“Just sit this morning fresh the beginning mind.”
Just sit this morning fresh the beginning mind. No meditation, no mantra, no concentration, not even try to be aware. Just sit with close with eyes. Whatever can happen between you and me, let it happen. That you feel your presents and my presents intensely. That’s all. Let there be only your presents and my presents. Do not meditate, do not concentrate, do not repeat any mantra, just sit. Whatever happens allow it to happen. Just cooperate. Whatever is happening in you, be with it. You can open your eyes. This is the scale with which I measure the depth of the person. You can sit with himself without any entertainment or technique or method. That is the moment, can, we know how the being is. How the being is. Even a meditation technique is little makeup. Without even a technique, just, just as you are, how you are.
Today we’ll work on death. I want to share with you experience which happened in my own live. You may understand a lot of things about death and you will have lot of questions about death. Then we’ll analysed everything about death. And try to understand intellectually, then experience the being level. Not only intellectual, today we’ll go through the experience of death. When I was wandering doing yatra, parivrajak yatra, it supposed to be done by all the enlightened beings; especially, an incarnation lands on planet earth. Before he starts teaching, it’s like a preparation. He goes through and lives among the people to know really what needs to be taught. How people have updated themself, he has to know, only then he can update his teachings.
How people have updated themself and what kind of lifestyle they are living. So that these Shankara or Ramanuja or Buddha, whoever may be, it’s a basic need for any incarnation in the planet earth. It’s a basic need, go around, spend time with the people where they are, or their... homes and where they live, in their level. Not going as a guest. The moment you go as a guest, now if I go as a guest to any house, I will not know the real situation of the house. Because the furniture, everything they will make it new. Oh Swamiji is coming. Not that way. Going as a auditee. Auditee means, not informing the date you are coming. Ditee? means date. Auditee means who goes without the information of the date or time, of arrival. Going as a auditee, just walking in and living with them. It’s a basic condition for any incarnation before he starts teaching.
Whether it, I can say all the Bharatn masters - Shankara, Ramanuja, Buddha, Swaminarayan, all Bharat masters they have done this. It is basic need. I can say only the people who have done this yatra, has a rich experience, has something solid to contribute to every being. Because they know what it, what people need. They know what people need. There are some enlightened beings, but who have not done this kind of yatra. They were not able to help millions. They were not able to help large number of human beings.
For example, Ramana Maharshi. Ramana Maharshi is great master, no doubt. But he was not able to contribute to large number of people. He was able to contribute only the people who gather around him. That also only one path, one method. I am not underestimating or anything. I am just stating the fact to all of you. But when a master takes up this kind of this yatra, so much of enrichment happens in his very understanding about human beings. So now, you see as an enlightenment experience, Buddha, Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi, everybody is one and the same. But the expression becomes very sharp. Expression is what is directly going to be helpful for you. Useful for you. Expression becomes very sharp, very clear, user friendly. That is the right word.
User friendly. When a incarnation takes up this parivrajak yatra, so I become more user friendly when I go and live with them. Because I know what really they want, how can I add to their live. What is the exact term I need to use to express the truth, even this word user friendly. So spirituality has a user friendly version. So making it more user friendly is the purpose of parivrajak yatra. We call it spiritual journey, you’re supposed to walk. There are some technical details, you are supposed to walk up to Rameshwaram, Puri, Dwaraka and err… Joshimath. These are all different places. If you are not from Bharat, don’t get confuse. It’s like a south, north, east, west corners of Bharatn. And, there are twelve major Shiva temples spread all over Bharat. Jyotirlinga temples, so you are supposed to visit all that. Twelve Jyotirlinga temples.
When I was doing that yatra, I think it took 9 year for me. But I started my yatra in a very young age. The even, when I was in the home, I’ll go and come, I’ll go and come. I’ll go to different temples. I’ll take up every year Sabarimala yatra. That different, different yatras I’ll take up, small and small. I’ll come back. But this once, at one stretch took the yatra. It was a…I can say that is so much of understanding into me, not enlightenment itself. Please understand. There was no, the enlightenment itself did not happened because of this yatra. Enlightenment happen different reason or a I can say meditation or that is the reason for enlightenment. But this yatra added so much of understanding, that I am directly productive to the society. I am able to directly contribute to the society. I become user friendly. I become lot more simple. And I am able to connect with people exactly what they need. What I can contribute that become lot more easy. So I always feel, even for my brahmacharis, I feel that they should travel. I send them sometime do this kind of yatra. It really add so much to you. And Bharat is a very safe country if you wear this clothe. I am really telling you. This clothe, Bharat is a very safe country. Especially if you move towards north, nobody will ask you ticket, or everybody will give you food. Bharat is very safe country if you are with this clothe. Only you should not disturb others, that’s all.
I was doing my parivrajak yatra, one place near Varanasi. Not Varanasi itself, near Varanasi. Varanasi is the… I can say the spiritual headquarters of Hindus. Once in your life, everybody has to visit Varanasi and have darshan of Vishwanath. That’s a tradition. Three hundred thousand people come inside that city per day. \>\>\>10:24 audio interruption\<\<\< and that thousand people per day in the city. I think largest floating population in the world is that city only. It’s more than I think, 4 times more than Vatican. So, per day 3 hundred thousand people come inside the city. Like floating population. It’s a spiritual headquarters. Just near… near that city, in a small village it’s called Ghaziabad. Ghaziabad, any of you from that area? Then you know what I am saying, Ghaziabad. There is an hospital just near that area. A little away from Ghaziabad. One sadhu was sick. So he was in the hospital, ICU - intensive care unit. Don’t imagine American intensive care unit. Here we use the same word but not same instruments.
One sadhu was sick, and he is in death bed. Sadhu means a monk. One monk was in death bed. In the north, the tradition is that any elderly sadhu, monk is sick - the youngsters, the not err… brahmacharis will take care. So I was a young sadhu. So I naturally felt I should take care. I was staying in that village. So I went and started attending him, taking care of him. It was a very strong experience. I was taking care of him. He was about to die. Please understand, he was about to die. Not only he was about to die, the next bed, that man is also, he was also struggling for life. He was pulling and pushing, almost gasping for breath So when I saw that guy was dying, not the monk, the next bed guy. I was able to see very clearly what is happening inside him. I was not able to help him. Because I have not completely... I can say after my Satori, but not fully become enlightened. Means, the realization that I am a incarnation did not happen at that time. So only when that realization you are incarnation happens, you will be able to help.
It was a time when my body itself was getting prepare for the explosion. So, I was not able to help but I was able to see very clearly what is going on. Doctors was standing around him trying to help. But what doctors can do. They can only console the relatives. Nothing else can be done. And they are trying to give all the supports, all possible support, medical support. And it’s a afterall a small hospital, whatever they have, they are giving. That guy is grasping for breath, grasping for breath. Just… I could see very clearly how the death was happening. I can say this one of the strongest experience I had outside me. See inside me the strongest experience is realizing the mission or the purpose of this birth. That’s what I call enlightenment. So, that experience is the strongest experience happened inside me. The strongest experience I ever had in my live outside me is this experience. I could see very clearly how that life source is settling or moving away from the body.
First actually when I was able to see. I couldn’t tolerate. I was not able to tolerate. One important thing I want you to know. If it is physical pain, when you see somebody suffering, it’ll only affect you 40%. If it is a mental pain, depression, when somebody is in depression, if you see, if you are able to connect, it’ll affect you 60%. If the pain is emotional pain and if you are able to see and connect , it’ll affect you 80%. The more subtle the pain is, more you will also affected. You understand what I am saying? If the pain is physical, other person’s pain is physical, you will be affect only some 30%. If you see an accident, you will affect only that much. But if you see somebody in a deep depression and you know the purpose and whole history and everything, it affects you at least 60%. And if the pain is subtle, emotional, deeper than mental depression, emotional, or being level and you see, and you are able to connect and understand - it will be, it’ll create a very strong effect in you. I not only saw physical or mental or emotional, I saw very being level, how that soul is struggling. How that individual soul is struggling with the body. So it was such a shock, practically I myself felt it. So I just want to run away from that area.
But this Swami, this monk whom I am taking care, he gets frightened and he holds my hand, “No. No. No. You have to be here. Stay here, stay here. I am going to die. Don’t leave me and go away.” He is ninety, above ninety. And… What to do, and I was taking care of him waiting two or three months. And he naturally become connected to me, very attached with me. And he said that, “Even if I die, I should die at you lap. So you are the one who is taking care of me.” I use to clean and take of him. I, I really love serving the monks from my young age. This is my…. I can say my life. From the young age, I’ll steal everything from the house and give it to the monks. Nothing whether it is clothe or food or, of course one nice thing with my mother; she will never say no when I am giving to sadhus. But my grandmother is very idiotic. She is a… I don’t want to use any word. And she will keep an eye on me continuously. She will be usually, she will be sitting outside the house only. Usually in the Bharatn villages, the lady will sit outside the gate with a stretched leg, they will be sitting and grinding that betel nut and betel leaf and that tobacco. Tobacco and chewing it and spitting all over the wall, and everywhere. And that lady will be sitting there only. Still she is sitting there only.
I left the house, become enlightened, now the whole mission is there, still she has not change the place. And she is still alive. That’s another one thing. And she will stretch her leg and she will watch what I am carrying, when I go out. What I am bringing, when I come in. And sometime she will check also, security check also. I have to go through security check also. Whether anything is hidden inside the tummy or anything. Serving sadhus was my passion. I always feel, this whole tradition is alive just because of service to sadhus, Service to the monks. It is they who kept the science. Seeing the west if you are doing some research in any field, that company sponsor. If you are doing medi, err… research in the medical field, the pharmacy’s company will, pharmacy company will sponsor. Each, each research, somebody has a vested interest. So, they sponsor, that research. If it is about space, the government sponsors, like that. But if somebody wants to do a spiritual research, who will sponsor? Food and stay, shelter… Bharat is such a great country. The whole country took the responsibility, we will sponsor.
Go to any house with this clothe - north. The south it has, it has been lost . In the north, you will have food, shelter and clothe. The whole country took up the responsibility. Anybody does spiritual research, we will sponsor. See seeking is nothing but a spiritual research. This is what is the truth. So, country decides we will sponsor. So people who have taken up this research, who take care of them? I always felt it’s my responsibility to take care of the sadhus. So, I am not able to run away from him because he is staying. “No no no… stop be here. Otherwise I’ll die.” And he is able to hear the sound from the next bed. And Bharat people don’t die softy. They shout. I don’t know in the west also same thing happens. They shout and cry, “Oooh... amma this pain here, this pain here.” They do all. What can be done. Even if you shout, nothing can be done. And that guy was dying. He was going through such a hard time.
Let me describe exactly how it was. It’s like a... the whole six feet was being, the body, whole body was being torn. That’s what I felt. The consciousness, how the, see if your small finger, if you have cut, how you feel the pain. The same kind of cut is happening in the whole body. The skin is being peeled. That’s what exactly, no, I saw the consciousness. Please understand, whatever I am talking is truth. I have to describe. It’s like a thousands of scorpions biting at a time. Have you had scorpion bite? Anybody? So thousand, just multiply it. Every pore, the scorpion is bitten. It’s like a one side that soul is saying, soul means not the pure consciousness. The soul associated with all the engrams - desire, guilt, greed, lust, fear, anger, err what pain, pleasure. You see, when the pure soul added with all these engrams is called individual soul. Individual soul and all the engrams are taken away, call pure soul. Pure soul is the cosmos. I can say individual soul. The individual soul was having a terrible suffering. The individual soul want to stay in the body and enjoy. But body is saying, “No. I am tired, I can’t hold you anymore. I am done.” Body just wants to relax.
So the fight between the body and the individual soul is happening. The fight between the body and the individual soul. Every inch, the fight is going on. The individual soul feels tsk even if the right leg goes is okay, catch on, hold on to left leg. Even if the left, left hand goes is okay, hold on to right hand. Individual, whatever parts its, it can hold on, it tries to hold on. And, but slowly, slowly that part is saying, “No, I am done, relax. I am done, relax.” The part by part is dropping. When the lower body is getting dropped, the struggle was not too much. Only when the higher, upper body started, I could see very clearly, the pulsating pain. I can say the whole being was vibrating pain. See, yesterday after energy darshan, I saw so many of you vibrating with peace and bliss. How many of you felt that vibrating with the peace and bliss? And now understand, imagine the opposite. This is what is… Now you know what, what I mean by vibrating. How you vibrated with the peace, same way I saw that being was vibrating with pain. Whole being.
It was such a shock. Slowly that individual soul started moving out of the physical body with all these suffering and pain, finally physical body drop. When the err… breathing stops, that is the moment individual soul leaves the physical body. Then starts the pra... the next level fight. The next level body, the Prana Sarira. The next level body, that fight starts. See, there are seven layers in you. I’ll give you a simple description now for you to understand. Seven, it’s a seven part of you. The body made out of flesh and bones and blood - this is the first layer, first body, physical body. The energy which is moving in you as Prana, see in the five kind of air circulation happens in you - Prana, Vyana, Udana, Samana, Apana. Means going in, staying in, spreading all over the body, and coming out and cleaning. These are the five air process happens in you. Going in, staying inside the body, spreading all over the body as an oxygen, as a life force, coming out and cleaning.
Cleaning means even through skin. Even your sweating is because of the Prana movement only. So five air movements are happening in you. All the five air movements are call the second body. Second layer body - Prana Sarira. The third, the inner chattering which goes on continuously in you. The inner chattering is the third body - mental body. Fourth, the emotions which you are experiencing - fear or greed or anger, emotion, which spreads all over the body without the usage of words. Please understand, there are some emotions which can shake your whole being without the usage of any words. No need for any word to be uttered. But the emotion can shake you. That is what is fourth layer body. Emotional layer.
The fifth is the body you experience in the deep sleep. Body experienced in the deep sleep, where all the engrams are in the seed level, in a causal level. They’ve not… They are not giving you any experience, but they are not dead. In the causal level. This is the fifth layer. Sixth layer, the cosmic body where you experience bliss in your life at least once or twice you would havel experience bliss. That is the sixth layer. Sixth layer only continuously inspire you to be a seeker. If you are a seeker, seeking continuously, sixth layer is very strong in you. If you enrich the sixth layer, your whole life will be blissful. So there is a sixth layer. Seventh is the enlightenment. The ultimate enlightenment itself. So these are the seven parts of you. It’s like a seven spare parts of you. 27:38
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