“Body-mind connection: Deeper truths.”

Body-mind connection: Deeper truths.

Beautiful subject. To tell you honestly, the deeper truths can come out only when a person enquires. Understand, the Gita beautifully says, Bhagavadgita says:

Tad Viddhi pranipatena pariprashnena sevaya

When you go with the question, with the attitude of questioning, you will start receiving the answers. The deeper truths can be opened only when you question. See, when you question you make two things clear. One: you agree you do not know. Second: you express that you want to know. The great truths can be handed over, we can open up only when these two things are clear. A person who doesn’t know he do not know. If you don’t know you don’t know you don’t even know you don’t know…. If you know you don’t know at least you know you don’t know…. Person who is clear what he knows and what he doesn’t know and person who wants to know only for him the deeper truths can be opened.

Seeking reveals deeper truths. When you seek from outside, from a Master, He reveals the deeper truths. When you seek from inside, same way, the life, the life energy which is in you reveals the deeper level truths. Life energy and the Master are not two different things. Traditionally the Eastern Masters again and again emphasise a beautiful concept. It’s called experiencing the Master inside. Till you experience the Master inside, you need a Master from the outer world. Once you experience Master inside, you don’t need Master in the outer world. Till you experience, Master will be great help revealing the great truths, deeper level truths.

Maybe I will just say few words. Then you can start putting your questions. I will be happy to answer your questions. More than Me talking to you, if I answer your questions, you will be able to connect more easily and it will be of a ….it will be more useful for you. Usually we don’t listen unless we are answered. If just I am talking and you are sitting, we are there, that’s all. We may be there in one place, in one hall but if I am answering your questions, more connection exists. And moreover I will also know what exactly you need. Master is like a ocean. Whatever you need you can have. It’s like a….if you bring a coconut shell, you can carry that much. If you bring little big vessel you can carry that much. Bring a big container, you can carry that much or if you are intelligent and make a canal you will have…. You are always connected. So it just depends on you.

People just ask Me, “Swamiji, are You God?” I tell them, “It depends on you, not on Me.” I am available for everybody. Whatever way you want to connect, you can connect. What way you want to express, experience, you can experience. When you deeply feel connected, Master will be much more than God. It is feeling connected that plays major role. If you don’t feel connected, you will be just sitting and hearing but you will not be listening. Hearing is different; listening is different. Good listener is a guy who is thinking of something else. You can see people just sitting with closed eyes. He is a good listener. Why? Because he is lost in something but if Iam answering your questions, you will receive those words. Those words will penetrate you.

Maybe it is like a…I may propose few hypothesis. I can’t, I am not saying, I am not claiming whatever I am saying is a truth. Please understand, I am just proposing. Let us analyse it with your questions. Only then it can become truth. Unless it is analysed with your questions and internalised, nothing can be truth. Please understand, whatever you hear cannot be truth. Even if it is truth, it is not truth for you. Even if it is truth, it is not truth for you. Only when you analyse it with your question and internalise it, it can become truth for you. Understand, just because it is truth, absolute truth, never think it is truth for you. When a Master says, “You are God,” it is a truth but it is not truth for you. It is not truth for you.

Beautiful story. Story from Ramakrishna. One Master was teaching to all his disciples, ‘Everything is God.’ Next day, a disciple was going to the river to take bath. Suddenly there was a mad elephant running, killing all the people, destroying everything. All the disciples ran away. One guy, he said, “Yesterday only Master taught me everything is god. So this elephant also is god. Why should I run away?” He just stood in the street. The mahut, the person who is taking care of elephant, he was shouting, “Hey! Run away, run away. This elephant has become mad. I am trying to control it. Don’t stand in the road.” This disciple said, “No, no, no. Elephant is god. Why should I be afraid?”

The mahut, the person who is taking care of the elephant, he is shouting again, “Hey! Run away, run away.” The disciple did not move. Elephant came and just threw that disciple to one corner. He was lying there almost dead. Within half an hour Guru ran to help the disciple and asked the disciple, “Fool, why did you stand in the road?” Disciple asked, “Master, you only told me everything is god. That is why I was standing.” Master said, “True, everything is God. The mahut who was taking care of elephant, he is also God. He told you to run away. You should have obeyed him also. Elephant is God, true but the person who is taking care of elephant, he was shouting, ‘Hey! Run away, run away. Save yourself.’ He was also God.” Understand, till you question, till you internalise, even great truth cannot be truths for you.

So whatever I am saying now, these few words is like proposing. Let us analyse it. Do not swallow it without analysing. Anything which you swallow without analysing will be dangerous especially in the spiritual field. If you swallow without analysing, you are creating a wrong software. It means software with virus, with lot of virus. You see, the wrong software, not only it won’t help you, it will create so much of nonsense, so much of problem inside your being, whatever few good things you had will be…..will disappear, will be destroyed. So internalise anything after clearly analysing. So I propose few truths, few things. You can put questions on these few words. We will analyse it. I will try My best to help you to understand and internalise.

Sharavana, Manana, Nididhyasana in Sanskrit we call. Sharavana means listening, manana means internalising, nididhyasana means expressing it. So let you all listen. Then internalise by analysing and express it in your life by living it. First thing, please understand, we always think we will achieve experience, then start expressing. No. There is no such thing as achieving and expressing, whether it is Enlightenment or health or anything. You just start expressing and achieving happens in you…. There is no achieving and expressing even in Enlightenment. Do not wait for Enlightenment to happen. Just start living, expressing the Enlightenment. If you are enlightened how you will live, start living. You will see you are experiencing it in the way when you express and the way you achieve the experience. That is the truth. It may be shocking. It may be shocking because you always you are taught first the experience should happen. Then you will express. No. We will analyse it with your questions.

Second thing, an important truth. We always think we have two kinds of complexes like a inferiority and superiority. One thing you need to know, you don’t have something called superiority complex. You have one thing- inferiority. Your ego is only inferiority complex. Whatever idea you have about you less than you being a God is lie because you are God. So whatever you carry about you, the idea, is only inferior, lower than what you are really. So never ever think your ego is arrogant, your ego is violent, your ego is doing something which is more than you. No. The very idea there is something more than you, that idea is ego. First putting a boundary, then trying to go out of the boundary. Whatever complex you have is only inferior means lower than you. You can have only two thing: One, you thinking about you less than God or you thinking about you as God. If you are thinking about you as less than God, you are suffering with inferiority complex. If you are thinking you are God, then you are living the truth, that’s all. There is no such thing as superiority complex. There is no such thing as ego exists.

Third important thing. Your ego is not so powerful to take away your Enlightenment. Your ego is not so powerful to take away your enlightenment. Relax. Stop thinking that your ego is too big. Even your ego is not too big as you think. Even in negativity, you are not so big as you always think. So even your ego cannot take away your Enlightenment. Whether you believe it or not, experience it or not, you are the Eternal Consciousness. Maybe these are few truths, I think these few truths are enough to create enough questions. Let us not take too many things. First let us take….Vivekananda, great Master, He always used to say, instead of reading the whole library and not internalising anything, take up one or two truths, analyse it and internalise it and express it in your life. You will live Enlightenment. You will live Enlightenment.

Maybe last one word I will add. Enlightenment is ultimate but not final. Enlightenment grows. When I say I am Enlightened, it is not that I have stopped growing. No. It’s not that I am dead. Only dead things does not grow. Ultimate is happening in Me every moment. When I say Enlightenment, it is ultimate but not final. Ultimate happening in you every moment. The best thing which can happen to you beyond your imagination will be happening. When that happens, you think, “Oh! Final, over, God! Nothing else is there.” But again suddenly one more door opens next moment and again you think, “Arey! That’s all. I think I can’t stand anything more, over.” Again one more door opens. That final, that ultimate, that ultimate is happening every moment. That is what we call Enlightenment. Every moment you think you have touched the final. Again and again new door is opening. New things are happening.

So just take these four truths like Mahavakyas. Mahavakya means the ultimate truths- Paramarthika Sathya in Sanskrit we call. Ultimate truths which does not change. These Sathyas, these truths, you can utter at any time, at any country, at any….in any culture, to any crowd. This does not change. Eternal truths. Now let us look these great Eternal truths- Nithya Sathyas, Paramarthika Sathyas and analyse them with our questions and internalise them. These are the deepest truths of body-mind connection, body-mind-spirit or whatever you call. We call these great truths as Mahavakyas: the ultimate words. Let’s analyse them with your questions.

See, if I just….if I am asked to speak, I can speak for hours. I can speak for hours. In last four years of My public life….I came to public life only last four years. 2003 I came to public life. Now four years and few months. In four years of mission, I have spoken 4700 hours. 4700 hours I have spoken. I can speak…. but I feel….you see, if I go on speaking, I may create an idea in you. ‘Oh, this Guy is well informed, well read, intelligent, full of wisdom.’ You may have that idea. My mission, My work may be done but I want to do your work. That’s why I am answering your questions. If I am just speaking, My job will be done but if I am answering, your job will be done. So I want to do your job more than My job.

If I am just constantly speaking, I can speak. You will also go. I have always seen, after the lecture, people come out and say, “Wow! I never thought He is….He will be so intelligent in this age.” But if you just catch them and ask them, “What did He say? Please repeat.” “No, no, that and all you don’t ask. He spoke well.” See, people just feel good when they don’t have to do anything. And one more thing, people come to Me after the lecture and say, “Swamiji, You spoke so beautifully.” I catch them, “Alright, I spoke beautifully. That’s true but what did you understood? What you understood?” “That and all You should not ask, Swamiji. You spoke well.” It’s like a trying to get My attention by complimenting Me. Nothing more than that. So if I just speak, the same thing we will be doing. I will be speaking and you will be complimenting. But I don’t think this is enough. I had enough of that game.

Now it is time. Let Me talk what you really want. Let Me spend My time in really answering you, in really sharing something with you. Instead of Me speaking what I know, let Me speak what you want to know. So, I have always seen, people who continuously speak without bothering what people want, they may establish an idea that they know but it’s no way going to be useful. So better let Me do your work, than My work.