AVG - Day 17

1) I am the one
the world is tiredness - god is rest... the world is questions - god is wonder.. "here" questions never end - "there" wonder never ends... the answer to all - which is got in silence - is, I am the one...
This was understood by Janak... there are various ways to explain and understand you are that - ocean - the non dual... and when you know this, the mind shines..... It might sound "egoist" to say - i am the best and i bow to myself and i am the one.... because a foolish/egoist and an enlightened master both say this.... but the former hides his weakness because there is no strength and conviction in his words.... but the master smiles and says this with knowledge... words and the ability of comprehension of people is limited - they are bound - so sometimes even the enlightened speak to god in second/third person... people want you to "prove" when you say something.... what proof??? what miracle you want to see?? look around you!!!!!!!! everything is a miracle... become hollow and empty - the you'll know the miracles....

2) aap-aap khete-kehte mein apne aap mein kho gaya (saying you-you all the time - i lost myself in me)
In the rudra puja there are 2 parts to it - the Namakam and the Chamakam...
Nama is to honor and namaskar everything... everything ... from those who cheat/trouble - to the plants and animals and flowers.... you bow down and honor them saying - you are the one and i offer my namaskar to you... even those who cheat - you bow down for them - cause they are part of the universe... although when their number increases - Shiva get's up :D :D :D :D
Chame is the second part and it means - I am that/look at me in all of that... so when they chant - ekaschame - triyaschame - panchachame.... (1 of that - 3 of that - 5 of that....) these are not just numbers.... the whole creation is based on this.... it's like the string theory modern physicists talk about... India had done this so many years ago... if even one number is missing or changes - the whole creation will collapse.... and this is what the rudra abhishek does... this is "mantra snan" - you are washed from this.. the body and environment... it works on all your levels of existence..... you become pure... Mantra's are very powerful....

3) the summary of AG is So-Hum...
I am that... that is what is the whole conversation.... Ashtavakra said so-hum... Janak understood and said - yes! so-hum....
what you see is not different from you - seeing the moon - it's "there" but it also forms the reflection in you... when you see something - the object doesn't remain the same... It's not just the stars which have an influence on you - you influence them too! wake up and you will realize this.. in ignorance you will not know of your influence on them....

4) You are one and filled with love
where there is 2/duality - there is fear... when there is love - there is no fear because there is only 1.... this feeling of 2 is the reason of unhappiness.... the only cure and medicine available for this (and suddenly on the roof of yagyashala a coconut fell making a massive noise :D :D) knowing you are filled with love and one...
the one is enlightened is never bored.. i am never bored :D :D :D when you;re alone if you;re bored - imagine how boring you are to others!!!! sit quietly.... when the rajoguna is high you will be bored... just by doing work it won;t help you... sit in silence and meditate... don;t keep using the phone....
first do yog! then listen to AG.... till then you won;t understand AG and realize it... remove all the dirt through yog/sadhana etc.. then you'll find all the "ras" (juice) in life......

AVG - Day 16

1) Skill is in seeing the subtle
When astonished - the mind stop and when the mind stops that's when you are in touch with the atma/paramatma... when your mind work - you are stuck in the world... It is in fear too that the mind stops and so also when you are in love that the mind and time stops...
see when you love somebody - you think for them for hours together and the mind and stopped and when you are "back" you realise how many hours passed.. you didn;t even know...
i see that happening - people waiting outside for hours together t meet me and i wonder - don;t their legs ache???
Whee there is faith and love - the mind stops... and when the mind stops -- we realize there is nothing other than ME.. that's when you can experience and feel the infinity in you.... in the form you experience the formless and in the formless there is form... foolish are those who say neither are in either... Skill is in seeing the subtle.

(i had this question in mind for the last few days and was specially strong after the interview he gave the media - and guruji told this during AG :))
guruji said - someone asked me today: How do you handle all problems? everyday 1000's of people come and ask you for solutions and tell you your problems (my wife is like this - my husband left me - my kids are not studying - i have this health problem - i am financially in need etc etc etc) how can you be in peace? how can you manage everything so eaily and not get irritated or troubled?
guruji answered saying - i find all this a play... everything that happens is "leela".... see someone shot a bullet - it was aimed at a stray dog - instead came here - neither the dog nor the person who got hit were injured! :)
Police came in for inspection and they look at everyone so unconcerned and smiling and not worried - they thought - "is all this true??? did a bullet even get fired???"" if we look at it from their view it is not wrong - it is not a small icident - but they they don;t understand the state we are in :)
when we have attained the highest we don;t feel the need for anything else - nothing worries you after that,..what else is needed then?? This is realization :)


2) Nothing is mine - and everything is mine
Janak understood this... and only who who realizes this can say it... it takes great understand to say both together,,,, one can easily say i have nothing... but it not easy to say both... but when you say both - then nothing will trouble you! :)
Janak was a king - he did not and could not renounce everything and walk away - he carried out all his duties and yet said this... without leaving your "dharma" you have to take on this path...
it's not just patients - even doctors die... now even doctors are depressed - we had a course in US where there were some 50 doctors and 100 patients and te teacher taking the course told me -"i dunno how you helped me in taking this course guruji - i could not make out who is the doctor and who is the patient here - doctors were worse than the patients" - depression has only one cure - yoga and meditation... our mind is like a black board - we have written and written and written on it so many times without erasing it ... it is time we do it... also we should not pressurize children to go on and on and on studying - it is often a mistake people do...

AVG - Day 15

AVG - Day 15 (June 3,2010)

Vikar se chootna hai toh vishram karo (rest is the way to get rid of "disorder/change/habit" ).
We say we have understood - but we still make mistakes.... if you think you have understood - it still doesn't mean you have understood... it's like eating coal thinking it's food and drinking sand thinking it's water... if you "know" then you won't do it... and if you still do it despite at one level "knowing" sand is not something to drink - then something is not right... you are doing it because you think you will joy out of it! Until you separate the act from the want of joy, you won't know the "self" is the truth.... till then you are stuck in these bad habits.... we say "i know it's a rope" - but we are still scared thinking it's a snake... that's the trouble... when you get "wisdom" - all this drops... we think these habits give us joy - and that;s why we haven;t progressed,,,,, we our only putting ourselves into trouble by doing this.... don;t do anything - just rest - only is rest you will be able to drop all these habits... and that deep rest is meditation... and there you will realise - i am what i am searching for :)

2) There is no joy for one who is lazy or one who overworks
Only someone who is thirsty and gets water realises the value of water... only after doing your karma - when you rest - that rest is samadhi... one who is lazy will not reach samadhi and nor one who goes on working.... don;t be lazy nor overwork... that's what krishna says - take the middle path = don;t be lazy or be restless.. for he who takes the middle path - yog wins over sadness for them....

3) Guru/God/Atma are the same - no difference
Janak said - I bow to myself... from a stone to this whole creation let everything be over - i cannot "end" - for i am immortal... Oh! what a wonder,,, there is no difference in the guru,god. and aatma... the guru never keeps you away - it is your ignorance and foolishness that keep you away from him... what are you going to surrender to him?? some coconut??? you think he wants that???? no - you know what he wants?? he wants your "dirty mind" - he doesn;t want even the clean and happy thoughts because that is HIM... what noone wants he is ready to take - and see the irony - even that you don;t want to give him.. you hold on to that...
Janak bowed.. an egoist can never bow... when the mind becomes the no-mind (mann becomes namann) then self realisation dawns...
there are 3 things - That , You and Me... to say "That" is very simple... That is what you keep away from you.. so saying "That is god" is easy... slightly difficult to say and realise is "You are god"... see the resistance you will face,,, but hardest of all is coming to the stage "I am god"... because you can do that only when your mind is "clear".. till you have something -ive in you, you can;t reach this stage of saying it (or just fooling people by saying it - but never meaning it)
that's why Janak had to sit with Ashtavakra - feel one with him (the respect and oneness) to realise he is not different...

-- what i am going to write next is the most amazing part of today i felt----
so now don;t think - when will i feel this and get this realisation? will it happen now or osmetime later? will it happen this lifetime? how many more births will i have to take??
no - the fact that you are here siting and listen to this knowledge - this itself shows you have the ability in you and you are free.. it's not just people who are here - even those who are listening to this even if they are not here are free)

i have never come nor have i gone - i have never died cause never have been born.... this body is mine and also are the others - like when a child gets hurt the mothers cries... or vice versa - this is the connection - it;s just 1.....

tonight before you go to sleep - do pranam/namaskar to god/guru/me(yourself).... we are one... guru is i. i am guru and guru is god... we;re one an the same.. don;t worry about anything.. don;t have any fear... everything is going on and it will be fine.... just rest tonight...

AVG - Day 14

AVG - Day 14 (June 2,2010)

You are filled with light
Till you don't know the 'aatma', everything looks different.
What we need is the knowledge of the self... don't get stuck in the "scene"... you are the "drishta" not the drishya.....
what seemed like a snake was just a rope... what you thought about a mobile having all the power - actually was the mobile tower... when all the bulbs glow - you thought they were different - it was the knowledge of electricity that told you - all was 1.....
Janak realised that... he realised - when he was bowing down and doing namaskar to "others" - it was never "other",,, it was one... it was himself... he realised that the world was not different from him....
we need to change our perception.... change the way you see things just once - then you'll see - everything is one...

AVG - Day 13

Everything is made up of just one... like threads together make cloth - like that all of this universe is made up of the "atma"... search requires effort but in rest you find god... it was when Janak saw "within" - he realised this secret...
where search ends - god is there... that's why first they say we need to get the thirst for knowledge and mukti.. when the thirst increases - then you need to rest and just drop it.... search is a sign of a man who is "awake"... from ignorance to rest - the phase between this is search.... you must search but yet drop searching and rest....
The bhagwad gita first takes you to the search and then rest.... Ashtavakra Geeta directly tells you to rest.... It's all there set for you - you don't have to do anything at all.. just sit for a few minutes and you'll see - you are what you are searching for....
it's like someone searching for their glasses which is on their head... while you are searching you can;t see anything - where are you searching??? and then when you find it - then you can see everything - what are you searching for???

So many people do "spiritual" shopping... this is becoming like window shopping.... they will look here and there and get confused because one place someone will say - chant "hamsa".. then here we say - "so hum" /// else where someone else will say - "dasoham" ... and another "sada soham".... no - don;t do that... take one path... and we need to wait... we need to have patience... even in the path we want to have "siddhis" (powers) and feel "the" experience.... no - just drop all of this....

Asti Bhati and Preeti - these are the 3 signs of our atma/consciousness.... in Buddhism they said - life is "shunya" (zero/empty/nothing) bhuddhism belived there is no "atma" - they said - we searched and searched and found none.... in the sanatan dharma they said - life is
"poorna" (complete).. Adi shankara said - you said you searched and found nothing - who searched?? you.. who didn't find??? you... that is the atma.. you are that....
one day a boy came to me and said Guruji i want "atma sakshatkar" and so i told him - yea - ok... wait a little time and do the practices and see... but he insisted - no guruji - i want it now... i have done sahaj also - and i feel too good... i was an atheist before - 1 sudarshan kriya has changed my life.......
and he didn't listen - and went back home (in delhi) and sat and meditated for 16 to 18 hrs and 2 days later he started hallucinating - that he is "Hanuman"... and he looked at all the people giving offerings to the idol and he went up and told them - what are you offering the idol all this when i am here??? i am Hanuman... "
well - the poor fellow got a "wake up call" - people sent him straight to the hospital........
don't be stubborn - don;t get stuck in any concepts... i'll tell you the biggest secret - you are god - and don't tell this to anyone :D....
this is not something you must go proclaim to others....
This is what Ashtavakra told Janak - "Tatvamasi" - you are that...
Then it was Janak who realised - "Aham Bhramahasmi" - I am that....
first listen - then follow in patience and be with it - then you'll know...

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Will post the pending days' feasts very soon. Keep watching :)
Jai Gurudev