ESSENCE AND ONLY PRIORITY OF LIFE
Intense decision to have seeking. The ferociousness of seeking is powerful enough light the fire in you to burn everything which needs to be burnt and destroyed in you: laziness, tiredness, boredom, everything which needs to be burnt inside you.
Deciding to seek your home, deciding to seek where you can have eternal rest, deciding to seek where you can have eternal peace, deciding to seek where you can have eternal bliss, that decision itself, that seeking itself is powerful enough to give you the freedom to reorganize yourself.
If there are ten rods made out of copper and you have to make the deity of Shiva, keeping all the ten rods together and tying it, and start carving here and there on that, you will never be able to make the deity of Shiva on it. Just melt it and pour in the mould, you will have a Shiva deity.
In the same way, as on now what you are, by self-development you will never achieve the 'Self'. The self can never be developed, it should only be discarded. Whatever can be developed is just the mind. Developing your mind can only be called as self-development.
The greatest ability you need to develop, the first priority for you to develop is the ability to reorganize yourself.
The whole seeking and living enlightenment is nothing but reorganizing yourself, not developing yourself. Developing means that today you have the compassion to give ten rupee charity, tomorrow you put twenty rupee charity, the day after tomorrow you put thirty rupee for charity. First you learn little compassion, then you learn little love, that is development.
Reorganizing means changing the very cognition you have! 'Till today, even my charity was done with the purpose of self 'me' 'me' 'me'. This is the wrong cognition. From today even my work is going to be done with the cognition of enriching.' That is all! The cognitive shift is what I call Seeking.
Intense seeking gives you the energy to melt you and mould you as you want. Seeking means changing your cognition about you, the world, God, and everything, to align to the reality. You do not need anything as the first priority. Seeking is the first priority.
From morning until night, the ideas which drive you: the idea of pleasure, the idea of pain, the idea of right and wrong, the idea of self-respect or self-denial,
all of this, see if it is aligned to the reality? Align them to reality, that is all.
That is all is seeking! Nothing else is needed in life.
TECHNIQUE: ALIGN TO REALITY
DURATION
As much time as needed.
INSTRUCTIONS
From morning to night, whatever you do, the moment you wake up and until the moment you fall asleep, fall into bed, everything, see to it, it is ALL aligned to the reality. Everything is aligned to the reality of eternal bliss, to the reality of oneness, to the purpose of eternal bliss.
LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THE MASTER
The first time when you hear a Guru's words, with so much of seeking, interest, and excitement, you enjoy it and start picking up many things, and internalizing it as part of your life. Then after some time, your seeking comes down, you listen, but take it for granted, 'Okay. Ah, like this only He talks. It's okay. I have heard enough.' Slowly, slowly, you take Guru's words for granted.
For how many years you may listen to satsang, you create a huge iron wall around you, the Guru's words never penetrates and becomes part of you. The is because with each word you created a pain pattern: how not to allow that to get internalized into you. How to keep that away from you.
Your earlier failures or thinking that I tried, but it is not working out, He is great but it is not going to work out for me, develops these kinds of patterns, thought trends, and seeking becomes lost. Even if you live around the Master for years listening to satsang for years and nothing happens to you, you have become a dangerously un-trainable and nontransformable.
Taking the Master's words for granted, not taking them into your heart and making your life align to it, reinventing your life and re-strategizing is the worst thing that can happen to you. Because other than the Master's words, there is no anchor available on planet earth.
Anybody who has drowned in the ocean of samsara, the ocean of delusion and bondage, the only anchor available to raise yourself to the next level is the Master's words. From the other plane of existence, the only bridge available to this plane, this universe, is an Enlightened Master's words.
If you don't catch that and raise yourself, nothing else: no puja, no meditation, and no spiritual practice can help you. The highest spiritual practice is catching the Master's words, constantly reinventing yourself and re-strategizing yourself.
Reinventing and re-strategizing yourself is the only way. Re-strategizing yourself, with the Master's words, reinventing yourself, with every word of the Master, is seeking.
If your seeking is alive, you will go on reinventing yourself. You will raise yourself by yourself! You will be so alive! So active! You will be so brilliant, so energetic, because seeking is the most powerful way you can exist, you can experience you.
PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE
Constantly seek in your life and explore the possibilities in every field. Keep the practice alive. If you don't explore, you will end up in boredom.
If you are doing a job, if you don't explore the deeper and deeper dimensions of that job, even if that job is paying you billions of dollars, you will be bored. You will donate everything to charity and start doing charitable work.
In any field, whether it is your relationships, business, and even living with your body, if you are bored of the same routine, you bring sickness to your body, so that you have a change of routine.
Many times, just for a change, you bring disease to your body! It is the truth. Anything you don't explore will bore you.
If your so called exciting things like money, profession, and business, can lead to boredom, then what about spiritual practice? If you don't explore, this will also lead to boredom! That is why, millions of unguided seekers, in the name of meditation, everyday, sleep well!
Even sleep has become boring! That is why sleeplessness!
Anything which you don't explore will bring boredom. That is why, sometimes people are terrorized about meditation. As if they have been asked to take poison! Meditation terrorizes them! 'No, no! I will die by boredom!'
'Practice' means 'exploring the deeper dimensions'. Don't go to a person who is not exploring the deeper dimension for any purpose.
If you want to invest your money, go to a person only who is exploring the deeper dimensions in the field of investment. If you want health, go to doctors or institutions which are constantly exploring the deeper dimensions of health.
If you want legal services, go to a person exploring the deeper dimensions of law, the different aspects of law. If you want to know spirituality, go to a person continuously exploring the deeper dimensions of spirituality.
Practice has died! Even in the big and established companies, they will suddenly sit and try to follow, and get ideas from start-up companies. Because start-up companies have new blood!
As long as you continue to explore, you continue to practice, and you continue to raise yourself, you will be alive. Life will be oozing out in you.
In any field, continuous exploration keeps you alive.
There is no such thing as a 'top person.' Who is the top person? Who is still exploring is top person! In any field, people who explore remain alive. Even in spirituality and yoga!
There is only two ways of life: either you go on expanding you and exploring or you will be practicing slow suicide.
First, your mind will say, 'oh, every morning I have to come for yoga, what is going on?' Then you will come and sit and do yoga. I have seen people doing yoga. Yoga should be done as bhoga, not as roga! Yoga should be done as an enjoyment, and excitement, not as a roga, disease.
The excitement you radiate in your body, the whole bio-memory should be alive! Your whole intelligence should be alive, up! Practice constantly exploring! If you are doing yoga, explore the different possibilities of your body: the ability to bend, to make your body strong and flexible.
Constantly exploring in every field is 'Practice'! If you are spending one hour with your family, get to know each other! Not that you will be staring at the television and facebook! Sit with others! Get to know each other!
Explore the possibilities of each other! How can one another support the other's fulfillment! Explore the other person! He may be your son, brother, sister, spouse, daughter, mother, or father.
If you are a Doctor while you attending your patient, look at the whole patient. Don't say, 'I am a lung specialist! I am going to look at only your lungs! Let him have diarrhea and die! I don't care!'
When you are attending a patient, look at him as a whole! Expand your possibility.
In every step of life, explore. Whether in your profession, or relationships, spiritual practice, or knowledge accumulation.
If you are reading only your syllabus, you are never going to be successful! You may pass the exam, but you will not be successful! The kid who is educated only in the school, is uneducated! This means, he has not explored the possibilities of life.
Everything you do, even eating, if you don't explore the different possibilities, it will be boring! Even sleeping, if you don't explore the depths of sleep, you will be so bored, you will start having insomnia, sleeplessness!
As long as you continue to explore, you will be practicing life. As long as you practice life, life practices you. This means, it keeps you alive!
When you stop practicing life, life also feels you are useless: no need to keep your body alive anymore!
Unfortunately, you have been taught you can't explore the field of emotion, it has to come by itself, you cannot explore it. You can create anything, including your own consciousness, then why not your emotions?
It is you who create it! I am not born with devotion; I created it! Devotion is one of the best ways to be eternally excited in life. Devotion keeps you in eternal excitement. Devotion makes you explore deeper and deeper dimensions of life. Devotion helps you to explore the different possibilities of life.
Practice the different possibilities! Practice every inch! Try to explore the different ways of dressing. Try to explore the different ways of brushing your teeth.
Every small thing in your life, like brushing your teeth, to great things like sitting and meditating for enlightenment, in everything, explore, explore, explore. Exploring keeps the practice alive!
When the practice is alive, you are enlightened! Enlightenment is not end of the practice. When you learn to keep the practice alive forever, you are enlightened! Keep the practice alive is enlightenment.