UNDERSTAND 'CHANGE'🔗

For children, the universe is wonder-filled because they don't have logic. They don't think that this is the same Sun which they saw yesterday. They don't think that this was the same chair which was there yesterday. They don't think that this is the same room which they sat in yesterday. They know the Truth - the Sun is new, this room is new, this chair is new, I am new, you are also new! You are changing continuously; continuously - you are getting updated. A Western philosopher said, 'You can't step into the same river twice.' Why? Because the moment you put the second step, the water has already flown. But I tell you, you can't step into the same river even once because the moment you put your feet in, by the time you travel from the water level to the ground level, the water has already moved! You can't put your feet even once in a river; where is the question of twice!

If you are in a routine, you become so unaware that you stop believing, you stop realizing that Existence is changing. I have seen some government servants working for 30 years in the same office. They would not even have moved their table from one place to another and eventually forget that their table can be moved! Even in your house, don't live with the same kind of furniture arrangement for years together. Shuffle it so that your mind does not get stuck with a single attitude. Once in a few months, change the order; create a little bit of chaos! Otherwise you will become dead. I have seen people - they will have ten rooms and because of their habit, they will follow a certain track in their own house and as a result would not have stepped foot on eight rooms for months together. How many of you have not gone to the extreme of your own garden in the last two years? You live on a certain track for years together. The mind feels comfortable if it has got a definite system. That is why rituals are so popular today. Rituals are so complicated and yet people do them with all difficulty, but when they come out of it, nothing would have changed in them. But in meditation, they are not sure of the outcome. Some personality change may happen. Going into meditation is seen as a risk!

Existence is continuously changing. If you trust that Existence changes and you also change, you can never get settled with your ego. Your ego is nothing but a rigid mechanism, a definite pattern. Only a person who is ego less can trust that the universe is changing and he is also changing. The man who sells his time will never understand that the universe is changing because he is caught in a routine. Not being caught in a routine is a basic discipline for enlightenment!

People are comfortable seeing Gods in temples because the Gods don't speak; they don't change your life; but here, I will ask you, 'What are you doing? How is your life?' There comes the trouble! Either consciously or unconsciously you might start changing because I am such a solid force and I may start penetrating you.

Be very clear - the most definite thing on planet Earth is your tomb, your graveyard! The more you live with definition and security, the more you are dying. That is why, when you live with a definite track in your house, your house will have the vibration of a graveyard. Once in a while, dance in the main hall of your house; the space will be purified. If you live with the same things, you will create a track of memory. You will then have very less access to your own Being. Your mind and your house are one and the same. Your Being and your house are one and the same. If you don't live in your whole house, be very clear, you are not living with your whole memory. Drop your rigid ego, break free

from your mental patterns, understand change and discover the reservoir that you have within yourself. Explode in all directions and realise your unlimited potential!

MAYA - THE ILLUSION

Move from the seen to the seer

Carefully understand...

Sometimes in one night's dream itself you will dream ten-twelve years of your life. You will start with your college and by the time you come out of sleep, you would have finished your marriage, kids, everything! Something like one decade you would have lived overnight!

What does it mean? It means 10 years of your life you have lived in 10 hours. Am I right? But when you are living in the dream itself, you don't feel that you are doing a fast forward. You are very clear that you are living your ten years' life, but when you wake up, suddenly you realize you have spent only 10 hours! Understand: the same way, any moment you may wake up and feel you have not spent 70 years on planet Earth; that it was only 7 hours!

Yesterday was 10ᵗʰ May, am I right? Ok, let us understand that between 9ᵗʰ May and 10ᵗʰ May, you dreamt as if you lived for one decade - 10 years. In your dream, in this 10 hours itself, you are studying in your college, and in that dream itself you fall asleep for a few hours everyday and come back. Am I right? You have to, because for the whole of 10 years you can't be without falling asleep. You are living a regular life.

Understand now an important thing. In these 10 years of life, in one continuous dream, from 9ᵗʰ night to 10ᵗʰ morning, you lived 10 years of your life. Many times you would have fallen asleep and come back. Whenever you came back you were with the same identity, am I right? Within this dream, whenever you came back you were with the same identity. Am I right? That is why starting with college, you move to the next step...the next step...the next step and so on. So within this dream, whenever you came back you were with the same identity. So whenever you came back, although you have the same lifestyle or identity, it is not the scale to prove it is reality.

What does it mean? It means, just falling asleep and coming back and finding the same bank balance, car, house and wife does not mean you are in reality! Any doubt? This is a very important understanding. We call it kshanika. In Sanskrit, in our tradition, we call this kshanika. It is a very deep understanding. This understanding can lead to such sharp analysis about your life. You will have clarity in so many things.

One thing, to tell you honestly, if you understand everything is maya or illusion, you will not renounce anything. You will live with everything without being disturbed by it. That is the truth. All the great enlightened Masters or the great monasteries which are teaching the great truth that is maya, live with so much of wealth. You should know one fact: 72% of India's gold is sitting inside temples and monasteries.

When you understand the reality or truth of maya, it is not that you will escape from the wealth; first of all, I am not asking you to escape from wealth. You will have honest respect for the outer world but you will never be caught in it; you will never internalize it. You will never suffer for it; you will never suffer because of it.

Just like how this 10-year dream is done in 10 hours, there may be a different calendar where your 70 years for example maybe 1950 to

2020, which you will live as your life is just 7 hours for somebody who is in a different space! In Sanskrit, we call this concept kshaniga: if the number of thoughts is more, you will feel as if you are living for a longer time.

One example...this will completely make you understand this. If you are sitting with someone with whom you are completely in tune with, you will not even know how many hours passed by. If you are sitting with somebody with whom you don't feel connected, every five minutes what will you do? You will keep seeing the watch.

If the number of thoughts is more, you will feel as if you have had too much of time. That is why in Vedic tradition, the unit of time is not seconds; it is called kshana. According to Western understanding, the chronological time is calculated with the unit 'second'. It means that one unit of time is one second. In Vedic tradition, time is calculated in kshana. Kshana means the gap between one thought and the next thought. According to Western calendar, your one second and my one second is one and the same. But according to Vedic calendar, your one kshana and my one kshana will be different. Time is not chronological; it is psychological. The gap between one thought and the next thought is kshana.

In the dream state, you have too many numbers of thoughts. That is why you feel as if you have lived for a long time. Here, in the waking state, there is medium thoughts per second (TPS); that is why 10 years looks like 10 hours. That is why we say, for the devatas - celestial beings - for whom the TPS is less, one year for us is one day for them. If you know the Vedic calendar, the one year in manushya loka (world of humans) is one day of devaloka (world of the Gods).

If you bring your TPS lower down, you will be in samadhi state, what we call turiya. Only when you bring your TPS down, you will understand reality. You see, in jagrat, the waking state, you realized that the dream state was not reality. If you are in the dream state, will you realize you are not in reality? No! You are going through everything in the same way. You respond to everything; you have nightmares, you have all the problems. Only when you come down, when your TPS is brought down in the jagrat state, the waking state, you realize the swapna, the dream state, was an illusion. It was maya. So in the same way, to understand that this is maya, bring your TPS down further. Come down, come to the turiya state; suddenly you will realize that this is also maya!

In the dream state, you may have a thousand or more TPS. In the waking state you can say 100 TPS. In the samadhi state, it is zero TPS. Only in the waking state you will understand that the dream state is an illusion. In the same way only in the samadhi state you will understand the waking state is an illusion. As on now, your inner space is too occupied with all that you experience in the waking state. That is why you are never allowed to go into the samadhi state.

One more thing: it is like a vicious circle. As long as you are enjoying the dream, you will never get out of it; only when you get out you will realize it is just a dream. As long as you are enjoying the waking state, you will never get out; and unless you get out you will not understand it is an illusion! It is like a vicious circle; you are caught in the vicious circle.

Now Shiva comes to help us. Shiva's technique or method which He is teaching will give us the information, the understanding on how to get out of the waking state. See, a very subtle and important point: whether you are in the dream state or waking state or samadhi state, the dreamer is the same! Whether you are seeing a 1000 TPS dream, or a 100 TPS dream, or a 0 TPS feeling, the dreamer is the same! Whenever your attention is removed from the seen to the seer you come to the next state, you wake up! Whenever your attention is diverted from the seen to the seer, you wake up!

This is the technique, this is the key: to turn your awareness from the seen to the seer.

Paramahamsa Jul 2007, Himalayas, India

You give presents and gifts because you cannot give love.

Paramahamsa