GUILT AND DESIRE🔗

Past and Future

Desire means: I should live like this in future. Guilt means: I should have lived like that in the past. I should live like this is desire; I should have lived like that in the past is guilt. Both are the same energy. When it travels towards the future, it is desire; when it travels towards the past, it is guilt.

Pick up or drop

Questions come out of words. Words can never solve words. Blood cannot clean blood. You just need to ensure that the person asking the questions gets tired. Most often, people want to show that they are knowledgeable when they ask questions. No one wants answers. Either they want to show that they know or they want to show that they are seekers - the ego. This is exactly how people try to get enlightened. They keep attempting to get enlightened. These seekers are actually deceiving themselves. Either they should pick up or drop. There is nothing called 'trying to pick up'. When you can't fulfill spiritual poverty, you try to show you are a seeker. In ordinary poverty, the ego is not hurt, but in spiritual poverty, your ego is hurt. People who don't have the capacity to make money, say they are very honest and therefore unable to make money. Actually, they don't have the capacity, but they justify it with reasons. But spiritual poverty you cannot justify.

At least clarity of the point that you are spiritually poor, will allow the alchemy to start happening. Honesty and Truth will lead to that. But we don't want that. Seeker Ego is used as a buffer between you and the Truth. Like how the car has buffer springs or shock absorbers, the seeker ego keeps you away from the shocks of reality that is the road. Seeker ego is the buffer spring between you and reality, or enlightenment, or the Truth. You are cheating yourself when you say 'I am trying'. You are actually playing, but it is a costly game. In the end, you will say, 'I was a seeker throughout my life.'

Seen in the background is the old Ananda Sabha (meditation hall), a building with thatch and bamboo in the year 2003 - 2005 in the Bangalore ashram, India. Once the new Ananda Sabha was built, this building was used as the brahmacharis' dormitory. Later, it was disassembled and reassembled adjacent to the new Ananda Sabha, and the brahmacharis continued to use it. Recently, the dormitory beds were shifted out and the building is now the Mission Office housing several departments.

Sannyasi is a man who floods Truth into his Being and allows whatever that can't stand the test of Truth to be washed away

Paramahamsa

This is in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Paramahamsa took a group of devotees to visit the magnificent ancient temples of Angkor Wat - July 2007.

Another popular question put to me is, 'What is destiny?' I say, 'Your present is a totality of all your past decisions, and your future is the totality of all your present decisions. The purpose of human life is to learn the techniques to live blissfully without the help of the body and mind. Learn that. That is what I mean by "being with God." That is what is destiny.'

Paramahamsa Quantum Enlightenment

DROP THE SCRIPT

Live with the truth

You are so afraid to face the moment. You want to prepare for the future moments thereby missing the present moment. Even before going to a friend's house, you do a complete rehearsal in your mind as to what you should say, and if she asks you a question, how you should reply. You are afraid of even facing your friend. You are afraid to express your true self. You see, if you have to speak the truth, if you have to be truthful, there is no need to rehearse. There is no need to prepare the script. You have to show something which is not, so you have to prepare a big script. Do you need a script if you have to tell the truth? You don't need a script. You don't need to remember many things. I tell you, if you speak the truth, there is tremendous freedom. You don't have to remember what you have spoken since the data will always be the same. If you speak lies, there is a big problem. You need to remember your words. You need to remember the lie which you have uttered. Next time, you have to repeat the same lie. So if you live with the truth, there will be no need to remember your words. There will be no need for any more 'hide and seek' games. You will see, you can be relaxed. You can be total. There is no need for any script writing before entering the friend's house.

IVHU will extend its activities by offering various programs in Meditation, Nithya Yoga, Quantum Memory Program and Little Anandas. A huge complex of Hindu temples will be built with regular rituals taking place everyday. The existing library will be extended to facilitate researchers in Vedic studies. The new programs that will be added in the days to come would be Ayurveda, Ayurvedic cooking, Verma Therapy, Temple Architecture, Vedic Astrology, Vastu, Vedic Agriculture, Pujacharya training, Temple Arts training and Travel Studies, to name a few.

The Hindu University of America, Florida, USA, was handed over to Paramahamsa. It was renamed International Vedic Hindu University (IVHU), with Paramahamsa as its Chairman. Here, he is addressing a gathering on the occasion of the handing over ceremony. Florida, USA, 2007.

The Sanskrit word for the original astrology is jyotisha. It means showing the way or path to Light. Originally, the Astrology science was created to help choose the right path towards ultimate enlightenment for every individual. They will see the person's mental setup, and decide the right path through which he will become enlightened; the right path towards enlightenment - the ultimate experience. As a byproduct, these guys have learnt the science of predicting the major activities, day-to-day things which can happen in the person's life. But astrology is not originally created just to predict when you will get married, who you will get married to, when you will find your love, when you will find your car or when you will find your new home. No! That is only a byproduct. The main purpose of astrology is to find and choose the right path towards liberation or enlightenment.

Paramahamsa hoists the flag to mark the start of Brahmotsav - the 11day Jayanti festival - his birthday celebrations. 23 Dec 2007, Bangalore ashram, India.

EXISTENCE

Turning point

The first spiritual experience was like an opening in the inner space. Even with closed eyes I was able to see all 360 degrees around me. I felt the same life not only inside my skin but outside my skin also. I felt that I am alive in the rocks, in the plants, in the flowers, all the living beings and inanimate things around me. That was the first experience. It opened a deep compassion and love for everything. Reverence for life happened by that experience. Anybody who goes through this experience, not only he becomes nonviolent, the reverence for life also happens. Acceptance of every Being as he is, starts coming into yourself. Then religious fanaticism, communal fanaticism, linguistic fanaticism, everything disappears. Acceptance for life happens when you experience that you are alive not just in your skin but in every skin. That was happened in me which led to enlightenment.

The first photograph of Paramahamsa in a meditative posture, at age 9. Part of the archives in Bangalore ashram, India. Right: original picture. Left: touched up recently.

Mahaparinirvana Day celebrations at Salem ashram, India - 12 Nov 2007.

In the context of desire

Bring your desires to consciousness from unconsciousness. If the desire is really worth fulfilling, the desire itself will have the energy for fulfillment. If not, it will disappear. Either way you are in relaxation. Without consciousness, either suppression or fulfillment leads to suffering, guilt and tension.

(In response to a question: how does one know whether one's desire is right or wrong?)

Start with small things like walking, eating, talking, and flood them with consciousness. Make each step when you wake up, a conscious step. Let them not be automatic, robotic. Make every movement with awareness, consciousness. Gradually your entire being will be flooded with consciousness. Maslow calls this Peak Experience or Self Actualization. When you actualize your Self, you will be in bliss.