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San Diego Jan 10, 2010
Bhagavan:
Namaste!
Gail:
Namaste, Bhagavan! So nice to see you.
So we have about 80 people here today.
We have 42 people to be initiated this
afternoon, they’re all here. And a lot
of the new blessing givers are here and
a lot of the people who have been …
(inaudible)
Bhagavan:
I will give them all a very strong
blessing when we meditate. So could we
go ahead with the questions? … Yes, the
first question, please.
(Vikram) Question 1:
Bhagavan, sometimes a
charge wells up in me so strongly it is
hard to stay with the experience – there
is so much fear, or terror, or whatever
the emotion is. Even feeling what is in
the body is hard at that time. Other
than asking for a blessing and invoking
the divine presence for help, is there
anything else I can do when that
situation occurs? Is there anything a
blessing giver can do to help me other
than giving me a blessing, Bhagavan?
Bhagavan:
Mind, breath, and
kundalini form a triangle. If one is
affected, the other two are
automatically affected. So what you can
do is, if you are really helpless and
the charge is becoming really powerful
inside you, you could alter your
breathing pattern. If you alter the
breathing pattern, the charge lets go of
you at least temporarily. That is what
you could do. With a little practice,
it’s possible to alter the breathing
pattern and it’s quite easy.
What the blessing giver
can do, in case he is not able to give
you a blessing, he could start praying
for you. And once he starts praying and
you alter your breathing pattern, you
will get very, very quick results. So
that is the easiest way to handle a
crisis.
So that is the answer for
the 1st question. We go on to
the 2nd question?
Question 2:
Bhagavan, I have
difficulty with the concept of there
being one universal mind when my mind
chatter seems to be specific to my
situation. Is it my ego that is driving
the universal mind chatter to
specifically apply to me?
Bhagavan:
In Oneness we do not
emphasize on concepts or really give it
much importance. The universal mind has
got to be realized. You must
discover it for yourself as a living
experience. You should not make it into
concepts. And if concepts are troubling
you, you must drop the concepts. Then
ultimately, as you move to higher states
of consciousness, you will find there
are no concepts at all. It is just a
living experience.
So concepts could become
troublesome. In this case, it looks like
the concept of the universal mind is
troubling you, so I would recommend [to
you] to drop that concept. And maybe as
you go along, you would find yourself in
tune with the universal mind.
(Much laughter)
So, we move on to the 3rd
question now … (laughing)
Question 3:
When I hear teachings
from you - for example, “Nonresistant
awareness of the ‘what is’ is oneness,”
or, “Letting go of the need to
control…is surrender” - what comes to my
awareness is how I am actually the
opposite – how much I resist or hold
on. Your teachings always seem to show
me how I am not what you teach.
You have also been
emphasizing how nothing will change. How
is this process helping to awaken me to
oneness, Bhagavan?
Bhagavan:
Yes… You are not any of
the things which I teach – that is
what I teach in the first place.
(Laughter) The teaching itself is very,
very simple. All the teaching says is –
you cannot change. And the impossibility
of change must strike you like a ton of
bricks. The whole problem with you is
all the while you have been trying to
change. You do not like the way you are
and you would like to be something else.
That is the problem.
The teaching is
remarkably simple. All that it says is,
“Something is going on there. Please
look at it.” Do not condemn it. Do not
judge it. Do not give explanations. Do
not say it is right or wrong, good or
bad, or sacred or profane. Stop naming
it! If you stop naming what is going on
as jealousy, as anger, as hatred, as
selfishness, you actually begin to see.
Now the problem is you
are imagining, or you’re thinking, that
if you see, something is going to
happen. Something very great is going to
happen – you are going to be awakened,
you are going to be enlightened, and all
that kind of stuff. Now what you don’t
realize is – that seeing is the
awakening. That seeing is the
enlightenment. That is the be all and
the end all. There is nothing more at
all.
The only problem with you
is you are not seeing. That’s all. If
you start seeing, there is no seer. He
is gone. There is just the seeing. There
is neither the seer nor the seen. There
is just the seeing. And that is
meditation. That is enlightenment. That
is awakening. That is advaita. That is
everything.
But unfortunately you
make the mistake - you begin to see, you
don’t stop there. You are expecting
something to happen. So what you see,
you want it to undergo a transformation.
Nothing odd is going to happen. The
moment you start seeing, the seeing is
all that is there! You start living. You
experience reality as it is.
I could go on talking
more and more, but then you would make
them all into concepts. (Laughter) So I
am not going to. I think I will stop
there. You will discover it for
yourself.
When you meditate, what I
am going to do is, I am going to help
you see. That’s all. Once you see, it’s
up to you. You can write books on that …
(laughter), you can go out and preach
about that, that’s up to you.
So now that we have
finished the questions quite early,
probably we could go for a longer
meditation, 5 or 6 minutes meditate.
(Applause) Shall we start?
[Meditation]
(Edited to ~ 1 minute,
due to poor audio quality)
Vikram:
Shanti, shanti, shanti.
Bhagavan:
Love you all… Namaste.
Love, you, Bhagavan!
Namaste.
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