Ashtavakra by Guruji

The Ashtavakra Gita
The Ashtavakra Series
His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar

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Prologue
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Some 5000 odd years ago when HE walked on this planet he came with the
Sudershan Chakra. This time he has come with the Sudershan Kriya.
From time immemorial HE is that conciousness which is pure and is bliss.

Today we see the entire knowledge of the universe in front of us.
It is a fool who talks too much, so I shall stop now only to say, a Thank you, a
deep heart-felt gratitude to everyone who has been part of my life and made
this journey so wonderful, and a poem I wrote before Ashtavakra Gita.
I asked for light in the darkness of the night

I asked for rain as the sun scorched bright
I asked for life when death was close
I asked for help when the doors looked closed
You've given me more, there cannot be complaints

You've given me a smile, it's taken away all pains
You've given me people who love me failsafe
You've given me you - such a blessing - I feel so safe
It's long you've gone

and I’m waiting for you
Tears well up in my eyes
at the very thought of you
Am I so bad I’m away from you
you are in me, yet I yearn to see you
Come back to me
Come back real soon
I’m waiting for you just once to see you
no need of wants
no wants of need
I’ll trade it all for a glimpse of you
Come back to me
Come back real soon
I’ll trade it all just to be with you
Jai Guru Dev!

Adi
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Contents
The Ashtavakra Gita
Knowledge & QnA
Day1 Day2 Day3 Day4 Day5
Day1
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1) We must really know how to ask and who to ask what.

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So many people are foolish and don't even realize what they are talking and to who and what.
An example - It's like going to a jeweler and asking for a match stick to light a cigarette!
Be careful on who you ask and what you ask.
2) The Guru is not a body...

He is a "tatva"... only one who is realized know everything is "gurumay"
3) He spoke about "Purusharth" and this is homework for me and you all tonight :)
There are 4 limbs to it - Dharma, Arth, Kaam, Moksha
Dharma is that which uplifts you and holds you to righteousness....
Arth is the "saar" - the meaning....
Kaam - it is not just the physical desires - it is any desire....
Moksha - Liberation (and he will discuss this tomorrow in detail)
So the homework - write down about the 3 things Dharma - Arth - Kaamnaye - what are these to
you? What are your desires and wants - what are those things which give you meaning in life -
what is it that is your dharma.... and briefly write about what you want to be liberated from?
Day1 QnA
Q) Guruji, I did a bad karma.. Now what do I do in order to make sure the result of this can be
lessened in some way??
A) You know, if you have done something bad - you should actually hope you get the result you
deserve or go thru what you have to.. You should pray you that whatever i should get - give it to
me... because only then there is "paschatap" (actually feel for your mistake / repent)
And then you see - when you do this 100% you see how you will cured... those tears of
gratefulness will wash away everything....
Q) What is Nasseb (Destiny)?

A) Nasseb is Bhagya :D :D (Both mean destiny) :)
When you don’t know why you got something - then you call it naseeb.... you know - anything
outside our "saamarthya" we get is destiny...
Then someone got a cap for Guruji and suddenly guruji says - I know some of you are anxious
on meeting me - don’t worry - I WILL meet you all.....
Back to Content’s page
Day 2
1) Where there is a lot of respect for people, there we find we are less close to them... when we
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are close to people, we find we listen to them a little less.. Take it for granted that they are
ours.... wise are those who learn how to respect and yet feel the oneness.
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2) Of the 4 limbs of Purusharth - Dharma, Arth and Kaam are those which can be a bondage.
Actually even Arth and Kaam are not really bondage's - it is your limited knowledge and
foolishness and small mind which is bondage.. Moksh is that which liberated you.
3) So any people do not even know they are bonded. Who wants liberation? Only those who are
bonded and know they are bonded? Only a person who is tired would need a pillow to sleep. If a
person is running - can take a pillow with him and run?
4) What is truth? Truth is that which is not affected by time. Truth is neither changing with past
not present nor future.... look at your own body - is it the truth?
5) I'll share 3 stories which were said at different times to convey different points :)
Two stories on how people are unhappy and don’t even realize and what is truly being free and
happy!
It is said in one of the stories in Ramayana that a man once mercilessly beat a dog - and so the
dog went to Ram for justice. The man was caught and Ram asked the dog - what punishment
should I give him? The dog said - Make him a head of an ashram!
Ram found it very strange and asked why do you say that? The dog replied saying - I was one
last life! I know what a punishment it is :D
The moral here was how people remain unhappy! Some think that being in this world is bondage
and be unhappy! Others think they have renounced the world and yet remain unhappy! And it's
even worse - because then you have followers!! And your followers won’t keep you at peace for
sure :D
The next story was about how a man complained to a swamiji about how his children were no
more paying attention to him and leaving him to do all the work and shouting at him etc etc. The
swamiji felt compassionate and advised him - why don’t you come to my ashram? I will make
sure you have food and shelter and you don’t need to work and when your kid’s wants to meet
you let them come!
Suddenly the man got angry and started shouting at the swami saying - do want to break my
family up??? What are you advising? I should move away? Who will take care of them etc etc
The swamiji got up and left.
The moral here was how people are unhappy and yet in that they find pleasure and not even
aware they are stuck in this bondage!
Finally a really really funny one!

Some 35+ yrs ago - guruji was in haridwar for the kumbh mela and he saw a naga baba sitting
near the banks. So for some reason Big Boss decided to go and talk to him - and he went there
and asked - baba could we discuss some knowledge please?
he haughtily looks at guruji and said - humpf! You??? What knowledge can you take??
Guruji smiled at him and said - thank you - I got it!
(He told us he learnt how never to be rude and stressed out like that naga baba)
And it doesn’t end - :D :D that person looked at G and said with great importance - you know
what I can do?????????????
And Guruji said - no!
He said - I can - with a rope tied to my groin - pull a truck!
(And with this the whole hall burst out laughing :D)
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And Guruji thought in his head at that time - what’s the use??? A truck can be started with a turn
of the key!! What’s the point pulling it.. with your... well....
(And we were all literally in splits with the way he was explaining)
Day2 QnA
Q) Guruji is Vairagya only the source of joy?

A) Yes! What pleasure cannot dispassion give you? Only those who have can give isn’t it? Only
those who have food can invite people for dinner isn’t it??
If you run behind joy - misery follows you.... remember this one line always - Antar Mukhi Sada
Sukhi. (Turn inwards and you'll always find joy)
Where does Sukh come from???? You are that!!
Q) Guruji what happens exactly after death?

A) Die and see :) If you die while you live and see it - you are gyani (wise). You have never died
and you will never die, Life goes on and on and on.... Have you seen the Ganga river??? It’s
always moving - life is like that.
People are saying Ganga will dry - I am telling you - don’t worry - Ganga will never dry!
Q) If everything is decided why is there any need of effort?

A) Who said everything is decided? How do you think purusharth came then?? It has a deep
knowledge behind this... but I’ll tell you - both are there... this is also there and that is also
there....
Day 3
1) We need to greatly increase our "sahansheelta" (ability to be calm) : "Sahajta" (naturalness) :

Daya (generosity/kindness).
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(He stressed on sahansheelta). Also - happiness (santosh) is found within - don’t associate it to a
person or an event.
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2) One must be very careful with the words they use!

Especially a devotee. It's is important. What is a blessing? Its words followed by their meaning -
so be careful with them. The guru’s words are an order and a blessing.
3) You are not the 5 elements.

You are not the fire - wind - earth.... you are much beyond that... you are bliss.
Whatever we do - we must be on the middle path - never on the extreme! If you're hungry - eat.
If you're thirsty - drink water. Don’t either starve yourself or stuff yourself! Don’t be stubborn
and act on any extreme path
Day3 QnA
Q) Guruji, what is your definition of happiness?

A) The direction in which life tends to flow.
Q) What's your best memory of happiness?

A) Happiness is when you stop wanting and start giving... where the "wanting" ends and sharing
begins - happiness is there. Memory is not happiness. When you are happy you forget
everything. People are either remembering or dreaming about happiness - this is the past or the
future. Happiness is now and it's your very nature.
Q) Yesterday you said Dharma, Arth and Kaam are bondages. Arth and Kaam you explained and
I understood. What about Dharma?
A) Wait a little bit - Ashtavakra will talk about this soon!
Q) When I’m alone I’m happy. But when there are people around I feel a bit uncomfortable ...
what to do?
A) You have come to the right place. Now you'll find out how :)
Q) During seva sometimes I feel tired and frustrated. Why? And what do I do about it?
A) Its ok/ when you're tired just take rest.
Q) What is paap(sin) and punya(good deeds)?

A) When you are troubled and others around you are troubled - it's paap. And when you are at
peace and happy and others around you are at peace and happy then its punya.
Q) Guruji, Krishna had 16 kala's (16 attributes which made him "complete"), Ram had 12 and
Hanuman had 14. Does this mean Ram was not really an incarnation? How is it possible?
A) Bhagwan se badhkar bhakt hai (greater than god is the devotee) the guru is god and the
devotee is also god.. To give importance to a devotee - even god bends down! It's like a father
who lifts his child on his head,
Only someone stronger than you can help you. If you need someone to help you carry the
suitcase - only someone stronger can help you right?? Those who take care of dharma, dharma
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takes care of them.

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Hanuman knew all this is maya - he knew he had the opportunity to serve the divine - and he did
this without ego - that's why he had the 14 qualities!
Many disciples get a few things from the master and think no end of themselves - like they have
achieved everything. Their fall is also like that.
Day 4
1) You are just an observer.

You are "Sakshi" to all that is happening. You are only seeing what all is going on - you are
above everything else - just observing - not the scene - but the sight!
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(He spoke about how we as devotes have a glow on our face - and people who go and watch
movies very regularly and not doing practices etc - how their faces are.....)
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To get over tamogun we go into rajogun and we have to rise over both and increase our sattva....
2) Your name is the last and most important attachment you can carry.
This is ego - how we associate ourselves so deeply. if you just pass a insult it is one thing - but
take a name and pass a comment and see how it is so much different... even in sleep you are so
closely linked - if 10 people are sleeping - call out one of their names and see - how only that 1
person responds.... this is ego!
Our name is such an attachment!
"Shwa" means yesterday or today (shwa maane "kal" = kal jo ho chuka hai ya jo aane waala hai)
and Vi is that which is special (Vishesh) - to Vishwa is that which encompasses all (vishwa =
world)
3) Don’t try cheating/fooling yourself

Some say - god gives the outcome and I do not do the action.... if you are not the doer then you
are not the receiver also!
Some reporter in Sweden asked gurudev - are you enlightened?
He thought - if I tell him yes - he will ask for proof! Such is the state of the world - to let
someone know you are free - you need to give them proof (at least that’s what G told us :p)
So guruji, smiling as usual, told him "No".
The reporter was not ready to believe him. He went on pestering Guruji to tell him the "truth",,,,
so on the 2nd or 3rd time guruji looked at him and told him - listen to yourself and know that
which tells you I am not telling you the truth - that is the truth! You know it :)
So now - homework for you all -
Tonight as you go to sleep - think and know that you are free and just relax and rest.
Whatever needs to happen is happening.. The heart is pumping, the blood is flowing. The food is
being digested..... You are only observing and you are above all else... just relax and know you
are free!
Usually you think the mind is inside the body - today as you sleep think that the body is in the
mind...
He who doesn't want joy - get’s freedom and he who doesn’t want freedom also - get's love!
(shareer ke bheetar mann nahin - mann ke andar shareer hai)
Day4 QnA
Q) How come there is so much +'ve energy inside the ashram - but even as we step out we can
feel the change in energy?
A) You have a great amount of energy in you! and when we're doing all such practices it helps.
When you make a wish - wish for something big - don’t keep asking me for "guruji , please
gimme an auto/bus/taxi back home or parking space" ask for something big - like let the country
find peace and take initiative and forms groups and do activity for that - we can all make the
difference in the society.. Divya samaj ka nirman...
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Q) How to overcome self pity?

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A) When you feel self pity - come out of it.... if someone else feels self pity - only they can come
out of it... meditation and adv courses will help....
Q) (This question was quite difficult to hear) - but it was on the lines of someone copying the
sudershan kriya and our techniques and guruji's talks and delivering them....
A) I know people are copying - let them so it... they don't realize this is not some human effort
involved here - this is a very deep and sacred practice - and it's a divine power behind all of this..
People who have selfish motives behind it - it won’t last long - we don't have to worry or bother
about such people - we just carry on our own work and do our things - because we are on the
right path!
Q) What is the difference between the mind and the self?

A) One is the wave - the other is the ocean
Day 5
1) Don’t get stuck to your identity - to what you are...

These are like clothes and shoes - you will take them off - and until you drop from this identity (I
am so & so - a businessman, an auto rickshaw driver etc etc) you won’t get free.. Only when you
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drop this you will be free from misery... Also when we are stuck we get into this mode of victim
consciousness - which we should not....
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2) You are not the "do'er"...

Know this and you'll be free... there is an element in you which just observes - it has never done
anything and nor will do - it just observers - it is "sakshi"... you will read much about things in
books and veda's - you will go to all religious and holy places - you will search for "that" - and
ultimately realize - what you are searching for - It's you!
changing of people or places will not serve any god - you will not find happiness there... in the
west - you find many people call their spouse "honey"... honey this - honey that... honey honey
honey (he actually said it 3 times :D and it was so funny to hear him say that) and in the end they
get diabetic and hence look for a change.... but it doesn’t help does it???? Even so with places -
people in Jammu think it's great to be in Goa and vice versa - what happens if they go there - first
10 days they'll feel good - after that?????????
karne se sukh nahin milega - vishram se sukh milega (action will not lead to happiness - rest will
lead you there) and he repeated adi shankaracharya's verse - kasya sukham na karoti viraga (what
joy does dispassion not give you?)
Story time :D
so this man is walking in the night on the road - and he's got a torch with him which has batteries
that are not so powerful and give just enough light to see a little ahead of him... so he is walking
and suddenly the torch flashes on a fat snake on the road... the man is scared off his wits and
doesn’t know what to do - so he stands there without moving and starts praying - he calls for
Hanuman and Krishna and says jai gurudev too - and just hope he doesn't get bitten...
after a few hours - suddenly there is lightening - and in the moment of flash - in that second of
brilliance of the illumination - he see’s - it's not a snake but a rope.... a rope wound on to the
bucket... and then feeling confident - he pushes the rope and carries on his journey...
Moral - Just once you understand you are free and just observe - everything after that is taken
care off... and the lightening comes - we just need to relax and know we are free....
When you have got angry - see the storm which has brewn up - time and again this happened -
but all those events have gone - you still are here... you don’t need to look anywhere... just look
at your own life and see - you will learn so much.... just be aware of these emotions... these
storms... don’t fight them - because then that is an action and you will be stuck again - just
observe them - don’t force stop them - observe...
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He ended AG today saying -
You are made up of joy/love... and it's when we forget this we are sad... the more you repose and
relax in yourself - the more you are free....
<So again it's our homework - rest well>
Day5 QnA
Q) Guruji, I have done many sins till now.. Am I worthy of being on this path? I want to atone
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for the sins - how do I do this?

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A) You’ve felt this - now you’re free... you are free and in the present moment - that’s why you
even felt the need to do a "pashchyatap". In the "ashudh" state (not a pure state) you will cover
up and defend the actions...
don’t feel guilty and give up... in the olden says that's why the students would go to the guru and
he would tell them do this or that... it would be enough...just give it up and don’t get into the
guilt consciousness.... take the wisdom and in the present moment - then all is taken care of.
Q) There is so much being said on bhramacharya in the scriptures... yet we are stuck with food
and desires.. Could you talk about this please?
A) tomorrow/later,,,
Day 6
1) Wake up and see, nothing is true!

If the body is clean then the prana is clean... with devotion the mind is clean and with knowledge
the intellect is clean.... only when there is "cleanliness" - wisdom dawns...
don't think any of you here are less than Janak, because you have the want to know... just this is
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enough for freedom... don’t think any of you are "less"... even a small virus like the "swine flu"
virus - something so small shook the life for a few months... you think you are insignificant??
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Insignificant as compared to the virus?????????? No! You are powerful - and strong... in you
there is a great strength....
<story time> there was a gardener - who would stand on the mound in his garden... and
whenever he stood on that and looked at people he would get very kind and call them and ask
them to eat fruits and come to his garden... and as people would approach - he would get off that
little "hill" and suddenly get agitated and start shouting at people.... so some wise man observed
this pattern and said - maybe there is something in that hill - let's dig it and find out - and when
they dug it they found the throne of the great king Vikramaditya!
<Moral> we have power of such magnitude - that we can change and affect not just people but a
large area around us also...
2) Surrendering means you are pure!

When you surrender who do you think you are doing a favor!! You think god/guru will get
anything? No - it is to free you! It gives you relief! It makes you pure... everything in this
universe is made of just 1 substance.... and we have to go from the gross to the subtle... that's
why seva is so important.. That energy in the environment and individuals together - it can make
a huge difference....
<story time> guruji had gone to Canada many years ago and as a programme they had arranged
"Ram-leela" for him... when guruji saw the program he saw - the character of ram was played by
this slightly well built boy and had more of the looks like one would imagine ravan, and the
character of ravan was played by this small - more delicate looking boy.... so guruji asked the
lady organizing how she did the "casting"... and she said - "what to do guruji, no parent wanted
their child to be ravan :p so ultimately i made my son do this"
and guruji was just amazed - this is just a role and how people's reaction was.... he said you will
have all sorts of people in this universe and they are just being "casted" - each is playing a role...
3) Jaisi mati - waisi gati (as your thoughts - so shall be your life)
you are greater than this feeling of joy/sad and everything.... and as you think - so it shall be
reflected... if you think you are useless - you will remain and be useless... if you think you can -
you will..... if you have to feel proud about something then feel proud about being "free" (mukt)
stop thinking you are carrying the weight of this world... that is not your job - god is doing that....
but this doesn’t mean you run away from your responsibility either.... you can’t say - I won’t
cook for my kids or take care of my husband etc etc - god is looking after it... don’t use such
incorrect logic....
4) Something in you doesn’t do anything

You know why you all keep coming here and sitting in front of the guru??? In the presence of
the master - the prana/bhav/gyan all becomes shudh/pure... and when all this becomes pure - you
are complete!
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Day 7
1) <Story time> Mullah Nasseruddin had a donkey... and one day the donkey went missing - and
suddenly mulla started thanking god!!!! So someone walking by him stopped and asked him -
why are you thanking god when you lost the donkey???? He said - well - if I was with the
donkey even I would have lost my way!!!!
Nevertheless he starts looking for the donkey but is unable to find it - so he puts up posters
saying anyone who finds the donkey gets to keep the donkey + gets a cash reward!
Again this confuses someone and he asks mulla - hey! Why are you giving both??? So mulla
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replies - khojne ka kuch alag hi mazaa hai (there is quite another joy in just the search)
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Just the search is joy.. Joy is in finding and joy is in losing also.. But when will you drop
everything and where will you search??? Wishes/Desires will only take you in a circle - like a
merry-go-round - and you'll end up where you are!
2) Listen to knowledge and then become empty..

When can you leave something - only after you have caught it right??? You know, every particle
in this universe has knowledge in it.... nothing is impermanent and nothing is permanent - there
is no end - and nor is there a beginning - you can’t say it is there but you cannot say it is not there
either....
There is something which is present inside you - as well as outside you... that is the empty
space... and it is that empty space which has value
3) <Story time> Mullah Nasseruddin got up one morning and decided he is dead... so he told his
wife - I am dead...
She thought he was joking - so she said - now eat food and go to office... so he said the dead
can’t eat food and why should the dead work! And he continues with this absurd behavior - so
she got fed up and took him to a doctor.... the doctor talks to him but to no avail - so he tells
mulla - see the dead don’t have blood in their body right??? mulla says yes... so the doc takes a
needle and pricks him... blood trickles out... the doc has a smug look on his face and says - so
have you understood???
Mullah gasps and says - yes doctor! I have discovered - even the dead have blood in them!
Get out of those concepts we have built around us -

Don’t live stressed out...cut this bondage with the sword of knowledge and wisdom......
4) He who realizes his self - is free!

People who get stuck in the worldly life we see and know... but there are people who get stuck
even on the religious path... and that is also a bondage! don’t hallucinate and have some concepts
in your head about god getting angry because you missed fasting or not going to a temple on one
day etc etc.... getting upset over the faith is also bondage!
5) Asangoham Asangoham Asangoham Punah Punah.....

Time and again... again and again I come back to my self.... you are doing nothing... you are just
light...
And then he sang :) :) :) he sang - so beautifully -
Alakh Niranjan Bhava-Bhaya-Bhanjan Narayan Narayan Narayan Hariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Narayan....
Then, he took a short meditation on this :)
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Homework!!
He said -
You are "narayan swaroop" As nar (man) you have felt bondage - tonight as you go to bed - rest
like narayan.. And go into the state of Nidra Samadhi... Just rest...
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Day 8
1) How can you get joy? He who is Nishkriya and Nisangha is only one who can attain joy.
We have burnt out prana/body/mind over and over again and have died... and have been born
again to "find" joy and you are still doing the same...
Nishkriya is very easy to speak about (Niskriya is "doing nothing") but it is very very difficult...
just ask someone to sit quietly for 15 minutes and see... they cannot... it is so difficult... either
their body or mind is restless.....
So then how do you and what to do to get to nishkriya??? Decrease the rajoguna in you... even
singing a bhajan is a kriya.. so what happens - you sing and sing and then you get tired and so
you sit - and then relax - and it's in those few minutes you are happy and content...
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That's why in the olden times the rishi's and others said - the god's are in the mountains... so in
the process of going up and down the mountain you are inevitably doing the sudershan kriya!
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And observe and see - after all the walking what happens - you are tired and so you rest and
when you rest what is your desire it comes true! And that's what we are doing here without
climbing mountains... just sit and do the kriya!!
Our 5 senses have limited ability but the want of the mind is limitless... and this greed is what
keeps us away from our "self"...
2) Don’t get attached to Samadhi

Don’t get attached even to Samadhi... it is even here you will find people having a big ego on the
Samadhi.... no... go beyond that... if you buy a shampoo and apply it on your head will you say -
no I spent so much on this shampoo - I cannot wash it off???
When you are happy you remain untouched by anything! That’s when you can give... giving is a
sign of richness.. it's not money but the "bhav".... give and see - how happy you will feel... and
when you give don’t worry about how and who is taking it... be like a flower - it just gives the
fragrance - it doesn’t go and check if the smell has reached the nostril or not....
don’t get stuck in this small mind... you are free... and when you’re happy you want nothing...
sahajta aur saralta poornata ka lakshan hai (simplicity and naturalness are signs of fulfillment)
For a stream (derya :D :D :D) to flow it needs direction and so let your desire be the highest
form of "chin-mat vasana"... it is your desire to hear AG and hence you are here! This is a desire
- but this is the right kind of desire.. Let it be :)
3) You are nirakar(formless)

that which has shape is not true because it changes... from the gross to the subtle - bones to the
mind - everything changes and has a form//// mann/buddhi/chitt all of these have a form... only
the Atma (soul) is formless... only the atma is nirakar.. And you are nirakar...
And when you listen to this from a guru - you will not be born again because you are free... you
may choose to be born but not forced!
the one who is searching is walking on the path... the one who knows is also walking on the
path... the "guide" knows the path - he knows where there are pitfalls and obstacles and where
what is happening and why,,,, rather than being lost walk with the guide..
The wise smiles and lives life while the fool/ignorant frowns....
Day8 QnA
Q) Guruji you have said that everything we do is for joy - ultimately that's what we want and is
there... then why is there sadness and trauma around?
A) Mullah Nassruddin's wife was pregnant and due to deliver a baby (yes - he started answering
this question with a story :)) and despite the expected "arrival" of the baby it was not yet born..
So the doctor called mulla and said - look, I think we need to do an operation... then mulla said -
no no no... Wait.. I’ll come back in a few minutes.. don’t do anything.... so mulla goes to the
shop and buys a toy and comes back and gives it to the doctor and says - give it to my wife
now... the kid is mine - it must be greedy - let's give it a toy - it will come out for sure!
and this is what we all do in life - like a carrot kept in front of a rabbit - we are running behind
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this "joy" never knowing what it is... it is with those who are stuck in the world and also with
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those who are on the "path".... we are only wondering how we will "get".. How will you get joy
like this???
Q) How and why is it that some people are born in very rich families while some are born in
such poor families that they cannot afford even a single meal?
A) of the 5 secrets in this universe - janma rahasya - is one of them... the secret of birth has been
kept a secret by god on purpose... else you would be stuck with the last impressions... there is
one point of time in your life where you will come to know it all - everything on this... some will
remember and some will forget...
This whole universe works on a "cause and effect" phenomena.... there is a reason - reason for
something to happen the way it happens or happened.... there is freedom and yet something’s are
written...
Once a man went to the astrologer and asked about his son’s future - the astrologer said - he will
be the one who will feed 1000's of people....
The man went back feeling happy thinking his son would become a industrialist etc etc... Many
yrs later the son became a waiter (the prediction was true after all)
There is freedom of your karma and yet something has been written... where you are born is
because of your past karma but where you will be - is in your own hands....
Day 9
1) Our own mind cheats us and we don’t even know that

Sorrow is because of the small mind... go into the chin-mat vasana - you'll find a deep strength
come into you then,,, Our own mind is our pitfall.. We carry so many concepts in our head and
we still don’t learn from them... Wise are those who don’t repeat the old/same mistakes...
<story> One day Mullah nasseruddin (and then he G changed it.. he said no - not mulla - Tenali
Ram :D) so one day Tenali Ram had a man come home and ask for a loan and promised to return
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it in 1 month - Tenali didn’t want to give the money because he knew the man would not return
the money... so he tried avoiding - but in the end he gave the man the money... not expecting it to
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return he said to himself "I have given charity..... So it’s ok"..... A month later the man came and
gave money back to a very surprised Tenali.... a few weeks later - the same man came again and
asked for a loan again and promised to return the money...
This time Tenali flatly refused so the man asked him why... and tenali replied - you cheated me
last time! I never thought you would return the money - but you came and returned it... I cannot
fall in this trap again and you cheat me....
<Moral> we don’t even know what and who to believe in - just stuck in our own concepts......
2) I am that which never changes

How many times have you craved and asked for things... you even got them - still what is the
result - your hands are empty.... in the chin-mat vasana your karma’s are burnt.... get back to
your self and be free... when you are in yourself you will not be forced to be born....
3) In the clear and still mind - god is the reflection

<story time> once tenali wanted to sell vegetables and so he took his donkey with him with the
vegetables on the donkey... he reached the market place and started calling loudly - vegetables
for sale - but every time he opened his mouth - at the same time the donkey also brayed.... so no
one could hear Tenali.. His voice was covered by the donkey... frustrated he asked the donkey -
are you selling the vegetables or me?????????
<moral> we are in the same pattern of behavior.... our mind keeps braying every time we speak -
hence we cannot hear what needs to be heard.... There is dust in you... wipe it... become clean....
You know babies and saints are considered to be god because they are so clean in the mind - they
are in the present moment and don’t "want" anything..... ideally even old people should be that
way - but many are not - and so nature takes care of them in other ways... there is this problem
called "Dymensia" where people tend to forget things easily.... a wife will ask her husband who
he is... parent will ask a child who they are etc etc.... this is nature’s way to remove the dust and
keep you in the present... you have so many impressions and dust settled - it's time to clean it....
4) There is nothing outside god

He has no shape - don’t expect him to wear a crown and come with a flute etc etc... God is space
and everything is present in space... you were/are/will never be separate from HIM... don’t
search - even searching is an activity,,,
Hosh mein jo jagte ha woh tar jaate hai (Those who are alive consciously they are the ones who
get liberated)
Day9 QnA
Q) Guruji, who are you?

A) Do you know who you are??? First find out who you are - then you'll easily know who i am :)
Q) Sometimes I feel it and know you are with me - but sometimes I feel the connection is lost
and it's painful... but I love you anyway.... what to do?
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A) You have asked and answered the question yourself :) :) :) one who has experienced the
nectar of devotion - there’s nothing more needed....
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In the narad bhakti sutra's - narada also says when you are with the one you love you are in a
state of bliss (paramanand) and when you are separated (virah) you are restless..
faith doesn’t end here - it sometimes get covered with dust - but never ends.... and if you feel this
way - you are very very very fortunate...
Q) How can I increase faith?

A) Just this thought is enough.... Buddhi shuddh hoti hai toh shraddha badhta hai (when the mind
is pure the faith increases) jaisa ann waisa mann (how the food intake - so is the mind)
That’s why it is so important to eat well and eat good food and eat the right way... we must avoid
talking about illness and problems while we are eating... we should avoid watching those violent
TV shows while eating... eat with good thoughts in your mind and eat with awareness....
Q) When I see you I feel like crying and feel I have known you are ages and lifetimes... Is it
true?
A) This is your experience and you are doubting it - it must be true :)
You doubt only that which is true.... you doubt your happiness - someone’s honestly - god...
never your unhappiness or a cheat etc etc....
Q) You said become Nishkria - but then what's the position and importance of Karma and
sankalpa then?
A) Look - think a little bit... I told you not to leave everything,,,, while doing everything also
know you are doing nothing... you'll then know you are just observing.... in the Upanishads they
talk about 2 birds on a tree - 1 is eating and the other is just observing.... even in the bhagwad
gita - Krishna tells Arjuna - there is not a single moment in this universe anything can remain
without karma.... you have to keep doing your karma but yet remain observant of the karma.....
Only be "sakshi"....
This is all Phd level talk - you must know the basics and fundamentals and do yoga,,, else you
will get confused like this.....
Day 10
1) Don't blame yourself

God is in you.. Everything is in god... There is nothing outside him.. Don’t blame the world nor
blame yourself and then look to find god... in the western culture - calling yourself god is almost
equivalent of a sin... they think humans are sinful and god is pure and have kept god very far....
God is not far.... In India we think god is within but we blame the world.... but this is not right -
blaming the world.... Krishna also says - This world is my creation - honor and live in it....
It's like an artist who draws the picture - if you insult the picture then you also insult the one who
made it....
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2) The wise one talks and then listens

Guruji again sang "Alak niranjan....." and then satsang began!!!
After a while guruji started again saying - birth is the transition from the subtle to the gross while
mukti/liberation is from the gross to the subtle... This is atmagyan... Don’t get lost in this
diversity of life.... the very feeling of bondage is a big thing - because that's the first step towards
liberation....
the wise talks and also listens - some people ask questions without really wanting to know the
answer... the ask because they feel important and that it's like an attendance - "I’m also sitting
and I can ask intelligent questions"... no that's not how one should be.... that's why ashtavakra
spoke - and then kept quite - to see what Janak had grasped.
3) AHO!!!!!!
When something of this magnitude for a conversation transpires - it is impossible for nothing to
happen.... When something so deep takes place - an expression comes out - an expression which
has no meaning in words but a very deep significance to the emotion... That's what happened to
Janak.. He realized - I am beyond this body - I am silence - I am...... I have all the treasure of this
world - yet I look to beg for small things... Wow!!! I understood....
it's the same - how many of us have experienced this - first we thought - what is all this yoga and
pranayam and "path" etc - but after you did this what happened - the only regret in your mind
was - why did I waste so many years of my life - why didn’t I do this before????
4) You can give only what you have

If you're happy - you will give happiness - if you are sad - you will give out sadness.... 1000's of
you are sitting here today - why???? Because something has blossomed in you that you are at
peace... and that's what happened to Janak.....
5) Everything is yours and yet nothing is yours

Nobody is bad,,, his action/habits might be wrong... This is wisdom... god is everywhere - there
is nothing that is outside him... there is no difference - all is one... you can’t choose - this is mine
and that is not....
In action (Pravritti state) you must do the job - find faults and work on it - fix the solution... In
the state of relaxation (Nivritti) just rest... in the state know that everything is ok and all is well :)
But we don’t do that - where we are supposed to take action we say all is well and nothing to
worry and do.... and when we are to sit and meditate and just rest - then we start finding faults...
If you car has a flat tyre - get up - fix a new one and carry on.. if the brakes aren’t working - go
get them fixed... where you see corruption and need for improvement - stand up and speak out...
you don’t simply sit and say - ok! No problem brakes are working - tyre is flat - all is ok.... no....
conquer and know yourself - and you'll win this world... the sikh guru's did that - when India
went into a state of almost cowardice and were being ruled by foreign powers - the sikh guru's
stood up and said - come on! Take action..... The disciples and devotees told "waahe guru" and
chanted that for the guru..... It is not a text book writing - waahe guru is a call from the inside!
It’s a call from the heart....
6) Every second/step nature is giving you miracles... don’t sleep and miss the miracles
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Day 11
Gun Shot at ashram – No AG
Day 12
1) This knowledge is not for the renounced - it is for the "king"

there are different ways to get to god - Gyan is one of the ways and this is how Ashtavakra lead
Janak...This is knowledge to know that unless you "drop it" - you will not reach there, and yet
this doesn’t mean you leave your responsibility....
Janak continued to be a king until the end - he had dropped the small sight and moved to the
large vision.... he took care of his tasks but never got stuck to them..... When janak heard this
knowledge - at 1 level he was quite and at peace and at another level he was astonished and in
wonder,,,,
Our brain is like a frequency analyzer - and we are in a world which is forever changing and
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uncertain.... look at nature and look at a movie - the principle is the same - the pictures are still
and they run them - so we think it's moving... life is like a 3D movie :)
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I advice people not to use the phone too much - some people use the phone to call people from
one room to the other - or inside to outside the kutir....
Jaisi Dristhi / Vaisi Shrishti - as you shall see, so is the world which will reflect to you.... we
need to see god with skill....
2) <Story time> Mullah Naseruddin fell in love with a girl.. But he had a problem - he would see
everything twice/two of the same thing.... so everyone would ask him - mulla why don’t you go
and wear specs... and he would say - no way! I can see "her" twice :)
And then he got married.... and in a short while he went to the doctor and asked for spectacles :p
and the doctor asked him - why?? Mullah replied - now just one is enough.....
With what skill we see something - like that we see the truth too.... gross is diversity and subtle is
one/unity.... we have to go from the gross to the subtle and that's why we need skill (kushalta) to
see god....
Meditation has 3 rules to follow -
I want nothing - I am nothing - I do nothing.. Only when you follow these 3 - you can meditate :)
only when you stop seeing this world - can you see god.... move from the diverse to the one....
like a hologram - from 1 side you see one image and other side you see another... like light bulbs
- 1 switch is able to light up 100's of bulbs.... find the switch - not the bulb.... and that’s what
janak discovered - he was looking only at the bulb - but now he found the switch... like a mobile
phone and tower... know the tower and you have control over all the mobiles... don’t throw the
mobile - but don’t get stuck in the mobile either....
3) Sagar mein ek leher uthi tere naam ki, tujhe mubarakh khushiyan aatma gyan ki
Tujhko hai ananth mein jakar mil jana - tu hai sundar phool is sansar ki
(Guruji spoke this out today :) )
He said - the ocean is the nameless and formless... the wave is part of this ocean which takes this
form... there is no "fight" between the waves - waves are part of this ocean.. they come and go...
and that’s why in AOL we wish in this manner that let this wave remember today it is from the
ocean and may it be blessed with knowledge of the self... you will return back again and you are
beautiful/truth.....
birth is not an easy process - so many souls are running to be born in the form - it is such a
struggle and only 1 is lucky... you have struggled all the way before birth... you want to struggle
till the end - till death????
In India birthdays are called "jayanti" - where there is no 2... No victory... when can there be
victory - only where there is 2... There is loss or victory.... who will you win against -
yourself???? Get back to the self...
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Day 13
1) Vishram mein Ram hai (in rest you find god)

Everything is made up of just 1... 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 realized 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.... AG 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 are on their head... while you are searching
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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???
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2) Drop those "wants"

So many people do "spiritual" shopping... this is become 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 1 path... and we need to wait... we need to have patience...
even in the path we want to have "siddhi's" (powers) and feel "the" experience.... no - just drop
all of this....
3) Tatvamasi -> Aham Bhramasmi

Asti Bhati and Preeti - these are the 3 signs of our atma/consciousness.... in Buddhism they said -
life is "shunya" (zero/empty/nothing) Buddhism believed 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 sudershan 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....
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 realized - "Aham Bhramahasmi" - I am that....
First listen - then follow in patience and be with it - then you'll know...
Day 14
1) You are filled with light

Till you don’t know the atma 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 realized that... he realized - when he was bowing down and doing namaskar to "others" - it
was never "other",,, it was one... it was himself... he realized 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...
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Day 15
1) Vikar se chootna hai toh vishram karo (rest is the way to get rid of "disorder/change/habit" -
sorry - I am not able to find the right word for vikar in English :))
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
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<story> I missed the crux of the story because 2 gentlemen next to me coughed at the moment
guruji said he last line of the story and some exceptionally smart person left their mobile on
"ringing" :(
but it was a story on Mullah Nasseruddin going in search for funds for charity and finally he gets
nothing and visits a rich man's house... so the man asks him to read something and when mulla
does - he also reads or says the same and questions mulla - we both know the same - what is
different or more you know from me,,, (and then his answer I couldn’t hear)
2) There is no joy for one who is lazy or one who overworks

Only someone who is thirsty and gets water realizes 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.atma... 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 no one 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 realization 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 realize 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
realize he is not different...
So now don’t think - when will I feel this and get this realization? Will it happen now or
sometime later? Will it happen this lifetime? How many more births will I have to take??
No - the fact that you are here sitting 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.....
<Today he has given homework>

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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 and the same.. Don’t worry about anything..
Don’t have any fear... everything is going on and it will be fine.... just rest tonight...
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Day 16
wahi aatma satchitanand mein hoon

shivoham shivoham
shivoham shivoham
That was one of the songs vikram bhaiya sang.....
All guruji said today was - "Aaj pyar ki barsaat gir rahi hai (today it’s raining love) aaj sirf
bhajan karenge (today we’ll only sing and do bhajans) gyan ki baatein kal karenge (we’ll talk
knowledge tomorrow)"
Today was just festivity - dance and celebration and love in the air - we had rishi nityapragya -
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Songs from "tumse o jori" and "mere toh mann mein beheti hai ganga" to "jay jay vitthale" and
"sunderanana"... "raadhe raadhe raadhe shyam" and "sambha sada shiva shivay namah om"
It was simply amazing... to dance - to meditate - to watch....
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Day 17
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 realize how many hours
passed.. You didn’t even know...
I see that happening - people waiting outside for hours together to meet me
and I wonder - don’t their legs ache??? :D :D :D
Where there is faith and love - the mind stops... and when the mind stops --
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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.
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 easily 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
incident - but 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 those who realize 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 the 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...
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Q) Guruji - Ishwar Kyun? (Why god?) (And he asked this question 2ice - Guruji,
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A) tune prahna puccha "yun" :D aisa kyun"??? :D :D :D (It was all about the rhyme)
(You asked such a question - why :))
where are you without god?? (The guy interrupts again and says - nahin Guruji,
Ishwar Kyun) so then guruji says - kyun nahin :D (Ok, why not??)
Then he told the boy to sit and said - ok I will tell you a story... once a man came to
Gautama Buddha and said - Ishwar Kyun? (And everyone again started laughing) -
so Buddha said - ok - there is no god... so that man felt happy that even Buddha
agreed and he went... then another man came and said - there IS god... so Buddha
said - yes, there is.... so the guy felt happy and he left... then a 3rd guy comes and
he folds his hands in respect and say - I am confused... I do not know if god is there
or no... When I listen to the rationalists and communists I think they have the logic
right and there is no god... but when I listen to saints I think they are right - and
believe there is god... can you tell me - is there god??
Buddha says - nor do I - but I know one thing - if you stay here with me we will work
on this together... first you relax your mind because only with a calm mind will
knowledge dawn on you...leave god.. Close your eyes and go to the subtle... then
truth will dawn...
(he told that boy) don’t be like the gramophone record which is stuck on just one...
shift the needle - know who you are - then you will know the answer to your
question....
Q) How will you know you are enlightened?

A) you doubt the positive... first the doubt rises - then the mind quietens then you
become happy and you emanate so much love from you that the fragrance spreads
everywhere (you might not even notice this process sometimes because it is so
slow... it could happen at sudden - but it is best it happens slow)
Q) after getting enlightened - can I get married? Will wife also be happy?
A) Its best you get enlightened together :)
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Day 18
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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 the whole conversation is all about.... 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
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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.. <he continued saying> 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......
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Day 19
1) What is this - is the first question... Who am I - is the last....

Right from when we are born and become maybe 3 yrs we ask - what is
this.... we are interested in the knowledge of the "other"... It's not wrong - it
should come - because this shows the mind is active and developing... So
when someone asks you about you - you have the answer ready - you say
your name, son of/ daughter of, village/city, religion - you say everything but
for "who you are".... you and the others ask all questions - but not the final
one - Who am I?
We have to reach that state and stage... Very few people actually even ask
this question... We are stuck in "upadhi" (identity) thinking you are
somebody/something..... You think you are the mind/body/ego.... no! know
you have a body but you are beyond that... don’t look at a shadow or
reflection and think that is you...
2) Only when you are happy you expand and when you expand you relax and
when you relax you are free
Drop that identity/upadhi you are carrying - I am a doctor and I am a student
and I am a wife and I am this and that... you are not that identity.... all these
are roles you play like puppets.... Until you don’t see you are the observer
and not the identity - you can never start the "journey"..... Any title/identity is
an obstacle to realization....
Ashtavakra told this to Janak and Janak understood... He was a king but he
was free from the clutches of identity...
you are neither wise nor fool, neither man nor woman, neither old nor young
-- age has never touched you and nor will it ever.... everyday remember this
and become empty... the mind is not in the body - the body is in the mind...
the more you relax the body the more free you become... expansion happens
with happiness... only when you are happy you expand and when you expand
you relax and when you relax you are free...
3) When Questions stop, Wonder begins

Nothing in this world is bondage - everything is a play... all is in you and yet
you are free...don’t run behind happiness - you'll feel bonded... those who
don’t even wish for liberation - they will be quite - they will be free... they are
at peace...
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right from when you were small you have been running behind or running
away from something... you will never get wisdom like this... don’t be a
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coward or don’t be feverish... we have to stay here and win....

In the limited (body) experience the unlimited (atma) ... When something is
wrong just relax... people think it is natural to be disturbed and worried and
scared... but a devotee is calm and smiling even when things are wrong... the
devotee know - "har samasya gabbar singh hai" :D :D :D (all problems are
just a fake thing put in the way) one who lives based on the
title/identity/upadhi is always in fear... conflict is because of this... that's why
people are so disturbed when you talk about religion.. It’s like your very
existence is questioned... no... Look beyond... you’re not handicapped - you
don’t need the support of titles....
<story time> Mullah Nasseruddin was sitting on the donkey with his face the
other side of which the donkey was walking! People were wondering why he
was sitting that way... so someone asked him - mulla, why are you sitting like
this? he replies - ask the donkey!
We all want to change the world without the knowledge of our self... but this
doesn’t mean you don’t do seva till you get enlightened,,,, don’t run away
from your responsibility....
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oh! He has given homework!!!

Tonight as you sleep - know you are just like a wave (tarang) and sleep with
ease...
know there is a bed - there is a body on that bed.. There is a blanket and a
pillow there. Just relax.... (Eat and drink water properly - don’t say I am just
waves - not matter etc etc... don’t twist the logic.....)
No QnA on Day19
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Day 20
<story time> There was a poor man - who had enough money to buy the bread to
eat but not enough to buy the vegetables... so he would go and stand near a person
who made "paav-bhaaji" and smell the bhajji and feel like he has eaten the
vegetable... then owner of the stall looked at this man and then got angry - so he
filed a case against him.. The judge was tenali raman.... the owner of the stall said -
this man came to my stall - smelt the aroma of my vegetables and filled his
tummy... he should pay me for it...
so tenali said - ok fine.. He took money and put it in a purse.. Then called the man -
shook the purse and said - here is the money..
The man said - thank you, please give me the purse now... tenali said - no... Why???
He smelt your food now you hear the money jingle..
1) Everything is an illusion
hell - heaven - sorrow - joy - bondage - freedom - all of this is an illusion... you think
about what others think of you... I tell you - people don’t have time for all of that...
you trouble yourself and me because of this imaginative thinking of yours.... you
don't just imagine for yourself - you imagine what others imagine about you... such
a waste I tell you...
2) Dual and non-dual

in a crowd also don't feel separation.. one who sees all as 1 - to him it doesn't
matter if he is in a crowd or alone... it's easy to see the non-dual when alone... you
have to stay in the crowd and see the non-dual... some people want crowd around
them... they want the others to praise them... they feel anxious when alone... ego
wants crowd... similarly they are some people who don't want a crowd.. They run
away...this is also not good.. These 2 categories are like 2 sides of 1 coin...
celebrate in a crowd like you are when alone - this is sign of wisdom...
when you realize this - ego breaks - distance breaks - joy spreads in and around
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you..
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QnA Day 20
Q) Does everything happen by the will of god? They say, even a leaf doesn't move
without HIS will... is it true?
A) Yes... even a leaf doesn't move without his permission... But he has also given
you a brain which functions and that is his will :) :) :) Adi Shankaracharya was once
talking about illusion to people and suddenly a mad elephant ran towards them... So
Shankaracharya started running... one person asked him mockingly - everything is
an illusion right? Why are you running??
Shankaracharya continued running and said - yes! Everything is an illusion.. And so
is my running :D :D
Mullah nasseruddin was dreaming about a deal he was doing... and in the dream he
was selling something for 10,000 rupees... the man in the dream was bargaining
and said - no! i will give it for only 9,000... And so the argument continued...
suddenly mulla woke up and he looked in his hand he had nothing... what 9000
rupees.. he didn't have 9 rupees also in hand.. So he quickly closed his eyes and
decided to take the 9000 deal :D :D
we need the knowledge of what we do... we eat... do you know how food gets
digested??? right form touching your food the brain starts sending signals on what
enzymes to use (that's why it's better to eat with hands rather than spoon) almost
7% of the carbohydrates we eat get digested in the mouth (and hence we should
eat not in a hurry and chew our food) then the food goes in to different organs
(pancreas - liver etc etc) it's a major process...
He continued saying - I went to this place <kuroso I think was the name> and this
place has no water to drink.. it is surrounded by sea water which cannot be drunk...
they have a huge factory almost 1 mile in area which recycles salty water to
drinkable water.. people spend hundreds of $ on water there... so I went for the
walk and near the factory I saw a coconut tree - so I pointed it out to the people I
was with and said - look at this factory by nature :D
nature has provided cure to wherever there is a problem... nature is beautiful... it
has a process... man has the freedom to follow the process or break it... Jahan vivek
hai wahan swatantra hai...

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Day 21
1) Don’t be stuck to the wave - be the ocean

our world is made up of 2 things - thoughts and emotions... life is emotion
while the world is thoughts.... you need to look from where both these come
from... usually we just flow/get carried away with thoughts and emotions and
get stuck in both... Janak understood this and was surprised - at how he
experienced this but never understood it till now...
storms come and go - the ocean isn’t scared of the waves... you are the
ocean... don’t hold on to what people do and what people say... thoughts
keep coming and going... some are good - some are bad... don’t ask people
why did you do this or why did you say this... there is no point in asking this
question...
if a bad thought comes don’t blame yourself and try beating/killing the
thought - it only get stronger... similarly - if a good thought come - don’t get
all excited and proud... this is how you start feeling sorry for yourself..
because you’ll start thinking - I am so good - people only can’t understand
me or like me...
Those who think they are bad - they are generally not unhappy - they start
becoming numb to everything... they resign themselves to saying - whatever
I do anyway I am bad - so might as well continue doing things I am doing...
they remain unaffected...
the problem is with those who start thinking they are good/nice... they start
felling bad and blaming the whole world and others....
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you are the ocean... just be an observer... don’t get in any extreme emotion
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(too sad - too angry - too humiliated - .....)
2) Life is a play - know this and you'll never stop smiling

If you remain "sakshi" to your emotions you will never suffer from any mental
problems.... that's why meditation and yoga is so important... even kids
should be taught and in ancient India this was a practice of giving young
children the bhramagyan.....
As you fill knowledge in the "patra" like that "patrata" increases.... so remain
an observer.. Don;t kill your emotions instead play with the emotions (but not
with others emotions)
when you see this whole creation as a play then you will never stop smiling...
at this state even your anger has a depth to it... healthy emotions are those
which are like a line on water... there is also a part about how some people
are "built".. <Guruji said> I for instance have never uttered a bad word in all
my life... the maximum I have told someone is "arre gaddhe! Stupid" (it was
so funny the way he said it :D :D :D :D) but that's not to show I am big or
anything... pata nahin, shayad meri banawat hi aisi hai :D :D :D (I don’t know,
maybe I have been formed this way)and yet there are others who almost
always utter bad words when they speak... be compassionate to such
people.... accept it and move on...
<story time> once mulla nasseruddin was going for an election campaign on
his donkey... there was a marriage band passing by and suddenly the donkey
got crazy and threw mulla off it's back and ran away... people laughed at him
and asked - mulla what happened? You can’t take care of yourself over the
donkey how will you fight an election?? Mullah got up smiled and said - I was
getting off anyway - just that he removed me off his back before I did :) I got
down or he got me down - I had to get down anyway - what difference - it's
the same :)
just know that emotions come and go.. Make this narrow sight of yours a
large vision :)
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Day 22
1) The search for joy doesn't end until you go deep within
Man has become crazy about money... he thinks money can make him
happy/ There is no greater hallucination than this. scientists took a happiness
quotient survey and saw that people in poorer countries were happier than
the so-called "rich and developed" countries.... people never understood this -
they now have 2 cars but a frown on their face... there is so much fear and
feeling of separation within the "rich" families...
<story time> there was a man who had a wishing bowl - and whatever he
wanted he would get twice when he asked for it... Once his neighbor
happened to see it and asked him where he got it from... the man said it was
from a saint who he met and did some seva... now the neighbor took down
the "address" of where he could meet this saint... and then he went there -
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and he started praising the saint and tried being all-important... finally he
went and asked the saint for the "magic" bowl... he said - see you give my
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neighbor such a bowl - please give it to me also.. Just that let mine be a little
bigger than his in size.. because I have a bigger family than his... so
whenever I ask for something it should offer me twice as much...
the saint looked at him and said ok - he knew this person was a cheat - but
he still gave him the bowl.. so the man went home all happy and he asked
the bowl for something... and the bowl said - why one - take twice of it.... and
nothing came out... then he asked for 2 of something and the bowl replied -
why 2 - take 4 of this... but nothing came out of it...
the bowl went on talking back to him but never gave him anything....
Money is like that - it gives you the feeling that you will get happiness - but
you won’t... joy is elsewhere...
you know, almost 30% of Europe is depressed today... people have money to
eat food - but they have diseases which do not let them to.. People have
money to have a big comfortable bed - but do not get sleep.... all your life
you are running behind money and have destroyed yourself and your family
in the process... I am not saying don’t earn money... money has its
importance but it needs to be only where it is... so much money people have
- what do they do? get drunk... alcohol is the biggest poison in today’s
world... it is so sad - they drink and get unconscious and then wake up feeling
sick and drowsy and yet they drink because they think it will find them joy....
joy is within.... money is important but it will not keep you satisfied.... The
search for joy doesn't end until you go deep within... I have never thought
about money till today.. In AOL we start off with the projects and then see the
money coming our way... we have never waited first for funds and then the
work... AOL is based in 150 countries today and nowhere have we thought
about money....it has come... more than needed and before time (samay se
pehle aur zaroorat se zyada) everything will be given and taken care
off...where there is "Narayan" - "Lakshmi" has to come there :)
(the whole yagyashala was clapping :D :D) the more you give the more you
get... don’t worry about money....
2) There will never be less when you have faith and walk with wisdom
<story time> Many years ago when I was in London I met a Gujarati family
who had a very big business in Uganda;;;; then he said - you will find
Gujarati's and Punjabi's as businessmen/doing something of their own
anywhere in the world.... If you go on the moon you might hear someone
greet you saying "kemcho" :D this man came to me and said - Guruji, I had 4
huge factories in Uganda on electronics... When Idi Amin took over one day
he just threw all of us out of Uganda... 4 generations of my family had been
there - and we had so much money that our next 10 generations didn’t need
to work... it all changed in just 1 night... that day guruji, I felt god was there...
we left everything behind - we left the place in just 1 suitcase and our clothes
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which we were wearing... I thought money was my savior until that moment...
that night I knew god was there... god is the one who has the power and will
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to change anything and anybody.. he could make rich man poor and poor
man rich...
similarly another man met guruji - he was homeless and wandering around
California.... today he has a shampoo industry he owns.... such is the grace of
god....
where there is faith on god - money is not a problem... be wise - not
cunning... those who cheat and get money - it won’t stay for long and they
will not remain happy. Don’t be foolish - you have a brain - use it wisely...
don’t be cunning....
Day22 QnA
Q) In the AG you said we are pure but it is also said of impressions and karma get
stuck to us... could you explain?
A) If you plant a tree now after a while it will grow isn’t it.... so also actions -
meditation and yoga is the way we can erase those impression.. And with the
impressions the karma goes...
Q) before I met you I had a lot of questions in my mind.. After seeing you all the
questions have dropped... you are Shiva aren’t you??
A) <Smiling> good! Dropping of all questions is a sign of happiness - you have 1
question - that I’ll let you keep it :)
Day 23
1) We've forgotten 1 word - the word is So-Hum

When you think you are weak and alone it is because you have forgotten that
is a greater power that is looking after you and taking care of you...
Remember - So-Hum - I am that.... there is no difference - you're never
alone.... Don’t run around like a beggar for small things.... all these are the
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waves which are part of the ocean... Janak understood this... We've forgotten
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that 1 word -So-Hum... and this is why you feel helpless...
2) The source of action is thought and the source of the thought is mind
there is the Vishwatma (the big mind) which is the culmination of all the small
minds... get to the source... the small mind is part of the big mind and yet it
is complete in itself... You know what "Purush" means?? Purush is not just
man/woman - Purush is one who lives in the city...
You’re body is like a city... 1000's of cells are living and dying... there is so
much work going on inside... at one level you do not know them and they do
not know you... at another level it is all known,,, the DNA is that... that's what
s happening with cloning and stem cells research - with 1 cell they are
making the whole human.. Every cell is complete... when the big mind shines
it shines fully on the small mind... that's why they say - poornamadah
poornamidam.... and the guru reminds you by saying - So-Hum...
When the sun shines and light enters the room - every ray of light is part of
the sun but is complete in itself....
3) Sitting on a treasure you are crying for small things

there are 3 types of "kitanu" bacteria/germs on your forehead... one is just
above your eye brows... the other is a few cm above, somewhere in the
center and the last is just below where the hair starts growing, at the top of
the forehead... they have a boundary, and never interact with each other -
they don’t meet up or even shake hands :D so there is a gap between the 3
of them... perhaps that’s why in the ancient times in India they used to put
"vibhuti" as 3 lines on the forehead with a gap... maybe to keep these
germs/bacteria in place and not go on to others :) similarly in our hands we
have 50 types of germs... don’t be like that... don’t be unhappy.... wake up
and see - this whole universe is made up of you... there's no 2 - it's all one...
wake up and smile :)
4) The way to remove Vikalpa is to be in love and meditate

What you keep in your mind, what sankalpa you take - it will happen... But
you should know how to take them also... a yogi takes 1 sankalpa in 50 days
or more... a foolish man takes 50,000 in one day.... become hollow and
empty... become calm and quiet.. be happy... then the mind becomes
strong.... a noisy and talkative mind has as much power as a small battery...
it will work only on a small torch and for maybe half an hour... but to light a
house you need the supply from the main grid.... a quiet and calm mind has
the power of that grid... meditate and see - it will happen... Vikalp makes your
sankalp weaker... it's like adding an engine to the other end of the train to
pull it in the opposite direction.. like driving a car with the brake on.... be in
love and meditate to remove vikalp.... and after taking a sankalp - surrender
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it... else it's like taking a ticket to watch the movie and then say - no I won’t
give the ticket because I paid for it....
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QnA of Day 23
Q) You spend more time on improving terrorists and trouble causing elements and
not on me... what should I do to catch you attention - become a terrorist??
A) (he puts his hands on his beard, smiles and says) Who says you are lesser than a
terrorist :D they have taken up arms and fighting - you use emotions and sankalpa
and are strong :D :D :D
once I was in Rishikesh and was walking when this woman fainted... I knew it wasn’t
the case but people went running around to her... I continued walking but then
decided to turn back and speak to her... so I went to her and asked - "are you ok?
What happened?" - She immediately opened her eyes and said - nothing guruji! you
don’t look at me only - I had to do something to catch your attention so you see
me... that's why...
now - you people please don’t do that... and how do you know am not looking at
you?? When you are looking here and there I am looking at you... because when you
are looking at me - the purpose is anyway served... the mind is on the right track....
Q) When you come in front of us, why do you tell us to close our eyes???? I can't do
that... you are so beautiful and amazing...... I want to keep looking at you... not
close my eyes...
A) (one big smile on his face and looking all around him and then he says) I should
get a mirror.. go within and see how beautiful you are....
and all course participants - don’t worry - I will meet each one of you....
-- someone wrote a poem -- guruji heard it and said - not bad, people have started
writing poems... new talents they are getting.... now they are becoming poets also...
(kuch log kavi ban rahe hai aur kuch log kapi :D :D -- some people are becoming
poets while the others, monkeys) :D :D
Q) You say I am you and you are I - yet why is there sadness then?
A) It is because you have heard this but not yet understood it....
Q) If there is god everywhere then why is there god and bad??

A) Yes, there is god everywhere.... and in what way the action is carried out, god
comes also in that form... for a thief there is police and both are part of the divine...
how one acts like that the results happen... milk is good but if you drink 20 cups of
milk then you will get a problem and fall ill... the same nectar become a poison....
Q) My wife does kriya but still is on the path of "Adharma". What do I do?
A) Talk to her and make her understand... let her come to the programs and do the
courses again.... here people follow either the ram dharma or the Krishna
dharma..... For the married ones it's best to follow the path of ram :D :D :D
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Q) When children do foolish things parents tell them and make them understand...
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but once parents start growing old and do and say foolish things then what should
the children do?
A) Continue doing seva for and of them but it is not necessary you listen to
everything and do everything they say... there are different perspectives to life.....
Q) You are making every dance around you... everyone is going mad behind you..
Talk about your mischievousness :)
A) hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......... <another smile amidst
enthusiastic claps and whistles> mischievousness is about doing - not about
talking :D everyone has a bit of a child in them... be child-like,, not childish... then
life is simple and natural....
Q) How do we know if our past karma is over?

A) Believe it's over and it'll be over... be like the clean slate and know you are pure
and untouched... like I said in AG the other day...
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Day 24
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1) What you honor, from that the mind is free

The search for beauty and then lust starts from when you're a child... Lust
comes up when you are trying to hide something.... This is not the case with
tribal’s... Lust grows when you as you become a youth which is natural but if
it remains when you are old it is unfortunate.... It’s natural for the young to
feel lust it is not wrong... even in the scriptures every organ is spoken about
and treated and looked with honor,,,, Only in the Indian tradition you will find
this... feet - eyes - nose - the genitals - all of them are spoken about and
honored... it is not looked at in a "dirty" manner or sinful thing.... because it is
only what you honor that the mind will get free from... The mind is stuck to
lust... and when this takes over - nothing else comes to your mind... Day and
night you think of this... And it's true about any organ - if you get stuck to one
body part then all your time and life you are stuck with this... you will never
realize you are free - you are pure and you are non-dual and greater than all
these small pleasures in life...
2) Satyam Shivam Sundaram

Where you see beauty you want to capture hold and possess it.... When you
know you are the most beautiful and you are bliss then lust won’t trouble
you... Find out - when you saw something - what was it that was beautiful??
What did you find beautiful?? The face, some parts of the body??? Lust is just
an illusion which makes you think you will find joy.... like money even this will
not lead you to happiness or make you satisfied... you know what is beauty??
Beauty is that which cannot be renounced....
the soul is what is beautiful... that's why no one loves a dead body..... When
you like someone it starts off by saying - I can’t live without you and then
later this becomes - I can’t live because of you.....
you go to the shop and buy a chandelier and in the shop it looks very good...
then initially you take big care of it and like it and later after a while you don’t
even realize it's there...
3) Brahmacharya is a "happening" (phenomenon)

When you experience that the "chaitanya" is beautiful then Brahmacharya
dawns... most people have only heard all of this - they have not experienced
it - like some new "so called saints"..... but we shouldn’t blame them... they
have not understood it - they have only read or heard it....
if you go deep within then you'll realize you do not need 2 bodies rubbing
against each other to feel happy..... when you meditate deeply you'll see the
number of times you have been through lust and it won’t make you feverish
about it....
look back when you were 16 and 17 what was the lust in you... and now you
are 40-50 and hasn’t it toned down from then... well, it's not so in all cases -
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there are people who are 80 and are still caught in this cycle and
feverishness... so many of them don’t have enough energy in the body but
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the mind is covered with lust...

When you are caught in lust - pray and honor that organ.... that's when you
will be free... you know - outside temples there are all nude sculptures... this
is to let you know that this is only peripheral.. You go around looking at this -
but when you enter the temple you go beyond this - you meditate and go
deep within yourself...
QnA Day24
Q) What's the difference between spirituality and religion?

A) Spirituality brings everyone together... the Vaishnav's, and the shaiv;s, the
Muslims and the Christians and Jains and etc etc
Q) If Suicide is a sin then could you explain "jeev-samadhi" (taking Samadhi despite
being alive)
A) I am not "for" this system but some saints do take this... and Samadhi is not
suicide firstly.... They go into Samadhi for 200 years - so they think anyway the
body can’t last - so I might as well give it up...
Suicide is done by fools who are depressed and in search of joy,,,, after they die
they realize how foolish they have been... they struggle to find a new body//// you
have this birth as a human... this body is precious... honor it - don’t pamper it :) !
Q) This is my 7th adv course.. I am still greedy - sill get angry - still have ego
problems.... Am I making any progress?
A) You say it's there... so imagine if you hadn’t done there 7 adv courses then what
state and condition you would have been??? Maybe anger is there now - but it is not
like before - it doesn’t linger for days and weeks and years together... does it?? If it
does then you haven’t progressed - if it has - then you have changed... maybe in
your 10th advance course it might change!
Don’t label yourself by calling yourself - greedy egoistic etc etc... You WERE all of
that... In the present moment you are innocent and pure.... believe in this and know
this.... then you'll realize - AHO!!! WOW!!! How beautiful I am... I heard it but now I
experienced it....
then someone asked a question and he said -

I am not saying that you should force yourself into Brahmacharya.... but neither
should you flow in lust,,, take the middle path,,,, look at those who are in nightclubs
and all - do they radiate happiness??? You have found a simple and amazing path
for the knowledge... AG is not understood by everyone... you have to go deeper and
then realize... If a room is dark will lighting the room with an agarbatti (incense
stick) be useful?? lust might give you small pleasures in life but bliss is beyond
that....
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made of the whole universe.... you become someone's guru... all you need to do is
to let them know you are with them and for them.... start with one person - just
give... and then see how you can say this to the whole world one day...
Day 25 – No AG
Day 26
1) The Aim of Sadhana (the meditation/practices) is Atmatripti (contentment of

the soul)
There are 2 levels we live life on - Body - Mind and Soul... from the gross to
the subtle... Once you get the flavor of the soul nothing else matters... all else
seem trivial to you... Animals have a relationship at the level of the body -
hence they are not so hooked on to anything - they finish what they have to
at particular times and seasons and are done with it... It's not so with
humans... Humans have the ability to have a relationship at the level of the
mind... That’s why you get angry, feel jealous, there is ego and want to prove
something, and so also there is love... so many crimes happen because the
person intensely loves their partner.... some people are just not satisfied and
this is a surprise....
Find out from where the desire and lust has come - get past it without
suppressing it or flowing with it.. lust will give you joy for a few seconds but
not for long.... we need to have atmatripti and that can be achieved through
sadhana....
2) If there is anything covering Joy/awareness/knowledge - it is your desires

When the limited meets the unlimited then nothing else matters... first you
are a lover and then you become a saint... despite this if you fall into worldly
pleasures there is nothing wrong - but it is a matter of surprise... that's why
you should never blame and condemn someone or criticize them... it's a
wonder that even this can happen... there was a saint in India by the name
gyandev - his father was a great saint himself - and yet he fell in love with
another lady... people scorned him... and yet it was the result of that love
which saint gyandev... nature has its own plans and ways... it's a wonder...
people know this body is nothing and not permanent yet they have so much
want..... There was a retired chief of judiciary who came to me once and said
- guruji, i have lived enough and gained so much... I have everything just
have 1 desire left... there is the international court of justice in NL - I wish I
could head that...<guruji continued> I was surprised - I told him - what more
do you want??? Be happy now!!!!!
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there is no end to your wants I tell you... and there is no bigger surprise than
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a desire coming for someone who is realized... it's not necessary that
everyone who is enlightened and realized will get it - but it doesn’t exclude
even them... it could happen even to them.... Maharshi Durvasa is another
example... he would get angry almost instantly... but he was a maharshi....
3) You will be free only by "Bhakti"

when you are happy you have no desires - it is your desires which keep you
away from the present moment... and what do you desire?? You never desire
anything which you can achieve easily.. you cling on that which seems
impossible or hard to get,,,, surrender... know that god is there.... when you
offer flowers to god - you even offer thorns to Shiva - what is it you are
doing??? You are surrendering... to get rid of desires - bhakti is the way... and
what is bhakti?? it is that with awareness... it is not just an emotional
something... that is emotional imbalance - crying and behaving foolishly...
bhakti has an element of madness but even that has an awareness to it...
bhakti is not just at the level of emotions... and ashtavakra is important for
this... don’t flow with emotions... He increases your awareness.. Bhakti is like
a climber and awareness is the tree/pillar.....
4) Only those who are established in knowledge can be surprised

In those who want liberation - there is a fear of liberation... some want to get
married but are scared of marriage... we are caught in habits and want to
leave them - but w are scared of leaving them....
we have heard knowledge but not experienced it... this is surprising...
there are 5 things - avidya (incomplete knowledge) asmita (I think it's pride -
but I’m not sure) raag (anger) dvesh (jealousy) and abhinivesh (fear) - and
these 5 things will remain... if you keep milk and animal waste in front of you
- you will take milk to drink... if neem leave are given to you - you will feel the
taste and want to spit it out soon... something’s the body will accept and
some it will reject... it is natural... nature has made it like that...but this fear
and other elements should be only as much is required...
now you heard all of this - so your mind asks immediately - how can I be free
from desire and what to do??
Do nothing... simply sit quietly... by doing - it won’t help... just observe all
around you and see - everything is a wonder!!! The meaning of "Bodh" is this
-> just rest... and rest is not sleeping.. so don’t sleep 10 hrs a day or like
kumbakarna sleep for 6 months and think the desires and wants will drop...
no... Rest with awareness... the rest which takes you away from ignorance
and let you know that you are free....
Day26 QnA
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Q) What did Ashtavakra say to Janak that just made him actually realize and say -
AHO!???
A) Rishinam yata chitanam, vacham artanhu dhavate.. A Rishi is one who is
complete.. and what they say - the meaning comes behind those words... these are
not simply words - they have a depth behind them... and when you listen to it from
the guru - it is an experience which comes along with it... more than words it's the
very presence that matters... it is from the presence we communicate... when we
say love is not just an emotion it is your very nature - you can give a lecture for 2
hrs on it and yet not get to the point and you can simply stand there and people can
experience it... our presence speaks.... truth is not something from the mind... it
speaks of the very existence... when we become a yogi - the existence is enough
not so much the words....
Q) You said money doesn’t give you joy... when do we realize this - before or after
we get a lot of money?? :D :D :D :D :D
A) If you are smart you will understand it before :D :D :D :D :D :D it's up to you...
and this will be an authentic understanding if you are intelligent and can see people
who have earned so much and still have no smile on their face... some people after
earning so money money understand it's not everything - others after having so
much still haven’t understood... it doesn’t mean you don’t earn - but certainly
money is not joy....
Q) Can I ask you a question?

A) <Guruji> you just did - ask another :D :D
Q) I have almost everything - yet I have some desires.. I want to spend time with
you... want to hold your hand and walk with you.. I want to sit in the car and go with
you.. I want to be a teacher and do more seva..... What do I do?
A) some is in your hands and you can do - the others you surrender.... something’s
can happen even before you ask or desire for.... let desires come - don’t fight or
suppress them and neither should you drown and flow with them... when awareness
dawns.. Calmness comes and all is taken care of and you will understand that...
Q) If someone tells you all what you believe in is false... everything you are doing
and have believed in is false.. Then what do we do??
A) faith is that which doesn’t falter despite doubt... there could be a 100 tests you
are put under... somewhere in your mind the truth will be there... the whole world
could stand on 1 side and argue - and your mind won’t agree because if it's the
truth - you will know it... that's what the gayatri mantra says - let the divine light
shine in me... your mind is the barrier... become yogi - a yogi is one who is a child -
who is natural... if you fill an unbaked pot with water neither the pot remains nor
the water....
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Q) Difference between sankalpa (he meant ambition in this question) and

kamana(desire)?
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A) Sankalpa is that which you can chose to act upon.. Nothing in this world moves
without action... if this sankalpa becomes feverishness then it is desire... take
sankalapa for big things and then take time to become hollow and empty....
Q) The body is not everything - yet when we meet someone we still are stuck to
that... we know and have read so much on impermanence and yet we are stuck to
it... why??
A) This is a surprise isn’t it - it's a wonder!
Day 27
1) The wise is neither too happy, nor too angry

When a director see's a villain doing his role well he is happy... Just as happy as he
is when seeing his hero do a good job... If the villain is not doing a good job - how
will the movie be??? The director sees all of them as just characters.... similarly the
wise sees everything as a wave... sadness to him is an intense emotion... When a
child is in the lap of his mother - he plays and kicks her - but the mother enjoys and
smiles at both the reactions....she is happy... to the wise too - this is all just a
scene...
(he repeated about the shooting incident and said - yogi ki duniya bhogi kya jaane -
one who is immersed in the material world cannot understand the world of a yogi)
there is a different type of terrorism- "terrorism of the pen" - we are
seeing....newspapers and media are so wrongly using this... they write and say what
comes to their mind... I do not say that if someone slaps you on your cheek then
show the other cheek and simply sit quite... but I also do not say you should start
with agitated protests... we need to speak the language of Punjab... we need to be
happy - stay calm - save our mind - and yet - not run away from our responsibility....
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2) A wise one see's this whole world as his

Only he is said to be calm - who can maintain equilibrium and balance in a
situation... you cannot be restless a coward and call yourself a saint... this is
impossible... but also do not mistake calmness for cowardice.... today it is seen as a
crime to smile and be happy... because usually people smiling have a lot to hide
and there's a lot of anger and jealously etc hidden behind that smile.... but a smile
from a saint comes straight from the heart.. a smile from the devotee comes
straight from the heart... a baby and a yogi smile from deep within... become a
yogi... don’t act in anger or in haste... those who do - have not yet reached the level
of calmness....
how many of you have felt the pain of someone when you saw them fall or you felt
like crying when your close one were crying? (and almost all of us raised our hands -
if you felt the same - please raise your hand :D) where there is a relationship - this
happens... you can be 1000's of miles away and still that connection... it is specially
strong between husband and wife - mother and child - the closest friends - between
siblings..... this is because you believe they are yours... the enlightened see's this
whole world as his... this is true love... there is connectivity with the body - mind -
soul... this diverse world is actually one and is part of you... from 1 cell we see the
whole human body developed... from that 1 cell we can see the hair - eyes - nails -
nose etc etc all organs develop... every organ in the body is different from the other
and is complete in itself... 1 drop of water from the ocean is enough to let you know
of the composition of everything in the ocean... what happens in this universe
happens in you...
3) Listening to AG - every cell in your body is being transformed

When you meditate it is not just helping you... it is helping the whole world... when
we are listening to AG here - every cell in your body is being transformed and
everywhere else people are also feeling this and this is happening elsewhere too...
That’s what they say is "Phalashruti" in the puja's - by listening to this - this is
happening and making a difference to you... when you listen to something good - it
helps... something happens from within and it is not limited just to us...
That’s why the masters want more people to come together.. It is not for publicity..
their aim is to get as many people rid of sorrow and be at peace... they want you to
experience and ask "who am I".. That’s what the master wants.. "sarve bhavantu
sukhinah, sarve santu niramayah..."
4) Do everything 100%
there is no difference in the make of the body of one who is wise and a fool.... the
wise also sleeps, he also feels thirsty, he see’s from his eyes and hears from his
ears... there is no difference at the level of the body....
so what is different???? He does everything 100%... he is in the present moment...
while reading - he is reading... while talking he is talking... become a yogi... be in
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the present moment... if you cry - cry fully.. like a baby... 100%.. Cry and be done
with it... we are crying for what we don’t have... but we are crying for even what we
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have... this is so sad isn’t it???
5) An enlightened one rises over all

why is there so much interest in gossip and scandals??? Some people cannot go to
sleep or digest their food without this kind of information... what happened on the
road?? Why is there a fight between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law??? And
newspapers are filled with this kind of material... Ashtavakra says - get rid of this....
this is not a habit in babies - but it becomes a habit for adolescents... after the age
of 12 or 13 you have this want to find out all this kind of information - sadly you
never grow out of this...
there is a difference between "Jigyasa" and "kutuhalta"... the former is the thirst for
knowledge while the other is a sign of childishness... one who is realized - rises over
all of this... they know this is maya... a producer and director of a film are not
interested in this - they know this is only a set of character doing a job.. It’s the
audience who is caught up...
Day27 QnA
one guy stood up and said he is leaving tonight - so wanted to ask something...
guruji said ok...
he said - "Sri Sri, I was sitting in the ashram today at about 4pm when I got a call
from home saying someone was very unwell - the person was detected with a new
virus and was serious.... I didn’t know what to do - so I prayed to you saying - you
are above all the doctors... you do something please... and at 4:30 I got a call again
saying - everything is normal -- that person is fine.... first - thank you... my question
to you is - how did you do this??? I am sitting somewhere - you are somewhere
else.. I pray for someone at another location - and you cure them.. How?"
<after all the clapping got over guruji still smiling said> I cannot revel to you these
trade secrets :D :D you will have to become a guru to know this and it's not easy to
be one... you have celebrities who have popularity... but as a guru not just is there
popularity - with it comes responsibility...
Day 28
1) Now is the time to wake up and spread spirituality again

When Alexander wanted to come to India his advisers told him - you can get
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all jewels and worldly materials anywhere in this world - but it's in India will
you get wisdom... when you come back get a enlightened master with you....
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and when he came he went in search, not for the one who is knowledgeable -
but for the one who is wise... and when he found him - he chained him and
took him... it is said when the saint was chained and walking... it looked like
everyone who was escorting him was a prisoner and he was a leader.... no
fear - only a smile - confident .... That was his walk and body language...
today we are moving away from spirituality... we live in a land and world
where there is justice even to animals... somewhere in time we have lost this
flow... now we need to ignite this flame again... and after getting such
knowledge you are not shaken....
A politician told the journalist - I don’t care what you write about me - but
whatever you do spell my name correctly... any publicity is good publicity...
it sounds like the words of a wise man to say write anything you want about
me I am not concerned... but the end result is publicity... this is not a sign of
someone in knowledge... being indifferent to everything and living with that
inertia and taking things in your stride is not a big deal.. It’s like being a
stone... it's about being awake.. That’s why you sing "suprabhatam" to god
(to wake god up in the morning) first you need to wake up - then need to
wake god up...
some people make fun - they say: Oh! Your good is sleeping.... you need to
wake him up... they don’t realize the deeper significance to it.. only after you
are awake can you wake god to know there is no 2 - there is no duality... and
only then will you know the game/play is over... god is in every atom of this
universe... he is asleep for you to wake him up and realize the truth...
2) You are the source

the human life is between inaction/ignorance to awareness/realization of
god.... once you attain the highest and blossom fully you will never get back
into inertia and ignorance... you cannot compare such people to anything...
poems/songs/essays have been written and in the end they all say yet this is
not complete cause this cannot be defined... when you understand you are
the source the skill/peace/joy which comes up cannot be described....
3) You are contentment

we are stuck to the object... we think if a person insults us he made us feel
bad... why do you think like that??? People have a tongue and they can say
what they want... you get swayed by words?????????????? Or you feel happy
with words?????????? If your basis is on words then you are stuck to the
object - to the scene.. You are not a yogi...
let anything happen on the outside - you be unshaken... what from outside
can you contentment, when you yourself are contentment personified.... what
can fill that which is full???
there is one rule in the ashram - you come however you wan - when you
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leave you keep your worries here and go away... so a lady asked me - guruji
you said leave your troubles here.. My mother-in-law is my trouble - can I
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leave her here?? :D :D :D :D

<if we are smart the divine is smarter> guruji said - wait one minute let me
ask your mother in law what are her troubles - maybe it’s you! :D :D :D :D :D
see you have fought with your mother haven’t you?? Then why can’t you take
the fights with mother-in-law in the same fashion??? You fought with mom
and forgot about it.. Do the same here.. Pick up new fights.. don’t stay with
the old fights.... otherwise you are spoiling your life - the family life - and
society too.... you get angry and remove the anger on someone else.... so
much stress - in you and around you... come on!!!!!!!!!!! Just wait.. Relax..
Don’t get stuck... come back to the source.. You will handle any situation that
comes your way.. you'll get the strength... here and "there" <afterlife> this is
the knowledge which will help you...
4) I cannot live without this

This is the cause of your unhappiness... you think without this or that object
you cannot live... wake up... you are spending your whole life wanting
something... no wonder you are unhappy... you are full and content.... know
this....
QnA on Day28
Q) Guru govind singh raised an army to fight the oppression - what about the army
your are raising?
A) To fight against ignorance - to fight against the problems in the society - to fight
against the ones trying to suppress and stop spirituality....
Q) I have a bad habit.. Can I take a promise and use your name in the promise?
A) Yea no problem... there are 2 ways to get rid of habit.. One is by love... second is
by greed and lastly by fear...
Q) Is there anything beyond "gagan tatva" (the sky/space element)?

A) Yes. Me.
Q) I was a staunch follower of the guru granth sahib but after meeting you i believe
in you.. i am confused.. Please help...
A) What's the confusion???guru is a "tatva"... you are believing the same
knowledge... one is from the book and other it is from the person... don’t confuse
yourself with such thoughts and doubts... honor all... mother is the first guru,,
teachers at school are the second... the satguru is one who gives you the
knowledge of the truth... live naturally and live with joy...
Q) I am in a lot of confusion... will I get past this stage?? Will I get more peace after
this??
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A) it's this "more" that has got us in trouble... don’t think of what I’ll get... that's the
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mentality of a beggar... think of what I can give... that's the sign of one who is
"rich"... just rest... he who wants to give - get's more............
Day 29
1) Prana level 8 to prana 16 is the journey from man to god

When you see an object at the gross level it is different... subtle it is a
molecule.. Still subtler it is an atom... and more deeper you go it is a wave....
the level/type of prana tells you about the object..... Like stone it is 1... Water
is 2 units... fire is 3... Air is 4... Sky is 5.. Trees are 6... Animals are 7...
Humans are 8... Those who are genius or posses qualities which are not so
human are 9 and 10... Sri Ram was 12... Hanuman was 14... and finally - the
most complete form was Sri Krishna... this journey from 8 to 16 is the journey
from man to god...
"Pitra" is that which has no limitation of the body... higher than the level of
man is "pitra" (sorry I dunno how to translate that in English right now - Pitra
is that without the body.. generally referred to the departed souls...) they say
what you give to them you also get back.... in Singapore for example, they
usually make paper cut outs of what they want and burn them to please them
and ask them for the blessings...
It's not trying to make the happy that you do this.. it's your intention and
emotion which makes the difference... above pitra is kinnar above kinnar is
gandharv - above gandharv is devta - and above devta is satguru....
the one who is free/liberated is higher than even the gods... you see - even in
the subtle there is so much diversity.... and yet all this is one... and a wise
one knows this... and that's why even after he lives in this world he is calm
and happy and remains untouched or unfazed....
there is depth in his walk also - he is doing that 100% and is in the present
moment totally... and even his walk is incomparable and cannot be
described...
2) The outcome of the doubts you are made to burn in results in faith
there is a saying in English which goes - Before enlightenment he cut wood..
After enlightenment he continues to cut wood...
A prince went to a master to learn something from him and see what in his
life made him enlightened... what were the "special" things he was doing
etc.... but when he went he saw the yogi's life was normal... it was just like
any other mans... there was no magic he was doing... he ate food.. he slept...
he searched for vessels in the kitchen like any other man... the prince found
it strange... why would he need to search for anything? He should know it
all??? He had so many concepts in the mind... and hence his mind and heart
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was in a conflict! The mind said no - but the heart said - yes! Something is
there which I cannot see,,, doubt is the state when you are neither here nor
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there.. The work of the master is to make sure you have more doubts... once
you get cooked in this fire of doubts the outcome is faith! Where there is
truth - there even a 1000's doubts cannot stand in the way.. And more the
doubt - the more the truth shines!
The yogi told the prince to sit down.. relax... quite the mind... because only
the heart can understand the heart and truth will dawn only when you’re
quiet....
3) listen to the call from within

(he narrated the story of the journalist from Sweden who asked him if he was
enlightened and guruji said no.. and then how the journo went on arguing
that guruji wasn’t telling him the truth)
we have some concepts in our head on hoe enlightened ones should be... a
saint has to suffer every minute... one who is liberated shouldn’t look at
women... what is the need of wearing clothes... a wise man doesn’t need to
eat more than 1 meal... if you travel by car or by plane then you are for sure
a mere mortal... get out of all this... your hearts knows the truth... you just
need to listen to it... and sadly today everyone is simply running we don’t
even have time for this.... when in silence you will realize the truth... if you
have a head ache - and he whole world stands against you and say no you
don’t have one - will it matter?? you know it then....
4) Take the good and leave the bad

for a man who is realized - nothing touches him... neither sin nor good deeds
nor karma... when you are in love with someone you go crazy behind them
and when you hate someone there is so much anger... a wise one doesn’t do
this... he takes everything in his stride... like vegetables or fruits... you buy
oranges and peel this skin off and eat the fruit right???
Good and bad both will be given to you - accept them.. Take the good and
leave the bad behind... come in this state where you can do this...
the change is not an external something.. it happens from within...
5) You are mine - You're in me - I am

my soul is god... he who knows his will never feel fear... and to get to this
stage there are stairs you have to climb... 1st is to feel the presence... next is
to know that is in you... and finally you are that...
it's not easy to say the 3rd... In fact you cannot... when you come to that
state - you are silent...
QnA on Day29
Q) What is the difference between AG and Bhagwad Gita?

A) One was sung in the palace and the other was sung in the battlefield... So there
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When there is difficulty and struggle it is time to get the knowledge of the Bhagwad
gita... from milk only after churning you get butter... the churning is the BG and the
butter is AG... 1st you must read BG and then only you will get to understand AG...
Q) How can I keep the world and god together?

A) What are you trying?? They are already together... the form is the world and the
formless is god... they're already together.. You don’t do anything... just relax...
Q) I want to be a selfless devotee... right now I am still doing business with you...
A) this thought itself is a start.... it has begun... and don’t worry about the business
part of it :) you can do that also... in this case you are always in profit... you give 1
and you'll get 10 in return.... just stay happy!
Day 30
1) Leave everything and just move on

Ashtavakra said - be an observer... events have come and gone but you have
still remained... don’t hold on to any event or memory... you are a mirror and
there is just a reflection... don’t let any event get stuck onto you... If it does then
it no more remains a mirror... it becomes a picture and a picture is limited... it's
like a car - it has mirrors - things happen in front and behind it and you see it... if
anything is on the mirror how will you see??
You have been stuck with events for long... not just now - but for lifetimes....
clear it off and move ahead... how to leave it?? Just relax... how to relax??? With
the knowledge that everything that is happening in the self... live with freshness
and that is only in the present moment... Don’t be only at the level of the mind
and nor live only with emotions and the heart... take both and move on...
2) He who can relax is the one who gets liberated

Being 1 sided is very simple... you can stay unhappy all your life.... or can get
lost in the worldly pleasures also... but even this is hard... it is because of your
want for happiness.. that makes you sad... and you’re running away from
sadness makes you feel worse... don't be in any extreme... don’t be so happy or
thrilled that you don’t know what is happening around you and neither sad and
sit with a long face... stay grounded... wake up and you'll see you are pure... you
are and have remained untouched by events or karma...observe everything
happening.... you have to transcend from the head to the heart and then rest...
This is very deep and beautiful knowledge... to be an observer it takes effort
because there are 2 here... one doing the action and one observing... so being
the observer is effort - but rest is effortless... to be aware and rest is a skill... this
rest is different from sleep... rest with awareness,,, in satsang you have
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forgotten your body and mind.. this is "lai yog"....

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3) Matter does not really exist - it is all a wave

It's hard to believe that what you can touch and see etc etc is not real and
doesn’t exist... that which you think is solid and there is not really there... matter
does not exist it is all a wave... every atom has so much space in it - space is
empty... space that can fit in the whole universe in it... what about you??? 98%
of you is only space.... and of the 2% - more than 60% of it is composition of
water... there is a link between the 5 elements... modern physics is today seeing
this truth after 1000's of years.... we have to keep moving ahead... that’s all...
on 1 side you are being asked to move ahead... and on the other side you are
asked to stay and rest and "don’t move an inch"..... both are true... truth is that
which is spherical... and every aspect of that is correct and true... be an
observer and also rest... this is very important... you are beyond all the roles you
play in life... realize this and you will be unshaken!!! And a satguru is one who
makes you aware and brings completeness in you....
Day30 QnA
Q) You talked about souls never dying but then when a person dies the soul waits
again for a while before coming back.... but population is increasing! More births
than deaths! How come?
A) See, have you seen billboards in the city? They have different AD's that keep
coming isn’t it?? So first maybe comes - SURF.. then comes maybe - COLGATE
TOOTHPASTE - then after that AIRTEL (he was slowly telling the brand names like a
small boy trying to remember very complicated names :)) all the while the bulbs
were there - but at different times they glow showing more sometimes - showing
less sometimes... before there were a lot of snakes and scorpions... now there are
fewer in their numbers... where is that going? :p :p
Q) yesterday you said about the different levels 8 to 16 units - man is 8 , parshuram
was 9... Ram was 13.. Hanuman was 14 and Krishna was 16... What about you - how
many in you?
A) You do the calculations and see! I leave that to you... I won’t tell you :)
Q) Who said the ashtavakra gita to who and what is the summary of it?
<the whole yagyashala went into splits of laughter! I was too stunned to even
react!! I thought this guy must be pulling a prank to make guruji stay for another 30
days :D :D>
A) <amidst all the laughter> it's like listening to Ramayana the whole night and
then after it ends you ask for the relationship between ram and sita... look - there
are many people who have come here only today and they dunno what has been
going on before... so, AG was said by a saint called ashtavakra to a king named
Janak... we are making a cd of this and you will get it soon in the shop...
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Q) Despite having done the course almost 9 yrs ago and doing seva etc why am I ill
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all the time?

A) How are you now??? <I am just discharged from the hospital so I am fine> guruji
again sad - see, firstly you are not ill all the time... don’t say I am always ill... now
know what you keep in mind will happen... intention - attention and manifestation
are the 3 steps... we have the habit to generalize and use the word "always" and
"everybody"... no - don't do that...
Q) Everyone sitting in this hall here has a guru story to tell... I have done the course
and doing my seva and sadhana etc - but I still don’t have any guru story to tell..
When will I be able to tell others my guru story??
---- Guruji just laughed and nodded his head ---------
Q) Do we force people to do the course?

A) We have the tendency to postpone the good things... if you want to yell at
someone you immediately run to the phone and blast the person... but with good
things it's not so... you spread joy and happiness and smiles around you... go with
that intention of doing good... use yukti and explain.... when you want to make a
horse run you can’t hold the reins too tight nor can you leave it lose... somewhere in
between.. Sometimes tight - sometimes you have to leave it a little lose... use the
middle path and yukti....
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The Ashtavakra Gita

The Ashtavakra Series

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar

From time immemorial HE is that conciousness which is pure and is bliss.

I asked for light in the darkness of the night

You've given me more, there cannot be complaints

It's long you've gone

Jai Guru Dev!

Knowledge & QnA

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1) We must really know how to ask and who to ask what.

2) The Guru is not a body...

Q) What is Nasseb (Destiny)?

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Finally a really really funny one!

Q) Guruji is Vairagya only the source of joy?

Q) Guruji what happens exactly after death?

Q) If everything is decided why is there any need of effort?

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1) We need to greatly increase our "sahansheelta" (ability to be calm) : "Sahajta" (naturalness) :

2) One must be very careful with the words they use!

3) You are not the 5 elements.

Q) Guruji, what is your definition of happiness?

Q) What's your best memory of happiness?

Q) What is paap(sin) and punya(good deeds)?

takes care of them.

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1) You are just an observer.

3) Don’t try cheating/fooling yourself

So now - homework for you all -

Q) How to overcome self pity?

Q) What is the difference between the mind and the self?

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1) Don’t get stuck to your identity - to what you are...

2) You are not the "do'er"...

for the sins - how do I do this?

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1) Wake up and see, nothing is true!

2) Surrendering means you are pure!

4) Something in you doesn’t do anything

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2) Listen to knowledge and then become empty..

Get out of those concepts we have built around us -

4) He who realizes his self - is free!

5) Asangoham Asangoham Asangoham Punah Punah.....

Then, he took a short meditation on this :)

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2) Don’t get attached to Samadhi

3) You are nirakar(formless)

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1) Our own mind cheats us and we don’t even know that

2) I am that which never changes

3) In the clear and still mind - god is the reflection

4) There is nothing outside god

Q) Guruji, who are you?

Q) How can I increase faith?

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