Words from the Master

Our thoughts are different from our words and hence we lose the life that we are living. Ramakrishna says, “Uniting our thoughts and words is like doing a penance.” But what do we do? We edit our thoughts and bring them out as words. There is so much of calculation that goes on inside before the words come out. We see ‘profit and loss’ and go into the future to analyze before we start talking. Our personality never gets integrated because of this and we remain fragmented.

People ask me how I am able to talk for hours together without any preparation. You see, I talk the Truth as it is - spontaneously, that’s all. I am not worried about exposing the Truth! I never edit my words. For me, thinking is talking. For you, first thinking happens; then editing is done on it and only then comes talking. The innocence is lost in the whole process and you are caught with so many words also.

You are able to listen for hours together to me only because I am talking spontaneously. Else, you will get restless. The fact that you are here without being bothered about the time passing by is enough proof for what I am trying to tell you.
When spontaneity happens, you just flow without thinking. Else, you stagnate in your own mental make up. You become a one-track mind.

A small story:

A man was trying hard to sleep but could not, because his neighbor’s dogs were barking persistently.
This scene remained unchanged for a few nights.
He finally decided to talk to the owner about it.
He went to his house the next day and complained to him about it.
The neighbor was unmoved and said, “Nothing I can do about it. What do you plan to do?”
The man replied, “Well, tonight I will tie the dogs in my backyard and then you will know what it is!”

Just think what foolishness it is to do what the man suggested! He is again and again going into the matter with a one-track mind. How will he find a solution? When you are spontaneous, you will never be challenged for even a moment. You will come back with a solution instantly. When you are spontaneous, you will simply jump off any cliff and build your wings on the way down!

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

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.

Words from the Master

Meditation is nothing but a shift in your consciousness. It is an ‘Energy shift’ in your Being. It is not sitting in a corner, cross-legged and straight-backed and trying to control the mind. If you try doing all this, you will only land up with neck pain and back pain! You will have one more worry that you are not able to sit and do meditation.

All you need to do is, try to live in the present, in the now and here. When you are in the present, you will feel and enjoy Existence. When you are in the present, you will move in tune with Existence. When you are in the present, Existence itself will teach you.

Existence is the greatest Master. This is what they mean when they say that Life is a great teacher. When you miss it, you take your own sweet time to learn. When you take your own sweet time to learn, Life gives some shocks so that you wake up and learn quicker! Else, you will learn for lives together.

See now, you are running behind the past with regret or behind the future with anxiety. You completely destroy the present because of this pattern. What happens is, you never act properly, you simply react based on your past memories or anxiety of the future. When you only react, you are not using your whole potential. You are simply behaving like a programmed robot; you follow blind logic, not awareness and intelligence.

80% of your Energy is locked in the past or future and only 20% is available to you in the present. That is why you feel dull and sapped of your Energy. With increased awareness, this situation can be turned around and your life can be lived on a higher plane, which is more blissful, joyful and exciting!

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

Words from the Master

A Master is someone who can give you a new mental set-up, a rebirth. It is something which can be got by simply absorbing the presence of the Master. When the Master’s Energy floods you, your mental set-up changes, and you are reborn. You enter into a space that you never even knew existed.

When you are reborn in this fashion, you will be free from the grips of all worries, illnesses and other emotions. Even if any of these happen to you, you will be able to handle them with ease that you never knew before. You will be able to become an observer of everything that is happening to you and around you.

I was watching the television the other day in a hotel where our meditation program took place. On one Indian channel there was a duet going on from an old movie. On another Indian channel, there was another duet going on, from a new movie. I was telling my secretary that these two channels only showed that there has been no growth in man’s consciousness. He was shocked at my observation and agreed with me.

The same patterns get repeated again and again like five people kicking a ball around in a closed room. At least in the West, they go to extremes and explore things and come back. There is at least social intelligence in the West if not a growing consciousness. Familiar patterns can make our intelligence totally dead. Worries are nothing but familiar patterns stored in our minds, ready to impose themselves upon us again and again.

When I tell people these things, they tell me, “Swamiji, I understand what you are saying but I am not able to overcome it.” I tell you: Just allow my words to penetrate you and create a space in you; that is enough. This is where meditation can help. What I do in my meditation camps is, I give you the outer understanding and then work on it penetrating you through meditation.

But people tell me, “Swamiji, we have our work to do, bills to pay, deadlines to meet; how do we meditate then?” I answer them with a simple meditation technique: Whether you have time to pay your bills or to meet your deadlines or not, you surely have time to breathe? Else, you will not be alive! Now, you simply add awareness to your breathing, that’s all. Just watch your breath. That is the simplest and most powerful meditation you can do.

Every time you remember this technique, practice it. Soon, it will become a habit. When you infuse awareness into your breath, you will be in the present moment. Living in the present takes you to Bliss. The power of NOW is the straight way to Bliss. Simply add awareness to every inhalation and exhalation.

So to attain bliss, you don’t need any separate time. You need not take time off and go to any retreat or meditation camp. You can continue with your daily activity. With the increased awareness that you will be creating, your deadlines and other targets will get done much more efficiently.

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