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good evening everyone may being Indian I call this an evening I see you still
refer to this as afternoon
so Paul was mentioning about Indian studies even for academic purposes I
would say you cannot study what you are referring to as India I'm not talking
about India as a nation but India as a net house what it represents it's not
something that you could study at the least you have to soak it in at the best
you have to dissolve into it there is no other way to know it because it does not
represent any particular ideology it does not represent any particular belief
system it is not a scripture it is not a particular God it is a complex
amalgamation of a million different doorways through which a human being can
attain to his ultimate potential this is what always the land that was referred
to as Bharat has always represented to the world the political entity of India
is a different different situation right now that's different but this is what it
represents let me in a limited time you can't explore India but as I said you
could soak it in it's not something that you understand it not it is not
something that you grasp it is just that it you have to soak it in it like your
brief
it is not because you understand that you have to take an oxygen and leave out
carbon dioxide your breath is happening that is just the understanding is a
consequence not the reason why your breathing's similarly this is just like
that because as inhaling oxygen and letting
out what we don't want is a certain level of life process what we are
referring to as India is another level of life process you have to just breathe
it in and soak it in if every cell in your body doesn't take the oxygen this
one live it is just like that if everything within you doesn't take
another dimension of life into you another dimension of life will not be
alive in you only the physical the psychological and the emotional will be
alive one will even deny that anything else exists because this is the nature
of human experience whatever it is not in your experience doesn't exist for you
right now I don't intend to insult the people who are up there but right now
let's say right up there there's a big gorilla sitting there just about to
pounce on you you are not aware of it it does not exist for you even if a
dinosaur is sitting there if you are not aware of it it doesn't exist for you
similarly anything that we are not conscious of it doesn't matter how big a
dimension it is how fundamental a dimension it is if we are not conscious
of it it will not exist for us in our experience our life is essentially what
we perceive and what we perceive right now is fundamentally limited to the five
sense organs what you see what you hear what you smell what you
tastes what you touch this is the life that you know this is the world that you
know this is the universe which is in your experience you could believe other
things but they are not a living reality for you belief systems can become very
strong what you believe in can become more real than the real in your
experience but that is purely a psychological experience what you
believe in and if you work hard enough on you we can make you believe in just
about anything you know that right from the day you were born if I went on
telling you my little finger is God if I raised this little finger divine
emotions will overflow within you genuinely not pretentious if it is too
bad for you I can dress it up just we have to decorate it a little bit then
you were willing to believe anything if you worked if you are worked upon hard
enough isn't it so what we believe it is of cultural significance of geographical
significance for certain areas of the world but it is of no existential
consequence you can believe whatever you want I you know he was just saying we
have a Center in Tennessee I was speaking in Nashville a few years ago I
was just telling them a joke in the joke I referred to God as him immediately a
few ladies stood up do you believe God is a man Oh
I know where it's going I was only telling you a joke it doesn't matter you
said him do you believe God is a man I said I was only telling you a joke it
doesn't matter so now there is an argument going around in certain parts
of America he's God a man or a woman in India we
have no such problems we have a man God we have a woman God we have a cow God we
have an elephant God we have a monkey we have a snake we have flying ones
crawling ones creeping ones every kind
because it's a very wise culture we foresaw all the future problems that may
arise
Idi Amin you heard of Idi Amin dog and Amin eat the Amin declare god is black I
agree with him if a white man can have a white court why can't a black man have a
black board this also is a big debate in some of the
further in churches is God white or black you've been trying to settle it
with elections but
but you people do not know whether God is white or black in India we know God
is brown because you know God never visited other parts of the world
he only sent his son or messengers in India God Himself landed nine times you
know this you know nine hour tops he landed in India himself nine times
always Indians are very proud of this to other parts he sent his son messenger
whatever but to India he himself came I keep reminding them that is because he
wanted to do the job hands-on with the Indians he will trust his son or
messenger and he came nine times and failed Indians are not easy people they
are not easy now difficult because they don't have a particular belief to hang
on to for everything they have an argument you can talk like this you can
talk like this you can talk from whichever direction this is not out of
confusion this is because this land opened up a million possibilities there
is no particular way to do it I think one person who paid the best possible
tribute to India was when Mark Twain visited India and spent almost three
months or so he said anything that can ever be done by either by God or man has
been done in this land now this is not about a particular geography this is not
about a particular people when you say East you are talking about
a certain kind of consciousness there could be Eastern people here there could
be Western people there to the east has become synonymous with consciousness
West has become synonymous with material success should these things to these two
things be opposing each other not at all evolving human consciousness and living
successfully in the world can go together and always been together
you must understand just about 225 years ago India was the largest economy in the
planet it amounted for almost 1/3 of the world's economy for political and other
reasons things have been uh gone bad that's a different thing but I'm saying
consciousness and living well on the outside need not clash with each other
it has nothing to do with each other how your outside and how your within
yourself are not connected so how your outside I will leave it to you how you
want to be on the outside I will leave it to you but how do you want to be on
the inside if you are given a choice how you want to be within yourself would you
like to be pleasant or unpleasant I want to hear that
now that you want to be pleasant what is pleasantness if you become
Pleasant in your body we call this help if you become very pleasant we call it
pleasure if you become Pleasant in your mind
we call this peace if you become very pleasant we call it joy if you become
Pleasant in your emotion we call this love
if you become very pleasant we call it compassion if you become Pleasant in
your very life energies we call this bliss
if you become very pleasant we call it ecstasy this is what you want within
yourself isn't it no I am NOT interested in all this I want to go to heaven why
because the advertisements have always said that heaven is a very pleasant
place if from your birth they had told you God lives in heaven but it's a
horrendous place do you want to go there no we will pray from here we don't want
to go there so whatever you may be doing whether you go to the temple or to the
bar you're still seeking pleasantness isn't it yes or no
hello if you if your surroundings become Pleasant we call this success so in what
way surroundings being Pleasant or opposed to inner pleasantness definitely
not there not against each other they go very well together there is no need to
have people to think if I have to be pleasant in the in word I have to see
generally this is this impression is coming come into the world that if you
are spiritual how you are determined whether you're spiritual or not is you
don't eat well you don't dress well you don't live well that means your
spiritual
if you do everything badly you must be spiritual this image has come because
they saw you'll be somewhere sitting blissed-out he never bothered about his
clothes his fellow clothes fell apart and he said they're probably naked
blistered simply because he was not concerned not because he chose to be
like that but now looking at him a lot of people are choosing to be like that
you are just a ping him you're not going to become like him
this happened in 1924 there was a bishop in the Greek Orthodox denomination
Greek Orthodox denominations generally they believe they are the only real
Christians rest are not they have their own Pope in Istanbul Istanbul being on
the Silk Route exotic stories from India waft across the Bosphorus very often so
for centuries these stories have been coming and this person has been wanting
to longing to go to India and see for himself he genuinely wants to meet a
mystic or a yogi but being a man of cloth he could not choose to go after he
was 60 when he was semi-retired he made it to India and someone took him down to
South India in southern India when he enquired somebody told him you go up
this mountain there is a yogi he will fulfill the prescription for you what
you're looking for so our men went up the mountain and as they had indicated
there was a man a yogi sitting there eyes closed blissed-out
so he went and they had told him if you go to if
you see a yogi you must prostrate but he was not built for that but managed to go
down scraping himself making noises and
hearing all this commotion the yogi opened his eyes and looked and smiled so
immediately the bishop asked can I ask you a question
yogi said by all means now the bishop asked a profound question of his life
what is life this is after 60 you should have asked this question at 8 or at
least a 16 what is life after 16 not bad you are asking some time in your life
the yogi smiled went into raptures and said life life is like the fragrance of
jasmine upon the gentle spring breeze
the bishop looked at him and said what life fragrance of jasmine upon the
gentle spring breeze our teacher told us life is like a tone once it gets into
you if you sit down it hurts if you stand up it hurts if you lie down it
hurts you are saying it is fragrance of jasmine upon gentle spring breeze the
yogi looked at him and said well that's his life
essentially the experience of life he is caused from wooden pain and pleasure
happens from within you joy and misery happened somebody near agony and ecstasy
happens from within you even light and darkness happens from within you what is
light for you is darkness for some other creature isn't it
what is darkness for them is light food it is the way you're responding to the
whole thing that it happens to you so if everything is caused from within you we
are not convinced about this okay do you see me it's a question do you see me use
your hands and point out where am I now you've got it wrong you know I'm a
mystic from South India now this light is falling upon me reflecting going
through your lenses inverted image in the retina do you know the whole story
so where do you see me right now within yourself where do you hear me right now
within yourself where have you seen the whole world within yourself have you
experienced anything outside of yourself have you nothing has ever happened to
you outside of yourself the whole universe has happened only within
yourself the way it happens within you is the way you know it you don't know it
the way it is you only know it the way it happens
within you it is all caused from within at least what is happening from within
you must happen the way you want it isn't it what is happening around you
there are too many people involved what's happening within you 100% must
happen the way you want it your joy and misery if there is a choice what's the
choice your agony and ecstasy if there is a choice what is the choice
pleasantness is the choice isn't it so why is it so much unpleasantness is
happening in human experience because we never took charge of the inner dimension
we believe by fixing the outside everything is going to be okay in the
last hundred hundred fifty years with the advent of science and modern
technology we have fixed too many things on the outside if you fix anymore there
won't be a planet left yes definitely this has brought much
convenience and comfort to our lives in every way we are the most comfortable
generation ever you agree with me I know you have series of complaints about how
things are not okay but we are the most comfortable generation ever before on
this planet isn't it so but we cannot say we are the most joyful generation on
the planet we are the most loving generation on the planet we are the most
blissed-out generation the plant definitely not we are complaining
complaining like crazy about everything like never before this is because we fix
the outside comfort inconvenience has happened well-being has not happened if
your interior tea was handled by you consciously you would definitely keep
this in a blissful state so is bliss the goal of life no bliss is a necessary
condition for life to flower to its full potential otherwise it will remain
constrained say if I happen to meet you when you are very happy I'm sure you are
a wonderful person yes or no but if I happen to meet you when you are
frustrated angry miserable you could be a nasty person isn't it yes or no is
this effect for everybody you know about 20% of our time resource and energies
are spent in the prisons in India and we also attempted something
here in the United States now our programs are mandatory in all the South
Indian prisoners people keep telling his head guru why are you spending so much
time with these criminals we don't even get to see you but you're spending time
in the prison I don't see any criminals what I see is everybody is in pursuit of
their happiness the man whom you call as a criminal is pursuing his happiness far
more vigorously than you yes in pursuit of your happiness you willing to stand
in a line and get what you want his longing for his happiness is so high and
vigorous he jumps the line that's all he's doing isn't it yes or no the only
thing that he is doing is he's jumping the line what you are willing to wait in
the line and get at the end of the month he wants to grab it in two minutes that
makes him a criminal isn't it but if you take this further back if you're in
pursuit of happiness I'm sorry this is in the Constitution if you're in pursuit
of happiness you are already a criminal because the moment you are in pursuit of
happiness suppose you're pursuing your happiness this way and I am pursuing my
happiness this way both of us meet out of civility out of etiquette you will
tell me please I will not budge then you would like to gently push me and go I
will not budge you would like to show me and go I will not budge then of course
you would like to shoot me and go yes if something or somebody is really blocking
your pursuit of happiness you want him to disappear somehow isn't it either
with a gun or a magic wand you want them to go yes or no no there was a depth
you want them to go isn't it if somebody is really blocking up your pursuit of
happiness do you want that person to vanish or no yes now their sense of
pursuing human consciousness is first thing is to shift your life from being
in pursuit of happiness to an expression of joyfulness how can I be joyful have
you met my mother-in-law did you see my neighbor did you meet my boss I have
seen all those people too many of them around me all the time they're all dead
but the way you're experiencing your life right now is 100% caused by you
they can only create outside situations but your inner situation is 100% yours
isn't it right now you're sitting here if you don't like what I am saying you
can sit here joke about it and still enjoy it this way or that way both ways
you are free either to be pleasant or unpleasant isn't it yes or no that is
true in every situation it doesn't matter where whether you are up on the
peak or down in the dumps still what's happening within you is 100% yours if
you take charge of this then you keep yourself this full now your life becomes
an expression of this blissfulness there is substantial medical and scientific
evidence that when you are feeling very pleasant when you are joyful and
blissful your body and your mind function at its best success in the
world is essentially determined by how well you can harness this physical body
and is the progress of the mind how successful you are in any sphere of life
is essentially determined by this most of the time you don't need an enemy
self-help he's doing great a lot of people have
read self-help books how to screw up my life yes they can right they don't need
anybody's help the book also they can write because they're experts I wanted
to just look back and say how many of you have at least had one 24-hour
segment in your life one single day where full 24 hours every moment of it
went blissfully not a moment of anxiety agitation irritation anger frustration
nothing simply blissfully twenty-four hours very few people on the whole
planet can raise their hands to this you need to understand this if one day did
not happen the way you want it understandable if not even one day
happen the way you want it something fundamentally wrong it's time to look at
it isn't it yes it is time to play pay close attention to this life why is it
happening the way it's happening without taking charge of the mechanics of how
life is happening within you you're trying to somehow blunder through the
world if 10 people clap their hands you're too happy but that never even
lasts for 24 hours at a stretch isn't it yes or no other people's recognition
other people's expression of love other people's gifts other people's whatever
doesn't even last for 24 hours at a stretch you went out today somebody told
you oh you are the most wonderful person on this planet and you were floating on
cloud what number oh you do only night in South India we do 11 whatever number
cloud you are floating and you came home and people at home told you who you
really are
it is crashes isn't it highest levels of happiness have you
seen how it crashes just like that because what is happening within you
you're trying to cause cause it with external stimuli all the time it is time
you take charge of this what you want to do in your life is up to you this much
every human being deserves that at least your experience of life upon this planet
is pleasant whether you climb Mount Everest or not
whether you're going to become the richest man in the world or not at least
this much every human being deserves that your experience of life is pleasant
and wonderful no matter what the hell is happening around you yes or no and this
is doable because here there is only one ingredient that's you you want to create
pleasantness in your happiness in your home we don't know 3-4 people are there
whether they're going to cooperate or not if you want to create pleasantness
in your city there are too many people we don't know whether they'll cooperate
or not if you want to create pleasantness in the world you know
nobody in this world happens 100% the way you want them
did your parents happen 100% the way you want them did they the children can say
it's okay
did your friends happen 100% the way you want them did your spouse or partners
happen 100% the way you want them not even your dog these days to do their
own things
nobody happens 100% the way you want them but that is not the problem the
problem is this one this one is not happening the way you want him to be
that is the problem isn't it if this one happened a hundred percent the way you
want him life around you whichever way it happens it's either a breather an
adventure yes it is either is him you know gently I mean the fragrance of the
jasmine on a gentle breeze or it's an adventure
there is no unpleasantness unpleasantness unpleasantness is
happening from within you never from outside of you know you don't know how
unpleasant my boss is no no he only causes at the most if he is he's causing
unpleasantness around you he cannot clock cause unpleasantness
within you isn't it this is your work this is completely your work isn't it
why would anybody cause unpleasantness to himself simply because we have chosen
to live and consciously just as a compulsive reaction to everything that's
happening around us for solutions we are looking into books we are looking into
all kinds of things we are always looking elsewhere never inward this
happened you know we're from Tennessee in Tennessee every family with some kind
of tradition has their own leather-bound large-sized Bible of their own they're
very proud of this it's so large you can barely open it at least children cannot
one day a school boy 12 years of age who is turning in
boarding school elsewhere came home and he found this huge book sitting there
and he opened it a few pages he opened a leaf which had been there in the book
for a long time it was dry it flew out and fell down then he called out loudly
mama come and see what I found she said what is it that you have found mama come
and see please come and see what you have what I have found
she said come tell me what have you found he said I think I found Adams
underwear
what is written there and how you perceive it is you even now even now how
we experience every situation is you what is happening around you and how you
experience is essentially you what is written there and what you make out of
it is essentially you just see in the name of caste creed religion race
nationalities how much form s we have created on the planet I'm sure every one
of these things initially started with the greatest intention of human
well-being definitely but just see what a mess we are simply because you can
find on other atoms underwear in a book you don't know what you will pick up so
there is a way where there is no room for misinterpretation that way is to
turn inward not to seek solutions outward for outward things you can seek
outward solutions for inner things you seek inner inner inner solutions turning
inward what does it mean right now as I lay a mentioned the only way you can
perceive is through five sin serpents seeing hearing smelling tasting touching
all these things are essentially outward bound see you can see what's around you
you cannot roll your eyeballs inward and scan yourself you can hear this but so
much activity in this body you cannot hear that if an ant crawls upon this
hand you can feel it so much blood flowing you cannot feel it in the very
nature of things sense organs are outward bad but everything that you
experience is happening from within this is the fundamental human predicament
only if you turn inward then you are into what you are referring to as India
studies otherwise India is a glorious chaos lot of Indians
miss it too much order in America once in a way they have to go out and get
lost and have a diarrhea at least yes of love if not enlightenment at least a
diarrhea you must eat the street food and
something must happen no no it need not be like that
it is just that it's very organic it is always depending upon touching the inner
genius within every human being it is not depending upon the organisation of
the outside which can be very chaotic for a person who has been born and
brought up in Western societies India could be bewildering and scary but you
will see Indian people are so much at home with the chaos because it's so
organic everything is happening because of the human being if one human being
stops being human for a moment everything collapses so you can't afford
to be mechanical about your life you have to be conscious otherwise you
cannot manage even simple things in home initially this was created consciously
over a period of time other things have happened unfortunate
Asian now this whole process of looking inward what does it mean can I can I
tell you my own story it's okay with you you becoming very serious it scares me
Shankaran Pillai came to United States he had an international driving licence
so he decided to take his car his son-in-law score out for a spin he's a
good driver if you have driven in India you better be a good driver otherwise
you're a dead driver
so very confidently he was driving then his wife called up on the phone and said
are you on i-75 he said yeah just watch out the traffic news is saying there is
a man driving at full speed in the opposite direction he said what the hell
one man hundreds of people are driving in the opposite direction but he's very
comfortable so what is turning inward me
this happened to me when I was just three four years of age suddenly one day
I realized I don't know anything I don't know anything means I don't know
anything at all if they give me a glass of water I do not know what is water eat
when I say I do not know what is water I know how to use it I know if I drink it
it will quench my thirst and so many other ways of using it but I do not know
what is water do you know what is water even today with all this scientific
exploration you must understand we have not understood a single atom in its
entirety we know how to use them but we do not know what it is even today it is
the only thing available in all the three states on the planet two-thirds of
the world the planet itself is water two-thirds of your body is water if you
want to look for life you look for water a drop of water means you think life is
possible so very basis of your existence on this planet but you do not know what
it is so they give me a glass of water I keep staring at this for 3-4 hours at a
stretch if I find a leaf I will stare at it five
six hours I sit up in my bed staring at the darkness for the whole
night My dear father being a physician started thinking I need psychiatric
evaluation
this boy is just tearing at something or the other
unblinking for hours on end he's lost it my problem is I look at this I do not
know what is this how to shift my attention to something else I'm just
talk to it paying attention to it in this condition they sent me to school I
went to school and my mother told me you must pay attention to the teacher I went
and paid attention the kind of attention they would have never received in their
life initially I understood the words that they were speaking after some time
I realized they're only making sounds I am the one who is making up the meanings
in my head even now see I am only making sounds because you presume you know
English language you are making up the meanings and language is a conspiracy
between two people yes suppose I start talking in a language that you do not
understand it will be just sounds even now I am only making sounds you are
making up the meanings and there is a codebook for this conspiracy called a
dictionary so I realize I'm making up all the meanings in my head and I
stopped making up the meanings just the sounds these teachers come and keep on
making sounds the problem with most people is the moment they cannot
understand they will not pay any attention please pay especially things
that you do not understand you must pay attention isn't it yes soon or what you
do not understand definitely needs your attention but generally the thing is the
moment you cannot understand you don't pay attention
turn on the Chinese channel just listen carefully with full
attention you will see things will happen to you so I just paid attention
not attaching any meanings to the sounds they were making after some time it
became so amusing these people going on making noises a big smile spread on my
face they were not amused at all I was very consistent with my education every
monthly test consistently I got six zeroes because I gave it empty because I
was made like this I come home in the evening evening study hours or two hours
in the evening you must study in the house if I open the book I stay like
this without reading a single word for the next two hours I will be just like
this all I need is just a dot on the paper just a tiny speck on the paper if
I put my attention to it the damn speck will take me somewhere I won't read a
single word nor will I look around nor will let me do anything simply after two
hours I'll be in the same speck I'm moving from that so my attention is like
this I'm paying attention to the teachers so you know I clearly remember
this when they every month they give this report card I don't know if you
still have it you still have that method of report cards when the report card
comes some children will be strutting around they are first second whatever
some will be crying they're terrified to go home because they got something in my
whole school days all those 12 years I never opened my report card the teachers
gave it to me I took it and gave it to my dad I thought this a transaction
between the two of them I never wanted to you know deep into
that and I never was retained in any class I always went on about four years
ago this school where I studied over four decades ago they came to invite me
for their one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the school they were
inviting all the prominent eleven I they came to invite me
I said say please why me I was not just a not good student I was not even a
student don't don't take me back to the school they said no no our school has
produced federal ministers our school has produced film stars our school is
produce cricketing stars you are the only mistake you have to come I said ok
and I went I stood up to speak in this quadrangle the same oppressive buildings
I just look like this I suddenly saw this classroom and this whole situation
came back to me I was about 12 years of age as usual I am paying absolute
attention to the teachers I know the teachers past present and future but I
don't hear a word of what they're talking so that particular afternoon
this teacher is trying to get some response from me but I am these are
times when four three four five days I would not do a single word
because when you don't know anything what do you say what is there to say you
know nothing if you look at a leaf you don't understand that in entirety if you
look at anything you don't understand in its fullness so there is nothing to say
he tried thirty five forty minutes trying to get some response nothing came
out of me I was paying full attention to him
he came help me by the shoulder shook me violently and said you must either be
the divine or the devil I think you are the later till now till that moment my
problem was what is this what is that what is that what is that
but there was one clarity that this is me suddenly this man confused me about
this also I looked Am I devil am i divine what the hell am i
this was very clear that this was me but this man brought this confusion about
this also I tried to stare at myself it didn't work so I closed my eyes and sat
initially hours then it went into days once I close my eyes and sat I thought
in my experience I felt it's about 25-30 minutes when I open my eyes a whole
crowd of people around me Garland's around my neck people are trying to pull
my feet you know pulling legs is a part of Indian tradition and somebody wants
to know about his business somebody wants to know when his daughters will
get married I said how the hell did these people
manifest here where did they come from big crowd they said you have been
sitting here for 13 days in my experience I just sat there for 25-30
minutes I closed my eyes and I opened my eyes a big crowd why I'm telling you
this is life is in many more ways than the way you understand an experience
life through the five senses the five sense organs or enough for your survival
if you want to just survive these five things are fine but if you want to know
life these five sense organs are not good enough because this gives you only
a comparative perspective of everything what you know by comparison say you know
light only cause you know darkness isn't it the
nature of sense organs is such if you see this part of my hand you cannot see
the other part of my hand even if you take a grain of sand if you see one part
you can't see that the part if you're experiencing light you cannot experience
the darkness this is the nature of sense organs and everything is in comparison
for example let's say you're six feet tall now you stand like a tall man you
walk like a stall man you think like a tall man you feel like a tall man and
you are a tall man suppose you antenna he went to another society where
everybody's 8 feet tall now you stand like a short man walk like a short man
think like a short man feel like a short man and you are a short man so what you
know in comparison is only useful so survival in a particular situation it is
not a way of knowing life there are the dimensions of perception which a human
being has to activate you need to understand what is needed for survival
became active the moment you came out of your mother's womb all these things
became active you need to understand they were not active when you were in
your mother's womb otherwise you would know the whole human
physiology you didn't have to go to your medical school you know your eyes were
not open your perception was not open only after you came out it opened up
because without it you cannot survive if survival is all you seeking this is fine
but once you come as human somehow survival is not good enough isn't it
when survival is in question it's a big issue once it's taken care of it doesn't
mean anything isn't it so there is something within
you always longing for something more whoever you may be right now whatever
you may be right now you want to be something more than who you are right
now yes or no if that something more happens what what
you want something more if that something more happens what something
more it looks like you're looking for expansion okay we will make you the king
or queen of this planet now don't look at me hopefully you think I'll make such
a blunder suppose you become the king or queen of this planet
will you be fulfilled I am asking you you will look at the Stars
isn't it so there is something within you which wants to expand I am asking
how much expansion would settle you for good
how much expansion would settle you for good hello unlimited you're looking for
infinite expansion a fantastic desire but a hopeless method you're longing to
become boundless is wonderful see there is something within you which does not
like boundaries suppose i imprison you in a 5x5 cubicle right now you will feel
horribly imprisoned tomorrow we will liberate you into your ten by ten
cubicle you will feel wonderful for a day and again the same thing then we
will liberate you into 100 by 100 cubicle you will feel wonderful for
three days and again the same thing it doesn't matter where I set the boundary
the moment you can feel the boundary you want to break it yes there is something
within you which does not like boundaries there is something within you
constantly longing to become boundless you may be trying to settle this either
unconsciously or consciously if you are trying to settle it unconsciously you
think going out shopping will settle it it does first up for a moment again
tomorrow the same thing or reading a book will settle it or conquering and
something will settle it all this thing's settles you for some time and
again the same thing the moment you can feel the boundary again it's a problem
isn't it there is something with you longing to become boundless you will
need to understand this boundaries are essentially the nature of the physical
the physical exists in this universe the physical exists in creation only because
of defined boundaries I can call this a physical body only because there is a
defined boundary if I take away the boundaries of this body could you call
this physical if it is all over the place would it be physical only because
it stays within within a defined boundary its physical boundary is the
nature of physical existence there is something within you longing to go
beyond all boundaries so if you touch a dimension within you which is not
physical in nature only then this will settle is there such a thing
well let's understand this when you were born your body was only this much now
it's become this much how did it happen
how did it happen the food that you've eaten isn't it the
food that you've eaten so what you call as my body is a heap of food actually or
it's a piece of this planet physical is something that you've gathered over a
period of time yes physical is an accumulation what you
accumulate at the most you can claim it is mine it cannot be you isn't it it can
be yours it can never ever be you it can be mine it can never ever be me isn't it
what you gather can belong to you cannot become you but right now you are so
identified with things that you have gathered not only in the body in the
mind your mind is a heap of impressions that you've gathered your mind is a
gathering your body is a gathering both are accumulations between these two
things where are you a dimension beyond the physical which is the basis of all
this if you eat a piece of bread it transforms it into such a fantastic
machine that we call as human mechanism this human body is the most
sophisticated technology on the planet do you agree with me the iPhone users I
am asking you
because I see you so deeply engrossed in it you seem to think it's more than I
now this is the highest level of technology found on the planet
everything else is a small imitation of this isn't it and with what are you
manufacturing this with a piece of bread with the carrot with an apple with
whatever you eat just about anything that you eat even if you eat the so
called junk food even that is becoming wonderful technology so there is an
intelligence here there is a competence here which is capable of transforming a
piece of bread into such a highly sophisticated machine if only if you had
access to this intelligence consciously you would live your life magically not
miserably for sure so how often do you touch this every human being touches it
at some moment in his life if you can consciously touch it definitely you
would stay in touch with it isn't it if you accidentally touch it then it
happens accidentally most beautiful moments in people's lives unfortunately
are generally accidental people come until Satguru I met such a wonderful
person as a staff why are you not that wonderful person why is it that you
meeting such wonderful people if you are feeling absolutely wonderful anything
that you look at looks wonderful isn't it yes or no have you noticed this when
you are happy you appreciate everything when you're miserable everything is a
whole creation is a rubbish yes or no so this possibility is not in the Himalayan
cave this possibility is not geographically located in India this
possibility is here with every one of us whether we turn
inward or we find our squander our life outward that's all the choice you have
because the experience of life the quality of your life is right now
determined not by what kind of clothes you wear what kind of car you parked
outside what kind of home you live in this moment what is the nature of your
experience is it immensely pleasant or unpleasant or see-sawing between the two
that determines the quality of your life
if you if you have any questions is that a lot I'm sorry are there questions or I
think I've stopped right on time
just
please take the microphone
Satguru thank you for being here again in Atlanta
it's a pleasure back then just by accident I run into one of your inner
engineering programs when it was in a small scale and he really touched me in
a way that it transformed my life and made this trip from far away from
Argentina worthwhile and I would love for everybody to have that experience
even if it's a single moment my question to you is so wonderful everything that
comes from you and yet how not to miss the immensity of what has been offered
thank you
say the biggest mistake that the larger part of humanity has made is they think
all the great things are up there somewhere when actually you're not even
capable of knowing which is up and down you you you know the planet is round yes
you're sitting in a round planet not even on the North Pole
you're Argentina being in the southern hemisphere you should have fallen off
long time ago at least we got a foothold up here and the damn thing is spinning
on top of it so if you look up you're invariably looking up in the wrong
direction yes are you capable of knowing in this
cosmos which is up and which is down is it somewhere mark this side up are you
capable of knowing I'm asking you you you are incapable of knowing what is up
and down no such thing exists for convenience we will make this up we'll
make this down for understanding between you and me but in reality you really do
not know which is up and down which is forward and backward which is east and
which is west we made up all these things yes or no only for communication
and understanding between us it is not a reality so great things are not up there
if you want to do fantastic things to yourself
you don't have to do some feat simple things you just have to learn how to sit
first of all sitting is not a simple thing you have to learn how to breathe
how to hold this body because as I said this is the most sophisticated machine
on the planet every little thing that you do he does its own things we can do
a live shall we do a little experiment with you
after all it's a university we can experiment with you just do one thing
take these two hands keep all the five fingers together
please sit facing down upon your lap upon your time all the five fingers
should be together all fine don't do it yet just watch me you will do this with
eyes closed just breathing slightly deeper than normal just as you normal
breath slightly deeper slightly exaggerated so that you will notice it
and as you're doing it I will say switch when I say switch without breaking the
rhythm of your breathing just turn this over this way continue to breathe when I
say switch again get back here in these two positions of the hand something
about your breath will change you must notice how the air fills up into your
lung or where is the maximum expansion and contraction just notice this
something about your breath will change and you must tell me what changed okay
for you to notice this for you to be able to notice this one thing is your
spine should be erect that's not possible if you've been
trained to sit on the American cushions you can only sit like this I like this
chair I think the chapel is making sure everybody's awake here and your spine
should be erect your eyes should be closed your mind should be focused on
the breath if you do these three things you'll distinctly notice this all five
fingers together close your eyes breathe slightly deeper than normal and notice
where the maximum expansion and contraction is
switch
switch again
which is open your eyes there's some difference between the two
can somebody tell me when it's this way where is it this way just the reverse is
happening when you hold it this way the maximum expansion and contraction is
happening in the lower lobe of the lung so you will notice it in the diaphragm
region if you turn it around it moves into the middle lobe of the lung so you
will notice higher up in the chest just to one breath and see it is noticeable
is it so so just turning your hand over the very
way you breathe is altering itself it's not just about the breath the very way
the fundamental life energies are functioning is altering itself simply
because you turn your hand over how many times in a day unconsciously are you
doing this whatever anybody ask in India this means no no no no no no now you're
setting your energies into turmoil and hoping to be peaceful life doesn't work
like that unless you do the right things right
things will not happen to you now what is being referred to as inner
engineering or what is largely known as yoga when I use the word yoga I hesitate
and avoid using this word in United States because yoga means they think
something Zumba and some gymnastic stuff
like we get in India we get all your be great and see great movies just like
that you get some things like that from India now one dimension of yoga is like
if you remember in 60s and 70s when the television came first on top of your
home there would be an aluminum contraption now it's become much more
sophisticated otherwise there would be a live
tubes hanging like this you are just watching your favorite program suddenly
your television goes boop boop boop then you run up on the terrace and pull it
like this it won't work pull it like that it won't work you get it there
properly suddenly the whole world pours into your sitting room this is called an
antenna this you are who you are you know that you exist only because you
perceive yes sir they suppose you're sitting here and you fell asleep for
sure I will disappear I am the first one if you go a little more like that
everybody will disappear if you really get hung even you disappear in your
experience the existence is obliterated isn't it you need to understand you even
know that you exist only because you're perceiving so what you perceive is what
you have become there's also other nuances to that how
you perceived what you made out of it but essentially what you perceived is
what you have become if your perception is gone it's gone your life is gone
isn't it now perception how to enhance the perception
should be the only goal because if you enhance your perception your life will
enhance itself how profoundly do you perceive this life so this system is a
phenomenal thing if you learn to sit right if you just adjust it right now
you can download the whole cosmos into this you heard of the concept called the
third eye why the third eye is so important is these two eyes or sense
perceptions almost 30 to 35 percent of your vision is by memory do you know
this if you had no memory you would not be able to see a lot of things
these two eyes have passed hanging in them they are always blurred by the past
if you look at this what looks nice what doesn't look nice what looks right what
doesn't look wrong what looks wrong what is okay what is not okay what is
beautiful what is not beautiful everything is by memory if your memory
is taken taken away these two eyes become half blind at least one-third
line for sure so in these two eyes fast is always hanging that's why we say and
you see something like this okay that's your karma that you are doing that's
your memory bank which is doing this a third eye is that which has not invested
in memory which is simply seeing things as they are this doesn't mean you have
to crack your forehead okay it is not a physical art it is not subject to the
memory bank that you have gathered simply seeing everything the way it is
your ability to handle life well simply depends on how clearly you see it isn't
it yes or no right now you cannot see anything clearly because 35% of the
actual physical vision he is dependent upon the memory that you have but
gathering strong prejudices gathering strong emotional identifications your
ability to see is gone almost 90 percent not even 10 percent of life people see
the way it is they see it the way they think it is that means you are existing
in a psychological reality not in an existential reality what that means is
you are just lost in your own creation you have no contact with the creator's
creation if you experienced the creation the way it is it is the most phenomenal
thing they cannot be anything more and we need not be anything more because
it's if you spend a million years to still configure the sophistication
and the intricacy of what it is but people are bored when when you can't
figure an atom in a lifetime or ten lifetimes you can't figure one atom
people are bored because they're lost in their own petty creation they are
existing in their own psychological creations psychological existence not in
the real existence life is here what's in your mind is madness isn't it it's
time you step down into the creator's creation I am saying step down because
your creation is higher of course
otherwise why would you do it well there so it's time every human being dedicated
a little bit of time towards this it's being offered in Atlanta if you wish to
take it otherwise in your own home if you want to do there are tools being
given out because of the generosity of a few people that these things are
available or it's available online to start with but every human being should
start the process of turning inward otherwise when moment of death comes all
you will have is belief systems to hang on to and everything that you believe
everything that you think matters to you right now will not matter to you if the
next moment is death and I'm sorry to remind you but anyway you will die it's
not my wish I will bless you with a long life but anyway you will die
is it okay you need to understand this is the fundamental of turning inward
that you realize that your motto you realize that you have come with an
expiry date you realize you're racing towards it if you remind yourself of
this how can you not look at life more profoundly how can you only because you
think you are here forever you can forget about it it doesn't
matter what you think you think you come to the top you think you're going to go
home you think you're going to this place of that place
but as far as your body is concerned it is walking straight to the grave yes or
no you think so many things this is all your nonsense but the reality is your
body is walking straight to the grave not missing the step yes or no will
bless you with a long life but if you understand and if you constantly
conscious that I am mortal there is no way you cannot look at
deeper dimensions of life you naturally will thank you very much
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