“One more thing, I have always seen a deep inferiority complex in all…”

One more thing, I have always seen a deep inferiority complex in all teachers. Teachers suffer with inferiority complex. To hide their inferiority complex only they start teaching. See when you are teaching you can show you are big guy. Really it’s a big addiction, you don’t know. It’s a big addiction.

Let Me tell you the story. It’s not a story, it’s a history, history. Shah Jahan, when he was arrested by his own son Aurangzeb, put in the prison, he fell sick. Not only he fell sick, he was just deteriorating. Aurangzeb went to see him; after all father, he went to see him. And he saw he is practically dead. He asked, “I know you are missing your kingdom, I can’t give the kingdom back. But tell me something to bring you back to the life. I can do something to bring you back to the life, to make you alive, to keep you alive. But I can’t give you the kingdom; except that ask anything.”

Shah Jahan said, “I don’t want your kingdom, but just give me 30 boys. I will start teaching them, to take class.” Aurangzeb said, “That is not a big thing, I can give you 100 boys, have 100 boys.” He sent 100 boys. Shah Jahan… after a month Aurangzeb came to the prison, he saw Shah Jahan is alive, just like a king. Aurangzeb was not able to understand what is happening. He is so alive, he’s back. He is just like a king again. He asks the officers, his prison officers, “What is happening? How come he is so alive now?” The officers said, “Lord, everyday morning he makes all the 100 people to sit in front him and he starts conducting his court. One behaves, one acts as if he is minister and another one is acting he is a spy in charge; each one is coming and reporting. He makes them do everything what he does in the court. And in the evening he makes them as 2 groups and makes them “Hey start fighting” and the fight goes on. Practically he does everything, whatever he does… whatever he was doing in the court he does everything now. So psychologically he is again king. That is why he is so alive, active.”

Be very clear, teaching give you a big strength. You feel you have become a big guy. Your ego is strengthened when you teach. That is the reason you will found 1000’s and 1000’s of teachers but not a single student. Be very clear, never think people who are sitting in front of the teacher is their students. No, they are learning just to become a teacher. They are not students. They are just waiting to catch that seat. You can’t directly catch the seat, you need to know something. So just for that they put up with the teacher’s teachings. ‘Anyhow alright, tell whatever you want. I will have to sit on that chair; for that I also need to repeat all these things. Let me listen.’

Students are polite, they relax, keep quiet so that they can start their turn. That’s all. Never think somebody is a student just because he is sitting in front of the teacher. All teaching is just pure ego game. He is trying to show his greatness and student is just waiting so that he can show his greatness to somebody else. He is just putting up with the teachings so that when time comes he can start.

That is why, I have always seen, the moment class is over people go back to their house and start teaching. If you have digested, you will never feel like opening the mouth. You are even… I have seen, even when people listen, in the mind they take notes, ‘I should go and tell this to my mother in law. I should go and tell this to my father in law. I should go and tell this to my friends. I should go and tell this to my wife.’ Of course you can’t tell your wife. That’s different 😃. At least I should go and tell this to my husband. You just develop your intellect, so that you can use it on your family and friends. And you just use all these teachings to support what you want to express; what you want to express.

And one more thing, I have seen people sharpening their intellect with My teachings and using it to fulfill their wishes. Whenever they couldn’t get something out of somebody, they’ll start using these teachings in their own form. In the mind they will have all the notes. Whatever is said, when they go back they will manipulate as they want and use it to get what they want.

Let Me be very clear, that’s the reason here Shiva is not interested in giving any teachings. He’s straight, I think he doesn’t want to contribute to the already existing confusions. To tell you honestly whenever I go to the spiritual bookshops I feel bored to produce more books. Oh god, millions of books, what am I going to write… what am I going to do writing some more books. Then I decided I should write books at least to tell people don’t read books. At least to tell that, I have to write books; to convince them not to waste their energy in unnecessarily reading, I have to write book. At least to do that, I have to write . That’s the reason I have written so many books.

Actually… Ramana Maharishi says beautifully, “Whenever you can, be in the state of atman, that enlightenment, be in that same ecstasy and bliss. Whenever you can’t, read the books which again and again tells you ‘don’t read, go into the experience’, which encourages you to go into the experience” means books written by a great enlightenment masters. Books written by enlightened masters will always convince you not to read the books and enter into the experience.

I can say Rishis are the only courageous people who said vedas are not ultimate authority. Our books are not ultimate authority. They are just guides for you to experience. Rishis are the most courageous people. Let Me be very honest. They are the most courageous people to declare ‘The books are not ultimate, our words are not ultimate authority. It is just help to reach the experience.’

And one more beautiful thing, Rishis are the only people who kept the possibility of updating open and available for the next generation. You can update our scriptures. There are smriti’s continuously you can update. Updating is possible.

If you read the Gita, Krishna is so beautiful. He says whenever dharma declines

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भव- ति भारत । अभ्युत्थान- मधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्- ॥

Yada yada hi dharmasya Glanir bhavati bharata

Abhyuthanam adharmasya Tadaatmaanam srijaamyaham

He keeps the possibility open. He says, ‘Again and again I will come down’ means he is keeping the space for next generation enlightened masters. He keeps the whole thing open. The next generation, next master can come up, and say, “Yes now I have experienced Krishna Consciousness. Now I am speaking from the same truth, same experience, come up, let’s update. Let’s grow.” The possibility for growth, the possibility for next generation is kept open with the Rishi’s. They never say, they never claim we are the ultimate authority. Even softwares can be updated.

Be very clear, anything which can’t be updated will be outdated. Either update or get outdated. If some scripture can’t be updated means, it has to be outdated. It has to be outdated. Anything which can be updated only that can keep the life. The important change which came after the IT revolution, the recent days, 2 important changes: knowledge is free and possibility of updating. These two, 5000 years ago our masters have thought about it. Still in Bharat knowledge is free. Still in Bharat knowledge is free.

Even in our ashram we have programs - one year we give them complete free food and stay and cloth and books to study the spiritual philosophy. Anybody who wants to come and stay they can come and stay and practice for one year. Full one year we give complete free food, stay and syllabus, the atmosphere, the ambience which is important thing, and teachers, provide teachers. In Bharat we believe knowledge is free and possibility of updating.

Rishis don’t claim they are the ultimate. They don’t claim they are the last, they are not killing. They are not stopping the growth or the expansion of spiritual intelligence.

Ramana Maharishi says, beautifully, “Read the books of enlightened masters who are constantly saying ‘drop books go into experience’. Try to be always in that ecstasy or bliss or the no mind space. When you can’t, read the books which again and again inspires you do go into that state.”

Here in this book, Shiva is not even convincing you, he is not even saying go into experience. Straight away he gives the technology. Straight away he starts with the technology. Beautiful sutra, 1st sutra, let’s enter into the sutra.

ūrdhve prāṇo hy adho jīvo visargātmā paroccaret |

utpattidvitayasthāne bharaṇād bharitā sthitiḥ || 24 ||

Shiva replied, “Oh radiant one” he is addressing Devi, he is addressing Devi, “Oh radiant one this experience may dawn between 2 breaths. After breath comes in, down and just before turning up out the beneficiance”.

If at all we have to choose among the meditation techniques, if somebody asks Me, ‘Swamiji there are millions of techniques’, if somebody asks Me ‘which one you will prescribe for anybody.’ If there is going to be a tsunami and all books will be washed away, all books will be, all books will disappear, only one technique can be kept alive, if God gives Me the choice, I will keep this technique alive. This technique is so beautiful except this technique, in the whole spiritual literature if all the techniques are taken away from the planet earth, even then planet earth can survive, it can have a spiritual growth and it can have enlightened masters with this single technique.

Except this one sutra, if God takes away all spiritual literatures, all meditation techniques from the planet earth, suddenly overnight everything is over, gone. Even if that happens, we will be able to produce enlightened masters on the planet earth with this single technique.

According to My experience this is the technique which created millions and millions of enlightened masters. No other technique has helped so many millions of people like this technique did. Whole Asia, whole Asia, China ,Thailand, Japan, Sri Lanka, whole Asia became enlightened with this single technique.

Buddha uses this same technique in the name of Vipassana. Whether it is upasana or vipassana; Upasana means sitting with the God, Vipassana means sitting with yourself. Whether it is Upaasna or Vipassana, technique is one and the same, because you are god. Sitting with yourself or sitting with God is one and the same. When you don’t trust yourself you sit with God. When you trust yourself you sit with yourself. That’s all. If you trust God it is called Upasana, when you trust yourself it is called Vipassana. That’s all. But this single technique has liberated millions of people. The one and only technique which Buddha promoted; the whole Buddhism is only this one technique. The 1st technique of Shiva, and the 1st line of Shiva is the whole essence of Buddhism.

And the whole Asia had enlightenment, produced so many millions of enlightened masters, only based on this single technique. Whole Tibetan Buddhism is only this one technique. Throughout the Tibet if you go round you will hear only about this one technique. And no other country has spent so much of energy, did so much of research like Tibet in the field of consciousness. In the field of consciousness no other country has done so much of research like Tibet. And if at all Tibet is brought back to its original glory and given the freedom of the spiritual research and development, and it can contribute to the planet earth so much. It can, it has got, it has so much it can contribute really lot.