Relationships
Trying to understand
a relationship would
never help. Trying
to understand is
like peeling an
onion; you can go on
peeling, peeling,
and peeling, there
is nothing to it.
You must learn the
art of experiencing
the other.
If you learn to
experience your
husband or your
wife, there is no
greater joy, on this
planet. But the
problem is that you
do not know how to
experience human
beings; you do not
feel connected.
If you know how to
experience your
wife, if your wife
were to nag you or
to scream or yell,
that would be most
beautiful.
Similarly, when your
husband also bothers
you, if you can see
and experience that,
it becomes joy.
That is the only way
you can set right
your relationships,
because then it
becomes a source of
joy.
The setting right of
relationships with
your parents is of
the utmost
importance.
That has priority.
Only after that
comes the service
aspect.
All relationships
reflect the
relationship with
your parents.
They reflect exactly
what has happened
between you and your
parents.
Once this is set
right, everything
falls into place.
And life is
relationship. So
what happens is,
life also reflects
these relationships.
That is why, if you
have a terrible
relationship with
your father, you
most likely have
financial problems,
because life would
reflect that.
If it’s a very bad
relationship with
your mother, then
you have needless
obstacles; that is
how life would
reflect it, because
life is
relationship.
Anybody who is
having a terrible
financial problem,
set right your
relationship with
your father, and you
will see there is an
immediate
improvement.
And if you are
having needless
obstacles, set right
the relationship
with your mother,
and you will see
immediately
improvement.
This can be
experimentally
verified.
All that we are
talking about can
actually be verified
at the ground level.
The Mind
The mind is nothing
but the flow of
thoughts.
You cannot conceive
of a mind, without
thoughts.
The only way you
could become free of
the mind is to
closely watch it.
If you keep watching
in a very friendly
way without judging,
condemning or
commenting, it soon
becomes very weak
and slowly becomes
quieter.
Oneness within
oneself is the
cessation of the
dialogue.
Right now if you
watch yourself, you
would find a crowd
inside.
That is why I often
refer to you as a
mobile market place.
When you achieve
true oneness, this
inner dialogue
stops.
Then there is an
inner silence which
is not the opposite
of noise, it is
something else.
That is inner
oneness.
Nara [limited self]
becomes Narayana
[divine wholeness]
when he achieves
complete oneness.
When the wall
completely breaks
down.
When the wall called
the mind is gone
then Nara becomes
Narayana.
When consciousness
is purged of all its
contamination what
remains is life,
pure consciousness
or God.
Flowering of the
Heart
The question is one
of simple
transformation, make
the heart flower and
we have heaven here.
There will be actual
heaven on earth.
Once the heart has
flowered, you know
exactly how to act.
The love we are
talking about cannot
be described. It has
to be experienced.
There is no reason
for that. There is
no cause for that.
It is just there.
We would like you to
get there.
You would then be a
fulfilled human
being.
You would have
realized your full
potential as a human
being.
The moment you
discover this love,
you also discover
connectedness.
First you feel
connected with your
near and dear ones,
then with your
friends, then with
the world at large,
plants and animals
and finally with
God.
You become one with
God.
That is the oneness
we are talking
about.
The whole creation
is an outpouring of
joy.
Once you become
enlightened, you
will see that there
is nothing but joy.
There is only love.
Suffering and Seeing
Whenever you say I
am suffering, it
means that you are
running away from
suffering.
Because if you could
turn around and
confront the
suffering, soak in
it, embrace it, fall
in love with it, be
with it, accept it,
do all these things.
Then see for
yourself what
happens!
The best thing is to
embrace it and the
strangest part is
you will find sooner
or later you will
develop this art and
every time suffering
comes, you would
embrace it and it
becomes joy.
The first thing is
seeing.
When it comes to
inner problems or
inner growth or
spiritual progress,
you have to learn
the art of seeing.
What is there is not
important for us,
but you must ‘see'
what is there.
The key thing here
is you have to get
into a state where
seeing is occurring
all the time.
When seeing happens,
all suffering ceases
because to see is to
be free.
There is no effort
involved, there is
no time involved.
Confronting your
self-centeredness,
though the word is
misleading, it
simply means that
you just become
aware that this is
what you really are
and you never
thought that you are
that.
It is so and it is
there, that is all.
The mere seeing is
sufficient.
Misery of Self
What is there to
your life?
As far as God is
concerned you are
merely existing, you
are not living.
You exist because
you are afraid to
die.
What is there to
your life, other
than the terrible
struggles?
Because you are
there, in your being
there is
unhappiness.
Not that you are
unhappy. No. You =
unhappiness. That is
your condition.
So, what is
enlightenment?
It is wiping out the
‘you'. You receive
Oneness Blessing=
Diksha and wipe the
you out.
If you are gone, you
will still be very
functional.
The memory is there,
you can do
everything you are
doing, only much
better.
Since you are not
there, what is there
is joy, is
happiness, is love.
We want people to be
happy.
What should we do?
We should erase you.
Once ‘you' are gone,
it does not matter
who you are, what
you are, what is
there is only joy
and happiness.
Please get the whole
thing straight. We
are not asking you
to be free of the
self.
We are only asking
you to be conscious
of the self.
Helping you to be
free of the self is
God’s business. You
couldn't do that.
What the Divine is
trying to give you
is the Oneness
state.
In that state, there
is no sense of
separateness, there
is only
connectedness.
The whole problem
with mankind is,
people do not feel
connected.
Basically there is
no transformation in
man, there is
tremendous misery
and all this is out
of a sense of
separateness.
You are destroying
yourself because you
are not able to
handle this misery
in you.
So, this is the
condition.
You have to lose the
sense of separation
and you have to feel
connected.
First you start with
your own family,
then the world, the
you, extend it to
the animals, the
plants and then
finally to God.
That is why we use
the word oneness.
When we speak of
oneness with God, we
mean actually
becoming one with
God.
Inside and Outside
What is applied to
the inner world
should not be
applied to the
external world.
In the inner world
you do nothing. In
the external world
you must do
everything.
In the inner world,
you stay where you
are. If there is
jealousy, you stay
there.
That is all.
That is the only
truth.
But in the external
world you want to
buy a house, you
want to earn some
money, you want to
get this, you want
to get that. The
best thing is to ask
for it, that is all.
The moment there is
inner integrity,
your link with the
Lord is firmly
established.
It is very easy for
the grace to flow.
When there is no
inner integrity, the
contact is not
clear.
It becomes very
difficult to give
you grace because as
far as The Divine is
concerned it is very
eager to give grace
to anybody and
everybody.
In fact, you could
yourself do miracles
if there is inner
integrity.
Your greatest joy
would be to discover
your place in the
big scheme of things
and work to fulfill
your destiny.
Bond with the Divine
and Surrender
Each one of you
should try and find
out what suits you
best.
Some play with God,
some fight with God,
some cajole with
Him; and some
communicate with
Him.
You should do
whatever comes
naturally to you.
However, the key is
to have a strong
bond with The
Divine.
One other deterring
factor for Grace is
the emotion that you
carry in your
prayer.
If there is emotion,
the response is very
fast.
There are some
people, who assume
that God looks into
all of their needs
and help them to
live without any
stress.
For some he does
that even before
they ask.
The kind of prayer
that would suit you
depends on your
upbringing, your
background and your
culture.
The choice is
therefore left up to
you.
God does not test
His children. What
you consider to be
tests from God's end
are basically
problems you have
created for
yourself. The Divine
is basically trying
to help you out.
Sometimes it might
appear that it is
testing you, but in
reality the Divine
would prevent a
greater pain from
coming to you.
Let us say you
prayed for a good
job, and it wasn’t
granted to you, it
will only be to save
you from some
immanent danger, or
to bless you with
something greater.
God loves you; He is
there only because
He loves you so
much.
You are not separate
from the Divine. To
Him it is not loving
someone else, but
Himself.
There are certain
areas where God
could straight away
intervene, and other
areas where He
cannot.
Here He needs your
cooperation.
Surrender and
Helplessness are not
a defeatist
attitude.
It is to set aside
your defective
believe systems and
complex emotions,
seeing that they are
a hindrance to
Grace. Even if you
could do this for a
short while, God
would have His way.
What you must
understand is that:
while God is
powerful, you too
are powerful. That
is the whole
problem.
You are an aspect of
God. You are a
powerful being, who
is full of defective
thoughts, concepts
and mental
frameworks. So you
are God, who has
gone wrong. That is
why; it is not
possible to
transform the world
in one blow. You too
have to cooperate
with God in helping
to change the world.
The ultimate purpose
of life is to become
one with God. Your
whole life is so
structured to push
you in that
direction. If every
event in your life
were thoroughly
understood and
experienced as an
action from God, you
would move closer to
God. Ultimately you
become one with God.
If you are talking
about true
surrender, man and
God cannot coexist.
Either there is man,
or there is God.
If you are there,
you don't give a
chance for God.
Where man ends, God
begins.
As you go on
progressing, you
will find that one
minute you are God
yourself and the
next minute you are
not. What happens is
after sometime you
will realize that
actually you and God
are the same. But,
sometimes you have
the feeling of
oneness; sometimes
you have a feeling
of separation.
It is then that you
can be of very great
help to people.
You will actually
discover that you
are one with the
Divine, that you are
actually God.
This continues on a
regular basis, the
only thing is as you
go along; the time
that you experience
oneness with God
would be more.
You would actually
become The Divine or
Light or God or
whatever you want to
call it; it all
depends upon you.
When you still go
deeper, your
physical form can
also be affected.
There is no end to
these things; these
are things, which
happen very
naturally, very
automatically.
All existence is
bliss when you are
one with the Divine.
Vision of the Golden
Age
The vision is that
there must be the
Golden Age by 2012.
The mission is to
make 60,000 people
enlightened. That's
the mission.
The way is - receive
Diksha: Oneness
Blessing.
That's the vision,
mission and way.
God is not asking
you to do some
terrible practice.
Just simply receive
Oneness Blessing.
That's all. You are
awakened.
What would have
happened is, in the
Golden Age, people
would be happy.
The only goal is to
make people happy.
It is to make people
happy. That's all.
After that they
should be full of
joy and bliss. There
should be no
suffering.
Hundreds achieved
Mukti
[enlightenment].
Thousands in fact.
It’s not a question
of - can they
achieve. They have
achieved it. It's
over.
Oneness University
is producing
Enlightened people
by the hundreds
everyday.
Soon it’s going to
be an explosion. I
will say this is the
last phase of man.
It is like - Man has
been building a
house for so many
thousands of years
now.
And 2004 to 2012 is
the grahapravesham
[topping-out
ceremony].
Man has reached the
final stage after
all these years of
struggle.
You will see a very
different world,
which you cannot
even imagine now and
it will happen very
fast.
Very, very fast.
The dawn of this new
civilization, which
we might call an age
of Oneness, is the
single most
explosive fact of
our lifetime. We
have a destiny to
create, a state of
consciousness that
is, Oneness with all
that is.
As a consequence of
this inner state of
man, changes would
occur in the outer
world, which we
would call the
Golden Age.
The Oneness Age and
the Golden Age are
complementary to
each other.
The Oneness Age
represents what is
going to happen
inside, and the
Golden Age is about
what is going to
happen outside.
The advent to the
Golden Age would see
a world where there
are no national
boundaries, where
all mankind becomes
one family.
People would not
suffer from a sense
of want; it is not
prosperity for one
country or the
other, but for the
whole globe. That is
going to happen
soon.
This Golden Age is
for the whole of
mankind; it is not
capitalism, not
communism or
socialism, or
radical humanism.
That will win the
day for us.
What we will see is
an entirely
different world,
where there is no
competition but only
cooperation.
It will be One
Humanity.
And each one of us,
let us remember, has
a role in creating
this destiny for
man, that is; for
ourselves.
