Words from the Master

Of course, there is no proof that Existence is taking care of us. Certain things cannot be proved. Can you prove that this direction is East? No! Can you prove the phenomenon of sunrise and sunset? No! You can only experience it. Because you cannot prove it, can you disprove it? Can you prevent the sun through science from setting and rising everyday?

Understand: Existence is the only thing beyond logic. If you can prove Existence with logic, it means logic is greater than Existence, and this can never be!

One man asked me, “Swamiji, should I become a Hindu to become spiritual?” I was shocked at the question! I told him that he does not have to become a Hindu. See, be very clear: Anything that curbs your field of perception is clearly not related to spirituality. Spirituality is always all encompassing.

Drop all your notions of ‘I am this’ and ‘I am that’. Keep your life open. This is the basis for spirituality. It is like this: A person who stays continuously in a locked room will not know about the open air and breeze. He will be having such clannish thoughts. The moment you impose these kind of restrictions upon yourself, you will not know about the infinite love and compassion that lies within you. You will only worry and complain. You will not blossom.

Buddha was once asked what kind of hell is given to people who are not compassionate. He replied, “You cannot put them in hell because they are already in hell!” Only when you are in hell, you will create hell for others, because only what you have, you can give.

A small story:

A mother and a son were having a heated argument and she asked him, “Do you have any brains?”
The son laughed.
The mother asked him why he was laughing.
The boy replied, “Only when you don’t have something, you ask others for it!”

(Laughter!)

When we are not peaceful ourselves, we disturb the peace of others.

We should work with our mind again and again to see what it is that gives us joy or bliss. Be very clear, happiness is different from bliss. Bliss is a beautiful and intense feeling inside you that makes you feel that you are in a different plane of existence. Happiness or just pleasure are most often related to outer world objects and create pain continuously for us.

Happiness is relative while bliss is absolute. Bliss is something that has no opposite. When you are in happiness, sadness is just around the corner. When there is a lot of pleasure, you are on the anvil of pain. But when you are in bliss, you simply are and there is no opposite to it. Happiness and pleasure are like pendulums that are bound to sway and reach the other end before coming back. But Bliss is not a pendulum; it is beyond duality; it never sways. It just IS.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.