“Same way I have seen in North Bharat, in My wanderings I have seen how…”

Same way I have seen in North Bharat, in My wanderings I have seen how they catch these birds. Just a simple rope… here we have. Understand this simple example. They will, like this a small stick, they will hang it. In two trees they will tie this. See, like this a small stick they will tie in two tree. These two ropes will be tied in two trees. Nothing, you may think how can this small thing can be used to catch birds. Like this they will hang it. This poor guy, that bird will come and sit in one side. Naturally because of his weight what will happen? Upside down. It will become upside down. That poor guy, he will be hanging upside down. He cannot understand, if he lets go he can just fly. That poor guy, “No no no, if I relax, if I open, I may fall, I may break my head. I may wound, injure myself. And that fellow will be hanging just upside down. For half an hour or one hour he will be hanging.

And slowly the hunter will come and catch that fellow, put him in the cage. Understand. See, this [rope] is your thoughts, this stick is your mind. And that bird is you, the jeeva. The bird is the Jeeva. If you just let go the mind, you can fly but your mind says, “no no no” you think “No no no, if I let go, I may fall and break my head. My family may be disturbed, my business will be disturbed, my house will be distubred, I may become imbalanced. My life will become in chaos.” Can that bird be convinced intellectually “No no, if you let go, you can just fly” Can that bird be convinced? No, impossible.

That guy thinks this stick is the security. And he hangs. Naturally, simply the hunter comes and catches him. Hunter is Yama. You will be hanging, you will be hanging thinking that this stick is the security… simply till Yama comes. When Yama comes he will just snatch you from this also, and put you in the cage and take you and go. Understand, exactly we are doing the same game of that bird.

Foolish bird, when I say ‘that foolish bird does not understand if he let’s go he can fly’ you laugh. But you are in the same situation. If you just relax from the mind… You see, there is not record of any bird letting go and falling and fracturing his head. Have you heard any record? Bird fell and had injury and died? Same way, there is no record of anybody losing anything by unclutching. Anybody losing whether their wealth or health or their life by unclutching.

Understand, simply your mind creating fear saying ‘no no, if you let go you will fall and die’, and that guy is hanging. Understand, sometime, some bird which was hanging like this, but somehow escaped, fly, escaped, that bird comes back and sees this hanging bird and says, “Hey, relax, relax, if you open up, you will fly. If you let go, you will fly.” That guy is poking this fellow’s leg, that is initiation. That is what is initiation. The bird which was hanging for some time, flied, due to some reason is coming back and saying, ‘Let go, relax. If you let go, you’ll only fly, you won’t fall’, That bird is guru, that act is initiation.

Understand, all you need is a simple confidence. The seed is saying, “If I open up who knows, will I become tree or I die?” The tree is saying, “No no, only if you open up I can come out.” The seed is saying, “No, no, you come out then I will open up.” Tree is saying, “No, you open only then I can come out.” Some seed which has become tree should give confidence to this seed “Open up, you’ll only become tree. You won’t die.” Some bird which flied, should come back and say, “See I was hanging like that. When I let go, I am only flying. I have not broken my head. I have not injured myself. I have only started flying. You also let go, fly.

Understand, if a bird let’s go, relaxes, he will become Paramahamsa. So if you let go, you will become Paramahamsa. Thats all, nothing else. You need simple confidence to let go the mind and unclutch. Nothing else.

Understand, next step, next step. This bird, how much ever he tells, there are some birds which is hanging, very tight. And that fellow will tell, “No, when you were hanging and when you left, the below ground was only ten feet, now you see thirty feet, you don’t know my situation.” People tell Me, “When you left the house, you were not married. You did not have business. But you are telling us to unclutch, we are married, we have business” This hanging bird will argue.

Understand, of course I am not telling you to leave the house, that is different. All I am telling you is unclutch. You will say, “No, no, no, when you unclutched, you did not have any commitment. Only if you are in our situation you will know” - that bird arguing. “When you let go, it was only thirty feet length, bottom, now you see hundred feet. And you don’t know how much fear I have. See below whether it is thirty feet or hundred feet it is not a problem because you are not going to fall. You are just going to fly. But these birds sometime will not trust. For that only the next step. This bird which was trying to give initiation, it brings and puts a small net. And it says, “Alright, even if you fall, you will fall only on the net, you will not break yourself, fly.” That is what is Abhaya, means, understand, that is what is Abhaya.

Very beautifully Krishna does this job. After talking so much, teaching so much and giving Vishwarupa Darshana, even after all that, this fellow, this Arjuna… No really. No, I have My own doubt whether really Arjuna was that dull or Krishna is using Arjuna as a front and talking because a King cannot be that dull. Maybe Krishna is using Arjuna and talking to the worst possible student in future; because, see Krishna is Jagat Guru, he has to consider the weakest link and give the lesson for the weakest student. Maybe that is the possible; because I cannot imagine Arjuna being so dull. Because this fellow is asking the same question again and again.

Anyhow, The last chapter he says beautifully, finally, very… Just before, I think, I don't know whether 12th or 13th chapter he gives one assurance that

ananyas cintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate

tesam nityabhiyuktanam yoga-ksemam vahamy aham

He says very beautifully. Forget about everything else, just relax in Me. I will take care of whatever you need and whatever your comforts; Yoga and Kshema - Yogakshema means bringing what you need and see that it stays with you.

Not only I will give, I'll ensure it stays with you. You see it’s a very strong word. Please understand, Krishna’s words has no expiry date. There is not expiry date. You can't say ‘the word has expired in 2000, now we are 2010, the word has no meaning’, no. It has no expiry date.

First thing, let Me tell you from My own experience. Understand, let Me tell you from My experience one small incident. I am honestly telling you the truth as it happened. Little mystical, but if you can, if you have that feeling connection, catch the truth. It is a blessing for you. If you don’t have, it is ok, forget about it. Don’t bother. If you leave it, it’s ok; nothing wrong. But what I am saying is the honest truth as it is.

I was staying in Haridwar at that time in My wandering. Hmm, suddenly I had a diarrhea. Diarrhea means not just loose motion, bleeding; and literally at least 20 to 30 times per day. Literally. And, I had a high fever also. High fever and diarrhea. I am a alone Sadhu. I was staying in a small kind of a underbridge, on the banks of Ganga; one canal of Ganga. In Haridwar Ganga has five/six canals, big canals, and I was staying in one canal. And I thought, I think I am going die. I am going to die because I was not even able to go to hospital. And I was not even able to ask somebody to help. I decided anyhow I think I am going to die. There was a small Shiva linga. I thought I will die by putting My head on that Shiva linga because I was not able to move here and there anywhere. I dragged myself and put My head on the Shiva linga. I don’t know what happened, I slept.

And suddenly one young Sadhu came; he came with food and medicine. He came and he woke Me up and said, “Baba, I brought food for You.” Maybe around 35 that age limit only. “I brought food for you” He gave the food and medicine. I said ,”I don't know you, I think you are searching for somebody else, you are mistaking Me.” He said, “No, no, no, I am coming, I came in search of you only. I wanted to give you food”. He gave Me food and he gave some herbal medicines. I took, I felt little better. And he came continuously for three days. Bringing food, and gave Me some medicine also.

One thing was very attracting was this Sadhu was… seemed to be very educated. He had a stoned pen, I thought it is diamond; diamond stoned pen, pen in his pocket. And usually in north sadhus are not educated people; sadhus are… 99 percent of sadhus are uneducated. They have not educated in the formal way. Our organisation is the, Dhyanapeetam is the only organisation where 100 percent sadhus are educated. Not for pride I am saying… usually the sadhus are not educated.

I, I was surprised. It was attracting My attention but anyhow I just left it. I asked him, “You are from where”. He told Me he is from nearby one ashram. And even in the plate in which he brought that ashram name was engraved. You know in Bharat we have the habit of engraving that name in the plate so that it won't be stolen. I saw that in the plate also that name was engraved and name of that Ashram. And anyhow after 3-4 days I became alright. He stopped coming.