Q: Because the shaft of fear one will run away from the tiger, if not one will be eaten.🔗

A: See, when tiger comes automatically let that fear rise and save the body. Why are you creating that fear now itself? You are not in front of any tiger. When the tiger comes and I say don't be afraid, are you going to keep quiet? Keep quiet as long as you can. When you can't let the intelligence take over.

See, you are trying to bring all the hypothetical stuff; you are trying to talk philosophy.

Let me tell you a story.

One guy even after 25 years he was not going out with anybody.

Rabbi called him, what is happening? You are not going out with anybody, why don't you try?

He said no, no, no, I don't know what to talk. I feel really afraid. I don't have confidence to talk.

Then Rabbi says, I'll teach you what to talk. Either you talk what she likes or you talk something about her family or some philosophy.

This guy memorizes, yes I have to talk about her family, I have to talk about her likes, or talk about the philosophy. Family, likes, philosophy, family, likes, philosophy.

After a few days some way or other he has a date. He goes out and when he is eating, he remembers now I have to say something. First he asks, do you have a brother?

She replies, no.

Then second thing he remembers; likes, likes, likes, yes, do you like baseball?

She says no.

Now he slowly remembers, now I have to talk philosophy.

Then he started, if you had a brother, will he like baseball?

So all philosophers, if… If the fear comes, let the intelligence take over. See, there is an automatic intelligent system in your body, to protect your body and maintain your body to run your whole system. That's what we call prarabda karma. It is an automatic set up program; it is an automatic intelligence to run everything. You don't have to interfere. The whole problem is you interfere and mess the whole thing.

Now, when that type of situation comes, automatically it will take over. One more thing, when the tiger comes, you won't even remember from where that power came. Is it under your logical control? Tell me? Is it under your logical control? Can you have that power now? No. You can't .

It means what? Your automatic intelligence is taking over. You have a system within yourself to handle those kinds of situations. So don't bother about that now itself. When it comes you will know how to handle. Now be relaxed.

Q: Is there a relationship between unclutched and purposelessness?

A: One is the path and the other one is the goal. If you achieve purposelessness, if you understand purposelessness you will be unclutched. If you are unclutched, you will understand the purposelessness. Both are one and the same, two different words; just two different words.

Now let's take few minutes and be unclutched. Just sit. Don't even bother about anything. You may feel bored, what am I doing sitting? I am feeling terribly bored, I think this Swami is not teaching anything. Unclutch from that also.

Because the boredom that happened to you one year ago, the boredom that happened to you two years ago and the boredom that happened to you three years ago are not connected. They are independent incidents. The boredom that happened to you yesterday, the boredom that is happening to you now are not connected. Let you become completely unclutched. And relax. Just sit.

If you want you can close your eyes or you can have your eyes open, no problem. Because even closing eyes is one more connection. You always think you can meditate or you can be unclutched when you close your eyes. If you want you can close your eyes or if you want your eyes can be open. That's up to you. But just be unclutched.

Just see what happens when you are unclutched. Whatever happens let it happen. If thoughts are flowing, then it's ok. You don't even connect them and see that he thoughts are flowing. If it doesn't flow it is ok. You don't even have to connect the empty space and see that you are not having thoughts. Having a thought you are having a thought, or having a thought you are not having a thought, both are shafts.

Now please close your eyes and sit straight, be in that same space of being unclutched. Be aware of all the movements of prana. Be aware of all incoming and outgoing of breath. Be aware of all the incoming and outgoing activities. Not only through nose; you will see the power flowing all over the body. When you inhale the whole body will feel the energy. When exhaling happens the whole body will feel drained.

Just be unclutched and be aware of body getting the prana and feeling rejuvenated and of the body feeling drained of outgoing prana. With incoming breath you will feel the energy. With the outgoing breath you will feel the relaxation. Just be witness for everything, and be unclutched. Just sit unclutched. Relax.

Now we will spend a little time discussing in detail or answering some more questions. Now you can share some problem that you can think you can solve with this truth of being unclutched, or you can raise some problem that needs some solution. We will try to analyze.

Next thing, I need to create the confidence that you can open up; that you can spell out your problems and you will have only solutions and not have undesirable side effects. If that trust can be created then really you will feel comfortable and you will be able to open up. You can then have the truth straight.

Even now I am still speaking only in a generalized way. I think in the second session I told you that I can speak only in a generalized way. Only if you open up I can throw light to the specific problem. Customized enlightenment can then be given only if I have the exact problems. Only then it is possible.

See, by nature, Hindu people talk about others, and they are very happy to talk about others. In America you have a communication network of a different nature and this is another kind of network in Bharat. The communication happens but without the professional or commercial network.

Here you have the nature and network both, then what would happen? So, everybody is afraid to open up. See, with Americans they don't bother about talking about others. They don't care. They just bother about their business. With westerners that is their attitude. With Hindu people, you always try to talk about others. It is so tasty to talk about others. 'I heard he ran away with somebody…. She ran away, I thought she would do that, I was waiting to get that news.'

Just those few words, it is so tasty, and you always feel, and you are waiting for some news. So you can blow it up and spread it wide. And in Bharat, by nature people have got that habit. Second thing the communication network is also available. So that is the reason, everybody is afraid to open up. And unless you have that confidence, neither you will be helped nor others will be helped.

Q: Swamiji, I do not even care for the identity I have; the emptiness or aloneness I felt was enough.

A: That's nice.

Q: Be blissful, be unclutched are they the same?

A: Yes. They are one and the same.