What a lie ‘Searching for God’ is

Look at how big this earth is. Did you create it? Did your dad or mom create it? Just go to the terrace and sit down. Then look at the vast sky and then the earth for 15 minutes. You will peacefully come down, eat and sleep. Will you then search for God? You will not. Search only comes when something has disappeared. Or if you are not able to see it you will search. But looking at the sky and earth for 15 minutes can you say you can’t see God?
SC: I’m doing almost that Mahaprabu. Looking at the sky, eating and sleeping.
Mahaprabu: Yes, very good, jollya pannu. Do it happily.

SC: That’s hard to do.
Mahaprabu: Yes, so who makes it difficult for you? God or your thoughts?

SC: Definitely my thoughts!
Mahaprabu: See how it tortures you. It doesn’t let you be. Actually you can be very happy. This is what your practice should be. Learn to Live. Not learn to do Dhyanam etc. Just as in learning to drive, you be with someone who drives, or to swim you be with someone who swims, to learn to live, be with Mahaprabu as he knows how to live. Vaaza Pazagu. Learn to Live. Just go to the terrace and look at the sky and earth. Your dad or my dad didn’t create it. All this is proof that He exists. Aren’t His creations proof that He exists? Then why are you searching? See what a big lie, ‘searching’ is. He is one who can be felt everywhere, not seen. He is hiding behind all His creations. You can see the sky and the earth. We didn’t create them. So He must have created them. That’s more than enough evidence. Then why are you searching? Laughing…

It’s like this. Say, you always wear your slippers when you leave your house. You never go out barefoot. Someone comes to your house and sees your slippers outside the door. What will he think? SC: That I’m home! Mahaprabu: Yes! Laughing. That’s all. With such a small thing as slippers he believes and decides that you are home. Such a big earth, such a big sky! And you keep on searching for God. He is there. He is behind His creations, He is AS His creations, He is creation itself. He is the power that creates, the intelligence that creates. We also are His creations. He is behind everything and in every thing. He can be felt. He is not something that can be seen because all that is seen are His creations. The one that is seeing itself is His creation. Padaippave irukkaru. Unara kudiya amsama irrukkaru. He is the creation itself. He is something that can be experienced.

The mechanism

Buddha found this first. He said, first observe the air that is going into your nose. As you observe this very closely for a long time you will learn a lot about it.

Does the air go into you because your lungs suck it in?
SC: The Lungs help suck it in.
Mahaprabu: Are the lungs enough? Then why doesn’t a dead body with a fresh young set of lungs not suck it in? Take a 20 year old boy. Won’t his lungs be good? Yes. He went to bed. At 6 AM, some valve in his heart stopped working and he died. At 6:05 they found out. So, weren’t the lungs there at 6:05? Air is around and has been around. At 5:55, the air stopped going in. That’s why the valve stopped working. What happened is that the prapancham (universe) decided to stop sending air in at 5:55 AM.

SC: Wow, so you are saying that the cause is outside.
Mahaprabu: Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Take a balloon. How will you pump air into it. Assume there is a pump that can push air into it, and suck air out of it. A two-way pump. When you pump once the balloon will inflate. When you pump again, it will deflate. Our body is the same. Lungs are the balloon. Atmosphere is the pump. (Laughing) The balloon is working because of the pump. The pump is not working because of the balloon. Similarly the body is functioning because of the air around it!! Only the air makes the lungs work. The balloon by itself cannot suck air into itself nor send it out. Similarly, there is a formless pump outside. It is the main pump. Your lungs, heart, etc. are all secondary pumps, a sub-assembly. They can’t survive a second without the main pump, which is outside. Think, the vast atmosphere all around has air. The lungs are ready in a dead body, but no air goes in!

See how perfectly it works. When it decides, it says ‘Today at this time air will be stopped being sent into this body.’ Not just humans. Insects, dogs, cows, all of it. A very big system is working. The tiny human mind cannot fathom it. Take someone new to Chennai on a tour throughout Chennai to various parts and drop him back at Kodambakkam. Then ask him to retrace the route. He won’t be able to. Parts he just visited an hour ago he won’t be able to go there again. So limited is the human brain. Can it figure out creation?

There is no door to the body. Nostrils are always open. Lungs are there. Pump (atmosphere) is always there. Life force (call it bio-electricity) goes through the air only. That’s why when you close the nose and mouth of someone they will die. Or if you immerse him in water he will die. Yet, fish and so many water creatures get their life force only in that same water. Leave them outside water and they struggle to death. See how beautifully it creates.

SC: How about accidental death Mahaprabu? Isn’t that also from outside?
Mahaprabu: Yes! Everything is controlled down to the second. All IT has to do is say Konja vegamma vottu. Please drive fast now! (we both burst out laughing!). That’s all it takes to end someone’s life. Make someone else drive fast! Forget about accidents. It can even say, tomorrow morning you must hang yourself. And the man wakes up ties the noose and hangs himself! No one else told him. Think! For e.g. If I tell you to hang yourself will you? Can anyone make someone hang from a noose? (Laughing) His own thoughts say it to him. Who is making this happen?

How to live

Mahaprabu: See how all are living like fools. At least if they lived as fools that would be tolerable. Worse is that they think they are so brilliant. That’s what makes it so pitiable. For example, A total beggar is there. But he thinks that he is a king, and is sitting on the road thinking he is a king! This needs to be taught to people. This is Enlightenment. Nothing else.

SC: You are right Mahaprabu. That’s all we need to do. But we are unable to stay quiet, sit quietly.
Mahaprabu: Yes. You have to keep on going towards God with love. Then he will make you sit quietly. But you are not sitting for him (referring to meditation). You are sitting for yourself. That’s why he keeps on waking you up! (Burst out laughing). Yezuppi, Yezuppi vudaraaru vunna.

SC: You are so right. I’m sitting not out of love for him, but to gain something.
Mahaprabu: Yes! (continuing the prayer song) Yedho yengo irrukiradhe. Yaaro yengo irrupadhu mei. Andha porulai naam ninaithe… (Something somewhere exists. Let us think of that.) Do we think about IT? If 100% you realize you are in someone’s hands totally, from there alone does real joy start. Real life begins there. The end of imagination. End of an imaginary life.

So live very happily. Only 2 things you can do for now. Prarthanai (Prayer) or Nandri Sollu (have gratitude). Why do you need intelligence? Just have enough intelligence to know you are a fool. Just knowing you are a beggar is enough. You don’t need to know much else. That’s all you need to know. That you are a fool. You have been living as though you are so intelligent. This is Realization. Knowing that you have been doing a foolish thing.

So just learn to be peaceful. But as long as ‘you’ are there, it won’t let you be peaceful. Truth is ever-present. Lie is temporary. Keeps on changing. The lie won’t let you sit for long. That’s why it won’t let you sit quietly. You aren’t real. Irai Sakthi dhaan unmai. God alone is real. Only a few days are left. Keep on thinking of the Padaicha Sakthi (the Creator). Look at you. You have everything. No one is going to call you and say ‘Why are you idle?’ No one has that right. Yet does it let you stay quiet? No. See how careful you need to be. You have to learn to Be. Irukka Pazagu. Learn to be. Iraiva Nandri. Thank you God. I’m seeing you in all your creations.

For example, a man is living with his granddaughter who looks exactly like the mother (his daughter) who is living abroad. The daughter calls and says how are you, you must be missing me. He says, ‘No. I’m seeing you every day, every minute, in your daughter.’ Think! He will be seeing the granddaughter (Sunita) but will be thinking about his daughter (Anita). Just for example. Like this we should learn to enjoy God’s creation every minute. Through the creations, feel God. Just like the granddaughter is the creation of his daughter. While touching her he says, your nose is just like your mother’s! The Creator might not be near but his creations are so near. This is what our time should be spent on. Instead if you focus on consciousness, super consciousness…. Laughing… There is no meaning. Whatever time is left, use it for this. Be happy. Magizchiya iru. Magizchiye avarudaya padaippu dhan. Joy itself is his creation. Do you see sadness somewhere? Sadness is his creation also. Do you see Kaama (desire, lust) anywhere? Kaama is his creation too. Has any one barred you from living this way?

So much guilt has been built up around kaama. I ask you, aren’t all children of one source, the Mother? Yellam oru thai makkal (all our from one Mother alone). So then all are your brothers and sisters? Who will you have sex with? You can’t even touch your wife. You can’t have relationship with anyone? Then why are all those organs are produced? We are the ones who separate things as good and bad e.g. Sex is bad.

If only you saw everything and everyone as God’s creations, all your mind’s impurities will be washed away over time. Everything will come to a neutral. Right now there are so many ups and downs in the ground of your mind. It will become level as though a bulldozer went over it.

Romba Magizchi. Romba Magizchi. Be Happy.