February 19th, 2006
“Three Different Paths Leading to Divinity – Part3”
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Sai Ram
With Pranams at the Lotus Feet of Bhagavan,
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We have every reason to be jubilant, every reason to be happy, because we have Swami physically with us, and we have been waiting for the last couple of weeks. Somehow the good God took mercy upon us, and finally He landed here yesterday. Well, we were still holding our talks when He arrived here.
I would like to continue what I left last week. We discussed the two apparently different paths being inherently the same – the one outwardly travelled, the other inwardly centred -- the two paths being the path of action and the path of wisdom, karma and jnana. That is where we left last week.
Well, this week I would like to draw your attention to certain other points related to the same subject. Every religion, every scripture lays emphasis on the kind of food that we are supposed to take. The discipline is to be strictly observed in respect to the food that we take. To quote Bhagavan, “As is the food, so is the head. As is the head, so is your God.”
So these are the three steps – food, head and God. Therefore, it all begins with the food, which means that we have got to be very, very careful with regard to the food that we take in. What do you mean by care? What do you mean by being cautious about the food that we eat? Why is this important in the spiritual field? These are the questions that come to our mind.
Bhagavan said this: First, patharthasuthi; which means that the stuff we use, whether vegetables, rice, wheat or whatever, has got to be pure and clean. Patharthasuthi— the material should be clean, pure and fresh.
Second, patharasuthi, which means that the utensils you use, the containers you use will have to be clean. Patharasuthi means ‘clean’. All utensils, all tumblers, all containers should be perfectly clean. That is the second point.
Third – pakkasuthi. What do you mean by pakkasuthi? The method of preparation should also be perfect. The process of cooking should be perfect so that we will enjoy the dish later. The process should be perfect -- pakkasuthi. If the process is not fine, if the food is half-boiled, if the vegetables are not properly cooked, then it is impossible to enjoy the food later. Therefore pakkasuthi, the cooking process, should be perfect.
And fourth bhavasuthi – the cook should have pure thoughts, a pure mind. This is also very important.
It is not merely calories, not the protein and the fat content alone about which we are very conscious. I know some of my friends who immediately try to check up their weight soon after they have their lunch. (Laughter) Naturally after eating, people weigh more. I don’t know.
Some people say, “I don’t want to eat because of fats and proteins.” I see, very good.
There are also some people who develop a separate school of health. What do they advocate? They say drink more water, more and more water. They say, “Drink 6 litres or 8 litres per day and don’t have any salt or any pepper, nothing but vegetables.” They follow that.
And someone came to me and said, “Mr. Anil Kumar, why don’t you follow this method of nutrition?”
I said, “Why do you follow that method? Let me know.”
What is the method they adopt? Drinking water, salt free, pepper free -- all free food, just perhaps raw vegetables they eat.
I said, “Why do you want to eat like this?”
They said, “We want to be healthy.”
I said, “Very good. Why do you want to be healthy?”
They said, “So that we may live long.”
I said, “I don’t want to live that long.”
“For that, only to live long, let me have the vegetables straightaway from the market and eat without having cooked them and all that, and drink water? I don’t want to live on this food that long! (Laughter) To live that long only to drink water, I don’t think so. Is it necessary? Should you eat raw vegetables without cooking and live long? I don’t think so.”
I told him, “I don’t want to live long eating this sort of food -- not that I am underestimating this. But I can’t do it, I am sure, because I like so much my spicy stuff and all that. What am I to do?”
But the four requirements that Baba mentions, I think satisfy the kind of nutrition habits I have. What does He say? To repeat again, first patharthasuthi – the material should be clean and fresh. Second, patharsuthi -- the container, the utensils that you make use of for cooking have got to be clean. Third, pakkasuthi — the method of cooking should be perfect. Fourth bhavasuthi — the feeling with which you cook also has to be pure and selfless and full of love.
That is the reason why people are very anxious to have home-cooked food. Actually even in five-star, seven-star, ten-star or any super-star hotel, they give you food in a posh way, with a very good table and settings; also the bills with very high prices and all that! Still you don’t like it; you prefer your home food. Why? The reason is that people at home — be it the mother, wife, sister or other family members, prepare the meal with all concern. They prepare with all love. They prepare in such a way that you eat more. They like you to eat.
Whether in hotels, motels or Holiday Inns, their motive is that you should eat more so that they get more money. That is commercially-oriented. Therefore you won’t find much joy in it.
Therefore my friends, Bhagavan says that you have got to be very careful and cautious about the food that you take, because as is the food, so is the head. The head will be full of impure thoughts because of bad food that we consume. All the thoughts are unsacred because of rotten food that we have eaten. So we have got to be very careful about food. That’s what the scriptures say.
But our Bhagavan adds another dimension in this context. We run after Baba for this reason, because He also throws light in another, new direction, with which we are not familiar. Baba explains this concept of food in a new way. What does He say?
All that you see is food for your eyes. All that you hear is food for your ears. All the thoughts that you have are food for your mind. So through these five senses, all that we receive is also food. In other words, I should see that which will not pollute my mind. I should see that which will not make my mind disturbed. I should see, hear, and think whatever will not create turbulence, worry or anxiety. Emotionally-speaking, all the five senses should draw only that food which is healthy, in order to maintain equanimity, equality and a balanced state of mind.
When we look at some scenes, we are highly disturbed. When we listen to some news, we are highly restless. It means that we are all affected by the different kinds of vibrations we receive, which get into our body through scenes, through sounds, through smells, and through all other different ways. So we have got to be very careful with the five senses, as Baba has repeatedly said.
He looked at me and said, “Do you have a form or not?”
I said, “I am sure I have a form, Swami -- the dress I have put on and the kind of hairstyle and all that. Yes, I have a form. I have got some weight and a chest, why not? I have a form, Swami.”
Good. The second question Baba put to me was this: “Do you have attributes or not? Attributes like compassion, kindness, love, hatred, attachment, and ego — these are all qualities, attributes. Do you have qualities or not?”
I said, “Yes Swami. I like a hot cup of coffee. I like spicy stuff. I like cake, ice cream, milkshake, doughnuts. Yes, I like these things. I openly admit it publicly. There is no secret about it. So I have certain preferences in my life. I have some choices in my life. I do have attributes.”
Then Baba said, “Why do you think of an attribute-less God, being full of attributes yourself? You are full of attributes, full of these qualities; but you want to think of a God who is attribute- less. How it is possible? You say you have form. You are conscious of your form. Yes, if anyone stares at you, immediately you will be conscious, ‘Is anything wrong with my dress?’ If anyone stares at you, looks straight into your eyes, you become conscious, ‘What is wrong with me?’ So you have a form. You are conscious of your form. Yet you want to pray to a God who is formless. How to bridge, how to fill the gap? A man who is form-full wants to pray to a formless God. A man who is full of attributes wants to pray to God who is attribute-less. How is it possible?”
Then I said, “Swami, leave me alone here. I have a form and attributes. Please forget about me for sometime. But God is formless and attribute-less; that is what the scriptures say. If I am familiar with scriptural teaching, if I am familiar with every sage and noble person, I must one way or another pray to God who is formless and attribute-less. I might be form-full with attributes; isn’t that apart from it? I can’t be formless now. I have a form still; there is time to be formless later. There is still time; I am not in a hurry. How is it possible?”
Our compassionate Bhagavan gave a beautiful example. Swami said, “All right. Do you see Me?”
I said, “Why not, Swami? I see You very clearly. Yes, in spite of my glasses.”
Swami asked, “Do you see the boy here?”
I said, “Very clearly.”
Swami asked, “Do you see the VIP sitting on the chair?”
I said, “Very clearly.”
Swami said, “So I see you. I see boys. I see VIPs on the chair.”
I said, “Very clearly.”
Swami said, “Oh I see. Do you see the hall?”
I said, “Why not?”
Swami asked, “Do you see the carpet?”
I said, “Yes, thoroughly.”
“All that you see, you are able to communicate; you are able to converse about. You are able to register it in your mind. Now after the Kodaikanal trip is over, after three weeks of Bhagavan’s stay there, you go back to your residence. You go back to your native place. There, when you just think of Kodaikanal, immediately you recall Swami. Immediately you recall the chair, immediately you recollect the boys; immediately the VIP seated on the chair will appear on the screen of your mind. Now, when you return home after vacation, physically the hall is non-existent; physically Swami is non-existent; physically the boys are absent; physically the VIPs are absent. But still, the moment you think of them, they are all there, though they are formless, not being there physically.” The moment I think of them, yes, all of them appear on the screen of my mind, as in a computer.
Baba said, “As you see Me with a form, you can think of Me being formless while you are in meditation. You see Me here physically; in meditation you will experience Me as formless. Why? Because I am not there physically in front of you when you meditate. I am not standing there in front of you when you concentrate. I am not in this physical plane when you pray, but still you experience Me.”
Therefore physical Swami will help us to experience Him spiritually. So we go from the physical to the spiritual. Physically we see Him; spiritually we experience Him. Physically we see Him at a certain place, at a certain time; spiritually we can experience Him all the time, everywhere. Why?
The difference is that when you turn the lens of your camera towards something, you see your picture. But when I turn the lens of the camera towards myself, I see my picture. It is something like a mirror. A mirror is shown to you so you can see your face. A mirror is turned to me, so I can see my face. The difference is only in the turning. Similarly, when the mind turns outward, it is a physical experience. When the mind turns inward, it is a spiritual experience. So outward is physical, while inward is spiritual. I think I am clear. That is how Baba explained it.
So Swami, what do You want to tell me ultimately? What do You want to tell me, Baba? Let me know. What Swami said was, “You should qualify. So long as you are conscious of your form, you can pray to a formful God only. So long as you have attributes, you can think of God with attributes only.”
When you rise beyond your body, when your rise beyond your mind, when you are beyond your intellect, when you transcend the physical level, naturally you can have the transcendental experience. So one should transcend, to have a transcendental experience. If I rise beyond the body, I can think of formless God. Only when I rise beyond the mind I can see attributeless God, or else it is meaningless. It is more or less jargon. It is more or less an academic or theoretical approach, but not a practical reality. That is what Bhagavan said.
“So Swami, what shall I do now? Right now, what shall I do? Since I have got the body, all right, let me die like this. What do you want me to do now?”
What Baba said was this, “Right from this moment, start praying to the God of your choice, of your taste, of your liking.”
OK. I like Rama, so I think of Him. I pray to Him. I repeat His Name. I like Christ, so I think of Him and pray to Him. So start there, that being the first step.
OK Swami, then what shall I do? Attend to your work regularly. Do your duty regularly, scrupulously, faithfully, sincerely. The second step is very important. I am afraid some might mistake me if I make this next statement: In the name of spirituality, we find the mediocre in different fields of activity. Mediocre. Some people, who are incompetent, inefficient, and ineligible, take shelter under the umbrella of religion. My friends, I tell you, religion is not for incompetent people. Religion is not for unqualified people. Religion is not for ineligible people. Religion is not for a weak personality.
I share this feeling with everybody, also with my students and colleagues. Some teachers say that we are here for spiritual activity; we speak only about Swami in the classroom. I said, “I don’t agree with you. A doctor must have a stethoscope. He also has some BP apparatus. If he goes on moving with some other equipment, then I don’t think that it is a religious way of life. As a teacher, you should teach the subject in the best way possible, which is the sign of a spiritual man. If you are a doctor, you should be the best doctor. If you are an engineer you should be the best engineer.”
Yogaaha Karmasu Kousalam.
Being an expert in the field is the quality of a religious man, not incompetence or inefficiency. Lord Krishna asked Arjuna to fight in the battlefield. “Pick up your bow and arrow. Come and fight.” He did not say, “Throw the bow and arrow away and sit down to meditate.” He did not say, “Do some penance.” He said, “Come and fight.” Arjuna, being a warrior, a Kshetraya and a king is supposed to fight. He is not supposed to sit and meditate. This is religion.
Do your duty as a professional, as an expert, as a bachelor, as a householder, or as a housewife. Doing your duty is the best way. That is the spiritual practice — sadhana. Spiritual practice is not elation, dereliction or disobedience. It is not dereliction of duty. It is not disobedient. Sadhana is performing one’s own duty to the best of one’s ability.
Yogam Karthaviya Muchatheya.
Kartaviya means ‘duty’; Muchatheya means ‘it is said’; Yogam means ‘spirituality’. So spirituality is discharging your duty to the best of one’s ability. That is what Baba says: “Do your duty.”
Then spend some time along the path of enquiry, what you call ‘meditation’. Spend some time for yourself. Thinking of your Self, let all the thoughts be centred on the Self, the soul, the spirit, consciousness. Spend some time on the centre of your life. Spend some time on your very being. But we don’t spend any time there. We spend some time around the periphery. We spend some time around the circumference. We spend all the time around all other things except the centre of life, which is our very being.
So my friends, to spend some time on the very centre of our life, our very being, is called meditation. People think meditation is getting up at 4 o’clock, sitting straight, bolting the door from inside, at a specific particular period of time in the day. It is not. It is nonsense. Meditation is centring the mind, travelling towards the centre, leaving the periphery, leaving the circumference, moving towards the centre. That is meditation.
To add one more thought to this: We are all different in our periphery; we are different in our circumference. But we are the same at our centre. The very being is the same with all of us here, all over the world. But we are different in our peripheral vagaries. So we can come to the centre of our being by being thoughtless, or thought-free.
My friends, just some more attention please. When the mind moves towards the periphery, there will be multiplicity, there will be duplicity, there will be variety, and there will be complexity of thoughts. When the mind is towards the periphery, when the mind is towards the circumference, there will be millions and millions of thoughts.
When once the mind travels inward, once the mind wants to get into or focus on the centre, the very being, thought comes to a stop. Thoughts come to standstill; thoughts are arrested; thoughts vanish, disappear.
Therefore, how to know that my meditation is perfect? How to know that I really enjoyed my meditation? How to know that? How to know that you have fever? Put the thermometer on the tongue; it will tell you the temperature. So, how to know that you are successful in meditation? The only point is the thoughtless state. When there are no more thoughts, when you are centred in the being of your life, not the periphery -- that is called meditation.
The fourth step is to spend some time in the company of good and noble, ideal people. Spend some time meeting like-minded people. Supposing I meet a terrorist. (Laughter) What will happen? He will also make me a terrorist. Suppose I meet an atheist, a communist, CPM who will finish me off. That is all. No discussion. I also become a successful communist. As is the company, so you become. “Tell me your company; I shall tell you what you are.” So we have got to be in the company of like-minded people who communicate on the same wavelength as we do.
“Sir, I don’t have anybody here in Tirupathi.”
“Oh! You don’t have anybody who thinks like you? You don’t have anybody to spend time with? You don’t have anybody whose ideas agree with your ideas?”
“Sir, I have none.” you may say.
Some people want to be alone. They don’t want to mix with anybody because they don’t find anyone like-minded. Then Baba said that in that situation, you don’t need to be frustrated. Read the scriptures, read some books, read some biographies of noble people, read the Bible, read the Koran, read Bhagavad Gita. That is as much as the company of good people. So, a book or a person -- spend some time reading the scriptures or spend some time in the company of good people. This is the fourth request.
“OK Bhagavan, then what will happen? By doing my work most sincerely, by reflecting on the very centre of my being in the name of meditation, by spending some time in the company of good people, by reading holy noble books, biographies of great people, what do I get?”
We ask this because we want something. If you want to deposit some money in the bank, you want to know the interest rate. Naturally for any investment, we want to know the interest rate. Similarly, what do you get out of these things?
Baba said that you get energy. You draw energy. We draw energy out of them, not merely out of food. Many people eat well, but still they are weak. They eat well. They eat double the quantity you and I eat. But still they cannot walk straight. They cannot sit straight. Why? Food is fine, but the head is a market. The head is dirty, full of filth, foul, rotten, decaying; therefore he is weak.
Therefore the mind has got to be alert. Mind has got to be pure. Mind has got to be quite active. When the mind is alert, active, pure, clean and dynamic, you will never age at all. You may be seventy but still very active. Why? Not because of fats and proteins alone. Not because of the weighing machine measurement alone. It’s because of this energy. That is very important. Therefore Baba says that you derive energy from following these steps.
By doing your work most sincerely, by spending some time in meditation, by reading some good books, you will draw sakthi or energy. “Oh Swami, I see. Then what? With this sakthi or energy, what will happen?”
Then Baba says, “You will grow in bhakti — devotion.” Bhakti will increase when you have sakthi, energy. Very important. Some people, in the name of spirituality, don’t eat well. They lose weight. Instead of heaven, they go to a hospital. (Laughter) That is sure. The very hospital is heaven for that fellow. No, not like that. You should maintain your body. A man in bed cannot pray.
Somebody asked, “Sir, is it true that the scriptures say if you pray to God at the end, when the end is fast approaching, you will go to the paradise of heaven. Is it true?”
Then I told him, “Whether true or not, I do not know. But one thing is true. You cannot pray. (Laughter) Because a man who is hospitalised, a man who falls sick, passing through agonising pain, excruciating pain and full of body problems is very much worried about electro-cardiogram, very much worried about the pulse rate, very much worried about the sugar count, very much worried about the blood pressure. When does he pray? Next life. Not now.
“Let the sugar come down. Let the blood pressure be normal. Let the ECG be OK. Let me be discharged. Then I will think of Him, not now.’”
But the scripture said clearly that if you pray to God at the end, or when the end approaches, at the last moment you will go to heaven. Is it just a blatant lie? Is it not true, and scripture speaks bogus like that, and makes false statements like that?
No my friends, I am not so foolish yet. I am not that mad yet. I am quite sane as of now. So what does the scriptural statement mean? When it is not possible to pray to God when the end approaches, because of physical problems, agonising pain, what does it mean that you should pray to God when it is not possible? The underlying meaning is this – sometimes we have to read in between the lines also. Not merely do we have to read the lines; we have to read in between the lines also. What does the scripture mean?
If you pray to God throughout your life, whenever it is possible, besides discharging your own duty, besides fulfilling your own obligations, besides running your family, taking care of professional responsibilities and all that, if you pray to God, what will happen? At the end, when it is not possible to pray, when it is not possible to think of Him because of unbearable pain and other physical ailments, God will start thinking of you. When you start to think of Him now, He will think of you then. ‘Poor fellow. Let me think of him. Poor fellow is there. He has been thinking of Me all the time. Let Me think of him now.’ He picks us up something like a crane. That is what it means. Therefore my friends, do not get confused here. So sakthi, energy, is the way to develop bhakti, devotion.
Out of this, what do you get? By being a devotee, one with devotion or bhakti, what do I get? 14% interest, 20% interest — what do I get? Free air travel ticket to Los Angeles? What do I get? Some hospitals are coming up with very good advertisements. If you get your heart operated on here, another operation is free. (Laughter) Another operation is free! So be prepared for one operation, so that another operation is free. (Laughter)
In western countries there will be in the market a sale. All prices will be sale price, a garments sale. Yes. You will get those things for half the price. If you go to some mall, you can see sales, with reduced prices. Some hospitals also say this – angiogram, not 50,000, but for 10,000 only; heart operation, not 50,000, but for 30,000 get operated on, plus blood test and urine test free. I wish that such fellows should be operated on first! (Laughter) The fellow who did such an advertisement should be operated on first, and all the rest of the operations should be done free of cost immediately following! See that. Our mind has become like that, so that we want to know what we will get out of this.
So out of this devotion, bhakti, what do I get? You get jnana or wisdom. Oh, I see. What do I do with it? You want to know what you get. Yes, this you get. Then what do I do with this wisdom? I can’t brush my teeth. (Laughter) Wisdom or jnana is not helping to clear my electricity bill of ten pound bills, or it will not have the value of a credit card or Visa card. What do I do with this jnana? (Laughter) It is not like that. Don’t think like that.
This jnana or wisdom make you equanimous; it will help you to develop equality, will help you to be steady-minded, will help you to be balanced, will help you to be peaceful, calm, with equipoise, considerate, compassionate, friendly — so many advantages.
Now the slightest provocation is making my blood pressure shoot up. If you ask anybody, “Sir, when are you going to open the canteen?”
“Look, why do you ask me?” (Laughter)
“I am just asking you when the canteen is kept open. Why do you shout like that?”
Jnana, wisdom, is lacking, therefore he is shouting. (Laughter)
“Sir, will you serve me an extra spoon of sambar?” (Laughter)
“No!” Instead of serving on the plate, he puts it on your head! Abhiseka. Why? Jnana is lacking. No jnana.
“Sir, can I sit here?”
“What? No! You cannot sit here!”
You can softly say, “Sir, you can sit there.” In saying ‘you cannot sit here’, you can say you can sit there. “No.” What no? Jnana is lacking. “Sir, can I stand here?” “No!” “So I cannot sit here and I cannot stand here. Then what do you want me to do?”
“It is not my duty.” (Laughter) When people come to me and ask me, “Sir, this fellow says I should not stand here, or I should not sit here. So what should I do?” I tell them, “You keep on moving. (Laughter) There will be no problem. Nobody will say, ‘Don’t move.’ They will say, ‘Please don’t stand and don’t sit.’ They can’t say, ‘Don’t move.’ So go on moving.” (Laughter)
“Sir, would you give us a room to stay in?” “No.” (Laughter) Really it is a great sadhana for all of us to be in the midst of these shouts, lashes and flashes; but one thing we should be convinced of. It is because of ajnana only that people speak like that. Ajnana means absence of wisdom. Ajnana is ignorance. The ignorant man only shouts; only an ignorant man is restless. An ignorant man is egoistic. An ignorant man is jealous. An ignorant man is competitive. An ignorant man has no sense of discrimination or any sense of proportion.
One man came with acute arthritis and he wanted to sit on a chair. He was asking, “Sir, where is the chair?”
The answer he got was, “Get your own chair.” (Laughter)
So he should to go back to New York, and get the chair now? (Laughter) Poor man went back and looked this side and that side, found some space which was free, and he sat there.
Then someone said, “This is reserved.”
There was no name written, but it was reserved and preserved. How can you say that? My friends, these are all the expressions of ignorance. These are all the feelings of a man without wisdom.
Therefore my friends, once you have sakthi or energy, you will have bhakti or devotion, out of which you will develop jnana or wisdom, which is nothing but equanimity, piety, a composed state, steady-mindedness, peace, sacrifice, selfless concern and compassion. These are all given in the package you call ‘wisdom’.
Now tell me what you get out of wisdom. Nobody will ask that question at least now. At 2 o’clock in darshan time we will find out what it is.
So then the final answer that God gave is this: When you are the owner of wisdom, I give you liberation. I grant you nirvana. I give you moksha, liberation. I see. Liberation.
How does it look? What does it look like? I will tell one thing, not with any advertisement or ego. As I take you as members of my own family, as I love you, I am just sharing what happened, but not with any pride or ego. Once Swami said, “I am going to give you moksha. Do you want it?”
I said, “I don’t want it.”
Then Baba said, “Why? Many people want moksha. People of all religions want to be liberated. Why don’t you want it?”
I said, “Swami, I do not know what it looks like, whether liberation is handsome or beautiful or ugly. I do not know if it’s tall or short, or sweet or hot. I do not know how it tastes, what it looks like. Why should I ask for that about which I do not know?”
Oho. Swami must have understood there is something wrong with this fellow. Then He put another question. “Then what do you want?”
I said, “Swami, I want one thing, in the next life and many more lives to come.”
“What?”
“This golden opportunity of sharing Your message, of speaking to people about Your Divinity, about Your life. That is what I want; nothing more than that. If I am to be born again, let me speak on scriptures. If I am to be born again, let me speak on philosophy and spirituality. And if You want me to ask for another desire, I don’t have any other desire than this.”
If He insists that I should ask another one, it is this;
“That I should leave this body speaking about You, as I speak. That is all. I have no more desires. Let it happen. I don’t want to die in bed. I don’t want to die in hospital. I want to die on a public platform as I speak about You. As I say Your holy Name, let me say goodbye to everybody and leave the earth.” (Applause)
I am prepared for that any day, any moment. That is my wish.
Baba said, “Fine. Very good.”
Within myself I pray, let that happen. It is not that You say it is good. No, no. Let that happen.
So my friends, what does liberation mean? Liberation is a blissful state -- a state of bliss, the state of laughter, the state of music, the state of celebration, enthusiasm, the state of beauty and blissfulness. That is moksha or liberation. That is what we should look for.
“Then Baba, You have said all these things; so what shall I do to achieve this?”
Usually, my friends, what we do is to imitate others, to follow the same procedure adopted by others. Now Baba says, “Do not imitate.” “That man got up at 4:30 am to go around Ganesha. Let me get up at 3:30 and go around Ganesha.”
The third man says, “Let me not sleep. I’ll sleep in front of Ganesha only. (Laughter) He will be going around Ganesha, doing pradakshina 108 times. Let me do it twice a day or thrice a day, go on doing it.”
It won’t help us. Baba gave one example. If you want to have a shirt, the shirt or coat must be stitched according to your measurements. I cannot wear your shirt. You cannot wear my shirt. The shirt is stitched according to our measurements. Similarly, spiritual practice is prescribed depending upon our temperament, depending upon our attitude. So do not imitate. Follow your own pattern. “Highlight meditation, come on do it!” Because someone is thinking nicely, let me also start thinking like that. People have to plug cotton into their ears not to be able to hear my voice, which is coarse. So let me follow that which suits me and that which gives me satisfaction. That is what Baba said. The rest of the details next week. Thank you for your gracious presence.
OM…OM…OM…
Asato Maa Sad Gamaya
Tamaso Maa Jyotir Gamaya
Mrtyormaa Amrtam Gamaya
Om Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu
Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu
Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti