PLAIN TRUTH🔗

I can say honestly that whatever I'm speaking is from my experience. I have no other investment in promoting any concept, except to inspire you to understand that it is possible for you. A tree is waiting for the seed to rupture and the seed is waiting for the tree to happen before it ruptures. A seed has to rupture first for the tree to happen. Similarly, a Master is the one who has become a tree and tells you that you can also break like the seed and become a tree. The Master is the proof and he gives you the courage. It is simple courtesy. If someone is ahead of you on a busy road and you want to know how the traffic is, if you call him on his cell phone, won't he have the simple courtesy to tell you about the traffic condition? Similarly, it is simple courtesy for me to tell you the honest truth. It can happen in your life too, with your courage to explore and penetrate the present moment.

Paramahamsa

RECEIVE ME Whether I smile or shout

If you are asking for my love, it is not love that you are asking for, it is only attention that you are asking. I am continuously radiating love, whether I smile or shout. I am love. I don't have to give love. When you can bear one side of me and not the other, you are asking for attention only. I was continuously firing one disciple. She asked me to stop firing her. I told her that if she can't receive my firing, she can't receive my love also. If you are not porous to firing, you cannot receive my love also. You are reducing me to an ordinary lover who gives you attention. I told her that I will not fire her. She was happy. But she didn't know what she was missing.

This applies to everyone. When you feel happy that I am not firing you, the cancer that is your ego has come to the third or fourth stage. But cancer of the mind is such that you don't even know that you have it. Physical cancer, you will know. When you want only my laughing dimension, you want only a part of me. You actually destroy me and reduce me to a normal man. But when you are caught in jealousy, you look at me as an inspiration, as a source of creativity. When you feel dull, you want me to give you the key that inspires. You see me as a man who has high self-esteem, as a visionary, as a leader. This is a little more purified version, but it is not what I AM.

Paramahamsa 26 Jan 2005, Bangalore ashram, India

When you are ready to wait, you don't have to wait anymore.

Deep passive waiting without knowing what is going to happen is what passive surrender - total surrender is. The moment you decide: I will wait forever, things will simply start happening. As long as you are in a hurry, you are agitated. You stop things from happening. When you are in a hurry for the lotus to blossom, you open out its petals. Can it be called lotus flowering? No! Only when it blossoms on its own, it can be called so. Give it some space and time. It will happen. The moment you decide to wait forever, things will start happening. You don't have to wait anymore. You have to wait till you decide to wait. The moment you decide to wait, you don't have to wait anymore!

One day, Narada, a devotee of Lord Vishnu was going to Vaikunta - Vishnu's abode. On the way he found a rishi meditating. The rishi asked, 'Oh Narada, please ask Vishnu how long I have to wait for enlightenment.' Narada said he would surely ask.

A little further down, he saw a man jumping and dancing under a tree. He shouted out, 'Oh Narada, please ask Vishnu when I will have his darshan!' Narada said, 'Alright.'

When Narada returned from Vaikunta, he met the rishi who with great anticipation asked him, 'When?' Narada said, 'Perhaps 4 births.' The rishi was dismayed that he had to wait another four births and sank deeper into his meditation.

Narada went further and met the man who was still dancing and singing under a tree. He asked Narada, 'Did you find out if I shall ever have Vishnu's darshan?'

Narada said, 'Yes, but in as many births as there are leaves on this tree.' The man was jubilant. He danced faster and sang louder, 'Oh! How fortunate I am! Vishnu will surely grace me with his darshan however long it may take. That is enough to make me carry on. I shall wait, no problem.'

Just at that moment Vishnu appeared before him and he was liberated!

The deep patience, the decision to wait, is what I call surrender; total patience and a relaxed mood.

People tell me, 'Swamiji, I decided to wait but it is not happening!' How can you say that you have decided to wait when you are asking the second statement? You are playing a hide and seek game! You want me to know that you have started waiting but you have not really started waiting. You can cheat me but you cannot cheat yourself. Enlightenment has to happen from you, not from me! If it could happen from me, long before, I would have given you enlightenment. It is not that I have to give, you have to receive! An utter, clear and total decision to wait is what is the basic necessity to become enlightened. All the Masters have used the technique of waiting. When they say they will come back, they mean - learn the technique of waiting. The moment you learn the technique of waiting, they will be back in you. Waiting is the ultimate technique.

Paramahamsa 2005, Bangalore ashram, India

Paramahamsa