Conflict-Free Life

I welcome you all with my love and respect.

Today's subject is Living Enlightenment.

In Vedanta, there are three words: shravana, manana and nidhidhyaasana.

Shravana means listening to the great truths. Manana means internalizing the great truths and nidhidhyaasana is living them. So today, we will listen to a few truths about enlightenment and try to internalize them. Then naturally, you will be living enlightenment!

What do I mean by the words 'Living Enlightenment'?

Living enlightenment means living a conflict-free life, living without any conflicts, completely at ease with your body, mind and the surroundings that you experience as the outer world.

People ask me, 'Swamiji, how can we be conflictfree in this world filled with conflicts? It is not possible. Only when the whole world is silent, happy and peaceful can I become conflict-free.'

Understand, that is never going to happen. There is no such thing as peace of the whole world. It never existed and can never exist. You will never be able to make the whole world peaceful. All problems are created by people who try to make the world peaceful.

Actually, I have seen many times, in the meditation hall, the volunteers who shout 'Silence! Silence!' create more noise than the few people who talk! They claim that they are maintaining silence and end up making more noise than the participants! Similarly, the people who try to create peace only create more problems.

In the last three thousand years, five thousand wars have been fought! Each war as they claim was fought to bring about world peace. Every leader who declared war claimed that he was going to bring peace to the world. But the most important truth was missed by them all. When you start living a conflict-free life, what you experience as the world will become conflict-free. What you visualize as the world will be conflict-free.