“More than Me speaking, if I answer your questions, maybe I will be able…”

More than Me speaking, if I answer your questions, maybe I will be able to connect with you all more. I will be able to relate with you all more easily and I can create deeper connection, deeper relationship if I answer your questions. I request maybe the volunteers can circulate the cards and you can write any questions you want. I will try to respond whatever I can…. After the question-answers, we will do a… we will practice a meditation technique which is really playful and which will really inspire you be an artist, to be a creator.

Here is a beautiful question:

Q: Is suffering necessary?

Swamiji: No. It is just an option. It is not a necessary thing but the big difficulty is, all of us feel lonely if we don't have our sufferings. See, we spend so much of time in the company of sufferings, pains, you feel lonely if you miss them, you feel you are not complete. They have become like a intimate enemies. Enemy but become very intimate. So you start thinking better to live with them than to be in loneliness. You compromise and you feel suffering is a like a company. Suffering is not necessary. It is an option. It’s an option. You don't need....... One more thing, the moment you ask the question, “Is suffering necessary,” you have intelligence to look beyond. That is why you are asking. If you don't even have the intelligence to look beyond, you will never have this question, “Is suffering necessary?” The moment you have the question, you have enough intelligence to go beyond.

All you need to do is, now you have intelligence and intention to go beyond. Just find the right path. The right path is little meditation which can transform your mind the way in which you think. Meditation is like a creating a new inner software. I can say, updating your inner software: removing all the old viruses, putting a firewall, pop-up blocking. See, pop-up blocking is what is stopping the inner chattering. Blocking the unnecessary pop-ups and protecting yourself from unnecessary thoughts. Pop-up is nothing but the engraved memories, engrams coming without your approval. See, without even you calling them, these engrams sometime become so powerful inside, they just come up and create suffering for you for no reason and you never called them. You never allowed them but they come up. Blocking the the pop-up means creating more awareness.

Q: How do you find your creative centre?

Swamiji: Again, the best answer is meditation because only when you are centred on something, you can think of finding your creative centre. As on now, you are not centred on anything. Unless you enter into meditation, you will never experience your centre. First thing, entering into meditation you will experience your centre. Then you will naturally see the creativity expressing.

Q: Do you believe in free will from God or destiny? Everything in our life predetermined?

Swamiji: First thing, first thing I want to tell you. I don't believe in anything. I am only going to talk whatever I experienced. Second thing, this is a regular question, this is a FAQ actually, frequently asked question. Do we have free will or everything is destined? We have free will no doubt but if there is somebody who can run, who can live the life, you see, you have free will but first thing before free will, you should be integrated. As on now, morning you think something as a free will and evening, you think something else as a free will. That is why you feel you are bound. Understand, morning you think, if this happens in my life, I think I am having freedom, free will. Evening, you think, if this happens in my life I think I have freewill, I have freedom. The idea which you carry about your free will changes everyday. That is where the problem starts.

All of us have free will. God is not a Peeping Tom. He is not sitting and counting and calculating all your mistakes and creating a big punishment sheet! No. He is not doing that work. He has got better jobs and people come and ask Me, “Swamiji, I have committed so many sins. I have done too many things. Is God going to punish me? How will I face him?” Arey, you think he has no other job except sitting in your bedroom and watching what you are doing? He has got much better things. I don't think any God will be interested in sitting your bedroom and watching what you are doing. At least I won't believe in the kind of God…. At least I won't believe in that kind of God.

People ask Me, “Do we have free will?” It's a big question. You have free will no doubt but first thing, you should be. As on now, what you think as you is not an integrated one mechanism. It is not an integrated one energy. You are completely broken into many pieces. Morning you think something and evening you think something else. Your idea about free will is not clear because you are not clear about what you are. That is the reason constantly you feel that you are bound, because morning you think something as a free will and evening you think something else as a free will. The contradiction or the fight between these two ideas, your morning free will and evening free will fights and creates bondage for you. That is the truth.

I always tell people, have a clear idea about your free will and be clear about your idea about free will. You will never feel you are bound. Only when you change the ideas constantly, for example, morning you think if, if this way business goes, I know for sure I have free will because I am working like this. Evening you change your whole idea. If this way things happen, I know I have free will and you work towards that line. The fight between yourself, the fight between morning you and evening you, you start thinking you are bound and God has not given you freedom. No. The problem is, God has given too much freedom. That is the problem. God has given too much freedom. That is why we disturb ourself too much.

Free will and people ask Me, “Swamiji, can't we…can’t we win our fate with our intelligence?” You can but you should have intelligence. That is the problem. You can win your fate with your intelligence but you need intelligence. So the only way to live with the free will is integrate yourself towards one direction. Anybody who has integrated himself towards one direction, towards one clear idea about life will never feel he is bound. I feel so much of freedom the moment I have integrated Myself. As long as I have not integrated myself, I felt like my innerspace is a parliament of some country. So many politicians sitting. There can't be peace if there are so many politicians. Forget about so many. If there is one that is enough. You can't find peace. It is very difficult.

People ask Me “Swamiji, in all organisations so much of politics is there. Why do you want to create one more spiritual organisation?” I tell them, “To have politics you don't need even organisation. You don't even need two people. One person is more than enough to create politics. You are enough.” Morning you work towards some direction and evening you work towards some other direction. That is what I call politics. Politics in between you and you. Morning you is fighting with your evening you. So that is what I call politics with yourself. So stop the politics with yourself. Integrate yourself. You will realise you have free will, God has not taken your freedom away. He is very compassionate being. He is not here to torture you. He is not like a… something like a topmost super power politician who is sitting and controlling everything. No. Somehow man created God in his own image. Please never ever think God created man in his own image; man created God in his own image. That is the truth.

Q: How to neutralise the inner negativity so that one can become playful?

Swamiji: Just be playful with negativity also. Do not be too serious that you carry too much of negativity. First tell Me, where is the scale to measure somebody is totally positive and somebody is negative? No scale. The idea which you have strengthened inside by constantly remembering and …..whenever you think something again and again, that gets strengthened in you. Again and again you thought that you carry negativity, you carry negativity, you carry negativity and strengthened that idea and you really carry negativity. That is where the problem starts. Just be playful. If you are carrying negativity it's ok, what is there?

And do not read this so called so many books like how to be positive thinker, positive thinking, how to be creative, how to do this visualisation, that visualisation. This how to series books only creates hell. You see, this how to philosophers, I can give you few tips if you want to become that how to philosopher. Start writing all the things which you can't practice and project and show as if people have got too many big problems. Third important thing, never give solution. Never give solution. This is the route… this is the way to become this how to book writers, only this how to books, these guys only constantly create idea that you have negativity, you have this, you have that. I have seen, even some books are giving you some tests also. You have to say yes or no and end of the test they will tell how much negativity you have…. Relax. Just be playful even with your negativity. You will see suddenly they disappear.

You can never remove negativity by being serious. If you give life to your negativity you will torture others. If you attack, if you try to kill the negativity, you will torture yourself. Understand, if you express the negativity you will be violent towards others; if you suppress the negativity you will be violent towards yourself. Just be playful. It will disappear. Your mind is not so strong to hold on even to negativity. Understand that. Your mind is not so strong even to hold on to negativity. That is a fortunate thing. You are fortunate that you are not so strong. You are not strong enough to hold on to negativity. That's good.

Q: Do we have a calling a mission while we are here on earth?

Swamiji: I can say, all intelligent beings will feel that calling. If you heard, if you feel that calling, the intelligence has started working towards you. The seed when it feels the pain of being inside the seed, you see, the life which is inside a seed, if it feels suffocated, then It breaks the seed and becomes a tree. That suffocation the life feels inside the seed is what I call calling for a great mission. Any seed which has not felt that it is caught inside a small seed, any life which has not felt I am caught inside a small seed will never become tree. Only when it feels I am caught inside this small shell, I should expand, it becomes a tree. So it is in your hands. If you feel that there is a big mission for you, you have started feeling you are going to become tree. You start feeling what life feels inside that seed and you can be sure you are going to become a tree. Just nourish, encourage that calling. Work towards that calling. Give little time for that calling. You will see you will become a tree.

Q: Meditation is very hard for me.

Swamiji: Be very clear, you never tried. Anybody who says very hard for me never tried. If you say, “No, no, no, no, I tried,” you tried the wrong techniques, wrong techniques. “Even practicing, still cannot get that light. I need help.” Now you need right technique, not help. You need right technique. You may not have called the right number…. If you call the 911, no doubt you will have help and you call some other number and you blame I called, I did not receive the help. No.