“For ordinary gambler, what all is necessary?”

For ordinary gambler, what all is necessary? What all qualities? Same qualities, how it is necessary in ultimate sense for ultimate gambler, meditator. For ordinary gambler three things are necessary. The courage to understand the loss of gambling. In the very loss of gambling, still people, more people will drop. Oh, it will go away. If it is goes, it goes. It comes, it comes.

Very understanding, courage to start. Power to proceed. Energy to let go. This three things are necessary for a gambler. Courage to start, understand the loss of gambling and even after understanding, courage. Next thing power, real power to start playing, to staking, to stake the whole thing. To steak whatever you can. Collecting energy to let go. Energy to accept the new thing, whether it is positive or negative. Whether it is positive or negative. A gambler needs this three qualities. One can be a real gambler, the power, the courage to start, courage to understand the loss of gambling and even after understanding the courage to start.

Next thing, power to put the thing at stake. You have to put thing in front. You have to put, you have to start. The last thing, power. The energy to let go whether it is positive or negative. You must be able to accept it or enjoy it. Don’t think only to accept the negativity you need energy, even to accept positivity you need energy.

Small story, once a man beside the heart problem won five million dollar in lottery. The news has reached his wife. The problem is wife is afraid to tell the news to the husband because husband has got a weak heart. If he, if she says when you due to excitement or.. sudden thing, he may collapse. He may die. So she is afraid how to tell this news to him. How to convey this news to him without giving a shock to him? Because he is very poor guy. Five million dollar means something great for him. It’s too much for him. How he will able to digest such a big gift because anything big is always a shock. Whether it is positive or negative, anything big is shock.

She went to the local priest and told the priest their problem: “Please tell me someway to pray to God.” Priest said with all his confidence: “Don’t worry Ma. I know your husband for last 25 years, so I know how to talk to him. Don’t worry about it. I will take care. I will convey this news without giving him a shock”, but she said: “No, no, no please don’t take any chance, because he is a heart patient. His heart is very weak. His system is very weak. No question of playing any game because his life and death is in question.” Prist was very confident, he said: “No, don’t worry. I will take care what you want. He should not be shocked. That much I know, how to start, how to proceed, how to end. Don't worry. I will take care.”

Anyhow the priest proceeded. Priest went to his house. He had a long chating. After that slowly he started: “You see, in vision I saw that God is going to shower his best wishes and blessings on you. You're going to have fortunate, you going to have a some fortunet things, some good things, some good luck.” After that story he started: “You may win a lottery, you do not know.” Man is very excited. Oh, is it so? I do not know, maybe that’s nice, that will be a grand thing. Priest slowly ask: “If you win suddenly five million dollars. How it will be? What will you do? How will you enjoy? The man was so excited and said: “Five million dollars! Half of it I will give to your church.” The priest fell and died.

It is not so easy to accept, even the positive things. You want to accept the positive things, you need the power to let go. The energy to let go. Courage to start. Power to stake, energy to let go. Courage to start, understanding the loss and starting. Because in the very beginning understanding loss itself many will drop, power to stake. You can stake either the $100 or $1000 or even a million dollars, the power to put maximum that is the second thing. Third thing, energy to let go. Energy to go to accept the truth. Even if you gain or you lost, both way you need energy.

Now let us see how these three things are necessary in ultimate sense, ultimate way to play the gambling of meditation. The ultimate gambling. First thing, understanding the loss. Understanding the structure of universe, structure of meditation. How it should be done. Why it should be done? What is the benefit? What I’m going to gain? What really is going to happen to me? Without that cant I manage?

Somebody ask me: “Swamiji, if everything is evolving according to Darvin theory, monkey is become a man. Everything is evolving, then why should we meditate? Naturally by our evolution man is going to become God. Why should we meditate? What is the need for some more inspiration? It is going to happen. Why should we do it?”

I told him: for monkey to become a man, for Chimpanzee to become a man it took five thousand years in the evolution process. Again it's going to take five thousand more years for you to become God. So, five thousand years if you want to wait, you can wait and come to the path of evolution or take up the meditation, you will enter the zone of revolution. Never by evolution is going to take it’s own time. Only way the revolution, you can achieve. What can we really achieve? Godhood or the enlightenment can be achieved only by revolution not by evolution.

So very understanding itself makes many people drop it. Many people drop the meditation or the concept, even with very understanding. Many people just play the single word, last steps. No, no it's not for us. Many people drop, many people think meditation is not for me Swamiji. I’m not cut for that. I’m too modern minded. Many people think I'm very practical and logic Swamiji. Meditation is not for me. Foolish people think that they are logical. A real man who is logical will always see the truth behind the meditation or the spiritual.

In Bharat, especially Tamil Nadu there is a group of people called logical and they say there is no God. Somebody came and asked me: “Swamiji, what do you think about it?” I told them: you see, to believe there is a God you don’t need to be fanatic. There are so many proofs. Even this world is proof that God exists because creator is existing. There must be some creator. Where is this creation? To believe there is a God, you don’t need high fanatizam or you don’t need to be logical. Simple logic is enough.

To believe there is no God you need real fanatizam. Even after so many proof, you stand on your point. So to believe, to be an atheist only you will be more illogical. So people who is atheist or against the spirituality is a real person who is illogical. A real logic and understanding will naturally lead you to ultimate. Will naturally lead you to ultimate search. So never think. We are many, many people, most of us have got idea. People come and tell me: “My husband is very practical and logical. He will not come for meditation. What should I do?” Never tell that way. Tell alwayse, my husband is illogical and impractical he will not come for meditation. Change your words.

Even other people got idea. They come and tell me, my husband is very practical. He will not come for all this thing. Change. Alwayse now onwards you tell: “My husband is illogical and impractical, that’s why he not come to meditation Swamiji.” People understand the logic. People understand the practicality. People who really understand what it is, they always have the courage to start but the main…. One more thing people who really understand, if you enter the meditation their whole life will change, their whole life is going to be totally different. After that if they don’t come then it means they don’t have the courage. It is courage. The fear of transformation. Fear of transformation is one of the greatest obstacles in the spiritual life.

We are actually, we all think, we wanted to be, we want transformation but if you look little deep you will understand your tremendous fear of transformation. Many people come and tell me: “Swamiji, I meditate so seriously, but I don’t seem to change. Transformation is not happening.” Then be very clear, you are not meditating. You believe, you are meditating. Many people come and tell me. I do meditation only but I don't follow your teaching. It means you think you are meditating, you never meditate.

A small example, if you are supposed to go early morning six o'clock flight. You would have kept the alarm four oclock to get up in the house. After the alarm goes, if you feeling too tired...whole knight you had done packing work, you just put out the alarm and think just two minutes I have nap. After five minutes I will get up and go for bathroom. In that five minutes you will always have a dream as if you have already got up and you taking bath or you getting ready and you are moving your bags to go to the airport. Any of you experienced?

In the gap, in the dream you will be dreaming, you already got up, you are getting ready, you are moving your luggage to your car, you are on the road. Any of you experienced this type of dreams? In the dream, you will be dreaming you are on the road travelling towards the airport. Your conning mind just to keep you in dream state, in the dream state it shows that you are already travelling. If the truth that you are not travelling if it is told to you, told to you, you will get up, you will get ready and move but you have to be kept lying, you have to be kept slumber. So what to do? Your mind shows you are already awakened. You are going towards the airport. It shows everything going as smoothly, properly.

This is the same way your mind shows here also. If you think I’m meditating but not transformation has happened, check again. Where all you have problems? Where all you are missing? You also must be dreaming just like this dreamer, just like this person. You also must be doing the same mistake as this person. You must be lying in the bed and dreaming as if you are driving. You also must be doing the same thing. You must be dreaming as if you are already entered in the spiritual life, you are already going Nithyananda Swami’s discourse, you are practicing meditation. What more should be done. Everything I’m doing. You will be dreaming as if you are doing everything.

The fear of transformation is a very deep fear. It needs courage to face the reality and to transfer your life. Only a man who is courageous to face the fear of transformation. One of the our devotee, before seeing me he was a doctor, professional doctor. After seeing and attending the classes he resigned his job and working and become an Ashram resident. His friend was speaking to another friend: “Don’t go to Nithyanand Swami, see what happened to him. His whole life has changed.” When our devotee heard this, he said: “What happened? I’m much more happier than you. I’m much more joyful than you. My whole life is different now. Don’t think you should be feeling sorry for me. I should be feeling sorry for you but I look at from outside.” Of course is not anybody who like transformation to come and settle the Ashram. Then I don’t have a place. It is not that they...when the transformation happens, you move towards the truth. To move towards the truth, to go behind the truth you need courage! You need real logic. A man who is logician, a real logical person will have always a courage to move towards the truth. If the truth shows something, he will have nothing to hold himself. He will not stop, he will not bother about anything, just he will move towards that line. That is the real courage or real attitude of a scientist, of a logic man who is logical. Whenever new truth is discovered, a new hypothesis is brought to life a real scientist will work on it. If you are not courageous enough to work on the truth. If you are not courageous enough to come out of your cells, you are not man who is logical.

So, the transformation fear is such deep. Most of the time we don’t want to follow the truth. No, no we have responsibility Swamiji, we have this, we have all shorts of reason or self created regulation not to truth penetrate our life.