Yukti - Clarity

Yukti means clarity: clarity that however much you change or accept, this whole thing is one more dream! Understand, I am giving you the ultimate teaching of Vedanta. I can say, the ultimate truth in simple words is: whether you accept things or change things, however much you change, however much you accept things, the whole of Existence is an eternally changing dream! There is no scale. The whole thing is a changing dream.

Now I am putting the whole thing in one line: you don't need to struggle at all. This is, I can say, the ultimate truth, what you call Zen or advaita (science of non-duality), the ultimate truth. Whatever you may change, the whole thing is a constantly changing dream.

If you understand this truth that however much you change, the whole thing is a constantly changing dream, suddenly you will see that you are unclutched. You will be disconnected from the unwanted cluster of thoughts in your mind about life. You will experience a tremendous relaxation inside.

People ask me, 'If everything is a changing dream, then can I do whatever I want to do?'

When you internalize this great truth that everything is a changing dream, you will not be able to do whatever you want to do! You will only do whatever the Cosmos wants you to do. You will not be able to do whatever you want, because the moment you understand this truth, tremendous inner healing will start happening. The struggle or

the suffering will come to an end. One glimpse: whatever is happening is a changing dream, it is constantly changing, your ideas are changing, your ideas about changing are changing, your ideas about transformation are changing, your ideas about problems are changing...the whole thing changes!

Sometimes people ask me, 'Swamiji, twelve years ago, I started my spiritual practice. I thought all my struggles will end. But now, even after twelve years of spiritual practices I have struggles.'

You may have struggles, but understand they are not the same struggles. They are different struggles, more subtle struggles! The transformation in your struggles shows you clearly that some transformation has happened in you. Twelve years ago you might have been fighting with something; now after twelve years you will be fighting with something else.

When your opponent has changed, be very clear, it means that you have changed. Your opponent cannot change without you changing. When your opponent changes, it means that transformation has happened in you.

Now your fight is happening at a different level, on a different plane. Twelve years before what your desire was, what your fear was, what you defined as transformation, what you defined as liberation, everything changes. Even your concept about liberation constantly changes! The more you expand, the more the idea also changes.