Many times people ask me,
'Swamiji, how did you heal me with just your words? How did it happen in me? For just a few days, I sat with you and listened to your talks. Suddenly I feel that my entire system is healed. Even my physical health is better!'
Understand: it is Truth which has healed you!
When you listen with complete openness, when you make yourself available to Truth, it can do wonders for you.
The words which arise out of enlightened consciousness are not ordinary words. They will touch the same pure space inside you.
This knowledge of the Truth is what I call 'knowledge-weapons' or shaastra-shastra.
The truths which bring you out of depression and add self-healing clarity and confidence to you are called shaastra-shastraa.
You will see when these truths are added into you, they can redesign your whole life.
Whatever you now think of as the sum total of your life - your desires, your fears, your worries, your depression, your very identity - all these things will suddenly disappear. You will have an inner clarity that cannot be taken away by any fear, any depression.
When the load is taken out of your inner space, nothing remains but healing! Healing is the only thing that can happen to you.
Again and again bringing your awareness back to Truth is manana or reflection upon Truth.
Again and again, using the power of the shastra-shastraa to respond to and handle the different situations of your life is manana.
Whenever depression attacks you, suffering attacks you, life brings different scenes in front of you, just turn this shaastra-shastra upon them!
Understand, the Truth is so powerful, its very presence in your heart can bring you right out of depression.
So, even if the truth is too much, don't bother. Try to digest, assimilate and keep it in the corner of your heart. Let the shaastra-shastra be stored inside you. Don't think that these are mere ideas!
Understand: meditating upon Truth directly increases your self-healing clarity. When you have a mighty store of shaastra-shastra, naturally fear and depression will be afraid to attack you. You don't even have to attack your depression! The moment you display your power, they will think twice before attacking you.
When you accumulate this self-healing understanding, shaastra-shastra, inside your system, you will see that depression will be afraid to come near you.
Recently we conducted some simple research on the connection between spirituality and self-healing clarity.
We chose two groups of people of more of less the same age, from the same economic background, etc. The first group consisted of people who were practicing meditation or studying spiritual literature regularly. The second group consisted of people who had not been exposed to spirituality in any way.
Both groups participated in the 10-minute experiment I mentioned earlier. They were asked to write down whatever thoughts came to their mind without editing them.
When I read those papers, it was a very shocking revelation.
In the case of the group which had not been exposed to spirituality, if a person had written 100 thoughts, more than 80 thoughts were directing him towards more and more depression. Only 20 thoughts were 'self-healing' or bringing him out of depression.
But in the case of the people who are exposed to spirituality and meditation, I saw that more than 60 percent of their thoughts were self-healing. Only 40 percent were towards depression. This is the power of the touch of Truth!
Understand, sometimes Truth will be strong.
That is why you are afraid even to listen to it, let alone practice it! If you want to sincerely follow the Truth, you will have to totally redefine life as you know it.
The other day, after a talk, I got a note which said: 'I know that what you speak is the Truth, but it is too strong! I never expected that I will have such clarity. Now I am afraid of my own clarity.'
Sometimes, people are afraid of going near the Truth.
But unless you have the courage to go near the Truth, the real healing will never happen.
There is no other way.
And I tell you, it only looks like suffering at the initial level, because you feel you have too much to lose.
Actually, you have nothing to lose but your depression!
If you just allow the Truth to enter you, it will create so much ecstasy in your inner space, and so much energy to expand in the outer space.