I will begin today’s discourse with a tale of four friends. Once all the four friends went on a journey. While on the tour, it started raining heavily as they were near some fields. The heavy rain continued incessantly. All the four friends preferred to take shelter in a small hut which was located nearby. While being in the hut, they realized that the rain continued to shower and it would not stop for hours. It was followed by lightning and thunder storm. Being caught in this situation, they feared the worst that all of them would not survive this downpour. The lightning continued with vicious ferocity. As such they came to a consensus belief that one amongst them is going to die as for this reason the lightning keeps on falling continuously. And therefore they thought that the rest three should not die on account of that the fourth friend whose death has neared. Having believed so, they collectively decided that each individually should go out in the open and stand below the mango tree. The one who is destined to die will be hit by the lightning while he stands beneath the tree. With this action, the rest three would be safe and alive.

So the first amongst them went in the open and stood next to the tree for ten to fifteen minutes. The lightning continued without hitting him and he returned back to the hut. The next one also went outside and stood over there for half an hour and returned back unharmed without being struck by lightening. Thereafter the third friend proceeded and stood beneath the mango tree. Even the lightening did not strike him although he was standing in the open for half an hour. Lastly the turn of the fourth friend comes. He realized that his death is certain as the earlier three ones had survived and passed the test having the lightening not being struck on them when they had individually stood near the tree. He believed that lightening would strike at him causing his death. Being resigned to this fate that his death was near, the fourth friend proceeded towards the tree. He started meditating in the name of God, he prayed to the Almighty. He prayed that in case his death has neared that he is prepared to face it gracefully. By praying thus, he set down in meditative state. He carried on the prayers to the God. After a little while, he witnessed that there was heavy lightening, however it did not strike him but rather it struck with force on the hut which was destroyed ending his other three friends’ lives. In the end, the fourth friend was saved.

I wish to point to you all by means of this tale that the inference is that even if one Sadhak mediates, on account of his aura and positive sensations around him and the protective field of his aura ,he not only protects himself but also is in position to provide protection and safety to the others who have taken shelter within his protective field .Till the time the fourth friend was along with the rest three friends, they were saved of their lives and as the fourth friend was physically separated from them, they lost their lives .It is quite possible that you are ignorant regards the terms such as aura and protective fields. As such, I will illustrate the terms with detailed explanations.

Whenever I am abroad and teaching meditation to the youths and children, I involuntarily remember the children residing within India. The children abroad do not have any knowledge of spiritualism and unjust and righteous deeds. They do not have knowledge whatsoever, neither of sinful deeds nor of the righteous deeds. Whereas in India even a five year child is feed with the values of what is righteous and what is not. He is cautioned at every stage that in case he performs such particular action which is unjust, it will be sinful and will have repercussions. He is suggested and tutored that a particular deed is a righteous deed and as such he should carry out such deeds. Similar information is not passed in regards to the righteous deeds or not to children outside India. The sins are carried out both equally in India as well as at abroad. This knowledge of righteous deeds and wrongful deeds cannot control the children; the knowledge cannot stop them in carrying such actions. The child, irrespective of such knowledge, does it nevertheless. The child abroad does it ignorant of such knowledge. Whenever he does any wrongful act and is mentioned about the same, the child, being made aware of the bad actions, will realize and consent not to carry further similar acts. He would affirm not to carry similar acts in future. As such there is no reaction of the wrongful deed action on his aura. However the same does not hold well within India. The child, when he realizes the consequences of such wrongful act, will feel guilty that he has sinned, he has sinned and that he is sinful person. And therefore the child will be ashamed and carry guilt in his heart. He will be remorseful his entire life and will find it difficult to overcome the situation. Whereas the child abroad, having wronged, will be comfortable and unashamed and he would confess that he was ignorant that the action was sinful. This knowledge of righteous and sinful deeds is twin edged weapon. It will be better if they are not educated as regards to the good and sinful deeds. This will prevent them from feeling guilty thereby having depleted Vishuddhi (Throat) Chakra. They will therefore not be unsuccessful in their life. And in case, one wishes to provide the knowledge, then it is necessary that one also guides with solutions in addition to the knowledge. This will help prevent happening of any wrongful acts carried out by children. Can any parent undertake that they would ensure non happening of such wrongful act? They will never guarantee such. However there is a technique by which such action by the child will never happen. How is it possible?

This is possible as the child mediates and with meditation practices there will be aura of good vibrations surrounding his physical body. There will be protective field of good thoughts around the body. The child will be surrounded by positive aura around his physical being. Aura will be created around the child. With this, the child will never commit any wrongful sinful act irrespective of the bad influence of wrong companionship or on account of having many spoilt and bad friends. Why will this be possible? This will be because in order to commit the sin, in order to make the wrongful act happen, there is need for bad energy to be in existence. And the bad energy will not exist in such a situation. This is applicable for each and every action, for doing good action there is need for good energies while to carry out bad acts, there is play of bad energies. So if there is no energy around, no bad and undesired action can ever take place. It is because the child is surrounded by good energies all around him. It is difficult for bad energies to traverse the good energies and enter the aura of the child. As such no wrongful act will take place. One must have read many a times in the newspaper or listened to the news that criminals rob the banks and before committing the crime consume liquor by visiting the bar. In other words, in order to rob the bank, they need the bad energies which originally they lack. As such, by consuming liquor they activate the bad energies and thereafter carry out the robbery. It means that one requires bad energies to carry out bad actions. So in case your child meditates and practices meditation regularly, then the child will never carry out any undesired and bad action. All this is possible with mediation .With help of mediation, all what ever described can actually happen. But it is necessary that we clear all our apprehensions and misgivings about mediation. This is because the desired and proper information and sufficient exposure about mediation is not being done. Normally, it is believed that mediation involves being in isolation and separating from one’s family or moving to the jungles by detaching from the community. This misinformation about meditation is on account of absence of people practicing meditation at crown centre level .Further, the community is also not in contact with such people. There is lack of communication between them .There is no interaction amongst them and both lack each other’s support and presence. Therefore, it is desired that one realizes the truth. What exactly is the Truth? People at large are unaware of the reality. As such, my master realized the fact that the common man within the community need to be aware of the supreme knowledge. They need to be educated about meditation.

It is necessary that they should recognize what exactly is meditation. The Master has, therefore, deputed me to the community with this objective in mind. Meditation can be practiced by any person. Any person can meditate. There is no need to collect any charges or fees towards the same. Meditation is free of cost because practicing mediation involves connecting oneself with the Supreme Being. And after merging with the Supreme Being, the universal consciousness starts flowing from within. Normally it is believed within the community that mediation is attaining a thoughtless state of mind. Thoughts come to an end or there is momentary pause to thought process. That one will feel relaxed for a while. That one will feel good for some time. And all this will be believed to be mediation. In reality, it is not so. Thoughtless state of mind is that state which prepares oneself towards mediation .In other words, thoughtless state of mind is not everything. It is not the complete process. It is merely a platform, a launching pad which assists in reaching the meditative state, to be in meditation. Presently, science has made a lot of progress .Science has developed by leaps and bounds. Medical science has also progressed a lot. Then, in this era of progress of science, why is there so much discussion and deliberations about mediation. The question is what makes it necessary to have discussion on mediation. Actually, the need for mediation in present times is felt more unlike in earlier periods. It is so because there is lopsided progress in knowledge, improper development. This has resulted in imbalance within the society. There is development of the intellect…Progress…. Progress... Progress. You were not so intelligent at age of fifteen like your child who is much more intelligent at that age of fifteen years. At that age, he has all the knowledge, all the information which was lacked by you. That is noticed at every generation there is progress in intellect and knowledge. There is progress at all levels .. Progress…Progress…Progress. However, along with the progress, the spiritual development is languishing concurrently. The spiritual progress is lagging behind and the community is witnessing an imbalance.

Today’s education will create a heart specialist doctor; however he will be displaying no emotions. He will make known that he will perform the operation provided he is paid the fees whatever he charges, or else he will decline to perform the operation. In other words, there is progress, the doctor is specialist and expert but will lack emotions .So there is need to have spiritual progress concurrently with the material progress. Just think about this fact, the medical science has progressed so far with technology; however there is no medicine, injection being formulated by which the thoughts can come to an end. This is despite the fact that ninety percent of the diseases are psychosomatic diseases and caused by excessive thoughts. 90% of the sicknesses of the human being are related to the mind. If the human thoughts are good there will not be any sicknesses. There is no research of the thoughts of the human being. Last year I had conducted a workshop of the doctors in the civil hospital of Ahmedabad. At that time I had mentioned to the doctors, suppose a patient visits you, you administer him the medicine, and he recovers from his sickness. According to Yoga knowledge, the sickness is caused by bad thoughts. Anybody who gets bad thoughts can become sick and unwell. Now you cure his sickness and not his thoughts. Thus you will cure him and then he will go away and continue to have bad thoughts and he will catch the sickness again. Your treatment is thus, not permanent. If you want to cure him permanently then first cure his thoughts. To treat his thoughts you have to study the body formed by the thoughts. There is a physical body which you can touch and feel. The medical science has studied this body. However, there is no study of the body formed by the thoughts in the medical science. As long as this study of the body formed by the thoughts is not included in the medical studies, till then the medical science is not comprehensive. For example an ascetic (yogi) can foretell that a certain person is going to contract cancer. But a doctor can not identify this. When the physical body gets affected then only the doctor can diagnose that this person has contracted the cancer. But six months prior to the physical body getting affected, the thought body is afflicted with cancer. If the cancer is recognized at this stage and treated before it has reached the physical body, then it will not reach the physical body at all. Six months is not a short period. Six months prior to an illness afflicting your physical body, it affects your thought body. And if this sickness is treated then and there then it will not reach the physical body. You can recognize this by meditation. This can be identified by meditation. I am not stating you any make-believe things. It has also been proved by medical science. If you had attended the Rajkot shibir you might have known that a camp had been set by the Red Cross organization. A comparative study was organized. All those who had diabetes and high blood pressure were examined for sugar and blood pressure respectively, before the shibir and also eight days after the shibir. They issued a certificate stating that the results of 84% people showed marked improvements than as before. The authority who issued the certificate was Red Cross which is an international organization. The same was not issued by general doctor. All the above means that the effect on the aura can be checked by the medical science. It can be tested by the medical science. The aura is not an imaginary thing. It was a mammoth audience. Over 80 thousand people had participated. I could not even see the people. It was all dark in front of me as there were spotlights put all over the place. The persons whose diabetes got cured, the persons whose blood pressure was cured have not been even seen by me. Mere listening to my discourses only for 8 days could bring about this change in them. How this was made possible? I did not even touch them. I have no idea whose physical body we are talking about. I have no idea at all. That means whatever changes occurred were not in the physical body but they occurred in the body of the thoughts. The body of the thoughts has changed. And this change has been felt at the level of the physical body. It has been tested on the physical body. Thus the aura is not an imaginary thing. It is different that we do not have much knowledge about it. That is why it sounds strange to us.

In the foreign countries, the universities and colleges have a subject on the aura psychology. It is taught as a part of curriculum. It is included in the management studies. Now you might wonder as to the importance of the study of the Aura in Management studies? What is the necessity of teaching about aura to the management students? What is the benefit of this knowledge of Aura to all of them? I will explain how that actually helps. The presentation of all the aspects in their life is always excellent. Suppose they want to select a candidate for a post then they will realize that all the candidates present nicely. They communicate very well. All of them wear formal clothes, suit and tie. They are well educated and will discuss about any current topic and general knowledge and all the business related knowledge. They will show good results at the I.Q. test. One person in the selection committee is such that he does not pay any attention at the candidates’ attire, their style of communication, their presentation or the educational qualification. He does not observe any of these aspects. His eyes remain closed. He merely studies the aura of every candidate. He analyses as to the nature of that particular candidate. What type of thoughts is he having? He studies only these things. And they select on the basis of this study which tells them who is really a better candidate and who is not. Suppose a person is having a good aura but his presentation is not good, he has not been able to present a good interview even then he is preferred and selected. They believe that at that moment with current situation, he might have not presented a good interview but in reality he must be a good person. When Sita was being kidnapped, Ravana came dressed as an ascetic. If he was to arrive normally as the Demon, then the entire occurrence would not have taken place. This shows that even the bad persons present themselves with a good packing. They do carry a good presentation. They display good impression. They try to project what is not really true. Even if they lack the required quality, they attempt to project that they are well versed with it. They act out a role which is not real. But you can not feign an aura. You can not create a fake aura. Today the science has advanced so far that they can imprint visual images of the aura. The image would indicate clearly what type of a person we are transacting with. The colors and the thickness can display the complete characteristics of the person to us. You might wonder as to what can be the benefit to the organization of recruiting a person with a good aura? When we select a person with a good aura, and when we depute him out to another company for business, owing to his good aura he does not get influenced by the other organization’s bad condition. This person is not influenced by aura of those people ,no matter how bad it is or how grossly negative it is or whatever be the bad environment existing. He remains balanced under all conditions; he remains in unprejudiced normal state. And the difficult company, who does not normally issue Purchase Orders to any one, does not mind issuing order to this person. This happens due to the fact that he carries a positive aura, positive vibrations which influences the others in the form of a positive action.

Once there was a very big exhibition in Ahmedabad. There were a few big stalls displayed in the exhibition. Customers were shopping for different items in these stalls. Gurumaa was also there with me. She bought crockery for the Ashram. One sadhak was along with me. I told him “Let us have a look at some statues”. A group from Tamil Nadu had put up a stall stocked with a lot of statues. We both approached the stall with the statues. The stall carried its most expensive piece valued at rupees 1.5 lacks. The sculptor vendor started bothering me. “Baba, buy this idol. I will give it to you for 1.25 lacks or even 1 lack. Buy this”. He was singularly chasing me to buy that idol. The accompanying sadhak was perplexed. “Swamiji, why was he hounding you? There were lots many other customers in the stall!! Many others were also looking out at the idols! Why was he chasing you only”!! I replied that I did not look a very rich man nor had I displayed a lot of jewelry such as rings or a gold chain around my neck. I went over there like a very simple person. Despite this, the moment the vendor neared me, the moment he came in my proximity, he could experience the positive energy emanating from me. He probably believed that this old man would buy this idol. That is why he chased me. What I want to state is that the influence of the positive energy; the positive aura will be witnessed wherever you go. If a person with a positive aura is selected for a job in the company, then he will be a good positive medium for the company. That is why it is necessary to study the aura, to be educated about aura. It is so, because presently it is an era of competitions. In these competitive times, whatever books you purchase to read, the other person can also procure the same books. The specialization courses that you undergo, some one else can also do the same. The training you do, that similar training can also be taken up by some other person also. In such a situation, what is that distinct thing about you which can set you apart from the others who compete with you, and which can assist in your selection? What is that attribute about you which sets you apart, what is that distinct character about you as compared to the others? What exactly is the uniqueness in you which the others do not possess? If you can gain such a quality, if you can create some thing like this then you will prove yourself different from the others. I am aware that today you will not understand what I am saying.

You will understand this recording probably ten years later; at that time you will realize that Swamiji had implied at this fact ten years earlier. In the future times, it will be necessary that the spiritual knowledge supplements the intellectual knowledge. Whoever possesses this spiritual knowledge will be a successful person in this competitive world. This is because he has something distinct as compared to the others. If you are meditating regularly, then you can not take a wrong decision. This happens because there is a positive aura around you. Even if you want to take a wrong decision, even then you can not do it. You will be a successful person in your life when you take correct decisions. You might be wondering why today Swamiji is talking about management, about administration. I am talking about these things to let you know that if you meditate then you will not have to do any management. The management will happen involuntarily at your hands. Meditation is the connecting link between doing something and something happening automatically. When you will practice meditation in your life then things will start happening involuntary at your hands and the doer-ship will completely wane. We were taught in the business management that doing nothing is a good management principle. Do nothing. I am following it throughout my life. I was not doing any thing earlier and I am also not doing anything presently also. They explained the concept that if there are seven departments under your control and if you attempt to carry out some function in any one of them, then the remaining six departments will be neglected. So the best thing to do is to put your attention to all the seven departments, but personally do not work in any of them. If you commence work in any one of them then your attention will be missing in the rest of the departments. That is why not doing anything is the ideal management. Similarly meditation also means not doing anything. Thus meditation involves achieving a state of nullity, emptiness. To be in this state of nullity is meditation. The ‘zero’ state is actually mediation. When one remains in this state, then things will begin to happen naturally.

You might be wondering that how Swamiji must be managing the large organization when individually one can handle a single department or head a village. But over here, there is need to take control of a large administrative network throughout the world. The centers are spread throughout the world. To maintain coordination between all these centers, to maintain communication between all the center leaders and at the same time to make progress in the work has only been possible because I have myself done nothing all these five years. I do nothing myself while team of the best experts in every field, all the good people, good professional company secretaries, C. A. are working for me. And I do nothing, only I keep on distributing love to them. I keep giving energy to them. I give vibrations to them. They continue doing their functions. I am surrendered to the Sadhaks, to each and every sadhak. At times, one has to take unpleasant decision in life, without actually wishing so. We are not prepared for that decision at that time. Mentally we do not want to take the decision still we have to take that unpleasant decision. You might assume that I personally have not to take such decisions then it is not correct. Many times I have to take such decisions too. I will share with you about a recent incidence. It was when the Rajkot Maha Shibir was scheduled and on reaching over there on the 10th, I had called the world leader of our organization Smt. Shreelaben over there f or a meeting. That means till the tenth of the month I had no apprehensions or no indication of what was to unfold. She came on the tenth, attended the meeting and went back to Mumbai. After that what happened I am in dark. But I started receiving complaints about her from all over. These complaints were received from different countries and different centers. I balanced myself first, and decided that let the Rajkot shibir get over first. The Rajkot shibir got over. After that I compiled all the complaints and called her and her husband. I tried to assess her state. What I noticed was that her condition had become very bad. Her vibrations had become very bad and her aura had got weakened. It was shocking for me too. I felt very bad. How can the aura get depleted to this extent!! How can poison be created in anybody’s body? Poison can not be produced in the body but it has been implanted from outside. It has been injected in there. The poison can not be present by being produced from within. I asked her only one question. Does anyone bow down to you? She replied “No, Swamiji, no one bows down to me”. But I could find only one cause. Only one reason because the sadhaks have got awakening, and after awakening when they bow down to anyone they put all their garbage into the person to whom they are bowing down. So a lot of people must have bowed down to her and placed all their garbage into her. That was what I deduced. Whenever there is an accident, we act and save our people first. We do not sit and investigate about which bus has hit you, who was the driver, to which company did the car belong, what was its number? Before doing all this we attempt to save our person. Similarly I tried to save her before doing anything else. I told her the best action for her, is to resign from this post. This is the designation of a world leader, so I will not remove you from the post. I will keep the dignity of the post. I will be going to Singapore on the 5th , then you please resign on the 10th. She resigned on the tenth. At that time I was not mentally prepared to remove her, I did not wish to remove her. But the conditions demanded it. After that, when she was no longer holding the designation, people started talking freely about her. They started saying that the people were bowing at her feet. Because of this a dirty energy had accumulated in her aura. I e-mailed to her saying that I am with you in all the situations. At all times, there was no ill feeling neither at the time of making the change nor after the removal. In both the situations, I was on the receiving end. Eventually, I would have to singularly balance her out. But there can be only one reason for the bad attention of a lot of sadhaks at the same time, only one reason for so many people having bad thoughts about her at the same time. Only if her state had depleted then this could only be possible. What I mean to say is I too have to take some unpleasant decisions being in the management. At that time I do not know whether this decision is correct or not, but all the same I have to take the decisions. The conditions prevalent push oneself towards decision making. Only later, the decision is proved as the right one. In this instance, later on I came to make out that whatever decision had been taken was the appropriate one. The point I want to state here is that many a times the management just happens. There is an author Tim, who had recently questioned me and I had told him that I do not perform management and that it just happens at my hands. Now, look at this situation, I had no desire to move her off her post, I did not have any strained relations with her, despite all this, I had to act. Thus when you meditate things will start happening at your hands. It is not necessary to attempt and manage something, the management will merely happen at your hands. Wherever there is an attempt to do management, a feeling of doer-ship arises in the act at some time. And when the ego of doer-ship arises in our minds, our connection with the universal consciousness is lost. And when our connection with the universal consciousness is lost, all those things that we usually are aware of, the things that we normally know at our spiritual level, all theses are not understood by us. If you meditate, you will involuntarily reach the place from where you will obtain the full information about the particular function and be informed of the particular department, of the desired organization and so on.

There exists a place named Ankaleshwar on the way back from Rajkot to Navsari and a sadhak resides at Ankaleshwar. He owns a pharmaceuticals factory at Ankaleshwar. He requested me. “Swamiji, My factory is not working properly. Please visit my factory and thereafter furnish whatever advice you deem fit. The next day I visited his factory. Firstly, I visited the office. You will be aware that those who are uneducated provide thumb impression as their signature as the finger prints are unique for that person. Similarly the aura of every person is different. Likewise, the aura of every factory is different. The aura of a factory is created by the people who work there. Whoever is working over there, whoever is working at that place because of his vibrations the aura of the factory is created. First of all I went to the in office and checked the vibrations at that place. I checked the aura there. Then I went to their warehouse and checked the aura of the warehouse. Then, I visited the production department of the factory and checked the aura over there. Then I went to the dispatch department and checked the aura there. I observed the whole factory. After completing the study I mentioned to him that the factory is not getting any orders. That is your problem, isn’t it? He said “yes, Swamiji, this is precisely my problem”. The vibrations at all the other locations were good. The vibrations were good in purchase department. That is when the purchases were made they were good. The vibrations were good in dispatching meaning that when the dispatch was made it was good. The vibrations were good in production meaning that when production was made it was of good quality. However, there was problem in the marketing department. They were not obtaining any orders in their office. When there are no orders nothing can proceed further. I told him all those who are responsible for planning, do only planning. No action is taken on those plans. That is why the entire problem is in that office. If the energy of the office is changed, the aura of the office is changed and thereafter there can be a change in the whole of the factory. The work is halted due to this department. Owing to one department the work of the whole factory is stalled. Thereafter changes were made in that department and by the end of the month the results were visible. He confirmed:” Swamiji, I obtained two orders one from USA and another from Switzerland. He managed to gather the required momentum. The hindrance was at that single function itself. Due to problems at one place the whole work of the factory was at a stand still.

As such, if you meditate regularly, you will realize exactly the problem area, the difficult part in the functioning. You can recognize the hitch and one can act accordingly. Once you improve your spiritual level by meditation, it is of help at all times, at all places. Similar incidence took place at a place called Umbher near Surat. A temple was being constructed over there. The work had stopped. I went there and inquired what had happened. I was told:” Swamiji, we had the funds for construction, but due to the indifferences between the contractor and the consulting engineer, the work was at standstill. We have funds but due to their disagreements, the work has stopped. I approached the temple and went in the east direction one particular day. Then I went to the west the next day, then I went in the south and north direction respectively. On the fifth day I sat in the temple and meditated. Then I told the Patel clan that the work of the temple will recommence within 24 hours. One Patel inquired “Swamiji how is it possible? The Engineer resides in Baroda and the contractor stays at Ahmedabad”. I told him that I do not know any thing about all these physical constraints. But within 24 hours the work of the temple recommenced and went on continuously till its completion. How did this happen? The energy that the temple should have received was blocked from all the sides. I cleared the energy from all four directions and then sat for meditation in the temple so the energy started accumulating over there. And so the work of the temple started.

When a person meditates he develops an aura around him and the place around him is influenced by this aura. If you want to experiment with the aura then go and sit by the road side. Keep observing all the people who are passing by. Suppose a person passes by, observe his face. See the face of the second passerby; see the face of the third person walking by also. See the face of the fourth passerby. It is possible as soon as you saw the face of the fourth person there was a reaction within you and you felt like slapping him. This person is not known to you. You do not know each other. You have nothing to do with him. Despite all this, why did you have this reaction towards him? It is due to the fact that he does not have a clear aura. He does not possess good vibrations. Incase, if you are having the feelings that generally the people do not like you, then be aware that you do not possess good vibrations. Then you do not have a clear aura. Then improve your aura. Improve your vibrations. Meditate for a few days. After the meditations you will notice the influence of the same in your life. Those persons who disliked you, those who did not even like to talk to you, even these people will experience peace in your presence. The beginning of world peace is required to start from within and not outwardly. The last year when I toured Germany, some people called on me. They said “Swamiji, we desire to bring peace to the entire world”. We wish that there should be harmony in the world. We desire there should be good in the world. I studied their aura and learnt that they were discontented and not happy.

I told them: You move to any part of the world, or any place in the entire world, in any given adverse situations also, it will still be same, it will be complementary and conducive to you, it will remain the same, you will not get affected, because, due to the potency of your aura surrounding you, you will not get affected by any outside force or outside influences.

Outside problems, outside thoughts, outside surroundings will not weaken you, will not affect you. It will not change your inner strength, your aura So in the similar manner, if every person creates its own similar aura surrounding him, then, there is every possibility that there will be a change in this whole world.

But if we do not change ourselves, then it is next to impossible that there could be a change in this world.

Many times, you have complaints and indulge in self-pity in your own life, why it is happening with me only? Why people are behaving in a particular manner with me only? Why are they thinking badly about me only? Why do this… with me only?

For All your complaints, all your problems, all your diseases, you yourself singularly is responsible.

After starting MEDITATION there is a subtle change in you. Now, for every problem, you will not find fault with others, but will try to locate it within you. If a person has slapped me, then you will think; why that person has slapped me only? You will start thinking, what are those causes and reasons because of which, he has slapped me?

Your thought process will become inward. Then you will find that all the faults are very much within you and are very individual to you as compared to those, which you try to find in anybody else.

Firstly, you will be able to witness for yourself the faults within you. So when you will be able to notice your own shortcomings, only then will you not think of removing the same…? So when you become inward, you will be able to see your own errors, and when you see them, you will also work towards removing them.

Thus, in life, for your problems, for your setbacks, for any of your diseases, do not ever blame any body else outside. All causes, all roots of problems, all bad and impure bases are inside you. The problem is because of you.

Guru is like a mirror, in whose front whenever you go, it reflects all your bad deeds and sins and you will start noticing them. You will also be able to understand your faults. So when you reach this divine place of GURU, you will be seeing all this faults of yours. And when you see the faults, then you will also begin to remove the same.

That is why it is necessary that you start meditating. And after meditation, try to create that beautiful aura, create that magnificent divine energy which will not only protect you, but in your protection, you will also be able to protect many other souls, many other people surrounding you.

Thus, it is necessary that, in your life, take support of meditation in your life. Accept meditation as part of your life.

Then, what remains to be considered is being chaste or pure, if there is a guilty feeling inside you, that, I drink alcohol, how can I do meditation? I smoke cigarette, how can I do meditation? I eat non-vegetarian food, how can I do meditation? So then here, please keep in mind that, KUNDALINI MAA, is your MOTHER, and you can always go and sit in her lap even with your unclean legs, you can have the courage to go and sit in her lap with your dirt, in the similar manner, you can also, with all your negativities and guilt’s, with all your vices, can participate, and after practicing, what ever your unpleasant element will automatically go. And whatever is good will remain.

Hence, I do not preach to any of my Sadhak. I do not tell them, what to do and what not to do? What to eat and what not to eat? What to drink and what not to drink? I do not tell them anything.

Whatever you state, good or bad, I accept you in all types of states and situations. All your unpleasant things are also mine and good things are also mine. Surrender with all these virtues and vices.

Because, if I say, those who are smoking here please walk off this hall, then at least 10% of them will get up and leave. Then if I say, those who are consuming alcohol please leave, and then additional 10% will depart from this hall. Then, those who eat non-vegetarian food should leave, and then additional 30 % will get up and go away. Then if I say, those who speak lies in life should go away, and then the entire hall will become vacant. There will be no one here. Then whom will I teach Meditation?
For heavens sake, whatever your state, you are mine, please come with all that belongings of pleasant and unpleasant things.
Sometimes when you approach any holy ascetic persons, who will question, are you consuming alcohol, then stop that and then come. Are you smoking, then stop smoking, and then come to me.
If I could ever stop all that, then why would I ever come to you…?
In this method, you do not have to leave anything; you do not have any taboos or restrain any of your habits, etc.

Dhyan i.e., Meditation, in simple words, means to connect with GOD, with the Divine energy, that SUPREME CONSCIOUSNESS. Yoga means to connect, to join. And after establishing the connection, whatever is good will remain with you, what is not good will automatically go away.

My family is with me and I do not think you will ever run off from your family. So the ladies, please do not worry, I have not come here to convert anybody into an ascetic.
So Meditation means that Divine energy will have to be supplemented, to join in your life. And after adding that, the unpleasant things are involuntarily left behind. Please mark these words; these unpleasant things will be left automatically.

What is good and what is bad why do we think about it now? That is why I do not preach any my Sadhaks as to what to do and what not to do. What is suitable and what is not proper. I only say, just do Meditation, Meditation and meditation.
I say this; because, I know, when one practices meditation, there will be a very chaste and positive aura that will be developed surrounding him. He will have a very positive mind frame that will be developed surrounding him. And because of this positive aura, he will never take any bad decisions. He will never do any unpleasant work directly or indirectly. It is because, to do unpleasant work, or to take upon unpleasant decisions, the negative energy required is not present with him.
That much self-confidence has resulted in me; because I have been experiencing this that any negative things will automatically regress and for this one never has to be told about it.

One mother has given birth to your physical body, and I am that mother who has given birth to your spiritual body. So in the similar manner, when a mother gives birth to a child, the virtues, the thoughts, of the mother also gets transmitted into the unborn child involuntarily, similarly, when a Sadguru gives birth, gives birth to a soul, then that Sat gurus’ all-round thought process will have impact on that Soul. If the sat guru drinks alcohol then his disciple will be able to drink. If sat guru smokes then his disciple will be in position to smoke or else he will not be able to smoke. Every thing just happens; nothing has to be done by force.

In foreign countries when I go, the journalists abroad ask: Swamiji, do you awaken the Kundalini Shakti? I tell them, I do not do anything, It just happens..! They are amazed and ask how it is possible? Please Explain?
Then I tell them, it is akin to the process of that lit candle. When an unlit candle with the intention of getting lighted comes slowly...Slowly near the lit one, with pure intention of getting lighted and the moment its wick touches the wick of the lighted candle, it is lit. It just happens in the process of going near to the ignited candle with the intention of getting lighted. So does it mean that the burning candle burns another candle? NO. The unlit candle just gets lighted itself by being in proximity of the lighted one.
Similarly, I am a single being with my physical body, but with me many positive souls are connected, there is a big congregation of them, and because of this congregation of positive souls, if any soul comes in proximity of the collective group and wishes that it should also experience this divine energy, then that soul also achieves the experience.

Positive souls, this positive congregation, collective group has its own experiences. It was in the last month that I was staying in a resort located near Mumbai, I do not prefer Mumbai, I prefer to stay outside or near to Mumbai, but not within Mumbai. There is one resort, which is in the vicinity of a Jungle. So everyday at 4 am I used to go near a tree and used to meditate below a tree. At about 6 am one couple came nearby for jogging and saw me meditating. Then they also sat down nearby. And after sitting there, when I finished my meditation, they both came to see me; they asked as to who am I? What was I doing? They inquired about the meditation. For half an hour we discussed in general. I briefed them a little bit about meditation. And after half an hour, they both left.

The next day, when I was meditating on the same place, and when meditation was over, I saw that they were awaiting me. They stood up and came near me. The gentleman said:” Swamiji, I am heading Information Technology dept of a private company. And for last 20 to 25 days, was working on developing a particular software code, and was not successful, and after meeting you yesterday; just about in half an hour I could successfully develop and complete the same. It seems to me like a miracle.

I told them, there is nothing like a miracle in this event. You are observing me as a single person, but actually I am not one person. There are many lacks and billions of positive souls who are attached with me. And all these positive energy bodies and souls are attached to me and I am a collective group of all these positive energy. And if you happen to be spending about half an hour with this congregation it is but natural that it will have some positive effect and influence of the same in your own life…! So there is nothing like a miracle in that.
So when they were explained in this manner, then did they understand the whole thing?

Today, there is entirely the exhibit of strength of knowledge. There is pressure on mental faculties and mental stress. Materialistic gadgets and materialism has become the way of life, but this cannot provide peace to the human soul. It means that in such a situation, such humans, stressed with pressures, need some mental peace. And this mental peace is possible to be achieved in this collectivity. And to join in this collectivity and to achieve some mental peace, meditation is the only medium. You can join that group which has already achieved mental peace. You can join in, in that collectivity through the process of meditation. And after joining them, the effect of functioning of the collectivity, you will notice it in you day-to-day life, in your daily routine.

Last year, I had visited Malaysia. Actually I had been to Singapore. But in Malaysia, there is a big factory owned by Birlas. And the executive of the factory specially invited me to the factory. I went there. I noticed that they were all under tension. The reason was that, they were all given some targets to be achieved. It was similar time of the year. The targets were to be achieved by end of March. Every body was tense.
They said:” Swamiji please teach some meditation so that we could achieve our goals set by doing away the stress”. I told them, looking at the current situation of each one of you, it seems unlikely that it will be possible to achieve the same.

They questioned:”why Swamiji, what is the reason”?

Then I told them, you have to distinguish your self from your goal. Today you have put yourself inside that goal which needs to be achieved. So you yourself have become the goal, so who will achieve whom? To fulfill a particular goal, you need to be detached from that goal.
Today, in the tension of completing the target, you yourself have become a part of that goal. Thus till you separate yourself from that, how can you achieve that? The problem and you should be separated. If you become part of the problem, then you cannot solve it.

You must have also experienced that, you have misplaced a key, you will start searching it in the entire house like an insane man, but you will not locate it. But the moment you sit quietly for 5 minutes and you will locate the key immediately.
So till the time, you are part of the problem, you are inside the problem, then you are not different from the problem. Unless you detach from the problem, you will not be able to clear that problem. That is why I have stated that detach your self from the goal. Both of you should be separate.
You will be able to achieve it only if you detach yourself from the goal. Once you come out of the target, then think about it, as to how best to achieve it , how best to correct it and how best to accomplish it.
Like, if there is a house on fire, which needs to be put off, then if you are inside it, then you cannot extinguish the fire. If you need to extinguish it, then you have to come out of the house.

Similarly, you have to move out of your goal. The moment you come out of it, you will be able to work as to how to achieve it. Today you yourself have become a target. Who could actually achieve and what?

So, thereafter they were trained how to practice meditation, and then remarked to withdraw the word NO i.e., Not Possible from your dictionary. Then the goal shall be reached without fail. It is possible to achieve with full success. Start working with that confidence in you. It will be achieved.

Today, management also, in order to remove the stress, due to the goals and the targets given to achieve, to complete them, you have to think in a detached manner distinct from being part of the goal.

Similarly in your life you should be able to think separate from the goal, and then you will be able to achieve any goal of your life. Today many times, you have to take some important decisions in you life; many times from the management point of view also you have to take a lot of important decisions. At such times, you should own an intense inner strength. This inner strength will be intense only when you are very close to your own self. When we are in a group and cluster, when we are in collectivity then we ourselves become zero and are part of the whole. With this, the thoughts of the crowd will become your own thoughts. They are similar to those of the entire collective crowd. The thoughts are not distinct or different from the crowd.

Today, due to the media and network coverage, many times, a depressive environment gets created. Take for e.g. 11th September episode, the Towers were destroyed in USA, but every country and every place felt that, and every person felt that, it is his house, which is shaking. Thus the depression got created in this collective manner. It is because in this coverage our individual thinking becomes zero. Everybody is thinking of only the same episode. I happened to be in Canada at that time. I completed some how the second shibir, cancelled the third shibir and returned back to India. It is because, you cannot educate about meditation in these situations.

People had been into depression in collectivity.

Thus when we are in a position to safeguard ourselves from these untoward situations and episodes, only then we will be able reach near our soul, our inner strength.

So whenever in life you want to take an important decision in your life, then you take the decision in seclusion by moving away from the surrounding people ,detaching from your surrounding, by being one with yourself. In Mumbai, there exists a big company, which constructed its own building which houses the office of the owner. He invited for the inauguration and showed me the entire place. I advised him, that, whenever, you have to take an important decision while in the conference room, he should move to the top floor. He can tell the persons in the conference room to have tea and meanwhile for 10 minutes just be away from them and be in touch with your inner self. And then what ever is your decision; just announce it by coming back to the conference room.

He liked that idea so much that he made a landscaped garden full of lawn on that terrace. Whenever he has to take some decisions, he goes on the top, sits in the garden for some time, ponders for about 10 min and then whatever he decides, comes and informs the board. Because when we are in collective crowd, the thinking of the collectivity affects our aura, and then it is not necessarily correct that we take the right decision.

Many times, due to the pressure from the collective crowd we tend to take a wrong decision and somewhere inside, your inner conscious cautions you that what you are doing is not correct, but still, as there is so much pressure of the surrounding people, that we ignore the caution of inner conscious and take the decision prompted by the entire crowd. So whatever is collectively decided is accepted. And when the results of the work executed are disappointing and wrong then all those people who were part of collectivity just disappear. And the consequences of that have to be borne by you alone. Thereafter, you visit some resorts, hill station and try to forget the entire episode, but inside you the recording continuously plays that it had warned you against doing this work and despite this you have done it. This inner voice will continuously be on and then when you travel to anyplace in the entire world, but you cannot escape this inner voice of yours.

Thus the purpose of teaching you meditation is to make you your own guru. Your self becomes your Guru, your guide, and then you need not take guidance from outside. Do whatever your inner voice prompts you to do. Inner voice, the self represents the Supreme Being. It knows everything, past present and future. Hence listen to it and do it. Although at that time you may not realize that it is correct decision but later on you will positively know that it was the most appropriate decision that you had taken.
When, the crowd, pressurizes you to take some important decision, then at that time, be bold enough to say that time inner voice is discouraging you to do this work and as such will not do the same.

In such a situation, it may be possible that, from commercial point of view you may loose. But then you will be able to live in peace and will be able to live with your conscience and a high self-esteem.
Otherwise, you inner voice itself will not be with you and will keep on reminding you that you have done something wrong.
Even in my life, many times, similar incidents do happen. And it happens many times. My behavior becomes crazy. And when you ask me why I am behaving in similar manner, then even I will not be able to answer you the reason of my behavior.

Similarly, when six years back when I had come to Mumbai for the first time, then had stayed at Naimishaben’s place, and a big industrialist had organized the shibir in a five-starred hotel.
When we started for that hotel, somehow I was behaving in a crazy manner; a torch was given to me as a gift. I opened that torch, removed the cells from it, and put the cells back in it. Then I tested battery whether the same is functioning or not. And after lighting the torch I gave to Naimishaben, and said you walk with this torch in your hand. Then she mocked saying:” Swamiji, this is not your jungle, this is a five starred hotel, there is not need of that torch” I replied that I do not know, I only understood that we should go with that torch. She laughed at me and did not carry that torch. And then, three times that night, there was power failure in that hotel.

Thus it means that, the inner self was correctly pointing out as to what was in store in future. It knew rightly as to what was going to happen in future.
So when the self, inner conscience becomes intense, that it will start guiding you, as to what to do and what not to do. What is just and what is unjust. The soul will assist in knowing what is right and what is wrong.

Every religious ritual speaks of these things only. Everywhere it proclaims the same thing, Do this and do not do this. And by performing these rituals constantly, you have to awaken your own soul.
Actually the process of awakening your soul by this process is a pain- staking one and takes a very long time. Your whole life will be passed in this process without achieving the awakening of your soul.

The process is reverse in the Samarpan Meditation. You are not instructed anything outwardly, like do this or don’t do that. Directly your light is lighted inside you. And once your light is put on then in the light of your soul, first of all you can witness, all the blemishes on your soul and all the bad stuff you are holding on to, in your life. Once you notice these things, you get rid of them. Thus the aim of meditation is to make yourself your own Guru. Once you become your own Guru, then in your life if you want to take any decision then you can take assistance of your own soul. Many a times, some people like contractor or some other party visit you in the office. They give you a written agreement stating that they will complete it in such a specified time and involving definite cost. I request you to scan his aura in manner alike you confirming his experience, evaluating his talk, examining his papers. One does not need to do much. Just keep your palms open placed under the chair and inquire:”Swamiji, can this person complete the contract or not”? If he can complete the contract then immediately you will start feeling the vibrations in your hands. If not, then you will not get any vibrations. Thus the vibrations can foretell you about the events to forth come in the future. So you can leave your decisions to the same. You have to do this because every thing in life is presented well in good packaging and it is difficult to know what is genuinely good. It is difficult to assess what will be the consequences beforehand. Your soul will be able to guide you and tell you the outcome beforehand. It will guide you. In your life place your mind to what you are giving rather than what you are receiving, what benefits you. Even in a job you should place your attention to what you are providing to the company rather than what you are being paid from the company. In meditation all your progress depends on what you can give. What you can receive is not something we should be anxious about. In the Himalayas there were many great saints, one greater than the other. Their spiritual level was very immense. In spite of that my Gurus preferred me for this task. I asked them, why you have selected me when you have so many great people, with a high spiritual level. They explained it very succinctly. Those are the students who can score cent percent marks in mathematics, but they can not teach the subject to the others. You are a student who gets 40% marks, but you can teach the others. On the basis of your ability to give, you have been selected. So, always reflect about what you can give. To give should become your nature. When you have a giving nature, it is very natural to receive. You do not have to specifically ask for it. I have not asked for anything in my life, but I received everything. I have everything, although I have never had a desire to receive anything. My whole attention is on what I can give to the maximum. My whole mind is applied to that. What more and more I can give, is always in my mind, what I got back is never present in my mind. If you have any knowledge about laboratory, then you must know that there is a U-tube, used in the lab. If you place 100 Gms. of water in one part of the tube, 50 Gms will go to the other part. Because both the arms are inter connected. Similarly think about what you can give to the company. Automatically you will start receiving. You do not have to ask for it. Whatever the owner will get will definitely reach you. This happens because your benefits and the company’s benefits are connected. It is not as if I just tell you these things, but I follow them as well. For example; now that I am staying here, I was feeling that I am remaining engaged only in the evening. The whole of the morning I am free. Why should I not utilize that time? Why not start teaching meditation in the morning? So I taught meditation at six in the morning. I am here for four days, so I will teach meditation for those four days. I told the people I am meditating, you all meditate along with me. Unless you work you cannot digest your daily bread. It gives you the feeling that you do not deserve the bread. Thus work very hard. Give as much as you can. What you get depends on that only. So never think about what you obtain. I never thought of getting anything in life, but I received everything.

When I lived in the jungle, the queen of the tribal village used to bring fruits for me plucked by her own hands. She wished that Swamiji should get the best fruits in the jungle. Servants may not bring the best fruits. So she used to get them personally. Thus I had the best fruits in the jungle. Today when I am living in the society, I am having all those material things you run after. This is true not only for India, but wherever I go in the world; this is true for me. The difference is that my mind is not in any of these facilities. When I was under a tree, I was with my Guru and today when I live in a bungalow also I am with my Guru. Be in holistic presence of your Guru. Install your Guru in your mind all the time. Then wherever you are you will be happy and in bliss. It should be in your nature to give. The more you give, your receiving capacity will increase that much. This is the secret of spirituality. The more you distribute that much more receptivity you will have.
If you had attended the Rajkot shibir, you must have known that I narrated an incidence from the life of Shirdi Sai Baba on the day of Agnya chakra. On that day before I commenced the discourse, I received tremendous energy from Sai Baba. I could not walk properly. Not only that I could not even open my eyes. During the shibir, unless you get connected with that energy you cannot talk about that energy. On that day the moment I got connected with the energy I received tremendous amount of vibrations, so much so that it became difficult for me to come out of my trance. It took me 15 minutes. I could talk for two hours after those initial 15 minutes, which I engaged just to come out of that trance. This was possible only because I kept my awareness, my attention about two things. Firstly, that these vibrations that I am receiving are not mine, they are of Sai Baba. Secondly they are not meant for me, they for purposes of distribution. These are for giving away to the others. This is offering of God (Prasaad)’. And offering is never meant to feed your stomach; it is for distribution to the maximum number of people possible. Because of the awareness of these two things I could come out of that state and thereafter talk for two hours. The secret of the spirituality is how much you can give. Please just start giving, then receiving will be automatic. You can only give when you get something. I will tell you how that works. The moment you start giving your level starts increasing, your vessel starts becoming bigger and bigger, you start becoming more and more eligible to receive. The moment you become eligible, the process of receiving starts involuntarily. We are not receiving because we have a small vessel for receiving. In a small vessel only a small amount can be deposited. The size of the vessel is decided on how much you give. The more you give the greater will be the size of your vessel. Do one thing. Pray for your company every morning that my company should progress in every way, it should develop in every way. Try doing this. You will feel good. You will feel that you have contributed to the growth of the company, on which you are dependent. You will have these feelings. And as soon as you get these feelings you will start happiness at the growth of the company. I do not know whether you all have taken benefit, but many of my sadhaks have benefited from increase in the share price of the company which has increased as compared to what it was five years back; when I had first visited this company. Those people who have the knowledge of it have observed what are the changes that are seen after getting connected with positive energy. The influence of the positive energy can be seen in every aspect, in every situation after getting connected with it. And then there will be an all round progress. As such, increase your capacity to give. The more you increase it the better it is. I use up my energy completely during every Gurupornima. I become completely empty. The next year I come back with more. You can see for your selves the tremendous development that has taken place in the last six years. It is impossible for such a universal development by just one person, that too without charging anything. I neither charge anything here, nor charge abroad. I do not have any money in my pocket either. I just roam about like a penniless person. Once Bihagbhai and myself were traveling in London. Bihagbhai asked me Swamiji, do you have any money. I said no. He said I do not have any money either. What shall we do about the taxi fare? I said that the charges will be paid by the customers.

When you are related to the universally, you have to open your heart to the extent that your progress will definitely occur. It is essential to enlarge the vessel of your mind so much that automatically it will receive you do not have to do any thing to get anything. You need not even wish to get anything. If it depended on the wish of the person then every beggar would have thought that I should become the king. Do you think that is possible? A beggar can become a king only if his condition from within becomes like a king. Every person gets whatever he deserves according to his condition from within. If his condition is not good he will not receive it. If the state is bad then even if he possesses every thing he will not get anything. The condition of our former cricket captain was the same. He had a good record, a good score of runs to his credit and everything was good. What was bad was his vibration. They had become spoilt. His energy had become spoilt. His mind had become soiled. He lost his post he lost his designation, so much so he was thrown out of the team. There was nothing bad about his from outside, no minus points but the integrity of his mind was destroyed. When the integrity of your mind is affected this always affects your life. So the most important thing in your life is your mind. If your mind is strong the other things will just follow. It is not necessary to go towards it. Last year when I had gone to Australia, five Yoga teachers came to meet me over there. All the five yoga teachers had beautiful carved out type of bodies, as if they had been created out of a mould. But all the five had very weak minds. Normally one expects a strong mind from a yoga teacher, whilst all these five teachers had a weak mind. I was perplexed as to the cause of this!! What can be the reason for this, which is causing a weak mind I then remembered a story from my childhood. If a young girl saw herself in the mirror again and again, my grandmother used to scold her loudly. “Don’t you dare see in the mirror”. I did not understand the reason why my grand mother was getting annoyed. I understood the meaning of this when in Australia. The girl when she sees in the mirror she will only see the image of her own body in the mirror. The body is destructible. And when she looks at her body again and again, she will be concentrating (putting her mind/Chitta) on the perishable thing and hence her body will get destroyed. The Yoga teachers had done the same thing. I told them you do Yoga to get a beautiful body. And hence when you got a beautiful body your further progress stopped. Due to too much attention on the body, the mind (Chitta) became weak and got destroyed. The next day I was invited for a talk to the institution called “Life of yoga”. All the five yoga teachers were there. They said Swamiji; whatever you said to us was correct. We had nothing to do with spirituality. We came to yoga to have a good body. I told them you have got a good body now, but as you put your mind too much on your body your mind (Chitta) got destroyed. They said you are right, but what can we do now. I told them now you can put your mind to something that is not destructible (that is permanent). Look at the sky and concentrate on it for one hour. This will make your mind strong. The spirituality, meditation, yoga etc are meant for the spiritual progress. The rest are like by products. You get them anyway. You should not take to spirituality for material progress.

You might say I am harping on the “Chitta” i.e. mind. How do we know what is Chitta, mind and how to recognize where is our mind placed? Whatever your thoughts are of, your mind is at that place. In a meeting of the villagers I told them if you are having the thoughts of buffalo then your mind is on buffalo. If you are having the thoughts of a cow then your mind is on the cow. And if you are having the thoughts of a tractor then your mind is on the tractor. Your mind is at the place whose thoughts you are getting at that moment.

Now analyze your thoughts and contemplate whether I am placing my attention on perishable or on something, which is permanent. If it is mortal then we are spoiling our mind. Those aspirants who fail to reach meditative state, they should analyze as to why their mediation is not making further progress. While doing mediation if you think of those issues, if you think of those persons and they are perishable. Why are you placing your state of mind in perishable doings and spoiling your thought process. Why are you making your mind so weak? Why are you wasting your mind power by placing attention on perishable things? Try to conserve more and more mind power and retain the same with you. If you conserve more mind power with you then you will be better and successful person in your life.

The years to come, the near future is of competitive age and challenges. One should have strong mind set to face the challenges of the coming centuries. There is no book or Universities, colleges or school that makes your mind strong. By reading any book you cannot make a strong and intense mind. In order to sustain and make up an intense mind, one has to realize experiences. An experiential realization is live and can be realized from live potent location. In my initial visit to Mumbai, an elderly respected gentleman used to visit me. He had authored books on Meditation for over thirty years. He uses to make references from various texts and point out the distinctions saying:” Swamiji, this text describes it in a particular manner and you narrate it differently. This remark was being repeated three to four times. Later, he became friendly and I made a request and jokingly advised him” Doctor Saab, Can you visit tomorrow as an illiterate person”. He wondered why and was amused and began laughing. On the next day the Doctor visited my house at 6 O’clock morning and joined me for meditation .The meditation lasted for approximately one hour forty five minutes. As soon as he got up from the meditation he exclaimed:” Swamiji, I have authored several books on meditation for the last thirty years but I had not experienced such divine experiential realization. Why did it not happen earlier? I replied that it was because today you had approached as illiterate person. When one drives a car, the same is parked outside and one has to walk in to come to any house and one cannot gatecrash with the car in the house. It is likewise. Similarly one can reach the Almighty but it is not possible to realize Him, the Almighty. In order realize and experience the Almighty, one has to fully surrender with devotion. Today you have come here without any bookish knowledge, have come fully surrendered, and have come as if an illiterate person .And all this has lead you realize divine experience .

Divine experience is that which makes you realize experience and marks the beginning of journey, our spiritual journey. We search the God, the Almighty by making visits to temples, sages, saints, shrines .We search Him everywhere and at all places. Even I was searching Him, attempting to find the Almighty. As I was searching, yearning and longing to realize Him, I reached my Masters, my Gurudev. And My Master made me realize divine experience and there and then my entire search for God came to an end. Searching and yearning for the Almighty ended. I was immensely satisfied having realized the Almighty and I was so glad.

My Grandmother used to say that that God is immortal. He, existed in the past, exists in the present and will continue to exist in the future. As a child, I had clarity of thought that God cannot be a physical living being as the physical body is mortal.

But the time I experienced God through medium of my master, Guru; then my master himself was for all purposes my God. It was so because the entire universal consciousness was received through the medium of my master. That day onwards my entire explore, my entire search ended. My heart was unfilled with no particular mirror image of God within. I was ready to accept God in the current and presently existing state. I was ready to accept Him in any form. I was prepared to accept Him at any location. And in this unfilled frame, I impressed the icon of Gurudev, my master in my spirit. And having this impression within me, my search for God came to an end.

Even the discontented feeling I had within me also ended. And I was in bliss and full of joy and satisfaction that I had realized God.

As such I place my prayers to Al Mighty, God that for each one of you should witness a living master who will make you realize God through his medium. And after realization of divine experience, your all outward search should come to an end. All your outside yearning should be off. And your inner journey should begin. And I wish that that you achieve the blissful state, the contentment which is experienced by thousand and lacks of people.

Namaskar