105. Live like God on Earth🔗

Living in vairagya means living in tune with the cosmos. When you know that you are responsible for your current situation, you also know that you have the power to change it. You know you have the power to expand and attract better and better things, people and situations into your life. Your whole focus on expanding your intelligence and your life. The energy shift will happen in you. This one understanding will lead you to vairagya, and vairagya is living enlightenment.

Many times, because we don't understand life, we go on suffering from insecurity and wasting our time in changing the small-small spare parts of our life, instead of changing the big things that we really need to change. I have one more story for you: A man calls his mechanic and yells, 'You said that this is the last battery I need to change for my car. In six months the battery is dead.' The mechanic replies, 'Is it so Sir? Sorry, I did not think your car will last for six months.' If you are too busy changing your spare parts of your life, you will miss looking into the condition of the engine! If you are too busy changing your house, changing your car, changing your relationships, changing your outer-world things, you will miss looking into what really needs to be changed in the inner world.

Vairagya means turning your attention to the blueprint which you are carrying, and working on the blueprint, and letting the external things change as the blueprint changes. Live with this one understanding of altering the blueprint and letting things happen as the result.

Sometimes, people are not able to grasp even this simple understanding. They ask, 'how do you know that whatever you are worthy of can never be taken away from you?' Understand, the person who is talking to you is very clear. Even if you don't know, he knows what he is talking about! I have a story for you about 'How do you know': A wife calls her husband on the phone and cries, 'I took the car out this morning, and wanted to go for a drive, but after just a few minutes it refused to move any further. I think there is water in the carburetor.' The husband says, 'How do you know there is water in the carburetor? You don't even know what the carburetor is!' 'I am telling you,' repeats the wife, 'I am sure there is water in the carburetor.' 'We will see,' says the husband. 'Let me check it out when I come back. Where is the car now?' The wife says, 'Right next to the garage, in our new swimming pool!'

If you ask me, 'How do you know that whatever you are worthy of will not be taken away?,' this will be my answer: you are in the pool of consciousness, you are in the dharma pool, so there can be no doubt about it!

People tell me, 'But, Swamiji, this is Kaliyuga! In those days, once upon a time, long long ago, Krishna was there, Rama was there, Buddha was there. Now it is Kaliyuga, and people have no one to guide them to the Truth.' Please understand, the Iron Age will end when you become aware. Kaliyuga will end when you become conscious - nothing else! Buddhas continue to walk on planet Earth. Krishnas continue to dance on planet earth. Ramas are still living on planet Earth. Ramakrishnas are again and again walking on planet Earth. Mira are still singing on planet Earth. Dharma is still alive, cosmos is still in order, truth is always prevalent; it is we who never get awakened. It is we who never look into the truth.

Look inside, awaken to this one truth; your whole life will get reorganized. Your whole inner mental set up will get reorganized. Your whole inner space will get rearranged. The Truth will be established in you. Your whole life will fall in tune with the Truth.

I want to repeat this sutra of Patanjali. > The conscious withdrawal from the objects of the > senses at the body, mind and spirit level, leads one > to a state of awareness which is called vairagya.

With this one understanding, live with your house, live with your car, live with your bank balance, live with your relationships, live with your love; you will be living like God on planet Earth. You will be living with such tremendous freedom, such tremendous joy, you will live like God on the planet Earth. Living like God on planet Earth is what I call living enlightenment, jeevanmukti. If this one idea is understood, you will see that your whole life is new, illumined. Suddenly you will see that you are rearranging, reorganizing, all your major decisions. Your idea about wealth will change, your idea about security will change, your idea about love will change, your idea about relationship will change, your idea about life will change, your idea about everything will change. If this one idea is not understood, we are in darkness. If this one idea is understood, we are in light.

CONTEMPLATION

If I am responsible for my current situation, it also means that I have the power to change it!

SUTRA 16

Tatparaṁ puruṣakhyāterguṇavaitṛṣṇyam Withdrawing from the desires through the conscious visualization of one's inner space is the higher state of awareness.