Words from the Master

In most of the teashops in remote villages in India, you can see a familiar scene: There will be some standard visitors for the shop everyday who discuss all the great philosophies of the world. The heads of all the great Gods, Masters and Politicians will be properly chewed and digested by these people.

All the atrocities being committed in town will be discussed without an exception. The whole world will be brought under scrutiny for lack of order and discipline. Finally, the man who spoke all this will finish his tea and leave saying that he will pay for his tea the following day!

The man who could not even pay for his tea will sit on the teashop bench and read the newspaper from the first page to the last and pass judgment on everything that he has read. Even the editor would not have read the paper so thoroughly!

The amount of time that these people spend on the teashop benches would probably even cause depressions on the benches! They spend all their time in this fashion. They don’t spend one moment in trying to achieve anything.

So, the least you can do is, internalize what I am saying and start feeling the Truth behind it. Patanjali says: If you can bend 5 inches today, try to bend a half-inch more tomorrow. Like this, you should work steadily towards experiencing the Truth that I am giving you. Else, you will be no more than the people in the teashops. They cause depressions in the benches there while you cause holes in the mats here, that’s all!

The problem is, most often, when we hear words of wisdom spoken, we always feel that it is exactly applicable to our friend or relative who is also listening to the lecture! We apply it to them and secretly hope that they got the message. In doing this, you have missed the message, that’s all! I tell you, when I talk, I talk to you. Even if there are a thousand people in the hall, I am talking to you. Please try to understand this.

Every word of mine is pregnant with the Energy that is meant for you. So please don’t listen with such ideas in your mind. Especially when husbands and wives come to listen to the lectures, when I say a few things pertaining to their practical lives, the husband will think, she should hear this and the wife will think to herself that the husband should hear it! At the end, both will miss it.

Man’s inherent nature is to accumulate money and material things. At some point in time, he realizes that there are things that money can’t get him. His pace in gathering wealth automatically decreases. He then starts gathering words or intellectual knowledge. This process somehow never stops. He becomes greedy for more and more words.

One who has stopped gathering wealth and words will start searching for True Knowledge. Often, we ask questions not because we really want to know the answer but simply because we are greedy for more words or because we want to show that we know something.

If you look deep inside, only one question will arise and that is the only original question for yourself. If that question is answered, you will become enlightened!

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