“This meditation, apart from solving the psychological problems, will…”

This meditation, apart from solving the psychological problems, will straightaway take you to the Enlightenment because the day before yesterday’s sutra and yesterday’s sutra…. see, day before yesterday, Shiva was teaching us to work on pain and suffering. Yesterday He was teaching us to work on love and joy. When you are in totally love with somebody or some object…. No actually, I will take few minutes to answer yesterday's somebody's question and it is related to today's subject also. See, the pain and suffering, love and joy, today Shiva is dealing with the situation when you get a mood against someone or for someone, how to use that situation and achieve Enlightenment.

Understand, you will have these situations more time than yesterday's and day before yesterday's problems. He is taking us step by step to the deeper and deeper levels of our inner space. Everyday He is analyzing different situations and giving us techniques. Today He is taking us further, deeper. How to work on you when a mood against someone or for someone arises in you…. Let Me just take few minutes to answer some of the questions which I had yesterday Energy Darshan. During Energy Darshan, people were asking Me some of the questions about the technique. I thought if I answer here, put it in record, it will be useful for future. It is a wonderful question. They asked Me, “When I say, when I said that when you are in love with somebody, you experience the other person as God, then when we are not in love with some, that person, he loses that divinity or what?”

Understand, nobody loses the divinity. You lose the ability to recognise the divinity. Yesterday I made an important statement. When you are in love with the Master, He will… not only you will feel He is God and all miracles which you feel or expect should happen in the presence of God will happen in front of Him in His presence. You will see all those things happening but when that love is lost, when you don't have that love, you won't see those miracles happening in His presence. You may be the same person and He will be the same person but those miracles will not be happening. Somebody asked Me why. Then the master loses enlightenment or what? No, he doesn't lose. You lose the ability to recognise or connect with that enlightenment.

When people ask me, “Are you God?'' I tell them, “It depends on you.” It depends on you. I Am constantly available, open. If you want to connect with Me as a teacher, you can connect with Me and carry the knowledge. If you want to connect with Me in the level of Master, you can have initiation. See, only master can initiate. Teacher can't initiate. Teacher can teach; master can initiate. If you connect with Me in the level of God or Divine, Ultimate energy, you will carry the experience itself, not just initiation. How much your inner space is made available for Me, that's all. You see, if you relate just intellectually, you will carry the knowledge. If you relate with little bit of emotion, little bit of love, you will carry the initiation means whatever I can't express through words also will go into you like the whole software will be sent, transmitted. If you are able to connect with the being deeply, you don't need initiation. The very experience will be transmitted. It depends on the person to what level he connects, to what level he experiences.

I always tell people, bhakti or the feeling connected to the Master is such an ultimate thing, never miss it if at all you got it in your life. Never miss it. It is too costly. It is too much to miss it. Do not… even if you miss your things in the outer world, it is okay. If you miss your ideas which you carry in the inner world, that is also okay. In English there is a proverb. If you miss, if you lose wealth nothing is lost. If you lose your health something is lost. If you lose your character everything is lost. I think even if you lose your character, nothing is lost. Only if you lose the connection with the Master, everything is lost! That is such a deep thing, ultimate blessing. Never miss it if at all you got it. If you feel that constant feeling connected has happened in you, do not miss it at any cost. See, throw away any idea which comes in between you and Him. Anything can be lost but not this feeling connection.

People come and tell Me, “Sometime even Your ideas about morality can create gap.” I have seen many people feeling the gap just because of this gold jewelry, because traditionally a sanyasi, a swami is not… usually they don't wear this. In those days because when they wander, it is difficult to maintain. Naturally you see, it is a unnecessary harassment and people think, “Why is He wearing such big gold jewelry?” The big problem is, I neither feel connected nor feel hatred. Somebody made it. It was looking really nice. I also enjoy. So I wear, that's all. I wore, over. When the work is over, when I get down, first thing will be I will remove it and put it aside. Very simple things. Your ideas about morality also may stand sometime in between.

Anything can be lost but not the connection with the Master because if that one thing is kept alive, so many things can happen in you. So many things can happen. The possibility is available. The doors are open. The bridge is not burnt. Still the bridge is alive. If the feeling connected, if that is taken away, whatever you may try, nothing is going to work. I always tell people, by begging one dollar, one dollar, one dollar, you will never become a billionaire. Have you seen anybody becoming billionaire just by begging one, one dollar? No. Same way, there is nobody who achieved Enlightenment by meditating everyday. Begging one, one dollar is like a meditating everyday ten minute, ten minute and what will you achieve? If you want to become a billionaire, some billionaire should write a will in your name. That is the only possibility because by the time you beg hundred dollar everyday, you have to spend for survival.

Same way, everyday you meditate for half an hour you have to spend that whole energy for the twenty four hours. You can never become a billionaire by begging one, one dollar. You can never become enlightened just meditating ten minutes, twenty minutes everyday. Only if a billionaire writes a will, you will become billionaire. Same way, only a Master writes will, the Enlightenment is achieved. That is why so much of emphasis is put on the master's presence and the Guru Krupa in our traditions. Even though few people exploited those concepts, sitting in the chair, sitting in the seat without becoming enlightened, those concepts can't be rejected because that has helped too many people.

Understand, only one Ramakrishna became enlightened using that Kali Murti, three feet Kali Murti. And we spent crores of rupee creating the temple and maintaining the temple but I always tell people it is worthy. Your one thousand temple is worthy of one Ramakrishna. If there is a possibility for one Ramakrishna means build thousands of temples, nothing wrong. In Bharat, that is why, constantly every street will have a temple. Temples are getting erected, getting installed because even if one Ramakrishna happens, it is a big blessing. One Ramakrishna is worthy of two hundred Kali temples. Nothing wrong. Nothing wrong. Millions of rupees, crores of hours of man hour, everything is worthy if one Ramakrishna can be produced. That is why all over the world, I Am also constantly building temples.

People ask Me, “Swamiji, You teach only meditation. Why are You building so many temples all over the world? So much of Your energy is spent on temples.” Because this so-called modern day Gurus do not build temples. Building temple does not make much money. If you put your energy in some other field, you can make lot of name and fame or money but building temples does not directly…. Business plan will not say ‘yes’ for temples. People ask Me, “Why do You put so much of energy in building so many temples?” I tell them, “You don't know the possibility. Somebody may feel connected. Somebody may fall in love with that Deity. Somebody may feel connected. The possibility exists.” You see, when you don't feel connected, it is idol worship. If you feel connected, it is worship through idol, not idol worship. Worship through idol. The possibility exists. That is why, constantly I Am working on installing, erecting as many temples as possible. Let the people be reminded again and again. Let the possibility be kept alive.

Falling in tune with the master or falling in tune with the some Deity or God is the ultimate thing. Of course, you can work on the technique which you learnt yesterday. Even if you fall in love with ordinary human being or a pet or any other object, you can work. Only one danger: when you wanted to practice his absence, he may not cooperate but be prepared for that but with an Enlightened Master, He will be constantly reminding you to work on his absence also. After certain period, He knows how to clearly say, “Hey, now it is time. Put your energy on you.” Sometime you yourself will see, in the initial level when people come, I give so much of attention. After sometime I tell them, “Hey, now it is time. You work on you. Sit with you. Even in our meditation techniques, the ultimate meditation technique taught to them is unclutch from My form. I tell them, “You will not be able to experience Me if you think I Am this six feet form. No, caught. No. At one point… one more thing, it is not that you will be disconnected from Me. You will be deeply connected to My true self.

Understand, there are people who get disconnected and leave. That is different. I Am not talking about that means they have hatred. Love, in love, you will feel connected. In hatred you will feel disconnected. In devotion you will go beyond the connection and disconnection. You will just feel it, experience it. When I say go beyond the love, I don't say start hating or feel disconnected. No. I say, let the love become devotion. You will feel that you and the Master are not two different persons. You will just feel the very presence without the suffering of the absence. He will constantly remind you to turn towards you. He will not be binding you.

You see, whenever you start experiencing or feeling the presence of some person, putting so much of energy to create the feeling and the love and the presence, not only you will be dependent on him, by the time he also will become dependent on you. If somebody can maintain without him being dependent on you and you only dependent on him, he is an enlightened person. Enlightened person will never be dependent on you. So He doesn't have vested interest to keep you under His control, under His slavery. No. When time comes, when he sees that now you can turn towards yourself, when you have achieved the excluding the others… you see, he will allow you to experience His presence only till you achieve the absence of others. He will see that your energy which is invested in so many ways, it is all completely centralized. Once He sees that centralizing work is over, immediately the next step itself he will tell you, “Now, enough. Start working on My absence. Work on your presence. Work on your presence.”

In the initial level, for Enlightenment, you need Master's presence. In the ultimate level, you need your presence. Master is a person will not bind you. He will straight away direct you towards your presence. When you work on a object or a person who is not enlightened, only thing you need to understand, during the time you want to practice the absence, He may try to bind you. Don't bother to say ‘no’ at that time. Just have that courage, that's all but when you are working with the Master, you won't have that problem. At the right time, simply He will turn His whole energy towards you and tell you to be in His absence, work on yourself.