You are required to believe that you
are being protected. Every day it must be so strong that it must have
solidified into a rock within you so that nothing, no dynamite, no bomb, no
weakness or doubt of mind can destroy this belief. Remember, if you have this
strong belief together with devotion dedication and strict discipline, you will
get whatever you want in both the material and spiritual planes. All of you
need to practice yoga. By practicing yoga you can perform all the material and
spiritual requirements. Yoga will be able to set your mind where you know
good from bad, happy from sad, and understand what to do using the equilibrium
of the mind. In that evenness of the mind you can enjoy the world of yoga and
the material plane and also stand out in the material plane as a giant with all
the success, where you will continuously ride the horse of success. Similarly,
while that is happening, you can become a giant in the spiritual field as well
and you can ride the horse of enlightenment. And both those horses will take
you where you to where you want to go in your life.
This journey of yours is very important. This journey of yours is required. This journey of yours must be completed in this lifetime. If you get caught in the cycle of birth and come back in the next lifetime, earth will be hell for all who come back. Earth will be the most treacherous place to be in the next lifetime. Therefore, in this lifetime you should make all the adjustments and progress on both the horse of success and the horse of enlightenment. In both these you’ll get up on a pedestal. The pedestal on the material plane is called prosperity. On the horse of enlightenment there’s also a pedestal, and when you get on that pedestal it’s called realisation. With prosperity on the material plane and realisation on the spiritual plane, you can become a giant and have the power to receive whatever you want.
Each one of you is only unique by the way you look and your features, but you are not different or unique in intelligence. You are all the same in your understanding, your knowledge. There’s no difference between a teacher, a principle, a professor, and a cleaner. Each one has just developed their material intelligence and attained different states of success. Even a cleaner is riding the horse of success.
On the spiritual plain every one of you
has within you enlightenment, which means 2 things. The first meaning of
enlightenment is to remove all the obstacles from the mind and you become
lighter and can transcend. The second meaning of enlightenment is Arul Perum Jyothi, Arul Perum Jyothi, Thani
Perum Karunai, Arul Perum Jyothi. When you, the atma, and Param Shivam
unite in realization, you will become like jyothi, light, in the eyes of
everybody is in your company. You will continuously carry the fragrance of the
jasmine on the spiritual journey and that fragrance of jasmine will take you to
God realisation and eventually into the deepest state of samadhi in its
different variations. At the same time, if you are practicing yoga (which is
not just asana), the different steps of yoga, you will attain the state where
you will have any kind of siddhi that you want, and that is called samyama. When dharana, dhyam, and
samadhi are practiced together in the deepest sense of meditation, then samyama
is attained. if you practice samyana you will be able to stop the rain, pull a
train, to pick up the biggest lorry. Through samyama the strength that you
believe in your mind becomes the strength that is actioned through your arms.
So yoga is very important and it is
saddening to know that so few of you take the opportunity of practicing yoga at
this institute. The knowledge that the students of yoga in this institute have
about the spiritual life in general is not comparable to any other
organisation. This institute is person-orientated. I urge all of you to find
the time at least once in a week to come and join the Bhagavad Gita class, join
the Patanjali Yoga Sutra class, and know what the answers are to questions that
are normally posed to you by other religious organisations and people, that you
do not know the answers for. Every answer on the spirit or material journey
lies in the hands of the guru. Therefore you need to take this opportunity to
join in and enjoy this yoga. Whatever condition you have, through yoga and
meditation, you will be able to lessen or totally cure the condition and enjoy
a healthy life.
Yoga means ‘to unite your atma with
paramatma’, prior to which you, your physical body, is united to the atma, and
that is all self-realisation. And in self-realisation, you understand the self
that is situated in the highest plane of your body. And from understanding the
self, and the purity of the self, you’ll transcend, you’ll elevate to the
highest plane called God-realisation. And once you have realised God, you have
nothing else to realise in this world. That should be the aim of each one of
you. You coming here for service is also a form of yoga. It is called bhakti
nada yoga, bhakti bhajana yoga, bakti satsanga yoga, which is also good. The
only difference is the absence of the mind is only temporary. You have to do
this daily, continuously, in a disciplined way at a specific time – only then
you can attain God. The other way of yoga is also karma yoga. Karma yoga is
physical working in a spiritual environment doing seva, and it can take you a
whole lifetime to even realise the self. And then you have jynana yoga, the
yoga of wisdom, the yoga of mind. It is a very difficult discipline as your
guru would never be able to correct you because the book becomes your guru. In
jynana yoga you use scriptures to attain God. And the 4th yoga is
what we call raja or kriya yoga. This is the most powerful of all yogas. This
is a healing yoga. In this yoga form are different headings or divisions: kriya
mantra yoga (Om Kriya Babaji Namaha Aum), kriya kundalini yoga, kriya dhyana
yoga, kriya asana yoga in which there are only 18 postures which you have to
master in your own flexibility and ability. And once you do that you will find
that all conditions that you were having will lessen or diminish.
Shanti Om Shanti.
