Human Life is Highly Sacred, most Precious and Divine

Human life is highly sacred, most precious and Divine. Do not fritter it away by indulging in unsacred activities. All that you find outside is nothing but the reflection, reaction, and resound of your inner feelings.
Life must be lived in the proper way by exercising control over the ten senses. Speak sweetly and softly. You cannot always oblige, but you can always speak obligingly. Pray for the well-being of all. Sanctify your senses by serving all. By exercising control over your senses, you can achieve anything in life. You may think that you have given away ten bags of rice in charity and distributed clothes to 500 people. Such accounts are to be submitted to the income tax department and not to God. God is not interested in quantity; He sees the feeling behind your acts. So, whatever acts of charity you undertake, do it with the spirit of love and sacri­fice.
Baba (thought for the day)

It was an amazing Lila after he Baba said in the the dream 'engaged' and it was on your birthday morning and the same 'I am that'.
I didn't realize in that moment that this would lead into a constant inquiry about that 'I am that', 'That twam asi'.
It is inner inquiry and also I didn't realize yet that it means to see it in our own life and to go on no matter what obstacles are there.
It was about the higher self, I had met many years ago already and I had to understand it. It was the higher self and the body was just sleeping and dark and the light was only in the higher self, therefore, the 'I' in the body seemed to somehow be there, but it had not place to be there.

I knew I had to get the right answer, somehow. And I went ahead and looked at everything crossing my path and that were first the Hare Krishnas and I hoped to get an answer following the inner light, but it was mostly worship and after a while I felt rather frustrated, because I knew that way I would not get any answers. I met someone and he had been with TM and he said that it was just meditation and I thought great, that would help to go inside, because it was inside, I had seen it in the dream and it was also attractive, because the master lived in the Swiss mountains.

As the Feeling, so the Result

People worship God with devotion and sincerity, but God is not satisfied with external worship. You should serve society. Only service can confer bliss on you. By rendering service to society, you can alleviate the sufferings of the people, and also bring about transformation in their lives.

Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavathi (as is the feeling, so is the result). When you serve with sacred feelings, it is bound to yield sacred results. Serve society to your utmost capacity. The satisfaction that you get by participating in bhajans is temporary, whereas service confers permanent satisfaction. Time is the most precious gift of God, but you are wasting it in vain pursuits and unsacred feelings. Sanctify the time given to you by serving society. Through service alone you can get rid of worries, ego, pomp and show, and other evil qualities.
Baba (thought for the day)

Tapas, spiritual work is first discrimination, second seeing it in our own life and third going on no matter what obstacles are there.
What is external worship?
When I was a teenager, I was not even aware that it was possible to worship God externally, that was not in question and we had no such service to God.
I grew up in a catholic region, but my family belonged to Protestantism and in our village they had not yet their own church, therefore, me first memories of listening to that was in an empty room in the basement of the school.
There was nothing, not even a spiritual atmosphere and they are surprised that it is all put in question? It has to be put in question, because there was nothing else but intellect.
Later we got a church, on the top with glass-windows so we could see the sky, no pictures, no warmth, it was open, we could see the faces of the other people and the pastor was talking about a bible sentence and that was it and I got out of it tired and wondered what that was.

This Christmas we went to the midnight mass to Einsiedeln and that church it is just amazing. It is of breathtaking beauty.

The Message of Unity

You should broaden your heart that it may be filled with all-embracing love. Only then can the sense of spiritual oneness of all mankind be experienced. Out of that sense of unity will be born the love of God. This love will generate in the heart pure bliss that is boundless, indescribable and everlasting.

For all forms of bliss, love is the source. A heart without love is like a barren land. Foster love in your hearts and redeem your lives. Whatever your scholarship or wealth, they are valueless without love. Sow the seed of love in your hearts and it will grow in due course into a big tree. God is one. Do not entertain any differences of religion, creed or caste. Carry the message of unity to every home. Embodiments of love! Regard Love as your life-breath and as the sole purpose of your existence.

Baba (thought for the day)

When I realized it was all about love, I began to look for it in my heart, but I couldn't see anything in the heart, it was too dark and I wondered how to understand it and how to follow the inner master or the heart. How to find it if we couldn't hear it and not listen to it and it felt like there was nothing. I was glad if there was just a trace of a feeling of love and most of time we not aware of it. 

But if it should be love, we should be aware of it. But how to feel that love? I was just watching, doing my job and I decided to go on watching, on some level there should be at least a trace of love. It was kind of impossible to imagine that the universe is love and that we could just go ahead with an all-embracing love.

After a while, yes, sometimes there was some love and it was projected on someone, we were looking for a reason for it, that was the other obstacle about love.

But I went on observing to get to that boundless and everlasting love.

So first it was projected on a worldly love, nevertheless, it was love and as that didn't last I went on observing and it was not that easy, it felt kind of alone just going on and not being able to tell anyone what that was all about. Going on and on no matter what obstacles would be there in direction of love, we couldn't feel it.

A Sense of Spiritual Oneness

Just as a child is entitled to enjoy the milk from its mother, there can be no objection to man enjoying the resources of nature. But as a result of uncontrolled desires and reckless exploitation of natural resources, nature is exhibiting frightening disorders. Natural calamities like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, droughts and floods are the result of disturbances in the balance of nature caused by this reckless exploitation. Mankind today appears like a foolish man who is wielding the axe at the branch of a tree on which he is sitting.
You have to develop a sense of spiritual oneness. Out of that sense of oneness, love will grow. Man today does not recognize this sense of oneness. 'Man' is not the body alone. One has the mind, intellect and the spirit (Atma) too. When the balance among these constituents is upset, people are plunged into troubles. On the other hand, when there is a balance, true humanness blossoms.
Baba (thought for the day)

How to develop a sense of spiritual oneness?

It helps a lot if we understand the purpose of oneness.  

With TM we had big meditation assemblies and lots of people came together to meditate, because we all believed if we did that, we created more balance in nature and worked against the reckless exploitation Baba is talking about here in this thought for the day.

It was a good experience in the big groups and it had a good effect on consciousness, the only problem is that we cannot prove it, but TM did about everything to prove it anyhow to get lots of people together, there have been worldpeace assamblies with 3000 people.

But what about developing a sense of oneness?

It was in the big groups of thousands of people meditating together, there was oneness, only there was no awarness of it.

Consciousness is bigger than biggest and smaller than the smallest. What does it mean? The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

On our individual level it is the higher self. If we have the experience of the higher self it is about the whole and it is more than the sum of its parts.

On an universal level it is divinity. As Baba said during our interview when he explained 'Soham', it means, 'I am God' or 'I am Shiva' or 'I am that' and he explained that it opens the mind.

Knowledge without Wisdom is Useless

True education will make you divine. Education is not mere knowledge of words; it should broaden the mind. The mere acquisition of degrees is valueless. Character is more important and it can be developed only by taking to the spiritual path. Of what use is an education that does not promote good qualities? Together with academic education you have to acquire wisdom and a sense of right and wrong. Knowledge without wisdom, scholarship without determination, music without melody, learning without humility, a society without discipline, friendship without gratitude, and speech without truth - all these are utterly useless.

Hence everyone should seek to follow the correct path. It is not greatness that matters but goodness. Make proper use of your education for the good of society.
Baba (thought for the day)

Baba said in an interview that we should meditate with Soham, our breath tells with every inhale, SO and with every exhale HAM and the meaning of Soham is, 'I am God, I am Shiva, I am that'.

I had been a TM-teacher and we were told that the mantra was a vehicle only and had no meaning and we had the feeling we didn't know anything about it and Baba called our group in the interview room after a group meditation and said, that all mantras are okay and that the meaning of the mantra is, 'I am God'.

The most important questions we have to ask are, 'Who am I?' 'Where do we come from?' and 'Where do we go?'

If we send a letter away we put the address that it can reach and if we do not have an address, it will reach nowhere.

Therefore, in using a mantra just like a vehicle, it was not possible to get aware of the 'I am that'.
But first my mind wondered how I could think only that 'I am God' and Baba went on explaining to us in the interview room that it opens our mind. That is a way how we can broaden the mind.

Self-confidence, self-control, self-contentment, self-sacrifice, self-realization. (Baba)

Between Unity and Duality

What is true humanness? You should treat your fellowmen as your own brothers and sisters. You deserve to be called a human being only when you cultivate the spirit of unity. Where there is no unity, there you find enmity and hatred. 

Consequently, the principle of love is lost altogether. Your foremost duty is to share your love with others. Only then can you realise the dictum: 'Brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God'. You may or may not believe in the fatherhood of God, but you must have faith in the brotherhood of man; practise it and experience bliss therefrom. It is only when we share our love with our fellowmen, can we experience Divinity.

Baba (thought for the day)

How do we share our love with our fellowmen? 
Writing is one way to share it, whatsoever, it has to be shared. 
It was in meditation, first the experience of heaven on earth and afterwards hell and a precipice. 
It was both, first friends and after enemies.

And that connection to a personal staff of the Maharishi had been in a relationship, it meant only problems, when it always looked good and the opposite, like friendship, but he was never a friend. 
He seemed to have been there only to create problems, even though he was assigned as the national leader at the same time, with the task to enlighten the world, he meant problems only.

And in the inner view it is present as precipice and I was somewhere in between the two levels, but it is incredible, that guy meant only problems. 

It means there was no unity, it is still on the level of duality, therefore, after all all they felt like enemies. Whatever, it was a very difficult experience.

How do we share our love? 

It is not only sharing love, but it is sharing it with our fellowmen. 

Writing seems to be a way to share. The blog is kind of a great tool to share our thoughts. 

And how do we get aware of the experience of Divinity? 

Get nearer, wherever we may be

In every one of you, God is the moving spirit, the very Soul; how then can you be evil, when you are here fulfilling God's purpose, according to His will, His plan and His law? God has endowed you with many faculties so that you may seek Him and reach Him. 

You are not therefore, a helpless and neglected individual undergoing a sentence of death. You are an embodiment of bliss, born to a rich heritage, which is all yours! Only you fail to ask. Have faith in your destiny and work steadily to attain it! Devotion is attachment to God - you need not leave hearth and home for it. If the seed is planted away from the parent tree, will it grow any different? No! Boil the seed and then it will not grow again. Similarly, boil your instincts and impulses, and scorch the sensory cravings that enslave you. Then you will get nearer to God, wherever you may be.

Baba (thought for the day)

We are immortal beings, if there is no sentence of death, but to reach that we have to know that we are God and how do we get to that self-realization? Always remember, who you are.

Who am I? 

That is one of the key questions, Baba mentioned it in a thought for the day last week. 

If we can answer the first question, we also know the answer for the rest. But around us is everything relative, everything passing by and nothing is permanent, but our own self is a non-changing and permanent level, we have to realize it. 

It is of no use to go and search for it, we should just remember who we are. 

After I had understood that, I thought, there must be a way to find that eternal reality in my heart and I began to just watch, just observe, because life goes on and on and on that level everything is always changing, there had to be a means to get to that hidden reality and that non-changing and immortal being in our own self. 

I watched, decided to not change anything on the mind level if it is not out of my own self and it was never my own self, it was always outside of it and therefore, I began to think about God, because it felt not okay, not comfortable, there was only uncertainty.  

Where do I come from? Where do I go? How long do we be here? 

We are embodiments of bliss. 

I wondered, where the bliss was gone? We should be all in bliss. 

That is how I began to remember who am I? And in remembering in time I hoped to be able to realize it. 

As Baba always said, just be happy and enjoy. 

You are not therefore, a helpless and neglected individual undergoing a sentence of death. You are an embodiment of bliss, born to a rich heritage, which is all yours!

Examine the Mental Make-Up, using Discrimination

There is no dearth of good books, telling you how to live happily and be free from grief, and many thousand copies of them are being purchased. Yet there is nothing to indicate that the content in the books have been read and assimilated. The habits, conduct, and character of the readers of these books have not undergone any change for good. 

Egoism and greed are still rampant; hatred has not abated and envy eats into the vitals of the society. 

Henceforth, do not treat My words lightly. Decide to implement in your life, at least one advice for your spiritual growth. Every one of you must examine your mental make-up and see whether you have used your discrimination and scientific temper (Viveka and Vijnana) to clothe yourself with detachment (Vairagya), so that you do not suffer from the attachment to the worldly objects.

Baba (thought for the day)

How do we know if we have enough discrimination? 

It is not that easy to know, we might think we have it and find out later on that it was all wrong understood, but it is easy to practice, we have to get aware of it that our own self is unlimited and one way is to get aware is to focus on the heart, in the heart is the indweller of the heart, a tiny form of God. 

And we can get aware that our breath tells with every in- and exhale, Soham and that means it inhales So and exhales Ham and the meaning is as Baba said, 'I am God' or 'I am Shiva' or 'I am that'. 

I was meditating with 'I am that', because I had problems to think, 'I am God'. I just thought it was easier to think 'I am that', but today I would tell anybody to just do it, to go for God, because it opens up the mind and the mind understands God as not only 'that', but going beyond, in calling it God, it is like addressing the letter to a name and the letter will arrive.

If I don't know, he knows. If I cannot do it, he can. If I don't have the strength to go for it, he has. 

If we try to realize the observer, we watch and in doing so, even if we are not aware that the breath tells us, 'I am God', we get aware that everything else is 'not that', because it is just passing by and in watching we get aware that our soul needs actually something else but passing by stuff. It is about the soul level.

I am the One

Do not consider prayer and meditation (japam and dhyanam) as the pastime of 'freaks, geeks and cracks'. Hold fast to them, for they alone can save you from ruin. Offer to the Lord, not flowers got in exchange for a few coins or rupees from the shop, but the fragrant flowers of your own virtues. 

Let tears of joy be the holy water with which you seek to wash the feet of the Lord. Consider the Lord you adore, be it Hanuman or Krishna or Jesus, as comprising of all forms of Divinity. Do not argue that other forms are less and your form is greater. Be aware that every form of Divine is equally sweet.

Tonight he was in my dream and said, 'I am the one' and that felt kind of amazing. 

If I get aware constantly in my own meditation that 'I am God', what opens our mind and gets us in touch with the higher self, I also get aware that I am not the body and not the mind. And it is very sweet and amazing, also it reflects in the outside and therefore, if I am that, 'you are that' as well and it means, 'we are that' and from the 'we' it expands in our consciousness to all, 'all are that'. 

That was meant by that inner confirmation of, 'I am the One'.

The movement is actually from 'Thou art That', (Tat Tvam Asi) to 'I am That', it is the mirror in which we recognize our own self and realize that we are the same. It creates the awareness that we are two, 'we are that' and from that our consciousness expands to 'all are that' and as it seems to, 'I am the One'.