Attracting Right People

Actually in what consciousness you live, you will attract only that kind of people around you. If you observe a little deeply, if you have the patience to look into reality, the truth, suddenly you will see that it is actually Satya Yuga. Krishna is still playing. Rama is still living. All the great masters are still alive. It is Satya Yuga. Dharma still exists.

People ask me, 'What do you mean by this? So much terrorism is going on; so much poverty and

war is going on! How can you say this is Satya Yuga?'

Do you think there was no war when Krishna lived? Do you think there was no poverty during Rama's time? No! Understand, even during Rama's time, in some part of the world people lived in Kali Yuga. In the same way, even now, some people are living in Satya Yuga.

Satya Yuga or Kali Yuga is not chronological time. It is the individual's decision. If you want, you can live in Satya Yuga now; if you decide that from today, you will change your mental setup. Then naturally you will attract the right situations and friends in your life.

But you can see in your life, if you are continuously sad, if you are continuously having self-pity, then you will attract the relationships, friends etc who will make life sadder for you. You will see, you will continuously attract people who will abuse you, because you feel very comfortable with them. Even if they abuse you, you forget that they abused you and you begin to relate with them again.

You will say, 'No Swamiji, it's okay. He is a good guy; at heart he is a very good guy.'

I don't know what they mean by 'He is very good at heart even though he abused me!' They have their own technical terms to justify what is going on. You attract abusive relationships and abusive people around you if you are in that mood, if you are in that consciousness.

So please be very clear, the moment you understand that the whole world is functioning as per dharma, it is Satya Yuga. You will suddenly begin to attract people who are living in Satya Yuga. You will create that kind of blissful circle around you. Suddenly you will see you are in Satya Yuga!

To enter into Satya Yuga, you don't need to create it. All you need to do is just tune yourself to it, that's all! Make the six feet body, what is inside your skin, as Satya Yuga! Suddenly you will see, whatever is outside your skin also will become Satya Yuga. Nothing else needs to be done.

You don't need to change the whole world. You don't need to give speeches in every city about Satya Yuga. You don't need to say, 'Let the whole world become Satya Yuga. Only then will I enter into Satya Yuga.' No! Just change your inner space into Satya Yuga. Suddenly you will see that you begin to attract those kind of friends. Suddenly those kind of books will reach you, those kind of DVDs will reach you, those kind of websites will reach you, those kind of newspapers will reach you, that kind of things will reach you. And all other things will lose their significance in your life. Suddenly you will lose interest in all other things.

In my whole life, I have never gone to a cinema theatre even once! People ask me, 'Swamiji, how did you manage even in college without watching a single movie?'

I tell them, 'Somehow, I never felt that was part of my life.' I am not even an old person, who was young some sixty years ago or long before that. I am just thirty-one! Somehow I was never interested in television or movies. That was never part of my life!

People ask me, 'It is impossible! Without being influenced by cinema and television, how can somebody be alive!'

Somehow, this is the way I am.

They say, 'No, you are extraordinary; you are enlightened.' But even before enlightenment, somehow it was never part of my life.

So please understand, if you enter into Satya Yuga, if you understand that everything happens as per dharma, you will realize that the cosmos is not a sadist. You will suddenly begin to attract the right people and the right things around you. Your whole world will change. This is a strong, straight, simple, honest, experiential truth. I am not saying, change your inner space today and after twelve years your surroundings will change. No! I am saying, change now, you will see the results this very instant. I am not proposing any theories to you. I know what I am talking. I am responsible for my words.

See, there are different kinds of people. There will always be critics, sitting and criticizing anything. They will say, 'No! What is this Swamiji talking? He is talking all flowery words and fairy tales. I have experienced everything. I have read about all these things long back. I have heard enough of all these things. These are not practical truths.'

See, you have heard and read about all these things, but did you ever practice them? No! You have only read about them. You come to conclusions by listening to some stories, some tales. And moreover, there will always be one group of people who will be against anything that you say.

A small story:

In a village, there was a man whom the whole village abused as a fool. Once, an enlightened master was passing by that village.

The man went to the master and said, 'The entire village makes fun of me. I am a fool. Nobody respects me. Even the small kids throw stones at me and call me a fool. Please make me look intelligent*.*'

The master said, 'Alright. Don't worry. I will give you a simple technique. Practice it for a week and you will look intelligent. You will be respected by the whole village.'

The person asked in surprise, 'What? In one week? The whole village will respect me! And that too in a week! Tell me. Even if I have to stand on my head, I will do it.'

The master said, 'You don't need to stand on your head. It is not that difficult. Do only one thing: continuously criticize anything you see. Nothing else needs to be done. If someone says, 'What a beautiful moon!' you just ask, 'What is so great about it? There are so many black patches in it!' When someone says, 'Beautiful rose!', you just criticize it by saying, 'What kind of beauty is this? It has so many thorns.' Continuously criticize everything. Nothing else needs to be done.

The man agreed and religiously followed it. After a few days the master returned to the village, after his pilgrimage. He saw this man seated under a big neem tree. The whole village was sitting at his feet, listening! When the master arrived, he looked in his direction.

The master said, 'I want to talk to you.' The man replied, 'I will see you after the discourse.'

After everybody left, the man fell at the master's feet and said, 'O, master! Your idea has really worked miracles. I started abusing everything. I criticized anything and everything. After a few days, people started to think that I am very intelligent. Now I am very much respected in this village!'

It takes only this much! To appear intelligent, all you need to do is constantly abuse everything around you. Nothing else needs to be done. There are people who become famous by merely

criticizing everything. They cannot create even a simple thing but they can destroy anything by constantly criticizing it.

Sometimes, when people criticize me, the people around me react in irritation, 'Swamiji, this person has criticized you. Please punish him. He has disrespected you.'

I tell them, 'He does not need any punishment. He is already in hell! No punishment is required. The state of consciousness in which he is residing is the worst punishment. He doesn't need a separate hell!'

Understand, he doesn't need a separate hell! He doesn't need a separate punishment. He is already in hell! Please understand, you are not that intelligent to have two minds: one mind to measure others, and one mind to live with yourself. When you constantly abuse others, you are living with

the same mind within you also. So you will be unconsciously abusing yourself too. You will be constantly criticizing yourself too. Anybody who is criticizing others continuously, will be continuously torturing himself also. This is a basic law.

You may say, 'No Swamiji, I criticize only others, not myself. When it comes to me, when I commit the same mistakes, I will change my mental setup.'