What is This Wonder-Filled Universe?

(0:14) This question shows the mentality of Devi. If we are supposed to ask, we would have asked, “What is this Universe?” Never “What is this wonder-filled Universe?” She is asking “What is this wonder-filled Universe?” Means what? She is living with a childlike innocence. For children, for kids universe is wonder filled. Because they don’t have logic. They don’t think this is the same chair which was there, which was here yesterday. They don’t think this is the same room in which they sat yesterday. They don’t think this is the same Sun which they saw yesterday. They know the Truth. Sun is new, this room is new, this chair is new, I am also new, you are also new.

(01:19) Continuously you are changing. Continuously you are getting updated. Continuously you are moving. Continuously the Existence is changing. If you trust Existence changes and you also change, you can never get settled with your ego which is rigid mechanism. Only a person who is egoless can trust the Universe is changing and you are changing. The person who is established in ego can never understand the Universe is changing and you are changing.

(02:07) The man who sells his time will never be able to understand the Universe is changing because he will be caught in a routine. Not being caught in a routine is a basic discipline for enlightenment. If you are in a routine you become so unaware, you stop believing, you stop realizing that Existence is changing, your life is changing and you are also changing.

(02:45) I have seen some Government servants working for 30 years in the same office, will not even move their table from one place to other place and they forget that their table can be moved, and they really forget their table can be moved. Even in your house, don’t live with the same kind of furniture arrangement. Once in two-three months change it. Once in two-three months create little bit of chaos. No, you will feel that you are living in a new house. Otherwise you will become dead. Otherwise you will become so dead.

I have seen people. They will be having 10 rooms. Because of their habit, they wouldn’t have gone to the other 8 rooms even for three-four months in their own house. You would have not, you wouldn’t have travelled to the end of your, extreme of end of your garden for last two years. Remember, in your own house, you wouldn’t have gone to the corner of your compound wall. Have you been any time? At least for last two three years you wouldn’t have gone.

(04:12) You have a track. From car you get down, the track, go to your kitchen or to the bed room, come back, go to the car. You will live on track. Mind feels comfortable if it has got a definite system, if it has got a definite system. If I would have created a definite system, I will have thousands and thousands of idiotic disciples.

People ask me, “Swamiji why this worship and ritual all these things, they became so popular? They became very popular; even though they are more difficult, more complicated, they became so popular. But this meditation!

Just understand this one thing. If I tell somebody, every Poornima go to Arunachala, do one do the giri pradakshina for 12 month, “Oh! You are Arunachala Himself Swamiji!. Surely I will do”. They go round. They don’t miss even a single month. If they miss one month they themselves start again from next month and unless they finish 12 month they don’t feel satisfied. It takes four hours. Hitting each other and walking. So much of difficulty. Tell them just sit half an hour and do Maha Mantra. Sit half an hour and do Maha Mantra. What they say? “Very difficult Swamiji, no time Swamiji”. The Rituals so complicated, so difficult but they take it and do it.

(06:13) Anything definite can spread. In that they are definite. Even after coming back, nothing would have changed in them; except little bit of leg pain nothing else would have happened to them!! But in Maha Mantra they are not definite. They are not sure. Some personality change may happen. They are not sure of the outcome. It is a risk. Going into meditation is risk. Going around the hillock they know they will have only little more leg pain. Nothing else. They know they are in the safe place but here there is a risk. There is a risk. That is why people go to see the swami in the temples. The Temple swamis become very popular because they don’t speak; because they don’t change your life. They don’t ask you to do something. You can do everything, all possible nonsense, enter into temple, pay twenty five rupees and tell your name, your address, your website address and your email id and God will प्रसाद सिद्धिरस्तु Prasadha Siddhirastu. In the end Ashtaishwarya Vara Prasada Siddhirastu. You will have the garland and prasad and you will feel happy.

(08:02) But here I will ask you what are you doing? What’s your life? There comes the trouble. Here if you come again and again either you will be forced to change your life trend because of this atmosphere or without even your knowledge you may be inspired by Me. You may be inspired by Me. Without even your awareness you may be inspired by Me. So there is a danger. Either consciously you have to change or unconsciously you may start changing. Many people come and tell me, “Swamiji now a days we started speaking like you, Nalladhu Nalladhu (Good, Good), we started laughing like you, we started behaving like you”. Many people come and tell me, “Many of your behaviours are coming in me. We start speaking like you. We start using your slang. We start behaving like you. We start acting like you”. That’s a big danger. I am such a solid force, I may penetrate you.

(09:30) So anything definite is safe. The most definite thing on the Planet Earth is your tomb, graveyard. You are definite about everything in the graveyard. The more and more you start living with definition and security, the more and more you are dying. The more you die, more you will live with definitions. You live with the definite realities, definite things only when you die. That is why if you live in a definite track in your house, your house will have the vibration of a graveyard. Once in a while dance in your main hall. Your ether will be purified. The ether Akasha, the chitakasha, the space in the house will be purified. Once in a while play some keerthan, do a little bit dance. That place will be associated with that memories.

(10:49) I assure you your bedroom is always associated with the nagging head attitude. You enter into your bedroom you will feel that sickness. You will feel that sickness, because that is associated with that thoughts. Once in a while shuffle the whole house, change it. Have a small out house, go and stay there. Once in a while change, shuffle the house. Put this furniture like this, put that furniture like this. Don’t have a clear definite. Just move this idol to that, that idol to this so that your mind will not get stuck with a single attitude. And if you fight with somebody sitting on a particular sofa, next time when you sit, consciously or unconsciously the same mood will happen in you. You do not know. The same mood will happen in you.

(12:00) Have you seen when you go in a car, driver will be driving, you will be sitting. Suddenly you will say (Swamiji makes gestures ‘its okay leave it’). You will be sitting and thinking something. Suddenly you will say (Swamiji makes gestures ‘its okay leave it’). You will start thinking something else. Suddenly you will behave “I should not think this. Let me think something else. Let me think of something else”. Then you will be suddenly shocked the driver is seeing you. You will be just sitting, suddenly you will say, “I should not think like this” (Swamiji makes gestures as if saying ‘No leave it’).

(12:36) What is happening in you? You see something on the road which connects, which creates, which awakens some memory which you do not want to cherish. Unconsciously that memory is awakened.

For example, you would have seen some furniture hoarding, advertisement of a particular furniture. The same furniture you would have seen in your enemy’s house. Immediately the mind unconsciously associates that and the memory goes to your enemy. The moment you start feeling disturbed by him, you think ‘I shouldn’t think this’. Then you try to change your thought pattern. If you live with the same things, your mem... you will create a track of memory. You will have very less access to your own being.

(13:40) Listen here, your mind and your house is one and the same. Your being and your house is one and the same. If you don’t access throughout your, If you don’t walk throughout your house, if you don’t live with your whole house, be very clear you are not living with your whole memory. That very clearly proves you are not living with your whole memory.

People ask me, “How can you have access to so much of information Swamiji? Mind Boggling! So much of informations, coming out with so much of quotation from Valluvar to Einstein, Buddha to Gita, Gurdjieff to Gurudwars. So much of information. How could it? First of all, how can you store? Second thing, how are you able to access it? Even if we store, we are not able to access it. Only when some patient comes with a headache, you remember all the headache medicines. Sometimes you forget and remember the stomach pain medicine. How are you able to access? We are not able to access the memories which is there. How are you able to remember?

(15:13) Yesterday suddenly the fox story came. (People laugh) Surely I have also not read that story after the first standard. After the first standard, I have also not read that story. From where suddenly the story appears? Clear access, clear access to the memories which is created at the age of 4 and 5. How is this possible? How is this possible? How can this happen? Because I don’t live on a particular track. I have no emotional attachment to a particular memory.

(16:05) A small story has happened. One guy used to read only philosophy books. He goes to a library. Regularly he will go to library, but straight he will go to philosophy books. That is the only interest; he will read. After 3 years suddenly he wanted to read some fictitious novels. He goes and asks librarian, “I wanted to read some fiction”. Librarian says, “Just next cupboard is fiction”. This guy was shocked to understand in that last 3 years he has not even looked into it.

(16:56) You also are doing this same thing in so many places. Suddenly you see in the corner of your street one big coconut tree is there. It is not that the coconut tree is teleported overnight. Suddenly you see and you think I have never seen this. How many times you have experienced this? Many time. And even in your own body suddenly you see a mark sometime. (people laugh) Why to talk about the street? Suddenly in front of a mirror you see there is a black mark which is there inside, which is there in your body. Because the guy is associated emotionally to that portion, to that part of the library, he forgot some other portions also exist. Some other part also exists.

(18:08) You reduce yourself when you choose. You abuse yourself when you choose. You abuse yourself when you choose. You abuse your being when you choose part of your being and reject the other part of other part of your being. You reduce yourself to a man, to a level of man if you choose some part of your being. Just like this guy, the guy who is emotionally attached to philosophy will not have access to other books, even if they are there in the same library, next row.

Same way, if you are emotionally attached to some memories, you will not have easy access to all other memories of your mind, your chitta. If you are emotionally attached to particular memory, you will not have access to all other memories which is there in your system. You are stuck, you are stuck with a fevicol on that cupboard. You will not be able to move to the other cupboards. You don’t have a free access. It is like you have 10 megabyte memory in your laptop, if you keep only the prose or the words you can keep enormous memory. But if you start storing photographs, the memory will be short.

(20:02) Your emotional memories are photographs. Whenever you are emotionally attached to some memory, the strong clear visualised picture will be stored in your memory. Anything which is stored in your system with a full clear visualization, occupies more memory space. So naturally you will not have the memory. You will have the lack of memory. So much of space is occupied just by one photograph.