“Faith, effort, time- the unfailing formula.”

Faith, effort, time- the unfailing formula. Patanjali is not only a spiritual Master- he is a great visionary. He created, a civilization, which was complete- not only having the outer world infrastructure, it was able to retain the inner balance- it was able to experience the peaks of Supercosciousness. The experiences of that ultimate ecstacy, as I was introducing his Sutras to you yesterday- each Sutra is independently intelligent enough to make you fully Enlightened. When I say fully Enlightened, I mean not only Spiritual Enlightenment, even in the outer world. Even in the outer world, contributing to society, you will be a person really contributing to humanity, contributing to society. The Patanjali spirituality is not running away from society, not escaping from society, His spirituality is living. He uses a beautiful word in the first chapter itself, he speaks about Samadhi, Enlightenment, everything- that is why the first chapter is called Samadhi Pada- but in the last chapter- fourth chapter- he speaks something called Kaivalya. Kaivalya Pada- the word Kaivalya means Living Enlightenment, making the power of Enlightenment express itself in your day to day life- living it, seeing that energy, that intensity, is expressed in your day to day activity. Experiencing the fulfillment, completeness, even in the outer world. This Sutra, if that formula is applied in the inner world, you will achieve Inner Enlightenment. If that same formula is applied in the outer world, you will be an amazing contributing citizen- you’ll be an amazing blessing to the whole civilization. Patanjali is a master, trying to create a civilization with inner experience and outer fulfillment.

This aphorism- faith, effort, time, unfailing formula. When I say Faith, I am not saying blindly believing some concept, blindly having faith on some concept, No! When I say Faith, I mean feeling connected. Feeling connected to some idea, is a basic thing in every human’s life. You may feel connected to the ideas of the outer world, or you may feel connected to the ideas of the inner world. Some idea, you will feel connected. Usually, we use the word Faith, only for feeling connection with the inner world. But I always tell, they may not have faith on spiritual ideas, but they will have faith on some other ideas, but they will have, they have to have feeling connected. If somebody doesn’t feel connected to the ideas of the inner world and the ideas of the outer world, he will be depressed. He’ll be dead. Dull. He may not be physically dead, just waiting to die.

See, waiting to die is not life. Waiting to die doesn’t mean he’s living. Because he doesn’t have courage to commit suicide, or he doesn’t know how to die, he’s just waiting for death to happen. But for some idea, you have to feel connected. And always, the people who feel connected to the outer world ideas, they think they are superior, or someway they are more intelligent. They don’t understand where they are going to land. Having Feeling Connection only to the outer world ideas, suddenly you will feel one day that you have been cheated. Your life is empty. You can see- see from the young age, first either you start believing or society makes you believe- that if you do this, this, this- you will feel settled. Usually, between 7 to 14, you feel that individual identity. From that time you will start feeling a kind of emptiness, inside. When you feel you are an island, you’ll naturally, you have to feel emptiness. And, if you feel connected to the idea, see, if you feel connected to the outer world idea, naturally what society will teach? Study well, get employed, then everything will be smooth. Naturally you run behind it. You think if I study well, the idea with which you are feeling connected, you are for that. If I do that, then everything is settled. You study, get employed. Suddenly, society puts another one idea- No, no, no, if you find your love, and get settled, everything is settled. You feel connected to that idea, then you start running behind that. You try to find your love, and after that- No, no, no, if you get married- means permanent relationship- and have kids, everything is settled. After marriage, you know. And then- No, no, no, have a house, car, bank balance, kids, everything is settled. You feel connected to that idea, you work for that. Then, everything happens. Then suddenly- especially if you are an Bharatn parent- No, no, no if your child is educated and settled, everything is settled. Then your child gets educated, everything happens. Suddenly- no, no, no, no, if he’s married and successful in his life, everything is settled. Once he’s married and settles in his life- if I have my grandkids playing around me, I have nothing else to do, I’m settled, my life is relaxed.

Just look inside! You go on feeling connected to the ideas which is constantly postponing the feeling settled. Understand, the important difference, Patajali’s Idea, the important truth Patanjali wants to reveal is- to run your life, you don’t need to have that unsettled feeling! See, there are some civilizations believes only if a man has the deep unsettlement inside him he will, he can be made to work. No! This is the major difference, between Patanjali and materialistic civilizations. Civilizations which are based on the outer world. Patanjali is not against the outer world, but the one difference is- you don’t have to run your whole life based on unsettled feeling. See, many civilizations, they start believing unless a man has that unsettled feeling he cannot be made to work. No! That is the main difference. You don’t have to feel connected to wrong ideas for constantly contribute to the humanity. That is not needed. With feeling settled you will be so alive! Just as overflowing you will be contributing.

In Vedic tradition, we have two kinds of wealth. Kubera’s Wealth and Lakshmi’s Wealth. Kubera’s Wealth means- he will accumulate, accumulate, accumulate and hold, neither he will enjoy, nor somebody else can enjoy. Technically, he will play with the number, he will have the wealth, neither he will be enjoying, nor others will be enjoying. The Lakshmi’s Wealth means- she will be constantly circulating, giving, giving, giving, giving, giving. Not only she will be enjoying, everyone will be enjoying. See, Lakshmi’s Wealth means- you will not bother to spend because you have courage and confidence about your intelligence to create more wealth. So, allow it to flow through you. This is what we call Lakshmi’s Wealth. The Kubera’s Wealth means- he only knows few cunning methods- technically to own, technically to gather, he will not be doing anything. Everybody else will be working- somehow he can give some promises- fictions being sold in fractions. He knows the technique how to sell the fictions in fractions. He knows the technique. He can make that happen. And he will be holding, he will not be contributing directly to society.

If you understand these two idea of Kubera Wealth and Lakshmi Wealth- the circulating wealth and the stagnant wealth- you will have the Vedic solution for the present economy crisis. This fictions being sold in fractions is main responsible. That is responsible for all the economical crisis. Because, people who buy, they did not realize they are buying fictions in fractions for quite a long time. The moment they wake up, they woke up- oh God! Fictions are being sold in fractions- I’m buying! When they stop buying, the whole thing tumbles down. Contributing economy or accumulating economy- there are two different kinds. Understand, if a civilization is built on a unsettled feeling of a human being, if our faith is such that only if a human being feels unsettled he will continue to work and contribute, if civilization is built based on that idea, please be very clear, constantly we will only be trying to make quick bucks. We will not bother about contributing to society, contributing to humanity. We will bother only about the numbers in my bank balance. You just bother only about that number, and that number gives you a kind of a felling of security, but it can never give a feeling of settled.

The only difference, what Patanjali is teaching, Patanjali says, human beings doesn’t need that unsettled feeling to contribute to the society. With a deep fulfillment, with a deep settled feeling, if we allow him to settle down, without any insecurity, without any fear, without any unsettled felling- the overflowing energy with which he contributes, he will be really contributing. He will not be selling fictions in fractions. See, many time I have seen, I have seen some of these guys, how just two three ideas of two three ideas or two three promise, they’ll make money out of it. And people wake up, and they realize, Oh god! Then, the whole thing will tumble down. Why people try to make quick bucks? Because, the whole emphasis is on the insecured feeling.

Patanjali is trying here to create Samadhi-based Civilization. A civilization which is Living Enlightnement- Kaivalya. That is why in the initial he talks about Samadhi, the end he gives a beautiful chapter- Kaivalya Pada. He teaches how to Live Enlightenment. Human beings doesn’t need to be slaves- of insecurity, fear- to contribute. I’ve seen people who worked out of greed and fear they became tired and a layer of Tamas- inertness- gets settled around them. Once, see, when the fear and greed is awakened, it can drive you for few years. Like a explosion.

It can drive you for few years. Just after few years, after that you will become insensitive to your fear and greed. Your Consciousness cannot be moved by your fear and greed. You will start settling down. Even in the companies, they say after five years, there will be low curve. There’ll be low curve. They call it plateau effect. There’ll be low curve. Means what? The fear and greed, which was pushing you, which was fueling you, doesn’t have any more power over you. Your system becomes insensitive to those ideas. See, earlier, when you start a company, when you start a business, your visualization to have a house and the beach, or to have a mercedes car, to have a bank balance, these ideas are there to push you, to explore. You’re working, working, working. Suddenly when you have all of them, you realize the emptiness behind it. You see the emptiness behind it. Now, those fear and greed cannot drive you anymore. Then, the Tamas- inertness- settles around you. Suddenly you know, nothing makes you work, and even small problem looks too big. When you were exploding with the fear and greed, the same problem wouldn’t have looked that big. Now suddenly this small problem will look too big and you just want to escape. Like Arjuna trying to escape.

Arjuna was trying to escape from the Warfield. One funny thing is, Arjuna is speaking about Dharma- means the morality or the law- to Krishna! That is the funny thing. Krishna, the PurnaAvatar, SwayamPrakashaJyothi. Is a Self-Ix\\llumined Consciousness. The full incarnation is there! It’ll be very funny if you see the dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna in the first chapter. It’s not dialogue- monologue, only Arjuna speaks. Krishna doesn’t speak at all. He just listens. And this guy goes on saying, “See, it is not moral, it is immoral”- he brings all these ideas to justify his laziness. The morality is needed, it is right, but it should be, it should happen in you out of your freedom. Not because of inertness. Sometime, the right decision, wrong reason. Understand- right decision, wrong reason. See, Arjuna crying, Arjuna saying- not to wage war, can be right decision if the reason is also right. But, Arjuna’s reason was wrong, that is why Krishna says, “No. With this reasoning don’t escape from fight. Don’t escape from war. It’s not right. If you have a right reason, you have no problem, you can move away from the war.” But the wrong reason- the right reason, and wrong reason- right decision, wrong reason.

One small story. Three mad guys, wanted to leave the madhouse. They go to the doctor and say, “I think all three of us are healthy enough, and intelligent enough, to live our life. Please release us.” Doctor says, “Okay. Tomorrow, we will have a test- if all three of you guys prove that you are intelligent, you can go. I have no problem. After all, we don’t want you guys here.” Tomorrow all three come there. Doctor takes all the three of them to a empty swimming pool. Swimming pool without water. He calls first guy, “Jump.” That guy jumps, and breaks his leg. He calls second guy, “Jump.” That guy also jumps, he breaks his hand. He calls third guy, “Jump.” He says “No, I wont jump”. Doctor says, “Yes, you can go back, you can go to your house, you are okay.” In the office, when the paperwork is getting done, the last signature which is needed from the patient, when he was signing, the doctor asks, “May I know why you decided not to jump into the pool? I know now you are going to be free- you made a right decision- but may I know why you don’t want to jump into the pool?” He said, “ I don’t know swimming.”

Sometime, you too make right decision, wrong reason. Even if the reason is wrong, you are wrong. Here, Patanjali comes; he wants even the reason to be right. Not only decision, even the reason to be right. Understand, the fear or greed doesn’t need to be a driving mechanism. The faith, effort, time- I want you to internalize this one truth- when you believe with the ideas of the outer world, when you feel connected to that ideas of the outer world, fear and greed becomes your driving force. And you are running because of that force. Please understand, that is always going to lead you to depression, or hopeless feeling, loneliness. Here Patanjali says, “Run, with the right idea. Let the right ideas be your fuel. Blessed are those who feel connected to spiritual ideas.” Please understand, having faith, having feeling connected, to the spiritual ideas, is not an ordinary quality. It is an amazing, amazing, extraordinary. If you feel connected only to the outer world idea, you will see, it’s like a having a TV with two three channels. If you feel connected to the spiritual ideas, it’s like having a TV with two hundred, three hundred channels. The more possibility, more exploring possibility, more possibility for life.

Understand the basic truth. See, for atheist, only what you see in front of your eyes is a truth. So what is their truth, what they feel connected? It’s a basic needs whatever you need, some luxuries, some comfort. So all these things will be fulfilled in few years. Either it’ll be fulfilled or you will have an idea- it cannot be fulfilled. You will come up, it’ll be clear in few years. After that, what will you do? Nothing else to achieve, nothing else to do. There’s no inspiration source. So naturally, being depressed is the lifestyle. I have seen- a staunch atheist always end in depression. If he is inspired, excited, working- he is a theist inside. Maybe showing as atheist outside- that is okay, no problem. At least inside they know how to preserve themself, without falling into depression. Even if you are atheist, even inside, then nobody can save you. Your depression is the only way.