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"content": "CONTENTS \nI. \nLiving Enlightenment \nII. \nBhagavad Gita Decoded \nIII. Brahma Sutras \nIV. Kailasa‘s Contributions to Hinduism \nV. \nThe Hindu Holocaust \nVI. Appendix - Bhagavad Gita Verses \n\n\nPart I \nLiving Enlightenment \n\n\n \n \nIntroduction \nIf you are here, it means Existence wants you to be here in this form. You are not an accident; you are an incident. \nYou are a conscious miracle of Existence. Don’t think this is positive thinking. This is the straightforward and \nsimple Truth. If you trust this Truth, you will start experiencing life in its pinnacle. \n \nUnderstand, Existence is trying to express itself through you. What you call your potential is nothing but the \nexpression of Existence through you. When you freely allow this, you will start realizing your infinite potential. \nWhen you start becoming the fulfillment of Existence, you become flowing energy, which is what I call Living \nEnlightenment. Living Enlightenment is living with the flowing energy of Existence, in synchronicity with its \nmiraculous happenings. \n \nWhen you live this way, you will find there is no personal barrier, no emotional baggage, nothing that holds you \nback in life. Life flows continuously like a river, carrying bliss and fulfillment every moment. \nIn this book, you will find deeper truths and powerful techniques to tide over personal barriers and resolve \nemotional conflicts. You will also find truths that demystify your relevance in this vast cosmos, so you start \nmoving in a higher plane of consciousness. \n \nThis book is for anyone who wishes to live a fulfilling life. It reveals the secrets of the self, Existence and the \nworld. It is for every individual to start experiencing the ultimate purpose of taking human birth on planet earth. \nIt is meant to give the experience of: \n \nShakti, the Energy to understand and change whatever you need to change in life \n \nBuddhi, the Intelligence to understand and accept whatever you don’t need to change in life \n \nYukti, the C",
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"content": "larity to understand and realize that however much you change, whatever you see as reality is itself \na continuously changing dream. \n \nBhakti, the Devotion, the feeling of deep connection to That which is unchanging, Eternal and Ultimate, and \n \nMukti, the ultimate Liberation into Living Enlightenment when all these four are integrated. \n \n\n\n \n \nFlow in Love \nPsychology explains that thoughts arise in the brain, and emotions from the heart. Irrespective of where they arise \nfrom, thoughts and emotions are inseparable. Ancient scriptures say that thoughts create us. So do emotions. We \nbecome what our emotions are. Managing our emotions is crucial to transforming our lives. \nWhat is Love? \nWhenever we look at something, the first thing we do is to calculate what we can get from it. It can be a person \nor an object, that doesn’t matter. Our thoughts start functioning either through fear or through greed to calculate \nwhat there is in the situation for us. Our attention is centered on that object or person. \nIt is possible to turn our attention towards our own inner space and ask, ‘What can I contribute?’, ‘What can I \nadd?’, ‘How can I enrich others?’ If the process is only to ask, ‘What can I get out of it?’ then it is driven by lust. \nIf the process asks, ‘How can I enrich it?’ It is driven by love! Lust is an energy that demands. Love is an energy \nthat gives. \nLove is an intense experience in one’s inner space. Many of us think love is a choice. We think experience and \nexpression of love is a choice. We think that if we want to, we can handle love; otherwise we can let it go. No! It \nis not a choice as we think. It is a basic necessity of life. \nWhen I say life, I don’t mean just breathing and staying alive. I mean being alive at the innermost being level, as \na live Consciousness. If you can express love, if you can experience love, that is the only way of being alive as a \nConsciousness. If you don’t experience and express love, you may inhale and exhale,",
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"content": "but you can’t say you are a \nlive being. There are so many animals, plants and other things that breathe day in and day out. You will continue \nto exist like them, that’s all. \nA small story: \nA disciple asked a Zen master ’Does an enlightened master speak?’ The master said, ’No, an enlightened person \nnever speaks. Only a person who doesn’t know enlightenment speaks.’ \nThen the disciple asked, ’So does an enlightened master keep quiet?’ \nThe master said, ’No, an enlightened master never keeps quiet. If he keeps quiet, then he is not enlightened. ’ \nThe disciple was puzzled. He asked, ’You say he neither speaks nor keeps quiet. What does he do?’ \nThe master replied, ’He sings! His being sings. He neither speaks, nor keeps quiet. His very being sings.’ \nLove is the ultimate experience of a human being. When the experience happens, we will not be able to possess \nthe experience, only the experience will possess us! That is what the master means. When the experience possesses \nus, whatever we do will be like a beautiful song. Any word that comes out will be poetry. Our being will be so \nlight. We will simply float. Our walking will be a dance. Our body language will radiate grace. All our expressions \nwill be of great service to humanity. \nAll human beings are born as loving beings. A new born baby radiates causeless love. Does she know anyone \naround her at birth? \nNo! Her energy is causeless love. As we grow, society instills fear and greed in us and we orient our love based \non greed and fear. Then it is no longer causeless love. It is love with a reason. It becomes suffocating. We start \nfeeling other emotions like jealousy, fear and anger. We experience only love with a cause, a reason. But with a \nlittle awareness and awakening, it is possible to reclaim our original love. \nLove cannot be created \n\n\n \n \nLove can never be made to happen with just your logical decision. Our mental setup itself should be created in \nsuch a way that we become love and our acti",
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"content": "ons speak love. Our logic should start radiating a love that is beyond \nlogic! \nIf you try to create love, it will be like forcing open the petals of a flower to make it bloom. Can it be called \nflowering? No. Love is a flower that blossoms deep within your being and sends out a sweet fragrance that we \nshare with others. \nLove brings great courage \nA beautiful incident happened in the life of Ramanuja'. If you study the life of Ramanuja‘, you will see how he \nused every step of his life to move towards enlightenment. \nWhen his teacher initiated Ramanuja', he gave him a special chant. The teacher told him not to pass on the chant \nto anybody and that if he did so, he would go to hell. Ramanuja asked him what would happen to the others with \nwhom he might share it. The teacher said that they would be led to salvation. \nWhat would we have done? Naturally we would have kept quiet, thinking, Why unnecessarily go to hell?’ \nRamanuja immediately stood on a platform in a temple and called out to the whole village. He loudly pronounced \nthe chant given by his teacher and told the people, ’Let you all go to heaven! I am not bothered about me going \nto hell. Let you all reach heaven!’ \nWhen you are deeply in love, you feel as if your whole being is open and you are ready to go to any extreme for \nthe sake of anybody. You are ready to go to any boundary, as there is nothing to protect within your being. Your \nbeing is totally open. You don’t feel insecure when you are wild with love. That is why people who are in love \nalways do risky things. They take the risk because they feel they have nothing to lose. There is no insecurity about \nanything. They feel so expansive. Love gives tremendous courage and energy. It opens you up. It makes you \nfinally available to yourself. As of now, you are not available to yourself. Love can make you available to yourself. \nWhen the teacher saw what Ramanuja did, he admitted that he learned a lesson from his disciple and declared that \nRamanuja",
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"content": "had reached greater heights than him. He told Ramanuja, ‘You are in a different space now.’ \n \n \nBe Open – Not Philosophizing \n \nThe problem is that we have all practically become philosophers. We don’t understand that life is not \nphilosophy. It is spontaneous flowing energy. It is new every moment. Philosophy is all about repeating the \nsame old things in different wa s, that’s all. There’s nothing fresh in it. Life is fresh every moment. Philosophy \nrobs life of the freshness. \nA small story: \nTen philosophers were imprisoned in a country. They were kept together in one cell. They decided that somehow \nthey should escape from the prison. They sat and made a big plan. They got the mold of the prison door key and \nmade a duplicate key for the prison door. \nFinally, they chose the date of escape. The whole plan was clearly laid out. They decided that on the particular \nnight, two of them will open the prison door with the duplicate key and signal to the others. The others would \nescape and these two would follow after locking the door behind them. \nThe day of escape dawned and two of them went to open the door. The rest of them waited for the signal. They \nwaited and waited but never got any signal. Three hours passed. Suddenly the two who had gone to open the door \ncame back and said, ’We have to drop our plan to escape. It can’t happen today. We will have to do it some other \nday. We will have to reschedule our escape.’ \nThe others asked, ’Why, what happened?’ \nThey replied, What to do? The foolish guards forgot to lock the prison door!’ \n\n\n \n \nThose who philosophize cannot think of anything new! It has to be the same old mental setup. If there is some \nchange or some new situation, they cannot think creatively to deal with it, because they are not open. They are \nlike a closed circuit. \nWe have also become like philosophers when dealing with our lives. We are stuck in patterns of the past. We are \nnever in the moment. If anything new happens, we are at a",
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"content": "loss. \nWith philosophy, you have fixed ideas and you become very assertive. When you are too assertive, you can’t \nlove. Assertion is aggressiveness that does not allow love to come in. When you are too sure and filled with \npreconceived ideas, then where is the space for love to enter? Love needs beautiful space in order to blossom. \nWith philosophy, there is no room for love to settle in its existential state. It is like this: if you really want to \nexperience the taste of nectar, can you experience it through just a set of ideas about it? No! You need to taste the \nnectar yourself, give it some space, allow it to fill you and settle in its existential state. Only then you will know \nits taste. In the same way, to experience love, just a few ideas alone will not help. You need to allow it to grow in \nits existential state in your inner space. Then you will know it. Allow it to happen in your heart, not in the head. \nDecide to be with the heart. Then it will grow and happen. \nWhat was once a failure within the head can become a success within the heart! Love is really a success of the \nheart that every individual should experience. It is easy to stay in the head. It is, after all, a mundane and familiar \nintellect. It requires courage to come down to the heart, because with the heart nothing is familiar, everything is \nfresh. At the head level you have a solid identity and familiar patterns. At the heart level there is no identity, no \npattern. It is an open space. To enter into it, you need tremendous courage. That is why love is fearful for many \npeople. It is an unfamiliar zone. With the head, there is comfortable familiarity. \n \nEgo disconnects – Love connects \nIf the cosmos is a grand ocean, we are all part of it. We are one with the ocean, not individual drops in the ocean. \nWhen we think of ourselves as individual drops, we feel separate in our boundaries and in our feelings. This is \nwhat is called ego. We become driven by feelings of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. As lon",
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"content": "g as this separation remains, we can \nnever experience the energy of the ocean that is love. We never experience that causeless and surging love. \nAs long as we remain a drop in the ocean, we say ‘no’ to life. We neither love nor trust. We don’t feel blissful \neither, because bliss is possible only for those who know how to love and trust. It happens only to those who know \nhow to feel part of the ocean. Bliss is possible only when our heart says ‘yes’, when the ‘no’ completely disappears \nfrom our being. ‘No’ is darkness, ‘yes’ is light. ‘No’ is ego, ‘yes’ is egolessness. \n‘No’ is the way of the unconscious person. ‘Yes’ is the way of the awakened one. All the conflict, all the suffering \nin our life is because of our saying ‘no’. ‘No’ is a fight, a war with Existence. ‘Yes’ is love, peace with Existence. \n‘Yes’ is in deep accord with the totality of who we are — the ocean. Bliss is another name for that accord, that \nharmony. \nThe way to be in bliss is to dissolve into the ocean, not to be a drop but to merge with the ocean. To be a drop is \nto be a hindrance. To be a drop is to be with ego. The ego is the root of all misery. When the ego is absent, bliss \nreaches us from every nook and corner of the ocean of existence, as if it were just waiting for the ego to disappear. \nEgo is a closed state of consciousness. All the windows and doors are closed. Life itself becomes insulated and \nencapsulated. Our ego surrounds us like a capsule. Our ego is like a sealed capsule, there is not even a small gap \nto allow anything to enter. It closes itself due to fear and shrinks into itself. That is how we create misery for \nourselves. \nLove is being in the flow with Existence, to be totally with it. Ego is like frozen ice. Love is like liquid water. \nOnly when we are liquid do we become part of the ocean. Then we don’t have any private goal or destination. \nEach moment is blissful, incredibly ecstatic, just going with the plan of the cosmos. \nIt is such sheer joy to simply exi",
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"content": "st and flow. Just ‘to be’ is enough. But we need to be sensitive to feel the joy of \nbeing. We need to grow feelers. The feelers are what we call love. Love feels the joy of just being. When you \ngrow the feelers of love, life is no longer made of independent thoughts but becomes a continuous feeling. Then \nthe ego starts to dissolve. Once we have moved from thinking to feeling, there is only one more step and that is \nfrom feeling to being, and that is very simple. \n\n\n \n \nThe first step is difficult: to move from thinking to feeling. The ego has trained the mind to think so much, that’s \nwhy. The second step comes almost automatically. There’s nothing we need to do for it to happen. From feeling \nto being, the distance is nothing at all. It can happen at any moment. The poet can become the mystic at any \nmoment. He is almost there. The real problem is how to get out of our thinking and get more and more into feeling. \nJust follow the heart. Just love more, that’s all! Feel more. Enjoy more so that you can feed your heart. Watch the \nsunrise, sunset, clouds, rainbows, birds, flowers, animals, rocks, and people, and watch them with awareness. \nLook into their eyes. Existence is so multidimensional. Look into every dimension like a poet. Praise it. Feel it. \nBe ecstatic! Expand your consciousness and experience every single detail of Existence with love. Slowly, the \nego will lose its hold and disappear. \nThe only barrier to love is fear. When things start happening, we become fearful because with love we enter into \na merger. This threatens the very basis of our ego. Ego is separateness while love is a merger. The fear we feel is \nnothing but the fear of the dissolving ego. Let the fear be there. It will hang around for a while. If we simply \nignore it, the ego will leave us. It is a great day when fear of losing the ego leaves us. From then on growth \nbecomes simple, easy and spontaneous. Then we are not, only love is. \nBe a lover every moment \nEncounter any situati",
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"content": "on in life with deep love. Soon you will become pure love. Whether it is a person or your \nwork or a passerby or god or anything, just encounter it with deep love for love’s sake. If you are a painter, just \nbe completely in love with painting. If you are a dancer, be completely in love with dancing. If you are working \nwith your computer, treat it with utmost love and become lost in it. Just be completely sincere and completely in \nlove every moment. \nIf you are painting and at the same time thinking about which gallery to put up the painting in or how much to \nsell it for, then be very clear, you are not lost in love. You are in love only with some particular thing, which is \nmoney in this case. If you are dancing while calculating what you will get once you finish the dance, then be very \nclear you are not lost in love. You create more and more bondage by doing this. \nIf you become lost in every moment, you become love. Then, when you work you work with the utmost focus \nbecause you are in deep love with it. This way, your very life becomes a deep meditative love. \nThen you start feeling, relating and respecting everything as a living being, just as you are. You even start feeling \nthe other person’s thoughts. You start responding and relating to the other person without him or her opening up \nto you. You feel the cosmos as a translucent, ever living presence. You have tremendous intelligence. You know \nexactly how to connect to things. Such is the power of love. \nThe Sufi* mystic Jalaluddin Rumi’ says, ‘Wherever you are, whatever your condition is, always try to be a lover!’ \nThe whole of Existence is in a deep romance with itself. You are part of it. So it is your nature to be a lover every \nmoment. Only by being that can you experience the real fulfillment of your original nature. \nLove yourself first \nThe big problem today is that most people don’t love themselves. Society never teaches that it is possible to love \nourselves. Understand that unless you love y",
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"content": "ourself, you cannot possibly love another person. Only when you \nlose yourself to yourself can you lose yourself to others. We are taught that we can only love even ourselves if we \nhave a reason. If we perform well, we love ourselves. If we fail, we hate ourselves. We apply the same logic to \nothers. We love them only because of something, never without a cause, without a reason. \nWhen you don’t love yourself, you become cynical and negative towards life. \nFor a few minutes every day, just sit by yourself and feel overflowing love towards yourself. Feel what a \nwonderful being you are. Feel how much you have taken yourself for granted. Feel yourself as part of Existence \nand love yourself for it. Melt with the feeling of love for yourself. If you practice this everyday you will see that \nwhere you were once hard and self-centered, now you have become soft and loving. \nThen, when people love you, you don’t feel guilty or unworthy because just as they love you, you love yourself \ntoo. You become ready to receive love from others. Usually when others show love to you, you feel guilty or \n\n\n \n \nunworthy because you don’t feel you are worth being loved. Once you settle within yourself with deep love, you \nwill receive others’ love with joy. \nLove Existence and feel It Loving You \nExistence is not a thing. It is a living energy being. Every single tree, every single stalk of a plant responds to \nyour love and hate, your every thought. \nCleve Backster‘, a polygraph expert, has conducted several experiments to examine the response of plants to \nhuman emotions and thoughts. He discovered that plants would respond to human thought in a way similar to \nhow a human being would respond. A simple thought by a person about burning the leaves of the plant would \nregister erratic movement in the polygraph recording of the plant! Backster* called this response ‘Primary \nPerception’ - the ability of plant, animal and human cells to perceive and respond to any thought. \nOn one occasio",
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"content": "n, Backster’ recorded graphs that registered a flat line that suggested the plants were in a state of \nshock. He asked the owner of the plant if she had done anything to hurt the plants. The lady told him, ‘I roasted a \nfew of its leaves to get their dry weight!’ \nWhen you start loving Existence, it begins responding to you in beautiful ways. You start rising above all of the \ndifferences around you - differences between people, situations, emotions, between anything and anything. \nEverything merges into unity. And that is the truth. Everything is part of one Whole. And love is the only thing \nthat can make you realize this truth. \nIn India, there is a tradition of spiritual wandering where people walk by foot the length and breadth of the country, \nvisiting many temples and pilgrim centers. I used to wonder how they were able to do that, especially going \nthrough forests, sleeping with wild animals and begging for food. The secret is that they start feeling connected \nwith nature so completely that nature protects them beautifully. Whether it rains or shines, the animals and trees, \neverything, takes care of them. Even though this may be logically difficult to understand, it is the truth. \nIf you begin to live with a little respect and love for Existence and all its creations, you will be able to recognize \nthese things happening in your own life as well. Nature will simply reciprocate your love in many beautiful ways. \n \nLove is different from Respect \n \nVery often, love is confused with respect. From a young age, children are brought up to always show respect but \nnever to show love. You can hear people teach the children, ‘You should respect your elders.’ You will hardly \nhear, ‘You should love your elders.’ That is the problem. \nRespect sows the first guilt in you that you are something inferior. It makes you feel separate from the other person \nto whom you show respect. On the other hand, love sows the seeds of joy and unity in you. It makes you feel \nconnecte",
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"content": "d with the other person and with everything in Existence. With respect, there is fear. With love, there is \nauthentic respect as well as the scope for deep understanding to happen. With respect alone, not much \nunderstanding is possible. With love, there is a possibility for tremendous understanding and transformation to \nhappen. Love by its very nature is transforming. It softens and melts you. \nRespect creates distance between you and the other. Love bridges the distance between you and the other. Only \nbecause people themselves have not experienced love, do they give respect as the rule of acceptable behavior. \nRespect is easier but not real. Love might be difficult only because not many know how to go about it, but it is \nreal. With love, respect lS automatic and authentic. With pure respect, the appearance of love is forced and may \nnever be authentic. \nLove is the root of all religion \n\n\n \n \nLove is the original religion. It is the root of all spirituality. All other religions are offshoots. Love is like the root \nof the tree and all religions are like leaves or branches. Even the greatest religions are only big branches compared \nto the religion of love! \nLove has no temple or scripture. It is like the roots that lie beneath the ground but provide the nourishment for \nlife. Without it, the whole tree dies. Through love many branches and leaves are created. But what do we do? We \ncling to the branches and leaves instead of clinging to the root. When we cling to the root, we get the direct \nnourishment. When we cling to the branches, we enjoy only one dimension of the nourishment. When you become \nmore loving, you will enter the invisible temple of love. \nA small story: \nOne day a master asked his disciples how they could tell when the night had ended and the day had begun. \nOne of them said, ’When you can look in the distance and tell whether the animal is a cow or a horse.’ The master \nsaid, ’No.’ \nAnother disciple said, ’When you can look at a tree in the d",
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"content": "istance and tell if it is a pine tree or a mango tree.’The \nmaster again said, ’No.’ \nThey asked the master ’Then what is it master?’ \nThe master replied, ’When you can look into the face of any man and recognize your brother in him. When you \ncan look into the face of any woman and recognize your sister in her. If you cannot do this, then no matter what \ntime of the day it is, it is still only night time.’ \nThe master can give a few hints, a little hints here and there. Then we must find our own way carefully, cautiously. \nLove is just a hint, but if we follow love slowly, very slowly, we will be surprised that god becomes more and \nmore of a reality. He is no longer just a thought, no longer simply an idea, but something that we can feel. The \ndeeper we go into love, the closer we come to the feeling. The day we dissolve into love we merge with unity. \nFrom time immemorial, the conclusion of many mystics has been that matter is glued together with love. An \ninvisible force keeps atoms and molecules together. They do not fall apart because of this invisible force. Science \nhas yet to discover this ultimate energy. It has detected a few of its manifestations such as gravitation and \nelectricity but these are only gross manifestations. The day that science discovers love will be the day when \nreligion and science will commune with each other in the same language. \nFor now, just rejoice because love is possible. Be joyful that love is your inner potential. You can rise to the \nultimate heights with love. Nothing is impossible with love because love can transform itself into god. \nThree types of Love and their Integration \nMany people confuse lust with love. This is one of the greatest tragedies. The person who thinks lust is love \nremains confined to the physical plane. He never rises higher than that. He has no idea that there is a higher plane. \nHe remains in the basement of his house. Sex is the base-ment. It is not the place to live in. You can use it for \nother",
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"content": "purposes, but it can’t be your home. Your home is above it. \nMan has three planes of being: animal, human and divine. First is the plane of lust, which is the animal plane. \nIt is a crude form of love. It is not that love is not present there. Love is mixed or polluted by gross greed and \ndesire, that’s all. \nAs our being becomes more refined, we enter the second plane, ordinary human love. Human love has traces of \npossessiveness and jealousy. Since human love is grounded in greater understanding than animal love, one does \nnot simply use the other person for his or her own gain. Human love is capable of seeing the other as an end unto \nitself. \nThe third type of love is divine love. It is love in its highest form, almost like a prayer. There is no possessiveness. \nThere is nothing earthly in it. It becomes an invisible but powerful force. This is when love becomes prayer and \nwe feel restful contentment for the first time. I say restful because the other two types of love always keep reaching \nfor more or keep missing something. There is no restfulness in them. When the third type of love happens, even \nsex becomes a deep and divine act beyond mere physical pleasure. \n \n\n\n \n \nEnter into Causeless Love \nThe first thing we need to understand is that relationships can happen causelessly, without any reason. Only then \nwill we understand that the experience of love is much more important than the object of love. \nYou must have at least one relationship in your life that exists for no reason. If you don’t have such a relationship, \nbe very clear, even if you have money, deep down you are still poor. \nFrom today onwards start relating with someone for no reason. There should be no monetary or physical benefit \nfrom the relationship. If you experience causeless love once, after that, if the money is shared, if the body is \nshared, it is okay. The quality is totally different. I am not against money or against marriage. I am not against the \nphysical relationship, but if",
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"content": "it becomes the center of your life, you are missing something very important. That is \nwhat I want to convey here. You miss a major dimension or energy center of your being. \nI always tell people, ‘Do some work for half hour everyday that does not bring you money or name and fame. Just \nfor half an hour, go to some temple or church, clean and sweep the floor, offer some service. Don’t plan to become \na committee member in that place! Don’t think that it will fetch you good credit and a place in heaven... no. Don’t \nlook any further than that work for half an hour.’ \nInitially you may think, ‘This half hour is a waste of time. After a few days you will realize that only in that half \nhour are you really alive! Only for that half hour you are not driven by fear or greed. You smile at the people \naround you without any calculation. You feel strangely sincere in a way that you never felt before. \nIf you observe yourself at other times, you will see that you even smile only after some mental calculation. Even \nbefore laughing you will see who is the person next to you. Based on that, you decide how many inches to open \nyour mouth, how polite you should be, how you should project yourself. As of now, every action of yours is \ndriven by fear and greed. You are fuelled by fear and greed. That’s why you feel lonely and tired. \nIf you try this technique, you will suddenly see that your body and mind start functioning without the need for \nfear and greed! Once you learn this simple knack of how to move your body without fear and greed, be very clear, \nyou can enter into love. You learn how to tap into the energy of love. You learn how to run your life on the \nbeautiful energy of love. Only then will you know what is meant by the word ‘love’. \nA new center will be awakened in you. A new energy will start radiating in you. Then you will understand how \nloving and causeless relationships are possible. \nLove, hatred and attention need \n \nHatred and love are opposite sides of the",
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"content": "same coin as long as love is conditional. Love can flip into hatred the \nmoment we feel that our expectations are threatened. In love of this type, it remains love only as long as the \nconditions remain as expected. The moment the conditions change, the love also changes. \nOften what we believe as love is actually related to time and space. So long as the distance between lovers is large \nand the time of contact is minimal, they feel love towards each other. However, once they get closer and spend \nmore time together, they feel that they are not so much in love after all! That is why they say familiarity breeds \ncontempt’. Familiarity can also convert love into hatred. To transcend both love and hatred, we first need to drop \nexpectations. Expectation is the first enemy of love. \nWe all go through several stages of relationships in our lifetime. If you observe very closely, whichever stage we \nare in, when we ask for love we are actually asking only for the other person’s attention. When we say a person \ndoesn’t love us, we actually mean that the other person doesn’t give us enough attention. The basic need for any \nhuman being is attention from others. The attention-need, along with our dependency on others for survival, is \nwhat we experience as love. \nThe dependency on others might be psychological, physical or spiritual. For example, when you expect someone \nto lend you a shoulder to cry on, you are dependent upon that person psychologically. When you expect someone \nto provide you with money or fulfill your bodily pleasures, you are dependent upon them physically. In whatever \nway people may fulfill this dependency, what it boils down to is the attention that they give us! The whole idea \nof love is nothing but getting the attention of the other in some way. \n\n\n \n \nIn the first session of our meditation camp, I ask people to make an honest list of at least one or two persons in \ntheir lives who they really love. Usually in the beginning, people come up with a b",
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"content": "ig list: husband, wife, father, \nmother, brother, sister and so on. They include people whom they would like to please or need to please in order \nto be happy themselves. As they hear me talk about real love, they start crossing out names from their list one by \none! Understand, if you cross out something, then it was not truly there in the first place. \nMany people include certain people in their love list because these people give them a ‘feel good’ feeling. What \ndo I mean by a ‘feel good’ feeling? It is a certificate saying, ‘You are good. You are this, you are that’ etc. We \nlove anyone who pays us compliments, is it not? We think twice before arguing with them. We secretly nurture \nour good name with them in the name of love. If they go back on their approval of us, we might fall into depression, \nso we continue to please them and love them. Like this, there is always some hidden reason for our love. \nSome people tell me, ‘No Swamiji, I don’t love my son or daughter for any of these reasons.’ I ask them, ‘Alright, \nif your son suddenly starts to make his own decisions, if he suddenly doesn’t fit into your framework, ifhe doesn’t \nfollow your guidance, ifhe doesn’t live according to your rules, will your love for him be the same?’ \nThey tell me, ‘No, it will not. My love will be reduced a little!’ \nWhat does this mean? We love our next generation as long as they are extensions of our life. As long as they fall \ninto our pattern of thinking, as long as they live in accordance with our conventions, we love them. We simply \nfulfill our own desires through them. We fulfill our lives through them. Whatever we couldn’t accomplish in our \nyouth, we try to accomplish through them. If we wanted to be a doctor and couldn’t for some reason, we inspire \nthem to be a doctor. As long as they act and live as an extension of our life, the relationship is beautiful. But the \nmoment they start deciding on their own, the moment they feel we are suffocating them, the moment they s",
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"content": "tand \nup and say ‘no’, the relationship takes a different turn. \n \nLove and liberate, don’t possess \nAs long as our love happens towards a particular object, even if the object is a person, we will try to reduce that \nperson only to the level of an object. That is exactly what we do when we feel possessive or attached to another \nperson. In the way that we try to possess furniture or a house or any object, we try to possess the person also. We \nwant the person to be just how we want him or her to be, which means we are actually reducing the person to \nsheer matter. \nSo understand, whenever our love or our attention is towards something in particular, we will be only materialistic, \ncreating suffering for ourselves and for others. We will only suffocate the object or person. Instead, if we turn our \nattention towards the experience of love itself, we will be liberating the object and we too will be liberated from \nthe object. That is the beauty of love that happens just as love and not for the sake of any object. \nWhen you start possessing someone, you bind yourself also. If you are walking holding your dog’s leash, be very \nclear that you are also bound. Don’t think only the dog is bound; you are also bound. Don’t think that only the \ndog cannot run away, you too cannot run away! You may be thinking that you are holding the rope and the dog \nmay be thinking that he is holding the rope. Who knows? \nThe next time you are with someone, when you are with your friend with whom you are completely open, \nremember to practice this technique. \nJust sit next to him or her. Don’t bother about what you are going to do or what you are going to say. Just sit, \nthat’s all! That is the technique. Actually, speaking is nothing but avoiding the other person. Because you cannot \nlook into the other person’s eyes, you go on speaking. That is the truth. The other person listens so that he can \nstart speaking whenever you take a break! If a person is listening to you, it means that he is",
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"content": "either thinking of \nsomething else or he is preparing for his turn. He sits there so that he can start once you finish. \nNow if you try this technique, it can take you to a different space altogether. When you are with the master or \nyour friend or your beloved, whoever you feel deeply connected with, whoever you are very open with, you can \ntry this technique. It will straightaway lead you to enlightenment. Be very clear, I am not teaching this technique \nfor you to have better relationships or for you to develop your personality. No! I am giving it to you to straightaway \nexperience the pure love that can lead you to enlightenment. \n\n\n \n \nThis technique will take you through a quantum jump from the form to the formless, from possessive love to \ncauseless love. \nWhen love happens as causeless overflowing, you simply liberate yourself and the other person from your own \nattachment and possessiveness, because possessiveness as you know it, binds not only the other person but you \nas well. It tortures the other person as well as you! Real love simply liberates both of you. It gives freedom to you \nand the other person. \nWhen I travel around the world, people ask me,‘Swamiji, did you sleep well last night? It is a new place for you.’ \nI tell them, ‘Only when you have attachment to a particular house does another house become a new place for \nyou and you struggle. When you don’t have attachment to any house, you feel at home wherever you go!’ \nI never feel any place is mine or not mine. I feel totally at home anywhere. The comfort is always within us, never \noutside us. When there is no comfort within us, we look for comfort outside us. Feeling comfortable within us is \nthe result of the causeless love energy. \nWhen we don’t feel attached to one home, we feel at home in the entire world. We are totally relaxed anywhere \nin the world. \nLove in relationships \nIn real life, we always look to express our love towards others in some tangible way. Only if love is demonstrate",
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"content": "d \nin tangible form, it is considered to be love nowadays. \nTrue love is like a communion. It is a resonance between two beings. It can be felt without any expression. It \ndoesn’t need communication because it is already happening as a communion. \nIf you really love a person, then your very body language will show it. It will be too much to express in words. \nYou will feel that any words are inadequate and will only bring down the love that you feel. But if you are using \nwords, then somewhere the love has not really happened. When you have to speak to express love, then \nsomewhere there is a lie in it! You are using the words just to decorate the lie. \nReal love liberates because it doesn’t compel you to express it all the time. It just is. Real love also gives you the \nfreedom to freely express what you want to express. You can easily express anything like disapproval or anger \nand it will not be mistaken for reduced love. \nNot only that, with real love, there will be no domination or power play in relationships. Each person will be like \na beautiful flower that has blossomed to radiate its unique fragrance, that’s all. \nWith real love, there will be no fear or insecurity either. In normal love, physical distance between two people \ncauses a lot of insecurity and a lack of trust. \nA small story: \nA young soldier went to his senior officer and said, ’Sir my friend is not yet back from the battlefield. I request \npermission to go out and get him.’ \nThe officer said, ’Permission refused. Your friend is most probably dead. I don’t want you to risk your life going \nthere.’ \nThe young soldier went all the same and came back mortally wounded and carrying the corpse of his friend. \nThe officer was furious. He shouted, ’I told you he was dead. Now I have lost both of you. Tell me, was it worth \ngoing out there to bring a corpse?’ \nOn the verge of dying, the soldier replied, ’It was, Sir. When I got there he was still alive. He said to me, I was \nsure you would come.’ \nReal",
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"content": "love doesn’t look for utility. It operates on sheer trust and is also beyond space and time. \nThese days I see people gifting each other with so many things to show their love. Gifting has become an \nexpression of love. If the gifting happens as causeless overflowing, it is okay. \nBut if it is a condition to be fulfilled, it becomes a problem! Then it becomes a poor substitute for real love. \n\n\n \n \nAs long as real love is there, no relationship can become boring. One of the aadheenavasis asked me one day, \n‘Everyday you see all of us, all our mistakes and confusions. It is the same thing for you every day. Are you not \nbored by us?’ It was a very honest question! I told them, ‘For enlightened beings, just because of their very love, \nthey feel everybody is unique. They do not look at people as mere numbers. They see each one as unique.’ \nThat is why, with so much patience, masters continue to work with everybody. If it were just a matter of numbers, \nit would be very different. When you have this love, your inner space is such that there is no logical reason behind \nyour actions. You will just feel connected and you radiate love, that’s all! \nNot only that, causeless overflowing love is always total in its expression. It doesn’t carry the usual dilutions of \ngreed or fear. So any person whom you love, you will love totally without any reservations. Irrespective of the \nway he is, you will love him. When you love this way, even if the person leaves your life, you will not grieve. \nWhen a person passes away, you grieve only because you regret not having loved him completely. You can love \nhim completely only when your love itself is complete. It doesn’t have to do anything with the other person. It \ndoesn’t matter what kind of person he is. That is the beauty of real love. \nIt loves for the sake of love, not for the sake of the other person. \nIf you are grieving for the loss ofa person, be very clear, you are grieving because you missed loving him in \ntotality. If yo",
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"content": "u had loved him in totality, you would say good-bye to him with complete restfulness, not with grief. \nYou grieve only because you missed something somewhere. Even if it is your own father or husband or wife, it \nis the same. If you had radiated your causeless love to them when they were alive, then when they left there would \nnot be any regret. But if you had loved them with rationalizations, then when they left, the incompleteness of your \nlove towards them would create a hangover, and that hangover is what you feel as grief. \nMeditation - Feel the Love overflowing in you \nSit down comfortably by yourself and close your eyes. \nFocus on your heart region. Exclude everything else. Focus only on the heart. \nVisualize your heart as an endless reservoir from where blessings can flow. \nFeel every heartbeat deeply. Let every beat resound throughout you. \nBetween the heartbeats, feel the energy of love happening. \nIn the deepest parts of and soul, the love energy acknowledged. \nInvite the love energy of the heart to flow and fill these deepest parts of your body, mind and soul. \nSlowly open your eyes.\n \n \n \n\n\n \n \nThere is Nothing to Worry \nWe talked of love so far. Love is about our relationship with others. Love is also about our \nrelationship with us. Without loving ourselves we cannot love others. What prevents us from loving \nour own self is the constant worry or irritation that we generate within us. Whether things go right or \nwrong we worry. There is nothing more corrosive to our self-esteem than worry. What is this worry? \nWhat is Worry? \nA small story: \nA man walked into a bar looking worried and upset. \nThe bartender asked him, What’s the matter? You look very worried about something.’ \nThe man said, ’My wife and I had a fight and she told me that she wouldn’t talk to me for a month.’ \nThe bartender consoled him, ’It’s okay. One month isn’t that long.’ \nThe man said, ’I know. The month is up today!’ \nEveryone has his or her own set of worries! If I ask you wha",
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"content": "t you worry about, you will tell me, ‘I don’t have a \njob, that’s my worry.’Your neighbor will say, ‘My job is my main worry!’ Someone else will say, ‘My children \nare my worry.’ Another person will say, ‘I don’t have children, that’s my worry!’ One person’s dream is another \nperson’s worry! You will not find any logic in it at all. \nWhat is meant by ‘worry’? Worry arises whenever things are not happening as you want them to happen. It is \nthe discrepancy between your expectations and reality. For example, you feel your son should stay at home with \nyou, whereas he feels he should be by himself - away from you. You want to finish your project by a certain \ntime. But things are happening too slowly and it seems an impossible task. These are all causes for worry. What \nyou want and expect does not match what others want and expect \nHow does Worry take root? \nWorry takes root from your own thoughts or words. There are two things that continuously happen in you. The \nfirst is dialogue, and the second is monologue —what I call ‘inner chatter’. You either talk to people outside you \nor you continuously chatter within you. In any case, words and thoughts are the ‘building blocks’ that make up \nworry. \nWhen you speak to others, what you say is strictly governed by societal rules. You automatically don’t use \nprohibited or ‘politically incorrect’ words. But what you say inside yourself, no one except you knows. The \nthoughts that you generate inside constitute your real worries. \nIt is like this: there is a continuous current of chatter happening in you twenty-four hours a day, seven days a \nweek. From this current a few spikes rise. These spikes are what you feel and express as worries. Worries are \nnothing but spikes in the current of thoughts constantly moving within you. \nThese thoughts are mostly negative. That’s the problem. If I ask you to write your life story in a few pages, you \nwill write a few incidents highlighting how and when you struggled. You will not highl",
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"content": "ight the many joyful \nincidents that happened in between. The mind is trained to record only negative things. Even when something \njoyful happens, you remember only the moment when it ended, never the moments when you felt joy. Because \neven when you are at the peak of joy, you are always worrying about when the joy will end! The mind is trained \nfrom a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other, or from one pain to another, never \nfrom one joy to another. \nIn a classroom, the teacher found that one boy was sitting with a very sad face. \n\n\n \n \nShe asked him, ’What happened? Why do you look so worried?’ \nThe boy said, ’It’s my parents. My dad works all day to provide good clothes and an excellent education for me. \nHe buys me anything I want. My mother cooks the best food for me and takes care of me from morning until I go \nto bed.’ \nThe teacher asked, ’Then what is your problem? Why are you worried?’ \nThe boy replied, ’I am afraid they might run away.’ \nThe mind has a clear identity only with pain, never with joy! That is why recalling even joyful moments becomes \npainful. \nJoy never gets recorded as thoughts, but pain does. That’s why our internal recordings are always negative \nthoughts. Joy is like a blank recording! For example, if your entire life is like a time shaft, on that shaft the joyful \nmoments are simply empty spaces! There won’t be any recording corresponding to it. But the moments of worry \nand suffering will be clearly recorded as black impressions. \nSee what is as it IS — and move on \nBuddha', the enlightened master, used the word tathata - seeing what is as it IS. It is seeing what is there as it is \nwithout any judgment. \nBut most of the time we see things only through our worry. There is a common saying, ‘We don’t see things as \nthey are. We see things as we are.’ If you feel there is something wrong with what you are seeing, then you should \nlook back in at yourself because what you see outside is only a reflection of w",
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"content": "hat is inside you. If you feel pure \nlove inside, then you see only pure love outside. It always has to do with you, not with what you are seeing. \nHow can you keep thoughts away from what truly IS? How can you enjoy each moment all the time? \nTry this small technique. When you see something — say a person, or a situation, or a book, or anything — \nnormally old thoughts and familiar reactions immediately rise in you. Bring awareness that these conditioned \nthoughts and memories cloud your judgment and visualize shattering those thoughts. Next, see the situation, or \nperson, or object now with a fresh eye, as though you are seeing it for the first time! Suddenly you see how \nmuch you missed, because of your own worry and thoughts. \n \nEven when you see your husband, wife, brother, or anyone, look at them as though you are seeing them for the \nfirst time. Suddenly, you realize that not only does worry not arise, but also that you will start seeing everyone \nalike — whether they are strangers or familiar to you. That is the right way. No one is familiar or unchanging. \nEven your wife is not known to you. Everyone is constantly changing every moment along with Existence. Only \nyour mind is trying to make them appear to be permanent. \nOnce you start seeing what is as it is, all your energy will integrate within you. There is no more worry, no more \nconflict. \nSomeone asked J. Krishnamurti, the famous Indian philosopher, how to fall in tune with what IS. He beautifully \nsays, ‘Just don’t name it, you will find you are in tune with it!’ \nUsually, when we see something, we either try to identify with it or we try to condemn it. For example, if you are \ntold you are arrogant, you either accept it or you try not to be arrogant! You never understand or go beyond \narrogance. You can only understand within your frame of reference, what you are familiar with. Because of this, \nyou are caught in a limited view of possibilities. To really understand, you need to go beyond this limit",
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"content": "ed point-\nof-view. To do that, you have to stop naming it arrogance , that’s all! There will be no more arrogance. \nOnly by naming it, you start the conflict. That is how you see what IS— by not naming it. \nWhen you see what is as it is, you are in heaven. When you want to see what you want to see, you are in hell. If \nyou understand that everything is auspiciousness, you will drop expectation and see things as they are, because \neverything is auspiciousness. \nA small story: \n\n\n \n \nOne disciple kept asking the master ’Master where is paradise?’ \nFinally one day, the master asked him, ’Do you really want to know?’ \nThe disciple sat up and said, ’Yes!’ \nThe master said, ’Alright, my first disciple Hemachandra is in paradise.’After saying these words the \nmaster closed his eyes and went into meditation. \nThe disciple knew it would be a long time before the master opened his eyes. So, he went and asked \nsome of the disciples ifthey knew where Hemachandra lived. No one seemed to know. \nFinally one disciple said, ’I know how to guide you there, but I have never been there myself. It is in a \ndeep valley beyond a range of ice covered mountains. ’ \nThe disciple wrote down the directions carefully and went back to the master. He told him, ’Master, I \nwish to pay a visit to Hemachandra!’ \nThe master was absorbed deeply in some work. Without even looking up he said, ’Go ahead.’ \nThe disciple started on his journey. He walked for many days, passing through sun, rain, snow, and \nwhat not. He became exhausted, on the verge ofdeath. It took him one hundred days to reach the valley. \nWhen he finally reached it he looked at the valley and thought, ’This valley doesn’t look all that great. \nI have seen many more beautiful valleys. Why did the master call this paradise?’ \nHe looked around and walked further and fin ally fo und He mac handra ’s hut. Hemachandra was very \npleased to see him. He served him food and asked how the master and other disciples were doing. \nAll along, the dis",
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"content": "ciple was thinking to himself, ’Master called this place paradise? I can’t believe it.’ \nAfter a week-long stay he left and returned to his master. It took him another one hundred days to return \nhome. \nHe went straight to the master and stated, ’You said that the place is paradise. But what I saw was the \nmost ordinary place ever!’ \nThe master said, ’Oh god! At the time of your enquiry, had you been more explicit about your intention, \nI would have told you the truth.’ \nThe disciple asked, ’What is the truth?’ \nThe master replied, ’Hemachandra is not in paradise. Paradise is in him!’ \nWhen you live close to Existence, without any expectation, seeing what is as it is and finding the \nblessings in it, you will carry heaven in you! Heaven is not geographical, it is psychological. It is not \nphysical, it is mental. If you decide, you can be in heaven right now. \nWorry — a legacy passed down \nWorry is an unwanted legacy passed down from grandparents to parents to children. Children are like sponges. \nThey simply absorb the body language and attitude of the parents. The parents are not even aware this is \nhappening. For example, if a child hears the mother repeating a certain worry four or five times, the child simply \ninternalizes the habit. He grows up repeating statements unnecessarily, which is one attribute of worry. \nUltimately he carries the worry with him into marriage and then both he and his new wife must deal with it, even \nthough it was originally his mother’s concern. They will then hand it down to their children, unless they stop \nnaming it and learn to live with what IS. \nOne man was pushing his baby in a pram. The baby was screaming at the top of his voice. All the while the man \nkept repeating quietly, ’Keep calm George. Don’t scream. It will be okay.’ \nHis wife told him to keep quiet. \n\n\n \n \nA woman who was watching this said to the wife, ’Why are you so rude to him? He is really doing his best to \npacify your son!’ \nThe wife looked at her with resentme",
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"content": "nt, pointed to her husband and told her ’He is George.’ \n \nWhen parents express constant worry, children grow up thinking life goes on only because of worry! Understand \nthat life goes on not because of us, but in spite of us! \nThe problem is that parents expect their children to worry! If they don’t worry, they brand them as uncaring. It is \npossible to care without worrying. Care is doing, worry is chattering. There is no use chattering. Chattering is like \ntrying to cross a bridge before it comes. \nA young boy was driving his mother to the neighboring village. They were nearing the village when they \nremembered a particular bridge th at used to be very old and unusable. \nThe mother got very anxious and said, ’I will never cross that bridge by car.’ \nThe son said, ’Let’s see how it looks when we come to it.’ \nThe mother said, ’I’m sure the bridge will break if we attempt to cross it.’ \nThe son replied, ’Let’s see how strong it is. We won’t cross it without checking it carefully.’ \nThe mother said, ’If something happens to you or me, your father will never forgive me.’ She kept going on like \nthis, becoming more and more upset. \nSoon they reached the spot where the bridge stood. The bridge had been replaced with a new one! \nThere are two things to understand: chronological planning and psychological worry. Chronological planning is \nneeded to set up a schedule for tasks or projects to be completed. For example, you decide, ‘I will wake up at six \na.m., do my meditation, then take a shower at seven a.m., and leave for the office by eight a.m. I’ll finish work \nby five p.m. and return home by six p.m.’ \nThis type of planning is perfectly alright. But before you come to each task on your list, you start creating anxiety \nabout it. You think of the pros and cons of each, etc. This is called psychological worry! This is not needed. \nChronological planning is fine, but psychological worry is not needed. It is like trying to cross a bridge before it \ncomes. \nSo much energ",
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"content": "y is spent worrying and it is all of no use. In the story I just narrated, it does not mean that the son \ndoes not care. He cares without worry, that’s all. Why contemplate over the bridge even before it comes? \nYou can clean the physical parts of your house, your carpets and floors, but what about the space inside your \nhouse? This space is the energy that circulates throughout your house. It captures all the thoughts you radiate. It \nsets the very mood of the house. Your worries rest like cobwebs in the space of your house. That is why when \nyou enter your house, you experience a familiar pattern of worry. The patterns remaining in the space of your \nhouse grip you when you return to it. Understand that your mental setup settles into the space of your house. \nThe big problem is that you become so used to your patterns of worries that you end up like an island that is cut \noff from the fragrance of the mainland. You are cut off from the fragrance of Existence because of your worries. \nYou miss the miracles of Existence that are continuously happening around you. You forget to appreciate and \nremember only to complain. You forget laughter and remember only anxiety. You forget bliss and remember only \nstress. Remembering these negative things becomes a mere habit. \nAwareness - the benign virus! \nWhat is the solution to this distorted software of the mind? \nDeep awareness is the solution. Deep awareness is like a benign virus, if such a thing exists! Once awareness \nenters your system, the more you work with the mind, the more the awareness gets into the worry software and \ndestroys it! \nAwareness is nothing but bringing our focus to exactly what is happening in and around us. It is witnessing. \nAnything that we watch with awareness will dissolve. That is the power of awareness; whether it is physical pain, \nmental pain, worry, or something else. When we watch with awareness, we stop the conflict somewhere within \nus. We start moving with the natural flow of things.",
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"content": "When we watch worry with awareness, we focus light on exactly how worry is created, how it exists. Once this \nhappens, the worry starts to dissolve and clarity starts happening. \nThere is a small story about Buddha and his disciples: \nOne day Buddha arrived for his usual morning discourse with his disciples. He had a knotted \nhandkerchief in his hand. He showed the handkerchief to the disciples and asked if any of them could \ncome up and untie the knot. \nOne disciple went up and tried to untie it. He pulled and pulled and the knot tightened. Another disciple \nwent up, he looked at the knot %r a few seconds and easily untied it. \nAll he did was look at the knot and immediately he knew how the knot was made in the first place. So, \nhe just reversed the whole thing and untied it! The knot itself taught him how to untie it. \nIn life worries are the knots in the handkerchief. If we look at them with awareness, we will know how \nto dissolve them. We will see exactly how the worry was created and then know how to ‘untie’ it. The \nworry itself will teach us how to release it. \nWork out of inspiration — not out of Worry \nIf you observe closely, you will see that goals always create worry in us. When we move toward any goal, we \nmove only with the worry about the results. \nKrishna, an enlightened master from ancient India, beautifully says in the ancient Hindu* scripture, the Bhagavad \nGita’, ‘The person who does not expect gain or loss from anything works happily with no need even for \nmotivation.’ \nWhen you are worried about the results, the very worry affects the results. Because when you worry, your doing \nis affected. Work should always be done out of inspiration, never out of worry. The motivation for any work \nshould be inspiration, not worry. Inspiration is an overflowing energy that expands your capacity to do things. It \nis completely energizing. Worry, on the other hand, is something that shrinks your capacity. It limits what you \nare capable of really doing",
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"content": "because it takes away your energy. \nWhen you work out of worry, you are always bothered about the results. When you work out of inspiration, \nyou are not bothered about the results. You are bothered only about doing the task to the fullest. Any task done \nwith the energy of inspiration always turns out good results. Even if it doesn’t give the expected results, you won’t \nfeel bad about it because you have received fulfillment simply by doing it. The ‘doing’ itself will fulfill you. \n \n \nLeave no space for Worry \nWhen you live without expectation, you are already fulfilled. There is no space for worry or discontent to thrive. \nWhen you don’t have worry, you see things as they are. You don’t worry about what might be or might not be. \nWorry exists only if you give it space. The space for worry is the past or future. The present doesn’t hold any \nspace for it. \nA small story: \nA mother was preparing a meal for her young son. She emptied a tin of beans into a saucepan and put them on \nthe stove to cook. Just then the phone rang. She was expecting the call and wanted to take it, but she was concerned \nthat her son would be left alone for those few minutes while she was out of the room. \nShe told him, ’Stay here while I answer the phone. I’ll be back soon. Don’t misbehave, and whatever you do, \ndon’t put those beans up your nose...’ \nWe always worry about what is happening and what might happen, also! The boy might not have even thought \nabout putting beans up his nose! Now his mother has planted the idea in him. Worry infuses life into many \n\n\n \n \nthings that never existed in the first place. Now, when the boy puts the beans in his nose, her worry turns out to \nbe true! She concludes that her worries are always right. \n \nWorry is only an illusion \nIf you look into worries, you will observe that they arise out of deep ignorance of the truth that Existence is \nrunning the whole show. If you look, you will see that all worries are mere illusion. You can understand this by",
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"content": "observing what happens at the time of death. When you are alive, you may have one hundred worries, but suppose \nyou are dying. At that moment, how many worries do you think will dominate you the way they did earlier? Surely \nonly one worry will be foremost — that you are going to die. None of the earlier worries will exert any great \ninfluence. All the outer world situations remain the same, but still the worries disappear! Only loving thoughts \nremain for the people around you who are dear to you. \nHow is this possible? It is possible only because your worries were never a part of you in the first place. They \nwere merely a part of your mind. They were nothing solid. If they were solid, they would definitely exert some \namount of influence over you at the time of your death as well. \nThe nature of worry is such that it always goes behind something that is not present. If you have wealth, it will go \nafter relationships, if you have relationships, it will go after education, if you have education it will go after good \nlooks. If everything is present, it will suspect what is present! \n \nSurrender and relax \nWhen you clearly understand that you are part of the grand plan of Existence, no worry can take root in you. \nExistence is a live energy being. It has tremendous intelligence with which it runs the whole show. We are all part \nof it. The same intelligence that conducts Existence is available to us too. If we tune in to it, our actions will be \nfluid and spontaneous like the happenings of Existence. If we don’t tune into 1t, we will harbor worry and fear \nand remain closed. \nThere is so much to learn from Existence! Take animals for example. Have you ever heard of worried sheep or \ncows? No! They conduct their lives like you; they are born, they reproduce, they find food, and they face death - \njust like human beings. You may say, ‘They don’t have to face the challenges that we have to face.’ What about \ntheir other activities like reproduction, facing death, et",
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"content": "c? Are they worried about all that? No! But these things \nhappen to them too. So understand that Existence is running this whole macrocosm. It can surely take care of you \nas well! \nSurrendering to the laws of Existence is the greatest relaxation from worry. \nThe Ego in disguise \nIf you seriously analyze every worry that arises in you, you will see that ninety nine percent of your worries are \nbaseless. But the problem is that the ego is not willing to accept that. The ego has invested too much in worry. \nWorry can’t be discarded just like that! Just try telling someone that his or her worries are not worth anything. \nThey will get very offended. You would expect that a person would feel happy if you tell him his worries are not \ntrue. But it won’t be so! He will feel offended. The ego feels offended whenever its worries are not acknowledged \nwith due respect. \nThe ego is what sustains the worry. The worry is created out of ignorance, but sustained by ego. Worry becomes \nan axis around which the ego revolves. If worry is taken away, the ego suffers. The worry of work and the worry \nof responsibility are classic examples of this. \nIf you watch some people, they simply magnify their situation to prove that they have the greatest worries on \nplanet earth! If you try to oppose them, they feel very hurt. \n\n\n \n \nEven worrying about what others will say about us is a problem of the ego. The ego is constantly worried that its \nself-image might be spoiled by someone. It is because of the ego that we feel we want to be somebody special all \nthe time. We spend considerable time just worrying about our self-image. Understand that the greatest blessing is \nbeing a nobody and yet being blissful. That is the greatest specialty. It is said that the most extraordinary thing \nabout an enlightened being is that he thinks he is ordinary! So, understand that enlightenment itself is a journey \nto relax into yourself. You are someone special all the time, only when you drop worry and ego.",
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"content": "Get out of your comfort zone \nIf you really want to come out of your worries, you will come out right now, without trying tojustify any of your \nworries. \nThe thing is, our very worries become our comfort zone. We hide in them. Hiding and merely talking about them \nhelps us to remain lazy. \nSomeone asks Mahavira’, an enlightened Jain master from India, ‘Who is the one who has worries?’ \nHe beautifully replies, ‘The person who is worried.’ \nThey ask him, ‘What is the cause of worry?’ He replies, ‘Laziness.’ \nThen they ask him, ‘Who ends worries?’ He replies, ‘Man himself.’ \nThey ask him, ‘How can worry be ended?’ He replies, ‘By dropping laziness.’ \nIf you drop laziness, you fall into right action. And when you fall into right action, you drop worry. Your comfort \nwith worry can be understood even from the way you react to other people’s worries. If you keenly watch, you \nwill observe that whenever a person talks to you about his worries, you first tell them, ‘What can you do... That’s \njust the way it happens...’ You never straightaway give a solution to them. When you do this, be very clear, you \nare not only encouraging them, but you are also encouraging yourself to remain comfortably in the worry zone. \nIf you really observe, we love to worry and talk about it. It makes us feel that we are shouldering a lot of problems. \nIt makes us feel important, like the world can’t make it without us to take care of it. \nWhen you see a problem, if you want a solution, you never dwell upon the problem even for a second. You simply \nswitch to the solution, that’s all! In the same way, for every worry there is an instant solution. You have to want \nit; that is the key. \nMost of the time, you prefer to stay in the comfort zone of your worry. It keeps you settled. For example, let’s say \nyou are visiting your child at college. You see a few students keeping their rooms all messy, or exchanging clothes \nand wearing them. You record the whole scene in your mind and assume that",
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"content": "is the way of life in the dorm itself. \nYou advise your child to keep her things neat and not to wear others’ clothes. Even if she tells you her things are \nin order and that she doesn’t wear others’ clothes, you will not readily erase or reprogram your recording. You \nstick with the earlier recording of what you observed. \nThere probably were many other beautiful things to record in the dorm — like the joy of the students, the campus \nitself, etc., but every time you think of your daughter, only this one recording comes up and you worry about her. \nNot only that, anyone you meet, you talk about how things are a mess in her dorm and how everyone exchanges \nclothes and wears them! The recording itself is not the truth. But you choose to have it as your comfort zone. You \nreinforce it. \nEven your worry related to wealth is like this. If making money is the worry, then it clearly means, somewhere \nlaziness is pulling you back into the comfort of worry. If you discard laziness and move, you make money. There \nare a million opportunities in today’s world to make money. \n \n \nDrop Worry, pick up health \n\n\n \n \n \nWhen you create more thoughts inside you through worry, the load on the navel region increases. It is from the \nnavel region that thoughts or worries arise. When you create more and more thoughts, you feel the heaviness in \nyour stomach. There is an energy center in the navel area called the manipuraka chakra’. This energy center starts \nshrinking with the heaviness of worry. \nThis energy centre responds directly to worry, and affects the stomach. That is why when you worry about \nsomething your stomach starts becoming uneasy. Or when you hear shocking news you say, ‘I can’t digest \nit...’Any disturbing news causes your stomach to churn. The stomach is very sensitive to thoughts. \nThere was a doctor famous for his extraordinary and effective treatment of arthritis. He always had a waiting \nroom full of people. \nThere was a doctor famous for his extraordinary and e",
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"content": "ffective treatment of arthritis. He always had a waiting \nroom full of people. \nOne day an old lady with her back badly bent walking entered the office with the aid of a stick. When her turn \ncame, she went into the doctor’s room and amazingly, came out within five minutes, walking completely erect \nwith her head high. \nA woman in the waiting room ran to her and said, ’It’s a miracle! You walked in bent in half and now you are \nwalking erect! What did that doctor do?’ \nThe old lady replied, ’He gave me a longer cane.’ \nSometimes we are so used to living a certain way that we can’t see a better way to live. Worry is that habit that \nkeeps us from living to our full potential and invites disease into the body. Disease starts in the mind. \nThere are extreme forms of worry that may become habitual and slow down the functioning of the individual. \nThis form of worry is diagnosed as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, called GAD. It is much more than the normal \nanxiety people experience day to day. According to research done by the National Institute of Mental Health in \nthe USA, GAD affects about 6.8 million adult Americans and about twice as many women as men. \n \nHow meditation helps \nOnce worry happens, we visit psychiatrists. The cause of worry is in the mind, not outside. Then how \nwill medicine alone help? \nA large number of the people in the world visit psychiatrists for the treatment of worry. Medication is all right, \nbut for psychosomatic conditions like worry, meditation is also needed. \nMeditation softens you. When you soften, love and gratitude start happening in you. Then slowly, there is no \nroom for worry. Worry is also a form of violence. It is a subtle form of violence. It is a disguised agitation in the \nsystem. \nMeditation also tremendously increases awareness. When awareness increases, outwardly you might be \ncompletely involved in the outer world, but inwardly you will be untouched by anything that happens. That is the \nreal worry-free life. \n \n \n\n\n \n \nE",
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"content": "xcel Without Stress \nWorry and stress are closely interrelated. They are like parent and child. One cannot exist without the other. What \nworks for one works for the other as well. However, given that stress is considered the biggest destroyer of health \nin today’s world, it is worth going into more depth on this subject. \nFour hundred years ago the French philosopher Rene Descartes declared, ‘I think, therefore I exist.’ This has \nformed the basis of modern thinking. Billions of people in this world have followed Descartes for generations \nbelieving that unless each one out thinks the other they cannot succeed in this world. \nDescartes was right, and he was wrong. He was right in that the human system does not know how to live without \nits mind, without thinking. As a result human beings become slaves to their minds. They live in bondage. \nMany centuries before Descartes, a vedic sage declared that man does not begin to exist till he stops thinking. Adi \nShankara, at the age of eight, faced his future master across the waters of the holy Tungabhadra river. The master \nasked him, ‘Who are you?’ \nIn response Shankara said, ‘I am not the mind, I am not the intellect, I am not the ego and I am not the senses. I \nam beyond all that. I am pure consciousness.’ \nWe are merely a bio-machine as long as we think we are mind and body. We are just a shade better than the \nanimals we ascended from as long as we allow our senses to guide us. But the true potential of human beings is \nnot merely to think and prove that we are superior to animals. The purpose of human life is to transcend the mind \nand ascend to a higher state of consciousness. In that state we are truly in the divinity that we descended from. \nTill we reach that state of unity with what we truly are, we are in turmoil. This turmoil, this confusion between \nour true nature and what we pretend and strive to be is what we call stress or tension. \nMind is not a machine \n \nAccording to vedic psychology, we are not dis",
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"content": "turbed. We are indeed the source of that disturbance. Understand \nthis well, you are not tensed but you are tension. You are not stressed but you are the source of stress. There is a \nbig difference between the two. Let us look deeply into it. Then you will understand. You are not in tension. You \nare the tension. There is a very big difference between ‘you are disturbed’ and you are disturbance. \nA group of reputed and experienced scientists, after doing research for many years, have now come up to say this. \nThey say: We cannot make man responsible for his actions unless we teach him how to manage his emotions by \nmanaging what is happening inside him. \nWhatever the vedic' scriptures said five thousand years ago is the same thing that the modern scientists are saying \nnow. These scriptures also provide the solution and answer for this age-old problem. They can bridge the gap \nbetween the Western psychology and the vedic psychology. \n \nWestern psychology continuously gives us the hope that we can be brought back to normalcy, retaining I as I. \nFor example, if we are feeling hot in this room, we can fix the air conditioning and make it cool to be comfortable. \nBut we forget an important factor. The moment we bring air conditioning into this room, we need to maintain \nthat. That brings additional tension. That brings additional problems. Now we need electricity, we need to pay the \nbills and for all these facilities we need money. When you go out to work, you no longer enjoy this room. The \nroom and its air conditioning exist, but you are elsewhere working to pay the bills for the air conditioner! We \nforget an important factor. You as you are, is a disease. The concept of mind, according to Western psychology, \nis a machine. According to vedic psychology, it is a process. Mind is not a machine but a process. It is constantly \nhappening. The word ’manas’, which is the Sanskrit word for mind, means a constant happening, something that \nis not passive and dead but",
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"content": "something that is dynamic and alive. \n\n\n \n \nWestern psychology insists on this one idea that the mind is a biomechanical machine. We all believe \nunconsciously that mind is matter, a thing or a machine. That is why constantly we connect all the past happenings \nof the mind as a chain, and start believing our mind is a solid thing. \nConnecting the Unconnected \nLet me give you an example. The low mood that you experienced ten years ago, the low mood that you \nexperienced nine years ago, the low mood that you experienced eight years ago, the low mood that you \nexperienced seven years ago and the low mood that you experienced yesterday are completely unconnected and \nindependent incidents. All these happened for different purposes, different reasons, at different times and \nsituations. You connect all these unconnected incidents and say, My life itself is a depression.’ \nThe low mood that you experienced years ago, months ago, weeks ago or days ago are all unconnected and \nindependent incidents. Fifteen years ago, you would have felt the low mood and felt depressed because your toys \nwere lost. Nine years ago, you would have felt depressed because your girlfriend was lost. Few years ago you \nwould have felt depressed or disturbed because your son was not listening to you. The reasons were different, \nsituations were different, and the cause was totally different. However, when you connect all these low moods \nand decide, ‘My life is full of depression, you have created hell for yourself! \n \nThe moment you start believing that your life is depressed, your life indeed becomes depression. Please \nunderstand that it is only what you believe to be your past that you will reproduce in future. We all know that we \ncan’t fly from our past experience. How can we believe that we can start flying from tomorrow onwards? No, we \ncan’t. Whatever we believe to be our past, only that we will believe can be our future. So once we start believing \nthat our past was filled with depressi",
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"content": "on, we have created the unconscious faith that our future will also be \ndepression. \nWhen we believe that the mind is just a thing, a bio-machine, we have created hell for ourselves. Fortunately for \nus, the mind is not a thing. There is hope. The truth is that mind is not a thing as we all have been taught; it is a \nprocess. It is not a noun but a verb. \nWhen we believe the mind is a thing, be very clear, we create problems that do not exist. \nA small story: \nA man goes to a psychiatric doctor and says, ’Doctor my life is full of problems’. The doctor says, ’Everybody’s \nlife is a problem. Don’t worry. Every week we will have three sessions and you will be charged hundred dollars.’ \nThe man says, ’Doctor three sessions per week each at hundred dollars will solve your problem. What about my \nproblem!’ \nUnderstand, the moment we start believing that the mind is only a machine, we become helpless. No psychiatrist \ncan help. No psychoanalyst can help. No other method can help, because the basic belief is wrong. The moment \nwe bring a wrong belief, whatever is built on that has to go wrong. It cannot be the truth. We need to understand \nthe basic truth that the mind is a process; we are not in tension but we are tension. \nHow do we decide? \nOnly about ten percent of what we perceive through our senses gets recorded in our conscious mind. Everything \nelse goes directly into our unconscious mind. This is why many times we do not even remember a place that we \npass every day. So long as this sensory perception does not interest us in some way it does not get recorded. \nLet us now see what happens to those sensory perceptions that do get recorded in our conscious mind. These \nimpressions are sorted out by parts of our mind and identified. Your conscious mind records whether the person \nyou see in front of you is known to you or whether he is an unknown stranger. How you would like to interact \nwith him is no longer a decision made at the conscious level. In case you know hi",
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"content": "m, your attitude towards him \nand your action would be based on the engraved memories that are grooved in your mind. In case he is unknown \n\n\n \n \nto you also, the very appearance of that person would trigger unconscious responses. Either way the file moves \ninto your unconscious for a decision about what you should do. \nFor most of us, less than ten percent of the mind is conscious. Less than ten percent of what you perceive through \nyour senses gets recorded consciously. It is possible that less than one percent of what you decide is a rational \ndecision! \nThere are two ways we can regain control. The first is to reduce the conditioning that binds us. In our meditation \nprograms, we work on the removal and dissolution of these samskaras' that bind us. The second way is to be in \nthe present moment, in total awareness and control. \n \nTranscend time - be in the present \nYour thoughts are always about your past or your future. You can only think about what happened in the past or \nwhat will happen in the future. Your thoughts of the past are usually regrets about what you did not do or guilt \nabout what you did. Thoughts of the future are about what you wish to do. \nPlease understand, neither the past nor the future is real. The past is dead and gone. Most often we do not even \nlearn from the past. All we try to do is use our past to steer the future. It is like driving a car looking only at the \nrear view mirror! You know for sure where you will end up! \nThe future is even more unreal. It has not happened. You have very little control over your future the way you \nare, because all your actions are steered by the unconscious mind. You are driven by the embedded memories of \nyour past. Your thoughts are nothing but the movement of your mind between past and future. Your mind never \nwants to rest. If it rested you will know you can do without it! \nIf only you allowed the mind to rest or even persuaded your mind to rest, you will find that you reach a blissful \nstate. Th",
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"content": "at state is the present moment. All your future has to happen in this present moment. It is what you decide \nnow in this present moment that makes your future. Once you take care of the present moment, once you live this \npresent moment consciously, you no longer will have cause to regret your past or feel guilty about it. \n \nThe shaft in the center represents ‘time’. At any given time, the greater your TPS or Thoughts Per Second, the \nmore far-flung you are from consciousness of the present moment. You are simply worrying about the future thus \nallowing it to slip into the past, without ever getting a glimpse of the present. When your TPS comes down, you \nenter more and more into the present and when this happens, you have a clearer vision of the past and the future. \nYou may wonder what is there to be clear about the past. One can understand that the future may not be clear, but \nwhy the past? I have lived it, so why should it be unclear! You need to understand that what you now remember \nof the past is your judgment of the past, not the way it happened. How many times do we talk about the golden \npast? How much has been written about the ‘golden past’! There is nothing golden about the past. We just choose \nto remember the good parts, so it looks golden. \nWhen you are in the intuitive state, be very clear: for those few moments, your TPS has dropped and you are more \nin the present. When your TPS is zero, you can clearly see the entire past and future. \nThe point where the future meets the past is the present. This is where your thought frequency is zero and you are \nin a no-mind state. You have not merely controlled or suppressed the mind, which is impossible. You have \ntranscended the mind, which is possible. \n \nMeditation brings the mind to rest. Meditation disengages the mind so that the mind cannot play games. We can \nalso reach this state in the master’s presence. The master is always in a no-mind state, which is the zero TPS state. \nWhen you are in his awa",
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"content": "reness, whether physically or otherwise, your own TPS also drops. You can reach zero \nTPS just by being in the master’s presence. The presence of the master is meditation. Awareness of the master is \nmeditation. \n \nPhysiological effects of Stress \n\n\n \n \nWe have looked at what the scriptures say and what I think about why stress is created. Let us now look at what \nscience says. \nWe all have a part of our brain that controls our actions such as breathing, digestion and such activities that the \nbody does automatically, involuntarily. Nature has designed a fail-safe system in a part of our brain called \nhypothalamus. This part of the brain also includes what biologists refer to as the reptilian brain. \nBehavioral scientists often talk about the fight or flight response. When the body-mind perceives a danger to our \nsurvival the hypothalamus is alerted by our unconscious mind. The unconscious mind functions at speeds a million \ntimes faster than the conscious mind. So even before we consciously become aware of danger, we instinctively \nbecome alert. The hypothalamus activates the pituitary gland, the master gland, which then activates the adrenalin \nglands that secrete the adrenalin hormone, which is pumped into our extremities, the hands and legs. We then get \nready for the ‘fight or flight’ reaction — either the energy prepares us to fight the threat or to run away from the \nthreat. The unconscious reptilian brain takes the decision to release chemicals into our body to protect us. This \nworked very well in the days of the caveman when he faced lions and tigers. He had to be ready even without \nthinking to fight or run away. \nTo study the effect of adrenalin on human beings today, experiments were carried out on athletes. Sprinters were \nlined up at the starting block and moments before the pistol was raised to signal to them to start running the umpire \nlowered his arm. So, the sprinters had to fall back and reposition themselves. This was repeated six times. With",
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"content": "out \neven running a meter the sprinters collapsed at the starting block! The adrenalin level in their bodies had become \ndangerously high. The life saving adrenalin can become a killer when it is produced without reason. \nThe chances of our meeting a tiger or a lion are quite slim these days. Nevertheless our unconscious mind keeps \nsending signals of such danger. These are called ‘fear strokes’. Psychologists estimate that we face at least half a \ndozen such fear strokes every day. These fear strokes produce large quantities of adrenalin in us. It has been \nestablished that depression is a direct result of such adrenalin production. Depression in turn is considered to be \nthe main cause of many chronic and fatal illnesses. \nMedical research has found that many young people in rich countries, even teenagers, have arteries so badly \nblocked that their arteries are similar to sixty-year-old people! Doctors have established that the physical condition \nis only one part of the problem. A much larger part is the emotional condition. It is now fairly well established \nthat an emotional trigger causes the immediate onset of a heart attack or stroke, even though the physical condition \nmay have been present for a long time. \n \nIs Stress work related? \nIn an IT company the Chief Executive received an enquiry for a project. He sent it down for a proposal. The team \nthat worked on such projects did a full review and said that they could do the job in six months at a cost of a \nmillion dollars. The manager in charge of the team reviewed this and said the team can do this in 4 months at a \ncost of three quarter million dollars. \nThe proposal went up to a General Manager. The General Manager called everyone, gave them a pep talk and \nsaid, ’We should be able to do this for half a million dOllars frI three months.’ Then he sent this as his proposal \nto the Chief Executive. \nThe Chief Executive called the client and told him that his company will deliver the product in two months a",
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"content": "t a \ncost of half a million dollars. \nPeople who work in corporations can relate with this incident. People who make decisions and commitments are \noften out of touch with ground reality. Once such decisions are made their egos are in play. Anything can be \nsacrificed but not the ego! A simple study of corporate history can show how many companies have failed because \nof the egos of the people who led them. \nI am told by some of my disciples in the corporate field about something called Level 5 Leadership. This is about \nthose corporate leaders who put themselves behind the needs of the company and the people who work for them \nrather than placing their own ego needs first. Research has shown that the Chief Executives of companies that \nhave been commercially successful consistently are hardly known to the outside world! These leaders are so \nhumble, and focused inwards. \n\n\n \n \nStress at the workplace starts with our education system. We start ranking children from a very young age. When \nin a group three people are graded as heroes, the rest of the group feels useless. We are taught to compete from a \nvery early age. This comparison continues into the workplace and converts it into a battlefield. \nThe so-called Human Resource programs specify that people must be categorized. I am told that in many \ncorporations it is necessary to show that ten or fifteen percent of the people are bad performers. People are reduced \nto statistics! In order to survive people are forced to make others victims. This is probably why they call these \noffices ‘concrete jungles’ ! \nAs long as people are driven by fear and greed, they cannot be inspired. They can be controlled and made to \nperform routine tasks but they cannot be inspired to do the impossible. This is the dilemma today’s corporations \nface. They need people to perform but their kit of motivational techniques is not enough. It contains the whip and \nthe carrot, nothing more. \nA well known psychologist built a model of how hu",
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"content": "man beings move up in their desires. This is now named after \nhim as Maslow’s’ hierarchy of needs. At the base of this pyramid are one’s survival needs of food, shelter and \nother material essentials. People then look for fulfillment in the society they live in, such as building a network \nand so on. They then seek love and attention. Then they look for respect, name and fame. After all this they are \nstill dissatisfied. They feel that there is something still missing in their lives. \n \nThat something is within. Maslow called it self-actualization. This is the zone where we flow free of stress. This \nis the zone of inner realization. This is the zone where you know that you are one with the universal energy. \nWhether you work at home, in an office or factory or you do not work at all, you still look forward to this state \nwhere you are centered. This is what we teach in our basic Life Bliss Program courses. The five levels of the \npyramid that Maslow* drew correspond to the seven levels of energy that we carry within us. These seven centers \nof energy are called chakras’ in the vedic system. Each chakra represents an emotional state as well as a state of \ndesire. As we fulfill the needs of each chakra we move up in energy till we reach a state of fulfillment. It is a \nprocess many thousands of people have gone through with remarkable effect. We have taught these programs in \nmany corporations worldwide. I call this a ‘Guaranteed Solution’. \nMeditation technique \nThis is a simple and yet a powerful technique to clear stress. We teach this technique in our Life Bliss Programs \nfor unblocking the manipuraka chakra’ or navel energy center, which is the seat of stress. This technique should \nalways be practised before a meal, when the stomach is empty and a few hours before sleep. \n \nWhile standing, shout, scream, rave and rant in a language that you do not know. If anyone is listening, it should \nalso not make any sense to them. Be aggressive in letting out all your em",
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"content": "otions and feelings that will start pouring \nout of you once you start. Cry if you so wish. Roll on the floor if your emotions drive you. \n \nThis technique is a powerful meditation. It unblocks your unconscious and allows all the negativities stored inside \nto dissolve. Typical psychoanalytical sessions when patients talk to their analysts, or even throw things around \nfor catharsis, are still conscious processes. Only ten percent of your stored memories will be released. Processes \nsuch as hypnosis are through the unconscious and you have no control. This technique is a superconscious process \nin which you retain awareness while cleansing yourself. \nPractice this technique for twenty minutes. Then sit down and allow the energy to spread within you in silence \nfor ten minutes. During this silence just be a witness to your thoughts. Do not suppress them or chase them. \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n \nFace Your Fears and Be Free \n \nWhat is Fear? Fear is a deeper dimension of worry. Worry can cause ulcers. Fear on the other hand can even \ndestroy life. However, unlike worry without which life is possible, fear seems woven into our lives. It is possible \nto face fear without fear. A person who we call courageous is not one without fear, but one who has learnt to face \nfear without fear. Fear is a form of energy inside us. That is why it cannot be destroyed. Energy can neither be \ncreated nor destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another. Understand, your fear is directly \nconnected to your life energy. Whenever you are facing a survival threat, you will see your fear rising and the \nadrenalin release happening in your body. That adrenalin release gives you so much energy that you can almost \nfly. We call it the fight or flight response; either you face the fear and fight, or you run away. There will be so \nmuch energy in your body the moment you face a survival threat. Whenever that threat is real, the swadhishthāna \nchakra, the seat of life, gets completely shaken! Big Bang",
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"content": "and Black Hole inside you When there is pure desire \nor pure greed in you without any object in particular, it becomes the overflowing energy of creation, expansion, \nor Big Bang! For no reason, you simply explode with energy. In the same way, when there is pure fear in you \nwithout any object in particular, it becomes contraction, black hole. Fear is your nature, but don’t direct it towards \nany object. Having fear is natural. But connecting the fear to an object is societal. Pure fear helps in survival and \nit is spontaneous. Enormous energy radiating from you for no reason is pure greed. If it is because of an object, it \nbecomes ordinary greed. In the same way, energy settling back within you for no reason is pure fear. If it is \nbecause of an object, it becomes ordinary fear. Unless the black hole happens, the Big Bang cannot happen. It is \npart of life, part of the drama, part of the game. Pure fear means you are relaxing into yourself, settling inside you. \nThat is what we call destruction. The birth of this cosmos is the Big Bang, and death is the black hole*. Birth of \nyour being is a big bang for you. Death of your being is black hole for you. The inhaling breath is pure desire. \nThe exhaling breath is pure fear. Prana – the life energy that enters along with the air - goes into you because of \nthe Big Bang. Prana leaving your system with the outgoing air is the black hole. When you resist or fight with the \nBig Bang or black hole, you create disturbance in your system. When fear happens, when the black hole happens, \nit means that you are turning towards peace or getting ready for the Big Bang. Whenever pure fear happens, you \nbecome rejuvenated with a tremendous relaxation which surges as courage and energy in you! \n \nFight between your potentiality and \nyour negative approach \n \nWhenever you are afraid of losing something that you have, or you fear you cannot achieve something that you \nwant to have, there is a fight going on between your potentialit",
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"content": "y and your negative approach to the future. If you \nare sure there is no possibility of achieving something, that you don’t have the potentiality, you will not have fear. \nIf you are sure that you can achieve something, then also, you don’t have fear. Fear is the fight between faith and \nbelief in oneself on one hand, versus the negative idea or expectation you have about your future on the other \nhand. You are literally fighting with your own positive and negative energies. If you are very sure you don’t have \nthe potentiality that you can’t achieve, then you won’t have fear. If you are very confident you are going to \nachieve, then also you won’t have fear. However, if there is something you want to achieve, but you are not sure \nthat you can achieve it, then you will have fear. The fight between these two ideas, the dilemma is what we call \nfear. There are two ways to escape fear. One way is to block all possibility. This means you can die, then there \nwon’t be any more fear! The second way to escape fear is to break the boundary of possibilities. If there is infinite \npossibility, if there is no boundary, if there is nothing that limits you, then you become fearless. Just by having \nthis understanding, something will click in you and so many fears will disappear from your being! \n \n\n\n \n \nIncreased possibility for \nenlightenment \n \nPeople come and say to me, ‘I have too many fears. What can I do?’ I tell them, ‘If you have too many fears, the \npossibility for enlightenment is more. So many doors are available to you!’ For a person who doesn’t have too \nmany fears, the possibility, the number of doors is also fewer because he leads a dull life. A person who leads a \ndull life will not have much fear. He has nothing much to lose, nothing much to decide. He is not taking many \nrisks. All you need to do is this: every time you feel fear, do not disrespect yourself. Do not lose confidence or \ncondemn yourself thinking, ‘What kind of a being am I?’ Actually people wh",
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"content": "o can face their fears do not have so \nmany problems. People who are afraid of their fears create more problems for themselves. When you brood too \nmuch about your fears, you start thinking you have problems. Sometimes, just by switching your attention to \nsomething else, you can come out of fear. But that is not fearlessness. Fearlessness means taking a quantum jump \ninto the consciousness where you will never experience fear of losing anything! Be very clear: the fears that you \nhave about your life - fear of failure, fear of losing your near and dear ones, fear of losing your wealth, fear of the \nunknown - every fear can be used as a door to enlightenment. Another important truth you should know: There is \nsomething within you that never dies which is your source of energy. There is also something within you that \ndies; something that is actually never alive, even now. The fear of death exists in you because you think there is \nsomething you have now that will be taken away from you. No! Anything that you have now cannot be taken \naway. Anything that can be taken away, you never had in the first place. Anything that can die can never occupy \nyour inner space. \n \nFearlessness is courage to face Fear \n \nYou cannot conquer fear. Fearlessness means intelligence to live the intense fear without directing it towards any \nobject. When there is no object to be afraid of, the intense fear will give such an intense relaxation and peace. \nFear is a powerful energy which gives a deep relaxation, self-centeredness. The fear center is the rejuvenation \ncenter. Be very clear: fearlessness does not mean non-existence of fear. It means the fear is there, but you have \ntremendous energy or courage to live with it and face it. Fearlessness means having the energy or the courage to \nlive even with the maximum fear – going beyond that fear and being neither attached to nor detached from the \nfear. One more important thing you should know is fear is part of the nature of life. You c",
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"content": "an be fearless if you are \nalready in your grave! Then there is no need to be afraid of anything because you have nothing to lose! If you \nhave something to lose, you will have fear. That is the nature of life itself. Fear does not exist when things are \ndefinite and known. Fear exists only when things are not definite, when they are mere possibilities and unknown \nin that sense. For example, death is a possibility. As an incident it is definite, but when and how it might happen, \nis not clear. So there is always fear associated with it. If you can just look into the darkness, the fear, with \nawareness, you will live through it and get over it. \n \nFear of losing identity \n \nThe biggest fear human beings have is the fear of losing their identity. Even the fear of losing one’s life is not as \ngreat as the fear of losing the identity. The fear of losing your identity is much worse than the fear of death. \n \nFear of death \n \n\n\n \n \nAll our fears – losing physical health, mental stability, wealth, name and fame, or loved ones - are actually fear \nof death under various disguises. The social fear – fear of being rejected by society – makes us do things to please \nsociety, even when it is not good for us. In this process, many times, we sacrifice what our being really wants to \ndo. That fear of not being accepted by society is just another form of the fear of death – death of the ego. Every \nact of ours is unconsciously related to death and the fear of dying. Understanding death can change your entire \nperception of life. It can simply transform the way you handle all your fears. \n \nAnger – the active form of Fear \n \nFear is what leads to anger. Fear is the passive form of the energy while anger is the active expression. When you \nare angry, just look into the anger. At the root of it, you will find a deep fear. Try this for yourself: if you are \nfeeling fear, express anger at that time. Throw your hands, stamp your feet – express the energy. You will see the \nfear dis",
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"content": "appears. You will see for yourself how fear can simply transform to anger. Similarly, fear can also \ntransform to hate. You just need to be aware of yourself and witness how the emotions subtly change from one \nform to another. When you understand this play, you can easily get out of the game. \n \nFear strokes \n \nPsychologists talk about fear strokes. Say you are walking in the garden in the dark, and you see a coil of rope - \nyou start shivering, imagining it to be a snake. That sudden shock you get before realizing it is just a rope and not \na snake, is what is called a fear stroke. A fear stroke is like shaking a rose plant from its roots - if you keep shaking \nit long enough, it will die. It is said that we undergo six to twelve fear strokes every day and night, in dreams and \nalso in wakefulness. Imagine what happens to our being! Fear strokes originate from unconsciousness. When they \nare viewed with awareness and consciousness, they can be substantially reduced. \n \nHow to Overcome Fear \nWitnessing and acceptance \n \nWhen you are faced with fear, don’t try to resist it or suppress it. Just look at the fear, note the fear and accept it. \nAcceptance of the fear dissolves the fear. Allow the fear to shake you. If your body trembles, let it tremble. If \nyour eyes water, let the tears come. Just be like a blade of grass in the wind - bending without resistance. If you \ncan face your fears, you see they have no depth. Because you magnify the fears, you imagine them to be an abyss. \nIt is your choice, to let go of the branch, the fear, or to keep clinging onto it and torturing yourself. Acceptance is \nthe only way to conquer inevitable things. When you accept, suddenly you see the fear disappear. The moment \nyou accept, fear loses its power to frighten you. When you don’t fight with it, you will see fear as deep peace. \nWhen the fear stroke happens, just live it. That is the only way. When you have an object connected to fear, accept \nit. That acceptance transforms",
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"content": ". The more you fight, the more you empower fear. Diverting your attention away \nfrom the fear is also not the way because then the fear still remains with you. It does not mean that you are out of \nfear. Allow the fear to take over itself. Go into the fear two to three times. Live the fear intensely without any \nreservations. Suddenly you will find that it doesn’t touch you anymore! \n \nFear is associated with the swadhishthāna chakra, the subtle energy center two inches below the navel region. \n \nVisualization \n\n\n \n \n \nA very powerful way of overcoming fear is to visualize going through that fear as clearly as you can. The beauty \nwith this technique is that it can be used when you are not in the fear situation, when you are calm and able to \nhandle yourself. You can sit by yourself and visualize the situation that causes fear. Feel clearly the fear coming \nup in you; face the fear with deep awareness. If you suffer, if your body feels uncomfortable, it is fine. Don’t \nsuppress the fear, just allow it to happen. When you experience something completely, you drop it. \n \nMeditation Techniques \n \n1. Hamsa Mantra \nThis is a very powerful technique that can be used twenty-four hours a day. Whenever you are attacked by fear, \njust sit back and relax. Put your awareness only on your exhaling breath. Repeat the word ‘sah’ silently as you \nexhale; that is, with the outgoing breath. Exhaling is like relaxing and letting go anything that can die. While \ninhaling you will be constantly trying to hold on to something. Exhaling is like letting go. Focus on exhaling \nwithout bothering about inhaling. When you inhale, repeat ‘ham’ silently. Place more awareness and energy on \nthe exhalation. Help yourself exhale deeper. Let the inhalation happen automatically through the body. Place your \nenergy, attention and effort only on exhaling. It is a silent intonation of ‘ham…sah…., ham…sah’. Silent \nintonation of this hamsa mantra will suddenly take you into the awareness, the relaxat",
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"content": "ion that never dies. Whatever \ncan die will leave your system, your inner space. This technique can also be practiced at other times when you \nare not faced by fear - while you are sitting, talking, walking, eating, even while you are sleeping. It is a very \npowerful technique. Constantly, all twenty four hours, place your attention on exhaling and just intone the hamsa \nmantra silently – ‘hamsah’, ‘hamsah’, ‘hamsah’. When you inhale, intone ‘ham’ and when you exhale, intone \n‘sah’. Understand, when constantly intoning this mantra, it will become ajapa japa - chanting without effort. \nChanting with effort is called japa. Chanting without effort is ajapa. It means that which goes on automatically in \nyou. You just need to intone, that’s all. Fall in tune, that’s all. The whole day it will be resounding within you. \nWhatever can die will leave your system, and you will realize whatever can die can never be part of you. If you \nare identifying yourself with something that can die, that identification will be disconnected and you will be \nunclutched. Whatever can never die, you will feel connected to that. Whatever cannot die is your very being. Try \nthis technique for just three days. You will suddenly see that the fear of losing your wealth, parts of your body or \nyour \nhealth, \nor \nyour \nnear \nand \ndear \nones, \nor \nthe \nfear \nof \nthe \nunknown \n– all the fears will disappear. When you put your awareness on exhaling, whatever is occupying your inner space \nas a part of you that can die, will simply leave your inner space. You will be liberated. \n \n \n\n\n \n \nPain is a great teacher \nOften, fear manifests itself as pain. The most frightening thing in the world is pain. All living beings are afraid of \none thing, and that is pain. If you look deeply, you will find that people don’t fear even death as much as they fear \nthe pain and agony they will undergo at the time of death! Many are afraid of poverty, many of relationships, and \nmany others",
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"content": "fear disease. The root cause of all these fears is the pain that happens while going through these \nthings. All these fears are because of the fear of pain. \n \nWhat is Pain \n \nPain can be physical, mental or emotional. Physical pain is a basic necessity for the body. Just imagine, if we \ncould feel no pain in our body we might accidentally hurt ourselves or start styling our faces, hands, and legs the \nway we style our hair today! Actually, pain is a letter of request, written by the body to the mind, saying, ‘Please \npay attention to me!’ because attention is energy. When attention is given to a particular area, that attention \nbecomes energy for that area. When the body communicates pain, it is actually asking for attention or energy, \nwhich will help it heal. Mental or emotional pain is the psychological feeling that arises when you are faced with \nsomething you don’t like. Research shows that emotional pain can deeply disturb the physical body. For example, \nthe psychological feelings that arise with sexual repression can result in lower back disorders, or the pain of \nshouldering too much responsibility can cause pain in the shoulders. Whether physical or emotional pain, an \nimportant thing you need to understand is that pain is always born from resistance to the present moment. \n \nTime Vs Understanding \n \nIf a painful incident happens in one’s life – the loss of a child, the husband or wife leaving the spouse, the breakup \nof a close friendship – one suffers, but slowly accepts it over time. One may cry and brood many days and nights, \nbut then one comes to accept what happened. Time heals. It is a common saying. Understand that time is needed \nfor healing only because you were not ready to face the pain and suffering in a conscious and aware manner at \nthe time the incident happened. If you can just look at the pain, if you can witness the emotion with awareness \nand see the play of the mind while experiencing pain, then the understanding dawns and instan",
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"content": "t healing happens. \nTime is needed because you are not ready to have the understanding. So you suffer a great deal. Over time, after \nsome weeks, months, or even years, the incident fades and becomes a distant memory. However, the pain is not \ncompletely gone from your system. If you come across a person who even distantly reminds you of your lost child \nor husband, it comes up. For example, if the person has a similar style of talking, walking, or laughing, the wound \nreopens. It hurts because you carry the memory of the past. Because of this, you feel life is too heavy a burden to \nbear. You choose to hold onto your entire past: when you were a child, when you were a teenager, when you first \nwent to work. You hold onto all the stages of life with all the experiences, pains, and mistakes. That burden and \nload of your emotions associated with the past, is what causes you pain every time you experience it. If you decide \nto drop the past and look at every situation with a fresh perspective, then you will not have so much pain. You \nwill heal instantly. You will not need so much time. \n \nPain and pleasure – two sides of the \nsame coin \n \n\n\n \n \nThe root of pain and pleasure are the same. It is the same sensation with two names. It is like this: two people \nreceive a body massage from the same person. One concludes that it was a beautiful rejuvenating process while \nthe other decided that it hurt! The same massage will appear like pain or pleasure depending on the person \nreceiving it. Life has both of these opposites – pleasure and pain. Both pleasure and pain are from the mind. The \nmind always moves from one extreme to the other. It rarely falls into the middle path. From pleasure you move \nto pain, from pain you move to pleasure. As we saw earlier, pleasure and pain are completely dependent on the \nperson feeling the pleasure or pain. Something may seem like pleasure to you while the same experience may be \npainful to someone else. \n \nIn the Bhagavad Gita, the gre",
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"content": "at scripture that teaches the various paths to Self realization, the enlightened master \nKrishna says beautifully, ‘He who regards alike pleasure and pain, and looks on a lump of earth, a stone, and a \npiece of gold with an equal eye, who is wise and holds praise and blame to be the same, who is unchanged in \nhonor and dishonor, and who treats friend and foe alike, is said to have gone beyond the modes of nature. Pleasure \nand pain are the same to him and he is ready for enlightenment.’ \n \nFree yourself from pleasure and \npain \n \nBuddha, an enlightened master, says, ‘Free yourself from both pleasure and pain.’ Craving for pleasure and \nnursing pain are both different aspects of the same experience. Both are chains. Pain may look like an ugly chain \nand pleasure a beautiful chain. Just as the day follows night and night follows day, pain and pleasure will always \nfollow each other. When you understand that pleasure and pain are both creations of the mind, you will realize \nthat they are both temporary, they come and go like soap bubbles. Nobody is needed to take away your pleasure, \nbecause your mind by its very nature will move like a pendulum to the other extreme called pain! The only way \nis to go beyond both pleasure and pain. This doesn’t mean suppressing pleasure or forgetting about pain. It is an \nawareness that transforms pain to bliss – the energy that exists no matter what the external situation may be. Bliss \nis your very nature and cannot be lost. Just because of your resistance to what is happening, you feel pain and \nyour natural bliss is forgotten. \n \nAwareness in Pain \n \nPain, whether physical, mental, or emotional, has only a negative existence like darkness. Darkness exists only in \nthe absence of light. As such, it has no positive existence of its own. In the same way, pain exists only in the \nabsence of awareness. Just as darkness disappears automatically when light is brought into a room, pain dissolves \nautomatically when the energy of your",
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"content": "awareness is focused on it. Any mental or emotional pain that you carry is \njust the tip of the iceberg. You need to go into the root where it starts. You need to work on the root cause for it \nand heal it. Otherwise, there is a distinct danger that you will inflict that pain on someone else or hurt yourself \nmore with it. I always tell people, ‘If you have pain, just drop everything and work on it. See that its root is healed. \nOnly then you can be in a safe zone. Otherwise neither you nor the people living around you are in a safe zone.’ \nWhen you face any pain with awareness you become aware that you are not just the body. You become aware \nthat no pain can touch the real ‘you’. Once you realize that you are beyond pain, you rise above pain to become a \ndukkha ateeta* (one who has gone beyond suffering). You experience the rare freedom that arises with non-\nattachment to the body. You will carry this freedom all your life. You leave mundane life behind and enter into a \nspiritual plane. The whole material world disappears and another world arises, one of incomparable beauty, \ninnocence, joy and compassion. The pain will evaporate of its own accord when you see the nature and cause of \npain with intense inner clarity because the clarity evaporates the reasons for the pain to exist in you. This \nrealization brings with it a state of absolute bliss, which is the state of enlightenment. \n \n\n\n \n \nPain – A phenomenon of the mind \n \n‘Phantom’ Pain \n \nThere have been recorded instances of ‘phantom pain’ which is pain in a part of the body that does not exist. Once \nin the Second World War, a soldier’s leg had to be amputated because it was badly damaged. The strange thing \nwas that when he became conscious again he was still complaining about the pain in the leg. He was covered with \na blanket so he had no idea that the leg had been removed. The blanket was removed and he was shown that his \nleg was not there anymore. He was shocked! Further research then showed that ea",
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"content": "ch part of the body is related to \na certain part of the brain. When a certain part of the body feels pain, the corresponding brain center shows \nactivity. In this case, the related brain center was still vibrating in the same way it was vibrating when the leg was \na part of the body. There are many such instances of people who feel pain in the empty space where their limbs \nwere amputated. This is called ‘phantom pain’. \n \nPlacebo effect \n \nThe mind has tremendous influence over the body. Even the perception of physical pain can be changed by the \nmind. In science they call it the ‘placebo effect’ when a simple sugar pill gives the same effect as a painkiller, just \nbecause the person is made to believe that the sugar pill is a painkiller! The other day, I was reading about research \ndone at the University of Michigan in the USA that appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience. The research was \ndone on a group of young men who agreed to let researchers inject their jaw muscles with a concentrated saline \nsolution, causing pain. The brain’s response to the pain was studied using PET (Positron Emission Tomography) \nscans that showed the activity of the body’s natural painkillers, called endorphins. In one scan, the men were told \nthey were being given a painkiller but actually what was given was just a placebo – a substance that had no \npainkilling properties. Then they were asked to rate the intensity of the pain they felt on a scale of 0 to 100. Also, \nthe PET scan would indicate the brain activity related to pain. The researchers were able to study both the response \nof the brain and what the men actually felt. The amazing observation was that when the men were given a placebo, \nmeaning not a painkiller but just a neutral substance, the pain they felt was actually less. It was as if they had been \ngiven the painkiller itself! The PET scans indicated that the endorphin (natural painkiller) system in the brain was \nactivated. \n \n \n\n\n \n \nDesire is a Dynamic Energy \nFea",
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"content": "r and desire are the fundamental energies that drive our lives. We act either out of a desire to achieve something \nor reach somewhere, or out of a fear of not wanting to experience something. Attraction and repulsion are not \nmerely forces of molecules, but also essential to human behavior. \n \nRecognize Your True Desires \n \nOne of the major driving forces in human life is desire. If you look into your life, you can see most of the time we \nare driven by either desire or fear. We have so many desires and many times we feel we don’t have energy to \nfulfill them. According to the Jain tradition, the Divine sends us with enough energy and capacity to fulfill all our \ndesires. But most of us don’t feel this way. Why? There is a difference between our true desires and ‘borrowed’ \ndesires. Our true desires are called our ‘needs’. Borrowed desires are called our ‘wants’. We have enough energy \nto fulfill our true desires or needs. What are our true desires? During the Life Bliss Program Level 2 (Nithyananda \nSpurana Program), we have a session where people are asked to make a list of their desires, their needs and wants. \nThen they meditate on these desires. At the end of the meditation, I ask them to recollect from memory their list \nof desires. What they can recollect is usually a fraction of what they have written! It is as if they started with a \nlarge tree full of leaves, their desires, and during this meditation the tree sheds almost all its leaves, as if the leaves \nwere dried and dead. What leaves the tree retains glow like golden leaves. If you can understand which desire is \ninnate and which is accumulated, spiritual growth happens automatically. When our desires are our own true \ndesires, when they reflect our real needs, when they express themselves in our inner energy, we don’t feel any \ndesperation about trying to achieve them. The realization comes that, as a matter of natural course of events, these \ndesires will be fulfilled. \n \nThe true desire for fulfill",
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"content": "ment \nWhen you have a headache, you are not comfortable with that state - because you know that it is not your true \nnature. Your true nature is having no headache. In the same way, when you have some desire, you immediately \nwant to come out of it - because deep fulfillment is your very nature and desire causes an imbalance in that \nfulfillment. \n \nTwo important truths you need to understand: \n \n1. Your whole life is a long chain of events performed towards the one goal that is fulfillment. Whatever you \nmay do, whether it is eating or drinking or having relationships, wealth or joy, it is all to experience fulfillment. \nIn different directions you seek fulfillment instead of seeking it directly. \n \n2. Fulfillment is within you, it is your very nature. That is why you are trying to come out of non-fulfillment. \nThe fact that you are searching for fulfillment means that fulfillment is known to you. Otherwise you would not \nsearch for it! In the instances in your life when you have felt some fulfillment, there is also a hope that you will \nexperience it again. That is why you extend your life. \n \nDesire, knowledge and action \n \n\n\n \n \nThe desire that is pure and not directed towards any particular object or person is simply an overflowing \nenergy that is called iccha shakti or the ‘desire energy’. From the navel, energy comes as pure energy. \nIn the heart region, this energy gets converted to the power of desire. This further gets converted into \nwords in the throat region. When this energy gets converted into words, it is called oak or the ‘speech \nenergy’. To give an analogy, the energy that comes from the navel is like loose cotton. The cotton \nbecomes thread in the throat region. Or you can imagine it this way: the energy that comes from the \nnavel is like molten iron. The throat is like a forge where the product is formed! Anyhow, the speech \nenergy moves further to the brain. There it stays as knowledge or gets converted into a command. In \nthe brain, the energy",
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"content": "could stay as the power of knowledge or gnana shakti. For example, the desire \nenergy related to the body can become knowledge of the body. The other option is, the words get \nconverted to a command and get executed as well. The command goes to the entire body and moves \nyou. This is called the power of action or kriya shakti. For example, the desire energy related to your \nbody can express as the power of action like moving your body. Pure iccha shakti or desire energy \nwhich comes from your being gets converted in the throat region to gnana shakti - power of knowledge \nand kriya shakti - power of action. If the energy is not processed and channeled properly, the knowledge \nand action become disconnected from the power of the pure desire energy. The knowledge and action \nshould be in tune with the desire energy. Then it forms a virtuous circle of desire leading to better \nknowledge and action, which in turn leads to clearer desires! Let us say you have a desire to make a \nmillion dollars. If it gets converted properly as knowledge, you will have a clear plan and do the right \nactions to become a millionaire. If the desire energy gets converted as too much knowledge and less \naction, then you will end up only thinking more and more, building castles in the air. On the other hand, \nif the desire energy gets converted as too much action and less knowledge, then you will end up working \nblindly. For example, you may work really hard like driving a truck from Los Angeles to New York, \nbut can you become a millionaire this way? There is action but not the right knowledge. So the proper \nconversion of the desire to knowledge and action has to happen. The reason why this conversion doesn’t \nhappen properly is lack of awareness. When you are honest and integrated with the desire, there is no \nconflict and the conversion happens properly. \n \nThe power of love \nYou might have even experienced some incidents like this in your life. A girl who is afraid to cross a \nbusy stree",
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"content": "t, if she sees her child run across the road will just jump onto the road to save the child without \na thought about her own safety. We should understand how she has lost her fear all of a sudden. The \nreason is that the love for her child has awakened the dimension of motherliness in her. It is the same \nthing with every relationship of love. If the feeling of love blossoms in somebody, immediately all the \nfear will leave the person’s inner space. Understand, love has tremendous power and so does lust. If \nyou have a lot of energy in your muladhara chakra, it will override the other chakras immediately. There \nwill not be any fear in your swadhishthana chakra„ and there will not be any worries in your manipuraka \nchakra. These higher chakras will not work when the muladhara chakra has the full power. Without the \nperson’s knowledge, it will unleash the latent unknown potential in him. It will spread his potential to \nthe outer world too. If you have a son or daughter, then the dimension of motherliness will be awakened \nin you. If your mind is ready to receive the experience of different dimensions, those dimensions will \nblossom in you. If you are completely open-minded, every person you meet in your life will cause you \nto blossom further. But if you are egoistic, even your spouse or your lover cannot cause you to blossom. \nPlease understand, you have a great responsibility to create an open and non- egoistic mind before \nentering into a relationship such as between husband and wife or between lovers. Then the very feeling \nwill transform you eternally. If this eternal transformation does not happen, you miss a major dimension \nof your life. Why are we not able to feel true love? It is because of our samskaras, our emotional \nattachment to the past memories. Your inner space is filled with too many things related to the past. \nSo your inner space is not available to the present moment. You can only love or feel connected to the \npeople or objects falling in tu",
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"content": "ne with the past memories you loved. If you can drop the emotional \nattachments to the past, suddenly you will see you have so much of inner space available to you. You \ncan then directl open up to anybody who is in front of you w1t hout asking for his or her past. \n \n\n\n \n \nLust to love \nLust is a primal emotion provided by nature for continuation of the species. To go beyond lust is the \nfirst major step in realizing the ultimate potential of human life. Humans are forever confused between \nlove and lust. They think only animals are lustful. Actually, only animals are capable of pure lust when \nthey mate! Humans, with their rationalization, can neither be lustful nor loving. That is why they feel \ndissatisfied and unfulfilled. Sex is carbon, love is diamond. Sex is mud and love is the lotus that blooms \nin the mud. It is the same substance — the only thing is, you should know how to process it. Just drop \nyour expectations, and you will find a tremendous upsurge of energy. \n \nDiscover the man and woman inside \nyou \nToday, we know biologically that no man is 100% man, and no woman is 100% woman. A man may \nbe 51% man and 49% woman. Likewise, a woman may be 51% woman, and 49% man; just a difference \nof 1%, may be more. You have taken birth from the energies of your father and mother. Then, how can \nyou be only male or only female? Whether we accept it or not, we are an embodiment of both male and \nfemale energies. We are whole, not divided. Right from the moment of birth, society labels you as either \nmale or female. And it expects you to start behaving accordingly. Inherent human nature is fulfillment. \nShe starts looking to the outside world for a substitute for her own lost half. The male child starts \nsearching for a female presence, and the female child for a male presence. This is where the whole idea \nof sex starts. The search starts with the idea of how our ‘would-be’ should be. \n \nA small story: \nOne 90-year old man used to sit every day at the beach fro",
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"content": "m morning to evening, watching people \ngoing by. Another man who noticed this went up to him and asked him, ‟What do you actually do sitting \nhere everyday? ‟The old man replied, ‟I am searching for a woman to be my wife.‟ The man was \nsimply shocked at this reply and asked him, ‟Why did you not search in your youth? ‟The old man \nreplied, ‟I have been searching since I was 30 years old.‟ The man was astonished and asked him, \n‟What sort of a woman are you searching for?‟He replied, ‟I am searching for a prefect woman.” \n‟The man asked, ‟You havent found one yet?‟ ‟I found one woman who matched what I had in mind \nbut it didn‟t work out well with her replied the old man. The man asked why. The old man replied, ‟She \nwas searching for a perfect man!” \n \nThis is what happens when we try to get a perfect match for the image that we carry inside us. But after \na long search, we suddenly find a person who seems to match our mental image — from a distance. \nWhat happens at this point is what is called falling in love’. This is the science behind falling in love. \nNote that it is always ‘falling’ in love, never ‘rising’ in love! Because of our own strong needs and \nexpectations, we see things as we want to see them. As long as this distance is maintained, things go on \nsmoothly. We continue to project our imagination upon each other. But, as the person slowly comes \ncloser we find that fantasy and reality are totally different. We need to understand that no living person \ncan live up to the image we carry in our minds simply because the image is not built from reality! No \nimage can be matched with reality, because at the end of the day, it is only an image, a fantasy! \n \nThe ultimate alchemy \n \nWhat is alchemy? The process of changing a lower level metal such as copper or iron into gold is \nalchemy. In the same way, when our being is ripe the base feeling of lust transforms to love, the highest \nemotion we are capable of. In the same way, remove the impurity of your fan",
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"content": "tasies, add the purity of \n\n\n \n \nfriendliness in your relationship and process this with your patience. In the beginning, people may not \nbe able to understand the change in you. Just continue with belief and confidence in yourself. Your \nsincerity and strength has no way but to touch others around you positively. Add friendliness to love. \nAs of now, our lust is deep-rooted violence to possess the other person. Add friendliness to the \nrelationship. Welcome the partner as he or she is; do not just accept him or her. Welcome and accept \nthe mind, body and being as it is. Then you can see lust turns to love and your being is in eternal bliss. \nLove adds life even to the person. With love the person is a spirit, life! Without love the person is \nreduced to a thing, utility! Without love, when you look at a beautiful man or woman and plan for what \nyou can get out of that person, you reduce him or her to a thing. Only when you look at that person with \nlove, the person is a spirit, a living being. Celibacy is nothing but not craving for the suppressed half \nthat is inside you, that’s all. If you are a male, you need to experience such fulfillment unto yourself \nthat you no longer miss the suppressed half or female inside you. If you are a female, you are so enough \nunto yourself that you don’t look outside to experience this fulfillment. When you achieve this \nfulfillment, whether you are married or not, there will be peace in your mind. It is then that you can be \ncelibate even in married life! This is true celibacy. \n \n \n\n\n \n \nMeditation Technique \nDukkha Harana Meditation \nTotal duration: 30 minutes \nThis meditation technique will bring out all the suppressed emotions in you. \nBreathing is very closely related to the mind. If your thinking is calm, your breath will be relaxed. If \nyour thinking is aggressive, your breathing will also be aggressive. \nYou may practice this technique on an empty stomach, preferably in the morning. 21 days of \nDukkhaharana will tr",
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"content": "ansform your being and bring a glow to your face and body. \n \nStep 1: 10 minutes \n \nStand with your eyes closed. In the first part of this meditation, your mental system is made fully \nalive by deep breathing. This energy will melt all the repressed emotions like melting ice. \n \nBreathe deeply and chaotically from the depths of your body, always through your nose with your \nmouth closed. Move your hands, flex your knees, lower yourself and then rise up. Move as if you are \na bird in flight, up and down, knees moving up and down, arms moving up and down, in line with \nyour breathing. \nDo the movements gently and synchronize your inhalation with upward movement and exhalation \nwith downward movement. \n \n \nStep 2: 10 minutes \n \nKeep your eyes closed and tense each part of your body, part by part, limb by limb, then let it relax. \nTense and relax one limb and then move to the next. Start with your feet; then move to legs; then \nmove to thighs; next to the hips; then to stomach and lower back; then to chest and upper back; then \nto your arms from finger tips to shoulder; next to the neck and shoulders; next to your \nface, \nand \nfinally to the top of the head. Relax each part of your entire body before you move to the next part. At \nthe end of these ten minutes, you will become vacant inside; you will become cool, calm and \ncomposed. \n \nStep 3: 10 minutes \n \nSit down keeping your eyes closed and chant the hoo’ kara sound, just the word ‘hoo’. \nThere is no need to chant it deeply and loudly. Just chant it in a relaxed manner. As you chant, simply \nwitness whatever happens inside or outside your being. \nThe first two parts of this technique are actually a preparation for the third part that is the actual \nmeditation. When you come to the third part, you will see that the mind becomes silent effortlessly, \nby itself. Silence cannot be forced upon you; it can only happen by itself. Remain in this relaxed state \nwith a smiling face and blissful mood. During",
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"content": "this time, there may be many experiences. Just watch \nthem as you would watch the television. Watch your mind thought by thought. \n \n \n\n\n \n \nGuilt is The Original Sin \nWhat is Guilt? \nWhen you have desires you have guilt as well. Guilt is the opposite face of desire. Sometimes you feel \nguilty about desiring something because you feel it is not right to desire it. Other times you feel guilty \nwhen your desires are fulfilled because you feel you are not deserving of what you receive. When your \ndesires do not come true you feel guilty because you feel you have not done what you ought to have. \nDesires invariably lead to guilt. \n \nGuilt is nothing but your past decisions and actions being reviewed with your updated intelligence. \n \nFor example, when you were in school, you might have said a few mean things to one of your friends \nwhich caused a relationship to break. Now, this many years later, with the intelligence that you have, \nis it right to review that incident and feel guilty? No! At that time you had only that much intelligence, \nso you behaved in that fashion. Now, you have updated intelligence. \n \nIt doesn’t make sense to review the past with your present intelligence. \n \nThe futility of the past \n \nWhat is gone is gone. What has been done is done. You cannot undo it. Now if you constantly think \nabout the past and feel guilty, you destroy your present and your future too. Nothing can be done \nabout it, so guilt is useless. What can you do? All that you can do is not repeat the same pattern again, \nthat’s all. At that time with whatever intelligence you had, you acted, that’s all. \n \nOur past is always past, it is always dead. That is why it is called past. Yet, we always let the past \naffect us. How do we allow the past to affect us? In two ways: \n \n1. If you review your past incidents or decisions using the present intelligence, you will create guilt in \nyour being. \n \n2. If you take the present decisions based on past experiences, you will be re",
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"content": "peating the same past \ninto the future also, maybe in a little updated fashion! \n \n3. Even though you might not commit exactly the same mistake, you will be moving in the same \nexperiential level, in the same plane. \n \n4. Our mind falls into a groove, a track, a mindset that forces it to do what it has always done. So we \nkeep making the same mistakes as well. \n \nThree kinds of Guilt \nThere are three kinds of guilt that take root in us and kill our intelligence: \n1. \nGuilt created by immediate family \n2. \nGuilt created by social laws \n3. \nGuilt created by ourselves \n \n\n\n \n \nGuilt created by immediate family \n \nBefore the age of seven, guilt is created by your immediate family. If you don’t do according to your \nparents’ wishes, they instill guilt in you. They tell you that god will not approve of what you are \ndoing. Poor god, he has to support whatever anyone says about him! Or your parents tell you that you \nshould respect their wishes as parents. Immediately you feel guilty of making them unhappy. In this \nway, family sows the first guilt in you. You in turn pass it on to your child. Like a crown, it is passed \non over generations. \nBecause you don’t have the knowledge to explain why things have to be done in a certain way, you \nchange it to a rule and impose it on the child and create guilt through it. For example, children love \nwhirling. They love moving and flowing with the body. It is a natural way for them to center their \nenergy. But what do we do? We stop the child and put the fear in him that he may fall. We don’t stop \nour efforts until we make the child stiff, frozen and dull like us! \n \nThe child may want to go outside and play in the sun or collect some flowers or just jump around in \nthe fresh air. If you think about it, it is not much the child is asking for. But the mother says ‘no’ - he \nmay fall ill due to the hot sun. If you look a little deep, you can see that by saying ‘no’ she gets a \nsubtle feeling of power, of being in control",
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"content": ". She might say it is the sun but it is subtler than that. \n \nThe ‘no’ by the mother actually has a deep impact on the child. It creates guilt in the child. Now, the \nchild may force himself to stay in or he may escape from his mother’s eyes and step out. But either \nway his raw energy is being suppressed. Ifhe forces himself to stay in, his energy is not being allowed \nto express. If he goes out, he will feel guilty, he will be afraid that somebody might spot him. And all \nthis for nothing big - just for playing in the sun! \n \nAs the child grows, this deep engram of guilt will actually settle inside him. Even after he grows up \ninto a man and becomes independent, he may be sitting in the lawn under the sun and those childhood \nmemories may be triggered. He may feel guilty and uneasy for no reason. There is nothing to feel \nguilty about just sitting in the lawn but the old memories are awakened. \n \nThis is how guilt arises. Small incidents like this collect and make guilt your natural way of life. \nGuilt and happiness \n \nWhy can’t we enjoy and encourage the natural joy and happiness the child lives in? \n \nIf you look a little deep, you can see that happiness itself has become associated with guilt. A small \nchild knows nothing of guilt - he is just wild and natural. That is why seeing a small child can be so \ncaptivating. He is total in whatever he does. He has not been introduced to the mask of civilization. He \nis still wild. That is why he is so full of energy. He is overflowing with joy and curiosity; he is just \nvibrating with the energy bubbling inside him. \n \nThe child wants to enjoy everything but the parents are filled with the conditionings of society — guilt, \nseriousness, hypocrisy. The child wants to shout and jump and dance - that is his natural expression. \nBut the adults stop him, ‘Don’t shout! It is bad manners. You should be civilized. You should carry \nyourself well like us.’ By and by, the notion of being free and happy is itself associat",
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"content": "ed with feelings \nof guilt. \n \nGuilt created by society \n\n\n \n \n \nFrom seven to fourteen, society creates guilt in you through its rules. The guilt based on fear is created \nby social laws. Till the age of fourteen, family and society create guilt for you. An important guilt in \nthis is the guilt of sex. Parents or family never open out topic of sex. \n \nWhen there is a chemical change happening in you, you feel your body is new. A lot of questions arise \nand clarity is needed but no one is prepared to give it. \nAnd to add to the confusion and desire, the media around you constantly bombards you with fantasies \nin that vulnerable age of change. \n \nTo add to it, society instills in you the feeling that you are not enough unto yourself. It makes you feel \nguilty of what you are, what you do. Once it convinces you that you are a sinner, you are caught in its \ngrips. Then you cannot enjoy the joy of life any more. \n \nAccording to me, guilt is the greatest sin. At least other sins will punish you after your death. Guilt will \npunish you when you are alive. \n \n‘My religion is to live - and die - without regret.’ \n \nYou are called a saint or a sinner only by society. As long as society labels you a saint, you are a saint. \nThe moment society labels you a sinner, you are a sinner. If you kill someone in society, you will be \ncalled a murderer, you will be punished. But if you kill someone on the battlefield you will be called a \nhero, you will be given a big award! So there is no absolute scale to decide what is right and what is \nwrong. It is society’s own logic. \n \n \nHeaven and hell \n \nA very subtle and cunning way of sowing guilt today is through the idea of heaven and hell. People \nexploit your fear and greed by showing you ideas of hell and heaven. They create in you greed for \nheaven and fear for hell. They create so many concepts of hell and heaven and sell them to you. They \nsay, ‘If you practice these types of things, you will be rewarded with heaven;",
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"content": "if you practice otherwise, \nyou will be punished with hell.’ When you are given rules based on greed and fear, you automatically \nstart creating deep guilt in you. \n \nA small story: \nOnce a military general asked a Zen master, \n‟Master what are heaven and hell?‟ \nThe master asked, ‟What do you do for a \n \nThe general replied, ‟I am a general.‟ The master just laughed, ‟Which idiot asked you to be a \ngeneral? You look more like a butcher!‟ \nThe general was furious and took out his sword shouting, ‟I will cut you to pieces.‟ \nThe master just raised his hand and said, ‟These are the gates of hell.‟ The general realized his folly \nand bowed down deeply to the master for forgiveness. \nThe master continued, ‟These are the gates of heaven.‟ \n \nBe very clear, heaven and hell are not physical locations. They are psychological states of your mind. \nOne instant the mind may be in hell and the next it may be in heaven — the gates to heaven and hell \nopen and close at any time alternately. \n \n\n\n \n \nGuilt created by you \n \nTill the age of twenty one, knowledge from family and society creates guilt. After twenty one, the guilt \nsown in you by family and society grows roots inside you. Then you start creating guilt for yourself \nwithout any reason. Guilt becomes a permanent guest in your being! \n \nThe guilt created by family and the guilt created by society are imposed guilt; they are like a crown that \nis passed on from one generation to another. The third guilt is the worst - that which you create for \nyourself. When you internalize guilt based on greed and fear, you create new types of guilt for yourself. \n \nThe moment you start feeling guilty about something, you can be exploited. That too when you start \nfighting with yourself it is easier to exploit you. \n \nIf you look into your life you can see how every moment you are subtly looking for some reason to \nfight with yourself, to feel discontent with yourself. You cannot remain without some conflict, you want \nt",
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"content": "o create misery for yourself because that is what you have been taught — happiness is a sin. \n \nThe stone of guilt in the river of your \nmind - the block in the flow of \nintelligence \n \nYou are designed to move like a freely flowing river. Guilt is like the rocks in the \n \npath of the water. Society has subtly branded happiness as a sin. That is the problem. That is why you \nwill notice, when everything is going smoothly and happily, there will be a lurking feeling of guilt in \nyou. You are taught by society that being happy and enjoying life is being irresponsible in a way. So \nyou feel guilty. \n \nBut when you feel sad and depressed, do you ever feel guilty? No! \nYou are taught that life is a chain of suffering and endurance, with happiness stepping in once in a \nwhile. \n \nThis is also why people can’t take it when you are happy and smiling all the time. They try their best \nto bring you back to the so-called reality - by instilling guilt in you. \nWhen you are enjoying, dancing or relaxing at the beach for example, suddenly you will observe guilt \nstarts rising in you about all the work that is pending, about all the responsibilities that need to be \nfulfilled. \n \nGuilt has no basis but it can destroy your whole life. If you can live without guilt, you will enjoy \nevery moment without any regret and still fulfill all your responsibilities. \nThe problem is that your being is a crowd of voices that don’t belong to you. It is a totality of your \nmother’s voice, your father’s voice, your teacher’s voice, your neighbor’s voice and what not! All \nthese voices are in there. If there is only one voice, you will never have any problem. Your mind will \nmove like a river. But there are so many voices telling you so many things and creating the rocks of \nguilt in your path. \n \nAs long as you flow like a river, you will express extraordinary intelligence in your life. \n\n\n \n \nYou will live with an energy that is overflowing every minute. The moment you allow guilt in",
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"content": "you, \nthe moment you are stopped in your free flow, you create energy clots inside your being. \n \nLift yourself by your self \n \nOnce you become aware of how you are driven by guilt, you can start practicing to come out of it. \nWhen you start practicing anything, naturally you will slip a few times. When you practice to be \nwithout guilt, you are bound to slip back into the older patterns of greed and fear. Then suddenly you \nwill remember, ‘Oh, I started working out of fear, ‘I started working out of greed.’ Then you will start \nafresh. When you start working, naturally you will see these things happening. \n \nA small story: \nA monk from a big spiritual organization was sent to a remote tribal area for doing service. Suddenly, \nthe headquarters received a lot of complaint letters about the monk. \nThe president after reading the letters said, ‟We have posted the right person.‟ The secretary asked \nhim, ‟What is this Sir? We are getting complaints about him. How do you say we have posted the \nright person?‟ \n \nThe president replied, ‟If we are getting complaints, it means he has started working, there is \nsomething happening!‟ \n \nWhen you start something new you will have three phases - the first is resistance. The next is just \navoidance — people will neither care nor resist. The third is acceptance. \nIn the same way, when you start doing anything inside your system, you will start growing but these \nthree phases will be there. The first phase will be resistance. You will feel the new practice is a \ndifficult change in your current system. Because of this, the next thing that happens is you start \navoiding opportunities where you should be practicing the change. Again and again you will go back \nto your older ways. Your system will resist, it will try to create all kinds of complications, all possible \narguments. If you allow the resistance to grow, you become your own enemy. \nKrishna says in the Bhagavad Gita’, ‘Let you lift yourself by yourself. If you do",
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"content": "n’t, you will be your \nworst enemy.’ It is up to you to help yourself as your best friend or hurt yourself as your worst \nenemy. \n \nBe very clear: nobody can hurt you unless you allow. Nobody can help you unless you allow. \n \nIf you have forgotten the practice, remember and again and again lift yourself. \nDon’t fall into depression, don’t have guilt. Don’t think you will not be able to do it. \nEven in the life of Buddha if you read, he was about to leave the body when his disciples asked him to \ngive his ultimate message, and he said Appo deepo bhava — Let you be your own light, let you be \nguided by yourself. \n \nThe way out — looking in \n \nTo feel guilty is to be in sin. In fact that is the only sin. The hell that we talk about is not in another \ntime and space. It is within us when we feel guilty, without doing anything to change our mindset. \n \nAll your guilt, all your pain, everything is a pure imaginary shaft you create inside your head. The \nmistake you did ten years ago, the mistake you did seven years ago and the mistake you did three \nyears ago, are independent and unconnected incidents. But when you connect them and start thinking \n\n\n \n \nabout it, naturally you start creating guilt. You start feeling like a continuous sinner. This is one \napproach. \n \nThere is another approach. When you commit a mistake, see objectively why you committed it, how \nyou committed it. Watch as an observer how and why it is getting repeated. Look scientifically into \nthe mechanism of guilt. Just this awareness will open a new door and you will never commit the same \nmistake again - because once you look into it, and you find the cause, it will disappear. To know a \nthing totally is to be free of it. \n \nMorality \n \nIntegrity \n \nPlease understand that morality should happen out of integrity, not out of guilt. \n \nWhat do I mean by integrity? Integrity is being in the present moment and being only one solid \npersonality and not many conflicting personalities. It is",
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"content": "seeing reality without the play of the mind. \nOnce the mind steps in, duality also steps in. Just by being intensely aware of the present moment, \nyou can achieve integrity where there is only one and not two or three or many personalities fighting \nin you. Only when the mind flits between the past and future, you become split personalities and \nintegrity doesn’t set in. If the mind is on the present, automatically you become unified and integrity \nsets in. \n \nA small story: \nOne day, a priest knelt before god and started crying loudly, ‟I am a sinner. Please have mercy on \nme, O god.‟A man who was praying silently got inspired by this and also knelt down next to the priest \nand started praying. Now, another man also went down on his knees and started crying. Seeing this, \nthe priest nudged the first man saying, ‟Look who thinks he is a sinner!‟ \n \nAll our humility, our morality, is more or less a pretence to others and to ourselves. We pretend \nbecause we are not solidly integrated within us. We ourselves don’t know which personality within us \nis authentic and so we get caught in such games. If we are integrated, we will be authentic in every \naction, and automatically we will be moral. \n \nBe aware, be spontaneously right \n \nPlease understand, you will never make mistakes if you are deeply aware at the time of making them. \nWhen you are aware, you will be one solid personality and moral as well. When you stray from \nawareness, you will be many personalities and immoral also. Morality has to do with awareness, not \nwith any other social rules. Awareness is the only way to be naturally moral. Awareness causes you to \nspontaneously take the right action in the right situation. Morality can cause you to do the wrong \naction in the right situation because it doesn’t have the right base. Its base is not its own, it is built up \nby society. So you don’t feel connected to it. When you don’t feel connected, you cannot act with \nconfidence. Once you integrate yourself,",
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"content": "you will be centered upon awareness. If you remain \nfragmented, there will be no awareness and you will depend on morality for guidance. \n \n \n \nConscience Vs Consciousness \n \n\n\n \n \n \nWhen you start internalizing the laws of society, you create a deep wound in your being. You destroy \nyour innate intelligence. According to me, children can be given a set of rules initially so they don’t \nmove from the path of consciousness. But soon they have to be given the understanding of life and the \nneed to operate from consciousness instead of conscience. \n \nIf you live with consciousness, you will automatically live a moral life. To start understanding the \nneed to live with consciousness, just look into your morality. Morality is only skin deep, whereas \nconsciousness comes from the very being. Your consciousness tries to break through your conscience. \nYour consciousness continuously fights with your conscience. Conscience is societal. Consciousness \nis natural. Conscience is a poor substitute for consciousness. \n \nPeople ask me, ‘Master, what is this? You are pulling down the whole social structure. Then how can \nwe all live morally?’ I tell them, ‘Be very clear, it is only for kids that you need a forced morality. For \nthem you need to say, ‘Keep quiet, I will give you candy.’ Of course, nowadays kids reply, ‘I am \nhappy. I don’t need your candy. Who cares for your candy!’ For a child you can say that you will give \ncandy and restrict him. You can impose morality on him based on fear or greed. But for you, it is time \nto grow up. You are not kids anymore. Just stand up with consciousness. When I say consciousness, I \nmean the intelligent energy of your being. \n \n \nRules \nThe natural instinct to break rules \n \nWhen anything is a forced rule, you always try to get around it. For example, you always speed when \nyou don’t see the policeman. \n \nA small story: \nA policeman pulls over a car on the highway for speeding. When he asks for the driver‟s license, the \ndr",
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"content": "iver replies, ‟But officer I was only trying to keep a safe distance between my car and the car \nbehind me!‟ \nWhen you follow rules blindly without understanding their spirit, this is what happens — you just \nwait for an excuse to break them. \n \nHonestly answer yourself: if there were no rules, no regulating authority to keep a check on what you \ndid, would you be the same person as you are now? Would you be doing things in the same way as \nyou do now? If your answer is no, be very clear that the rule is coming from your conscience, not \nfrom your consciousness. You have not internalized the spirit of the rule or you do not agree with the \nrule. That is the reason you are not doing things in a way natural to you. \n \nThe thrill of ‘no’ \n \nYou can see, when you tell children not to do something, they will be most tempted to do it. As long \nas you don’t mention anything about doing it or not doing it, they may not even be bothered about it. \nBut the moment you tell them not to do something, they will be looking to do it. \n \n\n\n \n \nA small story: \nOne man says, ‟I found three ways to get things done.‟His friend asks, ‟What are the three ways?‟ \nThe man replies, ‟First, do it yourself. Second, hire someone to do it. Third, tell your kids not to do it. \nThat‟s all, it will be done!‟ \n \nActually there is a taste, a thrill in doing what you are not supposed to do. Most of the time, you \ndevelop an instant urge for something if you are asked not to do it. You feel a kind of joy or \nsatisfaction by doing it. That is the basic tendency in every human being. \n \nA Small story: \nOnce a shopkeeper was trying hard to increase his sales. He trfed various options — discounts, \ncatchy advertisements, better customer service. Nothing worked. Then one day, he hung a black \ncurtain on his shop window and made a small hole on it. Under the hole he put up a board, ‟Peeping \nstrictly forbidden.‟ From that day, he saw crowds gathering at his shop, each one curious to peep \nthrough",
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"content": "the hole to see what was there! His shop sales automatically increased because people now \nactually saw the variety of grocery items his shop carried. \n \nWhen you are told not to do something, the basic human tendency is to do exactly that. \nAs a teenager, when you say ‘no’ to your parents, you feel you have proved you are independent. \nWhen you say ‘no’, you feel you have proved you are somebody special, somebody different. As long \nas you say ‘yes’, you feel you are only a child. When you start saying ‘no’, you feel you have become \nan adult. \n \nYou feel that you are a man only when you say ‘no’ to your father. Till then you feel you are a child. \nJust to prove that you are a man you start saying ‘no’ to your father. This is basic psychology. When \nyou say ‘no’ you think you are somebody, until then you think you are nobody. So please be very \nclear, to whatever you say, your grown up son is going to say ‘no’, because he wants to be somebody. \n \nDead rules Vs Live intelligence \n \nIn the course of time, many regulations that had meaning earlier become blind rules - without any \nmeaning. In India, during the times before electricity was invented, tailors would sew by hand with a \nneedle with the help of dim lanterns. So clothes would not be sewn after sunset since sewing in the \ndim light of the candle or lantern would cause strain on the eye. So the work was always confined to \ndaylight hours. \n \nBut even now in India, the elderly people in the house will say, ‘It is not a good thing to sew after \ndusk!’ The very reason for not sewing at night doesn’t even exist anymore! Electricity and bright \nlights are there. But it has become a ritual for them, with no connection to its original purpose. \n \nA small story: \nOnce a paratrooper was being interviewed on television. The interviewer said, ‟Your life must be \nreally adventurous.‟ \nThe paratrooper replied, ‟Yes, it does have its scary moments.‟ \nThe interviewer asked, ‟What is the most anxious experience in",
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"content": "your life?‟ \nThe paratrooper replied, When I was coming down on the lawn of a house and the sign read, ‟Keep \noff the grass!‟ \nWhen you don’t have the right intelligence or understanding, things become dead rules in your life. \n \nWhen you have understanding, any correct rule can become a friendly technique to live life happily. \nRules and rituals are actually techniques for your own enlightenment. When I say enlightenment, I \nmean a blissful life full of clarity. Of course, when pursued deeply, it will lead to the ultimate state of \nenlightenment. \n\n\n \n \n \nA small story: \nA railway official reported a murder on a train, ‟The murderer entered the compartment, stabbed the \nvictim multiple times. Then he left the train through the opposite door jumping onto the railway track \n— there by violating the railway regulations.‟ \nWhen you don’t have the right understanding, you will miss the whole thing and end up acting in a \nfoolish way. When you are given the right understanding, you will understand that any rule was \ncreated just for you and others around you to live a happy and blissful life. \n \nWhen the spirit of the rule is understood, there won’t be any problem falling in line with it. By falling \nin tune, there will only be juice in your action; there will only be a blissful commitment to it. But if \nthe spirit is missed, everything is missed. Life will seem dull and lifeless. \nTake meditation for example. Meditation itself is done to go inwards irrespective of the outer world \nnoise and situations. I have seen that some people, before starting their meditation routine, will first \ntry to create a noiseless situation outside. They will go around telling everyone to keep quiet. They \nwill practically freeze people in their normal routine just because they are going to meditate. \n \nOnly when the spirit is missed, things become dead rituals. You miss and mess! \nAll rules and regulations were created for a harmonious life with the understanding that you will no",
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"content": "t \nkill me and I will not kill you, and both of us will live happily. That was the basic understanding \nbehind them. However in the course of time, they became laws. \nAll rules and regulations were created to live a harmonious and happy life, but the moment you \ninternalize the rules without the understanding, you create guilt. As long as you follow the rules with \nan understanding, you will be happy. When you start following the words instead of the spirit, you \nwill start creating guilt. \n \nWhen you want to escape from the law, what do you do? You just catch on to the words of the law \nand drop the spirit behind them. Then you legally work around the words and escape from the law. \nWhen you catch the words, you become a bureaucrat and you miss the spirit. Only when you catch \nthe spirit, you can be an intelligent being without guilt. \n \n \nThe useful guilt \n \nThere is a certain guilt that is useful for you, a guilt which if pursued intelligently can cause you to \nmove forward in life. It is like this: when you see that you have the potential to do something, when \nyou feel that you have so much potential which you are not using at all, then if you are intelligent, \nguilt will happen in you. This guilt can spur you to start doing things that will actualize your entire \npotential. \n \nSometimes we see the state of things around us and we know in one corner of our mind that we can \nvery well help turn the situation around. But either due to laziness or due to the fear of confrontation, \nor due to the fear of taking responsibility, we just keep quiet and watch. This type of situation can \ncause deep guilt in us. This guilt is significant. If we take steps to correct the situation by doing what \nwe really feel we should do, then the guilt will disappear and we will also move forward. \n \nThis type of guilt has the ability to drive you to do what needs to be done. Because of lts very nature, \nyou cannot harbor this guilt for long. You have to get over it. And the w",
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"content": "ay to get over it is by doing \nwhat needs to be done. Once it is done, the guilt also disappears. How long you wish to harbor this \nguilt without taking steps, for that long you suffer from it. This is the simple logic of this guilt. \n \nAnother manifestation of this guilt happens when you can feel your ego surfacing in certain situations \nand you are unable to help it. When you can smell your ego but you are unable to control it, this guilt \n\n\n \n \narises in you. This guilt is also good since it is a sign of the deep awareness of your own ego. It \nfacilitates you to sincerely work towards eliminating that ego. \n \n \n \nGuilt can result in physical disease \n \nGuilt is the sure killer of intelligence. According to me, guilt is the worst killer of intelligence. It will \nnever let you move in your life. \n \nOnce one of our devotees had a tumor at the base of her spinal cord. For twenty years she suffered \nwith the tumor. She came to me complaining, ‟Please help me, heal me. I am suffering with this \ntumor for so many years. After undergoing surgery, it has reappeared. ‟I started talking to her slowly \nto trace the origin of the problem. I asked her a few questions at the end of which she finally opened \nup and started weeping. I asked her ‟Do you have any guilt related to your sex energy? “She slowly \nopened up. \nShe said she was physically abused when she was very young. One of her close relatives had abused \nher for many years. That guilt stayed with her. She said, ‟I started hating that part of my body. I \nstarted feeling that that part of the body should not exist in me. I felt that part of my body was not my \nbeing. My hatred towards that person turned towards my own body.” \n \nHer hatred was so deep. I continued speaking to her. Slowly she opened up more and more. When she \nbrought the guilt out, she came out of the guilt. She was psychologically healed. \n \nI gave her a small meditation technique to meditate on that area. I told her ‟Express your anger \ntoward",
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"content": "s that man. Weep, shout, cry, hit. Close the doors, take a pillow, imagine that it is him and \nshow your anger on it. After that sit silently and feel that part of your body also as your own. Feel \nlove towards that part of the body.‟ \n \nYou will be surprised that in just ten days the tumor disappeared! It never recurred. \nMost of our ailments are due to psychological disturbances where guilt plays a major role. Most of the \ntime, our energy flow gets blocked because of guilt. If you look deep, wherever you are not able to \nmove, wherever you are not able to take decisions, wherever you have fear, there will be some guilt \nlurking. \n \nAcceptance — the beautiful way out \n \nAcceptance is a wonderful tool to relieve yourself of the pull and push between the past and future. \nWith acceptance you fall into the present straightaway. The first thing is to accept all the happenings \nof the outer world and all the happenings of the inner world. Whatever problems you have in the outer \nworld and whatever problems you have in the inner world, just accept them in their entirety. \nSummarize all that you experience as problems and accept them in totality. \n \nAccept all guilt, all mistakes and all failures. Even if you cannot accept, accept that you cannot \naccept. You will then relax and guilt will drop from your mind. \n \n\n\n \n \nJust try this small experiment: \nJust relax for three days with complete acceptance. If you relax for three days without the pull and \npush in the inner and outer worlds, are you going to lose all your wealth? Surely not! So there is no \nproblem. In three days you are not going to lose anything. Why don’t you give it a try? Just for three \ndays, sincerely, utterly, accept everything in your life one hundred percent! \n \nIf you are not able to accept one hundred percent then accept that you are not able to accept one \nhundred percent. Even the acceptance of ‘I am not able to accept myself in the inner world and outer \nworld’ will make you drop fro",
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"content": "m the pull and push between the past and future. The moment you \nunderstand, ‘I am unable to free myself from the pull and push of desires and fears, I am not able to \naccept my reality, that very understanding will start doing its job. \n \nIf you can fall into the present moment, relaxing from the outer world and inner world things, in three \ndays you will have a glimpse: What is life? What does it mean to live in the present moment? If this \nhappens to you, you will experience such ecstasy, such a different space, such a different life that you \nhave never experienced before. \nYou have lived based on your philosophy for maybe the last thirty years. Just for three days, don’t try \nto alter anybody in the outer world. You will see that when you experiment with such great \ntechniques, they work miracles in your being. They start a great alchemy process in your being. If you \nare not able to be sincere, accept that you are not able to be sincere. Even that sincerity is enough. \nYou will start seeing a different space in you. \n \nMeditation Techniques \n \nFrom Head to Heart \nSit down and close your eyes. Take slow and deep breaths, just for a few minutes. Along with it, feel \nthat your head is being pressed into your heart, into the chest region. Become totally headless. You \nhave no head now. You are headless. \nFeel that you are breathing from the heart. Feel that you are seeing through the heart. Feel that you are \nsmelling through your heart. Feel very clearly that you are breathing through the heart. Listen \nthrough the heart, see through the heart, and feel through the heart. \n \nStand up. Have the consciousness from the heart and let your movements be as slow as possible. \nDon’t walk. Just move your body around slowly. Remember that you are moving from the heart. Your \ncenter is the heart, not the head. Again and again, forget the head. Move from the heart. Remember \nyou are a headless being. \n \nStand in one place. Now, increase the speed slowly, very slow",
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"content": "ly. Remember to move from the heart, \nnot from the head. Forget your head. You are a headless being moving. \n(After few minutes) \n \nSit down where you are. Just be without the head. Sit only with your heart. Relax. \n \n(After few minutes) \nSlowly, very slowly, open your eyes. \n \n \n\n\n \n \nYou Are The Best, Why Compare? \nComparison and Jealousy \n \nEmotions of fear, desire and guilt are subjective emotions. What I mean by this is that you do not \nneed another person or even an object to create these emotions. Imagine that you are in a sound \nproofed room with your eyes closed and with nothing to touch, taste or smell. You can still feel the \nemotions of fear or desire. But to compare yourself with another person and to feel jealous of him, \nyou need the presence of another person. Jealousy is therefore an objective emotion. It needs an \nobject to be activated. \n \nA small story: \nOne evening a man was sitting with his wife on a park bench. Without noticing them, a young man \nand life girlfriend sat down next to them. The young man started talking to his girlfriend in a very \nloving manner. \nHearing this, the wife whispered to husband, ‟I think he is going to propose to her. Maybe you should \ncough or do something to warn him!‟ \nThe husband replied, ‟Why should I warn him? Nobody ever warned me!” \n \nJealousy starts from comparison. We always compare ourselves with others in various fields — looks, \nwealth, knowledge, name and fame and friends to name a few. When we compare ourselves with \nothers we feel that somebody else has something more than what we have and, we get caught in \njealousy. \n \nComparison is the seed and jealousy is the fruit! \n \nWhy Comparison? \n \nWhy exactly do we compare ourselves with others? \nFirst, we compare ourselves because we have never understood ourselves. We are not aware of who \nwe are and what we have. \n \nSecond, society has conditioned us from our birth to evaluate ourselves based upon others. From \nchildhood the comparison st",
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"content": "arts. In school, the grading system introduces a child to competition and \ncomparison with others. \n \nThere are standard benchmarks to measure a child’s qualities such as mathematical ability, scientific \naptitude, artistic skill, athletic ability, musical talent and so on. But, what we don’t realize is that \nwhen we try to measure a quality using a standardized benchmark, it is nothing but using comparison \nas the scale to measure the child himself. We are literally punishing all children with the reward \nsystems we use in schools. \nThe child gets used to judging and knowing himself by looking at others and comparing himself with \nthem. He has no understanding of himself based on what he is. He knows himself only based on \nothers. \n \nA small story: \n\n\n \n \nOnce a man was testifying in court about a road accident. Suddenly, the man noticed that the court \nreporter was writing while he spoke. As the man started speaking faster and faster he noticed that the \nreporter was writing faster and faster. Suddenly the man said to the court reporter, ‟Please don’t \nwrite so fast. I am not able to keep up with you!” \n \nEvery judgment you make about yourself is based on some comparison. But why does the idea of the \nother enter into your mind? It is because you have not looked in and realized who you are. You have \nnot experienced the bliss and tremendous potential you have inside you. You feel incomplete because \nyou have not been able to express yourself as you are. So, the emptiness and lack of fulfillment inside \nmakes you feel inferior to others. \n \nThe futility of comparison \n \nBuddha says, ‘Nothing exists except in relationship.’ Suppose you were the only person on a new \nplanet, how could you compare yourself with anyone? Could you call yourself tall or short, ugly or \nbeautiful, rich or poor, intelligent or dumb? No! When there is no one with whom to compare \nourselves, we just are! \nUnderstand, even now, there is no scale to compare you with anybody. Each individ",
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"content": "ual is unique. \n \nCan you compare a lion and a horse? Do we ever compare ourselves with flowers or birds or \nmountains? Then why do we have to compare ourselves with other human beings! A beautiful Zen \nstory: \nA king once went to a master to ask for a technique to become more powerful than his neighboring \nkings. He sat in front of the master and started telling him the purpose of his visit. The master listened \npatiently to the king. \nHe then told him to go into the royal garden where a rose plant and a cypress plant were growing \nside by side. He told the king, ‟They are your teachers. They can teach you what you need to learn.‟ \nThe king went into the garden, saw the two plants but could not understand what he was meant to \nlearn from them. He went back to the master and asked, What do you mean, master? I am not able to \nunderstand what and how these plants will teach me.‟ \nThe master took the king to the plants and explained, ‟This cypress plant has been next to the rose \nplant for so many years. Never once has it even aspired to become a rose plant. Similarly, the rose \nplant has never ever aspired to become a cypress plant. If man had been the cypress plant, he would \nhave compared himself with the rose and felt jealous at the attention that the rose plant was getting \nfrom people. Or if man were the rose plant, he would have looked at the cypress plant enviously \nthinking how peaceful the plant was without the torture of getting plucked by people all day!‟ \nThe two plants prospered because they used all of their energy for their own growth instead of using it \nto compare themselves with the other. \nThe moment you stop comparing, all jealousy disappears. Instead, you will start feeling contented in \nyourself and grateful to Existence for having given you so much and for making you unique. \nInstead, if you feel jealous of others, you will suffer. You will constantly fight with others openly or \ninside yourself. If somebody laughs, you think he is la",
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"content": "ughing at you. If somebody is friendly towards \nanother person you feel lonely and jealous of that person. Actually, you are just waiting for someone \nto hurt you. The jealousy you allow inside you is like a raw wound. Any action done with no intention \nto hurt you also touches the wound and hurts. \n \nSo when you feel hurt, understand that you have a wound. Don’t throw the responsibility of the \nsuffering on the other person. The wound needs to be healed and the jealousy has to be dissolved. \nThen nobody can hurt you. Be very clear, nobody can hurt you without your silent permission. \n\n\n \n \nYou compare yourself to each other because you feel that you are somehow lacking. Honestly, you \nhave no idea of your true, unique potential! If you did, you wouldn’t spend one second looking \noutside yourself for answers about how to live a creative, fulfilling life. All of the confidence, \nintelligence, and vibrant energy that you need already exist inside you. You have the potential to live \nlike god on earth. Don’t believe the limiting things that you have been made to believe about yourself. \nJust look in! Experiment, explore and discover the truth for yourself. Then you will simply radiate all \nof these qualities effortlessly. \n \nAbove and Below the Ladder \n \nSuppose there was a huge ladder and everybody in the world was asked to stand on it in ascending \norder of success in any field such as beauty or intelligence. You would probably position yourself \nsomewhere in the middle of the ladder. There are many people above you but there are also many \npeople below you. Seeing the people above you causes you to feel jealous. So, you constantly try to \nbecome better than them in order to move further up the ladder. \n \nNow, at some point in your life, you may realize the uselessness of this never-ending game. Then you \nwant to jump off the ladder. And you look down. Now what do you see? There are so many people \nbelow you. Suddenly you start feeling happy to see so many peo",
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"content": "ple below you and you feel hopeful \nbecause you are not as inferior as you thought you were when you were looking at the people above \nyou. \n \nThis is where the fight starts. When you look up, you feel miserable, but when you look down, you \nfeel happy. Now even though you begin to realize the futility of spending your life just climbing the \nladder, still you are not able to jump off the ladder because if you jump off, you will be left alone. \nThere will be nobody above you or below you. \n \nDoing, having and being \n \nWe all function around these three axes of doing, having and being . Doing for having, without \nenjoying being, IS the sole cause of all our misery. Doing never catches up with having! Every time \nyou work hard and fulfill one desire, suddenly that desire loses its pull over you. \n \nAs enlightened master, Ramana Maharishi’, says beautifully, ‘The mind is such that it shows a tiny \nmustard seed to be a huge mountain until it is attained. As soon as it has been attained, even a \nmountain appears as insignificant as a mustard seed!’ \n \nAs soon as a desire is fulfilled, another one starts pulling at you. You don’t even have time to enjoy it \nand feel satisfied. You may think, ‘Let me get this one more thing also. Then I can relax and enjoy \nwhat I have.’ Be very clear, your mind will never let it happen. \n \nThe only way to really live and enjoy life is to enjoy the very doing itself. Then automatically the \ndoing, having and being, will be integrated and will happen. \n \nYou are unique \n \nNature has its own unique way of growth for each of us. Take the Chinese bamboo for example. \nWhen it sprouts, it doesn’t show much growth for the first four years. Then in the fifth year, the \nbamboo grows ninety feet in six weeks! It was not that the tree was not growing in the first four years. \n \n\n\n \n \nThough the growth was not visible, the roots were being strengthened to make it possible for the plant \nto grow fast and safely into a huge tree! \nLike the ba",
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"content": "mboo’s growth, there is no scale to measure yourself with anyone other than your own \nself. If you spend all your energy looking in and competing with yourself, you will progress in leaps \nand bounds. \n \nFirst of all, understand that god is an artist, not an engineer. If He was an engineer, He would have \nmade one perfect man and one perfect woman and then made millions of copies from that mould! No. \nGod has made each one of us unique in every way. It does not matter whether you are a rose or a lily \nor a wild flower. The important thing is that the wild flower should realize its ultimate potential as a \nwild flower just as the rose should actualize its inherent potential. The fragrance of you realizing your \nunique potential is what radiates and, without effort, touches everyone around you. \n \nWhether it is beauty or intelligence, you are unique. It is only when you don’t respect your uniqueness \nthat you start comparing yourself with others. Even if your favorite cinema star or model is very \nbeautiful, can you enjoy drinking even a cup of water from that body? No! You can only enjoy using \nyour own body your best friend. Accept and welcome it. \n \nPeer pressure — the stick of \nJealousy \n \nThere is a beautiful verse in the ancient scriptures that says the power of maya‟, the energy which \nruns the universe, uses jealousy as a tool to make you do whatever it wants you to do. \n \nIn India, there are people who do circus shows with monkeys in the street. They will have a small \nstick. Once they pick up the stick, the monkey will do whatever they say. If they just gesture to the \nmonkey, it won’t listen. Even though it knows that the man can pick up the stick at any time, unless \nhe picks up the stick, the monkey won’t listen. If he picks up the stick and tells the monkey to walk \nstraight, it will walk straight. If the man tells the monkey to jump three times, it will jump three times. \n \nThe man will use the stick like the ringmaster uses it in the circus. In t",
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