| Before, I used to work in a particular way, trying to | | | | to him to steal our thoughts. We pray "Oh God, please |
| convince people about spirituality. Now, people around | | | | steal my ignorance, my darkness and my sufferings, |
| me know that I do not "work" per se. I leave | | | | steal my mortality and make me immortal, steal my |
| everything in the hands of Bhagavan. This is the best | | | | negativity, show me the Truth, bind me to the Truth, to |
| realization that has ever happened to me. The more I | | | | the light." |
| used to work the more I spread ignorance. It only | | | | So start this chanting slowly and softly and with |
| spread ignorance because "I" was the one doing the | | | | reverence, like a prayer. It does not matter if you chant |
| work. Now I prepare for people to come. I read quite a | | | | all of the time. The length of time is not the issue. |
| bit and meditate and write during the day.Prepare and | | | | Sincerity and honesty are the issues. Sincerity is the |
| develop yourself. Do not waste any time. Like | | | | process, the subject and the Master. You must also |
| Bhagavan says, avoid misuse of one single moment. | | | | be sincere to everybody and most of all to yourself. |
| However, you will always be frustrated if you work | | | | This means that when you chant you should not drift |
| and do not get the results that you want. If you | | | | into your thoughts. True, when you meditate or chant |
| develop yourself internally instead, then, you will be a | | | | thoughts will come. But you must notice that all these |
| steward. You will not be affected by whether or not | | | | thoughts are there. You must see them, notice them, |
| people become spiritual.So always focus on yourself | | | | and also, the quantity of them. Then, concentrate more |
| first. | | | | and more on each and every vibration and part of the |
| What is meditation? Why do we do this? Is just about | | | | chant "Hare Krishna". You will use this to see all of the |
| practices? Meditation means engaging our mind with | | | | thoughts as completely separate from you. |
| one thought, any thought that you like. We keep our | | | | As you chant the mind becomes quiet. All of the |
| thoughts on God because they are powerful thoughts | | | | thoughts are vibrating consciousness. The waves of |
| that absorb all of the unimportant and negative ones. | | | | consciousness are like the waves in the water, but |
| From the time we wake up to the time we go to | | | | they are the vibration of the water. We see that this |
| sleep we have billions of thoughts. Yet as you try to | | | | water in the deep sea is still, but the waves on the |
| recollect these thoughts before you go to sleep you | | | | surface are at a high frequency, and are disturbed. |
| cannot remember all of them. You may only recollect | | | | When your mind is absorbed in chanting, the extra |
| one or two. The rest go unnoticed. This means that | | | | vibrations decrease to zero. Then the vibration less |
| most of our mind is wasted. The mind is nothing more | | | | and still nature of ourselves, without thoughts is |
| than a collection of thoughts. So the mind works for 24 | | | | revealed. The nameless, space less, formless identity |
| hours without any productivity. What I see is that the | | | | of the Self is glimpsed and comes forth as the |
| unimportant thoughts eat up all of the important | | | | vibrations cease. We see the same thoughts but |
| thoughts. Even if you are not a spiritual person you | | | | become much closer to our consciousness, much |
| must manage your mind so that you can accomplish a | | | | closer to the awareness of the observer. |
| specific task. | | | | Today in the morning my friends came to talk about |
| So what does the Guru first do in order to work with | | | | the Self. "Neal is a name. Vineeth is a name. I know |
| person's mind? He engages that student's mind with | | | | everything about Paula, Amit, Alexis etc. But I do not |
| the use of a mantra. This mantra or sentence has | | | | know the "I". I know about the association and the |
| been given to him by his guru. So it travels from | | | | form only. When I am enlightened I know who I am. |
| generations of master to disciple and then again as the | | | | What is enlightenment? Here is a very simple example. |
| disciple becomes a teacher. The vibration of water is | | | | At night I see a dream. In this dream a tiger chases me |
| seen in a different way as we learn to watch the | | | | and I run to save myself. I am shouting and I am crying |
| waves disappear from generation to generation. | | | | and I desperately want to leave this, in any way I can. I |
| Hare Krishna, this mantra, is very simple. Hare means | | | | do not want my death to be the next step. Suddenly |
| to steal. Here, God is compared to the robber. Why is | | | | the dream stops and I get up. When I get up, I find |
| God a robber? Because he takes things away from | | | | myself. The tiger has gone. The same man who had |
| you without you even knowing that they are being | | | | the dream that frightened him and was looking for a |
| taken away. In the same way God, or the strength | | | | solution, is the man who found the solution to that |
| that binds and enlightens you is the subject. We pray | | | | dream. He found himself. He found the "I". |