Verses 10.4–10.7🔗

If you understand this first verse, you can immediately relax. Kṛṣṇa says, ‘Whatever you have, whether you have a good name or a bad name, it is created by Me.’ Then be certain that whatever you have is a gift from the Divine. Kṛṣṇa asks us to complete with life as it is. Only when we accept ourselves as we are, can we accept others. Only then we will feel deep friendliness with others. Deep friendliness with others is spirituality. Understand that spirituality is honest and deep friendliness with others. I Am Everything, Complete With Everything Love is the flowering of our consciousness. Whenever our consciousness expresses itself through the heart, compassion happens, lust becomes love.

The touch will become so vibrant, so soothing. I firmly believe that love is the greatest healing power on planet Earth. I tell my healers, ‘If you can’t spread love, you can never heal.’ Vibhūti Yogaḥ You Are The Ultimate 759 When people meet me, I stretch out my hands as soon as I see them. Many feel strange. They feel that spirituality means seriousness and being reserved. Here I am reaching out to people with my stretched hands. It doesn’t match the picture of spirituality or the spiritual person that they carry in their heads! According to them spirituality is never associated with sharing or loving. People from various backgrounds visit our ashram for healing: young and old people, cancer and HIV patients, and people with various other disabilities.

If a person has pain in the leg, naturally I get up from my seat and touch their leg to heal. After all the foot is just another part of the body. An elderly, traditional and conservative Swami gave me friendly advice about this practice. He remarked, ‘You are a Swami. It is unbecoming of a Swami to come down from his seat and touch someone’s feet. It is against the tradition.’ I replied politely, ‘The very seat and the cloth which I wear (saffron robes) mean compassion. I acquired this seat because of my compassion. I am not here for the seat.’ Spirituality means flowing. Spirituality means radiating, spreading love and compassion.

Whenever we enrich out of compassion, we never feel that we have served. We feel that we have been given an opportunity to serve, to enrich. Whether we believe it or not, as of now, we have a deep enmity or hostility towards others and ourselves. We live in constant self-doubt, self-hatred and self-denial. We may smile at others like models posing for the camera. We may smile, but we never feel friendly. We keep a safe distance and play a safe game because we never feel any real friendliness with others. To correct this, the first thing you need to do is completion with yourself and accept yourself as you are.

Some people tell me, ‘I am unable to accept myself as I am, Swamiji. What can I do?’ I tell them, ‘At least accept that you are unable to accept yourself, that is enough.’ If we accept that we are unable to accept ourselves, it is enough. We will drop from the mind. That very acceptance will bring completion in us and open a new consciousness in us. Forgiving others and forgiving yourself are one and the same. When we torture others with our judgment and prejudices, we torture ourselves, too. Please listen. If your inner image aligns itself to life image, it is destruction. When your inner image stands up to life image, it is destruction.

Because your inner image, what you feel as you, is always lower than life’s image, the idea you carry about life and others. If the inner image, mamakāra tries to make the life image, svānyakāra you carry as reality, it will be destruction. We use the same sword to kill others and to commit suicide ourselves. The same mind deals with others as well as with us. When we try to poison others, there will be a deep sense of guilt in us becausethesamemindisworkinginourinnerspace.Weusestrongwords when we are angry. And once the anger dies down, the sharpness that had beenemittedoutwardturnsinwardtocreateadeepguilt.Theheightofthe angerandthedepthoftheguiltareequal.Iftheheightincreases,thedepth increases as well. When Kṛṣṇa says, ‘Happiness and distress, birth and death, fear and fearlessness, non-violence and equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, name and fame, fame and infamy, all these various qualities of living beings are created by Me alone,’ He means be complete with life as it is, be authentic to all aspects of your life: your inner image, outer image, others’ image and life’s image.

If all the four images reach their peak possibility, it is Enlightenment. The moment we create the space of completion and complete with life as it is, we experience divinity in everything. We don’t exclude anything. The moment we complete, a cognitive shift happens in us. As of now, the cognitive process happening inside our mind, is centered on enmity. The moment we declare completion with ourselves and with life, we complete with the whole world. Then, the complete cognition hap- Vibhūti Yogaḥ You Are The Ultimate 761 pens inside our system, which will be centered on bliss. Kṛṣṇa explains His glory. He says, ‘I am everything.’ He declares, ‘I am the Universal Consciousness.

The person who truly knows My glories and powers, engages in yoga, the union of individual consciousness with the divine consciousness, and undoubtedly attains liberation.’ etāṁ vibhūtiṁ yogaṁ ca mama yo vetti tattvataḥ I so ‘vikalpena yogena yujyate nātra saṁśayaḥ II 10.7 Listen! When you are complete with you, the Universe will be complete with you. When you are incomplete with you, the Universe will be incomplete with you. Completion with you is sātori. Completion with the Cosmos is samādhi. The Saptaṛṣis, the seven sages that Kṛṣṇa talks about, are not seven old men with flowing beards sitting in meditation and penance, waiting for something to happen. From my experience, this is the energy field that drives this Universe.

This energy field referred to as the Saptaṛṣis has the intelligent power to make decisions that determine the course of the Universe. During my parivrājaka, wandering days before enlightenment, I lived for several months in Tapovan, beyond Gaṅgotri and Gomukh, in the Himalayan mountain range at a 17,000 feet altitude. Even now, no roads lead to Tapovan and there are no permanent structures to stay in. I lived like many other Sannyāsis, staying in caves, covering myself with jute cloth and newspaper in the winter and eating whatever fruits were available. Tapovan is referred to as Śambāla, heaven on earth. It is the point from which one can move from the material earthly plane up to the spiritual plane.

Kṛṣṇa refers to the Saptaṛṣis as the Universal consciousness that was born from His mind, from Him, the Primal Source and Primal Creator. He is the Saptaṛṣis. His energy decides what enlightened beings should do, and directs their actions. Every movement that I make is governed and decided by this energy. In Hindu tradition, Manus are the children of Brahma, the Creator. There is a lineage of Manus, fourteen Manus, who populated the earth. Each Manu ruled for a period. The collective period of all fourteen Manus equals one kalpa, one day in the life of Brahma. In Saṃskṛit, all humans are termed Mānava, meaning those descended from Manu. As the Universal consciousness, Kṛṣṇa is all in one.

He is the Creator, Sustainer and Rejuvenator. He is Brahma, Viṣṇu and Śiva. He also transcends all three as the Parabrahman, the Supreme Superconsciousness. One needs to do nothing except understand and accept what Kṛṣṇa is. The Master says that understanding and completing alone liberates us. Nothing more is needed. Experience The Light Of Knowledge