NEVER MISS IT
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The feeling of connectedness
How much of your inner space is available to me, that much I will take. If you relate with me just intellectually, you will carry knowledge. If you relate with a little bit of emotion, a little bit of love, you will carry initiation. That means whatever I can't express through words also will go into you: as if the whole software is transmitted. If you are able to connect with the Being deeply, you don't need initiation. The whole experience will be transmitted. It depends on the person and to what level he connects, to what level he experiences.
I always tell people: bhakti or devotion - the feeling of connectedness to the Master - is such an ultimate thing. Never miss it if you have got it in your life. Never miss it. It is too costly. It is too much to miss it. Even if you miss things in your outer world, it is OK. If you miss your ideas which you carry in your inner world, that is also OK. In English there is a proverb: if you miss or lose wealth, nothing is lost; if you lose health, something is lost; if you lose character, everything is lost. I think: even if you lose your character nothing is lost. Only if you lose the connection with the Master, everything is lost.
It is such a deep thing - the ultimate blessing. Never miss it if at all you got it. Throw away any idea which comes in between you and him. Anything can be lost but not this feeling of connection.
Sometimes, even your ideas about morality can create a gap. I have seen many people feeling the gap because of this gold jewelry that I wear because traditionally sannyasis do not wear these. When they wander, it is difficult to maintain, naturally. People think: why is he wearing such big gold jewelry.

A young brahmachari performs
the Guru Paduka puja (obeisance
to the feet of the Master) at a
devotee's house in Bangalore
city, India - 2007.
The big problem is: I neither feel connected nor feel hatred towards this jewelry. Somebody made it. It was looking nice. I enjoy it, so I wear it! That's all. When the work is over, when I get down from the stage, the first thing I do is, remove it and put it aside.
Your ideas about morality also may stand sometimes in between the Master and you. But remember: anything can be lost, but not the connection with the Master, because if that one thing is kept alive, so many things can happen in you.
Paramahamsa
You are the Source - Shiva Sutras
21 Mar 2007, Los Angeles, USA



AS CONSCIOUSNESS RAISES
New meaning happens
My words: you will understand from the space where YOU are staying. The same words will suddenly throw new light because YOU have become a new being! For my words, if you use your dictionary, there will always be confusion. If your consciousness raises, you will use my dictionary for my words. Then new meaning will happen, new understanding will happen in you; the true understanding which is supposed to happen. I always tell people: please meditate even if you don't understand the words because meditation will develop your inner space; it will raise your consciousness. Then one day you will be able to digest, understand and realize these words.
Paramahamsa
See Light Within - Shiva Sutras
20 Mar 2007, Los Angeles, USA