“Please understand, all the guilt you wrote, when you write all the…”
Please understand, all the guilt you wrote, when you write all the guilt, you think your whole life is a pain and guilt. Can it be true? No! You wrote all your pains, when you read that you feel your whole life is pain, can it be true? Because, you only picked up what you remembered. You only picked up what attracted your attention, not what all happened. There are hundreds and thousands of moments where you felt silence and inspired to live. Otherwise long before you would have died. Please be very clear, every day at least if ten incidents don’t happen in you which will inspire, which is reason for your life, which is inspiring you to live, you will not get up from your bed next day.
Why should you? Why should you? One more thing, important thing: these few things understand, then I will connect, you will understand the truth exactly. Somebody came and asked Me: “Swamiji, I am being tortured by sexual thoughts. I am not able to leave them. I am suffering with those thoughts. I told him: “Just sit here for 10 mins, meditate of those thoughts, meditate on sex, visualize all kinds of fantasies for half an hour. Just sit here and do.” Within ten minutes that guy opened the eyes and said: “Swamiji, I am not able to concentrate on sex.” I told him, “what is going on?” Arey just now you told Me, you are being haunted by some thoughts. I am asking you to meditate on it, and now you are saying you are not able to concentrate on it.
Understand an important truth. Every moment, a new thought which is happening in you, is replacing your old thought. Am I right? Fortunately, you can have only one thought at a time, am I right? So every new thought which happens to you, is replacing your old thought. Am I right? So the moment you have a thought, to stand up and walk out, you renounced the thought of sitting and listening. Am I right? The moment you decide to sit and listen, you renounce the thought of standing up and walking out. Am I right?
The moment you sit, you renounced the thought of standing. The moment you stand up, you renounced the thought of sitting. Am I right? So, every thought which comes inside your inner space replaces the old thought. Am I right? Only if the old thought is vacated, new thought can enter in your inner space. Am I right? Please understand, every statement I am asking you, because I want you to understand every statement. It's like a, you can have only one email at a time. Only when you trash the one email, you will have, you will get the next second email. Am I right? No. It is true. Even though thoughts are crowded, you can experience only one at a time.
You can experience only one at a time. That no doubt. Fortunately, you can have only one thought, otherwise long before you would have become crazy. You can have only one thought at a time. Maybe the gap can be very fast. The gap can be very less and the replacement can be very fast. That no doubt. You can have even thousand thoughts per second. That's not a problem, but it has to be only in linear. Am I right? So, every thought, new thought, replaces the old thought. Only if the old thought is removed, new thought can come inside. Am I right?
Somebody came and asked, “Swamiji, I am suffering with death fear. How to get out of this fear? Give me a way.” I told him, “Just have a cup of coffee. That's all.”
Please understand, he said, “What is this Swamiji? I am suffering with death fear. You are asking me to have a cup of coffee.” I told him, “The moment you get a thought to have a cup of coffee the death fear has been replaced.” Am I right? Tell me, can you have a thought to have a cup of coffee without replacing your death fear? That guy said, “No, no, no, it comes back. What can I do?” I told him, “have one more cup of coffee.” Please listen. Please listen intensely. I am revealing one of the subtlest important truth about your being, don't miss it. Just this understanding can transform you; you don't need to do anything. Just understanding can transform you.
Can you have thought of having cup of coffee without replacing your death fear? [No] The moment you had thought of having cup of coffee, your death place, death fear has been already replaced. Am I right? It has left your inner space. Am I right? If it comes back, have one more cup of coffee. He asked, “No, no, no, how many cup of coffee I can have?” “Then have a cup of water, that’s all.” Please understand, the moment you have that attack of fear, or anger, or lust, or anything which you are afraid, just have a simple thought of having cup of water. Then naturally then what has to happen? Whatever you are afraid, the whole thing has already pushed out. Can you have the thought of having cup of water and your lust and anger and death fear together ? No. It means what? The moment you have the new email, old mail has been trashed. Why are you then bringing it back from trash?
“No, no, no, it has become my habit. I am again and again, again and again that death fear comes, the lust comes.” Understand, if it has become your habit, habit is also one more thought. The moment you think the fear has become my habit, already the fear has been replaced. Am I right? Please understand, it looks very funny. It looks very simple, you may be thinking, “No, it cannot be so simple. No, no, no, this Swami is doing something, something. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I am not ready to believe.” Relax. Things are this simple. Things are this simple.
Please understand, if you have the death fear and you decide, let me have a cup of coffee. The fear leaves you. Within few moment again that fear comes back. What you are supposed to do? One more cup of coffee and again after half an hour the fear comes back, what to do? Now, you know the technique of technique, that this fear can be moved out of you, am I right? [Yes]
See, the moment you have the courage or method, it can be moved out of you, then why are you bothered about again it coming back? Am I right? How many time it can come back and I know the method to replace. All I need to do, you don't even need to have cup of coffee. Just decide, “Let me stand up.” The moment you say, “Let me stand up”, what happens? That very thought, replaces the earlier thought, am I right? So, if you get the death fear, now what you are supposed to do? Stand up. Is there anything else? [Divert the mind] No, not diverting the mind, allowing simple thoughts to flow. Please understand, allowing simple natural flow to happen. One important thing, you have hypnotized yourself.
No writing! Please stand, please look up! Understand completely, then you can start writing. Drop everything, please drop everything. Just sit, because these statements, every statement adds so much of clarity to you.
Please understand, everything which is moving inside you, inside you, replaces the earlier object. But you hypnotized yourself, there are some emotions, some ideas will not leave your system, will haunt you forever. Am I right? That is where the problem starts.
Somebody goes to J. Krishnamurthy and asks, “Master, I am suffering with sexual thoughts. Can you give me some solution?” He says beautifully, “How much time you spend in eating every day?” This guy says, “One and half hours”, because three times half an hour, half an hour. “How much of your time you spend in sex act, sexual act? This guy says, “rarely half an hour.”
Then Krishnamurthy says beautifully, “One and a half hour you spend in eating. Does the thoughts about eating haunt you? No. Then half an hour only you spend in sexual act. Then why it is haunting you?”
You believe, these thoughts cannot be moved out of your inner space. I am just giving you the example of the sex. You can replace it with death or greed for property or greed, anything, any emotion you can replace.
Now you need to understand the first truth: your inner space by its nature, replaceable. Please understand, your inner space by its nature, replaceable. Any simple thought can replace your so-called greatest problem. Am I right? See, a simple cup of coffee can replace your death fear, means, then what is the power of your death fear? Tell me, what is the power of your death fear? If I can push somebody out and come and sit in that seat, what is his power? Equal to me or less than me. Am I right? Less than me. If somebody else can come and push me out and sit in this chair, his power is more than me. Am I right? So if a cup of coffee can replace your death fear, then who is more powerful? A simple thought to stand up, if it can replace your lust, then who is more powerful? What is this, it looks too simple?
What? Don't discuss with the neighbor, he will not be able to explain. Relax. Understand completely.
First truth you need to know: By your very nature, please understand, now what I am talking is My, you can, it's not pride or ego. It's My unique contribution from My very experience. Try to grab, try to catch. Don't use different words. “No no, no, that book also says the same. That Master also told the same with a different word”. Don’t miss it. No time for judging, calculating. Internalize now.
A simple, any simple thought can replace any of your problem, am I right? Then what is the power of your fear, greed, anger, guilt or pain over you? What's the power? One cup of coffee ?
Listen here. Now let us come to pain. If for example you have knee pain. The knee pain which you had twenty years ago, the knee pain which you had ten years ago, the knee pain which you had five years ago, the knee pain which you had one year ago, the knee pain which you had yesterday are independent experiences your knee experienced. Am I right? Why are you connecting all those experience and clutching and saying, “last twenty years I have knee pain.” Tell Me. Why are you connecting all these and telling, “Last 20 years I had knee pain. I am having knee pain.” Understand, experiment with this technique. I am telling you. I have done it. When I tell you, I am responsible for it. You are not guinea pig. Understand you are not guinea pig. I am not experimenting on you. What I am talking, I know the truth. I have seen the truth.
Somebody put a question. “I love your courage and your fearlessness. Is it because of your youth or the space you are in ?”
Understand, I lost my youth long before. A 30 year old man cannot talk all this. Whatever you heard these four days, even to read and memorize and repeat, it's not possible for a 30 year old man. You understand? All the information... forget about the spirituality, even all this information, from all this various literature, reading collecting and repeating. Even if My, all My thirty years, My eyes and ears have been spent in acquiring knowledge, it is not possible. So it is not because of My youth, it is because of the space I am in. Understand it is because of the space I am in. When I am talking these words I really mean it. So catch.
Any simple word, any simple thought can replace the old thought. For example, the knee pain we are working - Experiment. Do not connect all your old pains and give the idea, “Now I have the same pain.” The moment you think the same pain, now you will, you are, you are very clear, it's not going to go. It is going to continue. Because I had for last 20 years, how can it leave today? It is going to be there for next 20 years. Am I right? Am I right?
Be very clear, do not connect the knee pain you had 20 years ago, ten years ago, five years ago, one year ago and yesterday. Just see, if your mind says, “I have knee pain, I have suffering”. Do not clutch and see, it's the same pain. Just see with fresh eyes, “What is going on? What is going on there?”
Understand, this moment see what is going on. Suddenly you will see, the word pain disappears and the feeling pain disappears. I have tried, not only I have tried. I have tested it on millions of My disciples. It works. Any pain, any psychological suffering, any suffocation, any phobia, any emotion, any tension, any stress can be replaced just by one simple thought. Am I right? If you decide to stand up, it means what? All the phobias have disappeared. You may say, “it will come back.” If it comes back, what is there? Again once more...? Stand up, that’s all. Once more, sit down. But the intellectual mind now says, “No, no, no, no, no. It cannot be so simple.” Am I right?
Ahh? The first row. You think, ah? “How can it be so simple? If this is this simple, long before I would have known this truth.”
Understand, you will miss only simplest thing. The problem is, nobody gave you the truth and nobody gave you the courage to experiment the truth. Now try. I am not giving you something new. I am just revealing whatever you have. I am just revealing whatever you have.
Listen, whenever you get a strong death fear, now what you are supposed to do? If a cup of coffee can replace your death fear, then what is the power of your death fear? Ahh. When fear comes, what you are supposed, what you should do? Just say, “Ah, Ah.” That's all. See, if this guy can be replaced with such a simple thought, then what power he has over you? The strong, the lust which you always, which you are afraid of, if it comes up, what to do now? “Ahhh.”
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- 7 January 2008
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