Desire for Liberation🔗

Understand, if you have taken the human body, in one corner of your mind, consciously or unconsciously you had the deep desire for liberation. Otherwise you will not choose the human body because with the human body there is so much of suffering and awareness about suffering.

Other bodies do not have so much suffering, and even if they have they are not even aware of so much suffering. Only in the human body you have so many responsibilities and commitments. Not only that, you are aware of the sufferings which are happening in the world.

Animals are fortunate, they don't have to watch the news! They don't have to bother about brother animals being slaughtered.

They don't have to suffer thinking of other animals being killed. They don't have to suffer the cruelty and negligence which other creatures are going through. But with a human body, you have a possibility. You have a sensibility to suffer for other creatures.

Understand, only in the human body there is a possibility for more suffering. Even then knowingly you have chosen the human body. It means you must have had the desire for enlightenment, you must have thought about the possibility of enlightenment.

Let me be very frank and I tell you from my experience, with anybody who has a human body, in one corner of their mind they had the desire for enlightenment. Human existence, especially over the last 30-40 years, is filled with suffering, filled with pain. But even then if you have taken the human body, it means you must have had the inspiration or search for enlightenment and there is no other reason why you chose the human body.

To tell you honestly, planet earth is not livable any more. Now you think we don't have choice that is why we took birth, and that our birth is an accident. No, there is life in other planets also and millions of possibilities are there. But you chose the human body, human existence, after seeing all these choices - just because of the possibility of enlightenment.

Never think there is no other kind of life existing in other planets. No, there is life, that is what we call devatas, gandharvas, siddhas, munis. Different kinds of life exist but you chose the human body just for enlightenment, so do not miss the purpose. Do not miss the ideal. Do not miss the Truth for which you have taken this body.

Feel again and again connected to this Truth and create more and more inspiration, enthusiasm, and energy towards this goal. Put your energy more and more intensely. Put your emotion and energy again and again towards this one idea.

People ask me, 'Swamiji, everyday I am doing meditation. Is that not enough?' I tell them, no, do it more intensely, put more energy. Put more awareness. Be more conscious. Do not make it as a ritual.

Everyday let you feel as if this is the last meditation session. You are going to do it as if it is your last day so naturally you will put your whole life.

Be very clear, do it as if it is the last day of your life. Put your whole energy in it. Let it be intense, alive, deep. In every step, put your whole being.

Mahāvīra says, create devotion and create an intense enthusiasm and energy towards the Truth. While walking on planet earth through different forms, with pressure exerted by simple karmas, the soul attains purity and becomes eligible for human birth.

Understand, you may walk on planet earth through different forms and only after you exhaust whatever karmas you have, you are ready to have the human body because human body is the most sophisticated system. It is the totality of the best things from all other forms of life. In the human body, all the intelligence and the best things of all other bodies is included and presented to you.