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1. The Simple Truth, Straightaway!

Q1. Dear Swamiji, Are We In The World Or Is The World In Us?

Neither are you in the world nor is the world in you. The very idea that you are in the world makes you materialistic. The idea that the world is in you, makes you spiritualistic. Both are ideas. Please be very clear that if you think you are in the world, you become materialistic. You run behind the world. You just run behind it. You want to have it. You want to possess it. If you think the world is in you, you run behind your being, you want to possess it. It is the same running, just that it is diverted a little bit inside. The running for spiritual progress or running for some spiritual experience, we call it mystery mongering. Even the running for mystic experiences is nothing but mystery mongering. Both are actually concepts, both are ideas. When you understand both are ideas, you really allow the spiritual experience to happen to you, which cannot be done by words.

An example: Take the river Ganga. Suppose a small bamboo is floating on the Ganga. Taking that bamboo as the center, if you think that the Ganga has been split into two halves, right-side Ganga and leftside Ganga, would that be right? Can you say the Ganga has been divided? No, in reality Ganga is never divided. Because you have taken the bamboo as center and divided the river for the sake of utility, for the sake of your understanding, you have labeled it as right-side Ganga and left-side Ganga. In the same way, just for the sake of utility you name this as the body and that as the world. It is just a naming, a labeling.

Just look in, look into yourself. Why do I say look in? You know that for a long time you have only looked out. That is the reason I say look in. When you look inward, you see there is really no boundary between this and that, between you and the world. If you perceive one boundary as stronger you will feel that you are in the world. If you perceive the other boundary as stronger, you feel that the world is in you. The people who are in the world, the worldy people, and the so-called materialists, they say, 'We are in the world'. People who close their eyes and sit in the caves, the Himalayas, they say, 'The world is in you'. But both are just concepts. Both are just concepts. If you feel this boundary as stronger, you think you are in the world. If you think that boundary is stronger, you think the world is in you.

Once you drop both concepts, you will see simply that you are, and wherever you are, you are joyful. Generally the great saints and enlightened people teach you that the world is in you. Do you know why they teach you that way? Because you are already addicted to the opposite idea, that you are in the world. Just to bring you out of that idea, they teach that the world is in you. Actually to remove one thorn from your foot, you need to use another thorn. But once you have removed the thorn, you need to throw away both. The idea that the world is in you is only another thorn to remove the thorn that is already piercing you. In the ultimate sense, both are just concepts. When you drop these boundaries, you understand reality, you understand what is truth. It cannot be expressed by either of these concepts.

If you remove that bamboo from the Ganga, can you say Ganga has become one? No, because it is always one. The very word one exists only if you say there is two. If there is no two, how can you say it is one? Is it clear to you? The word singular exists only as long as the word plural exists. When the word plural is lost, how can you say this is singular? No, that is why the rishis and sages called this philosophy Advaita.

Dvaita means plural - duality. But Advaita cannot be translated as singular – because that would imply the presence of a plural somewhere, which Advaita does not acknowledge. Advaita can be translated only as non-dualist. It can never be expressed as 'single'. It can be expressed only as 'where there is no duality'. Dvaita means duality. Advaita means where there is no duality, that's all.

If you say you are in the world, you are expressing duality. If you say world is in you, you are doing the same thing. Only if you experience the truth that neither is true, do you experience the truth. The truth cannot be expressed with Dvaita, it can only be expressed with Advaita.


Q2. Dear Swamiji, Will The Program Also Acquaint Us With Meditation Techniques Like The Awakening Of The Kundalini?

Of course, the program we are going to conduct in the next two2 days is the awakening of the Kundalini shakti in a very safe and practical manner.

To get the best out of life, to have a joyful life, blissful life, to have a spiritual life, the real life, two things are necessary. One is maturity, the understanding about the being and existence. The second is meditation. Understanding clears your conscious mind. Meditation cleanses your unconscious mind. There are lots of things that cannot be followed by understanding. Everybody understands that smoking is bad for health. In all the hoardings of cigarette advertisements, they include a statutory warning. What are the words they use? 'Cigarette smoking is injurious to health.' We know it. But people suffer. We cannot control this. Why? Just an intellectual understanding will not be sufficient in some places. So we need to channel energy into the unconscious zone.

The conscious zone can be cleared by the intellectual clarity, maturity. Of course at least 50% of the problems can be cleared just by intellectual clarity. We cannot deny the role of intellectual clarity in our joyful life. It has got its own place and importance. But it is not sufficient, it is not the ultimate. If you have intellectual clarity, it means you have an understanding about each and every chakra, the way in which the chakras work, what is the way in which the energy centers can be opened. For example: Why is depression very closely related to Manipura chakra, the navel center? Whenever you hear some news that you can't bear, that you can't tolerate, immediately the first blow will be to the stomach only. You will either have a stomach upset or diarrhoea. Have any of you have experienced this? We always say, 'I can't digest it'. Not only in English, in all languages this expression exists. In all languages, we have an expression, whenever you receive some news that you can't tolerate, you say, 'I can't digest it. I can't stomach it'.

Anahata is related to love. Love and heart, these two words are synonyms in all languages. It's not that all the languages were created at one time, as if God has created CD packages and put one package in each country. No. Tamil in South Bharat, Hindi in North Bharat, English in England - every language has evolved in a different place, at a different time. But in all languages you see love and heart are used as synonyms. It means some deeper connection exists between your emotion and your being. Anahata chakra, the heart center is closely related to the love energy.

If you know how to handle that emotion, the maturity, understanding to handle the emotion solves 50% of your problem. The energy to awaken that chakra solves another 50%. The maturity creates energy. The energy creates maturity. The ball rolls and you end up experiencing the ultimate, the bliss.

Soon we will have the class, we will have the session on each and every chakra, and how to have a better understanding about the chakra.

Maturity clears the conscious portion of the mind, meditation clears the unconscious portion. When both are cleared you will see a tremendous transformation of being, a tremendous flowering of the being happens to you.

That is why I call this program Ananda Spurana. Spurana means flowering. The flowering of bliss is happening in our being continuously. Only, we don't look into it. We don't see what is happening. Just look inward, and you will find it - this Ananda Spurana, this flowering of bliss.

Q3. Dear Swamiji, How Do I Know Whether I Am Qualified For A Spiritual Awakening Or Not?

Nice question. The very idea that the person is not qualified for spiritual opening or a spiritual awakening is just created by the priests. If you think that you are alive, that is enough, that qualification is enough to have a spiritual awakening.

Somebody went to Ramana Maharshi and asked, "Bhagwan, am I qualified for spiritual progress, am I qualified for the spiritual line?"

Ramana Maharishi asked, "Are you alive?"

The disciple said, "Yes, of course".

"Then you are qualified enough," replied Ramana.

It is only the priests who create this idea to exploit the public. You see, if you are not kept in the guilty mood, if you are not kept one step lower on the pedestal, you do not obey. Just to exploit the people, the idea of qualification is created. The very basic thing, which has killed intelligence, which has killed spirituality, is this business of qualification. The idea of qualification, you can never find anybody who feels they are qualified. Even after hundreds of years of practice, you will wonder whether I am qualified or no. I don't know! Because the guilt has been implanted in you. Be very clear, not only in Bombay city, wherever you live you are qualified. If you think you are alive, that is enough, you are qualified. The idea of qualification is brought in just to exploit you mentally.

A beautiful story from Zen Buddhism: A man goes to a master with the same question, "Master, am I qualified for the spiritual progress? I feel there are so many obstructions."

The master replies, "The word 'obstruction' is the only obstruction, nothing else."

The word 'obstruction' is the only obstruction to spiritual life, because each and every being is potentially divine. When a person is already potentially divine, how can you say he needs some other qualification? All the rules are just there to keep the guilt in the other person, just to keep him one step lower, otherwise there is nothing like qualification. If you need to have a qualification, what is the purpose of spirituality?

Somebody came and told me, "THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, I have never practised Aayama and Niyama. In Patanjali's yoga system the first step is Aayama. Aayama means - Brahmacharya, Ahimsa, Satya, Apaikara, Astheiya. The great vows – celibacy, non-violence, truth, non-stealing, non-possessiveness. These are the five great vows, which you need to practise, only then are you qualified for yoga. Somebody came and asked, 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM , I am not qualified in all these five things, how can I enter into yoga?"

I said, "If you are qualified in all these five things, you don't need yoga!"

Both maturity and meditation helps each other. Maturity gives you energy, energy gives you maturity. At first you start wherever you are, that's enough, you will see that the ball rolls.


Q4. Dearswamiji, 'I Think Therefore I Am'. Is That True?

The same question in the opposite way! Like old wine in a new bottle.

Be very clear, you neither think nor you are. I am giving the same answer in the other way. You neither think nor you are. If you think you must be. If you think you must exist, if you exist you can't think.

If you exist you can't think. If you think, you must exist. Actually, it's a very intricate question. The same old question, whether we are in the world or the world is in us. Whether we exist and think, or we think and then exist. See, It's like a boundariless thing. Again you want to stand at some point, again you want to stand . Either you want to take bath in the left side of Ganga or in the right side of Ganga. You are neither in the left nor in the right. You are in the Ganga. When you understand, thinking and being are not different, there is no boundary. Today Raj was asking me in the car whether both matter and energy exist in the world. I told no, there is no matter, only energy matters. And when there is only energy, how can you say even the word energy? If there is something called matter, then you can use the words energy and matter. If there is only one thing, how can you call it either matter or energy? Just like that, there are no 'two things' - thinking and being. There is only one thing. But you make a boundary because we are not comfortable without boundaries.

The logic, the very quality of logic is cutting things into pieces. Unless you cut things into pieces, you can't understand. That way of understanding is by labeling things, by making them more intellectual, by making them more logical. So just for your utility's sake you can say the

left side of the Ganga or the right side of the Ganga. But in actuality, no two Gangas exist. Only in comparative reality, left side and right side exists. In existential reality, there are no two Gangas. Just like that only in comparative reality, thinking and being exists. In reality, in existential reality, You exist. That's all. Only the word 'exists' exists. There is nothing different called thinking and being. If you make a boundary, then you think that this is thinking and this is being, But there is no boundary actually. There is no boundary that at this boundary you are being and after this boundary you are thinking. There are no such two things. There is no Shakti & Shiva. There is only one thing - pure Shakti. When it is one, the word shakti also cannot be uttered. As long as you think whether you exist, whether you think because you are or you are because you think, you will have confusion. Both are just words with which we play. For play it is perfectly alright, not for real life. If you fly in the small aeroplane, the toy aeroplane, you know where you will land? It's the same with words, they are good to play with but taking them too seriously can never lead you anywhere.


Q5. Dear Swamiji, Why Is There So Much Violence In The Name Of Spirituality?

Fights and violence are not because of spirituality, they are because of religion. Whenever spirituality is alive, there are no fights. Whenever outer rituals are alive instead, the problem starts. If you give importance to Gita, there is no problem, but when you give importance to Krishna, the problem happens. But to understand Gita you need to give a little importance to Krishna. To start with Krishna is perfectly alright, but if you end with Krishna surely there's some problem. It's beautiful, good to be born in the church, but not to die there. You can start with religion, but if you go up, go ahead then there won't be all these fights. Do know the meaning for the word 'Ayodhya'? It comes from 'Ayodhi' - where there is no yuddha, where there no war happens. The very word 'Ayodhi' means where no war happens. The concept with which Rama created 'Ayodhi', the concept with which Rama named 'Ayodhi', I think he must have visualized a peaceful, joyful heaven. That is the reason why he would have named that place as 'Ayodhi', beyond wars, beyond fights, beyond disturbances. We catch Rama, but drop his vision. There starts the problem. We caught him, but not the vision. When we catch Christ instead of the Bible, then the problem starts.

There is a small story, a beautiful story - one of Rama's disciples was sitting on the bank of river in Benares, on the banks of Ganga. He was just sitting and his routine was every day in the morning he used to sing, chant the Tulsi Ramayana. He had one copy of Tulsi Ramanaya. He used to just recite the Tulsi Ramayana, to attain the Gods. The whole day he used to be there and recite Rama's name and he used to enjoy the 'Ram Nam'. He used to be just in ecstasy, he was very popular in that whole area. People used to go to him for blessings and he was leading an enlightened, joyful, ecstatic life.

One day one beggar went to him, asked, "Sir, I have not taken food for the last three days, please give me something to eat." As an enlightened person, he was filled with compassion, he could not tolerate that somebody has not taken food for three days. He felt the suffering. Ordinary people can feel only sympathy. With masters, something happens which is called empathy. They feel another's emotion in totality. And their response raises the other, lifts them to a higher plane. With ordinary people, when you share another's suffering you too get trapped in their pain. You 'fall in love' with their problems, you too fall to their level and just become part of their suffering. But with masters they just raise them in love, raise them with their love.

The sage could not tolerate that somebody is living without food, he is hungry. He had with him nothing except a copy of the Tulsi Ramayana. So he gave the beggar the book, saying, "Please take this book to the market, tell them that this book belongs to me, that this book was given by me. You will see that people will purchase this book paying a lot of money. With that money buy yourself something to eat." The book which he was almost worshipping everyday, which he never even used to open in front of the others! It was like a being for him. But he just gave the book and told, take this book, sell it in the market, you will get some money, eat with that money.

When the beggar left, the sage prayed to Rama, "Oh Rama! I have given away your words to keep your words. I have given away your words to keep your words."

What is the philosophy of Rama? Nothing but giving. The ultimate sacrifice, 'Thyaga'.

'I have given away your words just to keep your words.' So when you give away the words, just to keep their words, no fight happens. Naturally the unity, the experience of bliss, experience of peace, experience of harmony happens, when you hold on to the words instead of keeping it. Instead of keeping them in your life, if you keep them in books then the problem starts. So if you are ready to give away your words, to keep

the words, no problem can arise, no problem can exist. This is the only solution, the one and only solution. Put your energy more on understanding and developing your life than giving importance to the forms and the outer rituals.

Q6. Dear Swamiji, Could You Throw Some Light On The Chakras And Mantras?

You have asked about two things – the Chakras and the Mantras.

Let me first explain about the Chakras. Chakras are the subtle energy centers which are in your being. Of course, they have no physical existence. By activating them you can relieve a person of disease. These seven energy centers manage all your physical, mental, psychological, emotional and spiritual activities. Your attitudes and activities are controlled and managed by these chakras.

For example, if your stomach is upset, even if you hear some good news you will not be in a mood to relish it, cherish it, and enjoy it. If

your stomach is relaxed, if your being is light, even bad news or mistakes you will take in a light sense. You will forgive the other person. These chakras play a major role in your physical, mental, psychological, emotional and spiritual attitudes and activities. When they are disturbed, when they are not at ease with your system the dis-ease happens to you, when they are dis-eased with your being the disease happens to you. If the chakras can be activated by a proper method, by a proper technique, you can be freed from disease. Not only do you come out of the disease, you taste real well-being.

Even if you are not suffering from any disease, we rarely feel a true sense of well-being. What is the scale, how do you measure whether I am in a state of well-being or not? Early in the morning, as soon as you get up from the bed if your steps from the bed to the bathroom, if they are a dance instead of being steps, you are healthy. You are in a state of well-being. The steps from the bed to the bathroom should be more like a dance than like just steps. That is the time to measure whether your being is beautiful, whether you are joyful, whether you are healthy or not. That is the time you just come out of unconsciousness. You just come out of unconsciousness. That is the time to measure, who are you, how are you?

Just watch the animals as they awaken from sleep each morning. You see birds chirping for no reason. The calf leaps at least two or three times around the rope on which it is tied. The cat does a few rounds for no reason. The human being is the only animal who turns over and goes back to sleep! Early in the morning as soon as the alarm goes, the human being is the only animal who turns over and goes back to sleep. The human being is the only animal who has disconnected himself so completely from nature, from existence.

A small story:

Once a middle aged man, for some reason, wanted to get rid of his wife. His wife had a cat and the man thought he would get rid of both. Thinking that he would start with the cat, he caught the cat, took it some ten miles away, dropped it in an unfamiliar place and came back. When he reached his house, he saw the cat already standing there waiting for him.

The next day he took the cat to the other side of the town – 20 miles away. He dropped it, came back and within one hour he saw the cat standing there in front of the house.

By the third day he was really disturbed, annoyed. He took the

cat, put it in a gunny bag, tied the gunny bag properly, took the cat and drove left, right, south, west, this way, that way and after two or three hours' drive he reached a place like a forest, a dead end. He said, 'I myself have not gone to this place, so the cat can never find the way back. Let me drop the cat here, this is the best place because I myself don't know that there exists a place like this. So the cat can never find the way. He just dropped the gunny bag and drove back.

On the way back, he rang up his wife, "Dear, is the cat in the house?"

She said, "Yes, the cat is already here."

Then the man asked, "Can you please somehow find out the way back from him? I have lost my way. He will be able to tell me the way.'

The human being is the only animal who has lost connection with nature altogether, who has lost his way.

So if you see your steps early in the morning is more like a dance, you can be sure that you have not lost your way, you are living a life of well-being. Awakening of the chakras not only brings you out of the disease, it gives you a glimpse, a taste of what is well being. Most of us have never touched the state of well being. We have never experienced the state of well-being. Just like a man who is blind from his birth can never understand what he is missing, we too never understand what we are missing. We will never understand how it is to feel a sense of wellbeing, because we lost it at a very young age. So only when you enter into these chakras you will understand what you were really missing all these days. This is the basic explanation about chakras.

Now about Mantras. Never think words are just words. Be very clear: never think simply words are just words. They are also embodiments of energy. Just take an example, I utter a word 'cow'. Immediately a figure appears in your mind, with four legs, one tail, two horns, two ears and so on. Am I right? Iimmediately, just by the sound, the form is created in your system. You just try to think of that form without the sound, may not be the cow but 'gau', you will use the word in Hindi. Just try to visualize something without creating a sound, without creating a word. You can never do it, never. This visualization is what is called 'Ichcha Shakti'.

You have three energies in your system. Ichcha shakti, Kriya shakti and Gnana shakti. For the other two energies, Iccha shakti is the base metal. From this base metal, gold is created. Iccha shakti is the raw energy,

raw material from which Gnana shakti and Kriya shakti are developed. When it is 22 carat gold it is Kriya shakti. When it is 24 carat it is Gnana shakti. When it is 18 carat, just a raw material, it is Ichha shakti. Raw material is Iccha shakti, 22 carat gold is Kriya shakti and 24 carat gold is Gnana shakti. But the raw material is the basic thing. The capacity to visualize, the capacity to imagine is what is raw material. So the visualization capacity and the words are closely associated.

Adding Mantras into raw material is like processing the raw material and purifying it to pure gold. The word mantra can mean two things:

Man-tra: Man means mankind, Tra means that which shows the way, so Mantra is that which shows the way to man.

Man-tra: Man also means mind, Tra means that which shows the way, so Mantra could also mean that which shows the way out of the mind, which brings you out of the mind.

So the technique to bring the man out of the mind is the Mantra. You can say, the technique which brings the man out of the world, which shows the way to man, that is what is mantra. When the mantras are added to your being continuously, like acid is added to the raw material to cleanse it, it becomes 22 carat gold. If you continue the process, it will ultimately become 24 carat gold. So mantra is a powerful technique to enter into the spiritual zone or enlightenment or the real life.

Even in day-to-day life - what you people call as life – mantras are necessary. It is not necessary that the mantra should be in Sanskrit. You all use English mantras – I must succeed in my office, I must convince that person, I must flourish in my business. Even these words which you continuously repeat unconsciously are mantras. Don't think mantra means 'Om Namah Shivaya', or 'Hari Om Namoh Narayana'. No, these are the ancient mantras. The modern mantras can be even what you think, as soon as you get up in the morning: Today I must talk to that man and get the business, Today I must talk to her and settle things. Whatever you utter can become a mantra. That is the way to attain something. Anything that becomes a reality in your life first appears only in the form of a mantra, then becomes reality. If the mantra is unconscious, the result is also unconscious. If the mantra is conscious, then the result is also conscious. If you do it consciously, you get the conscious results and you will know how to enjoy it. If the mantra is repeated unconsciously, you will not know the purpose and the result. When it is repeated consciously you will be very clear about the purpose and where you want to reach and what will happen. If consciousness is flooded into your mind, into your mantra structure, then the path and the goal both become clear to you. You will reach it safely and beautifully, by dancing and not by walking. If it is unconscious, you are unaware about your path and your goal, so naturally you are just dragged. You are not traveling. If you are conscious only then you are traveling. If you are unconscious, it means you are just being dragged. If you know how to stop the car, how to apply the brake, you are driving the car. If you don't know, the car is driving you.

We are all chanting mantras continuously, whether you are religious or non-religious, spiritual or materialistic. You are chanting the mantra continuously, either consciously or unconsciously, that's all. If you decide to chant the mantra consciously, you will know how to stop the car, and you will be driving the car. If you let the mantra chant you, if you let the unconscious process continue in you and control your actions, the car will be driving you. If you drive the car, you will know where you will go. If the car drives you, you have no idea where you will reach!

Q7. Dear Swamiji, You Say We Are Part Of The Whole, But I Experience Myself As A Separate Individual. Can You Explain?

You may think that you are separate from existence, but you are not. Whether you want it or not, whether you accept it or not, whether you understand it or not, whether you believe it or not, you are connected to God. It's like you are God's child. If you have a small baby on your lap, even if he hits out or kicks you, keeps kicking you, he is in still your lap. Just like that, even if you resist, you are in divinity. Whether you float with the current or swim against it, you are connected to the river. You are related to this cosmic mind, the cosmic consciousness. All the minds are very closely related to each other. If you see the circle of cosmic consciousness, only on the periphery are there so many points, but in the center all just gather. If you go towards the center the distance between you and the other point becomes lesser and lesser. If you move out of the center the distance between you and others becomes more and more. If you move towards the center, you come close to your neighbours, to the other. So whether you believe it or not on the mental level, on the being level you are connected with all the beings.

So anything done consciously creates a ripple in the mind. Like if you throw a small stone in the lake, that creates a ripple and that reaches the boundary or the shore of the lake. It spreads like a wave. Just like a wave, if you drop the mantra like a stone in the conscious mind, the ripple is created. It just travels to the shore of the lake. It travels all over the lake and it creates effects. Only thing if the stone is a little big, the wave is bigger, the stone is small the wave is small. So whenever you chant anything, whenever you pray for anybody , it just surely creates an effect on your being and the other beings. It just enters like the stone that is dropped on the lake, its dropped on the mind and it creates ripples and it does create an effect in your system and other systems. In the other system if you drop the stone, what happens in the periphery, that much will happen to the other beings. What happens in the center, that much will happen to your being. So when you pray for others the effect is more on you than on others. Others do get the effect, but you get the result. They are only affected. You get the result itself.

Q8. Dear Swamiji, Can The Hyperactivation Of The Chakras Have Any Side-Effects?

If the chakras are activated by proper methods and proper techniques, it only gives health, never gives side-effects. The techniques which I have designed are fool-proof techniques, with no side-effects. Even if you do it a little wrong, you will not have the full positive effect, that's all. There will be no side-effect, no after-effect. The technique should be proper. If it is proper then these problems don't happen.

Secondly, there is no such thing as 'hyperactive' in the chakras. If a chakra is hyperactive you will only feel the expansion of your consciousness. It will only do more and more good. You will never die falling in Amritasagara (the ocean of nectar). By falling in Amritsagara you will never die. You will become more and more joyful. Just like that the hyperactivity never creates any ill-effect in your system. If the chakra is activated more and more, it creates only the well being, the joyful state, the spiritual experience, and ultimately enlightenment. It never disturbs you. It's only the laziness or non-activeness, the inertness, the 'tamas' of the chakras, which creates the trouble.

Q9. Dear Swamiji, I Already Follow Another Master, Can I Still Practise These Meditation Techniques?

One thing, the practice does not involve the change of Guru. Please be very clear, attending this two-day course does not involve change of Guru. All the masters are the embodiment of same energy. So I never tell the people to change their Gurus. It is the same energy through different channels. People come and ask me Swamiji, can I attend other discourses, can I follow another master as well? Certainly. Its not like I am trying to get you away from someone else's shop and into my own shop. Spirituality cannot be reduced to a business. Whomsoever is your Guru, to whomsoever you are attracted, with whomsoever you fall in tune, he is your Guru. He is your master. Perfectly alright. This will just help you, this will just inspire you. This will awaken you to follow your own master. What I am giving you is only the energy and inspiration, energy and inspiration to flower in your own path, that's all. It does not involve change of Guru or change of faith or change of religion or change of your spiritual system. What you are getting is only the energy and the inspiration.

Of course, 'Kundalini', can be awakened only by the Grace of Guru energy. I don't mean the grace of the Guru, it is the grace of the Guru's energy, Guru Shakti! All the Guru shakti is one and the same. It may differ only in the forms it takes.

Rama and Krishna never had any conflict. But Rama's monkeys and Krishna's cows will be fighting with each other till the very end! So it's only our ignorance that makes us think of the change of Guru and all these words. No, nothing needs to be changed. Only the inspiration and the energy needs to be awakened So attending this two-day course does not involve your change of faith, your change of belief system, change of Guru or change of religion. It involves only the change of personality. Nothing else.

Now I think its time to end. Last question. I will answer this one question, then we will finish.

Q10. Dear Swamiji, Why Are Participants And Volunteers Required To Wear White Clothes?

The mind is deeply influenced by colours.

Now they have discovered something new in the West, developed some new therapy called colour therapy. Do you know? If you put a red light in your bedroom you will not be able to have good sleep. If you use a dim blue light, you will have dreamless sleep, and so on.

If multicolours are used, the mind gets activated. Maybe that's why disco lights are in multicolour!

In Bharat, we have been practicing colour therapy for centuries without giving it a name.

We know that the colour white has the power to create a peace in your mind, and an attitude of receptivity. When white is used, the unnecessary wavering, the unnecessary thoughts are brought down. White always creates a pleasant mood, a mood of relaxation, bliss and harmony. That's why white is emphasized. Of course, it is not compulsory. I don't compel anything. It's only a suggestion. If somebody comes without white clothes - but of course, wears some clothes - that's enough! That's enough. Its not as if we say that if you don't wear white, you can't do the course. Nothing like that. Whatever rules are given are only as guidance. It's only the guidance to have the maximum result. Everything else is your responsibility. It's just to give you a simple understanding.

I think now its time for us to end this discussion!

My love and Blessings to you all.

Thank you.

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