“The gap between you and an Enlightened master - gap between you and an…”

The gap between you and an Enlightened master - gap between you and an Enlightened being - I can say one word: 'samskaras' - 'engraved memories'. Please understand. This word I am going to use, again and again in the next four days - so better you understand this word now itself, very clearly. Samskaras - engraved memories; means the words, thoughts, or ideas which gets in your head and makes you go through that same experience again and again even if you don’t want, is what I call samskaras, engraved memories.

I want to tell you one more important thing - of late I am facing an important problem, very big problem - people finish seeing all my discourses in Youtube or DVD, books - they finish everything and then come here, for just experience. That’s one kind of group. The other group, first time coming inside. So for the people who already read, studied, all my Youtube discourses and books - some concepts may be repetitive. Even when I talk here, when I describe samskara, I will not describe once and leave it - I will tell at least four, five times; the same concept from four, five angles.

Please understand. This is for the sake of newcomers. I do have some people who have not read any book or watched the discourse - so I have to start from the scratch. Earlier I didn’t have this problem because everybody will be new. Nobody will feel bored. Now the mix of crowd has started coming. Youtube has created a big problem. It has brought many people, that is true, and it has brought Me boredom also, sometime, in the classes. Because many things which I am expressing you’ would have already heard from the discourses.

I can tell you one important thing, whatever is said and done, hearing from the teaching materials is different and hearing from the Master's very being is totally different. So don’t even think you know all these ideas already. Just sit, with the beginner's mind. I can tell you these words can directly click with your being. It can just suddenly click. Suddenly you will see, “God, yes! This is what I always thought but He said it.” It will just click - your eyes will light. That click is what I call initiation. If some words comes from the Masters' very being and penetrates your very being, that connection, that click, is what I call initiation.

Initiation does not mean some words which neither you understand nor He understands - uttering that in your, inside your ears, no. Something comes from the being and penetrates your being and suddenly you know, you are going to live this truth - without doubt. You will not even have idea, "How will I execute this? How will I live this? Will I be able to live this great idea?" No, simply you know you are going to live it - it is yours. Any word which is Mine, which is My experience - if it penetrates your being and if it become - becomes yours - it is initiation. My property becoming your property is initiation.

Understand. Initiations will happen only in the presence. Understandings will happen through media, through YouTube or through books - understandings will happen; inspiration can happen. When you read a book, suddenly things click with you and you close the book and keep it down and start contemplating. Inspiration will happen, understandings will happen, but never initiation. Initiation needs presence. So, even if you have heard - in Singapore Airlines they will tell, “Please watch this security video even if you have watched already, earlier.” Even if you have heard, through the YouTube or books - YouTube has rated as a most watched Gur in - of course, that has brought some good things and some bad things.

Because sometimes if I tell some small stories or jokes, nobody is laughing because they already heard ten times in the YouTube. And now big problem I have to collect continuously new, new stories. And it has become like a homework for Me. Earlier whatever I read or heard hear and there - if I tell that is enough. Now the people have mastered Me. What to do? It’s a big homework, before coming to the session I have to sit and go through some jokes book and stories to tell something new. Otherwise, people are just, “Ah we know it, keep it.” They become juice, not Jews, juice. Please put up with my pronunciation also.

I have my own English. Because I did not learn formally, fortunately. Fortunately, I did not learn formally so I keep my own accent and my own - and fortunately I learnt the language at a time where people have stopped judging Me. See, once you become an Enlightened being naturally people don’t judge you based on the language and all. And so I keep My own unique purity of English. See, what do you mean by purity of language? Your uniqueness is purity. See, in Sanskrit we have a very beautiful concept: 'aasha prayoga'; means an Enlightened being does not have any grammar rules. He does not have any grammar rules in Sanskrit.

Many Sanskrit poems and sutras written by Vivekananda does not fit with the Sanskrit grammar. Not only Vivekananda, even Patanjali, Krishna - Gita has so much of grammatical mistakes. No, really! If you read Gita, so much of grammatical mistakes. Anyhow, aasha prayoga - see the problem is I am trying to express something which is not possible to express; very difficult to express. So, naturally, that restriction of grammar or phonetical - all these things does not - it creates more disturbances and more problems. So please put up with my English. But I can be sure I will convey the concept or the truth which I want to convey.

Initiation happens only in the presence. The alchemy happens only in the presence. Never through the discourse, DVDs or books or YouTube or any other thing. All those things are only inspiration materials. People ask me, “Swamiji, what is this?” Actually, the whole NSP is in Youtube. The four days what you are going to listen - the whole thing is already in the YouTube. You don’t have to come here, pay, sit for four days - you can just see in the YouTube and get the whole material - including meditations. Now we started uploading even meditation techniques - even meditation techniques are getting uploaded.

People asked me, many times, especially the - one meditation Guru. He asked me, “What is this Swamiji? If you put everything in YouTube and publish as books,”- all the techniques which you are going to learn or going to do is already published in the form of books. The 'Meditation Is For You' there is a book - in that book all the meditation techniques which I am teaching in ASP, BSP, NSP, CSP, DSP - A, B, C, D, N, P, all set - all SPs; whatever I am teaching, all the techniques I have collected - I think like a 90 techniques is compiled in one book and published already. The book is 'Meditation is For You', you can get it and read and practice.

Somebody asked me, one meditation Guru, “What is this Swamiji? You publish everything in book and DVD, video, or YouTube clips. Then why do people come to your discourses or classes, programs?” I tell them, "That is Okay - I don’t have a problem." Two thing: one, I don’t feel that people should not have meditation and knowledge at all if they are not able to come here. There will be many reason, the people are not able to come and sit here. Maybe they will not be able to get four days out of their routine. Or maybe the religions prejudice, that I am wearing this color and He may be teaching some particular religion - religious prejudice. Or sometime even the age prejudice. I have seen people saying, one very elderly pundit, well educated, well read pundit - he came here, those days my photographs were popular. He came here to see and I was sitting outside the there is a bit rock, on that I was sitting and rocking actually - just rocking my leg. No, enjoying playing with my kids - My Gurukul kids. Those, those days only 2-3 kids, not many, just 2-3 kids. With them I was sitting and playing. This guy came and asked Me, “I wanted to meet Swamiji.” I said please go to the hall, He will come in half an hour.

No, this is not the joke, the real joke is coming, and after half an hour he came and I was about to sit in the chair, he said, “No, no I want to meet big Swamiji.” I said in this ashram I am the big Swamiji. And he thought I am a disciple. I am one brahmachari and Guru is there somewhere else. I said, “In this ashram, whether fortunately or unfortunately, I am the Guru. And you will be surprised, the guy asked me, actually, I healed one of his cousins. “No, no, no, one Swami came and healed my cousin. I heard" - she was actually brought out of coma. "I heard she was brought out of coma by this Swami. I want to meet that Swami.“ I said, "I am that Swami whether you believe it or not." Unfortunately we don’t carry ID card.

I don’t - see you won’t understand, that guy did not speak to Mand he went away - he went away. He said, “I don’t think you can teach me” and he went away. The age prejudice, lot of maybe due to all these prejudice people may not be able to come here. So, I do not want to restrict the initial inspiration or understanding. I don’t feel that they should not have meditation at all just because they’re not able to come here. That’s a reason - published all the books, all the techniques and methods - this a one reason.

Second thing, see, with a spiritual Masters there are two things - one is portable knowledge and non-portable experience. The portable knowledge means, you can read, learn, imbibe and go out and tell that this are all as if your own invention. No problem, I don’t have a problem. I always tell people: I don't have copyright or any of My words or thoughts. You can use it half, full, misuse, abuse, mis-change or mix it, make masala and do anything you want and claim it as yours - I have no problem. I don’t have copyright over any of these things. It’s all up to you. Portable knowledge - it is no problem at all, it's available. There’s one important thing: 'non-portable experience' that can be gained only by His presence. Straightaway, sitting is presence is the only way to gain that non-portable experience.

People who do not have this second product with them - non-portable experience, they sell only the portable knowledge that is why so much of secrecy is needed. If they giveaway that they don’t have anything else to offer. People who are afraid. See understand, if they are not releasing their techniques in publication, in the form of books, cassettes, DVDs - be very clear, they do not have non-portable experience to transmit to you. So, all they have is only portable knowledge, that is what they have to continuously sell forever. If they have to maintain their necessity, if they have to retain their need - what to do? They have to sell only portable. So naturally the need for secrecy is needed. Otherwise they will lose their job.

Be very clear, not only I am confident, I have the courage - I know I have something which is non-portable. That is the reason I have offered all of my portable knowledge free of cost in the public media; in YouTube or website or whatever available way. It’s there - all the techniques you are going to practise these next four days, is available on the website for free download - you can download and practise all the words which I am going to utter is available in the YouTube for you to enjoy. But there is something non-portable, which you can’t steal. There’s a beautiful Upanishad word, only an Enlightened being has something which can’t be stolen, which can’t be stolen. Whoever has whatever things can be stolen, including parts of your body. Now they are stealing even kidneys. Kidneys are getting stolen, everything is getting stolen except brain. Because brain nobody - who wants your brain?

Anyhow, except brain everything is getting stolen. Only an Enlightened being has something which can’t be stolen - which is non-portable, that unique; they call it USP, unique selling point. Only Enlightened being has something USP, which is an USP. Please understand. Here, I am trying to offer the non-portable experience. So please understand and start working towards that. Maybe the portable knowledge, you had it or you may not have it. If you had you may feel little boring - relax. You are not listening in - with the same energy. Understand. You might have heard the same words through the YouTube or books, but you are not listening with the same energy. So sit here, intensely, for the sake of non-portable experience. If you are new, then sit with your whole intensity to get portable knowledge and non-portable experience, both.

The whole routine I have created - the whole program I designed - to awaken the potential energies inside your being, the deeper layer being, deeper layer energies. So, the food, intake - everything is designed to cooperate, to help your awakening. If you feel “What is this - this Swami is making us do so many things in these four days.” Understand. For you at least only four days in your life. For Me this is life. Somewhere or other, in some city other - you see the website, you will not see a one day gap. For the alchemy to happen, both of us have to sit. If only you need to sit, I can go and rest. If only i need to sit, you can go and rest. But, unfortunately, both of us have to sit - so, please be seated.