Words from the Master

A man was asked what the difference between his past and present was.

He replied, “Earlier I used to sit on the floor on a mat and eat. Now I sit at a table.”

You see, in the past and the present, his mouth is the same. If there is no radical change in you, your life will seem only this much different. Like how beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, the taste lies in the tongue that experiences it. Your mental setup defines the quality of your life.

Most often, we know that we need to change but somehow we fall back comfortably in the present set-up of ours. We get caught in the same wheel again. One side of us tells us that we need to change and the other side unconsciously slips into the familiar patterns again. Even if you are presented with many opportunities to change, you feel cozy in your present state and miss them.

This mental set-up becomes such a solid reality in you. You simply radiate it.
Try to change it. Let me tell you: If you live with such a solid mental set-up, there is one more danger in it. There is every possibility that your children will imbibe it from you.

I am reminded of a joke:

A husband and wife were both pick-pockets by profession.
They would often discuss that if they had a child, it would be very prosperous!
Soon, they had a baby.
The newborn baby however had its right hand closed very tightly. They could not get it to open it.
The doctor attending to it tried all sorts of things and finally took out his gold chain and dangled it in front of the baby’s eyes.
The baby slowly opened its hand and inside it was the mid-wife’s gold ring!

(Loud laughter!)

This is only a joke, but understand that as parents, you have every possibility of passing on your mental set-up to your children. So, be aware every moment and work upon your consciousness and awareness; work on cleaning the inner chatter and framework inside you.

We always try to control children and make them into puppets. Children are wild energy. We try to box that energy so that it becomes convenient for us to handle them.

A small story:

Two dogs were walking down the road.
The first one said, “My name is Sandy, what is yours?”
The second one paused a while and said, “I think mine is No No Roger.”

(Laughter!)

The dog’s owner must have kept telling the dog ‘No no Roger’ when the dog did something mischievous. The dog has started thinking that its name is No no Roger! Like this dog, children also start absorbing and learning from our words and body language. When children are very young and they start wondering about something, they immediately refer to our past words or actions related to that particular matter and form their conclusions based on that. So when you are with children, be even more aware and try to keep their intelligence alive instead of simply trying to curb them all the time.

Mothers are continuously trying to do this. For example, if it rains, the mother will tell them to get in immediately saying that they will catch a cold. A few repetitions of this incident will automatically tune the child’s mind towards cold when it sees rain! Even if it drizzles next, the child will start sniffling.

Actually I tell you: Man’s body is the most intelligent, self-correcting, auto-immune system. But somehow, we trust our mind rather than the inherent intelligence of our body. There starts the problem and all our worries.

A small story:

A father camel was explaining to the son camel the body structure of their species.
He said, “You know, we have humps so that we can store water in it for days together when we are in the desert.”
The son asked, “Why are our eye lashes so long?”
The father replied, “To protect our eyes from sand storms.”
The son then asked, “Why do we have such bulbous feet?”
The father replied, “So that we can travel fast in the desert.”
Dad, asked the son, “What are we then doing in this zoo?”

(Loud laughter!)

You see, our body has been designed so beautifully. If we just allow it to run on its natural intelligence, it will function well. The moment you bring in your conditionings and impose them upon your body, you start experiencing difficulties.

In the Himalayas, the sadhus - wandering mendicants - live inside caves. They are the healthiest people ever. Come sun or rain or snow, they continue to live; their body adjusts itself automatically. We just have to trust nature and the immune system associated with it. But somehow, we keep imposing our worries, our mental makeup on our body functioning. This is the root cause for all our dieases.

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