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SRI BHAGAVAN Wellspring of Love, Grace and Wisdom

Sat-Chit-Ananda Parabrahma

Purushottama Paramatma

Sri Bhagavati Sameta

Sri Bhagavate Namaha

The ultimate thing of the universe is what you call Brahmanwhich is

supposed to have three qualities, namely, sat, chit, and ananda. Its

sense of existence is what you call sat; its conscious intelligence is what

you call chit; and its nature is anandawhich is bliss. That is why it is

normally qualified as sat-chit-ananda Brahman. God, or Ishvara, is immi-

nent in Brahman. God is power, compassion, and love. That is why we re-fer to God as sat-chit-ananda Parabrahma.

God relates to humans as though God were a human; hence you call

God as the Purushottama. This God also manifests within the individual

as theAntyaraminor the higher sacred self. Since theAntyaraminis in

everyone it is called the Paramatman. The Paramatmanmanifests as

Bhagavatiand Bhagavan, through Amma and myself.

Literal translation of theMoola Mantra

The Primordial Sound (exposing) Being-Consciousness-Bliss

(which is the Self-Nature of) The Absolute, (expressing Itself as the)

Incarnate Godhead (whose essence is the) Supreme Self,

(and which manifests as the) Divine Feminine in union

with (the) Divine Masculine we bow to That.

Singing or chanting thismantra externally or within is a powerful invoca-

tion of the Supreme Being, that is, establishing a direct link and commun-

ion with the Divine Presence.According to Sri Bhagavan, theMoola Mantra, meaning root or main

mantra, expresses the whole evolution of the Divine from the One to the

many, from oneness to multitude. But not that it somehow lost its one-

ness along the way. It rather became and is constantly becoming All That

in the expansion of its own Being. This process of evolution eventually

results in God realizing Himself in human form, which in fact is the next

approaching step in our own evolution as human beings. Man as we

know him today is more of an experiment moving towards its completion

these days, and in the end he will joyfully return to his original state to

oneness. As Sri Bhagavan brings it so clearly to the point, Man has to

give way to the Divine".

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Table of Contents

Preface 4

Part I: Sri Bhagavan 5On Transition into Golden Age 6

On Awakening into Oneness 9

ASATO MA MANTRA 17

On the Divine and God-Realization 18

TVAMEVA MANTRA 27

On Suffering and Self-Acceptance 28

SHANTI MANTRA 33

On Relationships 34

SARVE BHAVANTU MANTRA 40

On the Golden City 41

POORNA MANTRA 44

On Various Subjects 45

Short & Profound 50

Part II: Treasury 60 The Vision 61

A Divine Phenomenon 64

Acharya Anandagiri: Wisdom of the Awakened One 66

The Oneness Temple 70

Sri Amma: Words of Strength and Courage 71

The Art of Prayer 75

Meaning of the Moola Mantra by Poornima Dasa 78

Sanskrit Glossary 80

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Preface

If we even were to summarize the few teachings of Sri Bhagavan and

condense it into three sentences, it would probably go like that:

Spirituality is living life to its fullest. But for you to really enjoy life, all per-

sonal suffering has to vanish which has its root cause in the sense of

separate existence, in the perception of the me and the not me. One-

ness Blessing has the power to liberate you from this misperception, thus

allowing you to experience reality as it is.

You could actually stop here. Because this has to be experienced, it can-

not be described. Anything explained only clouds the mind more while it

is all about freedom from and ultimately with the mind itself. The

choice to read on is therefore left to you.

And again, what living life to its fullest is going to look like is up to you to

discover. So all the best of grace, deepest blessings, and a happy explo-

ration!

WRITTEN BY US AS A DIVINE GIFT FOR US

SOMETIME BETWEEN THE PRESENT AND NOW

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Part I: Sri Bhagavan

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On Transition into Golden Age

The root cause of all suffering is the sense of separate existence. We

have a divisive consciousness that perceives things as the me and the

not me, the mine and the not mine, as my people and yours, as my

nation and yours. Having divided all things we feel threatened by the

other. Fear in turn breeds war, conflict, and further forms of violence.

Are we then beyond redemption? Are we to remain a bunch of pessimis-

tic philosophers or apathetic onlookers bemoaning our collective doom?

Not necessarily.

We as a race are on the brink of a colossal transition from one of separa-

tion to that of oneness. We would awaken from darkness to light, from

untruth to truth. We would realize the oneness of all living things.

Though each of us may live different lives, located away from each other

in space and time, we are biologically, emotionally, and spiritually one.

There is only one body. What happens to the animals in the seas hap-

pens to us men and women. What happens to the forests happens to

us in our bodies, since our bodies, like the trees, are made of the same

earth. Are not our bodies moving clay forms endowed with intelligence?

A conscientious effort at healing the earth would manifest as the ultimate

healing of our own bodies.

There is only one mind. This is the mind that has flowed through our fore

fathers, us, and would in turn continue to live through our children and

their progeny. The collective torment or fear suffered by our own breth-

ren in one part of the world would manifest as sleeping or waking night-

mares to someone elsewhere in the world. Our pleasures and pains are

interminably interlinked. We are one and cannot continue to live any fur-

ther in an illusion of separation.There is only one consciousness. We live in a holographic universe. Every

individual awakening into oneness is automatically affecting a few thou-

sand people pushing them towards the only sane alternative way of ex-

periencing reality.

Our experience of reality having changed, we would go on to discovering

newer ways of living and loving. We would create a better planet for the

present and the future. This is our shared destiny.

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The dawn of this new civilization which we might call an Age of Oneness

is the single most explosive fact of our lifetime. We have a destiny to

create, a state of consciousness that is, Oneness with All That Is. As a

consequence of this inner state of man changes would occur in the outer

world which we would call the Golden Age. The Oneness Age and the

Golden Age are complementary to each other. The Oneness Age repre-

sents what is going to happen inside, and the Golden Age what is going

to happen outside.

The advent to the Golden Age would see a world where there are no na-

tional boundaries, where all mankind becomes one family. People would

not suffer from a sense of want; it is not prosperity for one country or the

other but for the whole globe. That is going to happen soon. This Golden

Age is for the whole of mankind. It is not capitalism, not communism or

socialism, or radical humanism. That will win the day for us.

What we will see is an entirely different world where there is no competi-

tion but only cooperation. It will be one humanity. And each one of us, let

us remember, has a role in creating this destiny for man, that is, for our-

selves.

Humanity is entering the most crucial phase of its existence. The coming

decade1

shall witness the most unprecedented and undreamt of changes

in the course of its long evolution. There is nothing much humanity could

do about it other than to understand the changes occurring around it,

and to flow with the changes that are overpowering it. Towards the end

humanity would enter a new age, the Golden Age.

The transition will be a painful process. Only those whose relationships

are in order will make it easily. The Oneness Movement has come into

existence to help humanity make this transition.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces a deeper social up-

heaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing

it we are engaged in building the worlds first Golden Age. In the near fu-

ture we will be the first generation to create a global Golden Age.

The passage of time, from June 2004 to June 2012, is humanitys great-___1This message is from the year 2002

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est opportunity to become awakened. A new civilization would come, and

along with it a new frame of consciousness. This new frame of con-

sciousness would mean an increased ability to see things from a higher

perspective. Our consciousness would continue to expand, and therewould be no returning to a tribal or a national life. Our energies would get

directed towards spiritual awakening and wholeness.

The world would be transformed, from one dominated by materialism to

one of balance and spirituality. The currently ruling world order would be

completely transformed to one of equality between all human beings.

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On Awakening into Oneness

There are various ways in which you could talk about awakening or one-

ness. If you are a neuroscientist you would say it is the shutting down of

the parietal lobes. If you are a psychologist you would say it is the loss

of the sense of self. If you are a philosopher you would say, The sense

of separation is gone"; a mystic would say, I am experiencing reality as it

is"; a spiritual person would say, I have achieved unity consciousness".

There is not one single state that is common to all mankind. The experi-

ence is different for different people. For some people it is like a noisy

generator that suddenly comes to a halt. There is an immense silence, asilence that is not the opposite of noise. Such a person would say, I am

silence". Yet another would be a total witness, a witness to thought and

life at large. Others would land in a state of such compassion and one-

ness that there is no separation from the other whatsoever. Another per-

son would experience causeless love and limitless joy. Yet another would

experience cosmic consciousness, the state of Aham Brahmasmi.

Whatever the experience, the common denominator is the absence of

personal suffering. Problems could still be there but they would not affect

you anymore. Because there is no person, there cannot be personal suf-fering. You would nevertheless sense the suffering of the world.

However, all this is talk which is not of much use. You have to get there

and I will get you there.

There are several degrees of oneness. Let us first look at oneness withinoneself. Right now you are not an individual, you are divided within. You

are a crowd inside you who are the son or the daughter of so and so,

the father, the husband, or the friend of so and so, you who is the em-

ployee or the employer of so and so. There are so many beings within

who are all the time talking. Then again there is your conscious and your

unconscious self, your authentic and your inauthentic self, all having a

dialogue all the time. You are that dialogue. When the dialogue shuts

down you become all-one inside. Alone means all-one. There is no more

division.

At the next level you would find oneness with your fellow human beings.

At the third level you would discover you are one with the earth, the tree,

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the water, the sky you are one with nature. You discover you and the

universe are one. Ultimately you discover you and God are one; you

would discover you are God. I intend to take you step by step to the final

oneness.

Mukticould be defined in various ways. The general definition I give for

muktiis the liberation of the senses. Now, when you see you do not see

without the interference of the mind. If you can see without the mind in-

terfering that is mukti; if you can hear without the mind interfering that is

mukti. The same applies to smell, touch, and even thought. Thought also

can be observed without your getting involved in the thought. Now what

is happening is when you are thinking, you think you are thinking. But

it is actually possible to see thoughts flow as though they were inde-

pendent of you. This is a physical reality, actually you can see thoughts.

Any kind of thought would be flowing into you and going out of you, and

you can watch them.

So this is the state of mukti. That is, the complete liberation of the senses

from the control of the mind. It is only such a being which is actually liv-

ing. Wherever the mind is in control you are not living. When the mind is

not there then you are actually living. That is why when people ask me,What is the purpose of life?" my answer is, If you are living you wont

ask the question". The purpose of life is to live. What does that mean? It

means to live the life of the senses. The senses must be independent and

free of the mind.

Now, what is happening is, you are not at all experiencing reality. Reality

to you is what is flowing through the senses. Now all the time you are in-

terpreting all the data that is coming into you. You look at a tree, and you

say, It is a big tree, a small tree, green tree, mango tree, this, that. All the

time comments are going on. When you sit down to eat food you are noteating food. You start worrying about your office or your family, or this or

that, or a comment on the food itself. The food is not being experienced.

That is why I say, If you experience reality as it is then you will just ex-

perience bliss". You will see that this whole creation is perfect, it is the

most beautiful thing, and that you are already in heaven. You have made

it into a hell.

It is possible to liberate the senses from the clutches of thought. Thought

is necessary when required. Otherwise, why should thought interfere?

There is no need for thought to interfere with your actual experience.Now, when the senses become free of the control of thought or the mind

then we say you have discovered unconditional joy and unconditional

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love. Such is this joy that you will feel that you are connected with every-

body. You will discover true love. This true joy and this true love are not

separate things; they are all one and the same. And this is a natural oc-

currence, that is what you are designed to be. That is what a human be-

ing is supposed to experience all the time.

Since you do not experience that your lives have become miserable. And

to escape that misery you have created various escape routes through

which all the time you are escaping from your misery, which misery itself

is because you are not experiencing reality. That is why people take to

alcohol or to drugs or sex or whatever that is, because otherwise what is

there in your life? It becomes meaningless.

So the whole attempt of this movement is to help you experience reality

as it is. When that happens you will discover unconditional love and un-

conditional joy; you will feel connected with everything and everybody.You do not feel that you are a separate individual. You do not live for

yourself alone anymore. Because yourself has become 'everybody. You

live for the sake of humanity. This is not a concept or some imaginary

thing. This is a day-to-day reality once you become awakened or you be-

come a mukta. And thousands of people have already got into these

states, and even right now there are a few people sitting here2

who are in

this state.

You do not exist. That is the truth. That sense of I and you, the sense of

separateness is an illusion. It does not really exist. For example, as you

are listening to me you are seeing me but you are not hearing me, and

when you hear me you are not seeing me. But that is happening so fast

that you have this illusion that you are seeing and hearing. The two

senses have got coordinated like in a movie; unless you have those 24

shots moving per second you will not see the hand movement in themovie theatre. If the projector is slowed down it becomes only like a slide.

Similarly, here the senses are coordinating at a particular speed whereby

you are feeling that you are seeing, touching as though all these things

are going on at the same time. It is this illusion that creates the sense of

me and I. If this is slowed down, you all just vanish! So now you are

there. If I were to slow down your senses, if you would give me permis-

sion you would just disappear. You will go back home minus yourself. But

you will still be very functional; you will in fact be very efficient.

The sense of separateness would completely be gone. What remains

___2On the lawn of the Oneness University Campus 3 where the satsangwas held

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there is life or you may call it pure consciousness the stuff from which

this whole universe is made of. What is there ultimately is consciousness,

and that has only to be experienced. How can you see yourself? There is

no way to see consciousness because You Are That. Its true nature is

anandaand love. It is a causeless love.

What you call love is not truly love. You either beg for love, asking some-

body to give you love, or if you give love it is because somebody is big or

famous or great or wealthy or you have something to gain from that. You

love your wife or husband because he or she means something to you.

You possess somebody, you are attached to somebody. That is not the

love we are talking about. This love is a causeless love. It is just there.

This can happen only if the I or self disappears.

It is a very simple thing. The senses have to be slowed down a little bit,

and behold! You are not there! What is there is only life. You will feel youare one with the universe, completely one. It is not a mystical experience.

A mystical experience comes when the kundalinirises to the chakras, but

when it comes down the experience is lost. We are not talking about that.

We are talking of a very robust state of 24 hours irreversible conscious-

ness. You are completely gone. To attain this state you must qualify. The

qualification is you must set right your relationships.

It takes only 7 minutes for me to give you that state in which you per-

ceive everything without the me or the I. For example, when I look at

you people I dont feel you are outside of me. It is as though all of you

are inside of my belly; I can never see anything as separate. It is a fact

and reality for me, and this is how all these people who have got the

state are experiencing. You can experience it. Somebody is not outside

of you. Strangely the boundaries of the body cease. You no more can

see it as your hand or your body. Its gone. The whole thing has become

your body; it is a part of you. It is then that you have this true love be-

cause it is a part of you. There is no cause, and there is no question of

the mind slipping into the past or worrying about the past or projecting

into the future or thinking about the future. It lives in the moment. Every

moment it lives, and you start really living.Right now what is happening is you are merely existing. You live because

you are afraid of dying. Otherwise you see no reason why you should

continue with your mediocre life. You get up in the morning, go to the

toilet, brush your teeth, have your breakfast, pack up your lunch, go to

office or do some business, come back, have a quarrel with your wife,

have a fight with your child, again come back to watch your TV. Day in

and day out, this routine, mediocre, meaningless, purposeless. You of

course create some meaning. You say, Im doing some social work, help-

ing man," and all kinds of things because you have to invent these things.

There is no meaning, because deep inside there is only sorrow inside you.

You dont know what to do with your lives. Youve got into this mechani-

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cal trap created by the self, by the me. So you have built up various es-

cape systems, mechanisms, and you continue with this kind of life, and

the only reason you are not sick is because, I can probably say, you are

afraid of dying.

You have had no moments of ecstasy or bliss or joy. That is what life isreally all about. You have certainly missed out on all that. So sometimes I

marvel how people are able to live. It really baffles me. To me, giving

awakening is not a big problem at all. To me the problem is I wonder how

people continue to live, how many escape systems they can build! They

have TV systems, computers, sky diving, and what else? Somehow you

must manage your lives. You are managing your sorrow, you are escap-

ing from your sorrow, doing all these things, but fundamentally that pain

is there inside, that ache, What is all this? What is the meaning of life?

Where are we going? We are getting older and seem to have achieved

nothing, and what is the purpose of all this?"

That is the meaning of the word dukka. There is no translation for it in

English. We use the word suffering which is not the true meaning of the

word dukka. It is a very abstract and not clearly definable ache you have,

the ache which Buddha had. He had everything in life yet that pain was

there, that sense of, What is this all about?" That is what we mean by the

word dukka.

So this has to go. That is the reason for the mukti yagna. But you must

first feel that pain. That is the first qualification. If you dont feel the pain

and say, Ok! Im managing my suffering, and Im happy with it," then I

have no business with you. I can help you only if it is going to really trou-

ble you.

The second thing is your relationships. That is very important. Then you

are ready for receiving my grace of mukti. Only then you will know what

true love is, what compassion is, what it is to share your life with others,

what all this talk of oneness is. All the scriptures will start revealing them-

selves to you. Nobody needs to teach you. You are your own guruand

you can see it for yourself.

The body lives its own life. But sadly, for an unawakened person the mind

interferes and does not allow the body to live its life. Awakening is the

liberation of the senses from the clutches of the mind. When one is liber-

ated from the clutches of the mind one begins to truly experience things

as they are.

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Without the interference of the mind any experience would give joy. It

could be the gutters or the garden, exalt or disparage, comfort or dis-

comfort, pain or pleasure everything would give joy.

The ultimate understanding or the ultimate awakening is you realize

there is no purpose to life, just to live. If you watch a cricket match, if

somebody in India is scoring very well and hitting sixes then you jump up

and shout. Is there a purpose to your jumping up and your shouting? No,

but there is a cause to it that is joy. Because there is joy you are jumping

up and you are shouting but there is no purpose to your shouting. It is

just there.

So, this creation is there just because there is too much joy, because the

stuff of creation is love and joy. Therefore it is there there is no pur-

pose to it. You just dance away because there is joy; whats the purpose

to your dance? You can see lot of people dancing away for no reason.

If you are truly living you wont ask the question, What is the purpose of

life?" Because you are not living you want a purpose to life. And you

dont understand how you could live without a purpose because you

dont live. If you live as I said, just to breathe is ananda, just to be is an-

anda, just to walk is ananda, to drink, to eat, to talk, look at somebody

there is ananda. That is the stuff of life which is what we are trying to do

for you.

I cannot speak to you about any right way or right path. We are speaking

about a permanent transformation which would hold good wherever youare. It does not matter whether you are in this atmosphere

3or you are in

the world outside.

The key thing here is you have to get into a state where seeing is occur-

ring all the time. That is what we are trying to do in the courses here.

When seeing happens all suffering ceases because to see is to be free.

There is no effort involved, there is no time involved.

The example that we often give is, supposing there were to be a snake in

front of you, you would be very scared and shiver in fear. The moment

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Meant here is the area of Golden City

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you see it is not a snake but a rope, instantly the fear is gone. No time is

involved, no effort is involved. You see and you are free.

The same thing applies to what is going on within the mind. If you could

really see what is going on, whatever that might be, whether it be a lust-

ful thought or a murderous thought or any kind of thought, there is onlyjoy and freedom.

What is there is not important. The only thing is do you see what is go-

ing on? Since it is only seeing, we do not call it the path or the right

path. We dont use such words. That is why we often say there is no path

here.

You have divided the world into the spiritual and the worldly. As far as I

am concerned they are not separate. To me there are no separate worlds,

the spiritual and the physical world or what you call the world. They are

one and the same only.

Cooking can be great joy for the fully awakened, and when they cook

that is meditation for them. They dance and they sing and they cook,

there is so much silence and they cook, some dont even know that they

are cooking. So the simple act of cooking can be the most extraordinarything. So how can you separate the two?

Then you are not awakened of course, you see the separation but

once you are awakened there is no charge in the content. Well, every lit-

tle thing can be very spiritual. The act of doing a job can be very spiritual,

going to office can be spiritual, looking at the crow can be spiritual. Eve-

rything would be spiritual. There is no separation at all.

So the question does not arise once you are awakened. Until then of

course it is there, you have to strike a balance. So we must first know

what dharmawe are talking about, the dharmaof the unawakened or forthe awakened.

When you are not awakened, dont behave like an awakened person. You

will be miserable. When you are not a Buddha do not behave like a Bud-

dha. The Buddha was free of craving because that was his natural state.

He had a profound insight that altered his consciousness. To Christ,

compassion was his most natural state of existence. None of these saints

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and sages practiced the insights and got into the state. They got there

through grace.

Well! The rest of humanity is seriously practicing compassion and love. Is

it ever possible? Can a horse ever become an elephant?

I always maintain that this is a neurobiological process. So when you go

into a state of gratitude, the brain itself functions as a much better in-

strument, which in turn proves very helpful in raising the states of con-

sciousness. If there is no gratitude, the brain as an organ becomes an in-

ferior organ, and it does not really help.There are other reasons also, that when you are grateful those people

who have actually helped you they in some sense have received this

gratitude, and you get a blessing from them which in turns helps your

process. So in the actual experience we have found, people who have

the sense of gratitude move much faster than those who do not have the

sense of gratitude.

If you do anything to increase the love in you, youll never discover love.

If you would realize that there is nothing you could do about it that is the

beginning of love. In spirituality, the moment you realize there is nothing

you could do about it that is the moment it happens.

As long as you keep trying, youll never ever get there. That trying is the

problem, that trying takes you away from where you want to be. So you

have to realize the futility of all effort. All effort on the spiritual path is fu-

tile. If you could realize that it would hit you like a ton of bricks. Then all

effort ceases. The moment effort is gone, you are there.

Man cannot make it on his own. It has to be given to him. Oneness is not

a state to be achieved or practiced but a benediction to be received.

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Asato Ma Sat Gamaya

Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya

Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya

Lead me from the unreal to the Real.

Lead me from darkness to light.

Lead me from mortality to immortality.

Hari OMTat Sat

God is Absolute Reality,

God is All That Is.

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On the Divine and God-Realization

Life can be compared to sleep.

You close your eyes and prefer to be in darkness,

thinking it to be a restful phase.

The dreams are nothing but your life events

which you seem so attached to.

Sunrise can be compared to death.

The light streams in, your eyes open,

the dream ends, and reality sets in.

The dreams now appears unreal to you.

When I say death I mean

the death of your senses of desires.

This is the death of the I.

The I separates you from me.

I have come to stop you from sleeping,

to expose the untrue nature of your dreams

right outside your window, so that these sun rays

stream on your face to force you

to open your eyes earlier.

It is only in this true light

that you will see ME.

God could be spoken of in three ways the unmanifest, the manifest,

and the incarnation. God the unmanifest is the unknowable. By its very

definition, the unmanifest cannot be seen, felt, or heard. It is attributeless

and hence cannot be known. Remember, it is not the unknown but the

unknowable. What is unknown today could be known tomorrow. There is

no way for you to understand Reality or God. It will forever be the un-

knowable. As far as you are concerned, the unmanifest is as good as

non-existent. God is very much like the unmanifest electricity that is ex-

perienced only when it manifests as light, sound, or sensation. Gods

manifest form is All That Is.

The manifest God is also theAntaryamin. The still, small voice you hearinside, or the form that you see within or without is the manifest. He can

manifest across space and time to any number of people. God also mani-

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fests as a formless Presence that you could experience as love, aware-

ness, compassion, power, and several other sacred attributes.

The Presence manifests externally sometimes as a form. When the un-

knowable Reality limits Itself into a frame it is anAvatar. AnAvataris a

being who is born with a destiny to aid humanity into its next phase ofevolution.

You need not search elsewhere for God. All you need to do is to look at

your own life and you would see Him. Throughout your life the hand of

the Divine has been continuously helping and guiding you. You are justnot aware of it. When you reminisce about your life you would discover

there is a higher intelligence, a higher energy which has been there with

you all the time. When you awaken to this truth you discover the Pres-

ence of God in your life.

We often use the word God, but God means different things to different

people. But actually we can define God as your higher sacred self, higher

intelligence, or higher consciousness.

Sometimes you might have seen hundreds of birds flying like one bird.

Have you seen this? So actually you can know that the whole group has

got a single consciousness, but the individual bird will follow the con-

sciousness of the whole pack. Sometimes you will find one or two birds

dropping out, and again they get back to the main flock. If we say that

the individual bird is you, then that full total bird consisting of all birds is

theAntaryamin. It can be called God or higher intelligence etc.

So when we say you have theAntaryaminor that theAntaryaminis

awakened, what it means is you the part are in touch with the whole. In

the flock of birds, if one bird drops out of the group two or three birds

come out and help that bird to go and join back. Only then the whole

thing can function. So as long as the small bird is following the big pack

you can say the small bird is following the will of the group or the pack.

So if you have theAntaryaminand can talk with him then you, the part is

following the will of the whole or the divine will. So it is not enough if you

are willing to follow the divine will, you must know what the divine will is,what the will of the higher consciousness is, without which you are like a

bird fallen off the pack.

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You are in fact an orphan. TheAntaryaminis the whole, and to have the

Antaryaminmeans you are in touch with the whole. The whole of human

consciousness put together is more than the individuals consciousness.

It is not 1+1 = 2 but it is 1+1 = 4. That is what is called synergetic emer-

gence. Hydrogen and oxygen fuse to form water, whose properties are

totally and fundamentally different from hydrogen and oxygen. This

emerging consciousness is called God or cosmic consciousness. And

this cosmic consciousness is theAntaryamin.

TheAntaryaminis you inner guide and your supreme friend who can

guide you and protect you. Today many a time you are in conflict. What

is right and wrong? What is good and bad? You are unable to decide this.

Even when you decide many times you regret your decisions. But, when

theAntaryaminis awakened you will exactly know how to respond to

every situation of life. At every step you will have someone to guide you,

on whom you can trust and who accepts you exactly as you are. And

also when you have theAntaryaminawakening is very easy.

So until now we have seen what theAntaryaminis and why do you need

anAntaryamin. Now I will tell you how the awakening of theAntaryamin

actually happens. Basically in our society, in the kind of schooling, educa-

tion, and life style one has you are not allowed to experience and ex-

press your emotions. You are quite suppressed. That is why some have

difficulty in getting in touch with theirAntaryamin. So once you have got

in touch with your suppressed emotions, and if you invite theAntaryamin

with your whole heart it will awaken in you in the way it chooses or in theform you desire.

To have theAntaryaminis the natural state of man, it is your birthright. It

is just like breathing or digesting. In the ancient days everybody was in

touch with theirAntaryamin. There were tribes in Africa a hundred years

ago who where in direct communion with theirAntaryamin. They lived a

wonderful life. All that you must do is from your heart, with emotion, with

great feeling and with a bond, a liking, you must invite theAntaryamin,

and then it will awaken in you. It is not at all difficult. You think it is diffi-

cult and have all kinds of wrong perceptions. TheAntaryaminis not both-ered about what kind of a person you are. TheAntaryaminis your friend,

and so doesnt judge you or condemn you. All it wants is that you invite it

with a feeling and a bond.

Once awakened theAntaryaminacts like the internet. Just like the indi-

vidual PCs forming a network of communications to access information

and establish contacts, theAntaryaminin you, too, is connecting to the

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Antaryaminof the rest of humanity. A prayer done in your heart invokes a

response from any part of the globe, and what you then would witness

are miracles and amazing coincidences. This is the way of God.

As you grow the way theAntaryaminappears to you will also grow. It can

be outside you also, and can take any form Buddha, Christ, etc. It is the

Antaryaminwho does everything.

If you are waiting at the bus stop and want the bus to stop you can ask

yourAntaryamin. TheAntaryaminis also the bus driver! For Jesus or

Bhagavan to pick up your prayer you must have a bond with them, anemotional connection; and clarity. Unless it is going to harm somebody

most prayers will be answered.

Miracles are natural occurrences in every life. They are part of a divine

scheme. Miracles are all the time happening in your life. Sometimes

sought but very often unsought.

A failure in recognizing grace and channelling it when required could very

often be traced in proper relationships. All problems in relationships are

basically to be traced to hurt. You either hurt or you get hurt. It is the

need to control or possess people like you would a piece of furniture that

leads from mutual pain. The result and discord in relationships manifests

itself in the external world as problems with health, finance, career, even

a lack of spiritual growth. This is because the external world is essentially

a reflection of the internal world. That is why each one of you comes

across custom made life situations meant especially for you.

When you discover love in relationships, forgive and seek forgiveness

from those you have hurt your heart flowers and you begin to experience

grace. The greater the love, the greater would be the power of God that

you would witness in your own life.

Any biologist, any world-class biologist is staring at the face of God when

he looks at the DNA. You could call Newton a scientist, you could call

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Einstein a scientist, they are firmly interested in God. But who the scien-

tist is interested in he doesnt know.

See, all that you could do is, you could realize that you do not know, that

you cannot know. If you go deep into science reason and logic break

down. And what happens to science? Science breaks down. Its just notpossible. You can never understand because you are the part. Supposed

you must have a good idea of this universe, you must get out of this uni-

verse. How do you get out of the universe? You are a part of the universe.

Can the cell understand the whole body? Is it possible? Your galaxy is

cosmic dust. And what are you? And how do you propose to understand?

That is why I say, All science is sheer poetry". You have learned to talk

about nature in some way, he is talking about nature in some way. These

are poems. So Einstein is writing his poem, Newton is writing his poem,

all scientists are writing their poems. Thats all. There is no such thingthat they have discovered the truth for the simple reason there is no

truth to be discovered.

To me the only reality is the heart. What the heart says that alone is truth.

The heart might say, Help him" that is perfect action. The heart might

say, Do not help him," and you dont help him that is perfect action.

Why the heart tells in this case, Dot it," why the heart then says, Dont

do it," you have no idea to understand. Because that is directly coming

from cosmic consciousness, from God Himself. So one cant understand

why God says this and God says that. Listening to your heart means lis-

tening to God.

To me the part must obey the whole. You are the part; until of course

you have become God, you realize God so that you become one with

God. So, the whole manifests itself through the heart, and you have to

obey to the whole, that is, God or your heart. The heart says, Do this,"you do this. It says, Dont do," whatever that is, you should not do. That

is obeying the heart.

Human beings today do not obey the whole. They do not follow their

heart, they only follow their mind. That is why the world has become a

mess. If people become awakened, that is, their hearts would have flow-

ered then they would simply follow their heart, just following the divine

will. If everybody follows the divine will there will be no problems on earth.

If we do not follow the divine will we follow our own will that is an illusion.

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Truth is a many-storied structure. If you were to look at it from the

ground floor it would look different than if you would look at it from the94th floor. Is there a free will as different from divine will? For the one

who is God-realized and is awakened what exists is only the Presence or

God. The decision is God, the decision making is God. Hence the ques-

tion of a free will does not arise at all.

The one in an ordinary state of consciousness experiences duality as the

me and the not me, as man and God, and free will and divine will.

Such a person would say, Free will and divine will alternate in life. There

are moments where there is choice, where you can exercise control and

turn the direction of life according to your choice. There are also timeswhere you see life is beyond your control, and hence surrender to the

Divine with acceptance would be wisdom."

When we use the word surrender what we mean is that you should un-

derstand that this mind cannot really help you, and that you have to get

beyond the mind. If you let go of the mind, that letting go is what we call

surrender. You must realize that the human mind is limited and there is

no use wasting your time with the mind. It is only going to create obsta-

cles for you.

If you can see that the mind would stop interfering. If that happens then

we say you have surrendered. That is all. It is not some kind of slavish

surrender; it is never used in that sense. God would not like you to sur-

render like a slave. He is after all your friend. So when we use the word

surrender it means putting aside the mind, knowing its limitations.

You discover surrender when you feel you are helpless. When you feel

you are totally helpless you will discover surrender. That is when grace

comes pouring. Imagine that you are struck on the railway line and the

train rushing at you, then you will certainly surrender! Many people have

surrendered to me like that. Most people surrender only in dire moments.

That is why miracles, too, happen only in those moments.

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I am helping you all the time. You do not know the any number of times

you have been saved. If you could somehow manage to see the hand of

grace you would immediately start loving me. Because isnt it natural to

love anyone who helps you? The moment you start loving me I would

start giving you more and more grace. As below, so above. When you see

somebody loving you dont you start loving him? Same thing here also.

Initially my grace flows into your life as strange coincidences. I use that

word because it is mild. The more you recognize grace in coincidences

your love would increase, and there will be a flood of grace leading to

miracles.

I love you much more than you love yourselves.

Each one of you should try and find out what suits you best. Some play

with me, some fight with me, some cajole me; and some play with me.

You should do whatever comes naturally to you. However, the key is to

have a strong bond with me. One other determining factor for grace is

the emotion you carry in your prayer. If there is emotion the response is

very fast.

There are some devotees who assume that I would look into all theirneeds and go on living without any stress. To them I do even before they

ask.

The kind of prayer that would suit you depends on your upbringing, your

background, and your culture. The choice is therefore left to you.

When you visualize in your prayers there is a better communication be-

tween you and me. Visualization actually helps you to become clear

about the things you want. The clearer you are, the easier it is for me to

help you.

With regards to granting of the desire itself I would decide whether the

desire is good for you or not. If I feel it is not good for you I would not

answer your prayer.

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God does not test his devotees. What you consider to be tests from

Gods end are basically problems you have created for yourself.

I and Amma are basically trying to help you out. Sometimes it might ap-

pear that we are testing you but in reality we would prevent a greater

pain from coming to you. Let us say you prayed for a good job, and I didnot grant it to you, it will only be to save you from some immanent dan-

ger or to bless you with something greater.

I love you. I am here only because I love you so much. You are not sepa-

rate from me. To me it is not loving someone else but myself.

There are certain areas where God could straight away intervene, and

other areas where He cannot. Here He needs your cooperation.

Surrender and helplessness are not a defeatist attitude. It is to set aside

your defective belief systems and complex emotions, seeing that they

are a hindrance to grace. Even if you could do this for a short while God

would have His way.

What you must understand is that while God is powerful, you, too, are

powerful. That is the whole problem. You are an aspect of God. You are a

powerful being who is full of defective thoughts, concepts, and mentalframeworks. So you are God who has gone wrong.

That is why it is not possible to transform the world in one blow. You, too,

have to cooperate with God in helping change the world.

The ultimate purpose of life is to become one with God. Your whole life is

so structured to push you in that direction. If every event in your life were

thoroughly understood and experienced as an action from God you

would move closer to God. Ultimately you become one with God.

Anybody can become one with God as long as you have a divine beingwithin oneself, and you have melted with that and it merges with your

Antaryamin. You yourself cannot become one with God.

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If you are talking about true surrender, man and God cannot coexist ei-

ther there is man, or there is God. If you are there you dont give achance for God. Where man ends, God begins.

As you go on progressing you will find that one minute you are God

yourself and the next minute you are not. What happens is after some-

time you will realize that actually you and God are the same. But some-times you have the feeling of oneness, sometimes you have a feeling of

separation. It is then that you can be of very great help to people. This is

possible to be achieved in this lifetime, and there are people who have

achieved this. I am not talking of anything which at least a few people

have not achieved. That is why we are talking about oneness. You will ac-

tually discover that you are one with the Divine, that you are actually God.

This continues on a regular basis, the only thing is as you go along, the

time that you experience oneness with God will be more. You would ac-

tually become Amma Bhagavan or Light or God or whatever you want to

call it. It all depends upon you. When you still go deeper your physical

form can also be affected. There is no end to these things, these are

things which happen very naturally, very automatically.

I suggest that you read about Ramalinga Swami. It is a very beautiful ex-

ample of how somebody who was so very ordinary finally became one

with God. He lived in very recent times, and his life is very well recorded.

He lived in the city of Chennai. It will give you a good idea as to what the

possibilities are because I have not known anything equivalent of that in

any other literature of the world and so very modern also. That state

would become yours. In fact he tried to give that to others, but for some

reason he could not. He had to face opposition, and then he said, Now

Im going back. But, I will come back with my father whom you cannot

take for a ride."

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Tvameva Mata Cha Pita Tvameva

Tvameva Bandu Cha Saka Tvameva

Tvameva Vidya Dravinam Tvameva

Tvameva Sarvam Mama Deva Deva

You are my Mother and Father.

You are my kith and kin and my beloved Friend.

You are all that I know and my only wealth.

You are everything for me, my God!

Mahadeeksha Amma Bhagavan

(I am willing to receive the) Great Blessing

(of my) Divine Mother (and) Father.

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On Suffering and Self-Acceptance

To be liberated from suffering you must first understand what suffering is.

Suffering is nothing but the continuous thought processing that happens

in the mind over an event or incident of the past. Suffering is nothing but

the 'carry over of the past events of our life.

Very often you try to explain away your suffering. You try to understand.

If on the other hand you stop doing these things experiencing automati-

cally happens.

Let us say you are married and your wife is shouting at you, and if you

have read a lot of books on psychology you would try to explain her be-

haviour or would be busy trying to understand her. If you do neither of

these then you actually begin to experience her nagging. That is when

something very strange and beautiful happens. It is only in the absence

of explanations and judgements that we could experience another.That is why in the movement many have learnt to experience each other.

Hitherto they complained about the nagging of the husband or the wife,

today they are in ecstasy the moment the nagging begins. Hitherto they

would run away from their homes but now they dont.

You could very well start with your intimate relationships.

All that you can do is you can see what is there. First of all you do not

know what is there because all the years you have been running away

from it.

See, everywhere you find only the self. So you come to know, now there

is an indirect way of knowing, but then to actually look at it is painful. To

look at your envious thoughts, your jealous thoughts, your fearful

thoughts, your anxious thoughts is not such a good experience, and so

all the time you are running away from it. That is the only problem whichman has got.

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So, because we are telling you, Look, turn around, confront it, look at it,"

then maybe you will say, Let me try". Initially it could be difficult but then

you will soon realize it is very tempting. It is very nice to see. As you see

your darker side, your negative side, strangely you will stop condemning,

you will know that its true, and along with that comes joy also, and with

that joy you will soon find that there is absence of conflict.

Not that your negative side has gone, not that you cease to be jealous,

cease to be angry, cease to be fearful, no, no, no, no. Not those things.

You are for the first time in your life able to say, Yes, I am this. I am not

ashamed of it. That is the only truth, I am being truthful." That is when

you have taken the first step in spirituality that is also the last step.

Thereafter everything is automatic. No guruis required, no teaching is

required. It is all automatic.

You think there is something you can do to get there. There is nothingyou can do to get there. If you are a jealous person, you are not going to

become non-jealous. If you are fearful person, you are not going to be-

come courageous like the lion. If you are a depressed person, you are

not going to go into euphoria. You cannot change, try as you might, you

cannot change.

So what is the teaching here? The teaching says, You cannot change,

and there is no need to change because you have been designed like

that. You are that." That is all; that is the only teaching. Therefore you ac-

cept, Ah! I cannot change! What is there to do? Nothing to do. There is

nothing wrong like that, I have been designed like that."

You did not design yourself. God designed you like that. He has some

purpose in designing you. So there is complete acceptance. When you

accept what is there that is meditation, that is sadhana, that is all. So it is

very simple; please do it, I will help you.

Embracing yourself as you are is the first step and the last step. You

must be who you are. What you should be is not important. Whoever you

are, you are unique. The universe has made you like that, God has made

you like that. Why do you disturb his work? To surrender to God is to be

yourself.

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According to the natural principle there is nothing you could do about

negative thoughts, except to become more observant, to become more

aware that they are there. If you try to fight with them or to push them

out they will become powerful. All fights with negative thoughts must be

avoided. The more you fight, the stronger they become. The only way is

to realize that they are there, and then accept them. Just accept the

truth. Because the truth is that they are there. How could you deny that?

By accepting them they become weaker. As they become weaker they

have a chance that they would slowly fade out.

So please try to avoid all fight, all struggle with negative emotions. And as

you gradually go into it you will realize that they are not your negative

emotions but they are just there in the thought sphere, and it so happens

that your brain is picking them up. They are not your negative thoughts.

That is why we say, They are just thoughts, like that building is there,

they are there". They are not your thoughts but humanitys thoughts. And

you will soon become free of them.

Through the Oneness Blessings it becomes a very tangible experience to

you, and you no more identify with the thoughts as your thoughts. The

present negativity that is within you ceases thereafter.

For coming out of self-doubt you must understand the nature of the mind.

When we say the nature of the mind we are referring to the ancient hu-

man mind, not the individual mind. Since the mind is an illusion and has

no real existence one of its qualities is self-doubt.

Remember, it is not the quality of 'your mind but 'the mind. Hence any

attempts to change the mind would be futile. Once you discover this

there is no more trouble at all. Self-doubt could go on within the mind

and you can watch it. There is nothing you could do about it because

that is its nature.

Suppose there is a dog, and let us call that dog jealousy. You want to

change the dog jealousy to non-jealousy. You behind and the dog in

front, you keep chasing the dog trying to catch hold of it and transform it.

Then all of a sudden something strange happens. You disappear and thedog alone remains. The chase comes to an end.

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There is no 'you to become free from jealousy. What exists is jealousy.

That is freedom. Here we do not speak about freedom from this or free-

dom from that. We only speak of freedom.

The first thing in the process of awakening is inner integrity. You have to

be completely honest about yourself to yourself. It does not matter who

you are or what you are. What is important is can you confront yourself?

Can you face yourself? Can you be honest? Can you be authentic with

yourself?

Since most people have never been honest with themselves this is easiersaid than done. You are frightened of yourselves. You dont want to see

this about yourselves. You would like to put all the internal ugliness un-

der the carpet. That is not really going to help you.

The second thing you need to understand is that you have come down

here to play your whole life as a game. In cricket when the Indians and

Pakistanis confront each other it is more like war. They play as though

their life depends on it. But then they also know it is a game. Similarly

you have to live life seriously. Life has to be taken seriously, you have to

live it intensely, but you should know it is a game.

You cant be too frivolous, you cant be irresponsible, cant be careless.

You have to be serious; at the same time know it is a game. If you could

develop this perception it would be of immense benefit in the process of

awakening.

So when you do become awakened you will see how beautiful, how per-

fect this world is, you will really start playing it like a game. You will start

living for the first time. As of now, you do not live. You sail on, birthday af-

ter birthday comes, and finally it is all over. You have hardly enjoyed any-

thing. This is what most human life is.

You should truly understand your purpose as to why you have come

down here. You have been sent here to have a good time! But you have

made a mess of the whole thing. Once you are awakened no matter what

your situation is, you will have a good time. Thats what life is all about.

Thats why we use the word leela just to play.

When I look at you I see the bag each one of you is carrying. Your bur-

den and pain keeps hitting me all the time. So I hope that a few days

later you will be rid of your baggage, and you would be all singing and

dancing and go out into the world to play your games.

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With this perception you could go into your meditation. Dont try to medi-

tate. Just see, all that you have got to see here is, To see, to realize you

cannot meditate! You do that, I will do the rest!

If you try to meditate, if you think you can meditate I cannot help you.

But, if you were to realize that you cannot meditate then meditationwould happen! I WILL BE THERE. So, I think we could start now!

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Shanno Mitra Sham Varuna

Shanno Bhavatvaryama

Shanna Indro Brahaspati

Shanno Vishnu Rurukrama

Namo Brahmane Namaste Vayo

Tvameva Pratyaksham Brahmasi

Tvameva Pratyaksham Brahma Vadishyami

Ritam Vadishyami Satyam Vadishyami

Tanma Mavatu

Tat Vhaktara Mavatu

Avatu Mam

Avatu Vaktaram

May the Lord of day grant us peace.

May the Lord of night grant us peace.

May the Lord of sight grant us peace.

May the Lord might grant us peace.

May the Lord of speech grant us peace.

May the Lord of space grant us peace.

I bow down toBrahman, source of all power.

I will speak the truth and follow the law.

Guard me and my teacher against all harm.

Guard me and my teacher against all harm.

Anugrahi Tosmi

Blessed am I.

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On Relationships

What else is life if not relationships? Could you conceive of yourself

without any relationship whatsoever? You arise in relationship with your

father, mother, husband, wife, child, education, nation, gender, home. In

fact you are these relationships. Remove all these relationships, where

are you? Think about it and find out if you would exist or not.

The problem of mankind is that people do not feel connected with each

other. They neither feel connected to their spouses, their children, nor to

their parents. They are alienated from nature and God and the world

around them. Loneliness, meaninglessness, and hollowness are a result

of this state of affairs. To escape this misery you have created all kinds of

work, pleasure, and further forms of suffering. You are a stranger even

unto yourself.

As you awaken to yourself, you would awaken to the joys of relationship.It is like a blind man awakening to the world of color. You would realize

that life in fact is relationships. Discovering love in relationships is the

greatest medicine for all ills and the solution for most problems.

If you attain to this oneness with your spouse you would attain the same

with God. Since loving God is no different from loving ones spouse, child,

parent, or even oneself.

Next to the relationship with yourself is your relationship with your par-

ents. Your relationship with your parents forms the mould in which you

would experience all the other relationships in life, including God.

Let us say you are hurt with your father since you hate his domineering

attitude, you will certainly come across many such people who to you re-

flect your father. They could be your friend, your spouse, or your superior.

You would resent authority wherever you come across it, and hence

damage yourself.

If you were hurt with your mother because you felt she preferred your

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sister to you, remember this hurt would be carried through life, coloring

every other relationship, making you feel unloved. A troubled relationship

with your mother would mean unnecessary health problems and obsta-

cles on your path of achievement, and with your father would mean fi-

nancial losses.

If you could somehow work out your relationship with them, get over

your hurts and seek their forgiveness a breakthrough is round the corner.

Seek the blessing of your parents with gratitude, and grace would flow

through them to you.

The setting right of relationships with your parents is of the utmost im-

portance. That has priority. Then comes the sevaaspect. So technically

what happens is, all relationships reflect the relationship with your par-

ents. So they reflect exactly what has happened between you and your

parents.

Now, the relations you have with your family and friends and all at the

places of work, all that again depends on your relationship with your par-

ents. So once this is set right everything falls into place. And life is rela-

tionship. So what happens is, life also reflects these relationships.

That is why; if you have a terrible relationship with your father you most

likely have financial problems because life would reflect that. If it is a very

bad relationship with your mother then you have needless obstacles.

That is how life would reflect it because life is relationship.

How this actually happens is, when these relationships are set right

something happens to the heart, the heart in turn is connected to the

brain, from the brain some signals are sent out. Let us say somebody has

to give you money, and he is not giving the money to you. Now, once you

have set right your relationship the heart sends a signal to the brain, the

brain is an instrument which transmits energies, he would pick up these

energies, he would have a change of heart, and he would give back the

money to you.

So the technical aspects are not so important but empirically you can

verify, You will do this, you will get that try it and see. Anybody who is

having a terrible financial problem, set right your relationship with your

father and you see there is an immediate improvement. And if you are

having needless obstacles, set right the relationship with your mother

and you will see immediately improvement. This can be experimentally

verified. All that we are talking can actually be verified at the ground level.

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As you start relating to your parents with greater love and concern,

strangely you will find that they will start relating between themselves ina better way. So children would bring about a better relationship among

the parents by improving their own relationship with the parents.

It is not given to you to judge them or condemn them. Not matter who or

what they are, if you love them and respect them you will find things

automatically working out for you. Parents want you to be their children

you should not try to advice, argue, or dictate to them. If you experience

your father or mother dominating you without resisting it, it will give you

great joy. That itself would transform your parents. In course of time you

will see your own parents coming together.

This has happened any number of times among the youths.

Being a parent is one of the most difficult roles to play. Much of humanity

is a victim to the lovelessness of their own parents. Since it is very diffi-

cult to show love if one has not received it, you as parents do not knowwhat it is to love your child.

Being possessive and trying to fulfill your own unfulfilled needs through

your child is not love. Love is not merely fulfilling their requirements. A

child needs much more than care. It needs to experience your attention,

friendship, and an acceptance that is unconditional. You need to be

awake to the changes occurring in your child, and cope with it through

understanding.

No child is damaged through the firmness of his parents if it is cushioned

by love. The best way to relate to your child is sometimes to become achild yourself. One who is experiencing love in his or her childhood natu-

rally grows into a loving partner or friend, an understanding parent, and

very often a successful individual.

A happy human being is also a spiritual human being.

The best gift a teacher could give to his students is, his heart must have

flowered. Somebody whose heart has not flowered should not be a

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teacher. All that the child needs is the true unconditional love. If a

teacher could give that to a child then immediately the inferiorities dis-

solve, the four baskets4

dissolve, there will be a complete transformation

in the child.

Now, we have run a school, we had to close it down for various reasons.We did have teachers whose heart has flowered, and the children were

remarkable children. Some of these children are sitting in front of you

right here who at a young age have renounced everything and joined the

movement. It was because they received this unconditional love. And

they were also academically very brilliant all because the teacher could

give them this love. So my gift to the teacher would be this unconditional

love which he or she in turn could share with his or her students.

The basic problem in the relationship with ones spouse is the constant

endeavor to understand the other. All the time you are analyzing your

partner. Innumerable factors, in fact the whole universe is acting upon

your partner, creating him/her from moment to moment. When some-

body is changing all the time, how could you possibly understand? Any

effort to understand is futile. By the time you understand they would

have changed.

You have tried so many ways to change your spouse by remaining si-

lent, by fighting back, by advising, by showing love and care, by staying

away. But sadly the expected change very often does not happen. By try-

ing to change your spouse you are unconsciously implying that he or she

is not good enough to be loved. Trying to change your spouse is like go-

ing to the same movie for 365 days, expecting that the climax would

change some day.

If the key to your happiness lies in others change then you have a very

difficult, if not an impossible price to pay for your happiness. The door tohappiness that you are trying to open through the transformation of your

spouse is like a mirage.

To change another is impossible. All transformation is a happening. Life

or grace has to do it to you. When you accept and experience your

spouse as she or he is, that is the birth of love.

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If you were to feel connected with your wife or your husband, and if you

know the art of experiencing your spouse then there will be no need to

separate. That is what should happen to you in your life. Otherwise fami-

lies are going to break up, and it is going to lead to the death of the civi-

lisation.

So separating and breaking apart is not the solution. We have to make

families survive which means people should learn to experience each

other and derive joy out of that relationship. That is the only hope for

mankind.

The families dissolve and disappear, civilisation, too, would dissolve and

disappear. Unless the family is held intact the individual would go to

pieces. If the individual should go to pieces, the civilisation, too, would

get fragmented and ultimately disappear.

He would go to pieces because he would be missing his mothers love,his fathers attention, if the care and concern which he derives from his

parents would not be there he would begin to feel very lonely, he would

lose his identity, and he would have to take recourse to various ways of

protecting himself from his loneliness. When loneliness is inside you, you

escape through various forms of entertainment, drugs, alcohol, sex, crime,

and what not. All these would ultimately lead to his breakup as an indi-

vidual. And such a being would ultimately lead to the fragmentation of

society and civilisation itself.

The society or civilisation is nothing but its individuals.

I cannot tell you what love is. I can tell you what love is not. Crush is not

love, emotion is not love, attachment is not love, possession is not love.

You go on saying, l will be saying no, no, no. The love we are talking

about cannot be described. It has to be experienced.

There is no use talking about it. Because all that you know is conditional.

This is totally unconditional. There is no reason for that, there is no cause

for that. It is just there. We would like you to get there. You would then

be a fulfilled human being. You would have realized your full potential as

a human being. Otherwise you are not a human being at all because the

moment you discover this love you also discover connectedness. You

feel connected with your parents, with your brothers, friends, and every-

body in the world.

Right now you do not have this connectedness. That is why I say, Every-

body is an orphan". You do not feel connected even to your parents, to

your spouses. Your lives are miserable, lonely, meaningless because you

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lead an unconnected life. When this love is there you feel connected.

First you feel connected with your near and dear ones, then with your

friends, then with the world at large, plants and animals, and finally with

God. You become one with God. That is the oneness we are talking

about.

So if you do not have this connectedness life is just not worth living. Love

has to be discovered. It has to happen. You just cant do anything about

it. I can give it. I am not saying that I am the only one who can give it.

When you give Oneness Blessing you will also be able to give it.

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Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu

Sarvesham Shantir Bhavatu

Sarvesham Poornam Bhavatu

Sarvesham Mangalam Bhavatu

Sarve Bhavantu Sukinaha

Sarve Santu Niramaya

Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu

Ma Kaschid-Dukka-Bhag-Bhavet

May auspiciousness be unto all.

May peace be unto all.

May fullness be unto all.

May prosperity be unto all.

May all be happy.

May all be free from disabilities.

May all behold what is auspicious.

May none suffer from sorrow.

Lokah Samasta

Sukino Bhavantu

May all beings in all worlds be happy and free.

May all our thoughts and actions contribute

to that happiness and to freedom for all.

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On the Golden City

There are certain energy lines flowing on the earth called grid lines.

These are like latitudes and longitudes. These grid lines can be measured

by a special instrument known as the Laker antenna. We have done a

lot of work on this, and have found out that if your chakrasrotate at 33

times per second then you become awakened. We have also discovered

that by making the grid lines vibrate we can make the chakrasrotate at

that particular speed.

After scanning a number of places we have discovered this place, the

Golden City, and some of the major grid lines are surfacing from thisplace. It is here that we are building the temple. This structure can hold

8,000 people. When 8,000 people will start meditating continuously in

turn, the grid lines will start vibrating not just in Golden City but across

the globe as the energies will rise due to the power generated by medita-

tion. These grid lines will in turn affect the chakrastaking you into differ-

ent states.

And also the Golden City, otherwise called as Global City, is constructed

totally according to the vastuthat was revealed by me. This would enable

me to hold the auspicious energies and negate the negative energies sothat it becomes easy for me to increase my grace thousand folds as the

energy level of a place is very essential for grace to come.

So let us say you are in Beijing and the vibrations are set in motion here,

in Beijing you will start getting experiences and then whatever should

happen will start happening. Then, whether you like it or not you will be-

come awakened.

So to make this happen we are building the Golden City. I want all of you

to come and meditate there once it is completed.

This temple that we are building has a special kind of structure, built on a

very special place. That is after 64,000 people are awakened thousands

of them will come there, sit there, and meditate.

So when that happens, let us say out of the 64,000 who have made it, six

or seven thousand people will be meditating in those halls and the re-maining would be giving Oneness Blessing in the world. So their Oneness

Blessing will be very powerful because these groups are meditating here.

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Then after sometime this group would go out and newer group would

come in.

It is like the power generator, with so many highly awakened people, all

in the same hall. That is why it is a pillar less hall with a very special de-

sign. So as you keep meditating, it is like power supply which goes intothe people who are giving Oneness Blessing outside and helps mankind

to become awakened very fast. This temple is being specially built for the

specific purpose of awakening mankind.

The Oneness Temple is a very unique temple. As we walk through thevarious passages of the temple our chakraswould start opening up,

starting with the mooladharato the sahasrara. As we come near the

dome of the temple our frontal lobes would be activated. When the fron-

tal lobes are activated we would be able to see the God we worship. If

one is a Christian he would see Christ, a Hindu would see his Hindu God,

a Muslim would have his experience of God. People from all faiths and

religions from anywhere in the world could come and pray to their God in

their own way. They will see their God.

This is a temple for the whole of humanity.

We are helping people to discover the truths embodied by their faiths. As

far as we are concerned we are not trying to produce any synchristic

faith by putting them all together. We are trying to keep each faith as

pure as possible, as it originally was. Because all faiths are experience

based. That is how faiths start. But soon the existing powers take overand make use of it for other purposes. That is how they go corrupt, they

become organised and finally they become a nuisance to mankind.

We want to go back to that pristine purity. That is why at the oneness

meditation hall which is more of a powerhouse you could worship any

God in any form you like. There will be a throne there, a very special kind

of a throne where many can actually see the God they worship. The

throne would be empty but you could see the God that you worship.

I dont think this dharmaor movement has any independent existence.

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Here we say, You can worship any God you like". You could follow any

teaching you like. All we are telling is, If you are a Christian we will helpyou to discover the truth of the Bible and Christ. If you are a Muslim we

will help you to discover the truth of Allah and of Islam and of the Quran.

If you are a Hindu you discover the truth of Lord Krishna and the Geeta,

or if you are a Rama bhaktayou discover the truth about Rama. If you

are a Buddhist you discover the truth of Lord Buddha and nirvana."

We belong to all faiths. We are not an exclusive faith. It is not that you

must worship Amma Bhagavan, not at all. You can worship any God you

like and of your choice. And what should be your moral values? You cre-

ate your moral values. We will support it; that is all. We are not a newcommunity, we are not a new movement. That is why right now in this

campus we are also having programs for Christians, we are having pro-

grams for Muslims. For example, when the Muslims and the Christians

come there will be no Amma Bhagavan srimurti; only the Bible would be

used, only the Quran would be used.

So for everyone their faith. This is not a new faith. We only tell, Look,

every faith is equally important. If it suits you, you take it. Whatever suits

you, you take it." We will help you with that, with your God. Supposed the

Buddha says, You have to become free of the self," we are prepared to

make you being free of the self. Supposed Christianity says, You must

love everybody," we are here to help you discover love for everybody. If

you are a Muslim and you say, I must submit to the will of God," we will

help you by doing that. So whatever you want, we are prepared to help

you with that.

The Oneness University can be considered as a university for universities.

It exists to make you into a true human being. Every human being has to

be awakened, every human being has to be God-realized. This university

exists to help you become awakened, to help you become God-realized.

The function of the university is not only to give you an understanding of

the human mind, human consciousness, and life itself but also to bestow

the state of awakening or oneness to you. Seekers are not only given the

state but are also empowered to transfer this state to others. One is fully

empowered to help others become awakened. The effort is to create anew humanity which would have discovered oneness.

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Poornamadam Poornamidam

Poornaat Poorna Mudachate

Poornasya Poornamaadaaya

Poornameva Vashishyate

All this is full. All that is full.

From fullness, fullness comes.

When fullness is taken from fullness,

fullness still remains.

O M Shanti Shanti Shanti

Peace (be for all beings in all worlds).

Peace (be all around me).

Peace (be within me).

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On Various Subjects

There are four factors which are essential for the success of an individual.

First and foremost you need a clear vision. A life without a vision is like a

journey without a destination. Every one of you has an option either to

drift along like a dry leaf carried hither and thither by the winds or fly like

an arrow towards his goal, and the universe would help you reach where

you want. The universe is like Aladdins magic lamp; it will give you what-

ever you seek.

Secondly, you need to have a focused mind, a mind that is capable of at-

tention, that is capable of hard thinking. Thirdly, you ought to have excel-lent relationships within the family. A strong civilization stands on the

foundation of a str

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