“There was advertisement in the newspaper: We need somebody for a…”

A small story:

There was advertisement in the newspaper: We need somebody for a manager post who knows how to read and write French. One guy applied, “I can read but I can't write….. I can write but I can't read.” The employer was surprised, “What? He says I can write but I can't read. Let us see who this guy is.” This guy came. The person who is interviewing, he said, “Please write.” The guy started writing gadagadagadagada something. And the other guy took the paper and saw, “I can't read what you have written. Please read.” That guy said, “I told you I can only write, I can't read.” So now, I am having some letters like that. I think they can only write. They can't read…. Sorry…. And there is some personal question which is asking for healing. Please you can come after the session and ask for the healing when you come near for Energy Darshan.

Q: How does one overcome the drug to grow up and be an adult?

Swamiji: O God! This is a nice question! Seed always will feel insecure, “If I open up I may die who knows? Who knows, what is the guarantee I will become a tree? I may die. I may just disappear.” Seed is always afraid that it may not become tree but the tree says, “Please open up. Only then I can come out.” Seed says, “No, no, first you come out. Only then I will open…. because I am afraid if I open if you don't come out, I may die.” Seed says, “No, first you come out, then I will open.” Tree says, “No, no, open. Only then I can come out.” It is a fight between seed and the tree. Only a person who has become tree, the seed which has already become tree, only that tree can give assurance, “Don’t worry, open up.” Only the tree can assure the seed, “Don’t bother. I was a seed. I opened. Now I have become tree. You also open up. You will become a tree.” It is elders’, parents’ responsibility to act like a tree and give confidence, courage to the seed telling, “Do not expect the tree will come out unless you open. Only if you open, the possibility for tree exists. I was a seed. Now I am a tree. You also open. You will really become a tree. You will not die.” It is elders’ responsibility to give that confidence to your youngsters and help them to become a tree.

Q: What is the difference between prayer and meditation?

Swamiji: In prayer you pray to God: In meditation you become God. Person who prays, worships: Person who meditates becomes worshipped. If you pray, you worship: If you meditate, you are worshipped, that's all.

Q: What is the best way to pull away from negative people who try to pull you into their problems?

Swamiji: First thing you should understand, you can't label anybody as negative people. The possibility for transformation exists. Even My disciples in the Ashram, they ask Me, “Swamiji, You know there are some people who are negative, who are not completely settling with the group. Why don't You send them away or why don't You discourage them being inside ashram?” I tell them, “No. There is nobody you can say, label as negative. Possibility for transformation is there in every person. Possibility for quantum jump is there for every person.” So all you need to do, do not label anybody as negative person. The moment you label, you will not wait for the possibility. You will not allow that possibility. I always tell people, there is nobody called negative. All you need to do is extend yourself little more and wait for their quantum jump and anybody who has transformed themself have transformed only because somebody has given that care and love.

Understand, in My case, I took the quantum jump because My elders, My teachers, My Masters, they extended their space for Me. If they would have judged Me, “Hey, this fellow is negative” and they did not allow Me to be in their space, the transformation would have never happened in Me. So, whenever I feel, whenever I see even them being inside the organisation is a difficulty or a problem, even then I wait, sometime I wait because I was never judged before My transformation. I remember how I was helped by the great Masters. So it is My responsibility in turn to help these people to wait and expect the transformation. So never judge, never put some rubber stamp ‘negative people.’ If you put, you will never allow the possibility. You will never wait for the transformation.

Understand, inside every being there is a possibility. Wait and work towards that possibility. See, I always tell people, offer your joy. It will be showered on you. Anything which you offer towards to God will be showered on you. So always offer your joy, bliss. It will be showered on you. Do not try to offer your suffering. It is a wrong idea. Do not try to put your suffering at the feet of divine. Try to put your joy and bliss at the feet of the divine. You will be showered by it.

Q: Is it okay to seek things outside yourself to find fulfillment?

Swamiji: It is okay. Try to seek as much as possible outside yourself to find fulfillment. Nothing wrong. At some point you will understand you are not finding the fulfillment! Till you come to that understanding, you can seek, nothing wrong. It is only wasting time. It is not a crime. It is not a big mistake. It is just wasting time. But wasting time is also nothing wrong. Your life, who can say you should not waste life? You are free to waste, nothing wrong but it is not a crime. There is nothing called crime. It is not a sin. Do not believe the concept of sin and all those things. Searching something to feel fulfilled outside yourself is not a sin. It is just wasting little time and wasting little time is not wrong. It's ok, enjoy.

Q: To try to change things in your life that bring unhappiness, is it ok?

Swamiji: Nothing wrong in trying to change. See, whatever you can change, change it. Whatever you can't change, accept it and have relaxed mood to understand what you can change and what you can't change, that's all. This is the essence of whole life. Whatever you can change, change it. Whatever you can't change, accept it, enjoy it and have relaxed mood to find when you are supposed to do the aggressive process of changing and when you are supposed to do the passive process of accepting. Just have little intelligence to play the game. That's all is the whole thing. Life is just this three statement.

Q: Without the goal or role model, how do you inspire the young kids?

Swamiji: You are all inspired by role models and goals only. What happened to you all? Just see, just see. Why do you want to reproduce, why do you want to mess the same way your kids also? At least let them be liberated from this so called ideals and goals and role models.

Q: How a person can process without goal? How a student achieve without goal?

Swamiji: I tell you, if you work with your energy, you can reach the peaks which is never even thought by somebody else. If you are working with the goal, you will expand yourself only to that extent. You will keep him as your limit. You have no limit. Sky is the only limit because there is no sky. Only sky should be limit because there is no sky. You will not allow the maximum creativity to express itself through you. So I tell you, do not have a role model. Any role model you have will be only smaller than you, smaller than your possibility. Your possibility is much, much, much beyond than any role model you can think of.

Q: How a person can process…. that's the question……

Q: Is it possible to achieve enlightenment living as a householder?

Swamiji: What is the difference between a householder and a monk? I don't see a difference. I don't see a big difference in Consciousness. It is a maturity, nothing but maturity. If you are matured, anywhere you can become enlightened. If you are not matured, even if you are a monk, you can't expect Enlightenment. Enlightenment does not come with ID card of a being a monk or house holder. It comes with a maturity.

Q: Is there a difference in being non-serious and unfocused? Can a non-serious person create an art with focus?

Swamiji: Be very clear. Only a non-serious person will be focused. A serious person will never be focused. He may be concentrated. Understand, there is a big difference between concentration and focusing. Concentration means connected to one object eliminating everything else, excluding everything else. Focused means including everything, not excluding anything, not excluding anything. You need to understand the difference between being focusing or the concentrating.…A non-serious person only will be completely focused.

Q: Swamiji, Namaskar. There are several ashrams conducting meditations. Is this same meditation or different from your meditation?

Swamiji: Each one expresses their enlightenment or experience or what they learnt. I am expressing whatever research and development I did in My life spending nine years of My life and time and energy.

Q: Don't we have to know suffering to know joy? How could we experience one without the other?

Swamiji: You have to know suffering if you want to know the joy but I tell you, you should go beyond suffering and joy which is called Bliss, Ananda. Bliss is beyond joy and suffering. It is an intense inspiration and enthusiasm, excitement for no reason. That is the right place to be. The problem is, not only My voice, My accent also. I learnt this language only few years ago. So.....

Q: What is the role of prayer in Enlightenment?

Swamiji: Maybe initial level help, nothing more. Nothing more.

Q: How can I be a better father, husband and person?

Swamiji: Again, only an enlightened person will be the better father and best husband, wonderful beloved and amazing person. Just get enlightened, that's all. And it is not too much as you think.

Q: How to overcome tamas and move towards sattva?

Swamiji: Again, tamas is inertness. Best way to overcome tamas is just take twenty days vacation and sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. Tire your mind. Don't say no. Just eat and sleep. Your mind will feel totally bored by depression and the inertness and the tamas and you will just escape from vacation and you will get into your life. That is the best way to remove tamas, means the inertness.

Q: How do you feel about moving Asanas or rather Hatha yoga? Is Raja Yoga best?

Swamiji: Now recently I spent few months and collected best things from the Yoga system, all the traditional yoga system and created a new science called Nithya yoga, putting all the best things of Hatha yoga and Raja Yoga. Raja Yoga is more mind oriented. Hatha yoga is more body oriented. I collected the best things, best flowers from all the gardens. The beautiful bouquet is ready for you to have. Maybe when you find time, you can come and do that program called Nithya yoga. That will help you and give you the complete knowledge about yoga.

Q: Again… How do I not get my feelings hurt?

Swamiji: It’s a nice question. As long as you protect yourself, somebody is going to hurt you. Just relax from protecting. Just relax from protecting and nobody is here to hurt you. The moment you relax, there is nothing called hurting.

Q: I have heard that when one is enlightened, they are aware of every leaf dropping or any butterfly movement. Then why do the enlightened ones at times act as if they do not know or say they do not know ?

Swamiji: This is a nice question. Actually Enlightened Beings know everything, no doubt but constantly they cannot be aware of this body and that cosmic intelligence. See, if they stay in the cosmic intelligence state, the body will not be active. When they move the body, they just relax for little bit from that cosmic intelligence. That is why they act as if they don't know or they say they don't know and moreover, people will also exploit them too much. See, if you know, if you are really sure that I know everything, you will abuse My presence. You will ask for every small thing and you will be too much dependent. You yourself will not grow. That is why I always tell people, Master's intimacy is more important than knowing about His glory. Love is more important than knowing about His glory. His glory and His powers are only secondary to the love and the feeling connected.

Here somebody is asking, “My sister crossed over this last week. My mind and spirit is happy she is perfect in health now. However my human emotions feel a piece of me is missing. Do you have some words of wisdom for me?”

Swamiji: Crossed over means, crossed over means passed away? Died?

Audience: Yeah.

Swamiji: Understand, whenever some of your relatives die, near and dear ones die, it is not even their death affects you. The relationship which you maintained, the identity which you had, the identity with which you are connecting with her, that part is now missing. That is why you are feeling the suffering. One more thing, you are reminded that you are also on the queue. The deep fear of death unconsciously is touched. Now the possibility for you is there. See, whenever somebody else dies in outside, in somebody else's house or some other family, we don't feel that we are also on the queue, the possibility is there for us also. But when somebody dies inside our family, like a sister or close, now we know the possibility is there for me. So it is an unconscious reminder the possibility is there for me also. That is what creates fear. I tell you, just face, just face the loneliness or that feeling of missing. Live with it. Don't suppress it. You will see you transform yourself. You go beyond it.