SEEK THE TRUTH WITH LOVE AND PATIENCE
Constantly keeping your seeking alive makes you grasp the Truth. What is the difference between grabbing the truth, and grasping the truth.
For example, when you see somebody melting down, overflowing, with that melting devotion, offer a Bilva leaf to Mahadeva and become liberated, you also decide, 'Yes, if I offer the same leaf to Mahadeva I will also have liberation.' That is what is grabbing the Truth.
Understand, you are not grasping it, you are grabbing it. You only see the action. You don't see the context.
You see the Rishis sitting in Padmasana (lotus) posture and chanting, 'AUUUMMM' and getting enlightened. Immediately you also think, let me sit and do 'AUUUMMM.' That is only grabbing the Truth, not grasping.
Grasping means understanding the context. All the problems everyone faces in their life is trying to grab not to grasp. If you try to grasp the Truth, you will have the approach of
love towards the Truth.
Don't have the approach of result towards the Truth. 'Alright, this is what I want. I will have to sit to chant "AUM". Ok I will do. How many hours do I have to do it?' It is not a bank account. Twenty thousand times you have to chant, 'Shiva, Shiva,' and put it in the bank account, and Mahadeva has to appear and give you, what you want.
No, most of the time you try only to grab the truth. You are asking to be given a set of rules and standard instructions. I will do that. If I can't what should I do, what about plan B and plan C.
The Religions which tries to cater to your mind, which grabs the Truth, which does not have patience to grasp, they will only give you a set of rules.
For grasping the Truth you need a completely different space where tremendous seeking becomes the first priority. When you are trying to grasp the Truth, you will look in, 'Wow! How can this simple act he goes and plucks one Bilva leaf from a tree, and offers it on to a statue, how can such a simple act liberate him? Why is he so blissful? Why is he in ecstasy?' If you approach the happening with tremendous love, you will grasp the Truth.
You will understand something more than the action is happening.
He is having a different context, altogether. He is having some higher possibilities opening up to him. The body may be doing the simple action of plucking a leaf and putting it on the deity, but the context behind the action is something different. You will understand that.
Only when you approach the happening with tremendous love can you grasp it. If you try to put everything in a frame and come to a conclusion, you will only try to grab it.
That is why one of the great Masters of the modern day Unjaji Maharaj, a disciple of Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi says, 'I neither have a Guru nor have a disciple.' He never accepted anybody as a disciple formally.
Some of his disciples asked him, 'You say Enlightened Beings don't have karma, what about your body movements and all that.' Unjaji says, 'who says I'm moving, I'm not.' They said, 'No, you are talking to us.'
He says, 'No, because you expect I should be talking, you get the response I'm talking. Otherwise I am not doing anything.' He disowns the responsibility of the very action he is doing, by that very action. By talking he declares he is not talking, and he is true.
Because whatever agitation needs to happen in you to talk, is not happening in him. So if you approach his talking from the context of love and understanding, trying to grasp what is happening, you will understand he is not talking.
If you approach a Master without patience, trying to frame Him into your mould, your frame, trying to grab Him as you want, you will say, 'What is there, he is also doing everything like me.' You will only be grabbing the Truth. You won't be grasping.
Approaching the world, approaching God, approaching Guru, and approaching yourself with tremendous love and patience and the context of grasping the Truth is Seeking. Approaching everything with tremendous love and patience from the context of knowing the Truth, wanting to know the Truth is grasping, is seeking.
If you are approaching the Truth with the mood of grabbing, framing it, and making it as a utility value, you are trying to make a frame out of life. Soon you will be tired and bored.
Approaching God, Guru, Life, yourself, everything with tremendous love and patience to know the context, to grasp the Truth about it, is seeking.
Try to grasp what it is wit the world, don't try to frame it. Don't try to relate with it with agitation. With God, approach it with tremendous love and patience. Don't enter into Him with the fear or a greed or agitated mood. To Guru, try to approach with tremendous patience and love. Try to grasp what IS, not try to grab or put Him in a frame as you want.
And even about yourself, try to approach with tremendous patience. What you need to achieve, what you want to do, what your plans and visions are, when are they becoming real day by day, when are you realizing them day by day, celebrate it. Approach yourself with tremendous love, patience, not with agitation taking yourself for granted.
Again and again understand the context and try to grasp the subtlest Truth of everything, is Seeking. Seeking means approaching everything with tremendous love and patience and try to grasp the Truth and the context, not grab, without cognizing the subtle Truth.
Develop seeking, keep your seeking alive. Reinvent yourself with your seeking. Re-strategize yourself with seeking.
DANGERS OF SEEKING
There are two concepts you need to understand. One, those who worship ignorance, the initial level seekers who get into a kind of a tiredness, boredom, unable to move further, and don't care attitude about ignorance. This is one group.
There is another group, the little advanced level seekers. After a certain amount of time, when you spent time with certain concepts and don't align your life to those concepts, you will feel acquaintance with that concepts intellectually, but not experientially.
Familiarity always breeds contempt. Even with the idea you are consciousness, if you never made it as part of your cognition, you never transformed your Life, you never aligned your life to that truth, then slowly, slowly, slowly, you think what you living, what you are doing is much better than a common man.
So with this justification, the worship of imperfect knowledge, the incomplete knowledge, starts happening in you. The danger is by now, you know how to manipulate others, how to be a half-guru, all your neighborhood gurus are formed like this only.
Each neighborhood will have one guru, in Bharat, each street will have one Jagat guru. You can ask him, 'why are you calling yourself as Jagat Guru?' 'No, I have one disciple I have named as Jagat, so I am Guru of Jagat so I am Jagat Guru.'
All your neighborhood Gurus are in this space, in this mood. The impure perception of Truth, Consciousness, and incomplete knowledge is the problem of advanced seekers. It is more dangerous than the initial level problem of initial level seekers, which is the 'don't care attitude' towards ignorance, or tiredness and boredom.
The advanced level seekers who worship knowledge that is incomplete, they won't have tiredness or boredom, they will be very active, but in the wrong direction. Enjoy knowledge for the sake of knowledge, celebrate knowledge for the sake of knowledge, celebrate power and energy for the sake of power and energy. Don't use power to manipulate others, don't use knowledge to make money.
I am not saying don't accept salary for your contribution. I am not saying don't earn for your livelihood. All I am saying, mentally don't have the disease of equating your knowledge to wealth. It is a mental disorder.
DON'T STOP SEEKING
Do not stop seeking. Anything can be given up, but not seeking!
I am defining Enlightenment. A Enlightened being is a person whose mind has disappeared so He constantly goes through new, new experiences, and expanding, continuously seeking.
I am using the word 'seeking.' Seeking in this context means: in who the capacity not to seek has disappeared is an Enlightened Being.
In you, there is still a part of your mind which can put you into boredom or tiredness. You can stop seeking at one day, that is why you are still a seeker. If your seeking becomes eternal, and there is no part of your mind that exists to make you bored or tired, then it becomes sure you will be seeker forever, you are an Enlightened Being.
Enlightened beings become one with the Cosmos, that is the ultimate experience, but not final. Because the Ultimate itself is constantly alive, not carved in stone! The ultimate is a powerful happening. It is a constant happening!
Every time I fall into Samadhi, I just know I am pregnant with billions of planets. When I say I am pregnant with billions of planets, this means I am constantly delivering, delivering, delivering. Swallowing billions and delivering billions. Infinity!
Cosmos, is a happening. It is not a dead state. It is alive, living, happening!
Even all Enlightened Beings continues to seek. An Enlightened Beings' seeking means continuous expansion. So even if Enlightened Beings are expanding, seeking, and happening, then you should be seeking. Kill all the parts of you trying to become stagnant!
Any stagnation is disease. If you are able to bend the body to 40 degrees, make it at least 41 degrees the next day. Don't stagnate. If the mind is able to understand some concepts for only five minutes, make it at least into six minutes the next day. Killing all parts of stagnation in you by the constant inspiration and excitement is seeking.
I am defining seeking. Above anything, if you are seeking something in the outer world, you will have the gifts of that world:
luxury, comfort, name and fame, whatever comes from society. But if you are seeking from the death, you will get what you are seeking.
Understand, seeking should become your very being. Constantly looking for Reality. Don't allow any stagnation. If somebody is stuck, that is hell, the most cursed space.
Being stagnant, stuck, is worshipping ignorance. Whether trying to understand the good, bad, right, wrong, the laws of the Universe, the laws with which your self functions, or laws with which life happens, go on seeking it.
You will never get an answer, but you are not supposed to stop seeking, because the reward for your seeking is experience, not answer.
If something is told to your very being, it is experience. If experience is limited to your logic, it is answer. Response from the Cosmos to your seeking, if it is limited to your logic, the Cosmos will reply to your logic, it is answer. If your seeking is from the depths of your being, Cosmos will reply to your very being, that is called Experience.
Thousands of My experiences came to Me just by My seeking, not practice. Let Me put it out in the open: I never did any practice. Let Me be very clear: I never did any practice in My Life!
I teach meditation to millions, but I never sat with closed eyes to meditate. I know, it is very difficult for you to believe. We have so many photos of me meditating. But I never sat for meditation. I always searched for 'what is' at that time. Sometimes the eyes would automatically be closed.
When I was sitting to seek, to search, the eyes would automatically close. So for those moments you can call it as meditation. But I am telling you, I always was in search with My whole being. I was seeking with My whole being. So all the responses to Me came from the Cosmos to My whole being, which was experience.
Never, ever, did I do any spiritual practice or meditation separately. All My experiences were gifts to Me as a response to My seeking. I am telling you, if you need to do something, you just need to sharpen your seeking. Blessed are those who have seeking in life! Some of the best people whom I love are all sincere seekers, still.
Just like money, wealth, car, and luxury can make you forget your seeking for a time being, even Sangha, the coziness, the love of the Master or the position in the Sangha, even that can sometimes make you forget your seeking.
Whoever continues to keep his seeking alive, even basking in the glory and My love, I continue to love them. My love comes to you as a gift if you continue to seek, it will continued to be showered on you.
> At any cost, don't stop seeking! The moment you stop seeking, you start worshipping ignorance.