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We will enter into today’s subject. Today’s subject is a very beautiful subject. Title is “I am therefore I think.” We can think the other way round also “I think therefore I am.”

People who say I think therefore I am they go from here to there and people who say I am therefore I think go from there to here. But we should be able to travel to and fro both these places.

181st Patanjali Yoga Sutras 4th Chapter, 19th verse

Na tat sva abhaasaam drushyatvaath

Vivekananda Editorial Team: The mind is not self illuminous being an object

Prabhavananda: the mind is not self luminous since it is an object of perception

Satchitananda: the mind stuff is not self luminous because it is an object of the purusha

Osho: the mind is not self illuminating because it is itself perceptible.

Now the sacred secret of this sutra. Anything which you can see cannot be self illuminating means swayamprakasa self effulgence by its own presence, expresses its glory. For example, if you are able to perceive body, then it cannot be self illuminating. It cannot radiate its grace glory on its own. No. life is necessary inside it. Otherwise you will just be lying in burial ground! The moment you are able to perceive your mind you need to know it is not self illuminating. Self illuminous. Anything which can be perceived, cannot be self luminous whether it is the body or mind or emotions anything. The perceiver is self illuminating by whose presence everything perceived is self illuminating – swayam prakasa – shines in his own glory, by his own presence. You need to understand the practical utility value of this sutra, application of this sutra.

Because you exist, you think is the mystical reality. Because you exist, you think. I want you to know some important things about practical reality. Only when you make your thinking itself having self respect towards itself, it feels the consciousness by whose presence you are alive. Understand, I will put it in a very practical way. From my own experience. See when I spent some time in the Ramakrishna Mission – one of the biggest contribution done to me and my mission by Ramakrishna mission and I am eternally grateful to Ramakrishna mission - that is making my thinking and my body, my system and useful to humanity. Only when I became useful, my thinking has started respecting itself. Only then my thinking has gone to the depths of itself and found the original I am – the self illuminating consciousness. Please understand, only when I achieved extraordinary physical flexibility and health from Raghupati yogi, I respected my body and started going deeper. Only when RamaKrishna mission made my thinking productive, creative to society, my thinking respected itself. I had a subtle anger towards Raghupati Yogi for drilling and bending my body. Of course now I have so much of gratitude! Just the other day I was telling my ashramites what a joy to live in this body. Such a worst fracture did not disturb me for one moment, did not tell my consciousness I am having pain, I am having suffering, I don’t want to come for paada pooja, do my satsang, do my classes. No. what a joyful body to live with! I did not miss my routine even one day. Except 2 days in the hospital. Other than that it did not give me even an inch of suffering. This whole credit goes to Raghupati Yogi. I remember him with so much of respect and gratitude. When I lived with him it was a torture! Sometimes just like that he will tell from sun rise to sun set do Surya Namaskar. I don’t think you guys will be able to believe, I promise I have done it! In Tiruvanamalai there is a place called Pavalakundru where I had my enlightenment there is a huge rock from where sunrise and sunset can be seen! Nearby there is a small temple. He will take me there and say start Surya Namaskar. I will ask how many. He would say what do you mean how many. Do till sun set!

In modern day if you tell disciples, they will run away thinking you are trying to kill them. But I tell you just yesterday my lawyers and doctors who took care of this surgery were sitting and discussing. The doctors are saying 100% we can write and give in affidavit he is beyond pain, he is beyond suffering! Lawyers are saying if somebody can control the impulse of suffering then it naturally goes without saying he can control all his impulses! If somebody can control impulse of pain then simply he has mastered impulses of pleasure! I was shocked that this will help me in my legal case. The medical experts are saying this will surely help Swamiji. One doctor he is in the field of orthopedic surgery for 40 years. He said in his experience he has never seen with this kind of fracture somebody coming with a smiling face, no pain killer, no anesthesia just sitting in a relaxed way. Laughing, smiling giving interview. I actually gave an interview to eNtv. I gave an interview. Then telling doctors please do surgery without anesthesia. This whole credit goes to Raghupati yogi. I should confess now, I felt so much tortured by Raghupati Yogi that in the last phases of his life, I even stopped going to him! I can say at least for some 3 months, I did not see him. But once I awakened to myself, what he has done to me, oh God! What a contribution. Only when I realized the peak of my body, I had respect for body and then moved to mind.

And RamaKrishna mission taught me to reach the peak of my mind. Peak of your mind is being creative and productive 24 hrs to the society you are living. Whether for profit or non profit, you should be in the peak of your creativity! 2-3 days before we were having a discussion. One person from TamilNadu remote village came here to become a Brahmachari. When he was Brahmachari it was such a big head ache to handle him. but he knows tailoring. He asked us to give him salary. When it was a non-profit to make him work is such a big head ache. But when we started giving him salary, without missing a single day he stitches at least 2 clothe sets per day. I thought it is perfectly alright to take salary. But he has started putting his whole body & mind into it. He is 1000 times more than a Brahmachari who is thinking he is a sadhu and does not move his…alright I will not tell the rest ☺ At least this tailor guy is not killing himself. But this idiots who think they are sadhus and they are not getting any salary and are not productive are committing suicide. Whether you take salary or not, let you mind be in peak creativity. I tell you when you crate that peak creativity bio memory energy flow in your system. RamaKrishna mission has done that in me. They have created a wonderful opportunity and space for me to learn and be creative and productive. I had the opportunity where I was encouraged to work. I will run from morning till night there. If you any of you are suffering because of my workaholic habit, you need to blame RamaKrishna mission only. I learnt to work to be creative, productive to the society. Morning 4 I would come out of room after taking bath. 5 I will be in the main hall and I had the responsibility of cleaning the hall. The paid priest will not be there. Only the Brahmacharis and swamis will do the puja. He will have big cot, mosquito curtain, fan, a/c, tobacco box, ayurvedic spices which he will chew in night time. Everything will be kept. So it is treated like his living room. More than a puja it is a seva. So paid people will not be allowed to enter inside the Garbha mandir. We will only clean. by 5 I do that. by 6:30 I will come down for the next routine. I used to take care of kitchen. Prepare breakfast. Then after 8.30 I will go to the publication dept where I was working. Whole day I will sit there. Though cooks take care, I come back and see what they are doing. Take the naivedyam to Sri Ramakrishna, again I will be back to publication work. Apart from department work lot of other things like translation, etc. I took up. I had the opportunity to constantly be creative. I had one or two mentors also who are also very joyful in working. They set a kind of a trend. I may have my own subtle hatred towards RamaKrishna mission also just like how I had towards Raghupati Yogi. Whoever takes the responsibility of training you, you have subtle resistance for them because they have taken up the responsibility of changing the bio memory in you. The killed bio memory will have a little vengeance. See Raghupati Yogi killed the laziness in me. That will have some grudge. The dead laziness does create little anger. Same way when you are asked to be productive and creative, the bio memory which feels you are feeling exploited, made to over work, you are being squeezed that engram, that hatred always comes up. I did have little hatred towards RamaKrishna mission. After that I realized the throne which I am sitting they are responsible for it! this is a gift from RamaKrishna mission! Because this habit of being productive, creative, alive, contributing to society whether you take money or not is different. but go on contributing. That habit is taught to me by RamaKrishna mission. I tell you when your body is in peak and you go on contributing, you will move to the mind. Only when your mind is in peak & you go on contributing, you will move to consciousness. Only then you will understand I am therefore I think therefore I work! You will not know the glory of I am till your body and mind reaches its peak!

I really feel especially these ashramites who come here become Bramhacharis and sadhus I feel either they should work being highly productive and creative without taking any salary or they should decide they should be taking salary. Being highly productive and creative is a spiritual discipline. Whether you take salary or not it no way effects your spiritual growth. Not being productive or creative to the society you are living is the worst sin. It is like Brahma hatya dosha means killing the Brahman – consciousness. When you don’t realize your consciousness, when you don’t realize I am, you are doing Brahma hatya. When Brahman is not realized in your body and mind, you are doing Brahma hatya dosha. Brahma hatya dosha means the sin of destroying consciousness. Your mind should be alive, aware, creative, productive, contributing 24 hours. I tell you few years of my life in RamaKrishna mission has clearly showed me only when I was contributing I myself developed for me. Till then I myself did not have respect for me. When I don’t, how will I look deeper? Only when you have a creative, productive, contributing mind you will have respect for mind and will be able to think beyond mind – I am. Anybody who is not creative and productive and think they can be enlightened are just fools!

Do not think you can experience I am the consciousness. Brahman without having complete respect for your body and mind. I am therefore I think means the thinking should be the radiation of I am. Your mind should be the radiation of the consciousness. If your mind is the radiation of your consciousness then naturally it must be radiating the qualities of consciousness then naturally your body should be expressing the qualities of the consciousness!

Without creating a creative productive mind, if you are thinking or planning or feeling you can achieve the high conscious state, one Siddha very beautifully writes – a handicapped guy who does not have legs and hands, wants pure honey from the top branch of a tree. See the honey combs are built usually in different parts of the tree by bees. Only top branch honey comb will be pure because no other bird or small creatures would have disturbed its purity. So he sees a man who does not have legs and hands, does not have limbs if he has desire for pure honey from top of tree if he goes and hits the tree what will he get? Maybe the bees will bit him that’s all!

Without creating a highly creative productive creative mind, any action or any thought you cherish that will lead you to higher consciousness is useless! Create healthy, highly flexible energetic body. Create highly contributing creative mind. Unfortunately in the corporate circle we spend more time in branding and marketing us than creating productivity.

Other day I was reading an anecdote. There was a competition on hand boat riding between the American and Japanese company. In the Japan co 12 were there 11 to row and 1 to encourage. In America – same 12 – 4 to row, 3 to give the supervising report and 3 more to take care of the legalities and other 2 to do the further strategy planning about the future rowing. Naturally American company oat lost the game. When they reported back, next time t hey changed the whole thing - 2 will row, 4 will monitor, 4 more will supervise those supervisor and only 1 will take care of legal and other 3 will do perfect strategy planning. And one more person to give a live news to media where they are heading and what is happening. Most of us get caught only with this kind of corporate marketing strategy in branding and marketing us than being creative, productive. Constantly being creative, productive raises your respect for yourself.

There was a time in my system I felt oh God! What a life. 24 hrs I was contributing to society. I was almost having only 2 hours to sleep. All other times constantly doing something which directly helps people, directly reaches out to people. I could see the joy. I tell you probationary period of learning how to work should always be with non-profit organization. In for profit this is always linked with your mind. You get into a wrong mental set up. Success of a religious organization depends on the lay devotee and disciples physical, mental and social success not how much money they have. One of the most successful spiritual organization from my knowledge if the 7th day Adventist, mormon church and swami naaraayan – both have this habit –n their kids and youth before they enter they career and job at least 2 years they spend serve in their religious organization. I tell you. nothing else can you teach you so much than working in non profit in the first 2 years of your career. The non-profit organization the ambience is work how much ever you want. With that kind of ambience where no return is equated to your contribution. Your creativity can just explode. Non profit can be sometime making you dull, dead, depressed lazy sometime it can just make you explode in creativity. Fortunately I had the opportunity in RamaKrishna mission where I was made to explode in creativity.

Both Swami Naaraayan and 7th day Adventists have this habit their youngster before taking career go to their spiritual organization and work for non profit for 2 year. In those 2 yrs the high energy is infused in them. with that when you go to for profit, see for profit only demands only 3 to 4 hours of your creativity. But in non profit when 20 years you are alive and energetic you will simply master the for profit field. That is why the swami Naaraayan and mormon church guys are so rich, creative, productive and intelligent. Same way some of the Jewish tradition like Kabbaala they have this habit for community life and youngsters coming and working for 2 years in the non-profit way.

Something is materialized in Oman. Let’s see! Diamond! Wow! Alright it has been a long time. Sit in samaana mudra you will get kumkum and vibhooti. Ohio will receive kumkum and vibhooti in paadukas.

So create body with high flexibility, health and highly productive creative mind. This will only lead you to experience I am! Philosophically I can go on explaining this sutra – I think therefore I am. But I wanted you to have a straight sacred secret and practical utility of this sutra. I had as I said little bit of anger to Raghupati Yogi and RamaKrishna mission. But when I awakened my self to me, I realized their contribution to me. Now all I have a deep gratitude that’s all. Same way, you may also have anger or hatred towards me thinking continuously you are forced to work. But only when you become productive you will have self respect, fulfillment, integrity, the joy of integrity you will have. Only that leads you to experience I am. Only that will make you understand you are not mind, you are beyond mind. Sick body can never release you from body conscious and mind from mind conscious. So become healthy physically and mentally. Become creative and productive. You will experience the consciousness which is beyond body and mind

Just sit for few minutes. Meditate on your consciousness which is beyond your body and mind. Let your Kundalini Awakening be intensely awakened. Le you all experience healthy body and creative mind!

Yesterday is Arudra Darshan for us in Bharat, today it is for you. Seattle and LA you should do Abhishekam for Nataraaja. Today it is enlightenment day for Patanjali and Vyaakrapaada – the 2 saints who are sitting at the feet of Nataraaja. Nataraaja has only 6 abhishekam per year. Today is one of those days.

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Raghu – need to read and see where to put. Defly not at age 3

Monday, July 18, 2011

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Awaken your natural intelligence!

188th Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 4th chapter 26th verse – Almost he is giving the essence of the whole book this last 10 sutras. It may look like repetition. But it not repetition it is condensation.

Tatha vaahi viveka nimnam kaivalya praap bhaara chittam

Vivekananda’s Editorial team: Then bent in discriminating, the mind attains the previous state preliminary to kaivalya isolation

Prabhavananda: when the mind is bent on practice of discrimination it moves towards liberation

Satchitananda: when the mind stuff discriminates it moves towards liberation

Osho: When the mind is inclined towards discrimination it gravitates towards liberation

Maybe I will alter the word gravitation with levitation. I will say when your every thought moves with discrimination, automatically your whole system levitates towards liberation. Gravitation is more like pulling down and levitation more like pulling up. Actually when you are moving up you will feel light. He uses the word bhaara which roughly translates to gravitation. But the experience itself I can say is more like levitation. You become light. That is why all things which makes you light heals your body and mind. Neem juice makes you light, enema makes you light – it heals the body & mind.

Yesterday I was reading. Somebody gave me Puli Paani siddhar’s photograph. I digged out a book mentioned on that. they used neem juice as enema and healed many of the mental disorders. Neem juice is given as enema instead of water and they healed mental disorders. Of course I did not try neem juice as enema. I tried both neem juice and enema separately but anything which makes you light heals you.

I can say constant practice of discrimination means constantly your thoughts being aware of where it is moving, of where it is being integrated, of where it is moving, makes you move towards liberation.

“Viveka nimnam kaivalya” the discerning wisdom makes you incline towards the kaivalya – liberation. Patanjali is using all beautiful technical terms because he is ending the sutras. He is a great poet. Traditionally when you end any poem you use very beautiful, graceful technical words like Viveka, kaivalya! Again this sutra is continuation of yesterday’s sutra. As I was explaining yesterday about discrimination constantly discriminating – how your energy is moving, how your energy is flowing. If I have to tell you practically look at how your every thought is moving. Someone as I said you always want to be in a giddy mood. Whole day you don’t want in one thought continuously. You want to get away in few minutes. I have seen one of my teacher during my polytechnic days. He will work on a lathe machine. Such a funny thing. he will be gazing somewhere and thinking something! He will finish and create the object precisely till the end! He will even do the threading so perfectly! But if you ask him what he was thinking, he will say about his house, wife, etc. he had a mutton shop. He will come late to class and all the hen’s feathers and goat’s hair will be on his shirt. He will come and do the lathe work. Those days 3 types of lathe they will teach – lathe work with wood, lathe work with MS steal, lathe work with might steal. In hard steal you make the shafts and might steal the threading. Even in those days he is my great disciple ☺ when I saw him I used to wonder can human beings be like this? that was the first time in my life I learnt you can be lost somewhere and do something. First time I learnt this lesson. This is the idea that you can be lost somewhere and do something I never even had and to do threading is not a joke. You will have to work very carefully. I asked him how he is able to manage. He gave the example of In Mahabharatha – one butcher his profession is making and selling the meat. The story says one yogi came to his house ..it is a long story. Vyadha was supposed to be a great Paramahamsa. Even though his body is killing animals and selling meat, his consciousness was always in eternal bliss and enlightened state. He said that!

I went and asked Raghupati Yogi – how come this guy is working in the lathe. He said a Paramahamsa and a fool are 2 extremes both can do a job perfectly when the mind is wandering. He is such an extreme ignorant fool he does not want to be aware of what he is doing. See in Vyadha’s case Paramahamsa every time he cuts the animal, he is completely aware how the consciousness leaves, takes another body. this body, pain is just superficial I can say this experience itself may have lead him to enlightenment. I want to tell you all even though I am a staunch vegetarian and never promote animals killing, I must tell I had the opportunity of reading Vivekananda’s notes and diaries. I was in the publication dept of the Belur mutt. The translation was happening. There was a rule there that all translations from a particular language must be bought to English and translated. Some of them translated from Bengali to Hindi. To avoid that all translations from all over the world you will be shocked Vivekananda’s literature is translated in more than 100 languages all over the world. So I had the fortune of reading some of these books. There is one part which is not translated and published. His conversation about Durga Puja. In Bengal during Durga Puja time, the animal sacrifice is done. There are like 3 posts - the bhandari – means the organizer, pujari – means the person does the puja, tantradhari means the person who chants mantras. So before the puja starts, bhandari and pujari ask Vivekananda if they should do animal sacrifice. He says yes, you should do such extreme sacrifice that the blood should flow into the Ganges and it should become red! Anyhow, they started organizing for that. But the moment Sharada Devi who was in Jayaram Bhati her birth place the information reaches her and she immediately sends message that no animal sacrifice should be allowed in our Belur mutt, we don’t have the ritual. If you want, go get some goat meat from Dakshineshwar temple but no sacrifice inside the Belur mutt campus.

So since she is sangha janani, Vivekananda withdrew and the sacrifice did not happen. Even now in Dakshnineshwar temple everyday they do this sacrifice and offer it to kali. I was wondering why Vivekananda will ask for animal sacrifice a man of his stature and compassion. Actually the conversation was 4recorded by a disciple – Sadananda and 2, 3 other disciples who recorded this conversation. There was a foot note in his own hand writing. He says when an animal sacrifice is done, if you are there with intense awareness the fear of death disappears! Don’t be a pseudo soft soft Vaishnava. Vivekananda is against vaishnavas. He is a great Shakta – Devi worshipper. Vaishnavites were soft. He says see the animal sacrifice you will be out of fear and you will be out of the idea of death. Anyhow unfortunately this whole portion was not translated as the mutt passed a rule not to translate or publish this conversation.

After this I got very curious because in my village Arunachala my family deity Seetala Mariamman temple they will do animal sacrifice outside. I was dead against it and I spoke to the pujaris so many times to stop it. I am from a vegetarian house not only you can eat, you cannot even talk about non veg. my Grand father was such an orthodox guy. But after reading this I decided I should go and see. I went to Dakshineshwar. Usually on Saturdays, it the day auspicious for mother. On that day they give lot of goats in sacrifice. So I was sitting in the front hall continuously watching the goat sacrifice. Maybe the first 3-4 I could not tolerate. It was suffocating so painful. They will actually use a ‘V’ shaped wooden stick kind of thing. They will place the goat’s head on that V shaped part of the stick. Then in one cut, the head will go separate, the body will be separate. The head will be jumping and the body will be stuck in the V shaped wood. The goat’s legs will try to remove the body from it. The blood will be oozing. But after 4,5 goats, I saw very clearly the life leaving the body and it is settling. Suddenly, I realized all pain is just your association with bio memory. Nothing else. The moment the goat stops associating with the bio memory the pain is not there. See first few seconds the goat still has a hangover that it may be able to get back to its bio memory. There were some resigned goats also. Those goats heads was rolling and they were not even jumping! The head just rolls. That’s all. I realized pain is nothing but your attachment to you bio memory. Then I went again next Saturday to see. I can say the end of that day the very idea of fear and pain has disappeared. I realized the knife that falls there it falls on me it is the same. That flesh and this flesh is one and the same!

When the consciousness understands it cannot hold anymore, it moves on. Same thing with my body also. When this neck rolls, this consciousness will be there few minutes and goes on after that. That’s all. I had 2 fortunate things – one tremendous trust on Vivekananda, 2nd the direct face to face experience. Maybe you guys can also go to some temple and watch this. I tell you again by the time the 2nd Saturday ended, I lost all fear about death and pain and all that. Vyadha when he was cutting he was in that awareness, discrimination – Vivekananda says that is why even the cutting goat business has lead him to enlightenment! But my teacher was not Vyadha. He was such a dumb guy! He just became insensitive means moved out of the scene. He just goes on doing but does not even bother. He is the only guy whom I have seen in my life who works with the life whole day and never had even a small mark on his body. I asked him and he said he never cut himself.

I asked my guru, Raghupati Yogi how can this be he claims himself as Vyadha. He said he cannot be. Understand doing the work but not integrated by your thought to your work. By your thought to your work Integrating your thought to your work. I will call integrating your thought to your existence is discrimination. You can give any meaning to existence it could be your work, or the way you exist at this moment. Right now you are a disciple listening to the satsang. If your thought is integrated with that existence of yours, you are integrated. But sitting here if you are in office, in office you are on bed, in bed you are in morning akhaada and there you are here – you are not integrated. Integrating your thought with existence is what I call as discrimination. I can say integrating your thought with your action can also be called as discrimination. It is so difficult to make people follow the spiritual practice because whole day they don’t have discrimination. Today morning we were walking around the temple with some of my ashramites. I told them my whole life I woke up only with this sound right from my young age. Because in the loud speaker they will start Suprabhaatam in Tamil then they will play Shiva Puranam. It was my life. Any day 4 am I will be at the temple. It is not like option. I was wondering how come I was there continuously every day. Why for my disciples it is such a big struggle. I understood the whole day discrimination is missing. What for you exist, what is your life, why should you be alive that contemplation is missing! Really, first thing people should have Viraaaga means a constant clarity that it is useless to be alive. That clarity should come. Only then you will ask why should I be alive. Then your intelligence will be convinced maybe for the sake of enlightenment I should be alive. Then all your thoughts should be integrated with action or actions should be integrated with thoughts. Only then the routine will not be tiring boring work.

Otherwise you see I can tell you I am a big failure as far as my ability to make my disciples do tapas. I am not able to do it. I may claim 1000 things I am an incarnation, this that and all. No. still I am not able to make my disciples do tapas. At the most if somebody attends this 5 hours sadhana – morn 5 to 10. For one month if they do. That’s it. after that it is almost impossible. I am really sometimes surprised. A person like me who can inspire people by words, body language, by life style, by being an ideal – even if I am not making people do Tapasya, then in the whole world where is the tapas is going on? Master’s feet itself is tapobhoomi , the place wehre tapo lakshmi the wealth of tapas lives. But I am a failure in making them do it. I see many times slowly they will come, somewhere in the corner of the Akhada they disappear. What they are doing nobody knows, hide somewhere, then slowly go and lie down in the room. At least I do not want kids to live with these elders. I want at least them to understand every day morning means tapas that is life. How morning you wake up, brush and breathe, like that it is a tapas. Pranayama should be done, yoga should be done like breakfast satsang should be attended to listen to all these great ideas which become part of your life!

Not aligning every thought with your action is the worst crime human beings started doing. Actually if this crime starts all degradation enters into your being.

Sharada Devi says very beautifully if you allow a small rat into your house, for sake of rat you will get cat, for cat you will get a cow to give the cat some milk, then to maintain all these you will get a maid and then to take care of the maid you will marry at the end have to marry her! It is called rat sanyasa ☺ The rat makes you grihastha. It a story from sharada devi. She says if you allow even one thought to move inside your inner space that is enough! For example, one thought why should I get up in the morning, if I don’t get up and to will I not get enlightened or what? Then the next thought builds up why should I get up, brush, drink that neem juice? Then mind says it is okay, you can fall sick to avoid this. Then your mind will say because he wants healthy people around him, he is forcing you. Then it will say I am not interested in living here like a slave anymore. Then you will be ready to fight and leave! That one thought is enough! It is the rat which will eat your cow pin, then you get a cat to deal with the rat, then you will get a cow to deal with the cat, then you will get a maid to deal with the cow, then you will have to take care of that maid and so marry her!☺ Every thought moving towards discrimination directly leads you to enlightenment!

I remember some more things which I read in that huge notebook. Next 2-3 days I will talk about them. as per the Rama Krishna Mission rules they are not supposed to be published. But I am only respecting Vivekananda by telling you how much all these readings have added joy and spiritual richness to my own life. Vivekananda always wanted all Swamis to own a business. You will be shocked he wanted all Swamis to run a professional activity and run a campus independently. He gives the name village welfare to this. he gave some ideas. The swamis should give the things needed like a jute bag to all villagers. Once it becomes a complete object, buy that sell it elsewhere. Make the village auspicious and you also prosper and through this run the campus. This was the original idea of Vivekananda when he wanted to run the multiple campuses. And he says very clearly don’t sit on donations. He wanted every ashram and Swami to have such a project. He was such a visionary. In his time a sadhu working and all was such a crime. In those days if you are a sadhu you are supposed to be eating and…☺ He says very clearly don’t be a load on the society. Bharatn society is already such a poor society. So we should work on these projects.

The first steel plant in Bharat was created by Vivekananda when he had a conversation with Tata. In those days he spoke about the country’s economy. He was a man of practical wisdom and was a great visionary! Unfortunately he died very young at age of 39. Otherwise he would have done too much for Bharat. If he would have lived just 10-15yrs, he would have brought freedom to Bharat and guided independent Bharat. Still his teachings are alive and practicable.

Every moment integrate your thoughts with your actions. Means start doing responsible actions. Not just some mechanical action like my lathe teacher. No. almost it is like you dump your body and it is doing and you are there somewhere! Like how these flower guys, match stick people make match stick. I have seen in SivaKasi in Tamil Nadu making beedi, match stick – for hours they will be working but not aware of what they are doing. Making these crackers, match stick and beedis all these workers just become like a machine. They don’t know what they are doing. Their thought is not integrated to their action. So unfortunate!

Let your thought be integrated to your action. Sit for few minutes doing samyama on this great truth – when every thought you have is integrated to your action, you levitate towards integration. You reach enlightenment. Meditate on this one idea – how you can keep yourself aware, integrate your thoughts with your actions every moment.

Let your Kundalini Shakti be awakened. Let the great discrimination happen in all of you!

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Snake as tube

This Raghupati Yogipati Yogi is a very raw person. He will get water snakes and use the water snakes actually. No they will be alive after doing. They will go through one nose and come through the mouth. And he will say tube is dead it will not find the path, water snake is alive it can find out. ☺ No they will be very small, lean, nice just like a tube only it will be. They are found in village wells. I was not comfortable, but he will make me comfortable. And he will check my pulse whether the pulse is going up. Anyhow, but I was so happy today it was such a joy to discover the yogic body remains as yogic body and did not have any struggle. Just like that put that tube. Once or twice I sneezed, put the tube again, and finished. Finally done. Show the video ma.

\<Video is played\> (with snakes being used instead of tubes)

This is what Raghupati Yogi used to do. The snake will be green colour. It is not poisonous. This snake is very thick. Raghupati Yogi used to have very thin snake.

Raghu and kupp - Nirahara samyama

When I was practicing, trying to establish myself in that enlightenment experience continuously, whenever I used to go and report to my mentors, Raghupati Yogi and Kuppammal, whenever I reported to them some of my struggle, both of them would always say, ‘Don’t eat for next two days. Just drink water or juice, or just drink little milk or buttermilk.’ And I would always find, I always found that forty eight hours of without solid food, of course you should not go empty stomach, then acidity, gastric all that unnecessary thing, just but a no solid food, just some juice or buttermilk or milk. I always saw my system automatically got established in the space of completion. Unfortunately in society you do the reverse if you are incomplete, feeling heavy, you eat more. You dump more food in the system. You party the moment you achieve something. For joy or sorrow. If you feel sorrow you go to somebody’s party to feel cheered up. If you feel joy, you throw a party to call others.

Raghupati yogi is an amsavatara of pantajali. Means one part of patanjali was raghupati yogi.