(Below is a continuation of the post Today's Pain Is Tomorrow's Strength)
Gurudev, please design another course to create more people like you.
Well listen, don’t judge others. You never know what they are going through, how they feel and how they are inside.
You look at yourself. If you have not changed, see why, and if you have changed, then you have understood the course.
It is impossible that all the sadhana doesn’t have any impact at all. So, just imagine how they would have been if they did not even have this knowledge.
leave you to wonder about it.
See, pain is not just in the body or just in the mind, it is somewhere where between the body and the mind, where they both meet.
When a local anesthesia is given, some nerves are numbed and you don’t feel the pain, even though you are awake.
Sometimes there is nothing in the body, but there is pain in the mind. Emotional pain is all caused only in the mind, but again it cannot be only in the mind or only in the body but somewhere where these two meet.
Meditation is definitely something that takes you above misery and pain. That is why the Guru is called the medicine for the worldly diseases.
Mind is caught in the diseases of aversion, anger, hatred, cravings and the Guru is the doctor and the medicine. 'Bhishaje bhava roginam'.
Recently, a saint came to see me in Rishikesh, and in our congregation he said a beautiful thing. He said, 'One who has learnt in this school will stay. One who has not learnt only will leave'.
Usually, in a school, if you have learnt and you pass you leave the school and you move on. This is such a school that if someone passes over here, they stay forever. It is very interesting. One who passes in this school will not leave but will stay on!
Nothingness is filled with energy. This is again quantum physics.
They say, the empty space that you see around the Sun is not empty. In fact, the Sun is round because the energy surrounding it pushing it from all the four sides and making it round.
It is like a bubble in a water bottle. How is a bubble round? The pressure of the water keeps the bubble round. In the same way, the Sun is round because the energy around the Sun is one million times more than denser than the Sun’s. This energy is called dark energy or dark matter.
So the space around the Sun is all filled with energy.
I don’t think I am special, not at all. I may be a little crazy but not special. If you are not crazy, you would not keep going round and round the world for nothing (laughter).
Actually there is none. It is very difficult to say.
The Vedas are considered as the main source (of knowledge), but it is so vast. For all practical purposes, Bhagavad Gita is what everyone reads because it has the essence of most of the main knowledge. So Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita can be considered as the Bible or Koran of the East. That is what is used in the courts also.
The Gita is only 5,200 years old, but this tradition has been there before the Gita, from several millenniums. In Rama’s time, there was no Bhagavad Gita, only the Vedas were there, but the Vedas were in such an ancient language which people could not understand. The Vedas need a lot of interpretation, and they are very symbolic in many places.
The Upanishads and Vedas are considered the authority, and the Bhagavad Gita for practical purposes is the Koran or Bible of the east.
It is good, if life is fast, you can’t hold on to anything. It doesn’t leave you any time to sit and brood over the past. Before you start brooding over something, something else has already come to attend to. Just go with the flow.