“Let us enter into today’s sutra.”

Let us enter into today’s sutra.

Devi. Imagine Sanskrit letters in this honey filled awareness. First there is letters, the more subtle sounds, the most subtle feeling, then leaving them aside, be free. Devi, imagine Sanskrit letters in this honey filled foci of awareness. First there is letters, the more subtle sounds, then as most subtle feeling, then leaving them aside, be free.

Today you are entering into a very beautiful subject. Today’s subject is From Sounds to Silence. Yesterday Mahadeva was giving us a technique, method to go beyond, to enter into the Samadhi, enlightenment from visualizations. See, the ultimate experience, the ultimate truth is beyond forms and sounds, beyond form and name. You can take quantum jump into that formlessness, namelessness, from form or from name. Form or a name can be a jumping board to jump into that ultimate consciousness.

Yesterday’s technique was how to take a jump from form. That is why he was teaching us how to stop seeing an object with eyes from outside then how to stop seeing an object in the inner space without eyes.

Two things: Stopping the same process in the outer world all of you know. He guided us slowly from that step to the next step, stopping seeing the object in the inner space, also. Today Mahadeva is guiding us from sound to soundlessness. Yesterday he was teaching us from form to formlessness. Today he is giving us the technique from sound to soundlessness, very powerful methods.

One reason why this book did not become so popular, like a normal religious scriptures, because this book is really serious about enlightenment. Understand. People are very happy to talk, talk, talk about meditation but never want to sit. It became one more fantasy, one more fashion. It became one more fashion to talk about meditation and to buy all the things necessary for meditation: the book, or a kit or a yoga mat and trying to book a resort, trying to get everything, and really sometime I’m surprised because the amount of material getting sold to our organization. If everybody meditates planet earth would have become so positive long before.

The amount of book I am selling, even if ten percent of the people reads that books, long before the planet earth would have become filled with positive energy. No need to be afraid of global warming. See, the global warming is nothing but collective negativity, insensitivity to nature. Why did we become insensitive to nature? The moment ego comes, we become insensitive to the nature.

There was a beautiful story I was reading about the poet. This guy says that at a young age he used to go and play with the wild animals near his homes, near his house. His father used to warn him that he should not go and play with the wild animals because they may disturb him. But he used to just run away and be with them. He says, ‘When I became self conscious,’ means afraid, ‘then there is a possibility they may disturb me, then they will never come near me. The communication never happened. The relationship never happened, but whenever I had the courage, or a very playful mood, whenever I don’t have that fear, self consciousness, the communication, the relationships used to be so strong, I felt very clearly they are connecting with me, and I am connecting with them.’

Understand. When your ego becomes strong, connecting with the nature is disturbed. In my own life there is a beautiful incident which has taught me a lot. I was sitting in a very relaxed mood one evening in a forest. My eyes were opened, but I was not seeing anything. There was no information going inside and getting processed. There was a snake lying in front of me, just three feet in front of me. Three feet was the distance between me and that snake, cobra, at least six seven feet long cobra. Because the eyes were not processing any information, there was no fear inside. I was just sitting. And the cobra was also so relaxed, comfortable.

Suddenly I saw, slowly my mind came down to normal plane. I had a thought: Oh there is a snake. And the next thought, I should move out. The moment the thought snake came in my inner space, I saw very clearly the snake felt that I am a man. Til I felt this is a snake, the snake never felt I am a man. Til I felt the fear, the snake never felt threatened by me. Neither I had fear, nor the snake had fear. But the moment I had the fear, it was not that the distance had become less or that I moved or that the snake moved, nothing. Just the thought snake, the snake started. I was very clearly able to feel in the snake’s inner space there was a disturbance, a restlessness. The moment I had the thought I should move, the fear, immediately the snake also felt that same insecurity, threatened. Immediately the snake started moving, even before I started moving. Both of us started moving. The moment your verbalization comes inside, the moment your words, your mind, comes inside, the whole juice of the life is lost. Just innocent way of relating is lost. Just feeling connected is lost. That’s one of the major, major, loss which can happen to human being.

Understand. It’s like a person who is born blind can never be made to understand what he is missing. Same way, the person who lost the way of communicating with the heart or the feeling can never be made to understand what he lost. It is very big thing to lose.

All of us continuously think, think, think about meditation but never want to get into it. Really I feel that the amount of literature getting sold about meditation, the amount of accessories and the things needed for this practice is getting sold. I don’t think people are able to, people are practicing. It has become one more fashion to keep all kinds of spiritual books in the home, the showcase, or just, I’m also a seeker.

But Shiva is too serious. That is why he did not become popular. If he had given a very mild things, just more and more ideas about meditation, he would have become popular. He was not just giving more and more ideas about meditation. He was insistent that you practice. He was insisting that you transform. That is where the trouble starts. If somebody just talks, talks, talks it’s very easy. You can sit and listen, go back and live your same routine.

As long as the transformation is not demanded, you are very comfortable. But here every line, every sutra, Shiva demands the transformation. Means a strong, clear, conscious decision to change the way in which you think and live. That is too much. That is too much.

This book has no introduction. That is the beauty of this book. Means he is not preparing you philosophically. He’s straight away dealing with you whoever you may be, whatever may be your background, whatever may be your past. He’s ready to talk to you. He’s ready to relate with you. See introduction means what? Preparing the audience. He’s not into that business. He’s very straight. He’s very clear. Straight away he opens the subject. He’s not even talking about enlightenment, because he’s too busy giving it. He doesn’t have time to talk about it. He’s too busy giving it. The beauty is he’s not a person from the marketing line. He’s the person from research and development line. He’s from research and development department, did not bother about marketing.

The only book I can say does not have pala sruti. Pala sruti means the results which you will get. He doesn’t have no pala sruti. All books will talk first about the promises. Here, he’s not giving any promise. Straight away he’s developing the product. Should be very careful about these marketing departments.

Small story: A boy died, reached lot of death, the court of a lot of death, Yama. And Yama said, ‘You have done some good things and some bad things, some merit and some sins. So you can first enjoy the heaven. Then go back to hell. Because hell is eternal, you can’t come back.’ He said that Yama asked, ‘You want first hell or heaven? Which one you want to choose?’

He said, ‘Just give me a tour of both, then I will choose which one I want to go.’

Yama said, ‘You can go and come back, but if you choose the hell, you can’t go back to heaven. If you choose the heaven, you can come back to hell.’

This guy said, ‘Just let me take a tour.’ He goes around. First he goes to hell where he saw all celebrities singing and dancing, all the names he heard. They are all there singing and dancing. Big party is going on. He said, ‘Oh nice. This is the place I always wanted to be.’

But the people there said, ‘OK, you can choose, but you can’t go out.’

This guy said, ‘Alright, let me just have a look about the other side also and come back.’ Went to the other side, and there he saw the old saints with long beards sitting on their clouds singing that same ‘Oooowaa,’ and each one of them singing their own way. Some singing Ramah, some singing Krishna, somebody hallelujah something. Different things were going on. He said, ‘No, no, no, no. This is not the place I want to be. Nothing much is happening. Let’s go back.’ He went to Yama and said, ‘I want only hell.’

Yama asked, ‘Are you very clear? Are you sure?’

He said, ‘Yes, only hell.’

Yama said, ‘Alright. Go.’ The moment he entered the hell, suddenly new door opened, and he fell, and he saw the real hell as it is portrayed in the scriptures. People burning, boiling, crying. The same scene. He got a shock.

He asked the person that was there, ‘What is this? Just an hour ago, I saw the different scene. And now this is a different scene.’

That guy says, ‘Oh, what is size of marketing department?’

Understand. The marketing departments can present anything into anything. It can present anything into anything. That is the problem. I always tell people, never trust a religion which has got marketing department. No really. Vedic tradition, the beauty of the tradition, it does not have marketing department. It does not have think tank. No think tank. No marketing department. It is alive just because of its own purity and the strength of the truth. Still spreading, still spreading, catching the cream of the crowd all over the planet earth without even having a single ritual or a recognition to convert.

Traditionally Vedic dharma does not agree conversion. We don’t have a ritual to convert. World’s third largest religion, still surviving and thriving in this marketing age without any marketing department. No marketing. If you go to a traditional Vedic master, he will not even bother, even if you ask, he will not even convert you. He won’t. There is no ritual to convert. Still there is no ritual to convert. Does not believe in conversion, does not believe in violence, does not believe in terrorism. Does not even believe in marketing. Still alive just because of its own strength.

This book is essence straight from that tradition, straight from that roots. This is from the person who spent all his energy in doing research and development. That is why he’s only talking about the technique, method, system to transform. Does not have a big marketing department. At least in modern day we all think about that little bit. In those days they never even bothered about it, and not only, they did not have marketing department, there was a big concept of secrecy. Unless a disciple is qualified, you can’t even teach even if he is around you. There is the other way: resisting, neglecting, rejecting. It was not going and catching all of. No. But fortunately this tradition has kept the living stream of enlightened masters on the planet earth. Even though it did not do marketing, fortunately they kept the tradition alive, the science alive, the truth alive. The technology is kept alive.

Let’s enter into the today’s sutra. Then we will understand how to internalize, how to experience what Mahadeva is talking about.

Devi. Imagine Sanskrit letters in this honey filled awareness. First there is letters, the more subtle sounds, the most subtle feeling, then leaving them aside, be free. Devi, imagine Sanskrit letters in this honey filled foci of awareness. First there is letters, the more subtle sounds, then as most subtle feeling, then leaving them aside, be free.

Because Shiva is talking to Devi, he’s saying Sanskrit letters. You can use even English letters, nothing wrong. Any language in which you think, but decide the language in which you think. Here Mahadeva is giving a beautiful technique. Before entering into this technique and understanding, let us understand a few things about the inner chattering, verbalization, words.

You go through so many different layers of conditioning in the so called civilization. When you are brought up, you go through so many layers of conditioning. The first conditioning is language. That is why people die for their language. They think language is part of them. They don’t understand it is just a way or method to communicate.

I have seen, especially in Bharat, eighteen accepted language. If you see the Bharatn rupee, you will see in the eighteen language it is printed, and around three hundred language with the script, more than 2,000 dialect without script. I have seen fools dying for language, and these politicians also encouraging it, just for the sake of politics. Language is just created to communicate. Of course there are one or two language created for little higher purpose, better purpose, not just to communicate a logical statement or a concept or a theory or a philosophy. They are created, some languages, to communicate particular kinds of sounds.

For example, Sanskrit is not just linguistic. It has got phonetic importance also. It is not created just to convey few sounds. It was developed to create certain kind of vibrations also. But even that is a language to help you to communicate, to help you to relate it. That’s all. Even Sanskrit is created to communicate by particular signs. Language is just utility. But when you start associating yourself with a particular language, you start creating a serious mistake, a serious danger to yourself and to others.

I have seen people dying for words, just mere words. Still I have seen, still now some parts of southern Bharat divide with the thought, with the some dark taste the other language, words. I am surprised. How could these fools do this? Language is just to communicate. No need to have hatred or vengeance towards some other language. But it is very easy to condition you based on language because that is the first thing.

First conditioning starts happening in you when you address your mother just with a sound; it is a pure feeling. There is no word, but slowly, slowly you learn from your mother the sounds and the common agreed meanings to that sounds. Understand, language is nothing but an agreement made among a group of people. All of us have decided clock means this object. Book means this object. That particular sound will mean this particular object. We all made a big agreement. Honestly, not even we all made. Hundreds of years ago somebody made, and we are just swallowing it, because it is very difficult to come upon with a new new agreements every few years. Maybe few words we add.

Now those words like a guru and all those words are already, they all have become part of English. Guru, avatar, yoga, all these words have become part of English. I was surprised the other day, there was a article I read, there was a big debate going on that one part of the people claim that yoga is from Christianity. Christ is from yogic tradition, no doubt about that. But surely yoga is not from Christianity.

Anyhow, we assume that you take more and more words. It is nothing but a common agreement. We agreed that this word will mean this object, this idea. By and by, because the thinking speed is so much in you, the thinking speed is so strong in you, you forget the language is just added to you. It is not part of you. You start thinking it is part of you because you never experienced the space without thinking. Because constantly you are thinking, you started thinking thinking is part of you. That is the first layer of conditioning. First layer of conditioning is thinking or language.

Once the language comes inside, now you are ready to be corrupted. Now you are ready to be conditioned. Now the whole drama starts. You will start behaving, you will start living like a normal man. God plus inner chattering is man. Man minus inner chattering is god. The moment inner chattering is added to you, you have become normal man. Conditioning has started, one by one. Original sin, the first sin, is getting conditioned through a language. Here Mahadeva is giving us a beautiful technique to reclaim that original space, the space of relating with innocence.

See when you were a child, see a child how it relates when it sees a flower, the whole body responds, the whole body expresses, whole body just jumps in joy. The child never, never laughs or smiles only with the mouth. The whole body will laugh. The whole body will be in joy, in ecstasy. When you are conditioned for language, you are localized. Your energy is localized. You are no more living, expressing. The whole thing is reduced just to few things. Mahadeva is teaching us to come back to that innocence, that joy, that experience.

It is beautiful to use words to communicate certain things. Even now I am using words to communicate. It is beautiful, but it is beautiful if you know how to relax on words also at certain points, at sometime. But, if you can’t switch off that constant radio which is going on in your ears, it is not entertainment anymore. See, entertainment is entertainment if you can stop when you don’t want, if you can start when you want. You can neither start nor stop; it just goes on, then what it means? Mother-in-law, not entertainment. Very difficult. You don’t know when it will start. You don’t know when it will stop. You are just caught, and it is going on and on and on. Entertainment means which is under your control. But if you are not able to stop, then it’s a prison.

In traditional language we say, as long as you have the freedom, you have the conscious decision, you have choice, even the hell can become heaven. If it is not your choice, if it is forced on you, even heaven will be hell. That is why this way, God gives you the freedom to be in bondage. He does not force enlightenment. Somebody asked me yesterday, Swamiji, if God is love and compassion, why he did make all of us intelligent? See, he gives you the freedom to choose. He gives you the freedom to be in heaven or hell. That is the greatness. Because he is embodiment of love and compassion, he gives you that big freedom, the great freedom. If he was not embodiment of love and compassion, he won’t give you the freedom. He gives you the option, freedom to choose. You can be, you can choose liberation or bondage. He doesn’t force things on you. He expects you to have the freedom to have bliss, choice, decision making, the power to will, sangalpa.

Today Mahadeva is giving us a beautiful technique, method to go beyond the words, the first layer of conditioning. If you can go beyond this first layer of conditioning, all other conditioning can just disappear. You cannot work on every conditioning and get rid of it. No. That is like cutting the leaves or branches to kill a tree. You can’t kill a tree by cutting the branches. No., Articles will say if you cut, the tree grows more. You can’t ever touch the root. Inner chattering is the root. Your verbalization is the root, supreme sutre manigana iva. All your conditioning is strung to this inner chattering. If you can work on that, if you can do something on that, all the layers of conditioning can just disappear. This is the common thread in all the conditionings are strung. If you can just break this, cut this, everything can just disappear. This is the main pin in everything. Everything is connected. There are layers and layers and layers of conditionings. Even your addiction, even your disease is conditioning.

I have seen people living happily and healthily for 180 years. I myself have seen lamas who are living 180 years just because from the beginning they clearly believe life of human being is 300 years. The other day I was reading a paper on the body’s ability to rejuvenate itself, a scientific research paper. They say that all parts of our body can rejuvenate and replace itself continuously for 300 years if you don’t interfere. If you want to live for 300 years, just keep quiet without interfering in your system, without disturbing the nature of your body, without disturbing your system. If you just keep quiet, 300 years is just a normal life. Looks very funny, a two-bit promise. But I myself have seen with my own eyes the lamas who lived for, I can’t even say lived, because maybe they are still living. I have seen them six seven years ago for 180 years, just because they have a clear understanding that human being’s life is 300 years.

All your disease, old age, everything is just your conditioning. The power of the words which you repeat inside is amazing. Then immediately people ask, if I start repeating the right words, is it not good? How should I completely move away from inner chattering? Understand. Any right word, when you start uttering, there is always the shadow of the wrong word. Try in your mind, you will see. I will live for 100 years. I will live for 200 years. Just tell. Then part of mind is sitting and laughing. No, No, and how many times you repeat, that is not going to happen. Always there is a part of your mind sitting in one corner and laughing at your positive affirmations.

Positive energy happens in you when you completely stop the inner chattering, not with your positive affirmations. That is why these creative visualizations and all these trying to do positive thinking leads to failure and more frustration. A person who tries to stop worrying starts worrying more. He had ten worries. Now he’s got one more worry that he is worrying too much. That is the truth. Mahadeva is too serious. That is why he is very practical.

Yesterday we were having a small meeting about feeding the community in Seattle. They are all thinking why that I am having two three meetings again and again and asking about everyone’s concern and needs. And one of my devotees/disciple was telling, ‘Swamiji, you just decide and things will happen.’ I tell them, in that also things can be done. But you need to waste too much of energy unnecessarily, and you should know where we need to listen to other’s concerns and where we need to put our foot down and decide clearly.

Whenever a person’s concern is reality based, we should listen to it. If is just a fantasy, fantasy has got two dimensions, greed and fear based. Fear based fantasy is, we can use the word, insecurity. Greed based fantasy is fantasy: expecting which is not there or which may not come true. If it is greed based, it is called fantasy. If is fear based, it is called insecurity. If it is insecurity or fantasy, you should put your foot down, and decide strongly. If it is reality based, you should listen to other’s concern. What they need, just decide Swamiji, because that is the way I work. I said, No. I am sitting and talking because I am serious about it. There are many things, many times people talk, talk, talk, but they are not serious about it. They are not serious about it, and they become habituated just to talk without being serious about things. It became a habit. People think, let us face when it comes. Let us talk now.

Many time you sit and give many promises, knowing clearly you cannot fulfill. You just have one ceiling or one security in one corner of your mind, and it comes with a space. I don’t think things are going to take such turns, things are going to go that extreme. Yet, when it comes really, you are suffering. Person who talks knowingly he will not be able to go with those words is a dangerous person, not only for others, for himself. Understand. Then you are not an intelligent, integrated being. You are just floating like a balloon. You can’t be trusted. You do not have the clarity. You are not a stable, clear cut person. You are dangerous for yourself and for others. I always tell people, first thing you need to do in your life is clearly aligning your words and your thinking and your action. Look into yourself and do not talk. Do not give any words if you know consciously you will not be able to go behind it, you will not be able to go with it.

There is a beautiful story. A disciple goes to a Zen Master and asks the Zen Master, ‘Master, give me enlightenment.’ Zen Masters always carry a stick. He just gave a big blow. The disciple got frightened, not only frightened, annoyed, angry, disturbed. He just went away. What kind of a guy this fellow is? Came back after ten years. I think the ten years has taught him a lot, and the problem with meeting the masters is you can’t, even though you are not able to agree the way in which they work, you can’t forget them. They are so energetic. They are such a truthful integrated beings; you just can’t take them away from your inner space. They are sitting there inside you 24 hours whether you agree or disagree with them.

Fortunate are those who fall in tune with the way of their working, who agree. There are few unfortunate beings, even if you are not able to agree, you can’t say no to them. They are there sitting. Either you accept or avoid, but you can’t just completely forget. They are there. So after 10 years, this guy comes back and asks the master, ‘Master, please give me enlightenment.’ The same question. This time master just taps him, and the story says, just he put his hand on the head of the disciple and disciple became enlightened. Disciple asked the master, ‘Master, the same question I asked you ten years ago, you have beaten me. Same question I’m asking, I asked now, you hugged me and blessed me. Why?’

Master says, ‘Ten years ago, you were not aware what you were asking. You were not integrated what you are talking. You just start, ‘let me ask.’ And you were not honest that you’ll go behind what you were asking. Now the ten years has taught lot to you. You have learned many things from your life. Now, you are honest to go behind your words. Whenever you are in conversation, especially heated up conversations, just see. You are uttering, blabbering so many words which you can’t follow, which you can’t go behind. Stop! Stop with those moments. Be honest. Be very clear. Let you be integrated. That is the first step for enlightenment. That is the first step to taste the life.

See, tasting the life is what I call enlightenment. Enlightenment does not mean just running away somewhere. No. Tasting the life. In your life, many times, just look back. All your failures would have started with a conversation in which you are not clear that whether you will be able to follow or go through with the words you are uttering. Knowingly that you can’t fulfill what you are talking. Knowingly you can’t go through the end of the words which you are uttering, you utter words. Then you create pus in your inner space. You create hollow, empty, hypocritical space in your inner chattering. That’s what I call the air hole in the copper wire.

If there is air hole in copper wire, electricity cannot pass through that wire. There will be droppage in the power, in the energy. Same way, if your inner chattering has got too many air holes, sometime you sit and when they are all talking, somebody is raising a subject, let’s do some good work, and you know for sure these fellows gathering together, they will never do any good work, and you say if you all gather and do, I will give you a hundred thousand dollar with the confidence that these fellows will not start the work. You promise with the confidence that this will not happen, knowing clearly if it happens you can’t go to the end. You can’t fulfill your words.

If you make any commitment, if you utter any words, that becomes the air hole in your, your inner personality. By and by you become habituated to talk things which you really don’t mean. And when they really, unfortunately or fortunately, if they become strong and come and stand in front of you and say, ‘Yes. Now we are ready. Let us start.’ Then you will find your own decision, your own reasons to escape. You will now find your own things to escape. What you meant, now you have to swallow the words which you uttered.

Failure starts with telling the words which you know you can’t fulfill, you can’t go behind, you can’t reach, you can’t make it into reality. Look into yourself. Understand. I am not only talking this as a morality. No. There is a morality that is different. This is not just a morality. This will become part of your being. You will start talking to yourself in the same way you talk to others. How you give false words and false promises thinking, if it comes, let me face. Same way, you will start talking to yourself, and you will not know your capacities, abilities. You are just creating the words which are not true about yourself inside you.

That is the most dangerous thing. You not having clarity about yourself is what leads to all conditionings, addictions, disturbances, and failures.

Other day one person came to me and asked, ‘I know my problems, but I am not able to come out of it. Please help me.’ Knowing about your problem and not able to come out means you have told too many lies to yourself. That is the most dangerous thing that can happen to you. First thing, before entering into this technique, you need to become truthful to yourself.

There is a beautiful incident happened in Jag Gurdjieff’s life, was one of the great enlightened master from Russia. He lived in many places. He spent little time in Russia also. Jag Gurdjieff’s, was great enlightened master worked with a lot of tantric techniques from the eastern tradition. He had a disciple, Ospensky. This guy was also great scholar. He was a great scholar, very intelligent guy. He goes to Gurdjieff and asks Gurdjieff, ‘Master, teach me the truth.’ Actually, when Ospensky disciple went to Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff was not so popular, but the disciple was very popular as a great philosopher. Philosophers always understand at one point that they don’t know. They can cheat everybody that they know. At some point, they realize that they don’t know.

Philosophy is nothing but telling the lies to others with a strong courage that nobody can verify. That is the truth. Philosophy is nothing but telling all kinds of arranged lies, courageously, that no body can verify. At that one point, you yourself will realize the hollowness, emptiness. Philosopher will be the person who will not be believing the philosophy.

Priest is the best atheist. Really. If you want to see the best and the worst atheist go and talk to the priest in private. But you should give them the assurance you will not be disturbing their business. I’ve seen, I’ve seen all, all religion priests, many kinds of priests. By touching that moorthi, that god, a statue again and again, they lose the sensitivity it is god. It is god only for the person who is standing outside and watching and praying, not for the person who is touching it 24 hours. Not for the person who is touching it 24 hours. I always tell people, the person who is touching, who is representing, he thinks now he knows the insiders secrets. Now he knows the business. That is how the problems starts.

This guy is a philosopher who was teaching the truth to so many thousands or millions of people. He understood he doesn’t know. It is dangerous to become philosopher without enlightenment. And it is dangerous to follow a person who is not enlightened, because the software which he will create inside your inner space is dangerous. It is like swallowing the food prepared by a person who does not know which is food and which is poison. It is not that he also adds poison knowingly. Just he does not know, he’s stupid, simple stupid. Going and listening to the philosophies, theories, proposed by a non enlightened person is very dangerous. You are consuming the, you are eating, swallowing the ideas which is not verified by FDA. It is very dangerous.

This guy, philosopher, after creating thousands of followers, goes to a master and says, please teach me the truth. And what is the condition? What will happen to the thousands of followers who are swallowing the words which is delivered by him? Very dangerous. I have seen so many people coming to me. See, it’s just like a people going to the hospital with the physical disorders.

]Many people coming to me with mental disorders created by these so called philosophers who have not become enlightened which creates some thoughts. See the problem in the developed countries is you can start teaching even before you start learning. You will become successful if you don’t know the truth because you will not be sensitive to the truth. If you are teaching without knowing, you will talk in a very poetical way without bothering about the truth. You will not bother about the truth. You will just alter yourself, tailor yourself, for marketing department which is very dangerous.

I have seen so many western seekers coming to me disturbed, abused, polluted, intellectually corrupted by reading the books and philosophies proposed by unenlightened beings, unenlightened people. Just a hobby. People who don’t live. People who have not lived what they are talking. Just proposing theories.

Proposing theories is, theories are good if you are experimenting but not to the public, not to the public. It is very close to Ospensky. The Ospensky goes to Gurdjieff and asks, ‘Teach me the truth.’

Gurdjieff says beautifully, ‘First sit and write what all you know and what all you don’t know, because I don’t want to waste the time teaching the same thing you know.’ Gurdjieff Ospensky was shocked. He said yes, but this man seems to be logical. Let me sit down and write down what all I know. Gurdjieff says, ‘Be very clear. Write only what all you know and come back.’

Ospensky goes and sits in the room with the paper and pencil. He says in his reminiscence, ‘Twenty-four hours I sat. I was thinking, thinking, thinking. I couldn’t write one word saying I know. I was shocked. It was a revelation to me. I was just using words, words, words, words, words just because of the courage that nobody can verify.’

See, two ways you can become leader. One, just because of your own authority that you are intelligent. Second thing, just because of the courage that others are fools. Two ways you can become leader. Just because of the authority the listeners are fools. Intelligence to handle the questions does not mean the person knows. Knowing is totally different from handling the people who are doubting whether he knows or not. Handling the people who doubt whether you know or not is very easy, but handling yourself needs the truth. You can convince others you know, but not yourself.

He says, ‘First time I realized I am not able to write a single word or single subject saying that I know.’ Because he is very clear if he says something, he knows Gurdjieff is going to churn him. He is going to churn that subject thoroughly. He is not the guy who is just going to listen. First time Ospensky started looking into himself, what he knows and what he does not know. He realized everything. He created a great book called Tersium Argannan. Very great book. He’s a great philosopher. He’s a genius in his field, no doubt. He says, ‘First time I understood whatever I’m talking, whatever I was speaking, writing, expressing was just because of the courage nobody can pin me down.’

Just with that courage look into yourself in how many places you are also giving words, hope to others, just because nobody can pin you down. In so many places you yourself know very clearly you can’t go to that extreme. You are not capable. You are sure about it, but again, you just give words. You talk. You do things. You put your steps thinking nobody can pinpoint, no body can corner you. Understand. Talking to others knowingly you can’t fulfill is one thing. By and by you do the same mistake to yourself. You talk to yourself knowingly you can’t do that. You are not qualified for that. You are not capable of that. That is the most dangerous thing. Then you are cheating yourself. Ospensky says, ‘I was sweating, shivering, literally panic attack, seeing the empty paper. After 24 hours, I’m just sitting with an empty paper. I can’t say single thing I know. I went to the empty paper, to the master, just put the paper at his feet and fell at his feet. First time I understood, I don’t know anything.’

I tell you this is the first step towards learning the truth. Here, even this technique, going from words to wordlessness, first thing you need is being honest with your words. If you directly practice this technique it won’t help, because now you are filled too much with the cerebral layer, too much of lies. You are just a bundle of lies, nothing but bundle of lies. That is why constantly you are suffering and struggling inside. You can’t sit with yourself because so much of pus is coming out, too much of smell. Why you can’t sit with yourself? Why you are feeling so restless constantly irritated? Whether you are in the bathroom or whether you are in the bedroom, you can’t be just with yourself. You can’t be with yourself. You are, just, your inner chattering is too much.

Your entertainments or your TV, your entertainments are nothing but the body, the scent, perfumes which you use to escape from your own smell. Sometime the smell becomes too much. You use perfume just to avoid your own body smell. Your entertainments are nothing but you trying to avoid the smell which is inside you. Your inner space is smelling too much. There is so much of lies created, created, created. And you are jumping from this corner to that corner. Let you know at least in your inner space how many buildings you built on lies, how many ways your foundation was a lie. How many dimensions was lie. At least look into yourself to flood yourself with that truth, to come out as a new being.

Now we will enter into the Mahadeva’s technique. Two step. If you have paper and pen, take it. Why I am asking you to write for yourself? Otherwise you will not remember. If you don’t have paper and pen, at least sit and count so that you will remember how many places, how many spots, just five minutes of looking inside to clean your inner space.

Then, we will enter into the meditation. You can sit with the closed eyes and look into yourself. Please close your eyes, and first search and seek, identify in every step how many places you built yourself with the lies, on lies, uttered the words knowingly you are not that. You are not going to stand for it. You are not fulfilling it. Just close your eyes and look into yourself. How many places you used the word knowing you don’t mean it.

It may be painful. It may be little suffering. It’s OK. Go through. See the truth. At least let you know. After all, no need for anybody else to know. Let you know at least.

Even if it was painful, it is painful, look. Do not avoid just because it is pain. Wonderful chance to look into yourself. At least know in how many places you built your life, your identity based on lies.

It’s a beautiful opportunity for self analysis, to look into yourself, to do the introspection. Look. Don’t miss this opportunity, where all you used the words without knowing the meaning, without meaning it.

Now we will enter into the technique. Just read what you have written. You can open your eyes. Just wanted to give you a few minutes to look into yourself. Try for next 21 days not to use any word which you do not mean. Do not use any word knowingly that you can’t stand for it, knowingly just because nobody can pin you down, nobody can corner you. Never use the words. Then this technique will work on you. Now we will do this technique just to learn, but this technique won’t work on you now unless you clear your inner space. Learn so that you can start doing it after 21 days.

Let me teach you the exact technique. Visualize a word like love, or joy or bliss. Even the negative words are ok. Positive or negative. Any word. Visualize a word. First visualize it with a letter. Love means L-O-V-E. Then next, drop the visualization of the words, the letters. Just be with that feeling. Concentrate. Put you awareness on feeling. Third, drop even the feeling, and just be with your self. Step by step if you do, you can do it beautifully. I’ll guide you. We can start.

Please close your eyes and sit. Lights off. Sit in a relaxed way. Remember any word: love or bliss, whatever words, whatever word you may want, you choose. You can choose. Whatever word you want, you can choose. Visualize that word as letters. Be with that visualization of letters.

Now, relax from that visualization of the letters. Just feel that as a sound, just as a sound. Repeat that word just as a sound, not as letters, just as sound.

Relax from sound also. Just be with that feeling, what that word means. Just remember only the feeling, neither the letters nor the sound, just the feeling.

Now relax even from feeling. Just be silent. Do not create a thought of letter or the sound or the feeling. Just be.

Try, try this technique after cleaning yourself. At least for 21 days live in the truth, and after you clean yourself, try this technique. Such a powerful technique. It can straight away transform you and put you in silence, in bliss. As Shiva says, be free. Be liberated. When you are liberated, life is celebration. Let your life become liberation and celebration.

Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss. Nithyananda. Thank You.