I am telling you, it is for the sake of you. When you smile, don’t think somebody else is going to have some benefit, no! It is you who are going to have the benefit. When you are in the blissful mood, don’t think somebody else is going to have some benefit from you, no! It is you who is going to live your life. So expand the fifth layer of your being. ’Anandam Bramheti navya Jaanaam’. Ananda is God. Don’t miss it by not having it. don’t waste it by not enjoying it. It is there in your life, just small, small expressions!

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In our ashram, we have a habit. If somebody drops anything, if somebody breaks anything, we immediately say thank you. We immediately shout, ‘Thanks’. See, the dropping or breaking nobody will do purposely. If somebody drops, you can make the whole scene mess, shouting at them, ‘Fool! Don’t you have brain?’ If he has got brain, why will he marry you? Why will he come and live with you? You can make the whole scene mess also. And the same way, you can make the whole scene joyful also. Nobody is going to drop anything or break anything purposely. It is already dropped, now nothing can be done. If you shout also nothing can be done. If you weep also, nothing can be done. It has happened. Now it is up to you whether to handle the moment joyfully and take it lightly or whether to make it as a reason to shout at others. You see, we are just inside, we are carrying a big volcano of suppressed emotions. So we are just waiting to catch some reason to jump on somebody. Only you want small reasons. You don’t need much big reasons. Small reasons are enough to jump on the people.

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A small example. Once a lion was just trying to catch the deer and it has caught and it is about to kill. The deer shouted, ‘Oh! What have I done. I have not done any mistake. Why are you killing me? Lion told, ‘What? You have not done any mistake? I was about to drink that water in the lake, the lake water. You have entered into the lake and made the whole thing muddy. I am not able to drink it.’ ‘No, no, no. You know the truth. I have not even entered inside the lake. I am just outside. How can you tell such a big lie? ‘No, no. You were seeing your face in that. When you saw your face, you may not put your mouth in the water but you have seen your face in the lake. That itself made the lake muddy.’ ‘No, no. Tell me the truth. I have not even gone near the lake. Why are you telling such big lie? Please, I have not gone near the lake. How can you say, how can you make me the reason for that muddy lake?’ ‘No, you may not have done but your forefathers must have done. Your father must have done. Your mother must have done. That’s why the lake is muddy. Otherwise, how can this lake become muddy?’ See, to jump on others, you can find any reason, you can find any reason.

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This is the way in our life. You are just bubbling. You just want reasons to jump on others. Never, never, never do that. Carry a live mood, alive being within you. You will see, you can expand all the five layers and your small i can become big I. Your Nithyananda can become Nithya Ananda. Your suffering, dukkha can become Eternal Bliss. So carry these few ideas, these few understandings in your life. Then you will see, your small i which creates continuous problem becomes big I and creates continuous Bliss. The I problem will disappear. The I problem will simply not only be solved, it will be dissolved into the Eternal Bliss. Let you enter, be in, and become Eternal Bliss-Nithyananda. Thank you.

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