The First Hurdle to Experiencing the Truth - Abused Inner Space🔗

Even people who seem to follow the words of the Masters come out with the same question, 'Why has it not become reality in my life?'

I can say the only reason is the unused and abused inner space. That is the first thing in life that has to be taken care of.

Someone asked me, 'Can you give me only a single word of advice?'

Actually, this is the toughest thing. Many people come and ask me to give only one word of advice. I tell them: if I have to give you only one word of advice, I need at least two to three hours. If I can give whatever I want to, then I can give it immediately! One word means it has to be the essence.

Once, Bernard Shaw wrote a 100 page book. Somebody went up to him and asked, 'How could you write such a small book, just 100 pages?!' He replied, 'I don't have time; that is why I wrote only 100 pages. If I had a little more time, I would have written a much smaller book!'

To be precise, you need more time.

If somebody asks me to be precise and give only one word of advice, my advice will be, 'May you care for your inner space'. That's all.

Understand that without knowing, without respecting, without even having a little sensitivity, we are constantly abusing our inner space.

From morning till night, you do not know what you are sowing, what you are growing. You do not know what you are encouraging. Suddenly when you see the results, you exclaim, 'This is not what I asked for!', 'This is not what I wanted', 'I don't know how this happened in my life', 'I don't know why God is punishing me so much…'

I feel sorry for God! For anything that goes right, the credit goes to you. For anything that goes wrong, the blame is dumped on Him! And every one knows that He is 'sitting somewhere up there,' and He doesn't interfere much either. So we just take Him for granted and keep on complaining about Him, 'It is because of him…' God has become a way to escape from our responsibility.

The abused inner space or misused inner space is the worst thing that can happen to an individual. Very beautifully Shankara says*, 'Aahaara shuddhayo smruti shuddhi hi.' It means that if the intake is purified, your memory and your inner space will be purified. Understand, when Shankara says 'intake', he does not mean just the food which you take through your mouth. No! He means all the input that you absorb through all the five senses, the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and touch. Whatever you take inside through these five senses is called aahaara* or food.

Our inner space is constantly abused by a wrong diet. We swallow so much of violence visually through movies and media. I don't say that you should not read newspapers. To know the news the world over, to keep in touch with the world, the newspaper is perfectly alright. But we go on spending time and energy in enjoying and cherishing violent visualizations and information. When we read or watch such things, we are actually throwing so much negativity inside our inner space without realizing that our inner space is getting corrupted.

The corruption which happens to the inner space is what I call samskara or engraved memories. They are the memories that go and sit in your inner space and pull you to go through the same experience repeatedly, pull you to do the same kind of actions repeatedly, pull you to run through the same kind of thought patterns, even if you don't want to. Those memories are what I call samskaras.

Today's session is completely dedicated to work on our inner space, to work on our samskaras. We will do a few deep processes to cleanse the unnecessarily accumulated samskaras. Of course, all samskaras are unnecessary. You can be alive without any samskara. Your very body is made out of the samskaras which are needed in this birth. So your mind does not need to carry any samskaras to run your life, or to protect the infrastructure which you now have as your own, or to expand the infrastructure to add comforts and to do what you want to do.