Life is not a utility
You always think life has to have a utility. Two kinds of societies have been created. One believes that man will work and he can be enslaved only if he is constantly taught that he is not enough. He can be made to work only if he is run by fear and greed.
The other group believes man will express his energy if he is already fulfilled. The eastern rishis believe man will express his energy maximum if he believes he is already full. That is the first truth you are taught in the eastern mysticism, by the eastern mystics: you are full.
When the whole is removed from the whole, the whole remains as the whole. You are asked to express yourself just out of your fullness. You are not made to run based on fear and greed. But the western society, the western social system is made to believe man will work only by fear and greed. That is why you are taught from your colleges, from your universities, that you are not full and that life has got some utility.
Understand, life has got no utility. It has got purpose, but no utility. Utility is you live the life and get that product. Purpose is you enjoy the life and express the purpose. Purpose is totally different. Utility is totally different. In utility constantly you are hypnotized thatyou are not enough unto yourself. Constantly you are taught you are not enough. But with the eastern rishis, constantly you are taught you are enough.
Understand. The Hindu lifestyle, the Vedic lifestyle, years of research and development with many inner scientists. Inner scientists who were full timers who are working on the inner science. years of inner research and development, many inner scientists, people following the technology and strength of the Vedic culture. % depression.
Understand, years of research and development, many inner scientists and inner science laboratories. At least ten million ashrams and places where gatherings happen. Not holiday religion, not weekend religion, not weekend congregation. Everyday congregation. So years of inner science research and development and many inner scientists, and inner science laboratories, the depression rate is %.
You may say the depression rate is more in Bharat, only the medicines are not available. No, the facilities are available. I have traveled all of Bharat, do not think Bharat has still the empty plates and riding on the elephant or swinging from tree to tree, or riding with the snakes, no. % is the depression, registered psychiatric patients. This is one side, the eastern Vedic culture.
The other side, science, just 400 years old. The western lifestyle and I wanted all of you to understand, 66% of Americans are taking some sort of psychiatric drugs and anti depressants. If three are sitting and talking 2 are psychiatric patients. I am talking, 66 %. People believe that only through fear and greed man will express his energy, see the outcome, 66% depression. People who believe he will only express if he is full; % depression.
Even if you see the crime rate of our people, it is barely negligible. The population of 1 billion people living in such a small land, one billion. Of course even the little bit that you see is because of cultural invasion. I strongly believe it is because of cultural invasion.
If you understand that you are full and express your fullness, it will be purely out of compassion. You will attract more and more joyful things experiences in your life. If you believe strongly you are not enough unto yourself and start running based on fear and greed. You will attract only more fear and greed persons, incidents.
One more thing, what you believe you will reproduce, by your very nature. Anything, if it has to survive, it should reproduce itself. If you believe your life is running only on fear and greed, you will reproduce that same thing in everybody. You will reproduce that same fear and greed on everybody.
One more thing, if you have lost self respect, you think you can run only on fear and greed. You forgot you can run gracefully, you can live gracefully. See if you are a child and you say, hey do this and I will give you candy, if you don't do this I will beat you, if you manage a child based on fear and greed, ok. But only after 80, if you should be handled after the fear and greed means you are mentally retarded. You have not grown.
A child can be handled with fear and greed, but you don't need fear and greed. When you ask the question, what is utility, you are asking based on fear and greed.
And I tell you the more I travel outside of Bharat, the more I feel more love and respect for this culture for this tradition. Sometimes people tell me I am too fanatical about this tradition about this Vedic culture. I am not able to help myself, even the simple rules, people ask me why do wear rudraksha, why do you wear this kumkum, why do you wear all these things.
I tell you the simple things like these beads, and this kumkum and all, our masters have developed after 10 000 years of research and development. Nothing is done without proper research and development. They spent their lives, and used their bodies as the inner science laboratories and did this vast research and development.
See currency is beautiful, needed for life. But that is too poor substitute for your conscious explosion. It is a poor substitute for your conscious expansion. Beautiful to maintain your body, maintain your mind. Maintain the lifestyle, food clothing basic things, ok, wonderful, but I tell you, there is something much more, you see this fantasy, this idea of a certain kind of lifestyle is put into your head.
This fantasy is put into your head, this kind of a consumerist lifestyle is put into your head to make you run constantly, that's all. It's a much planned conspiracy; billion dollars is spent every year by the media, to promote the consumerist lifestyle so that their products can be sold all over the world, to promote their market. It's a pure marketing strategy.
You are constantly taught about that consumerist lifestyle so that you will start buying those products, enjoying those things. It is a marketing strategy. Your life is too big to be wasted in somebody's marketing strategy. Your body can't be used as somebody's income source. You are taught all sorts of ideas; see your software is programmed by them, so that your hardware will be spent fulfilling their vested interest, that's all.
Let me clarify one thing, kids should not be handled by fear and greed, only when you don't have the patience to explain you use fear and greed. This is not ok. See, only when you have fear and greed you will naturally create fear and greed in everyone else. Then you should understand. Whom you think as your leader, do you think he has gone beyond fear and greed? No, then he is expressing fear and greed that's all.
Whatever frequency you live you will attract the people of the same frequency so that you will feel very comfortable, so you feel very strengthened. So naturally if you are in the fear and greed frequency than naturally you will create the same type of fear and greed people, that's all.
Painful memories - how they get registered
Painful memories get registered because you need to learn lessons. You need to update yourself, you need to develop yourself. Maybe for that reason you start recording the painful memories. When you refer to them again and again, it becomes a painful memory. Memories that you record in your system is not true. You record only what you need.
Second thing, you don't need to renounce them, whenever you try to renounce them you strengthen the memory. You don't need to create a law I should not refer to my memory, it will simply disappear in the next moment. For example the moment you decide to stand up, you renounce the decision to sit. Am I right?
The moment you decide to stand up you renounce the decision of sitting. You are constantly renouncing. Even your painful memories are strengthened by trying to renounce them. They are strengthened by trying to renounce them. People come and ask me, constantly I repeat the positive affirmations, 'I should stop smoking, I should stop smoking' but it is not working. Why?' All these creative visualizations they all create more and more trouble. Because the very words, 'I should stop smoking', the very word 'smoking' is contradicting.
When you decide I should get rid of the headache, constantly you are remembering the headache. So all you need to do, whenever the memories raise, it will disappear. Have a glass of water. The moment you decide to have a glass of water your greed has disappeared, your fear has disappeared. But you say it comes back thought, what to do? Your faith in it is what brings it back, that is the basic problem.
See you say it comes back, and one more thing, if it comes back it goes also. Why don't you celebrate those moments which it left you? Why do you constantly remember the moments it comes back? A young man came and asked me, 'I am suffering too much because of my lustful thoughts and fantasies, what to do?' I told him, just have a cup of coffee. He was surprised. Unless the thought has left you, you can't have a cup of coffee. You can't have the thought have having a cup of coffee unless the lustful thoughts have left you. Then why again are you bringing it back? It has already left you.
You ask me, how can it be so simple! It is simple. Constantly you are taught that it is not so simple. It is simple. If you really understand that it is so simple. Constantly people are telling it is not so easy. But I am telling you literally it is so easy. Nothing needs to be done. Just a simple understanding.
People come and tell me, I have constant fear of death, what should I do? I tell them to come and sit, have a cup of coffee. When they are having a tea I ask them, what happened to the death fear? For that moment, it was not there. All you need to do is just have tea.
You see, one elderly person, one scholar, one pundit, came to me and said, 'I am constantly searching for enlightenment. For the last 35 years, please teach me meditation and enlightenment.' I sat down and started talking with him, asked him about his family, from where he is from and those types of things. He was with me for four hours; he did not even remember the question again. So just remember the depth of the thoughts.
You see, all your negativity, has only one power, your faith on them that's all. Your faith in them, whether it is your mind or your ego, or whatever all negativity has only one power, your faith in it that's all. Understand it's a simple game, that's all. You do not need to work for unclutching. Just do not clutch and do not create a shaft.
People ask me again and again I fail when I try to unclutch. I tell them, why are you connecting your past failure with your present failure? When you connect all the past failures, you create one more word: failure.
The failure which happened 9 years ago, the failure that happened 8 years ago, the failure that happened yesterday are independent incidents. Why do you connect all of them and create the next experience also? Just relax and stop connecting and suddenly you will see such a deep inner healing happening in you, such a deep peace happening in you.
Suddenly you will see you have dropped out of the war, the constant running. Just relax. I tell you when you become a drop out, when you drop out of this war, when you drop from this whole game, suddenly you realize the whole thing is just a psycho drama happening. Because you are constantly supporting it, constantly you are creating these shafts.
Let's spend a few minutes unclutching. I will give you a few tips on this unclutching and you can just try how this unclutching works on you. If you have done some techniques already, you will see that this technique will straight away bring you to your inner space.
Now we will spend a few minutes unclutching. Just close your eyes. Just do not connect those words. Whatever words are rising in you just let them rise. Just do not connect them with any other thought. Just don't create shaft. Just unclutch. If you feel bored, or if your mind asks what to do, just unclutch from that thought. Do not even connect with that thought. Just sit, be unclutched. If your mind connects with a thought, just unclutch. Unclutch from both the identities. Do not create, maintain, or destroy thoughts.
<After the meditation> Om Nithyanandam!