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Why is it people are not conscious?
The fundamental reason is they have taken themselves too seriously. They don’t understand that they’re just a pop up on the planet. They’ll pop up and pop out, but big fuss about that.
What is “me” has become too important. What is “me” means, my physical form is me, essentially, isn’t it?
So once my limitations become very important, there is no way to be conscious. You’re just becoming self-defeating in the process, it doesn’t matter how hard you try.
The only and only reason why the entire world is not naturally enlightened is, they’re dead serious about their lives.
Something being different…
When you don’t try to be special, when you just live as life is, that you don’t try to make yourself special. Because, wanting to be special is coming from a certain… an emptiness, or a certain inadequacy within a human being.
Where is the need to be special?
Every human being is unique in his own way. If he tries to be special he’ll only end up aping somebody, he will not be himself.
So when the life is unique, every leaf on the planet is unique, every atom in the existence is unique, where is the need for you to be special?
Being unique is better than being special, isn’t it?
The very nature of the existence is like this. The very nature of what’s happening around you is like this.
If you convert mud into food we call this agriculture. It’s the same mud, can you eat the mud? Can you take it on your plate and eat it? No.
But if you wait, you put a seed and wait, the same mud becomes food and how…we value it and eat it.
But it is something else. But when you eat it, it becomes flesh and bone, it becomes you and it’s so valuable for you and so many other people.
So this is the way of the life.
This flower, its beauty and its fragrance comes from filth. The more filth you put at the root, better the flowers will grow.
So the question is not about what is different, the question is not about what is special, the question is just about will you allow yourself to mature or will you let yourself just roll in filth.
Everything – the earth that I walk upon, the air that I breathe, the water that I drink, the food that I eat, the very space in which we exist, the hand of the creator is active.
The only most beautiful thing that you can do is to be absolutely involved with this, but still not distort the hand of the creation.
You do not distort the hand of the creator. That is something that you do is an aberration to what the creator intends. The intelligence behind creation, what it is intending, to be in tune with that, not to do some rubbish of your own thing.
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So this is a journey from being a piece of creation to being the creator. Every human being is capable of this. It’s my wish and my blessing this should become the reality in your life.
What we call as knowledge – stupid conclusions about life. Nobody is… today people are carrying their attention deficiency like a qualification. Anything in this existence will yield to you only if you pay substantial attention to it.
But now people have become like this. They can’t look at anything, everything is chuk chuk chuk chuk.
Now in this condition there will be no wonder, only conclusions in your head. There is no perception. There is only, you know monologues going on in your head, there is no perception.
If there is perception all noise in your head will just stop. If you’re looking at something absolutely beautiful and engaging, everything stops.
Why people are enjoying your cinema is just this, you switch off the lights, they’re focused on the thing. For those whatever few minutes or ninety minutes or whatever, their usual monologues are gone, something else is happening.
It is the attention which is making the difference, it is not what’s playing on the screen. It is what is playing on the screen is instrumental in grabbing the attention but it is the attention, continuous attention which is making the experience of being there.
So this is a rudimentary form of meditation. It’s called dharana. Everybody must do something about themselves. Every child, every school should bring this dimension that a child is required to pay attention to something continuously. It could be music; it could be dance.
See you cannot do music or dance unless you pay attention to it you know. You’ll make a fool of yourself if do not pay enough attention.
But you can pass an examination without attention. It’s not that I am incapable of anger. I am capable of everything. It is just that… I have not given this privilege to anybody that they can make me angry, they can make me happy, they can make me unhappy, they can make me miserable.
I’ve not given this privilege to anybody. It doesn’t make me angry. If they need a shouting I’ll give it to them.
See, there are different kinds of people in the world. There is somebody here, if I just look at them they’ll understand why they’re being looked at.
There’s somebody here, if you at them they’ll just stare back at you. If you tell them gently they will understand.
There is somebody here, if you tell them gently they won’t get it, you have to shout at them.
There is somebody else here, even if you shout they won’t get it, you have to knock them on their head and tell them.
Different levels of sensitivity in the world.
Your action should be appropriate to the situations in which you exist.
I am not bound like this, “I will not say this, I will be gentle, I will be nice,” I have no such things. I am just appropriate to the situations in which I exist.
What you need, I will do. If you need only shouting I will do. What’s my problem?
Life…uncultured, uncultivated just wild and as it is, that’s me. The life within you manages to stick to the physicality of who you are.
Physicality is something that you gathered. It is not you. It is material. It is just a piece of this planet.
What you gathered from the planet, if it has to stick to the life that you are, you must be in a certain level of reverberance.
If you drop in intensity below a certain point you can’t hold it. That is called as dying of old age.
If you have seen anybody close-up who are dying of old age, you will see his eyes become feeble, life becomes feeble, it’s like the body is struggling to hold it but it can’t hold because it’s become too feeble.
If the reverberation goes below a certain level of intensity it can’t stick to the body, it will leave. So that is generally understood as leaving peacefully because without struggle it just passed on.
So that is if the intensity drops.
Another way to leave is you raise the pitch of life’s intensity to such a pitch it went beyond normal pitch, then also you leave the body.
So, spiritual sadhana is trying to get the pitch of your life to the highest point. Because only if the intensity of life is high. It’s like the voltage is high, that’s why the lights are bright.
If your voltage is low, the lights will be dim, your awareness will be dim, your perception will be dim. All you will know is just…survival process.
So you want to pitch it up. So when you pitch it up beyond a certain point, there is always a danger that you will slip out. So we will fix certain things.
We will fix certain things when a spiritual aspirant is progressing with a certain rapidity, we will fix the body in a certain way so that that cannot happen.
Just yesterday the ashram sathsang when we were there, one lady asked, “Why women are asked to wear toe rings when they get married?”
Because marriage was supposed to be such a huge experience that they could leave the body.
At the age of eight they would marry them. They will never see each other till they are fourteen or fifteen but emotionally, psychologically she’s cultivated and cultivated to believe that her husband is like god, when she meets him life will explode.
That possibility in the child’s mind has built up. When she is physically mature, she’s brought into marriage.
Because in this country, in this culture, there is no business, there is no marriage, there is no child, there is no family, everything is just a tool towards your liberation and mukti.
You get married because you want to use that as a tool to your liberation. You raise children because you want to use that as a tool to your liberation.
You become a sanyasi because you want to use that. It does not matter what you do, everything is towards your mukti or liberation.
Because of this they nurtured this girl and boy in such a way that for four to six years they have not seen each other but they are made to believe when they meet, something is going to happen.
In the child’s mind it’s grown to such a big possibility. Something does not mean, like how today’s teenagers are thinking something means there’s only one thing, there’s no something, okay?
They are not thinking about that one thing alone. It is not just two bodies meeting, not just two minds and emotions meeting, two lives being merged into one.
So we created various devices. You know there’s something called as mangalsutra. Sutra means…Patang, is it? (referring the meaning of Kite in Hindi)
So if you have the right kind of sutra the kite will fly. So the mangal sutra is that that you prepare it in certain way. It’s an energy thread and you are supposed to replace it every year.
Somebody who knows what it is…gives you a life sutra, matches the husband and wife their energies in such a way, they are not just bound in body, mind and emotion – they are bound as two lives. Any number of events have happened like this in the past, which is becoming more and more rare these days, if a man or a woman dies, within forty days the husband or wife will also just die.
Because the idea was to bind two lives. How the bodies match, how the minds match, emotions match is not important, two lives are entwined.
So there is a kind of bonding. Many of them have never spoken to each other; there is a bonding, which is unexplainable. The sense of bond that they felt was so deep because it was a scientific process of binding two lives in such a way that there is no question of compatibility, this that.
It doesn’t matter, you marry a devil still you are bound and you feel an ecstatic sense within you simply because of the union within yourself not because of what somebody else is doing.
So now in a marriage, what somebody else is doing or what your husband or wife is doing doesn’t matter, just the way you are is an explosive experience.
This is how lot of women lived in the past because the process was very scientific, and it was done properly. So they put this metal on the toes and also on the ring finger always because if there is metal on certain strategic places in your body you will not accidentally leave your body.
So when you do spiritual sadhana, when we notice somebody is becoming very intense, first thing is I will gift them a simple copper ring which they must wear and they cannot remove without permission because if this simple metal is on the ring finger when they get into certain states of exuberance by accident they will not slip out of the body.
So she got into such exuberant states, naturally certain little bit of jewelry things were there. These things were never discussed till that point.
There’re many things I refused to discuss because devices will work well only when people do not know how it works.
So we just put it on people we never explain. But when this situation happened I had to explain what happened. She sat there on a full moon day evening with everybody.
There were people around and after five minutes…it is in the shrine, she got up and went. My eyes are closed. I knew she got up. I got little irritated because nobody ever gets up once they sit down.
Till we say it is time nobody ever gets up.
And of all the people my wife getting up and going little irritation in me, one…“Why is she getting up of all the people?”
Then I ignored it and I sat down. After five minutes she came and sat down. In another seven, eight minutes she just went like that.
When I looked she was gone with a… with a big smile on her face.
Then I looked, she’s removed her nose ring, she’s removed her bangles, she’s removed her toe rings. See she did not know intellectually but at that moment she felt this is what is stopping her.
And she pulled out all those things, kept next to the washbasin and came back and she sat down, within seven, eight minutes…but this is not something that happened accidentally.
She announced this almost nine months ahead of time. She had prepared my girl who was only seven years at that time…that she’s going to leave in this month, but it happened one month early for various reasons, that’s a different aspect.
But this is not new in this country. Any number of yogis just sit down, announce to everybody and leave their body. She was not somebody who was steeped in spiritual sadhana. She’s just a very alive, she is either up or down you know. She is either absolutely exuberant or down, she doesn’t know the in-between.
She’s not somebody who do… whom you would consider a yogi or established in sadhana, nothing like that. She is a very exuberant person and that’s all it takes, that you’re alive. That’s all it takes.
It’s not that you know this or that, you’re just hundred percent alive, that’s the only qualification you need.
And she started working towards it, she announced it nine months ahead. We tried to sabotage it in so many ways to slow it down but, it went the way, it went.
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