LOVE HEALS RESTLESSNESS🔗

Fundamentals of living

The first kind of restlessness happens due to the place. Sometimes in a particular place or situation, you feel restless. If you move from that place or situation, you feel more settled. In such places or such situations, an expression of love - even the body language of love, can make things better, can heal.

Next comes physical restlessness: physical restlessness is a tension in your body; any tension in your body, any uneasiness can be released when you express love to somebody. You may ask: how can love take away physical restlessness? You can see in your own life - a mother

who has a child to look after feels continuously rejuvenated; otherwise taking care of children is not an easy job! This rejuvenation happens because of the love and care the mother feels for the child.

Feeling of tension or restlessness in your body is taken away when you care for somebody, when you smile at someone, when you express love in your body language. Many times you see this in your day-to-day life. You may be lying down depressed or sick, but if some of your friends visit you, when somebody you love comes, you sit up and feel rejuvenated. You feel fresh. When you really love somebody, you express your energy.

Next comes the restlessness of emotion. Emotional restlessness means the restlessness which cannot be controlled by a few words, just by consoling yourself. It can be healed only when you express love. When you start radiating love, it floods your being with energy. Your being can be opened to the higher energies. This can heal your emotional restlessness.

Ultimately we come to spiritual restlessness. Spiritual restlessness means that you can't sit with yourself. Your love for the teacher or the Master can heal your spiritual restlessness. Many people come and tell me, 'Swamiji, just the presence of any enlightened person makes us meditate. Whenever we meet swamis and saints we are able to meditate in front of them - why are we not able to do so at home?' The reason is, whenever you meet great people - swamis and saints, you start relating, you start expressing your love towards them. This totally heals your spiritual restlessness!

Into sat... chit... ananda...!

These guys go out and tell, 'I think Swami has hypnotized me!' Actually I am de-hypnotizing you. You are already hypnotized into thinking you are body and mind. I am de-hypnotizing. I always tell people: the scale to see if you are getting hypnotized or de-hypnotized is: after the session, if you are feeling more energetic, with sat - intelligence, chit

Old is not old as you think

In ancient India, there was a practice called Kayakalpa to reverse the aging process. According to their philosophy, as you age, you become healthier, because your body and mind are better trained to live in the world. If you are trained in driving and become a good driver, you can drive without any effort. In the same way, as the years pass, you should master the art of living in this world. They say, as you grow older, you are not supposed to fall sick or have stress because you should know the logic of the world, and become more intelligent, healthy and spontaneous. However, that is not our experience! What has happened? Where did we miss it? The missing link is our idea of time, and being continuously reminded of chronological time because of the increased number of thoughts.

If you change two things, you can make it a reality. First, perception about your body: we always think, as we age, our body gets old and diseased. It is not necessary, but that's your perception. You may question it by saying, when we get old, we really do feel tired and it's not our imagination. But you don't know the power of your mind!

I once went to a place in Tibet, where the Lamas live. I was told people there live long. I saw an elderly man working in the fields. I asked him: do people here live long? He laughed and said, 'You think I am old? I am middle aged, I am only 136. Ask others who are 200 or more.' There were medical records to show he really was 136. And he was working in the farm! I couldn't believe it, just like you all. Then they showed me a report from researchers from the Wisconsin University who worked with them to study their bodies and understand why they live longer. According to the scientists, their bodies work just like our's; it's no different, even genetically. They conclude there is something beyond the body which makes them live longer. None of the Lamas could give any reason for their long life. But they all had a strong belief that human beings are supposed to live up to 300 years! If someone died at 200, it was considered an unnatural death! I later read a report by scientists that said that our body continuously rejuvenates and replaces itself, and can do so for 300 years. So understand: our perception about our body must change.

A 3-day Nithya Dhyaan mega satsang in Bangalore city, India. 20 to 22 Dec 2007, Palace Grounds.

If I don't talk, you will start talking inside yourself. To stop that, I need to talk. Dhyana satsang is an opportunity to free yourself of your inner chatter at least for a couple of hours; an opportunity to unload your mind. If you are able to do this, it means that you have successfully participated in the satsang!

Paramahamsa

The problem with drugs is, you become addicted to it and you need to use more and more after every session. With drugs, after every session you need to increase the dosage. With meditation, after every meditation you can decrease the time of the meditation. After every session of drugs, you become more and more addicted to it. After every session of meditation you are more and more liberated from it!

We are so bothered about the terrorism that happens outside. We ignore violence at home and violence against our own body. Sadism and masochism do not bother us, terrorism does. We are torturing ourselves with guilt; we torture others through our perfectionism.

Yoga and meditation

The other day I was reading an article, 'Better sex through yoga'. God! If the founder of yoga - Patanjali reads that, he will die! The first lesson he gives is brahmacharya. The first lesson that Patanjali teaches before starting yoga is the yama and niyama - certain don'ts. In yama, he teaches brahmacharya. But these days, yoga is reduced to just a physical exercise. Meditation is reduced to just a stress-buster. No! Meditation is not just a stress-buster; yoga is not just a physical exercise. Both have got their own sanctity. It is something much more than what you think. The word 'yoga' means 'uniting', 'union'. It is union with the Divine, with the Ultimate enlightenment itself. Understand: health or mental well-being can happen as a side-effect or as a by-product when you practice yoga or meditation. But if you are using yoga or meditation only for that, you are abusing it. It is not for physical health or mental health alone. It has got far more effect; it has got much more sanctity.