The real Name of God is ever-existent and self-sufficient in all beings. It is the sole generator of life. The difference between a living body and a dead body is the presence or absence of the Holy Name. This Name cannot be written in any alphabet nor can it be uttered.
It is the eternal and secret sound of a vibration which has to be known, and just as fire has the inherent capacity to burn, the Holy Name has the inherent capacity to purify the mind. Hence it changes a man's nature, making him pure and shining with bliss. Only meditation on this real Name of God can give a man this inner quality of Knowledge. All the scriptures of the world refer to this Holy Name, the secret vibration of life within. In the Upanishads it is called ‘ Nam ', in the Ramayana it is called ‘ Ram Nam ' and ‘Mahamantra ' (‘The great Mantra'). In the Koran it is called‘Pak Nam ' (‘True Name'), in the Guru Granth Sahab it is called ‘ Sat Nam ' and in the Bible it is called ‘Word'. It is this Name which can be meditated upon constantly, without interruption, while we are asleep and while we are awake, while we are conscious and while we are unconscious. No other action can be done at all times and under all circumstances. But meditation on this Holy Name is possible at all times and under all circumstances, if one has been shown the sacred technique.
The next question is how the Divine Light can be seen and the Holy Name known. The answer is, that just as a candle can be lit only by the touch of a burning flame, so the instantaneous seeing of the Light is possible only by the touch of an enlightened soul and invariably so. The same applies to the experience of Holy Name, the Primordial Vibration, for being unwritable, it cannot be found in books and, being absolutely unspeakable, it cannot be heard from anyone's lips. It is wrong to think that actual utterance or mental repetition of any of the descriptive names of God can purify the heart and bring about the seeing of the Divine Light. If this were so, then the majority of people would be enlightened and peace, brotherhood and understanding would prevail, for most of the world pays homage to one or another of the many names for God. The Name is God Himself within man and not just a verbal representation of Him.
Another commonly-held but equally mistaken belief is that Divine Light can be seen by the grace of Masters no longer in a physical body. No matter how great a surgeon's reputation may be, if he is dead he cannot perform even the simplest operation. A living patient must have a living doctor. Likewise only the living Master can reveal the living Light and living Word. “As long as I am in the world I am the Light of the world”, said Lord Jesus, and all great Masters who revealed that Light to their disciples have said the same thing. If it is true that enlightenment can be had from a Master who no longer lives a physical form, then all those who today follow and worship Lord Krishna and Lord Jesus would have this Knowledge of Holy Word and Divine Light. But this is not the case. Jesus Christ and Lord Krishna both embodied the Light and revealed the Light, but only to those devotees who were alive at the same time as they were. For us today it is necessary to find the living Master. If the touch of an enlightened soul is absolutely necessary to get this Knowledge, how can it be possible to get it from a Guru who has left his mortal body?
Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Lord Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammad would not have called upon the people of their times to come into their shelter and consecrate mind, body and actions to them. Lord Rama could have said, “Seek the shelter of Narayana.” Lord Krishna could have told Arjuna,” Seek the shelter of Lord Rama.” Jesus Christ could have told people to seek the shelter of some previous Master. But they did not say so simply because they were enlightened and they knew perfectly well that past enlightened souls cannot help the average aspirant to attain enlightenment.
The last question is, how to get the Knowledge from the enlightened soul? Lord Krishna said,” Attain this Knowledge by all means. If you prostrate yourself at the feet of the tatwadarshi (seer or enlightened soul), serve him in every way and ask him sincerely for this Knowledge, when he is pleased he will impart it to you.” This is the only way of getting that knowledge. There is absolutely no other way. But the problem is how to recognize the enlightened Guru? The word ‘Guru' means ‘the person who can show the Light within'. The term ‘ gu ' stands for darkness and ‘ru ' means light. Hence, one who can show self-effulgent Light within you, and thereby instantaneously remove the darkness, should be taken as the real tatwadarshi guru.
Thus we see that the only way of bringing about an improvement in human behaviour is the acquisition of this true Knowledge with the help of a living realized soul. The aims of human life - unalloyed happiness, deliverance from all suffering and salvation from the bondage of death and rebirth - can be attained by immersing the mind in the Divine Light and constantly meditating on the Real Name.
Non-stop meditation on the Name gives mental equanimity, stability, tranquillity and complete concentration which in turn brings true peace. Hence peace in the world can be achieved by helping each individual to achieve control over the mind. No other methods - disarmament, ban on nuclear tests, negotiation, world government or the like - can bring true peace. Unless the very instinct of doing harm to others is transformed into the instinct of love for all, true peace is never possible. Control over each individual mind is absolutely necessary for peace.
Since the individual is the primary unit of a nation and ultimately the world, the peace of individuals alone can bring peace at large. In no way peace is possible with an agitated and unsteady mind. The question may arise as to whether an individual can attain perfect stillness of mind, whether every single individual can be given this Knowledge. Most people in this world have some kind of academic education which usually takes many years to acquire, whereas this Knowledge can be acquired in the blink of an eye. And, as such, it will not take much time to disseminate this Knowledge to everyone, provided adequate facilities for reaching the masses are made available.
Since Divine Light is seen within and the Holy Name is known within, their realization gives a person complete understanding, of the source of life itself. The entire universe emanates from this source and so by knowing that all is known. The result is constant and unchanging peace and happiness and the deathless state of self-realization achieved. It is the time that world leaders try to spread this Knowledge if they really wish for peace. The individual should concentrate his mind if he wants to achieve the highest aim in life. This is the only way to integral peace and happiness.
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There are two types of knowledge - Para and Apara . Para is beyond reading and writing and beyond the jurisdiction of mind and intellect. Apara is knowledge which can be written and read.
“ Ombhurbhoovah swah. Tat saviturvarenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi. Dhiyo yonah prachodayat .” which means, “I meditate upon the Divine Light of God.”
“Kal pakar chela kiya, bhay ke katare kan . Hum satyanam sumiran karen, kisko karen salam. ”
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7] Sahastrar (Limbic Plexus)
Nobody can reach to this chakra without blessing of True Spiritual Master. So Human's only goal in life is to find True Spiritual Master and take Knowledge of Self-Realisation from him with his blessings.
6] Agya (Optical Chiasma)
It is the chakra of forgiveness and compassion. Forgiveness is the power to let go of anger, hatred and resentment and to discover humility, nobility, and generosity. It is the one that dissolves all our ego, conditioning, habits, false ideas of racialism, and all our misidentifications. It is the narrow gate, which opens the way for consciousness to ascend to its final destination, which is the seventh centre. Roving eyes, watching impure things, or self-centreedness damage this chakra. Watching the sky, earth or nature can help cleanse it.
We are very fortunate to have this opportunity to start a spiritual journey. I am going to take you on a spiritual journey, into the spiritual world, and that is possible by knowing the spiritual Knowledge. When we take a physical journey and sit in a plane, what is the first thing that we do? We fasten our seatbelt. On the spiritual journey we have to fasten the mind; it is the mind that makes us devilish, it is the mind that makes us divine. The scriptures say that it is the mind that is the cause of bondage; it is the mind that is the cause of freedom. The mind is also the cause for getting us into trouble and it is also the cause for liberation. If the mind knows the Word of God, if the mind knows the Knowledge, the mind is liberated.
For example, there is a blind man in a big room. He touches the wall, he feels his way along the wall. And just as he approaches the door, he scratches himself and just keeps on walking. Because he has missed the door, he has to walk around the room again by touching the wall and finally he says, “There is no way out.” So he is completely trapped in the room, because he did not find the door. In the same way, through meditation, through Knowledge, when we find the door, that spiritual door leads us to liberation. All the scriptures, the ancient scriptures, talk about Knowledge.
When Lord Christ was asked by some disciples, “There are many commandments, so which is the most important commandment?” he replied that the most important commandment is, First ye shall seek the kingdom of heaven, and all other things shall be added unto you . So, if you are liberated, the mission of your life is completed, the aim of your life is completed. That is why we go to a Spiritual Teacher. For example, if I have to learn English, I go to an English teacher. If somebody has to learn Spanish, he has to go to a Spanish teacher. If somebody wants to learn science, he goes to a science teacher. In the same way, to learn spirituality, we go to a Spiritual Teacher.
Even John the Baptist said, “I am not worthy to tie the shoelaces of the one who is going to come.” And the Master gave the understanding to understand scriptures; he gave the spiritual Knowledge to go within ourselves. Because through the senses, through the working organs and sensory organs, we are going outside. But through spiritual Knowledge we go within ourselves, and that is why the scriptures proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is within you, and to enter it you have to be born again. So the disciples asked the Master, “Do we have to enter our mother's womb to be born again?” And the Master said, “No.” With the physical birth, we are aware of our body, we are aware of heat, pain, cold. But when we attain spiritual Knowledge we are conscious of our own consciousness. We are aware of the power which is within us, which makes us conscious of this entire world. So the person who has Knowledge sees his spirit and with the spirit, having the knowledge of the spirit, he becomes liberated.
I will give an analogy, an example from the Vedas. A person came to a Master and he asked him the question, “By what light does a man see in the daytime?” The disciple replied that during the day a person sees everything by the light of the sun. The Master asked him, “When the sun sets, there is no sun, by what light does a man see?” The disciple answered, “The moon shines at night and by the light of the moon a man sees everything.” The Master again questioned, “When there is no moon, when there is absolute darkness, by what light does a man see?” The disciple answered, “By the light of fire, one perceives.” Again he asked, “When there is no fire, when there are no stars, when there is no moon, when there is no sun, when there is total, absolute darkness, how does a man perceive?” So the disciple answered, “By the light of sound, a person perceives.” When there is total darkness, we shout from one end to the other. So again the Master asked, “When there is no sound, when there is no speech, when there is no fire, when there is no moon, no sun, how does a man perceive?” And the disciple answered that by the power of the breath, which is called prana , the power of breathing in and breathing out, one sees everything.
So, what we are talking about is the breath, because when “God made man, he made man from the dust of ground, he breathed into his nostrils and man became a living soul”. Within everybody God has breathed the breath of life and we are living beings. Without the breath we cease to exist and this is why our scriptures have told us to know this breath, know the élan vital . What is the power which makes you live? And knowing that is the Knowledge of God. “God made man in his own image, in the image of God man was created.” And what is that one image?
People are fingerprinted, because everybody's fingerprint is different. People have their photo on their passport, because their photos are different, their faces are different. One person's retina map is different from another person's. Our DNA is different. So in the physical world things are different, but God is one. And in one image, in His own image, He has created us. So what is that image of God in which we all have been created? People in Mexico , people in America , people in India , people in China may speak different languages, our color may be different, our creed may be different, but God is one, His image is one and He has made us in His own image. So that image is the élan-vital, the prana .
I would like to give you an example. Jesus Christ was fasting, he had faith in God, and he was fasting for forty days. The Devil comes to him, the negativity comes to him, worldly doubts come to him, and they question him, “You believe in God, you are fasting for forty days, you are hungry for bread, you are thirsty for water, why don't you command your God, why don't you pray to your God, so that all these stones may turn to bread for you, and that you may eat the bread and live.” And Lord Christ replied, “Man does not live on bread alone, but he lives on the Word that God utters within him.” So within our breath, in all the life breaths we take, God is uttering a Word. And that is why in the Gospel of John it is written, “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
I am speaking many words into the microphone. If you scientifically analyze them, you will find my vocal chords are vibrating, this vibration is being amplified by the amplifier, the molecules in the air are vibrating, the vibration is going to your eardrums and you listen to what I am saying. So the Word of God is that primordial vibration which made this entire universe. It is that vibration which made this entire material world. What is matter? It is a conversion of energy. What is steam? What is ice? Ice is the frozen form of water. What is steam? It is the vaporized form of water formed by the agitation of molecules. For example, we take a hydrogen atom, we add one more atom, and it becomes helium. If we add one more atom of hydrogen to helium, it becomes lithium. And in this way we build the entire Periodic Chart.
So it is all about vibration, because the difference between solid, liquid and gas is vibration. We take ice, it is solidified, we excite it, it becomes liquid water. Ice is the solid form; when it becomes water it becomes liquid, when we further excite it, it becomes gaseous. So too, the colors that we see are ultimately all vibrations. Science too says that. What is light? It is the vibration of photons. So we see everything in the entire universe vibrating. In the center of an atom is the nucleus containing the protons and neutrons and around the nucleus the electrons are revolving. So energy is making the entire universe vibrate and the ultimate energy is the Word of God.
That is why Saint John said, “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The function of the Spiritual Master is to make you aware of that Word of God, it is to make you experience that Word of God within yourself. That is why Jesus Christ said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” When Moses went to the mountain, he prayed before God, he spoke to God, Jehovah, and he requested, “I want to see you, I want to perceive you.” God said, “You cannot see me with these eyes, these eyes are physical eyes, they only see physical things.” To see spiritual things, you need a spiritual eye. You must have seen pictures of Lord Shiva with a Third Eye in the center of his forehead, because to see spirituality you have to have the divine vision. So to have divine vision, you go to a Spiritual Teacher. As Moses was requesting God to let him see Him, he saw a burning bush, and there was light emanating from the bush, and Moses perceived God in the form of light. And that is why the scriptures say, “God is Light and in Him there is no darkness.” If you study any scripture in the world, they talk about the Light of God.
In the Gayatri Mantra, in the Vedas, the sage is requesting God, ‘Oh Light, I want to meditate on you.' That is why also in the Bible it is written, “If thine eye be single, thy body shall be full of Light.” It doesn't mean that you have to take one eye out and have only one eye. It doesn't say that. It means that when your total vision is united, and when your Third Eye opens up, you perceive light, you experience light. Because God is Light, and there is no nescience, there is no darkness. Darkness has no existence. What is darkness? It is absence of light. So, I want to request you to understand the spiritual Knowledge, because this body is the Temple of God . This body is the Church of God , and within ourselves, in our breath, every breath we take, we utter the Name of God, but we do not have Knowledge,
Because we don't have Knowledge we are just behaving like the person who had a huge forest of sandalwood, and he used to burn the sandalwood and turn it into coal and sell it. Once upon a time there was a person, a woodcutter, who lived in a big forest and his function was, his livelihood was, to chop the wood, burn it, turn it into charcoal and sell the charcoal. One day the king of that land lost his way in the forest. He came across the woodcutter and asked for shelter. The woodcutter gave him a place to stay, he gave him food and shelter. The king was very happy and said, “Now you are my friend. If you ever have any problems, come to me.”
After some time, the woodcutter had cut down the entire forest, there was no wood left there, there were no trees there, so he went to the king and reminded him, “You promised to help me if I was in trouble. So I have cut down the entire forest, I need a forest, because I have to sustain my family.” So, the king consulted his advisers, and said, “My friend has come. I want to give him the best forest.” He was advised to give the woodcutter a sandalwood forest. So he was given the sandalwood forest.
Some time later the king thought, ‘My friend must be very, very rich now, because I have given him the sandalwood forest and sandalwood is the most expensive wood in the world.' So he goes to the woodcutter, and he finds out that the woodcutter is still a pauper, a poor man. The king said, “My friend, I have given you this most expensive forest, and you still are a poor man. How come?” And the woodcutter replied, “I take this sandalwood, I cut it, I burn it, I turn it into coal, and I sell it. How do you think I could be rich?” The king smiled and thought, ‘This woodcutter does not know the value of sandalwood.'
So he took a piece of sandalwood and told his friend, “Please take this piece of wood and sell it in the market”. The woodcutter said, “I can't sell a bag of its charcoal, so how can I sell this piece of wood?” The king assured him, “Don't worry. Have faith in me. Take this piece of wood and try it.” So the woodcutter takes the piece of wood, the sandalwood, and he goes into the market, and the entire market gets filled with the fragrance of the sandalwood. The merchants started saying, “Somebody has sandalwood, we want to buy it.” Somebody said, “We'll give $100 pesos for it.” Somebody said, “I'll give $200 pesos for it.” Somebody said, “You're tricking this woodcutter; it is worth more than that.” Then this piece of sandalwood was going for thousands and thousands, the woodcutter was completely astonished, because he did not have any idea about sandalwood. He was treating the sandalwood as ordinary wood, chopping that wood, burning it and turning it into charcoal.
This story might be a little bit amusing for you, but this is the story of everybody. God the Father is the king, and he has given us sandalwood. The breath we breathe in, the breath we expel, is like that sandalwood; if we do not know the importance of the sandalwood, we lose the opportunity. It is so important, this élan-vital, this breath of life is so important, that without it, we are dead. The difference between a living man and a dead man is this life breath. Without the life breath we are dead. Our friends, our relatives, will take our body to the graveyard and then begins the process of ‘from the dust you have come, to the dust you shall return'. So, the importance of this human life is to know God.
I will give you an example of a Chinese philosopher whose name was Cheng. One day he felt very sad. His pupils came to him and asked, “Master, why are you sad?” He said, “I had a dream and in my dream I became a butterfly.” So the disciples said, “The dream is over, now you are back to reality. So, in your dream if you became a butterfly, that is over, there is nothing to be sad about. Be happy now.” That philosopher said, “My problem is not over, my problem has just started. If I can have a dream, and in my dream I can be a butterfly, then a butterfly can also have a dream. And if the butterfly dreams that it has become Cheng the philosopher then my problem is whether I am really Cheng or just the dream of a butterfly!” What is truth? This is the question.
Pontius Pilate asked, “What is truth?” We are also asking, “What is truth?” And the reality is, the Spirit. That is why in every generation, in every civilization, people believed spirit to be immortal. Because energy can neither be created nor destroyed. We are sons of energy. We are sons of Light. We are daughters of Light. We are sons of God. We are daughters of God. And the spiritual part of us is eternal and immortal, it cannot be destroyed by fire, it cannot be destroyed by water. That is why in every civilization they believe spirit to be immortal.
You know, for example, that when a tree has a lot of fruit, what happens to the tree? It bows down. We go to a Spiritual Teacher, we humbly bow before him, and we seek Knowledge. That is why it has been said, ‘Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.' So, what we have to do is find and ask.
If you want to fill a bucket of water, you have to place the bucket under a tap. You don't put the bucket on the tap, you put it under the tap. Because it is a scientific law that water flows from a higher level to a lower level. Why do we put our water tanks on the roof? Because that is the highest point, and from there the water goes to every room. In the same way, the Knowledge also flows from a higher spiritual level downwards, and that higher level is a teacher. There was never an age when the teachers were not there. God has sent his teachers to every land, to every generation. There was never a time when the world was without the Spiritual Teacher. But we have to stand, open our eyes, and see. Our Spiritual Teachers say that now you should search, and the journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your foot. So the search must start from within ourselves.
Once what happened, there was an old lady, she took a torch and was looking for something on the street. Somebody asked her, “Mother, what are you doing?” She said, “Sonny, I've lost a needle, and I'm searching for it in the street.” He asked, “Where did you lose the needle?” She said, “In my house.” So, if she lost the needle in the house and was searching on the street, how could she ever find the needle? That is why we say, we have lost ourselves and we have to find ourselves within ourselves.
Lord Kabir gives a beautiful analogy about the musk deer. Up in the Himalayas , above 10,000 feet, lives the musk deer. The deer contains very precious musk. The musk is in the kidney. He eats a lot of herbs, the herbs turn into musk, and the fragrance is very, very powerful. He smells the fragrance and he thinks maybe the musk is in a tree, or in a stone, or in the valley. So he jumps around but never finds the musk, because he doesn't know that he himself is the source of the musk. So, our Spiritual Teachers tell us that we ourselves are the source.
I have heard a story about a disciple here who saw apparitions of Mother Mary and Mother Mary requested him to build a church. He goes to a bishop, and the bishop refuses. Again and again he requests. Finally the bishop demands a miracle, and that poor man, ignorant man, opens up his robes and a lot of roses were there, even though that was not the season for roses. This story makes us believe that, if we are innocent, if we are the blessed peacemakers, then we shall inherit the earth. If we are innocent, pure in our hearts, then we shall see God.
In order to see, our spectacles must be very, very clear. If the glasses are dirty, the vision becomes blurred. Just before I started satsang, a small girl came and stood here. She was holding a camera but she was putting her finger right on the lens. So, if her finger is on the lens, how could she take a picture? In the same way, if our mind is in the maya, if our mind is in the material world, how can we take a picture of God? In order to take God's picture, first of all the camera has to be stationary, the mind has to be stationary. If the mind is vacillating, if the mind is vibrating, you will have a blurred picture. Only if the mind is stationary can you hit the target. Because the meaning of the word ‘yoga' comes from the root ‘yug', which means union. For example, when sugar and water unite, we get sweet water. When our mind and God unite, that is liberation.
What happens is that we are sitting in this hall, suddenly the mind thinks, ‘Oh, we have to go someplace and eat tacos!' or ‘I have to make a mobile call.' It's fantastic that nobody has a mobile phone ringing here, otherwise it would distract the mind. And in this technological world we have no peace of mind, not even from the mobile phone. So what we are talking about is that the mind must be stationary, otherwise it is vacillating in the world, moving in the world. So we invite everybody to know more about the Knowledge.
Christ gave the example of a farmer who goes to sows seeds. Some seeds fall onto the rocks, they do not get soil, they do not germinate, they get no water, they do not blossom. Some seeds are picked up and eaten by birds. But some seeds fall in the earth, they get water, they get sunlight and they blossom. So, in the same way, when our heart is like the soil, when we have the water of love, when we have the water of devotion, then the seed of Knowledge will germinate.
So, I am very, very thankful to all of you and I welcome everybody to participate in this, to understand this, because Christ said, “I shall give you the understanding to understand scriptures.” The rabbis too were reading the scriptures, but they did not have the understanding to understand scriptures. So when you receive Knowledge, you get the understanding to understand scriptures. The hidden meaning of the scriptures will come before you.
We have the word ‘GOD'. There is the letter ‘G', there is the letter ‘O', and there is the letter ‘D'. ‘G' stands for ‘generator', the power that generates, that power that has created everything. ‘O' stands for ‘operator', the power that operates, and ‘D' stands for ‘destroyer'. Just like we have the anabolic, catabolic, and metabolic process. And that energy which is sustaining, operating and destroying everything is that supreme energy that we call God. So, what God requires is love. If we take one step towards Him, He takes ten steps towards us.
One day a man was walking along the beach and he noticed that two footprints were there. So, he spoke to God and said, “God, whenever I was in misery, whenever I was sad, whenever I was unhappy, it was like walking on the beach and I was all alone. All I saw on the beach were my footprints.” God said, “No, those footprints belong to me, they are my footprints, because I picked you up. When you were unhappy, when you were in misery, I lifted you up. Those footprints belong to me; you didn't even know that I was carrying you.”
So, the spiritual hand of God is within you, it is sustaining you, it is inviting you, it is calling you. It is providing you with this beautiful spiritual opportunity to know Him. So, what I am requesting you to do is to participate in satsang, spiritual discussion, and the more we listen to satsang, the more we listen to spiritual discourses, the more our heart opens up. When a farmer plants his seeds, there are other unwanted plants that grow there, he has to dig out the weeds, so that the real crops can grow. In the same way as the farmer prepares the field, the heart of a disciple is prepared by spiritual discourses, so that he receives Knowledge. So, I invite you again and again to listen to satsang. We have some literature available for you and some cassettes also and some magazines, so that you may expand your knowledge. And, when you are ready, then you will receive the Knowledge. So, I thank you very much. Muchas gracias.
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5] Vishuddhi (Cervical Plexux)
It is the Chakra of diplomacy, of pure relationships with others and of playful detachment. It removes all our guilt and remorse when it is opened by the kundalini, and gives us a kind and compassionate voice. The tendencies to dominate others or to feel dominated by others, the feeling of superiority or inferiority and all jealousies are removed when this chakra is nourished by the kundalini. Also the vishuddhi is the chakra, which gives the connection with the whole, enabling us to feel our oneness and the fact that we are all part and parcel of the whole.
