“Question: Master, how can I contain the inspiration that I get from…”

Q \&A Session

Question: Master, how can I contain the inspiration that I get from your discourses? Your discourses have become an addiction to be inspired and stay inspired.

Understand: You don’t need to contain the inspiration. The inspiration is so powerful, is so alive you don’t need to do anything to contain or to change your mood. Why do you want to contain? You know, sometimes the society or the situation in which you are staying may not allow you to take or make drastic strong changes. At those situations only, you start thinking of containing it. No need. Even if you don’t make those changes as of now, do not try to contain the inspiration. Let it go inside your system.

Ramakrishna says very beautifully: hold these both things in your hand, on one hand, the divine and on the other hand, the responsibilities or commitments which you took up. You will see in course of time, automatically one will drop. Automatically things will happen. So don’t think of containing. Don’t think of even brining the inspiration down.

‘Your discourses have become an addiction to be inspired.’

Understand: It is actually a de-addiction. Ramakrishna says very beautifully, one more example, if you drank too much , in Bharat people who are drinking alcohol will be given the water which comes out of cooking rice. After cooking, after cooking rice, the water will be taken out of that rice. That water, they call it ganjee, that water if you drink, the dizziness or the feeling that you get after drinking will come down. Ramakrishna says satsang is like that water from the rice cooking. It will bring the addiction towards the world come down. In the outer world continuously something or the other is going on. You are addicted. Satsang is a wonderful way to bring that addiction down.

A very beautiful sloka of Shankara in which he says:

satsang gat twae, nissangat twam; nissangatwae nischala gat twam nischala nissangat twae nirmohatwam, nirmorhatwae nichala tatwam, nischala tatvae jaeevanmuktihi

Because all the words means same, it somehow changes one by one. Getting inspired and staying inspired is actually, has to be mentioned by the word de-addiction, not by the word addiction. Of course, you used ordinary word, that’s ok.

Question: I experience the clarity and wisdom many times but it is getting polluted again and again when I go back to the outside world.

I know who the questioner is just by seeing the handwriting; I can say who the person is. See, this is the usual problem, that when you go back to the world you feel polluted. Do not feel disturbed or do not bother about the pollution happening. Feel relaxed and celebrate that there is somebody who can give you the purity once in a day. Remember that. Start mothering the purity and inspiration which comes inside you. When inspiration comes, when purity comes, don’t mother the thought that it is going to get polluted. No! When pollution comes, when impurity comes, mother the thought that it is going to be purified. Say to yourself: ‘tonight I have time. Today I am again going to see the Master. It is going to be purified’. Mother the thought that you are going to get purified, not the thought that you are going to get polluted.

There is a big difference. Whenever you are inspired highly, in the high mood and ecstasy, at one corner you start suffering, ‘No, no. I think I’m going to get polluted.’ Then your whole mind will say ‘what is the use of this whole thing? Forget about it.’ You will not have the courage to take decisions.

There’s a very beautiful story. One great master, enlightened master, Swami Rama. You must have heard about him. One disciple of Swami Rama goes to him and asks, ‘Master, I am suffering too much.’

Actually there are many disciples of Swami Rama’s: Rama, Rama Tirta, Ram Das. All of them are called Swami Rama. This one, the Swami Rama who I am saying, lived in south Bharat. In north Bharat another one Swami Rama lived. He came even to the west and did some great scientific research and proved. Swami Rama about whom I am talking, I am mentioning lived in south Bharat.

Somebody goes to him and asks, ‘Master, I feel like I want to take sannyas but I am afraid I may fail in the long run. What should I do?’

Very practical suggestion. Always you will hear only ‘No, no, no! If you are afraid that you may fail then don’t take.’ That is the suggestion, which is the idea you will usually receive. Even I would have given that suggestion only. But Swami Rama gave a very practical, a wonderful suggestion.

He says ‘Person who takes up and fails is thousand times better than the one who never tried.’ And he gives a very beautiful example: ‘In my own life at least ten times, ten lives I would have been a failure. I would have failed. That is why this time I am successful.’

See the courage! Boldly he is telling. And to tell you honestly, it is truth. All of us would have failed at least few times in few lifetimes. We would have failed. Few lifetimes would have been a waste. That is why we say only a yoga prastha will have these great memories from the young age. Yoga prastha means the person who tried for enlightenment with all possibility but had to die. The lifespan ended before he achieved the success.

Understand: I don’t even say taking sannyas and failing is the only thing you need to do. You can see that ultimate effort is put. All possible effort towards this direction is added.

He says very beautifully: the wealth you accumulate will never come. Even in this life it may disappear in between. It’s like trusting the mud horse and entering into the water, entering into the river; trying to cross the river sitting on a mud horse, which will never work. And second thing; the knowledge which you accumulated may not come, after the life. It will come till the end of this life but not after the life. But the spiritual practice which you do comes life after life. It continuously takes you to the higher and higher steps. Understand: Even if you miss once, don’t bother. You will see you won’t miss the next time. Only thing, take the maximum possible, intense efforts. Add maximum intense efforts to your life. That’s all. Very beautifully Swami Rama says that the person who failed is much better than the person who never tried.

‘It is getting polluted again and again when I go back to the outside world.’

So! Understand; do not mother the thought that it is getting polluted. Always mother the thought that you are, you have the ability to rejuvenate yourself. You have now great possibility. You see, even once if you are inspired, that shows clearly that you have a possibility of getting inspired and getting into that high mood, or purity. Even once with your full heart if you felt ‘I think nothing else is required in my life except this’! Even once you if have felt that, understand, there’s the great possibility nothing can add impurity to you. All you need is one hour of master’s words or some discourses, some satsang. That’s enough! It’s always available on youtube. So your purity is just a youtube away! Understand, from the other side. Look at it from the other side.

So coming out of depression is just a youtube away! So for any depression, any impurity, now you know the medicine. Do not bother. I have seen many people bothering about some disease which happened. Celebrate that you have a disease which has the medicine, which is working; which has worked on your system. So even for the impurity of the world, you have medicine. And fortunately you had the medicine and it is working. That is the great thing. You have working medicine and it has already worked on you. So celebrate that you have medicine and it works on you. Not the disease without medicine or your understanding that ‘Oh anyhow, even this inspiration is going to go.’ No! Small story: One guy goes to the doctor and says ‘Doctor I tried to commit suicide by taking one thousand aspirins.’ The doctor asks ‘What happened then?’ The man says ‘No, after two aspirins I felt better.’

Understand: You are fortunate. You have two aspirins with you and you are feeling better. Celebrate that you are feeling better.

Question: Is it possible to grow spiritually when ones husband or wife is not interested in spiritual path?

I think tomorrow is family get together. (Thanksgiving in USA) Everybody today is contemplating on the same problem. Today I think is Spouses’ Day! Hmm. Okay.

I think the growth in spirituality will happen in a deep way, in a much stronger way if your husband or wife is not in tune because your deep engraved hatred towards them or the anger against them or the deep inside hatred will turn towards spirituality. It will be again and again be trying, be a driving force for you to go towards spirituality. I can say we should feel blessed the other person is not cooperating much.

There is one more small story: One Bharatn mother is telling the husband ‘I tried my best to make this fellow read spiritual books,’ about his son, the son to read spiritual books. ‘It was never successful.’

Husband says ‘don’t bother. I will make him read. Give me two days.’ In two days the guy started reading the books.

The wife comes and asks the husband ‘How did you manage it? How did this happen?’

He said ‘All I did is I hid those books along with the books he is not supposed to read, which he is not supposed to touch. That’s all!’

So in a way, things which are forbidden or if somebody forbids you, if somebody says ‘no’ you take deeper interest and do that more secretly and strongly.

No, I have always seen, whenever I see that tug-of-war between the husband and wife I never give permission for one person to leave. Because the tug-of-war, one year if he stays in the tug-of-war his intensity is so beautiful; at least what I can give to him in ten years training is done in one year. No, it’s a reality. It’s a practical thing. See without that tug-of-war, people who come, even in our ashram I’ve seen, the bramacharis who come without any problem with their parents will never have intensity.

Sometime very funny things happen. Parents bring them and drop them in the ashram and tell ‘Master, please see that they don’t come back, that they stay here permanently,’ that kind of bramacharis will never have intensity. I’ve never seen intensity in them. But the bramacharis or bramacharinis who have all kinds of problem in the house but has the courage to take the risk and stand up; I have seen their intensity. Their spiritual practice is so deep. They really mean what they are doing. When the whole society is cooperating you may not even mean what you are doing.

Understand: You may not even mean what you are doing! It may be a time pass for you. Coming and sitting here is a time pass project, time passing project; TPP. It may not be a great thing. But if there is so much of antagonism, if there is so much of problem, again you are making, it means it’s a question of survival for you. It is not just a luxury. It’s a basic thing for you. So I always feel the growth happens when your spouse is not interested or not in tune. The growth happens much deeper, in a much more beautiful way if you are alone.

Actually this is a path of aloneness. People who have an attitude of ‘we’ go only to a certain extent. I’ve always seen, people who travel together as ‘we’, should have the clarity that after some time you are, you can be together, no problem, but in the spiritual attitude and path both of you should decide ‘we will go with the, we may go with the same master but we will walk with our own attitude. We will not depend on each other.’

Otherwise you will start comparing notes with each other and you will go only up to the level of the other person’s understanding or you will try to bring the other person’s understanding down. Never do that. Never do that. Coming as a couple to the master is wonderful but continuing may not be ultimate. After that you need to take a step, ‘yes, we will be together (It’s not that you need to be separated) but our attitude, our understanding, our relationship with Master, our growth, everything should be independent. Everything should be independent.’

I always tell people, with the attitude of ‘we’ you can only run but you can’t fly. For flying you need to have the attitude of the clear, individual path.

Question: about healing initiation.

This is question about healing initiation. I think the name is not there. You should ask me this question during Energy Darshan.

Question: How to fully cooperate with enlightened beings who come here to liberate us?

Actually you don’t even need to cooperate. If you try to cooperate with your mind you will create more problems. Don’t cooperate. Just be. Neither create disturbance consciously nor try to cooperate. Even with your trying to cooperate you will create disturbance. When you are in the presence, just be. Do not decide ‘I should cooperate. I should be doing this. I should be doing that.’ No! And do not decide ‘I’ll do that.’ Actually in the name of cooperating you will do something out of over enthusiasm and only disturbing your own things. I always tell people, just be available, open. Be in the present moment.

I can give you one small scale to see if you are open or not. If you can see very clearly your TPS, thought per second, is less; it is dropping drastically the moment Master enters inside the space where you are; inside the ghataakasha, you are open. The moment Master enters, if you feel the TPS is drastically dropping, you are open. You are neither trying to distract nor trying to cooperate. You are open. This is the scale with which you can measure. If that is happening already in you, beautiful, you are cooperating, relax. If it is not happening, just try to relax without trying to cooperate.

Question: Again here, some question about healing. Does healing take time and for how long?

So please, in the Energy Darshan you can ask. On seeing the disease and the person only the healing is decided. See: understand how the healing happens you know: when really some clicks happen with the master; usually the click will happen. If you are intellect based person, listening to the great life solutions and understandings from the master, the click will happen. If you are very gross, innocent, simple kind of a being, just even seeing the graceful form of the master, the click will happen. I’ve seen, especially in Bharatn villages, neither they know how to read or write nor they’ve heard my discourses; just photograph, that’s all. Just form, the moorty. That’s all. Nothing else is required. Already they are in tune. Already they are in tune.

There was a question in the conversation by one of our disciple. There was a photograph called Varadamoorti, one of my photographs, especially named. In Bharat in many places they keep that photo and do pooja or prayer or whatever and get healed or blessed and so many things happen. But an intellectual guy who has seen this, when he went to Bharat he has seen this happening in two or three places. He was not able to digest. He had so much of anger and vengeance, arrogance. He’s asking me ‘How can you promote this? How can you accept this?’ Of course I never promoted or I did not promote.

‘How can you accept this, your photo being worshipped?’

I told him ‘two things: first thing, they are getting helped and they are doing. Why are you having so much of anger? Second thing: look deeply inside. It is jealous. You wanted this kind of respects always in your life. You are not having or you are not able to get, so naturally you are feeling jealous when somebody else is respected; when somebody else is so much respected or given the devotion.’

Third important thing, understand there is a kind of people still in the planet earth who are simple, basically centered on their heart, who can really feel connected just even with the form.

The other day one of our devotees was telling, in Mexico when she went around spreading the meditation, she says that, ‘all I need to do is show the photograph of the Master and people feel connected.’

Thirty three percent of humanity is still heart centered. Fortunately. That is why planet earth is still alive. Understand: That is why planet earth is still alive. Bhagavatam says beautifully: It is for bhaktas, Bhagavan keeps the jagat alive. For the sake of devotees who are centered on the heart, Lord keeps the planet alive. When I say bhaktas, devotees, I don’t mean the devotees of one god or one guru. But all those who lives on the heart, based on the heart, whoever can feel connected just through the heart that does not need the intellectual jewelry or the intellectual candy.

Thirty three percent of the people live on the heart. For them just the form is enough. Nothing else is required. And the other thirty three percent, they may need some intellectual connection, that click, apart from the form. They need some intellectual clarity, some understanding and the other thirty three percent: hard nuts to crack! You need to show them something solid, vivid, gross miracles. So in which level you are, based on that only, the healing starts happening, healing starts happening.

That same guy who was questioning me, was not able to be convinced with my answer.

He said ‘I think it was just the placebo effect.’

I said ‘Do not use the word ‘just a placebo effect’. Placebo effect is not an ordinary thing.’

We need to understand the word ‘placebo effect.’ Placebo effect means what? The doctor gives something, which is not the medicine, to the person. The doctor and the patient, both of them do not know that it is not a medicine. Both of them believe it is a medicine. Patient gets healed.

Understand: If he takes the medicine, what ever physical effects that will happen in him, what ever chemical changes that will happen in him, the same thing happens without him taking the medicine, just the colored water, or just some ordinary things. It means what? Your mind is capable enough to do the same chemical changes without the medicine being added into your system. That’s all! It means your mind is capable. You are not aware of your potentiality. So enlightened beings are the people that happen to help those few thirty three percent directly.

See: thirty three percent of the people get healed by placebo effect. Any medicine, any thing is okay. They’ll get healed. And if you are in that thirty three percent, feel blessed. You have intelligence. Your automatic intelligence to get healed is still alive. You have not yet become complete bio-mechanism. I always tell people, who ever can heal themselves with the placebo medicines they are living in the heart. They are living based on the heart.

So understand, placebo effect is not an ordinary thing. It is not a normal thing. So if they are praying and getting healed means, whatever it may be, the effect is happening. So it should be respected.

One more thing: with thirty three percent, in medical field, with thirty three percent of development, if you can show, it is accepted as a medicine. In many departments, many fields, it is accepted as a medicine. If somebody can show thirty three percent of reduction in the cholesterol, some chemical, some medicine, it is accepted as medicine. So placebo effect has to be accepted as an important thing in the field of healing: in the field of transformation, whether in physical health or mental health.

When you add physical health and mental health together you can use the broad word, ‘transformation’. So understand, there are some people who are based on the heart. For them form is enough. There are some people, who are based on the head, for them the intellectual click is needed. There are some, very hard nuts, they have to see miracles happening in the next person’s life or in their own life.

There is, there are some people, I think unique category, even if it happens in front of their own eyes, in their own life, its difficult for them to grasp. I think we’ll forget about them. That crowd, neither you can help nor I can help. Even God can’t help. Nobody can help. If God comes down and knocks at their door, they will ask ‘From which drama studio you got all this makeup?’ If he says,’ No, I am God. I am Shiva. I have come down to bless you’, they will ask, ‘Do you have any I.D. card?’

So, forget about other guys. The healing happens when the click happens. So I’ll be able to tell only at the time of the healing. Only when I see the person directly because only when I see the person I can tell if the click has happened or not, whether the relationship has happened or not. If the click or the relationship has happened, the healing is nothing. It is a simple experience. I’ve always seen, for miracles to happen both sides’ hands needs to be extended. If somebody has to be saved, not only me, he also has to extend, stretch his hands, stretch his hands so that I can lift. I can lift.

Just a very intimate conversation with one of my close disciple who travels with me: He asked me once ‘Master, whenever I come and tell you this person is sick and they requested your healing, sometimes you say ‘He’ll be healed. Tell them.’

Sometimes you say ‘don’t tell anything. Just leave it.’ What does it mean? I told him if I say ‘don’t tell anything’ means that’s all. Just console. Tell that person to face the reality.

He asked me, ‘I have seen, whenever a request comes through a particular devotee you always say ‘He’ll be healed. Tell them.’ Whenever request comes through certain people you always say ‘I’ll meditate or pray for them. Tell them to be patient.’ Why? How does the person informing you, is involved?’

I told him ‘Understand: not only the person who is informing, even the person who is feeling sick is directly involved in the healing. It depends on both the factors. I may extend my hand, I may stretch my hand but if that person is just saying ‘take care of me. Lift me’ what can I do? He needs to extend his hand.

There is a beautiful story: In Mahabharata , it’s actually related even to today’s sutra, Draupadi, queen of Pandavas, was actually abused in the court of Kauravas. In the Kauravas court she was brought and disrobed in public, which is the worst abusal, worst form of abusal.

And the story says she shouted ‘Krishna! Govinda! Gopala! Madhava! Madhusudana!’ Holding the cloth, when she shouted, Krishna never appeared, never came. At last she just threw her hands open and shouted ‘Krishna!’ and immediately, the story says, not only the cloth came but also Krishna appeared and she was saved and protected. And later on Draupadi asked, ‘what happened to you? Why did it take you such a long time to come and take care of me?’

Then Krishna says ‘No, for quite a long time you were trying to protect yourself. Even though you were calling me, you were calling me only as a security signature. You were calling me only for security signature.’

In the bank account, when you ask for loan you need security signature.

‘You were expecting me to do the role of the security signature not the protector. You were thinking you will manage, when you can’t, you can have my help also.’

But the ultimate miracles does not happen in that language, in that inner space. It only happens with a deep surrender. ‘When I saw you completely opened and surrendered then I had to come. I have to appear there and I have to take care.’

So, too many things are involved in healing and miracle. There is no logical line. That is why, even though millions of miracles happen still the spiritual healing has never become a mainstream healthcare item. No, because it involves both sides. It involves both sides. With the regular, traditional medical care, you don’t need the cooperation from the other side. Here you need the cooperation from the other side.

The moment you ask these questions, there are so many questions on healing: how long, will it take time’ and all those things, be very clear: the click has not happened. So, I don’t know about the time.

Let’s enter into the sutra.

Mahadeva says, today Mahadeva is addressing Devi, with a unique word , Shakti. If you read Geeta, Krishna is using so many different names for Arjuna. Every time He uses a particular name, there’s a great meaning behind it. Sometime He uses the word which will encourage him, reminding him about his great qualities. He uses Kutaakesha, ‘Oh King who has conquered sleep; now awake. Just come up. Open yourself. Don’t be foolish.’

And sometime He uses the word Kountaeya, means son of Kunti. Means ‘Kunti’ was symbol of patience. Throughout her life she had so much of suffering. If I read the whole Mahabharata I can’t see Kunti being happy even for a single moment. Even for a single moment. Her whole life was suffering. Maybe she was happy only once when she was given a boon that she could have kids through the divine energies. Other than that I don’t see any joyful moments in her life at all. Anyhow, her whole life was a great suffering. But she lived the whole life with deep patience and silence. She’s like an emblem of patience. And here when Krishna says Kountaeya, He’s reminding ‘you are son of Kunti. Have that deep patience to understand when you go through some psychological turmoil.’

Same way, here Mahadeva is addressing Devi today as Shakti. ‘Oh Energy!’ He is going to give her some technique where she needs to remember that she is energy. You are also now supposed to remember you are energy before you enter into the technique. You are embodiment of energy. Your body is just a shell around what you are. You are energy! Your body is just a shell around it. You need to remember that, and then enter into the technique.

Sutra: See all the space as if already absorbed in your own head in the brilliance.

Very, very deeply mystical. I can say that it should not be practiced by a person who is not a sincere seeker and it should be practiced by a person who is serious or sincere about the spiritual experiences.

Understand: now, this technique, today’s both the techniques or even after, from this part, majority of the techniques, today’s is the seventy fourth technique. We may have thirty more or a few more than thirty. All these techniques are supposed to be done in ashrams, only in spiritual universities. I’m talking about this so that everyone will be inspired, will be aware of all these techniques and things which are available.

Understand: I create ashrams around the world continuously, installing temples continuously just for one reason: people will have place to practice all these great things.

The first responsibility of a seeker or a bramachari, or a swami or a devotee who comes and stays inside ashram and around ashram, the first responsibility is to experiment with all these different techniques. First, listening to all these techniques and seeing which one clicks. And after you feel the ‘click’, the connection with one technique, start practicing it. If you don’t feel the click with any technique, better to leave the ashram. Better to do something else. When the click happens, start practicing.

I’m talking on all these sutras so that it can be used as a material or people can start using this as a syllabus for studying and practicing in the ashrams around the world which have happened, which are happening, which are yet to happen. These techniques are the unique techniques that have to be done inside the ashrams. Why you know? You need a loving, caring guidance. You may not need an enlightened person’s guidance directly but you may need a loving caring ambience. If you are fortunate enough to have that in your own house, you can do that. Because when you do these techniques people should not shout at you. They should not call. They should not disturb you. Cell phone should not ring. Sometimes I have seen, only when you sit in the meditation and start, ‘Hmmmmm’, the door will bang ‘dann’; door will open. Instead of divine darshan, you will have darshan of your spouse standing, of course, with all the weapons in the hand and trying to distract with all possible reasons.

With the Nithya Dhyan or other meditation techniques even if you are disturbed in between, there is nothing wrong. Either you will have a complete right result if you do it or if you don’t do, you will not have the positive result. But there will not be any negative result. But these techniques, especially today’s both the techniques has to be done with a lot of intensity and care. You can’t be disturbed in between. You can’t be disturbed in between. It takes something like two cycles, means forty-two minutes.

Very deeply mystical. See all the space as if already absorbed in your own head in the brilliance.

Let me share some of the experiences which I had in the great spiritual universities where they were practicing these great techniques. Let me give you one or two examples then you will understand the power of this technique. I was traveling near Badrinath. There’s a place called Vyasa Gupha where Vyasa lived and wrote Mahabharata, which is the longest epic, still the longest poem in the planet earth. Whenever people come and tell me ‘Mahabharata is a myth’ I tell them ‘Relax.’

Actually if somebody proves Mahabharata is a myth we will have more respect for Vyasa. If it has happened and he has recorded, then it’s okay. Even then it’s a great job. If it has not happened and he has to imagine and write the whole thing, I cannot imagine the depth of visualization, what Vyasa had, because Mahabharata has around one hundred thousand slokas with more than one thousand branch stories. Mahabharata is not just one story; one thousand branch stories. All of them are connecting beautifully without having any of the flaws or any contradiction.

If you are a writer, of course if you are a writer you’ll be doing strike by now. If you are a writer you will understand how difficult it is to write just hundred pages without conflicts. For example, you may say somebody’s wife, somebody’s husband, somebody’s cousin in some story and in the other story it has to match exactly: the attitude, the incident, the decisions, the characters!

Creating the characters is not a joke, is not a joke. And to create a story at least five thousand years ago, a thousand branch stories with at least, I can say, ten thousand clearly described characters is not a joke. You see: if one character has to become alive in front of your eyes means you need to read at least twenty incidents about that character. Means whether it is decisions, incidents or about the background of his life, at least twenty incidents; only then you will have a clear idea about that character. Vyasa is able to bring at least ten thousand characters in front of our eyes alive vividly, clearly. You will have a clear idea about Duryodhana, Dusshasana, or Kandari or Sakuni. You will have a clear idea. And not only that, they are all very complex, paradoxical characters, especially Kandari and all, so much of devotion to the husband means morality, but so cunning when it comes to other side.

But in such a beautiful way he was able to present the paradoxical characters. And look at the character of Duryodhana’s father, Dusshasana, who was supposed to be very dharmic. And He was dharmic and was taking care of his brother’s kids also; was doing everything perfect except in one place: when it came to the choice, priority between his sons and his brother’s son, he missed.

Beautiful description of characters! And Bhishma, what character! What description! What visualization! You cannot imagine. I tell you, one hundred percent if it was imagination of Vyasa, I can promise, Vyasa has the power to create the whole world. If somebody can create Mahabharata out of his imagination, his imagination is so powerful, he can create the whole world. He is god!

If you describe, if you see every unique description of characters like Sakuni and all, you can’t imagine. None of us understand and appreciate; these foolish, idiotic, biased western historians, half cooked, unboiled. These few fellows go on saying the word ‘It is myth. It is mythological. It is myth. It is mythological.’ No! Because of that we take it for granted. We take it for granted.

I tell you, still the whole tradition is alive because of these great puranas and if you get the chance or time, take a little time and see the whole Ramayana or Mahabharata or read once, after this understanding, you will understand. Now, after this description or after this introduction which I gave you, now it can never be an imagination. If it was imagination then Vyasa is equal to God. Vyasa is God because the amount of description of characters: unimaginable ! And the number of incidents and different characters getting involved in different incidents; each one of them exactly represent, replicate their character with a clear consistency. That is another one amazing thing! It is impossible to write a novel of that quality.

You see, Jesus’ life can be easily written. I’m not comparing or criticizing. It does not involve too many characters; does not have too many incidents. Understand, these Puranas with thousands of slokas, thousands of characters need to be described clearly, need to be described clearly and the whole scene has to be arranged. I cannot imagine something of this level or something of this huge visualization can happen without the original event itself happening, without the original event itself happening. It’s impossible. It is impossible! You need to understand the power of those great scriptures and those great epics.

Here the Mahadeva is very beautifully describing the technique. I was talking about the universities, spiritual universities and Badri. Badri is the place where Vyasa was staying; Vyasa stayed here and wrote the Mahabharata. That is the place I had the fortune of seeing, going and staying in a monastery where these techniques are practiced. A few monks were staying and practicing these techniques. I can say all of them were almost on the verge of enlightenment. One person was enlightened. The guru was fully enlightened but all others were on the verge of enlightenment. They were just literally playing with the power of this technique.

I want you to understand now one important thing: whatever I am expressing now is the truth, honest truth which I experienced with my own eyes and ears in my own life.

When I was staying there, one-day morning the Guru called all of the disciples, all of them were sitting and he was talking about some of these techniques of feeling. He was talking in the angle of feeling connected to the whole Himalayas. Here Mahadeva is saying ‘Feel connected to the whole space’. They were working on a technique of feeling connected to the whole Himalayas. It was a very amazing. And that swami, that enlightened master, was very loving and caring enough to allow me also into their morning session.

He was asking one by one, ‘Did you practice this technique?’ It seems only a few days back, he initiated them into the technique of feeling connected to the whole Himalayas. They were supposed to constantly internalize that Himalayas is part of their body.One swami came and said, ‘Yes, Master, now I feel completely connected.’ Understand, now you need to understand. Now the master very casually said, ‘Alright then, move that rock.’ Understand, I promise I saw with my eyes that swami moved the hand and that rock moved. Very difficult, it’s logically very difficult. Only when you have a chance to live intimately. I had the shock and really, literally I ran away from that place. I just got up and got shaken, was shaken completely; ran out of that place. And that swami started laughing. That swami started laughing; the master started laughing. He called me back and said ‘why did you get frightened?’ Of course, at that time, not only I was not enlightened but for the first time I was seeing that kind of power over matter.

See: I have seen small miracles like materializing vibhuti, the sacred ash. I have seen those things with a Master who initiated me into yoga. I have seen him materializing conch, anything which is inside the hand, I have seen. Those things does not need a great achievement. Fro those things all you need to do is to see that the gap between your hands should become a living energy field. Then you can start materializing or teleporting. Usually it will be teleporting. Materializing does not happen usually. Very rarely I have seen, creating something. Usually it will be only teleporting. And those things somehow I was able to manage. This was too much, a huge solid rock just moving.

And he called me back and he said, ‘what? You were frightened?’

I said, ‘Naturally!’

What to do. Then he said, ‘you want to see the power of mind? Just sit here.’ He told that swami, disciple who moved the rock, to hold my hand.

He told me, ‘Now you move your hand.’

And just then a very funny thing happened; I moved my hand and the rock came back to the place. Very strong. Of course this was too big a shock for me. Then he told me very beautifully, ‘It is not that only that swami can do and you can’t do. No! Anybody who can be part of that connection will be able to move.’

I am not saying that you need to move the rock. If you just move your head that’s enough. I’m not saying we need to move the rocks. I’m expressing about this technique, saying about this technique only to tell you the power of this technique.

Ramakrishna says very beautifully: when you have these powers you are not supposed to express them unless there is a living Master in front of you. Ramakrishna says about one of his experiences: One saddhu came to him who had this kind of powers but he was not enlightened. He wanted to impress Ramakrishna. In front of Ramakrishna this saddhu was sitting and there was a small cyclone in the ocean, in the Ganga and all the boats started going this way and that way. Out of his power he stopped the cyclone. Because he stopped the cyclone suddenly, many boats were not able to balance and got drowned and few people died. Because few people died the saddhu got the sin, and the power left him.

Understand: It’s a very, again, different strange experience. So whenever you have this kind of experiences it is better not to experiment unless the living Master is directly staying with you. If at all you have some extraordinary experiences, the best way is to witness. If it is necessary, if you have the intelligence to handle, it will stay with you. Otherwise it will leave you. It’ll leave you.

Before entering into the technique I want all of you to understand. Only if you have a loving, caring ambiance, atmosphere where you will not be disturbed you should practice this technique. If you will be disturbed, of you won’t have that ambiance; better not to practice.

Shakti, see all the space as already absorbed in your own head in the brilliance.

You may be thinking, ‘I’ll just imagine. Nothing happens so easily with me. Master, you don’t know how think headed I am.’

Don’t think. Many times you do not know your potentiality or the potential power of the technique. Many times even strong, thick heads suddenly open up with a simple technique which we think is a simple technique, because techniques are beyond your logic, beyond your logic.

This is the technique, very powerful technique. Let me describe exactly step by step.

Shakti, see all the space as if already absorbed in your own head in the brilliance.

First lie down on the bed. You should have had enough rest. If you are sleep deprived or deprived of sleep you will not be able to do this technique. You will fall asleep. No! You should have had enough rest and taken bath, relax, lie down.

First visualization should be: if you are six feet, visualize your feet, your legs have grown one feet extra. You are having one feet extra long leg. Your legs have become little longer; one foot longer than you are.

Understand: Start with the leg. Start only with one foot. For fifteen minutes visualize you have one foot extra long foot. Second: for next fifteen minutes visualize you have one foot extra long head. You are taller than you are, one foot taller than your body. You may think ‘How this visualization can help?’ It will help you to expand your intense awareness.

The third thing: visualize your both hands are longer; one foot longer than you are. These three visualizations should be done for fifteen minutes each. There should be somebody next to you to ring a bell after every fifteen minutes. You should not be woken up. You should not be disturbed. Just one small bell to tell you the time is up. After you finish these three sessions, these three steps, sit in front of a water bowl and let there be a small wooden piece or something afloat, which can float. Float that wooden piece on the water bowl. Gaze: first intensely concentrate. Bring a connection between you and the object which is floating and tell that object, guide that object mentally without physically touching or without moving through your breath. I have seen few people trying to move through their breath (breathes heavily as an example) ‘Right, right. Left, left’. No, without moving through your breath, you should move that wooden piece with your mind.

One small story about the breath: once there was a great religious leader. Doctors declared that he needed a heart transplant, for him to be alive. Nothing else can be done. So one disciple, any one disciple, has to sacrifice his life or her life and donate the heart.

The announcement went on. A big crowd gathered in front of the Master’s room. Master was on the first floor, on the ground floor a big crowd gathered in front of his balcony, his veranda. Not to donate but to see who was going to donate. Big crowd gathered and the secretary came out and saw a big crowd on the ground floor, a huge gathering.

He announced, ‘I’m so happy to see so many of you here willing to donate. Now, we have to pick up only one person. We’ll drop one feather from the Master’s hand and whoever gets it or on whomever the feather lands, we will take that person’s heart or we will take that person. We will decide that God has chosen that person to be the real devotee to donate.’

The crowd started cheering and they said, ‘Yes, yes, yes! Take mine, take mine!’ And finally the feather was brought and the secretary dropped it. In few minutes he saw many people saying, ‘Take mine,’ (Blew) ‘Take mine.’ (Blew) ‘Take mine.’ (Blew) Everybody was trying to blow the feather away, as fast as possible they were exhaling!

Understand: Do not try to guide moving through the breath. Try intensely to guide through the mind. You will see: If you give four commands, all the four will be executed. Do it for two, three days till you are able to execute all four commands, till that float executes all four commands. It’s a very powerful technique.

I can tell you, if you can see the power of your mind over the matter, you can straight away transform your mind. Then you will understand the negative effects on your system if you are carrying anger and negative things. Then automatically transformation will happen. Now you do not know the intensity of power. That is where the problem lies. First day, after forty-five minutes of meditation, the floating object may listen to one command. In two, three days you will see: the floating object listening to all your commands. Means the power of your mind over matter will got established.

I have seen: not once or twice but many times have worked on many disciples with this same technique. I gave them this technique and asked them to do this. I asked them to work on this technique. I have seen, maximum it takes four or five days, that’s all! Even if you think you are the dullest, dumbest person, even for that kind of disciple it takes only maximum three or four days. So don’t think even in dumbness you are peak. You are not that dumb as you think.

So, start practicing with confidence, just three days, just three days. You will be able to move that floating object with your mind.

It means the extension has happened. Understand: The extension, the conscious extension, has happened. This is the first step. First step is extension happening. The second step, the second step is the thing which you turn towards the spiritual experience. This same extension which happened, you turn it as spiritual experience. The second step: start visualizing. Start feeling the whole thing around you is inside your system, inside your system.

I think, yesterday or day before yesterday, Mahadeva gave the same technique with a little difference, a slight change. This technique is for the people who are interested in metaphysical games, who are interested in playing with metaphysical energies.

He says ‘See all the space as if already absorbed in your own head.’ After you play, after you are clear about the extension that happened in you, now start visualizing the things is inside your own head, things are inside your head, things are inside your own self. Then you will see: not only will you have the power to move them you will also have the intelligence to live with them. You will have the intelligence to live with the experience. Suddenly you will see you are so alive in every body as you are alive in your body. But you will not try to change any body. You will not try to interfere in anybody’s life. You will have the deep experience and the intelligence to accept everything as it is.

That is why first you need to have; you need to work with the small things so that it is not anymore just an imagination or a visualization. It is an experience. Next, start living. Start living. It may take totally three months. I worked with many disciples. Maximum time it took is three months, three months. You will start experiencing the truth behind the Mahavakya ‘You are That. Tat Twam Asi. You are that Truth’. Understand: Three months is a real good bargain, a real good bargain for conscious transformation. All you need is inspiration and caring ambiance. Try to experiment. It will always do only good.

So, let’s enter into the other sutra, next sutra, after a small break. Let’s gather for next session. Thank you.