Your Cognition determines Success or Failure

I tell you, sangha is not to help others, it is to help you. I will make you understand. It is to make you...see only when you are able to expand and... as I said, now the world is putting words into you. When your word is able to move the world only then you are successful. So sangha is a place where I teach you to sharpen your teeth... to go and bite the world and have success. See when the cub is growing mother lion, lioness, she will put her own hand, her own leg into the mouth of the cub, to teach the cub how to bite, to sharpen the teeth of the cub. So Sangha is the leg I am putting in your mouth; learn to bite, so that when you go out, you will win in your hunting... you will win in your hunting. It is training. Understand, it’s a training. Creating a sangha is nothing but a training leaders; training you to be a leader... so that in your profession you win the game.

Swamiji, so the other thing is I told myself that I am

Let me be very clear, still I have not completed the lessons. Now only I am going to take you to the next level of the lessons. Then you will understand why I did sangha, why I created this sangha. Millions of reasons I can give you. It is for all of you to grow, help each other, support each other to grow; and as I said this is the place where you are taught to live with Integrity and Authenticity. You see the cub’s teeth need to be sharp and he need to learn biting; only then when he goes for hunting he is going to win. So mother lioness will fight with him... and lioness will put her hand into the mouth of the cub - teaching him to bite, teaching him to attack, so that when she sends him he will be successful. Same way sangha is nothing but the leg I put in your mouth, “ehh, try, try, try learn.”

Go ahead... then...what else?

And I told myself because you say when the beautiful thing about our tradition is we don’t teach somebody if it’s not been our own experience. So I told myself that I am going to only share what has been an experience in me. That’s one thing and then

That is right. Actually I don’t ask you...even for our teachers it’s a rule. You have to live, live, live; how many of you had a teachers training? The introduction itself they will tell you. You have to apply, apply, apply; your thinking, cognisance should be should become this Truth. Hmm .

Today actually I am going to have a vada prativada; you guys are going to be there. vada prativada. This is going to be the next session and I will just be the judge, unclutched judge, interfering only when it is required. You will understand the power of cognition. Your cognition is responsible for your success or your failure. It is your cognition which is responsible for anything. It is your cognition either makes sangha as obstacle or a step for growth. Sangha is not four wall and the roof; it is the individuals evolving, individuals growing, individuals growing. When the relationship is inauthentic and unintegrated, it’s like blind- blind relationship; two blind people gathered and they discussing about who has a light to open their eyes. Understand it is with inauthenticity. With Authenticity and Integrity when two people relate, they help, both - help each other to connect with me.

So yesterday the incident that happened Swamiji so they were trying to create like sangha right?

No it was not. It was not. I don’t want to get into the details not to hurt them

Okay. I understand. The reason why I don’t like to be in a sangha and everything is because I have seen many you know, as soon as it becomes an organisation, as soon as it becomes something you know, everyone joins together, they use that as a cause to talk and to discuss...you know even temples I don’t like to go to temples because the minute you go in, it’s just a five minutes prayer and the rest is just how you doing and what you been doing, all that. But I tell you even socialising in the temple is okay, because first for socialising... then you may slowly start socialising with God! That is okay. I think in the initial level it is okay. Otherwise even if you go to theatre you are going to socialise. The park you are going to socialise, in pub you are going to socialise. At least here you socialise. Okay?

One thing I am very happy that it is 8th day still I am not bunking classes ☺ because neither when I was attending classes nor when I was taking classes this long I went to classes properly regularly. ☺ See when I have the people who are really committed I will sit like this.

Okay as an individual growing up I created myself based on parental and societal conditioning. You know - I have to look like this, I have to be on top of the thing, I have to be appreciated, all those things, I had set up things, I should never fail, I should look good always. So that’s one of the conditioning. So when I got married, even when the ‘My World’ that is myself I guess, in this instance, experienced pain or suffocation or felt diminished or incomplete meaning - I really don’t want to agree with The world.

Everything is fine is what society expects from you continuously. Every time people ask, “How are you? How are you?” You say fine, fine. If you say “No, I am not fine” are they going to stop and help you? Then they look at you some weird way. What do you mean...when we ask “How are you”, you should say “fine”. But there is a nice way of making people look at you weird manner. When they will ask “what do you mean?” Then you can catch - Bliss means ananda in Sanskrit