Death is the Greatest Liberation!

One thing, be very clear. From the beginning, you are so much conditioned to do things. Now you started doing so many things you do not know how to stop it. So all your meditation is only helping you to learn how to stop doing things. Actually you are continuously doing something. So meditation is just going to help you to stop doing all these things. If you can really stop, immediately you will become Enlightened. But you are habituated, conditioned so much to do, you do not know how to stop.

So I add little acid which is called meditation to make you stop doing. Ananda Spurana is continuously happening, ma. You are stopping it. I request you to stop the stopping process. You don’t have to create ananda spurana. Ananda spurana is happening. All you do in the ananda spurana day, that two days program is, all you do is you are stopping the stopping process of stopping the ananda spurana. You are continuously stopping it. For the two days, through all these meditations, I tell you not to stop it, that’s all! So you are really relaxing when you meditate.

Q: Tremendous conditioning has gone in. So much of unlearning...

Swamiji: When you know so much of unlearning is required, when you know the tremendous conditioning has gone in, just drop.

Q: Vasanas, Swamiji

Swamiji: Ha, again, when you know it is vasanas, drop! Drop it. Drop it, that’s all. Just drop it.

Q: Only thing is that intelligence is required.

Q: and practice.

Q: What are vasanas?

Swamiji: Hmm, vasana? Don’t think perfume. Vasana means the old mental set ups, hangovers.

Q: Is it the same as samskaras?

Swamiji: Yes, samsara, samskara all one and the same. Samsara creates samskara; samskara creates samsara. Samskara wants samsara; samsara creates samskara. And it is like a doctor wants medical shop; medical shop wants doctors. Now you wrote down the miseries?

Sit straight. No, just close your eyes. And don’t think them as miseries. They are miseries as long as you want something else. When you do not want the other, opposite of that, they are just life. That is your life. You make life as a miserable, as a misery by wanting something else. Something else is always death. If it is something else than your life, it is just death. Why do you want death in life? Only when you want death in life, you start suffering. Respect the life as it happens to you, as it is.

Take few minutes. Remember one by one all the ten problems and just feel, ‘Let it be as it is. This is the way it is. That is the way it will be. Relax, just relax.’ For few minutes decide, ‘just this half an hour, I will not try to change.’ When you go out, you can do all your other games. This half an hour, decide, ‘I am not going to change anything. I will accept as it is.’ If you feel you are not able to accept, accept at least that. ‘I am not able to accept.’ Even that much acceptance is okay. If you can accept, accept it. If you are not able to, then accept that I am not able to accept.

Let all the external sufferings and internal sufferings be as it is. Whether it is external conflict or internal conflict, let it be there... It becomes conflict only when you have, only when you want something else, only when you have other choices. Decide clearly for this next half an hour, ‘I am not going to struggle internally or externally. Whatever problems are there in the outer world, in the inner world, let it be there. For only next half an hour, I am not going to struggle. I decide I will relax. Whatever is in the outer world or in the inner world, let them all be there.’ Don’t fight with your thoughts. Don’t fight with your mind. If your mind is chaotic, accept that, don’t fight with it. Let it be chaotic. If possible, create some more chaos. Then it will become silent. Give some more difficulties and complications. It will simply become silent.

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Swamiji: Relax!