Relax into Your Bliss

Please be very clear, all your activities are centered on you, what you think as you. For example if you think you are Raman, you think Raman, Raman’s husband, Raman’s wife, Raman’s daughter, Raman’s family, Raman’s property, Raman’s spiritual growth, Raman’s physical body, Raman’s mental health, Raman’s economical status. Whole thing is centered on you but you don’t realize the very Raman is not there. You are trying to continuously protect yourself physically, mentally or emotionally, economically, spiritually or socially but the very being whom you are trying to protect is not there. Understand this one beautiful scenery/simile. This actually happened to Me as a darshan, as a vision, experience. From this only I created our emblem. If you see our emblem, the Paramahamsa, Paramahamsa is our emblem. Paramahamsa pakshi is our emblem. Paramahamsa flying in the sky is our emblem. I had a beautiful vision or experience, from that only I created that emblem.

How the human life happened in the planet earth. The great swan which never comes down to the planet earth, it is just flying in the sky, floating, enjoying, expressing its freedom, expressing its own bliss. In the lake or a pond the reflection is there. The reflection of the swan is there in the pond. The fishes in the pond thought, “Oh the swan has come down to the pond”. They started playing with it. They are enjoying with that swan. The fishes are jumping on them, on the swan this side and that side… on the shadow of the swan.

There are some fishes they start fencing… this is the boundary, this is my swan, this is my swan. There are some swans [fishes] started purchasing the... the neighbour land, neighbour real estate, the swan may come here. Already the real estate has developed. There are some fishes, “No, no, no I am the brother of the fish, I am the brother of the swan, I am the son of the swan, I am the wife of the swan”. The whole drama is happening.

Suddenly the swan has just started flying on the land and then suddenly the swan just moved. The shadow or the reflection which was appearing has suddenly disappeared. Immediately all the fishes started crying, ”Arrey what happened? Our swan has disappeared. What happened to our swan?” But they never understand the swan has never landed on the planet earth. The whole thing is just drama.

Sameway, you have started thinking you have a soul or what you think as soul. You have soul, that is different. That soul is totally different; whatever you understand as your soul is not your soul. Then you started protecting. There are so many fishes. You… the all the fishes are also you only.

You started creating fence for you. You start first thing, first assumption that you have soul. Next you wanted to protect that soul, create house, create relations, create social security means wealth, create all these things and then decide, “Oh I need spiritual growth also”. Then go to some guru; go through the Mysore road and which is… which board looks very bigger or nice or beautiful, enter into that ashram. Start searching for spiritually also. But you forgot the very swan has not happened, there is no swan. You are just playing with the shadow. Suddenly you realize the swan has disappeared. Swan will not even know what the drama the fishes are doing.

Sometimes the fishes start cursing the swan, “What is this? Believing this swan we built such a beautiful house and we raised all the real estate value around this buildings. Now each flat is going for five lakh and suddenly we realise the swan itself is not there. The swan will not even know all the drama which is done by the fishes.

Same thing is happening in your life. Your soul don’t even know all the dramas done by your body and mind. The soul doesn’t even know how much your body and mind is suffering unnecessarily because it never landed on the pond. Whatever you are seeing is only a pure reflection. If you can meditate on this one story I tell you, you will be liberated this moment. If you can keep yourself only this one understanding, only this one understanding… just like a zen cone, this is Ananda stories. This one story: You have never happened as you think. Whatever you think as you is not you. The root of you based on which your whole thing is moving, the very root is non existence - nibbāna. Nibbāna means nirvāṇa - which is non existence; but to protect something which is non existence, you are torturing yourself so much.

Do whatever possible way simply your body is undergoing this change. Your mind is undergoing this change. The stream is flowing, if the fishes are trying to push the stream or if the fishes are trying to stop the stream; stream doesn’t even know whether you try to become enlightened or you try to be against the enlightenment, God doesn’t even know. All the fishes thought, let us stop this stream. Let’s have a barricade, hold our hands each other stop this stream. If all the fishes stand in the stream, if they try to stop the stream, do you think they will be successful? Stream will not even know the fishes are trying to stop it.

Sameway, you not becoming enlightened or you not realizing your atman doesn’t even know that. Even that much you are not connected to your being. So whatever you think as you is just non existent.

Swamiji: Yes, you have question?

Participant: inaudible

Swamiji: Whatever, all this for three days I was working, four days I was working, is superficial way; but unless that load is reduced, this you can’t understand.

Participant: inaudible

Swamiji: Whether you have cleaned it or not, they are not even related. First of all there is no impurity, where is the question of cleaning?

Participant: What is the way forward then Swami?

Swamiji: The moment you asked the way forward, you have spoiled the whole teaching. Over. Now whatever I have spoken is just waste, it has not happened in you. You have not heard it. If you hear properly. What is the need for way forward? Still if you are asking for the way forward…..

Participant: inaudible

Swamiji: Simply the realization will guide your life. Don’t ask the hypothetical question, ‘Once I realize this what will happen?’

Beautiful, one born blind man went to the doctor. Doctor said, “I’ll do an operation you will have your eyes back. Then you can walk without stick”. The stick which they use.... the blind people they use the stick to feel. The blind man said “Master I understand… doctor I understand you’ll do an operation, I’ll have my eyes back but how can I walk without stick?”

Unless you have your eyes, you cannot understand how you can walk without stick. Intellectually you cannot be convinced till you get your eyes, ‘you can walk without stick’. Understand this one thing. Look inside, whatever you thought as you is not there. And it will not be there; just it will not be there. Whatever points are the base for your suffering, where the points are rooted that very root is non-existent, the very root is non existent. That is why I tell you, your name itself is non-existent.

That is why in zen they say meditate on your face before your birth. Just visualize how your face was before your birth. Can you visualize? Then what? Just fifty years ago, you were not existent. Whatever you think as you, you are non-existent fifty years ago. Am I right? And fifty years after, you’ll be again non-existent. Why are you then suffering so much? Why are you torturing yourself? Just for this few years of drama. The whole thing is just nibbāna.

Whatever your ideas, ‘what society will think of me?’ That’s one of the important big trouble ‘what others will think about me?’ Meditate on this one sutra. Don’t bother what others are thinking about you, because they are bothering what you are thinking about them. Don’t bother what others are thinking about you, because they are bothering what you are thinking about them.

It is just a drama happening continuously because you don’t have time to stop and look, you don’t have time to open your eyes and see, you don’t have time to relax few minutes and watch. You are also involved because your TV was never switched off even for two second. You never thought the TV can be switched off or there can be few moments when scenes will not disappear… scene will not appear, screen will be empty.

Here I am trying to tell you, just because the screen is continuously filled with scenes don’t think what you are seeing is truth. It can be switched off. It can switch off. You can relax. It is time, at least for next half an hour, relax, meditate on the face which you had before your birth.

Now when I say directly try to hear what you understand is enough; for My words, what your dictionary says that is enough. Just refer your oxford dictionary. That is enough. Whatever words I say, just refer oxford dictionary. What you understand, that much of understanding is enough. I am not speaking anything metaphysical. I am not speaking anything big spiritual. I am just using the word which you can directly refer with the oxford dictionary. And understand that is enough, will liberate you.

I have always seen. There is a beautiful story. When Ramakrishna was alive, people used to go and tell Him, “When Chaitanya was alive we didn't have a chance to see Him. Otherwise we would have become enlightened”. Ramakrishna says, “Fool when Chaitanya was alive, people go to Him and say, “When Krishan was alive we were not here, if we have seen Krishna we would have become enlightened.” Ramakrishana says, “The people who sat in front of Chaitanya and spoke about Krishna are saying “Because we have not met Krishna we have not become enlightened”. The same group only is sitting in front of Ramakrishana and speaking about Chaitanya. And the same group only will sit in front of Me and speak about Ramakrishna. It is here and now, if at all something can happen, here and now.

Just understand the very base which you think as you is Anatta - doesn’t exist, changes every moment. That is why your needs are different everyday. Today something is tasty, tomorrow something is… the same thing is not tasty. When you lose your maths, “No, no, no like this how can it happen?“ You will try to tell yourself, “No, no, no, that is tasty, that is tasty”. But mind is not ready to believe.

You are just changing. How much you try to make you feel comfortable, how much you try to tell yourself “No I exist, I am consistent, I am consistent. I am... There is something which is under all these things alive” Again and again truth comes up. You experience the vacuum - nothingness. But the nothingness creates a tremendous fear in you. It shakes you, “Wow where am I going? What am I doing? What is this Swami teaching me? He is taking away the basic root on which I am standing. He is just shaking me”. Of course if you are afraid that I am shaking you I will take my hands, Maya will shake you, that’s all.

You understand… if you understand, gracefully you will go beyond or maya will just snatch you, snatch you from you. That’s all. Whatever you think as you is just tumor on your system. It is not you. If it is you, the very being will be totally different. The very being will be totally different.

Of course, what I am speaking, I don’t know how much you’ll be able to receive but I am speaking at some point when your being is ready these seeds will start growing. I am just sowing the seed. When time is ...when you are ready these seeds will grow.