- This is a law of nature.🔗

• The incompatibility between our imagination about life and actual real life makes life miserable.
• Without trying to make the mental cinema of imagination run in real life, those who fritter away their life energies by scattering their attention, are really 'great sinners.'
• Imagination is one 'action of the mind' given as a given by God to man to enable him to change himself, as per the needs of the future, such as, 'How has a man to live in the future? What type of wife, life and family will be formed? What sort of property and other life comforts are required, etc.?
• For a man who strives to make it really happen, imagination is a 'driving force'. On the other hand, for a man who, without making a fantasy become real, if he wastes his life simply on fantasy only, for him imagination is a 'dull force.'

Many people have inquired about me. Readers have asked many questions such as 'Who am I, where was I born, why this saintly appearance at such a young age, etc ...

I was born in Thiruvannamalai in a simple family. At a very young age, I had a spiritual urge. I used to sit and do penance on the very rocks of Thiruvannamalai where Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi and other great saints have lived. Formal education gave me mere knowledge. So I began to wander in search of real wisdom and truths.

I have only one dress to wear. That is all. I do not touch money. I started walking. I wandered for kilometers throughout Bharat by walking. I met many great saints and stayed for many months in the Himalayas. After ten years of severe penance. I realized myself and got enlightened.

A few years back, when I established a small ashram in Tamilnadu and was staying there, many would come to meet me in the evenings.

Then, I would be watering the plants in the garden. Those who came to see me would ask me, 'Is Master available in the ashram?' I would tell them. 'Yes, he is available: you go inside and be seated.' Then I would go and sit before them.

They would tell me, 'We have come to see the Master.

My young age was an obstacle for them to see me as an enlightened Master. People have imagined a saint as a man with beard, moustache, a water jug (kamandalam), with rosary in hand. Even if it differs in a small way, they don't accept it.

One has to accept the things as they are. If one does not possess such maturity to accept such, only anxieties and worries will remain.

But what are we doing? One sculpting the other has become a way of life. A father sculpts his son in the way he wants his son to become without knowing his son's desires. The father thinks, 'I am a police officer, my son also should become a police officer.' But the son acts in a way quite opposite to the desires of the father.

On account of this, there is struggle between the father and the son. The father starts lamenting everywhere 'My son does not listen to me.' The basic problem is with the father. Without knowing this, what is the use of lamenting?

Cotton cannot grow in a marshy land. Jute cannot grow in black soil. The possibilities of children performing in the disciplines which they don't like are very low. The parents do not realize this. Apart from this, in this ever-changing world, the world as seen by the father was different from the new world which the son sees.

As time changes, ideals change too! Even now the bullfight is there in Tamilnadu. In early days the girls used to marry only those men who bravely tackled, caught hold and controlled the bulls with sharp horns.

So, a Tamil teacher asked his daughter, 'There is a brave youth who has fought with a bull and controlled it. Will you marry him my dear girl?' But she asked, 'He has done so much with the bull; what will he not do with me?' Values of one period of time go on changing with the change of times.

A man was searching for his life partner, with his own desires as to how she should be. A marriage broker asked him, 'What sort of girl do you want to marry?'

'The eyes of the girl I am expecting should be like the eyes of such-and such actress. The nose should be like that of another actress ... he continued relating.

The broker searched for such a girl, found one, and produced her before him. But when she was asked to accept, she simply refused. When she also produced her list, saying 'The person who is to be my husband should have a nose similar to that of some actor, his moustache like another actor's etc., he lost all his spirit.

Many search for persons matching their imaginary ideal.

Mostly there is no agreement at all between the beauty and love of the real wife and the beauty and love of the imaginary wife before marriage.

Similarly, there does not exist any similarity between the love and affection of a real husband and the love and affection of an imaginary husband before the marriage.

The reason is the imagination being very far from the realities.

The power of imagination is a wonder given by God for us to plan and execute our works properly.

If we misuse our God-given imagination by daydreaming, then the fantasies that result are rather useless.

There is nothing wrong with imagining. It will be decided to be right or wrong depending upon how we are going to use our imagining power.

Part 2: Open the Door... Let the Breeze in!