BEST FRIEND
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(In response to a question: you are always barefoot. Your feet are so smooth and flawless)
It is because I don't have any enmity with the earth. When you relate with the earth, you will not get hurt. You are conditioned to think that it hurts. Except at college, I have never used slippers. Don't think nature is your enemy; it is your friend. If you think this way, you will not have a problem.
Paramahamsa
May 2005
Himalayas
BLISS
How to be in...
Again and again you should work with your mind. Again and again you should find out: 'What really gives joy to me? What really gives bliss to me?' Feeling pleasure is different from feeling blissful. Blissful means, it will give you such a beautiful and intense feeling that you will feel you are in heaven. So again and again scan your mind and your Being to find out what really gives deep joy or bliss. Then start following whatever gives you that.
The problem is, we are trained for the wrong things. You see, if I ask a youngster what makes him blissful, he will straightaway say 'drugs'! See, it is not going to make him blissful. He will only escape from his problems. Drugs are only a method of escaping from his problems. It can't make him blissful. So people don't know what exactly makes them blissful. This is because they have moved so much away from their path. They have gone away from their original thinking, away from their Life which is supposed to be. So we need to scan ourselves again and again. We need to
work on ourselves continuously
like housekeeping. We need to
keep cleaning our minds in which
we are continuously living. We
are so bothered about cleaning
the house we live in for a few
hours a day - probably 10-12
hours a day. But we are living in
our body and mind 24 hours! We
don't bother to clean that! We
have to give some time to clean it
and find out exactly what makes
us blissful, exciting, loving,
joyful, open. We must go behind
it; we must have the courage to go
behind it.
Paramahamsa
Conscious Talk - Radio interview
29 Mar 2005, Seattle, USA
En route to Pandava Caves in Gangotri, Himalayas - 2007
Our stay on this planet is just to find out or get a glimpse of that Bliss which is our Being. The whole thing is centered or directed towards that Bliss only. We are all searching for that but in the wrong direction. Even the person who is after drugs is searching for the right thing but in the wrong direction.
Paramahamsa
At Gomukh, the source of the sacred river Ganges, Himalayas - 2004