Essence of Kalpataru - Living Enlightenment
Kalpataru means the energy which makes you live enlightenment, which makes you live as jeevan muktas, living enlightened beings.
Please understand, let me describe the word 'living enlightenment'. Living enlightenment does not mean becoming something. It is not a lifestyle change.
If I have to describe the idea of jeevan mukti in one word, it is living a 'conflict-free life' - life without any inner or outer conflicts, living completely at ease with the whole truth, living in tune with the whole truth. Living enlightenment means living a conflict-free life. Whatever you may be doing, wherever you may be living, living a conflict-free life – is living enlightenment.
There are two ways to enjoy life: either raise your energy to fulfill all your desires, to change whatever needs to be changed. Or raise your intelligence to accept whatever need not be changed.
If I have to put the whole truth of living enlightenment in few words, it is:
Shakti: energy to change whatever needs to be changed. In your life you can change so many things. But we don't change because we neither have awareness not have the energy or even the will to change. So awakening the energy to change the things which you can change in your life is shakti.
Buddhi: intelligence to accept whatever need not be changed. There are so many things in your life which you need not change. Many things you can't change also like death – death of near and dear ones or your old age and death. Accept the things which you can't change.
Yukti: clarity to understand however much you change, whatever you may do, the whole thing is a changing dream.
Bhakti: strong feeling connection with That which does not change. You may call that as guru or God, or whatever name you may choose to use. The strong feeling connection with that unchanging reality is what I call bhakti.
So living all these four is jeevan mukti.
Let us understand these four truths a little deeper. This whole program is designed to understand and internalize these four truths. This is the essence: understanding, internalizing and having one glimpse of this Truth I am saying, means having at least one initiation. Initiation means beginning to live these Truths.
Listening to these Truths will cleanse the conscious mind. Internalizing will cleanse the subconscious mind, through meditation. The initiation, the Master's touch will make your hardware to hold and radiate these ideas and energy.
See, your software or the mind has two parts: conscious and subconscious. The conscious part will be cleansed when you listen to these ideas and understand these Truths. The subconscious part will be cleansed when you meditate and internalize. Your hardware, the nervous system or your brain, will be cleansed and awakened by the initiation, by the touch of the Master. Then you can continue to digest these ideas and live these ideas, radiate these ideas.
Understand, these truths are from a tradition which is ten thousand years old, from the world's greatest, longest living civilization.
Fortunately, what happened to the Mayan and Egyptian civilizations did not happen to the Vedic civilization. It is because we are open; our inner space is large enough to accommodate, accept and withstand all invasions. In the last 3000 years of recorded history of Bharat, 5000 invasions have happened.
The oldest civilization has withstood all the invasions. And it is still alive just because it is based on living enlightenment, jeevan mukti. The whole civilization is based on jeevan mukti. I can say, that is the greatest contribution our civilization has given to the world.
In Sanskrit, we have a word called Upanishad. It means 'sitting with the Master'. Just sitting with the Master - that itself can do so much. So sit only with the Master now. Usually, you don't create a psychological space where you can straightaway experience something. Now decide to be intense and create a psychological space where you can be just with the Master. Be intense. Decide, 'Today I will put my whole being just to get a glimpse of this Truth.'
Shankara says beautifully about manushyatva, mumukshatva, mahapurusha saanidhya. Human-ness, seeking beyond what you see through the five senses, and the enlightened master's company, having all these three and not becoming enlightened, is the ultimate stupidity. Sorry for the strong word, but that is the ultimate stupidity!
Fortunately, you have all these three today. You have human-ness. You have seeking, that is why you want to know about these Truths. And you have mahapurusha saanidhya, the nearness of an enlightened Master. You have all these three now. Don't miss it; catch at least a glimpse. Carry this energy.
Just be completely open and available, be intense. All I can say is, if you become spiritual, you may miss only one thing, the constant irritation and suffering you are carrying inside you, that's all. Nothing else, only that will be taken away from your life. Nothing else will be taken away. You don't need to do anything else.