COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS🔗

Your mind is not an individual and separate piece of the universe. All minds are one and the same. All our minds are interlinked and directly affect each other. That is what we call Collective Consciousness. Your thoughts are just as infectious as your cold. If you catch a cold from somebody you may suffer for a few days, that too physically, but when you catch thoughts from people, not only do you suffer mentally, you suffer forever.

The moment you become aware that you don't have an individual identity, that you are part of the Collective Consciousness, you just go beyond suffering, depression and disease. As long as you have individual consciousness, whether physically or mentally or at the being level, you will be continuously in suffering.

The moment you start discriminating between yourself and the Whole, the Whole will start to seem like an enemy to you. But be very clear: the Whole is not here to kill you. When a living person falls into water, he gets drowned and the dead body floats. After all, the dead body is more heavy and it is filled with water now. Yet it floats. But a living person will sink and drown. Why do you think this happens? As long as you are living, you resist the water, you resist nature. If you stop resisting, if you just feel that the Whole is a part of you, you will just start floating.

The other day I read a beautiful interview: one person jumped into the Niagara Falls and yet survived. All the journalists were questioning him, 'How did you manage it? How did you survive?' If you have seen the Niagara, you will understand. He says beautifully, 'When I jumped, I became part of the Niagara Falls. I felt I was a particle floating in the Falls. When I came out, again I felt I was just a part. I never felt that I was different.' When you disappear into the Collective Consciousness, nature is not an enemy for you. Nature is your close friend. It protects you.

Whenever you want to achieve success, even in the social and economical way, only if you feel in tune with the whole group,

Maheshwara puja at the Vedic temple, Montclair, Nov 2007, USA

you will be able to achieve what you want to achieve. As long as you think you are an individual, be very clear, you will be continuously resisted and you will be resisting, whether it is home or office. If you disappear into the Collective Consciousness, you will be again and again protected, taken care of, and you will experience the ultimate success, socially and economically. You will start experiencing a feeling of fulfillment.

And one more thing: in the mental level, if you think you are separate, again and again you will be creating seeds of violence.

Third thing: in the ultimate way, in the spiritual level, the moment you understand you are deeply connected to the whole universe, not only do you start experiencing bliss, you start opening out many dimensions of your being. Now you are stressed out. Now you are disturbed continuously because you have too much to think, just with one mind. You have to enjoy with just one body. If you disappear into this Collective Consciousness, you will have so many dimensions, so many possibilities, and the amount of ecstasy... you can't imagine!

Either you live as a leader or be a follower. There is no in-between. You always think: I will not be a leader. I can't do that much, but I don't have to be a follower. I will just maintain my own stand. This is simply impractical. There is no such thing as 'my own stand'. Either you lead or you follow. That's all.

Paramahamsa

Paramahamsa is welcomed at the flagging off ceremony of the Kodikkan Ratha Yatra - procession of the deities of Sri Anandeshwara and Anandeshwari - viewed by one crore pairs of eyes. The procession lasted 3 months in Tamilnadu and Karnataka before it entered the Bangalore ashram, where the deities got consecrated, Sep 2007.