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When you are resonating with Existence, you will not seek greedily. Simply Existence will give you what you need at that moment, even before you seek it. This is what I meant when I say: Whatever you seek, you will find.

As an advanced seeker, you try to behave without taking the responsibility of Enlightenment, all the powers of Enlightenment. I have so many people who are waiting to grab the powers of Enlightenment without taking the responsibility of Enlightenment, and without having the experience of Enlightenment.

Understand, Enlightenment is not expertise, it is experience. People start thinking, if they learn how I behave, how I live, and expertise my behaviour, they can become enlightened or they can show themselves as enlightened. Enlightenment comes as an experience, not out of being an expertise. It is not from expertise, it is from experience. The second level of obstacles as an advanced seeker are more dangerous. You start behaving almost like you are enlightened, but with incomplete knowledge, and without the experience.

The definition of an Enlightened Being is that His level of seeking will be totally different from your level, but He will continue to be seeking, because seeking is the only way He will be alive, that's the only way He even makes you u derstand that He is alive, that's the only qualification of His Existence.

You can prove that you are alive by so many things: eating a sweet, having physical pleasures, etc. Through all of this you can prove that you are alive to yourself and to others.

But an Enlightened Being is alive only in His seeking, that is the only way He reminds Himself that He is alive, and He proves that He is alive to others. To that level, His very core will be seeking!

Once you connect with the experience of spiritual seeking, you will never be bored. Boredom will not exist as a concept. Seeking means foveae exploring new horizons.

The Divine has five functions on the human sphere: creation, maintenance, destruction, and putting people into maya (illusion), and liberating them.

The first four, the Divine does not need to make any effort. He as Lord Narayana, the Hindu deity who dreams the world into being, can just lie down in a lying posture and be in the state of yoga nidra (yogic sleep), and yet there four things will happen.

How to awaken the true purpose and highest potential?

Ferociousness to change everything is Seeking. Be a Kalabhairava, a Kali to your very life. Be Sadashiva to your very Life.

Constantly keeping your seeking alive makes you grasp the Truth. What is the difference between grabbing the truth, and grasping the truth.

For example, when you see somebody melting down, overflowing, with that melting devotion, offer a Bilva leaf to Mahadeva and become liberated, you also decide, 'Yes, if I offer the same leaf to Mahadeva I will also have liberation.' That is what is grabbing the Truth.

Understand, you are not grasping it, you are grabbing it. You only see the action. You don't see the context.

You see the Rishis sitting in Padmasana (lotus) posture and chanting, 'AUUUMMM' and getting enlightened. Immediately you also think, let me sit and do 'AUUUMMM.' That is only grabbing the Truth, not grasping.

Grasping means understanding the context. All the problems everyone faces in their life is trying to grab not to grasp. If you try to grasp the Truth, you will have the approach of love towards the Truth.

Don't have the approach of result towards the Truth. 'Alright, this is what I want. I will have to sit to chant "AUM". Ok I will do. How many hours do I have to do it?' It is not a bank account. Twenty thousand times you have to chant, 'Shiva, Shiva,' and put it in the bank account, and Mahadeva has to appear and give you, what you want.

No, most of the time you try only to grab the truth. You are asking to be given a set of rules and standard instructions. I will do that. If I can't what should I do, what about plan B and plan C.

The Religions which tries to cater to your mind, which grabs the Truth, which does not have patience to grasp, they will only give you a set of rules.

For grasping the Truth you need a completely different space where tremendous seeking becomes the first priority. When you are trying to grasp the Truth, you will look in, 'Wow! How can this simple act - he goes and plucks one Bilva leaf from a tree, and offers it on to a statue, how can such a simple act liberate him? Why is he so blissful? Why is he in ecstasy?' If you approach the happening with tremendous love, you will grasp the Truth. You will understand something more than the action is happening.

He is having a different context, altogether. He is having some higher possibilities opening up to him. The body may be doing the simple action of plucking a leaf and putting it on the deity, but the context behind the action is something different. You will understand that.

That is why one of the great Masters of the modern day Unjaji Maharaj, a disciple of Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi says, 'I neither have a Guru nor have a disciple.' He never accepted anybody as a disciple formally.

Some of his disciples asked him, 'You say Enlightened Beings don't have karma, what about your body movements and all that.' Unjaji says, 'who says I'm moving, I'm not.' They said, 'No, you are talking to us.'

He says, 'No, because you expect I should be talking, you get the response I'm talking. Otherwise I am not doing anything.' He disowns the responsibility of the very action he is doing, by that very action. By talking he declares he is not talking, and he is true.

Because whatever agitation needs to happen in you to talk, is not happening in him. So if you approach his talking from the context of love and understanding, trying to grasp what is happening, you will understand he is not talking.

If you approach a Master without patience, trying to frame Him into your mould, your frame, trying to grab Him as you want, you will say, ‘What is there, he is also doing everything like me.’ You will only be grabbing the Truth. You won't be grasping.

Approaching the world, approaching God, approaching Guru, and approaching yourself with tremendous love and patience and the context of grasping the Truth is Seeking. Approaching everything with tremendous love and patience from the context of knowing the Truth, wanting to know the Truth is grasping, is seeking.

If you are approaching the Truth with the mood of grabbing, framing it, and making it as a utility value, you are trying to make a frame out of life. Soon you will be tired and bored.

not grab, without cognizing the subtle Truth.

Develop seeking, keep your seeking alive. Reinvent yourself with your seeking. Re-strategize yourself with seeking.

There are two concepts you need to understand. One, those who worship ignorance, the initial level seekers who get into a kind of a tiredness, boredom, unable to move further, and don't care attitude about ignorance. This is one group.

There is another group, the little advanced level seekers. After a certain amount of time, when you spent time with certain concepts and don't align your life to those concepts, you will feel acquaintance with that concepts intellectually, but not experientially.

Familiarity always breeds contempt. Even with the idea you are consciousness, if you never made it as part of your cognition, you never transformed your Life, you never aligned your life to that truth, then slowly, slowly, slowly, you think what you living, what you are doing is much better than a common man.

So with this justification, the worship of imperfect knowledge, the incomplete knowledge, starts happening in you. The danger is by now, you know how to manipulate others, how to be a half-guru, all your neighborhood gurus are formed like this only. Each neighborhood will have one guru, in India, each street will have one Jagat guru. You can ask him, ‘why are you calling yourself as Jagat Guru?’ ‘No, I have one disciple I have named as Jagat, so I am Guru of Jagat so I am Jagat Guru.’

All your neighborhood Gurus are in this space, in this mood. The impure perception of Truth, Consciousness, and incomplete knowledge is the problem of advanced seekers. It is more dangerous than the initial level problem of initial level seekers, which is the ‘don’t care attitude’ towards ignorance, or tiredness and boredom.

The advanced level seekers who worship knowledge that is incomplete, they won’t have tiredness or boredom, they will be very active, but in the wrong direction. Enjoy knowledge for the sake of knowledge, celebrate knowledge for the sake of knowledge, celebrate power and energy for the sake of power and energy. Don’t use power to manipulate others, don’t use knowledge to make money.

Understand, seeking should become your very being. Constantly looking for Reality. Don't allow any stagnation. If somebody is stuck, that is hell, the most cursed space.

Being stagnant, stuck, is worshipping ignorance. Whether trying to understand the good, bad, right, wrong, the laws of the Universe, the laws with which your self functions, or laws with which life happens, go on seeking it.

You will never get an answer, but you are not supposed to stop seeking, because the reward for your seeking is experience, not answer.

If something is told to your very being, it is experience. If experience is limited to your logic, it is answer. Response from the Cosmos to your seeking, if it is limited to your logic, the Cosmos will reply to your logic, it is answer. If your seeking is from the depths of your being, Cosmos will reply to your very being, that is called Experience.

I teach meditation to millions, but I never sat with closed eyes to meditate. I know, it is very difficult for you to believe. We have so many photos of me meditating. But I never sat for meditation. I always searched for ‘what is’ at that time. Sometimes the eyes would automatically be closed.

When I was sitting to seek, to search, the eyes would automatically close. So for those moments you can call it as meditation. But I am telling you, I always was in search with My whole being. I was seeking with My whole being. So all the responses to Me came from the Cosmos to My whole being, which was experience.

Never, ever, did I do any spiritual practice or meditation separately. All My experiences were gifts to Me as a response to My seeking. I am telling you, if you need to do something, you just need to sharpen your seeking. Blessed are those who have seeking in life! Some of the best people whom I love are all sincere seekers, still.

Just like money, wealth, car, and luxury can make you forget your seeking for a time being, even Sangha, the coziness, the love of the Master or the position in the Sangha, even that can sometimes make you forget your seeking.

Whoever continues to keep his seeking alive, even basking in the glory and My love, I continue to love them. My love comes to you as a gift if you continue to seek, it will continued to be showered on you.

Whatever is become stagnant in you, becomes pain, never suffering.

I will tell you the difference between pain and suffering: the exact actual happening of your life is a suffering which never makes you stagnant. But constantly remembering you had suffering and making yourself painful makes you stagnant. A remembrance which puts you into emotional turmoil, that makes you stagnant.

Do not allow any form of stagnation in your life, for any reason. I am not here just to make you guys as a good human. No! I am here to make you guys as super human! It is a possibility! Being human is great, human values are great, no doubt, but don't say that itself is super. No!

If you say that is super, you are a duper. Don't try to kill the mystical possibilities, the super human possibilities, of traditional Hinduism!

I wanted all of you to do a lot of service, charity, and be good, but don't stop there. When will you stop? Become Shiva. It is only after you become Shiva,

But you can’t stop! I am sitting in such restful awareness, don’t think I stopped! You can sit in restful awareness in your flight seat, but you have not stopped. You can run as fast as you can in a stagnant bullock cart, you are not moving anywhere. More than what you are doing, where you are matters for your life progress.

You can be doing all types of kriyas, yoga, pranayamas, sitting inside a bullock cart, where the bullock is not even tied, but you are not going to go anywhere.

You can be lying, resting, after sipping a cup of juice, but if you are lying in the flight, you are moving, you are flying! My sangha is a flight! What you do does not matter; where you are matters! The human possibilities does not stop with human values.

Seek about everything, you have a right! You have a right to question the whole Cosmos!

I am giving you a simple secret: if you have stomach pain, don't try to think, 'Why is there stomach pain? What did I eat, is it indigestion or gastric? What is the reason?' Don't think that way. Try to ask, 'Why, first of all, this very habit of eating and digesting?'

Start questioning the roots, you will be declared as a rebellion by the Cosmos. All your needs will be met. If a child cries loud they get the attention first! If you think, ' I should do this pranayama, that yoga, take this herb for my stomach pain.' Yes, you may get your stomach pain cured, but you will have a headache tomorrow.

The child who cries louder not only gets the candy, but the keys to the store room. Whenever you feel, you can go eat, don't cry, and don’t create a mess!

Learn how to throw a tantrum with the Cosmos. Question the very root, the very source. Why do we have this body which has a possibility for disease? Why? So let your whys go to the depths.

Just one child, Naciketa throwing a tantrum, caused Yama Deva (God of death) to sit and obey Naciketa! Learn how to throw a tantrum with the cosmos, because you have a right over it! Cosmos cannot just brush you aside, push you aside, saying, ‘you throw a tantrum, I will do my job.’

Seeking is nothing but your ability to throw a tantrum and get the attention of the Cosmic Mother. Don’t be arrogant out of your seeking. When you are seeking, arrogance will not even happen.

When you stop seeking, you settle down for just a little happiness, charity, being good, little love, and compassion. All of these are great, but not greatest.

Experience the depths of your being, awaken the Shiva in you. Be a seeker and feel blessed you have a Guru who constantly deepens your seeking. A Guru who never just puts you in some social charity and makes you forget your seeking.

Even my charity work is based on seeking, making more and more seekers. I do charity only in that line!

Nothing should stop your seeking. Not your wealth, name and fame, even your good charitable activities should not stop your seeking or make you worshipper of ignorance!

A person who is seeking, should be put through all possible difficulties. When you are interested in something then you should be put in all possible difficulties. Then automatically the taking it for granted will not happen whether it is money, knowledge or enlightenment.

Constantly be in crisis, or create one, or come to me, I will constantly put you in crisis! Go on attending and solving the crisis.

In Tamil there is a proverb, which one Sadhu used to constantly repeat to me, eternally you should be in crisis, so you will live forever.

If you are not taking responsibility and living, the patterns inside you will not break. All those patterns will be there just fresh.

Patterns will be broken only when you handle outer world situations.