Q: How do you unclutch when you are angry?
A: When you are filled with anger, just be unclutched. The anger that you had ten years ago, the anger which you had 9 years ago, the anger which you had yesterday, they are all independent, individual incidents.
Q: Does being unclutched mean not getting involved in activity or conversation?
A: No, that is again clutching with laziness.
To have the ananda gandha experience it took nine years for me. Nine years of long tapas gave me the ananda gandha experience. And you people don't even have to spend 9 days. Attend 2 days program, 3rd day you are having ananda gandha experience. When I said this a disciple said, you were not fortunate to have guru like you Swamiji. And now these fellows are trying to reduce the time for that also!
Q: Please explain the difference between the thought between word or voice or image with no word, spontaneous image with feeling.
A: All these are thoughts. You have to unclutch from everything.
Q: America is perhaps the best place to teach unclutched state by a master like you because our house is not ours, bank owns, cooperation, mostly bank financed, car bank financed, jobs and wealth very temporary, life with modern inventions has extended chronological age, but death is inevitable. Feeling of temporariness is understood, so we are unclutched. Therefore being unclutched is the only way.
Q: Once unclutched thoughts living in the world come up and drop with awareness, what about being in the state of zero tps. In the inner world, is it possible that the unclutched state kills mind and goes beyond.
A: Yes the unclutched state will kill the mind and go beyond.
Q: As I went deep in my meditation I felt like something dropped in my heart area, when there it happened there was no thought for a second, I want to go back to that experience again and again.
A: Don't create a shaft again, so even if it is beautiful experience, just be unclutched from that experience also.
Q: I am a little nervous to ask this and say this, thank you for your frankness about everything. I know the material world is real in terms of the 5 senses. I know the material world is real but I feel the psychological world is more real and powerful than the material world. This feeling makes me feel in control of myself but it also scares me. I also feel that inside me there is a big chamber, which is a psychological landscape , where erosion happens. Is this just a shaft or illusion I have created?
A; Whatever you are seeing is nothing but illusion which you created.
Q: What is the difference between manonmaya kosha* and prana maya kosha meditation?*
A: With prana you are working with prana energy, with manonmaya you are working with unclutching but with the level of thoughts. It is not similar. There is a difference, a little deeper you go.
Q: The first part of the program I was some what resistant, after seeing you dance last night it opened up a path of vibrational healing for me, I feel as though I go from being clutched to unclutched which to me means bliss. Is it only through enlightenment that one feels unclutched all the time?
A: Be very clear, if you are unclutched that's enough; don't bother about enlightenment at all.
Q: I have felt a deep peace during the session. I have never sat and watched things thoughts emotions and pain. In a way it was liberation from mantra, concentration on breath etc. Is this what you mean by unclutched? Not forcing anything and watching things happen like a movie?
A: Right. You are doing things properly.
Q: You have strongly explained the technique of disconnecting with unpleasant people, however the real issue is how to gradually disconnect and dissociate with the dearest and the people you love and depart peacefully.
A: Please be very clear, unclutching is not only with people who are unpleasant. You can easily unclutch yourself from people who are pleasant. Unclutching is the same technique only for the near and dear ones and your enemies. Just unclutch your self from the idea of enmity.
Q: Looking at a flower, person or even you makes a whole lot of difference to me after the introduction of the idea of being unclutched. I find myself disconnecting the whole shaft each time. I appreciate and enjoy the people and objects around me more, I am excited about this new me. Thank you Swamiji, it is a real beautiful experience.
Q: Swamiji, I love being in your physical presence I have noticed that although I love being in your physical presence I actually feel more connected to you when not near you. If I just look at your photo or even simply remember you, I feel so much gratitude and love but not as much when I am in your physical presence. Am I just creating a fantasy or superficial shaft. This troubles me a little, because most people want to be with you all the time, am I just not connected yet?
A: No, no, nothing like that, be very clear, sometimes in my absence also you may feel connected; that is not wrong. Feeling connected is enough. There is no need to worry about this. Don't create one more shaft based on somebody's explanation. If they feel connected to me in my physical presence that is nice, why should you feel the same thing? There is no need.