H. H. Shivkrupanand Swamis Message from Anusthan 2014 06/02/14 Thursday ॐ SATGURU’S VOICE - 4 My salutations to all pious souls......... What every human wants to achieve in one’s life depends on ‘what’ he considers himself to be, how much he ‘knows’ himself. The more you know yourself, from this the greater will be your understanding of your life’s purpose. In life, apart from ‘our selves’ we know everybody else, our life is ‘short-lived’ and we ‘end’ it by just knowing others. Whether you become happy or sad depends on what you understand yourself to be; if you consider yourself to be only a physical body then your entire life will end in having to face the problems of the body, vices of the body, relatives of the body, illnesses of the body and thoughts of the body; and when the time comes to leave the body you will realise that you have wasted your entire life. And you will have to give up your body in a state of guilt. Just before a human being dies all this is seen continuously, just as in a ‘movie’. Once the feelings of greed, hatred increase to such a level that even after a person’s death they remain and the person takes his next birth along with these feelings; and with every birth, the person’s country, language, religion, caste, gender keep ‘changing’ – hence in the sphere of the Soul, none of these matters hold any importance. Now if one has to take one’s chitta (attention) in the outer direction, and by our ‘chitta’ facing outwards we do get external knowledge, but there is no inner ‘progress’; and as they come, similarly, they return with empty hands. This is so because the knowledge acquired from outside ends with the end of the ‘body’, that external knowledge is not ‘karma’ which will go with you nor is it ‘inner-knowledge’ which will go with you – all the knowledge will just be left behind here. A person gets the ‘feeling’ that I have just wasted my life in acquiring this ‘information’ at the end of his life, and many times because of old age, he forgets even while he is alive. Considering one’s self to be just a body is like looking at the earth only from one ‘direction’, when we look from only one direction then our perspective becomes ‘limited’ and we can only see our ‘selfishness’. Man’s ‘selfishness’ is related to man’s body because the feeling of selfishness is related to the body. If we consider ourselves to be a body then the feelings of the body will be enhanced and if we believe ourselves to be a ‘soul’ then the ‘feeling of the soul’ will be enhanced, or the feelings will be enhanced depending on what we believe ourselves to be. ‘Selfless feeling’ is the joy of the soul, and the greater the bliss of the soul the stronger it starts becoming. ‘Karma’ performed with a selfless feeling gives a kind of satisfaction to the soul, hence sit with a quiet chitta and examine the karmas of your life, then you will realise in which direction you are progressing. ‘Feeling of selfishness’ is related to the ‘nabhi chakra’ (navel chakra), similarly the feeling of selflessness is related to the satisfaction of the soul, and when one continuously obtains satisfaction of the soul then one obtains ‘inner peace’. The feeling of selfishness increases the ego of the body, whereas the feeling of selflessness increases the ‘satisfaction’ of the soul. To awaken the feeling of selflessness, your circumstances and the available resources cannot create obstacles on your path – this is a ‘state of mind’. You can definitely pray for anyone’s welfare and progress – just pray once in this manner and see for yourself the kind of inner peace and ‘Divine Satisfaction’ that you will experience within yourself, this happens because there is a part of God within every human. When you wish for the good of that part you will definitely feel satisfied; whatever you sow in the form of a seed in this ‘universal field’ that same grain you will obtain in the form of your harvest. When my father used to be worried when I left my job, I used to explain to him that when Gurudev has selected me as a ‘medium’ for the ‘welfare of the world’, how will anything bad happen to me. If you work for ‘universal welfare’, you too will benefit from it provided your wish has been made with a ‘selfless feeling’. Now you will say that we are not in such a state that we can think of universal welfare. My dear, where did I have it, but I ‘surrendered’ myself to my Gurudev who had such a state. I obtained the feeling of universal welfare just by complete surrender – I was just a river but as I merged with the ocean, today I am being called the ‘ocean’. Before merging with the ocean, the river has to sacrifice the existence of its ‘I’. I am placing everything in front of you like an ‘open book’ but if you still do not understand it can only be called ‘bad luck’, what else! Whatever I have understood I will ‘try’ to explain to you today. ‘Parmatma’ is on the far side of the river, and ‘we’ are on this side of the river – even if we want and even if He wants we cannot meet each other. But there was one such place in the river where Parmatma came towards me and met me by means of a ‘bridge’ in the form of Shri Shivbaba and also showed me how to cross to the other side and then left. Then all my focus was concentrated on that bridge – when Parmatma in the form of Divine Energy can come through the medium of this Gurudev in this direction, then I too can reach Parmatma through the medium of this ‘Gurudev’. And when I focused my chitta I too reached Parmatma by means of that bridge – I did not just keep looking at the physical form of the bridge, I surrendered myself to the bridge and that is when I managed to reach the far side of the bridge. That Gurudev had His own unique beauty, own separate ‘illusion’, his ‘penance’ and ‘devotional practice’ had ‘radiance’ which had an effect; after staying in a desolate place for 40 years ‘nature’ used to flow from within Him – He and ‘nature’ did not appear to be different, hence sometimes He could be seen and sometimes not. Sometimes he used to appear so tall as if He was a ‘Divine Yeti’ and sometimes he appeared to be ordinary. His aura was so effective that I could not open my eyes, my thoughts had stopped, I had also lost control over the body; and He had not come towards me, I had gone to the Himalayas. Sometimes he appeared to be the Himalayas personified; in front of him I used to stand just like a ‘block of ice’ and I felt that the blood within me had congealed. His ‘three day blessing’ changed my entire world, but in this state I not only kept looking at the bridge, I ‘surrendered’ to the bridge and crossed over the bridge and reached Parmatma who was on the other side. Now if the bridge has come then the ‘form’ of the bridge will also definitely come and the ‘shape’ of the bridge will also definitely come. The shape and ‘form’ of the bridge will be similar so as to reach you; my state was that of a different place, your state is that of a different place. But the problem of your form and inner form is the same – you have not left society, you have not left home, you stayed in your house and received everything while sitting in your house, meaning you have not ‘sacrificed’ anything, nevertheless Parmatma has come to you. For Parmatma’ to come to your house just imagine how flexible, strong, plain and easy a bridge he had to build; he would have had to build it just like you. This ordinary, straight and easy form will ‘fool’ you; this is the ‘illusion’. You will always feel that this bridge is easy, plain – I can cross it at any ‘moment’ because it appears ordinary, you think it is ordinary; and this belief of yours is the ego of your ‘I’, this ego will never let you ‘surrender’ to the bridge. You will always think that ‘I’ will cross this bridge in a moment but in life your ego will not allow that ‘one moment’ to come, hence if you go to the physical form of the medium, then at the time of viewing the body try to recognise the energy which is flowing beyond the body, try to recognise its source. The ordinary body is the ‘illusion’, because the medium looks ordinary but he is not ordinary. Parmatma has selected that ordinary, plain bridge only because you can receive it while sitting at home. Like, however big the pipe-line near the ‘Narmada’ river, it will reach your house in the form of a ‘half inch’ pipe only. Even though the pipe has become small, the ‘inner form’ of the water at home is as ‘pure’ as it is in the ‘river Narmada’. The shape of the pipe may be different but not the ‘inner form’ of the water inside hence the form of the ‘medium’ I met in the form of a bridge and the ‘medium’ whom you have met may be different, but their ‘inner form’ is the same, ‘inner form’ can never change according to the time or place. The Narmada river which flows on its banks, the very same is flowing through the taps in your house. You are receiving it while sitting at home, you are receiving it easily hence do not reduce its importance while gauging it. As it is coming out of a small pipe do not look at its form, keep your attention (chitta) on that river Narmada which is flowing on earth in its vast inner form – you are receiving absolutely the same inner form in your house. There is no difference between the Divine Energy which I am receiving and the Divine Energy which you are obtaining – this flow of consciousness had been flowing for the last 800 years from the Himalayas in a mysterious and dormant form, today it has also reached you. This too is the devotional practice of those Gurus for the last 800 years and its inner form is as it was for the last 800 years; the reason for this is, as long as its ‘medium’ does not become worthy of its inner form, does not ‘merge’ with its inner form, does not ‘surrender’ to it, it can never become the ‘medium’ of that inner form. This is not a letter – this is a message for you from the Guru Energies, this letter has being written through me, but I have not written this – the Guru Energies have written this to your soul – there is a secret message in it. If you want to understand that message, then for ‘three Thursdays’, every morning at ‘sunrise’ after bathing, sit alone with a quiet chitta and read this message and on reading this feel what ‘experience’ your soul gets. In our life we give more importance to our body only and because of this we understand everything only at the physical level, this is how it is! For ‘fasting’ we assign a meaning to ‘fasting’ - not eating for a day. The actual meaning of fasting is not ‘thinking’ for a day, ‘thoughts’ are actually the ‘food’ for the mind. Ask yourself whether we fast in this manner? If not, then we are not eating with our body and we are just ‘thinking’ with our minds, so we are mentally just having ‘thoughts as food’; thus the ‘mind’ has not fasted, in which case how can the mind be ‘purified’? By not having food it is possible that the ‘digestive system’ of your body will get relief, it is possible for your body to be purified by not having food through your body, but not the mind; because the mind will only be purified when you do not have any thought for a day. You just think about this a little. The feeling of our body does not let us think beyond our physical form, hence we think that the ‘state of liberation’ (moksha) is death; because we know intellectually that liberation is that state which frees us from all flaws, and such a state we can obtain only when we ‘die’, and hence we assume that ‘death’ means ‘liberation’ (moksha). Whereas the truth is that even after man’s ‘death’ one is only freed of the body, one does not get freed of the flaws – I do not want to die now, I want to live longer, these too are ‘unfulfilled (desires), flaws’ and because of such flaws man takes a new birth. After a person dies one is just freed of the body and the rest of it continues as it is. The soul continues, the Kundalini energy continues – it carries all the account of the ‘past karmas’ along with it and along with all this, man takes on a new body - thus in this manner man is only freed of the body when he is ‘dead’. Hence it is important to understand that death of the body is not ‘liberation’. As far as ‘liberation’ (moksha) is concerned, liberation is the ‘highest state’ of meditative practice which man has to obtain while living. Now assume that you have a desire to die by drowning, so firstly you will have to find such deep waters where you can drown and die because you will not drown in shallow waters. For drowning, it is necessary to have a large collectivity of water, only then it will be possible to fulfill your desire to drown in such deep waters. Similarly, you have to drown your soul – thus the sea in the ‘form of Parmatma’ is that place where you can drown your soul. And only the ‘Satguru’ has this sea of souls, accepting the Satguru as ‘Parmatma’ is the highest state of receiving of our soul. Actually, ‘Parmatma’ is a universal energy, is an abstract inner form, but we are dumb; we will not be able to understand ‘abstract’ and hence we will move from the tangible to the abstract. Satguru is also not Parmatma, he is a medium of Parmatma, but He is such a ‘Divine Soul’ who has made himself so pure and holy that Parmatma’s Divine Energy started flowing through Him; i.e. He is like a clean, empty pipe. Parmatma is a collective group of souls and Satguru is connected to lakhs of souls and lakhs of souls are connected to Him, and that is why Parmatma’s Divine Energy starts appearing from within Him. Satguru is that ‘medium’ who has obtained the state of liberation during His lifetime. In case you want to obtain that state then you will have to ‘surrender’ to Him. So this state is exactly similar to that of a river meeting the ocean. As soon as we accept Satguru to be Parmatma our search for Parmatma ends and we obtain complete satisfaction; and this complete satisfaction of my having reached ‘Parmatma’ presents us with that free state, which is called ‘liberation’, because the desire to live longer has also ended, all the flaws of the body have ended and now there is absolutely no purpose to live, thus there is no reason left to take a new birth. After obtaining such a free state also man lives and waits for the death of his body; and then lives to share the state of joy of ‘my soul by obtaining the ‘state of liberation’ in my life with every man’, he lives so that every man obtains the same joy; because every person on earth is the same to him, hence the rest of his life is surrendered to ‘humanity’. I have not read any books, whatever I have received in my life is with the ‘Guru’s Grace’ and whatever path I have followed, the path which I know, the path on which I have gone and returned – I will talk only about that path. I pray to God that you reach that state of ‘freedom’ which is called ‘liberation’ (moksha). Lots and lots of blessings to all of you Yours Baba Swami 06/02/14
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