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Chapter 14 - Offering To Shiva  Day 68 Pure consciousness, pure understanding and pure knowledge start from love. Desires are below the navel. Imagination is between the navel and throat and between the throat and the head, in between the eye brows lies pure consciousness.  Only one pure consciousness shines in us. This alone is called Brahma Vishnu and Maheshvara. Brahma is the creator and creates all desires.  Vishnu is the protector everything in the world is sustained only by love. Shiva offers liberation, brings transformation and gives knowledge.  Our lives should reach the highest level, like Mount Meru, and we should cultivate the essence of Shiva, innocence, auspiciousness.  That light should glow within us, and for this to happen we need to keep going deep in meditation. What does it mean to go into meditation? So many techniques have been given up till this point.  There are already many ways. Life is like a game of snakes and ladders. You climb ...

Chapter 14 - Offering To Shiva Day 67  The river of life is not always flowing evenly. Sometimes it crashes like a waterfall and after hitting the rocks, it rises back up. It courses in between boulders and sometimes runs so softly that we hardly feel it move.  Until it reaches the sea, the river's currents and movements take different forms. Similarly, it is difficult to say what will happen in life and when. Life is just like a river.  As long as it flows, it is shivamaya, filled with Shiva, and if it stops somewhere, it starts to stagnate. On certain occasions we float oil lamps on the river's surface or offer flowers to the water.  Some people throw in garbage or planks of wood. The water carries anything you throw in it and moves ahead. Our lives should flow in a similar manner. This is the core of the Shiva Sutras.  Now we are coming to the end of the Shiva Sutras. Let us look at the last sutra. "See happiness or misery in your life as though it is taking ...

Chapter 13 - Embers Covered In Ash  Day 66 There is not much difference between you and an enlightened person. If you consider his external knowledge, actions and moods, you may not see much difference between your actions and his actions.  But it is difficult to understand the enlightened. We have made up different measuring rods for the enlightened. We think that it is one who does not sleep or does not smile or cry.  Krishna describes the special qualities of someone who is established in wisdom. An enlightened person is always equanimous. He does not cry, laugh or become distressed.  Yet we impose all the qualities that we want to see on the enlightened. Take a look at the Gods and enlightened saints of the past.  Rama became so upset and lost his mind after losing his wife, Sita. Do we not consider a person mad when he starts asking questions to leaves and trees? These days, what would you say if you saw someone who lost his scooter keep on asking, "Oh door...

Chapter 13 - Embers Covered In Ash  Day 65  The power, by which water transforms into water vapour, rises up and falls down as rain is the same power by which we see with the eyes and hear with the ears.  There is no difference between these two, the energy of life and the energy of the sun. In the Gita, when Krishna was asked where he is.  He replied - "I exist in everyone's stomach as hunger. I am also the power of digestion." After saying this, he told Arjuna, "You think that you are Arjuna of the Pandavas? Even Arjuna is me.  The one who is speaking is me, and the one who is listening is also me." The whole word is created through one energy. I am the center point of that energy."  This is the essence of Vedanta and the essence of the Shiva Sutras. Even if only a part of this sutra enters your mind, it will automatically create complete faith, trust and confidence in you.  Krishna goes on to say, “I am not only creating all this, but I am also anni...

Chapter 13 - Embers Covered In Ash Day 64 How does ash form? It is formed by burning charcoal. The same ash formed by the charcoal cinders finish off the charcoal. Similarly, arrogance, jealousy, desire and anger have come from the knowledge in our consciousness.  You can only desire something that you have knowledge of. If you do not know what cham cham is how could you desire it? Is it possible? If in your mind there is a desire to eat gulab jamun, then you must know what it is. Desire arises from knowledge and the same desire destroys knowledge. In a similar way, you get angry because of knowledge. Nobody gets angry without a reason.  Does anybody become angry when they are sleeping? Why do you get angry? It is because you did not get something that you wanted. Your desire is unfulfilled.  When this happens, you will instantly become angry. You become angry because of knowledge. Likewise, where does greed come from? It comes because of knowledge.  Why did you get ...