“Today’s subject is your “Inner space”, the whole world unused natural…”

Today’s subject is your “Inner space”, the whole world unused natural resource. I can say, misused powerful natural resource, is your inner space. Naturally available to us, just because we don’t know how to use, it constantly gets abused.

Just this simple one understanding: Again and again from time immemorial, the Enlightened Masters are landing on the planet earth and saying Life is joy and ecstasy and bliss-again and again. Another one problem is: we are not just able to throw them out, saying that they may be liars or one bolt has gone! We are not able to push them aside, just because of their authenticity, just because of their very presence. Truth adds value to your presence. When Vivekananda addressed the parliament of religions, he started “Dear brothers and sisters of America”. The reminiscences, the people who witnessed the scene, they say that it took atleast 10 minutes for the crowd to settle down. It was such a strong experience, not just clapping, the very feeling. Somebody asked Vivekananda, “How this happened?” Because everyday you see in the streets so many people calling you “sister”, “brother”, all those things. The problem is when they call you ‘brother’ or ‘sister’, you don’t know what for they are calling.

Somebody goes to Gandhi and says “You are my brother”. Gandhi says “Yes you are my brother.. I accept you as my brother”. This guy says “Then give me share of your property” Gandhi just gives one anna and says “Please take it”. This guy says, “How come you give only one anna?” He says , “ I have 30 crore brothers. I have the whole Bharat as my brothers. So I have to give share for everybody. Your share is this. Please take it and go”. So you don’t know what for are they calling you as ‘brothers’ or ‘sisters’.

Vivekananda very beautifully answers: “Before uttering that word, I felt this is my solid experience. I clearly felt they are my own. They just belong to me or I belong to them. That very feeling I expressed as words.”

There is a beautiful word in Sanskrit- ‘Ojas’. If the person who is speaking, if he is speaking from authentic experience, the person who is listening has to listen authentically. Listener cannot escape. Because the depth or the words, will have its own quality. Not only that, anything comes out of the pure inner space has to penetrate your inner space, has to enter into your inner space.

When Vivekananda says ‘Dear brothers and sisters’, you cannot just brush Him aside saying ‘oh..he is lying’ or ‘he is using sentimental words’ or ‘he is just socially polite’ or ‘he is politically correct’ . You can’t brush him aside. Because it will be such a strong experience. It will be such a strong word. You cannot push the Masters words aside. I always tell people: Either you agree completely with me or you disagree completely with me. That’s a big problem. But you cannot push masters aside. Again and again they are happening and they say that ‘Life is joy , life is ecstasy, life is bliss, life is ananda’ But in our daily routine, it doesn’t seem to be true. And it doesn’t seem to be reality. That is why I have seen many times, this happening : people who live closely with Enlightened masters , living masters, they cant understand what is going on: ‘this guy is constantly radiating so much of joy, so much of ecstasy’. I always tell people: If you live with enlightened master, either you should become enlightened or you should become mad. No other way. Because you are too close to truth. It’s a dangerous zone. If you are cooperating , if you are letting the process to happen, if you are involving yourself, you will become enlightened. If you are resisting, the resistance will be too much. Because every moment you have to resist. You don’t have so much of energy to resist. Because his presence will be so strong. It will be penetrating. To resist a Enlightened master you need almost equal energy. That is the reason you can’t push them aside. Neither we can push them aside nor we are able to realize. Then where is the problem? Why their words doesn’t seem to be reality in our system? Even people who follow, the words which are coming out, ‘why it has not become reality in my life?’ I can say the only one reason is unused, abused inner space- the first thing in the life.

Somebody asked me “Swamiji give me only one word advice” Actually that is a big problem. Many people come and ask me “Give me only one word.” I tell them : If I have to give you one word advice, I need at least 2 , 3 hours. If I have to give whatever I want then I can give immediately. One word means it has to be the essence. Once Bernard Shaw wrote a 100 page book. Somebody goes and ask “How could you write such a small book? 100-page? He says: “I don’t have time. If I had time, I would have written only 40 page” Understand: He says “ I don’t have time..that is why I wrote 100 page.. If I had little more time, I would have written much smaller”. Means: To be precise, you need more time.

If somebody asks me to be precise, and only one word advice, my word will be, my advice will be: “Let you care about your inner space. That’s all”. Understand, without knowing, without respecting, without even having little sensitivity, constantly we are abusing our inner space. From morning till night, you do not know what you are sowing, you do not know what you are growing, you do not what you are encouraging. Suddenly when you see the result, ‘this is not what I asked’, ‘this is not what I wanted’, ‘I don’t know how this happened in my life’, ‘I don’t know how come God is punishing me.’ Poor guy!! Anything goes right, credit goes to you. Anything goes wrong he has to take. And all of us know he is sitting somewhere and he doesn’t interfere much. So naturally we go on complaining. ‘it is he.. it is he..it is he..’ The concept of God has become: method is – method to you escape from your responsibility…escape from our responsibility.. The abused inner space or misused inner space is the worst thing that can happen to an individual. Very beautifully Shankara says “Aagara Shuddha yo smruthi suddhi hi”. If the intake is purified, your memory, inner space will be purified. Understand: when Shankara says ‘intake’, he doesn’t mean just the food which you take through the mouth..NO. All the things which you take through all 5 senses: Through eyes, through ears, through smell, through mouth and through touch. Whatever you take inside is called ‘Aahara’. Our inner space is constantly abused by wrong diet, wrong food, poison. So much of violence we are swallowing: visually, or through movies, or through media. Whatever may be reason, so much of violence we are swallowing. I don’t say you should not read newspapers. To know the news , to keep in touch with the world, newspaper is perfectly alright. But we go on spending time and energy enjoying and cherishing the violent visualizations. So much we are throwing inside without knowing that our inner space is getting corrupted.

The corruption which happens to your inner space is what I call “samskara”, engraved memories. The memories which goes and sits inside your inner space and makes you go through same experience, makes you do same kind of actions, even if you don’t want. Those memories is what I call “Samskaras”.

Today the whole session, today is completely dedicated to work on our inner space, to work on our samskara. We will do deeper process, some methods to cleanse the unnecessarily accumulated samskaras. Of course all samskaras are unnecessary. You can be alive without any samskara. Because your very body is made out of the samskaras which is needed. Your mind does not need to carry any Samskara to run your life or to protect the infrastructure which you are having as your own, or to expand your infrastructure to add comforts and to do what you want.

Please Understand: your body has an innate intelligence, which we call ‘biomemory’ or in Sanskrit “Praraptha”. When you design your body, you have clearly decided abt the life, abt the enjoyments, experiences you want to have. Based on that you decide your body, you design your body. So the energy or the ideas with which you designed your body is called Praraptha. Your Praraptha is intelligent enough, powerful enough, efficient enough to run your life and expand your infrastructures. Any samskara which is operating in your conscious or unconscious layer is nothing but a hindrance for the fulfillment of your life. Any samskara, please understand: Any samskara. There is no such thing as good or bad.

People come and ask me: “I feel like coming back to your lecture Swamiji. Is this Samskara also bad?” I tell them: Please be very clear. Do not try to hide. Mind sometimes hides from this corner to that corner. If you chase the mind from this corner, it goes and hides that corner. I tell them: Be very clear. Anything, even coming back, or listening to the discourse if it is based on samskaras, you have not understood what I said. First time if you listen and drop samskaras, you don’t need to come second time. You don’t need to do anything. Sometime we will see without samskara, just out of a deep gratitude or a ecstasy, you may come back. That is perfectly alright. But not as a habit! People who come and sit as a habit, be very clear, I can be 100 % sure, they will not be listening what I am talking. Because they will have one more habit: They have mastered the art of sitting with open eyes and sleeping. They may not be moving their head.

Sometimes I have seen…They will be…Especially in the modern day our schools and colleges teach kids how to sit with open eyes and sleep. They will be… Eyes will be wide open, Sitting very straight. But you will see, their mind will not be here. The mind will be somewhere else. As I was telling yesterday, “Daydreaming”. If you are here out of habit, I don’t think that is going to help. Because, again the next habit, even if the body is there, the mind will be somewhere. That habit will be there. I always tell people: Early morning when you get up and put the brush in the mouth, mind is already in the office. When you are sitting in the office and operating your computer, mind is already in the beach, or the temple, Evening. When you are in the temple, your mind is already in the house. By the time you reach the house and settle down, mind is already thinking about what to do tomorrow, next day-next day routine. One thing is sure: If you are here, your mind is not here. Because constantly it is running: here, there, here, there, here, there.

Filled samskaras, inner space filled with samskaras is hell. Inner space without samskaras is heaven. So do not try to classify good or bad. Samskara by itself, by its very nature is negative, by its very nature is depressive. I always tell people: If you come and sit just out of samskara, after 2 days, the same thing will be boring. Anything done out of samskara, suddenly you will see it becomes empty, it becomes boring, it becomes, simply, unrelated to your life. Any moment happens, with a deep understanding, any moment happens out of your pure inner space, adds value to you. Anything done out of samskaras, adds more and more bondage to you.

From the young age we collect so many different samskaras through so many ways- accumulate, add and reproduce. Samskaras do reproduce even without any further action. Just by thinking, you can strengthen samskaras. There are some samskaras, which can be strengthened only by action. There are some which will be strengthened by information. There are some neither needs action nor needs information-just remembrance is enough, they will get strengthened. We collect various level samskaras, engraved memories, and store in our system and expand, multiply, create more and more hindrance. We have seven layers in our being.

Somebody asked me yesterday. There was a question. “Swamiji, why are you using all these modern things?” I told them: “What is the wrong? Perfectly alright.. If Buddha has made ten thousand people enlightened without flight, car and computer, laptop and without any infrastructure, website, internet, when we have all these things, we should make at least 200 thousand people enlightened, 2 lakh people enlightened. So what is the wrong in using?” So let all these infrastructure be used to transmit the true science. It doesn’t have to be used to transmit only the ideas which was in the head of the people who invented. See..Just because somebody has invented this, it is not that you have to accept the ideology and lifestyle of the person who has invented. That is what we are doing. Not just taking the comforts and scientific great things from the West; taking their lifestyle also. Idiotic!

And you don’t know 66 % of the western countries- not just America, even the other so called developed countries – 66 % are taking some form of psychiatric medicines- Means 2 among three are one screw less! We don’t understand where we are heading. 66 is not small percentage. Sometime I really feel blessed, fortunate that I am born and brought up in Bharatn villages. I was born and brought up in Bharatn village. I never heard so many problems. Not that I heard and I did not have those problems. I never even heard of those problems. The sufferings and problems which the so called developed country kids are facing, I never even heard about them. It is good sometime.

So nothing wrong in using all these infrastructure. Let it be used and the proper ideas be spread. Otherwise, what we will do? We will start thinking the person who created this infrastructure, these discoveries, he knows everything about life. That is the foolishness. They may know how to operate all these machineries. But that does not mean they know how to live the life.

In the east we have done almost ten thousand years of research and development in the inner science, in the inner field. And let the inner science be spread using the machineries and infrastructures of the outer science.

We have seven layers in our body. First layer- I am just trying to give you a visual idea. Of course surely not our bodies like a round shape, unless you are really obese. Even then it won’t be exactly this circle. I am just trying to give you a picture, an idea. First layer is the physical body which you are carrying, made out of flesh and blood. The second layer is the pranic movement – the prana movement which is happeneing in your system like inhaling, the prana which stays inside you and the prana which spreads all over the body and exhaling and cleaning. There are five pranas- Praana, Apaana, Viyaana, Udhaana, Samaana. The five pranas, the pancha pranas, i.e Praan , Udhaan, Viyaan, Samaan, Apaan, the pancha praanas, all these movements are called praana sareera.

And the next, the inner chattering which is going on in you- it’s called Mana- Mana sareera – the mind. The fourth layer is the emotion. I can say intense inner chattering which does not respond to your logical analysis, that is what we call ‘emotions’. That is a fourth layer. And the fifth layer is which you experience in deep sleep. And the sixth layer, you will experience in a strong meditation technique – means thoughtless awareness. And the seventh layer is Enlightenment.

You have seven different layers in you system. If all seven different layers fall in tune with each other, suddenly you will see all the samskaras will leave your system. If the samskaras are taken out of your system, suddenly you will see all these seven layers fall in tune with each other. Balancing, reconnecting, reuniting starts happening. That uniting is what is called Yoga. Beautifully Patanjali describes: “Yogaha Chitthavruthi Nirodhaha” –means “living without samskaras”. Only then the thoughtless state will be there. When the samskaras are taken out, the uniting happens. If uniting happens, samskaras leave your system.

Physical, second Prana, third mind, fourth emotion, fifth deep sleep, the Kaarana sareera, the silence which you enjoy in the deep sleep, sixth the joy, the bliss you enjoy in the thoughtless awareness, what J.Krishnamurthi calls as ‘Choiceless Awareness’ and Ultimate- the seventh layer, pure Enlightened consciousness.

Understand: Uniting all these seven layers, removing the samskaras which you collected and stored – You store the samskaras, in different layers. Yesterday somebody wrote me a question. “Swamiji this stuff was too strong for me” Especially the analysis on the four states of consciousness. Mainly the answer for that question- that one question, when I come back I see the same world. Actually the person wrote the question in a very funny way. “When I come back, I see the same house, same car, same wife- he underlined that word. That word was underlined. Same wife and same life. But when I go back to the dream , I don’t see the same thing. Answer for that question was very shocking to him. I think the same person again wrote one more slip. During the darshan, I got the slip. He says “It was too strong. I didn’t expect I will have such a clarity. I am afraid of the clarity now.” Understand: Many time people are afraid of getting near the truth. But, unless you have the courage to go near the truth, the real healing will never happen. You may have a medically fit body. That does not mean you are healthy. Of course, whoever, I have seen, I can say 99 per cent, the people who do not have the self-healing clarity, thoughts, in the system will never be able to maintain even the physical health.

In last five years of my public life, around 1.2 million, 12 lakh disciples I have initiated. With that experience, I am sharing with you. Not just to boast or be proud about-Nothing. Just to tell you: with this authority, with this experience, with this understanding, I tell you: Person who does not have the self healing clarity and understanding, when I say, “self-healing understanding”, when you fall in depression, the thoughts which brings you out of the depression, the clarity which brings you out of depression.

Just a year ago, I did a small research. I chose some of the people who went through some meditation programs and who went through some spiritual studying. Asked them to write whatever comes in their mind without editing for 20 minutes. And a person who is not exposed to spirituality. I asked them also to write. When I read those papers, it was a very shocking revelation. A person who is not exposed to the spirituality, his thoughts, if he has written 100 thoughts, more than 80 are directing him towards more and more depression. Only 20 thoughts were self healing- means bringing him out of depression. But the people who are exposed to the spirituality and study and meditation, I saw more than 60 percent of their thoughts are self-healing. Only 40 are towards depression. The self-healing thoughts, the self-healing clarity, the touch of the truth- only a person who had a touch of the truth in his life can maintain health. Understand, when I say health, I mean even physical health. Otherwise it is impossible even to maintain physical health, especially in this so called modern society-the stress and the pressure and all those things. The person who put the question yesterday, “This is too much truth for me, Swamiji. I am afraid.”

Understand: You are afraid of your health. You are afraid of your health. Sometimes truth will be strong. No other way. But I tell you: It can create so much of ecstasy and energy-ecstasy in the inner space, energy to expand yourself in the outer space -Energy in the inner space, ecstasy in the inner space and energy to expand in the outer space.

Yesterday the one concept which I was explaining again and again, it is nothing but, one more kind of, another one kind of a dream. That truth, if you can just collect it and keep it inside, that is what I call: “Knowledge weapons”, “Shaastra Sastra”. Whenever depression attacks you, suffering attacks you, life brings different scenes in front of you, this Shaastra Sastra, knowledge weapon, can be so powerful, can be used so much, you can just come out of the depression. So naturally, these great truths sometime even if it is too much, don’t bother try to digest, assimilate, keep it in the corner of your heart. Let the Shaastra Sastras be stored inside you. The more and more Shaastra Sastras you have, Knowledge weapons you have, naturally the depression will have the fear about you. It’s just like: if you have a huge army, naturally the other country will be afraid of attacking you. You don’t even have to attack. The moment you show, display your power, the other country will think twice before attacking you. Same way, the knowledge weapon, Shaastra Sastras, the Self-healing thoughts, the more and more you accumulate the self-healing thoughts, Shaastra Sastras, inside your system, you will see: depression will have fear to come near you.Depression will have fear to even come near you. The life, or what you call as so called life, will be afraid to come near you.

Even now, the truths which I am sharing, it may be little strong. But I tell you: If you want the truth to do the process of healing in you, it has to be digested and internalized. Many time people ask me: “Just by giving a few hours of discourse, how could you heal Swamiji? But it is happening. How it happened in me?” Many people come and ask me. “Just 2, 3 days I sat with you and listened to whatever you said. Suddenly I feel my system is healed. My system is helped. My health is better.” I tell them: It is not simple listening. It is not ordinary words. You will see when these truths are added into you, you will completely rethink. You will redesign your whole life. What you think as desires, what you think as fear, what you think as worry, what you think as depression, all these things will suddenly have new clarity. All these things will suddenly disappear. When the load is taken out of your inner space, there is nothing else but healing. Healing is the only thing that can happen to you.

The seven layers ( I think you can show the seven layers once more…may be for the people who have come inside newly- for them-in TV- how they say that-‘headlines once more’- ‘once more headlines’)

The physical layer-the physical body is the first layer. The praana movements is second layer. The inner chattering is third layer. Emotions are fourth layer. The deep sleep-what you experience during deep sleep –that silence is fifth layer. In the deep meditation what you experience –that joy –that intense vibrant silence is sixth layer. Enlightenment is seventh layer. In the deep sleep it will be graveyard silence- negative silence. In meditation it will be intense silence. There is a big difference. When you fall asleep and come back, you will not become more intelligent. But you fall into meditation and come back you will be more intelligent. And you will be more blissful. When you fall asleep and come back , you may be fresh or little relaxed. But you will not be more blissful. But when you fall into meditation and come back , that silence is called intense silence, live, vibrant silence. (so….)

The seven layers-we store different samskaras in different layers. Usually the samskaras related to desire are stored in the praana , the breathing. And the samskaras related to chronic fatigue or tiredness is stored in the body-in the physical body. That is why two, three times you try to do some exercise, workout or even walking first thing body will bring out is tiredness. But without bothering about that first level samskaras which are raising, if you enter into it, suddenly you will see that same action brings energy out of you. If you start walking, in 2 minutes your mind will suggest ten times, “ I am tired. No..No..it is too much. Enough. We did. Today it is ok. Tomorrow we can do.” It will try its best. But if you don’t bother about that samskaras and just go ahead , in few minutes the same action will bring energy. Chronic fatigue- means a deep feeling to be in inaction, to be in rest or non-moving or not-moving, is stored in the physical body. I always tell people:“Karma pala thyaaga” not “Karma Thyaaga”. The results of the actions should be surrendered, not the action itself. Karma Thyaaga is very easy. That is where the whole spirituality has ended.

The worst thing happened to Bharat is not our tradition, not following our tradition, not following what Krishna said, not following what our traditions have presented. But constantly, I am seeing- this superficial analytical reports –these fellows go on abusing. The other day I was reading an article. There was a technical term they started using- “Hindu rate of growth”. I was surprised. I was surprised. It is just- He means the suffering of Bharat is because of our traditions. It is not. Suffering of Bharat is because we did not follow our tradition. We did not imbibe our tradition. Instead of doing Karma Pala Thyaaga , we started doing Karma thyaaga. Stuck in the first layer, Stuck in the physical layer itself. I have seen in the villages , many places. There are some great things in the villages. There are some things. Like, instead of Karma pala Thyaaga, Karma Thyaaga. (Like a) Till morning ten o’ clock you will see tea shops will be filled. People will be sitting and talking. If you want to listen to the great vedantic truths , go to the village tea shops morning ten o’ clock. YOU will see the people will be sitting and just sipping the tea. “Oh..without God’s grace nothing can be done….Only by God’s grace anything can happen.” All great truths. But just to justify what they are doing, not to internalize. Karma pala thyaaga is supposed to be the truth. But the Karma thyaaga starts happening, if you are stuck in the physical layer. The chronic fatigue or intense craving for the rest. I have seen people – Understand: This intense craving for the rest brings diseases which will put you in the bed. (Intense craving for the rest ). Actually if you see any advertisement for resorts , beach resorts especially, if you see a photograph, beautiful beach, a easy resting chair and somebody resting, the moment you see that immediately something starts happening in you. You feel you should also be lying like that, completely resting, totally in peacefulness, in the deep peace. The moment you see that something in you is awakened. That’s what I call intense craving for Tamas. Understand: If you really find out the same beach, same chair and lie down , you will not have that same peace which you visualized. Till you exhaust the Tamas engrams, lethargic engrams you carry in the physical layer, you cannot rest. Your desire for rest will not let you rest. Please Understand. “How can you say Swamiji? My desire for rest will, naturally, has to let me rest.” No it won’t. Because it is from engrams. It is from samskaras. Even if you find out the same beach, same chair, same bench, same place, try to lie down. The moment you started resting, in few minutes, this samskara will settle down. The next layer samskara will start. Even the decision to rest if it is based on samskara , you cannot rest. First layer samskara is intense desire for rest. Continuously you will see your mind is pulled, pulled back. There is a very beautiful story in Upanishad. A disciple goes to the master and asks: “Master, give me the method for enlightenment”. Master says-very wonderful story- He says “Just take these 400 cows and when they become one thousand cows, come back”. The modern day disciple would have said: “What? You are making 600 cows out of my Enlightenment..You are trying to make more cows out of my seeking”. But he is really a sincere disciple. He did not bother about it. He just took the cows. And the story says, when the cows have become one thousand, when he came back, master says, not only he became enlightened, he says “Now we have thousand and one cows”. In Vedic traditions cows are highly respected, as a sacred thing. He says this guy is also now raised to that level,(sacred), the level of sanctity. Actual thing what happened is : Continuously when you work with cows, they cannot let you rest. And they don’t know you are working 24 hours. They don’t know there is nobody else to replace you. They don’t know that today is holiday. They don’t know one person can work only eight- hour shift. They do not have all these problem. They will constantly demand your attention. This guy by working, working, working, working continuously with them, the desire, the deep desire for rest has disappeared. I can say, the deep desire for vacation or the deep desire for rest, the chronic fatigue, if it leaves your system, 90 per cent of your spiritual journey is over. That is the first, worst problem- first layer samskara. The second: In the praana sareera,in the praanic layer , you store all the desires. That is why, whenever your desires are changing , suddenly you will see the breathing pattern will change. If you are caught by strong desires, like a lust, or anger- even anger is a kind of a desire. Strong desires- your breathing pattern will change. It will be chaotic.

The third layer- mental layer: See: In the pranic layer, second layer, you store your thoughts about how your life should be. In the mental layer you store your engrams about how your life shouldn’t have been- means guilt. If your energy moves towards the future, it is desire. If your energy moves towards the past, and continuously it is rotating only about the past it is called guilt. If it is flowing continuously towards the future, it is desire. If it is flowing continuously towards the past, it is guilt. Different ways of moving. The mental layer, the third layer you store the engrams related to guilt.

The fourth layer, in emotions, you store all the visualizations related to pain. Understand, the fourth layer is very powerful layer. In the fourth layer, you don’t need any action or information to strengthen the engrams. In the first two layers, you need action to strengthen your engrams-means the tiredness or the desire for vacation. The more you give the vacation, the more the desire will be strengthened. Same way other desires, the more you enter into action, based on those desires, the more the engrams will become strong. The third layer, guilt, guilt-related engrams, you don’t need to do the same action. But just the information about that action-means- if you have seen the same place, or if you are seeing the same person, if you are seeing the same situations, immediately that engrams will become strong and it will be awakened.

(But in the fourth layer-pain engrams) First layer-chronic fatigue, lethargy engrams, second- desires, third- guilt, fourth-pain.

The pain layer – neither you need action- means- you don’t have to have the same pain again and again nor you need information related to pain. You don’t even need to receive informations related to pain. Just the engrams are enough, they can multiply. They can expand. They can multiply.

The deeper layers- the fifth layer, the layer you experience in the deep sleep. (they are) Even though engrams are there, you cannot do anything about it, because in the deep sleep, your mind cannot do anything. It’s a unconscious layer.

In the first four layer, if you can reduce the depth of the engrams, samskaras, naturally, the fifth layer and the sixth layer will be cleansed. Fifth layer will be cleansed if you clean first four layer. If the fifth layer is cleansed, you will start experiencing sixth layer more and more. Sixth layer is meditation layer. Fifth layer is deep sleep layer. Sixth layer is meditation layer.

If you are getting into the deep sleep layer, more easily, it means the first four layers are clean. If the first four layers are not clean, then you will suffer more in the fifth layer. That is why, the more stress and load, so much of suffering related to sleep starts happening in the life. Sleep has become a big problem. Now, especially in the developed countries, I am seeing, they are able to get beds but not sleep. Their infrastructure has created the facility to have beds and different temperature, different comforts, so many things but not sleep, because too much stress.

Not only that, if this four layer engrams are too much, in the fifth layer the relationship between you and your body gets disconnected. Reducing the engrams in the first four layer is making friends with your body, making friends with your body. Because you don’t know how we are abusing the body. Understand: if you are having overweight, it is directly connected to some of these engrams. When you feel emptiness inside, lonely, you start filling it. Sometimes, you start filling it by food, or by drinking. Any one thing. Usually women decide food. They choose food. And men decide drinking. Of course, in the west, modern developed society, you cant generalize. You cant generalize. When you are feeling empty, lonely , you have to fill your self with something. Every single thing happening in your life is directly connected to some engrams. Removing this engrams, I can say, is making friends with your body, making friendship with your body. I can say this is the best way to heal.

The other day, I received a big letter and a report from one of our devotee in USA. She came to our program, may be two years ago. Of course, the same meditation which we are going to do now, she did that meditation. She had a tumour in the Muladhara, root center. She had three times surgery. She, herself, is a doctor. But again and again the tumour was growing in the same place. She came and she was doing this meditation which we are going to do today. And she was weeping uncontrollably. I tried to tell her “Please relax”. But it was uncontrollable. Anyhow, after the meditation , I asked her, “what is the problem?” She said that “ I suddenly, again re-lived, the guilt” . In the young age she has been abused by some of the close relatives. Some physical abusing, may be sexual abuse. She said that “Suddenly that samskara opened up, that guilt opened up. I re-lived. That’s the reason I am not able to control. I was uncontrollable. Please forgive me Swamiji.” I said “ Thats OK..Let it leave”.

Re-living is relieving. Understand: Consciously re-living is relieving. And you will be surprised. Even, of course , I am surprised. Of course I know that relieving heals. But this is very miraculous. It really happened. And she says “ After that relieving , after that meditation, within a month, the tumour disappeared. And never came back. Now atleast one and half years over, (it) did not come back.” I was shocked. Of course I know, relieving heals. Relieving the guilt, releasing all the samskaras heals. But this is really miraculous. The guilt which she created in the young age, not only evolved as a hatred towards that person, it has evolved as a hatred towards the Self, herself and the part of that body, the body part. So that hatred has become tumour and sickness. When that engram was released, guilt was released, when she became pure, when the guilt has left her system, suddenly she came back to health. The system came back to health.

So many pains and sufferings, physical and mental illnesses, we are storing in our system in the form of some engram. Not only diseases, even disorders, overweight, obesity or many other disorders, even those disorders, are directly connected to some of our engrams. Working on the first four layer engrams, and releasing them, re-living them, and relieving them will heal your system very powerfully. Understand: It is little strong method, little strong technique. But I tell you: It is atleast 100 times powerful than any yoga, any kriya, you can do.

Because yoga or kriya heals..no doubt.It takes it own time.This is like directly attacking the root center, root cause of suffering. Yoga starts working on your physical body, exhausts all the tamasic engrams and heals you. Kriyas , the breathing techniques, they start working on your praanic layer, second layer and releases the desire engrams, reduces the stress and starts healing. But this method, the meditation techniques, you can work upto the fourth layer. The meditation techniques straightaway works upto the fourth layer and heals you. That is why it will be so powerful. You need complete involvement, interest. You need to put your whole attention and awareness into the technique. If you can go through, go into it and come out, you will see miracles happening inside you. Understand: If you don’t know the science of miracle, you will be making accidents. If you know how to use your inner space, you will be making miracles. If you don’t know how to use your inner space, you will be making accidents. Both are beyond your logic.

See: Miracle and accident, both are beyond your logic. If the effect is favorable to you, desired by you, you call it miracle. If the effect is not desired by you, if it is not benefiting you, you call it as accident. In your inner space, if you know how to use, you will be constantly making miracles. Purifying the inner space is plan for miracles. If you don’t know how to use, you will be constantly creating accidents. Because you will be attracting the same frequency incidents in your life, same frequency actions in your life. So, this is a wonderful truth which you need to internalize. Not only internalize, experience by entering into the process…by entering into the process. Understand: I don’t even want to use the word “meditation technique” for what we are going to do today. Today, we are going to do two things: one is process, may be the second one can be called as meditation. The first one cannot be called as meditation, because its more like re-living, going into all the things about which you are afraid, all the things which frightens you. Facing them, living them, re-living them. I call this as “relieving”. Re-living is relieving. And we will enter into meditation technique, very powerful technique,, which you can carry and practice in your home everyday. Now I will take a few minutes to analyze whatever I expressed. Please understand, whatever I expressed. is more like ’Athatho Brahmachiggnasath ‘ Let us inquire into the reality. I have proposed whatever I wanted to propose. Now, you can analyze it through your questions. It is like a journey, the master’s experience and the disciple’s logic, is used to churn, when you,, when the disciple’s logic is used, to work on the churn with the master’s experience, suddenly you will see, the Amritha. The master’s experience comes out. If the disciple’s logic is not intelligent enough to stay with the master, patiently, then that logic emits something, it is called poison. That logic will escape, run away, out of its tiredness. I t thinks if it is not going to survive, it emits poison. Just like the vasukis, if you know the churning of the milky ocean, if you know the story, the vasuki, the snake can be called as the disciple’s logic. When vasuki thought it couldn’t survive, it started vomiting poison. When the logic feels it can’t survive these great truths, it is going to disappear. The life is going to take a different direction. It vomits poison, which I call doubt, and creates problems.

If you have patience to work with the master’s experience, what I call the ‘meru hill’, you will see ‘Amritha’, enlightenment comes out of your system. Let us churn the master’s experience with our questions, so you can internalize all these great truths, all these great revelations. Now we will enter into the process and the meditation technique.

Oh, here is a question: I recite Lalitha Sahasranama. At times I feel the happiness with the names, I feel some of them very close to my heart. So feel the oneness, but this state does not stay for long. How will I able to stay in that state continuously? Please guide me.

Swami says: I think the same question, yesterday we answered. Do not decide that you should recite all the 1008 names. Devi is not sitting and taking accounts whether you recited all the 1008 or not. Whatever makes you feel that oneness, that blissful state, recite those names and cherish, enjoy! Those experiences and that mood and rest with that. If you really feel that you are in that state, further chanting will disturb that state. Just close the book and leave it. You achieved what needs to be achieved through chanting. Do not use the technique to disturb your peace. Sometimes you over drive, you try beyond the point which you need to reach. So, do not over drive. Stop where you are supposed to stop. So, start staying in that state, when it happens by not doing anything. That is the best way to let that experience settle in you again and again.

Here is a beautiful question: Sir, how to know whether a master is enlightened or not among all the other masters in the world?

Swami says: I tell you, even if the master is enlightened or not, if your heart feels connected, go behind him. Even if he is not enlightened, you will become enlightened. Understand, if your heart feels connected, just go behind him, even if he is not enlightened. You will become enlightened. If your heart does not feel connected, even if he is enlightened, he cannot help you. Even if he is enlightened, if your heart is not feeling connected to him, if you are not feeling that vibration, that ecstasy, that falling in tune with him, he will not be able to help you. Just forget about it, so, you don’t have to bother whether somebody is enlightened or not, bother more about whether you feel connected or not. It is one of the best ways to avoid spiritual growth, judging the masters. It is a very, if you want to avoid spiritual growth, best method is judging the masters. Start judging so you don’t have to judge you. Many people come and ask me, the other day, one guy asked me, young guy, he said, “Like Vivekananda asked Ramakrishna, have you seen god? I am asking you, ‘have you seen god?”. He said, “How Vivekananda asked Ramakrishna, I am asking you, answer me. Have you seen god?”

I told him, “When Vivekananda asked Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna said yes and Vivekananda was courageous enough to follow Ramakrishna. Not only I have seen but I can also show you. That guy disappeared. We go on judging the master, but don’t worry about our qualifications. I tell you, if your heart feels connected, if you feel some goodness being around him or about him, just go behind even if he is not enlightened, you will become enlightened. I have seen many disciples becoming enlightened, but the masters unenlightened.

Animals don’t get married and enjoy their life, why should we get married and suffer? Is there anything in marriage not provided for animals?

It is a very controversial question. I thought when I first read, I will avoid, but marriage is my favorite subject, I don’t want to avoid. So first let me answer, here he is asking, “Animals don’t get married and live a free life, why should we get married and suffer? Is there anything in marriage that is not provided for animals?”

Swami answers: “Yes, yes. Animals take birth as polygamous and die as polygamous. Human being in seed, in potential form, when he takes birth is polygamous but he should not die as polygamous, they become monogamous. Understand that is what is maturity. Suddenly you will see, when you start growing inside you, the deep friendliness, the deep friendliness liberates you from lust. Please understand, just yesterday, just yesterday in our ashram, I was discussing about this. In our ashramites meeting I was telling, I was taking classes for my brahmacharis about the syllabus and sanyas. There was some very intimate questions and answers session was going on. There I made a statement, a very important truth. It is not just for swamis, it is for everyone. We need to understand, a deep friendliness will completely replace the need for lust. It is a very important sutra, it is a very important sutra. Usually in marriage, a deep hatred replaces the lust. A small story: A thirty- year- old guy goes to the doctor. After a checkup, after a thorough medical checkup, doctor says, “Your health is not for married life. You have to completely drop physical relationship. You have to be celibate, alone. This guy says, ‘No, no, I am just thirty. I cannot suddenly quit, I cannot suddenly stop. Give me some other alternative. He said, “Ok, marry. Slowly it will automatically tamper down.” Understand a deep hatred replaces your need for lust. But the truth is a deep friendliness can replace the need for physical relationship. If the deep friendliness can replace the need for physical relationship, that is what we call ‘Vanaprastha’, vedic tradition, ripened married life. When the married life gets ripened, it is called ‘Vanaprastha’. In the vedic married life, there is ‘Achirvasana’ means the blessing statement. During the marriage, the blessing is given to the man, “Let you become your eleventh son of your wife”. For her, the blessing is given, “Let you become the eleventh daughter of your husband”. It means after ten years of living together, the deep friendliness, if it grows, suddenly you will see the need for physical relationship comes down, tampers down. So, I really feel the marriage system has something to contribute, at least our masters had something in their heart when they created this system of family. So surely, marriage system has something to add to you than the animal life. I can say deep friendliness. I can say, it is like, the physical relationship is more like confirming whether the other person is still in need of me, or still the other person wants me or still the other person loves me or not.

If that guaranty, that confirmation, that person is in love with you, the other person needs you, the other person will miss you, the other person loves you. If that confirmation, that security settles down in both hearts, suddenly you will see the need for physical relationship comes down. I can say, that is what is the gift, that is what is the fruit that you were supposed to have from the proper marriage system. I can say that is the thing that animals cannot experience. Polygamous man can never experience this, Polygamous man never experience this, that guarantee, that insurance that other person loves you, will never be experienced by a polygamous person. If you experienced that, you have lived a pure fulfilling life, the life of a real ‘Grahastha’, vedic traditional grahastha.

Can anybody become the master or is he the chosen one? Nobody needs to choose you. You need to choose you, that’s all. Understand, fortunately masters are not chosen the democratic way. Nobody needs to vote for you. All you need to do is, you need to vote for you, that’s all. You need to choose you, nobody else needs to choose you. Just decide consciously, from today I am going to live the reality, the truth of my being. That is the decision, you have become the master, that’s all. I always tell people, when I say I became enlightened on a particular day, do not think something has happened in my system. Of course, something has happened, but that is not the actual main thing I want to convey. First thing, what happened? Very consciously I decided, let me live my enlightenment. Because I decided as a after-effect, as a side-effect, something has started happening in my body and mind. But people are always thinking, first the experience should happen then you decide, no. First the decision has to happen, then the experience happens.

So, nobody needs to choose you. You have to choose yourself. That is the best thing. Fortunately there is no election for choosing the masters.

In yesterday’s meditation, I felt strong concentration between the eyebrows and strong vibration in the spine. Is this normal? Swami answers: Yes, wonderful, you really had a good meditation. The vibration in the spine means that part of the kundalini energy gets awakened. That is good experience.

Somebody has written a question in Tamil. I will not be able to answer that so I will answer the other questions. Here some of the questions, more like a personal healing questions, you can come and ask me in the energy darshan. I am answering the questions directly related to the subject I have spoken.

Swamiji, I would like to know the purpose of our life, the world, the universe and our god. If you know the purpose of your life the other three will automatically be understood, you will be able to understand. If you know the purpose of, here you are asking I wanted to know the purpose of our life, purpose of our world, purpose of our universe, and purpose of our god. Purpose of your life is the purpose of universe. Purpose of universe is purpose of god. It means purpose of your life is purpose of god. Be very clear, find out the purpose of your life and you will be able to find out the purpose of god. But unfortunately, I cannot tell you the purpose of your life. One more important thing, whatever you think as purpose of your life, you will attract that kind of universe around you. You will create that kind of world around you. You will be devoted to that kind of god. Understand, purpose of your life decides the purpose of your world, purpose of your universe, and purpose of your god.

You create all other three out of you. If your purpose is just money, you will create that kind of a corporate world around you. You will create that kind of a corporate universe; you will understand the whole universe as a company. The other day, I was reading a wonderful article “Describe the whole universe as a company, global earth holdings. And the ‘Big Mass’ never visited and so many people are spending so much of their time and energy to continuously prove the existence of big mass as they understood, so that they can have a command over the company and it goes on and on. Some books say, one day big mass is going to take away all of us and have a different company, much better company going to alert, realert, reshuffle, based on our actions, hell or heaven. And some scriptures say the guys wearing only your robes, your dress and talking real true things about big mass, till the end the confusion goes on and on and on, nobody knows what color, what kind, what way the big mass and or where it is. The whole world will look like a corporate company. It will feel like universe and you will be naturally attracted to god who gives or whom you believe will give money.

So, purpose of your life is going to decide the purpose of your world, purpose of your universe and purpose of your god. If you are enlightenment based, if you feel that the purpose of your life is not money and enlightenment, suddenly you will see, you will attract that kind of a society around you, that kind of universe around you or that kind of god whom you believe will give enlightenment, that god you will feel connected or attracted to that god or if you want you feel you want both money and enlightenment. Then your universe will be that way. You will create that kind of a world around you. You will feel attracted to that god or divinity. So, I can say, purpose of your life is the main core threat, find out that, unfortunately, I am sorry, fortunately I cannot teach you that. You only have to find it out. Here, first thing: “My daughter aged about twenty six and she wants to become a sanyasi. She is not accepting for marriage. Please kindly bless.”

Swami says: When an individual soul wants something, we can only bless for that individual decision. See nobody can interfere in individual freedom. If the person wants to marry, you can’t make her a sanyasi. If she wants to become a swami, you can’t make her marry. Whatever she wants, let that happen, only that is the right plus, I think I can only give that blessing, I think you expect that only because here you said, “please, kindly bless my daughter”. What she wants, let her achieve, successful, let her be successful in that. That’s what I can say.

Our life is a dream. How can a master appearing in the dream can pull out, pull you out of it? It is a very nice question. You are asking, if life is a dream, a master who is appearing in that dream, how can he pull me out of it? Understand, in the night, if you dream that a lion is chasing you, ‘simha swapna’, the lion is chasing you in the dream only, but that dream can pull you out of that dream. Simha swapna can just make you wake up. If you see a lion in the dream, what do you do? You just wake up. The very fear, you come out of that fear. Just like how the ‘simha swapna’ can wake you up, master who is happening in this dream can lead you to enlightenment. Master is a simha swapna. Understand, he is a simha swapna, he can just wake you up, just wake up.

Will the process of purification today bring you out of temporary negativity?

Swami answers: It will permanently bring you out of negativity. Just go into it.

When my master cleared my samskaras and take care of me, my only duty is to do what he has told me, not all these confusion about the layers, it is too much for a stupid disciple like me. Surrendering to mater is all I have done. Understand, surrender the idea that you are a stupid disciple, that is also, that is an important thing. Here you have surrendered everything except for the idea that you are a stupid disciple. Surrender the idea that you are a stupid disciple, then you will be able to understand what I said. Then you will not say this is too much. People come and tell me: Swamiji, I’ll do whatever you say, but not all these meditations. What do you mean? Meditation is what I am saying you to do. So do that, only then, otherwise it is contradictory. Surrender to me, Guru Bhakthi is supposed to lead you to Atma Bhakthi. That is the reason for Guru Bhakthi. If you say, I am surrendered to you but I am stupid, this is too much for me, then don’t think you have surrendered to me. You have surrendered many things to me but not the idea that you are stupid. Surrender that, you will realize the truth.

Unique thing with the enlightened masters is their immense practicality. With philosophers that will be missing. Actually to become a philosopher, you don’t need anything. You don’t need intelligence, I can give you just two three tips how to become a philosopher. Talk all big big problems in an elaborate way. Second, try to give answers or solutions you can never practice or you’re never able to practice. Third thing, an important thing, never end your book or end your statement with a clarity. These two three ideas if you follow, you can become a philosopher from today. Don’t read this book how to stop worrying start living, I can say, I always tell people, when people come and tell me: I have too much worries. What to do swamiji? I tell them: Just worry and suffer, suffering will teach. They think I will give them some consolation. Consolation is the worst non-sensical thing to delay your growth. Just suffer, suffering is powerful enough to teach. I’ve seen, suffering is powerful, you see either you be intelligent and learn from the master or suffer, life will teach you, that’s all. It is a little hard way, but no problem. Just suffer, life will teach, so do not try to avoid suffering. When you decide, I have to suffer, then naturally you will see one or two simple teachings, your mind will start picking up and start practicing. Usually when people come and ask me: I am suffering too much, give me some way, If I give them some mediation, they will say: Oh I don’t know this meditation and if I give them some proper technique, after one month they will come and tell: Now, I have one more worry, I am not able to practice meditation. They will only add more and more worries because their very tendency, their basic structure is worrying. Nothing can be done. I tell them: Just suffer, just suffer, then they start getting defended. What? How dare you tell me to suffer? I will come out of the suffering. I tell them: This is what I wanted. Please come out. The problem is if I back them up, you see human beings have become such anything if you have to do, it will start happening only with vengeance or challenging mood. We forgot doing something based on inspiration. Anything has to be done challenging, if I say suffer, die, who cares? Then he says: Who are you to tell me that? Now I will come out. Only with a challenging mood, violence, we even come out of violence. Even to come out of violence, we need a little violence. That’s why I tell people, suffer its okay!

Sometimes I make fun of people who are suffering. Then immediately they come out of suffering. They just come out because they don’t want anybody to make fun of their suffering. Sometimes it is good.

During the course of your discourse, you said one can only reach the state of fourth stage and beyond that one needs the bliss of guru; I did not say bliss, presence of a guru. Why is it so? Whether an ordinary person like me, desires to go beyond the fourth stage is it possible? Even with mundane attachments? What do you think you are doing? You have given up everything to come and sit here? No, now you can go into the fifth stage or beyond fourth stage. See when I said that statement, it was a technical detail. Sometimes, people think everything can happen just by their effort, just to tell it does not happen the way I told you. But otherwise, you don’t need to do anything else much. Just work on this fourth state, you will see the fifth state will automatically become cleansed. Before even working on the fourth, they have already started worrying about the fifth. I’ve always seen these people, array, to cleanse the fourth and work on the fourth, how many years it will take I don’t know. The moment there is something which I said, you can’t do, immediately where does your attention go? No, no, no, I should do only that. I should do only that. That I why, many times I tell, you can’t do meditation, that is only for intelligent people. Immediately they start doing, they just want to prove.

Anyhow, there is a question that I am not even able to read. To seek, after that I am not able to read. There is a story I always tell: One guy gave an ad in the newspaper, local newspaper. We need a person as a manager, for manager post, who knows how to read and write French. One application came, I can write but I can’t read. This guy was surprised, who is this guy who says, I can write but I can’t read? He calls that guy for interview. That guy comes, this guy is interviewing, he says: I want a manager who knows how to read and write French. That guy says: I already applied, I told you in my application that I can write but I can’t read. This guy says: Please write. Takatakatakataka, he wrote something. This guy picked up saw the paper; he is not able to understand anything. He said, “What you wrote? Read and tell me, I don’t understand. The guy who wrote said, “I told you, I can only write, I can’t read”. So I think, somebody like that wrote the question. They can only write, they can’t read.

I don’t know what is the purpose of my life, I feel good to bring smiles on the face of needy people. But I don’t know what is the purpose of my life. How to know that?

I can tell you, first bring smile on your face. That is the purpose of your life. Then let that smile overflow and bring the smile on every other person’s face. Yes, if you don’t have smile on your face, and you are trying to bring it on other’s face in the name of service, you will be expressing and you will be just putting your ego, imposing your ego on others. A small story: NCC teacher, he told all his NCC students, everyday, you guys should do one good activity and come and report. One day, three boys stood up and said: “Sir, today we helped an old lady to cross the road”. The teacher said, “For that, you don’t need three students. Three persons are not needed to make one lady cross the road”. One person said, “Yes sir, it took three persons because she didn’t want to cross”. Understand, many times your service, ends up in imposing your ego. So, let you bring a smile on your face, a deep contentment, settlement. I always tell people, if you can solve all the problems of your life, just by your knowledge weapons, Shastra Shastras, inner clarity, with inner healing, then start doing service. First thing you need to do is solve your life by having the clarity about jeeva, jagath, and ishwara. Jeeva is self, jagat is world and ishwara is god, source of world and self. Then start doing service work intensely for this.

How does one identify for self healing clarity?

Swami answers: The self healing clarity, the inner clarity is so powerful it will release so much of peace in you clarity in you. Suddenly you will see the problem with which you were pondering, worrying, confusing, planning disappears and you are in that restful awareness. You are in that deep state of rest, that is the way you can identify the inner healing.

When I witnessed no thoughts, when mind is thinking it witnessed mind can only do one thing at a time. How can I witness when a thought is coming?

Swami answers: Why are you creating a problem? If you say you witness there is no thoughts, just celebrate you are in a thoughtless state. Enjoy you are in a thoughtless state. Why do you think you should have thoughts and you should witness? You are only creating more problems. If you think when you witness, you don’t have thoughts, that is what we want. Just be relaxed, do not bother about thinking. Let you be constantly in the witnessing mood.

Somebody is asking: How do you practice these three techniques? In order, how long everyday?

Swami answers: The technique which I gave yesterday and which I am, which we are doing today, both you can use when needed. But the technique which we are going to do tomorrow, that only I recommend you to do everyday.

Here is a wonderful question: A lot of what you speak and demonstrate is true and sharply laser-like. However in the Bharatn context when you speak of tradition or a lack of practice of tradition, don’t you think we have not understood tradition? Also, is there not a misuse of a outer system of tradition that have rendered our psychology and disempowered, compartmentalization of spiritual, material, sexual, all disconnected.

Swami answers: First thing, I don’t think the outer systems of tradition have been used or misused for power as much as you are told. Maybe, any system, when it is used by an uninspired personality, the system will be misused. Any system, so maybe in the spirituality system, one or two uninspired people entered and the system might have been misused by one or two people. But that does not mean the whole system is a failure. And you have been told too many times about the one or two mistakes. You see, any system whether it is social, political, or economical or any system, the amount of abusal misuse happening, even if you know, you don’t go for an alternative. And you are told very less amount of the mistakes and abusal happenings in those systems. But unfortunately, about spirituality and tradition, I think you’ve been given too much information about too small things. And you start thinking of replacing or an alternative. That is where the difficulty starts. Do not think so many problems have happened as you are taught or told.

Your teaching focuses on the divinity inside each one of us, that each one of us connect with our consciousness and how is it that your followers chant your name? How does that help?

Swami answers: You have to ask them, not me. At least I don’t chant. Two things, there are so many things related to this question. First thing, I don’t feel connected to this name. That is the reason I don’t bother or I don’t feel pride when they chant or I don’t feel that something like fulfilling when they chant. No, second thing, maybe my name has become a brand name for my philosophy. It is like a, if you remember a particular shop’s name, you remember all the products inside that shop. Same way, for my disciples, maybe my name has become the centre word for all the teachings which they received from me. To remind themselves of all the teachings they received from me, maybe remembering my name will be useful sometime. That’s the reason they maybe using, that’s all the reason I can find or I can analyze. More than that, only they can tell. If my teachings, if repeating my name helps you to remember my teachings, then it will be perfectly alright, otherwise don’t do. Otherwise better remember your name, that is good for you. If it helps you, if it inspires you to remember my teachings, and experience, then you can remember my name, don’t bother. And another one thing, if you feel like remembering my name, then remember, otherwise don’t bother, don’t worry about why they are remembering. It is their headache; they maybe feeling helped, let them remember. There is a beautiful incident in Ramana Maharishi’s life: Every Saturday, in front of his presence, they will chant Ramana Satguru, Ramana Maharishi’s name as a song. He himself will sit and enjoy. Somebody asked him: What kind of an enlightened being you are? You are enjoying your own name being chanted. He says very beautifully: Why are you reducing such a great power Ramana to this 6-foot body? Why are you reducing that great Ramana as to this 6-feet body? He says it is a great power, it is a great energy, just like you are all enjoying the name, I am also enjoying that name. So, you don’t have to reduce that name to this 6-feet form. Same way, you don’t have to identify. Still I don’t sign my name, people ask autograph, you will see I will only be writing the mantra which I used before my enlightenment because I didn’t feel physiologically connected to my name. The name with which you are all calling me, because from the young age, I had so many names. Parents called by one name, friends called by another name, nickname, and now disciples are calling by another one name, the initiating master, the master who initiates, gave a different name. So, so many different names. Somehow I did not feel connected to, psychologically feel connected, that’s why when people ask me to autograph, I only use the mantra which I used before enlightenment.

I think it is time we enter into the meditation because many of these questions will disappear in the process. Again I will take up few questions; I will answer, because there are some questions which can disappear just going through this meditation. Let us finish, then we will see the remaining questions if time permits. Understand, we are going to do two things. One, meditation technique after this process means re-living. Understand we are going to do two things. First thing we are going to do is re-living, second we are going to do the meditation technique. What do I mean by the word re-living? Consciously enter into the memories which you don’t want to enter your guilt, your pain, many of the suppressed desires which you don’t want, which you don’t want to become part of your inner space. Whatever you are avoiding, just consciously re-enter into them. People ask me: No, no, no, if we enter, will it not become strong, will it not become reality? You are not that powerful to make your thoughts into reality, fortunately. So, don’t bother, when you enter consciously into them those engrams if they are someway going to be good they will become part of you. If they are not going to be good,