February 28 2004

Title:

Swadhistana Chakra || Part 1 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

(0:26)

The next session is about Swadhisthana. It is called spleen chakra. Just two inches below the navel, just two inches below the navel, two inches above the muladhara. Just two inches below the navel, that you understand, that is enough. It is called Swa-adhisthana. Let you understand the meaning of ‘Swadhisthana.’ Swa + adhisthana. ‘Swa’ means self, ‘adhisthana’ means place where it is established- Swadhisthana. In this chakra, your being is established, your energy is established. Swa-adhisthana- where your being is established.

(01:32)

In Samurais, in Japan, have you heard of ‘samurais?’ In their tradition, if they are defeated, they commit suicide. The strange way they commit suicide. It is called harakriya, harakiri. Harakiri in Pali, harakriya in Sanskrit. They just take a small needle and insert it exactly on the Swadhisthana spot. Then life leaves without any pain. Of course, I won’t teach!... I won’t teach. Why I mentioned about this, because in that place only your energy is installed, your life is installed. When that place is rightly touched, your energy can leave the body or enter into the body. No other part of the body, if you insert a needle, you will die. At the most, you will have pain, that’s all! Never you will die but on Swadhisthana, if you insert the needle, energy will leave your body. It is called harakiri. But they have a special method. Simply if you insert, nothing will happen. Don’t try.

(03:01)

This chakra is related to fear and fear stroke. You should understand, one more new word which I uttered-’fear stroke’. Anyhow, let Me explain. Now, now only in modern days, they are working too much on this fear stroke and they are doing lot of research and discoveries on this fear stroke. Let Me explain what is fear stroke. Then we will enter into it. Then we will understand. You see, in dim light, night time you take a small walk in your garden. Suddenly you see a rope, coiled rope. What happens? A shock as if you have seen a snake! Next moment if you look little deeply, you will understand it is a rope, it is not a snake, you become normal. You become alright. But the moment you suspect it is a snake, some jolt, some shock is given to you. That is what I call fear stroke. You understand? That is what I call fear stroke.

(04:30)

Let Me explain the fear stroke. I think some are surprised when Swami says ‘I do not know.’ But when I do not know, I directly tell that I do not know, that’s all. Of course, that needs little bit of courage to say I do not know. But actually I do not know. When I do not know, I should be able to say that. There are so many times, so many instances you can quote when you get the fear stroke. If you are little bit late to the office and if your boss calls you, then fear stroke. If aircraft is caught in the turbulence and blue light cop.

(05:26)

Mukund everyday after drinking too much, he used to come to the house around 2 o’clock in the midnight. His wife wants to put an end to it. She went and asked her friend for an idea. She said, “See, your husband everyday comes through a particular graveyard, particular burial ground. So you go there. Makeup yourself like a ghost or there is nothing much is necessary almost. You just go there, stay there. When he comes, jump in front of him and shout or make noises like a ghost. Naturally he will be frightened. Then never he will come through that way. Naturally to come back early, he will stop drinking. A round-about idea, a indirect idea but it may work. Anything may work, why don’t you try?”

(06:34)

She decided, ‘Alright!’ She did all the best possible make-up and took a firepot also so that the smoke can be created, made all the scenic settings. When the man came, Mukund was coming down, she just jumped in front of him and started making some noise. That fellow not even for a moment he was frightened or disturbed. He just coolly held her hand and said, “Don’t you remember I lived with your sister? I am married to your sister for ten years.” This type of guys will never get fear stroke!

(07:35)

Sometimes, when you laugh too much, suddenly some portion of your body catches. Even that is the cause for fear stroke. Scary movies, horrible movies. Let us understand few things about this fear stroke. The people who do research on this, people who have done research on this, they say a normal person, a person who is living a normal life, average per day he undergoes 6-12 small or big fear strokes, average of 6-12 major or minor fear strokes in 24 hours. When I say 24 hour, I include dreams also. You get fear strokes in dreams also. None of you remember, very few remember, none of you told. Any of you just get some fear stroke and get up from the dream. In dreams also you get a fear stroke.

(08:59)

In complete 24 hours, 6-12 times you undergo minor or major fear strokes. It may be small or big, that is different but everyday and every fear stroke is almost like a shaking the root. It is like a rose plant is there. You just shake the rose plant once, what will happen? Everyday 6-12 times if you shake, what will happen to the rose plant? It is shaking the root of the rose plant. Just like that your nervous system, your root is shaken. Fear stroke you can see, exactly it will start from Swadhisthana only. That is why if the fear stroke is too serious, you will have a diarrhea. Am I right? Love from Anahata, worry or the depression from navel. Any worry, depression means stomach upset. Fear stroke means from Swadhisthana-diarrhea. Sex is muladhara, root centre. Every fear stroke is like a shaking your root.

(10:25)

They say four things about the fear stroke. One is, it weakens your immune system. Second thing, reduces the lifespan. Third thing, increases the ageing process. Fourth thing, releases depressive chemicals in your system. Four things they say about this fear stroke. First thing, weakens the immune system. Next thing, quickens the ageing process, reduces the lifespan. Fourth thing, the important thing, depressive chemicals. The chemicals which creates depression is released in your system at that moment. Four things happen because of fear stroke in your system. What are the root causes of the fear stroke? What is the root cause of the fear stroke? Fear, nothing but fear. How to work? How to go beyond the fear stroke? What is the way?

(11:53)

There is a Upanishad. Of course, this session is from Vedanta. First session is from Tibetian Buddhism, second is from Christianity, third from Tantra. This is from Vedanta. Sanatana Dharma. You can mark as Sanatana Dharma. The ancient tradition which existed in India. Not Hinduism. It is the father of Hinduism. Present day Hinduism is not Sanatana Dharma. It is the father of Hinduism, the Vedic religion. There is a Upanishad. Upanishad means a scripture deals on this fear. Beautifully that Upanishad describes or the method to go beyond fear. The solution which he gave the same thing is put in a much more better way, in a much more beautiful way. They say face the fear. There is a beautiful saying from that Upanishad. Fearlessness does not mean absence of fear. Fearlessness means presence of fear and the courage to face the fear, that’s all.

(13:18)

Absence of fear can never happen to anybody. You can be without fear only in the place of graveyard. when you are in your tomb, no fear, nothing more can happen to you. That is the most secured place on this planet earth. Even tornado cannot take. Face the fear. Face the fear is the beautiful solution. They call it psychodrama. In modern day psychology, they call it as a psychodrama. Actualising all the fears and undergoing the experience. Let us look little more what is actually fear? Why are you so much afraid of fear? Why you have so much of fear about fear? Little concrete terms I will try to explain.

(14:27)

When you get the fear, some alchemy happens in your body. Some chemical changes happen in your body and the mind which you are not able to bear, from which you want to just escape. Either you feel your chest is being pressed or you feel your whole being is squeezed or you feel some heaviness or pressure of sorrow or darkness. Something, some alchemy, some hormonal changes or chemical changes happens inside your body and brain and mind also. Of course, brain is not mind. Body, brain, mind-in all these three levels, some chemical changes happens. You are not able to bear that chemical changes. You are not able to live with that chemical changes. You are not able to put up with that chemical changes.

(15:31)

So you try to escape from those changes, from those moments but once consciously you yourself create those changes and face it, once you start creating those changes consciously and face it, then you will see, next time even if the same situation arises, you will not be shaken. The quality of the fear stroke will not be so deep as it is now. It will fade away. All of you are able to understand this concept? Only when you understand this, you will be able to enter into the meditation properly. Any of you are sleeping, at least for My sake, please get up now and understand it.

(16:28)

Q: Can You explain one more time?

(16:31)

Swamiji: Fear is nothing but a chemical change or some hormonal change happens in your body, brain and mind which you are not able to bear, which you are not able to face, you try to escape from it. You just want to jump out of your skin. Once you yourself create the same hormonal changes, chemical changes in your body by visualisation or some method and face it consciously, even if it happens, even if the same incident happens which creates the fear in you, you will not be shaken so much as you are shaken now. The depth of the fear stroke will not be so much as it is now. All of you understand? Anybody who is not able to grasp? If you don’t, now itself tell Me because I am going to ask question.

(17:53)

Q: Is anxiety and fear the same thing?

(17:55)

Swamiji: No, anxiety is the ...I can say, anxiety is like a love affair; fear is like a marriage. Anxiety can be broken any time. When the anxiety becomes a solid contract, it becomes fear. Anxiety is like a superficial. Fear is a solid thing. Anxiety can be broken at any time but fear cannot be broken as easily. It needs a big law process.

(18:32)

Q: A burglar when he goes into someone’s home, he has stayed there and when he sees the person in the home, is that a fear factor?

(18:43)

Swamiji: I am not able to understand your question. Please…

(18:45)

Q: If a thief comes to your house, you are there. He will be having the fear. (18:50) Swamiji: Oh! He will be having fear but a man who gets the fear, will he be thief? Must have been he must have done meditation to overcome the fear.

(19:11)

The Upanishad beautifully gives the technique, method also to face the fear. So before entering into the fear, we will understand what all the fears. Now we are moving from fear stroke to the fear because all fear strokes happen only from fears. So if we work on the fears, the fear stroke will naturally be healed. Only thing you need to do is, face the fear. Many people don’t travel in the flight just because of the flight accident fear, afraid of flight accidents. Is there anybody like that here? Nobody! You should understand one thing. 90% of the people die in a bed. So can you totally avoid the bed? Am I right? 90% of the people die only in the bed. So if you avoid the flight, you must avoid bed because the percentage is more in the bed, in the case of bed than in the case of flight.

(20:32)

Title:

Swadhistana Chakra || Part 2 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

(0:20)

A small story for you, dedicated to you... There was a Guru and disciple going to a river to take bath. Suddenly disciple fell in the river and he was trying to swim and shouting, “O Master! save me, save me.” He doesn’t know swimming. Master knows swimming. He shouted, “Master, save me, save me.” Master was standing in the bank of the river and coolly, “Hey fool! Get up.” The disciple thought, ‘What is this? Even at this moment Master is preaching some philosophy. This is the time he should get into the river and save me.’ He shouted, “Master, you can preach all these things afterwards. Now please save me.” The Master is very cool and telling, “Hey, get up. Get up and save yourself.” Again he is shouting, “Oh! I am drowning, I am drowning.” Master shouted in his high pitch, ”Get up!” That fellow was so frightened. He could not control and he got up. He saw water is only upto knee level.

(01:38)

All our problems are like this only. When you get up and stand, only then you understand your problems are only upto knee level. As long as you get up, you don’t understand water is only upto knee level. When you are lying how will you understand water is only upto knee level? Only when you stand up, you will understand water is upto knee level. Only when you get the confidence and the trust, stand up and live, you will understand life is simply nothing. It is just nothing but a beautiful joke.

(02:18)

So now, so many of you have listed your fears. Let Me try to put all the fears in a capsule form. Four layers: If we work on these four layers, we will be able to work on the total fear. First layer: Please all of you listen because now meditation starts. All of you listen. First layer: fear of losing your wealth, comforts, name and fame, social status. Fear of losing the social status-the first fear. Next layer: fear of losing some part of your body or accident or fatal diseases. This is the second layer of fear. Third layer: none of you have remembered, none of you have told but which everyone of you have got-fear of losing the near and dear ones. Fear of losing them or losing love from them. This is the third layer of fear. Fourth layer: fear of unknown. Fear of death or fear of ghost, fear of spirits, even fear of God, fear of heaven or the hell-all fears of the unknown is the fourth layer. These are the major four layers under which we can classify all the fears. Am I right? Anything which cannot be classified under these four if you have, you can tell Me. We will classify it.

(04:14)

Devotee: Fear of my parents.

(04:19)

Swamiji: (laughs) I think we can put only in the second category. Fear of pain-psychological pain. Right. Second category.

(04:33)

Anyhow, all these fears can be classified in these four layers. Now we will take few minutes to work on every fear- layers of fear. You see, to do this meditation, your cooperation is totally needed and here, you have to do. All these three techniques I was telling you how to do. You did. Now this technique you yourself have to visualise deeply. Three things you understand. Imagine as deeply as possible. Don’t think what imagination can do. When I say to visualise some fear, some incident, imagine some incident, don’t think, ‘How this imagination is going to help? Eh! What is this?’ Don’t disrespect it.

(05:40)

Second thing, when you imagine and visualise, your mind will try its best to stop you, ‘No, no, no. When it comes, let us face. Now let us not imagine all these things.’ Your mind will try its best to jump out of this meditation. Don’t allow your mind. Visualising this fear and going into it, is almost like a putting torch on the dark corners of your mind. Your mind will never allow it to be exposed. Whenever you see any ghost...any of you have seen any ghost? I tell you honestly, throughout My life, I stayed in burial grounds and graveyards from the very young age. Not even once, I have been disturbed by the dead people. Dead people never disturb. Only living people disturb others… I tell you from My experience, they are really good people. They never disturb others. Only we, living people disturb others.

(05:55)

Swamiji to a devotee: What? Something, you don’t want to tell Me? You will tell only Vijaya? No, if you tell, all of us can enjoy the comment.

(07:14)

Alright, dead people never disturb. Only living people disturb you. So visualise as deeply as possible. I was telling about you the ghost. Whenever you see a ghost or something is there, just look deeply into that space. You will see there is nothing. It is just, if your unconscious is allowed to live, only then you will see all these fear. You will have all these fear. When you throw your conscious light on unconsciousness, all fear will disappear because there is no fear. By nature you are ‘abhi’. Abhi means beyond fear. Your atman, your self...sorry, I used the word which I don’t want to use. Your self is beyond fear. Your very nature is totally free, beyond fear. So if you throw your Consciousness, awareness on sometime, some part of your mind, that portion, that part of fear will totally disappear but your mind is such a cunning mechanism, it wants to survive.

(08:51)

Just like everything in the world, mind has also got a survival instincts. It wants to survive. So it will try its best to move you from this meditation. It will say, ‘No, no, no. Let us not imagine all these things. I cannot bear all these things. I cannot put up with all these things.’ It will create all possible sentiments. Don’t allow your mind to move you from this meditation. Go through it totally. Then you will see the result of it. I have seen so many thousands of people just like that moving out of the fear strokes, phobias and fears. They just move out of the fear strokes and phobias even if they once practice this meditation. Even if they practice this meditation only once.

(09:56)

So, whenever I guide you from layer to layer, move from layer to layer as deeply as possible. Visualise the fears which you have. If you have the fear of losing your wealth, see very clearly you have lost it. Not, I don’t say ‘think.’ ‘Feel’ you have lost it and what all happens, face the consequences. Feel you are being disrespected, you are being mistreated, your ego is just getting tortured or you are undergoing so many different kinds of psychological pains. Allow all the fear to happen. Allow the psychological suffering to happen to you. Allow the chemical change to happen in your system. Allow the hormonal change to happen in your being. Allow the hormonal change. Allow the chemical change. Allow the feeling as if your chest is compressed. Your eyes are pouring, tears or your whole body is trembling. You somehow want to run away.

(11:18)

Allow all these things to happen. Face everything consciously. Then you will see, your being reaches a special space, a different space where no fear or fear stroke attacks you. No fear or fear stroke attacks you. It is ultimate technique from vedanta. When you go through a desire, it is tantra; when you go through a fear, it is vedanta. Tantra worked with sex; vedanta worked with death; but through both, you can become enlightened. You can go beyond. Desire and fear-both are two sides of the same coin. Greed and fear-both are two sides of the same coin. So we worked through desire. Now let us work through tantra, through the death.

(12:29)

Devotee: Swamiji, once the fear is gone, do we have to repeat this procedure again?

(12:36)

Swamiji: There is no need to do this meditation in the house. You cannot do also. Here My words will fall on you like a arrow with so much of energy. The words itself will create the whole mood and the whole atmosphere and the whole situation. That will create a special energy. So it is not necessary to do this technique in the house but now, you do it totally! Put your whole effort. Layer by layer when I guide, undergo every fear as deeply as possible. Visualise, imagine all minute details. Not in a superficial way. You understand? Only then, you will be able to unlock the knot. It is like a knot is made in a cloth. What is the way? First you have to look into the knot. Then slowly, slowly open it. Only then, you can unlock.

(13:39)

Title:

Swadhistana Chakra || Part 3 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

(0:15)

See, (makes a knot with His kerchief) one day early morning, Buddha came just like this with one kerchief to his congregation. He had a ten thousand disciples around him and told him. He told the group, “How to remove this knot?” One brave disciple, strong disciple, “Oh! What is there? Buddha, please give me.” He took the kerchief and (shows as if he tightened the knot) Is this the way? No, our fear is also just like this knot. When you try to suppress the fear, when you try to escape from the fear, what you do? You do only this (pulls the knot tighter) Way to come out of the fear is look into it, open it. Then you will see, the fear does not exist at all! So looking into it and opening it is the only method: not suppressing it or escaping from it.

(01:51)

Q: (not clear) Swamiji: Because it is recorded in Swadhisthana. It is recorded in that chakra. It is something more deeper than the intellectual level. I tell you one thing. She asked a beautiful question about the horror movies. ‘Even if my intellect knows, why I am seeing for next ten days, after seeing a horror movie the same thing?’ Cinema or movie goes much deeper than your intellect, your logic. According to people who work on the movements of the eyes...Have you heard of the rapid movements of the eyes? Your eyes can tolerate only six frames per second. If you are seeing something, per second if six frames move, your eyes can grasp it or, your logic and your eyes will have a connection. Your logic...they say in the Yoga, the Consciousness will exist in the eyes.

(03:23)

You need to understand this one thing very seriously. It is a very important thing. In front of your eyes, if the scene changes six times per second, till that much of limit, your eyes will have the logic or your logic will have connection with the eyes. Whatever you see, you will be able to analyse and record but if the frames are more than six per second, the connection between the eyes and the logic will give gap. Whatever is seen will be directly recorded without the interference of logic, without the censor of Consciousness. Logic will not censor because logic cannot bear more than six frames per second. In movies, how many frames per second it changes? 12-16. Minimum of twelve, maximum of sixteen.

(04:38)

So that is why, after few minutes….only for first ten minutes you think that it is a movie. After ten minutes, you completely get lost in the movie. You know it is nothing but a screen and just few colours playing, but you cry with it, you laugh with it, your whole emotion is totally reacting or responding to that white cloth. Your logic knows, your intellect knows it is not actually happening but your whole emotion responds to it, your whole being responds to it. If some horrible scenes are shown, you feel frightened. If some depression scenes are shown, you feel depressed. Your logic loses its control over your eyes if the frames are more than six per second.

(05:42)

In movies, your eyes are just bombarded with twelve frames per second. That is why, whatever you see in the movies, even if you again and again remember, how much you are educated man, how big great logician, how big philosopher you are, it simply goes and gets recorded. This is the reason all over the world, in all the culture, movie stars enter into politics and they are successful because beyond your logic, it is recorded in your system already he is a hero.

(06:27)

Not only in India, even in California. No, really! Really, because it is totally recorded in your mind. Beyond your logic, it is already recorded he is a hero. How much you try to logically remove the herodom or herohood from that person, you cannot disconnect. You cannot separate these two-the person and thinking of him as a hero. It cannot be separated because when those informations have entered inside your system, you don’t have a logic as a security, as a sensor for you. It is a very important thing to be understood. Anybody who has got a doubt, they can ask.

(07:21)

Q: Swami, what happens when you watch violent movies?

(07:25)

Swamiji: It happens to you. Your whole being becomes violent. Either you get the fear if you are aggressive man, you get the same violent nature. If you are a passive man, you get frightened. That is why, somebody asked Me, “Swamiji, when the Kali age, the dark age is born, they say this age is Kali Yuga-the dark age. When that Kali age is born?” I told, “The day TV has entered into the houses, that is the day Kali age is born. Most of the time, of course, very few times it is used for good things but very few times. Most of the time, it is becoming a weapon to destroy our beings. Continuously hours together your logic is put aside. What will happen to your logic? What will happen to the capacity of analysing? It will become dull. It will become dull.

(08:30)

There was one research I heard about it. I read about it. A scene was created as if an accident has happened on the roadside in India and police were waiting how many persons go and respond or react to it. They say in popular cities, nobody responds. Then people who all crossed that side, they all were called and a research study is done on them. The research report proves, shows a strange thing. Continuously seeing accidents, the... all these type of things in the movies and cinemas and TVs, we become insensitive to all those things. The actually acting or reacting has become totally dull. Your whole being becomes insensitive because of this. That is why they call it idiot box, which makes you idiot.

(09:49)

In India, average two to three hours everybody sees TV. In America, I heard four hours. I saw, I read a report. Average four hours. That's what they say-couch potatoes. Have you heard this word ‘couch potatoes’? Sitting in front of that couch in the sofa, glued in the sofa and all those foodstuff-pizza, burger, hot dog, coke, full of that teapoy. By the time program is over, the teapoy is also over. You do not know what you ate and how much has gone inside. What to do? Alright, but at least understand this one thing. Whenever your eyes are bombarded more than twelve frames per second, your logic is put aside. You have security. Logic is your security. Your awareness is your security to allow the datas, whether to allow it or not, to safeguard yourself from the unnecessary datas, unnecessary informations, your logic only stays as a security. The security is just pushed aside and directly you are exploited. Whatever informations want to be sent to you, it directly enters you without any self-protective mechanism.

(11:40)

And that is why all the advertisement agencies, they catch TV. So without even your awareness, it will be recorded in you. When you go to mall, you just naturally ask. You ask for the same brand. Whenever something is advertised, whenever it is registered in your system, when you go to mall, naturally you pick up only that brand because beyond your logic it is recorded. Okay, now let us enter into the...because you raised some question about horror movies, I have to tell all these things but it is really necessary information. Now we will work on the four different layers of fear one by one, penetrating into each layer.

(12:37)

Title:

Throat Chakra First Layer of Energy || Part 1 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

(0:29)

Budhdham Sharanam Gachchhami, Dharmam Sharanam Gachchhami, Sangam Sharanam Gachchhami,

(0:56)

We will start with a small story. This session is from Zen Buddhism. A Jewish rabbi and a Christian priest both were staying opposite to each other. Not only they stay opposite to each other, they are opposite to each other. There used to be continuous cold war between those two. If rabbi brings new rose garden to his house, you can be sure in twenty four hours the same type of rose garden will be there in the priest’s house also. If the priest paints his house by white, in twenty four hours rabbi’s house also will be white. If Priest brings new TV, rabbi will have new TV. If rabbi brings new car, priest will have new car.

(02:10)

One day, somehow rabbi managed to get a new Mercedes Benz... In front of his house, new Mercedes Benz was standing. It is too much for the priest. Somehow he put all his effort and brought a new Rolls Royce. Not only he brought a new Rolls Royce, early morning he was seen sprinkling holy water on the Rolls Royce... Rabbi came out and saw the whole scene and shouted, “Hey! You have got a new Rolls Royce. That is perfectly alright but why are you sprinkling water on it? Till yesterday night, you were alright. What happened to you now?” Priest said, “No, I am a religious man. How can I travel in a car which is not a Christian? So I am baptising the car. I am just baptising the car.” Now rabbi is in trouble. ‘How to make Mercedes as a jew?’ That day evening, rabbi was seen cutting the exhaust pipe of the Mercedes Benz by oxyflame!

(03:49)

If you have understood, just share. If you have not, ask your next person. If you have not understood, ask the next person. So all these three could not understand! That is nice. She is trying to help you. When you compare and work, if you move through jealousy, you will end up only in this type of foolishness. The energy centre which we are going to work is Vishuddhi - throat chakra, throat centre. It gets locked by jealousy and comparison. How many of you understood, let you raise your hands! How many of you not understood, we will see. Very few percentage, okay. Doctor could not understand? O!... All of you are seeing? All of you are seeing that paper? Throat chakra, throat centre... It gets locked by jealousy and comparison. Here (shows the throat) throat centre. Chakra is... The name of the chakra is Vishuddhi.

(06:03)

Shuddhi means purity. Ashuddhi means impurity. Vishuddhi means beyond purity and impurity... Vishuddhi means beyond purity and impurity. This energy centre is always alive and active. Only thing you have to use it. Now, as on now, it gets locked because of comparison and jealousy. If you compare with others and work, this chakra gets locked by the jealousy and comparison. When you understand your uniqueness and your immeasurable energy, this chakra gets opened. This is the chakra directly can be used in your life. This energy can be directly used in your day-to-day practical life.

(07:23)

Let Me explain the three layers of energy. Yesterday night I was telling. We are habituated to attend lot of intellectual classes. So we do not know what is spiritual process. It is not that something you will learn from Me, it is more a alchemy is allowed to happen in you. Step-by-step alchemy is allowed to happen in you. If you see the meditations step by step, step by step, you will be going deeper and deeper; Deeper and deeper. That is the reason the course is designed such a way you will not have a food at so called regular time. The time will be different. Sleep time will be different. Everything gets re-shifted.

(08:19)

In India, we don’t even allow them to move out of the campus. They have to stay only in that area because once they go out, the mind starts thinking in a regular pattern. The continuity gets disturbed. I could see many to bring you back to this atmosphere, energy again will take lot of time. In India, morning 6.30 they will start next session. Today morning 6.30 I start and it is like a 36 hour program. I tell you, when you really go through the whole thing, you will never feel tired. Ask the people who danced yesterday. Are you feeling tired? You will never see tiredness because tiredness is something to do with your mind. It is not at all an existence. There is no such thing as tiredness exists. It is just your mind. You can ask your body to rest, that is perfectly alright but there is an idea mentally ‘tiredness.’ It never exists. It does not exist. When you understand this throat centre and the three layers, you will be able to understand.

(09:47)

See, meditation has become today buyers market. In earlier, all these great science was sellers market. The Master will choose. Now for the modern men, unfortunately it is a buyers market. Sit on the website. You will get 120 choices or 200 choices. That is the reason we couldn’t spend at least two days. In India, if somebody asks for exemption, just exemption, ‘No Swamiji, can I go and come back to pay a visit?’ ‘No, you cannot leave. Please don’t come.’ That’s all! Only one word ‘please don’t come.’ Because even if you want to enroll for ASP, you can enroll only through a healer. You cannot directly have a registration, because it’s more to do with the energy work. I say it is alchemy process. We both of us together, we work on your energy centres. It’s like a commitment. If you want to go, who is going to miss? I am not going to miss. All My energy centres are open!

(11:23)

Q: Swamiji, I am feeling very sick today. Heat, nausea and wanted to know facing the process will help me or should I go back?

(11:35)

Swamiji: Yes, yes, yes. No, no. Continue. I will heal you. If somebody feels sick, they can come after the session. They can raise the hand. Now as he said you can tell Me. I am here. Readily you can be healed. Don’t worry about it. For that reason you don’t have to move out. And moreover, when the energy centres are cleansed, sometime naturally things go out, erupt out. Perfectly alright. You can let the process happen and you will always see it only ends in good. It only ends in good. In India, that is one more problem. Even if they stay here, they will not run around or they will not involve themselves in the programs. Like Moghul kings, they will be just sitting and watching others dancing. Have you seen the pictures of the moghul kings? They won’t dance but just sit and watch. I always tell them. Moghul kings are all going to have body pain tomorrow morning... People who involve, they never have any problem.

(12:43)

You have three layers of energy. I will tell a small incident from George Gurdjieff’s life, one of the great Enlightened man who lived in the West, a rare flower. One of the rare flowers happened to the West... A revolutionary Master. Whenever somebody goes to him for meditation, he will tell them, ‘Dig a big pit for 10x10x10. 10 feet, 10 feet, 10 feet. If you make a pit of one feet, one feet, one feet, then you will understand what it is. He will tell them to make a pit. They will ask, ‘What ten feet, ten feet, ten feet pit has got to do with meditation? Only for samadhi, you need to build that. Only for burying somebody, you need to make that pit. Why are you asking us to make a pit? What meditation has to do with it?’ He says, ‘No question. Do it. If you want to do, do or else get out.’

(14:13)

Anyhow, person who wants meditation naturally will try. Once he finishes the pit, that is the another one. Then only he will start his main drama. He will tell, “No, no. You have done in a wrong place. Close it and do it in other place.” And important condition is no food, no water, no sleep. By the time they finish the first pit itself they won’t come out. If they come out at all, he will tell, “Please do the second also.” Anyhow, if the person is really interested, he will go for the second. After finishing the second, you will be surprised. He used to tell, “No, no. I think according to vastu, that is not right. Just now I discovered. Please do it in the backside.”

(15:17)

But the disciples writing the reminiscence, they say, once we trust his words and go for the third pit, to dig the third pit, the third pit will be over in one hour, just in one hour. First will take some six-seven hours, second will take three-four hours, third only one hour. I was surprised how it is possible! Gurdjieff gives an explanation. Everybody, everyone of us has got three layers of energy. First layer is the layer of energy which you use for everyday activity. Morning 6 o’clock you get up, by the time evening six, you are tired, exhausted. You want to go for resting. Don’t want to do anything more. That is the first layer of energy.

(16:18)

Title:

Throat Chakra Second Layer of Energy || Part 2 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

(0:16)

There is a second layer of energy. Only in the time of emergency, it opens. Let Me explain a small incident which has happened in My own life.

(0:32)

I was staying in Himalayas, Mayavati. Any of you had been to Himalayas? Oh! Only one or two!... I was staying in Mayavati. Small ashram. Ashram does not mean like this built buildings or a structures. It is a thatched roof with a tin sheet doors. Some 6-7 huts were there. Every one-one hut, one-one swami used to stay in one, one hut. The speciality or importance of that ashram is, tigers used to visit that ashram. In the night time, tigers used to come. One day just like that, the same way, the tigers came. Some have entered the ashram premises, started making sound. One elderly swami, experienced, experienced swami, he was shouting, “Eh! All of you close your doors. Closing doors is not going to help because if tiger gives one push, not only door, even wall will give way. Closing the door is not going to help. You have to keep some stone also to support the door.”

(02:08)

So he shouted. All of us picked up some stones, supported the door wall and night also passed away. So many were sitting inside the room and shivering when the tiger will come or what it will do. Anyhow, next day morning when the sun raised... Sun rises there around 10 o’clock. You should see Himalayas. If you don’t see Himalayas, you miss a dimension of the life... They took Me to so many hills - Mt.Freny and all these things. Here also the snow is there. Everything is there but nothing compared to Himalayas. Nothing compared to Himalayas. That has got a different energy. Very energy is different-Himalayas.

(03:16)

Next day morning, sun raised. We all came out to see whether everybody is safe or somebody has become dinner for tiger! All of us are safe except one Swami. One Swami did not come out of his room. He is not to be seen. We all ran towards his room. One young Swami was about to open that room. Then that senior person shouted, “Eh! Don’t open. There is every chance tiger may be inside. After having a dinner and after having a good sleep, maybe waiting for the breakfast to be served in the room, waiting for the complimentary breakfast! You do not know. Don’t open the door.” Anyhow, he stood outside and shouted, “Swami, swami, are you alright?” From inside, he got the reply. He shouted, “Yes, yes. I am keeping well but please come inside and take me out.” Then he thought what is the problem? We broke the window and entered inside.

(04:36)

Inside there was a stone which was supported against the door. Four or five of us put together with all our effort, we have to move that stone, opened the door and bring him out. I asked him a question, “With four or five of us put together, with a crowbar, only then we could move this stone. How did you move this stone last night alone?” It is not a small stone. He said, “What? I moved? Yesterday night when I heard that tiger is coming, I simply lifted that stone.” Don’t think it is a small stone. 200 kg! Two hundred kilogram heavy stone! In North India, they will make chapati, rotis. To make roti, they will grind the wheat and oil. That stone! Stone which is used to grind the wheat and oil-200 kg! Not that he moved ten feet. Three hundred feet from the kitchen, he lifted the stone, walked and opened the door, closed the door, supported it.

(06:04)

He says, “When I heard that tiger is coming, in that fear, I do not know what I did. Today morning only I saw such a big stone inside the room!😀😀 I do not even know what size it is! Only today morning I felt half of my room is this stone.” From where the energy came? At the time of emergency, the second layer opens which is called emergency layer. Only at the time of emergency. Why to bother about the tiger? If you are chased by a dog, do you know the speed of your😀😀… Ordinarily if you run ten miles per hour, if a dog chases you...who is answering?

(07:04)

Devotee: I said it will double up.

(07:07)

Swamiji: Not double up, triple up! Especially in India. Here I don’t find the dog problem. Here you all miss that street dogs. Streets are some juicy part of your life. Especially in the night time, if you are little late to your house... there you have to come by town bus. You come back by town bus and from bus stand if you walk towards your house...from house to bus stand if it takes half an hour, I can be sure in the night time, bus stand to the house will take only ten minutes😀😀 Because every street will have their own dogs, allotted duty. And one thing you should understand, I am telling you seriously. They have understanding amongst themselves about territory. Dogs, street dogs have got understanding about the boundary. They don’t enter into others’ boundary and others don’t enter into their boundary.

(08:19)

And every day morning, they will go round and verify, check their boundaries. Actually, they go round and check their boundaries whether nobody else has entered, whether their kingdom is safe or not! Have you seen street dogs pissing the light stamp? Lamp post? They verify their territory. They go round. You do not know in India, these are all strange things.😀😀 They go round and verify their boundary whether nobody else has entered or not. Just ordinary dog is enough to make you run. There are so many examples we can give. At the time of emergency, the second layer opens. Emergency layer of energy opens.

(09:14)

Title:

Throat Chakra Third Layer of Energy || Part 3 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

(0:16) There is a third layer energy. This you need to understand very deeply. Once you understand this… We are ocean of energy. The third layer of energy only is called spiritual energy or the inexhaustible energy. We are ocean actually but for the sake of utility, easy handling, we built a small harbor. Have you seen boat jetties where they make the boats to stand, they build a wall so that the water will be very stable. It will not have too much of big waves. Boats can be stable. Boats can be stationed. For the sake of utility, they build a boat jetty. Just like that, for the sake of utility we also build a small boat jetty in our mind: ‘This much is my everyday energy.’ By listening from others or by feeling your own way, you somehow make a boundary. This much is only your energy.

(01:33)

For a long time, you never used the ocean. You always used only the boat jetty. Then you forget you belong to ocean; ocean belongs to you. You think that boat jetty is only your limit. Boat jetty is only your boundary but originally boat jetty and ocean are totally connected: always connected. Not that sometimes it is connected, sometimes it is open. No! Both are one and the same. Both are completely connected but for utility sake, they made a boat jetty. Same way, you are ocean of energy but for utility sake, you have made a small boat jetty. For a long time, you have not used your third layer of energy. You have not touched the third layer of energy. You have not understood the other layers of energy. You used only the first layer. That is why you think yourself as a human being. You think yourself you have only this much of energy, as a limited source of energy. Because you have not used the ocean, you start thinking yourself as a boat jetty.

(02:58)

When you start working, when you start expanding your boundary, when you feel the whole ocean belongs to you, the third layer of energy opens. The whole program is designed to open all the three layers of energy. By the time you do the meditations from morning till night, the four main meditations, the first layer energy will be exhausted. By the time you attend the second, the night celebration, the second layer energy will be opened. That is why after the celebration, when you go out of the hall, you feel so rejuvenated. After the death meditation when you entered, all of you were tired. Everyone was thinking, ‘When this program will be over? I thought meditation means He will make us to sit and ten minutes we can meditate and ten minutes we can dose!’ No, when people come, they come only with that idea. ‘Meditation, Ha! Ten minutes you can sleep and ten minutes you can do, but here in the name of meditation, He made us shout, scream, jump, dance!’

(04:15)

When you enter for the last session, you are totally tired, exhausted but when you went out, I think none of you would have slept as soon as you have gone! You must have had enough of energy and you would not had sleep. Second layer of energy opens when you attend the night program and especially at least till 1 o’clock, you should not sleep. Only then the second layer will open. That’s why the program is designed such a way! And now, again you are going to do all the meditations. Imagine, I think you look back, you cannot believe that you did so much. More than fourteen hours you are sitting and listening to one Person, doing all sorts of things from jumping to screaming to breathing to everything! And again two-three hours of play, running around and dancing. Again today morning...It is not that today you are going to rest. Now only it has started.

(05:40)

The next-next meditations, by the time you reach the evening Energy Darshan-the last program, the third layer energy will open. You will have the inexhaustible Bliss. That is why in Energy Darshan, everybody...This is the 52nd ASP in last one year. Only one year ago, I started conducting the ASP programs. This is the 52nd program. Everyone touches the third layer of energy: everyone! Because the whole thing is designed in such a way by the time you reach the third layer...Third layer is the bliss. Third layer is the healing. Third layer is the ananda. Third layer is the God Energy, Divine Energy. To touch the third layer, you have to dig out. First layer, second layer. It is like a process. You have to dig the things out. That is the reason you are entrusted not to move.

(06:51)

If you don’t move, if you move, who is going to lose? It is not that we are going to lose anything. No! If the crowd is less, actually you will have more attention. That is true. People who have gone out last night, at least do these meditations totally. Only then you will be able to have the result of it by the time we go to the Energy Darshan, evening. So if others are putting 100% effort, you put 120%. Only then you will be able to compensate which you missed last night... You have the ocean of energy behind you and all these three layers are connected. The passage to these three layers exists only through Vishuddhi, only through throat centre. Passage to the all these three layers of energy happens only through this Vishuddhi.

(07:58)

The first layer is day-to-day activities. Second layer is emergency layer. Third layer is spiritual layer. All these three are connected. All these three...the way to reach the third layer is there only in the throat chakra, throat centre. When you work on this, you will be able to reach the third layer of energy. Now we will work on a small meditation technique but a beautiful meditation technique from Zen Buddhism to work on the throat chakra. You don’t have to sit out. You don’t have to sit down. You are going to actually run.

(08:58)

Let Me explain the meditation technique. You know how to run with others. You know the rat race. One more thing you mark. This I always tell. The greatest problem in the rat race is, even if you win, you are a rat!... Even if you win, you are a rat. So you know how to run in the rat race. Running with everybody. Running, running, running, running, running. Now you are going to run with yourself: not with others. Let Me explain the technique. You are going to jog in the same place standing, but you will improve the speed step by step, step by step, step by step. You cannot reduce the speed. After five minutes, ‘No, no, no. I am feeling tired. Let me rest.’ No! Just listen and put your trust on My words. If you find really whatever you heard from yesterday, if it has benefited you, if you have one percent of the trust on My words, put your effort. Then you will understand.

(10:36)

After five minutes, mind will always tell, ‘No, no. I have knee pain. I had back surgery. I cannot do. This Swami is telling all sorts of things.’ Your mind will try its best, ‘No, I think I can sit. Next meditation I will do. It is too much, too hard for me. Yesterday itself I am totally exhausted.’ Please don’t believe your mind. As I told you the boat jetty which you created is nothing but your mind. The wall of the boat jetty is your mind. Only when you break that wall, you can expand your boundary. Only when you say ‘no’ to your mind, you can expand your boundary. Tell solid ‘NO’ to your mind. Simple ‘no’. In next thirty minutes, no, twenty minutes only you are going to run. ‘Next twenty minutes even if I faint, I am not going to bother. I will do this meditation.’

(11:45)

Surely you will not die! There is no record that somebody died in twenty minutes. In twenty minutes of jogging, nobody died on this planet earth. So you can be sure you will not die. At the most, your mind may say, ‘You will faint’ but in this 52 ASP, thousands of people have attended. Not even one has fainted. I know for sure. So, don’t believe your mind telling, ‘Oh! I may faint.’ Even if you faint, here volunteers are there. Don’t worry. We will just sprinkle water and make you again run!... Again you will be made to do the meditation.

(12:27)

Q: Full twenty minutes again?

(12:29)

Swamiji: Yes, then what? You think you are going to do only twenty minutes? Only I know! Understand very clearly. Increase the speed step by step, step by step, step by step. Your mind will tell, ‘No, no. Only this much of speed I can run. I cannot go any more further.’ Simply don’t believe your mind because your mind has nothing but a just prison or a boundary or empty wall which separates you from the ocean. Simply have a red letter ‘NO’ card. Mentally red letter, capital letter ‘NO’. Whenever your mind says, ‘No, I cannot run. I cannot do all these things. I am tired’, just show that card to your mind ‘Look here’. Simply don’t believe!

(13:32)

You see, you can believe only two of one things. Your mind and the Master. There is only two things in the world. One is your mind, another one is the Master. You believed your mind all these years, all these days. What your mind gave? What your mind gave to you? Only sufferings and miseries! At least why don’t you try believing the Master just for twenty minutes? Twenty first minute, you don’t have to believe. You start believing your mind. Just twenty minutes believe Me instead of believing your mind. Then you will see how potential you are and how much of energy exists in you. Even the persons whose age is 82, 87, they all did this meditation. “Is there anybody above 87?’ No. Then all of you can do it. I know for sure. No problem.

(14:48)

Understand the instruction: You are going to jog in the place, same place where you stand. Don’t run away, run there: first thing. Second thing, throughout the meditation, you should concentrate on the throat because whenever you are tired, from Vishuddhi only you will be receiving the energy. Energy will be just flooded throughout your body through Vishuddhi and not only running, concentrating, remembering the throat is also important. I will train you. Before entering into the meditation, you will be trained. You will be made to stand. Slowly you will be asked to move the hands with the memory of throat. Remembering this portion (throat), you will be asked to move your hands. You will be asked to move your legs. Then only you will be made to run. Throughout the half an hour, twenty minutes, you will concentrate on the throat, throat center. And once this meditation is over, twenty minutes, when I say please sit, sit wherever you are and again concentrate on the throat center.

(16:12)

First thing, you will run wherever you are standing. Next thing, you can never reduce the speed. You can only increase. Third thing, concentrate on the throat continuously.

(16:26)

Title:

Open the Door and Let the Breeze in || Part 4 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

(0:14)

Now we will enter into the Ajna chakra, brow center. All of you please take your paper.

(0:37)

Devotee: Swamiji, thank you, I am feeling well.

(0:39)

Swamiji: Nice, thank you. He says he is feeling well. Last session he was feeling sick.

(0:50)

Devotee: On our part, I wanted to ask. Is it partly arrogance?

(0:54)

Swamiji: Yes, I do not want to use that word. I do not want to use such a sharp word. You see, because you have not seen continuously the spiritual things...here spiritual like is maximum like weekend. Once in a week end, you may go to temples and even when you go to temples, you will not see swamis. Continuously there...you see, in India, enlightened persons are few but the teacher swamis, the acharyas, there are many more acharyas. The matadhipatis, their acharyas, continuously you will be seeing them. You may not get the healing or the spiritual benefit but you will listen at least these good words from them, the intellectual knowledge from them. Continuously it will be again and again they will be in touch. But here only rarely you get.

(01:56)

That’s what, there, already acharyas have prepared ground for Me to work. So I don’t have to do the acharya’s work. I can directly do the Master’s work. There are two things: work of the Master, work of the teacher. Here I have to play both the role. There I don’t have to play that work of the teacher. Already the basic knowledge, basic intellectual things are given. I directly have to give the healing or energy or whatever the spiritual things but here I have to logically convince, do the acharya’s work and then give the Master’s energy or the benefit. Two things has to be done. Intellectual conviction and emotional experience. There, intellectual conviction is already done by the acharyas. They take care of that work. That is the thing which is lacking. Okay, anyhow, at least 70% is not a bad thing.

(02:53)

Devotee: I want to know they say 60% is very good. How to know if I am in that 60% ?

(03:05)

Swamiji: One thing Ma. What you physically do is not the main thing. What, how much of mentally you are ready to put your energy? When I say, go to the...put your whole energy and run, how much you put the mind aside and put the whole effort without listening to your mind, only those things, how much you are not listening to the mind and how much you are listening to the Master, only these two counts and moreover and the techniques also...techniques are only substitute or method to engage your mind in something else.

(03:41)

When your mind is engaged in something else, energy starts penetrating you. It is like a putting your security aside. Your logic, your mind is such a security, it never allows Me to enter into you, allows My energy to penetrate you. It just says ‘bas’ your worries and depression and your lifestyle. It never allows My energy to penetrate into your life, into your field, into your space. So by techniques I put your mind aside so that My energy can directly work on you. If you put your whole mind on the technique, only then, your mind will be aside taking care of the technique. Then I will be able to naturally work on your energy. My space or the energy field can work on your space. But never think you are someway more than Indians.

(04:36)

Devotee: So if one individual is constantly trying to focus and the mind is in fear…

(04:43)

Swamiji: That is perfectly alright. Perfectly alright. Once you put effort, you put your whole effort. Don’t bother about whether you are able to or not able to. That I will manage. That I will take care. Whenever your mind runs away, don’t bother about it. When you remember, ‘O, it has run away,’ bring it back. That much is enough. What you have in your hand maximum, put that much. That is enough. Not more than that. More than that, you also cannot do anything. What you can do? No. More than that, I will take care.

(05:15)

When you take one step towards God, he take one thousand steps towards you. There is a saying, ‘Knock and it shall be opened.’ I tell you, God is knocking, you just open. It is not that you need to knock and He will open. God is knocking, you just open. In a largest circulated weekly in Asia, there is a weekly magazine in Asia which is largest circulated ‘Kumudam’. Any of you know? In that magazine, I am writing a regular article. Already one year over. 54th week. 50 has crossed. Regularly writing. The title of the article is that’s what ‘Open the door, let the breeze in’ because already God is knocking at your door. Only you are closing it.

(06:13)

Let us now know how to open the door... See, unless you put the effort, unless you put the totality, these all will be just like a stories. I wanted meditation and spirituality to become a solid result in your life, a solid experience in your life, not a thing to be believed. Meditation is just a science, a solid transformation in your life and I tell the inmates, you see, ashram residents. Actually there is a one year course we are doing. Anybody who is above eighteen, male or female can come and stay in the ashram, learn the basic spiritual traditions, all the seven major religions. Seven major religions and there will be a courses going on the psychology, philosophy, the basic spiritual wisdom. The cross section of the spiritual wisdom.

(07:23)

Basic philosophy, basic psychology, Tantra, Yoga and the various spiritual traditions. The classes are going on. It is called one year Ananda Proksha course. The main thing is food, staying facility, cloth and the syllabus books, everything is free. I provide from the ashram just to help the youth especially the modern youth. So much of crime rate is going up and the moral standard is going down and the culture is getting degraded. Just to help the culture, just to give them this spiritual guidance, one year course, between eighteen, above eighteen, anybody, anybody male or female. They will be given separate accommodation. Yes…

(08:14)

Devotee: Do you say eighteen or eighty?

(08:16)

Swamiji: One eight. One eight-eighteen. In India, there is a age for major. Eighteen, anybody, male or female, they can come and stay for one year in the ashram. They will be taken care totally and they will be given the spiritual education. Then they can go and carry on their life. Then after that one year, you will not be the same person. His whole life will be so joyful, ecstatic, spiritual, even if he wants to he will not do criminal activities. Because inside discipline happens. Just for that reason only, this one year course is conducted. People who are attending this one year course, I tell them, “If you have not transformed in this one year, after going out, you will blame Me only.” That maybe you transform, not being blamed after you go out. Because these things cannot be taken so...you shouldn't take the things for granted. Because we get so easily, we take things for granted. Okay.

(09:26)

Let us work on the third eye. Just imagine what you learnt from yesterday morning till now, to acquire this wisdom, if you have to do it on your own by studying, by researching, how long it will take? But like a capsule you are receiving. You are receiving the wisdom or the intelligence or the experience of the person as a capsule. So naturally we should be totally committed to take it. You understand? To take it. I am not asking you to do anything else. When you have...you see, if you have decided 36 hours to be spent here, why not put the whole thing? Why not put the whole thing and It is not that I don’t allow you to speak.

(10:15)

If whenever you have doubt or if you ask question, if you feel that you are not convinced of My ideas, you are always ready to question. You are welcome to ask Me or ask Me, ‘No, I am not convinced of what you are preaching. What you are preaching is not directly related to my life and it is not practical. You can always raise the questions. We will work on it. See, in that way if you go, you are honest. Listening everything, believing everything and not practicing. It is dishonesty. You understand? Either understand you don’t believe in what I say. Perfectly alright! Then we will work on each other. Whether you change your idea or I change My idea. We will work on each other or we will put the whole effort on the meditation.

(11:06)

Title:

Heal Your Wounds || Part 5 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

(0:17)

There is a beautiful Sufi meditation technique to heal the wounds of your Sahasrara. Your mind, your Sahasrara is filled with wounds. You close your eyes, you remember only the people who disturbed you, haunted you, abused you, man who gave money and asked you continuously and man who took money who not returning back. Whenever somebody asks money from us also, we feel dusturbed. Whenever somebody took money and not giving back also we feel disturbed... Your mind is filled with only these memories, with these memories. Never let these memories work on you. Let your Sahasrara be healed by remembering or feeling the people who are reason for your joy, ecstasy, wealth, health, happiness and everything. It’s a great Sufi meditation technique to heal the Sahasrara, to open the crown centre.

(01:44)

In your life, whenever you feel grateful, you will see the bliss overflows. The world also reflects the bliss. Whenever you are violent, the world also reflects the violence. There is a beautiful Quran Saying ‘World and Master, Enlightened Person and the world-both are like mirror.’ If you look at the world, you will see only your image. A donkey goes and stands in front of the mirror, what it will see? What it will see?

(02:22)

Devotees: Donkey

(02:24)

If you say world is very bad, you are just seeing your mirror, your image. Krishna once called Dharma and Duryodhana and told. He told Dharma, “Go and find out at least one bad person from the world.” He told Duryodhana, “Please go and find out at least one good person.” Both of them came back empty handed. Both came back empty handed. Dharma said, “In everybody there is something good. How can I say somebody is bad? Krishna, bad Bhagavan.” Duryodhana said, “In everybody I find something bad, Krishna. How can I say somebody is good?”

(03:14)

Master is also a mirror. If you find joy in Him, you are seeing your image. It is your image which is reflected. When you can see joy in Master, why not joy in the world also? I have seen so many people. They have beautiful, loving, great devotion for Me. They have so much of respect for Me but they don’t respect others. They don’t respect fellow devotees. That’s a very big problem I am facing. That only creates politics. They have so much respect for Me but they don’t respect others, because respecting Me is very easy. I am going to be there only 2-3 days with them.

(04:09)

Devotee: Eternal respect

(04:11)

Swamiji: No, I am going to be there only 2-3 days and moreover, I am don’t interfere in their life. I am always giving, giving, sharing. So there is easy to show respect for Me. But only when you show respect to your fellow devotees, you really grow! When you see Nithyananda in them, you see really Me. Something you want to ask? Question?

(04:41)

Devotee: I was just thinking if we have to respect each and everybody, doesn’t it come from inside unless you respect yourself. I don’t feel it happening.

(04:52)

Swamiji: Two things. If you respect yourself, you will respect others; If you respect others, you will respect yourself.

(04:58)

Devotee: Yeah, inside-out or outside-in.

(05:00)

Swamiji: Experience or expression, expression or experience, any one thing. If you catch any one thing, you will reach the other thing. It is nice you have some real thinking. That’s why you are able to ask some one or two questions. Don’t think people who don’t ask questions, you understood everything. There are many people who are sitting here. ’I know everything. Why should I ask?’ No, most of us, we think, ‘I know. I understood everything. That is why, I don’t need to ask anything.’ Anyhow, when you really see God in everyone, respect everyone, only then you feel grateful for the life and you really feel the joy or ecstasy of life.

(05:58)

Now take few moments to heal your gratitude to everyone whomsoever has come into your life, either you think they helped you or you think they disturbed you. We will remember one by one, inch by inch to give our heartfelt gratitude to all of them. If they help you, they help you. If they disturb you, they are solidifying you. They have made you more strengthened. Please have the flowers. Have the flowers in your hand. Offer your gratitude to everyone of them and finally you will be offering that flowers in front of the carpet, on that carpet you can offer. Offer it to the divine or to the existence.

(06:59)

Title:

Attention Need is not Love || Part 1 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

ATTENTION NEED IS NOT LOVE - PART 1

(0:16)

Whatever words you may use and hide, love is nothing but a simple caring. If somebody says that, ‘he loves you’, or if you say ‘you love somebody’, what do you mean? You give your attention and he gives his attention to you. That's all. Bring it and give a small or down to earth explanation. Only then we can proceed. But I see everybody is just flying and I think you all can give much bigger sermon than Me. (audience laughter)

(0:54)

If I let some one of you be here, I think they will speak in a much better way than Me. But totally impractical. Love is divine, love is compassion, love is god. All these things are simple, foolish statements which you only read, which you nothing experienced. One thing, they are all true in the person who is enlightened in his life. In your life be down to earth. At least you will know where you stand. Only then you can start progressing. In your life love means nothing but either giving attention or having attention. That's all.

(1:47)

If somebody gives his attention to you, you say he loves you. When somebody is attended by you, you say you love him. That's all. Is there anything else? Nothing else. Whatever else you say is from your books not from your life. We have long way to reach the state love is compassion or love is divine. Yesterday I was explaining, if love is compassion, it will flow towards the whole world. If you hate somebody and love somebody, never think it is love. It is just attention. If you can love somebody and hate somebody else, never think what you have is love. It is only attention. If you are attended, you feel you are loved. If you attend somebody you feel you are loving.

(2:46)

Attention. When you give the attention, money, energy, time everything follows. But attention means nothing else or love means nothing else but attention. This much only is our experience. At least let us know that we do not know. When you know you do not know you will start knowing. When you do not know you do not know you will don't even know you don't know. I always tell this. If you know you don't know, at least you know you don't know. If you don't know that you don't know, you don't even know that you don't know.

(3:30)

Tell Ram what you want to tell. Not that attention. The attention word is not that. Your being, whole being is attention. You see there only your head gives attention. Your heart just wants to escape from his room. That is not attention. When your being gives attention. When I say attention, when your being gives attention. In front of your boss you are not giving attention. You are at tension. At tension is not attention. Because you are at tension you are giving attention. That is not attention. Attention is something which your whole being is poured, attending. Doubt is clear?

(4:30)

Yes. See let us not bring any hypotheses. Are you sure that god is there? Are you sure? Hmm...So you please ask this question to the person who talks. Now I am going to teach something down to earth to transform your life. People come and ask Me, ‘Swamiji give me the mantra to vashiya.’ Vashiya means you know that...to attract the eighteen handed Kali. That there is a devi called Ashta Asabhuja Mahalakshmi Durga Devi. That Devi has got eighteen hands. He...She is considered as a powerful goddess.

(5:28)

They come and ask Me, “Swamiji please give me the mantra to attract that eighteen handed Kali.” I tell them, ‘fool first learn how to attract your wife, two handed woman. First know how to live with two handed woman. They you can learn how to live with eighteen handed women. You do not know how to attract two handed woman and live happily with her, you start going for the eighteen handed woman. If you can't manage these two hand, how will you manage these eighteen hands!’ (Laughter)

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So I always tell the people first let us start where we are staying. Where we are standing. Throughout this two days course you will not listen to the word God, Atman, Soul. You will never listen these words, God, Brahman, Atman, Soul. No. I am not going to speak any hypothesis. I am going to speak something directly to do with your life. If I speak all this hypothesis, after the discourse, what will you do? You will go out and tell, Swami spoke so beautifully. But what is happening your life? Nothing.

(6:47)

So I do not want to speak anything which is impractical or which is not known in our life. So I want to deal only the things which you also know, I also know. We can go only from where you stand, where we stand. So don't bring it. Poor fellow let him be there where he is. Let us not disturb him... Yes...Hmmm...Physical attraction perfectly alright. But I tell you. Physical attraction can be caused...called as lust, a one step further is lust...love. Attention is little bit higher. Sometimes you give attention to your daughter, to your son, you give your love. So those things can be called as love. Even beyond physical relationship love steps, one step ahead of relationship, physical relationships.

(8:00)

So whenever you are attended, you say you have-you’re loved. Whenever you attend, you say you love. The attention need is the worst disease which we have. If you scan throughout your life, it is nothing but the...from morning till night just you scan your activities what for you are doing everything including your household jobs. What for? It is nothing but attention need. You may say, ‘no, no, no, no, no, I love my family that is why I do.’ If you really love your family and do it, you will not wait for the certificate at the end of the day. At the end of the day what you do. You are just waiting that your husband should tell ‘good wife’ or your wife should tell ‘good husband’ or your son should tell ‘good father’, daughter should tell ‘good mother’. You are waiting for the ‘good’ certificate. In the west I just saw even the written certificate people are handing over. Good husband, good wife. In the many reception rooms in the drawing rooms I saw good parents award. I think to give that certificate itself both of them must have fought whether I will give first or you will give first! I do not know. You wait at the end of the day for certificate. If you don't give, if you are not given certificate, you feel something is missing. You wait for it.

(9:47)

After the food is being served, you wait and ask, why not open your mouth and tell it is good! (laughter) At least once you can acknowledge it is good. That poor guy, what can he help? What else can he do? If food is good,,,ahn...yes, yes. You not only wait, sometimes you force the people to give certificate. Attention need makes you continuously ask for the certificate from others. You can see an example of kids. The kids, they will do something and then they will put two three steps front, break some toy or do some mischievous things and wait and turn and look at the face of the mother. If the mother agrees, if the mother doesn't show anything in her face, then they will go ahead. If she just looks at them or if the mother doesn't recognise then immediately they will step back and sit. I have seen. If you don't recognise they will step back and sit. If you recognise they will go ahead. Same thing...ahnn...If you recognise, they will go ahead. If you don't recognise they will just step back and sit quietly. Sometimes they will start crying also, if you don't recognise.

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Same thing, if everybody praises you, pampers you, gives you attention, gives you certificate, recognises you, you feel good. You feel you are somebody. If somebody says even one word, one criticism or if one person doesn't recognises you, immediately you feel you are missing something. Even if he is not, if he or she is not involved in your day to day life, routine life, you feel a low energy. If somebody don't recognises you. If somebody don't pays attention to you. Why we bothers so much about others' opinions! Because you come to know, you make opinion about yourself only from others’ opinion. You do not have any idea about yourself. You do not have any clarity or vision about yourself. You understand about yourself only from other's opinions.

(12:47)

When your teacher says you are a good student, you collect that opinion. When your father says you are obedient boy, you collect that opinion. When mother says you are a looking beautiful, you collect that opinion. When your friend says you are a beautiful guy who is got all efficiency, you collect that opinion. Continuously you collect everybody's opinion and come to an understanding about yourself. Have you seen kids playing with playing cards? They will make, build castles with playing cards. You will see. They will build castles with playing cards. You are also building your personality with other's opinions and certificates. Kids are intelligent. They build their castles with their own cards. You are so foolish. You build your castles with other's cards, with other's opinions, with other's certificates.

(13:57)

As long as you dance according to everyone's tunes, they will let their certificates to be with you. If you don't dance for one person's tune, what will happen? What will happen? They will take away their certificate. What will happen to the castle then? That is what is continuously happening to you in your life. You try to build your castles with other's opinions, with others recognition, other's certificate, your life is nothing but a long signature campaign. In your, in a book you write I am a good husband please sign it. Please sign it. Please sign it. It’s nothing but begging for signatures.

(14:51)

As long as you dance according to everybody's tune, they will let their certificate to be with you. Imagine four sides of a stage. One side your husband is playing rock music. You go and do a few hot steps. Other side your mother in law is playing bharatanatyam music. You go and do two three steps of bharatha. Third side kuchipudi is going on. Your son is playing. You go there and two three steps. Fourth side somebody is playing carnatic music. You go and do two, three steps. If you simply jump from this side to that side, this corner to that corner, that corner to this corner and in between you have to dance your own dance also. If this is the case, what you will be doing? It will never be a dance. It will only be a mess. How long you can dance for everybody's tune? How long. No. When you don't dance for somebody's tunes, what they will do? They will take away their certificate. Then immediately you will feel one of your leg is fractured. Don't think you walk with two legs. You are like centipede. You are walking with hundred legs. All the hundred person's opinions if they are good, you perfectly go. Your life goes smoothly. If someone's opinion is taken what happens? You are handicapped.

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Attention Need is not Love || Part 2 || Ananda Spurana || 28 Feb 2004

Transcript:

ATTENTION NEED IS NOT LOVE - PART 2

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I think worst thing- but psychologically being handicapped is the greatest worst thing. You invest your energy on so many persons. Only if everybody smiles at you and recognises and supports you, you feel good. If someone doesn't support, doesn't give certificate, you feel something is taken away from you. Continuously running behind other's attention, changing or torturing your life for the sake of others’ attention, leaving your energy in so many other persons, distracts or locks this heart centre. When you can bring all the energy in your centre, when you can move without others’ certificate from your own centre this energy centre opens.

(1:28)

Understand... As soon as you go back to the house, try to do this one small homework. Make a list of who all can depress you. Who all can depress you? Listening which are all the person who are all - can upset you. Whose words can make you depressed. List out all those persons, all those names. Be very clear you are psychological slave of those persons. That's all, because your mood, your excitement, your joy is not in your control. It is in their control. You are more or less like a doll. If they pull, you are pulled. If they push, you are pushed. Make this list and paste it in your bedroom.

(2:34)

Anyhow your in your husband's list, your name will be first. In your husband's list your name will be first. Why to bother? Paste it in the bedroom. Everyday remember these all the people who can upset you. You are psychological slave of all these people. The very remembrance, very understanding will bring you up. Will make you matured. When they try to give their certificate, when they try to take away their certificate, suddenly you will remember, yes I am psychological slave of this person. Then you will see, you simply come out. Whenever you understand you are a slave, you can never be a slave. As long as you do not know you are slave only then you can be a slave. One minute you understand you are a slave, you can never be a slave because you are free nature is freedom. You can never be a slave. So this is the first homework to unlock the, to open the anahata chakra.

(3:45)

Next thing - a powerful technique to centre your energy. Now you have invested your centre, your energies on so many persons. If all of them are happy only then you will be happy. Then when your happiness can be reached? At least not in this janma, in this birth. Centre your energy. Then you will see you will be happy and you will be radiating your happiness, joy to others. As on now you are dependent on her for your happiness, she is dependent on you for his, her happiness. So it is like both of them, both of you begging each other with a begging bowl. If both begging bowl hits each other, what will happen? Only there will be sound. Nothing else. That is the sound which you are listening throughout the day, from morning till night in your house. Hitting of the two begging bowls on each other. You are expecting your happiness from her and she is expecting her happiness from you. You have invested your energy on her and she has invested her energy on you. You can never have joy. You become centre on your life then you will see you will radiate your joy and you will just share. You will flow with others. So centre your whole energy on your anahata.

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We will enter into a powerful technique which can centre your heart, which can do the heart centering. The first meditation technique called Maha Mantra. You are going to work on the heart centre to energise it. All of you noted, note down the homework. Please note down the homework nn heart centre, make a big list, clear list of the people who can depress you. Yes.

(5:52)

Participant: Swamiji, should we avoid these people? Swamiji: Should we....No, no, no, no, no, no....there is no need to avoid... No...I don't...You see...neither go for reconciling, nor do avoiding, don't do any other process. Just you understand you are psychological slave, just will see the alchemy happens in you. Allow the rest to happen in you. Only allow the understanding to happen. Else will taken care by itself because the situation should be faced according to the person to person. The decision whether to reconcile, or to avoid will change from situation to situation, person to person. Your intelligence will guide you what to do, whether fight or flight. My work is only to give intelligence. That will guide you.

(6:53)

Participant: Do we have to attend these homework tomorrow if they read it out? Swamiji: Yes. Ahn..Oh..If somebody else reads out what to do? I think you can do some special glass...only you can read. At least keep it in your file, once in a day you read. That's all, and you must have some private space where nobody else enters. Or you must have some private space even if somebody enters they should, they will not mistake. We will enter into the Maha Mantra, the technique to energise your heart centre. Or technique to collect your energy and centre into your heart.

(7:48)

It’s a very simple technique. I wanted all of you to sit straight. If you can sit on the ground that is the best thing. If you can sit on the floor that is the best thing. Half an hour if you can sit, sit, come and sit on the ground. Old people can sit on the chair. Nobody will sit. (laughter) Whenever I announce old people can sit on the chair. Nobody sits. There are really few old, only they sit.

(8:27)

Let Me explain the technique. Four instruction. Listen. First, sitting straight. Head, neck, back should be in one line. Let Me finish the instruction, then you can start doing. Next instruction. Closing your eyes. When I say close your eyes, I don't mean only close your eyelids. I mean close your eyes, because whenever you open your eyes, you see all these things. When you close your eyes, you see all these things in inside TV. Inside there is a television which continuously goes on. You see everything inside. You should switch off even that TV inside. How to switch off? Imagine both your eyeballs will become like stone. The subtle movements of the eyeballs should be stopped from inside pressure. After closing the eyes, there will be subtle movements of the eyeballs. If that is stopped by inside pressure, the inside TV will switch off. For one minute we will pressurize the eyeball. Then thoughts, naturally thoughts will become silent.

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Then third instruction. Start humming from the deep stomach. Let Me show you how. Hmmm...Hmmmmm(humming) as deeply as possible, as loudly as possible, as lengthily as possible. Putting your whole effort, you need to hum. If you cough, perfectly alright. If gas is released perfectly alright. If tears roll on your eyes, perfectly alright. If your hand trembles, perfectly alright. Carry on. With this let Me finish the instruction, then you can do. With this technique your whole energy will be awakened.

(10:59)

Twenty minutes put your whole effort. No question of doing two, three minutes and then stopping. Oh everybody else is humming. How will they know that whether I am doing or not! (laughter) and after two-three minutes, your mind will say, it is enough. Now let us rest. I tell you. Mind and meditation are just mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. How much you try you cannot reconcile! You cannot make them live in one place. I tell you. Individually both will be very good. Individually both are very good. But you can never be successful in making them living in one place. Both will try to possess one person. Poor fellow has to die. (Laughter)

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So your being also, will be...the mind will try to possess and the meditation also will try to possess. Your mind will try its best to cheat you. Give all sorts of reason. Oh I have back pain. I have knee pain. Enough. Next meditation I will do. These all the instructions your mind will give. No, no. I have heart problem. I cannot do so much. All reasons your mind will give. Don't listen to your mind. Simply say no to your mind. Have a red letter "No" card in your hand and show to your mind. Whenever your mind says something say simply "No". I am going to do. Continue. Your mind will tell, no, no, I feel I may faint. Don't bother. Faint. We are here to take care. (Laughter). We are here to take care. Even if you faint, we will take care and again you will be made to do meditation. (Laughter) Again you will be made to do the...made to meditate. Don't think by fainting once you will escape. (Laughter) So put your whole effort and do.

(13:12)

Don't waste time. Your time and My time but not doing properly, by doing properly. If you do it, do it properly, My time is also used. Me coming all the way from India to Oklahoma is useful. You coming from all the way from your place to here is useful. If you don't do, you being here is also waste, Me being here is also waste.

(13:38)

Put your whole effort. There will be no side effect. I will take care. So twenty minutes with full effort humming. Last ten minutes concentrate or remember this portion - The heart centre. How to remember? There will be music playing. Just feel that the music is coming from the inside. Not from the outside, from this area like a live ball. Feel that there is a live ball energy ball there. Then you will be able to feel the energy, feel that area, feel, awaken that energy centre.

(14:26)

So now any doubt in the instruction? Participants: Swamiji, from deep stomach means from the navel or? Swamiji: As deeply as possible. Hmmm..put your whole effort. Participant: How do you know it is coming from inside? Swamiji: No...you close your mouth and deeply hum, it will naturally come from there only. Participant: And how do you pressurise your eyes to stop? Swamiji: Imagine as if both have become like a stone, from inside by mind you pressure. Don't allow the mind-the eye balls to move. Imagine as if both of them have becomes like a stones, pebbles.

(15:08)

Close your eyes. Tie the ribbon. Don't look whether others have tied or not... Feel both your eyeballs have become just like a stone - stone pebble. Give pressure from inside not from outside. From inside the mind, give pressure on the eyeballs. You will see automatically mind gets silent. Mind becomes silent.

(15:51)

Photos

Photos taken during the ASP program conducted by Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam in Oklahoma