Q: Master, How do you explain things like high blood pressure, there is no shaft for blood pressure, is there?🔗

A: You create the shaft. See, there is no need for a shaft in the outer world; you create the shaft at some particular point that you are having this problem or that. One more thing, there are so many diseases that can be measured only by instruments. The moment you start believing that those instruments are the authority, you start creating those diseases. Especially in the psychosomatic and psychiatric fields you can see that more and more diseases are discovered, more and more patients are discovered.

American TV advertisements constantly bombard you. Are you having a little depression? Why are you not having depression? Why don't you try this medicine? Are you having a little headache? Why are you not having a headache? Why don't you try this medicine? Constantly when you are bombarded with these ideas you feel that you have the problem.

See, constantly when you see McDonald's golden arches you feel you must eat; you will feel the hunger. You will imagine the hunger. In Bharat, if you travel in the highways, you will come to know there is a village by seeing a temple tower. Here you will come to know there is another county by seeing a McDonald's arch.

You see, you have heard about many ideas about high blood pressure from others. Others experience, so naturally what do you do? You keep 'others' file and you create a new shaft. You then wait. When I feel the same symptoms I too will have high blood pressure. The blood pressure that you had ten years ago, the blood pressure that you had nine years ago and the blood pressure which you had 8 years ago, they are all effects of independent incidents. When you start connecting them or believing them I have high blood pressure you will simply start creating constant pressure.

Because, anything that you believe, your body will follow. If you believe you will have pain, your body will follow and have pain. I have seen some of our ashramites. Somehow from the beginning I manage to make them believe that they don't have to sleep. So, now at least 10 or 15 people in the ashram hardly sleep for 2 hours. Somehow I made them believe and they hardly sleep for 2 hours and no bags around their eyes.

All this nonsense you believe in the west is not present there. Here you believe if you don't sleep you will have the bags under the eyes. The less you know about all these things, less problems you create. You can come and see and of course people who come and stay at the ashram they know. Inside the ashram, nobody walks, they only run. Somehow, I am successful in making them believe they don't have to sleep that much. They are not only alive, they are energetic and they don't feel tired. See your body follows what you believe.

I personally believe that we had the power to fly. We lost this through social conditioning. Of course, I don't have solid proof to show you all, but if you trust I have a little intelligence or I tell you something, which helps in your life, let you be very clear, I have seen one Yogi flying. I have seen with my eyes. We had the power. By their very nature human beings had the power to fly. Maybe in course of social conditioning, when you are made to believe again and again that you can't, you can't, you can, you are made to believe that this is your boundary. Your body starts following that boundary.

See, I myself have seen one lama, a Buddhist monk, who is 136 years old. Let me tell you the story about how I met him. I went to Nepal, from Nepal to Tibet. Near the border there is a place called Tapalamas, beautiful place. If you walk some 100km into the jungle, you will see the village where lamas live together. I went there, because very elderly lamas live there, very old people live there. So I went there to see. I asked one villager can I see an old Lama. They said go to that field; one lama is working there; you can go and meet him. I met him while he was working in the field with the yak and all these things.

I asked, 'Swamiji, I heard that you are a very elderly person, can I ask some of your experiences, something about your life'.

He started laughing, 'He said, what? Elderly? I am only middle aged man, I am only 136. There are so many people who are 180, some 190, go and talk to them'.

Be very clear, this is not a story. Medical doctors from a U.S University have certified this phenomenon. A group of scientists had gone and done some experiments on them. Biologically they are more than 190 years. There are so many people there who are 190 years old or more. I asked, 'Babaji, how are you living so long?'

'What is there to say? From the beginning we know that human life is 300 years'.

No, from the beginning they are made to believe that they can live to 300 years. They took me to their graveyard; on every graveyard you see written 280 years, 290 years. It is written that this person had untimely death at the age of 180. No really, you should all visit that village, what I am saying is not a lie. So many newspapers had covered them. They say the energy they produce by their body with the same quantity of food is 6 times more.

It is simply faith, simply belief. Your body is just like a child. Whatever you believe simply the body will follow. All you need to do is to create a strong right belief. Just be unclutched and things will take their own course. You will constantly rejuvenate yourself. But when you start having the wrong beliefs, wrong understanding, you will abuse your body. You will disrespect your body.

Actually I was shocked when I saw that lama. I have also met another swami, who has attended 12 kumbhmelas. I have seen him in Hyderabad. He has attended 12 kumbhmelas, which makes him 144 years old at least. He is healthy, he is going around. Be very clear, it is your faith. Whatever you believe your body simply follows.

You are made to believe human beings age and die by 70-90 years. By the time one becomes 70, one prepares for death. You constantly fell and talk, Oh, I have become old, I am ready to die and prepare the body for death. Constantly you start talking, you start believing you have become old.

In the west elderly people are not respected. Elderly people have to compete. It is pathetic. They have to compete with the youngsters. In the east, in the village culture, elderly people are respected. Once you become 60 or 70, your kids will take care of you. In those days, even today in villages, kids take care of the parents. Age is respected. Younger people will come to you for counseling; they come to you for some ideas. They come to you for any things related to spirituality or rituals or some customs, traditions and all those things.

You feel you are wanted. You don't feel that people are waiting to give you a send off. Here, people are just waiting, quick, quick, quick, hurry, what are you still doing here? There at least you feel you are wanted, people are giving you some respect. You are doing something. Actually if you live in that type of community, where you are wanted, your life will be prolonged. You will live an energetic, active life, because your mind is directly related to body.

The yogi who could fly, was a great inspiration for me, he himself was not enlightened, but he was a great person who could control the prana, who was able to handle the breath energy. He was a great Yogi. He took my first photograph that was taken at the age of 9. I asked him why he is doing all these things. He said you don't know now, but when the time comes you will understand. He has even written that on a paper behind the original copy of the photo that we have; behind that he has written in his own hand and signed it. 'Now you don't know the value of this photo; when the time comes you will know; at that time may you remember me'. He has written this in Tamil and signed it.