February 06 2004

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||Nithyanandam Parama Sukhdam kevalam jnana murtim dvanvatitam gagan sadrasham tattva masya di lakshyam ekam nithyam vimalam achalam sarvadhi sakshi bhutam bhavatitam triguna rahitam sadgurum tam namami||

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Meditation: Unloading of the suppressions.

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First we should understand what is suppression. Then we can understand how to unload, how meditation can unload it. Suppression is the greatest suffering which has happened to the humanity. Humanity has suffered many diseases. From the time immemorial, from the small fever, headache to the so many kinds of diseases, so many kinds of problems, so many kinds of challenges has been faced by humanity. But a worst problem, the worst thing humanity can have is suppression. Basically man, whether we accept or not, we are nothing but educated chimpanzees. We are nothing more than educated chimpanzees. Physically almost we are animals. Only mentally we are someway different from the animals.

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In one of his books, a western philosopher, he writes ‘we are nothing more than dressed buffaloes.’ That’s true. We are nothing more than a educated chimpanzees. Physically how animals live, we do live in the same way. The same way they eat, reproduce, die. Our life also physically same. Only mentally we have evolved. No, I can’t even say we have evolved. We had some change whether it is evolution or we have gone down, we do not know because no buffalo takes depression medicines. No chimpanzee gets the schizophrenic problems. No animal has got any need for undergoing psychotherapy. Human beings are the only people who need psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, so many healing system to heal the mind, to heal their being.

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Understand how system of animals work. They don’t have the layer called suppression, because whether it is their sex or their anger or voilence, they just express it. If a monkey gets angry, what will it do? Jump on the other monkey. If he feels violent, immediately he has got all the ways and methods to express his violence. He will jump here, there. He will express till he feels he has calmed down. He is not going to sit. He is not going to behave polite. His being continuously expresses itself through the body. When he feels sexual, immediately he goes and expresses. He has no religion. He has no moral codes to conduct himself how to do or when to avoid, what is the way to behave, no! But human beings are the only animals on this planet earth who has gone away from the nature, who don’t have the strong, alive connection with their origin, with their roots, with their nature.

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A small story. Once a man aged forty years, he hates his wife and the wife’s cat. He somehow wants to get rid of the both. Anyhow, he can’t do anything about the wife. At least he wants to drive the cat out. He took the cat early morning in the car, went for ten miles drive, left it in the free way, came back to the house. As soon as he entered the house, he saw the cat is standing in the house. Cat is back! Cats has got a special capacity. By smell, they will come back. They will find the root. Next day, he took the cat, drove down to more than twenty miles, left the cat there and came back. He saw, in half an hour, a sound in his door. He went and opened the door, saw the cat is standing! Third day, he went right, left, this way, that way, almost reached a forest. Then he thought, ‘Yes, now there is no more possibility because I myself new to this place. Surely the cat will not know the way. There is no possibility.’ So he left the cat there and came back. On the way back, he got a doubt, gave a ring to wife and asked her, “Dear, is the cat in the house?” She said, “Yes, it is there right here in front of me. It has already reached.” Man said, “Please find out the way from the cat. I have forgotten the way!”

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Human being is the only animal who has missed the nature, who has forgotten the way, who has forgotten his home. No other animal has went away from the nature, forgotten the being. No animal suffers due to obesity. Human beings are the only animal who suffer due to obesity, stomach troubles, why? Suppression is the new layer. Suppression is the reason for the whole thing. We don’t live as we feel. Why we suppress? We can give two-three reasons. Let Me give you the major reasons why we suppress.

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First thing, you cannot express your anger whenever you feel like. When your boss shouts at you, when you are ill-treated, misbehaved for no reason or no fault of your own, you get terribly irritated, anger, violent. You feel like just punching your boss on the nose but you can’t! If you do, not only you will lose your job, you will be in the...behind the bars, you can’t. There are so many social regulation, social systems. You need to act according to that. You need to express yourself according to those things. So many ways, so many methods to express you. And I have seen many people. They wear smile when they are irritated, when they are violent. To hide anger, they wear a big smile. Many times people have forgotten, people forget why should they smile or why they shouldn’t smile.

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Most of the time when you are angry, just to hide the anger, just to suppress the violent feelings, just not to show the anger in your eyes, you wear a big smile to show you are happy especially in front of the boss, in front of the higher authorities. If you express your anger in the office, you will lose your job; if you express it in the house, you will lose your food. Same way, in the house also you cannot express. There are so many restrictions, so many ways where you cannot be as you are. Continuously due to some reason or other, you suppress your emotions.

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Same way, the sex. You cannot express whenever you want. You cannot have your freedom wherever you want. Society has got thousand-and-one restrictions. Your body never understands you are a man, you are cultured, you are in society. Your body goes on reacting as it is, as it wants. Whenever you get a chance, any movie, any thought, any hoarding, your body is ready, physically you are ready. Your body is aggravated. Your body wants it but the society has got its own ways, its own rules, its own regulations. You can’t express. Then what will happen to all the suppressions?

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There is a beautiful research done on this by...when anger happens to you, a type of acid, chemical is released in your system. When you suppress that anger, when you suppress that violence, the acid is also suppressed. If you express your anger that leaves your body, you are free of it. If you suppress it inside your system, it becomes like your whole body is in the acid tub-continuous suppressed acid, continuous suppressed chemicals. Finally it becomes like a your whole body is in the acid tub. What happens to all the suppressions? What happens to all those suppressed desires?

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Suppressed anger, suppressed sex, suppressed voilence-they create a new layer called cerebral layer inside your body, inside your being. I can say, instead of body, inside your being. The layer is called cerebral layer. Cerebral layer is the reason for all modern day psychiatric troubles. All psychosomatic disease originates from the cerebral layer. Cerebral layer is the layer from which almost all the troubles, all the phobias, all the over doings. Cerebral layer is the reason for all the murders, for all the rapes, for all the violence activities. Long time suppression makes your whole being as a perverted. I can say, I can vouch even the HIV for the cerebral layer. I can say, even the HIV is the reason of...the HIV is because of cerebral layer.

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Whenever your desires are suppressed, your anger is suppressed, not only the desire, not only the sex and the anger, even your sorrow, your sadness, everyone in our being, in everyone of our being, the tremendous amount of sorrow and suffering is there suppressed. Many times we want to cry but society never allows you to express it. You cannot cry. If you cry in the public, if you cry in some place, everybody comes near you and in the name of consoling, they make the whole thing much worse. They don’t let you cry.

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All the things which is continuously suppressed creates a cerebral layer. The cerebral layer becomes a master of your mind, master of your being. You look at the whole world only through the cerebral layer. Cerebral layer means the...whatever maybe happening in the world, but you look through only this layer: the suppressed anger and the suppressed violence and the suppressed sex. Only these three layer you look at the world. So world is understood, world is seen only these three layers by your mind. Only these three layers are the judgemental authorities who present what is happening in the world to you. Whatever you may see but you see only these three layers, the cerebral layers. That is why you always feel people are trying to cheat you. Anybody who tries to do even a small thing, immediately you feel he is going to become violent on you, he is going to cheat you.

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Women always feel they are going to be sexually exploited. They have a tremendous instinct fear because they look at the world through the layer. Man always feels the fear of anger. Man feels the fear of anger and violence; woman feels the fear of sex. Continuously you feel you are going to be exploited, you are going to be cheated, you are going to be disturbed. Because of that, you feel, you feel you need to secure yourself, you need to safeguard yourself. To defend yourself, you create such a mechanisms, naturally you offend.

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All the armies of all the countries is called only as a defensive. Then actually who is offending? Every country calls their army as a defensive army. Everybody says they are only defending. Then actually who is offending? In the way, in the mechanism, when you create a big mechanism to defend you, you naturally offend others. You enter into the others’ boundaries, others’ territories. Then the feeling of insecurity only makes you disturb others. Feeling of insecurity is the root, is the seed for violence.

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Your suppressed anger, suppressed violence, suppressed sex naturally makes you disturb others, naturally makes you enter into others’ territory. And not only that, for a long time, when you suppress sexual emotions, what will happen? Naturally at one step, at one part, you will be just bombarding, you will be just exploding on others, you will just explode on others. It becomes a two layer: the cerebral layer and the conscious mind. When the depth or thickness of the cerebral layer becomes more than the conscious mind, you are just thrown out. Your being, your cerebral layer is not ready to listen to your mind. As long as the mind, the depth of the consciousness is more than a cerebral layer, things go well. You can behave just like a human being but when the suppression, when the cerebral layer becomes more thick, more solid, whether you want it or not, whether you understand it or not, you will see that you are beyond your control. All types of perversion expresses through you.

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If you work with the criminals, if you go near and spend some time with the criminals, then you will understand how much they are human. If you live around them, then you will understand they are much simple, innocent beings than us. They are actually very simple, innocent beings. It is not even in their control. The crimes committed or the misconduct in the sex, nothing is in their control.

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Vivekananda says in one place, ‘We should look at a man or man’s behaviour with sympathy than with violence. You need to look at him with more sympathy.’ If you look little deep into the human beings, at least from My experience I can say, the criminals are much more human, much more natural, much more simple, much more innocent. The problem is, they were not able to use their mask strongly. A man who holds his mask strongly behaves exactly as the world wants. The man who is not able to hold his mask, who is not able to hold his mask, whose suppression goes beyond the thickness of the mask he expresses, what is the way to unload the suppression? What is the way to understand and go beyond it? We all know that suppression makes your life hell. Not only when you express it, even when you live with it, suppression makes your life totally imbalanced.

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With the suppressed mind, you are almost sitting on a volcano. Anytime it can explode. Anytime you can be thrown out. Anytime any type of misbehaviour can happen to you or you can do it to others. You are almost sitting on a volcano, you are not sitting on a chair. You are sitting on a volcano with suppressions. What will happen at which moment, nobody knows! Anytime you may act violently or anytime you may express yourself sexually, anytime you may express your sorrow, anytime you can be in tears because so many things are inside, so much is accumulated. All your suppression when it will express, when it will act you do not know, when it will work you do not know. Almost everyone is sitting on the volcano. When, what will express nothing is known. Thighs are totally uncertain because of this cerebral layer. Things are not in your control because of this cerebral layer. You look at the world in a different way. You react with the world in a different way.

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In early times, the material supplied to the cerebral layer was not much, was not much. That is the reason people come and ask Me actually, “Swamiji, if you read the meditation books or the meditation instructions given in the time of Patanjali, the instructions are very simple. They say sit quietly, chant ‘Om’, your mind will become enlightened.” There are many techniques written in the time of Patanjali. They say sit quietly, chant ‘Om’, you will become enlightened. People come and ask Me, “Swamiji, but when we do the same thing now, we are not able to silent our mind. It is more violent. Actually more thoughts are coming. If we just sit and chant ‘Om’, we could see all the movies inside the mind. More thoughts are coming. we are more violent. Why? Why the words of Patanjali is not working?” I tell them, “At those time, the mind of the human beings was simple. The cerebral layer was not existing.They do not know what is cerebral layer. In those time, those techniques have really worked. People did become enlightened just by chanting ‘Om’. People did have the bliss just by chanting simple mantras. It was possible at that time because their mind was very simple. They didn’t have cerebral layer. They didn’t have suppression but today, it is not like that.”

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You know that if you use the powerful pesticides, the next generation insects, they start learn... they learn how to live with the pesticides. Now if you give one dose of pesticide, next generation of insects, they start living with one dose of pesticides. The one dose itself becomes food for them. So next time when you use pesticides, you need to use the two dose, no other way! Only then the insects will be killed. Just like that, your mind, in those time, one dose of pesticide is enough to kill your mind. Today it is not possible. Your mind has become too thick, too complicated with the cerebral layer especially the suppressions.

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When the TV has entered the world, when the TV was introduced, somebody asked Me, “Swamiji, when that Kali Age born? What is the date of Kali Age?” I tell them, “The day in which TV has entered the world is the day in which Kali is born.” They say, the poll survey say average at least three hours a American sees TV, at least three hours per day, am I right? Of course, I do not know the survey, pole survey says three hours, average three hours minimum three hours per day American sees TV. When your eyes are continuously bombarded with colourful lights, whatever is shown to you, it directly goes inside. You feel even you are a matured man, even if you are a man with consciousness, only first one or two minutes you feel what is shown is only a drama. After two-three minutes, you feel as if the whole thing is real, whole thing is just real.

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I had been to that Universal studio in LA. What technology they are using! I felt the whole thing is just real! Nothing, nothing is missing including that fire shows. Everything is done technologically perfectly. Only for one or two minutes, you feel things are drama. Then immediately your consciousness is put aside. Directly the TV starts relating with your unconsciousness. Directly TV starts putting the datas into your unconsciousness. Then after two-three minutes, you lose the power of judging. Actually that is what happens. Your logic is just pushed aside. Your eyes can bare only the seven frames per second but TV at least 12-16 frames per second. It is changing. When the 12-16 frames per second is changing, your logic, your thinking capacity is just pushed aside. Directly the TV relates with your unconsciousness.

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That is why, any advertisement shown in the TV directly goes to your heart-any advertisement. Advertisement holds such a ...advertisement does such a impact on your being. You see the advertisement of Lux soap. Without your knowledge, when you go to the mall, you ask only for Lux and especially any advertisement done with the underline of sex appeal, directly reaches you. The advertisement agencies, they know the secret. That is why almost 80% of the products are launched only with the sex appeal. The underline of sex appeal will be there. Either the female models or the sex appeal so that it can directly touch you, it can directly reach you. You are just continuously bombarded, exploited without even your knowledge, without even your protecting mechanism which is called logic. Logic is the mechanism with which you protect yourself. When you see the TV, logic is just pushed aside, logic is just pushed aside and directly they start relating with you.

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That is why the cricket holds such a big importance for the foolish Indians. The fools and they think this is the...what to say? Patriotism! I heard one young...I am just totally anti-cricket. Whenever the information about the cricket match is brought to Me, I tell them, “No, they will lose.” Somebody came and asked Me, “Swamiji, why are you telling just like that everyday? Every time You tell the India loses the match. Why are You against cricket? It is a patriotism, it is a patriotism. Our country should be represented.” I told, “Fools! Are these eleven fellows are the representatives of India? How can these eleven fellows who doesn’t know anything about the culture, about the background of the country can be the representatives of India? The prestige of India, the prestige of the country is invested on the just eleven persons? It can never be! If India has to be represented, it can be represented only by the Enlightened Masters. The eleven Enlightened Masters can represent India, perfectly alright, never by the eleven ordinary people. How can eleven ordinary people represent the India’s prestige?” But we always feel cricket is a patriotism. No, just your unconscious, your logic is ruled by the advertisement agencies. Your logic is just pushed aside. They directly rule your unconsciousness.

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I tell you, somebody came and asked Me, “Swamiji, why should I surrender to my God? How will he guide me? Why should I surrender? What is the need for surrendering?” I told him, “There is no need. Who told you to surrender? If you surrender it to God, perfectly alright. Otherwise you will be surrendering yourself to the TV. That is what you are doing. Directly or indirectly your whole life is just guided by the movies and the TV; because you lose your logic, your thinking capacity when you sit in front that great box which makes you idiot. Your logic is just pushed aside. Directly they relate and give the instruction to your unconsciousness. You should understand what is hypnotism. Hypnotism means putting your logic mind aside and directly relating with your unconsciousness is what is hypnotism. When it is done with proper technique, your eyes closed, it is hypnotism; when it is done with your eyes open, it is TV. TV does it when your eyes are open without even your knowledge. Unconsciously you are just guided, ruled, instructed without even your knowledge by the medias, by the TV. This is the main reason, cause for your suppression.

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