9. 49. An atom bomb placed on love.

'Mad fellow...See how badly he drives the vehicle', Mukundan complained about a bike rider to his friend seated beside him. The bike rider, who just then overtook him, lost his balance and control of his own bike.

Due to this action of Mukundan, the person who was following him on a bike also lost his balance!

The friend said: You have complained about the other person but you have also done the same mistake.

Mukundan replied: If he had not gone in such a zigzag manner, it would not have happened.

The friend said: Look, because of you only, the person who came behind us lost his balance. But he did not find fault with us. He just laughed it off. That's why; the vehicles coming after him were not affected.

Mukundan retorted, 'No, no ....' so saying, he started justifying himself and continued the argument. What remained finally was that the friend got upset and became angry with Mukundan.

All arguments are verses of sufferings.

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• Dispute Useless utterance.
• Dispute.
  • Evil which has caught hold of the tongue.
  • Trouble, which has caught hold of the throat.
  • Poison which is mixed in friendship.
  • Atom bomb placed on love.

Sayings like these may look rather exaggerated. If thought over deeply, truth will be known.

• Trying to make one understand through disputing is just like trying to make friendship grow by terrorism.
• Prolonging a dispute is similar to approaching the court for claiming one foot width of land at the fringe of one's land. Many amongst us do not have the quality of conceding. It is only because we do not realize this, we expect others to concede. This is an interesting incident which happened in the life of Bhairava.

When Bhairava and Dharmaraja start arguing, it would end only when they want it to end. Once, both of them were eating a North Indian sweet with relish.

Bhairava asked: Oh Dharma, as you eat this sweet, what comes to your mind?

Dharmaraja said: I think that I am eating a sweet.

Bhairava asked: What is it, Dharma? I thought that you would give some knowledgeable answer but you are talking in a peculiar way! This appears tasty only because we eat it with the thought that we are eating a sweet. Perhaps, if from childhood itself, we had been brought up by telling us that the meaning for the word 'sweet' is bitterness, we can never eat sweets.

Dharmaraj said: Oh Bhairav, There only you have understood it wrongly. If we had been told the word bitterness itself in place of sweetness right from our childhood, then, in our mind, the word 'bitter' would have changed in place of 'sweet'. It would have remained as a change of word only. That would not have prevented us from eating a sweet as you say.

Bhairava said: What Dharma, you have understood every thing wrongly. If we are taught that 'sweet' means 'bitter', it is just possible that along with the word, the feelings created by others about these words also would get registered in the mind. Is it not? In tender minds, if we create a feeling that bitterness is sweet, the taste of bitter gourd will be very much liked by him when he grows up. Even though the taste of sweets may appear as different from the taste of the bitter gourd, the repeated conscious feeling that it is bad for health itself will create hatred towards sweets.

Dharmaraj had a hearty laugh and said: Just you use your words well all that you say will not be all right, Bhairav. First of all understand that. Because of the fact that it has been registered in the mind that 'bitter' is 'sweet' it may be recorded in the mind that 'bitterness' is a good taste. It is natural only. In the tender mind, if it is registered that 'bitterness' is a nice taste, then sour gourd will appear tasty. It is also natural.

But, when a sweet touches the tongue, it should be known that it is also a very nice taste. Only if such an action is taken, it will mean that body is functioning normally. The truth being so, I can never accept the statement that the mind will begin to develop hatred towards sweets.

Bhairava said: According to psychology and the hypnotic principle what I say is correct. Whatever is registered in the mind, will come out through the body as it is registered in the mind. Sweet will only appear as bitter if such is the association made by the mind.

Dharmaraja said: No, no according to our spiritual wisdom, there is a separate wisdom solely for the body. 'God has not entrusted the body believing in you. He has kept it in such a manner that more than 80% of the actions within the body function automatically by itself'.

A Sufi saint says: Only because the body functions as per its own intelligence, whatever you may eat, the acts of digestion, breathing, and blood circulation do go on automatically.

Since every part of the body has its own intelligence the tongue also, as per its own intelligence, will find out and recognize the nicety of the taste of sweetness. Sweetness will not become bitterness as you say. The words may, perhaps, change in the mind. But feelings will not change. Even if you eat sweet calling it as bitter, it will taste sweet only. It won't change as bitter.

Bhairav asked: What... Are you just talking through the hat?

The argument was going on and on in this manner. Each of them was talking around their own points of view.

The very beauty of an argument is that when we observe one person talking, it will make us believe that whatever he is talking is totally correct. When the next person begins to talk, we will be made to believe, 'He is only correct. The previous speaker is wrong.' Once again, if the earlier person speaks, we would tend to believe that, 'He is only right'.

When we examine these arguments deeply, mostly we will find that the opinions of both the persons are wrong.

Some times it may also happen that both the persons will be talking about the same matter in two different ways making the arguments as a dispute.

If we just ponder over it for a while, the truth will be understood. Just because of the reason that we have expressed a particular opinion, we will place all sorts of arguments to substantiate our opinion. In case we had expressed our opponent's opinion, then we would have begun to talk in

accordance with that. We would have talked exactly like the opponent. The opponent would have talked like us.

Think well about the root cause of all your ills. What began as a playful difference of opinion would have changed as an argument and then as a dispute which would have finally resulted in a quarrel which would give mental grief.

Obstinacy's expression is only dispute. The colour painted part of dispute is argument.

Realize and recognize the smell of the argument, know the nature and quality of discussions; to save yourself and your qualities, learn to 'concede'.

Time, energy and your quality will be saved. Unpleasant feelings will decrease. You will obtain internal growth.

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A meaningful incident.

The teacher asked the child Vikram whose father was a famous lawyer... 'What is the future predicate for the verb 'marry'?' Vikram replied with a mischievous laugh, 'Divorce'.

• Even divorce is the prize given by dispute. The newer generations should grow in a healthy manner without disputes. --------

You do your part by not being part of any dispute! Help society in this way.

Meditation chisels. Chisel No. 4.

The secret that gives liveliness to intimate relationships - conversation.

In an NSP meditation programme, Col. Santhosh Kumar asked, 'If you say we should not argue, then how to be intimate with relations? If we should not argue, does it mean we have to stop talking?'

I said: Yes. That would be right, even if you take it that way. People do not interact by conversation. They interact only by arguing. This should certainly be brought to a halt.

In a true conversation,

• You will like to listen more and talk less.
• You will not guess what he is going to say, before he finishes his speech.
• You will strive to understand their feelings through what they are describing through words.

Even if any one of the above four truths is not present in you, then, what you do is not conversation.

You can conclude that it is only a useless argument.

Begin to converse, in order to enliven a good intimate relationship.

If you begin to:

Listen more than talk,

Respect feelings more than words,

Begin to respect others also more than yourself,

The mental problem of dispute will just disappear.

Relationships will become more intimate and lively.

Begin to purify the durations of disputes which lie under the garb of conversation. Let the dispute times become meditation times.

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50. Art.

This is a story from Japan.

When a mother was fighting for her life...

Her son weeping with grief saying: Oh mother, don't leave me and go... I will do whatever you say.

The mother said: I will tell you what your father had told me. If you listen and adopt it, you will be happy and joyful throughout your life.

In spite of that grim situation, the son became eager to know and asked: What is it?

For that the mother said: Become an artist! It is not necessary that you should become a great artist. Even if it happens to be your fortune to clean the toilet, don't worry. Another person should not clean as you clean. Your workmanship should be to that extent unique and artistic.

So saying she breathed her last.

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• Art is a pleasant branch, which makes one forget worries.
• Art is a nice technique to bring out the softness within us.
• Art is divine nectar to bring out, without any hesitation, the individuality of each person.
• You should possess artistry in at least any one field. Otherwise, you are losing a very important aspect of life.

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An important information.

You might have heard some people telling jovially about Japan, just to explain the achievements of Japan, saying: In Japan, they sell the electronic goods by weighing on the balance scales as 'so many yen per kilo', same way as vegetables are sold here on the pavements.

There is a book containing interesting information on what the entrepreneurs say about the secrets of success of Japan. In that book, one entrepreneur has indicated the story you have just read above, and stated: This is the secret of my successful achievement.

The action we do is meditation only.

Fullness in artistry is wisdom only.

Natural and gentle living is only bliss.

Rasi Hu Mose was an enlightened Master, who led such a beautiful life as an evidence of the above mentioned basic tenets of living.

Creativity is one of the very important revelations of the divine energy.

This was experientially realized by Rasi Hu Mose. Rasi was a great sculptor.

Rasi was conducting spiritual educational system of education, which leads one to reach the state of divineness through the art of sculpture. Karju was the best of all the disciples of Rasi. A wonderful sculptor.

Once a professor had come to meet Rasi.

As the two were in conversation, Karju was coming there happily, bringing with him, a statue of a beautiful child, which he had sculpted. He brought it there for showing it to his Master and to receive his appreciation.

Rasi Hu Mose told the professor: That young man, who is coming there, is a very good artist. He has attained a very good level within a year, which many, that have been undergoing the spiritual practice with me for the last five or six years have not attained.

The professor asked: How is it that he has been able to attain such a level so quickly than others?

Rasi said: He has totally understood the essence of my spiritual teaching that whatever we do, if we do that completely, then, that very action by itself is a meditation.' Every lesson I teach him about the art of sculpture in order that he may grow up further and further, he puts into practice in each and every aspect of his life. His very life itself has become a collection of various arts. This only is the reason for his quick growth.

As he was saying this, Karju placed the statue he had sculpted at the feet of the Master and prostrated before him. Then he stood up and with a blooming face and with folded hands, he waited like a child, for the words of the Master.

Rasi asked with a scornful face: What is this?

Karju said: Oh Master, last week, the neighbour's child was eating a laddu (sweet) with great relish. It was a very beautiful sight! I have sculpted this as an exact resemblance!

Rasi asked: Look at the statue for once and tell me whether you have made it as an exact resemblance?

Karju, with great devotion towards his Master, keenly observed the statue once again and said: Master, I have made it as an exact resemblance only.

That's all. Next moment, the Master's face changed.

Rasi's eyes became red with anger.

He threw away the child-statue on to the rocks opposite to him. The statue broke into four or five pieces with a great sound.

Rasi said: Foolish fellow, the child was eating a laddu. How nicely the sweet mixed with saliva will be just leaking from the child's mouth! Some broken portions of the laddu (sweet) would be sticking on the body and lap of the child! When you have sculpted all these things with due awareness, why did you forget to bring to your attention that the child will always eat with both hands? A child, while it eats any food, will look at it again and again relish it again and again as it eats. There is no such element of appreciation and surprise in the eyes of the child at all! I will drive you out from here; if you come to me again even once with such mean deficiencies.

He said harshly: Get out! Don't stand before me.

The professor could not understand as to what was happening there.

The professor had not so seen in his life, any statue which was an exact resemblance of a child.

The action of the Master, who was a picture of grace, going to the peak of anger and his breaking of the statue, took the professor to the peak of confusion.

The professor started getting angry the more and more he saw that Rasi sitting calmly with his head bent down.

With the thought of questioning Rasi at least a few questions on his behaving so violently for one or two small mistakes, the professor called: Rasi Hu Mose!

The professor was shocked on seeing Rasi, when he raised his head. There were tears rolling down from Rasi's eyes!

Rasi said: Did you see! What a beautiful statue of a child it was! How nicely Karju had sculpted the statue so beautifully as though, to look at, it seemed as though a real child was sitting!

So saying he shed tears of happiness.

The professor asked: You feel so much happy about it; you have so much affection for the disciple; then why did you behave so violently with him?

Rasi Hu Mose said with a soft smile: If I had appreciated him, he would have been satisfied and happy. But his ego would have remained in tact. It is only when an unexpected incident occurs that a person's ego is shaken. This is a technique. I teach the art of living through the art of sculpture.

He said further: He will change his own life by looking at all aspects of his life, by whatever deficiencies I have found and told him in this matter. He is such a mature person. Instead of the appreciation, giving him the technique only is more appropriate for him at this moment. Hereafter, both in sculpting as well as in his personal individual life, he will conduct himself with more awareness. Nicety will come automatically in his life. Grace and wisdom is necessary to behave in this manner at a situation when one has to shower praise.

There were tears in the professor's eyes too!

Painting, sculpture and poetry and the like alone are not the only arts. It is possible to exhibit artistry in each and every action of our life.

The art of speaking,

The art of reading,

The art of interacting with one another,

Whatever be the expression of art of a person with possessing artistry, even without our knowledge, we will become engrossed with it.

If you dissolve asafoetida in the sea, whether the sea gets the flavour or not, firstly, our whole hand would get the nice flavour of asafetida.

When our art is expressed, whether others get benefited or not, first of all joy will be born within us. Satisfaction will blossom.

Do not think that only branches like music, painting and poetry are arts. Right from cleaning of vessels up to polishing of shoes...Right from combing the hair of the child up to the ability to do some work... Like this, in each and every action of our life, we can bring out the beauty of art.

It is only the total collection of all such arts is the art of living.

If we learn the intricacies of the art of living with devotion and excellence, we can bring under our control even those which cannot be easily controlled.

If we begin to do every action with an artistic feeling, right from simple satisfaction right up to contentment, we can bring under our control whatever our conscious self aspires.

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A meaningful incident.

That famous painter would never give away his paintings for whatever money is offered to him.

When asked: What for such a behavior?

He asked: What I draw is for my own self. Not for you. It is an art in which I have mixed and drawn. It is not a material. It is my son! Who will sell his son for money?

• Art is one such thing that brings the wave of satisfaction to one's life.
• Art is that which removes the worries.

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Meditation chisels.

Chisel No. 5.

Experience even sorrow with devotion. It will be averted.

If a person who has fallen from a cycle, says: The road should not have curved so suddenly. Would it be just?

Whenever good things happen in our life, we say: If this had happened a few years earlier, how nice it would have been?

When something bad happens to us, we feel sad, saying: So early, this should not have happened.

Riding a cycle is an art. Only a person, who has not learnt that art properly, would say: The road is curvy. Carrying on with life is also an art.

A man who has not learnt the art of living only will say: For me such a thing should not have happened. The man who has learnt the art of living will never complain about the road of life. He will be going on adding finenesses in driving the wheel of life.

The failures we come across are all the learning fields which help us to grow our art of living. Even if you suffer, suffer wholly and fully. If you do so, the process of suffering making you suffer will be blocked.

Whether it is happiness or sorrow, whichever comes in life, experience that deeply. Experience that with fineness.

The reason: At that moment, it is unavoidable.

Experience deeply even the bad times and make it meditation time!

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51. Cannot be taught, can be learnt.

• Success Failure Achievement – Test

Celebration – Suffering.

• These are the aspects which control and affect one's life depending upon the measure of one's own intelligence.

• Money, position, fame and pleasure will be under the control of the person with a lot of intelligence. Money, position, fame and pleasure will control the person with low intelligence.

• We will remain as a slave in those aspects of life where our intelligence has not flourished. The more and more our intelligence expands we will be the Master controlling every thing as we like.

• Do you wish to live... Like an emperor...?

Like an empress...?

Take steps for intelligence to increase within you.

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Young Mukundan had gone to his grand-father's house in the village for the first time. The pleasant environment of the village made him active.

He ran hopping and jumping enthusiastically into the garden on the back side of the house. The grand-father shouted: Oh Mukund, it is a garden and not a street... Mukundan went on running, duly replying: Oh, I know all that...

Even before the grand-father could finish telling him, 'There is a big mound of earth in the garden', Mukundan got on top of the mound and ran passing over it, telling again: I know all those things.

As the grand-father was just telling: Oh fool! Won't you just stop and listen? Just beyond that mound... the boy jumped into the slushy pond beyond the mound shouting loudly, 'I know all that' and got smeared with mud over his body and became dirty.

• Those who think that they are intelligent will not give importance to the opinions of others. A wise man will continuously learn from life.

A person's intelligence will be revealed in different fields depending upon his creativity and interest.

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The hands of a sculptor!

The fingers of an artist!

The voice of a singer!

The thought of a poet!

The apt and mature ability of a cook!

The intelligence of a wise man!

• Like these they will be going on listing the rare exposures of intelligence.

Psychologists have divided it as seven types of intelligence.

If we have to say in short,

Intelligence is actually an aspect of conscious feeling of the inner world which makes it possible to celebrate life as a festival in practical life.

Even if a person is talented to whatever extent and in whatever branch it may be, if he does not possess the intelligence to celebrate life, then for him, life itself will become meaningless.

Every one of us has taken birth to celebrate our life only.

'If we do not think about living the life while we are living itself, then while dying, we may have to think and suffer about our not having lived our life.

What is your idea?

Intelligence is necessary to live as you live itself!'

Yours,

Dhyanalayam.

When professor Dinsai saw this advertisement board, he could not control his eagerness. Those words were running in his mind again and again.

Without having interest to do any other work, Dinsai was thinking only about the advertisement of Dhyanalaya. Next day, as he got up, as a first thing, he enquired about the location of Dhyanalaya and went there straightaway.

Dinsai was disappointed as he had thought that it would look like a big temple or monastery.

Reason: There were only five huts made out of tin sheets. That is all.

There was not even a board 'Dhyanalaya'.

He was thinking with wonder, 'For such a small hutment, why such a big advertisement board!' Just then some small commotion happened there disturbing Dinsai's silence. There was a crowd of people around a man of about 60 years of age. He was in a normal dress. But from their dresses it could be known that those around him were rich people.

As the old man sat on a stone platform, all sat below around him.

Dinsai, however thought: Who is he? Which is Dhyanalayam? Who had kept such a big advertisement board? With these thoughts, he was standing there.

As soon as the old man saw the confused eyes of Dinsai, he realized every thing. He was a Hasid Master.

When the Master asked: What friend, have you seen the advertisement board? Dinsai said: Yes...! Yes...!

The Master said: That board is the work of these mischievous boys. He pointed out those around him with liberty. The Master continued and asked: You came here in search of what?

Dinsai said: I came to know 'what is living while we live'?

The Master said: Celebrating life fully and totally is 'living while we live'. What else do you expect from me?

Dinsai said: You only have to teach me the necessary intelligence to live while living itself. Dinsai felt much embarrassed as everybody there joined the master and all had a big laugh 'Ha...Ha...Ha...'

The Master said: There is a big obstacle in teaching you the intelligence. Otherwise I would teach that to you happily.

Dinsai asked: What is that obstacle?

The Master said: Intelligence cannot be taught.

When Dinsai asked with a disappointed voice: Is there nothing that I can learn here?

The Master firmly said: Who said so? There is a lot here for you to learn.

Dinsai asked eagerly: What is it?

The Master said: It is intelligence only.

Dinsai was utterly confused when all laughed again: Ha...Ha...Ha... As he was thinking: I am not able to understand what he is telling me at all….

The Master said: Friend, Intelligence can be learnt. But it cannot be taught! You also stay here for some time along with these mischievous fellows. You also will learn intelligence! And he finished with a laugh.

Even an enlightened Master cannot teach intelligence to a person. Intelligence is an achievement every individual has to learn himself.

At the maximum, a Master can only create an atmosphere and motivation for a man to learn intelligence. That is all.

That is why J.Krishnamoorthy has said whatever has to be said, in only one sentence, 'Master is not needed.' Yes, to learn intelligence of celebrating life, no master is necessary at all. But think for a minute!

Who will create for you the necessary atmosphere and motivation for you to learn intelligence yourself? You yourself only have to create that. It is not easily possible for everybody to do it.

It is only for those who think that it is very difficult to create the possibilities of learning intelligence, right from the Buddha up to J.Krishnamoorthy; all enlightened Masters continue to conduct meditation programmes and wisdom giving discourses.

Meeting with the living Master... participating in his meditation programmes ... all these will enhance the possibilities of your learning intelligence.

On account of these, the graceful aim of the enlightened Masters that 'every man should celebrate life' will be fulfilled.

Learn intelligence.

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A meaningful incident.

Ree – Sen asked his Master: How to learn intelligence, please explain.

The Master asked in reply: How to ride a cycle? Explain.

Ree Sen was struggling: That is...that is...

The Master asked: You know how to ride a cycle. But you cannot explain. Still, what would you say to a person who wants to learn newly?

Ree Sen said: Learn yourself.

The Master laughed. Ree Sen blossomed.

• It is possible to awaken intelligence. Any thing will appear like bewilderment only in the beginning. Jump in. It is possible. You can live in this birth itself. ----------

Meditation chisels. Chisel No. 6.