GHOST - HABITS🔗

How you empower

Ghosts are much lower level beings than you. People ask me, 'Swamiji, do ghosts really exist?' I tell them that ghosts do exist but they never disturb you. Dead people never disturb you, only living people disturb you!

For more than nine years I traveled from the Himalayas to Kanyakumari wandering throughout India on foot. I always stayed in graveyards. If you see my biography in pictures, you will see many of my photographs in different graveyards. People ask me, 'Swamiji, why did you stay only in graveyards?' I tell them: the first thing, I don't need to make any reservations! Almost every village will have a graveyard. No need for making reservations. Second thing, nobody stays there, so there is nobody to disturb you. People who stay there are all dead, and they never disturb others. Others ask me, 'Swamiji are you not disturbed by ghosts?' Again I tell them: dead people never disturb, only living people disturb.

Ghosts are lower level beings. Ghosts are more or less your engraved memories - samskaras. If you don't have conscious decision making in you, they will rule you. If you have conscious decision making, they are lower than you. As long as your consciousness is awakened, as long as your individuality is awakened, as long as you hold a conscious decision to live, neither ghosts nor samskaras can disturb you, because both are dead.

The power of ghosts or your samskaras is not in them. Your belief in them makes them powerful. It's more or less like the character Vali who appears in the Hindu epic Ramayana. If you face him, half your power will go to him! Just like that, when you start believing in ghosts and your samskaras, they get half your power. Otherwise neither samskaras nor ghosts have any value.

Sri Anandeshwari Temple in the Hyderabad ashram, India.

Paramahamsa