Hari Om.
This human life is actually a very
beautiful life but only if you live it the way it is supposed to be lived. We
should live our life to the fullest and die empty. Think about it. The reason
we can’t die empty is because we’re thinking about death daily. And, as Jaggiswami
said, ‘He who thinks of death continuously, dies many times. He who never
thinks of death, dies only once’. We’re continuously thinking of death and our
accumulation. We want to live this life to the fullest and die this life in the fullest. And if you travel to places like Sri Lanka, some parts of India,
and especially Nepal, you’ll find that the people live their life to the fullest
but they die very empty. No worry, no sorry, nothing. It is unbelievable how
they can sustain a family with just R400 a month, or less. But they live such a
peaceful beautiful life. You go to their homes and there’s absolutely nothing
in their homes. They cook on the floor, they have no furniture, you sit on the
floor. They sleep on the floor but when they wake up in the morning they are so
happy because they live life to the fullest. We don’t do that.
We want to live this life and we don’t want
to die. As soon as we get sick we pray, ‘Please extend this life’. Many of us
think this life on earth is like a contract. When the lease expires you can
renew it. When I say 'enjoy this life' I mean enjoy it on the spiritual journey,
not the material journey. Enjoyment on the material plane ends in pain. On the
spiritual journey, enjoyment ends in permanent bliss. We need to live that kind
of life where we have permanent joy. And the only way we can have permanent joy
is by the grace of the guru and God. Nobody else can give you permanent joy.
Your children can’t, your spouse can’t. The joy they give you is temporary. It
ends after some time. Your daughter might be giving you joy all your life and then she
marries and leaves – and your joy ends. That’s on the material plane.
Anything on this material plane ends in
pain, no matter what. You buy a new car, you drive it, you park it at Pick ‘n
Pay, and somebody pushes a trolley into it and you get upset because your joy
has been tampered with. That car has to get a dent sometime. Yet eternal bliss
has no dent. In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras,
he talks about it very nicely in the last chapter. To attain the highest state
of bliss, you have to practice samyama.
To those who don’t come to yoga or do yoga or read Patanjali, you might not
know what samyama is. It is a very high state of this mind. But we are locked
in the material state with this mind. When the blind king asks Sanjaya in the Bhagavad Gita to tell him what the 100
sons of the Kuruvas and the 5 sons of the Pandavas were doing in battle. He
said that introspection is called sanjaya,
and started to give a narration of a complete battle that takes place in our
body daily. The 100 sons of the blind king are the 100 faculties attached to
the mind: brutality, violence, greed, lust. The 5 sons of the Pandavas are the
five senses. There is always a battle between the two. Although that battle is
taking place in this body of yours, Kurushaktra, Dharmashaktra, we shouldn’t be
having that situation, that battle, continuously. You go to bed, there’s a
battle, you’re thinking about something that happened. In the morning there is
a battle so you shouldn’t go to the office because your boss is miserable. It
carries on and on, the battle with your self.
In samyama
you can be out of that state completely, in the height of happiness, of joy,
the perfect state of no misery. And we need to find and enjoy that state. For
this life, this soul, has taken this body just to fulfill the karmic consequences
of this life. And your karmic consequences of this life are what you experience
in this life every day. You experience lots of things and the karmic consequences
work their way somehow and reduce your karma. And we have many, many karmas.
Some of us have up to 33 million lifetimes of karma and we need to work out
this karma very closely with the soul. It is very important to understand that
as we sit here none of us consult with the soul for anything we do in this life.
And in the process of our temporary happiness and joy we walk over everyone in
this life including those who are close and dear to us. Why do we do that? It’s
because we have a thing called mind. And it only seeks one kind of joy – not
the joy that will give you total bliss.
This year in the Gayathri Peedam we have
many weddings. Arisha is getting married, and a devotee from Jo’burg, all in
this year. And they are looking at this joy that they are going to go into, little
realizing that if you forget God and all that comes with God the joy will not
last. It can be painless or painful. It is you who can make it happy, you who
can think about how you are going to go about it. Let there be the grace of God
every day in your life. You should not be a moment with your mid absent of guru
and god, then you’ll see what kind of bliss I’m talking about.
We went to Sri Lanka. This time I went with
7 devotees, including Brian and Janice, and Krishnee – she went especially to
fall down in a restaurant. They’ll tell you that when they go to Sri Lanka,
there’s a different category of human beings there. You must watch them. They
can sit for hours and just look at the guru, or crush his leg continuously and
don’t even realize what they are doing, they’re so entranced in the grace of Guru and God. They are not short of anything. They don’t go to work for 10 days
while I am there. A schoolteacher came for 10 days and didn’t go to school.
They know that whatever is outside is material and that it is going to bring
pain sometime. The state of bliss from Guru and God is there permanently, even
after the time has gone that energy still remains.
So, as I said to you all earlier this year,
in April, May and June we’re going to have major problems starting. They have
started already, and will last right up to the 15 of March 2015 – the most
difficult times in our life. In this time we should be seeking Guru and God. As
Jaggiswami says, “Do not say you’re searching for God. God has never been lost”.
You’re seeking God but you are supposed to be searching because you are lost.
Every time you speak to people they say they’re searching. Don’t search for God,
seek God and enjoy the bliss.
We were at the Kriya Babaji shrine in Katrigama.
Those who were with me had the experience of Babaji and they enjoyed that
moment. And when we went to Babaji’s birthplace, Parangapatti, the rocks moved.
Everyone had such beautiful experiences they are still laughing. Let us continue
this journey on this day. Enjoy the material plane. I’m not saying you must give
up your material plane. Enjoy it but don’t forget that there is an existence
greater than that. And that existence is what sustains you in your daily life.
The fact that you can go home and have food on the table is not your doing at
all, it’s God’s doing. Therefore you should not for a moment forget God’s
existence. And that is an existence that will sustain you through all the difficult
times you’ll experience until March 2015.
Hari om and God bless you.
