February 09 2006

Title:

Spirituality Then and Now

Transcript:

(00:03)

ll Sadāshiva samārambām Shankaracharya madhyamām Asmadācharya paryanthām vande guru paramparām. ll

(00:25)

You need to understand deeply. Shiva is not selling fantasies. God saved, at least in His time spirituality was not buyer’s market. In His time it was not buyer’s market so He doesn’t have to sell. There is no need for Him to promote anything. It was seller’s market and moreover easily not available. It was not available easily. In those days it was not buyer’s market, it was seller’s market. Gurus decide, choose the disciples, not the disciples choose the Guru. All calamities in the Planet Earth happened when disciples have started choosing the Guru. Already he’s in the darkness, how can he choose right Guru? He can’t. So, naturally he’ll choose a person, he’ll choose which attracts his ideas. The bigger organization attracts more people.

(01:29)

In Sanatana Dharma, in Hinduism, they don’t have any organization. All Hindu temples are just worship altars. They are not organizations. Please understand. All Hindu temples in India are only worship altars. Anybody can come, worship and go. In North India, you straightaway go and touch the Deities. If you have been to North India you can understand, you straightaway go and touch the Deities. You go and you pour your water, or milk or flower you worship and you go, that’s all. They are only worship altars, not organization. They are not organizations, that’s an important thing. Because, Hinduism did not believe in conversion. They did not believe in preaching. It was seller’s market, not buyer’s market.

(02:32)

The truths, all these truths are so pure because they do not have to convince anybody. It is not written out of the Consciousness which is caught in fear or greed. It has raised, it has aroused out of the Consciousness which is free from fear or greed. I can say the one and only truth, which they express is - go beyond the fear and greed. Even indirectly, they do not have the concept of conversion. Still now, Hinduism doesn’t have ritual to get convert. Many of My disciples, western disciples they come and ask Me, “Swamiji should I convert to Hinduism?” I say, “No.” We don’t believe in conversion. We don’t believe in conversion. What is the need for conversion?

(03:28)

All this is a inner science. You see, just because you start working on some science do you need to convert your religion? No. It’s an inner science. It’s a technology, if you feel like working with this technology, work with it, that’s all. There is no need for conversion, because we don’t believe in political numbers. We don’t believe in political numbers, we don’t believe in conversion. It is pure inner science. Whoever wants to work with it, they can work with it, that’s all. We don’t even have a ritual to convert. Even if you want to be converted, there is no ritual. There is no standard ritual to convert somebody. No. Throughout Hinduism, we don’t have; even when kids have taken birth, they are only given a mantra, they are not given any beliefs.

(04:25)

Officially, the mantra which they are taught, it is called Gayatri. That mantra means a very simple thing. That mantra means, ‘Let me meditate on the energy, which guides me towards the intelligence to experience the truth. Let that energy help me to meditate on it’, that’s all. No belief is taught. No teaspoon feeding of any belief. Simply you have to search, only you are given a torch. With the torch, you have to start searching. These techniques are offered by the Masters who do not have to sell themselves or their techniques. That is why they are so pure, so beautiful and straightaway effective. Straightaway effective. He doesn’t have to convince anybody. He shares it only with the people who are in tune with him.

(05:31)

Title:

The more we use the body the more productive we will be

Transcript:

(00:03) ll Sadāshiva samārambām Shankaracharya madhyamām Asmadācharya paryanthām vande guru paramparām. ll

(00:23)

The other day I was taken to a industry by one of our devotee. He showed Me how they fix some components and he showed Me those movements how they fix, each person is taught how they should fix and the same way of movement. Means they are trying to create or increase the productivity by reducing the hand and body movement. I was shocked. I said, “Oh God, you are working in a wrong line.” Actually the truth is the more you are free to move your body, the more you are messing up, the more you’ll be creative and productive.

(01:12)

Fuzzy logic is the logic for production. When you are organized, when you have a clear diagram and move your hand only three times and move the hand these many inches right, these many inches left. When you have a system you may be running a good industry, but you’ll not be having living people. See, with robot or with machines, you can design all the movements, you can reduce so that the wear and tear will be less. So that the movement can be less, when the movement is less naturally the wear and tear will be less. The logic to work with the machineries are totally different from the logic to work with the human body. The human body is such, the more you put to use, the more it starts expanding the energy. Be very clear, when you start believing the more I use the body, it’ll become tired, you start expressing the same tiredness. But the truth is not such. The truth is the more you use your body, you handle your body, the more it starts expressing the energy.

(02:30)

I’ve seen in Indian villages, people living hundred years easily, very casually, hundred years, they don’t wear specs, they don’t have the spare tooths, they don’t have their tooth set. There are so many things they don’t have. I’ve seen in Indian villages how people live with minimum things for years. Very casually they live and I’ve seen in Tibetan villages, people living hundred and forty, hundred and fifty years, easily. Just because they know the truth, the more you use the body properly, more it expresses the energy. The more it is used, the more it expresses the energy. But unfortunately, in the so called developed countries, man is put along with the machineries. You are just a utility for people. So you are just replaced. You’re…. even the idea, man is called one more machine.

(03:48)

If I employ one man how many machines I can reduce. If I put one machine, how many men I can remove from the job? That is the way you are calculated, that is the place given to you. So all the hand movements, body movements, everything is taught, you are made to believe you are also like a machine, if you use yourself too much, you’ll have wear and tear. You will also have the same problems, by and by you started believing this and you start behaving like a machineries. You forget, you have life. You forget, there is a different source of energy for you. But as long as you are driven just by fear or greed, you’ll behave like a machines only. The more you use, the more wear and tear. If you can touch the source of the prana, if you can touch the third source of energy which is not fear or greed then you will understand, the more you use your body, the more you become alive. But for that you should understand how to move your body without fear or greed, without fear or greed.

(05:12)

As and now, our body moves only with fear, only with greed. Try to do something without planning logically about fear or greed. ‘Bhaya’ and ‘Kama’, how to move the body without fear, without greed. Then you will understand this technique. Then you will understand what Shiva means by the word - Let your body sway rhythmically, let it swing rhythmically. He says, “In a moving vehicle, by rhythmically swaying, experience….” The amazing thing, little difficult to believe; he says, “Just by that you can experience the inner peace.”

(06:11)