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Sat-Chit-Ananda Parabrahma
Purushottama Paramatma
Sri Bhagavati Sameta
Sri Bhagavate Namaha
The ultimate thing of the universe is what you call Brahman which is
supposed to have three qualities, namely, sat, chit, and ananda. Its
sense of existence is what you call sat; its conscious intelligence is what
you call chit; and its nature is ananda which is bliss. That is why it is
normally qualified as sat-chit-ananda Brahman. God, or Ishvara, is imminent in Brahman. God is power, compassion, and love. That is why we refer to God as sat-chit-ananda Parabrahma.
God relates to humans as though God were a human; hence you call
God as the Purushottama. This God also manifests within the individual
as the Antyaramin or the higher sacred self. Since the Antyaramin is in
everyone it is called the Paramatman. The Paramatman manifests as
Bhagavati and Bhagavan, through Amma and myself.
Table of Contents
Preface 4
Part I: Sri Bhagavan 5
On Transition into Golden Age 6
On Awakening into Oneness 9
A S A T O M A M A N T R A 17
On the Divine and God-Realization 18
T V A M E V A M A N T R A 27
On Suffering and Self-Acceptance 28
S H A N T I M A N T R A 33
On Relationships 34
S A R V E B H A V A N T U M A N T R A 40
On the Golden City 41
P O O R N A M A N T R A 44
On Various Subjects 45
Short & Profound 50
Part II: Treasury 60
The Vision 61
A Divine Phenomenon 64
Acharya Anandagiri: Wisdom of the Awakened One 66
The Oneness Temple 70
Sri Amma: Words of Strength and Courage 71
The Art of Prayer 75
Meaning of the Moola Mantra by Poornima Dasa 78
Sanskrit Glossary 80
Preface
You could actually stop here. Because this has to be experienced, it cannot be described. Anything explained only clouds the mind more while it
is all about freedom from and ultimately with the mind itself. The
choice to read on is therefore left to you.
And again, what living life to its fullest is going to look like is up to you to
discover. So all the best of grace, deepest blessings, and a happy exploration!
WRITTEN BY US AS A DIVINE GIFT FOR US
SOMETIME BETWEEN THE PRESENT AND NOW
Humanity is entering the most crucial phase of its existence. The coming
decade1 shall witness the most unprecedented and undreamt of changes
in the course of its long evolution. There is nothing much humanity could
do about it other than to understand the changes occurring around it,
and to flow with the changes that are overpowering it. Towards the end
humanity would enter a new age, the Golden Age.
The transition will be a painful process. Only those whose relationships
are in order will make it easily. The Oneness Movement has come into
existence to help humanity make this transition.
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces a deeper social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing
it we are engaged in building the worlds first Golden Age. In the near future we will be the first generation to create a global Golden Age.
The passage of time, from June 2004 to June 2012, is humanitys great___
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There are various ways in which you could talk about awakening or oneness. If you are a neuroscientist you would say it is the shutting down of
the parietal lobes. If you are a psychologist you would say it is the loss
of the sense of self. If you are a philosopher you would say, The sense
of separation is gone"; a mystic would say, I am experiencing reality as it
is"; a spiritual person would say, I have achieved unity consciousness".
There is not one single state that is common to all mankind. The experience is different for different people. For some people it is like a noisy
generator that suddenly comes to a halt. There is an immense silence, a
silence that is not the opposite of noise. Such a person would say, I am
silence". Yet another would be a total witness, a witness to thought and
life at large. Others would land in a state of such compassion and oneness that there is no separation from the other whatsoever. Another person would experience causeless love and limitless joy. Yet another would
experience cosmic consciousness, the state of Aham Brahmasmi.
Whatever the experience, the common denominator is the absence of
personal suffering. Problems could still be there but they would not affect
you anymore. Because there is no person, there cannot be personal suffering. You would nevertheless sense the suffering of the world.
However, all this is talk which is not of much use. You have to get there
and I will get you there.
There are several degrees of oneness. Let us first look at oneness within
oneself. Right now you are not an individual, you are divided within. You
are a crowd inside you who are the son or the daughter of so and so,
the father, the husband, or the friend of so and so, you who is the employee or the employer of so and so. There are so many beings within
who are all the time talking. Then again there is your conscious and your
unconscious self, your authentic and your inauthentic self, all having a
dialogue all the time. You are that dialogue. When the dialogue shuts
down you become all-one inside. Alone means all-one. There is no more
division.
At the next level you would find oneness with your fellow human beings.
At the third level you would discover you are one with the earth, the tree,
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Mukti could be defined in various ways. The general definition I give for
mukti is the liberation of the senses. Now, when you see you do not see
without the interference of the mind. If you can see without the mind interfering that is mukti; if you can hear without the mind interfering that is
mukti. The same applies to smell, touch, and even thought. Thought also
can be observed without your getting involved in the thought. Now what
is happening is when you are thinking, you think you are thinking. But
it is actually possible to see thoughts flow as though they were independent of you. This is a physical reality, actually you can see thoughts.
Any kind of thought would be flowing into you and going out of you, and
you can watch them.
So this is the state of mukti. That is, the complete liberation of the senses
from the control of the mind. It is only such a being which is actually living. Wherever the mind is in control you are not living. When the mind is
not there then you are actually living. That is why when people ask me,
What is the purpose of life?" my answer is, If you are living you wont
ask the question". The purpose of life is to live. What does that mean? It
means to live the life of the senses. The senses must be independent and
free of the mind.
Now, what is happening is, you are not at all experiencing reality. Reality
to you is what is flowing through the senses. Now all the time you are interpreting all the data that is coming into you. You look at a tree, and you
say, It is a big tree, a small tree, green tree, mango tree, this, that. All the
time comments are going on. When you sit down to eat food you are not
eating food. You start worrying about your office or your family, or this or
that, or a comment on the food itself. The food is not being experienced.
That is why I say, If you experience reality as it is then you will just experience bliss". You will see that this whole creation is perfect, it is the
most beautiful thing, and that you are already in heaven. You have made
it into a hell.
It is possible to liberate the senses from the clutches of thought. Thought
is necessary when required. Otherwise, why should thought interfere?
There is no need for thought to interfere with your actual experience.
Now, when the senses become free of the control of thought or the mind
then we say you have discovered unconditional joy and unconditional
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You do not exist. That is the truth. That sense of I and you, the sense of
separateness is an illusion. It does not really exist. For example, as you
are listening to me you are seeing me but you are not hearing me, and
when you hear me you are not seeing me. But that is happening so fast
that you have this illusion that you are seeing and hearing. The two
senses have got coordinated like in a movie; unless you have those 24
shots moving per second you will not see the hand movement in the
movie theatre. If the projector is slowed down it becomes only like a slide.
Similarly, here the senses are coordinating at a particular speed whereby
you are feeling that you are seeing, touching as though all these things
are going on at the same time. It is this illusion that creates the sense of
me and I. If this is slowed down, you all just vanish! So now you are
there. If I were to slow down your senses, if you would give me permission you would just disappear. You will go back home minus yourself. But
you will still be very functional; you will in fact be very efficient.
The sense of separateness would completely be gone. What remains
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On the lawn of the Oneness University Campus 3 where the satsang was held
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The body lives its own life. But sadly, for an unawakened person the mind
interferes and does not allow the body to live its life. Awakening is the
liberation of the senses from the clutches of the mind. When one is liberated from the clutches of the mind one begins to truly experience things
as they are.
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I cannot speak to you about any right way or right path. We are speaking
about a permanent transformation which would hold good wherever you
are. It does not matter whether you are in this atmosphere3 or you are in
the world outside.
The key thing here is you have to get into a state where seeing is occurring all the time. That is what we are trying to do in the courses here.
When seeing happens all suffering ceases because to see is to be free.
There is no effort involved, there is no time involved.
The example that we often give is, supposing there were to be a snake in
front of you, you would be very scared and shiver in fear. The moment
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You have divided the world into the spiritual and the worldly. As far as I
am concerned they are not separate. To me there are no separate worlds,
the spiritual and the physical world or what you call the world. They are
one and the same only.
Cooking can be great joy for the fully awakened, and when they cook
that is meditation for them. They dance and they sing and they cook,
there is so much silence and they cook, some dont even know that they
are cooking. So the simple act of cooking can be the most extraordinary
thing. So how can you separate the two?
Then you are not awakened of course, you see the separation but
once you are awakened there is no charge in the content. Well, every little thing can be very spiritual. The act of doing a job can be very spiritual,
going to office can be spiritual, looking at the crow can be spiritual. Everything would be spiritual. There is no separation at all.
So the question does not arise once you are awakened. Until then of
course it is there, you have to strike a balance. So we must first know
what dharma we are talking about, the dharma of the unawakened or for
the awakened.
When you are not awakened, dont behave like an awakened person. You
will be miserable. When you are not a Buddha do not behave like a Buddha. The Buddha was free of craving because that was his natural state.
He had a profound insight that altered his consciousness. To Christ,
compassion was his most natural state of existence. None of these saints
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If you do anything to increase the love in you, youll never discover love.
If you would realize that there is nothing you could do about it that is the
beginning of love. In spirituality, the moment you realize there is nothing
you could do about it that is the moment it happens.
As long as you keep trying, youll never ever get there. That trying is the
problem, that trying takes you away from where you want to be. So you
have to realize the futility of all effort. All effort on the spiritual path is futile. If you could realize that it would hit you like a ton of bricks. Then all
effort ceases. The moment effort is gone, you are there.
Man cannot make it on his own. It has to be given to him. Oneness is not
a state to be achieved or practiced but a benediction to be received.
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You need not search elsewhere for God. All you need to do is to look at
your own life and you would see Him. Throughout your life the hand of
the Divine has been continuously helping and guiding you. You are just
not aware of it. When you reminisce about your life you would discover
there is a higher intelligence, a higher energy which has been there with
you all the time. When you awaken to this truth you discover the Presence of God in your life.
We often use the word God, but God means different things to different
people. But actually we can define God as your higher sacred self, higher
intelligence, or higher consciousness.
Sometimes you might have seen hundreds of birds flying like one bird.
Have you seen this? So actually you can know that the whole group has
got a single consciousness, but the individual bird will follow the consciousness of the whole pack. Sometimes you will find one or two birds
dropping out, and again they get back to the main flock. If we say that
the individual bird is you, then that full total bird consisting of all birds is
the Antaryamin. It can be called God or higher intelligence etc.
So when we say you have the Antaryamin or that the Antaryamin is
awakened, what it means is you the part are in touch with the whole. In
the flock of birds, if one bird drops out of the group two or three birds
come out and help that bird to go and join back. Only then the whole
thing can function. So as long as the small bird is following the big pack
you can say the small bird is following the will of the group or the pack.
So if you have the Antaryamin and can talk with him then you, the part is
following the will of the whole or the divine will. So it is not enough if you
are willing to follow the divine will, you must know what the divine will is,
what the will of the higher consciousness is, without which you are like a
bird fallen off the pack.
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Once awakened the Antaryamin acts like the internet. Just like the individual PCs forming a network of communications to access information
and establish contacts, the Antaryamin in you, too, is connecting to the
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As you grow the way the Antaryamin appears to you will also grow. It can
be outside you also, and can take any form Buddha, Christ, etc. It is the
Antaryamin who does everything.
If you are waiting at the bus stop and want the bus to stop you can ask
your Antaryamin. The Antaryamin is also the bus driver! For Jesus or
Bhagavan to pick up your prayer you must have a bond with them, an
emotional connection; and clarity. Unless it is going to harm somebody
most prayers will be answered.
Miracles are natural occurrences in every life. They are part of a divine
scheme. Miracles are all the time happening in your life. Sometimes
sought but very often unsought.
A failure in recognizing grace and channelling it when required could very
often be traced in proper relationships. All problems in relationships are
basically to be traced to hurt. You either hurt or you get hurt. It is the
need to control or possess people like you would a piece of furniture that
leads from mutual pain. The result and discord in relationships manifests
itself in the external world as problems with health, finance, career, even
a lack of spiritual growth. This is because the external world is essentially
a reflection of the internal world. That is why each one of you comes
across custom made life situations meant especially for you.
When you discover love in relationships, forgive and seek forgiveness
from those you have hurt your heart flowers and you begin to experience
grace. The greater the love, the greater would be the power of God that
you would witness in your own life.
Any biologist, any world-class biologist is staring at the face of God when
he looks at the DNA. You could call Newton a scientist, you could call
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To me the only reality is the heart. What the heart says that alone is truth.
The heart might say, Help him" that is perfect action. The heart might
say, Do not help him," and you dont help him that is perfect action.
Why the heart tells in this case, Dot it," why the heart then says, Dont
do it," you have no idea to understand. Because that is directly coming
from cosmic consciousness, from God Himself. So one cant understand
why God says this and God says that. Listening to your heart means listening to God.
To me the part must obey the whole. You are the part; until of course
you have become God, you realize God so that you become one with
God. So, the whole manifests itself through the heart, and you have to
obey to the whole, that is, God or your heart. The heart says, Do this,"
you do this. It says, Dont do," whatever that is, you should not do. That
is obeying the heart.
Human beings today do not obey the whole. They do not follow their
heart, they only follow their mind. That is why the world has become a
mess. If people become awakened, that is, their hearts would have flowered then they would simply follow their heart, just following the divine
will. If everybody follows the divine will there will be no problems on earth.
If we do not follow the divine will we follow our own will that is an illusion.
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When we use the word surrender what we mean is that you should understand that this mind cannot really help you, and that you have to get
beyond the mind. If you let go of the mind, that letting go is what we call
surrender. You must realize that the human mind is limited and there is
no use wasting your time with the mind. It is only going to create obstacles for you.
If you can see that the mind would stop interfering. If that happens then
we say you have surrendered. That is all. It is not some kind of slavish
surrender; it is never used in that sense. God would not like you to surrender like a slave. He is after all your friend. So when we use the word
surrender it means putting aside the mind, knowing its limitations.
You discover surrender when you feel you are helpless. When you feel
you are totally helpless you will discover surrender. That is when grace
comes pouring. Imagine that you are struck on the railway line and the
train rushing at you, then you will certainly surrender! Many people have
surrendered to me like that. Most people surrender only in dire moments.
That is why miracles, too, happen only in those moments.
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Each one of you should try and find out what suits you best. Some play
with me, some fight with me, some cajole me; and some play with me.
You should do whatever comes naturally to you. However, the key is to
have a strong bond with me. One other determining factor for grace is
the emotion you carry in your prayer. If there is emotion the response is
very fast.
There are some devotees who assume that I would look into all their
needs and go on living without any stress. To them I do even before they
ask.
The kind of prayer that would suit you depends on your upbringing, your
background, and your culture. The choice is therefore left to you.
When you visualize in your prayers there is a better communication between you and me. Visualization actually helps you to become clear
about the things you want. The clearer you are, the easier it is for me to
help you.
With regards to granting of the desire itself I would decide whether the
desire is good for you or not. If I feel it is not good for you I would not
answer your prayer.
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There are certain areas where God could straight away intervene, and
other areas where He cannot. Here He needs your cooperation.
Surrender and helplessness are not a defeatist attitude. It is to set aside
your defective belief systems and complex emotions, seeing that they
are a hindrance to grace. Even if you could do this for a short while God
would have His way.
What you must understand is that while God is powerful, you, too, are
powerful. That is the whole problem. You are an aspect of God. You are a
powerful being who is full of defective thoughts, concepts, and mental
frameworks. So you are God who has gone wrong.
That is why it is not possible to transform the world in one blow. You, too,
have to cooperate with God in helping change the world.
The ultimate purpose of life is to become one with God. Your whole life is
so structured to push you in that direction. If every event in your life were
thoroughly understood and experienced as an action from God you
would move closer to God. Ultimately you become one with God.
Anybody can become one with God as long as you have a divine being
within oneself, and you have melted with that and it merges with your
Antaryamin. You yourself cannot become one with God.
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If you are talking about true surrender, man and God cannot coexist either there is man, or there is God. If you are there you dont give a
chance for God. Where man ends, God begins.
As you go on progressing you will find that one minute you are God
yourself and the next minute you are not. What happens is after sometime you will realize that actually you and God are the same. But sometimes you have the feeling of oneness, sometimes you have a feeling of
separation. It is then that you can be of very great help to people. This is
possible to be achieved in this lifetime, and there are people who have
achieved this. I am not talking of anything which at least a few people
have not achieved. That is why we are talking about oneness. You will actually discover that you are one with the Divine, that you are actually God.
This continues on a regular basis, the only thing is as you go along, the
time that you experience oneness with God will be more. You would actually become Amma Bhagavan or Light or God or whatever you want to
call it. It all depends upon you. When you still go deeper your physical
form can also be affected. There is no end to these things, these are
things which happen very naturally, very automatically.
I suggest that you read about Ramalinga Swami. It is a very beautiful example of how somebody who was so very ordinary finally became one
with God. He lived in very recent times, and his life is very well recorded.
He lived in the city of Chennai. It will give you a good idea as to what the
possibilities are because I have not known anything equivalent of that in
any other literature of the world and so very modern also. That state
would become yours. In fact he tried to give that to others, but for some
reason he could not. He had to face opposition, and then he said, Now
Im going back. But, I will come back with my father whom you cannot
take for a ride."
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To be liberated from suffering you must first understand what suffering is.
Suffering is nothing but the continuous thought processing that happens
in the mind over an event or incident of the past. Suffering is nothing but
the 'carry over of the past events of our life.
Very often you try to explain away your suffering. You try to understand.
If on the other hand you stop doing these things experiencing automatically happens.
Let us say you are married and your wife is shouting at you, and if you
have read a lot of books on psychology you would try to explain her behaviour or would be busy trying to understand her. If you do neither of
these then you actually begin to experience her nagging. That is when
something very strange and beautiful happens. It is only in the absence
of explanations and judgements that we could experience another.
That is why in the movement many have learnt to experience each other.
Hitherto they complained about the nagging of the husband or the wife,
today they are in ecstasy the moment the nagging begins. Hitherto they
would run away from their homes but now they dont.
You could very well start with your intimate relationships.
All that you can do is you can see what is there. First of all you do not
know what is there because all the years you have been running away
from it.
See, everywhere you find only the self. So you come to know, now there
is an indirect way of knowing, but then to actually look at it is painful. To
look at your envious thoughts, your jealous thoughts, your fearful
thoughts, your anxious thoughts is not such a good experience, and so
all the time you are running away from it. That is the only problem which
man has got.
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Embracing yourself as you are is the first step and the last step. You
must be who you are. What you should be is not important. Whoever you
are, you are unique. The universe has made you like that, God has made
you like that. Why do you disturb his work? To surrender to God is to be
yourself.
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For coming out of self-doubt you must understand the nature of the mind.
When we say the nature of the mind we are referring to the ancient human mind, not the individual mind. Since the mind is an illusion and has
no real existence one of its qualities is self-doubt.
Remember, it is not the quality of 'your mind but 'the mind. Hence any
attempts to change the mind would be futile. Once you discover this
there is no more trouble at all. Self-doubt could go on within the mind
and you can watch it. There is nothing you could do about it because
that is its nature.
Suppose there is a dog, and let us call that dog jealousy. You want to
change the dog jealousy to non-jealousy. You behind and the dog in
front, you keep chasing the dog trying to catch hold of it and transform it.
Then all of a sudden something strange happens. You disappear and the
dog alone remains. The chase comes to an end.
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The first thing in the process of awakening is inner integrity. You have to
be completely honest about yourself to yourself. It does not matter who
you are or what you are. What is important is can you confront yourself?
Can you face yourself? Can you be honest? Can you be authentic with
yourself?
Since most people have never been honest with themselves this is easier
said than done. You are frightened of yourselves. You dont want to see
this about yourselves. You would like to put all the internal ugliness under the carpet. That is not really going to help you.
The second thing you need to understand is that you have come down
here to play your whole life as a game. In cricket when the Indians and
Pakistanis confront each other it is more like war. They play as though
their life depends on it. But then they also know it is a game. Similarly
you have to live life seriously. Life has to be taken seriously, you have to
live it intensely, but you should know it is a game.
You cant be too frivolous, you cant be irresponsible, cant be careless.
You have to be serious; at the same time know it is a game. If you could
develop this perception it would be of immense benefit in the process of
awakening.
So when you do become awakened you will see how beautiful, how perfect this world is, you will really start playing it like a game. You will start
living for the first time. As of now, you do not live. You sail on, birthday after birthday comes, and finally it is all over. You have hardly enjoyed anything. This is what most human life is.
You should truly understand your purpose as to why you have come
down here. You have been sent here to have a good time! But you have
made a mess of the whole thing. Once you are awakened no matter what
your situation is, you will have a good time. Thats what life is all about.
Thats why we use the word leela just to play.
When I look at you I see the bag each one of you is carrying. Your burden and pain keeps hitting me all the time. So I hope that a few days
later you will be rid of your baggage, and you would be all singing and
dancing and go out into the world to play your games.
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Anugrahi Tosmi
Blessed am I.
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On Relationships
The problem of mankind is that people do not feel connected with each
other. They neither feel connected to their spouses, their children, nor to
their parents. They are alienated from nature and God and the world
around them. Loneliness, meaninglessness, and hollowness are a result
of this state of affairs. To escape this misery you have created all kinds of
work, pleasure, and further forms of suffering. You are a stranger even
unto yourself.
As you awaken to yourself, you would awaken to the joys of relationship.
It is like a blind man awakening to the world of color. You would realize
that life in fact is relationships. Discovering love in relationships is the
greatest medicine for all ills and the solution for most problems.
If you attain to this oneness with your spouse you would attain the same
with God. Since loving God is no different from loving ones spouse, child,
parent, or even oneself.
Next to the relationship with yourself is your relationship with your parents. Your relationship with your parents forms the mould in which you
would experience all the other relationships in life, including God.
Let us say you are hurt with your father since you hate his domineering
attitude, you will certainly come across many such people who to you reflect your father. They could be your friend, your spouse, or your superior.
You would resent authority wherever you come across it, and hence
damage yourself.
If you were hurt with your mother because you felt she preferred your
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The setting right of relationships with your parents is of the utmost importance. That has priority. Then comes the seva aspect. So technically
what happens is, all relationships reflect the relationship with your parents. So they reflect exactly what has happened between you and your
parents.
Now, the relations you have with your family and friends and all at the
places of work, all that again depends on your relationship with your parents. So once this is set right everything falls into place. And life is relationship. So what happens is, life also reflects these relationships.
That is why; if you have a terrible relationship with your father you most
likely have financial problems because life would reflect that. If it is a very
bad relationship with your mother then you have needless obstacles.
That is how life would reflect it because life is relationship.
How this actually happens is, when these relationships are set right
something happens to the heart, the heart in turn is connected to the
brain, from the brain some signals are sent out. Let us say somebody has
to give you money, and he is not giving the money to you. Now, once you
have set right your relationship the heart sends a signal to the brain, the
brain is an instrument which transmits energies, he would pick up these
energies, he would have a change of heart, and he would give back the
money to you.
So the technical aspects are not so important but empirically you can
verify, You will do this, you will get that try it and see. Anybody who is
having a terrible financial problem, set right your relationship with your
father and you see there is an immediate improvement. And if you are
having needless obstacles, set right the relationship with your mother
and you will see immediately improvement. This can be experimentally
verified. All that we are talking can actually be verified at the ground level.
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As you start relating to your parents with greater love and concern,
strangely you will find that they will start relating between themselves in
a better way. So children would bring about a better relationship among
the parents by improving their own relationship with the parents.
It is not given to you to judge them or condemn them. Not matter who or
what they are, if you love them and respect them you will find things
automatically working out for you. Parents want you to be their children
you should not try to advice, argue, or dictate to them. If you experience
your father or mother dominating you without resisting it, it will give you
great joy. That itself would transform your parents. In course of time you
will see your own parents coming together.
This has happened any number of times among the youths.
Being a parent is one of the most difficult roles to play. Much of humanity
is a victim to the lovelessness of their own parents. Since it is very difficult to show love if one has not received it, you as parents do not know
what it is to love your child.
Being possessive and trying to fulfill your own unfulfilled needs through
your child is not love. Love is not merely fulfilling their requirements. A
child needs much more than care. It needs to experience your attention,
friendship, and an acceptance that is unconditional. You need to be
awake to the changes occurring in your child, and cope with it through
understanding.
No child is damaged through the firmness of his parents if it is cushioned
by love. The best way to relate to your child is sometimes to become a
child yourself. One who is experiencing love in his or her childhood naturally grows into a loving partner or friend, an understanding parent, and
very often a successful individual.
A happy human being is also a spiritual human being.
The best gift a teacher could give to his students is, his heart must have
flowered. Somebody whose heart has not flowered should not be a
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The basic problem in the relationship with ones spouse is the constant
endeavor to understand the other. All the time you are analyzing your
partner. Innumerable factors, in fact the whole universe is acting upon
your partner, creating him/her from moment to moment. When somebody is changing all the time, how could you possibly understand? Any
effort to understand is futile. By the time you understand they would
have changed.
You have tried so many ways to change your spouse by remaining silent, by fighting back, by advising, by showing love and care, by staying
away. But sadly the expected change very often does not happen. By trying to change your spouse you are unconsciously implying that he or she
is not good enough to be loved. Trying to change your spouse is like going to the same movie for 365 days, expecting that the climax would
change some day.
If the key to your happiness lies in others change then you have a very
difficult, if not an impossible price to pay for your happiness. The door to
happiness that you are trying to open through the transformation of your
spouse is like a mirage.
To change another is impossible. All transformation is a happening. Life
or grace has to do it to you. When you accept and experience your
spouse as she or he is, that is the birth of love.
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I cannot tell you what love is. I can tell you what love is not. Crush is not
love, emotion is not love, attachment is not love, possession is not love.
You go on saying, l will be saying no, no, no. The love we are talking
about cannot be described. It has to be experienced.
There is no use talking about it. Because all that you know is conditional.
This is totally unconditional. There is no reason for that, there is no cause
for that. It is just there. We would like you to get there. You would then
be a fulfilled human being. You would have realized your full potential as
a human being. Otherwise you are not a human being at all because the
moment you discover this love you also discover connectedness. You
feel connected with your parents, with your brothers, friends, and everybody in the world.
Right now you do not have this connectedness. That is why I say, Everybody is an orphan". You do not feel connected even to your parents, to
your spouses. Your lives are miserable, lonely, meaningless because you
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Lokah Samasta
Sukino Bhavantu
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There are certain energy lines flowing on the earth called grid lines.
These are like latitudes and longitudes. These grid lines can be measured
by a special instrument known as the Laker antenna. We have done a
lot of work on this, and have found out that if your chakras rotate at 33
times per second then you become awakened. We have also discovered
that by making the grid lines vibrate we can make the chakras rotate at
that particular speed.
After scanning a number of places we have discovered this place, the
Golden City, and some of the major grid lines are surfacing from this
place. It is here that we are building the temple. This structure can hold
8,000 people. When 8,000 people will start meditating continuously in
turn, the grid lines will start vibrating not just in Golden City but across
the globe as the energies will rise due to the power generated by meditation. These grid lines will in turn affect the chakras taking you into different states.
And also the Golden City, otherwise called as Global City, is constructed
totally according to the vastu that was revealed by me. This would enable
me to hold the auspicious energies and negate the negative energies so
that it becomes easy for me to increase my grace thousand folds as the
energy level of a place is very essential for grace to come.
So let us say you are in Beijing and the vibrations are set in motion here,
in Beijing you will start getting experiences and then whatever should
happen will start happening. Then, whether you like it or not you will become awakened.
So to make this happen we are building the Golden City. I want all of you
to come and meditate there once it is completed.
This temple that we are building has a special kind of structure, built on a
very special place. That is after 64,000 people are awakened thousands
of them will come there, sit there, and meditate.
So when that happens, let us say out of the 64,000 who have made it, six
or seven thousand people will be meditating in those halls and the remaining would be giving Oneness Blessing in the world. So their Oneness
Blessing will be very powerful because these groups are meditating here.
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Here we say, You can worship any God you like". You could follow any
teaching you like. All we are telling is, If you are a Christian we will help
you to discover the truth of the Bible and Christ. If you are a Muslim we
will help you to discover the truth of Allah and of Islam and of the Quran.
If you are a Hindu you discover the truth of Lord Krishna and the Geeta,
or if you are a Rama bhakta you discover the truth about Rama. If you
are a Buddhist you discover the truth of Lord Buddha and nirvana."
We belong to all faiths. We are not an exclusive faith. It is not that you
must worship Amma Bhagavan, not at all. You can worship any God you
like and of your choice. And what should be your moral values? You create your moral values. We will support it; that is all. We are not a new
community, we are not a new movement. That is why right now in this
campus we are also having programs for Christians, we are having programs for Muslims. For example, when the Muslims and the Christians
come there will be no Amma Bhagavan srimurti; only the Bible would be
used, only the Quran would be used.
So for everyone their faith. This is not a new faith. We only tell, Look,
every faith is equally important. If it suits you, you take it. Whatever suits
you, you take it." We will help you with that, with your God. Supposed the
Buddha says, You have to become free of the self," we are prepared to
make you being free of the self. Supposed Christianity says, You must
love everybody," we are here to help you discover love for everybody. If
you are a Muslim and you say, I must submit to the will of God," we will
help you by doing that. So whatever you want, we are prepared to help
you with that.
Poornamadam Poornamidam
Poornaat Poorna Mudachate
Poornasya Poornamaadaaya
Poornameva Vashishyate
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On Various Subjects
There are four factors which are essential for the success of an individual.
First and foremost you need a clear vision. A life without a vision is like a
journey without a destination. Every one of you has an option either to
drift along like a dry leaf carried hither and thither by the winds or fly like
an arrow towards his goal, and the universe would help you reach where
you want. The universe is like Aladdins magic lamp; it will give you whatever you seek.
Secondly, you need to have a focused mind, a mind that is capable of attention, that is capable of hard thinking. Thirdly, you ought to have excellent relationships within the family. A strong civilization stands on the
foundation of a strong family. In a world of accelerated change it requires
a very loving relationship between children and parents, to keep ourselves sane. If your relationship with your parents is set right, all problems, whether with you academics or your career, would dissolve miraculously.
Ultimately, you need to live in a state free of conflict, a state of existence
where you feel connectedness and love.
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Normally after you die you hang around for 3 days. You can see everyone around you still. The person may not know he is dead for 3 days, although once people start weeping they begin to suspect. Doing a proper
ritual can help them make a transition.
Normally the journey begins after 3 days. It is a very beautiful journey.
You meet people along the way that you knew. In ten days you meet the
Light. By your clock it will take ten days. It is not as fast as in NDEs.
There is a life review. You constantly go into the bodies of those you
have interacted with. You judge yourself according to the same standards you use for others, and decide where you want to go. If you think
you deserve to go to hell then you can do so. There is a Christian hell, a
Buddhist hell, an Islamic jehenna, etc., not much different from each other. On the other hand, if you havent judged people you will not judge
yourself.
If you ask for liberation9, the beauty is that no matter what has happened
in your life the Light cannot say no!
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A religion by definition has a founder, a sacred scripture, and has its origins in space and time. Hinduism has none of these. It does not have one
but many founders. Each acharya founded his own school of thought. It is
a conglomeration of several minor religions. Hence it does not have one
book or a single way of looking at things. It is more a way of life. Its approach to life is inclusive. It does not segregate life as the good from the
bad, the sacred from the profane. This is epitomized very clearly in its
temple architecture.
To the Hindu, life is a dream in the cosmic mind of God. Hence the ease
with which he accepts life. All things being illusory and magical, he does
not take them too seriously. He enjoys and celebrates every event of life.
The word religion means to reunite to reunite with God, with nature,
and with our own true Self. It is these experiences of oneness which in
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The greatest contribution of India is that the experiencer, the experienced, and the experiencing are one and the same. It is an illusion to see
the division of the experiencer as separate from the object being experienced and the act of experiencing.
Once you are awakened you will see that it is the mind which is creating
this strife, you will see that the observer, the observed, and the process
of observing is one and the same. There is no one observing the tree,
what is there is merely the experience of the tree. There is nobody looking at the tree, you are inseparable from the experience of the tree. That
is why we say, You are That".
However, that does not belong to the realm of the mind, that has to be
experienced.
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Life is primarily governed by two needs, the need to love and the need to
be loved.
In the absence of the heart, love and hate are but two sides of the same
coin.
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Your children inherit not only what you earn but also what you are.
A family that plays together, prays together, and dines together stays together.
Trying to pin point blame is like peeling an onion; you land up nowhere.
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The journey begins and ends with the awareness of where you truly are.
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All teachings are useless; all that they can do is that they can make you
into a seeker.
Assumption is a lie.
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The four essential keys for transformation are self-acceptance, relationships, prayer, and Oneness Blessing.
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Do not let the situation determine your state; let your state determine
the situation.
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You create your God. You create your life. You create your religion.
You have come here to discover love and a communion with God.
There are no other prerequisites to experience grace other than a personal relationship with the Divine.
Miracles are signs to awaken faith and to reveal a world beyond the five
senses.
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I am active in the collective and work for the transformation of the collective, even as I work for the transformation of the individual.
All existence is bliss when you are one with the Divine.
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The Vision
To set man free is the sole passion of Sri Amma Bhagavan. This vision
runs as the nerve current through every activity of the Oneness Movement. The origins of this passion are to be traced back to the time when
Sri Bhagavan was three years old. In his experience the whole universe
was an extension of himself. His consciousness had always been so. As
Sri Bhagavan began to experience people he became cognizant of the
fact that people were not experiencing the world the way he was experiencing it. He saw they felt separate from the rest of the world. This sense
of separate existence, he discovered, was the edifice on which stood
human suffering. This was the very first awakening that Sri Bhagavan had
of the human predicament that shaped his future work. Sri Bhagavan felt
that the human consciousness was capable of a much vaster and richer
experience of reality than it is experiencing today. To restore man to the
magnificence and splendor of his natural state of being became Sri Bhagavans passion.
Thus the vision took its birth.
The nature of existence is bliss. It is qualified by auspicious qualities like
love, compassion, connectedness, and silence. Mans consciousness is
fettered by concepts, ideas, conditionings, and mental constructions. Sri
Bhagavan observes, When consciousness is purged of all its contamination what remains is life, pure consciousness, or God. Hence Sri Bhagavan defines awakening or oneness as 'liberation of life itself.
This total and unconditional freedom Sri Bhagavan speaks about is elucidated in the following verse on awakening:
Awakening
Is
Liberation of Life
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Liberation of the Senses
Is
Liberation from the Self
Is
Liberation from the Mind
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Liberation from Knowledge
Is
Liberation from Conditioning
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We gain nothing talking about the truth, about our true nature, about the
unity consciousness. We only flood our mind with more concepts. We are
about living life, if we can really live life?
I was speaking to you about this young singer from Mexico. He came to
the Oneness University several times. The first time he came, he came
with a very profound question, What is the purpose of my life?" May be if
I spoke about that you will probably feel more at home because these
are the questions that you expect spiritual people to talk about. This man
came with this question. And every few hours he would ask this question
to me, What is the purpose of my life?" I would say, I dont know, Noel".
His name is Noel. He kept asking this for ten days. I had an explanation
but that explanation is not the answer because these questions dont
have an answer. The question itself must disappear because the question
arises from a discontent, from a sense of meaninglessness, from a sense
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We are always trying to change others and the world around, we blame
the other. But it is impossible to change the other. You can only become
aware of the pain that is there. The awareness then turns inwards and
you ask yourself how you can become free of the pain inside.
You have to realize that suffering is not in the fact but in the perception
of the fact. Only then transformation can happen. Just see how the habit
is overpowering you, and then ask for divine support.
Everything fully experienced transforms into joy.
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There is always a special place in my heart for those who are dedicated
to the cause of liberation of humanity. Remember, your thoughts are
known to you alone. Your words are known to you and the listener which
nonetheless are forgotten with the passage of time. While the service
you render alone shall stay for eternity. It will benefit all life.
The highest of states is the state of seva. The spirit of seva is inbuilt into
every insight, realization, mystical experience, and mukti. It is this spirit
that drives you to share with the world what has been given to you.
The Divine is like the body and humans the cells. Whenever these cells
turn cancerous the body desperately tries to heal itself. Body is infinitely
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Transforming the world is not just the responsibility of a few sages and
seers. To create a better world is the responsibility of every one of you. In
this struggle for survival, innocence, love, and values are being lost. It is
you who have to uphold these values.
Do not consider yourself to be ordinary beings. Each one of you has the
infinite powers of the Divine within you. You have the power to see God
in the heart of every human being, and once you begin to see the Divine
in every man you will be able to love every living being, every individual.
Through you Gods power would flow into the world.
Do not get habituated to lovelessness through your words, through your
loving actions, and through your service. You could awaken every human
being from his stooper of sufferings, self-created misery, and ignorance.
It is because of you the whole world could be awakened. Your taking up
this responsibility is the beginning of the Golden Age.
When the time for transition arrives the Presence would engulf humanity
like a tidal wave and alter its consciousness. Be not perturbed. Do what is
expected of you. Share your wisdom and the power of Oneness Blessing
with others. The rest will be taken care.
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Get going with your work and help your fellow humans. All things will fall
into place. No matter what your thoughts are, I will liberate you.
The nature of mind is to find fault with others, judge, blame, and label
others due to preconditioned perception. If the perception is negative
then the mind keeps on commenting, He is bad, she nags, he does not
understand me, she is too suspicious, they do not love me, I have no respect in the family, everybody uses me, and so on. Everything would be
colored, hence you would continue to blame others and hence we develop dislike. Dislike slowly turns into hatred which spoils relationship.
Because of this broken relationship, however good the others are we are
not able to see the truth.
Mind generates logic due to fear but heart emanates truth. Fear is manifesting as hatred, jealousy, anger, and violence in families and society.
Stress comes not because of physical work but from negative approach.
We can see truth only when we love others. Logic destroys love. It is not
possible to love after you have judged. Hence we suffer.
Unless we learn the art of seeing with internal integrity, we will not be
able to see the truth and discover love. If we can love only then we can
forgive and seek forgiveness. One should develop extreme patience to
maintain love and peace in the relationship.
Gods grace flows naturally to those whose relations are set right, particularly with the parents.
For a glorious future to be, desire must flower into passion and manifest
as action. Your attention must be focused on your goal. Giving up to the
Divine does not mean non-action. This is karma bhoomi, the plane of action. Hence effort in the external world is inevitable.
My grace will go along with you in your efforts.
Whatever be your nature since you have asked me, you will have an experience of my power. Go home and chant the Moola Mantra. You will
see my grace for yourself.
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Prayer is a form of communication with the Divine, with the whole. One
may pray to any form of the Divine one chooses and relates to best.
There is an ancient verse in the Vedas which says:
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Sat-Chit-Ananda Parabrahma
Purushottama Paramatma
Sri Bhagavati Sameta
Sri Bhagavate Namaha
O M is the primordial sound of which the whole universe is made of.
Sat-Chit-Ananda Parabrahma refers to the Divine which is formless
and without attributes. If we think about our body for example, it is not
only matter, there is an intelligence and a consciousness there that
guides all the activities in our body. How do you think your heart is beating or your cells reproduce in such an exact way? So sat-chit-ananda
Parabrahma refers to this intelligence, this consciousness which is guiding and controlling the universe. It guides the deer to escape from the
hunters. It guides ants to find food. It guides each creature on this planet.
This intelligence that guides your body is to be found in each cell, and its
the same intelligence that guides the whole universe. In the leaf, the tree,
the ocean. Everything is permeated with this Presence. And this Presence goes beyond our understanding.
Purushottama refers to the highest supreme qualities. From time to time
this formless Presence incarnates on the planet, and it flows through a
human body with all the auspicious qualities wisdom, compassion, joy,
intelligence. Though it is a human body it is the consciousness of the Divine that flows through. These beings are called Avatars. Avatars come to
earth with a divine destiny, to take mankind to the following phase of
their evolution. This is the goal and purpose of an Avatar.
When this form without form which is everywhere takes form within you
we call it Paramatma. This is the Indweller, inner Presence, or Antaryamin. The Paramatma is the one who is totally dependent on you and who
loves you completely. The one who responds to your prayers and takes
care of your well-being and your security. It is this God in your heart that
operates miracles and the one who solves your problems, the one who is
concerned about your suffering and wants to liberate you. It is this God
who is so willing to be one with you and that you dissolve in Him.
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