Hari Om.So this is a castle. It is old and has many stories attached: some good, some bad. Like each of you have many stories, some good and some bad. We are here to energise this castle. And while you are here you must energise your castle within. We are here to get rid of the negative energies of any demons and so must you remove your inner demons while we are chanting the mantras - your anger, jealousy and fears. All the healing energy will come from you and you alone. You have the power and the power you have has all the potency for you to heal anything you may be suffering. Some of you have exam fears, some relationship fears, marriage fears, past fears. And all of us seated here have one fear: death. We're all afraid of it. So here we are to try and heal you from those thoughts. Whether you like it or not, death will happen, if not now then tomorrow. But it will happen. We shouldn't have that fear because we don't know what it is to die, and as long as we don't know how it feels to die why should we fear it?
So here we will start to heal all those fears that you have within yourself. Even great personalities die sometimes. In recent times we've had some great personalities - in the last five years - who left their mortal bodies: Swami Murugesu, my spiritual master; Yogiar Ramaiah, my kriya master, Haridas Acharya, my guru and, in more recent times Satya Sai Baba. All have left their mortal bodies and they left their mortal bodies in a very pleasant way. What we saw was only for our karmic experience. They experienced nothing like that so we shouldn't have this fear.
You fear being born because when you were born they slapped you and you encountered your first pain and it stays with you forever. You know what it is when your mother or father raise their hand from the time you were born. Why I'm talking about fear is because some of you seated here want to go home without bad dreams. Because this is a castle and nothing must follow you home. That is a discussion that Warren and Sundrie were having - that nothing should follow them home from the castle. But Warren says, 'nothing can follow me because I'm with you'. So let us now start with chanting the mantras and we'll chant mantras to echo any evil energy around you, in you and in this castle.
The greatest healing for this body is meditation. What is meditation? No mind. So if you develop a habit of having no mind for as little as five minutes a day, you'll have a healthier life than what you have now. Imagine if you extend that to one hour a day how much more beatitude you'll enjoy in this life. Lock yourself in a room and contemplate. Make an affirmation in that room and, in that affirmation, enjoy. Enjoy whatever comes in that affirmation. All of us have desires in life - each of you seated here. Take that desire and give it total intensity and it will be fulfilled.
As I said to you yesterday and again today: what you want, wants you. Remember that. What you want, wants you. 'I want God'. Automatically God wants you. 'I want love', and automatically love wants you. 'I want brutality', and automatically brutality wants you too. He who lives by roses dies with roses. He who lives by guns dies with guns. What you want, wants you. So if I want to have a perfect meditation, that perfect meditation will want me. This 'want' and 'wants' is a boomerang effect. How you throw it is how it will come back to you. That's how a boomerang works. If you don't throw it properly, it's not going to come back. If you throw positive thoughts and wants then you'll get them back. 'I want to get married.' It will happen. It will come. But we need to set this mind in meditation and in breathing.
Sri Gurubhyo Namaha.
[Excerpt from a talk during sacred mantra healing on 2 May 2011 at The Castle in Hillcrest, KZN, South Africa]
