Everything in Life is Auspicious

I welcome you all with my love and respects.

Nice to be here once more in Oklahoma. (Swamiji laughing) Today we are entering into a 46th aphorism. 46th meditation technique by Shiva. We are continuing the Shiva Sutras. Before entering into the Sutra, just a intro. Introduction to the Sutra. It’s a very powerful technique to awaken the kundalini shakti. Traditionally, the word kundalini shakti is used... to mean... an extraordinary potential energy, which is hidden in every human body.

Understand, animals may have body but they do not have a kundalini shakti. The only difference between you and the animal is this potential energy. Maybe if I have to... use more words. Kundalini Shakti is something like a possibility for becoming enlightened. The possibility to become enlightened. The possibility to become a different human being, different conscious being, is there only in human beings.

Animals may have same body. May look like intelligent, but they do not have the possibility, the potentiality to become enlightened, to be a different human beings, to be a different conscious beings. The kundalini shakti is a energy which resides in everyone of you. If it can be awakened. It will take you to different plain of consciousness . Different plain of existences.

Understand. All the enlightened masters on the planet earth are again and again saying: “The life is ecstasy. Life is joy. Life is bliss. Life is just shining.” And there is a beautiful saying by a great master: “Whatever happens is auspicious, mangala, shivam.” In sanskrit the word shivam means auspiciousness. They say whatever is happening is auspicious, but for us it doesn't look like that. If you watch CNN for a few minutes you will understand. No. Whatever is happening is not auspicious, but again and again enlighten masters are saying: “Whatever is happening is auspicious, mangala, shivam.” Why? Why they are saying again and again?

People ask me: “What is this Swamiji?” If they see the CNN for ten minutes, they will understand. Whatever is happening is not auspicious. If they listen to the news they will understand, but even after listening to the news everyday. Seeing everything, I do feel whatever is happening is auspicious, what to do. Very difficult. A logical man cannot understand, cannot relate with what I’m saying, but heart of heart I feel very strongly, whatever is happening is auspicious.

Shiva, the word Shiva means in Sanskrit costless auspiciousness. Whatever happens in your life. Even if the best thing happens. You can always think: “It could have been little better. It could have been little better.” Or whatever worst thing happens, you can always say: “Oh, at least this much I’m saved.” It is up to you to feel whether things are auspicious or inauspicious.

In the planet earth only two kinds of human beings are there. People who feel everything is inauspicious. He needs some correction. He needs some alteration. He needs some further development. He need to remodel. There are some people, they feel everything happening is auspicious. Person who feels whatever is happening is inauspicious is a materialistic. He believes in matter, correction, doing, remodeling, changing, altering. Person who believes, whatever is happening is auspicious, is a spiritualist. Believes in the intelligence of the cosmos. The whole. He is very clear. The whole is much more intelligent than part - me.

If you think the whole is not more intelligent than you, you are materialistic, egoistic. If you think the whole is much more intelligent than me. You are spiritualist. Over. The whole world can be classified, just with these two category. If you feel whatever happening is auspicious, you are a spiritual person.

A small story. After the powerful sermon on the charity, the priest sents his hat for arounds for collection. The hat goes round, comes back as empty as it was sent. He got, he took his hat and said: “Oh God at least the hat came back.” (Swamiji laughing) Understand? He is intelligent. He is really intelligent. He is able to think whatever is happening is auspicious. Whatever is happening is best.You can either think whatever is happening is inauspicious or you can realize whatever is happening is auspicious.

Why enlighten beings are constantly feeling, whatever is happening is auspicious? It is just because of the kundalini shakti. Once this kundalini energy awakens in you, you will feel so much of energy in your body, you will not be able to complain about anybody. Understand, you will complain about anything or any person or any incident only when you are in low mood. Means your usual mood. You will not be able to complain, criticize or hmm… feel disappointed about any person or anybody, if your body is overflowing, bubbling with energy. You feeling whatever is happening is auspicious or inauspicious is directly connected to your energy level.

At sometime if you get the glimpse of that high energy by some method. Sometime people get into that high energy without even knowing. Maybe if they go to some high energy places or they are really relaxed. They get into that high mood. Suddenly those few moments or few hours, you feel you are so fulfield, nothing is wrong in the planet Earth. You will feel everything is going the best way. If you had this glimpse, this moments in your life even once, you can be called as a spiritual seeker. Sometime, even while seeing a sunset, suddenly you feel the whole thing is settled in you and you think; “God, everything is beautiful. Things are happening. It's ok.”

Suddenly some mood, you are silent. You are relaxed. You are filled with energy and you see whatever is happening is auspicious. There is only two plane of existence; one the plain of normal human beings. Whatever is happening needs to be altered, anything, anything, they cannot say “I really like that person, but..” They can’t stop, they can’t end the sentence without that but. Without that but, they can’t end any sentence. They cannot make a statement without that but, there ends. If you are using that word “but” or “this”, then you are a human being.

There is another kind of existence; whatever happens, he is not bothered at all. In Gita Krishna says: “Shamas Chitta”. It does not mean, he is not compassionate, understand. A person who is balanced, does not mean, he is not compassionate or he doesn’t suffer, seen the others struggle. Other suffering. He tries only to remove others suffering instead of him, he suffering with them.

People ask me: “Swamiji if you are not disturbed by other’s suffering, how can the world run?” I tell you, no. You are understanding very wrongly. You are not suppose to start suffering by seeing others suffering. You are suppose to remove their suffering. If you also start suffering what will happen? If you also start suffering what will happen? Nothing will happen. You will have more suffering, that's all. Earlier, we had 20 people suffering on the planet Earth, now 21 people are suffering, that’s all. That is not the thing we need.

One person came to me and asked: “Swamiji, I have wealth. I feel the suffering of poverty. Shall I share all my wealth and distribute to all the poor people?” I told: “If you do that, now we may have 20 poor people, after you do that we will have 21 poor people, that's all. That is not the way.” Understand, do not try to bring you down to that poverty. Try to bring them up to that richness. There is a two big thing, two different thing. Feeling imbalanced, getting disturb is not directly going to help. It is not directly going to help.

First thing, you need to feel completely overflowing. Whatever is happening is auspicious. In the auspicious energy, let there be one more auspicious wave to bring the people up, can be the idea or can be the understanding. The person whose kundalini is not awakened, whose kundalini shakti is not become alive.. In Sanskrit we call Kundalini Jagrata, the higher consciousness awakening. If it has not happened in you, whatever is happening inside and outside you, will be inauspicious. If that awakening happens, whatever is happening inside and outside you, will be auspicious.

I have seen human beings smiling at their death, at the point of death, the moment of death. I have seen personally. For them whatever is happening is auspicious. Sometimes people come and ask me: “Swamiji, how to prolonged the life. How to develop the body, with which I can live for long years?” I tell them: “Never do that mistake, really. Before developing the mind, do not develop the body to live long.” Many time, people who developed only the body to live long, in the old age suffer without knowing what to do. Their body is not ready to die. They are sitting here, feeling bored, alone, lonely and they don’t know what to do. So much of suffering and pain. And not just, not physical suffering or pain. The mental suffering and pain. They don’t know what to do.

There is a onliner, that lot of study and survey say, married people, who are living with their spouse, live long, but they want to die quickly. What to do? (Swamiji laughing) But what to do? (Swamiji laughing) Even they want to die quickly, they can’t. So, don’t get into that mess, that you want to die, but you are not able to die, that is the worst thing. (Swamiji laughing) I always tell people: “Prepare your mind to live long, before preparing your body. Add life to your years before adding years to your life. If you add life to your years, you know how long to live and you know when to say bye. You can live and live peacefully and beautifully. But if you just prepared only your body..” I know the Yogis, people who work only on the body, did not work on the mind, living such a dead life. Waiting to die. I myself have seen.

Some Swamis in a young age, when they don’t have anything else to do from the morning till evening they were doing yoga, physical exercise. Only physical exercise. No meditation, only physical exercise. And, when you can bring your body in different postures and do a public show, it gives a ego boosting. And people also watch like a circus. It becomes like a show. And people are so happy just with that ego boosting. I have seen them living a miserable life, end of their life.

They want to die but body is not ready to die. It’s very strong and it is going to live for the next 20 more years and just by remembering the 20 more years I’m not going to die, they are depressed. What to do? For next 20 more years! And how long you can be doing the same show? No, any circus not more than few days. Any circus people will, people will feel entertained only a few days after that buzz. It will be such a loneliness. Such a boredom, if you can’t live. Understand. Sometime even long life can become inauspicious. Sometime even death can become auspicious.

If your kundalini is awakened, your higher potential energy is awakened, even your death will be auspicious. You will face it beautifully. Great master who lived in a... USA, North America, Paramahansa Yogananda. He came to USA in sixties, 1960’s and settled here. He is the first Bharatn enlighten master to make west as his home. And he, in his case, he just very clearly decided and… till the end, till the last moment, he was doing his routine. Giving discourse, attending programs and just declare to his disciples: “It’s time, relax.” He relaxed. Just he relaxed. His body did not deteriorate for more than 20 days.

There is a beautiful write up about that in his autobiography. Of course, as an appendix, his autobiography he can’t write about his death (Swamiji laughing), but as appendix they added. The beautiful write up about his death. Find time try to go through, such a beautiful experience. Even his death was auspicious for him.