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Q.) Sri Bhagavan, what does our emotional future look like? What happens to emotions when we are awakened? Will letting go be easier? Will we still experience fear, doubt, etc.?

SRI BHAGAVAN: "When you become awakened, your emotions still exist but they are no more 'Your' emotions. You will not say this is my fear or my anger, you will simply say there is fear, and there is anger. The sense of ownership is gone."

Q.) Sri Bhagavan, we have heard that awakening is equal to bliss and that we can in fact do nothing to "achieve" it. Yet you seem to be giving us many things to do. Why?

SRI BHAGAVAN: "For the Awakened Person, all things are spontaneous and natural. For the unawakened person those things are not true. Since he is in the unawakened state there are many things he must do. That is why the main teaching is if you are not awakened do not behave like one. So the teaching has got two components, one for the awakened people and the other for the unawakened people."

Q.) Sometimes I feel very empty inside and cannot see my life purpose. Is there anything that I could do to fulfill this emptiness, Bhagawan?

SRI BHAGAVAN: "Well, escaping from the emptiness is what all people do, but what Oneness is suggesting is do not escape from the emptiness but soak in it, stay with it, embrace it. Do all these things and you see what happens."

Q.) How can we help each other see our unconscious behaviors and patterns that are keeping us stuck? Thank You, Bhagawan.

SRI BHAGAVAN: "One, is to practice inner integrity; the other, is to share with the other what you see. If you could share what's happening inside you with another, the process gets triggered with the other and it becomes very, very easy for the other person also to have a good look at oneself."

Question: Bhagavan, Please Explain To Us Ego + Position = Positionality?”

 Answer: You take a stand, saying that, ok, this is very good medicine for you. You take that kind of stand. Then somebody comes and convinces you that this may not be the right medicine, why don’t you explore homeopathy or ayurveda. You say ok, no problem, I will explore those things.

This is being non-positional. That is you took a position, but now you are prepared to change your position if you are convinced. But then your ego interferes and says "No, no, I cannot be wrong. If I agree to what he says I will feel inferior to him. He will feel superior. Therefore, no,  this only is right".

Then ego plus position becomes positional. You will not move from that. Such people can also be called fools. They will never learn in life. So, a person must be loose and flexible, not that he is a crazy fellow, changing his mind all the time. But, then when convinced, he must be able to change his position to a different point of view.

That is why we are telling there are different points to view. That’s all. You can change from this to that. So that you understand things, you can learn and you can unlearn. But, then your ego comes.

The ego plays six games, I am right, you are wrong; wishes to dominate, refuses to be dominated. It's  a cover-up. So all these games the ego plays. If these games are added to your position, you become positional, which means you are going to enter a fight. It can be with husband and wife, between father and son.

All this will happen if you become positional. Suppose you are a father and a son, the son also must realise that the father belongs to another generation, we can’t shift him so fast.

The father must realise he belongs to another generation  and that his perceptions are different and therefore he must be willing to accommodate that. If he stands to his position because of his ego, he will think father is dominating me and father will think he is refusing to be dominated. Then there is a conflict.

So if you become aware of these things inside, automatically the mind becomes non-positional. You don’t have to put in any effort, very naturally it will happen.

Beloved Bhagavan, Please Share With Us Your Vision For 2012 And How We Can Use Deeksha In Our Daily Life?

So 2012, though we had our own revelations, is actually a very ancient prophecy. As I have been telling all over the world, it is the culmination of the end of three cycles. One is a 5,000 year cycle, another is a 26.400 year and another a 650,000 all these three are coming to a close in the year 2012. Though there is a slight disagreement whether it is 2011 or 2012, it was so it was revealed to us.

And the other thing is we believe that this is the midpoint of the universe. The universe is now supposed to be 30 billions years according to the Hindu scriptures and it has taken 84 lakhs steps to come to this point. 84 lakhs means 840,000 steps have been taken to come to this point. And we believe that all these years we have been working for it: As plants, as mammals, as animals and what not.

All these are stages where we have worked to arrive at this point. And now is the time for us to get into the house we have built and to start living. So we understand that up to this point we have been existing and not living. Now we are going to enter the house we have built and start living. Of course there is this question what right do we have to enter this house and start living when animals, the dinosaurs, the fish all have worked so very hard and our ancestors the neanderthal man, h*** sapiens, all have worked so hard, what right to enter this house and enjoy in 2012? Well, it is believed, that we were those ancestors. We were those grandfathers, we were those ancient people, we were the animals, we were the birds, we were all those things and we are just millons of years old and therefore we have every right to occupy this house in 2012 and start living. So whatever has gone on till now, we think of it as a time where we just worked and existed. But now is the time when we are going to start living.

Due to the course of human history there have been people who have LIVED - like Buddha, the Christ and many other great enlightened people. They were the ones that somehow managed to live and they could escape the process of meer existence. But now what is going to happen probably for the first time, it is going to be a global phenomenon where it is not awakening for an individual or a few people but is is going to be on a very, very massive scale. Now according to the Hindu prophecy (Indian word) year by year they have given and the year that went by, I use some sanskrit names it is called (Indian name) which means a time where there is a lot of enmity in the world between nations and groups of people, within fractions, individuals and others, and within individuals also. There is a lot of conflict and there is a lot of enmity, that was the year, which went by.

Now the coming year which comes into force in March .... it is called (Indian name). It is full of perversions, very strange unnatural things, a very perverse kind of attitude, a very perverse behavior between nations, between people, between groups, between individuals and other individuals and within oneself. That is what we are going to experience in the year 2010.

Fortunately for us, all these terrible years come to an end in 2010. Starting with march 2011 we will be entering a year called (Indian name) and that is the year when the actual connection between man and the divine is going to happen. So we can expect this to happen sometime around June 2011, we will see the beginnings of this, how people will be getting connected to the divine. So that is the year 2011 in June we should see the beginning of the new age.

And then we come to 2012 which is called (Indian name) which means the birth of the new, which obviously here means the birth of a new age and it is said that this is the year of great joy. That is the prophecy for 2012. Then goes on to 2013 a great victory for mankind, 2014 a still greater victory and 2015 lots of love. It goes on like that. It is not my prophecies, they have been there for thousand of years.

So what we have seen in our revelations, we have seen, these kind of things are actually happening. We have not seen any great negative things, so it does not mean they are not going to happen, but we have not seen those things. We have only seen those things. So that is about 2012. But for all this to happen we have to work. And it has also been the prophecy that it needs about 60,000 people to achieve this. 60,000 awakened people. And if you do not have 60,000 awakened people we will have to have a huge number of blessing givers. That is how we can make this possible. That is our mission about 2012. Since we have lost a lot of valuable time the only way to make it up is to rapidly produce more blessing givers so that in the first few month of 2012 could be moved in very, very high states of which in turn will bring up this awakening. So I am sure that all of us working together, it is not just me or somebody, it is all of us have to work together then this could well become a possibility. I am not saying it will happen. I am saying it is most likely to happen. So that is the answer. What is the second part of the question?

Basically it is like this. The teachings could help you understand any particular situation and help you solve it. But teachings by themselves cannot do it. So what you must do is, depending of the situation, you must apply the teaching, you must understand it intellectually and try to contemplate on that.

Beyond that it is very likely difficult for you to proceed, so at that point of time you must take a deeksha from a deeksha giver. If you take that, the teaching will become a realization. Without the deeksha, the teaching will not become a realization. It will be merely an insight, it will give you clarity, give you understanding, but then it will not become actual. To become a total realization you need the support of a deeksha. So either you take it from a bleesing giver, or - if you are one who have been initiated to initiate others - then you will be able to take the deeksha direct from the Shri Murti, which is a very, very powerful deeksha. But to receive the deeksha you must be an initiator yourself, otherwise you cannot take the deeksha from the shrimurthi.

So directly you can go into that teaching and touch the shrimurthi or even if you could visualize the shrimurthi and touch it, the deeksha will come. It will come as an electric shock or like a tremendous surge of energy or you could experience a tremendous silence and then immediately the teaching will become a realization. That is how you have to use the deeksha in your day-to-day-life to face difficulties and problems. That is the answer for the first question. We move on to the second question now.

How Does A Person Who Relate To The Divine As The Universe Create A Personal Relationship To Their Antaryamin?

Well, if you are simply going to say "the Universe" you can´t do that. You must reduce the Universe to a person, a human person. As we are humans you must reduce the universe to a human being. That is when it is possible to relate, not otherwise.

So many years ago there was a boy in Nemam, one of our centers. It was very cold and he was praying that the water must become hot. So what happened he was simply saying "Bhagavan, Bhagavan, Bhagavan".

But that means nothing. And finally he shouted "Apa" in his language, it means father, and the water became hot. "Father" means he was able to estalish a bond, a relationship. So if you simply say "Universe, Universe, Universe" nothing is going to happen. You have to manage, to reduce the universe to a physical being. Only then it is possible.

Part 1 - Question: What Is It That Goes When We Become Enlightened?

Answer: Nothing actually goes away because there was nothing in the first place except your illusion. Like you drive down some big city you’ll  find letters like, “drink Coca Cola”. Those letters are moving but as you drive closer and closer you’ll see nothing is in fact moving only the bulbs are just twinkling away giving you the illusion as though the letters are moving.

So nothing actually ever moved in the first place. It was only your perception and now you see nothing is moving it’s only that the lights are blinking. In much the same way nothing goes away because there was nothing in the first place. It is just that your perception has changed. Like there is a snake out there and you are terrified of the snake and then it so happens somebody brings a light along and then you see  it’s only a rope, it’s no snake.

So the fear has instantly left you. There was no effort involved, there was no time involved, the fear just disappeared. Similarly here, there is actually no effort involved. There is no time involved. You could be unenlightened in this moment and you could be fully enlightened in the next moment. It is just like realizing that this is only a rope and not a snake, and the fear has left. No time was involved, no energy was involved.

The same thing happens here in this inner world. When you get the right perception because of the process which is happening in the brain  - because as I have often told you, this is a neurobiological process - when these changes happen in the brain, automatically you will see the perception changes, and then you are gone. That is the great joy we are talking about. It’s  exactly what happened to the Buddha and all the great ones.  

Part 2 - Importance Of Enlightenment:

See, basically we could classify the human being into four levels. One is the vasanas coming from past lives, the other is the four baskets, what happened in the womb, and then the third is the FCDs, the fundamental childhood decisions, and the fourth is conditioning. You’re conditioned as an Indian, as a Hindu, or as this caste or at that caste, or that I am a doctor or an engineer, or this or that, and the beliefs that have been put into you by your parents, by your school, by society. All that is part of your conditioning.

So you could be divided into these four cla****. So relationship is affected either by the vasanas or the baskets or the FCDs or by your conditioning. To some extent we can set these things right and the relationship would definitely improve. But still it would never be what it should be.

That could happen only when the person is gone. If you and your wife are there, you are a person. You feel that you are there. That must go. The same thing must happen to your wife. When that happens you will realize the ultimate relationship. You will realize the complete joy of relationship, between a father and a son, a husband and a wife, so whatever relationship there is. But as long as you are there as a person there will always be conflict.

Temporarily it will be fine, for a few days, for a few weeks, for a few months. Quickly the images would form. They would start relating and again the whole trouble would start.

But by clearing up these things, things could improve. That’s all. But no dramatic thing is going to happen where you discover tremendous joy. For that to happen you have got to become enlightened. Which means you must go. When you are not there, what is there is joy, joy and joy. So you are a bundle of joy, your wife is a bundle of joy. So these two bundles of joy are relating. There will only be joy out of that.

Otherwise you are suffering, she is suffering. When both of you interact, you produce only suffering. Therefore, try as you might in marital life you could adjust, make compromises, somehow manage. That is what you people are doing. You can go to a psychologist or a psychotherapist and or could come to us. We will do some things and things would improve. But you would die without having really seen what it is to relate. That is why you have got to become enlightened.

Question: You Have Constantly Asked Us To Look Inside And Accept Our Inner Integrity. Some Of Us Have Difficulty To Look Inside And Then When We Do Find The Truth, It Is Hard For Us To Accept The Depiction We Have Created In The External World. We Suffer With The Differences Between The Internal World And The External World. Bhagavan, How Do We Overcome This Suffering?

Bhagavan: If you look inside yourself and discover who you are and accept yourself as you are and love yourself, you will completely have no difficulty with the external world because it is the inner world which is creating the external world.

Now in case you have difficulty with the external world in spite of your having seen the inner world, it means you have not really seen the inner world. Because the inner world is the one that is actually creating the external problem.

Like for example, a couple could be heading for divorce. If one of them were to really see what is happening inside, accept it and love it, you will find instantly things are changing in the external world.

We have done this any number of times and it works with out any failure for the simple reason that the inner world is the actual cause of the mischief. 

The problem is you are having difficulties in seeing the inner world. That is where the blessing, the deeksha or the grace comes in, because it is really painful to see who you are.

There is a secret side to yourselves which you hide from others and hide from yourselves. In fact, you've lost touch with it. Your fears are there. Your anger is there. Your hurts are there. Your jealously is there. You lust is there. Your terrible thoughts are there. They are all there of which you are ashamed and you are frightened of looking there, and this is what is getting all the mess in the outside world.

On the other hand, if you would develop the courage not to condemn it, not to judge it, not to justify it, not to offer explanations, not to run away from it, but hold it as carefully as you hold a newborn baby.

Now, if you are not going to judge yourself, what's the problem? Let us say you are in the habit of lying. If you don't say it is bad, what's the problem? Let us say you have tremendous lust in you. Only if you are going to condemn it is it going to give problems. If you can simply look and say, "Yes, there is lust in me." Where's the problem?

If you have cheated somebody and you are going to look at it and say, "Yes, I've cheated somebody. Yes, this is what I am. I am a crook." Where is the problem?

So, you must apply the teachings. The teachings will help you. Take the deeksha and then you will see after sometime it becomes quite easy. But start with this first. Then move to the inner world.

As you move into the inner world, initially it would be difficult. It may at best be difficult for 21 days. So, do it continuously for 21 days without a break. Every day you can do it for 49 minutes in multiples of seven:  7, 14, 21, 28. So whatever you like, you bring that way.

You will strangely find the brain has learned it in 21 days. But this learning is basically unlearning. To unlearn the brain needs 21 days and from the 22nd day onward you'll find it is becoming quite easy. Then you will discover tremendous things about yourself.

That's why I have often tell that if you go inside yourselves you will discover that you are a rubbish pit and a septic tank. All is hidden under the carpet there. All that would come out you would confront it, accept it and strangely you would love it.

The beauty is, whatever is the content is not important. Can you look at it, see it, accept it, love it? That's all. Then something very strange happens. A strange peace issues. There is no inner conflict. Not only do you accept yourself, you accept the other. Not only do you love yourself, you love the other and people around you, you'll notice their behavior is changing towards you.

Not only that, long standing problems, financial problems, health problems  would remarkably cease to exist. You must try it.

What you are not doing is you are understanding the teachings intellectually, but you are not sitting down and apply it. Please start applying it. I will help you. Call out to AmmaBhagavan we will help you. We'll come out to Canada, wherever you are.

Every teaching must be accompanied by a blessing. If it's only a teaching it's mere psychology. You might get some clarity. It might help you. That is no use. Sit down in padmasana [cross-legged], in a comfortable position, apply it and remarkably you'll see.

I've known children. For example, I think in Florida there's a boy called Bruce. You can talk to him. This boy could do it on the first day itself. You must be knowing this particular instance. His mother had come to Fiji and she learned if you experience suffering it becomes joy.

She went back and only her child was there, a little boy and she told him, "Son, I went to a place called Fiji. I learned this teaching that if you experience suffering it becomes joy." 

The little boy said, "Mom,  yes I understand," and he kept quiet. Now this little boy had a problem where he gets scared in the night and runs back into his mom's bedroom. But that day he again went into the mom's bedroom and the mother thought the problem had come back. The boy said, "Mom, it works." She ask him, "What works?"  He said, "Mom, what you said is working. The fear is gone and probably, I think I saw God."  A small boy.

Ever since, thousands of people all over the world maintain notebooks called, "It Works." They apply one teaching and if it works, they note down how it worked for them. So small children have done it. College students have done it.  Elderly people have done it. Men and women have done it. Children have done it.

So, this is not at all difficult. We are giving you teachings that really work. The child had no resistance, therefore, he could it. Because you are a little older you're finding it difficult. Try it. I'll make it work for you. Take the blessing, the deeksha and you'll see how far you'll be traveling. Your lives will become different.

Sri Bhagavan Teaching On Marital Relationships

A conflict free relationship or a perfect relationship does not exist in reality. Life is a dynamic force. It offers each one of us a wide range of experiences.

To look out for an ideal situation where you never argue, quarrel or get angry or express love and affection all the time, is only in one’s imagination.

On the contrary, a peaceful relationship is epitomized with a state of being where you just allow the other person to be himself or herself, and this is possible only when you realize the futility of trying to understand each other.

Your perceptions and ideas might look very dear to you, but to expect that your partner must adopt the same framework creates the problem.

No two persons could agree all the time. You are a resultant experience of several factors like the process of your birth, childhood, weather, the food that you consume and it is the same with your partner.

Each of you are unique in your approaches. Hence, expecting your spouse to have the same view is not intelligence. As you awaken this truth, you begin to experience your spouse which gives rise to joy.

For example as your wife is angry with you, if you could really connect with her and experience her anger like how you enjoy your morning walk or a cup of coffee, then that would be the most fulfilling moment in your marital life.

This exercise would certainly put the other person at ease since you’re not trying to complain or reject. This is the ultimate solution for a healthy marital life.

Time for reflection:Could you mention the issues about which you have arguments with your spouse?

Every time you complained and made an attempt to change the internal attitude of your spouse, how did he/she respond to it?

Sri Bhagavan Teaching -  Why Do We Have Fear?

See all human beings have a mind and this mind is nothing but fear. Not that the mind experiences fear, the mind itself is fear. The reason being the mind is there because there is a self. This self is really not existent, and it is aware of it. Deep down it is aware of it, that it is doesn’t really exist. But it wants to exist. So it’s more like a thief in a house who is trying to hide all the time, trying to protect himself.

 The self is trying to protect itself. That is that fear, because any moment the self can disappear because what is called the biological self is there because of the way your senses are coordinating. Actually when you are seeing you do not hear, when you hear you do not see, when you smell you cannot experience touch.

 All these things happen so fast, it looks as though while seeing you can hear, while you hear you can touch.  It looks like that, but really it is not so. If by any chance this were to slow down you will see the self is gone. So the self is a poor impostor who is not there or is more like somebody who has captured the president of India, put him somewhere and he is posing as Abdul Kalam the president. How much would be his fear? They might see  his hair stand. They might catch he is not Abdul Kalam. They might see his walking and he is not Abdul Kalam. Any moment he could be caught. What would be his life? Just imagine. Posing as the president of India.

 The same problem with the self. Any moment it can disappear. It has to keep fighting for its survival. Therefore it would like to say, Oh, I am so well qualified. I am so powerful. I am so rich. This is my wife. This is my father. This is my son.  It must go on telling itself.  Otherwise it is not there.  Only when the other is there, the self is there. No other, no self.

 Therefore the whole thing has to go on getting attached to things and there is always a fear the other might discover it and go away. It might loose it and as it loose something it looses itself. Therefore it has to constantly be in fear. The self only becomes the mind.

 That’s why I said the mind itself is fear. We cannot transform the mind. The mind is untransformable. It has been so throughout human history. That is why we are telling you don’t waste your time trying to transform the mind. The only thing that is possible is you can be free of the mind. Let it be, that’s all. Don’t waste your time transforming it

Sri Bhagavan Teaching – Profession And Wealth Creation

You want to create a life of abundance. That is a noble ambition. To build a Burj Dubai or Petronus Towers what you need to do is first create a foundation that is deep enough and strong enough to hold the building.  It has to penetrate in the earth to hold such an edifice. If you are going to dig a two-feet foundation, you obviously cannot expect that a mighty structure would stand on it. The same applies to life.  Build a solid foundation.

All great happenings whether they are historical occurrences, scientific discoveries, gigantic organizations or individual achievements  began with a single moment of decision or intent. Decision or intent is the seed of all creation.

What is an intent? An intent is a desire with passion.  On an average day every individual has a minimum of 50 to 60 desires ranging from the little things of life to the big things.  But an intent unlike a desire is focused. It generates energy.  It sets the entire universe working in the direction you choose to go.

 Several years ago a young man was passionate about becoming a medical doctor and serving the people of his village. Unfortunately for him, even though he passed all the written entrance examinations for a medical college, he failed to get through the “viva” [oral entrance exams].  Almost disillusioned, but pinning his hopes on one last medical college. He was traveling by train to take up the exam.

 A friendly fellow passenger inquired of the young man’s father as to why the boy had such a forlorn look on his face and got to know the entire story from the father. Wishing the young man good luck, he got off the train in some station en route. Two days later when the young man entered the chamber for the interview, he found the friendly stranger sitting right at the head of the interviewers. The rest is history. This young man went on to become one of the deans of a prestigious medical college.  He served the poor until his last breath.

 There are innumerable instances of the sentient universe conspiring to help those with a pure intent. Remember a life without a vision is like a journey without a destination.

 Now, why is it that sometimes in spite of having the most powerful intents, one comes across roadblocks and obstacles?  Here is where the power of right intent comes into being. What makes an intent right or wrong? It is the “why” behind the intent. Why do you want what you want? What are the driving reasons behind your intent? Are they emotions and attitudes by comparison, the need to overtake, to prove that you are no less than someone, or hate or fear?

 Or, is your intent powered by love, a sense of fulfillment, excitement, adventure or to be of greater use to society and family.  Remember, the sentient universe will only support you if your intentions are holistic, beneficial and nourishing, not otherwise. As is the seed so is the tree. If the seed be bitter in essence, so shall the fruit be. If the seed be sweet in essence, so shall the fruit be. Your intent is strengthened by your focus.

 Now let us see what is your consistent focus in thought. What are your predominant thoughts? Are you focused on what you want or on what you do not want? Because your focus or your intent is like giving a direction to your car. What you constantly see and feel internally is where you are going.

 Focus on your goal constantly,  not on how it would go wrong all the time. You also need to revise your goals and go for course correction along the journey. The scenario around you is changing. You change with it too.  Don’t be a dinosaur. They went extinct.

Question: Why Does It Feel So Difficult To Set The Relationships Right With One's Own Family.  Is It Karma? Could You Tell Us Something About Family And Collective Karma And What To Do About It?SRI BHAGAVAN: This problem of relationships must be handled at three levels.  At the first level you could use the teachings.   Now very often we have bad relationships because we have been conditioned wrongly and we do not have certain insights.  So the teachings would help you there.

For example, the teaching says: to have good relationship start with yourself, not with the other.   See who you are, accept yourself as you are and love yourself as you are.   When this happens very naturally the other person would see you as you are, would accept you as you are, would love you as you are.

I will give you an example for this.   Some time ago a couple came to meet us and they had a very bad relationship.  So the lady said, "this man is a drunkard and I cannot live with him."  And the man said, "She is a flirt and I cannot live with her."  That was their problem.  So we told them, look, here we do not work on the other, we work on oneself. 

 So we took up the case of the flirt and we said look, we are not going to transform him who is a drunkard, we are going to transform you.  So what you should do is see, look into yourself as to why you are a flirt, you must see that.  Having seen that accept that-yes I am a flirt.  Accept it.  Once you accept it you will start loving yourself: yes I am a flirt, this is what I am.  And you fall in love with yourself.   

 Now when this happens very naturally-- we were actually working with her--she began to see that man as he is, as to why he is behaving the way he is behaving.  She accepted him as he is and she loved him as he is.  She did not ask that he must give up drinking.  Because she accepted herself and fell in love with herself, she accepted him and loved him.  That happened to her. 

 The drunkard on other hand, he was looking into himself, he saw why he was drinking, that he is a drunkard. He accepted that and he fell in love with himself.  Once he did that he could also accept her as a flirt, and accept and love her also. 

 Now we did not change the flirt into something else nor the drunkard into something else.  They accepted themselves therefore they could accept each other.  But something strange happened after that.  After that she ceased to be a flirt and he ceased to be a drunkard.  But our objective was only helping them to accept themselves and love themselves.  So the teachings can help like that.  

The other thing is in relationships we build up images.  Suppose you get married, you start building up images about your wife and the wife about the husband.  It can happen between any two people.  There after the images start relating and you stop experiencing the person.  Then also the relationship dies.

So, in many many ways the teachings can help you but that is still only the first level.  Sometimes whatever you might do, the mind gets stuck.  It will be playing the record again and again and again. For 20 years he will be repeating the same thing without any change.  That also destroys relationship.  

You will say ten years ago you did this, twenty years ago you did this.  The record goes on and on and on.  To stop that you must give a powerful deeksha which can shift the mind into another dimension.  There deeksha comes into play and helps you.

Now that also may not work always, in which case you must have to go into karma.  Karma would mean what happened at the moment of conception: what were your mother's thoughts when you were being carried in the womb,  what happened in the womb and how exactly you were delivered, the first six hours after delivery and sometimes you might have to go into past lives.  So at that level we can solve any problem.

So, first you start applying the teaching.  Next you try deeksha.  With the teaching if it is solved, fine.  Otherwise use deeksha.  If that does not work then move on to find out karma.  For karma all that you must do is you must relax well, move into the hypnagogic state, the state between waking and sleep, move into that state.  Take a blessing from the Sri Murthi and say, "Please AmmaBhagavan show me where the problem is." 

 We will rewind the tape and we will exactly show you what went wrong where.  We will pinpoint the problem (i.e. your karma) and then we will rework it.  Once we rework it, the entire thing will start off in just twenty-four hours.

So that is how you have to handle the problem of relationships.  You have got to move step-by-step.  

Question: Bhagavan, What Should One Do To Receive Consistent And Instant Grace In One’s Life?SRI BHAGAVAN: The speed at which your desires are granted depends on your relationship with your parents whether they are alive or not. Next is the relationship with your husband or wife. If your relationships are in order, then receiving grace would be very easy.

That is why we are emphasizing on setting right your relationships. The next is karma, let us say solving a financial problem could lead one to sickness because of karma, then considering the danger of the situation the prayer would not be answered immediately. 

Another thing to be considered here are your needs and necessities. Suppose you wish for a car, since you are finding it difficult to manage without one then certainly grace would come to you. But say your prayer arises out of comparison, hurt or greed then it would not be answered.

To receive grace consistently, you need to know how to pray. There are certain conditions which you must fulfill for your prayer to be powerful.
1. You must be authentic in your prayers
2. Your prayer must come from your heart
3. You must have a bond with your God
4. You must focus on the solution, not on the problem
5. You must express gratitude as if it has been granted already

Once you do this, you would receive abundant grace from your God. If you know how to pray, I am sure you would have God for your friend.

Sri Bhagavan Teaching - How Antharyamins (Our Indwellers Or Divine Presence) Are Networked

 Your Antharyamin is your Antharyamin. His or her Antharyamin is his or her Antharyamin. Like your dress is tailor made for you, custom-made, your Antharyamin is custom-made for you, but all Antharyamins are networked. They communicate with each other.

Suppose you are little late to the airport, your Antharyamin would get in touch with the Antharyamin of the pilot or somebody and somehow see to it the flight is delayed. I'll give you an example which will make things clear to you.

Many years ago there was a big gathering of people, and one man came and said, “I was in need of some money, and Bhagavan sent me the money.” And another man stood up and said, “Your Bhagavan did not send that money I sent that money.”

 The man in need of money was praying to his Antharyamin saying, “Please, Bhagavan, give me money, nobody is going to help me.” And in another part of the city Bhagavan appeared to a very wealthy man gave him this man’s address and told, “Please, send this man so much money.” That man did not know me. Being very rich he thought he will have some fun. He called his secretary and told him, “Please send this money.”

A month later a friend of his told him, “I’m going to a spiritual meeting, why don’t you come?” Where, seeing the Sri Murthi he realized that the same person has come to him in his dream. The Antharyamin got activated in the rich man’s dream and made him do the act of sending the money.

That is how all the Antharyamins are networked.

Sri Bhagavan Teaching - How Awakening & God Realization Affect Family Ties

Most of the individual problems, problems of the family, of society and the world as such arises from a lower level of consciousness.

As the level of consciousness goes up very naturally these problems disappear.

There are about sixty-four varieties of karma. As you rise in consciousness some of them disappear, others will not disappear.

Like if you had committed murder that karma will not disappear. But what happens is that karma is there but it won’t affect you.

For example, the awakened person Ramana Maharshi was suffering from cancer. That, he could not escape. But because he was awakened, that pain, that suffering did not affect him.

That is the way you could escape all karma.

Sri Bhagavan Teaching - How To Forgive Even If Unforgivable

 Actually the teaching is suffer and forgive, which means you first suffer and then forgiveness happens. Here the word forgiveness does not mean you forgive.
When we use the word forgive what we mean is, somebody has hurt you and you are realize that person is not responsible. When you realize that person is not responsible forgiveness happens, you do not forgive.
Now, how to realize that the other person is not responsible? Somebody has hurt you and if you be with that pain, without escaping from that pain, if you really suffer, then suddenly you realize the other person is not responsible.
It actually does not need effort or time. Let us say there is a snake in this hall and you are very frightened. It’s a bit dark but somebody goes and throws a light on it and you see it is a rope, and then fear goes away immediately.

It does not take time or effort. Similarly, if you truly suffer it does not take time or effort. You don’t have to forgive, forgiveness happens. You will get full understanding into this only when you apply it and do it.

If you cannot forgive a person you would be ruining yourself. So, you’re forgiving the other person not for the other person’s sake but for you own good. Most of your problems in the external world arise because of your hurts. A hurt inside can cause an external problem.

Sri Bhagavan Teaching – Love And The Self

 The self being an illusory thing, the self does not really exist. It is just born out of sensory coordination and all the psychological contents that create the self. It does not have any existence of its own.

 So constantly it must be reminded, "Yes, yes, you are there. You are very much there." And this happens if somebody loves you. Then you constantly feel reinforced. You feel the reality of your existence, that you are wanted and therefore you are there. That gives you a nice sense of security, a good feeling. So you crave for love.

 That's why once you discover love, that you, yourself are love, you will no more beg for love. All this love that the youth are talking about, it is begging for love, you just keep begging for love.

 Once you discover this true love, you just give love. You no more beg for love, and to have true love is almost to become enlightened.

 So when you have enlightenment you are not there and when you are not there what is there is only love. In which case, you don't beg for love.  But as long as that does not happen there is insecurity, there is fear.

 Every moment the self is disintegrating so it has to possess things. This property is mine. I have these degrees. I have this job. I have this business. I have this name. I have this fame. All this reinforces you. Therefore, you want to have these things.

 One of the strongest reinforcements is love, if somebody loves you, if somebody cares for you. All these things will sustain you. Therefore you keep going at it. The moment that somebody falls in love with a better person than you, you are finished.

 That means you are no more wanted and you start disintegrating. That's why you see there is something in the papers recently how a boy was in love with a girl. The girl would not respond and the boy just killed her. I've met people even among our devotees who earlier before they came for the dharma had fallen in love and when the girls did not respond, or later on loved somebody, they just killed them or maimed them.

 So what kind of love is that? You tell that she is the most wonderful person in the world and that "I love her" and then you kill her the moment she's in love with somebody else. Instead of celebrating that she got a better person than you, such a wretch. So you don't do it that way.

 So  what is all this love? When you say you love somebody, it means you love yourself. That's all there is to it. You can never love anybody. How could you do that. You could only love yourself and which you say "I love so much."  I love you so much means I love myself so much. I need so much love to survive otherwise I'm gone.

 But you must know I'm not condemning it. I'm just describing things as they are. I'm not telling you no, don't fall in love, be totally secure by being zero. I'm not saying those things.

 Since it's a fact of life, then go ahead. There is no harm. I, myself give blessings. People come and say they want to marry this person or that person. I give them full blessings.

 Each one, according to his level, he must function.

Sri Bhagavan Teaching -The Phases Of Life

You are here basically to enjoy yourselves. Why should the Universe exist at all? Have you not seen Nataraja’s [Shiva’s] dance? He is merely dancing isn't it? It is a dance of creation. He is simply celebrating life.

So each one has to find out how to celebrate this life. What comes your way, accept it and enjoy it. You have to create what you want.

Life could be divided into 4 phases.

In the first phase of life, you are expected to acquire knowledge and maintain your body healthy and strong. In this phase of life, you must focus on education, acquiring skills and preparing of the future.

In the second phase, you must acquire wealth, get married, have children, perform your responsibilities towards your family, enjoy the world and fulfill your desires.

In the third phase, if you are really fulfilled in your life, cravings would have ceased. In this phase, you could be with your family, but should feel detached from your family. You must serve the world. You must be concerned about people, but nothing personal should be there.

In the Last and final phase of your life you should not be attached to the world. This is the phase you seek liberation. You cannot just continue in the first phase of life because it will soon become meaningless. Therefore you must move on to the second phase and embrace its pleasures and pains. This too will soon lose meaning and therefore you move on to the third phase of serving the people. This too will ultimately stop giving satisfaction.

It is then that you move on to liberation. Hopefully if you are awakened, the same mountains, the same stars you saw earlier will look very different. You could enjoy the world and simply pass away from this world. This is the game of life.

But on the other hand, you are taking it very seriously. There must be liberation from work. It does not mean not doing work. You don't see it as work anymore. You see it as play.

So you must see everything as a game, you must know everything is a passing phase, everything will come to an end soon because there is nothing permanent.

Order will move into disorder, disorder will move into order. Weak man may become strong, strong man could become weak. Intelligent people may become unintelligent, unintelligent may become intelligent. Love could become hate, hate could become love.

This is the law of the Universe. You cannot stop these things. So, you have to accept them. If you accept them, you will start enjoying life.

You will be playing with it. That is the thrill of living.

Everything ultimately is like the onion, if you go on peeling the onion, you'll find there is nothing in the end. Similarly, if you go on peeling life's experiences, consciousness, God, or anything, in the end, you would feel there is nothing but silence.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a riddle to be solved or understood. That is all there is to it. All things emerge from that silence, and return to that silence. You too will eventually emerge into that silence, from which you emerged in the first instance.

Sri Bhagavan Teaching - Why God Needs Your Help To Change The World

 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 defeatest attitude. It is to set aside your limiting belief 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 need to cooperate with God in helping change the world.