Formless Or With Form?

People ask me, 'Swamiji, which is the best way? Feeling connected to the formless or feeling connected to the form?'

There is no such thing as the best. How it happens in your life is the best for you. People who can't afford to feel connected to the living form can connect with the formless energy. An egoistic person can't afford to feel connected through the form; it hurts him. It is very easy to feel connected to some empty sky. You can continue to do whatever you want and put the blame on the empty sky! There is nobody to question you. But you can't play that game with me, a living form. I will question you immediately. I will tell you, 'Hey, you are playing your game and blaming me!' When you feel connected to the form, you will need to go through immediate transformation. So people who can afford this, let them feel connected to the form.

People whose egos cannot afford this transformation, those who don't have that kind of mental setup, let them at least be connected to the formless.

It all depends on the mental setup and the person; it depends on the way in which he is living. Anyway, if you feel connected to the unchanging reality, when that devotion starts happening in you, suddenly you will see a tremendous feeling of security happening around you.

Please understand, what I am telling you now is a technique; start developing it. It is possible! The technique is to feel a deep devotion to the unchanging One. Then the tremendous secure feeling will start happening in you.

Once this happens, you will know that you are qualified for whatever happens around you in your life. Even if you die this moment, you will again take birth in a space where all these things are provided for you again, where all these things are around you again, where all these things are guaranteed for you. Only with this devotion can you overcome the fear of death. Till then, you can never overcome death fear.

Devotion is a straight method to overcome the fear of death. Otherwise you will always fear death. You will think, 'What will happen when I die? My apartment will be taken away. Who knows where I will take birth again? I may be born in a slum! I don't know how long it will take for me to build an apartment…'