LOVE IS FOR THE WISE
Today is the day of the Saraswati- the Goddess of wisdom
And today is Valentine day also
That means only if the goddess of wisdom will give you wisdom, and you become wise
Only then you begin to understand what is love, and you maybe in love after this.
Love is for the wise.
Attraction is for everybody.
FULFIL YOUR HOPES
It’s sad observation that many people keep hoping but I’ve seen rarely their hopes are fulfilled.
I will quote the very old poem: why are you worrying, if earth is left behind?
There is so vast space, in which you can fly. And I have no hope of meeting you; but I have absolute belief in my ability that I will reach you.
It must be true knowledge and true enterprise that you should be strong enough, to believe in yourself – and go for it.
DOUBTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
When you will have so many doubts – your concentration is gone and you can achieve nothing- except bigger doubts.
Most of the people – they were scholars, they were not the warriors, great athletes or wrestlers;
Krishna says, that when you just do karma – but don’t think about the results.
But here it is said that you have already thought about the result and you have set out to achieve – that resolve.
But on the way, like all great warriors know, if you keep worrying – whether I will be able to do it or not, your concentration will be gone, your training will suffer and you will fail for sure.
Believe in yourself, set a goal, no doubt in your abilities, do your best and then some more – and why not, you can achieve that!
Never let your concentration go sideways!
Krishna was talking to the world champion warrior, – he knew, what can be done and what can happen if you lose your concentration.
If there is no goal – you will not start your karma to achieve it.
Important things in life are not impotent things; why? You must have enough potential, potential means – enough potency in you to achieve what you set out to achieve. If you’re unable to do it – you have lack potency and be called impotent.
ABOUT SUPERSTITION
Every single religion which came into being on this planet, believes in afterlife!
That’s why the theory about Heaven and Hell are there! Main fight is that our way of going to heaven better than yours ! Okay!
They are all called “Men of faith”, devotees !
But if I believe in ghosts, and I talk about them- I am superstitious ! But even a ghost appearance is confirming, that life continues after death.
So where superstition here ?
This is the approach! We should have our own approach. You just take all information and draw your own conclusion!
A TOUCH OF THE DIVINITY FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE
As we were discussing behaviour of the particles, they change behaviour when you observe them.
So every this Idol-worship – is just like that, when you look at it with all devotion, the particles will change their behaviour, and they begin to look at you, as we have discussed.
Maybe this pran pratishtha ceremony is the surest way to create divinity in those particles,
so they will start observing you with all divinity they can have and they may be like expression of the divinity. And they will look at you when you are standing in front of it, those particles will look at you, and your particles will change their behaviour.
And you will also have a touch of divinity.
I think this was a very ancient discovery of the Indian Rishi and Seers and wise people – so that even a layman , most ordinary man who has no ambition to practice tapas or yoga or to know higher things , but his life has a touch of divinity.
So that may be the essence of creating different temples .
This is what I think.
You also think on that.
HOW JYOTISH BEGINS
Someone asks about astrology how it came into being.
I just told him, when with the great practice of Yoga, first I quoted YogaSutras:
Kurmnadym sthairyam : after 24 minutes of kumbhak – Kurma nadi becomes stable: then you see light of God in your head, Murdha,Ishwari jyoti!
Jyot Ish – the light of the Ishwar, he began to see.
And it will take your awareness into a very very high level, and you will begin to appreciate the TIME, which is the essence of all, Iswar, Time, – are one and the same.
Then your awareness becomes even more, and you begin to appreciate different expressions of the Time.
And you become aware of the planets and the stars and all these things.
Then when your awareness grows more, you begin to appreciate the effect of a certain star situation on the certain individual.
Then you become finer and finer and finer and finer.
Then you also realise, that planets and stars are not your enemies, not your friends: they are just showing a special situation of the result of your karma.
The probable future and the possibility, and what you have done before, and what you will see in the future-so-called future.
Otherwise Time is Time.
So that’s how the awareness about Jyotish, in my opinion, begin.
EVERYTHING WHAT YOU DO WILL COME BACK TO YOU
Q: question about the murder: because in Bhagavad Gita Krishna is saying that all the people are already killed by the Time. So when you’re on the stage of the development when you see all of them like already dead – the murder doesn’t become too bad thing?
Guruji: it will become bad thing – because Time will kill them anyway, nobody is immortal. But if you will kill them before their time – that is not a good thing. Until unless it’s a challenge, dwell or some war or battle.
Q: Krishna deliberately made Arjuna to make a bad thing?
Guruji: of course. But he was preparing for bad thing for 14 years.
Q: any murder considers as a sin and bad deed?
Guruji: because this person will not survive after some years – he will die anyway. So why fasten the process? Until unless he’s threatening to kill you or your family or your friend.
Q: so what will be then: karma will follow? Or some higher being will punish you? If you’re acting against the Time and kill someone?
Guruji: what you will do – will come back to you.
SHIVA JI IS THE TIME
Q: what does it mean that Shiva ji is the Time?
Guruji: He is Time. He is worshipped as Time in India. He is called Mahakal: great Time. Read some Hinduism also. I think time is not discussed in any religion – except Hinduism.
Q: if we will sit for 4 hours steady – we will lose the feeling of time?
Guruji: no, you will become aware of different sense of time.
Q: so now no matter how much we will ask until unless we experience it – it will be just another concept?
Guruji: by asking you will receive some answer and that answer will make you think. And maybe one day you will exactly understand it – what was the answer. Communication should remain: keep asking!
ABOUT THE MENTAL STATES OF A YOGI
Q: could we say that achieving samadhi what is described in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is already in our Kriya yoga practice?
Guruji: yes. If you’re doing right – you should experience.
Q: so we have everything – from dharana to pratyahara and everything?
Guruji: of course! It is their analysing of different mental states of what yogi will go through. If you can sit still for 4 hours in one posture – it is your mental state which will change after that. Physical body used to induce or to achieve very high mental states: that is yoga. You simply cannot assume – ok, I achieved it sitting by 4 hours; same mental state will not come.
Q: yes, long time back we discussed about 144 mahamudras – and one student did 36 and said: oh, I assume I can do this.
Guruji: do it! You cannot imagine how you can feel.
Q: after absolutely stillness in sitting for 4 hours it will be chitta vritti nirodhah?
Guruji: it will be the beginning of it! Mental state will be different. Not one time – it must be done regularly.
SHIVA JI IS THE TIME
Q: what does it mean that Shiva ji is the Time?
Guruji: He is Time. He is worshipped as Time in India. He is called Mahakal: great Time. Read some Hinduism also. I think time is not discussed in any religion – except Hinduism.
Q: if we will sit for 4 hours steady – we will lose the feeling of time?
Guruji: no, you will become aware of different sense of time.
Q: so now no matter how much we will ask until unless we experience it – it will be just another concept?
Guruji: by asking you will receive some answer and that answer will make you think. And maybe one day you will exactly understand it – what was the answer. Communication should remain: keep asking!
WHERE BUDDHISM CAME FROM
Q: why in Buddhism exists the wrathful and peaceful forms of the deity?
Guruji: that came from Tibet: it wasn’t in original Buddhism.
Q: why they limit the deity by form of only anger or peace?
Guruji: it is intermixing – it’s not pure form of the deity.
Q: is it some similarity in notion of yoga in Buddhism with the real yoga?
Guruji: Marpa came to India and learn from two yogis – Tilopa and Naropa, took these teachings to Tibet and to his disciple Milarepa who become very famous. What Milarepa practice is very similar to what we’re teaching you. Then the transference of the consciousness as they call “phowa” – it will also come. But it is just translated into Tibetan – so it is look different. Maybe so many intermixes also take place.
COLLECT INFORMATION
Q: now it is very popular among people to collect any knowledge which they can – but it also creates a lot of confusion; so we need Your advice: to collect every knowledge that we can – or it must be in some doses?
Guruji: knowledge is just information. How you process it – this is your problem.
Never let printed words replace your own thinking. They are just pointers, on whom you can ponder and thinking.
Writer is writing from his mental state – whatever level he was; reader is reading from his own mental level; if they are not almost the equal level – there will be misunderstanding.
WHAT IS INTUITION?
Q: Guruji, what is really intuition?
Guruji: they say – it is your six sense, so you can sense if something is about to happen. People call it god feeling also. It is just a feeling which sometimes is true.
Q: is it connected with the access to the subconsciousness?
Guruji: no, not at all.
Q: could the intuition be developed?
Guruji: I think with enough yoga practice it comes naturally.
Q: could we say that everyone has intuition but not everyone is able to listen to it?
Guruji: no, not everybody has intuition.
Q: why we have such a property? Is it a kind of blessing?
Guruji: grace from the ancestor’s spirits. Their spirits are happy with you and they will be warning you from time to time.
Q: how to understand that it’s real intuition and not the only thoughts from the mind?
Guruji: intuition will prove correct every time. Simple thoughts may not be correct all the time. If someone is not even intelligent enough to decipher what is intuition and what is just thoughts – then it’s useless.
Q: to understand the intuition, to listen the intuition is also like a gift?
Guruji: of course.
Q: we must be brave enough to accept intuition…
Guruji: there is no way to change it after. I like the dialogue from somewhere: those who knows future lives in the fear of future. Why people see only bad things in future?
PERSONIFICATION OF DEITIES
Q: I feel very strong vibration even after doing Guru Pranam; should I take a pause then?
Guruji: feel it – and only for few moments you can, then do.
Q: it exists some recommendations for the job activities or business activities for the yogi? Maybe some things are prohibited?
Guruji: business is business: do whatever you want. Only recommendation is practice very regularly.
Q: I read Your preface to Bhagavad Gita that Vishnu represents the space or Void, Shiva Ji represents the Time; so that gods – they are real higher beings? Or they are just symbols of space and matter?
Guruji: space and matter also have a deity. As a human form they are representing that. They are there.
Q: when they are depicted in more or less human-like shape: it is just for better understanding for the people?
Guruji: no, they are described exactly, as they are. And god created man as his god’s image. We are their image, we’re not our image.
Q: it’s not vice versa – that we created gods by our imagination?
Guruji: we’re not that great. And gambling is mentioned in Gita – so gambling is recommended(smiling)
Q: if Brahma is the personification of the matter, Vishnu – of the Void; so where is Krishna here?
Guruji: Time himself was talking through him. He was incarnation of Kali – as two books tells us.
Q: so he is Shakti and through him Time is talking? Through the Void the Time is talking?
Guruji: it looks like it.
Q: Shakti and Kali – it’s one and the same?
Guruji: yes
PRACTICE IS THE BASIS OF LIFE
Q: how to balance the practice and all other activities in life?
Guruji: that’s up to you. That’s no longer my problem(smiling)
Q: I understand that the practice is the main aim of my life; but what about other activities? They matters, they must be on a very high level…?
Guruji: most of them are for passing your time in a good way. Entertainment!
Q: is it a good idea if you have enough money and space to leave everything and just practice?
Guruji: no, you need to find the balance.
KNOW THE VOID
Q: I found the translation of the word “akash” like ether or space; what is better?
Guruji: both of them are wrong; akash literally means “sky”. Which is empty space. Void is beyond that. Space? Of course we can call it “space” because it is empty space; but outer space and Void is different. These 5 elements are combined only on planet Earth.
Q: beyond it is only Void – or it’s something else there?
Guruji: Void and Time. Beyond that – we don’t know.
Q: so the Time is the beginning and Time is the end?
Guruji: Time is Time. Alpha and omega is Time.
Q: what is true: someone says Vishnu is the Void, others says that Shakti is the Void?
Guruji: this is another point because you don’t know Sanskrit language: the word “Vishnu” literally means “which is everywhere”. So the Void is everywhere. And if you take the word “shunya” – Void is also called “shunya”; Shakti and shunya are synonyms in Sanskrit. It’s a language program.
Q: how we can understand shunya? Because we’re already in shunya all the time?
Guruji: but we’re not aware of shunya!
When you will begin to experience the main property of shunya – Naada; first you will realize Naada as a result of your daily excellent practice of yoga; and when you will begin to experience Naada – and you will merge in it more and more and more; then after some time you will start to be aware of shunya. Then new journey will begin after that.
That is the main property of shunya.
Q: Naada is the yogic method to enter into shunya?
Guruji: yes. Naada only comes as a result of yoga practice. Kriya yoga practice.
Q: that yoga which is called Naada yoga…
Guruji: that is the result! Read 4th chapter of Hatha Yoga Pradipika with my commentary. It is also the result of achieving khechari mudra correctly: they are connected. Naada is the vibration of the Creation. Wherever where is vibration – there is a sound. Wherever where is sound – there is vibration.
Q: it will concern only the new sound of Naada we will perceive?
Guruji: any sound
ABOUT CHARITY AND ORGANIZATIONS
Q: Guruji, Your opinion and Your attitude towards charity: it must be from the heart; or maybe because you’re earning enough money – society thinks you must share; or if you feel that they are professionals doing nothing – so you don’t need to help them?
Guruji: charity is good. Whether it is from the heart or from society, social pressure. If you can do it – please, do it!
Q: but in any case we cannot help everyone
Guruji: no, charity is not to help everyone: only those whom you can help.
Q: but then you will suffer that you helped one person and don’t help other – so you’re bad?
Guruji: whichever person comes in your life, who needs charity – do that.
Q: so you must feel it from the heart?
Guruji: not feeling exactly; it’s a social obligation living in society: do something!
Q: but it could be the situation – like many migrants in other countries – who deliberately do nothing only to live on charity
Guruji: but you’re not giving them charity
Q: that is the point! So you must feel that the person is really in need?
Guruji: no, don’t judge. You never know.
Q: ok, another very famous situation now: you buy our goods – and all money we will spend on charity?
Guruji: it is a business program. I’m talking about personal charity: whenever you see someone needs help – so help. When you give charity to some organization – it’s mostly waste. Look around! You will see many animals suffering, many people who are too shy to ask for help – it’s your outlook: you see the needed and help.
Q: so charity to the organization working with charity is not a good thing?
Guruji: it’s just business program.
EVERYTHING WHAT YOU DO WILL COME BACK TO YOU
Q: question about the murder: because in Bhagavad Gita Krishna is saying that all the people are already killed by the Time. So when you’re on the stage of the development when you see all of them like already dead – the murder doesn’t become too bad thing?
Guruji: it will become bad thing – because Time will kill them anyway, nobody is immortal. But if you will kill them before their time – that is not a good thing. Until unless it’s a challenge, dwell or some war or battle.
Q: Krishna deliberately made Arjuna to make a bad thing?
Guruji: of course. But he was preparing for bad thing for 14 years.
Q: any murder considers as a sin and bad deed?
Guruji: because this person will not survive after some years – he will die anyway. So why fasten the process? Until unless he’s threatening to kill you or your family or your friend.
Q: so what will be then: karma will follow? Or some higher being will punish you? If you’re acting against the Time and kill someone?
Guruji: what you will do – will come back to you.
Q: how all the nature or Universe decides the equality of the responsibility? If you kill someone – you will be killed anyway?
Guruji: no, you will suffer in some other way. They are worse things to be murdered or killed. I’ve seen too much of types so. It is good to remain quiet.
Q: the laws of Nature or Universe – they somehow balance all the deeds and all the actions?
Guruji: nobody knows, what are the laws of the Universe. Even Russian law or Indian law – it took many-many years to study them. Who will start to study the Universal laws?
Q: but they exist?
Guruji: there has to be some, yes. Ignorance is bliss.
Q: then the main thing which we must understand about karma is the responsibility?
Guruji: you should be intelligent enough to think on that. I’ve come across many criminals: it is not killing a person; it’s after that which follows. That is something. You perform the crime – ok, but what will follow after that crime? That gives you lot of problems.
Q: consequences?
Guruji: yes, consequences.
Q: so just to finish someone’s life it’s not so hard than the consequences which will follow?
Guruji: it will follow you. The law will follow you, someone will want to take revenge, so many possibilities will open. If somehow you escape law – then some other person will going to take revenge or something.
Q: theoretically even killing maybe a good deed?
Guruji: if someone is trying to rape someone or kill someone you will intervene and in that fight you will kill him – it’s a good thing.
Q: someone of Higher beings will see the situation and understand?
Guruji: they see. But if it’s a gang killing or killing for money – then consequences are going to be very severe.
Q: there is the opinion that the good deeds could neutralize the bad deeds?
Guruji: bad deeds stand out. Good deeds don’t stand out – until unless it’s a dramatic good deed. Nobody will look at it.
Q: that’s why I think mostly was created the notion of the charity: if you pay a lot of money for something – it will somehow wash up your sin?
Guruji: maybe sharing money may do something in this. Because most of the sins are committed for money and power. If you’re giving away your money – yes, it may help.
Q: I remember Your disciple who was shot – and he said that no bad deeds can be neutralised by good one?
Guruji: you will have to face it, yes.
Q: even if you will escape in this life time – after death you will be punished?
Guruji: yes. Until unless Atit ghat will take place; but a sinner will never think about Atit ghat.
Q: the notions of Good and Evil were created by the society – but it exist the Universal Law…
Guruji: I think inside our heart we all know what is bad and what is good
Q: yes, I was hunting for many years but every time I had the feeling inside that it’s wrong
Guruji: because you’re sensitive. I’ve planted 50000 jamun trees only for monkeys. Monkeys also have the same right to live as we have.
WHAT TRIGGERS KARMA
Q: we’re so confused about the consciousness: so except our consciousness the spirit has his own consciousness?
Guruji: yes, it has its own consciousness.
Q: so the spirit has its own karma?
Guruji: no karma.
Q: only consciousness creates karma – or karma is only for human beings?
Guruji: only commercial activities started all karmas.
Q: then animals has no karma?
Guruji: no. They’re still in Eden garden. We’re out of it. I noticed – they are all emotions. I feel good when I’m with my dogs: I go up in the night and they are very happy see me; then go again after my practice – they are so happy. Feeling is mutual there.
Q: they have only instincts and no feeling of guilt or some kind of human-like memory when we are worrying about past deeds?
Guruji: I don’t think so. But they learn out of experience: if something happens – they remember it.
Monkey’s life is very complicated comparative to human beings. Their social structure is so complicated. Jackals also; I learn – somebody was telling me – when jackal kills he first give it to the weak and old jackals. That was something – I was not aware of it. And you cannot make him a pet; no one has been able to do it. White jackals are not available in Asia – but he just appeared near gym.
Q: whom it was?
Guruji: in India we believe that it is connected with Shakti, Tara. Outside dogs were not bothering him at all. Nobody barked at him.
WHAT IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF PUJA
Q: some disciples told me, that some people who came to You when they came to puja -they can see a huge amount of spirits everywhere?
Guruji: many saw, yes.
Q: is it their imagination – or they really can see?
Guruji: they live here and come to attend puja also. There are many – thousands of photographs.
Q: You have the very special style of attending puja – it looks like very easy motions, all the style is very light and easy?
Guruji: oh, it took a long time to settle in it.
Q: mostly, when someone is performing ritual it is looking too much serious and unnecessarily too much important; but when You’re performing – it is looking very natural?
Guruji: I’m not a priest, I don’t have to create important feeling.
Q: what is the main purpose of puja? Like paying respect?
Guruji: that’s it! Your ego remains under control(smiling)
Q: is it the way of communication with the higher beings?
Guruji: with Shiva.
Q: why the ego remains under control?
Guruji: I’m already a Guru, many people paying to me respect; if I will not do this – it will become bigger and bigger. When you’re bowing down to more senior people, higher gods – you know there are much better and greater powers than you’re there.
