105. Don’t be a foolish atheist🔗

In some countries, employment is guaranteed for all citizens. In the same way, in the cosmos, the Truth is guaranteed for everyone! The cosmos is run by a compassionate, honest, intelligent energy. The whole cosmos is not an accident, it is an order. It is auspiciousness. The person who believes that the whole thing is run by intelligence is a theist, and the person who believes that the whole thing is a chaos is an atheist, that’s all. Be very clear, atheism or theism are not based on the person or the ideas you believe in. If you believe the whole thing is an auspicious order, you are a theist. If you believe the whole thing is disorder, chaos, an accident, you are a foolish atheist. Naturally, if you believe that the whole thing is chaos, depression is inevitable, because every step you take, you are in fear; you don’t know what to do, there is no direction, there is no direction. When you understand that the cosmos moves in an order, your whole being will move in an order. When I understood that the cosmos moves in an order, suddenly I realized that my being is moving in an order.

Understand, understanding the purpose of cosmos and the purpose of your existence, and understanding the connection between the two, is what I call inner awakening, awakening to the truth, awakening to enlightenment.

Many people ask me, ‘Swamiji, how did you create such a big mission in such a short time, with millions of followers? How did it happen?’ Understand, I have not done anything! I awakened to the purpose of the whole cosmos, and the purpose of me, and the connection between the two, that's all. So now the cosmos is living through me. I have the deep security that nothing for which I am qualified will be taken away from me. When that security lands on you, what you experience is vairagya.

Listen: only a person who is a theist can experience real vairagya. Until that happens, you will always feel that something is wrong with the world, and you are being cheated, you are being exploited, you are not being given your worth.

When you are moving in the wrong direction, it looks as if everything is in moving in the wrong direction, and you go on complaining about everybody. Understand, whenever you complain, you are in the wrong lane!

I have a story for you:

An old man is driving on the freeway when his car phone rings. It is his wife.

‘Herman,’ she cries, ‘I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on 280. Please be careful.’

This old man peers out onto the freeway and says, ‘Oh God, it's not just one car, there are hundreds of them!’

> Only a person who is a theist can > experience real vairagya.

So whenever you think that the whole world is chaos, understand that you are in chaos! The atheist continues to suffer because he is driving in the wrong lane. He is bound to be depressed, because he thinks the whole thing is chaos, the whole thing is inauspiciousness. He thinks life is a curse, existence is a curse, he is here to be punished.

If you think you are here to be punished, you are already in hell. If you think that you are here to be fulfilled, you are in heaven, that's all. Hell and heaven are not geographical places; they are psychological spaces. So be very clear: it is you who is going to choose. If you understand that the whole thing is an order, it simply liberates you from insecurity. You are attached nor detached; you are in vairagya.

Hell and heaven are not geographical places; they are psychological spaces.