3. Even our Faith is Business🔗

Most of the time, we have a hidden motive for our beliefs. If we have a disease and we decide to take spiritual healing for it, we tell ourselves, 'Only if I believe in spiritual healing, I will get healed; so, let me believe.' But if what we want does not happen, then we tell ourselves, 'I think I should not have believed!' Even our faith is business. That is why Patanjali is not asking you to believe. He is very straight. If it is a straight truth, it cannot even be called a belief. Anything can be called a belief only if you have a doubt in one corner of your mind! If there is no doubt, it cannot even be called a belief; it is the straight truth, a straight experience.

After hearing about the child who was receiving chocolates from my photograph, someone asked me, 'Swamiji, why did you not give the mother what she wanted?' Please understand, it is not that I decided not to give her. It is because she could not connect. Please understand, for a miracle to happen, you need a beautiful space to be created. You need a strong feeling-connection, only then the miracle can happen. If there is a strong feeling-connection between two persons, new spaces will be awakened in both their consciousness. For example, when you fall in love with somebody, suddenly a different dimension of you, which was unknown to you, will be awakened. You will start sacrificing more. You will start becoming more joyful. You will start becoming more sensitive. Many unknown dimensions of your own being will be awakened by the other person. The same way, you will also awaken many new dimensions in the other person.

When the feeling-connection happens between two ordinary human beings and unknown dimensions are awakened in both, it is called love. Beloved is a person who awakens you to the dimensions of Love which are inside you, but unknown to you. Same way, Master is a person who awakens the unknown dimension of Enlightenment in you, which was inside you, but unknown to you.

In that small child, the feeling-connection has straightaway happened. She is in the level of Being. She is neither struggling with her intellect nor with her emotions. She is straight. She is connected, and the connection has happened at the Being level. So miracles are automatically happening in her life. They are not even being done by me.

Anything done is work; not a miracle! Anything that happens is a miracle. What you are calling a miracle just happened, because she is also in the space of NOW and I am also in the space of NOW.

truth. He needs dreams, fantasies, hopes, to live his life. He cannot bear the present moment as it is; it is too much. So he needs hopes. He needs illusions. He needs stories. He needs fantasies. He cannot be with the reality. But kids are not in that zone. They can experience the NOW. They can have that connection if they are not yet spoilt. With the child, that is what has happened. She did not ask a second question, nor did she have a second thought. It is not that she had a doubt and suppressed it. No! The moment you have a doubt and suppress it, the whole thing is over. Every time, she knows it will happen and straightaway connects - and it just happens. Till today, every day she continues to get whatever she asks for.

You may think, 'How is this possible?' One the one hand, you are not able to believe it. On the other hand, you can see that I am authentic. What to do?

I know what is happening in your mind! Some people are thinking, 'It is just a story!' Some people are thinking, 'No, I know him; he will not tell a lie. I may not be able to accept it, but he cannot be lying. So how can this be?' And there are some people who are thinking, 'Okay, so such things happen sometimes. Why should we bother about it too much?'

Understand, only when you come to the space of NOW, Yoga can happen inside you.

I am already in the space of NOW. If you can come to the space of NOW, Yoga can happen in you this very moment.

Patanjali says, 'Here, Now, begins Yoga.' You need to come to this moment. Man lives on dreams. Nietzsche says beautifully - man cannot live with the

Please understand, whether that child gets chocolates or not is not the issue. I am using that story to make you understand this truth: even our faith is a business. But in the case of the child, she is not manipulating her faith. She is straight and simple. So she is naturally is in the space of miracles.

Today, explore this truth honestly - All my beliefs carry a little doubt, in one corner of my mind. So what is that I really believe in?