The right usage of words

Sri Mahaprabu never encourages the use of words such as “Did you eat? I ate. Did you sleep?” etc. Instead, he urges us to say “Given food to the body? Given the body rest?”  Even simple phrases such as “I came, I went” are replaced with “This came, This went” (referring to the body). Sri Mahaprabu speaks only this way with us. Since it is the body that consumes food. It is the body that moves. And sleep is a misnomer. The body needs ‘rest’ and it knows when to rest. Words are important.  Because, here we are trying to realize our True nature as a nameless formless being other than the body, but the language we use denotes the opposite, where we take ourselves to be the body!

Mahaprabu: Start applying these. Don’t worry about others. They will think differently. But don’t worry. This is called ‘Living with the Fact’, not with Philosophy, as Osho says. What we are talking about is fact. We are not imagining. We aren’t speaking something that is not relevant to the Truth. No. The body is taking rest. Food was given to the body. ‘I am’ is the false one. So avoid saying ‘I am sleeping’, ‘I ate’ etc. You Are. Yes, no doubt. But not as I.

As we want to experience the Truth, we have to use words that can take us toward Truth and avoid all other words. Otherwise we are giving the wrong information to the brain. As we feed wrong information, the brain will process it and produce the wrong result naturally. Using wrong data, we cannot expect the right result. Everything goes wrong.

Clarity is needed

We need not worry about other people. No need. It comes to our knowledge that the body needs to grow healthily, so food and comforts are needed, money needs to be earned, etc. All this has to be done, no doubt. We can accept the body. We can accept the world. We have to! We cannot say that the body and world are imaginations. They are there. The body is able to feel the heat from the sun. We are not imagining that heat is coming. So, we should see things as they are. Likewise, we can do whatever is needed for the body. But clarity in the brain is very much needed. Giving the right information is essential. That you are an individual, that you are this body, is wrong information. The body, and feelings in the body, all are real. But ‘i’ is unreal. Focusing on that ‘i’, holding onto that ‘i’, and living for that, and working to make ‘me’ happy is the worst thing we do. How can you work for an unreal thing? How can you ever make an unreal thing happy? You cannot.

So first we have to come out of this idea. Clarity should be given to the brain. You have given the data to the brain that I am ‘xyz’ and I have to do all these things, these are mine, etc. Totally wrong, finished! See, the body is given to us. And actually, you are not using the body. The one who has created the body is using it. It has all rights to use it. It will use the body with or without your approval. Everything is perfect. Clarity in the brain is needed. Nothing else. Not even enlightenment. We should be very clear about that term enlightenment. How can you add light to that which is already bright? As you are light you are looking at me. Only thing is that the wrong data which we have loaded into the brain interferes. It is not the mistake of the brain. It is a servant. We are the boss. So be the Boss. (Please read Boss and the Servant)

So based on the wrong data, some wrong processing happens, and this is what interferes. The original being is there, here and now. It has no doubt in its existence. To confirm whether you exist or not, you need not seek any help. How are you able to say that you are here and now? Which is telling you? On what basis are you recognizing that you are here and now? What is that in the background which makes you feel that you are here and now? IT is here and now. The one which knows about its own existence is existing here and now. As it is existing, the body exists. I can see this existence in you. A formless one creates and exhibits forms. It has created the body. As it needs eyes, it has created eyes. And it has created vision. Sometimes it even creates defects! Loss of vision for example. But there is no doubt in its existence even when vision is lost, hearing is lost, touch is lost, or smell is lost. You won’t see or hear or feel but you will be able to feel that you are here and now. That cannot be eliminated.

Using the eyes and ears mainly, you have wrongly recorded in your brain that ‘This is me’ (referring to the body). This has happened without any enquiry by the brain. It has the ability to analyze but cannot function on its own. As this is about knowing one’s own existence, and as it exists beyond the brain, we cannot go there using the brain. IT can use the brain. But using the brain we cannot go there. We can understand up to a point but using the brain we cannot experience IT. When you ARE in that state, that experience can be recorded in the brain. But even that record is NOT the experience! It is like this: With love I can embrace you. That can be recorded in a video. But in the video there is no love! Love cannot be recorded. Same thing here. The brain can record. But you cannot have the experience in the brain.

Therefore, asking so many questions after questions to know the one which cannot be reached by questions and answers, is futile. You can ask anything about the body or world. You can find answers and give understanding to the brain about everything else. But not this one. But due to the old habit of using the brain to understand things, we are trying to understand Existence, which is impossible. The last use of the brain is to understand that it is impossible to understand IT by the brain. Once the brain reaches this point, then the function of the brain will stop with respect to knowing the Being. We can use it for all other purposes but not here. People don’t use their brains in all other things, but here they use it really well! What to do!

Existence and Body

There is no problem with the world and body. It is not ours. Existence, Nature wants to come with a body so it comes. When it decides it is not needed it will drop it. It is HIS decision. It wants to see its creations through the body so it created eyes. IT wants. Who are you? As IT wants to reproduce more and more and more to continue life in the world, IT has produced sexual organs so well. They match perfectly in all species. IT wants to enjoy; IT wants to live. But look at the amount of politics created by the human mind on the topic of sex. You have not created or decided the organs. In your body, each and every organ is so important for Existence. But in our brain we have recorded the sexual organs alone with guilt. People don’t even itch there freely!! They look around nervously. But itching their face or hand, they do it perfectly, naturally. See the pollution in the brain. Just for example, I’m pointing out. Sex is the basic component of human politics. Like this we can talk about all kinds of feelings.

Existence is not a Subject or Matter. It is a powerful being, full of Love, Energy, and Wisdom. It can exist with form and can exist without form. Whether it is with form or without form, for That there is no difference. It is like this: You may wear clothes or not wear clothes. It makes no difference to the organs in the body. Externally it will look different but no change in your body or its function. Same thing. It may be with form or without form. No difference for That. So, whether IT is with a body or not, Wisdom is there, Intelligence is there, Love is there.

A wonderful synonym for Existence is Godliness. Because we have already given enough definition for God and Godliness, therefore the brain can easily accept it. We know human is limited; God is unlimited. We ARE nothing but Godliness. We are droplets of pure Godliness. We should feel very proud about that.

Relationship with Body

Atma is beyond the body. Its existence does not depend on the body. So is it right to say ‘I am in this body?’  So far, we have been using it in that sense, but even that is wrong. (This talk was directed towards a disciple. Mahaprabu pointed out that now she had the maturity of understanding to accept what he was about to say.)You are NOT in this body. The body is in YOU. You are always an unlimited one. How can an unlimited one limit itself inside the body? That is also wrong data given to the brain. ‘I am in this body’. NO. The body is in YOU. It has reached You. You can exist without the body. You are going to exist without the body. You don’t need the body. The body needs you. You are the All-Pervasive one. You are thinking it is inside you, but NO. It is All-Pervasive. A body can be attached to it. And at a particular point be detached. At the early stages of understanding we typically say ‘You are in the Body’ but as the understanding matures, we should realize that it is not true. So do not imagine you have entered a body and are locked. Even now you are a limitless being. How can you then limit yourself be limited within this body? If you accept that then you are accepting that You are limited. No. The Body is limited. It has its starting and end. The body is with You, and You can be without it.

About Death

Think about these things and let your brain be engaged with all these things. Instead, you have directed your brain to go in the wrong direction. It is a poor servant, obeying you. So, give it the right data. Then your brain will assimilate it. It will search. You will meditate. Once you have the bodiless experience you will realize that you are not in the body, the body is in you. And if that is the case, why worry so much about the body? Yes, take care of it, but don’t care!

Since the body is attached to us, it is a burden. When this burden is removed from us, how will we feel? We will feel happy. When some disease comes and leaves the body we feel fresh! Similarly when the body leaves at death, we will feel free. We will celebrate death. Only when you can celebrate death can you celebrate everything. Only those who can celebrate death can celebrate life. Those who fear death are afraid to live. So to Live, we have to understand clearly who we are and what death is.

This should be the lesson in schools and colleges. Education to earn money should be the last. The first lesson should be spiritual health. Second should be mental health. Third lesson should be physical health and the last lesson should be about Vitamin M – Money! But it is all upside down. The first lesson is about earning, and the last lesson is about spirituality. That’s why everything is upside down. See how education is influencing life. As spiritual seekers of Truth it is our responsibility to pave the path for the next generation so they can travel with the right education. Without doing this service you cannot expect great things in your life. God will not give. I know. God will take every drop of you in the process of revealing himself. Every drop of your blood must be given in service to Him. That is why even though this state is possible for all humans, very, very few are attaining this state. Whatever path you take, Jnana, Bhakti, give it your all. When will you give it totally? When you don’t own it! When you don’t own the body, me and mine. Annamalai Swami gave himself totally to Bhagavan. He attained that state.

So stop thinking you are a human. It is wrong data you are feeding the brain. With tremendous courage remove it. Don’t bother about others. We are moving from madness to Godliness. When we move towards Godliness, we can see the Godliness in others despite their madness. That is the solution. Instead we are seeing each other from our madness. This only leads to problems. So let us move towards this great destination. From our destiny to the destination.

Let us sincerely thank the Supreme Power and pray to that Power to keep all our brains always in the right path and may our brains always long for the love of the Supreme Power. Very happy to have all of you in Satsang.