Words from the Master

Yes…

Swamiji, so you feel that simply by witnessing our breath, we can achieve Bliss?

Yes. It is a very powerful technique. You see, when you watch your breath, your awareness is intense and no thought can escape you unconsciously. When every thought starts passing through your awareness, you will automatically not create negative thoughts for yourself.

You don’t have to spend any time in correcting your thoughts; the awareness will do it for you. Your thinking system will automatically get restructured. The power of awareness is such that it transforms your thinking system to positive Energy.

Actually if you see, we have been trained to think that only if we work and experience pain in some form, we are worthy of happiness. So we run till we get pain; we run till we hit the fence. We are so used to the concept of a fence that even if we are told that there is no fence, no boundary, we are not ready to believe it. We run and somehow hit a fence and feel pain; then we stop, satisfied in having felt pain. We then feel our desires can be worked out. We always feel that we have to go through anxiety and worry in order to be worthy of being showered. We are in eternal preparation for worry and pain.

And then there are some people: They create worries for themselves and then drink to forget the worries! A very common thing today. It is something like this: A pig is not able to bear the smell and slush of its own habitat and so plunges its nose inside it. You think you have beaten all your worries by drinking, when in reality you have actually plunged headlong into more of it.

We want something but we create self-contradictory results for ourselves and then cause more worry for ourselves. This is the main problem, although we are not aware of it.

A small story:

An unwelcome visitor came to a man’s house.
The man screamed to his wife who was inside the kitchen to bring coffee for the visitor.
The wife screamed back that there was no coffee in the house and that there was no money to buy it either.
The husband got angry and started scolding his wife and finally gave her a slap for not being able to serve coffee.
The wife started crying.
The visitor saw what was happening and slowly got up and went away.
The wife wiped her tears and triumphantly told the husband, “Did you see that? I pretended to cry and sent him away!”
The husband replied, “Well! I pretended to be angry with you and made you cry!”
The visitor joined them, “I pretended to walk away and I have now come back!”

(Laughter!)

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