Death is the greatest liberation part2

Trust yourself. You can transform your life. Relax and start cherishing the moments in which you feel the peace and the transformation. Instead of counting the moments of problems, you see, ten times you may do a mistake. ten times you may live with understanding. Even this dropping the imagination, if you do a homework, simple homework, write ten time when you dropped imagination and did not create problems. Write ten time when you had imagination and created problems. You would have both in your life but you give more emphasis on your failures instead of your successes.

Understand, you have really succeeded so many times in so many ways. Cherish the moments of your success. Live the moments of your success. When you have succeeded in so many moments, can’t you succeed in other few moments? Simply it can... happen, trust yourself and relax, nothing else! Simply the cognitive shift will start happening. Just be, just a little more energy to relax.

Q: Actually we have been conditioned to think to be relaxed we are…

Swamiji: You see, now you know you have been conditioned to think if you relax, nothing will happen, something wrong. You know it is a conditioning. That’s why you say we have been conditioned that relaxation is something wrong. When you know it is a conditioning, drop now.

Q: There is a kind of always...

Swamiji: Nothing is wrong in being relaxed. What is wrong? I am the greatest lazy man. Look at here, utterly relaxed. And you say, ‘Ah! there are so many people who take care of you. You can afford laziness, we can’t afford.’ No! I started becoming lazy. Only then people started taking care of Me. Never it is other way, never it is other way. You think, ‘Let people come and take care of Me, then I will become lazy.’ No! Just start, then things will follow. You are trying to put the cart in front of the bullock, cart in front of the bullock. No! Just relax. Let the cognitive shift happen. Things will start happening in you.

And I tell you, total acceptance is respect to life. That is what I say ‘surrenderfulness.’ Not just surrender: surrendering to Me is very easy. Surrender to each and every living being. Surrender to whole life, surrender to whole life. Let whatever wants, let it happen. You think, ‘If I surrender, people will start torturing me.’ Let them torture you. That is what is Tapas. That is what I call Tapas. Any extreme let them go. Surrender, relax. Relax, surrender. The surrenderfulness can transform your whole life. The moment you decide to be in surrenderfulness, the divine happens in your life. Surrenderfulness, relaxing or experiencing the death is a liberation is what I call cognitive shift. From mithya to Nithya, from mithya to Nithya. In Nithya mental set-up, in Nithya mentality, as long as you are here, happy. Life is a celebration, enjoy. The moment death comes, you say, ‘Enough, life is suffering. Let me go and relax.’

Actually in the young age, have you heard a story? In the elementary school, they teach a story. There was a big grapes garden and the wolf or fox? There was a fox which came and tried its best. It was not able to get the grapes. Then the fox started shouting, ‘I think these grapes are very sour.’ It ran away. It is an intelligent fox. It knows how not to internalise the failures. It is a very intelligent fox. It knows how not to internalise the problems. It has got tremendous acceptance. That mentality is what I call Nithya. Listen from this one story, over! When you don’t get, say it is sour, over! You are relaxed, you are liberated. When you have it, even it is sour, so tasty, you see, so tasty. when you have it, enjoy. The moment you don’t have it, say it is dirty, sour and liberate yourself, and liberate yourself, over! Just little bit of intelligence. Simple technique. You should meditate on that fox. Just meditate on that fox. Fox coming, trying to catch the grapes, it is not able to get, then it says, ‘No, no, these grapes are sour, bad.’ Just the simple thing, nothing else. All great things which you need to learn is already told to you only in the wrong way.

Now I am commenting on even your elementary school lessons, not only on Shiva Sutras, on your rhymes also I am commenting. I am bringing them back to new life, hmm. I am throwing new light on your school lessons also. Commentaries on elementary school lessons, bhashyas on elementary school lessons because that is where the corruption starts. So I think better I should comment on all the stories of elementary school. All the stories have got such wonderful truth and you are always taught that fox is wrong guy, jealous but understand, such a great value is there, such wonderful truth is existing. You have always taught that fox is wrong, fox is wrong but the fox is the only right guy! If you know just the technique to live like that fox, over! Whole life is joy... Meditate on that fox and get enlightened! Liberate yourself from the problems. So just be little more intelligent. Thank you, next question.

Q: Instead of escapism, if we try to…

Swamiji: Even if we escape, what is the wrong? What is the wrong with escapism?

Q: That means we are trying to escape from our duty. Again we feel guilty.

Swamiji: Even if we escape from commitments, what is the wrong?

Q: We will become anarchist in society.

Swamiji: That is what I tell you, create. You see, one thing. All your ideas about commitment, all your ideas about all these things is not going to help you. Understand, all your words, commitment, all these things again you have some rigid structure. Any rigid structure is not going to liberate you, any rigid structure. One more thing, you think that just because you come away from the society just because you escape, you think the whole society will become anarchy? whole society is going to become anarchy?

Q: At least I have contributed something wrong.

Swamiji: To that? So you think that now because of you, you are contributing something right?

Q: Sometimes Swamiji, we may have to do something so as to not hurt somebody who is very close.

Swamiji: Then okay, do it. Just enjoy. You are not hurting him because he will not hurt you, so that he will not hurt you. Not even not to hurt them, so that they will not hurt us. It is a agreement.

Q: The trick is just to accept that?

Swamiji: No, be very clear. You are doing that so that you will be happy. You are doing it for your happiness.

Q: No, you may feel happy doing certain...something but then in order not to hurt the person who is close to you, you may have to compromise on that.

Swamiji: Okay, if you compromise, what for you compromise? So that he will not hurt you. You compromise and do that not to hurt him so that he will not hurt you in some other way. Am I right? You see, you don’t want to hurt him, why? You just told you will be good to him. You will be good to him.

Q: He is very close to me.

Swamiji: Okay, you love him. If he is hurt, you will feel little disturbed.

Q:Yes.

Swamiji: You will feel disturbed. So you are not hurting him so that you will not feel disturbed. Am I right?

Q: Is it right to do that?

Swamiji: Perfectly alright. So you are doing it for your happiness.

Q: But at that time you will feel you have sacrificed something for that person’s sake.

Swamiji: Then understand, you are not sacrificing, you are not sacrificing. You are doing it for your own happiness. Then you will not now feel that you are sacrificing. That’s all!

And one thing. The person who has got, who feels he has got responsibility never does his responsibility because he is just locked. His mind is not free and the man who liberates himself...I think yesterday’s discourse, I was...selling time, selling product, all these things, selling time, all these things are commitments. Escaping, actually the escaping word itself is condemning word. That is why in Bharat we have beautiful word-’Paramahamsa’. Any moment you can become parivrajaka. That is why in Bharat, suicide rate is so less and depression is so less. Any moment you can become vagabond. You are respected, you are respected. In the West, you are called homeless. In the East you are called Vasudaiva Kutumbakaha. In the West, if you have dropped out from the society, you are called hippie-long hair, hippie and homeless. In the East, if you drop out of the society, you are called ‘Paramahamsa’ and your whole world as your home - ‘sadhu’, whole world as your home.

And one more thing, when you really escape, the cognitive shift happens, the big cognitive shift happens in you. You become totally responsible, totally responsible. You have seen in your life lakhs of people. Be honest, have you seen anybody who is more responsible than Me? In My age, have you seen Me anybody who is more responsible? Let you be honest. You are very clear, hmm? I am responsible person? Now I will tell you the formula. Escape!... Now I give you the path, escape! This is the formula. You will become such a beautiful, responsible, person, not only for you, whomsoever comes in front of you, you will start feeling responsible for them. How do you think healing happens?

Q: Swamiji, You have tremendous compassion.

Swamiji: That happens only when you escape. Escapism is one of the main ingredient for the alchemy to happen. You see, if you want to purify the gold, you are supposed to add some...what to say...that...very,,,acids which creates very...which creates worst effects on you, which is poison. Arsenic acids you are supposed to add. If you have an idea, ‘Oh, this acid is arsenic. How can I add that into the gold? It has to be purified. This gold is 22 carat. It has to become 24 carat. I should add only milk and the ghee and butter which is good things, not the arsenic acid,’ Will the gold be purified? So for the gold to become pure, you need to add only that stuff. So escapism is… you understand escapism as a poison-just like arsenic acid but that is the greatest, that is the only purifier, the greatest purifier which can purify you. Now for the alchemy, you need to add that. What to do? Will you say, ‘No, no. I will add only milk. I will pour only ghee, I will pour only Panchamrita and do the...I will wait for the gold to become pure,’ will ever it happen? No, pour the acid. That is the only way for cleaning it, purifying it.

So be very clear. This compassion happens to you only when you drop. How do you think healing happens? The moment they come in front of Me, I feel responsible. I feel responsible for their pain. First of all, understand, compassion itself happens only when I feel responsible. I feel it. Why I feel responsible for everyone? Because I dropped the small ‘i’ responsibility. Commitment of small ‘i’, duty of the small ‘i’, responsibility of the small ‘i’, if it is dropped, simply something happens in you. You take the responsibility of big ‘I’, commitment of big ‘I’, the duty of the big ‘I’ comes up on you. You expand.

Q: So even if you take commitments, you will not be…

Swamiji: Bound. And one thing, only when you drop, you will not be violent. As long as you think you have a duty, you will be violent towards your children. When you work for them, when you create wealth for them, you wanted them to act as you want. You force them, you say, ‘Arey! For you guy I have worked. I have done all these things. Do as I want.’ You force them. You want them to do as you want. So all your idea of duty, commitment is nothing but the expression of your violence and it will lead to violence. From violence to violence.

Now it is time to escape you and liberate your- so-called people to whom you are committed or the so-called people to whom you think you are committed. Escape and liberate them. When you escape, they are liberated. They also will forgive you. You also will escape from them. So drop out. You will see a new ‘I’ is happening in you, new ‘I’ is happening in you. I say, ‘Break as a seed, the tree will sprout,’ but you say, ‘No, no, no. Let the tree sprout, only then I will break as a seed.’ Tree can never happen unless the seed breaks. Can the tree happen unless the seed breaks? No! Understand, the moment you understand death is a liberation, life becomes celebration! You start living intensely because the new energy has come. The cognitive shift has happened in you. When the new energy comes, be very clear, the cognitive shift has happened in you.