Darshans2024#03

ABOUT MAHASHIVARATRI 

We’re fortunate people, Today this is the SHIVARATRI, and it is the day after tomorrow we will have 26th anniversary of finding SHIVA, and it is our luck, that Shiv’s grace on us, and we able to celebrate Shivaratri,  Remain in  devotion to Sviva Ji!

ABOUT WOMAN’s DAY

Well, today’s Woman’s Day also, and we are celebrating Shivaratri,  so I will just remind you one thing which we said some time back in the GYM.

Everybody says that Shiva appeared as half man and half woman,

but my take on it – maybe Adi Shakti appear as half man and half woman.

So, we should call Ardhapurusheshvari which we are calling Ardhanarishvary.

So without Shakti, Shiva is half, without Shiva Shakti is half. For us – they are together forever, only they are together forever.

So, our deepest regard to them, and all our devotion.

HUMILITY FOR THE RELIGIOUS, CONFIDENCE FOR THE YOGIS

Q: is it also to create some humbleness?

Guruji: main task is to develop yourself. The humbleness is for religious people.

Q: so we must feel very good the difference between self-confidence and the arrogance?

Guruji: of course: self-confidence is welcome. I have seen: arrogant people don’t have enough self-confidence. There is no such thing as superiority complex: it is just a way of hiding your inferiority complex.

Q: could we increase the quantity of prana inside by our breathing?

Guruji: you can be in a very friendly relationship with that.

HOW TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF PRANA IN THE BODY

Q: but could we breath in more prana?

Guruji: no. by eating dirt your earth element will not increase.

Q: could we say that prana is not only in the air but in the other elements also?

Guruji: everything is alive, yes.

About Yogananda’s energizing technics: most of them are very similar to what Charles Atlas was teaching: first muscle builder who was giving the exercise program for building muscles. He was great man – maybe best-build man in early 30s and 40s. he remained very fit looking and strong – and he start to sale that energizing technics.

The more your consciousness will develop – more aware you will become: with awareness will come sensitivity.

ABOUT SUPERPOWERS PART 1

Q: those people, who was born more sensitive: they have more developed consciousness from the birth?

Guruji: mostly such people are the disturbance for family and the community.

Q: their level are much higher than average?

Guruji: not necessarily. As drunkards are saying: if you cannot hold your liquor – you should not drink. This thing applies to such people.

Q: why some people are born with such abilities?

Guruji: past karmas, karmic effect.

Q: what they have done in previous lives? They were practice something?

Guruji: maybe they were specially given to teach the family a lesson. They might be mocking on someone like that – now they have them in the family.

There are so many possibilities. I knew one man: he was mocking almost everybody. His theory was fantastic: never mock a bald person – because you can also become bald; never mock a blind person – because you may become blind; lame person, deaf person – you can become; if you want to mock – mock the midget: whatever will happen – you will not become a midget. But: his son was a midget.

Q: but with yoga our sensitivity will also develop?

Guruji: it will surely develop, but under control. As you will be practicing yoga so you will be able to keep it disciplined.

Q: is it really possible to levitate?

Guruji: If you’re able to hold your breath – if you’re not doing magic; if you can hold your breath for 48 minutes – then it will become possible. Or with enough practice of pranayamas in water content of yours body oxygen will be much more less, hydrogen will be much more: it will lift your body.

Q: why exactly 48 minutes and not 3 hours?

Guruji: 48 minutes will reduce oxygen and only hydrogen will remain – and it will lift you like a balloon.

Q: I’ve never met this number in any book – 48?

Guruji: no book will write it. In Lahiri Mahasaya’s diaries it is written.

Q: have you seen the real cases that someone did it?

Guruji: not yet. I was doing making myself heavier and lighter – no more than that.

Q: so this ability has no connection with the chakras?

Guruji: no.

Q: when we’re pointing our attention to chakras in our practice…

Guruji: we’re trying to develop them.

Q: so they are not developed now?

Guruji: no. it will take the great yoga practice to develop them.

Q: what is the benefit of developed chakras? What they will give to person?

Guruji: extraordinary superconsciousness.

Q: so we can say that chakras are directly connected with the consciousness?

Guruji: your spinal cord is directly connected with your brain, it’s an extension of brain and chakras will develop inside cerebral spinal fluid – and then the energy will flow.

SENSATIONS IN THE BODY

Q: how we can understand the expressions of the energy when the body became overheated or overcooled: when you’re shivering from cold – but it’s normal outside?

Guruji: if there is no infection then we can take some different types of explanations. When you get malaria or viral infection – then you start to shiver also.

Q: that cold is not exactly like a cold but more like anaesthetic feeling, when you lose the sensitivity?

Guruji: consult a doctor.

Q: so we cannot connect such temperature feelings with some type of energy?

Guruji: no

Q: why it happens then?

Guruji: maybe depends on what you have eaten or maybe see some shocking news.

Q: it doesn’t connect with the state of the nervous system?

Guruji: depends on what shocking news you have heard or which situation you’re going through.

Q: if after the very good practice you have the different sensitivity even on the skin?

Guruji: yes, it will happen.

Q: when we are doing the hyperventilation through the mouth – the anaesthetic feeling also came, it is not connected with the news?

Guruji: because hyperventilation will take place: it’s a medical condition. Not every mad person is a paramahamsa. It will affect your nervous system.

HOW TO KNOW DEATH?

Q: how we can know the death? Only by experiencing it through the practice?

Guruji: and your awareness: you’re dying from the day you were born. Every moment you’re dying in degrees. When you will become aware that finally this is the death you’re going to be no more – a very different thought process will begin. Our Hindus shastras tells us – Death was created as a most beautiful woman in entire creation. This is a very good thing to see her at least.

Q: how we can know that all that exist now – it is not the end?

Guruji: look at the nature: nothing perishes, it’s just transformed into something else. Life continues.

Q: everything will change – or it will be some small part that will be always? Like imperishable and immortal?

Guruji: yes, your core feeling that “I am” – it will remain.

Q: because for the person it’s very hard to understand the state of the elements after his death…?

Guruji: that’s why we have to work on development of the brain: so the understanding will develop.

Q: when I was at Shakti I felt the air is moving there?

Guruji: that is true feeling. You’re sensitive.

Q: she is always present in her murti?

Guruji: it’s her house.

Q: so she is not coming only in the time of puja?

Guruji: her home is supposed to be in smashan.

Q: and what about others – Babaji and Hanuman ji: are they always present in their murtis?

Guruji: I think so.

Q: Guruji, what do You think: the only way to believe in some higher force is the real experience that you’re neither the body nor the spirit – you’re imperishable and immortal, like a soul?

Guruji: I think it’s a good imagination: keep it. It gives us hope.

Q: maybe it exists some other method – not to be afraid of death?

Guruji: only by knowing it: there is no other way.

Q: could we say that the elements in our body – and elements in general – they have no personification?

Guruji: they are personified. They have their own consciousness and own personalities. They are eternal powers: nobody knows their beginning and nobody knows their end.

Q: Guruji, and what is Your opinion: Babaji nowadays has the physical body?

Guruji: yes. When we are discussing Babaji – we discuss person with flesh and blood, who achieved something very rarely achieved. His very existence gives us hope.

WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

Q: we’re so grateful to You that You always make us full of the heart and not creating unnecessary rules

Guruji: we’re not starting a cult; we’re trying to open your mind, not to close it.

Q: what do You think: what does it mean to be happy for the person?

Guruji: when without any apparent reason you feel like laughing and singing, the whole world around is beautiful – these are symptoms of happiness. The reason – nobody knows. Keep singing!

Q: is it possible to be always in this state? Or it’s impossible?

Guruji: it is one of the results of yoga.

Q: could we say that if your consciousness is developed enough so you can choose the state in what you prefer to be?

Guruji: when you have a developed consciousness, only you can enjoy everything more and more than a normal person.

Development is very much needed. I was asked this question many years back and gave the example: imagine the idiot is kissing a girl and Leo Tolstoy is kissing a girl: I’m sure they were feeling different. When Tolstoy is kissing at the back of his mind he might thinking how to write it down – but idiot will be all in the moment and he will enjoy(laughing)

Q: so this state is like you’re under some drug every time?

Guruji: no, the touch of innocence is required. Any innocent person will enjoy far more than intellectual arranged.

Q: that’s why I asked You a question about too much knowledge which can spoil all your enjoyment?

Guruji: only bookish knowledge will spoil your enjoyment. And bookish knowledge is not wisdom: wisdom comes with only experience. In hindi there is very famous saying; roughly translated: he has read a lot but he’s not experienced.

So experience is real wisdom.

Q: so if the person is too serious – he is not practicing very good?

Guruji: that is true. But some traces of seriousness will come and go. If a person is too serious – he’s a religious person( smiling), not a spiritual one. My observation is this: when ever witch is seen – she’s always laughing, monsters or ogres are always ha-ha-ha; devil is coming with laughing; saints are always with a long face and weeping. Why is that – I don’t understand. If they are so near to god – they should be full of joy. Vampires are smiling, devil is very happy; think on that!

Q: could we say that to be full of joy is the criteria of very good practice?

Guruji: it is a criteria that you’re very satisfied with your own self and existence.

Q: but the practice develops not only the consciousness but simultaneously the satisfaction of your own self?

Guruji: of course. The more you will know yourself – the more self-confidence will increase. And the best thing I’ve noticed over the years: very subtle sense of humour will develop. I think that is very much welcomed thing.

Q: the sense of humour it’s the expression of the energy flowing through?

Guruji: it is the direct grace of god – if there is god. You read Hodja Nasiruddin?

Q: yes

Guruji: my favourite book: read it again!

PERMANENT MEDITATION

Q: You said about the innocence: it’s also very important no matter how high you went in practice – you must be always open for the information?

Guruji: now it’s scientific thing: more deeper you go into practice  – theta waves will remain active. That will give you the boon of innocence. It’s a state of mind, not intellectual perception.

Q: it is considered that the meditational state must invoke the certain activity of the brain?

Guruji: of course, yes.

Q: and as a result of the practice we could induce such condition…

Guruji: you will not induce: it will be the result of practice

Q: so we will live in this state?

Guruji: of course

Q: so we will be always in meditation?

Guruji: always feeling good.

ARE GHOSTS DANGEROUS OR NOT?

Q: some of my friends told me that living in a village he woke up in the middle of the night and some creature – like ghost or spirit – was sitting on his chest and looking at him?

Guruji: it happens, yes.

Q: could he do something in that case?

Guruji: nothing. In village area, outside of cities this thing is very common. They just looking at you and do nothing.

Q: can they harm?

Guruji: usually – no. they’re curious.

Q: are they ghosts of people who died in that area many years ago?

Guruji: very difficult to say: they maybe other beings from different dimensions. Just curious to see how the human being smells or looks.

Q: but if they possess…

Guruji: no, possession is a different thing. Looking is ok – it happens here also. Outside of cities always.

Q: why it never happens in the cities?

Guruji: sewer lines are there. Even ghosts don’t like sewer lines. Main thing – they don’t like sewer lines.

Q: maybe it exists some creatures who tolerates or even likes that smell?

Guruji: yes, some very bad spirits.

Q: are that spirits who likes such a bad smell attracted to the asylums and prisons?

Guruji: yes.

Q: what happens with the spirits of people who sunk in the sea?

Guruji: they remain attached to the place as a spirits.

Q: they couldn’t come to the land?

Guruji: they could come to the land, but if their body is there -they will remain connected with it.

AND GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE 

Q: what happened with all those mythologies which gods are now not in power – but all of them have their own heaven and hell?

Guruji: their civilizations disappeared. Because gods lost their powers – the civilization ended. Their worshippers also gone.

Q: I thought people are holding the gods in power?

Guruji: no.

Q: what happened with their heaven and hell as a places: they were destroyed?

Guruji: maybe like Sandman: someone took them for own purposes. We’re like land and crop: sometimes when owner becomes slack or lazy – land rejects him. It is owner’s power, which will take good care of the land and the crops and whatever is growing on it. It’s not vice versa.

Only gods will put them some inspiration.

Q: is it possible that some city or district will revive its own old god or goddess?

Guruji: look in the history: once the god is gone – he never revives. Not a single case even they tried.

Q: how it happened that jewish god start to rule the majority of the world?

Guruji: slowly-slowly they gained force and begin to dominate the world. Early Christians were thrown in front of the lions in Rome. They went through very bad times, very difficult times. Slowly- slowly they gathered force and now they are dominate the world. Some big power was behind them. Even son of god had very bad time in the beginning.

Q: so that type of gods: they are not immortal?

Guruji: yes, they are very long-lived.

Q: how to understand that the ritual to the certain god was successful?

Guruji: if it was done correctly – it will work.

Q: there is no sign – like the strike of the lighting bolt or something?

Guruji: we have not seen that for centuries.

Q: or maybe the rain started?

Guruji: rain we have seen many times. It’s the sign of success.

Q: but all these things like described in Mahabharata and other ancient books – like the rain of flowers, celestial music…?

Guruji: after Mahabharata it was never seen. But it was real: heavenly gods- they do something.

Q: but if someone will worship the owners of the land, of the Earth?

Guruji: in India we’re still doing it.

Q: that powers – are they eternal?

Guruji: as long as Earth will remain – they will remain. They are always supporting.

Q: that powers: for example – power of the hill, power of the lake – they are considered as devatas?

Guruji: no, the hill is divine, the river is divine, the lake is divine: not that some deity is there. The hill itself, the lake itself, the tree itself.