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What we call self-realization is not about being happy. You are very blissful, but you want to go beyond that. You are not trying to live your life well. That you have done anyway, but you want to know the very source of life. Only then you talk about self-realization. Right now if you are just trying to live well, do not talk about all this nonsense. Do not talk about God, about self-realization, about all this nonsense, when you are just trying to live well. You just need to learn to use your body, mind and energies properly, and you will live well.
You are even willing to throw away living well in order to know the source of life. This is when you are seeking self-realization, okay? Right now, you are just looking at how to live well.
All experiences, whether experiences of misery or ecstasy, are happening within you. So face them. Learn to address your issues directly, not in roundabout ways.
Jumping up can happen in so many ways for so many reasons; it sometimes may even happen accidentally, but the ladder will not happen accidentally. It needs to be built. You need a technology for building a ladder. That is what we are trying to do. Right now all the yoga that we are trying to teach you is just a way for you to build a ladder where you do not have to jump up to see something. Slowly, step by step, you go up. If you just keep the simple practice every day, I will guarantee you a hundred percent that in a year’s time, or in two years’ time, your experience of life will be very,
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You must climb at your own pace. It is okay. Are you climbing to your full potential? That is all that matters.
We do not know whether we can make our lives pleasant or not. At least we can make our imagination pleasant, isn’t it? If you make your imagination so ugly that you are always seeing terrible things, then we need to work on it.
Your life situations, your body, your breath, your mind, the other aspects of the mind, are not so much in your hands. Imagination is one thing which is completely in your hands. But even with that, if you create terrible things with it, such as fear, it means you have got a very negative imagination.
When you glorify a simple misunderstanding of life as something big, naturally you get trapped in it. If fear rules, you will see that the past will be very important for you. But if desire rules you, the future will be very important for you, and life that is here becomes unimportant.
All of creation and the creator is in this moment, but the engine of life for most people is sustained or demolished by the process of memory and desire.
A third way is, you just get into my bus and sit. Once you get into my bus, even if you doze off, it does not matter. Anyway you will go to the destination, but then you cannot drive.
If you stop gold-plating your limitations, if you stop seeing the shackles that you wear as ornaments, it is very simple. But you are on a full-time deception game with yourself and all the time, you talk about this deception to seek support from everybody around you. Please see in how many ways you are seeking support for your limitations from people around you. You want approval for your limitations.
So, if you are serious about your spiritual path, you can talk about work, about politics, about cinema, but you do not talk about your life. You question your life, but never make statements about your life. The very fact that you say, “I am on the spiritual path,” means you have already admitted that, “I do not know a damn thing about myself.” Yes? So when you do not know a damn thing about yourself, you do not talk about yourself, or your life.
To be alive in the most exuberant possible way is the fundamental thing that you can do; in fact, it is the only thing you can do. To live and to live totally is all that one can do. There is nothing else.
The best thing that you can do to yourself and for humanity and for the whole planet is raise this aliveness to its maximum pitch. Become absolutely alive. That is all you can do, and that is more than enough.
When you were a child, though you were just fine, your life then was not self-created. Nature gave it as a gift to you. What is given to you as a gift can only be enjoyed for a certain time. What can be given can be taken away, isn’t it?
So an enlightened being is called a dwija or a ‘twice born’. But now, this is a self-created birth. Nobody can take this away. What nature gave you can be taken away, but now you gave birth to yourself. This cannot be taken away by anybody or anything. No matter what kind of situation you are placed in, this cannot be taken away. It does not need any insurance backup.
From the simple caveman who made a pot out of clay to whatever you are making – missiles, rockets, and spaceships – it is still the same process. You are still molding life, molding what is available into different forms, but you are not really creating anything. It is all there. You are just rearranging it a little bit.
So there is no creativity in you. You cannot create. Leave that to the creator. He has done a good job. You can trust him. (Laughs) You are just playing with life. When you want to play, play your game in such a way that it is truly enjoyable for yourself and everybody around you. Maybe you cannot liberate them, but at least you can make a joyous situation around you. That itself is liberation in certain ways. Somebody who can be happy all the time, at least he has liberated some parts of his nonsense. He is not absolutely free, but he is free from lots of nonsense.
Whatever you see within yourself – the ugliest dimension that you see within yourself – indicates that you are growing. The more ugliness you see, the more aware you have become. You are beginning to see it, that’s all. Whether you like it or not, it is there. If you see it, then naturally you will grow. If you do not see it, it means you are deeply embroiled in it.
long as you carry things that do not belong to you, you are a thief. When you are a thief we will not let you pass through the security gates. If you give up everything that is not you, then you will pass joyously.
If you taste something bigger, the smaller will just naturally fall off. If you get to know something of a bigger dimension than what you know right now, the little things will naturally fall off. Do you have to give it up? Do you have to renounce it? No, it will just fall off.
So intensity means just existing here as a piece of life and nothing else. If you exist here as a piece of life, everything that should happen to this life will naturally happen to you. You do not have to strive and struggle to get somewhere. If you just exist here as life, pure life, life will naturally go to its ultimate nature. You are creating a big distortion and a huge hurdle in the process of life reaching its natural goal, by becoming a thought, by becoming an emotion, by becoming ideas, by becoming opinions, by becoming prejudices, anger, hatred, this and that.
