“Swamji: Manipuraka-it is near navel centre.”

Swamji: Manipuraka-it is near navel centre.

One day morning, Buddha used to deliver every day morning lecture-discourses. One day morning discourse, he has got 10,000 sanyasis it seems. Buddha had 10,000 sanyasis it seems. Everyday morning He will address to them. One day, He came and brought some knot and put it in front of his disciples and asked them,

‘how to remove this knot?’

Some strengthy disciple came and (Swamiji pulls the string). Then what will happen? What to do? How to remove it?

First thing, observe how knot is made. Second thing, undo it- the way in which it is done. The same thing only we are going to do with chakras also. Chakras are nothing but knots! knots of the 3 body. That’s why I brought 3 knots (shows string) -sthula,sukshma, karana shareer. All these 3 dots are made by knots. So, how this chakra- this manipuraka is locked? We will see first how it is locked. It is locked by negativity and worries. When you feel negative emotions, depressed, disturbed from some outer incidents which is unbearable, immediately your stomach will get affected. Am I right? When you feel depressed, negativity, some outer incident which you are not able to bear, immediately your stomach will get upset and you feel the weight itself in stomach only when you feel depressed. And in all the languages, there is an expression ’I cannot digest this’, ‘ I cannot stomach it’. I cannot digest it’. If something happens which you are not able to bear, you never say,’ I cannot smell it’. You never say,’ I cannot hear it’. You say,’ I cannot digest it’. Negativity and worry- these two affect this chakra. Depression. How to unlock this chakra? So, you know now how the chakra is locked. How to unlock it? Anybody give any suggestion?

Audience: remove the negativity.. (not clear)

(3:34) Swamiji: so, this is the teaching which so called moral teachers give. so never have these type of teachings in the mind. Never say’ stop doing or don’t be little. It is utterly impossible. Only thing, don’t worry about worries. Just accept the worries. Acceptance is the only way for transformation. (pointing to a devotee) what you said? the suggestion? stop being negative -that’s what you told? or control your mind. That is just like this only-(pulls the string) what will happen if you pull like this?

Audience: it will straighten

Swamiji: ha, how this thing cannot be removed just by pulling this way, the same way, you cannot remove the negativity, you cannot stop worrying just by trying to control. Everybody is trying to control but are we able to control? are you able to drop? so, it is an impractical solution. The best practical solution is,

(5:03) Audience: ignore

(5:04) Swamiji: even ignoring is not possible. How do you ignore?

(5:10) audience:(not clear)

(5:11) Swamiji: That is what I said, one word- Acceptance! Acceptance is the only way! Please be very clear, there are few things which can be altered. Alter those things. There are few things which can never be altered. So accept them. There are few things completely can be altered. There are 3 way. One thing, you can completely change. There are few things. It is under your freedom- completely change them. There are few things which you can change half, in other remaining, you have to accept them. Accept them. There are few things which you cannot change. Accept them completely! Just have your clear consciousness and stop worrying about worries. And the another one next key is, how to drop negativity or, how to change the negativity? What is meant by negativity? Can anyone tell? What is the meaning of negativity? What is negativity? what are negative thoughts called?

Audience: acceptance

Swamiji: hm, any other explanation?

Audience: whichever is negative (not clear) which is not positive

Swamiji: which is not positive (laughs) what is positive? which is not negative. (laughs) So you can be best preacher. You can take classes how to teach. so, these are the solutions. a beautiful small story:

The christian Fathers are under training, getting training how to preach. The Father’s PA is taking class. When you talk about heaven, make your face with full of love and laughter and show your eyes in a big, big way and move your hands this way and that way. And act as if you are in ecstasy, talk like heaven Then only people will be impressed. When you talk about hell, show your face as you are -that’s enough! (laughs)

Everyone laughs

Swamiji: so, this is the way to take classes for preachers. so, if somebody asks ‘what is negative?’, ‘other than positive’- so easy answer you see! What is positivity? ‘other than negativity’. so, people will be getting the answer. One young boy was brought to me alongwith his mother. The mother is complaining to me ’Swamiji, he is not obeying me. He is not listening to me. He is not doing what I say. Then I asked that boy. He looks very intelligent and it must be very difficult to deal with intelligent persons, especially child. Then I asked that boy ‘ what is the problem?’ He told ’Swamiji, she herself is not happy and successful in her life. How can you guide others? how can you follow her? Is she happy? Is she peaceful? Is she leading her life perfectly? Then, I can follow her. Then I can take her advice. She herself is failure. Then how can I take her advice? Then somehow I convinced that boy,’ no,no,no. You should not do like that. You should obey your mother. Somehow I convinced him but I am not convinced. So, in same way, it is like your answers. ‘what is positive?’ ’other than negative’. You can give answer to convince them but, we will not be convinced. So, I will give the answer with which, I will also be convinced.

Devotee: negativity means friction?

Swamiji: ha, negativity means friction. I will explain what is negativity in few words.

Devotee: (question not clear)

Swamiji: I will tell you. If some person fails in his business, he lost some crores wealth, immediately he will coin few words in his mind…. (not clear) this is the way. Whatever I touch, everything simply goes to dogs. It will never work out. My rashi is this. My….(not clear) is this. He will create these type of few sentence to face the situation. He will create paschatapa. In english we say, inferior thoughts. These thoughts will get solidified in him and start working in his life as negative ideas. These type of ideas, these types of thoughts get collected and become a deep negative root. It takes a deep root and become negative thought. This is what is negativity.

Devotee: (not clear)

Swamiji: When you get failed in some reason, some way, immediately these type of thoughts take over yourself and depresses you more. When you start coining these type of words in your being, that only will create negativity. Negativity is nothing but negative thoughts, negative words, which will speak to yourself. There are two ways of speaking. One is speaking to others, another one is speaking to yourself. Do you understand? there is two way of speaking. One is, speaking to others . Another one is speaking to yourself. When you speak to yourself, if you use the word which gives you depression, irritation, which makes you dull, these words are only called negativity. Negativity is nothing but, the words which you use to depress yourself, to dull yourself.

Devotee: In any point of time in life, will it recur?

Swamiji: the same pattern will again appear. When you get sometime in a small failure, immediately the same thread will appear. The same, going back to the same old mind, the same old type of thinking, same old type of weeping. You will be affected by the same. Once that becomes the practice, you will be having the same problem again.

Devotee: (not clear)

Swamiji: yes, you can call it with many words

Devotee: (not clear)

Swamiji: hmm, actually now I will take the long route to go beyond this-transforming the negativity. You know, this is what is negativity. The self speaking- speaking to yourself. We always learn these from many books- how to become a speaker, how to speak to others but we never try to learn how to speak to ourself. So, whenever you find something negative is arising, you find the negative thoughts are just coming from your navel centre only. That is why negative thoughts directly attack the navel centre. If you feel depressed, if you feel dull, your stomach gets disturbed. So, just sit alone and coin your own words which gives you a positive and enthusiastic energy. Just sit and coin. You can really change. You can really change your thoughts because you are speaking to yourself. Thought is nothing but, the self spoken words. Is there anything more? can you say? All of you can understand. Thought is nothing but the words which you speak to yourself. Is there anything more which can be called as thought? Do you think anything else can be called as thought? What is thought? What is thought?

(15:04) Devotee: whatever is emotional…(not clear) extension of the mind.

(15:18): Swamiji: Not extension of the mind. Mind is thought. There is nothing separate. There is nothing separate from thoughts. something called mind -only one thing is there, that is thoughts, nothing is there more than thoughts.

Devotee: your own flow of ideas

Swamiji: hmm,your own flow of ideas. That is what. Speaking to yourself is what is called thought. So you can verily change the words which you speak to yourself. So, whenever you find time, whenever you feel negativity, depressed, just sit alone and talk to yourself in a positive and enthusiastic way. Don’t bother. When you say, just sit and say, for example, you can take one thing. If you have failed in something, then you sit and start thinking ‘no, I will do best. I will do successfully, I will live in Ananda. You can’t give instructions. You cannot speak to yourself. In one corner your mind will sit and laugh at you. ‘If you simply sit, do you think I will leave you? Some Swami has come and taught you some technique and you are sitting and chatting here. Do you think I will leave you?’ Mind will entangle in one corner like a small boy. So, even that laughing is nothing but our words. When you deeply see, even in your own self, when you give positive instructions, some portion of your mind will be again hanging over to that negativity and think ’no, this idea cannot be worked.You may tell, you may do japa about this ideas thousand times but I will not listen.’ All these thoughts are also, all these words are also told to ourself by ourself. This has to be listened intensely. Just listen carefully please. Your own mind becomes two part and plays the role when you are suffering from negativity. One mind will be telling ’no, I will be in Ananda. I will be full of bliss. I will be alright. I am not .. yes. I can manage. Let me see. The other portion will be standing and laughing. Actually, if you see deeply, the other portion is also nothing but your extension. So, don’t give gap to the other person, to other portion to speak much. So, when you speak to yourself, speak so continuously, give your suggestions so continuously that the other person stops speaking in you. when you speak continuously, others won’t be able to speak. So what we do regularly with others, just do it to your mind. All of us are always try to speak but are we ready to listen? Are we? We also speak, the other person speaks. Continuously each one is ready to express himself but never ready to listen.

Swamiji: In foreign, there are many psychiatric doctors. Going to psychiatric doctors is a very famous thing. If you are... you can become patient. If you are not going to a psychiatric doctor, it means you have not updated. you are not a modern man or woman. If you are modern person, you should go to a psychiatric doctor. What do they do? Just listen! Simply you are made to lie on a bed and you go on shouting something and he will be listening. you are paying to him just to listen. Because nobody is there to listen. who is there to listen? Everybody wants to tell only, everybody wants to tell their worry. Who is there to listen? You want to tell your worry, he wants to tell about his worry. It means you are begging the attention of others. One person is standing with a bowl and asking ’please give some attention’. The opposite person is also standing with another bowl and asking ’please give me your attention.’ Then, one plus one- two begging bowls. Only it becomes two begging bowl. Who is there to listen? nobody is there to listen. So, you pay them just to listen. You never allow others to speak. We never listen to anybody. So, in same way, do it in inner mind, do it inner mind. Don’t listen, don’t allow him to speak, speak continuously. Naturally when he is not allowed to speak, it is 100 percent sure he will leave the house. If some guest comes, you never allow him to speak. Continuously fire him, catch him and fire him. What will happen? At the most, he can talk for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, he has to run away, no other way. So in the same way, when the guest of negativity comes, don’t allow him to speak. Just speak continuously, he will run away. These two ideas in mind, one is, don’t allow the negative words to erupt and one more thing I want to tell you, never use when you speak to others these negative words, never coin, never use negative words. Even that will affect you.

In ancient time, vak shuddhi used to be given as a morality. Now it is not a morality, it is a necessity. If it is given as a morality, nobody will practice. If it is given as necessity, there is no other way, you have to practice. Whomsoever has got the stomach problem, all of you just think, you will be having the problem of negative thoughts and speaking negative words. If you drop that, your stomach problem will disappear. Whomsoever has got the stomach problem, please be very careful. The negativity only attacks stomach. Two keys are given to you. Accept the worries. When you feel worry, just go and sit in separate room and worry perfectly. Don’t resist the worries. ‘yes, you have come. now, what to do? there is no other way’. Some worry will come. There is no other way- there will be some worries. The situation is controlling you. Continuously you say, ’what to do? the inevitability. When you deeply start worrying, you will come to a great understanding that all your worries are your own creations. At present, you will not be having idea. You will be intellectually heard- all your worries are our own creations. When you deeply worry and create some more worries, sit in a room and create some more worry. If nothing is there, you can simply create.’ Opposite house person is looking at me everyday and he is trying to do something’- something you create. To create there is no need to teach. You can create. All of us are masters. Just create some worries and worry as deeply as possible. Within half an hour you will come to a tremendous understanding, you come upon light that all our worries are just our creations, nothing but our creations. Then no worry can touch you. Please go and practice these things. When you get worry, when you get depressed, then practice. Sit alone and think ’yes, now these worries are there, this worry has come. What to do? Anything can be done to change? So let me be deep with my worries. Let me completely die with my worries. If you feel like weeping, just weep. If you feel like morose, just be morose. If you feel like sad, be sad and see. Within few minutes, within few hours you will come to a tremendous conclusion and tremendous clarity that all your worries are your own created thoughts. You are creating it. When that clarity has come, you will see that no worry can touch you. You will be beyond the depression. You will be beyond the worries. You will be beyond dukkha. Then only man can transcend the dukkha. There will be so many dukkhas but you will not be touched by any dukkha. ‘Sheetoshna samadukkheshu’-Bhagavad gita says beautifully- you will be beyond the sorrows, whatever sorrow may be surrounded, surrounding you, you will be surrounded by 1001 sorrows but, you will not be touched by it. If you know, if you learn how to live with the worries, how to accept the worries. When you accept the worries, simply it keeps transformed. simply worries disappear.