101. Nothing is ever taken away from you🔗

Patanjali does not promote detachment. He promotes going beyond attachment or detachment. How can that happen? How, that understanding happened in me, how that click happened in me, let me describe here.

I am sharing some of the deep mystical experiences which may not be commonly understood by logic. But just because common logic does not understand it, do not think that it does not exist at all. All the scientific discoveries which are your everyday life today were unknown a hundred years ago, or even thirty years ago. Just thirty years ago, nobody would have imagined that the cellphone can become a reality, but now it is part of your everyday life. Just thirty years ago, nobody would have imagined that just by pressing a button, the whole ocean of knowledge called the internet will open in front of you, but now it is true. The things that you could not comprehend with your logic just thirty years ago have happened today. So just because you cannot comprehend something, don't think that it is not possible.

I am trying to share some of the mystical experiences, mystical truths. I am giving you the legal opinion of the cosmos - how the cosmos functions. Understand, the law of the cosmos is what we call dharma in Sanskrit. The great thing in the Vedic tradition is that the whole country's constitution was the constitution of the cosmos! We never had constitution written by human beings. Maybe after Independence, India had its own constitution, written by human beings. But originally, our civilization had only constitutions written by the Masters who experienced the constitution of the cosmos. Our rishis and smritikaras, the seers and visionaries of our civilization, were people who had experienced the laws of the cosmos.

If you understand the laws of the cosmos, you can understand vairagya. The real vairagya can be understood if you know how the cosmos functions. You may not be able to connect with what I am saying, but I want to confirm and assure you that whatever I am sharing is the simple truth, which is my own experience. I experienced this truth in my own life in thousands of ways. Please understand, I am responsible and I feel responsible for the people who are following my ideas and using them in their lives.

Internalize this truth: whatever you are worthy of can never be taken away from you, and whatever you are not worthy of can never be added to you. Whatever wealth you are worthy of and the responsibility you take for it, the love you are worthy of and the commitments you are making in return, the relationships you are worthy of and the connections you retain – they are always in balance. Please understand, for wealth you need to take responsibility, for love you need to make commitments, for relationships you need to feel connected. For each thing which you need in your life, whatever you are worthy of can never be taken away from you. When I say it, I really mean it.

For example, if somebody dies at this moment due to an accident or some other reason, he immediately take another body, and whatever intelligence, wealth, love, life, relationships he had in his previous life are carried forward to his new life also. The moment he dies, he takes another body; he just appears as a bubble somewhere else, with the same wealth, love, life, understanding and intelligence.

Nothing is ever taken away from you. This may be new, surprising, shocking for you. You may think, 'No, no, in my life I constantly feel that I have to cling onto whatever I have; if I relax even one finger, something is taken away!' You constantly feel as if you are in the middle of a flood and you have to hold on tight to whatever you can, because everything else is being taken away, everything else is slipping away in the flood. It is not! It is not the truth. But somehow, the idea of insecurity which is put inside you in childhood you is responsible for the breathless feeling you constantly carry – the feeling that you are constantly supposed to swim against the current, holding on to your wife, kids, house, car, everything with one hand, and always in the fear that the moment you are a little relaxed or weak or tired, that will also be taken away by the flood.

Please internalize this one truth. What do I mean by the word ‘internalizing’? In your life, take up this one truth which I am sharing: whatever you are worthy of can never be taken away from you; whatever you are not worthy of, even if you try to accumulate it, it will never stay with you, you will never be able to live it, enjoy it. Analyze every incident in your life with this one understanding; you will start internalizing this truth. Approach this truth with friendliness and openness; suddenly you will see that so many wonderful new secrets will be revealed to you about your life.

Whatever I am worthy of can never be taken away from me.