No Fulfillment through Objects🔗

Second truth, please understand, just through objects fulfillment can never be achieved. Just through objects fulfillment can never be achieved. A fridge is useful to refrigerate your food, a cot is useful for you to rest, a home is useful to stay, a car is useful to drive, but through these objects you can't achieve fulfillment.

Please understand, just through the objects fulfillment is never achieved. Those objects are useful for that purpose, that's all. But the fulfillment itself can never be achieved just through the objects.

If fulfillment could be achieved just through objects, then at least few thousand people should have achieved it because we have billionaires. At least few hundred billionaires we have in planet Earth who can buy anything which can be bought by money. At least they should have had fulfillment. No! Even they are not able to have. It means, just through the objects fulfillment is never achieved.

There is an important phrase that needs to be understood: 'depression of success' or the depression induced by success.

If through objects, fulfillment can be achieved what is the need for spirituality? But always I have seen, around the age of forty or forty five, everybody faces the depression of success. If you are not facing, something is wrong with you! Depression of success means you achieve what you want to achieve but you have not achieved what for you want to achieve. And suddenly that emptiness erupts.

There are three ways to face this depression of success. The first option is addiction. Addiction does not only mean alcohol or drugs. Even addiction to television, addiction to food, these things are all also addiction. Some people pour and fill their emptiness, some people dump and fill, that's all!

The other path is suicide. Not only straightaway dying, but living as 'living dead'. Just dragging, living dry, dull, dead, even that is a kind of suicide.

The third path is very intelligent that very few people take: meditation, seeking. Majority of the people take up addiction, few people take up suicide or just dragging. Very few people take up the intelligent path of seeking and meditation. So please understand, just through objects fulfillment can never be achieved.

I am not saying, objects are wrong. No! Objects are fine. Have your car, have your house, have your fridge, but understand their limitations. Don't expect them to give you fulfillment. Have your house, have your wife, have your husband, have your family, but don't expect that they themselves can give you fulfillment.

All our problem is we expect too much. If it is an object, at least you can't fight with it. If it is a person, you start fighting. Just through outer world objects or persons, fulfillment can never be achieved.

The third important truth, very important truth, is from my own experience. I tell you from my own experience. The moment you start seeking fulfillment directly, not through any objects, suddenly tremendous energy is awakened inside your system. All the objects and persons behind whom you were running start getting attracted towards you.

Please understand, I am responsible for what I am talking. I am not giving you false promise. I am not giving you hope. I am not giving you theories. I am not giving you theologies. I am not giving you philosophy. I am straightaway giving you my experience.

I tell you, bliss attracts fortune. It may seem illogical at first, but it is the truth. You may wonder, ‘I can understand fortune can bring us bliss. But how can bliss bring us fortune?’

In India, when any new thing is started, be it a business or a construction or something to do with education, the first thing that we do is, sit down for a few moments, close our eyes and be in a meditative mood. We try to bring about some kind of an energy play or transformation inside us. Of course, over the years, this has become a prayer and a ritual; that is a different issue. But the first thing that we try to do is, sit down and try to kindle the energy flow in us.

When the energy flow in us becomes fulfilling, it has the property of influencing the outer world incidents. We saw how our thoughts and emotions can simply radiate and influence even a glass of water. Our thoughts affect plants, animals and every single element of Existence.

Whether you believe it or not, accept it or not, like it or not, want it or not, you are deeply connected to Existence. You are an integral part of Existence, not an independent island as you think. Every subtle movement or subtle thought in one part of the universe causes a counter-effect at that same moment elsewhere in the universe. Our thoughts have the capacity to affect the seas. Be very clear, all the so-called natural calamities are nothing but the effects of global negative thoughts.

From a young age, we have been trained in ‘the logic of mathematics and science’, never in ‘the logic of Existence’. Mathematics logic is very straightforward and should be applied only to things where it is appropriate. In matters concerning life and relationships, mathematics logic will cause only chaos. With it, we will always look to conclude with a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ judgment. There is something beyond and deeper than this and that is Existential logic.

Your thoughts and energy directly affect your body, your cell structure, your decisions, your capacity to fulfill your decisions, the outer world incidents, even accidents. When you are centered in greed and fear, every action that you do is out of either desire or fear. It becomes very easy for others to exploit you because of this; you become very vulnerable. You create a mental setup that creates and attracts similar incidents to you. If you are filled with sympathy and self-pity, suddenly you start attracting people who abuse and disrespect you.

If instead your mental setup is one of bliss, then your energy flow will start brimming and your thoughts will be much clearer and more in the present. When you do this, you have every power to control the outer world incidents because you and Existence have a very deep connection at the energy level. This is the thread that you need to catch in order to understand that bliss attracts fortune. When you are blissful, when your mental setup is not one of worry, fear and greed but one that is in the present, always joyful, you will automatically attract all good things to yourself.

When you start seeking the truth directly, not through any object, suddenly you release a tremendous energy.

Please understand, I am telling you the straight simple truth. When you start seeking the truth directly, suddenly you are awakened to a new consciousness and energy.

I am not saying after enlightenment, these objects will be attracted towards you. I am saying even in your seeking, if you are seeking fulfillment directly, the energy which is released in your system, the awakening which happens in your system, attracts all auspiciousness and all the objects behind which you were running. It attracts everything towards you.

What you are seeking in your life directly plays a role in your consciousness. If the object of your seeking is deepened, your very consciousness changes. When you are clear about your seeking, goal, your personality becomes deep. Anything you see or experience becomes deep. In my experience, seeking transforms the seeker.

You may think, now it looks little paradoxical. Please understand, when you start working towards fulfillment, you raise yourself to a different frequency.

Let me describe this seeking.

Sometimes, early morning, you will be out of your sleep, out of your dream. But you wouldn't have been completely awakened. You will try to move your body but you won't be able to move your body. How many of you have felt that experience at least once?

In that gap, how suffocated you feel that you have to enter the body and possess the body, take control of your body! That moment only when people are not able to describe what was going on, they start saying, ‘A ghost was sitting on my chest, I was being possessed.’ No ghost possesses you; relax!

I want you to understand an important truth, ghosts are actually less powerful than you. They are actually afraid of you. When you are little frightened of them, then they start ruling you, that’s all. These are nothing but extensions of your subconscious beliefs. They are your own suppressed fantasies coming out.

Please understand this suffocation when you feel as if a ghost has possessed you. You are out of your dream state but you have not completely entered the waking state. Either you are in the dream state and you are comfortable. Or if you are completely in the waking state, you are comfortable, just doing what you want. In between, you are neither here nor there.

You feel a strong suffocation. That suffocation actually makes you wake up, and you jump to the waking state. In the same way, when you are not comfortable with this waking state, you feel the suffocation and you wake up to the samadhi state. That is what I call seeking. See, you have experienced the border between dream and waking state. The border between the waking state and the superconscious or enlightenment state is what I call seeking. See when you are out of dream, before entering into the waking state how you feel you have to wake up, that same pressure if you feel to wake up from this dream, you will wake up. That is what I call seeking.

Please understand the definition of seeking. Many times, we have a wrong understanding about seeking. If you start seeking the truth directly, not through any object, you release a tremendous energy inside your system. The inner potential energy is awakened; that is what we call kundalini shakti. The potential energy is awakened. Suddenly you will see, whatever objects you were running behind, all those objects are attracted towards you. Physical health, mental health, even wealth. Please understand, even wealth.

You may think, ‘How can wealth be attracted if my kundalini is awakened?’

Understand, even your poverty is your choice. You have a blueprint of your life inside your consciousness. You just project that blueprint and live.

If that blueprint can be altered, erased and a new blueprint can be created, you can change your life. Changing the inner blueprint is what I call living enlightenment.

If you can change the blueprint to the correct one, you can attract all the right things to yourself in this life. And even in the next life, you will constantly attract right things. Altering the blueprint is what I call spiritual practice or meditation.

Many times, some experiences will make you understand the truths which you read about. You would have read some truth in some book, some experience suddenly will make that into reality. One of my experiences helped me to realize one such truth: I had read in many books we are responsible for our birth. But I could never understand how a child can be responsible for his cancer, how a child can be responsible for his autism.

A four year old autistic boy was brought to me for healing. He was born and brought up in a Telugu family. I put my hand on the child and started healing. The moment I connected, the child started speaking in Tamil. He said, ‘Remove your hand, I don’t want you to heal me.’ In a very colloquial style of Tamil, he told me to remove my hand in a very rough way. The first thing: I was shocked as to how this child was speaking and that too in Tamil.

I asked his parents whether the child knew Tamil by any chance. They said, ‘No chance Swamiji! None of us knows even a single word in Tamil. How he is speaking in Tamil, we don’t know!’

I asked the child, ‘Why are you saying not to heal you? Why are you asking me to take my hands?’ He again replied in very colloquial Tamil, ‘Just remove your hands!’ He said, ‘I don’t want you to heal me. I purposely took this body and mind!’

I asked him, ‘Why did you take birth as an autistic child? He said, 'I was tired or working and making money and running my life. This life I decided I will not take any responsibility. I want somebody to take care of me. So I took this kind of body and mind!'

I told him, ‘Ok, but your parents are such nice people! You are giving suffering to them. Why did you take birth to them?’ He said, ‘I took birth to them, because they are good people. They will take care of me.’

Then I had to take my hands off out of respect for the individual’s freedom, and the boy said, ‘Thank you for respecting my intentions.’

This incident may be very shocking and mystical but it is true. It is the case of a stressed soul that wants to retire but doesn’t know how to retire eternally. The being can actually relax by reducing engrams but he doesn’t know how to do that. So he suppresses the expression part by taking a handicapped body, so that he has less choices to face in life. By reducing the number of choices, he tries to force himself out of the game of life.

This incident gave a clarity, click that directly or indirectly we are responsible for our life. If we can awaken the energy which can heal, which can clear the negative blueprint we are carrying about our life, I can be sure our whole life will take a big turn.

I am not teaching you positive thinking. I don’t believe in positive thinking. I don’t believe in thinking first of all! So whether it is positive thinking or negative thinking, it is junk. So understand I am not promoting positive thinking. I am just stating few simple facts, few simple truths.

Awakening your inner energy through direct seeking straightaway starts attracting the things in your life behind which you were running.

In samadhi, you are rid of all samskaras or engrams which cause disturbance in your inner space. This is the purpose why we need to achieve samadhi or fulfillment.

Actually if you achieve samadhi, you won’t lose your business or your family or profession. Don’t have any fear about samadhi! Only the engrams which hurt you, create disturbance in your inner space will be taken away. After samadhi, you will become a better person – whatever you are doing now, you will be more alive, more active, more intense, stronger.

It is not that you will forget that incident or the past. The fear and the greed which come up when the engrams come in front of you will disappear. That is the essence of samadhi. You don’t need to change your lifestyle.

You will be having the same house, expanding your business. You will be more creative, blissful and happy. But no engrams will cause any disturbance in your inner space. The memory is there but the emotional connection – fear or greed - to the memory disappears. It is like this example: as of now, your mind is filled with high resolution pictures. That is why you can’t store more than few pictures. Any memory that comes up suffocates you. So you throw that suffocation on others also – because you are suffocated. That is why you try to possess the other person in the name of love.

A small story:

Once on a cold night, a doctor was woken up to attend to an emergency. He traveled with great difficulty in the snowstorm. After examining the patient, the doctor told the patient’s family to call for his lawyer, friends and relatives, and to make a will.

When the doctor then came back home, he told his wife about what happened. The wife asked, ‘O God! Was the man that bad!’

The doctor replied, ‘No. I just did not want to be the only person having to suffer on such a cold night!’

Many times, we call everybody not because they are needed but you don’t want to be the only person suffering. Many times, our love ends up being a suffocation for the other person. With samadhi, it is not that you will be indifferent to the person. You will not have the hangover.

I tell you, not having the hangover about the persons, places or objects is the ultimate freedom. It is a tremendous freedom, clarity, courage, joy and bliss. With samadhi, the moral standard of the whole society will simply rise. You won’t even need to teach morality. Your morality won’t be there because of being moral; it will be there just because of your overflowing, fulfillment.

The problem is because of your fear of being open, you hold yourself back. You are not able to be completely with them when you are there; you have a shield around you for fear of rejection. So when you are not physically with them, naturally you will have hangover.

Samadhi converts the high resolution photographs to word documents! That is why people having samadhi have a strong memory; they can handle any number of things.

In samadhi, you will live like a god on planet earth. Put your energy into achieving samadhi. Only that life is worthy of living.

The other day, one of my swamis was driving me. I just turned to him and said, ‘I wish you people had a body like mine.’ He smiled and looked at me and said, ‘What do you mean Swamiji?’

See, when you are in samadhi, with just simple things you are completely contented, fulfilled. I was sitting in the front and some of my swamis were sitting at the back; they were having some nuts. They just gave me some nuts. I just put them in my mouth and I could clearly see the body was completely fulfilled, in samadhi, overflowing, ecstatic. Just a few nuts, nothing else! It is such a joy to live in this kind of body, with this kind of mind!

It is the ultimate luxury. I can say, any number of lives you can spend to achieve it; it is worth it. Only then you will know what is life.

A small story:

A lady filed for divorce. In the court of law, the judge questioned, ‘Madam, what is your age?’

She replied, ‘35 years.’

The judge noticed that her hair was graying and her face was wrinkled and her body seemed frail. The judge asked her for her birth certificate.

The lady handed over the birth certificate. The judge inspected it and said, ‘According to the birth certificate, you are 50 years. How can you say you are 35!’

The lady replied, ‘The last 15 years I have lived with my husband. You call that a life!’

So understand, you may have to discount all the years you lived without samadhi in some court!

So samadhi is the basic quality for any human being to live. The whole Vedic civilization was built on this one truth of samadhi. Working for samadhi, achieving samadhi was the first priority. This is the period of brahmacharya in the first 25 years of life. First samadhi was achieved, then anything else.

Just imagine, if that would have happened in your life, how much of pain and suffering could have been avoided! Life would have been so much more beautiful, lot more joyful and blissful – not only in the personal level, but also in the social level and with the whole world. But the problem is in our life, we are constantly doing trial and error. In this itself, the whole life is gone. We don’t have clarity or we don’t know the straight way to live.

Ramakrishna says very beautifully, ‘First samadhi, then world.’ He says, ‘Apply oil in your hand before you open the jackfruit.’ Then the jackfruit will not stick in your hand. Apply samadhi in the inner space before you enter into the disturbing world.

There is one more example Ramakrishna gives: if you pour milk into the water, it will mix. But if you boil it, make curd and churn butter out of it, it won’t mix. In the same way, make your being into butter through samadhi; after that it won’t mix with the world (water); it won’t get diluted with the world.

Your pain body will disappear. See, the pain body is responsible for constantly creating suffering for you, and causing suffering for others, and attracting suffering towards you. You won’t be masters of creating worry, like we are now. Then whatever you do, whether you think it is good or bad, will always be understood as bad! What you carry, that only you will radiate.

A spiritual base is absolutely necessary for your own bliss as well as for goodness for others. That is the real service to society. Unless samadhi happens for you, you will neither be useful for you nor for society. That is why the whole Vedic tradition is about refining the inner software.

So it is time to work for samadhi, achieve samadhi and radiate samadhi. I tell you, even working for samadhi, even the path is such a joy! It opens a new dimension. Working for samadhi is the ultimate entertainment. Because it does not need any object. You may not have your favorite gadget, cellphone, laptop etc every time to entertain you. But W=working for samadhi does not need anything or anyone except you.

I can say, it is not only the best entertainment, is is also the best life. Even if one person works towards samadhi, it raises the consciousness of thousands of people. So, if you are seeking samadhi, even if you have not achieved, you will see you are raising the consciousness of thousands of people. And if you start seeking, the goal has to happen, it will happen.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says beautifully,

ananyaas chintayanto maam ye janaaha paryupaasate

teshaam nithyabhiyuktaanaam yogakshemam vahaamyaham

When you surrender, relax into Me, remember only Me and nothing else, Krishna says beautifully, your yoga and kshema will happen, means taking care of your needs, and taking care that all those things stay with you. Yoga means bringing them; kshema means taking care that they stay with you. He says, ‘I take care of both.’ This is a beautiful statement and assurance by the Divine. It is not only an assurance but it is also a promise.

Because when you are remembering Him and relaxing in Him, your whole blueprint will be different. Your whole inner energy will be different. And you start attracting the right things in your life.

The strange thing is that He says we will have everything and nothing will be lost. It is difficult to believe! ‘How can I have what I want by meditating?’ This will be the immediate question. Please be very clear, now in the modern day, especially after the breakthrough with the principles of quantum physics, science clearly proves our thoughts create the whole universe.

In The Biology of Belief, reputed cell biologist Bruce Lipton explains how the latest research into the way cells receive and process information shows that our behavior is not controlled by our genes but how our behavior decides the very structure of our DNA, one of the fundamental building blocks of the body. Our very thoughts and emotions and the physical environment all influence not only our mental structure, but our very physical structure also.

Research shows that cells respond not only based on the genes but also based on the environmental factors. The genes make up only half the chromosomes. But the regulatory proteins make up the other half. Genes do not totally decide a cell’s or an organism’s life, because the survival of the cell depends on its ability to dynamically adjust to an ever-changing environment.

If we reside in eternal consciousness, we create our own universe. Not only that, the universe responds to our thoughts.

Again and again, Vedanta says, drishti-srishti, we create what we see. We create the universe from the angle of our vision. When our drishti (vision) changes, the srishti (world around us) changes too. By changing our vision, we change the world around us. They say, we project our world and see. It is the truth.

It is like a projector and slide: whatever slide we place in front of a projector, that will appear on the screen. If we place the slide of god, the picture of god appears on screen. If we place an actress, that actress appears on the screen. Whatever we use as a slide appears on the screen. In the same way, whatever we keep in front of our consciousness, we project that in our life and experience.

The slide determines the scene on the screen. Our mentality decides the way we perceive the world, the way we experience the world. A small change in the slide changes the scene. A small change in our mind changes our whole world. The screen remains the same; however the scene changes. Similarly, if the thoughts in our inner space change, the whole universe changes. The whole universe responds, the whole existence responds to our inner space.

You may think, ‘Yes Swamiji, we understand when you say the universe responds to our thoughts. However, how can we get what we want?’ Please understand that the moment we change our thoughts, the moment our inner space changes, automatically we attract things. It is like if we tune our television to the BBC channel, we see the telecast of the BBC channel. If we tune it to ABC, we see ABC channel. If we tune it to CNN, we see CNN. Similarly, if we tune our consciousness to bliss, continuously even material wealth showers on us.

We may feel it is difficult to understand. I tell you, start experimenting. I honestly tell you; I declare from my own authority, this verse is the solid truth.

I can say this with authority because I experienced this truth for nine years. I tell you, this is a promise by the Divine. Nine years I lived in utter insecurity. I know Krishna still proves His words. His words are guaranteed. Yoga kshemam vahamyaham, He does!

I can quote thousands of incidents from so many devotees' lives! Tukaram, Tulsidas and so many masters' lives I can quote. I can quote numerous incidents from my own life and from the lives of people I have met.

Let me tell you an amazing incident from my own life.

During the days of my spiritual journey, I was staying in Hardwar at a place called Kankhal. I was doing tapasya (spiritual practice). Everyday morning, I used to go for alms to places where they feed monks. In India, in so many ashrams, they give alms to monks. I used to get my food, eat two or three rotis (Indian bread) and then start meditating.

One day, I fell very sick. I had a high temperature and diarrhea. I was unable to even walk. I was thinking, 'What can be done? Alright! Let it be.' Suddenly, a young sannyasi came and gave me food. Not only for one day but continuously for three to four days, he came and brought food for me. Not only food, he brought medicine also. I asked him, 'Who are you? Where have you come from?' He said, 'Oh, my name is Shankar. They call me Shankar Maharaj. I stay at an ashram called Sadhana Sadan, a nearby ashram.' He pointed towards a distant place and said that is where he stayed.

He came and brought me food and medicine everyday till I recovered. He came for at least four days. Since he was coming everyday, I started talking with him and we became acquainted. I saw that he was wearing a beautiful pen with a diamond in it. I was surprised as to how a monk got a diamond pen.

I asked him, 'What is this, Swami?' He said, 'This is a diamond pen. Some devotee gave it to me. It looks nice, so I wear it.' After several days, when my health was back to normal, he stopped coming. Then I thought, 'I must go and see him. Now I can walk and move, so I should go and see him.' I felt a little connected to him because he served me. I felt I should meet him and thank him. After about a week, I became completely alright and was able to walk.

I went searching for the ashram Shankar Maharaj had told me he was staying in. When I found the place, I asked an elderly person sitting there, 'Swamiji, I want to see Shankar Maharaj.' The swami said, 'Shankar? Who are you talking about?' I said, 'I want to see Shankar, a young swami. I met him two to three days ago. He used to come everyday and bring me food when I was not well for the past few days. Is this Sadhana Sadan?'

The swami replied, 'Yes, this is Sadhana Sadan. But in our ashram, there is only one Shankar. Go to the temple and see. He is the only Shankar Maharaj we have!' He pointed towards a particular area.

I tell you, this is the truth. When I entered the temple, I saw Shiva as a white marble statue with the same pen on the cloth draped on his upper body! The same pen was on Shiva’s clothes! The same diamond pen!

Of course, tears rolled down from my eyes. So much gratitude overflowed. Later, I asked the swami, ‘How did this pen come to Shiva? Who put a pen on Shiva’s statue?’ He said, ‘One week ago, a devotee came and offered the pen. It looked nice and they said it was a diamond. We just wanted to decorate Shiva with diamond jewelry. So we put the pen on him!’

I again asked, ‘Who put a pen on Shiva?’ Because at least if it is some other regular kind of jewelry, we can believe it. But who would put a diamond pen on the deity?

The swami replied, ‘I don’t know. A devotee came and offered this pen. I said, why should a sannyasi have a diamond? I will give it to god.’ So I put it on Shiva.

He then continued, ‘For the last few days all the food offering, prasad that we place in front of Him, disappears. I suspect that rats have been eating the food. So now I am careful. I sit for a while after placing the food for Shankar Maharaj.’

I did not want to tell him that I was the rat who ate Shankar Maharaj’s food!

During the 2006 Himalayan yatra, we searched for this ashram and Shankar Maharaj’s temple. After many years, it was still the same, the same temple and the same Shankar Maharaj, but no diamond pen now!

You may say, ‘This is your experience. How can this be a truth for us, Swamiji?’ An ordinary mind doubts. I say, you can experiment with this truth in your life.

Let me tell you that your consciousness, your inner space has the quality to create miracles in your lives. Miracles can happen in your life. What you need, you will receive. Continuously, miracles are happening. Just trust that our consciousness is connected to the universe. Continuously, the universe cares for us. The Divine waits for us. It responds to our thoughts.

We create what we want. Just as we create the whole world in our dream, similarly we have the power to create the world when we are conscious, when we are in the waking state. When we can create a world in the dream state, can’t we create that in the waking state? We can do it.

You can see in your life: if you carry that self-pity, you will always attract people who abuse and disrespect you. You will always attract situations which abuse you. Actually you are happy when you are abused. You can go on brooding over it; you can constantly remember, ‘See what happens to me!’ We start enjoying unconsciously. It is a kind of a mental setup which enjoys all this kind of things, which doesn’t want to take the responsibility and stand up.

You start blaming, ‘This is how life is. This is Kali Yuga; it will be like this only. God is punishing me.’ God is not a sadist; He doesn’t need to punish you!

You are not an accident. You are a conscious miracle of Existence. If you are here, Existence wants you to be here in this form. Existence is fulfilling itself through you.

Be very clear, there is no effect in Existence without a cause. Whether it is a ‘miracle’ or ‘accident’, the effect always happens because of some cause, some choice you made consciously or unconsciously.

Whenever after an incident, you like the result, you call it a miracle and you feel you are responsible. If you are not comfortable with the aftermath, you call it an accident and say that you are not responsible. This is actually hypocrisy! Taking partial responsibility of your own choices is hypocrisy.

Remember, straightaway when you start seeking, you awaken the energy which attracts all the things behind which you were running. This is the third truth; it is from my very experience. If you start internalizing it, you will see that it starts happening inside you.

If the old blueprint is erased and a new blueprint is created, the ability to take responsibility starts happening inside you. You will see you will start attracting even wealth.

You may think it is little impractical. No; please understand, I am not talking about what will happen after enlightenment. No! I am not talking about that. I am talking about even simple seeking. When you start the intense seeking, even seeking can release an amazing energy inside you, which will start attracting all the objects, persons, things, behind which you were running.

You may think it is a false promise. No. I tell you from my experience and my experience with millions of disciples.

Sometimes people come and tell me, ‘For the last twenty years, I have been a seeker. But I don’t have wealth; I am broke and sick.’ Be very clear, maybe you are justifying your laziness as seeking. You don’t want to contribute anything; you just go around, wandering in the name of seeking. And you are trying to justify your laziness as seeking.

A sincere seeker awakens a different energy inside him. He can attract, pull anything he wants in his life.

The whole problem why we are not able to relate with these mystical truths is our way of thinking. See, there are three types of logic as explained by the enlightened master Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras: tarka or simple logic, kutarka or negative reasoning and vitarka or the right reasoning beyond the simple logic or negative reasoning.

To explain all these three, I can give an incident from my own life.

As a young boy, I used to have a small idol of lord Ganesha with me and I would do puja (worship) everyday to that Ganesha. I would pour water, put little food in front of Ganesha and wave the lights, wave the camphor. It was like really I was living with Him. I was not just doing some puja, I was living with Him. There was a strong feeling of connection.

The whole day I would be sitting, fanning Him, or doing whatever I can. Anything given to me I would bring it and put it in front of Him. I used to go to satsangs (spiritual gatherings) as a small boy. One day at a satsang, the teacher was narrating an incident from the life of the saint Nambiyandar Nambi. He was a great saint born and brought up in South India. The teacher was describing an incident from his life as a young boy.

The boy’s father used to worship Ganesha in a temple every day. One day the father fell sick and he asked the son to go and do the worship. The son went with the food and all the worship articles. He did the worship and put the food in front of Ganesha. He thought Ganesha used to really eat every day. He was doing puja for the first time, so he thought Ganesha was supposed to eat. And he was sitting, waiting for Ganesha to eat.

Half an hour, one hour, two hours, the food was there untouched. The boy started worrying, ‘What happened? Did I do anything wrong? Ganesha is not eating.’ And he started talking to the deity but there was no response. Then he started telling, ‘If you don’t eat and if I go back, my father may fire me. He may shout at me, please do something. If I have done some mistakes, forgive me. Please eat.’ Of course, Ganesha did not eat.

Suddenly, the boy felt deep trust or shraddha towards Ganesha. He felt Ganesha had to eat. He started weeping, ‘Till you eat, I am not going to leave this place.’ Five to six hours were over, but the food was there, Ganesha was sitting. Then the boy went to the extreme, he gave a suicidal threat. He said, ‘I will hit my head on these steps and die if you don’t eat,’ and he started hitting his head.

Understand, even the doubt did not exist, he just knew that Ganesha was going to eat. He started hitting his head and the story says suddenly Ganesha appeared and ate the food and blessed him. When the boy went back to his father, the father asked what happened, where the food was. He said, ‘Ganesha ate!’ The father could not believe this! He questioned the boy, ‘Did Ganesha eat or did you eat?’

The surprised boy innocently said, ‘No, Ganesha ate! If you want to see, please come, I will show you.’ Then he took his father and there the father saw the mouth of Ganesha smeared with the remains of the food. The story says the father fell at the feet of the son saying, ‘All these years, what I was only doing as a ritual, you made it as reality, you made it as Truth.’

When I heard this story, suddenly I decided, I will also feed my Ganesha. I was possessed by a strong shraddha. See, when you are possessed by shraddha, you will not have kutarka or negative reasoning at all. I decided I will also make Ganesha eat. This is tarka, simple logic. When he made Ganesha eat, why not me?

I was brought up in a joint family. In the family, there was an old lady who was one of my relations like my grandmother. If the kids did not eat, she would always threaten them, ‘Hey, I will put you inside the well.’ There was a huge well in the center of the house. She would shout, ‘I will put you inside the well.’ So I had heard only that logic. So naturally what will I do? I went and put little food in front of Ganesha and told Him to eat.

When I saw that after half an hour He did not eat, I started using the same technique, ‘I will put you in the well!’ This is what is kutarka. Please understand, I had heard only that. The old lady had taught me kutarka. So just like her, I started shouting threats to Ganesha. I started using the same words she was using, ‘Better eat now or you are going to be in the well...’ But Ganesha was there silently. I decided I am going to put Him in the well.

What the old lady used to do was, she would hold the kid, and take little food in the other hand and show the well, ‘See, see! I will drop you!’ These kids would open their mouth and cry, ‘Aaaah’, and she would put the food inside. That was the way she would feed the kids. I decided I would also do the same thing with my Ganesha. I took the Ganesha in one hand and food in the other hand, and I showed Ganesha the well, ‘Eh, see the well, I will throw you inside!’ But He did not open His mouth. I tried two or three times, then I decided to change my way of getting Him to eat. There used to be a vessel in which they would take water from the well. I put Ganesha in the vessel. I started lowering, threatening Him, ‘See, I will really drown you, I will really drown you…’

When the vessel was about to touch the water level, suddenly I realized, maybe now He would have changed His mind and He wanted to eat, but there was no food in the vessel. So I brought Him out, put the food also in the vessel and started lowering Him again. The vessel was almost close to the water level but nothing happened.

I did not have the mind to really put Ganesha into the water also. It was too much. He really meant a lot for me. And it was a very strong relationship. So I could only threaten, I could not put Him in the well actually.

Finally, I took Him out. I said, ‘Alright, maybe He did not like the cooking, maybe He did not like the food.’ See how the kutarka works! Kutarka says everything is wrong, except you!

Then I started thinking the food is not right. Maybe my mother was not cooking properly. I went to the temple where they offer food to the deities. I thought that the food at the temple was eaten by deities every day. So I went to the temple cook. I used to do lot of voluntary work at the temple as a young boy, like washing the vessels and cleaning the floor.

So I asked the cook, ‘Will you give me little food for my Ganesha?’ He said, ‘Why little food? Have more.’ He gave lots of food. I brought it to the house and said to Ganesha, ‘See, I brought the same diet which you eat at the temple every day. Now there is no reason, no excuse. Come on, eat! I was continuously sitting for maybe three or four hours but He was still not eating. I said, ‘I brought the food you eat everyday at the temple. Why are You not eating? I am not going to let you off today!’ So again I put Him in that bucket and started lowering Him into the well.

By then I had actually memorized all the abusive words my grandmother used to say to make a child eat! All those words, like a sloka (chant) I memorized and started repeating. I really thought those words were very powerful, they would make Him eat. And all the techniques I had tried with my old diet, I tried everything step by step with this new diet. I put Him in the bucket and as the bucket was about to touch the water, I even started shouting, ‘Are you listening to what I am saying?’ Of course He was not eating. But I could not drown Him because it was a very strong relationship, very loving relationship. So what to do? I took Him out. I can say I was really depressed, very worried.

I was sitting in a completely low mood, not knowing what to do! See, if my grandmother did all these things to any child, the child ate. And I knew only those techniques. I didn’t know any other technique. I had not read any book on how to feed Ganesha or how to feed kids! Whatever manual was there in front of me, that whole thing I had tried. Nothing worked. So I was sitting. And the Ganesha was lying there.

One nice thing with shraddha or trust is, even if you start with kutarka, the power of trust is such, the power of shraddha is such, it turns the whole thing to vitarka. Please understand, the power of trust is such even if you start with the wrong logic it turns the whole thing to right logic. Because the trust is not just energy or logic, it is intelligence.

Tarka is logic, kutarka is negative logic and vitarka is trust with positive energy and logic.

The shraddha is so powerful, suddenly something clicked in me. I can say this was one of the powerful clicks that happened in my life. I realized that Nambiandar Nambi, the saint who made Ganesha to eat, tortured himself and not Ganesha. But here I was torturing Ganesha and not myself. In this strong click that kutarka became vitarka. The wrong reasoning became right reasoning. When that click happened I thought, ‘Right! Yes!’

Nambiandar Nambi found fault with himself when Ganesha did not eat. When Ganesha did not eat the food, he found fault with himself, not with Ganesha or not with something else, not with the diet. In my case, I was complaining about Ganesha. I was trying what my granny was trying, I was talking about diet, I was thinking that my mother was not cooking properly and I was thinking about everything in the outer world. I was having kutarka, I was finding fault with everything external.

Suddenly I realized, I turned and looked in, ‘The problem must be within me. Let me work.’ That vitarka or click happened, the right reasoning happened. Please understand, it was a very strong click, ‘Yes, with Nambiandar Nambi, he did tapas, but in my case I am torturing Ganesha. Let me do tapas.’

See, shraddha is like a loaded gun. When the right vitarka happens with shraddha, it is like triggering a gun. Without shraddha, without the strong trust, the kutarka can never become vitarka, the wrong reasoning can never become right reasoning.

With shraddha, when the right reasoning happens, the trigger is pulled. The trigger was pulled, the loaded gun fired. Trust is like a loaded gun and when right reasoning happens, vitarka happens, the gun is triggered.

Understand, suddenly the click happened, ‘Yes, it is time I look inside, I turn inside and change something in me.’ Then I decided now I am not going to eat till Ganesha ate. It was a strong will. Even in those days, I used to be very strong-willed. Once I decided, it had to happen, that’s all.

I was sitting with Ganesha, brought the food, arranged everything. Actually I used to have a small shrine like a temple at the back of my house. I would be staying and spending time only there. I can say that is the first ashram I built for myself and for my deities! I used to spend my time there so that nobody would disturb me in the house. Usually they would send the food or I would go and bring my food, otherwise I would be spending time at my little shrine. So I sat with all the arrangements for Ganesha to eat.

I was very clear because of the trust, the shraddha. There was no doubt. See, if He did not eat, there was some problem with me, that’s all! But about the incident itself there was no doubt. The possibility that Ganesha came and ate in Nambiandar Nambi’s life, that incident was a reality for me. The factuality of that incident I never questioned.

Understand, the kutarka which happened with the factualities of our puranas is the worst thing that happened to the Indian consciousness. Whether it happened because of Indians themselves or because some foreign invasion taught it to them, that is the worst thing that happened to Indians. The kutarka happened with the Vedic tradition, with the great puranas.

Please understand, I am working with thousands and thousands of patients, means people with different kinds of diseases. In India I am well known for healing different kinds of patients, diseases etc. In the last six years I don’t know how many thousands of people have been healed and helped.

In my experience, I have started understanding many important secrets about body and mind. I have read many of them in the Upanishads or the Puranas or the traditional scriptures, but experientially now I have started realizing. Please understand, literally what you believe as your body and mind becomes reality in ten to twenty days in your life. I have seen this happening.

What system you believe works for your body from the young age, that system actually works for you. From the young age, for what system your vitarka is developed, your right reasoning is built, that system exactly works for you. From the young age if a person is taught by somebody that yoga will work for him and he grows with that one idea, the yogic solutions straight away cure that person. There is no other logic.

From the young age, if somebody is brought up with the idea siddha works for his body and if two or three times the doctor gave him some siddha medicine and it worked for him, he is convinced siddha straightaway works for him. The idea with which his vitarka is developed, that straightaway works for him. If you are brought up with the idea or the right reasoning that puranas are reality, please understand, I promise, you can straightaway see those puranic deities and the heroes and relate with them!

Very beautifully, Aurobindo, a great modern-day master from the Vedic tradition, in one of his amazing books Savitri, beautifully says, the deities and gods and heroes and different energies described in puranas, are the physical manifestations of particular energies corresponding to the Cosmic Consciousness. They are the cosmic conscious representations. For example, Devi represents the Mother energy of the Cosmos, which gives birth, which reproduces, which creates. She represents that energy and you can connect with that energy through the manifestation with which you are brought up.

Please understand, if you are made to understand the trust that this is the form of Devi, if you connect to this form, you will connect to Mother Nature. If this vitarka is developed in your system, please understand you have a channel open for you to create miracles in your life; you are a superhuman.

Please understand, it is like the difference between having a ten channel television network and a hundred channel network. If you are brought up with this right reasoning, with this right vitarka, you are like a hundred channel television network. Now, you have the unique capabilities of expressing miracles in your life. You are capable of attracting miracles in your life. Your very being, your very consciousness is capable enough of creating the miracles.

Understand, I am working with millions of disciples. With my own experience I tell you, whoever has grown with that vitarka, I am able to heal them, play or express miracles in their life directly. One word is enough, that’s all!

Anyways, coming back to the incident, I was sitting with Ganesha. One day was over and the food was there. I was very strong, there was no question of eating till He ate. I would go and bring food from the house and keep the food in front of Ganesha and I would sit. I would remove the old food, throw it away and sit.

One day was over, one night was over and I was not even sleepy, I was just sitting. The second day was also over. But I was very strong. See, for a small boy without food, naturally the logic would be imbalanced, the willpower will come down. I said, ‘Nothing doing, I am going to do it. Till He eats I am not going to eat.’

Maybe on the third day, I touched that zone when this trust and vitarka, right reasoning, both became part of my very biomemory, the prarabdha. That is when that explosion happened. Suddenly, I fell into some state, surely not unconscious, and I saw very clearly, Ganesha sitting in front of me and eating! If it hurts your kutarka, I am sorry. Again, but I have to tell you the truth. When I opened my eyes and saw, I promise there was no food, the food had disappeared!

Whatever way you want to understand, you can understand. But the food was not there. And I know Ganesha ate. Maybe, people with kutarka can tell, ‘Who knows when you were closing eyes, some rat could have come and eaten!’ Whether Ganesha ate, His mouse ate, let the kutarkis think about that, I don’t know about that!

But I know for sure, Ganesha ate. Because when He eats, He gives you some prasad means He gives you some benefits and boons. A strong trust, an extraordinary ecstasy, those are the prasadas, gifts, boons from the Lord. I received that prasad, I knew He ate. I had that experience in me so I know He ate. Even though it looks little strong, understand, what I say is honest truth. It is honest truth, that’s all I can say.

Maybe the power of these words, the truth and strength behind these words will directly work on you. You don’t even have to believe. You don’t even have to have tarka or kutarka. You will see the power of these words because this is vitarka, this is satya. It will automatically create the right vitarka in you, the right reasoning in you.

I wanted you to understand this incident, my experience, so that you understand about right reasoning. Please understand, when I heard that master’s story and started thinking, ‘When he can, why not me?’ that is tarka. When I started trying the wrong method, wrong technique, it is kutarka. And because of my trust, when the right thing clicked, it is vitarka.