63. Alchemy.
When a journalist asked a modern Zen Master, 'What is your idea about evolutionary growth?' he laughed without giving a reply immediately and said to the devotees present there:
'One who destroys joy is an animal. One who is not joyful is a man. One who is blissful is an enlightened Master. One who gives joy is a Guru (Teacher). That state of bliss is God.
As far as I am concerned, this only is evolutionary growth.'
According to this list, you also can go to the next states. But it is you who should permit the alchemy to happen!
- This article is written for those who think, 'Oh, for me wisdom and spirituality are not needed' and also for those spiritual persons...
- Sleep that comes when desired!
- Sorrow that does not come even when desired!
- Bliss that bubbles up from the inside!
- Tranquility which is not agitated by any thing!
- Joy which helps to celebrate life!
Along with these, each and every hair-root of the body will be rejoicing with joy.
All the five senses will function at their peak with zeal.
In short, all things stated above are in fact one hundredth parts of evidence of the state of bliss of enlightened Masters.
To explain more than this, language has not evolved to that extent.
- Wisdom, meditation and bliss only refer to that state of remaining rejoiced in bliss in such a manner that each and every cell of the body tastes sweet.
- Spirituality is only that path which teaches us and helps us make the alchemy happen within us to attain the state of bliss through meditation techniques and wisdom.
Do you require spirituality?
Or you don't need it?
Continue to read the article after deciding that.
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The methods adopted by a person to discover within him the eternal bliss which is called enlightenment and also the changes that occur within his inner world. – I call both of these put together as 'alchemy'.
Jumalki used to adopt a lot of new methods to see that alchemy reached the people.
He kept a notice board at a junction of four roads:
- 2 Special Shows! Sunday 6 PM
- 1. Debut dance performance by a person who has no legs.
- 2. Painting by a person who doesn't have hands.
As expected, the performance hall was filled with people. Devotees who respected Jumalki as God and practitioners of spirituality had assembled there.
Jumalki, who arrived there punctually at 6 pm, instead of the special show, started his speech.
During his entire half an hour speech, he was emphasizing with much relish, saying, 'You are also God and you too can experience total joy.'
Even though Jumalki spoke with elucidation, those present there were only thinking, 'What all he says is not possible for ordinary people like us.'
Suddenly a gang of ruffians entered. They were shouting as they entered the hall.
Along with them, they brought a man sitting in a basket and another man seated in a palanquin. Silence and peace was disturbed. Confusion prevailed.
One of the ruffians challenged, 'Oh Jumalki! It seems that you are a great enlightened Master. Nothing is impossible for you.
We saw your notice board. Only to teach you a lesson, we have brought a man without hands and a man without a leg.
Go on! Make this lame man run and this man without hands draw. Let us see.'
Jumalki slowly got up and pointed at his walking stick towards the lame man and said, 'Get up and walk.' Then he looked at the man without hands and said, 'Wave your hands.'
Nothing happened. The hall was silent.
Suddenly Jumalki beat both of them vigorously with his walking stick.
First, being unable to bear the pain, crying aloud, 'Oh! Ah! Oooch! Oh God!' the lame man jumped out from the basket.
Next, the men without hands also crying out, 'No, No, don't do that...' jumped out blocking and warding off the blows.
The aim of the gang was o make the dancers pretend and act as if one had no hands and the other had one leg. But this got exposed. As Jumalki started beating them they were forced to use their hands and legs to defend themselves from his blows. Their true colors were revealed.
Announcing the spiritual truths of the inner world as a puzzle and then, later, explaining the solution was Jumalki's method of teaching.
But, today, as the devotees tried to attack that gang, which had thought of insulting their Master by pre-planned and stage-managed actions, Jumalki said, 'Stop! They have said it beautifully in just half a minute, what I have tried to say in half an hour.'
As the devotees saw, they were not able to understand any thing.
Jumalki continued, 'Having forgotten to move the hands and feet for very many days and believing himself to be lame, if a person tries to dance or draw, in the first instance, it will of course be amusing to him. If he continues his trials, soon, at an unexpected moment, his hands or feet will begin to function. The fact that he is not lame will become an experience to him.
In the same way, the entrance door to reach the bliss will also suddenly open within ourselves.
The person who falsely believes that he is lame, only if he thinks, 'Why not I try as these people say' and tries to walk only then he can feel the presence of his feet.
I call the treasure inside us only as the sea of bliss. If we try, we can dive into that sea.
Meditation is only the effort taken to search and find out that the sea is very much present inside us. Begin to strike inside vigorously with the stick called meditation. The curtain will unveil. Sea will be visible.
Do it and see. You will come to understand.
My thanks to the gang of friends who helped me to express well the last portion of my speech', so saying he finished his discourse.
The methodology to attain bliss is entirely scientific.
As we can emphatically express in chemistry, that when we mix a particular liquid with a given chemical, we will get a specific end product, bliss can also be expressed in the same way.
When the juice of joy (Ananda rasa) merges with the awareness, the resultant end product so obtained is called bliss. It is only the things that are to be done and actions taken concerning spirituality that are called as alchemy.
Whether we believe it or not, we are living in the blissful energy flow only. Still we are not aware of it. The reason is that the awareness has not expanded and spread itself!
'Nava pashanam' is the one made by mixing a collection of nine poisons which contain medicinal properties and are powerful. If all the nine poisons are mixed in correct proportions and in correct quantities then the next minute itself Nava pashanam will be ready.
Like this, in our body, there are seven energy centers. There are fluctuations in regard to the fitness of the feelings connected with them. Only these fluctuations sow the seed for the diseases of the mind and the body to occur.
If the feelings connected with the seven chakras of the body are rectified and corrected and if we can enter into the place where the energy of the seven chakras gets concentrated and shrunk, we can happily enter into the ocean of bliss.
Since science has advanced well today, we can learn the alchemy of transforming the base feelings such as fear, greed and lust concerned with the seven chakras into higher and purer states of energy (love), by way of individual practical meditation techniques. Make the alchemy happen in you and see.
If you approach the Dhyana healing centers of Dhyanapeetam, you can learn these meditations and obtain the benefits.
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A meaningful incident.
A doctor asked me in Oklahoma University: How to find out whether I am enlightened or not? How to confirm it?
I replied: If you are enlightened, there will be no doubt at all whether you have got enlightenment. It is such an experience you will not have even a ray of doubt! As long as you have this doubt, be sure that you are not enlightened.
- For being enlightened, the alchemy that happens within you is deeprooted. And it is very clear.
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Meditation chisels. Chisel No.18.
An embryo makes a girl, a mother. A Master makes a man a mystic.
Is a Master essential for you to be enlightened and to be blissful?
After reading these words, make a decision...
- Until and unless an individual makes a decision by himself to be blissful, even if he stays with a teacher life-long, the teacher cannot help.
- If an individual takes a decision by himself to be blissful, he will not need the help of a Master. He will attain bliss by himself.
If that is so, what is the necessity for a Master's help?
A Master is needed because for the one who has not taken a decision to live blissfully, it is not easy to make him take this decision. For that alchemy should happen.
If it does not happen, for the only reason of not having taken this decision to live blissfully, many births may have to be wasted.
'Mother' is merely a societal status. It is another pen-name only.
But 'motherhood' is blossoming; maturity of quality.
Anybody can get motherly qualities. Even a man can get this. It is because it is a quality-oriented change. Not a bodily change.
For a girl to get motherly qualities, giving birth to a child is an easy way. The society grants the status of 'mother' to the girl. Because of the living evidence of the child together with this status granted by society, alchemy happens within the girl which will push her towards motherhood.
It will become an honorable and prestigious target to get motherhood. Very easily a girl will change as a mother... If this opportunity is utilized!
For a person to be enlightened, 'a Guru, a Master' is an easy way.
As the ecstatic experiences given by meditation and the maturity obtained by wisdom truths add up, the alchemy that happens within him will push him towards bliss.
Due to the guidance and actions of the Master, enlightenment will become an honourable and prestigious target.
Man will be enlightened very easily...
If the Master is utilized! If a conscious decision is taken by himself to be blissful!
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