SO HOW CAN WE EXPERIENCE GOD?🔗

Drop the fear...

There are two ways we can do this. One way is through tapasya - intense meditation. We acquire the maturity to achieve the experience through tapasya. The second way is, a Master can pour tremendous Energy into your Being; he can instill the higher frequency energy into your Being. Then, you need the maturity in body and mind to keep the Experience, and you are enlightened! To give some understanding about the difference between the higher frequency energy, that is 'Divine will' and our Energy that is 'our will' it is useful to think of it in this way: one of my devotees asked why the hurricane 'Katrina' happened. There is no answer to this 'why'. Imagine that you run over a whole community of ants in your SUV car. The ants may call it 'hurricane SUV'. Now can they ask us why it happened? No! Because their logic is so different from our's! In the same way, God's will is so different from our will. Will you be able to say whether these things are free will or predestination? No! No logical answer is possible. If the ants ask us, we cannot answer. And these ants may even be

asking an enlightened ant the same question! Their religious leaders may be teaching them ideas about how and why it happened. But the truth is - they are cheating those ants. In attempting to answer these questions, all organized religions prove that they are useless, because no logical answer is possible. We must understand that the level of will is totally different. This is how it is with 'our will' and 'God's will'. All we can do is - raise the frequency of our will to the level of Divine will. Neither God nor your spouse can be understood! All you can do is just try to live with them. The more you try to understand them, the more trouble you get into! So know, understand that whoever tries to answer such things is cheating you. Often they preach to just convince themselves. A preacher once confessed this to me; that he felt there was truth in his teaching because he had a following of ten thousand followers. Such preaching can disturb us deeply. Our deeper Being feels at odds with the superficial understanding that we get from such teachings. We experience depression and schizophrenia. Divine Will never disturbs us. We must have the courage to enter into the Spiritual Experience. After a year of meditating, many begin to have experiences; people sometimes don't experience their bodies anymore. They are shaken and they try to run away from it, yet meditation IS to experience this. It is like inviting friends: first you call them, then you email them, you are eager to see them arrive, but when they show up, you say that you were expecting someone else! We have to just learn to go with the experience; to dive right in. There is no such thing as 'overdoing it' or 'too much'. If you think this way, you will always have a problem. Know that it is just your fear that creates these thoughts. With the Divine, nothing is 'too much'. Krishna starts beautifully. He says, 'Oh Arjuna! Let you see whatever exists, everything which no ordinary person can see.' This whole chapter of the Gita explains the darshan, or seeing. You cannot see the Cosmic form with your ordinary eyes. You need to see through the divya netra, the third eye. Is Cosmic Experience possible? Cosmic Experience is

possible for everybody. Yet, unless you are sure of the possibility, it will not be possible. I want you to understand that it is possible. When you get this, it works on your Being. The words work on you. They are not just words. They convey the Energy of the Experience. What is the qualification? There is no need for any qualification. Arjuna was just fortunate to be in the presence of an enlightened Master. He neither took the responsibility nor understood Krishna's teaching. The only qualification you need is to be here. That you are here and continue to come is enough. You have to just trust that you are ready for this Experience. The trouble is, even if you are qualified, you don't trust that you are because you have been so disrespected; you lost faith and confidence in yourself. You just have to be open. Because you can't believe you are growing, you struggle with yourself. You never believe that you are qualified. Ramana Maharishi was once asked what the qualification for enlightenment is. He asked in reply, 'Are you alive?' The disciple replied, 'Yes.' Ramana said, 'That is enough.' You may need qualifications for everything else in this world, but for the Ultimate Experience, the Cosmic Consciousness - you need none. You need the Divine Chakshu, the Divine eye. What is this Divine eye? Let me tell you my experience. When I was twelve, I was playing with this one technique. I didn't even realize it was a meditation back then: just watching from where the thoughts are coming. One day in the foothills of Arunachala, I was sitting on this rock, just doing this one technique that I had been practicing for two years. Suddenly something happened; something opened. I felt as if I was being pulled inside. Suddenly I could see 360 degrees in all directions. My eyes were closed but I could see everything in front of me and behind me. And whatever I was seeing, I felt as if it was all me. It was such an ecstatic experience; it was so intense. It took three to four hours before I could open my eyes. And I felt this fever of bliss that lasted for three days. Then tremendous fear happened. I began to think that some ghost had possessed me. I asked one elderly spiritual lady and she told me, 'You are not possessed by a ghost, you are possessed by God.'

After this experience, nine years of intense tapas followed, just to get the experience again. And when it happened, my body and mind were ready and the experience never left me. With the Cosmic Experience, you realize that the whole Cosmos is living. You expand your body consciousness to include this Experience. What you normally experience with your body, you feel with the whole universe. The problem is, even with our body we don't feel alive! When you experience, you see everything as one form. You feel one with everything. You lose the sense of where you begin and where you end; you lose all sense of your boundaries. You are Infinite. You drop all ego and dissolve into the Divine. The entire universe responds to your every thought. Fear manifests itself in two forms: in our instinct to survive and our instinct to possess. When you drop both of these, you exist forever.

The only difference between an enlightened Master and man is, the enlightened Master is awake while the man is asleep. Whether you believe it or not, accept it or not, want it or not, you are God. You can sleep as long as you choose to.

Paramahamsa