If you see the world, you will not be able to see the Divine.
If you want to experience the Divine, you have to withdraw your mind.
What does the world mean? Limited identifications, limited understanding about life and judging people based on external behavior.
We fail to see the βselfβ within the person. For example, there are several colorful lights here. If you just see the lights, will you be able to see the electricity that flows through all these lights? Similarly, if you just see the external behavior of people, you will not be able to see that it is the same consciousness in everyone. So, if you want to experience Divinity, you have to turn your mind away from the external world. By turning the mind away, it doesn't mean that you have to run away and live in a forest.
Turn your mind inwards for a short while. You have to come out of the chaos and conflicts that are clogging your mind. This process is called meditation. Just for a short while, feel that the past, present and future is a dream. When you know that everything is changing, you will be able to get a glimpse of something that is not changing. Just as you feel fresh after a good sleep, spending a short while in meditation will bring energy and enthusiasm to your life. Worries will disappear.
We have to fight against injustice. We have to fight against ignorance, superstition and blind beliefs.
Many people are under the illusion that they will get a good produce only if they use chemical fertilizers. We have to educate them to switch to organic and chemical-free farming. We have to fight against lack. Everybody must grow vegetables in their homes. We have to ensure that there is cleanliness and hygiene.
If you follow whatever Lord Krishna did, you will get into trouble! Follow Lord Krishna's principles and Lord Rama's character. If you have any tension, just drop them here.
Happiness and contentment is our nature but it gets clouded by worries for a short while, similar to how clouds hide the sky.
1. Collective karma
2. Karma of the time
3. Karma of a place
4. Karma of a family
5. Karma of an individual
There is individual karma, then you have family karma - what you call DNA. Then comes the karma of a region, state and country. Then there is karma of the time. During the time of World War II, all the people had similar karma and so all over the world there was war.
At another particular time there was recession everywhere.
There are different layers of karma.
That is why Lord Krishna said, βGahana Karmano Gatihβ. You cannot fathom the depth of karma. Don't try to analyze karma. Just do your duty and move on. Keep moving ahead with love in your heart and with prayer in your heart.
Knowing that this is what it is, you move on beyond that. It is only knowledge which can take you beyond Karma. See, a plane crashed and everyone in the plane died. So all of them who had that karma landed up on the same plane. If one person had the karma to escape from that, he would just walk out of the plane.
A saint from Rishikesh shared with me that he was traveling in a bus with 50 other people. The bus fell into a river. Everyone died, except this saint and a baby. The child clung on to his neck and they escaped. He had the karma to fall into a river, but something saved them. You cannot understand the depth of karma, it is so vast.
If it is the second or third stage of cancer there should be no problem. Nowadays, so many things have become available here.
A soursop fruit performs the same function as chemotherapy without side-effects. We are getting some medicines made from it. Yoga, pranayama and Ayurveda will make a significant difference in this. So many people suffering from cancer have recovered after coming here.
Have faith in God.
Everyone hums sometime or the other, whether in the shower or while doing some chores - that is sankirtan, when the song arises from the heart.
When someone's name keeps coming up in the heart, it is called jaap. It is good to do jaap, whether the mind is engaged or not; it has a flavor of its own.
It is extremely important for us to impart spiritual education to children. If we deprive them of this, and just remain stuck in the mundane issues of daily existence, life becomes dry and meaningless, and people get involved in fights.
So we need to bring about a radical change by bringing people to yoga and meditation.
They will definitely change but knowledge is the only way.
There are 2 different things, anyone who becomes famous does not just crave for fame but they do something good so they become famous. Like if you have a passion to paint and you do a very good painting, automatically you become famous. But if you want to paint only to become famous then you become a failure.
Anyone who does something creative or useful or invents something which is good for the society automatically becomes famous.