“We will start with a small story.”
We will start with a small story. A young man from America went to London. He was traveling in a train with a elderly British lady and a gentleman. Lady had a pet dog, suddenly dog jumped on this guy and vomited. This lady instead of apologizing she started patting the dog, Oh ! I don’t know what happened to you. You have bad stomach. We should take you to the doctor. The young man kept quiet but didn’t speak much. After few minutes again the dog jumped on him and Pizzed. Again this lady instead of apologizing she started saying Oh ! I should take you to doctor immediately. I don’t know hwat happened to you today. I should taken you to doctor. After few minutes again the dog jumped on him, now you know what it would have done. Again this lady she didn’t even care to say word Sorry she just started patting the dog I should have taken to doctor . She gave medicine ..Now it is too much. The young man silently got up, just took the dog and threw out of the window. All this time the old man was keeping quiet. Now he stood up and shouted You Americans drive in the wrong side, measure with the wrong scale now threw the wrong bitch out of the window. Whenever we throw we always throw only wrong bitch out of the window.
All our choice, all our decisions always end in dilemma. This dilemma what I call is mind. Dilemma is the straight direct explanation or definition of mind. There are so many definitions for mind. But my experience I can say this is the right word. Continuously moving from this extreme to that extreme, continuously seeing the other side, continuously thinking I should have done that, I should have done this, I should have taken this type of decision, I should have that type of decision, Continuously not accepting the present moment is the root of the mind. When you close your eyes whatever happens in your space, whatever you think and whatever you can think, whatever you visualize, whatever you can visualize, whatever you experience whatever you can experience, everything the whole is call Mind. The root of the Mind is dilemma. If you just accept this moment, the whole reality as it is simply you go beyond Mind. You will reach experienced state what is called Enlightenment or super consciousness. Mind the root of the mind is dimmema, because all your choices when I mean all, it is ALL our choices end in suffering. Bliss is choicelessness, when you are choiceless when you are accepting the flow, when you just accept the nature, you are in Bliss.
Actually Bliss is nothing but accepting the reality as it is. But we always say we accept everything Master, everything is beautiful just this one thing it is around the corner let me correct the one thing tomorrow I will be Happy. When we are in Bharat we think just if we get VISA it will be really great. Once we get the VISA we think if we have a house it will be great, then Green Card , then Citizenship. then Car one by one one by one then by the time we have family already we have Mortgaged our life. Already the life is mortgaged. We just postpone just after this after this after this I will be happy. Postponing the Bliss, Postponing the Ecstasy, Postponing the Joy which is continuously happening in you which is your nature is the root of the Mind. Understand in Bliss you can’t have Mind, because Bliss happens to you when you are Choice less . In the Choiceless Bliss starts happening. Because whenever you choose you always choose misery. Because any choice is nothing but misery.
People ask me should I continue spiritual life (or) material life. For which I should give more importance. It is a very Big question. It is a million dollar question. Every so called spiritual seeker has this question. Pleas understand only so called spiritual seeker, never the real seeker. Just like a professional lawyers, professional doctors, there is a group of people who think themselves as professional seekers. Their only job is contionoulsy read some book and window shopping from Master to Master, and group to group and gathering here and there something and thinking that they are great seekers. I have seen thousands of so called great seekers. They always come up with one question, should I put more energy more Time on my material life or in my spiritual life. I tell you the moment you choose you started suffering. Whether you choose spiritual life or material life if you choose material life you always think you always miss spiritual life. You will be visulaising what you are missing. If you choose spiritual life you always miss material life.
I tell you there is no need to choose. Material life is horizontal line, spiritual life is vertical line we always have a dilemma Which one to choose. If we look little deeply in to your being of course looking deeply in to yourself is what I call meditation. If you medidate little bit you will understand the experience you don’t have to choose horizontal line or vertical line you have the capacity to grow both directions at a time that is what I call quantam spirituality, you can explode horizontal direction and vertical direction at a time in the same time and same space. Real spirituality real mediation is living in this moment when you start living in this moment naturally you will explode you will just express yourself so called matrail life and spiritual life The life is only one thing you live with awareness or withour awareness that is the only choice you have. You do not have any other choice called spiritual life or materil life. Don’t think that somebody who become a spiritual person he is from the other world. He is the same materil what you are eating. He sleeps in the same bed where you are sleeping. He uses the same way as you use the bathroom. Everything is same ofcourse the problem is in pur ancient scriptures they have not recorded whether Krishna used the bathroom or not. That is the proble, because we always have a image about spiritual figure. They have a particular kind of a frame, any sprirtual figure we put them in to a frame in to that idea we distance ourselves from them there is no need to choose the moment you choose you choose suffering. All choices are nothing but suffering
Start living intensely you start a new way of life all inclusive which I call whole. When you are whole you are HOLY. The only way to Holiness is being whole. The moment you start choosing you give power to your mind, fear greed and worry. All these three start in choosing, your greed makes you choose, your fear makes you choose somewhere you wanted to escape something naturally these two ends in worry, confusion, dilemma, whether you choose you based on fear or greed We end in dilemma we end in worry. This two are the root for worrying. Don’t choose anything mentally, people ask me Master if you say Don’t choose how to go about in the day to day life Should I drop spirituality or should I drop profession. Should I medidate or should I go for job. Never choose mentally before you start living. Just start living intensely as you feel as your heart guides, simply your profession becomes Meditation What has to drop will drop automatically. You don’t have to choose that will choose you. Ypur whole being will choose you. The moment you choose with your logical calculation with your intellect you are in trouble. Not choosing accepting the flow going along with the flow what I call intelligence. The moment you accept something happens to you what I call intuition. In the normal level very basic level you are in the level of instinct, the moment you get the little bit energy you choose intellectually you come to the level of intellect man. If you drop choosing accepting the flow something happens to you, intelligence you become divine person. When you stay in this level there is something more happens to you which I call intuition you become divine.
Step by step from instinct to intellect to intelligence to intuition. Usually almost we are all struck in intellect level, 90% of the people are struck in intellect level. Of course we are not in instinct level. We are at intellect level. Continuously fighting with ourselves, continuously creating conflicts that is the reason we need so much of entertainment. Why do you think continuously we need partying, drinking, TV, movie everything. When I first came to this country they showed me all this Universal studios, Disney Land and what not all those entertainment things. The devotee who took me around thought I will feel very Happy after seeing everything. But somehow I felt very sad. When I came out they asked me why Master you are feeling so sad and you are silent. Why you didn’t enjoy all these things. I said so much of entertainment is needed means this country must be joyless. You need so much of entertainment, so many night clubs just because we are joyless. We are just joyless that is the reason again again and again we go out some way or other we try to grab we try to snatch joy. Trying to snatch joy from the outer world is nothing but trying to make thread out of stone Trying to make thread out of stone. You see in Bharat out of this Banana tree they will make thread, they will make flower garlands.The outer shell of the banana tree out of that they will make threads to make garlands. Same way if you try to make a thread out of stone what will happen. All our work to get joy out of the outer world, out of outer entertainments is nothing but trying to make thread out of boulders ( ?). Of course you can escape yourself these are all techniques to escape from yourselves, but you can never never never think you are joyful or blissful by these things. Unless a person is totally comfortable with himself, unless a person is totally ease with himself, unless somebody is totally relaxed with himself, I don’t think he can find joy from anything in the outer world. How much you can try. All you can try is you just escape that’s what around the age of 40 to 45 you come upon a new face of your life what I call depression of success you got what you want but you have not got what for you want. Achieving what you want and not achieving what for you want at that moment you face a phase called depression of success. That is the time we take major decisions in our life, people try to change cars, houses, wife you continuously try to change that is the age you decide or think changing cars, houses, spouse. You try to change everything. Either you go for outer change or addicted that means you try to escape yourself.
Escaping from yourself can happen in many ways not only through alcohol or drugs, it can happen through TV. TV is also one of the methods, you try to escape from Yourself. You just don’t want to sit with yourself. That’s is the reason you are continuously with some entertainment so much of restlessness that is why every 15 minutes you will go around complete 1 cycle of channels. We can’t even sit with one channel more than 15 minutes. The other day on eadvertisement producer is sitting with me, he was talking to me Master, any advertisement we can make only for 60 seconds, 60 seconds is the maximum time people watch. People don’t watch more than 60 seconds anything . I was shocked 60 seconds is too less what are you talking it should atleast be two to three minutes. No Mater, survey says 60 seconds is the maximum time that people watch you can’t trust anybody more than 60 seconds because within 60 seconds their decision changes. They already decided something else, their decision has changed. Continuously we are restless because we are not ease with ourselves . All our so called joy is nothing but escaping ourselves some way of somebody helps you to escape from yourselves you cal that person as good entertainer you call that program as good entertainment. We don’t understand how long you can escape from yourself,. How long you can postpone facing yourself. The more you postpone the more you will feel emptiness inside That’s is why many people coming and tell me I have seen 100’s of people coming and telling me Master I have everything that a man can ask, I have everything, But I just feel I have nothing. I don’t feel I belong to this. I don’t feel I am at home. What is happening to me what is wrong with me.
We always think Bliss is dependent on our outer life. That’s why we try to make outer life perfect. We miss one important thing, it is not based on the quantity, it is based on the quality. It is based on the inner quality. How much you can sit with yourself . How much you are comfortable with yourself. How much you can face yourself, how much you can relaxed with in yourself that decides how much you can be Blissful, how joyful you are, it is the quality not the quantity. Of course I am not against the quantity you can have all best of the outer world I don’t say don’t have the outwardly comforts Have everything bit don’t sell the inner world to have out world comforts. We sell our sleep to purchase bed we sell our eyes to purchase drawings we sell our life to purchase outer comforts that’s where we do a Big mistake Instead of all inclusive you chose you sell inner space to have outer space.
One important thing very important statement from Tantra. Tantra says there is no need to sell inner space to have outer space, No need to disturb, damage inner Space to develop the quality of the outer space. There is a technique there is a method to create enough of energy, richness, quality in inner space along with creating the Outer space. The technique to create the quality in inner space, maintain the quality of the inner space is what I call Meditation. If you can spend at least spend 20 to 30 minutes in your life to enrich your inner space to maintain the quality of the inner space continuously you will be radiating Bliss. I tell you can surely excel in your profession. When you radiate Bliss you understand what for you are here what you need what you want what is your space. What is your role. Unless you experience deep easiness with yourself, you didn’t even know what for you are running. Most of us by the time we ask the question what for I am running we already finished our life. We finished our race. After finishing we ask what for I ran. There is a beautiful statement . The worst thing about the rat race is that even if you win you are rat. I don’t think anybody wants to be a rat, for the sake of winning. If you choose to be a rat for the sake of winning it is up to you. It is actually our decision.
Somebody was asking me yesterday how to clear the negativity. This is the very important thing I would like to address especially for physicians; continuously you swallow the negativities of the patient. Continuously you are hearing about the problems, you are hearing about the diseases, you are meditating on negative things, please be very clear for others like people who are in other profession Meditation is Luxury, they can have otherwise there is no need. For physicians it is basic necessity. If we don’t meditate be very clear we are naturally going towards depression. Because everyday we are meditating negative things .
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