Upanishad Under the Banyan Tree

Ravi is asking, “When we were young our parents and elders used say, ‘Go and sleep or else some unknown ghost will come and take you away. It works on my kids also. Is that wrong?”

Swamiji: Completely wrong. And make them understand, “If you sleep the time only then will you maintain the health; your muscles will build.” Make them understand. Otherwise if they sleep less, then okay. No problem. Why should you force them? Making, through understanding if you can make them do, let them do. Otherwise, it’s okay. Leave it. They will, their body will learn. They don’t need three meal and eight hour sleep as your body needs. You have so much junk in your health. So you need that much. They don’t have. So kids can manage easily with one hour, food, one meal and two-three hour sleep. If they sleep more, great. If not, don’t worry.

(Rajesh Rathod): “Going near fire one can feel it’s effect, like heat. Then why is tuning is required to receive energy from the master?”

Swamiji: Fire is physical. You can go near. In my case, the moment you come near, if you're not tuned, your ego walks away, moves away from me. Understand? It does not even let you come to my presence. You try to bring your body as much as possible near my presence. But your mind will tell all kinds of stories and run away.

(Questioner) “When you asked us to experience Shiva all through the body, experienced you in my body.”

Swamiji: Ranjani, you will experience levitation also.

(Swamiji silently reading participants letters)

Identity is Ego. There’s no difference. Unclutching is a more stronger process than witnessing.

(Questioner) “Do chakras open in normal sequential order?”

Swamiji: No, there is no sequence.

Vasudevan, that feeling of the fire is usual.

(Questioner) “Should we discuss our spiritual experiences with others or keep it to ourself?”

Swamiji: You can discuss. Nothing wrong. Whatever you wanted to keep it for yourself - too personal, keep it. Whatever you want to share, share.

(Swamiji silently reading participants letters)

Once the sun sets, usually we don’t sit here because the ghosts are walking. Um Ummm. The, (participants chatting and Swamiji laughing) No, many, many people have seen. Many local villagers also seen. There’s a security deity here, which goes round takes care of this tree and protects. So after sunset, anybody comes, he doesn’t. Security, Guardian Deity. (inaudible Tamil) Disciple actually. The disciple who was in charge of security. In that corner, they are digging you see, they are build a beautiful, they are going to put a hugh Patanjali statue. Some six feet, in five metal, and make a beautiful temple there. That’s why they’re building. They are digging. Did you see they are digging and on that below, I’m going to put Yantras such way, anybody goes and sits there will have levitation, will experience levitation. That is the way we are working. That’s what they’re doing actually. (Swamiji pointing to trees in the vicinity) There, athi where, under which Mahavir became enlightened. Uh, banyan, under which Shiva gives enlightenment. That) under which Buddha became enlightened, Bhodi and Ashoka, under which Sita became enlightened. The fourth - neem. And there’s another one special tree - neem with two parasites.

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