WHEN TRUST OVERRULES LOGIC🔗

There is an Upanishad called Shwetashwara Upanishad. In that, there is a beautiful story: a disciple goes to a Master. The Master tells him, 'Take these two cows. Go and live in the forest till they become one thousand cows.' It is a really funny thing! The disciple goes and asks the Master, 'Teach me enlightenment.' The Master says, 'Alright, take these cows, go to the forest and stay there till they become one thousand cows, and come back.'

What does this have to do with enlightenment? Of course, fortunately he was not logically educated. Fortunately, he did not receive the so-called education. Fortunately, the disciple was simple and innocent - humble enough. He was ready for the transformation. He was tired of being logical.

Understand: unless you are tired of living with ordinary logic, mere logic which cannot help you see even your own life, which cannot help you look even into your own mind, things cannot happen. People come and ask me, 'Swamiji why are you so against logic?' I tell them I am not against it. I am just telling you, all your suffering is because of your simple logic without intelligence.

Your logic creates so much of politics inside you. In the morning your mind says one thing and in the evening it says another thing. People ask me, 'Swamiji, in all spiritual organizations so much of politics is there. What to do?' I tell them, 'To create politics you don't need even two people. One person is more than enough. One person with logic is enough, because in the morning your logic will be saying something, and in the evening your logic will be saying something else. So naturally the fight between you and you is politics!'

Logic which does not allow you to trust or open up, which does not allow transformation to happen in you, is your first enemy. We call that as a poisonous snake. Here, the disciple was somehow fortunately not bitten by that logic. He followed the instruction and became enlightened!

Truth, if it is told straight away, hurts. I have to be socially polite. Being socially polite means diluting the truths. All great scriptures are delivered only to small groups, either to an individual or to two or three people. Later on, it becomes popular. It becomes popular because of its quality. Many people read it because of its quality. But the quality is retained because it was delivered to a few people!

Bhagavad Gita was delivered only to Arjuna, a single guy. Ashtavakra Gita was delivered only to king Janaka, a single person. All great truths are delivered only to two or three people. Shiva Sutras is not delivered even to one person. Devi is not a separate being. She has disappeared into Shiva. She is an extension of Shiva. That is why Shiva Sutras is much more pure than any other scripture. It is the pure truth. Shiva Sutras is a loudly spoken thought of Shiva. That's all! When Shiva was thinking loudly, somebody noted it down. That's all. It was not even spoken to somebody because there were no two persons. She was not there even to say 'thank you'. Even for that she was not there. She had disappeared.

Talk on Shiva Sutras at the Vedic Temple, Los Angeles, USA. 2007.

Become one with Him

There are so many levels of experience - saalokya mukti, saamepya mukti, saarupya mukti, saayujya mukti.

Saalokya mukti means, you get to live around the Master. It is like you stay in the same space which the Master stays. I always tell people: it is like becoming an ashramite. You live around me. You enter into his loka - his world. A lot of problems will be avoided because you don't have to think for your life. He will think for your life. Your responsibilities are taken by him. He takes care of you.

The next level - saamepya mukti - living closely around him. I compare and tell people... it is like the crew members who always travel with me. You are 24 hours around him.

The third is saarupya mukti - you take his own form. You are in that same form and do what he does. It is like becoming an acharya - teacher. You do the work that I am doing. You become a teacher and start taking classes.

In the next, last and ultimate - saayujya mukti - you achieve his consciousness. You become him. You start staying in the same space where he is staying. You achieve the same consciousness. In the Shiva Sutras, Shiva doesn't believe in the other three levels of mukti. Straightaway he takes us to Saayujya. He gives us the techniques for Saayujya. Beautifully he says, 'bhairava rupatad' - you achieve the same consciousness in which I am staying. You achieve the same space in which I exist. You achieve the Shiva consciousness.'

I have blessed you enough. The radio waves are there already. My blessings are already showered on you. Start receiving it and digesting it. You are holding an umbrella. Just drop it!

Paramahamsa

Paramahamsa

If you catch the words you will miss the Truth.

Paramahamsa