The power of small changes - Part 2

If you are feeling tired, when you do Sadhana, be very clear, your problem is not ultimate problem, it is immediate problem, which your mind is constantly verbalizing and making it as a cerebral layer and making it as a ultimate problem. No. When you don’t have ultimate problem and cerebraly you start thinking you have ultimate problem and working on the ultimate solution, you will be tired, bored and nothing will work. Ultimate solutions do not work for the people who do not have ultimate problems.

I remember a beautiful incident. One day I was reading a sutra from this Patanjali yoga sutras. He was explaining about the samyama and kurma nadi. Kurma nadi is a energy… special energy flows on your body, if you concen… the sutra says, if you concentrate on that, if you do samyama on that, you will have the experience of the whole Cosmos. You will be able to see very clearly, the whole Cosmos. I asked, “How can that be”? Just meditating on some nadi on your body, how can you see the whole Cosmos?

He just..He just pressed it, the moment we came out of that hall to the open sky, He just pressed that kurma nadi, and that samyama has happened on the kurma nadi. It was so sweet that spot, so tasty, so ecstatic, automatically My whole attention fell on that spot, on that samyama, on that kurma nadi, and He told Me like, “Now look up.” It was maybe around eleven o’clock, daytime morning eleven o’clock, I could see very clearly, the sun and moon, and the whole, all the stars, very clearly. Please understand. I am telling you as it happened. I was shocked, I said, “Oh God, how can this be”? When He .. the moment He took His hands off, again the whole thing disappeared, I saw, the simply.. how we see now. I asked Him, “How can this happen”? He said, “It’s nothing, when you put samyama on the kurmanadi, the eyeball movements stops.”

See, all of us continuously have a eyeball movement. Every thought which happens in you makes the eyeball moves very little. But sure there is a movement. That subtle shaking of eyeball, stops you look beyond the blue layer. It stops you look beyond certain distance. If that eyeball movement is arrested and stable, in the puranas there is a mention, Devatas, Gods, do not have eyeball movements. Their eyelids do not move. That is one of the symbol described for Gods. See, if you have any darshan or vision, to find out the person whom you are seeing in the dharshan, is he really God or some illusion, these are the two, three basic scales, their feet will not be touching the ground, there will not be eyeball or eyelid movement.

So, He says, “I just made you do samyama on the kurma nadi.” The eyeball movement stops. When eyeball movement stops you can just penetrate through the layer of right.. light deflection or light reflection and see beyond. That's all. This one incident has made something totally different in Me. This one incident has made something totally different in Me. All the techniques, methods Patanjali describes in this sadhana paatha are straight and immediate.

Testimony from the program participants.

...are straight and immediate does not require twelve years. Some time people come and tell Me, “Swamiji, You make things very simple and too straight.” I tell them, “I cannot help it because that is the way I learnt it. That is the way I was told. That is the way I imbibed. So, I cannot help it. I am not making you instant coffee. I was given instant coffee. So, I am sharing it with you”

The immediate solutions, straight things, the immediate solutions make you understand your immediate problems and helps you solve it. If I go on talking about the ultimate solutions, you also start thinking all your problems are ultimate problems, and land up in depression. I have seen hundreds of people, taking up this ultimate solution as their life and lifestyle, go on living, living, living, after some time, feeling only frustrated, because that is not their problem at all. By that time they realize that is not their problem at all, their life is over. And they are into bigger problems and mess.

Because any Advaita book you read, it very nicely diverts your problems into tak, tak,tak,tak, this, this, this, finally they prove the ultimate problem is your problem. And this poor fellow, anything logically proved, immediately he starts believing, and he starts thinking that is his problem, and he is sitting. His problem is simple two kg brinjal, and little bit of salary... raise in the salary. All I am trying to tell you is, find your problem, solve your problem directly, directly.

Meera’s experience is much more solid and truthful, honest for Me than, this so called Advaita Vedantins, this so called Advaita Vedantin’s silence. But Meera’s ecstasy and dance, cannot be disturbed even by giving poison, or even by putting in prison…. Meera was put in prison.

I always used to ponder, analyze, I tell you, first know your immediate problems…. Let you have the immediate solutions, then you will see, when you have the ultimate problem, go for the ultimate solutions. Patanjali is the ultimate Master, He is for feminine Consciousness. If you want immediate solution and ultimate solution, Patanjali is the solution…. The sadhana, the method of understanding your immediate problem and going for the immediate solution, is described so thoroughly, so beautifully in this.