“Q: How do I get Enlightened?”

Q: How do I get Enlightened? I want to, real bad and urgently.

Let Me be very honest. Just this very feeling is enough to make you Enlightened. Don’t bother about anything. Only one thing I want to know. This feeling should be really a truth. It should not be just a word. Just look into yourself if it is really a feeling. It should not be just a question: it should be a quest. Understand, question is word: quest is a feeling. This, this line, “How do I get enlightened? I want to, real bad and urgently.” If these words are question in you, if these words have come out, if this question has come out of the deep quest, you don’t need anything. Just boil. Just let your whole being be burnt with this quest. That’s enough. Nothing else needs to be done. Let this boiling be intense. Allow this boiling. Allow this burning. Allow this intensity. Allow this urgency. Let the urge become urgent. Let the question become quest. Let it just eat your ego, eat your inner space. The…..see, the thirst happens to you, the quest happens to you by the Divine Grace.

People ask Me, “Swamiji, I have become enlightened by the Divine grace or by my effort or by my quest?” I tell them, “You having the quest is the first sign that you have Divine grace. Unless you have the Divine grace, you will not have quest, understand!” This quest or seeking is like a seed feeling suffocated inside the shell. See, the life which is inside the seed, unless it feels suffocated inside the shell, it won’t open up and become a tree. The moment seed starts feeling that it should open up, the seeking, urgency, thirst to become a tree, it means already the tree inside the seed has started expressing itself.

If you are feeling that you should become Enlightened, the Buddha in you has opened His eyes. The Buddha in you has started waking up. Now He is just, just all He need to do is open His eyes or all He need to do is just get up and have a cup of coffee. Just jump out of your bed and have a cup of coffee. The Buddha in you needs a cup of coffee now, nothing else. The very seeking…..allow that seeking. Just from morning till night, let it burn you, let it boil you, let it create a deep dissatisfaction in you. Let it swallow your all other depressions. See, in the life you will have so many other depressions, sufferings like this is not there, that is not there, this is needed and that is needed. All those sufferings be swallowed by this one suffering.

Great Master Ramana Maharshi who lived in South Bharat, he used to say, “The quest, seeking is like a stick used to burn the dead bodies.” In Bharat, dead bodies will be burnt with a stick. They will put lot of wood and it will be burnt. They will use a big stick to burn the dead bodies properly. So after burning, they will throw this stick also into the same fire. Same way, your seeking should be like a stick to burn all your other desires. Once all the other desires are burnt, this desire, this seeking also will be put in the same fire and be burnt.

So understand, let this seeking, let this quest, you say, “How do I get Enlightened? I want to, real bad and urgently.” Let this seeking, let this feeling take away your all other sufferings, your all other depressions, your all other desires, your all other concerns about life. Let that happen. Then you will see, suddenly this seeking disappears. It is not there. Suddenly it disappears. When the seeking disappears, you are Enlightened. You achieved what you are seeking.

(Swamiji reads a question)

Q: Unclutching is the answer for a blissful life.

Who told you? If you know the answer, you should not be putting this question. Understand, this is very controversial, contradicting. You say, “Unclutching is the answer for a blissful life but what about when an event in life pulls me back to the life drama?”

First thing, you should be very clear you do not know the answer that unclutching is the answer for a blissful life. No, you do not know. If you know that, as you have written here, you will not know the further question. You will not have the further question. The moment you have ‘but,’ you do not know the truth. Please leave that answer part to Me, not to you. So I should tell unclutching is the answer for blissful life. You cannot write that. You are doing My job also. First thing, let Me answer now this question.You are saying, “But what about when an event in life pulls me back to the life drama?” Again unclutch.

See, the first, second and last thing which you need to know about spirituality is unclutching. First thing, unclutch. Second thing, unclutch. Last thing unclutch. That’s all. If you want to know one more truth, once more I will tell ‘unclutch.’ Understand, “But what about when an event in life pulls me back to the life drama?” Be very clear, you are supposed to unclutch only when a event pulls you back to the life drama. Unclutching when you are not pulled is easy thing. Unclutching when you are pulled is real unclutching. That is the real unclutching. So you say, “I am unclutched when I don’t have any depression and problem but I am clutched when I have problem.”

It’s like a you telling, “Whenever I am sick, I am not able to take medicines. When I am sick, I am not able to take medications.” Arey, when you are sick only you need medication. When you are suffering, only then you need unclutching. See, I understand the mental set up behind this question. You remember your failures which happened to you when you tried to unclutch in your past and start believing you can’t unclutch when a life drama happens, when something bad happens. Unclutch from the idea that you had many failures in the past. That is the ultimate unclutching. Unclutch from your failures.

Understand, just because you failed yesterday, who told you that you will fail today also? No. But you are very clear. You believe strongly you are going to fail. That is where the problem starts. Now understand, when an event in life pulls you back to the life drama, unclutch. Put it in your home, the board unclutching and daily change that board. Put it in new, new colours. If it is in same colour, you will take it for granted. Everyday put a new, new board. I always tell our ashramites, “Don’t even put a board. Just have a white, black board, white board. Everyday on that, write. Today unclutch. Today unclutch. Today unclutch. You write. Only then you will remember today’s unclutching is not yesterday’s unclutching.”

If you put a board, you will think yesterday’s unclutching and today’s unclutching is going to be same. No. Everyday write by your hand and next day don’t think, “Oh! Today I am going to after all write the same thing. Why not leave it?” No. Erase that and write once more ‘Today I will unclutch. Today I should unclutch.’ Write once more. Only then you will remember. Yesterday’s unclutching is not the same. Today’s unclutching is going to be totally different. So do not take unclutching for granted. Do not get clutched with unclutching.

(Swamiji reads a question)

Q: Can You comment on what is body-mind-atman relation?

Wow! This is a nice question. With understanding, if you understand body-mind-atman, there is no relationship. There is no harmony. There is only unity. Understand, there is a big difference between harmony and unity. You cannot achieve harmony. You can achieve only unity. If you look little deep and see the truth, you will understand all three are one and the same. You will experience unity. If you do not look into yourself, if you are working for harmony, it will be… they will be like intimate enemies. They will be very intimate but torturing each other. If you are married, you know what I mean. You will understand.

Do not work for harmony. If you try to work for harmony, that itself will create more confusions. There is nothing to harmonise. There is nothing. There is no three thing to create harmony. Just look into the difficulties and complications which this body-mind-spirit creates and try to understand more and more just by seeking, just by seeking. I always tell people, when they ask like this big, big questions, “Just play with the books. Don’t bother whether you are reading right or wrong and all those things. Just let the seeking happen. You will see suddenly new, new things open up and you will land on the right experience.”

I write so many books. Every week, we publish three-four volumes. As on now, we have published two hundred volumes in twelve languages. I tell them, I always tell people. People ask Me, “Swamiji, which one should I read?” I tell them, “Read everything.” Only then the clarity will start happening in you because I have given techniques, I have given tips, I have given instruction for all kinds of minds, all kinds of people. So read even the instruction given for the different kind of mindset. So you will start respecting that kind of people when you meet them. Not only that, you will understand the uniqueness of you. Try to read everything. Try to create more and more understanding. You will see that there is no relationship between body-mind and atman. They are not in harmony. They are in unity.

(Swamiji reads a question)

Q: How long did it take for Your Enlightenment?

Oh God! This is business secret…. For Enlightenment itself, it did not take more than a kshana means, kshana is not a second. Understand, in Vedic time system, we call kshana is a gap between one thought and the other thought. If you have less number of thoughts, your kshana will be more. In Vedic system, we don’t calculate time chronologically. We calculate time psychologically. So your time will be different from the person who is sitting next to you. See, the… your time and the person who is sitting next to you, his time will not be same. It depends on the number of thoughts you are having. For example, if you are sitting with somebody whom you really love, feel connected, even if few hours pass, you will not know. Suddenly you will see, “God! Two-three hours disappeared. What happened? How did time go?” If you are sitting with somebody you don’t feel connected, every two minutes what you will do? “What happened? My watch is not working or what?”

Time is more psychological, not chronological. So it took only one kshana- gap between one thought and the other thought because there was no second thought. That’s what Enlightenment but if I have to say how much of time it took for Me to land at right moment, I can say, maybe ten years. Ten years it took for Me to play with all kinds of techniques and to land on a right technique which will open the door, which will open the door. One more thing, when you do any technique, the technique also grows along with you. Sometime I tell people, “Just repeat My name.” They think, “What kind of a technique it is? This fool, I think he doesn’t have any time to teach me. That’s why he is telling me just to repeat his name.” I tell them, “The moment you grow, this technique will grow.”

After few minutes, it will not be repetition of My name. It will not be even remembering Me. It will just be a different sound. After a few minutes, if you go deeper and deeper you will just go to the source from where the sound is coming. Technique also grows with you. If the technique is not growing with you, it is not technique. It is a dead word. It’s a teaching. That is a big difference between teaching and technique. Whatever comes out of the Master is technique even if teachings are techniques. Whatever comes out of a teacher, even his techniques are teachings. Understand, technique grows with you. When you grow, technique also grows.

In My case, maybe I can say, I took ten year to play with all these techniques and to land on the right technique, to land on the experience but the Enlightenment itself took only one second. It’s like a, I had ten thousand keys in front of Me. I do not know which one will open the door. So I have to play with all ten thousand keys. Finally one day, the door opened when the right key was used. Now let you understand, you don’t have to do the same thing wasting ten years. I am here to give you the right key. Open it! Why do you want to waste ten more years? Here is the right key: unclutch, which is the master key. Master is the master key. Master key, just open. You don’t have to spend ten more years re-inventing the same thing which I did. You do not have to re-invent and I do not have copyright for My intellectual properties. In the East, we believe knowledge is free. So I am open. You can use the technique. You are requested to use the technique.