LOVE, INTELLIGENCE, ENERGY AND BLISS🔗

Express, heal, be healed

All these four are four sides of the same pillar. When you express through your head, it is intelligence. When you express through your heart, it is love. When you express through your being, it is energy. When your being just relaxes without expressing, it is bliss.

All the four are the same phenomena, expressed by four different names. So whenever you express love, you express energy also. Love is concentrated, caring energy. So naturally, whenever you express love you become a channel for energy. When you are a channel for energy, you not only help but you are also helped.

Move from Buddha to Dhamma and Sangha

Do not think that I am also just a six feet form like you. No! My extended Being is what is my teaching and the mission. That is why they say: Buddham sharanam gacchaami, Dhammam sharanam gacchaami, Sangam sharanam gacchaami. Dhamma - the teachings and sangha - the mission, are both part of Buddha. Understand, I do not live completely in this body; I hardly live 33%. 33% of me is in my teachings and 33% of me is in my mission. Catch the mission and the teachings... you have 66% more than the people actually staying around me. You will have me more than the people who are staying around me.

There is a beautiful example: the bee or the fly which stays 24 hours with the cow only sucks blood. The calf which goes near the cow only for half an hour drinks milk and comes out! Sometimes, people who stay only for half an hour around me get the right stuff which they are supposed to get. Sometimes, people who stay for 24 hours become blood-suckers. Understand, it is the truth. Sometimes, you take it for granted. It happens. So never think that staying 24 hours around me is needed for enlightenment. All you need to do is catch the dhamma and the sanga. Then, you will have Buddha's energy much more than the people staying around him physically.

A display of uniqueness

Currency is beautiful, needed for life. But it is too poor a substitute for your conscious explosion.

Paramahamsa

THE POWER OF SERVICE

Service is the path and part of enlightenment

Vedic Masters created Master's Day for us to celebrate - that is Guru Purnima.

We celebrate Master's Day just because he happened in our lives! It is not an easy thing. It is the ultimate gift, the ultimate experience for any human being. The Master is the ultimate luxury. He is the ultimate thing in your being. He demands the ultimate luxury: your ego, your being.

All the great Masters have inspired millions of people by creating, developing and transmitting for many hundreds of generations, conveying their knowledge clearly. If you study a single temple in South India, you will understand. Each temple took hundreds of years to complete - 500 to 600 years, 30 generations or more. No stapati - temple architect - could work for more than 20 years on a temple. Imagine 30 generations of architects understanding the master plan and executing, knowing fully well that they will not live to see the end product! Just imagine the inspiration!

These Masters inspired people like this to work on projects. They inspired kings and noble men to donate to these causes. They built hundreds of thousands of such temples. In India, there are over 11 million temples where daily rituals are performed, and over 90 million temples where such rituals are not done regularly.

It is time for us to remember these great Masters for the wonderful philosophy and the great way of life that they handed down.

The Master is a channel to bring wisdom to your life and to update it according to your need.

Atmano mokshartam, jagathitaaya cha

These words have been used by so many Masters, including Vivekananda. It means, 'Service to mankind and Self-Realization are not two different things. Self-Realization and good of the world are one and the same!

When there is no 'I' in the body, then whatever is said is mantra; whatever is done is tantra; whatever path is taken is yantra.

When one is enlightened, one speaks for the good of the world. When you start serving others, you are traveling towards yourself. Experience and expression are not different. When you experience, you express; when you express, you travel towards the experience. In service, start expressing compassion. Imitate the Master. You will travel towards experience, towards enlightenment. Service is the path to enlightenment. It is a part of enlightenment.

Seekers who do not serve are caught in ego. To serve, you have to relate and reach out to the world. Your tumors will be exposed. If you decide not to serve, you escape. Tyaga - sacrifice - will show what tumors you have; what depths you have reached in emptying your ego. To serve human beings, you need to be perfect; you need intelligence.

Giving our gratitude to the Master is to strengthen our commitment towards enlightenment. It is not worship. 100 namaskaras - prostrations - will give you only back pain and knee pain. Instead commit your trust to strengthen the Master's mission. It is the only way to express your gratitude.

Let you all understand: stand up and take responsibility. That is the only way to show respect to the Vedic system and lifestyle.

Unless you have spiritual strength, philosophy is very dangerous.

Paramahamsa

(In response to a question about his pre-enlightenment days when he grew up with enlightened Masters across India: how different were those masters from other people?)

They were so joyful, ecstatic all the time. Come what may in life, they were just out of this world. I never saw suffering or disturbance in their faces, even though they lived in utter poverty which is a chosen, conscious choice by them. They consciously decide to live with poverty, sacrifice and service. They just feel that they don't need anything; there is so much of fulfillment in their inner space.

One Master with whom I had the good fortune to live with every day... something like 300 to 400 people would come to have his darshan - to see him, get his blessings, to get his opinions about their life, to find the path. He had taken a vow that before he sleeps, he will not have any money or anything kept for tomorrow. Whatever is around him, he will distribute to people. Beggars, poor people, whoever comes to him, he will just give anything that comes to his hand. At the end of the day, he will just sleep with his hand under the head. Just a complete, and beautiful life.

When I saw him, I was inspired and thought... 'Oh God, these guys can do this and this is possible!' They were out of this world. And I know the powers which they expressed. They can see anybody, and tell anything which is going on inside his mind, or which is going to happen in his future. I had the fortune of living around this Master for 6 years. I have never seen him eating or drinking or sleeping. He would just lie down. I have never seen him having regular sleep like us...

Yogi Ram Suratkumar, another enlightened mystic from Tiruvannamalai. Driven by the spontaneity of his quest, Paramahamsa shared a mystical bonding with this Sage. He was a regular visitor to him. This picture was taken in a function graced by Yogi Ramsuratkumar where Paramahamsa was also present.

(In response to a question: I am too attached to the physical form of the Guru, how do I transcend that and see Him everywhere?)

Don't bother about that, your Guru himself will take care of that. You just be relaxed, don't think too much. You don't have to take a big jump all at once. Let all other forms disappear into your Master's form. Disappearance of your Master's form, HE will take care!

Paramahamsa Sensitivity with Sound - Shiva Sutras, 2007, USA