“All your phobias, inside flight or inside the closed area, it’s all,…”
All your phobias, inside flight or inside the closed area, it’s all, it’s nothing but your resistance to that space.Your resistance to the space, nothing else. Height phobia, there are so many phobias, I’m shocked, first time I’m hearing about all the phobias here only. I never heard about all these phobias in a primitive villages. Primitive villages don’t have any phobia. They don’t have any phobias. I was shocked to hear about all these phobias. First of all the word phobia, I came to know only when I started travelling in these so called developed countries. I never heard about phobia. What is there? Phobia means nothing but holding on to your body tightly. And you do not want your body to move into a space which you have not already experienced. You wanted everything to be clear. The project plan, where you are going, what will be happening next, what will be the third step, what will be the fourth step and what is the next and what will be the end. If some place even if one puzzle is not fulfilled, even if one puzzle is not clear, you are not comfortable in that space, you wanted everything clear before entering. You are not ready to allow god’s hand in your life. You wanted everything to be clear. According to your intellect, I always tell people do not plan completely, give little bit of space for God. Let him also plan little bit for you. Let him also plan. If your plan too much perfectly according to your intellect you may not commit any mistakes but you will commit blunders. The whole, the intelligence of the cosmos is surely little more then our intelligence. So once in a while not planning completely logically or allowing ourself to be little liquid or entering into a space where there is little risk or the spontaneity is good, it keeps you alive, it keeps you alive. It keeps the spirit and the energy in you active.
If you are living with a clear planned system, be very clear you are already dead. Because you have no opportunity to do anything new. I’ve seen people who live in the forest, who live in the hills, who live in the natural places, the life or the energy which radiates around them is amazing. Shocking, nine years I lived wandering all over Bharat. I tell you, people always ask me, Oh! Swamiji it is such a difficult life, how did you do? It’s a great difficulty. They think I’ve done a great achievement, but I tell you that was a great joy. It was not an achievement, it was joy. You don’t know, only when you live that life, you’ll understand the freedom and the energy of that life. They come and tell me, stand in front of me telling thinking that I’ve done a great sacrifice, or a great thing by living that wandering life. They come and tell me how did you live Swamiji, such a difficult life, travelling, walking from village to village, was it not difficult ? You have achieved a great thing, it’s amazing. I tell them according to me only you are the great person, because for you, you can’t imagine living like me, travelling from village to village, begging in the houses and sleeping under the trees and living. I tell them just how you can’t imagine my life, I can’t imagine your life, living in the same house, going to the same office, same car, same house and I can’t even think getting up early morning and seeing the same pople, same faces; it is unimaginable for me.How my life is unimaginable for you, your life is unimaginable for me. It is not a big tapas, or it is not a big suffering which I lived. It was an amazing freedom, amazing liberty. One more thing, tremendous risk constantly you have to be alive. Understand, surviving is totally different from being alive.
Now, people who live in a very secure way, they may be surviving. It’s nothing more than a graveyard with a key, that’s all. See if you are just surviving, you are living in a graveyard with a key. Just because you have a key, don’t think our houses are not graveyards. Our houses have got one benefit, the graveyard with a key, that’s all. Only when you live an intense life you are alive. Where you need to be constantly expressing all your energies. I always tell people only when you are cornered, you express completely yourself. You completely express the energy which you have in your life. Which you have in your being. Only then you start expressing the next level energy what we call ‘prana’. In sanskrit we call that as ‘prana’, means the life force. We do not touch the life force at all. We live just between the muladhara and swadhistana. Muladhara chakra, root chakra is greed, desire, sex. Swadhishtanan, the next chakra is fear, that’s all. We live only in these two layers, fear or greed, that’s all. We never come up to the third level, the Manipuraka, the Manipuraka chakra is the chakra which is coonected to the ‘prana’, the life force. Navel is the chakra with which you are connected to the cosmos. Navel is the chakra from which you are connected to your mother. You, your body and your mother’s body is connected only through navel. That is the chakra through which you receive energy, you receive’prana’. You receive ‘prana’ from your Mother only through the navel chakra. Only before birth you use your navel chakra, after that you have never touched it. That’s the source of our prana but we never touched it. We use only the chakra which is lower than the prana, lower than the prana. Only the fear and greed are used, never the prana itself, because there is no need for you to be alive. You just survive that’s enough. All you have to do is inhale and exhale, that’s enough till doctors declare you medically dead. Practically nothing more needs to be done. That’s why I tell people, luxury and comfort kills your life. It takes away life from you. Everything is clear, you get up from the bed, you walk slowly four five steps and in this country, attached latrine, bathroom also, and straightaway enter, take bath and everything is neat and arranged, come out wear the dress. Come out, sit in the car, go to the office, everything is clear. You don’t need to be alive, you don’t need to be alive at all. Sometime you can look into your life, you don’t even have to remember that you got up from the bed, you can do the whole thing just mechanically and come back and fall in the same bed. You don’t even have to remember you got up from the bed two three hours ago. You can just do the whole thing in a mechanical way.
You can see in your life, you don’t even use the whole house. See your life, just get up from the bed, walk in the same way to the bathroom and the same way you’ll come because here you are trained for the left right also. For anything you have to take the way, you have to take the way, so you know this left that right. You know, so your body also starts working only in the same way. If at all we paint your feet and allow you to walk in your house, you’ll walk only on the one track. You’ll discover you are walking only on the one track your whole house carpet will never become paint. It will never become dirty, because you walk only on the one track. You’ve become so frozen, you’ve become so dead. You can see in your life, unconsciously, you sit only in one sofa. You’ll go and sit only in that sofa and straightway you’ll go to the kitchen and handle only those few vessels and you’ll handle only those few almirahs. You’ll handle only your bed and come out maybe on the weekend if you want to clean maybe you’ll go and touch the other things. We do not live. And the same way you’ll park the car, the same distance it will be. If you go back and measure and calculate everything, even the distance between your garage and the car, will be the same because you live with a routine. There is no need for you to be alive. You just live with the memory, that is why even if live for years you do not feel fulfilled.
The other day, one journalist asked me, ‘Swamiji, how does it feels to be the youngest Swami of Bharat?’ I’m the youngest Swami or Spiritual leader who leads a movement in Bharat. There are many follower Swamis, means the follower or discipile of somebody, that way there are many Swamis who are younger than me, but whose a leader, who leads the movement, I’m the youngest Swami in Bharat at least as far as we know. She asked me, how do you feel that, Swamiji’. I told, ‘youngest, the very idea I’m young is lost in me because my life is packed with so many incidents, so much of life, so many things, I lost the idea that I’m young. I already feel, I’m feeling fulfilled. I’ve lived much more than what I can. I feel I’m here for a too long time, that’s the truth. I feel so much of fulfillment, I feel I’m here for too long on the Planet Earth.
If you are living, if you are alive, you’ll feel so fulfilled, you’ll feel you are here for too long time. If you are feeling you’ve not achieved, or if you are feeling the unfulfillment, if you are feeling life is not enough, be very clear you are living just with memory You are not alive. You are not alive, that is why you don’t feel you are living. You don’t feel the fulfillment. You might have lived for years, I always tell people, ‘Do not try add years to your life, add life to your years.Bring life to your years, not years to your life.If your body is running based on the fuel of fear and greed, you’ll be running with the past memory, recorded system. Naturally, you willl not tend to move your body more. One more thing, when ever you move your body with fear and greed, you feel so much of irritated. The movement means you start feeling the irritation. Any movement, unconsciously, you associated all movements with irritation, with irritation.
One of our devotee used to travel in the hills. Whenever I see him, I feel so much of love, respect for him. Even without enlightenment, he radiates so much of energy and life. Amazing, he’s not an enlightened person but the energy which he radiates is amazing. Because he lived continuously with lot of risk. He has to be alive to survive. Just surviving is not enough. He has not lived with a routine. I always tell people, once in a while try to be alive.Do something which does not give you money, name & fame or which does not give you any fear. Neither fear nor greed, something, you’ll catch the knack of how to move the body, how to flow with the body through ‘prana’.
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- 9 February 2006
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