ABOUT SWADISTAN AND LIVER

 

ABOUT SWADISTAN AND LIVER

Now I will tell you about only one chakra first of all, is the yellow chakra you see there called as Swadisthan which moves around that void. This is the one which is responsible for producing or manifesting our reflexes but that’s only on the physical side. Now how much work this poor centre has to do! We have never thought that when we think the energy we use in our thinking how is it replaced, thinking energy from where does it come in our brain. We are using our brain all the time but what is replacing it, is this center.

So this center – you know the brain is made of fats – this center converts the fat of the stomach for the use of the brain and that’s how – this is again hypothesis I am telling you – that’s how those who think too much go into imbalance, futuristic thinking people planning everything, plan this, plan that. Most of the plans fail also but they are planning all the time, thinking too much. All that leads to one crisis is that person becomes imbalanced in the sense that this poor centre which has to do other jobs also, it has to look after your liver, it has to look after your pancreas, it has to look after your spleen, your kidneys and part of the intestine, large intestine.

So a person who thinks too much, a very right sided futuristic person first problem can come from his liver. In the medical science I don’t think we have much knowledge about liver. Liver is by which we live. I think, it’s a very important organ in the body. So the function of the liver is to absorb all the poison of the body and convert it into heat and which passes to the blood stream, is the function in simple words. I am not using any medical terminology, simple words. So now when you start thinking too much you neglect your liver. When you neglect your liver poor thing doesn’t know how to do his job. So, the who heat is saturated in the stomach. The person has heat here then the heat starts passing upward.

Excerpt:

Medical Conference

New Delhi (India)

March 25th, 1993

New Awareness of Self and Religion

 

Everyone has been talking about truth; since long we have been hearing that we have to find out the truth, and there has been an evolutionary process even in our spiritual seeking. As you must have seen how gradually we are built up and how the divine personalities came on this earth to give us a new awareness, a new dimension, a new understanding of ourselves within. All this evolved slowly one after another, outside as well as inside; but what we see outside sometimes frightens people. They see a person like Khomeini, they see a person like Idi Amin, then Gadaffi – they’re quite shocked. They think these fundamentalists are there, they can’t understand how these people can carry on with that kind of a fundamental idea in their head – that they are the best and they have a right to proclaim as if Mohammed Sahib was in their pocket.

But is true of every religion – they are very close, they are not sophisticated so we do not see their fanaticism, we can see this fanaticism but those who are so sophisticated, like I was born in a Protestant religion; I found they were extremely sophisticated and no escape was left for any seeker to come out of it – because only thing was to dress up nicely, go on a Sunday, attend a meeting and finished – pay for the parson, pay for the church – finished, you are saved once and for all. I used to think how they are draining all the seeking of human beings away, how, what is this going on? And then we had Paul – I was shocked to see him in the Bible; how he was there I don’t know. But he was never with Christ. He was actually an anti-Christ in a way because he was epileptic, he tortured people who were Christians – suddenly he sees some light and takes up the charge, becomes the leader, orders about, organizes God, Christ, everyone, Church.

Now today it’s nice that we see that second confrontation, now we have two groups of people – those who believe that Christ was miraculous, was Divine, and those now who believe in Paul that He was not. I say He was, He was the divine incarnation of the child, He was the Son of God – it can be proved now. Now the time has come to prove all these things. Hindus are the same, extremely fanatical. They have a funny custom of having a caste system which was never, never preached before, actually the one who wrote Gita was Vyasa, who was the illegitimate child of a fisher-woman. So how could you say that you are born as a Brahmin? Valmiki who wrote Ramayana was a man who was a thief, and also a fisherman and he became such a great saint. None of the incarnations took birth in the Brahmin family except for Parushamas, so the so-called Brahmins today who say that they are the ones who are the fundamental Hindus should know that they are not.

Brahmin is a person who knows the Brahma, the one who feels the power, the eternal power, the power that is all-pervading of God, the Brahma. If you cannot feel that then you are no Brahmin, you are just trying to proclaim like any priest does. Everybody has taken these beautiful flowers away from the tree of life, when they are dead they are calling this is mine, this is mine, this is mine. And they are fighting, they are militant. How can you be militant like these born-again people? You’ll be surprised that in Geneva they come with Bibles, Bibles in their hands to hit Me, and I was just laughing. They have a tape on that I say what Christians are coming nicely down with the Bible to hit somebody, I mean can you imagine such absurd things happening in the name of Christ, in the name of other great religions? Every religion has gone wrong – Buddhism has gone wrong to such an extent that Buddha did not want to talk at all about God because he thought if you talk about God everybody thinks they have become Gods. So best thing is tell them first Self-realization, I did that Myself for some years. First take your realization then I’ll talk about God. No God, nothing, first take your realization. That’s why he didn’t want to talk about God, that’s why they call him (Anishwar?), means he does not believe in God, he’s an atheist. He was not, but he saw the point. It’s better not talk about God, let them have their Self-realization and then we’ll talk about it. But Buddhists, they not only worship everything, but if you see the way they go on all worshipping they’re really maddening people. Really maddening. You cannot imagine how they could be so funny I have seen, in China, I was surprised with these llamas, that when I went to China, they showed us what they got from Tibet, because I knew Pahi, ancient things were there written, big, big plates of real gold and wine glasses and beer glasses all made in real twenty-four carat gold, thick ones. All were used by these lamas.

They had taken this money from these poor Tibetans. If you see the poor Tibetans, you’ll be shocked what sort of life they have lived in, and they have lived. I have no sympathy about communism as such but what I saw shocked Me – it was no publicity stunt because I know Pali. It all belonged to this llama, that llama, this person, that person. For ages they have been extracting money from these poor people who didn’t even have sufficient money to clothe themselves in that cold and they call themselves religious. Then it strikes you, you think why, why all this, how can God do these things? It’s only human beings – they really have such a knack of ruining everything that is beautiful if they want to. And this is what has happened.

Now when we stand in front of reality we realize what reality is – there is reality, there is God.

Excerpt:

Where Are Religions Leading?

Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne (Australia)

Friday, March 15th, 1985

BECOMING ESTABLISHED IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD

 

BECOMING ESTABLISHED IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD

[God Almighty] is reflected in the hearts of human beings, among all the creations He pulsates. But that pulse, pulsation is the energy of the Primordial Mother. And He can destroy anything that goes against the plans of the Adi Shakti. Adi Shakti is love, She forgives and She loves. She loves her creation. She wants the creation to prosper, to go up to the same level for which it was created. She wants human beings to go to that level where they enter into the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Sadashiva where there is bliss, there is forgiveness, there’s joy.

All this is only possible if you have seeking, that you have also a innate desire to be there. This desire within us is reflected as the reflection of the Primordial Mother. Now this desire is there and other mundane desires are also there which stop the progress of your ascent.

In Sahaja Yoga we have never tried to overcome the desires by taking sanyasa or running away from the house or for all kinds of things that has been suggested. The first thing that is done is that you get the light of your Spirit. Spirit is the reflection of Sadashiva. In that light He shows, He is just showing the path. The spirit is just like a light which is burning and which is showing the path. In that path you yourself become so wise that you walk in the light of wisdom, that you walk in the light of righteousness, because whatever is destructive is seen through the light of your Spirit. You start giving up all that is destructive. Nobody has to tell you that: “Give up this, give up that.” You yourself realize that: “This is wrong and we should give up.” This was, I should say, my own understanding of human beings. Because these are the days where people are in complete illusions. They are in a conflict all the time struggling even to exist. Under these circumstances, everything would have failed if you had started with taking a sanyasa and then going to Himalayas and all that.

If you have to do this for the masses, something has to be done radical and luckily I’ve been able to find out a way by which you can get your sprouting, your Realization.

Now some people who get Realization have to understand certain things because as you know there are many people who have got Realization. I don’t know how many, I don’t keep count. But what is lacking in them is surrendering. It’s embarrassing to say but is a fact. This is the only condition of modern Sahaja Yoga that you have to really surrender. If you start using your brain, if you start using other methods to understand Sahaja Yoga, you cannot. You must surrender and – as Islam is nothing but surrender, Islam means surrender – and if that surrender is not there it is impossible to establish anyone in the Kingdom of God.

Excerpt:

Mahashivaratri Puja.

Delhi (India),

14th March, 1994.

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ARTIFICALITY KEEPS US AWAY FROM THE JOY OF SPIRIT

 

ARTIFICIALITY KEEPS US AWAY FROM THE JOY OF SPIRIT

Because of so many pressures on us and so many norms we’ve got, which are artificial, and we think only if outside we are alright, it’s alright; but Truth flowing from within is so joyous. You feel your capacity to love itself is so joyous, and capacity to give is also so joyous. So the Shiva Puja meant that you become love and feel the joy of love. You see when you love someone, if you love your child, you’re not bothered as to how it looks or how it appears, you just love. And if you try to be attentive to somebody because his appearance is good or he’s superficially good, or his manners are good, after some time you’ll be deceiving yourself. But if your inner being is beautiful then you will be happy with yourself first of all; because the source of joy is from within yourself. You do not get it from others.

So to cleanse yourself and to be open is the best way to enjoy life. Some people may laugh at you, some may make fun of you, some may try to trouble you; but most of them will love you, because you are so pure, and you will be yourself at peace with yourself. So the best thing is to have introspection to see yourself, whether you are Love or not. Like some people are conditioned and they want that this should be like this, that should be like this, it should have been there, we should do this, we should do that, we should organise like this, we should cook like this; I mean conditionings are there that according to them that’s something good. And if that doesn’t happen then they are unhappy. And some are right sided egoistical, they want to dominate others, if they cannot dominate then they are unhappy, they are angry. So they are miserable, so they make others miserable also. So the first type which is left sided makes himself miserable, while the second type makes others miserable: but both are wrong. You have no business to make yourself miserable, because God has created you to be joyous and happy.

So one should only know that you have to be the Spirit. So all these conditionings will drop out, ego will drop out. But when we talk of Spirit we always think of something very dry. No it’s not at all, it is absolutely Love, Spirit is Love. You can say the light of Spirit is Love. So it is important to understand that it’s the love only that is emitting from your heart that will give joy to you. Look at other people as you have to give them love. You’ll feel very powerful and the ‘bhoots’ and all the ‘badhas’ will run away. Once you decide that I have to just love others, all the conditioning will drop out.

Excerpt:

Bhajans And Talk About Divine Love

Ashram of Pichini, Rome (Italy)

February 22nd, 1991

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At the Lotus Feet of GURU

 

AT THE LOTUS FEET OF GUUR Composed by : Shri Adi Shankaracharya

Meaning in English:

One's body is handsome, wife is attractive, fame spread far and wide, wealth enormous and stable like mount Meru;

but still, what is the use of all these, if the attention is not centred upon the lotus feet of Guru?

Really of what use is all this, what use, what use?

One has Wife, wealth, sons, grandsons home and relations

but still, what is the use of all these; if the attention is not centred upon the lotus feet of Guru?

Really of what use is all this ?

One has mastered and memorised all the Vedas,

likewise, knowledge of all the sciences and the ability to write prose or verse is well gained;

but still, what is the use of all these, if the attention is not centred upon the lotus feet of Guru?

Really of what use is all this ?

One is honoured even in far off places, held in high esteem in his locality;

and one cannot be surpassed in the paths of righteous conduct;

but still, what is the use of all these, if the attention is not centred upon to the lotus feet of Guru?

Really of what use is all this ?

One may be worshipped constantly by the kings and emperors of the world for his greatness and scholarship;

but still, what is the use of all these, if the attention is not centred upon the lotus feet of Guru?

Really of what use is all this ?

If one's fame has spread in all directions due to his unique generosity, and all things of the world are at his service;

but still, what is the use of all these, if the attention is not centred upon the lotus feet of Guru?

Really of what use is all this ?

If one's mind may have turned away from external delights through dispassion and from attainments like Yogic concentration, possessions like horses and the like, the enchanting face of the beloved, in short, the entire wealth of the earth;

but still, what is the use of all these, if the attention is not centred upon the lotus feet of Guru?

Really of what use is all this ?

If one's mind does not dwell upon the forest nor at home,

nor in what is to be accomplished, nor upon the body's welfare.

The most invaluable treasure of the world may not hold any allurement;

but still, what is the use of all these, if the attention is not centred upon the lotus feet of Guru?

Really of what use is all this ?

Whoever reads, studies and recites the collection of these eight verses on Guru, no matter he is a holy person, ascetic, king, student or householder,

attains the desired goal of brahman.

Compus de: Shri Adi Shankaracharya