Yogakshemam Vahaamyaham
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says beautifully,
ananyaas chintayanto maam ye janaaha paryupaasate
teshaam nithyabhiyuktaanaam yogakshemam vahaamyaham
When you surrender, relax into Me, remember only Me and nothing else, Krishna says beautifully, your yoga and kshema will happen, means taking care of your needs, and taking care that all those things stay with you. Yoga means bringing them; kshema means taking care that they stay with you. He says, 'I take care of both.' This is a beautiful statement and assurance by the Divine. It is not only an assurance but it is also a promise.
Because when you are remembering Him and relaxing in Him, your whole blueprint will be different. Your whole inner energy will be different. And you start attracting the right things in your life.
The strange thing is that He says we will have everything and nothing will be lost. It is difficult to believe! 'How can I have what I want by meditating?' This will be the immediate question. Please be very clear, now in the modern day, especially after the breakthrough with the principles of quantum physics, science clearly proves our thoughts create the whole universe.
In The Biology of Belief, reputed cell biologist Bruce Lipton explains how the latest research into the way cells receive and process information shows that our behavior is not controlled by our genes but how our behavior decides the very structure of our DNA, one of the fundamental building blocks of the body. Our very thoughts and emotions and the physical environment all influence not only our mental structure, but our very physical structure also.
Research shows that cells respond not only based on the genes but also based on the environmental factors. The genes make up only half the chromosomes. But the regulatory proteins make up the other half. Genes do not totally decide a cell's or an organism's life, because the survival of the cell depends on its ability to dynamically adjust to an ever-changing environment.
If we reside in eternal consciousness, we create our own universe. Not only that, the universe responds to our thoughts.
Again and again, Vedanta says, drishti-srishti, we create what we see. We create the universe from the angle of our vision. When our drishti (vision) changes, the srishti (world around us) changes too. By changing our vision, we change the world around us. They say, we project our world and see. It is the truth.
It is like a projector and slide: whatever slide we place in front of a projector, that will appear on the screen. If we place the slide of god, the picture of god appears on screen. If we place an actress, that actress appears on the screen. Whatever we use as a slide appears on the screen. In the same way, whatever we keep in front of our consciousness, we project that in our life and experience.
The slide determines the scene on the screen. Our mentality decides the way we perceive the world, the way we experience the world. A small change in the slide changes the scene. A small change in our mind changes our whole world. The screen remains the same; however the scene changes. Similarly, if the thoughts in our inner space change, the whole universe changes. The whole universe responds, the whole existence responds to our inner space.
You may think, 'Yes Swamiji, we understand when you say the universe responds to our thoughts. However, how can we get what we want?' Please understand that the moment we change our thoughts, the moment our inner space changes, automatically we attract things. It is like if we tune our television to the BBC channel, we see the telecast of the BBC channel. If we tune it to ABC, we see ABC channel. If we tune it to CNN, we see CNN. Similarly, if we tune our consciousness to bliss, continuously even material wealth showers on us.
We may feel it is difficult to understand. I tell you, start experimenting. I honestly tell you; I declare from my own authority, this verse is the solid truth.
I can say this with authority because I experienced this truth for nine years. I tell you, this is a promise by the Divine. Nine years I lived in utter insecurity. I know Krishna still proves His words. His words are guaranteed. Yoga kshemam vahamyaham, He does!
I can quote thousands of incidents from so many devotees' lives! Tukaram, Tulsidas and so many masters' lives I can quote. I can quote numerous incidents from my own life and from the lives of people I have met.