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Chapter 7 - Merging With The Divine  Day 59 The scriptures which talk about love will have to be learned and heard, understood and digested. And the actions that they say there will have to be followed. Here Narada says this, because you can say that this also is a logic.  'If you say you don’t have to apply logic, that is also logic. Say, yes, yes, of course, I say no need of studying books and scriptures and this and that, but still you need something, so learn these sutras, learn this knowledge. When you are listening to it, just don’t think you have listened to it once, and finished.  These 84 sutras that he has said here, listen to them again and again, because every time you hear it, every time you practice it, it takes you deeper, it uplifts you to another level. Knowledge is structured in consciousness. And as you grow, your consciousness expands, the knowledge also changes.  You need to do all the service activity and the actions that have been prescribed in...

Chapter 7 - Merging With The Divine  Day 58 Logic has many possibilities. You can use the same logic to prove something or to disprove something ask lawyers. Any point can be taken to prove something or to disprove the same thing. There are so many possibilities in logic. I have said earlier there are three types of logic. One is Tarka which means pure logic. And then Kutarka, wrong logic. And Vitarka is qualified logic.  I will give you an example. If a door is halfopen, that means it is halfshut that is logic. Wrong logic - if the door is half open, we agree it is half closed. So if it is fully open, then it must be fully closed. This is called kutarka, wrong logic. The flower is on the table and the table is on the floor, so the flower is on the floor. This is wrong logic.  Through this wrong logic, or Kutarka, only ignorance increases. And Vitarka is such a logic, such an inference, it simply amazes you. “Who am I?What is this all about? What is life? Who are You? Who...

Chapter 7 - Merging With The Divine  Day 57 Consciousness is indestructible, like the bones in your body are indestructible. That is how they could find the bones of dinosaurs even after several million years. In the same way, if they were just left on this planet, your bones would stay forever.  Like the bones, which are the grossest of your existence, and the subtlest, your consciousness, also the eternal, the mind, the consciousness which harbours the thoughts and feelings, emotions, everything, is eternal, that stays forever. And all those whose body and mind, their body and spirit have separated, that spirit still exists, the soul still exists.  Those souls, those units of energy, those units of consciousness, simply rejoice in love. One ultimate question remains how much love you have gathered in your life and have given in your life. The flow of consciousness is towards that love, towards the Divine love, because that is the source from where it has come.  In ...

Chapter 7 - Merging With The Divine Day 56 The devas, the divine beings, they dance and this earth finds their lordship. Among those devotees, there is no difference of race, caste or race, or from which family they have come-high class, low class, middle class, nothing of that sort. Nor have they studied do they have Ph.D. or are they Doctorate?  The same thing said from a Doctor has a different value, as said by someone who is not a doctor. The world does not hear them. A psychologist may not know much about the mind at all, but he carries more clout than a wise person who has more knowledge about the mind.  But in devotees there is no such difference. Religion or race, vidya-knowledge how much they know, how much they do not know, or how they look, or whether they are rich or poor, or what job they do. It is immaterial. Devotees, from whichever background they come, are all the same.  Because they belong to someone, they have become His. Once the devotees have become H...

Chapter 6 - Love Is Beyond Proof  Day 47 There are four types of people who pray to God. In the world you can categorise 4 types of people : Aarta - One who is miserable, one who has problems nobody else can solve no doctors can, nobody can do anything about you, then you pray to God. Aarta-those who are miserable, they pray to God. Artharti - The second type of people who pray to God are those who want something, some gains, some material benefits, or whatever, satisfaction.  You will see just before the exams, students go to places of worship and pray, just before exams or just before results come out. Or if they have to go to an interview, people pray. Sometimes even for lottery tickets. While buying a lottery ticket people pray and say, “If I get the lottery, 10% I will give to you, God.”  If you go to shops, retail shops, even wholesale shops, they all have altars. And there they worship, they pray that the business should be very good, that they have mor...

Chapter 6 - Love Is Beyond Proof  Day 46 Having attained that love, that Divine love, one sees only that everywhere. Cannot but see only love. Even if someone is blaming you, you see some good in it. “See this person is pointing that out, it is good.” You don't see blame as blame.  You see that blame as an effort from that person to point out a mistake, which nobody dares to point out, or at the most, you see they are taking away some bad karma of yours. It is said if someone blames you for no reason, you should thank them twice. If anyone blames you, they are taking the bad karma away from you.  Someone who praises you, they are taking the good karma away from you. Now you choose what you want. So someone praises you, better praise back immediately. But when someone blames you, better keep quiet, otherwise you may take more bad karma from them, they may have bigger stock than you, bigger stuff, heavier duty than you.  You see only that perfection. When y...

Chapter 6 - Love Is Beyond Proof  Day 45  Attaining which you are compelled to talk about it all the time. You only think about it and nothing else. And you see only that everywhere the impact of that love is so strong. You see only that everywhere. Your world is your own projection, your own creation. When you feel negative, you see all that negativity in everybody.  If you are upset, you feel everybody is upset with you, the world is a hopeless place for you. When you feel down, you feel everything is hopeless, isn’t it so? When you are high with energy and enthusiasm, nothing matters to you, you just move, you feel you can move the world, isn’t it?  When you are in love you only see that. You only speak about it, you only immerse in it. Every particle of divine love. And that is what is worth attaining. There is a proverb that says, “The world is as you see it.”  If you feel good in you, then you see good everywhere. If your mind is bitter, you see everything...

Chapter 6 - Love Is Beyond Proof  Day 44 It grows moment by moment, it does not diminish. Often in our relationships love seems to diminish. At least the intensity goes down a little, in all relationships when a child is very small, it cannot move away from it’s mother even for a few minutes, a few hours. Then it starts becoming independent.  Then once in a while the child sends Mother's Day cards. You are more attached to your children than to your own parents. Your whole attention, that was So much with your parents when you were a child, gets diverted to your spouse after you get married.  Then after you have children, that same attention you had for spouse gets diverted to your children. There is a shifting in all different types of love. But Divine love grows all the time, moment by moment. Every moment it grows, it increases, never decreases.  There is no gap. It cannot be destroyed by anybody, it cannot be taken away from you and it is very delicate. To experi...

Chapter 6 - Love Is Beyond Proof  Day 43 Such intense love for the Divine shines through here and there, somewhere and sometimes. Every human being is nothing but a vessel to hold the consciousness. There is no difference between me and you and you and him and him and her. We are all just empty bowls.  Everyone is nothing but an empty bowl, and the same space is in all the bowls. In ancient India, the example of the earthen pot was given. The body is like an earthen pot and the soul is contained in the earthen pot as an individual soul.  The moment the pot is broken, the space remains in space. Nothing has happened to the space. We are all pots. Every living creature is a pot. But such Divine love shines though only in some pots. Prakashate kvapi patre - Not that it is not there. But it shines through in some pots.  It is present everywhere, in all pots. But it only shines through, manifests somewhere here and there, on a rare occasion, once in thousands of years, on...

Chapter 6 - Love Is Beyond Proof  Day 42 Throughout the ages, with all gestures, man is trying to express love but it has remained inexpressible. Love is so deep somewhere in you, and you find all your expressions just a shadow of it. Often teenagers say that nobody understands them it is a normal complaint.  Just remember when you were a teenager, what was your complaint? “Nobody understands me.” isn't that so? Nobody understands you or you find yourself incapable of expressing what you feel? If the feeling is so superficial, then it can be expressed.  But the feeling that is so genuine, so deep, so authentic, is hard to express. It cannot be expressed That is the nature of love. Tears will come, a glow comes on your face, the smile comes up. But words fail to express. Often all these outer expressions give you a glimpse of love, but not really the experience of it.  It cannot be expressed by words. Language is of the mind, of intellect. You can express any theory, ...

Chapter 5 - Crossing The Ocean Of Maya Day 40 Another meaning of ved means knowledge. One who goes even beyond the vedas. That is why it is called vedanta where knowledge ends. Going beyond knowledge. You know a student wants to gain knowledge, but a devotee doesn't care for knowledge. He just loves, that is all. Love is beyond knowledge.  That is the difference between a student and a devotee. A student's goal is to gain some knowledge, gain something out of it. But a devotee, a beloved is one who simply loves. When there is love, you don’t need to know anything about any of it. Like a child is not interested in knowing how the mother is, isn’t it?  A child can never make the mother an object of knowing. A child never gets curious about the mother. Knowing is a curiosity, love is uniting. Knowing is analysis, love is synthesis. One who is beyond analysis, one who doesn't sit all the time doubting “Oh what is he up to, what is she up to, who is there, what is th...

Chapter 5 - Crossing The Ocean Of Maya  Day 39 Be so centred in the action. Relax, let go of the action. When you are in conflict, any activity you do, you will be ina bigger conflict. When you have a choice in front of you and you choose one, you will always find the other side is greener.  The other choice seems much better. This thing will bother you, will not let you enjoy what you have in your hand, not let you focus on what is right now in your hand. So when you are bothered by a choice, relax. The choice is never between good and bad. There is no choice between pudding and a plate of clay.  The choice is between whether you should have pudding or apple pie. Never mind, today you have apple pie and tomorrow you have a pudding. So what? Your confusion is always about bad and worse or good and better. The conflict is because of the choice. Narada says relax.  You can have conflict throughout your life from choosing what subject you want to select in y...

Chapter 5 - Crossing The Ocean Of Maya Day 38 The who is not worried about what people tell them or talk about them can be free. You don’t worry about what people think about you. They may think good about you, they may think bad about you. Why sit and worry all the time about what others think about you?  It may not be true at all. One who is free from this bondage of the surroundings, of society. One who is beyond all the three gunas - the satva, rajas and tamas. Satva guna - knowledge, Rajo gunadesire, ambition, restlessness and  Tamo gunadullness and sleep. The three gunas bring different tendencies in you and you are not attached to any one of them. Know that it is easy to be detached from negative qualities, but you get attached to positive qualities. You think you are the only righteous person and then you get upset about everybody else who is not righteous.  Feeling that you are the only right one, the only honest one, the only correct person, others, ...

Chapter 5 - Crossing The Ocean Of Maya  Day 37 You know that story of an elephant and the fly on It’s leg? A fly was living on the leg of an elephant. Once the fly got so angry at the elephant, it said, “I am leaving you today. Finished. Enough is enough. I'm done with you ." It got so angry, it left.  At that moment, just by accident, the elephant moved it's leg and some dust arose. But the fly thought that the storm has come because it is leaving the elephant. It told the elephant, “Yes, you see, the storm has come? I am leaving you suffer from the storm.”  The elephant didn't even know that the fly was sitting on its leg. And that is how nobody really cares what you are, what you do, what you don't do. And all impact gets wiped out by the flood of time. Time comes and just floods you, wipes you out.  It wipes all the memory out of this planet. This me, me, me can only dissolve and you serve. He becomes free from this identity of ego, identity of the ...

Chapter 5 - Crossing The Ocean Of Maya Day 35 That company which gets you lost, which doesn't let you learn from your own experience, is bad company. You can gallop on such a horse forever without being aware of anything in your life. That is how people commit the same mistake over and over again and get totally dejected and depressed their whole life - and they do not even know that they are miserable.  They are no doubt miserable and they make everyone around them miserable, isn’t that so? That is bad company. They forget all about themselves. There is no memory of them left, of who they are, what they are, what they want, where they are heading. They have no idea who they were, how they were.  All adults forget that they were teenagers once, and that they, too, had problems as teenagers. When they have teenage children, they think the children are not doing well. Every adult feels that the children don't listen - they forget that they, also, did not listen to th...

Chapter 5 - Crossing The Ocean Of Maya Day 34 Shun bad company. There is a saying by someone, “If you want to Know a person, know him through the company he keeps or the books he reads.” Shun bad company. What is bad company? The company which solidifies your negativity is bad company.  You have some problem, you have a complaint, you go and you talk to someone and they make your beliefs more strong in that negativity that is bad company. And you go to someone else with the same problem, same thought, same negativity.  And they will just make you feel lighter and when you walk away from them you feel that the problem is not as big as you thought it was before. That is the right company. Don't think people who agree with your grievances, with your problems, are your friends. They are not.  Those people who make your negative feelings and your frustrations grow more and more in you may appear to be friends, but they are your enemies. They are bad company. Right ...

Chapter 4 - Glorify The Divine Day 33 Smile and be innocent. Smile from the core of your heart, then you will see all the negativity will fly off, like when the sun shines, the dewdrops vanish, the darkness vanishes. Your smile is the light in your life. Stop fueling negativity, stop feeling obligedthen you are good company.  Not only that, then you will be a good company to anybody. It needs skill to shun someone. When someone is so negative, if you just shun them, and say, “This is not right, what you are saying is hopeless,” they will just shut up and they won't really feel lighter.  You need skill to deal with someone's negativity. Are you getting what I'm saying? They will just stop communicating with you because they are so convinced about their negativity. Unless you say yes to them, they don’t feel sympathetic. So you need skill to put down their negativity. That is satsang.  And when you come from this position you will see that whatever complaints th...

Chapter 4 - Glorify The Divine Day 32 In the beginning It will be nothing of course, but it sucks you in and when you get sucked into that type of company, it becomes like a hailstorm. You are unaware, without your knowledge you just sit in the darkness of negative company and start saying, “Oh, he’s bad, he’s no good.” The other day someone said, “So-and-so is so jealous of me.” Come on. Even if they are jealous of you, you don’t recognise it. You know, recognising someone's jealousy puts you down.  If they are jealous, it is up to them. Thinking they are Jealous of you makes you all worked up, doesn 't it? “Everybody is picking on me,” Such an illusion. Don't think anyone is bad. We say, “Oh that person is bad, this person is bad, shun this company.” No. The bad company is within you, it is notin the other person. Bad company refers to your attitude. In our Bangalore Ashram we have two teachers, anybody comes to one of these teachers with any complaint, he wil...

Chapter 4 - Glorify The Divine Day 31 You cannot take credit that for doing this or that, you could get the company of the Divine, the Guru, or an Enlightened One. Even that is bestowed on you unconditionally. It has not come to you on your merits. You have done nothing to deserve it.  Don’t think you deserve it. “Oh, I did this, this, this, I deserve this.” You don't. It is not coming to you because you deserve it. It is coming because of their Grace, because of their love for you. Between him and his people there is no difference-like a mother defends a child, like a father defends his son or daughter.  If someone fights with a young child, what do the parents say? “Why do you blame them?” They take it on themselves. If your Beloved is blamed, you take the blame on yourself. If your Beloved is praised, you enjoy that praise. You think that you are being praised. In the same way, adoring the Divine is the same as adoring his people.  There is no difference, n...

Chapter 4 - Glorify The Divine Day 30 Appreciating the beauty anywhere is appreciating the beauty in the spirit. All praise, all adoration goes only to one. In the world also, sing the glory, in the world, recognize the beauty. Glorify the divine.  Every flower has to remind you of its origin. Every human being reminds you of your own origin. Every bird singing reminds you of that beauty of the infinity. See this Divinity and sing its glory in your day to day activity. Predominant of all this is the Grace of the Master, of Guru.  Like a lit candle can light another candle, only one who has, can give. One who is free can free you, one who is love can kindle the love. Most important is the grace of the Guru and even that you can only get when you have some Divine grace.  With just a little bit, a tiny drop of grace from God, you gain the merit of the grace of the Master, the Guru and such a company is difficult to get. Millions of people are there on this planet...