A TECHNIQUE🔗

To tire that logic

I was with Tibetan Buddhist monks one time. They do a strange thing. They cover your body with a sort of a bell, a metal frame like a bell. There will be a small hole for breathing. Six to seven monks sit around that bell and rub it with a wooden stick. They don't beat, they just rub. That rubbing creates a strong vibration and you feel as if every part of your body is being pierced by needles. When they start, it is a very pleasant experience because it's like a massage. It's something like a 12 hour process. In-between they give you a little food also. They will remove that bell and give a little food, or they give the food through that hole.

Understand: it's very strange. In the beginning, it's a very strong vibration. They don't create sound, only vibration. If they create sound you will become deaf. They chant mantras and that vibration slowly makes you feel that every pore is penetrated by small needles. After a few minutes, you feel just ecstatic.

Then they program your body. It is like reformatting the computer. They completely remove all the programming which was done to your body earlier. From a young age, your mother teaches you: at this moment you will feel hungry; at least thrice a day you should eat; if you go in the rain, you will catch a cold, etc. You are programmed for all nonsensical things. If you are programmed that you will catch a cold if you go in the rain, you don't even have to go out in the rain; if you see the rain through the window, hutch - you will sneeze!

Your muscles carry memories. You can't remember or think of anything without remembering your body first. Just close your eyes and try to remember something without remembering your form, you can't... This is the hard disc. Muscles are the place where your memories are stored. That is why, whenever you suffer with some memory strongly, that part of the body will pain. If you suffer with a memory or idea of responsibility, not able to take up the responsibility or fulfill it, you will have shoulder pain. If you suffer with repeated thoughts and worries, you will have stomach problems. Some particular memories are connected to particular muscles of your body.

The Tibetan monks just reprogram the whole body. They just sing, 'You are beyond hunger, you are beyond thirst, your energy is so much, you can directly take energy from space, you will live for hundreds of years.' I was surprised to see their graveyards. It is written: this person died in 220 years unfortunately. Premature death at 220 years because they believe human beings live 300 years. It has been medically proven.

Temple flagstaff in the making. Made out of a single piece of wood, the flagstaff is competed with brass covering with intricate workmanship. Picture taken in 2006 in Bangalore ashram.

The researchers from Wisconsin University went and stayed with them and did some research on how they are eating so much less and living so long and healthy. They say in their report that if you eat a certain quantity of food, and if ten calories of energy is produced in your system, then in their system, more than 100 calories of energy is produced! This is the technique through which they create such a system, which can run with less food more efficiently. They program you.

Flag staff of the Anandeshwari temple, Hyderabad, 2007

Even if you logically try…See what happened to me! When they first told me: you are beyond hunger and thirst, I thought how can this be? But slowly my logic lost its strength. My logic became tired because of the constant vibration and I was not able to argue with them mentally. See: I was not arguing verbally; mentally I was arguing. My unconscious was arguing with them, when they were saying: you are beyond hunger, you are beyond thirst. How many times you will say: no, no, no? Slowly the logic told: alright let them tell whatever they want, leave it. The logic lost the attitude of fighting. It lost the power to contradict. That is the time they penetrate you. They took a small wooden piece and started hitting it on my forehead with a hammer.

Actually at the ashram in India, we work on this technique but with fire. We call it panchatapas. Just like how I was made to sit inside that bell with the vibration, I make them sit inside the fire ring and make their logic tired. Then I create the new programming by telling them: you are beyond this body and mind, and give them these truths. Please do not think it is a hypnotizing process, no! It is a de-hypnotizing process. You are already hypnotized by the wrong thought that you are the body and mind. Meditation is not hypnotizing, it is de-hypnotizing.

Once your logic doesn't talk back… they find out that your logic has been silenced by trying to hit your third eye between the eyebrows. The spot between the eyebrows is where your logic will be, whenever you are in a waking state, and that is where your logic will stay. They just hit it with a small piece of wood with a hammer. If that place is soft as wax, your logic has relaxed. If that place is like a strong bone, opposing, then they don't do the process. They wait and rub the bell again. I was shocked that they were able to send at least a three inch size wooden piece inside my ajna - third eye location - and were able to take it out, without bleeding or pain! It happened in this very spot, to this very body. They do it so beautifully and slowly. By the time they finish the process of inserting that big piece of wood into your third eye and taking it out, you are completely programmed for enlightenment! Your body and mind are programmed to live without pain, without being tired, without the qualities of the ordinary body. You may think how this is going to help you. I spoke about this just to tell you the possibility…

Become transcendental

You experience God according to your own experience of yourself. Whatever you lack, you worship. You worship the idol which will be the fulfillment of your Being. For instance, if you are a poor man, you start worshipping Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth. If there is lack of knowledge, you worship Saraswati. If there is lack of confidence, you worship Durga and Kali. If you are in a highly elevated state of consciousness, you experience God in that fashion. Man stays in the seven chakras - the seven levels of vital energy centers in the body. If you are in the lowest level, that is the muladhara chakra, you are caught in lust and desire. You worship a God who can grant all your desires, boons. That is why God is understood as a giver of boons throughout the world and is very popular. People are caught up in fantasy, expectations and desires, and whoever fulfils these becomes their God. The moment they miss giving a single boon, the Gods will get dethroned! Next is the man who is caught in the swadhishtana chakra - fear. You worship the God who gives confidence, who you believe will take care of you. You go behind the deities that have many weapons and many hands. You experience God as a protector. The third level man stays in the manipuraka chakra - worry. You continuously worry and remain confused. You worship the God who gives clarity and peace. You will want deities that radiate peace. Next is the man who lives in the anahata chakra - attention need. Here, you are attracted towards the God which showers love on you. You worship the God who gives emotional fulfillment. Next, if you are raised to the level of the vishuddhi chakra - the urge to be unique, the God of creativity or Energy appeals to you. You experience God as the creator.

If you are centered in the ajna chakra - ego, somebody in the egoless state attracts you. Rishis, seers, sages, prophets and Masters attract you. The egoless man becomes your idol. That is why I say - man creates God in his own mould! You simply relate with God or the Masters from these six levels. A relationship doesn't happen. You simply reduce them to mere mortals. You have a concept in your mind, and you are demanding from them that concept - it is simply a monologue. In the ajna chakra, the dialogue starts. Only in the sahasrara chakra - gratitude, the communion happens! If you understand that you are actually relating to your Gods and Masters from these chakras, and that you need to go beyond this and catch the transcendental expression of the Divine, all your problems will dissolve!

When you are in the muladhara chakra, the Master drills into you like a crowbar. At a little higher level, he is like a knife penetrating you. At the level of the sahasrara chakra, he is like a fragrance! If you are alert and aware, the Master can transform you. Allow me to enter into you like a fragrance when you are established in the sahasrara chakra. You just need to be passive for the alchemy to happen. I am not going to give you any rules or restrictions. I am going to radiate ecstasy, bliss and fragrance. If you are alert and aware, you can catch the smell and experience it!

Paramahamsa Nov 2005, Bidadi ashram, India

When you are in love with somebody, not only with me, but with anybody you are in love with, that person will appear like God! He will be the fulfillment of your being. Your fulfillment is what we call God.

Paramahamsa