ATMA SPURANA PROGRAM MANUAL
Chapter 1
ALLOW ME! That is Atma Spurana!
I welcome you all with my love and respect.
The Unrealized Knowledge
First, I wish to tell you a few basic things before we enter into the program:
Whatever knowledge you have with you already, all the intellectual stuff that you have collected till now, from previous programs and from any reading, please keep it aside while you are here. Just sit as an open being. Then, it will be easy for me to help you. It would be a waste of your money if you sat here with all the old knowledge that you have in you already. Any knowledge that you have within you that has not become a solid experience for you as yet, should be sent out of your system. Even if the knowledge was from my earlier programs, if whatever you have heard has not become an experience in you, do not carry it with you. Especially now, do not keep it in your head. Whatever has become a solid experience would have left your head long ago. It will be in your being. So whatever is still in the head has not become an experience. So, send it out. Sit in a completely relaxed way. You can be very free and relaxed. When you sit, don't sit with an attitude of I know this, I know that. I have heard this earlie,r etc.
A small story:
One young man worked hard and prepared for a presentation, and then delivered it to the target audience.The whole group enjoyed it except one professor – a highly intellectual person. At the end of the presentation, the young man asked that professor, 'Did you enjoy the presentation? What is your opinion of it?'
The professor replied, 'I know every word that you uttered in the presentation. I know the book from where it is taken. Then, how will I enjoy it? Every word which you used is there in that book.'
The young man was shocked and he said, 'No, I can't believe this professor.'
The professor said, 'I will send you that book tomorrow.'
The next day, the professor sent the book to him. The book was the dictionary.
Understand! You might think that this is amusing, but your mind also plays the same cunning role. It keeps concluding every minute, 'I know everything that he is talking. I read it in that book, I read it in this book, I heard it spoken in that discourse,' and what not. Your mind will always be taking things for granted. Maybe this story is a little exaggerated, but your mind is not far from it. If you watch your mind closely, you will understand what I am saying. You will understand that the basic thread is the same, whether it is your mind or the professor's; just the degree is different, that's all.