The Four Questions every Person must Know

There are four questions that every person must interest oneself with:
"Who am I?", "Where have I come from?", "Where am I going?" and "How long will I remain here?".
These questions have been answered clearly in the Vedas.
All spiritual inquiry begins with these questions and attempts to find answers to them. If you drop a letter in the post box without writing the 'From' or 'To' address, it will go nowhere but to the 'dead letter office'. In fact it is a waste of time writing that letter, is it not? So too, if you do not know the purpose of your life in this world, you will get caught in the cycle of birth and death, and will never reach your destination. To find answers to these key questions, you must begin enquiry about the Self. To get the answers, you must practice spiritual discipline. Then, you will find that the answers become part of your daily living experiences!

Baba (thought for the day)

I had an interview and he asked the devotee who sat at my side to translate and he asked her, 'who is that girl?' And I had to translate.
I don't remember how I felt, somehow it seemed strange to be talking about me and to translate it. I just remember that I translated and it was about who I am and I was aware that I was not that, when she finally said my name.
Who am I?
And he asked it three times and that are the three levels, body, mind and Atman, the level of the soul. The third time she said my name and in my thought I was aware that this is not who I really am.
I knew it was about those three levels, but I did not think it over enough at that time and therefore, I did not have the feeling to get an answer. Today it is different, because in thinking it over we get inside of our own self an answer. 

Also I was no yet writing as I do today, writing helps to get aware of it.
And he went on and asked, 'what is your relationship?'
There was also no answer to that, we both did not know? What was our relationship? We were in the same ashram and probably sisters, considering the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man.
We spoke about yoga and she did yoga and she must have been a very good pianist, it felt like she missed her life and that she could not play the piano in the ashram, she had only a room and never really felt comfortable in it, she was constantly painting it and it was overfilled with stuff.
We had talked about yoga and I had for sure mentioned that I worked as a TM-teacher and probably I spoke to her about meditation. 

There are four questions that every person must interest oneself with:
"Who am I?", "Where have I come from?", "Where am I going?" and "How long will I remain here?".
These questions have been answered clearly in the Vedas.
All spiritual inquiry begins with these questions and attempts to find answers to them. If you drop a letter in the post box without writing the 'From' or 'To' address, it will go nowhere but to the 'dead letter office'.

The Heart is the Spring of Joy

Just like a fish which can live only when it is immersed in water, when it feels the element all around it, so too man is a being that can live only when immersed in ananda (bliss); one must have ananda not merely at home, in society and in the world but more than all, in the heart.

As a matter of fact, the ananda in the heart produces ananda all around; the heart is the spring of joy. That spring has to be touched by constant meditation, recitation and the intermittent dwelling on the glory, the grace and the inexhaustible manifestations of the Lord, that is, smarana, chethana and manana. Hold fast to the goal; the devotee should never turn back. Never give way to doubt or despair.

Baba (thought for the day)

It is not different from us, it is not outside, it is inside and the same. 
We have to find it in out own heart to understand that statement of Baba that we should be able to see ananda, bliss in our home, society and the world, but more than all in the heart.

Without that ananda in the heart it will not be present in the outside. The joy is in the heart.

We have to listen to our heart and in the heart it is his language, it is 'He'.

What does it mean when we tell 'He' and not 'I'?

If we think 'I', the I is identified with the body. The voice in the heart is not the same 'I' and it is only possible to hear it in the silence of the heart. Yesterday, the memory of the twin soul was present and it is the value of the heart, both souls the same, there is no difference and no separation possible.

When Baba left the body a few days ahead in the inner view we went down a deep well and there was only some little water left and we went up again and on the way he dropped the body and on the top was Krishna and his brother.

That is also the twin soul, Krishna is not incarnating in this world without his brother and brother means 'devotion', he is here for his devotees and with his devotees.

This morning it was present in my meditation and it is like going on through all experiences, the presence of the twin soul, knowing it is 'that'. There is no doubt possible on that level, there is also no despair, but if the reflection of that level is not met, it can result in doubt and despair and the heart begins to suffer.

Hold fast to the goal; the devotee should never turn back. Never give way to doubt or despair.

Just be Happy and Ways how to get there ...

Be eager and earnest to learn more and more about the art of joyful living, the art of being happy always. 

People are happy when they dress well, wear rich clothes and strut about the streets. At times, this may cause envy among the little children who cannot afford these, and one may even feel elated with that response! But you can afford to be legitimately proud, only when you are able to control the vagaries of your mind and direct your emotions along honorable and healthy channels, braving even the ridicule of your so-called friends.
That is true freedom; that is true success. If you reach that stage, then you become a seasoned driver and you can be trusted with the wheel on any road, and with any cargo, however precious. Now you are trained to not cause harm, either to yourself or to others. This stage is when you truly deserve to become a leader.
Baba (thought for the day)

Being in Baba's presence it was just about helping and in his divine presence it didn't come to my mind that the devil has his own ways. Or maybe it was a pattern behind and it reflected that attitude of my father and my mother wanted to help and save him and if I get the insights right I got from the inner master, after her death and in my dream, it has not helped her, but it got her down. We revered her like a hero, because she never let us forget that she had to help him, that she had to take care and that it was onto her to save everything, I guess there was some admiration of that in all of us, but somehow that didn't work out later on. 

If it was right and sathvic, why was it not in the sense of Sathva and the Lord. After her death was an avalanche in my dream and later reading Baba's thought for the day it said, avalanche means attachment. 

Desire is a storm, avalanche is attachment, precipice is pride and whirlpool is greed. (Baba)

Milking the Cows and the Blood sucking Fleas

Nothing is ever born without the will of God, nothing ever happens without His will. This is the message of the Vedas.
Understand the scriptures well and this lesson will be instilled in you.
Fleas suck and taste only the blood of the cow, but we draw from her, sweet nourishing milk. So too, you must draw and learn from the scriptures, the potency of the will of the Lord.
If fixed in that faith, you will be able to brave all dangers. In Ramayana, not all the stones that Lord Rama stepped on, turned into a human being. Only one stone changed into the form of Ahalya, for repentance and penance had elevated that stone to win the Grace of the Lord. If God is invisible to you, the fault lies within you. You are unable to recognize His various manifestations. You yourself are His very own manifestation. Fix your vision!

Baba (thought for the day)

Everything is his will, that we hear often and that is the easiest to understand. 

If we don't know the answer, we call it his will.
But Baba calls it the message of the Veda and that we should understand the scriptures well to get the lesson.
What does it mean to understand the scriptures? How can we get closer to the scriptures and Veda if we don't even know really what is meant by Veda?
It is not the culture of the West, but with Baba we experience the Veda, but to make the experience is not the same as knowing it.
If we do not know the scriptures are we like the fleas that suck the blood of the cow? I guess it depends our intention.

As Baba said that my ex took only advantage of it, I get the idea of it with that example, he is that flea sucking the blood of the cow and why, I can tell you why. 

So too, you must draw and learn from the scriptures, the potency of the will of the Lord.

Watch the Heart, cleaning the Mind is not enough

Spiritual knowledge cleanses the mind and helps us undertake good actions. But that is not enough. The heart also should be pure. In the absence of purity of heart, there can never be purity of the mind and intellect. 

We should not give scope to the creepers of bad qualities to entangle the heart. A creeper that goes around covering the tree ultimately smothers the tree itself. One should ensure that the creepers of lust, anger, greed, and infatuation do not get entangled to one's own Self. The society will ultimately value purity of heart more than all other achievements. One can escape from the house on fire, but not from the senses which are ignited by the fire of evil qualities. It is the foremost duty of every individual to keep their senses under control.

Baba (thought for the day)

Years ago I became a meditation teacher, it was a great experience and we really thought, we do that for the rest of our life and people would come and learn to meditate. We initiated them with a Puja and for a short while it was okay. And therefore, we thought it would take care of everything. We didn't think of money, who cared about money if it was about a fulfilling work and dedication to something we believed in. 

I had no idea what I went into when the national leader of the TM-movement began to call. 

He wanted me to look for houses for the Maharishi and real big and very expensive hotel buildings. 

The Roar of the Divine Lion

Hatred does not exist in God's nature; He is all mercy and full of love! 

Lord Krishna proceeded to the Kaurava court, as a messenger of peace, with compromise proposals to show how one should be patient and self-controlled, when provoked and during difficult times. The Lord has no favorites or rivals. Like fire, He spreads warmth to everyone near Him. If you do not feel the warmth, do not blame Him; instead blame yourself that you are far from Him! Hiranyakashipu said, 'He is nowhere' and so, He was nowhere for him; Prahlada asserted 'He is everywhere,' and He appeared from the pillar to prove him true. God did not have to run into the pillar in order to come out of it, to reply to the challenge of the father. 

He was there all along, just as He is in everything else. He had only to make Himself visible! Take Him as your charioteer. He will steer you through the heaviest odds.

Baba (thought for the day)

But also God is not involved in a personal relationship, he is always out of it, bigger than the bigger, smaller than the smallest.

But the relationship of Lord Krishna with the Gopis reflects the divine relationship. He was the strongest, he was invincible, like superman, the strongest enemy had no chance against Krishna and for me it felt great to read those stories, the author was a college professor and they were adventure stories better than Superman and especially in Baba's presence, it became alive because of him, I read the books during the time I was in the ashram, several books, about seven or nine. 

And it also felt good reading it in Geneva, in my twenties, I liked it, because Krishna was not crucified.

We know that God exists and we have to find it in our own self, but our fight is that of Prahlada. 

His father was one of the biggest demons of his time and he was already born in that family to destroy that demon, because he was that powerful, nobody could destroy him but God himself. He sent his great devotee Prahlada with that task in that family and it was incredible what that demon father did everything to destroy the boy, he had to endure awful tests and the father was madly fighting and arguing with him and trying to kill him in all different ways, that much he hated God. 

As the boy said that God is everywhere, the father screamed at his son, 'is he also in that pillar?? hitting with his sword at it and in that moment pillar transformed itself in Nrsingadev. God took the form of a lion to be able to fight that demon.