Flow with nature and attain bliss

WE WANT to cling to the idea that we’re somebody. This identity seems to keep us alive. As long as we feel we’re a separate entity, a unique individual, we’ll want to hold on to that distinction. We’ll want to find a distinct place. We believe that we’ve an identity. But let us be very clear here. It’s here that you’ll run into resistance. You will be resisting yourself.

This happens all the time. There is no exception to this rule. It’ll happen wherever we begin to cling to the idea that we’re somebody. It can happen at home or office or workplace or office or industry. It’s sure to happen. If we disappear into the Collective Consciousness, we’ll be protected again and again. We’ll be taken care of. We’ll attain complete success in all spheres. We’ll attain success beyond the social and economic spheres. We’ll experience it as fulfilment. This feeling is inexplicable. The moment we start resisting, we’ll make a hellish experience out of it.

A small story:

A man was told that his wife had fallen into the river. He immediately jumps into the water to save her. To the astonishment of onlookers, he starts swimming against the current. One person asked him, ‘Hey, why are you swimming against the current?’ The man replied, ‘You guys don’t know my wife. Even if she falls in the river, she’ll float against the current. She resists everything so much. I’m sure that she’ll try to resist the current.’

So long as we resist, as long as we don’t disappear into the Collective Consciousness, we’ll be endlessly creating hell, not only for ourselves, but also for those around us. This is the truth. This truth operates whether it is our workplace or our house or our company or any other place.

This same teaching is contained in Taoism, the ancient Chinese philosophy. It’s about flowing with nature. Water’s the greatest illustration of such natural flow. It just flows about the landline, around obstacles, in a smooth and energetic fashion. Tao talks about the reeds in water that bend with strong water flow and straighten up when the flow is weaker. That can only happen when we don’t imagine ourselves to be different from our environment.

When we merge with our environment without resisting we are no longer at odds with nature. We no longer feel the heat, the cold, and the other seemingly uncomfortable natural phenomena.

Be one with the nature. Merge with it completely. Lose your identity. Then you will gain bliss.

Don’t worry, be blissful!

THERE was a wise and compassionate king. All his subjects came to him for advice. Once a woman came and complained to him that her husband was ill-treating her because she could not bear a child. Another man came to him and grumbled that his children were greedy. They were after his wealth and illtreating him. A poor man petitioned him for money and lamented saying how wretched he was to be poor. A rich man came to the king and complained that he had no real friends. Every one he knew was nice to him only because of his wealth.

The king, after talking to many people, found that the same things — children, money, and health — repeatedly induced people to worry and be sad. Money was needed by one, but was causing sorrow to another. The king hit upon a novel idea, he called his ministers and said: what if we open a Worry Exchange (WE), can’t people come and exchange their worries? A person who was unhappy without children could exchange his or her worry with another who was unhappy because he or she had children? A rich man who was unhappy could trade his worry with a poor man who needs money.

His ministers thought it was a brilliant idea. So the WE was inaugurated. On the appointed day all the king’s subjects arrived at the WE, long before it was to open. They stood around and talked, talked and talked. WE stayed open until dusk. Not a single trade materialised. Not one person came forward to barter or swap his own worry with another’s worry.

The king was disappointed. However, instead of being angry, he enquired from his subjects why no one came forward to trade worries, though they had all said the WE was a brilliant idea.

The subjects replied in one voice: we prefer to live with the worries we know, rather than exchange them for something that we do not know! Worries become, over time, our crutches, our companions. We feel lost without them. We need them to justify our behaviour and depend on them to lead our daily life.

Our worries have no meaning or purpose. I tell people to write down their worries in our Life Bliss Courses. I tell them to look at this list after three or six months. They then tell me that 90% of the worries never materialised. The 10% that did were good for them!

If we allow ourselves to release our grip from worries and relax in the present, then we can begin an intimate, spiritual journey. The purpose of our life is to journey inwards and experience bliss, not to indulge in wasteful worries.

There are no miracles!

CELL phones seem to be a necessary part of our lives today. Everything we need to do, we can do, and we will do is known to our cell phones! It has become a friend, an enemy, or a lover. Despite these, does a cell phone seem like a miracle to us? If the entire world population is to be destroyed except for a handful, and two of them had cell phones and others had never seen them before, these two cell phone users would become Gods! There are no miracles in life. When objects are materialised people say it’s miraculous. It is not a miracle. It is a method.

Teleportation is another tool, just like our cell phones. Sound waves move between the cell phones enabling us to talk to each other. Similarly in teleportation we switch energy and matter. When I teleport an object from the room, I do just that. I convert the matter into energy, teleport it, and reconvert energy into matter. In fact, with techniques such as Kirlian photography, I can prove to you that it is no miracle, nor sleight of hand, but pure science that scientists do not understand yet.

We need no special intelligence to understand the cause and effect linkages. We should begin to appreciate the mysteries of our universe. Miracles aren’t one of them. But our mind clings to miracles. Unlike in the case of the cell phones, the novelty and convenience never wears off. If all cell phones in this world except two are destroyed, the two owners will become Gods.

When we do not understand the cause of something that happens we call it a miracle. Personal transformation is the ultimate miracle that we can get from a Master. It is greater than any seemingly miraculous deed of producing an object out of thin air. The alchemy of one’s inner transformation is far more difficult and far more valuable than the material alchemy of converting base metal into gold.

Human mind has limited capacity. We seek to understand everything with crippled resources. The psychologists say that our minds operates at only 10% of their capacity consciously. As a matter of fact, our conscious mind can only grasp about 2% of what our senses perceive.

We further reduce the capability of our puny mind by incessant inner chatter arising from the past and future, neither of which have relevance to our existence. When we ground ourselves in the present we begin to exist. We get transformed. That is the miracle. Work towards personal transformation. That is the ultimate miracle that any master can work for you.

Words from the Master

Love as much as you can, without asking for anything in return. Loving for a reason is not love; it is just a business deal. When you can love without a reason, when you can love anything and anyone that comes your way, you will release tremendous inner Energy and beauty. You will appear simply beautiful, irrespective of whether you are physically beautiful or not.

And one more thing: Don’t think that unconditional love will not get you back anything. It will get you back things in more than one way. But you should evolve to an extent where you see these things coming to you, and remain unaffected by them, and continue loving, for the sake of loving. Your intelligence will make you see the things that you get in return, and the same intelligence will keep you blissfully untouched by them.

There will be a revolutionary change in your heart and you will be a new person. You will find the change in you and so also will others. People will develop a new kind of respect for you. They will see that you are flowering in a way, incomprehensible to them. They will be able to feel the Energy that you radiate.

To be able to love unconditionally, you need to be free. When you feel free and liberated, you will be able to love without a worry and reason. What do I mean by liberation? Not being bound by caste, creed, sect, religion, family, relatives and what not. Because when you are bound by all this, your love will remain bound, and bound love is not real love. How can you love with boundaries? It is against the very definition of love!

I am not saying that you should forget your family, religion etc. Just don’t see love in the context of all this, that’s all. When you love, love like you are liberated. When do you feel liberated? When you are free from all bondages of these things; when you don’t identify yourself with any one particular thing; when you feel that you belong to the whole of Existence; then you can love without any boundaries.

I always tell people: If you are able to feel my love in each other, then you have had a glimpse of real love. Because as I told you, it is very easy to love me! But if you can feel the same love that you feel towards me towards the other devotees also, then you have caught the thread of real love; then you have started feeling Existence in everything. Then slowly, you will move on to embracing everything and everyone as part of Existence.

Yes… We will now do a simple and very effective meditation technique called the Mahamantra Meditation*, for this Anahata chakra.

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

* To learn and experience Mahamantra Meditation under a qualified instructor, kindly enroll for Ananda Spurana Program (ASP) at a center close to you.