Summary🔗

As I observe what is going on in and around me, I notice a change in the power of Mother Earth.

She is releasing Her grip on people through gravity, with profound effects on our geology, economy, global politics and individual mentality. Our minds become quieter under the lessened gravitational pull. As a result, we will need fewer thoughts to do any given task.

This is an easily observable change. It can be externally quantified. People will react to it in one of two ways.

On the one hand, modern international society today is founded on the value of thinking. It encourages and rewards a large volume of thoughts. Thinking is equated with productivity, intelligence and personal achievement. This intellectual focus rightly frowns on tamas, the laziness of inertia; but instead of seeking balance, satva, it flips to the opposite end of the spectrum and praises rajas, the hyperactivity of restlessness.

On the other hand, there are people from traditional and tribal societies like the Vedic culture, which draw upon ancient wisdom, and spiritual seekers from every walk of life who know the value of a quiet mind. These people understand that a quiet mind or no-mind (an enlightened state) means causeless bliss, extraordinary spontaneous intelligence and high performance. They prize the same outcome as the thought-based societies, but they achieve it through satva rather than through rajas.

As this change in the earth's gravity is taking place, people who are focused on a love of thinking are finding that their minds are getting quieter. This new experience can be unsettling; if they do not like this new experience, they can fall into depression. They find the lack of thoughts very boring and so they feel lost; life loses meaning and low energy results. This is why we are seeing a rapid increase in depression in countries whose culture is based on constant thinking.

The people who have internalized quietness or are seeking spiritual enlightenment are finding that they are suddenly reaching quieter states more easily. This allows them to accomplish more activity with fewer thoughts. They are suddenly finding new levels of creativity, spontaneity and energy.

As we move towards 2012, we will find that a task that took one hundred thoughts in 2008 will be done with only forty thoughts. That is the physical effect on the body-mind of the changes in the Earth. The friction between thought and action will decrease. By 2012 we will be able to convert these low levels of thoughts into direct enlightened action. If we are comfortable with a low level of thoughts, this will be a beautiful transformation for us.

Individuals and cultures that champion the idea of thinking may brand these changes as negative, and create new diseases and medicines to 'deal with' what is simply the natural, healthy evolution of Planet Earth.

Let us celebrate that 'less-thought-more-action' is a natural expansion of life! 'No mind, only action' is a natural expansion of human experience and expression.

We can look at this expansion as similar to the expansion that happened when a few monkeys tried to become man and started to attempt walking straight on two legs.

When the first monkeys tried this, all the other monkeys would have said, 'No, No... it cannot be done!' Naturally all the other monkeys would have asked, 'Aye, what is the use of walking straight? What is wrong with being a monkey? Why are you unnecessarily struggling?'

And naturally, the monkeys who tried to walk straight would have had thigh pain or knee pain. They would have taken a lot of risk! They might have been boycotted by society. People would have called them crazy!

There would have been a huge bunch of monkeys criticizing the first monkeys. But there would also have been a few intelligent monkeys saying, 'What he says may be practical, why not try?'

But monkeys cannot understand what it means to become a human being. They do not know how new possibilities are opened. In the same way, when man becomes a new man, becomes a jeevan mukta, a living enlightened being, completely new possibilities are opened!

Don't ever bother about the question, 'What is the use of becoming a new man? What is the urgency? What is the need?' I tell you, the monkey who tried to walk on two legs and succeeded in becoming a human being can give the other monkeys the guarantee what you will have if you also start walking on two legs and become a human being.

In the same way, as an incarnation who has experienced jeevan mukti, living enlightenment, I can guarantee you that when you become a superconscious being, jeevan mukta, how it matters to you, to the whole cosmos, to the whole human society. Then whatever you call as extraordinary – whether levitation, teleportation or telepathy, all these ashta maha siddhis (eight hallmark yogic powers of an awakened being) will become a simple life style for you!

When the monkeys tried to walk on two legs and become human being, if they were given a promise, ‘If you become a human being, you can sit anywhere and see anything that happens anywhere around the world,’ no monkey would have believed. In the same way, whatever you cannot imagine now will become a reality at that time.

When the monkeys started walking on two legs with an erect spine, the brain developed new pathways to accommodate the unfamiliar perspective. But that first monkey could not even have imagined all the biological developments and the consequential after-effects of his action! In the same way, the idea that we can perform intelligent actions in a no-mind state seems foreign to us.

It was only after the monkey begun to walk upright that the subtle brain grooves started to proliferate, supporting the expansion of intelligence. When still subtler brain grooves in the brain system start developing, they facilitate the experience of enlightenment. The evolution from monkey to Homo sapiens brought us to the first wave – we developed the mind. Now it is time for the wave of enlightenment to bring no-mind!

Living with no-mind is what I call ‘living enlightenment’. It is just a glimpse at the millions of dimensions of conscious development, leading the way to an enlightened humanity.

The shift we are witnessing is on a grander scale than that which took place when monkeys chose to stand up and walk on two legs. We can try to fight it, or we can flow with it. The choice in the past was to remain as monkeys or become human. Now it is to remain as humans or evolve to superhumans – enlightenment!

The struggle you go through while you try to stand up is what I call tapas, courage, tyaga, sacrifice. Like how a country respects a person if he sacrifices his life for the independence of the country, when you decide to take the jump to the higher state, you are sacrificing everything for the independence of human consciousness from bondages, from limited awareness. So the entire cosmos will celebrate you forever!