10. Message of Living Enlightenment – 'how will master behave?'🔗

You can also use this simple, powerful technique. It is so simple your mind cannot find any excuse to escape. In any situation, ask yourself, 'How will master respond? How will master face this situation?' Do the same. You will see that a new door opens. This is what I call 'living enlightenment'. You don't need anything else. This one thing is enough.

Even if you are sitting, if thoughts come up, ask your mind, 'If master is sitting what will be coming up? Naturally silence. Then why are you thinking? Silent!' That's all. Nothing else. If your mind says, 'No, no, I know it is true. I know this but it is too much.' Then think, 'If master's mind says this, how he will behave?' He would have finished the mind that moment! That's all. Just be very clear.

Take this one message and let this message become life in you, the message of Living Enlightenment. Understand, from the age of ten when I was inspired and impressed by Annamalai Swamigal, I started doing this technique. I didn't even know then that it was a meditation technique.

It just started, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal behave in this situation?' As a boy, many times in my home I have seen my brothers or family start fighting for some share in something and I would think, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal behave? He won't even bother! Forget about it. Let them have.' That's all.

Actually this is what I call relationship with the master. Relationship with the master is not just doing some worship or putting some flowers or worshipping him once in a while. No! Relationship happens when you are thoroughly impressed by the master.

Whenever anything comes up, say fear or insecurity or greed or anger, just see, ‘How will master behave?’ Simply it will disappear. It will just disappear.

Many times I tell people, just feeling strongly connected with the master is enough. You don’t need anything else. It is not just your ordinary relationship. In an ordinary relationship, you neither try to understand nor imbibe the master. Just some feeling is there. I can’t even call that as a relationship. It is an ordinary, regular interaction.

Feeling connected to the master means just living him. When you live the master, then you feel intensely connected to him. Only then you are expanding. Only then something is happening to you. This has not happened in us because of so many other relationships. So many other persons occupy your inner space and so many others have inspired you or impressed you or given the idea that they are heroes. Just fill your inner space with the master and watch your problems simply dissolve.

The first experience gave me such an intense, beautiful glimpse of the truth I could not settle for anything less than the Ultimate, enlightenment. The desire to become enlightened was so intense the only question inside me was ‘How?’ The intensity to know the truth was the inspiration for me to do ritual worship, meditations, any and all techniques that could lead me to enlightenment. Every technique I tried right from my childhood was with complete trust and intensity. In the case of my daily worship as a teenager, I used to wake up in the morning at 4 am, have a cold water bath and worship Devi in a puja ritual.

This intensity is what gave me the courage to take the decision to leave home as a young boy and do the intense meditation practices I took up in my spiritual journey, such as chanting mantras (sacred intonations) 10000 times per day, austere life during my spiritual journey, and traveling the length and breadth of the country.

There will be one singular quality that will come to your mind when you remember someone. I can say, if there is one quality or thing that stands out in my life that I can really identify with, it is intensity.

Christ said, ‘Ask and it shall be given unto you. Seek and you shall find.’ Let us stop and ask ourselves, how many of us know how to ask? Sometimes because of our arrogance, sometimes because of our confusion, and sometimes because of our laziness, we get caught in the web of ignorance. We ourselves are not clear what we want to ask.

All our engrams and false identities don’t allow us to understand the pure love of the Divine. We fight with the very compassionate Existence that is protecting us and granting us whatever we ask for. If we can just integrate ourselves and sincerely ask with devotion, we will have the intelligence to ask what our being truly seeks. We shall surely be given.