Maharaji at Amaroo PWK-009 2006-09-25

Maharaji at Amaroo September 25, 2006
Flawless PWK-009

Here we are, another day. Tomorrow, we're going to have expressions here, so that should be fun. But most importantly, to really try to see with our eyes open.

Because so many people, so many people, you know, it's been 40 years. And if somebody was to ask me, for those 40 years, what do you see as an obstacle to a person's enlightenment or getting peace? What would that be? You see, that's a really good question. And I never, ever get asked that. I get, I mean, you know, people like have all these questions and all this stuff and they even make up questions, you know. Never, ever. And I'm like, you know, it's got to be a better question. But 40 years, if somebody's been doing it for 40 years, and if one is interested and wants to make their journey easy and simple, I mean, I think one of the questions would be, so what makes it hard? And I have to say, concepts. Makes it really hard. And what is a concept? It is, and especially in this topic, topic of that reality, topic of happiness.

What is a concept? So here's an issue, here's a topic that one of its definitions is that you cannot fathom it with your intellect. That just happens to be one of its definitions. You cannot use all the reasoning, all the logic of this world to figure this one out. And yet, that's what exactly people do. They create a conduit of their logic, of what they think it is, how you get to peace, of what you think peace is, of what reality is. And this is what I have to deal with.

This is one of the things I was saying yesterday, that when people sit down and I start talking to them about peace, it's like they have a concept, they have an idea of what peace is. And the peace is, to some people, you know, everybody going like this. To some people, peace is everybody wearing that flower child thing, you know, flowers, and flowing dresses, and long hair, and all of that. To some people, peace is merely when one country says, you know, we're not going to attack you. That's called ceasefire, but people are locked up. Where's God? God is up there. Where's peace? Absence of war. But is your life, you look at your daily routines, your little house, your little car, your little cat, you know, your little routine that you do, and you think that's life. And it's not.

It has nothing to do with your life. But how do you convince that to people? And then something happens. And in one second, everything's changed.

And then they go, oh my God, that wasn't my life. But that's not a, and I call that a realization. Sorry. You know, I call that a realization. That's not a realization. That was what was happening all along. You happen to be in a misconception of what your life you thought was, what it really was. And this is all you can say is normalization. Now you know what you should have known all along. And so how many of us, and this is an honest question, how many of us would say I am still bound by the chains of concept? People talk about salvation. People talk about mukti, liberation. And if you dig in to some of the writings by Kabir, one, he does not acknowledge that you're coming back. So if your definition of salvation or your definition of liberation or mukti is that you get to come back, you say, well, that's going to happen regardless, because this is the only life you've got. And after this, you die and bye-bye.

But if you look at what really is defined as liberation, it is from those chains of concepts that tie you down, that prevent you from seeing the beautiful reality of every breath, because that's your reality.

Your life, this existence, not the things you do, not the things you think about, not the things you think are dear to you, because that's the whole house. This is my wall. This is my window. This is my view. This is my curtain. This is my rug. This is my floor. This is my painting. This is my apartment. This is my house. And in this house are all these things, and they're all mine, and I like them. I own them. How do you explain to a person, no, they're not yours, that you are a traveler, that you are on a journey, that you came, and one day you will go. And it's not about coming, it's happened. And it's not about going, it is set. But it is all the time in between. And how much that is, no one knows. But it is the time in between, that you, as a human being, one, one, Because when somebody close to you is leaving, is going why is it that you cannot give them a chunk of your life? Why? Have you ever thought about it? I'm just trying to make a point here. The point is, this is your life. Your existence.

Because if it weren't, then you should be able to give a chunk of it to your dearest one. Like you can your kidney. Kidney, you know. People do. They go, okay, I have two. In India, they just punch it out. I mean, they just take it out. You want to get sick in India and end up in a hospital. If they have to ever put you out, you may wake up with just one kidney. Big kidney market in India. You can give your hair. You can give your nail. You can give your shoe. And gentlemen often give their jacket to a lady. She's cold. Of course, it won't fit. That's the only reason why they do it. They know it's not going to fit. And it will be returned. They never do it to another gentleman to whom it might fit because they may never see it again. But you see, regardless of how much you love this person, and that you would do anything for them, anything, you cannot give them even one billionth of your existence. Because it is so given just to you. Hence, understand these relationships. It's important. What can I do? What do I need to do? What should I do?

You know, when we go to train on a simulator, it's like if the plane really behaved like that, like the simulator does, you'd throw it away. And you'd say, I'm so glad. Because in the simulator, every takeoff, something goes wrong. Engine catches fire. Engine quits. Decompression happens. Instruments fail. I mean, nasty. And weather never cooperates. And every landing, just about every landing is at night. With bad weather. With barely visible runway. With a broken plane. And you come out of it, and you're like, wow, I did that. I did that. And then you fly for another six months, and you never see a day like that. Never. Because the way planes are these days, I mean, they've gotten them quite good. Not all of them, but some are quite good. Incredible redundancies. And they have systems now where even if it's completely foggy, completely foggy, the pilot can see everything. It's called enhanced vision system. It's a camera mounted on the nose of the aircraft, and it looks at the slightest amount of heat, and it presents that as a picture. So the runway lights are producing that heat, and then you can see the runway lights. You can see other airplanes. You can see people. You can see kind of, incredible. I mean, it's really neat. You can see all the cars, the highway. And it's like, it got so scary that the copilot is looking out the window and going, yeah, I see anything.

And the pilot is looking through this HUD going, oh yeah, there it is. I see it. Yeah, no problem. And I mean, it's like, really scary. So to just give peace of mind to the copilot that took the same picture and started putting it on a side so you can say, yeah, okay, you can see it. I can see it too. I can keep going. And so you wonder that so much money is spent on reliability of aircraft. The fact of the matter is that a Gulfstream engine, for instance, has never really caught on fire except for once, which was pilot-induced. Pilot did it. Literally started the fire in the engine. And even then, it wasn't a problem. They just shut it down. They landed. So then why this simulator? Well, it's a reality check. Because in that time that it is bad, that it is bad, that it is foggy, that the engine did quit, you can say with some confidence, it's okay. I can do this. I've done it before. I know how to do this. I can do it. What about in your life? What about in your existence? All these relationships that you have with all the things, I'm not just talking about people. I'm not just talking about your friends. But with all the things, whatever they may be, are those relationships true or false? i.e., that you at the hub, at the center of it, do you understand your relationship with yourself?

That when it comes to acceptance in your life, what do you really accept? When it comes to rejection in your life, what do you reject? I mean, you know, when you start to fall in love with somebody, and you talk with them, and you spend time with them, and you like to know what they like, you like to know what they dislike, what do you like? know? I'm not talking about 31 flavors, Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Now, in some of the other countries, they have reduced flavors. They're not quite 31, some of them are like 29, 17. I'm not talking about food.

So why am I asking you to please take a look at knowing what you like? And I say this because if you like clarity, you're in for it. If you like that serenity, you're in for it. If you like that feeling that is inside of you, yeah, here we go. Here's the ultimate concept of what should that feeling be inside of you. If you have a concept about that, get rid of it. 40 years of wisdom piled in two. One little statement would be, get rid of it. There's that beautiful statement, come with the heart of a child. Come with the heart of a child. So ready, without the concepts, without the ideas to receive, because what does Knowledge do? It's four techniques, what do they do? And it's no hocus pocus. They're just taking your attention and putting it inside, taking it from outside, putting it inside.

That's all they do. And so, then what do you feel? Some people go, well, my mind goes crazy. Of course. I understand that. Because the mind never goes crazy. Everything is fine. Everything is fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, right? Let's go there. Let's go there. Let's do this. Let's have a think about this. Call the cell phone. Do this. Do that. And you are there just as happy you can be.

Now, all of a sudden, you sit down and you start to go inside and the Mind goes, what is this? I mean, nothing fazes the Mind all day.

Nothing bothers it. It's like, look at that strange object. Oh, wow. It's cool. Nothing bothers it. Nothing. When I went to Denmark, you know, driving around, then all of a sudden you just see this rock. It's the art. It's just this rock. It's just sitting there. And I told them, you know, my Danish friends, I told them, I said, you know why that rock is there? You know why? I said, because they couldn't decide what to do with it. They probably had it for years and years and years sitting somewhere. And then they went, just put it out there. I mean, they could have carved it into something, but it's like, now when I go to Denmark, I really, when I dial a phone, I'm pretty fast at it. So I have to really, you know, look at what I'm dialing and just go ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. When I go to Denmark, it doesn't work. Because one is at the bottom. Zero is at the top. And so if you do this, you get nothing. It's like, what happened? I mean, one time I was doing that and it was kind of dark and I was dialing, dialing, dialing. It's like, what's wrong with these phones? And I turned the light up and looked, it was like, oh my God. I was there in Denmark. I love it, but it's different.

We got to be, talk about being conscious. You have to be very conscious. And in this life, being ready, not it should be this way, not it should be that way. And this needs to be every single day. Because that mind, you know, looking at those rocks, it doesn't get bothered. No problem. I can explain this away. Phone backwards. Wow. Denmark, you know, no problem. Challenging. See the, you know, Danish stereo system. They have a Danish stereo system. It's so automatic. You're just supposed to just kind of be in front of it and the doors open and you can put your CD in. Well, I was at this hotel in Buenos Aires and they had this one right next to the bathroom door. First night, I had to use the bathroom. I was all completely asleep. It just arrived and I got up on my way to the bathroom and I passed by this thing and not only did it light up and went, I must have jumped at least three feet. But was my mind bothered? No. It was busy cussing the designers and the person who installed it there. Like, no problem.

But when you start to go inside, start to go into that one place, which is your sanctuary. All those things that you wish you'd remember all day long, that you keep forgetting, come pouring in. I mean, here you are blaming your bad memory. Believe me, it's not your memory. It's just the memory minder was busy doing something else. And now that it doesn't have its claws on you, it's like, ha ha, where are you going? And this is an incredible fight that I am not the only person talking about in 2006. This is exactly what Kabir was talking about. That this is our biggest challenge. That if you want that liberation, that true liberation, then cut these bonds of concepts and free yourself.

Because that is the ultimate freedom. That is the ultimate freedom. Not being caged, arrested by these very thin walls of ideas, but liberated to feel the truth, the reality. Which one? The one that dances in the heart of every single person on the face of this earth.

Then this journey of life, regardless of how many friends you have, it is a solemn journey by nature, by nature. In this journey, you are not allowed to give your joy to someone. You can express it. I really like this. Oh, this is great. This is so much fun. Look how big a smile I got. Oh, this is great. Man, this is nice. Oh, I just love it. I've been waiting for this, but you can't give it. Have you thought about that? You can express, but you can't give it. Sorrow, you can express. Oh, you can cry. Oh, no, what's going to happen? Or, you know, this is terrible.

This is horrible, but you can't give it. People talk about all these things. Oh, when you talk about solemn journey and this and that, isn't that very selfish? Well, then fix this other thing, where when I feel sorry, I can just give it to somebody. Cool. We'll just find one idiot, you know, who's always happy and just say, come here, sit down here. Now, that'll learn you. You can't. Then the greatest theft would be the theft of somebody's joy. Could steal somebody's joy. You can remove somebody's joy, but you can't give it inside of you. You can make somebody's life miserable. So it is a solemn journey by its very nature. Now, if you begin to understand that, then the relationship with you becomes incredibly important, because that's really the only person there is on this journey. And if you know that person, you've had it. You know, it's like, what do you do? It's only one person on this journey, and you know. So begin to understand what true liberty is, what true freedom is, from what? And begin to understand how important it is for you to know you. Not about your likes and dislikes. That's not the point here.

But get to know the truest nature that you have. The truest nature. That your true nature, by very default, is to be content. When a human being is content, everything falls into place. Everything falls into place.

See, the world is out on a limb, trying to make everybody behave properly. You have police. You have this. You have that. You've got lines. You've got this. You've got that. Slow down. Speed bumps everywhere. Psychiatrists. Psychologists. Not so much psychiatrists. Psychologists, coming up with explanation of, you know, what's wrong with you, and what's wrong with you.

Explanations, explanations, explanations. And I have been speaking at so many forums, so many leaders, who have no idea what I'm going to talk about. And then I say to them, sometimes it becomes repetitious, but I say to them, I said, you know, when a person is happy, they automatically are all the things you want them to be, that you think is good. People preach, be kind to your neighbor. When a person is happy, neighbor, neighbor's neighbor. Neighbor's girlfriend's neighbor. I mean, even a stranger, who you know. Forget about neighbor. No problem. Somebody wants your parking spot? If you're happy, take it. Long time ago, in the kind of a 70s, it was, it must have been around 73, 74, something like that. I was in a pretty expensive car, and this lady wasn't paying attention, and she rear-ended, and she was freaked out. She was completely freaked out. And I came in, got out, and looked at the car. It was nothing. And she goes, oh, I'm so sorry. I said, it's okay. Go. She goes, what? It's all right. There's no damage done. Go. Made her day, believe me. She was like, really? Let's go. Okay.

When a person is in that good place, nobody can make a mistake. It's amazing. No one is an enemy. Everyone is a friend. Courtesy towards everyone. How amazing is that? All that falls into place. And when the person is not feeling that contentment inside of them, the same human being becomes a monster. Same human being. Parking lot, space. I mean, space, when you're in rush hour, and there's a car in front of you, and this guy is wanting to come. He's given his indicator 60 miles ago, and you are like, no. And no eye contact. No eye contact. Nothing. And it's this behavior, this monstrosity, that the world's trying to change. People have guns in their cars. Somebody cuts them off, boom. And the psychologist, anger. Anger management. You know, it's like, seems like an oxymoron.

But when that heart is dancing, when the person is in that place, everything is okay. And when that is not happening, it does not matter. People look at God and go. Both are there, the monster and the true human being. Do you know about the true human being? Because the true human being is truly beautiful. Beautiful. Incredible. Kindness is its nature. To want and embrace peace every day is its thirst, its want, its desire.

The being hungers for contentment every day, will never knowingly throw even an ounce of happiness away, understands by the very nature the preciousness of this existence. And the monster is the monster. Exactly opposite. Will throw away everything that is precious and will keep all that is complete garbage. A long time ago, it was said you cannot have two masters. Well, here are the two masters. Who is governing the set of rules in your existence? The human being or the monster? And it's not a question of, well, 50-50. That's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Because the focus has to be that for yourself. The focus has to be that for your existence. The focus has to be that so that you may complete this journey in dignity, in perfection, in beauty, in joy. And this, at the end of the day, what you get to take with you. This is what you take with you. And I have seen people with their cup full. And when they go, when they go, it's still sad. But they know, you know, it was good. It was good to make that happen. It's possible.

Yeah. Whatever you think is the destiny doesn't have to be that way. Such a surety to know that that person in their life experienced heaven on earth. Heaven on earth. And that person who has experienced heaven on earth, there is no gate if there's a heaven up there. Not that I'm relenting. No, no, I'm not relenting. But this sounds really good. It's poetic. That if there is a heaven up there, there is no gate and no guardsmen that'll be able to keep that person out. So I'm not relenting. It didn't sound good. Poetic. And this is possible. And it begins by the surety of experiencing that heaven on earth. On earth. And when you liberate yourself from all those things that belong and find yourself in the truest nature, you will begin to experience heaven on earth. And heaven on earth is not about good meals, as some people may have you believe.

Heaven on earth is not about good meals. Heaven on earth is not about good wine. Heaven on earth is not about laddus. And heaven on earth is not about, you know, all those things. Heaven on earth is feeling content. Heaven on earth is feeling content. And this is possible for anybody. Anybody. 40 years that I've been doing it, I've seen it. I've seen it. Not once, not twice, but countless times. Countless times. Happiness on the face of people who have nothing. Who have nothing. Nothing. Their total savings is, I'm sure, a fraction of what your glasses cost. Who have nothing. No education. Cannot read a book. Cannot read a sign. Poor. Who say to me, I had nothing. And still have nothing. And they say, and now I have everything. Everything. And you say, oh, but you have this, and you have that, and you have…

This Knowledge, this knowing, this accepting without the concepts, without the ideas of the beautiful reality that dances in your heart, is a powerful thing, my friends. It's really powerful. It is the most powerful.

One time I remember I was in the south, south of India, and this man got up. I was in Hyderabad at the land, and this man got up and he said, I have a son and he has gone missing. And I've been looking for him something like 10 years or something, and I want to thank you for the strength your Knowledge has given me. Because every day I think about him, I mean it's one of those things, I guess if he were dead, he'd know. He can put some closure to it, but he doesn't know that. So he thinks about him every day, and he probably doesn't even know what his son looks like now. So he sees his face, whenever he sees his face, it's the day he probably went missing. And so every day I practice Knowledge and it brings me strength. And all I can say is, what can I say? What can I say? But that is, when you become you, when you become human, that is your nature. You're strong, you're not weak. The Creator inherently made you strong. Inherently. The strength is in you, and it's incredibly strong. There's no storm, no wave, no nothing. If you know your real strength, nothing in this world can stand up to it. That's how strong you are. And when you do not know yourself, you become frail. You know your own strength. You become weak. Confusion sets in. Clarity leaves.

Doubts come in. Answers go. Questions come in. Light leaves. Darkness sets in.

And when the human being finds himself, the trend begins to reverse. Where there was weakness, there is strength. There is strength. Where there was darkness, light begins to fill. And how do you know? How do you know? Because then, like the sweetest, most powerful perfume of a flower, the happiness begins to dance all around this person. And you know. See, there is, even though all these things that I talk about, clarity, for some people it is abstract. Light, for some people it is abstract. But when they are inside of a person dancing, it is not abstract. It is clear as the sun shining in a cloudless sky. So whatever you have to do in this journey of life, it's very possible. It's very possible. And to achieve what the concepts once had you believing is the impossible, it's possible. It's possible. This man in Hyderabad, I know where he lives, but that's where he was when he talked to me. If he can have the strength, I think he's a multi-degreed person. He has not been to Oxford, believe me, or Harvard, or been to the clinics of various psychologists, and he has found his strength. And that is the most amazing thing to me. That is the most amazing thing.

I find technology fascinating. A lot of times I stand there and look at the wing of the airplane. I wonder if it's really making it fly. Of course, you ask me, I could tell you, I could babble on and on and on and on for hours explaining to you about this and that and that. But what I truly find fascinating is when a human being has found contentment. Why? Because that is against all odds. All odds. Five minute, maybe. Ten minute, maybe. But to find it for the rest of their life, that's against all odds. And when I see that happen, that is what makes it all worthwhile. Traveling is no fun.

Traveling is no fun. To you it is. You do it once in a while. It's like, this is neat. I get to go. These muscles, just these ones, are stronger than probably any other muscle in this body. Hour after hour you go. You arrive places, you're there for less than 24 hours. Less than 24 hours. Come in, out. You have time to adjust? No. You have time to sleep? Well, if you, you. And it catches up. Oh, it catches up. It catches up. And it's, you know, a lot of people think, oh, it must be just a piece of cake. Well, talk to all the people around me. Okay, they cannot keep up. And all I can do, you know, it's like, well, I've had enough. I understand. I understand. My co-pilot is like, boss, I can't keep doing this. Okay, fine, we'll get relief for you. So that's the way it is. Not one single person. Not one single person. And my traveling staff is like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, I think this is enough. And then everybody keeps asking, how do you keep doing this? How do you keep doing this? I'm like, bring up this topic. I know, and I want to find out.

But when somebody in their life feels that joy, it's okay. Then it's worth it. And so, for 40 years, or whatever years, or whatever happens, make a little effort. Make a little effort today. Make a little effort tomorrow. To be free. To be clear. To be human. To be who you are. Because truly, who you really are is flawless. Flawless. Not one single fault. Flawless. But that's what you have to be. And you can be.

And that's what this is about. This is the possibility. Somebody might go, "Yeah, well, you know, I've been trying it for the last 30 years." Yeah, but you're here. Something from the heart brings you here. There are people who know what it's going to be like here. Like, you know if it's going to rain. You know if it's going to be cold. The birds in the morning. I mean, it's like, you need an alarm clock. Do you bring an alarm clock with you? Huh. Why? Here, you need an alarm clock at night. So you should be asleep after that alarm clock goes off. Because if not, you're in for it.

Something brings. Something I want. I want to feel that. I want to hear about that clarity. I want to hear about that. Makes me think. Makes me understand. And this journey is not about thousand foot leaps. If you think you take this journey by thousand foot leaps, you're wrong. here's only one way you can make this journey. And that's one step at a time. No other way. There's no Segway. You know what Segway is? That guy invented that scooter you stand on with two wheels, you know, and then you go and smash against the pole. But there's no shortcuts. In the journey of life, there's no shortcuts. There's no speed up the process. There's no escalators. There's, you must. How? As you take a breath. As you take a breath, this is how this journey unfolds. It is not a step. It's a breath. At a time. At a time. At a time. At a time. And you cannot take 15 breaths at a time. And you cannot take three breaths at a time. You gotta take one at a time. And that's beautiful. That's really beautiful because at one hand it is so fast. A genius design of doing it one breath at a time slows it down. You can try it out. You can work it with sincerity. With reality. In your life. And so I will end with that. I think I've spoken already way too long.

But ask my throat. It says so. And I see that I am being invited to Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville third. Yeah, there are a lot of Knoxvilles. Anyhow. Yeah, the 2007 calendar is completely virgin right now. There's no dates on it. Because there needs to be some innovation of how the events happen. There's been incredible awakening in Europe. And, you know, India is taking the time now to get their stuff together. Things that they need to do so that next year events can be better.

South America was great. There was a lot of fun. I think there was a lot of people woke up and smelled the coffee. Because one of these is dead. You know that. It really died. It's gone. So now there isn't somebody bringing coffee everywhere. So you have to kind of wake up and smell the coffee yourself. But it was great to be able to come to those places. There's still other places to go. Lima, Peru. Peru is one of my favorite places. So we have to do something. Also, Chile did not work out. And that's got to work out. There was a guy there from Chile and he was looking pretty sad. I said, worry, we'll come next year. We'll be there. So Venezuela. I love to use a parachute.

Okay, so let's have the song, guys.