Prabhaker

Enlightenment is so ecstatic, that it is incomprehensible even to think, to imagine that there can be more. But this is the mystery of live. There is always more. Enlightenment is only a beginning, not the end.Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. Beginning of a journey of light which goes on expanding, goes on becoming more and more juicy. Existence has no limits. There is no point which is the full point. Wherever you are, there is still much more to happen to you. The way is endless. Live is an ongoing affair. It goes on flowering from eternity to eternity. Enlightenment is only a door, and then there is an unending existence, an unending evolution, expansion. Once you have reached it, then a new kind of pilgrimage starts. Up to this door you were an entity; beyond this door you will not be an entity, you will be just pure consciousness without a body, without a mind. You will be just a fragrance which will go on spreading all over existence. And the fragrance is luminous. It is full of awareness. It knows itself and it knows the whole existence around it – not as separate but part, a kind of at-one-ment. It is the universe and the universe is it; there is no division, no duality. Now the observer becomes the observed, the seer becomes the seen.

You are not exception, this is normal state of modern mind, learn to live meditatively.

When a master chooses a disciple, he chooses with perfect understanding. He looks through you, all your potentialities, possibilities, past and future - the whole destiny is revealed to him. But when you choose a master, almost always you will be wrong, because you grope in the dark. Not knowing who you are, how can you choose? Not knowing what truth is how can you choose a master? How can you judge? In fact, the master will persuade you in such a way that you will feel that you have chosen him. He has to be very subtle about it, because if he allows you to know that he has chosen you, your ego can create a disturbance.

John 3:16 English Standard Version “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

A man who claims, “I am the only son of God” can only be thought of as neurotic. Jesus excludes the idea that there is another son, another brother to him, or another sister. God has only one begotten son and that is Jesus Christ. Mohammed close the doors – “I am the last prophet of God; now there will be no more prophets coming. So the holy Koran is the final message from God; no correction can be made in it. A Master is not a philosopher propounding a system of philosophy. His basic concern is that your commitment to the path should be total. This is just a simple methodology to protect the disciple from influences that can take him astray. And the mind is very, very clever in going astray. If all the paths are valid, then what is the necessity of commitment? If all the paths are valid, then what is the necessity of being total? But if you travel some time on one path and then you change the path, you will have to start again from ABC. Whatever you have learned on one path is invalid on another path, and if you go on keeping it within you it is going to create tremendous confusion. You are already in a great mess; no master wants you to be more confused! Your mind always wants change. It does not know devotion; it loves fashions, its interest is always in some novelty. So it will go on moving from one path to another path, becoming more and more confused because each path has its own language, each path has its own unique methods, and each master is going to defend his path against all the other paths. If you move on many paths you will collect contradictory arguments; you will become so much divided you will not know what to do. And if it becomes your habit to change paths – because the new has a certain attraction for the mind – you will move a few feet on one path, a few feet on another path, but you will never complete the journey.

How can the traffic noise disturb you? How? If you are against it, it will disturb. If you have the attitude that it disturbs, it will disturb. But if you accept it, if you allow it to happen without any reaction, then you may even start enjoying it. It has its own melody, its own music. You have not heard it, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have its own music. Someday forget yourself and listen to the traffic noise. Just listen, and don't bring in your attitudes that this is disturbing, that this is not good. Don't bring in your attitudes, just listen to the melody! In the beginning it will look chaotic. That too is because of the mind. If you relax totally, sooner or later everything will fit into a harmonious whole and even the traffic noise will become music. You can enjoy it and you can dance to its tune. It depends on you.

@Light Lover Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing it is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine.

People go on searching for the opposite. People only respect the opposite. This has to be understood - this tendency. People are attracted by the opposite but the opposite cannot change you - because the attraction of the opposite is a very natural law. Man is attracted to woman; woman is attracted to man. The poor is attracted to the rich and - you will be surprised - the rich is attracted to the poor. Rich people always think that the poor are enjoying great things - they have beautiful sleep, they have good appetite. Rich people always think that there is great )oy in living in nature - in living in a hut, in a cottage. Rich people always think that in small villages far away there is joy and bliss. In great cities how can there be joy? They live in the great cities and they hanker for the village. And ask the villager. He hankers for Bombay, New York, London. His hankering is to reach the biggest city possible. His hankering is to live in a big skyscraper. He wants all that the rich people have. Remember, rich people are interested in the poor - so whenever they see an enlightened person living in poverty their heads bow down. They say, 'This is the right thing.' If they see a King JANAK, a rich man, enlightened, they cannot believe it. After Enlightenment, Buddha returns home. His wife asks him: ‘What you attained in the jungle—was it not possible to attain it here? Why leave home, me, your child?’” Buddha was silent. If Buddha can become enlightened under a tree, you can become enlightened under a blanket.

In interval between two births soul (real self) is in dreamlike state. Soul needs a body to manifest, otherwise it is in a dreamlike state. It can communicate if suitable medium is available. Occasionally, it may so happen that souls enter other bodies. But to say that the souls will enter is a linguistic fallacy. It would be better to say that some body may behave in such a way that it will cause a soul to enter into it. There are two types of bodies which are in a state of deep receptivity. One is of those that are in great fear. Because a frightened person happens to be in an ugly and dirty state, no higher soul can enter him. Secondly, a soul can enter a body when it is in a deep prayerful moment. A prayerful person becomes filled with so much inner fragrance and so much inner beauty that only the highest souls take interest in him. Communication is possible only between the soul entering and the soul existing in the body.

No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots. No society wants people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous to the establishment, to the people who are in power, to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression. Why only Rothschild and Agenda 21 should be blamed ?

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When a rich person comes to spirituality, he has money, he has employment, he has a house, he has health—he has everything that one can have. And suddenly he has come to a realization that nothing is fulfilling. Then the search for something higher starts. Yes, sometimes a poor man can also be spiritual, but for that very great intelligence is needed. I am talking about Buddha himself. Are these Buddhist monks wiser than Buddha ? Buddha was a prince, he had everything. He left his kingdom to find the last, ultimate luxury. When your bodily needs are fulfilled, psychological needs arise. When your psychological needs are also fulfilled, then your spiritual needs arise. When a person has listened to all the music that is available in the world, and has seen all the beauty, and has found that it is all dream; has listened to all the great poets, and has found that it is just a way to forget yourself, just a way to intoxicate yourself, but it does not lead you anywhere; has seen all the paintings and the great art—amusing, entertaining, but then what…? Then hands remain empty, more empty than they ever were before. Spirituality is luxury—the last, ultimate luxury. A rich man, if he is not spiritual, is stupid. A poor man, if he is spiritual , is tremendously intelligent. Those Buddhist monks are escapists, they may know about techniques to reach meditation but meditation is not their experience. Meditation is a luxury , meditation makes life a celebration.

You are correct , for most of the people it is not ultimate truth. Most of the people are obsessed with food, money, power, domination, sex. Even on their deathbed this obsession continues.

If you attempt to break anybody's sleep, he will take revenge on you.

Yes, watch , don't judge, don't resist. Don’t do anything unconsciously.

I was talking about enlightened masters. Unless a spiritual teacher becomes famous, how will his message spread ?

@Alex4 When you are counting your breaths, you are using your mind. By counting you are concentrating , not meditating. This is something to be understood. Either you can think or you can watch your breathing. You can't do both together. Breathing and thinking are such processes that only one can exist in you -- in awareness. In unawareness, both can continue: you can go on breathing and you can go on thinking. But if you become aware, either you can think or you can breathe; and when you breathe with awareness, thinking disappears. Your whole consciousness becomes focused on breathing. And breathing is such a simple process: you need not do it, it is already happening. You can just bring your consciousness to it. If thinking appears, watching disappears. When you have become alert enough to watch your thoughts and let them disappear through watching, then move to feeling -- which is even more subtle.

There are mystics who are enlightened but illiterate , they know nothing about worldly affairs, never become famous and teach others.

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I talked with them many times, asked many things about meditation and other paths.

I live in India, I have met many mystics who live in remote areas and small villages, who can see past and future and have many other capabilities. Most of them live in poverty, never demand money. In big cities most of them are cheats, fake. I have fallen back many times from states of higher consciousness.

Drugs are as old as humanity itself, and they certainly fulfill something of immense value. The drugs are capable to give you a hallucinatory experience beyond the mundane world. Meditation brings you to the real experience. To meditate is difficult. The drug is cheap. But the attraction for drugs is spiritual. And now we have more advanced drugs, synthetically made, and we are capable to purify them more. We can make drugs which have no bad effects at all. We can make drugs which are not addictive. And we can teach people how to move from drug to meditation. Just to talk about meditation remains simply verbal. There is no way through the words to give you any experience. But drugs are immensely useful. The words can explain to you what meditation is, the drug can give you an hallucinatory experience of it. And then you can be initiated into a method. And now you will not be moving in darkness. Now you know that something… if an ordinary drug can do so much, then there must be some way to find an authentic transformation, to experience it without any dependence on anything. Under proper guidance drugs can be of immense help. I am against drugs because if they become addictive then they will be the most destructive for your journey towards the self.

We are rewiring the way our brain works but meditation is much more than that. Beyond mind, there is an awareness and there is no experiment up to now which has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness. Meditation is to make you aware of all that is mind and disidentify yourself with it.

Right now, you can't do both , you have to concentrate on your lectures. The ability to concentrate is useful, of course, useful — for others. Useful in scientific inquiry, useful in business, useful in the market, useful in politics. Concentration is a tense state of mind; you will never be relaxed. If you meditate. first concentration will disappear and you will be feeling a little at a loss. But if you go on, by and by you will attain to an unfocused state — that’s what meditation is. Once meditation is attained. concentration is child’s play — whenever you need to, you can concentrate. There will be no problem about it and it will be easy and without any tension.

Needs can be fulfilled, but desires cannot be. Nobody has been ever able to fulfill his ambitions. Desires do not die with fulfillment. Desire fulfilled only for a moment gives you a relief, and that relief has also to be understood. In the moment of a fulfilled desire there is relief. There is relief because in that small moment you are desireless. Desirelessness is joy. When one desire is fulfilled and before the mind projects another desire, between the two there is a small interval when there is no desire. That moment is of meditation.