Chaos is Order & Order is Chaos

The Universe, what we call the Brahmanda, the macrocosm is apparent Chaos. On the other hand the Individual body, what we call Pindanda, the microcosm, is all in apparent order.

Energy in the universe is chaotic. Energy in each atom is chaotic. In that chaos there is order. Chaos is energetic always; orderliness is dull. When you break an order you are thrilled; you radiate joy; you exude energy. Dancing without rules is joyful; regulated dancing may be pleasing to those who watch, but not joyful to those who perform.

Saying no, makes one solid and assertive; saying yes, makes us liquid, yielding, blissful. Rules are no, they are solid. When some one smokes, most often it’s for the joy of breaking the rules, rather than any benefit derived from smoking.

Chaos with order is the Cosmic Intelligence. The stars and planets move in order seemingly, with no regulatory authority. Science is yet to find the source of this order. Universe is just not power; it is power plus Intelligence which is Energy. This Intelligence responds to our prayers. Says Buddha: Universe creates Universe.

Mystics say we come from God; Scientists say we come from monkeys. If evolution was that straight forward all monkeys should by now have become humans, and humans should have become something more. Evolution has stopped with humans because we are the only ones with Consciousness. Our next step is to Universal consciousness.

Believing that Universe is just matter is what causes power struggles, terrorism and violence of all kind. When we realize Universe is Intelligent Energy, seeds of peace are sown. World is divided into those who are spiritual who believe in its Intelligence and those who live for power and control over others.

Cosmic energy continues to prove that it responds to us. In a book ‘Message from water’ Masaru Emoto describes the amazing results of his experiments with ordinary water. He bottled water in different containers and labeled them; love, hate, greed, compassion, terror, Bible, Koran etc. To each bottle of water he spoke everyday for 10 minutes in line with its label; to water labeled love he spoke on love with love; to the one labeled terror he spoke on terror with terror; he read the Koran to the bottle labeled like wise. At the end of a month he froze the water in these bottles separately and studied the frozen crystals of each under a microscope. To his amazement he found that the crystals of water labeled love shone brilliantly like diamonds; those labeled terror seemed misshapen, ghostly and somehow fear inducing; most amazingly the crystals from the water labeled Koran had the imprint of the Holy Kaaba on them! Water responds to our thoughts and words. So does the rest of the Universe energy. Water constitutes more than 80% of our body system; you can imagine the power of words, our own and those of others upon our body system.

British soldiers in their early days in India found that when they carried water from England in their ships to India, the water spoilt even while on ship. However when they carried water back from India the water not only stayed fresh through the voyage, but was still potable till they consumed all of it back in England. When scientists studied this surprising phenomenon, they found that this water which was from the Ganga in Calcutta had properties of killing harmful bacteria and rejuvenating itself.

It’s no wonder that the millions who have prayed to Ganga over thousands of years have left their thought imprints that have made this water so energy giving.

The river Nile has been studied by the Egyptians over thousands of years by measuring its flow, level, turbulence etc. They have found that these parameters of one of the greatest rivers of this World reflect often times catastrophic incidents in distant parts of the world, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis etc.

Universe responds to the state of your Being. State of Being and therefore State of Mind bring you status. Status without State of Mind only brings you grief. If you wish to see atheists go and see temple priests. They take God so much for granted that they treat God as a stone.

God is a dust bin for most of us. What ever we do well we take credit for it. Anything that goes wrong we blame God for it. God is great if he answers our prayers. Please remember God is even greater when he does not make your prayers come true; because he only knows how dangerous your prayers are to you.

When we keep getting whatever we want we end up with depression of success. Your status overcomes your state. Status without State of Mind, power without wisdom, Shakti without Buddhi is a killer.

Said a Zen Master when a disciple asked him: What have you attained?

When I started a mountain was a mountain and a river a river; when I traveled, mountain was not a mountain and a river not a river; when I reached mountain was again a mountain and a river again a river.
Before achieving you are ordinary. Half way you feel extraordinary though you are still ordinary. When you have reached you feel ordinary even though you may be extraordinary.

We as part of this Universe are part of its potential and part of its chaos and Order. When we try and be in control of us and others, when we try to be perfect, we violate this cosmic order. Perfectionism is a disease; it leads to madness. Orderly people tend to order inflate their ego and suffer.

We try to maintain order because we believe we have boundaries. Let go your boundaries, your need for order will disappear; joy will appear. When you realize the Cosmic Consciousness within yourself, you will discover the order that is inherent in you, without doing yourself harm. You will accept yourself as you are and others as they are.

When you experience the order in cosmic chaos you experience bliss; when you realize the chaos within you as order you exude compassion; that compassion surely leads you to enlightenment.

Chakras and Gods

Every man lives in one of the seven chakras, the energy centres.

If you are in the lowest level, that is the muladhara chakra, you are caught in lust and desire. You worship a God who can grant all your boons. That is why God is understood as a giver of boons throughout the world and is very popular. People are caught up in fantasy, expectations and desires and whoever fulfils these becomes their God. The moment they miss giving a single boon, their Gods will get dethroned!

Next is the person who is caught in the Swadishthana chakra (fear). You worship the God who gives confidence, who you believe will take care of you; you go behind the idols that have many weapons and many hands. You experience God as a protector.

The third level person stays in the Manipuraka chakra (worry). You continuously worry and remain confused. You worship the God who gives clarity and peace. You will want idols that radiate peace.

Next is the person who lives in the Anahata chakra (attention need). Here, you are attracted towards the God which showers love on you. You worship the God who gives emotional fulfilment.

Next, if you are raised to the level of the Vishuddhi chakra (the urge to be unique), the God of creativity or Energy appeals to you. You experience God as the creator.

If you are centred in the Ajna chakra (Ego), you are locked in ego. Somebody in the egoless state attracts you: Rishis, Seers, Sages, Prophets and Masters attract you. The egoless man becomes your idol.

That is why I say: Man creates God in his own mould! You simply relate to God or the Masters from these six levels; a relationship doesn’t happen - you simply reduce them to mere mortals. You have a concept in your mind and you are demanding from them that concept - it is simply a monologue.

In the Ajna chakra, the dialogue starts. Only in the Sahasrara chakra (gratitude), the communion happens! If you understand that you are actually relating to your Gods and Masters from these chakras and that you need to go beyond this and catch the transcendental expression of the Divine, all your problems will dissolve!

When you are in the Muladhara chakra, the Master drills into you like a crowbar. At a little higher level, he is like a knife penetrating you. At the level of the Sahasrara chakra, he is like a fragrance! If you are alert and aware, the Master can transform you. You just need to be passive for the alchemy to happen. If you are alert and aware, you can catch the smell and experience it!

Break free from your Ego

Losing ego is the only way to reach enlightenment. How to lose ego?

Existence is continuously changing. If you trust that Existence changes and you also change, you can never get settled with your ego. Your ego is nothing but a rigid mechanism, a definite pattern. Only a person who is ego less can trust that the universe is changing and he is also changing. The man who sells his time will never understand that the universe is changing because he is caught in a routine. Not being caught in a routine is a basic discipline for enlightenment!

If you are in a routine, you become so unaware that you stop believing, you stop realizing that Existence is changing. I have seen some government servants working for 30 years in the same office. They would not even have moved their table from one place to another and eventually forget that their table can be moved! Even in your house, don't live with the same kind of furniture arrangement for years together. Shuffle it so that your mind does not get stuck with a single attitude. Once in a few months, change the order; create a little bit of chaos! Otherwise you will become dead.

I have seen people - they will have ten rooms and because of their habit, they will follow a certain track in their own house and as a result would not have stepped foot on eight rooms for months together.

Be very clear - the most definite thing on planet earth is your tomb, your graveyard! The more you live with definition and security, the more you are dying. That is why, when you live with a definite track in your house, your house will have the vibration of a graveyard. Once in a while, dance in the main hall of your house - the space will be purified. If you live with the same things, you will create a track of memory. You will then have very little access to your own Being. Your mind and your house are one and the same. Your Being and your house are one and the same. If you don't live in your whole house, be very clear, you are not living with your whole memory. Drop your rigid ego, break free from your mental patterns, understand change and discover the reservoir that you have within yourself. Explode in all directions and realize your unlimited potential!

Are We Qualified?

Many people want to know if they are qualified for a spiritual awakening.

We are constantly in doubt about our own potential. We are part of the divine. Problem is that we do not remember that we are. When someone does tell that we are, we think that such people are crazy.

A man once asked Ramana Maharishi whether he was qualified enough to pursue the spiritual path and the Sage countered: are you alive? The person said: Of course, yes. Maharishi said with finality: Then you are qualified enough.

Religious orders and their priests create this doubt in us, so that we may become dependent on them for our qualification. We may need to ask them as to what qualifications they themselves possess to ask us the question. A Master never would. Organized religions often counter spirituality. Spirituality is about discovering who we are? It is the search for the ultimate Truth about us and our relationship with our Creator. Religions once organized are more concerned about power and whatever leads to power, whether control, fear or money. It’s the confusion between religion and spirituality that also leads to this question in us. We are constantly told that we are sinners and as such incompetent to enter the doorway of our Creator. This is nonsense.

If one keeps questioning one’s capability, even after decades of rigorous sadhanas one would feel unqualified. The concept of qualification, as with guilt, is brought in to exploit and bind you mentally. As with guilt it needs to be dropped for us to move on successfully.

A beautiful Zen story goes thus; a man asks a Master: Master, am I qualified for spiritual progress? I feel there are many obstructions. Replied the Master: The word obstruction is the only obstruction, nothing else.

Patanjali’s yoga sutras define various steps to enlightenment. The first step aayama comprises five steps, all quite strenuous: celibacy, truth, non violence, not stealing, not possessing. Only after you practice all these steps and master them are you qualified to move up to the next step in yogic accomplishment.

A man came and asked me: Swamiji, I am not qualified in these steps; I have never practiced aayama and niyama; how can I learn Yoga?

I said to him: If you are already qualified in these steps you do not need Yoga!

Maturity and meditation help each other and help us all. Maturity comes with knowledge and experience and gives us energy; and the energy reinforces maturity. Meditation helps us focus that energy in the right direction to make spiritual progress.

In the present day world Patanjali’s techniques take a lot of time. To realize Truth through yoga of any form would probably take many births, and you will forget what you started in this birth, when you start your next!

Dhyana or meditation is the answer to enlightenment in this age. It’s foolproof and without side effects. The only side effect is bliss and realization of your own Self. To start dhyana, all you need to be is a human being, nothing more. A Being with Consciousness is the only requirement to embark upon a spiritual path. The very desire that you wish to start on this path is a true indication that you are qualified.

It is said in Tao: A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Once you are on the path, the path helps you on. It’s the first step that breaks the inertia and get you moving. That is enough for you to move towards the end goal.

Take that step now!