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"Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone."

- Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Sri Ramana Maharshi (Tamil: ரமண மஹரிஷி) (December 30, 1879 – April 14, 1950), born Venkataraman Iyer, was a Hindu spiritual figure ("jnani"). He was born to a Tamil-speaking Brahmin family in Tiruchuzhi, Tamil Nadu. After having attained liberation at the age of 16, he left home for Arunachala, a mountain considered sacred by Hindus, at Tiruvannamalai, and lived there for the rest of his life. Although born a Brahmin, he declared himself an "Atiasrami", a Sastraic state of unattachment to anything in life and beyond all caste restrictions. The ashram that grew around him, Sri Ramana Ashram, is situated at the foothill of Arunchala, to the west to the pilgrimage town of Tiruvannamalai.

Sri Ramana maintained that the purest form of his teachings was the powerful silence - the Presence which radiated from him and quieted the minds of those attuned to it. He gave verbal teachings only for the benefit of those who could not understand his silence (or, perhaps, could not understand how to attain the silent state). His verbal teachings were said to flow from his direct experience of Atman as the only existing reality. When asked for advice, he recommended self-enquiry as the fastest path to moksha. Though his primary teaching is associated with Non-dualism, Advaita Vedanta, and Jnana yoga, he recommended Bhakti to those he saw were fit for it, and gave his approval to a variety of paths and practices

 Sri Ramana Maharshi Family Background

Sri Ramana was born in a village called Tiruchuli near Aruppukkottai, Madurai in Tamil Nadu, South India on Arudra Darshanam day, into an orthodox Hindu Tamil (Iyer) family, the second of four children of Sundaram Iyer (1845?-1892) and Azhagammal (?-1922), and named Venkataraman at birth. His siblings were Nagaswamy (1877–1900), Nagasundaram (1886–1953) and sister Alamelu (1891/92-1953). Venkataraman's father was a respected leader.

 Sri Ramana Maharshi Childhood
Venkataraman seemed a normal child with no apparent signs of future greatness. He was popular, good at sports, very intelligent but lazy at school, indulged in an average amount of mischief, and showed little religious interest. He did have a few unusual traits. When he slept, he went into such a deep state of unconsciousness that his friends could physically assault his body without waking him up. He also had an extraordinary amount of luck. In team games, whichever side he played for always won. This earned him the nickname 'Tangakai', which means 'golden hand'. When Venkataraman was about 11, his father sent him to live with his paternal uncle Subbaiyar in Dindigul because he wanted his sons to be educated in English so they would be eligible to enter government service, and only Tamil was taught at the village school in Tiruchuzhi. In 1891, when his uncle was transferred to Madurai, Venkataraman and his elder brother Nagaswami moved with him. In Dindigul, Venkataraman attended a British School.

 Sri Ramana Maharshi The Awakening
In 1892, Venkataraman's father Sundaram Iyer suddenly fell seriously ill and unexpectedly died several days later at the age of 42. For some hours after his father's death he contemplated the matter of death, and how his father's body was still there, but the 'I' was gone from it.

After leaving Scott's Middle School, Venkataraman went to the American Mission High School. One November morning in 1895, he was on his way to school when he saw an elderly relative and enquired where the relative had come from. The answer was "From Arunachala." Krishna Bikshu describes Venkataraman's response: "The word 'Arunachala' was familiar to Venkataraman from his younger days, but he did not know where it was, what it looked like or what it meant. Yet that day that word meant to him something great, an inaccessible, authoritative, absolutely blissful entity. Could one visit such a place? His heart was full of joy. Arunachala meant some sacred land, every particle of which gave moksha. It was omnipotent and peaceful. Could one behold it? 'What? Arunachala? Where is it?' asked the lad. The relative was astonished, 'Don't you know even this?' and continued, 'Haven't you heard of Tiruvannamalai? That is Arunachala.' It was as if a balloon was pricked, the boy's heart sank."

A month later he came across a copy of Sekkizhar's Periyapuranam, a book that describes the lives of 63 Saivite saints, and was deeply moved and inspired by it. Filled with awe, and a desire for emulation, he began devotional visits to the nearby Meenakshi Temple in Madurai and, associated with this bhakti, later reported fever-like sensations.
Soon after, on July 17, 1896, at age 16, Venkataraman had a life-changing experience.
He spontaneously initiated a process of self-enquiry that culminated, within a few minutes, in his own permanent awakening.
In one of his rare written comments on this process he wrote:
'Enquiring within Who is the seer? I saw the seer disappear leaving That alone which stands forever. No thought arose to say I saw. How then could the thought arise to say I did not see.'.

Sri Ramana described it later:

"It was in 1896, about 6 weeks before I left Madurai for good (to go to Tiruvannamalai-Arunachala) that this great change in my life took place.

I was sitting alone in a room on the first floor of my uncle's house. I seldom had any sickness and on that day there was nothing wrong with my health, but a sudden violent fear of death overtook me. There was nothing in my state of health to account for it nor was there any urge in me to find out whether there was any account for the fear. I just felt I was going to die and began thinking what to do about it. It did not occur to me to consult a doctor or any elders or friends. I felt I had to solve the problem myself then and there.

The shock of the fear of death drove my mind inwards and I said to myself mentally, without actually framing the words: 'Now death has come; what does it mean? What is it that is dying? This body dies.' And at once I dramatised the occurrence of death. I lay with my limbs stretched out still as though rigor mortis has set in, and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry. I held my breath and kept my lips tightly closed so that no sound could escape, and that neither the word 'I' nor any word could be uttered.

'Well then,' I said to myself, 'this body is dead. It will be carried stiff to the burning ground and there burn and reduced to ashes. But with the death of the body, am I dead? Is the body I? It is silent and inert, but I feel the full force of my personality and even the voice of I within me, apart from it. So I am the Spirit transcending the body.

The body dies but the spirit transcending it cannot be touched by death. That means I am the deathless Spirit.' All this was not dull thought; it flashed through me vividly as living truths which I perceived directly almost without thought process. I was something real, the only real thing about my present state, and all the conscious activity connected with the body was centered on that I.

From that moment onwards, the "I" or Self focused attention on itself by a powerful fascination. Fear of death vanished once and for all. The ego was lost in the flood of Self-awareness. Absorption in the Self continued unbroken from that time. Other thought might come and go like the various notes of music, but the I continued like the fundamental sruti note - a note which underlies and blends with all other notes.".


After this event, he lost interest in school-studies, friends, and relations. Avoiding company, he preferred to sit alone, absorbed in concentration on the Self, and went daily to the Meenakshi Temple, ecstatically devoted to the images of the Gods, tears flowing profusely from his eyes.

Venkataraman’s elder brother, Nagaswamy, was aware of a great change in him and on several occasions rebuked him for his detachment from all that was going on around him. About six weeks after Venkataraman’s absorption into the Self, on August 29, 1896, he was attempting to complete a homework assignment which had been given to him by his English teacher for indifference in his studies. Suddenly Venkataraman tossed aside the book and turned inward in meditation. His elder brother rebuked him again, asking, "What use is all this to one who is like this?" Venkataraman did not answer, but recognized the truth in his brother’s words.

 Sri Ramana Maharshi The Journey to Arunachala

He decided to leave his home and go to Arunachala. Knowing his family would not permit this, he slipped away, telling his brother he needed to attend a special class at school. Fortuitously, his brother asked him to take five rupees and pay his college fees on his way to school. Venkataraman took out an atlas, calculated the cost of his journey, took three rupees and left the remaining two with a note which read: "I have set out in quest of my Father in accordance with his command. This (meaning his person) has only embarked on a virtuous enterprise. Therefore, no one need grieve over this act. And no money need be spent in search of this. Your college fee has not been paid. Herewith rupees two."

At about noon, Venkataraman left his uncle's house and walked to the railway station. At about three o'clock the next morning, he arrived at Viluppuram and walked into the town at daybreak. Tired and hungry, he asked for food at a hotel and had to wait until noon for the food to be ready. He then went back to the station and spent his remaining money on a ticket to Mambalappattu, a stop on the way to Tiruvannamalai. From there, he set out, intending to walk the remaining distance of about 30 miles (48 km).

After walking about 11 miles (18 km), he reached the temple of Arayaninallur, outside of which he sat down to rest. When the priest opened the temple for puja, Venkataraman entered and sat in the pillared hall where he had a vision of brilliant light enveloping the entire place. He sat in deep meditation after the light disappeared until the temple priests who needed to lock up the temple roused him. He asked them for food and was refused, though they suggested he might get food at the temple in Kilur where they were headed for service.

Venkataraman followed, and late in the evening when the puja ended at this temple, he asked for food and was refused again. The temple drummer who had been watching the rude behaviour of the priests implored them to hand over his share of the temple food to the strange youth. When he asked for water, he was directed to a Sastri’s house. He set out but fainted and fell down, spilling the rice he had been given in the temple. When he regained consciousness, he began picking up the scattered rice, not wanting to waste even a single grain.

Muthukrishna Bhagavatar was amongst the crowd that gathered around Venkataraman when he collapsed. He was so struck by Venkataraman’s extraordinary beauty and felt such compassion for him that he led the boy to his house, providing him with a bed and food. It was August 31, the Gokulastami day, the day of Sri Krishna’s birth. Venkataraman asked Bhagavatar for a loan of four rupees on the pledge of his ear-rings so that he could complete his pilgrimage. Bhagavatar agreed and gave Venkataraman a receipt he could use to redeem his ear-rings. Venkataraman continued on his journey, tearing up the receipt immediately because he knew he would never have any need for the ear-rings.

On the morning of September 1, 1896, Venkataraman boarded the train and traveled the remaining distance. In Tiruvannamalai he went straight to the temple of Arunachaleswara. There, Venkataraman found not only the temple gates standing open, but the doors to the inner shrine as well, and not a single person, even a priest, was in the temple.

He entered the sanctum sanctorum and addressed Arunachaleswara, saying: "I have come to Thee at Thy behest. Thy will be done." He embraced the linga in ecstasy. The burning sensation that had started back at Madurai (which he later described as "an inexpressible anguish which I suppressed at the time") merged in Arunachaleswara. Venkataraman was safely home.

 Sri Ramana Maharshi Early Life at Arunachala

The first few weeks he spent in the thousand-pillared hall, but shifted to other spots in the temple and eventually to the Patala-lingam vault so that he might remain undisturbed. There, he would spend days absorbed in such deep samādhi that he was unaware of the bites of vermin and pests.
Seshadri Swamigal, a local saint, discovered him in the underground vault and tried to protect him. After about six weeks in the Patala-lingam, he was carried out and cleaned up. For the next two months he stayed in the Subramanya Shrine, so unaware of his body and surroundings that food had to be placed in his mouth or he would have starved.


From there, he was invited to stay in a mango orchard next to Gurumurtam, a temple about a mile out of Tiruvannamalai, and shortly after his arrival a sadhu named Palaniswami went to see him. Palaniswami's first darshan left him filled with peace and bliss, and from that time on his sole concern was serving Sri Ramana, joining him as his permanent attendant.
From Gurumurtam to Virupaksha Cave (1899–1916) to Skandasramam Cave (1916–22), he was the instrument of divine protection for Sri Ramana, who would be without consciousness of the body and lost in inner bliss most of the time. Besides physical protection, Palaniswami would also beg for alms, cook and prepare meals for himself and Sri Ramana, and care for him as needed.

Gradually, despite Sri Ramana's silence, austerities, and desire for privacy, he attracted attention from visitors, and some became his disciples. Eventually, his family discovered his whereabouts. First his uncle Nelliappa Iyer came and pled with him to return home, promising that the family would not disturb his ascetic life. Sri Ramana sat motionless and eventually his uncle gave up.
It was at the temple at Pavalakkunru, one of the eastern spurs of Arunachala, that his mother and brother Nagaswami found him in December 1898. Day after day his mother begged him to return, but no amount of weeping and pleading had any visible effect on him. She appealed to the devotees who had gathered around, trying to get them to intervene on her behalf until one requested that Sri Ramana write out his response to his mother. He then wrote on a piece of paper, "In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet." At this point his mother returned to Madurai saddened.

Soon after this, in February 1899, Sri Ramana moved further up Arunachala where he stayed briefly in Satguru Cave and Guhu Namasivaya Cave before taking up residence at Virupaksha Cave for the next 17 years, using Mango Tree cave during the summers (except for a six month period at Pachaiamman Koil during the plague epidemic).

In 1902, a government official named Sivaprakasam Pillai, with writing slate in hand, visited the young Swami in the hope of obtaining answers to questions about "How to know one's true identity". The fourteen questions put to the young Swami and his answers were Sri Ramana's first teachings on Self-enquiry, the method for which he became widely known, and were eventually published as 'Nan Yar?', or in English, ‘Who am I?’.

Several visitors came to him and many became his disciples. Kavyakantha Sri Ganapati Sastri, a Vedic scholar of repute in his age, came to visit Sri Ramana in 1907. After receiving instructions from him, he proclaimed him as Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Sri Ramana was known by this name from then on.

 Sri Ramana Maharshi Discovery by Westerners
It was in 1911 that the first westerner, Frank Humphreys, then a policeman stationed in India, discovered Sri Ramana and wrote articles about him which were first published in The International Psychic Gazette in 1913. However, Sri Ramana only became relatively well known in and out of India after 1934 when Paul Brunton, having first visited Sri Ramana in January 1931, published the book A Search in Secret India, which became very popular. Resulting visitors included Paramahansa Yogananda, Somerset Maugham (whose 1944 novel The Razor's Edge models its spiritual guru after Sri Ramana),Mercedes de Acosta, Julian P. Johnson, and Arthur Osborne. Sri Ramana's relative fame spread throughout the 1940s. However, even as his fame spread, Sri Ramana was noted for his belief in the power of silence and his relatively sparse use of speech, as well as his lack of concern for fame or criticism. His lifestyle remained that of a renunciate.

 Mother's Arrival
In 1912, while in the company of disciples, he was observed to undergo about a 15 minute period where he showed the outward symptoms of death, which reportedly resulted thereafter in an enhanced ability to engage in practical affairs while remaining in Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi. In 1916 his mother Alagammal and younger brother Nagasundaram joined Sri Ramana at Tiruvannamalai and followed him when he moved to the larger Skandashram Cave, where Bhagavan lived until the end of 1922. His mother took up the life of a sannyasin, and Sri Ramana began to give her intense, personal instruction, while she took charge of the Ashram kitchen. Ramana's younger brother, Nagasundaram, then became a sannyasi, assuming the name Niranjanananda, becoming known as Chinnaswami (the younger Swami).

During this period, Sri Ramana composed The Five Hymns to Arunachala, his magnum opus in devotional lyric poetry. Of them the first is Akshara Mana Malai (the Marital Garland of Letters). It was composed in Tamil in response to the request of a devotee for a song to be sung while wandering in the town for alms. The Marital Garland tells in glowing symbolism of the love and union between the human soul and God, expressing the attitude of the soul that still aspires.
 
Ramana Maharshi Mother's Death
Beginning in 1920, his mother's health deteriorated. On the day of her death, May 19, 1922, at about 8 a.m., Sri Ramana sat beside her. It is reported that throughout the day, he had his right hand on her heart, on the right side of the chest, and his left hand on her head, until her death around 8:00 p.m., when Sri Ramana pronounced her liberated, literally, ‘Adangi Vittadu, Addakam’ (‘absorbed’). Later Sri Ramana said of this: "You see, birth experiences are mental. Thinking is also like that, depending on sanskaras (tendencies). Mother was made to undergo all her future births in a comparatively short time.". Her body was enshrined in a samadhi, on top of which a Siva lingam was installed and given the name Mathrubutheswara [Siva manifesting as mother]. To commemorate the anniversary of Ramana Maharshi's mother's death, a puja, known as her Aradhana or Mahapooja, is performed every year at the Mathrubutheswara.

After this, Sri Ramana often walked from Skandashram to her tomb. Then in December 1922, he came down from Skandashram permanently and settled at the base of the Hill, where Sri Ramanasramam is still located today. At first, there was only one hut at the samadhi, but in 1924 two huts, one opposite the samadhi and the other to the north were erected.

 The Later Years
The Sri Ramanasramam grew to include a library, hospital, post-office and many other facilities. Sri Ramana displayed a natural talent for planning building projects. Annamalai Swami gave detailed accounts of this in his reminiscences. Until 1938, Annamalai Swami was entrusted with the task of supervising the projects and received his instructions from Ramana directly.

The 1940s saw many of Sri Ramana's most ardent devotees pass away. These included Echamma (1945), attendant Madhavaswami (1946), Ramanatha Brahmachari (1946), Mudaliar Granny and Lakshmi (1948). Sri Ramana was noted for his unusual love of animals and his assertion that liberation was possible not only for animals but also for plants: Ramana once spoke of a thorn bush gaining liberation by the Grace of a great saint. On the morning of June 18, 1948, he realized his favorite cow Lakshmi was near death. Just as he had with his own Mother, Sri Ramana placed his hands on her head and over her heart. The cow died peacefully at 11:30 a.m. and Sri Ramana later declared that the cow was liberated.

In 1939, at age 21, U.G. Krishnamurti met with Ramana Maharshi. U.G. related that he asked Ramana, "This thing called moksha, can you give it to me?" - to which Ramana Maharshi purportedly replied, "I can give it, but can you take it?". This answer completely altered U.G.'s perceptions of the "spiritual path" and its practitioners, and he never again sought the counsel of "those religious people". Later U.G. would say that Maharshi's answer - which he had originally perceived as "arrogant" - put him "back on track". "That Ramana was a real McCoy," said U.G Krishnamurti.

Sri Ramana was noted for his belief in the power of silence and relatively sparse use of speech. He led a modest and renunciate life, and depended on visitors and devotees for the barest necessities. However, a popular image of him as a person who spent most of his time doing nothing except silently sitting in samadhi is highly inaccurate. From the period when an Ashram began to rise around him after his mother arrived into his later years, Sri Ramana was actually quite active in Ashram activities until his health failed.

 In November 1948, a tiny cancerous lump was found on the Maharshi's arm and was removed in February 1949 by the ashram doctor. Soon, another growth appeared, and another operation was done by an eminent surgeon in March, 1949, with Radium applied. The doctor told Sri Ramana that a complete amputation of the arm to the shoulder was required to save his life, but he refused. A third and fourth operation were performed in August and December 1949, but only weakened him. Other systems of medicine were then tried; all proved fruitless and were stopped by the end of March when devotees gave up all hope.
To devotees who begged him to cure himself for the sake of his followers, Sri Ramana is said to have replied, "Why are you so attached to this body? Let it go" and, "Where can I go? I am here."
He said that he had been able to deal with all the negative energies and energy blockages from everyone he met, but the Energy Blockages he had taken from his mother when she died in order to make her enlightened he had not been able to remove, thus the cancer..

By April 1950, Sri Ramana was too weak to go to the hall, and visiting hours were limited. Visitors would file past the small room where he spent his final days to get one final glimpse. Swami Satyananda, the attendant at the time, reports, "On the evening of 14 April 1950, we were massaging Sri Ramana's body. At about 5 o'clock, he asked us to help him to sit up. Precisely at that moment devotees started chanting 'Arunachala Siva, Arunachala Siva'.
When Sri Ramana heard this his face lit up with radiant joy. Tears began to flow from his eyes and continued to flow for a long time. I was wiping them from time to time. I was also giving him spoonfuls of water boiled with ginger. The doctor wanted to administer artificial respiration but Sri Ramana waved it away. Sri Ramana’s breathing became gradually slower and slower and at 8:47 p.m. it subsided quietly."
 
Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer, who had been staying at the ashram for a fortnight prior to Sri Ramana’s death, recounted the event:

"It is a most astonishing experience. I was in the open space in front of my house, when my friends drew my attention to the sky, where I saw a vividly-luminous shooting star with a luminous tail, unlike any shooting star I had before seen, coming from the South, moving slowly across the sky and, reaching the top of Arunachala, disappeared behind it. Because of its singularity we all guessed its import and immediately looked at our watches – it was 8:47 – and then raced to the Ashram only to find that our premonition had been only too sadly true: the Master had passed into parinirvana at that very minute."

Cartier-Bresson took some of the last photographs of Sri Ramana on April 4, 1950 and went on to take pictures of the mahasamadhi preparations. The New York Times concluded: "Here in India, where thousands of so-called holy men claim close tune with the infinite, it is said that the most remarkable thing about Ramana Maharshi was that he never claimed anything remarkable for himself, yet became one of the most loved and respected of all.".

Sri Ramana's teachings about self-enquiry, the practice he is most widely associated with, have been classified as the Path of Knowledge (Jnana marga) among the Indian schools of thought. Though his teaching is consistent with and generally associated with Hinduism, the Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta, there are some differences with the traditional Advaitic school, and Sri Ramana gave his approval to a variety of paths and practices from various religions.

His earliest teachings are documented in the book Nan Yar? (Who am I?), first written in Tamil.
The original book was published by Sri Pillai, although the essay version of the book (Sri Ramana Nutrirattu) prepared by Sri Ramana is considered definitive as unlike the original it had the benefit of his revision and review. A careful translation with notes is available in English as 'The Path of Sri Ramana, Part One' by Sri Sadhu Om, one of the direct disciples of Sri Ramana.

As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep where there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form "Who am I?", is the principal means.

Knowledge itself is 'I'. The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss.

What is called mind is a wondrous power existing in Self. It projects all thoughts. If we set aside all thoughts and see, there will be no such thing as mind remaining separate; therefore, thought itself is the form of the mind. Other than thoughts, there is no such thing as the world.
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

That which rises in this body as 'I' is the mind. If one enquires 'In which place in the body does the thought 'I' rise first?', it will be known to be in the heart [spiritual heart is 'two digits to the right from the centre of the chest']. Even if one incessantly thinks 'I', 'I', it will lead to that place (Self)'

The mind will subside only by means of the enquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'Who am I?', destroying all other thoughts, will itself finally be destroyed like the stick used for stirring the funeral pyre.

If other thoughts rise, one should, without attempting to complete them, enquire, 'To whom did they arise?', it will be known 'To me'. If one then enquires 'Who am I?', the mind (power of attention) will turn back to its source. By repeatedly practising thus, the power of the mind to abide in its source increases.

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.
Self itself is God

Sri Ramana warned against considering self-enquiry as an intellectual exercise. Properly done, it involves fixing the attention firmly and intensely on the feeling of 'I', without thinking. It is perhaps more helpful to see it as 'Self-attention' or 'Self-abiding' (cf. Sri Sadhu Om - The Path of Sri Ramana Part I). The clue to this is in Sri Ramana's own death experience when he was 16. After raising the question 'Who am I?' he "turned his attention very keenly towards himself"  Attention must be fixed on the 'I' until the feeling of duality disappears.

Although he advocated self-enquiry as the fastest means to realization, he also recommended the path of bhakti and self-surrender (to one's Deity or Guru) either concurrently or as an adequate alternative, which would ultimately converge with the path of self-enquiry.

 Sri Ramana Maharshi - teachings and Advaita
Sri Ramana's teachings and the traditional Advaitic school of thought pioneered by Sri Adi shankara have many things in common. Sri Ramana often mentioned and is known to have encouraged study of the following classical works: Ashtavakra Gita, Ribhu Gita and Essence of Ribhu Gita, Yoga Vasista Sara, Tripura Rahasya, Kaivalya Navaneetam, Advaita Bodha Deepika, and Ellam Ondre. However, there are some practical differences with the traditional Advaitic school, which recommends a negationist neti, neti (Sanskrit, "not this", "not this") path, or mental affirmations that the Self was the only reality, such as "I am Brahman" or "I am He", while Sri Ramana advocates the enquiry "Nan Yar" (Tamil, "Who am I"). Furthermore, unlike the traditional Advaitic school, Sri Ramana strongly discouraged most who came to him from adopting a renunciate lifestyle.

To elaborate:

The traditional Advaitic (non-dualistic) school advocates "elimination of all that is non-self (the five sheaths) until only the Self remains". The five kosas, or sheaths, that hide the true Self are: Material, Vital, Mental, Knowledge, and Blissful.

Sri Ramana says "enquiry in the form 'Who am I' alone is the principal means. To make the mind subside, there is no adequate means other than self-enquiry. If controlled by other means, mind will remain as if subsided, but will rise again"
Teachers in his tradition
He considered his own guru to be the Self, in the form of the sacred mountain Arunachala. Sri Ramana did not publicize himself as a guru, never claimed to have disciples, and never appointed any successors. While a few who came to see him are said to have become enlightened through association, and there are accounts of private acknowledgements, he did not publicly acknowledge any living person as liberated other than his mother at death.
Sri Ramana declared himself an atiasrama (beyond all caste and religious restrictions, not attached to anything in life), and did not belong to or promote any lineage. Despite his non-affiliations, there are numerous contemporary teachers who publicly associate themselves with Sri Ramana, and some who assert being in his lineage.

 method of teaching was characterized by the following:

1.He urged people who came to him to practice self-enquiry;
2.He directed people to look inward rather than seeking outside themselves for Realization. ("The true Bhagavan resides in your Heart as your true Self. This is who I truly am.");
3.He viewed all who came to him as the Self rather than as lesser beings. ("The jnani sees no one as an ajnani. All are only jnanis in his sight.");
4.He charged no money, and was adamant that no one ever ask for money (or anything else) in his name;
5.He never promoted or called attention to himself. Instead, Sri Ramana remained in one place for 54 years, offering spiritual guidance to anyone of any background who came to him, and asking nothing in return;
6.He considered humility to be the highest quality;
7.He said the deep sense of peace one felt around a jnani was the surest indicator of their spiritual state, that equality towards all was a true sign of liberation, and that what a true jnani did was always for others, not themselves.
 
Notable followers
Over the course of Sri Ramana's lifetime, people from a wide variety of backgrounds, religions, and countries were drawn to him. Some stayed for the rest of their lives (or his) and served him with great devotion, and others came for a single darshan and left, deeply affected by the peace he radiated.

Quite a number of followers wrote books conveying Sri Ramana's teachings. Sri Muruganar (1893–1973), one of Sri Ramana's foremost devotees who lived as Sri Ramana's shadow for 26 years, recorded the most comprehensive collection of Sri Ramana's sayings in a work called Guru Vachaka Kovai (The Garland of Guru's Sayings).
Sri Ramana carefully reviewed this work with Sri Muruganar, modifying many verses to most accurately reflect his teaching, and adding in additional verses. Sri Muruganar was also instrumental in Sri Ramana's writing of Upadesa Saram (The Essence of Instruction) and Ulladu Narpadu (Forty Verses on Reality).
Sri Sadhu Om (1922–1985) spent five years with Sri Ramana and about 28 years with Sri Muruganar. His deep understanding of Sri Ramana's teachings on self-enquiry are explained in his book The Path of Sri Ramana – Part One. Suri Nagamma wrote a series of letters to her brother in Telugu, describing Sri Ramana's conversations with devotees over a five year period. Each letter was corrected by Sri Ramana before it was sent. Attendants of Sri Ramana included Palaniswami (from 1897), Kunju Swami (from 1920), Madhava Swami, Ramanatha Brahmachari, Krishnaswami, Rangaswamy, Sivananda, Krishna Bhikshu and Annamalai Swami (from 1928). The devoted ladies who cooked for Bhagavan and his devotees in the ashram kitchen includes, Shantamma, Sampurnamma, Subbalakshmi Ammal, Lokamma, Gowri Ammal and few others.

Paul Brunton's writings about Sri Ramana brought considerable attention to him in the West. Other Westerners who wrote about Sri Ramana include Arthur Osborne (the first editor of the ashram journal, The Mountain Path), Major Chadwick (who ran the Veda Patasala during Ramana's time), Ethel Merston, and S.S. Cohen.
More recently, David Godman, a former librarian at the ashram, has written about Sri Ramana's teaching, as well as a series of books (The Power of the Presence) vividly portraying the lives of a number of lesser-known attendants and devotees of Sri Ramana. Swami Ramdas visited Ramana Maharshi while on pilgrimage in 1922, and after darshan, spent the next 21 days meditating in solitude in a cave on Arunachala. Thereafter, he attained the direct realization that "All was Rama, nothing but Rama".

Maurice Frydman (a.k.a. Swami Bharatananda), a Polish Jew who later translated Nisargadatta Maharaj's work "I Am That" from Marathi to English, was also deeply influenced by Sri Ramana's teachings.

William Somerset Maugham, the English author, wrote a chapter entitled "The Saint" in his last book "Points of View." This chapter is devoted to Ramana Maharshi, whom Maugham had at one time visited before Indian independence.

Indian National Congress politician and freedom-fighter, O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar, who served as the Premier of Madras from 1947 to 1949, was also a devoted follower of Ramana Maharshi. Ramaswami Pillai, Balarama Reddy, Ramani Ammal, Kanakammal, Meenakshi Ammal, Perumalswami and Rayar are some of the other long standing devotees who came into the Sannadhi of Bhagavan during his life at Sri Ramanasramam.

AksharamanamalaiMany of Ramana Maharshi's followers asked for a hymn to sing while on their rounds for alms. They felt this would help distinguish them from other hermits. After much persuasion, Sri Ramana Maharshi composed Sri Arunachala Aksharamanamalai (The Marital Garland of Letters) in praise of Lord Shiva, manifest as the mountain Arunachala. The hymn consists of 108 stanzas composed in poetic Tamil, praising the formless Shiva as Arunachala and the different aspects of life and salvation that it symbolizes
 
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Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self Knowledge, by Arthur Osborne
The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi in his own words, by Arthur Osborne (ISBN 81-88018-15-5) PDF
The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi (ISBN 1-59030-139-0)
Be as You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, by David Godman (ISBN 0-14-019062-7)
Guru Vachaka Kovai (Garland of Guru's Sayings) by Sri Muruganar, translation Sri Sadhu Om PDF
The Collected Works Of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Contains compositions by Sri Ramana, as well as a large number of adaptations and translations by him of classical advaita works (ISBN 81-88018-06-6)
The Path of Sri Ramana, Part One and The Path of Sri Ramana, Part Two, by Sri Sadhu Om (ASIN B000KMKFX0) PDF
Happiness and the Art of Being: A Layman's Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of the Spiritual Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana (ISBN 1-4251-2465-8) PDF
The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi: A Visual Journey (ISBN 1-878019-18-X)
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, by Munagal Venkataramiah, covers the period 1935 to 1939 (ISBN 81-88018-07-4) PDF
Reflections: On Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, by S.S.Cohen (ISBN 81-88018-38-4) PDF
Padamalai: Teachings of Ramana Maharshi Recorded by Sri Muruganar, edited by David Godman (ISBN 0971137137)
Sri Ramana Gita (ISBN 81-88018-17-1)
Day by Day with Bhagavan by A Devaraja Mudaliar (ISBN 81-88018-82-1). An account of daily discussions during the period 1945 to 1947.
Gems from Bhagavan, by A. Devaraja Mudaliar
Maha Yoga, by 'Who' (Lakshmana Sharma), Rev 2002 (ISBN 81-88018-20-1), PDF
Ramana Puranam: Composed by Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Muruganar (ISBN 81-8289-059-9)
Origin of Spiritual Instruction, by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (ISBN 978-0970366733)
Who am I?: the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi by Ramana Maharshi
Ulladhu Narpadhu - Collection of 40 hymns by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
BiographiesSelf-Realization: The Life and Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, by B.V. Narasimha Swami (ISBN 81-88225-74-6)
Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self Knowledge, by Arthur Osborne online text
Sri Ramana Leela, by Krishna Bhikshu (Telegu Original) PDF version online
Timeless in Time: Sri Ramana Maharshi, by A.R. Natarajan (ISBN 81-85378-82-7)
Ramana Maharshi: His Life, by Gabriele Ebert (ISBN 978-1411673502)
ReminiscencesA Sadhu's Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi, by Major A. W. Chadwick (ISBN 81-88018-37-6)
Living By The Words of Bhagavan, by David Godman (no ISBN) about Annamalai Swami
The Power of the Presence, Part One, by David Godman (ISBN 0-9711371-1-0), about several devotees
The Power of the Presence, Part Two, by David Godman (ISBN 0-9711371-0-2), about several devotees
The Power of the Presence, Part Three, by David Godman (ISBN 0-9711371-2-9), about several devotees
Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma (ISBN 81-88018-10-4), contains 273 letters from the period 1945 to 1950, each one corrected by Sri Ramana.
A Practical Guide to Know Yourself: Conversations with Sri Ramana Maharshi (ISBN 81-85378-09-6)
Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness (ISBN 1-878019-00-7)
Guru Ramana, by S.S. Cohen (ISBN 81-88225-22-3)
Moments Remembered, Reminiscences of Bhagavan Ramana, by V. Ganesan (ISBN 978-8188018437)
Living with the Master, Reminiscences by Kunjuswami (ISBN 81-88018-99-6)
Sri Ramana Reminiscences, by G. V. Subbaramayya
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 Also I noticed as soon as Satchidanand emailed me, I got a down-pouring of light from above the crown which kept charging me up the rest of the day – and my cravings died out! Then I realized the cravings were ego-blockages and that I did not want them.

This meditation 3 - The Energy Enhancement Course Level One, Initiation Three Streaming Video... is great! I've done it some more and it's incredibly powerful. I don't know why it isn't more well known or taught?
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It's really bringing up little blockages which are complaining while being pushed down into the earth's core to get purified. The hot fire energy has gotten much stronger in my body while doing the practice, mostly the base of the spine heats up, but also the middle of the spine. There are lots of little blockages being noticed. But I'm pushing them out.


I think this is my new favorite meditation practice! It's far more powerful than the normal orbit practice.


 Have practiced it some more – my body gets very hot during the practice – just like the video says.
 
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My mother came into the room and told me she 'couldn't be near me' because I was giving off too much heat – like a radiator! After this I noticed that by thinking about certain areas of my body I could send the intense heat to that area!


So now this meditation is definitely the most powerful one I have got. Very impressive. I do an in breath/out breath orbit and then hold for a moment at the earth-core. Then I bring up the energy again.

 I've had another experience today, which is light surrounding a part of my selfish ego, and my ego submitted. The light has won for this issue. It is no longer possible to tolerate some of my selfish behaviours.

 Now I feel very peaceful.
 

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"Sri Ramana maintained that the purest form of his teachings was the powerful silence - the Presence which radiated from him and quieted the minds of those attuned to it. He gave verbal teachings only for the benefit of those who could not understand his silence"

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Meditation Course Testimonial by Susan Wade - Nurse - Ramana Maharshi Experiences on the 1997 Southern India Tour
From Devi and Sat I have gained Support, friendship, healing and guidance in contacting our source of inner wisdom through the release of old patterns of behaviour - daily practice of meditation and Energy Work.
From the Energy Enhancement Work I got the importance of daily routine of meditation - time to be alone and get in contact with my higher self, also tune into my thought system and experience how I really feel about issues affecting my life eg. Trust - I find it hard to form close friendships through lack of trust, opening myself up may result in pain. Learning to take risks, trust in guidance from my higher self. If I do experience pain in any relationship - what lessons can I learn from this pain - see it as a teaching/growth experience rather than negative experience which reconfirms to my darker side Just can't trust anybody - told you so!
Hatha yoga - gentle form of yoga which allows you to proceed at your own pace - awareness of stiffness/pain of body joints. Correct breathing into the pain allows the body to relax and the pain to leave - allowing you to master the pain with awareness rather than give up. The chanting was good. I have felt a fire in the heart and heat in the spine after chanting with Devi and Sat in Sai Babas Ashram.
The Ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi embraced me with love, gentleness and feeling of inner peace. On walking up the steps into the cave of Ramana Maharshi I was embraced by strong energy - a welcome energy. During meditating in his room (in the cave) I had a strong vision of him entering my forehead. He (Ramana Maharshi) told me it was time to go home.  The vision has reappeared to bring me support during periods of deep inner pain experienced throughout the tour.
RAMANA MAHARSHI
In the Ashram of Father Bede Griffiths  I felt strong presence of spiritual energy. The lectures from brother Martin about looking at life and teachings of Christs message through love and not fear, as man likes to believe, has allowed me, as a Catholic, to respect Christs teaching and see him as a teacher of love and wisdom. Happiness is here to obtain in this life, not the next.
Ashram of Sai Baba - Opening of my heart Chakra.
During a healing session with Devi and Satchidanand, a person who wronged me, raped me, 22 years ago, leaving me with pain and guilt, came through Satchidanand in a healing session to say he was sorry for the grief he had caused. This has helped me to release a lot of pent up tension, anger guilt, pain. To be asked for forgiveness awakens the part of you that would like to be forgiven for the times I have wronged people - to look at the areas in my life I need to resolve before I get a true picture of my inner qualities, strengths, accepting guidance within.
The power of forgiveness and to forgive is a very strong quality to possess, a wonderful friend to have.

(Since the course Susan has left UK where she has been working as a nurse for many years having been almost exiled there by the parochial consciousness of New Zealand after her rape 22 years ago. She is dealing with the Mastery of Relationships Initiation. She has now returned home to New Zealand after her spiritual vision in the cave at Arunachala - Ramana Maharshi "It is time to go Home" Love and Light, Satchidanand)

 

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THOMAS BLAIR'S REPORT FROM THE ASHRAM OF SATHYA SAI BABA JULY 9TH 2010
I have been to see Satchi & Devi almost once a year since 2005, and I have to say, that I have never been let down. Every time they greet me at the airport I am received in an atmosphere of great warmth, positivity and generosity, into which I soon relax and know that it’s safe to be me with all my “luggage”. In June 2010 I recently went on a 6 week course they were holding in India.
In the weeks I spent with them it was clear that the blockages I was removing with their help, were increasing the amount of energy flowing through me during meditation. I have never been one to naturally take to meditating, but with these new experiences of Samadhi (sam – with, adhi – the light), it was certainly making it possible for me to sit for much longer periods.
I must concede, that on more than one occasion I started to object and complain about what we were doing, and the methods employed to transmute the blockages in my being. Satchi & Devi would patiently wait for me to see that the person complaining was not the real me, it was not the soul infused personality that I really am, but rather the voice of the blockages that did not want to go. There are different types of blockages, and of course, the easy ones are the first to go, but I was now experiencing some really tough ones. They can certainly be very cunning these blockages, and its thanks to the experience and energy of Satchi & Devi that I was able to continue on my way to overcome some really strong blockages.
My experiences of Samadhi: The first time I experienced anything other than a calm mind in meditation was actually the very first course I attended with Satchi & Devi in Spain. The experience of energy surging through my body was first felt in my 1st and 2nd chakras. It was like having champagne bubbling away in my lower abdomen. Before I talk about my experience here in India, I think it would be useful to describe briefly and partly a technique used to commence the flow of energy and so the entry into Samadhi. It’s to do with using the mind to visualise chakras above the head and below the base chakra to infinity. For me, the concept of infinity and trying to imagine this distance above my head, kind of triggered a bypass switch in my mind, and all of a sudden my mind was quite literally replaced by a surge of electricity and light – Samadhi. 
"If the Map is Correct, Experiences Follow" - Satchidanand
This time here in India I was experiencing different levels of Samadhi. During meditation I notice the attainment of a constant flow of energy through my being which gets more and more intense, and rises further and further up my body, the higher I go up the chakras above my head to an inconceivably bright and intense sun. Quite often my breathing slows or even stops a while at the head of an in-breath as my head feels infused with light. My body feels like it is being purified, and in fact it is, as light is being shone through me. I always finish the meditation feeling more positive about my life and the world around me and a feeling that really everything is ok.
Over and above this, I receive what I would describe as bolts of light lasting between 2-5 seconds.

During these brief moments, I am no longer a body with senses or even a sense of weighing or being anything, and am unable to think.
"In the Buddhafield we find we can Move On More Quickly!" - Satchidanand
It’s my experience that the body is like a resistor in an electronic circuit. The more blockages we have, the greater the resistance to the light. By removing a significant number of blockages, I have reduced the resistance of my gross and subtle body, and am now able to sit in Samadhi with ease. And of course, the more light I can sit in, the more blockages I can remove - now that’s what I call spiritual progress! - Thomas Blair July 2010
 
HONEY KALARIA EMAILS SATCHIDANAND JANUARY 2011
Dear Satchidanandji and Devi

Thank you for the birthday wishes.

How are you? I am so glad to hear about the Iguazu ashram project and wanted to wish you luck with the venture. I hope all is going well. I have just launched my new website - (www.honeykalaria.com) and will shortly be launching The Honey Kalaria Foundation to help various causes. I am also raising funds for an International Meditation Centre here in the UK.

Wishing you love and light


Honey Kalaria
Dear Honey,

How am I? Very well and working hard to make Our Energy Enhancement Foundation the Center of Excellence it already is.

A Five Star Retreat at the World Heritage Site of Iguazu Falls with High Flux Densities of Spiritual Energy in the Buddhafield, Air Conditioning, Upgraded Fixtures, Swimming Pool, Sauna, Incredible Vegetarian Food,

As you know, Energy Enhancement really works - and much better than most of the expensive courses taught by the so called, "famous" teachers.

I told you I had taken away your Energy Blockage in the Second, abdominal chakra, during your course with us and you said your menstrual problem had improved.

I often think that the seven step process could have helped Ramana Maharshi from succumbing to the Energy Blockage which gave him Cancer!!

Yes, Energy Enhancement is a much higher Revelation, meant to help the Enlightened take more, higher, Initiations!!

In your Course Report you said you wanted to know about your relationships and you had lifetime after lifetime of feedback about this, explaining how you came to be as you are now. The problem started with the loss of Your husband in a Turkish past life and you even met up with this guy, Ramiya, YOUR HUSBAND FROM TURKEY REBORN! on the Course!!

The problem is one of loss, if you like, bereavement and fear of bereavement. To lose the person we are attached to. And the problem of attachment to the Prince and the problems this brought in its wake.

And the solution - a movement to being successful at other things which do not give that same problem. As when you were looking after the business matters of the Princess, with great success.

Yet every success is always followed by failure. In the end it is all taken away as we die, and all of our success, all of our empire cannot follow us into the grave.

Our only legacy is that which we pass on to the people of the future.

Our only legacy is our own evolution, which can only come from the very highest teachings and the highest aspiration.

It is the reduction of attachment which is the key...

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - "Enlightenment comes through practise and non attachment"

It is the attachment of the Energy Blockages of the ego which needs to be dissolved.

And it is here that Energy Enhancement holds the key!!.

My aim in this lifetime, which cannot fail!! as it is the will of the Higher Masters that this be so, that Energy Enhancement become the new Meditation Technique, which influences all the World Meditations, improving them and thus improving the evolution of all Humanity. This must be so because there is no course in the world which teaches more than Energy Enhancement. It is the Source of all meditational excellence.

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Yours in Love and Light,

Satchidanand
 
 
AVATARS
...There is a third category of personages or august or exalted beings, who, though embodied in a human frame, in truth are super beings. From time immemorial such personages, albeit only on extremely rare occasions, take birth on this earth, live, and work amongst the common humanity and guide an immense number of them to the Supreme Wisdom. They are the highest manifestations of the Primary Consciousness or Almighty God and therefore from the very moment of their birth they have the Absolute Wisdom about the nature of the whole cosmos and all its contents. They also have Absolute knowledge of Primary Consciousness, in other words, the knowledge about their own Divinity and Godhead. These super beings are called Purna Avatars (also Poorna or Full), or Supreme Incarnations of Almighty God, in Sanathana Dharma (Ancient Wisdom) or the Perennial Religion. Purna Avatars are born with an extraordinary array of supernatural powers, and possess an inexhaustible ability to perform divine miracles or miraculous deeds. They use these supernatural powers of theirs with the highest motives for both spiritual and temporal good of other beings, especially human beings. They never use these powers to benefit themselves.

Up to now, in the whole history of mankind, all together four such Purna Avatars or Supreme Incarnations of Almighty God have taken birth on earth....


From Adwaita Rahasya - Secrets of Creation Revealed  by Dr. Chandra Bhan Gupta


When He comes down assuming special form on special occasions for a specific purpose, He is known as Avathara. In fact, Manu and Prajapati and other Persons are Divine Persons entrusted by Brahma (the Creator aspect) with the mission of peopling the world. Everything happens in consonance with the Divine Will. So we can assert that the saints, sages, ascetics, and men both good and bad are all Avatharas of the Vishnu (Preserver) Entity (also called Hari). Avatharas are as countless as living beings are, for, each is born as a consequence of Divine Will. But the story of the Yugavathar (The Avatar of the Age) alone is worth perusal for the Advent is to restore Dharma (righteousness) and moral life.

In a strange way we are all Avatars since we all contain the inner Atma. But since we identify with our limited individuality and self importance and human powers, we are Avatars only as a potentiality.
A true Avatar by contrast is always aware that he is God in the form of a human and has the full power of the universe and beyond behind him.
 

 
When goodness grows weak,
When evil increases,
I make myself a body.

In every age I come back
To deliver the holy,
To destroy the sin of the sinner
To establish righteousness
(Bhagavad Gita)


 
ANNA'S ENERGY ENHANCEMENT COURSE STUDENT REPORT WITH SWAMI SATCHIDANAND AND SWAMI DEVI DHYANI -  JAN 22ND TO FEBRUARY 25TH 2011
ANNAS EXPERIENCE WITH PSYCHIC POWERS, PSYCHIC VISION, SIDDHIS, AND INCREDIBLE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE TRIANGLE OF CHAKRAS IN THE HEAD
"A few days ago Satchidanand was glowing such that Anna could not look at him.

She said she needed sunglasses.
She had to leave the presence.

The growing pains produced by the spiritual radiation were intense.
"Swami Satchidanand is Radiator of Spiritual Tension, a Walking Point of Crisis"  - This is The Buddhafield of Satchidanand
Due to the effects of the Radiation she took a day out and went to sleep.

In the dream she knew she was dreaming.

In the dream she was asleep. and she knew she was asleep in the dream.

And she was watching what was going on in the second dream - three levels.

She saw Devi cleaning the floor, and Devi was not happy with the result. Some floorboards were white but some were dark.

Eventually Devi gave up and left a crystal on a bed of salt with a cloth over the top.

Anna examined the crystal from the second level.

And then a cat came in with three kittens.

Apparently Satchidanand was there because he said, "She is feeding, shoo her out!!" so she did. And we think this refers to the three energy blockage snakes in the cave of snakes Anna found in the sacrum during the first week with us. Blockages out!!

And then onto the fourth level of dream, a pink room where Satchidanand was cleaning a mirror of its greasy marks because the mind needs to reflect that which is to be truly true. Greasy spots reflect a lie, an untruth, the symptoms of energy blockages"

"There she removed five inner children sub-personalities and a mazy unclarity in the limpid clarity required of a clean mental aura.
As she cleared it she was allowed to ascend to Sirius and in the temple there entered into the sacred flame. She found herself entering naked into a golden room with golden filigrees on the door. Eight naked men followed her in. With her in the center they lay on the floor feet towards her, heads pointing away in a circle around her. There they turned into golden skeletons and Anna ascended up the Antahkarana spinning clockwise.
There was an Angel who noted her name in the book and allowed her to continue her ascent in to the Avatar of Synthesis - SYMBOLISING THAT NOW, AFTER PURIFICATION, SHE CAN BE A PART OF THAT HIGH COMMUNITY. There she noticed many clones of Master Satchidanand with his glasses who is the hands of the Avatar of Synthesis on this planet"
"There she also received the vision of herself on a Long Superhighway. There are many souls in the cars speeding along there. She knows it is a long road. But she also knows that Energy Enhancement is the Fastest Path!!
"After her meditation on the superhighway Anna continued her Energy Enhancement Initiations with The Spiritual Aura of Energy Enhancement Level 2 Initiation 5. As she went out into the infinite spiritual Aura she was taken upwards exactly as in the previous Initiation in the mental Aura. She was taken Higher. As she ascended again the Angel checked her name off in  the book allowing her to enter into the great community of Souls at the Avatar of Synthesis.
She found herself in front of Satchidanand who was sitting on a throne, radiating white light. She felt herself like a three years old child taken by Satchidanand and standing at his side, enfolded in his arms and in his love. She felt him touching her back  and head and tears came down from her eyes.
From the crowd of great souls around her came the cry, "Give her the present!"
And Satchidanand gave her a triangular mechanism created out of pure mental matter looking like light or ether. She was told it was to integrate the triangle of Chakras in the head, forming an integrated Unit out of the three chakras of the head.
The functioning triangle of Sahasrara Ray One of Purpose and Will connected with the light of the Central Spiritual Sun above the head of Intuition, Alta Major Center at the occipital base of the Skull Ray Two of Love connected with the energies beaming out of the left eye, and Ajna Brow Chakra Ray Three of the Intellect connected with the energies beaming out of the right eye and the connections between them - ALL POWERED BY THE VAST ENERGIES OF THE BASE CHAKRA CONNECTED WITH THE INFINITE ENERGIES OF KUNDALINI CHAKRA.
Putting in the integrative triangle was a blast. Satchidanand said, "You need to get used to it"
The purpose of this triangle is to Radiate the Light of the higher chakras and so influence and evolve her own students.. I suppose they will have to get sunglasses also!! LOL!!"

"There he settled in the spacious comfortable cave, not even sleeping, but meditating continuously except for a single break once a day to prepare a meal of flour and water mixed with whatever root or edible he might find." - History of Milarepa
Read the History of Milarepa below so that you might see what has been necessary in the past to achieve Illumination.
Energy Enhancement is at a much higher energy level. From the Ascended masters from the highest chakras above the Head. Using the most advanced techniques from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Thus the methodology of Energy Blockage removal is much quicker than Samadhi 24 Hrs per day as enjoined by Milarepa.
Energy Enhancement Samyama is much faster.
Speed up your path to the Bliss of Enlightenment NOW!! by Video Course or Live with Satchidanand and Devi Dhyani.
ANNA AT THE END OF HER ENERGY ENHANCEMENT COURSE
 
Anna Visiting Iguassu Falls January 2011 At the Start of Her Energy Enhancement Course
Anna's Energy Enhancement Course Report 22nd February 2011 - COMPLETE
PSYCHIC POWERS, PSYCHIC VISION, SIDDHIS, AND INCREDIBLE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE TRIANGLE OF CHAKRAS IN THE HEAD
I never realized the power of blockages until a couple of weeks prior to coming on this course. As my departure date came closer the blockages began to show themselves in greater intensity. They showed themselves in every aspect of my relationships with all around me. They invaded my thoughts, my emotions and my actions. Creating statements not only in my head but also voiced statements which I knew were not really what I deeply felt about me and the reasons why the course was important to me. I wanted to be rid of these blockages they were holding me back from my Path. They were preventing further advancement, they wanted to hold me were I was, the blockages were happy with their life in me. I knew that I needed to travel away from my own reality to have undisturbed time, devoted time, with out distraction to be able to work on these deep seated blockages. As soon as I got on the airplane the blockages fell silent, they tried to hide even deeper inside of me hoping that they would not be discovered.

When the work began, the blockages would try to distract me in every way possible. Creating illusions in my mind and procrastination, I’ll do it later, I don’t need to do this now, I’ll read, dream, sleep anything but settle down to do the meditation required to deal with a particular aspect of the blockages. Slowly the work reached into the deeper levels of my subconscious and I could look at the different effects that particular blockages had upon how I responded to certain situations, repeated patterns of behavior that I had been trying to break using other spiritual methods I knew.

Deeper and deeper I travel into my subconscious and the benefits I received back became deeper and deeper. I recover my inner sense of joy and happiness which I had not felt for a while. Life can beat you down every now and again and I had few tools to be able to restore my inner joy and inner happiness. My internal smile returned.

As the Initiations progressed so did my internal peace. As I was reaching the end of Initiation 3, which took a lot of time, dedication and bloody mindedness I received several amazing gifts from Spirit, from the Divine Love that we all crave for. I had three distinct experiences.

The first one was of a downloading nature; I had gone to lie down after a particularly challenging meditation, I had placed my newly acquired large quartz crystal on my heart chakra. I realized that time had passed but not how long and when I came to I found it difficult to move my arms and legs, my body was so heavy, my palm chakras were shining so brightly, I felt as if crystals had been implanted, energy flowed down my forearms, down my legs. I had been out for just over an hour. I felt as if I had been floating, somewhere else, not completely sure of where or what had been happening, but I felt so good, so blessed, so loved. It took me a few hours to fully integrate back into my physical body.

The next gift happened the shortly after. I got up but was having great difficulty in waking up, my mind just wanted to go back to sleep. I forced myself to attend breakfast and after it was decided that I should go back to sleep for a while. I fell into a deep sleep for 3 hours and awoke remembering in full detail the contents of the most amazing dream I have ever experienced. I was dreaming in three different realities. I knew I was asleep in the physical sense; I was also asleep in my dream and also walking about. I knew in my dream that I was asleep in both realities. At some point during my physical sleep I turned onto my back, all that happened next was whilst I was asleep.

I began to realize that my occipital was hurting; hurting like it had never hurt before. I felt a loving hand gently stroke the right side of my face, tears rolled down my face in both my dream and in reality. Tears created by the loving compassionate touch that I received. I only saw the hand. I had blazing white light fill my mind and time had no meaning. This happened several times during the dream sequence. I knew I was asleep in the physical world and I knew I was asleep in my dream world.

I moved from the room that I was asleep in, in my dream world, to a space that was occupied by Satchi and Devi. They were cleaning, Devi on her hands and knees cleaning the floor around where I sat on a reclining chair. In through the French window to my left I saw a black Mother cat come into the room followed by three little fuzzy black balls, her kittens. I said to Satchi the cats have got in. In a very loving voice Satchi says to me ´She is feeding; make sure you get her out´. It was as if the cat was just looking for somewhere safe to feed her kittens. I got up from the chair and walked down a corridor and shushed the cats out, Satchi said you might wanted to have a look in this room and I entered a totally baby pink room, the floor, ceiling and walls baby pink in color. The only thing in the room was a large mirror which Satchi had been cleaning grease marks off of.

I then return to the room in which I am asleep in my dream and I find Devi cleaning the floor around me. She knew I was asleep. She is not happy with the way the floor had turned out and she is complaining about using too much liquid to clean the floor. It was as if the floor had been bleached in parts. I wake up in my dream and find that she has left a cloth, some salts and a large quartz crystal on the floor beside me. I pick up the crystal to investigate what she has left and return all in the same place as I found it.

Before returning to the physical world I became aware of the pain in both my palms and I turn to look at my right palm and find a clear quartz crystal has been placed into my palm chakra. I also have a pain in my left palm but not to the same intensity. Upon waking I realize that I have had my right hand in the receiving position, palm upwards by my head and my left hand in the releasing position, palm downwards facing towards my feet.

At some point in my dream I did think Satchi what have you done to me and could you turn down the intensity please but I also know that you only receive what you can cope with. I woke up feeling refreshed, amazed and a little bit in awe of what I had just experienced. The number three had already been present in my mediations and I immediately understood that the cat and her kittens were blockages trying to return. I also understood that Satchi and Devi had both been working hard to help me clean my body, soul and chakras.

My third out of this world experience happened towards the end of completing Initiation Four of Level Two. Just before the meditation came to an end I was propelled upwards, higher than I have ever been before. It was as if my Antahkarana had become a space ship, higher and higher I went. I was taken to an outcrop, a landing platform with mountains all around.

In the centre of the circular disc was a lit candle. With out hesitation I walked straight in to the burning candle. As soon as I did this the candle changed into a golden circular chamber with beautiful lattice grills all around. A door opened and people began to walk in to the chamber. I thought who are they? But the image quickly changed and they lay down all around me in an eight pointed shape with their feet towards me. They had turned into golden skeletons. I was raised higher, spinning, turning in a clockwise direction with rainbow light showering down upon me.

Satchi advised me to return to this place to ask where I had gone to, what was the name of this place? What was the reason I was taken there? What was the next step in my path? When I returned the next day I was shown several different levels as I was taken higher and higher. At one stage I was shown an Angel looking in a book, I had the impression that she was checking to see if my name was there.

As I arrived at the next level I began to see Satchi look-alikes, several men with long white beards and wearing glasses. I had been asking my questions and the images changed to a long road, a highway spreading out before me. As I began to travel along the highway, cars came and went in both directions. Sitting on the highway barriers, on both sides of the highway, I saw people. The souls of people also traveling the path or people waiting to helped along their soul path?

I have had many other experiences whilst here, feelings of great gratitude and forgiveness towards family members, towards friends both past and present, towards my self in this present life and towards myself in past lives. I have felt things make sense, a sort of order restored within, a newly found strength of balance. New tools to help me deal with what life can throw at me. I feel that I am able to love myself more than before. I have felt supported, physically, emotionally and spiritually by Satchi and Devi. I have felt their compassion and the compassion of the Divine Universal love for all.
ANNA - 22ND FEBRUARY 2011

Satchidanand's Energy Enhancement Course Report on Anna, Updated 25th February 2011 - Including a few of the Teachings and Experiences received by Anna on the Course
Anna came to Iguassu for a One Month Two Level Energy Enhancement Course. She is the Loving wife of one of our previous students and mother of two strapping Irish sons. She has been involved in Shaman training and now teaches how to make shamanic drums in workshops worldwide.
We all have psychic powers. Normally they have so little energy powering them that they do not work properly - As we "Powered UP!" all of the psychic powers in Energy Enhancement Level One - Anna  started to "see" (Psychic Vision is always one of the first "Siddhis" to arrive in Energy Enhancement) She had the experience of Blockages above the head in the chakras above the head which she "Saw" as the inability to create the antahkarana higher than the Logos chakra, preventing her ascent of the Antahkarana.
In association of the information on the Omphallos Stone (See the Energy Enhancement Book, "Super Energy and Sacred Symbols") - captured in its "Argenon" or "Snake basket" from Delphi and the dark, "Pythonesses" the divinatory priestesses of the Delphi Cult  which covered the whole Mediterranean and through Plutarch, the then head of the order, became one of the state religions of Rome through Augustus Caesar in his meeting with them in Capri. She investigated the, "Cave of the Snakes" which she found in the  spine in the Sacral Region and worked on three Viper Snake energy blockages which she found there - from past lifetimes in these organisations.
As we move on into Energy Enhancement Level Two, - The Elimination of Energy Blockages - all these blockages we have seen will have to go!!
Anna has been talking of looking and feeling much better now, so I suppose we will have to have the, "After" picture to follow the, "Before" one above.
As Anna was working on the Energy Blockages above the head using the Seven Step Process of level 2 she found incredible energy intensity as she grounded and sent up Energy Blockages implanted into her Antahkarana many lifetimes ago.
She said, "but you did not tell me about the intensity of the Energy before I came" and this is what I wrote to her husband by email..
Anna is Working on the Fourth Level and above of the Seven step process.

She said, "You didn't tell me it would be this intense!"

I say that its like this the very first time. Growing pains. It will not be like that again.

All we are doing is increasing our abilities to handle the highest flux densities of energy.

The end of the process is that we become Ascended Masters.

To do this we have to study with someone at a higher level.

Its all very well working on the things we can do easily.

But in order to progress, we need to work on the things at a higher level.

More on the edge.

In chess, "we can only improve by playing a better opponent". (From The Guy Ritchie Movie, "Revolver", First Cut, where the whole movie is about removing all the sub personalities of the Ego)

Its what Castaneda calls, "The Perfect Enemy"

Long may it continue from that place of, "No Fear"

Anna has removed blockages from above the head, below the base and is now working on the blockages within the body. Base Chakra, Money, sex, security, fear, Base Chakra energy connections with other people. As she says, "The Three F's Fear, Food and Fucking". And as she was working on these areas she was getting the past life experiences where these blockages were formed.
Energy Enhancement works on the, "Need to Know" basis. Most of the stuff we do not need to know, and this stuff just gets grounded. But sometimes there is something which our Soul wants us to know. These are the visions which are shown to us all the way through the Energy Enhancement Course.
And in Energy Enhancement it is the Soul who is in charge of the  Course. Not Me. Not the Anna personality, but that Soul infused Personality who is in the process of throwing out all the other Dark Sub-Personalities, connected to the dark side, infused with trauma caused negative Karmic mass. This process is just that symbolised by the Bhagavad Gita where Arjuna represents the Pandava White Angels inside a human being and The Kaurava family represents the Dark Angels within a human being. The war between the two of them represents the process of purification of the Energy Enhancement course where our student will ground and heal all the Energy Blockages before absorbing them back into the Soul where they all become ONE! There can only be ONE!!
THIS BATTLE CAN ONLY BE WON WITH THE HELP OF KRISHNA WHO SYMBOLISES THE HIGHER SELF, THE SOUL, THE MONAD AND HIGHER!!
As she was working on some of the childish sub personalities created in every family where there is competition and jealousy for the love and attention of the parents from every sibling, she had tremendous intensity of energy in the Visshuddhi throat chakra moving down into the Heart chakra particularly in the Mental Aura of the heart Chakra.
"The energy was so intense", she said, "But I was in that space of No-Mind and it was not me doing the work. Everything was ready for this great operation and It was being Done for me and as I sat for  an Hour!! (I have never ever been able to sit for  anything like that length of time before) so the whole mass of deep dark energy blockages were cleared out of the region. The result was that someone, Shiva, Lakshmi, Krishna, opened  up all the minor chakras in my body, shining in my hand chakras and brow chakra and I felt all the meridians flowing with the light. Wow!!
After that I had a go at the triangle of Chakras within the head. The functioning triangle of Sahasrara Ray One of Purpose and Will connected with the light of the Central Spiritual Sun above the head of Intuition, Alta Major Center at the occipital base of the Skull Ray Two of Love connected with the energies beaming out of the left eye, and Ajna Brow Chakra Ray Three of the Intellect connected with the energies beaming out of the right eye and the connections between them.
Removing the Energy Blockages in this region caused me the next day to be blinded by the light emanating from the psychic body of Satchidanand during our regular daily talks. Every day I see his  Aura glowing bright white, but today it was so brilliant I could barely watch him. I suppose I will have to wear sun glasses!!
I told him that it was only the preparation of previous courses on the Shamanka Shamanic path which had given me enough purity and strength to continue the Energy Enhancement Process. He told me that great masters will not meet with normal people as the radiant energy of the master will be too much for the normal student and will, "Blow them out". The Radiant Light, The Buddhafield of Masters will, "cast out" the energy blockages of the student. Usually the  Energy Blockages will talk to the students to Go from the Ashram before that can happen by creating bad thoughts and resentment over anything to do with the Master or the Ashram. Thus they are, "Blown Out". Great Masters will only meet with their disciples who have proven able to take the energies..
Before I came on the Energy Enhancement Course. For two weeks before it I was in the state of incredible fear. All my blockages were afraid, jumping up and down and trying to get me not to come. I was in an incredible state just before I had to get on the plane but I knew what was going on. I knew I had to defeat these energy blockages and now I am here I would never not have come. The course has just blown me away!!
Thus Satchidanand says, "You have been looking all over the World to find One Master who is Genuine. Me, I've been looking all my life for a genuine Student" We need to know that we are on the path of increasing that studentness inside of us. For this, normally we need some previous spiritual path before meeting a genuine Master. Only a genuine student can become enlightened.
Osho had a student in Germany who wrote to everyone to say that he was Enlightened. Osho knew he was not and so asked him to come to meet him again. When he came he said, "I don't know what happened. When I was in Germany I was Enlightened. But now I am here suddenly  it has gone from me and I am back in the same unenlightened state." But then he want back to Germany and again he was writing everyone to say he was enlightened again.
There are many people alive in the world like Hitler and Stalin who are the cause of all the problems in the World.
There are many Charlatans in the World. Milarepa visited one before he found his real Master and became  Enlightened. Milarepa became one of the greatest saints in Tibet and the thousand songs of Milarepa are still sung in Tibet. But before he went on the Path of Light, Milarepa practised to become a Black Magician so he had some previous spiritual training.  He came to a monastery on the banks of one of the deepest and coldest lakes in the Himalayas. The Master there said, "Just chant my name and you will be able to do anything!!"
One of the defining traits of a Student is faith. People who are cynical would say naivety. Whatever we call it, this trait is necessary. To believe that one person in the World has ever become enlightened requires a big leap of Faith whether that person is Jesus Christ, Buddha or Krishna.
So when Milarepa came out out of his interview with the Master all the cynical non students decided to have some fun. They said, "At the top of the mountain is a 1000 meter cliff. Surely by chanting the Masters name you can jump off the top without any problems!" And Milarepa was so stupid he said, "yes!"
And the students followed him up the mountain to the top of the cliff every moment expecting him to chicken out. But Milarepa sat at the top in the Lotus. And chanting the Masters name he flung himself from the top!!
The students were horrified. They ran to the bottom expecting to see his broken body on the rocks. But he was there!! Sitting in the Lotus posture chanting the Master's name.
So they said, "Now walk across the waters of the Lake" and chanting the Masters name, Milarepa walked on the Waters of the deepest coldest lake in the whole of Tibet.
The Master was looking out of his window and saw this. He asked his closest disciple what was going on and the Disciple told him that he was chanting the Masters name and thus was able to do anything.
The Master was really proud, "I am so powerful" he thought.
So next morning at 4am he went out to the lake and chanting his own name went out onto the lake, fell in and drowned!!
They were all searching for the Master. Where was  he?
But Milarepa just shrugged and went off looking for his genuine Master, found him and became Enlightened.
Just because you have psychic powers does not mean that you are enlightened. Milarepa developed his on a dark path of Black magic.
Everyone on the energy enhancement course develops psychic powers in order to remove energy blockages in yourself, and in others..
The test of Illumination is the ability to stay with a Master without any problems as the Master and his Soul and his Monad will always try to bring the Student's Energy Blockages to the attention of the Student so that he can work on them and remove them.
WRITTEN 16TH  FEBRUARY 2011 - ONLY NINE DAYS LEFT TO GO!!
Hi,

Anna is very happy!!

A few days ago I was glowing such that she could not look at me.

She said she needed sunglasses.
She had to leave the presence.

The growing pains produced by the spiritual radiation were intense.
"Swami Satchidanand is Radiator of Spiritual Tension, a Walking Point of Crisis"  - This is The Buddhafield of Satchidanand
Due to the effects of the Radiation she took a day out and went to sleep.

In the dream she knew she was dreaming.

In the dream she was asleep. and she knew she was asleep in the dream.

And she was watching what was going on in the second dream - three levels.

She saw Devi cleaning the floor, and Devi was not happy with the result. Some floorboards were white but some were dark.

Eventually Devi gave up and left a crystal on a bed of salt with a cloth over the top.

Anna examined the crystal from the second level.

And then a cat came in with three kittens.

Apparently Satchidanand was there because he said, "She is feeding, shoo her out!!" so she did. And we think this refers to the three energy blockage snakes in the cave of snakes Anna found in the sacrum during the first week with us. Blockages out!!

And then onto the fourth level of dream, a pink room where Satchidanand was cleaning a mirror of its greasy marks because the mind needs to reflect that which is to be truly true. Greasy spots reflect a lie, an untruth, the symptoms of energy blockages. And so on.

Anna can tell you the rest.

But Anna is very happy with the result of her efforts in meditation, cleaning all the chakras of the antahkarana very carefully every day.

Because spiritual experiences have to be earned.

A lot of very good work has been done.

Anna is happy and energised.

We read her palm and very good future it is too.

More work needs to be done and Anna is thinking of a regular Energy Enhancement session every day at home.

Good!!

We also are happy at keeping it all together!!

Lots of Love and Light,

Masters Satchidanand and Devi Dhyani
Anna - After the Energy Enhancement Meditation Course 25th February 2011
Written 22nd February 2011
Well, since her dream Anna has been working on the Four Auras - Initiation Five of Level Two of Energy Enhancement - including the Physical Aura and the DNA.
As she was working on the Physical Aura she had the experience of seeing a spear point lodged in her shoulder, in the middle of the Clavicle right side. She saw that it was there from past lives but was also having its effects in this lifetime having severe pain there, worked on it for many years with acupuncture which although it drained the pain, did not fully remove the cause. In this meditation the spear point was handed to her, she grounded it and sent it up and then sewed the damage in the clavicle with golden thread.
The emotional aura was tough too, so much so that even with the air conditioning on, she was sweating with the effort and the intensity needed for clearing it. She felt the weight on her shoulders felt all of her life, from supporting those around her, disappearing.
And on to the mental aura. There she removed five inner children sub-personalities and a mazy unclarity in the limpid clarity required of a clean mental aura.
As she cleared it she was allowed to ascend to Sirius and in the temple there entered into the sacred flame. She found herself entering naked into a golden room with golden filigrees on the door. Eight naked men followed her in. With her in the center they lay on the floor feet towards her, heads pointing away in a circle around her. There they turned into golden skeletons and Anna ascended up the Antahkarana spinning clockwise.
There was an Angel who noted her name in the book and allowed her to continue her ascent in to the Avatar of Synthesis - SYMBOLISING THAT NOW, AFTER PURIFICATION, SHE CAN BE A PART OF THAT HIGH COMMUNITY. There she noticed many clones of Master Satchidanand with his glasses who is the hands of the Avatar of Synthesis on this planet.
Each organisation tests its aspirants to see if they are high enough to join them. Those who do not pass the test are rejected. Then they grow within the organisation.
There she also received the vision of herself on a Long Superhighway. There are many souls in the cars speeding along there. She knows it is a long road. But she also knows that Energy Enhancement is the Fastest Path!!

After her meditation on the superhighway Anna continued her Energy Enhancement Initiations with The Spiritual Aura of Energy Enhancement Level 2 Initiation 5. As she went out into the infinite spiritual Aura she was taken upwards exactly as in the previous Initiation in the mental Aura. She was taken Higher. As she ascended again the Angel checked her name off in  the book allowing her to enter into the great community of Souls at the Avatar of Synthesis.
She found herself in front of Satchidanand who was sitting on a throne, radiating white light. She felt herself like a three years old child taken by Satchidanand and standing at his side, enfolded in his arms and in his love. She felt him touching her back  and head and tears came down from her eyes.
From the crowd of great souls around her came the cry, "Give her the present!"
And Satchidanand gave her a triangular mechanism created out of pure mental matter looking like light or ether. She was told it was to integrate the triangle of Chakras in the head, forming an integrated Unit out of the three chakras of the head.
The functioning triangle of Sahasrara Ray One of Purpose and Will connected with the light of the Central Spiritual Sun above the head of Intuition, Alta Major Center at the occipital base of the Skull Ray Two of Love connected with the energies beaming out of the left eye, and Ajna Brow Chakra Ray Three of the Intellect connected with the energies beaming out of the right eye and the connections between them - ALL POWERED BY THE VAST ENERGIES OF THE BASE CHAKRA CONNECTED WITH THE INFINITE ENERGIES OF KUNDALINI CHAKRA.
Putting in the integrative triangle was a blast. Satchidanand said, "You need to get used to it"
The purpose of this triangle is to Radiate the Light of the higher chakras and so influence and evolve her own students.. I suppose they will have to get sunglasses also!! LOL!!
Only two more days to go!!
Recapitulating the Years of the Life was the final initiation of Level Two of Energy Enhancement.
As Devi gave her a special Course on the Elimination of Energy Blockages including removing all negative energy from the conception point where she found that practising the Initiations again would remove even more of the selfish competitive star, the "Self Importance" of don Juan and Castaneda, The "Vanity" of Gurdjieff, and aid the "Creation of Impeccability", Anna could only report on the first few years of her life. The rest is homework. 
However she did mention the start of spotting the Inner Children Saboteurs of her life. To start with, these Inner Children Saboteurs tried to prevent the process through the technique employed by many different types of Energy Blockages called, "Procrastination"
Due to the fact  that Anna's birthday is the 21st December she very rarely had a special birthday celebration as a child - it being so near to Christmas. The angry/sad Inner Child created at this point had tried to gain attention and vampirise the energies of all around her by creating Dramas, becoming a, "Drama Queen" at this date every year of her life up till now.
Anna saw this. And now she has used the Energy Enhancement techniques to drain the trauma-formed negative Karmic mass out of the Birthdays, out of the Birthday Inner child and to Integrate this troublesome Inner Child with Love, back into the Central Stem of the Soul, thus further integrating the mind.
Anna spotted more and more Inner Children and knew the task in front of her was steep to Integrate ALL the Inner Children created during this past lifetime.
To help the process of removing all, "Touchiness" which is the symptom of all inner children in her and your life, I recommended the use of the technique of the Petty Tyrant in order to reach the, "Impeccableness" of Illumination. Petty Tyrants show us our, "Self Importance" of the Selfish Competitive Ego.
To help with the process I read out the following story all the while saying  that the path of don Juan came from a dark Sorceric path only recently cleaned out by don Juan himself and a lot of the teachings of the sorcerors way can take you down the path of darkness.
Even, "Impeccability" is not sufficient because, "Impeccability" can be used only with the energies of Intellect and Will as by Stalin, Hitler and Mao, whereas the true perfection of "Impeccability" can only come with the use of Intellect, Will AND Love!! as given by the Buddha and Jesus Christ.
However, the use of treating Petty Tyrants in your life to, "Stalk" yourself so as to find all points of, "Touchiness" of, "Self Importance" is a great technique. Use it!! Use it!!
So I read out the following excerpt so she could understand the technique...
Use the Energy Enhancement techniques to drain the Self Important trauma-formed negative Karmic mass out of the Inner children to Integrate these troublesome Inner Children with Love, back into the Central Stem of the Soul, thus further integrating the mind.
 
Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda, Petty Tyrants, Self Importance, Impeccability

CARLOS CASTANEDA AND DON JUAN - ILLUMINATED AND ASCENDED MASTER
"Half-complaining, I told him that he had made me feel very uncomfortable by refusing to talk to me for the past two days. He looked at me and arched his brows. A smile played on his lips and vanished. I realized that he was letting me know I was no better than la Gorda. "I was provoking your self-importance," he said with a frown. "Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. "The new seers recommended that every effort should be made to eradicate self-importance from the lives of warriors. I have followed that recommendation, and much of my endeavors with you has been geared to show you that without self-importance we are invulnerable."
Use the Energy Enhancement techniques to drain the Self Important trauma-formed negative Karmic mass out of the Inner children to Integrate these troublesome Inner Children with Love, back into the Central Stem of the Soul, thus further integrating the mind.
Better out than in!!
"Self-importance is not something simple and naive," he explained. "On the one hand, it is the core of everything that is good in us, and on the other hand, the core of everything that is rotten. To get rid of the self-importance that is rotten requires a masterpiece of strategy. Seers, through the ages, have given the highest praise to those who have accomplished it."

"Warriors fight self-importance as a matter of strategy, not principle," he replied. "Your mistake is to understand what I say in terms of morality."

"Impeccability is nothing else but the proper use of energy," he said. "My statements have no inkling of morality. I've saved energy and that makes me impeccable. To understand this, you have to save enough energy yourself."

Don Juan said then that in the strategic inventories of warriors, self-importance figures as the activity that consumes the greatest amount of energy, hence, their effort to eradicate it. "One of the first concerns of warriors is to free that energy in order to face the unknown with
it," don Juan went on. "The action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability."

He said that the most effective strategy was worked out by the seers of the Conquest, the unquestionable masters of stalking. It consists of six elements that interplay with one another. Five of them are called the attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, timing, and
will. They pertain to the world of the warrior who is fighting to lose self-importance. The sixth element, which is perhaps the most important of all, pertains to the outside world and is called the petty tyrant.

"A petty tyrant is a tormentor," he replied. "Someone who either holds the power of life and death over warriors or simply annoys them to distraction."

"The new seers, in accordance with their practice, saw fit to head their classification with the primal source of energy, the one and only ruler in the universe, and they called it simply the tyrant. The rest of the despots and authoritarians were found to be, naturally, infinitely below the
category of tyrant. Compared to the source of everything, the most fearsome, tyrannical men are buffoons; consequently, they were classified as petty tyrants, pinches tiranos. He said that there were two subclasses of minor petty tyrants. The first subclass consisted of the petty tyrants who persecute and inflict misery but without actually causing anybody's death. They were called little petty tyrants, pinches  tiranitos. The second consisted of the petty tyrants who are only exasperating and bothersome to no end. They were called small-fry petty tyrants, repinches tiranitos, or teensy-weensy petty tyrants, pinches tiranitos chiquititos"

"My benefactor used to say that the warrior who stumbles on a petty tyrant is a lucky one. He meant that you're fortunate if you come upon one in your path, because if you don't, you have to go out and look for one."

"By understanding the nature of man, they were able to reach the incontestable conclusion that if seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable."
 
 
Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda, Petty Tyrants, Self Importance, Impeccability
Petty Tyrants
 
Don Juan did not discuss the mastery of awareness with me until months later. We were at that
time in the house where the nagual's party lived.
"Let's go for a walk," don Juan said to me, placing his hand on my shoulder. "Or better yet,
let's go to the town's square, where there are a lot of people, and sit down and talk."
I was surprised when he spoke to me, as I had been in the house for a couple of days then and
he had not said so much as "hello".
As don Juan and I were leaving the house, la Gorda intercepted us and demanded that we take
her along. She seemed determined not to take no for an answer. Don Juan in a very stern voice
told her that he had to discuss something in private with me.
"You're going to talk about me," la Gorda said, her tone and gestures betraying both suspicion
and annoyance.
"You're right," don Juan replied dryly. He moved past her without turning to look at her.
I followed him, and we walked in silence to the town's square. When we sat down I asked him
what on earth we would find to discuss about la Gorda. I was still smarting from her look of
menace when we left the house.
"We have nothing to discuss about la Gorda or anybody else," he said. "I told her that just to
provoke her enormous self-importance. And it worked. She is furious with us. If I know her, by
now she will have talked to herself long enough to have built up her confidence and her righteous
indignation at having been refused and made to look like a fool. I wouldn't be surprised if she
barges in on us here, at the park bench."
"If we're not going to talk about la Gorda, what are we going to discuss?" I asked.
"We're going to continue the discussion we started in Oaxaca," he replied. "To understand the
explanation of awareness will require your utmost effort and your willingness to shift back and
forth between levels of awareness. While we are involved in our discussion I will demand your
total concentration and patience."
Half-complaining, I told him that he had made me feel very uncomfortable by refusing to talk
to me for the past two days. He looked at me and arched his brows. A smile played on his lips and
vanished. I realized that he was letting me know I was no better than la Gorda.
"I was provoking your self-importance," he said with a frown. "Self-importance is our greatest
enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our
fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
"The new seers recommended that every effort should be made to eradicate self-importance
from the lives of warriors. I have followed that recommendation, and much of my endeavors with
you has been geared to show you that without self-importance we are invulnerable."
As I listened his eyes suddenly became very shiny. I was thinking to myself that he seemed to
be on the verge of laughter and there was no reason for it when I was startled by an abrupt,
painful slap on the right side of my face.
I jumped up from the bench. La Gorda was standing behind me, her hand still raised. Her face
was flushed with anger.
"Now you can say what you like about me and with more justification," she shouted. "If you
have anything to say, however, say it to my face!"
Her outburst appeared to have exhausted her, because she sat down on the cement and began
to weep. Don Juan was transfixed with inexpressible glee. I was frozen with sheer fury. La Gorda
glared at me and then turned to don Juan and meekly told him that we had no right to criticize
her.
Don Juan laughed so hard he doubled over almost to the ground. He couldn't even speak. He
tried two or three times to say something to me, then finally got up and walked away, his body
still shaking with spasms of laughter.
I was about to run after him, still glowering at la Gorda - at that moment I found her
despicable - when something extraordinary happened to me. I realized what don Juan had found
so hilarious. La Gorda and I were horrendously alike. Our self-importance was monumental. My
surprise and fury at being slapped were just like la Gorda's feelings of anger and suspicion. Don
Juan was right. The burden of self-importance is a terrible encumbrance.
I ran after him then, elated, the tears flowing down my cheeks. I caught up with him and told
him what I had realized. His eyes were shining with mischievousness and delight.
"What should I do about la Gorda?" I asked.
"Nothing," he replied. "Realizations are always personal."
He changed the subject and said that the omens were telling us to continue our discussion back
at his house, either in a large room with comfortable chairs or in the back patio, which had a
roofed corridor around it. He said that whenever he conducted his explanation inside the house
those two areas would be off limits to everyone else.
We went back to the house. Don Juan told everyone what la Gorda had done. The delight all
the seers showed in taunting her made la Gorda's position extremely uncomfortable.
"Self-importance can't be fought with niceties," don Juan commented when I expressed my
concern about la Gorda.
He then asked everyone to leave the room. We sat down and don Juan began his explanations.
He said that seers, old and new, are divided into two categories. The first one is made up of
those who are willing to exercise self-restraint and can channel their activities toward pragmatic
goals, which would benefit other seers and man in general. The other category consists of those
who don't care about self-restraint or about any pragmatic goals. It is the consensus among seers
that the latter have failed to resolve the problem of self-importance.
"Self-importance is not something simple and naive," he explained. "On the one hand, it is the
core of everything that is good in us, and on the other hand, the core of everything that is rotten.
To get rid of the self-importance that is rotten requires a masterpiece of strategy. Seers, through
the ages, have given the highest praise to those who have accomplished it."
I complained that the idea of eradicating self-importance, although very appealing to me at
times, was really incomprehensible; I told him that I found his directives for getting rid of it so
vague I could not follow them.
"I've said to you many times," he said, "that in order to follow the path of knowledge one has
to be very imaginative. You see, in the path of knowledge nothing is as clear as we'd like it to
be."
My discomfort made me argue that his admonitions about self-importance reminded me of
Catholic postulates. After a lifetime of being told about the evils of sin, I had become callous.
"Warriors fight self-importance as a matter of strategy, not principle," he replied. "Your
mistake is to understand what I say in terms of morality."
"I see you as a highly moral man, don Juan," I insisted.
"You've noticed my impeccability, that's all," he said.
"Impeccability, as well as getting rid of self-importance, is too vague a concept to be of any
value to me," I remarked.
Don Juan choked with laughter, and I challenged him to explain impeccability.
"Impeccability is nothing else but the proper use of energy," he said. "My statements have no
inkling of morality. I've saved energy and that makes me impeccable. To understand this, you
have to save enough energy yourself."
We were quiet for a long time. I wanted to think about what he had said. Suddenly, he started
talking again.
"Warriors take strategic inventories," he said. "They list everything they do. Then they decide
which of those things can be changed in order to allow themselves a respite, in terms of
expending their energy."
I argued that their list would have to include everything under the sun. He patiently answered
that the strategic inventory he was talking about covered only behavioral patterns that were not
essential to our survival and well-being.
I jumped at the opportunity to point out that survival and well-being were categories that could
be interpreted in endless ways, hence, there was no way of agreeing what was or was not essential
to survival and well-being.
As I kept on talking I began to lose momentum. Finally, I stopped because I realized the
futility of my arguments.
Don Juan said then that in the strategic inventories of warriors, self-importance figures as the
activity that consumes the greatest amount of energy, hence, their effort to eradicate it.
"One of the first concerns of warriors is to free that energy in order to face the unknown with
it," don Juan went on. "The action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability."
He said that the most effective strategy was worked out by the seers of the Conquest, the
unquestionable masters of stalking. It consists of six elements that interplay with one another.
Five of them are called the attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, timing, and
will. They pertain to the world of the warrior who is fighting to lose self-importance. The sixth
element, which is perhaps the most important of all, pertains to the outside world and is called the
petty tyrant.
He looked at me as if silently asking me whether or not I had understood.
"I'm really mystified," I said. "You keep on saying that la Gorda is the petty tyrant of my life.
Just what is a petty tyrant?"
"A petty tyrant is a tormentor," he replied. "Someone who either holds the power of life and
death over warriors or simply annoys them to distraction."
Don Juan had a beaming smile as he spoke to me. He said that the new seers developed their
own classification of petty tyrants; although the concept is one of their most serious and
important findings, the new seers had a sense of humor about it. He assured me that there was a
tinge of malicious humor in every one of their classifications, because humor was the only means
of counteracting the compulsion of human awareness to take inventories and to make
cumbersome classifications.
The new seers, in accordance with their practice, saw fit to head their classification with the
primal source of energy, the one and only ruler in the universe, and they called it simply the
tyrant. The rest of the despots and authoritarians were found to be, naturally, infinitely below the
category of tyrant. Compared to the source of everything, the most fearsome, tyrannical men are
buffoons; consequently, they were classified as petty tyrants, pinches tiranos.
He said that there were two subclasses of minor petty tyrants. The first subclass consisted of
the petty tyrants who persecute and inflict misery but without actually causing anybody's death.
They were called little petty tyrants, pinches tiranitos. The second consisted of the petty tyrants
who are only exasperating and bothersome to no end. They were called small-fry petty tyrants,
repinches tiranitos, or teensy-weensy petty tyrants, pinches tiranitos chiquititos.
I thought his classifications were ludicrous. I was sure that he was improvising the Spanish
terms. I asked him if that was so.
"Not at all," he replied with an amused expression. "The new seers were great ones for
classifications. Genaro is doubtless one of the greatest; if you'd observe him carefully, you'd
realize exactly how the new seers feel about their classifications."
He laughed uproariously at my confusion when I asked him if he was pulling my leg.
"I wouldn't dream of doing that," he said, smiling. "Genaro may do that, but not I, especially
when I know how you feel about classifications. It's just that the new seers were terribly
irreverent."
He added that the little petty tyrants are further divided into four categories. One that torments
with brutality and violence. Another that does it by creating unbearable apprehension through
deviousness. Another which oppresses with sadness. And the last, which torments by making
warriors rage.
"La Gorda is in a class of her own," he added. "She is an acting, small-fry petty tyrant. She
annoys you to pieces and makes you rage. She even slaps you. With all that she is teaching you
detachment."
"That's not possible!" I protested.
"You haven't yet put together all the ingredients of the new seers' strategy," he said. "Once you
do that, you'll know how efficient and clever is the device of using a petty tyrant. I would
certainly say that the strategy not only gets rid of self-importance; it also prepares warriors for the
final realization that impeccability is the only thing that counts in the path of knowledge."
He said that what the new seers had in mind was a deadly maneuver in which the petty tyrant
is like a mountain peak and the attributes of warriorship are like climbers who meet at the
summit.
"Usually, only four attributes are played," he went on. "The fifth, will, is always saved for an
ultimate confrontation, when warriors are facing the firing squad, so to speak."
"Why is it done that way?"
"Because will belongs to another sphere, the unknown. The other four belong to the known,
exactly where the petty tyrants are lodged. In fact, what turns human beings into petty tyrants is
precisely the obsessive manipulation of the known."
Don Juan explained that the interplay of all the five attributes of warriorship is done only by
seers who are also impeccable warriors and have mastery over will. Such an interplay is a
supreme maneuver that cannot be performed on the daily human stage.
"Four attributes are all that is needed to deal with the worst of petty tyrants," he continued.
"Provided, of course, that a petty tyrant has been found. As I said, the petty tyrant is the outside
element, the one we cannot control and the element that is perhaps the most important of them all.
My benefactor used to say that the warrior who stumbles on a petty tyrant is a lucky one. He
meant that you're fortunate if you come upon one in your path, because if you don't, you have to
go out and look for one."
He explained that one of the greatest accomplishments of the seers of the Conquest was a
construct he called the three-phase progression. By understanding the nature of man, they were
able to reach the incontestable conclusion that if seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants,
they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of
the unknowable.
"The average man's reaction is to think that the order of that statement should be reversed," he
went on. "A seer who can hold his own in the face of the unknown can certainly face petty
tyrants. But that's not so. What destroyed the superb seers of ancient times was that assumption.
We know better now. We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the
challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions
can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable."
I vociferously disagreed with him. I told him that in my opinion tyrants can only render their
victims helpless or make them as brutal as they themselves are. I pointed out that countless
studies had been done on the effects of physical and psychological torture on such victims.
"The difference is in something you just said," he retorted. "They are victims, not warriors.
Once I felt just as you do. I'll tell you what made me change, but first let's go back again to what I
said about the Conquest. The seers of that time couldn't have found a better ground. The
Spaniards were the petty tyrants who tested the seers' skills to the limit; after dealing with the
conquerors, the seers were capable of facing anything. They were the lucky ones. At that time
there were petty tyrants everywhere.
"After all those marvelous years of abundance things changed a great deal. Petty tyrants never
again had that scope; it was only during those times that their authority was unlimited. The
perfect ingredient for the making of a superb seer is a petty tyrant with unlimited prerogatives.
"In our times, unfortunately, seers have to go to extremes to find a worthy one. Most of the
time they have to be satisfied with very small fry."
"Did you find a petty tyrant yourself, don Juan?"
"I was lucky. A king-size one found me. At the time, though, I felt like you; I couldn't
consider myself fortunate."
Don Juan said that his ordeal began a few weeks before he met his benefactor. He was barely
twenty years old at the time. He had gotten a job at a sugar mill working as a laborer. He had
always been very strong, so it was easy for him to get jobs that required muscle. One day when he
was moving some heavy sacks of sugar a woman came by. She was very well dressed and
seemed to be a woman of means. She was perhaps in her fifties, don Juan said, and very
domineering. She looked at don Juan and then spoke to the foreman and left. Don Juan was then
approached by the foreman, who told him that for a fee he would recommend him for a job in the
boss's house. Don Juan told the man that he had no money. The foreman smiled and said not to
worry because he would have plenty on payday. He patted don Juan's back and assured him it
was a great honor to work for the boss.
Don Juan said that being a lowly ignorant Indian living hand-to-mouth, not only did he believe
every word, he thought a good fairy had touched him. He promised to pay the foreman anything
he wished. The foreman named a large sum, which had to be paid in installments.
Immediately thereafter the foreman himself took don Juan to the house, which was quite a
distance from the town, and left him there with another foreman, a huge, somber, ugly man who
asked a lot of questions. He wanted to know about don Juan's family. Don Juan answered that he
didn't have any. The man was so pleased that he even smiled through his rotten teeth.
He promised don Juan that they would pay him plenty, and that he would even be in a position
to save money, because he didn't have to spend any, for he was going to live and eat in the house.
The way the man laughed was terrifying. Don Juan knew that he had to escape immediately.
He ran for the gate, but the man cut in front of him with a revolver in his hand. He cocked it and
rammed it into don Juan's stomach.
"You're here to work yourself to the bone," he said. "And don't you forget it." He shoved don
Juan around with a billy club.
Then he took him to the side of the house and, after observing that he worked his men every
day from sunrise to sunset without a break, he put don Juan to work digging out two enormous
tree stumps. He also told don Juan that if he ever tried to escape or went to the authorities he
would shoot him dead - and that if don Juan should ever get away, he would swear in court that
don Juan had tried to murder the boss.
"You'll work here until you die," he said. "Another Indian will get your job then, just as you're
taking a dead Indian's place."
Don Juan said that the house looked like a fortress, with armed men with machetes
everywhere. So he got busy working and tried not to think about his predicament. At the end of
the day, the man came back and kicked him all the way to the kitchen, because he did not like the
defiant look in don Juan's eyes. He threatened to cut the tendons of don Juan's arms if he didn't
obey him.
In the kitchen an old woman brought food, but don Juan was so upset and afraid that he
couldn't eat. The old woman advised him to eat as much as he could. He had to be strong, she
said, because his work would never end. She warned him that the man who had held his job had
died just a day earlier. He was too weak to work and had fallen from a second-story window.
Don Juan said that he worked at the boss's place for three weeks and that the man bullied him
every moment of every day. He made him work under the most dangerous conditions, doing the
heaviest work imaginable, under the constant threat of his knife, gun, or billy club. He sent him
daily to the stables to clean the stalls while the nervous stallions were in them. At the beginning
of every day don Juan thought it would be his last one on earth. And surviving meant only that he
had to go through the same hell again the next day.
What precipitated the end was don Juan's request to have some time off. The pretext was that
he needed to go to town to pay the foreman of the sugar mill the money that he owed him. The
other foreman retorted that don Juan could not stop working, not even for a minute, because he
was in debt up to his ears just for the privilege of working there.
Don Juan knew that he was done for. He understood the man's maneuvers. Both he and the
other foreman were in cahoots to get lowly Indians from the mill, work them to death, and divide
their salaries. That realization angered him so intensely that he ran through the kitchen screaming
and got inside the main house. The foreman and the other workers were caught totally by
surprise. He ran out the front door and almost got away, but the foreman caught up with him on
the road and shot him in the chest. He left him for dead.
Don Juan said that it was not his destiny to die; his benefactor found him there and tended him
until he got well.
"When I told my benefactor the whole story," don Juan said, "he could hardly contain his
excitement.
"That foreman is really a prize," my benefactor said. "He is too good to be wasted. Someday
you must go back to that house."
"He raved about my luck in finding a one-in-a-million petty tyrant with almost unlimited
power. I thought the old man was nuts. It was years before I fully understood what he was talking
about."
"That is one of the most horrible stories I have ever heard," I said. "Did you really go back to
that house?"
"I certainly did, three years later. My benefactor was right. A petty tyrant like that one was one
in a million and couldn't be wasted."
"How did you manage to go back?"
"My benefactor developed a strategy using the four attributes of warriorship: control,
discipline, forbearance, and timing."
Don Juan said that his benefactor, in explaining to him what he had to do to profit from facing
that ogre of a man, also told him what the new seers considered to be the four steps on the path of
knowledge. The first step is the decision to become apprentices. After the apprentices change
their views about themselves and the world they take the second step and become warriors, which
is to say, beings capable of the utmost discipline and control over themselves. The third step, after
acquiring forbearance and timing, is to become men of knowledge. When men of knowledge
learn to see they have taken the fourth step and have become seers.
His benefactor stressed the fact that don Juan had been on the path of knowledge long enough
to have acquired a minimum of the first two attributes: control and discipline. Don Juan
emphasized that both of these attributes refer to an inner state. A warrior is self-oriented, not in a
selfish way, but in the sense of a total and continuous examination of the self.
"At that time, I was barred from the other two attributes," don Juan went on. "Forbearance and
timing are not quite an inner state. They are in the domain of the man of knowledge. My
benefactor showed them to me through his strategy."
"Does this mean that you couldn't have faced the petty tyrant by yourself?" I asked.
"I'm sure that I could have done it myself, although I have always doubted that I would have
carried it off with flair and joyfulness. My benefactor was simply enjoying the encounter by
directing it. The idea of using a petty tyrant is not only for perfecting the warrior's spirit, but also
for enjoyment and happiness."
"How could anyone enjoy the monster you described?"
"He was nothing in comparison to the real monsters that the new seers faced during the
Conquest. By all indications those seers enjoyed themselves blue dealing with them. They proved
that even the worst tyrants can bring delight, provided, of course, that one is a warrior."
Don Juan explained that the mistake average men make in confronting petty tyrants is not to
have a strategy to fall back on; the fatal flaw is that average men take themselves too seriously;
their actions and feelings, as well as those of the petty tyrants, are all-important. Warriors, on the
other hand, not only have a well-thought-out strategy, but are free from self-importance. What
restrains their self-importance is that they have understood that reality is an interpretation we
make. That knowledge was the definitive advantage that the new seers had over the simpleminded
Spaniards.
He said that he became convinced he could defeat the foreman using only the single
realization that petty tyrants take themselves with deadly seriousness while warriors do not.
Following his benefactor's strategic plan, therefore, don Juan got a job in the same sugar mill
as before. Nobody remembered that he had worked there in the past; peons came to that sugar
mill and left it without leaving a trace.
His benefactor's strategy specified that don Juan had to be solicitous of whoever came to look
for another victim. As it happened, the same woman came and spotted him, as she had done years
ago. This time he was physically even stronger than before.
The same routine took place. The strategy, however, called for refusing payment to the
foreman from the outset. The man had never been turned down and was taken aback. He
threatened to fire don Juan from the job. Don Juan threatened him back, saying that he would go
directly to the lady's house and see her. Don Juan knew that the woman, who was the wife of the
owner of the mill, did not know what the two foremen were up to. He told the foreman that he
knew where she lived, because he had worked in the surrounding fields cutting sugar cane. The
man began to haggle, and don Juan demanded money from him before he would accept going to
the lady's house. The foreman gave in and handed him a few bills. Don Juan was perfectly aware
that the foreman's acquiescence was just a ruse to get him to go to the house.
"He himself once again took me to the house," don Juan said. "It was an old hacienda owned
by the people of the sugar mill - rich men who either knew what was going on and didn't care, or
were too indifferent even to notice.
"As soon as we got there, I ran into the house to look for the lady. I found her and dropped to
my knees and kissed her hand to thank her. The two foremen were livid.
"The foreman at the house followed the same pattern as before. But I had the proper
equipment to deal with him; I had control, discipline, forbearance, and timing. It turned out as my
benefactor had planned it. My control made me fulfill the man's most asinine demands. What
usually exhausts us in a situation like that is the wear and tear on our self-importance. Any man
who has an iota of pride is ripped apart by being made to feel worthless.
"I gladly did everything he asked of me. I was joyful and strong. And I didn't give a fig about
my pride or my fear. I was there as an impeccable warrior. To tune the spirit when someone is
trampling on you is called control."
Don Juan explained that his benefactor's strategy required that instead of feeling sorry for
himself as he had done before, he immediately go to work mapping the man's strong points, his
weaknesses, his quirks of behavior.
He found that the foreman's strongest points were his violent nature and his daring. He had
shot don Juan in broad daylight and in sight of scores of onlookers. His great weakness was that
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he liked his job and did not want to endanger it. Under no circumstances could he attempt to kill
don Juan inside the compound in the daytime. His other weakness was that he was a family man.
He had a wife and children who lived in a shack near the house.
"To gather all this information while they are beating you up is called discipline," don Juan
said. "The man was a regular fiend. He had no saving grace. According to the new seers, a perfect
petty tyrant has no redeeming feature."
Don Juan said that the other two attributes of warriorship, forbearance and timing, which he
did not yet have, had been automatically included in his benefactor's strategy. Forbearance is to
wait patiently - no rush, no anxiety - a simple, joyful holding back of what is due.
"I groveled daily," don Juan continued, "sometimes crying under the man's whip. And yet I
was happy. My benefactor's strategy was what made me go from day to day without hating the
man's guts. I was a warrior. I knew that I was waiting and I knew what I was waiting for. Right
there is the great joy of warriorship."
He added that his benefactor's strategy called for a systematic harassment of the man by taking
cover with a higher order, just as the seers of the new cycle had done during the Conquest by
shielding themselves with the Catholic church. A lowly priest was sometimes more powerful than
a nobleman.
Don Juan's shield was the lady who got him the job. He kneeled in front of her and called her
a saint every time he saw her. He begged her to give him the medallion of her patron saint so he
could pray to him for her health and well-being.
"She gave me one," don Juan went on, "and that rattled the foreman to pieces. And when I got
the servants to pray at night he nearly had a heart attack. I think he decided then to kill me. He
couldn't afford to let me go on.
"As a countermeasure I organized a rosary among all the servants of the house. The lady
thought I had the makings of a most pious man.
"I didn't sleep soundly after that, nor did I sleep in my bed. I climbed to the roof every night.
From there I saw the man twice looking for me in the middle of the night with murder in his eyes.
"Daily he shoved me into the stallions' stalls hoping that I would be crushed to death, but I had
a plank of heavy boards that I braced against one of the corners and protected myself behind it.
The man never knew because he was nauseated by the horses - another of his weaknesses, the
deadliest of all, as things turned out."
Don Juan said that timing is the quality that governs the release of all that is held back.
Control, discipline, and forbearance are like a dam behind which everything is pooled. Timing is
the gate in the dam.
The man knew only violence, with which he terrorized. If his violence was neutralized he was
rendered nearly helpless. Don Juan knew that the man would not dare to kill him in view of the
house, so one day, in the presence of the other workers but in sight of his lady as well, don Juan
insulted the man. He called him a coward, who was mortally afraid of the boss's wife.
His benefactor's strategy had called for being on the alert for a moment like that and using it to
turn the tables on the petty tyrant. Unexpected things always happen that way. The lowest of the
slaves suddenly makes fun of the tyrant, taunts him, makes him feel ridiculous in front of
significant witnesses, and then rushes away without giving the tyrant time to retaliate.
"A moment later, the man went crazy with rage, but I was already solicitously kneeling in
front of the lady," he continued.
Don Juan said that when the lady went inside the house, the man and his friends called him to
the back, allegedly to do some work. The man was very pale, white with anger. From the sound
of his voice don Juan knew what the man was really planning to do. Don Juan pretended to
acquiesce, but instead of heading for the back, he ran for the stables. He trusted that the horses
would make such a racket the owners would come out to see what was wrong. He knew that the
man would not dare shoot him. That would have been too noisy and the man's fear of
endangering his job was too overpowering. Don Juan also knew that the man would not go where
the horses were - that is, unless he had been pushed beyond his endurance.
"I jumped inside the stall of the wildest stallion," don Juan said, "and the petty tyrant, blinded
by rage, took out his knife and jumped in after me. I went instantly behind my planks. The horse
kicked him once and it was all over.
"I had spent six months in that house and in that period of time I had exercised the four
attributes of warriorship. Thanks to them, I had succeeded. Not once had I felt sorry for myself or
wept in impotence. I had been joyful and serene. My control and discipline were as keen as they'd
ever been, and I had had a firsthand view of what forbearance and timing did for impeccable
warriors. And I had not once wished the man to die.
"My benefactor explained something very interesting. Forbearance means holding back with
the spirit something that the warrior knows is rightfully due. It doesn't mean that a warrior goes
around plotting to do anybody mischief, or planning to settle past scores. Forbearance is
something independent. As long as the warrior has control, discipline, and timing, forbearance
assures giving whatever is due to whoever deserves it."
"Do petty tyrants sometimes win, and destroy the warrior facing them?" I asked.
"Of course. There was a time when warriors died like flies at the beginning of the Conquest.
Their ranks were decimated. The petty tyrants could put anyone to death, simply acting on a
whim. Under that kind of pressure seers reached sublime states."
Don Juan said that that was the time when the surviving seers had to exert themselves to the
limit to find new ways.
"The new seers used petty tyrants," don Juan said, staring at me fixedly, "not only to get rid of
their self-importance, but to accomplish the very sophisticated maneuver of moving themselves
out of this world. You'll understand that maneuver as we keep on discussing the mastery of
awareness."
I explained to don Juan that what I had wanted to know was whether, in the present, in our
times, the petty tyrants he had called small fry could ever defeat a warrior.
"All the time," he replied. "The consequences aren't as dire as those in the remote past. Today
it goes without saying that warriors always have a chance to recuperate or to retrieve and come
back later. But there is another side to this problem. To be defeated by a small-fry petty tyrant is
not deadly, but devastating. The degree of mortality, in a figurative sense, is almost as high. By
that I mean that warriors who succumb to a small-fry petty tyrant are obliterated by their own
sense of failure and unworthiness. That spells high mortality to me."
"How do you measure defeat?"
"Anyone who joins the petty tyrant is defeated. To act in anger, without control and discipline,
to have no forbearance, is to be defeated."
"What happens after warriors are defeated?"
"They either regroup themselves or they abandon the quest for knowledge and join the ranks
of the petty tyrants for life."
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UK DVD STUDENT JAN 2011
"Oh and using your technique I've very recently just shifted a massive block from the sacral which has aided my grounding and all other chakras. From this my solar plexus will be working much more effectively and so will attract more abundance so paying you should be less difficult."


 
Hello Satchi and Devi!

I had some meditation experiences I'd like to share.

I woke up in the middle of the night last week and could not sleep so I decided to meditate.
I connected to the center of the earth and it was unlike anything I've ever felt. And
there has not been a day since that I don't think of that feeling. . I felt pulsing, gentle
waves of energy, like the oceans waves and just as much power as the ocean but there was a
mother like quality about it. It felt very sacred.

Since that day I keep getting information about being grounded to this force. And to think
that it all started because I pushed a stream of love out from my heart. Isn't it funny how something so
simple can change a life forever.

I am taking my time with the course. It is my main goal in life to integrate Energy
Enhancement into my being. I am ecstatic to think of what more sacred feelings I have in
store on my journey toward illumination!

And that is the first share that I wrote and now the second.

It is Oct. 22 and my paternal Grandfather died. I am remembering a dream I had of him
coming to me and sobbing and telling me he has led a "mutated" life.

It was not two weeks before that I was in meditation when I felt I had entered Samadhi.
Directly after I was done meditating my brother came to me and told me my Grandfather was
very sick and at the hospital.

In the course of the two weeks before his death I had been waking up at night and seeing a
Gremlin like creature on or by my bed.

In a past article I got from Satchi he says his own father came to him four days before he
died and Satchi cleared him and sent him to heaven. He said that usually family members who
die go to the most evolved person and can cause them cancer.

I know my Grandfather has come to me for help. I want to make my family happy! I know that
if I don't bring him to heaven he will give me cancer. I SEE it.

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And that is all I have to share.

Love and Light,
M, DVD Student, 23rd Jan 2011
 
USA DVD STUDENTS JAN 2011
"Dear Satchi and Devi, We were happy to hear from you!  We are still in the process of moving to a new place and we maybe making a much larger move than we once thought. We are very excited! The new levels sound great!  I turned 24 on the 9th of January and leading up to that day I was going through a lot of karmic mass related stuff. I worked everyday to ground some negative energy and I now feel better and lighter than ever! I understand more of myself now too and feel more able to show love to myself and all those around me. And also I feel this experience has made my meditation experience even stronger!

You are both an inspiration of love and light and we are blessed to have you in our lives!" Much Love and Light!" USA DVD STUDENTS JAN 2011
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I was receiving downloads in my soul throughout that remain there untapped consciously for now, but I could feel their luminosity and comfort"
 
USA DVD STUDENT JULY 2010 "J"
HONEY KALARIA EMAILS SATCHIDANAND JANUARY 2011
Dear Satchidanandji and Devi

Thank you for the birthday wishes.

How are you? I am so glad to hear about the Iguazu ashram project and wanted to wish you luck with the venture. I hope all is going well. I have just launched my new website - (www.honeykalaria.com) and will shortly be launching The Honey Kalaria Foundation to help various causes. I am also raising funds for an International Meditation Centre here in the UK.

Wishing you love and light


Honey Kalaria
Dear Honey,

How am I? Very well and working hard to make Our Energy Enhancement Foundation the Center of Excellence it already is.

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As you know, Energy Enhancement really works - and much better than most of the expensive courses taught by the so called, "famous" teachers.

I told you I had taken away your Energy Blockage in the Second, abdominal chakra, during your course with us and you said your menstrual problem had improved.

I often think that the seven step process could have helped Ramana Maharshi from succumbing to the Energy Blockage which gave him Cancer!!

Yes, Energy Enhancement is a much higher Revelation, meant to help the Enlightened take more, higher, Initiations!!

In your Course Report you said you wanted to know about your relationships and you had lifetime after lifetime of feedback about this, explaining how you came to be as you are now. The problem started with the loss of Your husband in a Turkish past life and you even met up with this guy, Ramiya, on the Course!!

The problem is one of loss, if you like, bereavement and fear of bereavement. To lose the person we are attached to. And the problem of attachment to the Prince and the problems this brought in its wake.

And the solution - a movement to being successful at other things which do not give that same problem. As when you were looking after the business matters of the Princess, with great success.

Yet every success is always followed by failure. In the end it is all taken away as we die, and all of our success, all of our empire cannot follow us into the grave.

Our only legacy is that which we pass on to the people of the future.

Our only legacy is our own evolution, which can only come from the very highest teachings and the highest aspiration.

It is the reduction of attachment which is the key...

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - "Enlightenment comes through practise and non attachment"

It is the attachment of the Energy Blockages of the ego which needs to be dissolved.

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Personally, I do not care about name or fame.

It is sufficient that Energy Enhancement fulfils its purpose.

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2. Energy Enhancement Teacher Training and Certification.

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This must be my aim, my purpose, my life!!

Yours in Love and Light,

Satchidanand
ANTAH KA RANA

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"I am now in the last week of the course and I feel like a totally different person. I have regained myself and have been given from nothing having no psychic vision at all at the start of the energy enhancement course, a clarity of psychic vision that is breathtaking."
"As we practiced on each other with Energy Enhancement Level 4 techniques - Energy Connections and the Mastery of Relationships and How to remove Energy Blockages and Implants from our Students - we came very quickly to realise this. I could literally feel the energy moving inside each chakra as the other person worked within me from several meters away and when I worked on the other person I could see me projecting energy to them and could see where the blockages were within their chakras.
I could force the energy from my centres into their centres and clean their centre bringing the energy full circle back to me. You could tell the state of their chakras by the amount of energy returning to your own centre and this was achieved by mind power only.
Before I came here to learn Energy Enhancement Satchi said he would teach me to do it in this way and I was sceptical about this claim. I could never envision me having psychic vision, but I have now, I can now do astonishingly powerful Reiki sessions on people without going any where near them and distance healing over any distance is a piece of cake, incredible stuff."
"I am totally de-stressed and have expanded in every way. I feel stronger and fitter and much more mentally agile than I have ever felt in my life. The fog and confusion of life has gone and I feel that I have just received the inside information on everything. I am ready for anything and am wide awake. I am full of the most incredible energy imaginable and have Energy Enhancement Reiki that is so powerful it staggers me. I know a thing or two about Reiki and had a very strong Reiki connection before I got here, now I have a connection that is beyond description and I have yet to undergo the second initiation this week and then the masters. I have opted to take this as an extra and for anyone who is interested, I believe this is beyond anything you will ever experienced anywhere."
I am now equipped with life tools and healing tools that one only dreams of and there is nothing out there in the world that will ever faze me again. I am absolutely delighted that I decided to come here, because this experience has changed me, for the good of me and for all those that I will touch when I leave here. I am so excited and can’t wait to start exploring my new found talents"
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THE REVENGE OF THE SITH..
 
Energy Enhancement Student .. loved your answer, will take star wars more seriously. Who is George Lucas channelling to bring such wisdom to a film?


Yoda: Premonitions , premonitions. Mm what are these visions you have
 
Anakin: They’re of pain, suffering, death.
 
Yoda: Yourself u speak of or someone you know
 
Anakin: Someone
 
Yoda: Close to you?
 
Anakin: Yes
 
Yoda: Careful you must be when sensing the future Anakin, a fear of loss is the path to the dark side
 
Anakin: I won’t let these visions come true Master Yoda
 
Yoda: Death is a natural part of life, rejoice for those around you that transform to the force, mourn them do not, miss them do not, attatchment leads to jealousy, the shadow of greed that is
 
Anakin: What must I do Master yoda?
 
Yoda: Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose..
 
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Further Study
 

Milarepa, Yogi of Tibet


According to a blessing Milarepa uttered towards the end of his life, anyone who but hears the name Milarepa even once attracts an instant blessing and will not take rebirth in a lower state of existence during seven consecutive lifetimes. This was prophesied by Saints and Buddhas of the past even before his lifetime.


Milarepa of Tibet
Milarepa is one of the most widely known Tibetan Saints. In a superhuman effort, he rose above the miseries of his younger life and with the help of his Guru, Marpa the Translator, took to a solitary life of meditation until he had achieved the pinnacle of the enlightened state, never to be born again into the Samsara (whirlpool of life and death) of worldly existence. Out of compassion for humanity, he undertook the most rigid asceticism to reach the Buddhic state of enlightenment and to pass his accomplishments on to the rest of humanity. His spiritual lineage was passed along to his chief disciples, Gambopa and Rechung. It was Rechung who recorded in detail the incidents of Milarepa's life for posterity. The narrative of his life has thus been passed down through almost a millennium of time and has become an integral part of Tibetan culture. In addition to Rechung's narrative of his life, summarized below, Milarepa extemporaneously composed innumerable songs throughout his life relevant to the dramatic turns of events of himself and his disciples in accordance with an art form that was in practice at the time. These songs have been widely sung and studied in Tibet ever since and have been recorded as the Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa. His faithful devotion, boundless religious zeal, monumental forbearance, superhuman perseverance, and ultimate final attainment are a great inspiration today for all. His auspicious life illumined the Buddhist faith and brought the light of wisdom to sentient beings everywhere.


 The Life of Milarepa
 Milarepa was born into the family of Mila-Dorje-Senge in the year 1052. His father was a trader in wool and had become wealthy by the standards of the time when his wife bore a son. The son was named Thopaga which means delightful to hear, and Thopaga, later known as Mila-repa (Mila, the cotton clad), lived up to his name as he had a beautiful voice and charmed his companions with his singing. The family lived in a large stone house that consisted of three stories held in place by a large central pillar and supporting columns - a mansion in comparison to the modest homes of his neighbors. The brother and sister of Milarepa's father had also settled in the area along with their families, and the clan would often congregate at the great stone house of Mila-Dorje-Senge. The family was well to do and generous and became the darling of all the relatives and neighbors in the area. They would often gather at the house to enjoy feasts. The gathering of friends and neighbors would often fawn over the small children - the young son Milarepa (then called Thopaga), and his sister, Peta who was four years younger. During this period the family enjoyed the admiration and attention of their neighbors, ate only the finest food and wore nothing but fancy clothes and jewelry.

About this time the father, Mila-Dorje-Senge, became gravely ill and accepting his impending death, called together the extended family and made known to all that he wanted his entire estate and all possessions put into the care of his brother and sister until such time as Milarepa had grown and married Zesay, one of the neighboring girls who had been betrothed to him in childhood according to the tradition of the times.

After the fathers death, however, Milarepa's greedy Aunt and Uncle who had been given charge of the property, divided the estate between them, dispossessing Milarepa, his mother, and sister Peta of all their worldly possessions. They were forced to live with them in the lowest accommodations and were given only coarse food and even made to work in the fields. Over the ensuing years their health suffered, their clothes were rough and tattered, the heads of the two children became invaded by lice. The mother and her two children who had formerly been the darlings of the village, now became objects of derision and abuse by all, who now spurned and ridiculed them.


A Rock Monastery in Tibet "All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable end, which is sorrow: acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births, in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisition and heaping up, and building, and meeting; and faithful to the commands of an eminent guru, set about realizing the Truth (which has no birth or death)."

 Milarepa



MILAREPA AND THE CHAKRAS ABOVE THE HEAD

When Milarepa reached his fifteenth year, his mother decided on a plan to recover the lost inheritance. She scraped together whatever resources she could borrow from neighbors and relatives and put on a feast, inviting all who had been present when her husband had died and made known his last wishes. As the assembled neighbors and relatives were feasting and drinking large cups of chang (fermented barley), she stood up and recounted all that her husband had said on his deathbed, reminding her husband's brother and sister that they were to be only caretakers of the estate. Now that Milarepa had attained his majority, she requested that all the property be restored to them

But the greedy Aunt and Uncle now claimed that they had been the original owners and had only loaned the property to the Mila-Dorje-Senge family and thus, Milarapa and his mother had no real claim on the property. The aunt and uncle now began indignantly slapping Milarepa's mother and the two children, calling them ungrateful wretches to act thus after accepting the charity of living with them and eating their food. Thus they drove them out of the large stone house to let the mother and children fend for themselves.

Some of the relatives and neighbors were sympathetic to Milarepa's family, but they were not sufficient in strength or numbers to oppose the clan of the Aunt and Uncle. And so it happened that the three were turned out of their own house. After that they lived meagerly, supported by the relatives of Milarepa's mother and charity from Zesay's family. The three were forced to work hard, exchanging their labor for a bit of food or a scrap of clothing. During this time they found no joy in their lives whatsoever.




One day Milarepa happened to be singing loudly, proud of his voice, when his mother overheard him and was stung to the quick by his unseemly outburst of happiness. She immediately berated him for his transgression in the face of the relentless misery of their existence. She thought over the situation and decided to take action. She wanted him to learn the black arts of sorcery in order to wreak vengeance on their enemies, the greedy Aunt and Uncle. Milarepa agreed that he would apply himself under a good teacher if his mother provided him with fees for the apprenticeship and living expenses. In order to do so, She sold half of the small plot of property that had belonged to her side of the family before her marriage and sent Milarapa off with money. Before he took her leave she very solemnly told him that she would kill herself in his very presence if he returned without having learned sufficient magic to be able to wreak some havoc on their enemies.

Milarepa traveled a distance away to a Lama who was known about the countryside as one who was proficient in the black arts. Along with some other young apprentices, Milarepa spent nearly a year learning mostly ineffectual magic rites with high sounding titles. At the end of the year, the pupils were sent off and told that if they applied themselves diligently they would succeed in their quest. Milarepa accompanied his companions for a time as they took their leave but then turned back to the Lama's house. Along the way, he collected a quantity of manure and dug a hole and buried it in the Lama's garden as a small gift to his teacher. The Lama observed this from his roof, and is said to have remarked that he had never had a pupil more affectionate and industrious as the young lad Milarepa was. The latter, went in to the Lama's presence and told him of his mother's vow to kill herself in his presence if he didn't learn some real magic. He then recounted his tale of woe in all its detail to the Lama who was greatly saddened by the story. The Lama decided to confer some real power on Milarepa but he wanted to make sure that the magic would not be used unjustly so he sent a fleet disciple to Milarepa's homeland to find out if the tale was true. On the disciples return, he agreed to show him the true and potent rituals for invoking the Tutelary deities to take revenge.

Milarepa absorbed all the teachings thoroughly and carefully carried out the prescribed ritual for 14 days. At the end of the ritual the Tutelary deities appeared to him in a vision with the bloody heads and hearts of 35 of the relatives who had most ill-treated him. The Lama informed him that two of the guilty ones had been missed and asked Milarepa if he wanted their lives as well. He replied that he wanted them to be spared as witnesses to the power of his magic. Thus it came to pass that his two very worst enemies, the greedy Aunt and Uncle were spared from harm.

From a phenomenal aspect, the sorcery took the form of a disaster that occurred at the family wedding. All the relatives and friends who had been most offensive to him had gathered at the great stone house to celebrate the wedding. There was a big commotion outside and some of the horses kept in the yard started kicking and running about violently agitated, until one of them ran into the main supporting column of the three story house with such force that the entire house came crashing down on the wedding party with tremendous noise and force killing everyone inside except for the Aunt and Uncle.

All this was observed by some of those sympathetic to the Milarepa family who were just approaching the house. Milarepa's mother quickly learned of the catastrophe and was ecstatic with cruel joy. She came gloating over the destruction that her son had caused telling everyone what joy her son had brought to her aging heart by causing so much death and destruction. The relatives of the dead were quite upset at the tragedy and more so to learn of her gloating. They talked it over but were divided on whether to get together and kill her in revenge, or to go after her son Milarepa, who had directly caused the destruction. After due consideration they decided to find and kill the son. Soon word of their plans got back to the mother so she sent a message to her son, along with several gold pieces she got from selling the remaining half of her plot of land. In the note she described her joy at his success and requested him now to launch a powerful hail storm on the area, ruining the crops of their enemies and striking fear into their hearts so as to prevent further retaliation.

Milarepa received the note from the pilgrim courier and gave the gold pieces over to the Sorcerer-Lama, requesting him to teach him the art of launching hail storms. Armed with his new magic, Milarepa traveled incognito back to his homeland and set up his ritualistic site on a hillside overlooking the valley of his homeland below. He began his incantations and soon dark clouds began to gather and then a succession of three powerful hail storms utterly ruined the entire barley crop of that year, a crop that had promised to be one of the heaviest in years.

After the destruction, Milarepa retreated to a cave in the hillside to escape the cold wind and lit a fire for warmth. After a few hours he heard some of his former neighbors walking by the cave he had taken refuge in. They had guessed who was responsible for this fresh mischief and were immensely angered by the all destruction he had caused, first to the 35 people killed in the wedding party, and now to the season's rich harvest of barley - utterly laid waste. The men were talking amongst themselves, saying as they walked past the cave that if Milarapa fell into their hands at that very moment, their vengeance could hardly be satisfied by chopping his body into tiny bits; such was their anger. At that instant one of them spotted the fire and guessed that it was Milarepa himself taking refuge in the cave. They hurried quickly and quietly away to go gather a party to go after him. Meanwhile as soon as they had left, Milarepa made good his escape and journeyed back to the Sorcerer-Lama.

 





Lone Rider inTibetan Immensity

"If you do not acquire contentment in yourselves,
Heaped-up accumulations will only enrich others.

If you do not obtain the light of Inner Peace,
Mere external ease and pleasure will become a source of pain.

If you do not suppress the Demon of Ambition,
Desire for fame will lead to ruin and to lawsuits"


 Milarepa


The Lama congratulated Milarepa on his success but by now Milarapa was deeply repenting all the evil deeds his mother had urged him to commit. He longed for religion and wanted to be delivered from committing further evil acts. He worried greatly over the heavy debts of karma he had incurred through his evil actions and could think of nothing else. He wanted to ask the Lama Guru for religious instruction but didn't have the nerve to broach the subject so he stayed on, faithfully serving the Lama and waiting for an opportune moment to bring up the subject of his salvation.

The Lama now was called away to attend to one of his followers who had died after a short illness. The Lama returned lamenting that such an excellent man in the prime of his life had died so suddenly. He spoke on the transitoriness of life and the misery of this earthly existence and then started ruminating over his own life. He had spent his entire life up to that point practicing the art of dealing death and destruction and teaching those same black arts to many others. By doing so he had to take at least a portion of the karmic responsibility for all the evil acts that had come out of it.

In his mood of deep remorse, he urged Milarepa to go and seek out a teacher of the Holy Dharma and at least deliver himself and maybe even the Lama into a higher state of existence in a future life. This was precisely the opportunity Milarepa had been waiting for. He prayed to be allowed to take to the religious life and his teacher readily agreed, giving him gifts and a letter of introduction to a well known Lama versed in a doctrine called "The Great Perfection".

Milarepa went to the Lama and requested to be taught. The Lama gave him some meditation instructions and told him to go practice but after a few days, the Lama had an insight that he was not the proper teacher for Milarepa, so he sent him on to a very learned Lama he knew of named "Marpa the Translator". Marpa was known widely among other religious centers for his trips to India to procure sacred teachings which he had brought back to Tibet in large bundles of scrolls. Marpa had been initiated by the famed Naropa, a powerful Saint who had fully transferred his exalted state of enlightenment to his disciple Marpa.



Naropa, Guru of Marpa
1016 - 1100 AD.

He gained enlightenment under Tilopa.
Tilopa is believed to have been an incarnation of Amitabha - the Buddha of Boundless Light.
 



 Milarepa

When Milarepa first heard the Lama utter the name "Marpa", he felt a thrill go through his body. Suddenly all his hairs stood on end and tears of joy started flowing from his eyes. He set out thinking of nothing else but the moment he would finally set eyes on his new guru.

Meanwhile, the day before Milarepa arrived, Marpa the Translator had a dream in which his own Guru, the Great Saint Naropa appeared to him and gave him a five pointed dorje (i.e. sceptre) made of the precious gem lapis lazuli. The dorje, however, was slightly tarnished and Naropa urged him to wash the dirt off with an elixir of holy water from a golden pot until it shone in splendour and then to raise it up upon a Banner of Victory. In his dream Marpa saw that the dorje, once polished and raised up emitted a brilliant radiance that shone on all the sentient beings in the six Lokas (the physical and spiritual realms or worlds). In his dream, the spectacle of the radiant dorje was blessed with the benedictions of the Victorious Ones (previous humanity who had passed into the state of Buddhahood, or enlightenment).

Marpa was a member of the Kargyutpa sect and one of the specialties of the lineage was to divine future events through the reading of omens. From the dream he knew that a momentous meeting with his chief disciple was about to take place and that his task was to expiate some evil karma by which the disciple had been tarnished and then to bring him to the state of enlightenment.

Marpa left his house telling his wife Damema that he was going to plow his field that day, a thing he had never done before. Marpa walked down the road a ways and kept busy at the plowing until he spied Milarepa coming up the road towards him. As soon as Milarepa approached and laid eyes on the Lama Marpa, an inexpressible bliss gripped him and for a few moments he lost consciousness of his surroundings swept up in an ecstatic state. As soon as he had recovered he addressed Marpa as Reverend Sir and asked him where he might find the faithful disciple of the famous saint Naropa who was called Marpa the translator. Milarepa added that he wanted to learn the True Doctrine by which he might obtain Deliverance in one single lifetime. At this Marpa was inwardly pleased but he showed no emotion and only said that he would procure an introduction to the Lama Marpa if only Milarepa would finish the task of plowing the field.

Marpa offered Milarepa some chang (barley beverage) as refreshment. Milarepa thanked him and drank the entire quantity of chang offered. Milarepa then plowed the field with enthusiasm and even when one of the disciples came to call him to the Lama's presence, Milarepa asked him to wait until he had finished plowing the field thoroughly and completely as requested by Marpa. Marpa took these two omens as signs of his new disciple's thoroughness and willingness to work towards the spiritual goal.

After that initial meeting began a period during which Marpa held out the goal of spiritual instruction and kept Milarepa busy at strenuous physical labours building various stone edifices. By nature Marpa was outwardly a rough and tyrannical teacher but inwardly he was all love and compassion. By the previous omens and Milarepa's recounting of his evil deeds, Marpa knew there was a great deal of evil karma to be worked out so he pretended to be always short tempered and demanding with the sincere and faithful lad. He had Milarepa build a stone structure on a high rocky ridge only to have him tear it down again, and take all the rocks and boulders back to where they were found, telling him he had changed his plans and now wanted a new structure built in another place. This was repeated on three different ridges until finally he had Milarepa build a grand many storied edifice on yet a forth ridge. Throughout the tasks, Milarepa never lost faith that he would receive the instructions he was looking for and put forth a Herculean effort, moving stones that ordinarily could only be moved by the combined strength of three men. He put forth such strenuous effort that he wore his body out until his back was one great sore from carrying rocks and mortar. His arms and legs were all cracked and bruised. Yet he continued working on, every day hoping at last to be favored with some religious instruction. Out of sympathy with his wounds, Marpa showed him how to pad his back and allowed him to rest while his body healed, but never did he allow Milarepa to avoid any of the building work that he had set out for him to complete.



Milarepa's Guru, Marpa the Translator of Lhobhrak
1012-1096 AD
Marpa made the dangerous trek to India three times during his life, each time taking back esoteric Tantric and other teachings which he translated into the Tibetan Language




THE CAVE OF MILAREPA, CHINA

Milarepa

During the years when all this building was going on, Marpa continued giving instruction to his other students. On several different occasions, various individuals among the disciples underwent initiations to receive the sacred instructions and Milarepa would try to join them but the Lama would drive him away with angry shouts and fierce beatings, causing him great mental distress. Each time Milarepa would be plunged into deep despair thinking that Marpa's actions were due only to the evil he had previously done. Sometimes Milarepa considered taking drastic action but each time he was on the verge of either taking his own life or running away, Marpa's wife, Damema, would give him sympathy and comfort, telling him the Lama would surely soon favor him with some instruction.

Soon another opportunity for instruction presented itself with the grand initiation of some disciples into the Mandala rite of Gaypa Dorje'. Marpa's wife Damema secretly gave a rare colored turquoise which had been in her family to Milarepa as an offering of the initiation fee and then urged him to take his place once again with the other participants to the initiation. When the time came for the ceremony, Marpa approached Milarepa, carefully examined the turquoise and asked him how he came to possess it. Milarepa had to confess that the Reverend Mother (Damema) had given it to him. In reply Marpa merely told him that if he had anything of his own to offer he could stay. Thinking that maybe the Lama would soften and allow him to take initiation, Milarepa stayed on a while and waited. But this only made Marpa furious (at least outwardly) and he threw young Milarepa to the ground with great force and made as if to beat him with a stick. At this the young lad felt as if his heart was breaking, and weeping openly he left the house.

The next day the Lama summoned him and asked him if his refusal to confer initiation on him had shaken his faith. Milarepa replied that he only considered that it was the result of his own evil deeds which had prevented him from taking his place in the ceremony, whereupon he burst into tears anew. At this, the Lama ordered him out in an angry voice, asking him how he dared try to blame the Lama for this by his weeping so in his presence. Again Milarepa was sunk into the utmost despair feeling as if his heart were being torn out.

Milarepa went off by himself and thinking things over he concluded that the Lama never would confer on him the spiritual truths he was seeking and that he would have to seek them elsewhere. So he sought out Damema and told her of his plans to find another Guru. She reluctantly agreed that it appeared the Lama never would give him any instruction. Therefore she gave him some relics of Marpa's Guru Naropa as a gift and sent him off to another highly developed Lama, Ngogpa, who was of the same sect as Marpa. She wrote a note asking Lama Ngogpa to teach Milarepa some religious instructions and then sealed the note with Marpa's own seal.

After a short journey to the Lama's monastery, Milarepa arrived just as Lama Ngogpa had reached an auspicious point in a lecture to a large number of his pupils. He was reading: "I am the Expounder and I am the Truth. I am the Teacher of the World. I am the Being who has passed beyond all states of worldly existence. I am the Blissful one." Just as he said these words, he looked up to see Milarepa prostrating before him in salutation. The Lama took this simple sign as an omen that Milarepa would one day become a master of all religious lore.

As soon as Milarepa presented the Lama with Naropa's sacred relics and the note requesting instruction, the Lama was overjoyed to be so favored with such auspicious gifts and he then ordered a great celebration. Lama Ngogpa had heard about the Great Sorcerer (as Milarepa was called) staying with Marpa and had thought about sending for him. The Lama explained to Milarepa that many of his pupils had been waylaid and robbed of their meager possessions and supplies by the lawless inhabitants of one of the nearby provinces as they journeyed to and from the lamasery. He therefore dispatched Milarepa to launch a powerful hailstorm on the area. He promised Milarepa that as soon as this was accomplished, he would give him the instructions he sought. Now Milarepa bitterly repented his fate that instead of getting religious instruction, he was now being asked to commit still more evil acts. But he saw no way he could refuse so he set out for the province and set up his apparatus on a hillside and began the rites.

Soon a large and violent storm gathered and let loose huge quantities of rain and hail. After the storm had passed he saw that the fields of grain had all been wasted, the hills around were deeply cut by ravines, and many of the domestic animals of the residents as well as even birds, rats, and other animals had perished in the storm. Finding a shepherd who had lost his entire flock, Milarepa made known to him that the people of the province had better refrain from robbing the religious pilgrims passing through the area or risk having more disastrous hail storms visited upon them. On hearing of this the people were profoundly impressed with the power of Lama Ngogpa and not only refrained from robbing the pilgrims in the future, but many of them became devoted followers and faithfully served him.

 





 


Ice Shrouded Himalayas "If you lose all differentiation between yourselves and others,
fit to serve others you will be.

And when in serving others you will win success,
then shall you meet with me;

And finding me, you shall attain to Buddhahood."


 Milarepa



Milarepa returned to the Lama in despair bewailing the fact that he came to the Lama searching for religious teaching but instead had been required to heap up even more sin. The Lama comforted him by telling him that all that had perished in the flood would in future times become themselves pupils on the path to Buddhahood.

Lama Ngogpa now fulfilled his promise to Milarepa and initiated him into the sacred rite of the Mandala of Gaypa Dorje. Milarepa was then conducted to a solitary cave where he was walled up inside of it with a stone wall held in place with mud as mortar. Now he was to commence his meditation practices. A small aperture was left for handing in food and water. Milarepa followed the Lama's meditation instructions with great zeal but despite a prodigious effort on his part, he failed utterly to experience any kind of spiritual development.

After a while the Lama came to him and asked him if he had experienced such and such to which Milarepa replied in the negative. The Lama was greatly puzzled as even the least advanced pupil should have had at least some measure of experiences by that point. Milarepa was inwardly alarmed by this and guessed that it was because he did not have Marpa's blessings. He was afraid to say anything though so he kept quiet and the Lama directed him to continue with his practices.

At about this time, Lama Ngogpa received a summons from Marpa to join him for a great religious event. The letter also stated that Lama Ngogpa should return the "wicked person" who had taken refuge with him. The Lama went to Milarepa's cave and read the letter to him. At this Milarepa confessed that indeed, it was not Marpa that had sent him there for instruction, but his wife, the Reverend Mother Damema. The Lama then stated that in that case, they had been engaged in totally profitless work.

Lama Ngogpa now collected all his pupils and taking a large number of objects and all his livestock as offerings in the ceremony, they proceeded to the residence of Marpa. When they were a short distance away, Lama Ngogpa sent Milarapa ahead to inform Marpa that they were near so that he could send some disciples back with refreshments (according to Tibetan custom).

Milarepa hurried to Marpa's residence and first encountered Damema. They greeted one another with great joy like reunited mother and son. She then told him to go inside and pay his respects to Marpa. Marpa was on the top floor of the house and when Milarepa approached from one direction, Marpa turned in another. Milarepa approached him again and Marpa turned back in yet another direction. Then Milarepa informed him that though he was unwilling to accept his own obeisance, Marpa should at least prepare a reception for Lama Ngogpa's party who was now only a short distance away. Marpa became enraged at this and replied that when he himself had returned from India with a load of precious teachings, not even as much as a lame bird hopped out to greet him.

At this Milarepa left to find Damema. The two, along with some of Marpa's disciples went back with a quantity of chang to greet Lama Ngogpa's party. Once the entire group had assembled, the religious consecration of the completed residence of Marpa's son was carried out. Then a few days later, Marpa conferred on Lama Ngogpa the final ear whispered teaching that he lacked - the Short Cut of the Immutable Path - through which it is possible to attain to Nirvana in a single lifetime.

After this Marpa put on a great feast, including his own disciples and all those who had assembled there from far distant locations. During the feast, Marpa sat looking fiercely at Lama Ngogpa and suddenly pointing an accusing finger at him and glancing at his long staff he had by his side, he demanded that the Lama account for his inexcusable behaviour in granting teachings to the wicked and evil Milarepa. The Lama was terrified and replied to him that he had only carried out the instructions that Marpa himself had written in his letter, signed with his own seal and accompanied by the relics of Saint Naropa to show their authenticity. Marpa then turned on Milarepa and demanded to know where he got the relics of Naropa to give to the Lama. Milarepa shrunk in terror and felt his soul within sinking. He quickly passed from a state of extreme terror to one of extreme anguish, feeling once again as if his heart were being torn out. He began trembling and could scarcely talk for his terror. He felt compelled to inform Marpa that the Reverend Mother Damema had sent him to the Lama with the note and the relics of Naropa. At this Marpa turned fiercely to Damema to accuse her, but anticipating just such an event, she had already escaped the room and went into the chapel, barring the door behind her. Marpa then demanded that Lama Ngogpa return to his monastery and bring back the garlands and rosary of rubies that had once belonged to the great saint Naropa.

The Lama left immediately to do so and encountered Milarepa outside who had also made his escape when the Reverend Mother had run out of the room. Milarepa was in a corner weeping from the deepest depths of despair and he asked the Lama to please ensure that he would get a proper birth in his next life with a chance to attain enlightenment. He explained that because of all the evil deeds he had committed he had not only had made himself suffer but had also involved the Lama and the Reverend Mother in his suffering. He had now lost all hope of attaining teachings in this life and in his despair, planned to take his own life on the spot. The Lama himself burst into tears at this and pleaded with Milarepa not to take his own life. He informed him that the Mystic Doctrine held that all the various bodily principles and faculties are divine and that to prematurely end the present life before it's natural period of dissolution was the greatest sin of all incurring the severest of punishments.

Then Lama Ngogpa sought to comfort Milarepa as did many of the disciples who joined in to offer their own sympathies. But Milarepa remained in deep despair, bitterly repenting the black deeds he had previously committed that were now producing all his present suffering.

Meanwhile all the anger seemed to drain out of Marpa and he became calm and mild and asked one of his disciples to go and bring Lama Ngogpa, Damema, and Milarepa back into his presence, but this made Milarepa even more despondent. He envied the others, called back to Marpa's presence, but as for himself, he knew that his teacher would only show fresh displeasure at him if he returned with the others. So he remained there still weeping with despair and Lama Ngogpa remained with him to soothe him and make sure he didn't do anything rash.
 





 

Marpa now sent Damema to request Milarepa to return saying that he was now to be the honored guest. Damema went to him smiling broadly and told him that it appeared that Lama Marpa was now really going to favor him with some teaching. Milarepa very much doubted that this could be so but nonetheless returned with the others and all took their seats around Marpa.

Now Marpa made a detailed recounting of all that had occurred from the time he first met his worthy disciple. He first said that he had set Milarepa at hard labor building various edifices to help absolve him of his sins. His own anger, he said was not common anger, but spiritual or religious anger and it had as its aim to incite repentance and contribute to the spiritual development of the recipient. If he had had the chance of plunging his spiritual son (Milarepa) into abject despair nine times he would have been able to cleanse him completely of all his sins. But owing to the misplaced pity and narrow understanding of his wife Damema, who had interfered with his plans, he was only able to do this eight times. However, the sufferings that Milarepa had undergone had cleansed him of his major sins and his other chastenings had cleansed him of most of his minor sins leaving him with only a residual amount of demerit to be worked off.

Now Marpa announced that he was going to finally confer on Milarepa those initiations and teachings of his sect that bring liberation in a single lifetime and then he planned to shut him up in a cave to begin his meditations.

Milarepa was not sure if he were dreaming or awake but if dreaming he wished the dream to continue and began to weep, not out of misery, but for the pure inexpressible joy that was now possessing his soul. He made obeisance to the guru Marpa and all those present admired Marpa for his stern and inflexible will while chastening Milarepa, and for his wisdom and mercy in working out his salvation. All were now beaming and smiling as they partook of the sacrificial cakes.

The next day, Marpa erected the Demchog Mandala and through mantras, invoked the presence of the deities who presided over the succession of gurus in the Kargyutpa Sect of which Marpa was now the current youngest lineage holder. Milarepa now had the vision of the presiding tutelary deities invoked by the Mandala, thus receiving their benediction on his initiation. Then Marpa gave him instruction in the methods of meditation and explained the meanings of all the omens and events that had occurred since the initial meeting of the two. He told Milarepa that he in his turn would have disciples full of faith, intelligence, and energy, owing to his own patience, faith and acceptance in all the trials he had undergone during his cleansing period.

Now Milarepa began his meditation training. Marpa shut him up in a cave with a supply of provisions. Milarepa used to start his meditations each day by putting a lighted lamp on his head. He would continue meditating until the lamp went out. After eleven months of this Marpa and Damema came to take him out of isolation and assess his progress. Milarepa was reluctant to take a break from his meditations because of the great progress he was making but he followed his Guru's dictates. Marpa now asked him what understandings he had obtained from his meditations. Milarepa first sang a song which he extemporaneously composed honoring his Guru and his wife and the teachings he had been given. In his song he requested that Marpa remain in the world until "The Whirling Pool of Being is emptied". After that he summarized his realizations.


Milarepa's Initial Realizations


I have understood this body of mine to be the product of ignorance, composed of flesh and blood and lit up by the perceptive power of consciousness. To those fortunate ones who long for emancipation it may be the great vessel by which they may procure Freedom. But to the unfortunates who only sin, it may be the guide to lower and miserable states of existence. This our life is the boundary mark whence one may take an upward or downward path. Our present time is a most precious time, wherein each of us must decide, in one way or other, for lasting good or lasting ill.

One who aims only at his own individual peace and happiness adopts the lower path (Hinayana), but he who devotes the merits of his love and compassion to the cause of others belongs to the higher path (Mahayana).

In meditating on the Final Goal, one has to discover the non-existence of the personal Ego, and therefore the fallacy that it exists (i.e. because everything in the universe with name and form is basically illusory in nature)

To realize the state of non-existence of the personal ego, the mind must be kept in quiescence. In that state, thoughts, ideas, and cognition cease and the mind (awareness) passes into a state of perfect tranquility so that days, months, and years may pass without the person perceiving it; thus the passage of time has to be marked for him by others.

The visions of the forms of the Deities which appear in meditation are merely signs attending the perseverance in meditation. They have no intrinsic worth or value in themselves.

All the efforts put forth during this path must be made in a spirit of compassion with the aim of dedicating the merit of one's efforts to the Universal Good. There is a need of mentally praying and wishing for blessings on others so earnestly that one's mind processes also transcend thought.

Just as the mere name of food does not satisfy the appetite of a hungry person but he must eat food, so also a man who would learn about the Voidness (i.e. Universal Awareness) must meditate so as to realize it, not just learn of its definition.
 





 

After the recounting, Marpa was exceedingly pleased and told Milarepa that he had expected much but that his expectations had all been exceeded. Milarepa was then allowed to go back to the cave for more meditation.

By now Marpa was getting on in years. Since he began teaching Milarepa, he had made two more trips to India to visit his Guru Naropa and receive the final texts he had not brought back in his earlier trips. Marpa now called together all his chief Lamas and disciples, including Milarepa, and gave to each those mystics texts that would be most valuable according to each person's line of development. Each also received some relic that had belonged to Naropa. To Milarepa was given the teaching of Tum-mo in which the ascending and descending flows along the spinal column are united to produce the vital heat so necessary for meditation in the cold and solitary caves of the Himalayas. Then all returned to their own province except Milarepa who continued for several more years of meditation in a cave under the direction of Marpa.

Usually Milarepa never slept but meditated continuously, however one particular day he had slept for a long time and had a vivid dream wherein he saw the house he had lived in as a child all in ruins. He saw his sacred books within the fallen house being wasted by rain water, his old mother had died, and his sister was roving about the countryside with no attachments and no friends. In his dream he was weeping with great sadness and longing for his mother and sister and he woke up feeling very sad. He tried again to meditate but could not shed his sadness; instead the feeling grew stronger and stronger until he vowed to himself to go out into the world and try to find his family. So he pulled down the rock wall and went to see his guru Marpa.

As he entered Marpa's quarters he found him asleep with the rising sun just lighting his head like a halo. Just at that moment, Damema came in with his morning meal. Marpa awoke, alarmed to find Milarepa had left his cave retreat. Milarepa explained that he was overcome with sadness thinking of his beloved mother and sister he had left behind many years ago. He explained to Marpa his great longing to see them once more. Although Marpa felt there was little chance in finding the mother alive and little merit in making the search, he agreed to allow him to go. But, he warned, the fact that Milarepa had entered his quarters and found him asleep was an omen that they would not see each other alive again in this life.

Marpa was much grieved at heart thinking he would not again see his spiritual son alive but knowing this was the way of all the perishable things of the world, he requested Damema to deck the alter with offerings for their parting ceremony. He then gave Milarepa the final and highest initiation as well as the sacred ear-whispered tantric doctrines. These doctrines he gave only to Milarepa, among all his disciples. He charged Milarepa in his turn to hand them down to his most worthy disciple and so on for thirteen generations. Then in a final ceremony with the entire assembly of Lamas and disciples, Marpa occultly manifested himself in the forms of Gaypa Dorje and other of the tutelary divinities of the Kargyutpa sect and also other divine shapes and forms along with the various symbols associated with each deity such as bells, gems, lotuses, swords, etc. He then explained that these were various psycho-physical powers obtained after enlightenment and that they should never be manifested for an unworthy cause. This was his parting gift to Milarepa, and this, his spiritual son, greatly exalted in his heart to see that his Guru Marpa was veritably a Buddha himself. He vowed that he himself would gain such powers and show them in his turn to his own disciples. Marpa then told him that he could now depart since he had demonstrated the mirage like nature of all existing things. He instructed Milarepa to meditate in various caves made holy by previous saints in the locale of Mount Kailas, Lapchi Kang (Mt. Everest), and other sanctified places. He then gave to Milarepa a sealed scroll that was to be opened only on dire threat of imminent death. With great sadness, knowing they would not meet again in the present life, Milarepa took leave of his beloved Spiritual Father and Mother with the thought that they would all meet again in the celestial realms.





 

He journeyed quickly to his homeland, crossing several high and dangerous mountain passes to get there. When he arrived he found things just as he had seen in his dream. His mother had died, his house was in ruins and all the neighbors were afraid to go near it thinking it inhabited by evil ghosts. His sister wandered homeless, none knew where. His field was choked with weeds.

He entered the ruin that was his house and found a mound with grass growing thickly over it. Moving the dirt he found the bones of what he knew to be his mother. He had the unbearable thought that he would never see his mother again and a deep sadness gripped his soul. He wept bitterly in his loneliness. Remembering his Guru's teachings on the transient nature of reality, he laid down using the mound as a pillow and entered into deep meditation. He soon passed over into the samadhi state in which he remained for seven days. On returning to normal consciousness, he reflected that the world now had nothing left to tempt him or bind him to it. He vowed again and again to himself that the life of solitary meditation was the only path for him. Exchanging his house and land for some food, he left forever his former homeland and proceeded to the Draktar-Taso Cave, the first of many caves he was to inhabit over the remainder of his life.


"Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule"

 Milarepa

 



 ALEXANDRA DAVID NEEL

 

Approaching Mt. Kailas


There he settled in the spacious comfortable cave, not even sleeping, but meditating continuously except for a single break once a day to prepare a meal of flour and water mixed with whatever root or edible he might find. At about this time Milarepa gained proficiency in the yogic power of Tum-mo, the generation of the Ecstatic Internal Warmth, in which the body generates a great deal of heat. This allowed him to stay relatively warm through the cold Tibetan winters with nothing but a thin cotton covering whereas most people had to wear thick wool and leather hides. For this reason he came to be called Mila - repa or Mila the cotton clad.

His daily routine of meditation continued for four years until his supply of flour ran out. This caused him great concern because he had vowed to himself not to return to the world for any reason - but with no food, he was afraid he might die without having attained liberation. He decided to walk about outside the cave in search of some kind of food. Not far from the cave he found a sunny spot with springs of fresh water, an expansive view of the area, with a large quantity of nettles growing all about. He made a soup of nettle broth and found it to be somewhat palatable. This was now to become his sole source of food for some time to come. He continued his meditations on his new diet, but without any nurturing food, his body soon became emaciated and the hair on his body began to take on a greenish tinge from the nettles. He became very weak and often thought of opening the scroll that Marpa had given him for a time of dire need. But he continued to make progress in his meditations.

About this time some hunters chanced to be in the area after failing to find game. When they first laid eyes on Milarepa's pale green form, they fled in terror thinking he was not a man but some kind of evil spirit. But on assuring them he was indeed a human like themselves they lost their fear of him. They demanded that Milarepa share some of his provisions with them as they were out of food but Milarepa told them he had none to share. They did not believe him, so they searched the area and not finding any began to ill treat him. Three of them picked him up several times and dropped him causing him great pain but in his misery he only pitied them and shed tears thinking of the evil karma they were creating for themselves. The fourth hunter entreated the others to stop ill-treating him and leave him alone as he did indeed seem to be a real lama for showing such forbearance over his ill treatment. Before leaving, the fourth man requested Milarepa to remember him in his prayers since the man had done nothing to offend him, and then the group of them left, laughing boisterously. Later Milarepa learned that Divine retribution had overtaken them as they were arrested by the Governor of the province. The leader was killed and all but the fourth man, who had restrained the others from harming Milarepa, had their eyes put out.

The meditation continued and Milarepa grew even thinner. The hair on his body took on a more greenish color. Again some hunters chanced upon his cave and also wanted provisions but seeing that he was living only on nettles, they left him the remainder of their own provisions and a large quantity of meat. Milarepa was very grateful to have some real food and he began to take some daily. The food gave him a sense of bodily comfort and spiritual zeal which he had not experienced in a long time and his meditations took on a new intensity. But eventually the food ran out and once again he fell back on his nettle broth for sustenance.

 



ALEXANDRA DAVID NEEL

Lapchi Kang Area (Mt. Everest)

"Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly off.

Dwell alone and you shall find a friend.

Take the lowest place and you shall reach the highest.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

Renounce all worldly goals and you shall reach the highest goal."


 Milarepa


Several more years passed in this way and Milarepa's long lost sister Peta heard tales from hunters that had stumbled across his camp. They informed her that her brother was there and looked on the verge of death from starvation. She was amazed to hear even that he was alive and took the news to Zesay, who had been betrothed to Milarepa in childhood. Between the two they agreed that the sister should first go to see him and find out if the rumors were true

Approaching the cave, Peta was horrified to see the emaciated green body of her brother, with protruding bones and eyes sunk in his skull. At first she took it to be some strange being or ghost but recognizing her brother's voice, she ran to him crying and bewailing their fate. She expressed to him that they two were the most luckless people in the whole world. At this Milarepa explained that rather he was the most fortunate person in the world because he had attained to transcendent knowledge and Bodhi mind (the internal vision of a Buddha). But his sister felt he was only deluding himself.

Peta had brought provisions and a supply of chang and after partaking of some food his mood was greatly elevated. However when he tried to meditate afterwards his mind was filled with a mix of pious and impious thoughts and he was unable to concentrate.

A few days later both the sister, Peta, and his betrothed, Zesay, came to visit him bringing cured meat, flour, butter, and chang. They chanced to come upon him when he was out getting water and he had absolutely no clothes on since his wearing cloth had fallen into tattered pieces over the years. His sister told him that no matter how she regarded him he seemed not to be in any way a sane person. They both urged him to at least go out begging for supplies on occasion. Then they went to get some cloth to cover his body with. But Milarepa felt that the hour of death was uncertain. his Guru had told him that his only avenue of success in this life was through continued meditation. He himself was afraid that if he didn't reach enlightenment in this very life, he would be reborn in a lower state due to the evil he had committed early in life, and so he ignored their advice and persevered in his meditation.

He finished the chang that Peta had brought and was eating well from the food left by Zesay but he found that his mind was now disturbed and his body was experiencing various pains. No matter how hard he tried to meditate he could no longer enter the samadhi state. Feeling there was no greater danger than not being able to continue with his meditations, he opened the scroll that Marpa had given him for just such a time of dire emergency. In the scroll he found the exact instructions needed for treating the present emergency and he immediately put the instructions into effect with the result that his meditations now increased as never before because of the healthy food he was now eating.

The knot of the central spinal column along which the psychic energy flows was now cleared at the plexus (i.e. chakra center) below the naval and the psychic energy current rose up his spine in its fullness. He now experienced a supersensuous calmness and clearness that far exceeded in its ecstatic intensity any of the states he had previously reached. He attained to new heights of realization in which he saw that the highest state of Nirvana and the ordinary state of Samsaric consciousness were but opposite and inseparable states resting on the base of the Voidness of Universal or Supra mundane Mind (ie Ultimate Awareness). In his new realization he could clearly see that the samsaric or phenomenal existence results when the Universal Mind is directed along the path of self centered and self oriented awareness, and that the Nirvanic state of transcendence results when it is directed on the path of selfless or altruistic awareness.



 Milarepa

Milarepa Manifesting Occult Powers

MILAREPA PSYCHIC POWERS FROM THE CHAKRAS ABOVE THE HEAD ALONG THE ANTAHKARANA




 

Greatly encouraged by this new development, Milarepa redoubled his zeal and began to develop the siddhis or yogic powers that accompany full enlightenment. His production of the inner vital heat also developed fully so that he could easily sit amongst the frozen snows and melt the ice into water. A few of the people he had encountered now knew about his siddhis (psychic powers) and so Milarepa determined to go to even more isolated caves to prevent a steady flow of people coming to him with selfish aims.

As he was about to leave the area, his sister Peta came once again bringing him some cloth for him to fasten into a garment for his naked body. She remained a while and he tried to talk her into taking to a life of meditation with him. But the very thought was repugnant to her and she saw only his great deprivation. To her, he was the most miserable person on the earth and she felt that even though she had to beg for her own food and clothes, her life was far better than his. She tried to talk him into becoming a lama of the people so that they might bring him offerings in return for religious blessings. Milarepa saw that he would not be able to convert her to a religious outlook so he at least explained to her the doctrine of karma (i.e. the law of retribution) so that she would at least refrain from incurring any fresh debts from harmful actions.

While Peta was visiting, their evil Aunt arrived, the aunt who had started the entire chain of events so many years back by seizing the property of Milarepa's widowed mother. Peta saw her approaching and tried to prevent her from reaching the cave by withdrawing the bridge that spanned the chasm to the other side, but the Aunt pleaded to be heard. Her brother, the evil Uncle who had conspired with her, had died, and she now deeply repented all she had done and so she had brought a yak load of supplies and found Milarepa by asking about in the villages until she was told a wandering monk resembling a green caterpillar had indeed been through the area. Milarepa finally agreed, although reluctantly, to talk to her and he delivered several religious discourses to her reminding her of all the sufferings and misery she had inflicted on them. In her state of misery, the Aunt took his teachings to heart and went on her way having been converted to a path that would confer eventual liberation. The sister Peta now also took her leave, having her mind somewhat turned to religion.




Milarepa now removed to Lapchi-Kang (Everest) and continued his meditation amidst the snows and isolation there. Altogether he meditated in and made holy twenty caves covering the region from Mount Kailas and Lapchi-Kang in Tibet to far off Nepal. It is said that besides his many human converts he also brought to enlightenment some superhuman (ie non-embodied) beings as well, including the Goddess Tseringma (one of the twelve guardian deities of Tibet who reside at Mt. Kailas). The Goddess came to tempt him with her powers during his meditations and instead was herself liberated.

During his travels over the 84 years of his life he met many worthy disciples that were destined to come under his tutelage. Highest among the disciples was Dvagpo Rimpoche (Gambopa). The most well known among them was Rechung who entreated him to tell in detail the story of his life (summarized in this narrative) which was recorded for the benefit of all sentient beings, even into the far future. These two disciples were respectively like the sun and the moon. The most exalted of beings met by Milarepa was a Maha-Purusha (Great Being) he had the excellent fortune of meeting - an Exalted Being mentioned by the Buddha himself as one of the guardians and protectors of the human race who live on through the centuries far from human habitation.

Besides his two chief disciples, Milarepa had 25 additional highly accomplished disciples, both men and women, who became saints. Another hundred made such progress that they did not take rebirth. Another hundred and eight Great Ones obtained excellent experience and knowledge from meditation. A thousand sadhus and yogis, both men and women, renounced worldly life and lived lives of exemplary piety. Innumerable lay disciples formed a religious relationship with Milarepa so that the gateway to lower states of existence was closed to them forever.

Thus did Milarepa radiate spiritual light like a beacon, drawing vast numbers of sentient beings forward toward the light of deliverance and dispelling in all directions the darkness of selfishness and ignorance.


 




 

Milarepa

 

"The Guru, being like the Dharma-Kaya (aggregate of all enlightened beings) is like the expanse of the sky

Upon the face of the sky, the Clouds of Good Wishes of the Sambhoga-Kaya (aggregate of overseeing deities in heaven worlds) gather

From the Clouds in the expanse of sky, descend the flowery showers of the Nirmana-Kaya (Great Teachers incarnated on Earth)

These falling on the Earth unceasingly, nourish and ripen the harvest of Saved Beings "


 

 

PYTHAGORAS AND VEGETARIANISM

THE REVENGE OF THE COWS!!

Enlightenment is Your Birthright

PYTHAGORAS' CONTRIBUTION TO WESTERN PHILOSOPHY IS IMMENSE. It is incalculable. For the first time he introduced vegetarianism to the West. The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.
The modern mind can understand it far better now we know that all forms of life are interrelated, interdependent. Man is not an island: man exists in an infinite web of millions of forms of life and existence. We exist in a chain, we are not separate. And to destroy other animals is not only ugly, unaesthetic, inhuman—it is also unscientific. We are destroying our own foundation.
Life exists as one organic unity. Man can exist only as part of this orchestra. Just think of man without birds and without animals and without fish—that life will be very very boring; it will lose all complexity, variety, richness, colour. The forests will be utterly empty, the cuckoo will not call, and the birds will not fly, and the water will look very sad without the fish.
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don't destroy life. It simply means: life is God—avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.
And it has something very scientific behind it. It was not an accident that all the religions that were born in India are basically vegetarian, and all the religions that were born outside India are non-vegetarian. But the highest peaks of religious consciousness were known in India and nowhere else.
Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards the earth. When you are a vegetarian you are light and you are more under the law of grace, under the law of power, and you start gravitating towards the sky.
Your food is not just food: it is you. What you eat, you become. If you eat something which is fundamentally based on murder, on violence, you cannot rise above the law of necessity. You will remain more or less an animal. The human is born when you start moving above the animals, when you start doing something to yourself which no animal can do.
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly—so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.
The lighter the food, the deeper goes the meditation. The grosser the food, then meditation becomes more and more difficult. I am not saying that meditation is impossible for a non-vegetarian—it is not impossible, but it is unnecessarily difficult.
It is like a man who is going to climb a mountain, and he goes on carrying many rocks. It is possible that even when you are carrying rocks you may reach to the mountain peak, but it creates unnecessary trouble. You could have thrown those rocks, you could have unburdened yourself, and the climb would have been easier, far more pleasant.
The intelligent person will not carry rocks when he is going to the mountain, will not carry anything unnecessary. And the higher he moves, the lighter and lighter he will become. Even if he is carrying something, he will drop it.
When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing reached Everest for the first time, they had to drop everything on the way—because the higher they moved, the more difficult it was to carry anything. Even very essential things were dropped. Just to carry yourself is more than enough.
Vegetarianism is of immense help. It changes your chemistry. When you eat and live on animals.... The first thing: whenever an animal is killed the animal is angry, afraid— naturally. When you kill an animal... just think of yourself being killed. What will be the state of your consciousness? What will be your psychology? All kinds of poisons will be released in your body, because when you are angry a certain kind of poison is released into your blood. When you are afraid, again a certain other kind of poison is released into your blood. And when you are being killed, that is the utmost in fear, anger. All the glands in your body release all their poison.
And man goes on living on that poisoned meat. If it keeps you angry, violent, aggressive, it is not strange; it is natural. Whenever you live on killing, you don't have any respect for life; you are inimical to life. And the person who is inimical to life cannot move into prayer—because prayer means reverence for life.
And one who is inimical to God's creatures cannot be very friendly towards God either. If you destroy Picasso's paintings, you cannot be very respectful towards Picasso — it is impossible. All the creatures belong to God. God lives in them, God breathes in them, they are his manifestation, just as you are. They are brothers and sisters.
When you see an animal if the idea of brotherhood does not arise in you, you don't know what prayer is, you will never know what prayer is. And the very idea that just for food, just for taste, you can destroy life, is so ugly. It is impossible to believe that man goes on doing it.
Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with nature, in friendship with creatures. That becomes the foundation. And only on that foundation can you base your prayer, your meditativeness. You can watch it in yourself: when you eat meat, meditation will be found to be more and more difficult.
Buddha was born in a non-vegetarian family. He was a kshatriya — — belonged to the warrior race — but the experience of meditation slowly slowly transformed him into a vegetarian. It was his inner understanding: whenever he ate meat, meditation was more difficult; whenever he avoided meat, meditation was easier. It was just a simple observation.
You will be surprised to know that the greatest vegetarians in the world have been Jainas — but all their twenty-four Masters were born into families of non-vegetarians. They were all warriors; they were brought up as fighters. All the twenty-four Masters of the Jainas were kshatriyas.
What happened? Why did these people who were brought up, conditioned from their very beginning to eat meat, create one day the greatest movement in the world for vegetarianism? Just because of their experiments with meditation.
It is an unavoidable fact that if you want to meditate, if you want to become thoughtless, if you want to become light—so light that the earth cannot pull you downwards, so light that you start levitating, so light that the sky becomes available to you—then you have to move from non-vegetarian conditioning to the freedom of vegetarianism.
Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing—he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.
But Pythagoras was not heard, not believed—on the contrary, he was ridiculed, persecuted. And he had brought one of the greatest treasures from the East to the West. He had brought a great experiment—if he had been heard, the West would have been a totally different world.
The problem that has arisen today, that we have destroyed nature, would never have arisen. If Pythagoras had become the foundation for the Western consciousness, there would not have been these great World Wars. He would have changed the whole course of history. He tried hard, he did whatsoever he could—it is not his fault. But people are blind, people are deaf; they can't hear a thing, they can't understand a thing. And they are not ready to change their habits.
People live in their habits, mechanically they live. And he had brought a message of becoming aware. Great meditative energy would have been released in the West. It would have become impossible to produce Adolf Hitlers and Mussolinis and Stalins. It would have been a totally different world. But still the same old habit persists.
We cannot change human consciousness unless we start by changing the human body. When you eat meat you are absorbing the animal in you — and the animal has to be transcended. Avoid! If you really want to go higher and higher, if you really want to go to the sunlit peaks of your consciousness, if you really want to know God, then you will have to change in every possible way.
You will have to look all around your life, you will have to observe each small habit in detail—because sometimes a very small thing can change your whole life. Sometimes it may be a very simple thing, and it can change your life so totally that it looks almost unbelievable.
Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness—becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive.
Vegetarianism is an alchemical change in you. It creates the space in which the baser metal can be transformed into gold.
THE SECOND THING that Pythagoras also introduced into Western consciousness was the idea of reincarnation. That too is somehow related with vegetarianism. You will be surprised again: all the vegetarian religions believe in reincarnation, and all the non-vegetarian religions believe only in one life. This can't be just a coincidence.
In India, Brahminism, Jainism, Buddhism are the three great religions. They differ in every possible way—their ideologies are so different that you cannot find more different ideologies anywhere. Hindus believe in God, they believe in the soul. Jainas don't believe in God—a tremendously fundamental thing—a religion without God. Buddhists don't even believe in the soul—no God, no soul. You cannot imagine a religion without God and without the soul. Such are their differences.
But about one thing they are all agreed, and that one thing is the idea of reincarnation, rebirth. Even Buddha, who does not believe in the soul, agrees with it. It looks very absurd— how can there be rebirth if there is no soul? He does not believe in a soul but he believes in a continuum. He says: Just as you light a candle in the evening, in the morning when you are blowing it out can you say it is the same flame that you had started in the evening? It is not the same— and yet somehow it is connected. The flame has been changing the whole night, the flame was disappearing the whole night —it was disappearing into smoke and a new flame was replacing it each moment. In fact the movement was so quick, that's why you couldn't see the gaps. There has been a continuum—a constant change, but very quick and fast—one flame being replaced by another, the whole night.
So when in the morning you are putting the candle out, it is not the same flame that you had started—although it looks almost the same. The first flame and the last are connected— they are part of one chain, one process—but you cannot say that there has been one flame, one soul.
That is the Buddhist idea of reincarnation: the continuity continues but individuals disappear—there is no individual soul. But still Buddha believed in reincarnation. Jainas believe in reincarnation, Brahmins believe in reincarnation.
But Jews, Christians and Mohammedans don't believe. Those are the three great religions which were born outside India. How did it happen that all three Indian religions stumbled upon the fact of reincarnation?—although they don't agree in any other matter. Why do they agree about one thing? They could not disagree. From where did this experience come to them?
And you will be surprised—the answer is vegetarianism.
When a person is utterly vegetarian he can easily remember his past lives. His clarity is such that he can look into his past lives. He is not gross, his energy is not blocked, his energy moves easily. His river of consciousness can penetrate to the ancientmost times; he can go backwards as much as he wants.
The consciousness of a non-vegetarian is blocked—in many ways. He has been accumulating gross matter in himself. That gross matter functions as a barrier. That's why all the three religions that were born outside India, and have remained non-vegetarian, could not come to the idea of reincarnation. They could not experience it.
Pythagoras lived in India, lived the life of a vegetarian, meditated deeply, became aware of the past lives, could see himself moving backwards. He could understand what Buddha means when he says, "Once I was an elephant, once I was a fish, once I was a tree."
The idea of evolution has been here in the East for ever— and in a far more subtle way than it has been given to Western science by Darwin. Darwin's idea is very raw: he says monkeys have become man— although Darwinians have not yet been able to prove it, because they are still searching for the link between the monkey and the man. And the problem arises: why did only a few monkeys become men? What happened to other monkeys? And monkeys are basically imitators — if a few monkeys had become men then all the monkeys would have imitated. What happened to the other monkeys? Great imitators they are—why only a few men?
And the monkeys are still there! Thousands and thousands of years have passed and monkeys are still monkeys. And you don't come across a monkey suddenly becoming a man...one fine morning he wakes up and he is a man. Nobody has ever seen this miracle happen.
The question is: where are the links between monkey and man?—and the difference is great, it is not small.
Just the other day somebody asked, "John Lilly has said that man is not the only being on the earth who has consciousness; there are other beings too who have more consciousness than man." The questioner has asked, "Is it true? Is John Lilly right?"
But those other animals have not discovered man yet—it is John Lilly who discovers those other animals. It is man who goes on discovering. Certainly the discoverer has more consciousness than the discovered. Even if we find some day that some animal has a great, evolved brain, we are the discoverers. That great brain has not discovered us just.
There are animals who are very evolved, but nobody is as evolved as man. And the difference is big! John Lilly has been working on dolphins, and he thinks that dolphins have a far better evolved consciousness. If you just meet John Lilly some time, tell him that dolphins have not discovered him— he has discovered dolphins. And the discoverer has more consciousness, obviously.
Dolphins are not saying anything about themselves—it is a man who is saying something about dolphins. They cannot even prove something about themselves. Dolphins are beautiful people, and Lilly is on the right track, but dolphins don't have a higher consciousness than man. They have not produced Buddhas, Patanjalis, Pythagorases—not even a John Lilly.
The Western concept of evolution, the Darwinian concept of evolution, is very gross. The Eastern idea of evolution is very subtle. It is not a question of the body of a monkey becoming the body of man—it has never happened; of the body of a fish becoming the body of man—it has never happened. But the inside of the fish goes on growing; it goes on changing from one body to another.
The growth, the evolution, has not happened from body to body: the growth has been happening in consciousness. When a monkey attains to a certain consciousness, the next birth will be that of man not of a monkey. He will die as a monkey and will be born as a man. The evolution is not going to happen in the body of the monkey itself. That body has been used by the soul—or whatever you call it, the continuum— the body of the monkey has been used, now the soul is ready to take a better body, a body where more possibilities of growth will become available.
The soul moves from one animal to another animal. The bodies are not evolving, but souls are evolving. The candles are not evolving, but the flames go on jumping from one candle to another. The flame goes on rising higher and higher. The evolution is of consciousness, not of the material, physiological body. That is where Darwin missed the whole point.
But in the East for at least ten thousand years we have been aware of it. The awareness came through meditation and the awareness was based in vegetarianism—because people started remembering their past lives.
It was a basic technique with both Buddha and Mahavira: whenever a disciple was to be initiated, the first thing that both Buddha and Mahavira required was that he had to go into his past lives. Great methods were developed so that one could move into past lives.
And once you start moving into past lives, this life will be utterly transformed. Why? Because once you see that all the stupid things that you are doing now, or wanting to do, you have been doing for many many lives... you have done those same things many times, and each time nothing was attained.
For example, if you are mad after money and then you remember that in the past life also you were mad after money, and you had succeeded, and you had become a rich man, a very rich man, and then you died... and all that richness and all that wealth was of no use. It was taken away by death, and you died as empty as ever, as poor as ever. And you remember even before that: you were a king and you had a great kingdom. And still you were frustrated, and still you lived in misery, and you died in misery. And again you are doing the same and hankering for more money? It will become impossible. The longing will simply fall flat on the ground. How can you go on repeating the same stupid thing again and again if you can remember? You can go on repeating the same stupidity again and again if you cannot remember.
The idea of reincarnation is not a philosophical idea: it is an experience, it is utterly scientific. People have remembered their lives.
When you have grown a little deeper into meditation... we are going to do all those techniques here too. But those techniques will require that you be absolutely vegetarian, otherwise you will not be able to go beyond this life. Your mind cannot move—it has to be so light, featherlight, that it can simply pass from one existence into another. And the lighter it is, the deeper it goes.
It can not only remember that you were a man in the past life—slowly slowly, you will remember that you have been animals. And, sometimes, when the depth grows, you will remember that you have been trees, rocks. You have lived for millennia in many forms. And if you remember that once you were a fish, it will become difficult for you to eat fish.
Vegetarianism leads you into remembering your past lives. And knowing your past lives, you become more and more a vegetarian—because seeing that all are brothers and sisters, the whole existence, you cannot kill animals. It becomes simply impossible! Not that you have to prevent yourself; it simply becomes impossible.
Pythagoras was a real adventurer. Alexander the Great also came to India, he also took away many things from India, but they were useless things—diamonds and emeralds and gold. That's what Alexander the Great took away from India—useless things. Pythagoras was a real seeker. He gathered real diamonds, real emeralds: diamonds of consciousness, emeralds of consciousness. And these were two tremendously significant, tremendously pregnant approaches—that of vegetarianism and the idea of reincarnation.
Once it happened: Pythagoras saw somebody hitting a dog. He said, "Do not hit him!" to the man who was beating the dog. "It is the soul of a friend of mine. I recognized it when I heard it cry out."
Now this looks utterly ridiculous to a Western mind, to the Western scientific attitude. Even in those old days, people must have laughed: "What nonsense he is talking about! — 'Don't beat the dog because I have recognized a friend.'" He was simply trying to teach the idea of reincarnation in every way possible.
And the third thing: he was, again, the first to introduce the concept that life is a wheel—a wheel of birth and death. The wheel goes on moving and we go on clinging to the wheel. And the wheel is repetitive; again and again it will move on the same track. Nothing new will ever happen. Birth will come, you will become young, you will be full of sex and great desires, and then you will be spent and you will be old, diseased, ill, sick, frustrated, tired. And then death... and again birth... and so on and so forth.
Each birth brings a death, each death brings a birth. It is a vicious circle, and the wheel goes on moving. In India the word for the world is samsara. Samsara means 'the wheel'. Youth or childhood or old age are just spokes of the wheel, and we go on clinging to the wheel and the wheel goes on moving — as everything else moves in the world. The earth moves around the sun, and the sun also moves around some unknown sun. And the moon moves around the earth, and earth and moon both move around the sun, and the sun around some other sun, and so on and so forth. And all the stars are moving.... And everything is moving in a circle! Seasons move in a circle.
Life is a wheel and the wheel is repetitive. You will never reach anywhere if you go on clinging to the wheel. In the East it has been a known fact that we have to jump out of the wheel — only then are we free. To be free from this wheel of birth and death is to have freedom. Then you simply are. Then you are not moving.Then there is no past and no future but only the present. Then now is the only time and here the only space.
That is the state of nirvana, moksha—freedom. That is the real kingdom of God. One simply is... all turmoil gone, all storms finished, and there is absolute silence. In that silence there is a song, in that silence there is music—unheard music, unstruck music. In that silence is joy, in that silence is bliss. And that bliss is eternal, it never changes.
All change is if you are clinging to the wheel. If you drop out of the wheel, all change disappears. Then you are here and always here.
That state is the real search of all trueseekers: how to get out of this wheel of birth and death, how to enter into life eternal where no birth ever happens and no death either, where nothing begins and nothing ends, where all simply is—how to enter into this God. Just the other day, I was saying God means 'that which is'... how to enter into that which is? These are the sutras by which to enter into that which is.
The Kundalini Energy of Prana and Apana from the Katha Upanishad - None Can Transcend It

"The human body is a pur, a city. It is a city of the divine with eleven gates. The divine is simple. It is never born, it is pure consciousness. It is because of the existence of the body that man can accomplish spiritual disciplines, such as meditation; he will thereby transcend grief and become a jivanmukta, one who is liberated while living in the body He will be eternally bodiless after death.
"This, is that.
 
"The self-illumined One lives in the pure and ultimate abode: it is the god Vasu of the sky; it is the guest in every house; it is the sacred fire that receives the offerings at the yagnas, the fire rituals, and it is also the blessed offerer; it is the dweller in all human beings; it is the dweller in all the gods beyond man; it is the dweller within the truth; it is the dweller of the sky;
 
it is the One who lives within the myriad life forms of the water; it is the One who appears in the myriad life forms of the Earth; it is the One who is manifested in deeds of goodness; it is the One who lives in the many life forms of the mountains. This omnipresent One, is the ultimate reality.
 
"All gods honor this One. It lives in the middle of the body; it raises the prana upwards and pushes the apana downwards.
 
"When the embodied soul leaves the body on its journey to a new body, what is left behind?
 
"This, is that.
 
"No mortal, living being lives either through the prana vayu, the upward current of life energy, or through the apana vayu, the downward current: they both live through something else which sustains these two.
 
"Nachiketa, of the lineage of the sage Gautama, I will tell you what the mysterious and eternal brahman is; I will tell you once again what happens to the embodied soul after death.
 
'According to their actions, according to the inclinations developed from all they have heard and learned, many disembodied souls find other wombs; many others enter the realm of the inanimate—trees, creepers, mountains....
 
"The One — which is the creator of all situations that living beings will experience according to their past actions, which remains awake when all else has gone to sleep in pralaya, the end of creation — is the purest essence; it is the brahman. It is immortal and all the worlds dwell in it. None can transcend it.
"This, is that."
 
In the minds of the sages of the Upanishads, there is no condemnation of the human body. They have a great reverence, a feeling of trust for the human body because it is actually a temple. How can the body be condemned when it is the dwelling place of the supreme self? The body becomes sacred simply because of the fact that the supreme reality dwells within it.
According to the Upanishads, this body is not impure. The so-called religious people are full of a deep condemnation for the body — as if the body is evil, something to be hated; as if the body is the cause of all the unhappiness, the misery, the bondage in life. For them it is as if the body is the gate to hell. But this so-called religious concept has no foundation: only the sick-minded think like this.
The body is not binding you, it is not holding you. How can it hold you? It is you who are holding the body. You have chosen this body: it is the manifested form of all your desires and longings. So the first thing to be understood is that whatever body you have, whether it is human or animal, bird or tree or stone, whether it is of a woman or a man, beautiful or ugly, healthy or sick — whatever body you have — it is the manifestation of your desires, your passions, your longings. You have exactly what you have desired. But you cannot see this because there is a great distance of time between the desire and its fulfillment.
A man sows a seed and after many years it sprouts. In the meantime, he has totally forgotten that he had sown the seed. You will be surprised to know that there were many tribes around the world, and even today there are some African tribes, that don't know that a child is born out of sexual intercourse because months have passed since the intercourse took place and here, now the child is born. So many tribes could not understand this connection. And each sexual intercourse does not create a child. Out of hundreds one results in the birth of a child and that too takes nine months.
Sometimes it takes a very long time to see the fulfillment of your desires, longings and wishes: you yourself have forgotten that you had desired it. Psychologists say that you invite many diseases: at some time you have de sired them and that desire has remained suppressed in your unconscious mind. Then gradually the body creates that disease. It will be a little difficult to understand it because nobody likes sickness. Then why would someone desire to be sick? Why would someone sow the seeds of illness? There are profound reasons for this in the life of a person and it is a very complex network.
Whenever a small child becomes ill, people give him much attention and they care for him. When he is well nobody pays any attention to him. So in his unconscious mind it becomes clear that it is to his advantage to be ill because only then people will pay attention to him.
Everyone wants attention. It is a deep longing that people should pay attention to you because attention is food. Whenever someone looks at you you feel nourished and you become sad when nobody looks at you. Slowly, slowly a small child experiences that whenever he is ill something important happens — his father gives him more love and his mother sits near him. He has always wanted his father to be more loving towards him, for his mother to sit with him and everyone to care about him, but nobody ever bothered about him. But all his wishes are fulfilled when he is ill. Then his longing for attention becomes connected with illness. Later on, after many years, whenever this person feels neglected by others his unconscious desire to be ill will become very strong. This desire will not be conscious, it will be deep in his unconscious mind.
Most of the diseases of women are because of the lack of attention given to them. Whenever a man is in love with a woman she remains healthy, but as soon as the love affair is over she starts becoming sick — her sickness is saying that nobody is paying attention to her. Fifty percent of women's diseases arise out of the desire for attention. A wife gets sick as soon as her husband comes home: she was okay when he was out of the house. And it is also not true that she is pretending, no. But seeing the husband, she gets sick. Seeing him, the desire arises in her for her husband to pay attention to her, to care for her and worry about her. This desire goes deep down into her unconscious and she creates the situation in which her husband will be attentive to her, will care for her and serve her.
Now psychologists say that the mind is very complex, but the sages of the East have always said that whatsoever we are and whatsoever we have be come is the condensed form of our old desires. Whatever we have wished for is fulfilled now, in this birth. So there is no reason to hate the body: you have asked for this body and you have got it.
The second thing to remember is that this body is not holding you: in fact, you are holding it. How can the body hold you? The day you are able to let go of the body, the body will let go of you. If you can let go of the body totally, even for a moment, the body will start to die.
This is why mystics are able to decide when to die. The secret of this art is that they know how to separate themselves from the body. They hold on to a few desires which function as a connecting link with the body so that the body can fulfill its purpose. But on the day that they see it is time to depart, they disconnect the last link and their boat leaves this shore.
This is why mystics can announce their death beforehand, that they will die on a certain day. People think that it is because the mystic can see the future. No, it is not because of that: a mystic does not know the future, he can simply free himself from the body whenever he wants to. This is his freedom: he can give up the body whenever he wants to. He has understood this secret that the body is not holding him, it is he who is holding on to the body. So he can hold on to his body as long as he wants and he can drop the body whenever he wants. You have forgotten this. You think that the body is holding on to you — and this misunderstanding has created so much nonsense.
The so-called saints of a certain Christian sect used to whip themselves day and night just to torture the body because they felt it to be an enemy. And the one who whipped himself more was thought to be a greater saint. Nowadays, we call these people masochists — they are sick people who enjoy torturing themselves. Now we put them in a madhouse as sick people, but in the Middle Ages the whole of Europe was full of these types of so-called saints. Actually, they were just mentally ill people, not saints.
There were some Christian saints who used to wear shoes with nails inside, who used belts which had spikes in them so that the body was in pain all the time. And people would give them much respect. We also give respect to people who are torturing their bodies. Somebody is torturing the body by fasting, somebody else is torturing the body by standing in the sun, somebody is torturing the body just by continuously standing and not sitting down at all, someone is torturing the body by lying down on thorns. If you go to Varanasi you will see many such exhibitions; the Kumbha Mela is full of these insane exhibitions.
But it is surprising that you also feel respect for these people who are torturing their bodies, as if they are doing something great! Nothing great is being done — it simply means that you don't even know that it is not the body that is holding you, it is you who are holding the body. It is just as if you beat up your car because it is taking you to the wrong place. How can a car take you anywhere? You are putting the gas into it, you are decorating it, you are steering it and it goes wherever you want it to go. Although you are sitting in the car, the car is following you, you are not following the car.
This Upanishad says that the body is like a chariot, a car that you are sit ting inside and driving. So if you are going towards sin don't think that the body is taking you there; this is utter stupidity. If you want to sin the body supports you: if you drive your car towards the red-light district the car will go there. The car is not concerned about where you are going, it just goes wherever you take it. If you want to take it to a temple it will stop at the entrance to the temple. But when it stops at the door of a brothel and then you start kicking the car, you are just being stupid.
It is not only you, but people that are widely respected have behaved like this. Some saints have destroyed their eyes because they say the eyes have created lust in them. They have cut off their hands because their hands have done some evil act. How can the hands do any evil? How can the eyes create lust? You are hidden behind the eyes, the eyes go wherever you take them. You are the driving force behind your eyes. You yourself are the culprit — who are you punishing by destroying your eyes?
Some saints have cut out their tongues, have cut off their sex organs... this is sheer insanity! You don't understand that the body is only a mechanism; it has no consciousness. You are the consciousness. You are responsible for your good and bad deeds. It is you who create your hell and it is you who create your heaven. One who blames the body is totally unintelligent.
Now that you have understood this concept of the Upanishads, let us enter this sutra.
    "The human body is a pur, a city. It is a city of the divine with eleven gates. The divine is simple. It is never born, it is pure consciousness."
The body is the pur, the city. This is why we have called man purush, which means: the divine lives in that pur, the divine is hidden in that city. 'Purush' is a very meaningful word. 'Pur' means city, and the body is a city. It cannot be called a house because a house is a very small thing. Your body is really a city and its population is not small: billions of cells are living there. It is a huge city! If each cell were measured and enlarged to your height, your body would be as big as the city of London. There are roads the same as in London; a river flows and a network of telegraph and tele phone lines are there just like in London. Just as in London there are roads, traffic, a vast network of telephone and other communication cables, a river flowing in the middle of the city, the police, the military, the citizens, the masters, the servants, the rich and the poor, it is the same arrangement with these billions of residents in the body. There are police constables in them... if you ask medical science, you will be amazed.
The body is a very unique phenomenon. If you are injured even a little, you will find that within moments a white liquid will accumulate there. You may never have thought about why this white liquid film is formed immediately when you are injured. It is not simply pus: these are the white cells of your blood which do the work of policemen in your body all the time. Whenever and wherever there is trouble, an accident, danger, they immediately rush and reach to that place and cover it because after that place is covered no infection can enter. If that place had remained uncovered, any bacteria or germs carrying diseases could enter immediately. So these are the white cells of your blood which immediately rush to the injured place, surrounding and covering it. You may have thought it is only pus, but it is not: it is a safety measure of the body. It is a very amazing phenomenon. And it was not easy for medical science to finally understand how these white cells come to know whether the injury is on the hand or on the head or on the foot. They rush with the blood from all over the body to the exact place of the injury and cover it immediately. If the quantity of white cells in your body decreases then you will get sick very often because your security force has become weak. That is why your body needs a certain quantity, a certain number of white cells. Without that specific quantity your resistance and your power to fight against diseases will be less. These cells go on fighting the infection and they don't know anything about you.
The most surprising thing is that this city of billions of cells has no knowledge of your existence; it cannot have. They have never met you. They go on doing their work: some are making blood, some are digesting the food. You eat food and these cells are breaking it down, digesting it and turning it into nutrients, blood and flesh are created. All this work is going on and it is all properly assigned.
In ancient times Hindus conceived the idea of four castes, and there are also four types of cells in the body. The shudra cells go on doing service, the vaishya cells are doing the business of converting things, transforming things. They transform one thing into another: they turn one chemical into a hormone and another into something else — all the time they are busy with their business. There are kshatriya cells which are guarding and defending all the time and there are brahmin cells which go on thinking all the time. Your brain cells are the brahmin cells. The Hindus have described the sudras as 'the feet' and the brahmins as 'the head' — these symbols are very significant.
The whole body is divided and there is every possibility that yogins, the mystics, have organized the society according to how they experienced the inner arrangement of the body. This may be the model for the origins of the caste system; the possibility is there. Otherwise how did this idea of four castes arise? And it has happened only in India; outside India nobody has created these four castes. Actually, outside India, nobody has ever made an effort to enter into the city of the body. Mystics must have thought of it only after they saw the workings of the inner system of the body; they must have applied the same system that they found in the body to the society.
Whether the world thinks in terms of four castes or not, the fact is that there are always four castes. Whether it is in Russia or in America, the sudra always exists. In Russia the sudra is known as 'the proletariat' The change in name does not make any difference; there is someone who is continuously doing the work of a sudra. Even if the society or the administration of the state or the economic situation changes, there will always be someone doing the work of the sudra. Whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship or any other kind of system, there will be someone who will be dominating it like the kshatriya. And no matter what the system, it is impossible to bring the brahmins down from their heads!
Today, in Russia, the status of professors, doctors, engineers and scientists is very high — these are the brahmins, they deal in knowledge. In America a fear is growing that in the coming hundred years scientists can become so powerful that they may overpower the government because all the keys are in their hands. Today the politician seems to be very powerful on the surface, but behind him it is the scientist who is more powerful be cause he has the key to the atom. Sooner or later he is going to be on the top. Even now politicians seek their advice. As soon as Kennedy became the President of America, he immediately called the best minds from all over America as his advisors. Kennedy gathered great professors, great writers, great poets and great scientists around him because the kshatriya himself is not so intelligent; he has always been taking advice from the brahmin. The kshatriya is up front but it is the brahmin who directs him from behind.
There is a big city within the body and the work of this city is so organized that no other city can compare to it. The work is very systematic and it happens so silently; it is totally automatic. Whether you are asleep or awake the work goes on; whether you are working or resting this work goes on. And you are not disturbed by it, it goes on automatically. You don't know when your food is digested, when it becomes blood, when it becomes bones or when the dead cells are thrown out. This whole city is automatic.
You are at the center of this city...it is worthy of respect. This city has given you an opportunity to reach to heaven or to hell through it; or if you wish, you can be free of heaven and hell and attain to moksha, liberation — and the body is only the means.
This sutra says:
    "The human body is a pur, a city. It is a city of the divine with eleven gates. The divine is simple. It is never born, it is pure consciousness."
There are five senses, five organs of action and one mind: these are the eleven gates.
    "It is because of the existence of the body that man can accomplish spiritual disciplines, such as meditation; he will thereby transcend grief and become a jivanmukta — one who is liberated while living in the body. He will be eternally bodiless after death.
    "This, is that."
Then this body, this city, is not needed at all. Then one is free of this mechanism of the body.
This machine-like body can be used in two ways: one is for self-forget fulness, which is what desires and passions are; the other is for self-remembrance, which is what meditation is. You can use this body in the search for the trivial pleasures of life. And what is pleasure? — wherever you can forget yourself for a while, you think that is pleasure. Pleasure is simply forgetting yourself. Somebody forgets himself by drinking alcohol, somebody forgets himself by listening to music, somebody forgets himself in sex, somebody forgets himself in eating food, somebody forgets him self sitting on a throne — and they think that all these things are giving them pleasure.
What is your definition of pleasure? Wherever you forget yourself you feel pleasure and wherever you remember yourself you feel misery. Actually, whenever you start remembering yourself your pain starts becoming more intense because then you ask, "What am I doing? Where am I? What is this all about?" Then you become worried, anxious; then you want to forget yourself. Someone is trying to forget himself by reading the newspaper and someone else by reading the Bhagavadgita. There are many ways of forgetting yourself but the effort to forget continues.
Lust and desire are self-forgetfulness, a way to forget yourself. And how can one who is busy forgetting himself reach to his soul? How can he attain consciousness? The divine will be very far away from him. The more you forget yourself the further away you will be from the divine.
This is why all the religions are against alcohol. Actually, they are not against alcohol; it is an innocent thing, why should they oppose it? The opposition is only because it helps you to forget yourself. If you could remain aware after drinking alcohol then there would be no objection.
Only the tantrikas have made this effort of being conscious even after drinking alcohol. Slowly, slowly they increase the quantity of alcohol and try to remain conscious; they increase only as much as allows them to re main conscious. They go on increasing, and finally the tantrikas can drink poison without losing consciousness. When alcohol and poison cannot affect their consciousness, then they tame a snake and make the snake bite their tongue. When that also has no effect they can say that now they are really awake; now nothing can make them unconscious. So in a way, the tantrikas are also opposed to alcohol.
In fact all the traditions are opposed to unconsciousness. The spiritual search is a search for consciousness, but the ways can be different. Jaina and Buddhist monks cannot even conceive that alcohol or poison can be used as a means to become aware. A tantrika says, "Drink, but don't lose awareness — remain conscious." And both are saying the same thing. One says, "Do not drink because you cannot remain aware," and the tantrika says, "Drink to see if you can remain aware. Your awareness should go on growing more and more."
And I believe that the awareness of the tantrika is more true than that of any monks, because the tantrika tries to remain conscious even in difficult situations. The depth and the height of his awareness is great. If all the monks in the world were gathered together and made to drink alcohol, only the tantrikas would stay conscious; the rest of them would be in trouble. Even if poison is given to them the tantrikas do not become unconscious.
So the path of tantra is very arduous. Ordinarily man can deceive himself by thinking that he is drinking alcohol because he is a tantrika. And tantra has not condemned the so-called evils: it says awareness can be there in so-called evil. That is why it is not against sex. If you can remain aware during sexual intercourse, then sexual intercourse has become a meditation. But one thing is clear: religions may or may not be against each other, but all of them are against unconsciousness and are for consciousness.
One who uses the body to remain conscious will become free of the body even while living in the body. As awareness goes on increasing one can see that the body is separate: "I am separate." The distance between the two, the body and the self, goes on growing. Then whatsoever happens to the body it does not seem to be happening to you, it feels as if it is happening only to the body.
If you are driving a car and it starts making some noise you know that something is wrong with the engine, you don't feel that something is wrong with you. You simply stop the car and check the engine. In the same way, if you are aware and something happens to your body, you don't feel that it is happening to you. You know that something is wrong with the body so you see a doctor, but you will not suffer and get upset about it. When you feel hungry you will know that the body is hungry, just as when a car needs petrol. When the petrol is finished then you put some more petrol in but you are not putting the petrol in you.
As awareness grows, all activities are experienced as belonging to the body. Only one thing belongs to you and that is witnessing, meditation. Only meditation is spiritual, everything else is physical. So anyone who is not meditating is living only in the body, he cannot enter into his being. There is only one thread leading to your being, and that is meditation.
The sutra says that while the body is there, the man who practices the spiritual disciplines such as meditation, will never grieve because for him there is no more reason for unhappiness. Unhappiness enters because of your deep conviction, your identification, that you are the body. But as soon as you experience that you are not the body, all misery will disappear and you will be liberated while living in your body.
The jivanmukta, the one liberated while living in the body, is the person who has known that he is not the body. He can still remain in the body for some time more. Just as you are living in the body, the liberated one also lives in the body for some time after his enlightenment. Mahavira stayed in his body for forty years after he was enlightened. When Buddha became enlightened he also stayed in his body for forty years. Why did they stay? You live in a body, a Mahavira and a Buddha also lived in a body — but you live in a body to fulfill your own desires and lusts and Buddha and Mahavira lived in the body because of their compassion for others. They wanted to share all that they had received in enlightenment.
After many, many lives Buddha attained enlightenment. He could have left his body at that time if he had wanted to. Actually, Buddha wanted to leave his body immediately. When he became enlightened he remained silent for seven days afterwards.
There is a very sweet story that the gods bowed at his feet and asked him to speak, to help people understand, because only after many centuries does somebody attain to the state of buddhahood: "Do not remain silent! Do not dissolve and disappear! Stay on this shore for some time more." So Buddha stayed on this shore for forty years His staying here was not to attain anything for himself, it was to share something. You are holding on to the body to get something but a buddha holds on to the body to give something.
A jivanmukta can still remain in his body. But as soon as one becomes a jivanmukta one thing becomes certain — that after leaving this body there will be no return to another body, it is not possible. After leaving this house there will be no other house.
After his enlightenment the first words that Buddha uttered were, "God of Desires, now you will not need to make another house for me. You have made my last house and now it is not needed. Now you don't have to create new bodies for me. God of Desires, you have created so many different bodies for me in so many, many lives — now you are free, now your services are no longer needed."
A person who has realized that he is not the body while still living in this body will enter the bodiless state as soon as he dies and leaves this body. He will exist but he will have no form. Then he lives without a house. He is one with this vast universe — just as a drop lives in the ocean but not as a drop, it has become the ocean; just as the flame of an earthen lamp is lost in the sky but actually is not lost — because no energy is ever lost — it becomes part of the great sun, it becomes part of the great light. But this is so only for the one who experiences that he is not the body while still in this body.
Some people think that they can realize this state in the last moments of their lives. Some people stretch this logic to such an extent that when they are almost dead, when they are not even able to hear anymore, then they have others recite mantras, the Gita or the Namokar Mantra, into their ears. And they did not have the intelligence to listen to all these scriptures while they were alive! Other people also make them drink the water of the holy Ganges hoping that then they will be delivered from bondage. When they were alive they never even went near the Ganges and now when they are dying bottled Ganges water is given to them. While still alive they never searched for truth: now the words from dead scriptures are recited to them, and that too is done by hired people who repeat the words for the money they will get. They themselves don't know what they are repeating; they will themselves need hired people to recite the scriptures to them when they are about to die.
Man has not only deceived himself in this life, he has made arrange ments to try to deceive in the afterlife. You are so cunning that you think that somehow you can even deceive existence. So you have invented stories like the one where a sinner, who named his son Narayan, which means God, was dying. As he was dying he called out to his son, "Narayan!" and the Lord Narayan in heaven thought that the man was calling him. And so the dying man, who had never thought about God in his whole life, went straight to heaven!
Such a story must have been invented by some sinner. Now this sinner must have been calling out to his son Narayan to pass on some secret of his trade. He had cheated, stolen and picked pockets for his whole life so he must have been wanting to pass the secrets of his trade on to his son. But Lord Narayan was deceived. It proves that this Lord Narayan in the sky must have been a perfect idiot! But sinners invent these stories just to console themselves.
There is no way to deceive existence. There is no way to deceive the di vine. It is not a government office where files can be tampered with, misin terpreted, misplaced. The truth of your life is your only connection with the existence. There we are absolutely naked, there we are as we really are; there is no way or means to hide. So don't console yourself with these kinds of stories thinking that "No problem, I will also name my son Narayan."
Perhaps that's why people name their sons Rama, Krishna, Narayan and so on: they think that they will also be able to play the same trick which that sinner, whose name was Ajamil, played, that it may be useful some time; or that a hired priest will repeat the name of God in their ears. But can a hired person pronounce God's name for you? Can anyone else pray on your behalf? Can somebody else worship for you? It means that you are not understanding the meaning and the significance of worship, of prayer.
It's as if you are in love with someone and you appoint a servant to make love on your behalf because you have no time. No, you would not do such a thing where your love is concerned. But people have been doing this with prayer for centuries. Prayer is the greatest love that can exist, but the rich people build temples in their houses and hire priests who will worship on their behalf.
The Tibetans are more clever: they have invented a wheel which they call a prayer wheel. It is a small, round wheel on which a mantra has been written. They go on doing their other work and at the same time turning the wheel; the mantra is repeated each time as the wheel makes a full round.
One Tibetan lama had come to me with his prayer wheel in hand. I told him, "What are you doing? Get it connected to electricity — then it will go on turning automatically without disturbing your work at all. As it is you have to keep revolving it again and again and it is hindering your work. This work of turning the wheel can be done by electricity." But can prayer be done this way?
But because man is so dishonest, his dishonesty spreads in all dimen sions. His dishonesty is also spread in the dimension of the divine.
    "It is because of the existence of the body that man can accomplish spiritual disciplines, such as meditation; he will thereby transcend grief and become a jivanmukta, one who is liberated while living in the body. He will be eternally bodiless after death.
    "This, is that.
    "The self-illumined One lives in the pure and ultimate abode: it is the god Vasu of the sky; it is the guest in every house; it is the sacred fire that receives the offerings at the yagnas, the fire rituals, and it is also the blessed offerer; it is the dweller in all human beings; it is the dweller in all the gods beyond man; it is the dweller within the truth; it is the dweller of the sky; it is the One who lives within the myriad life forms of the water; it is the One who appears in the myriad life forms of the Earth; it is the One who is manifested in deeds of goodness; it is the One who lives in the many life forms of the mountains. This omnipresent One, is the ultimate reality"
Everywhere, here and there, above and below, without and within, the divine is manifest. But you will realize this One only when your meditation has gone so deep that you can see that you are separate from your body. As long as you are identified with your body you will see the many because there are many bodies all around you.
It is as if you put one thousand pitchers here; in all the places where you are sitting we put a pitcher next to you. The same space would be there in each of the pitchers, but anyone who was to count the pitchers would say, "There are one thousand separate spaces in these one thousand pitchers. Each pitcher encloses its own separate space inside it. How can the enclosed space of one pitcher be the same as the enclosed space of another pitcher? Each pitcher has its own separate space. If seen in this way then there are one thousand separate pitchers with one thousand separate spaces.
Then someone comes along and strikes each pitcher with a stick and breaks them all: then there will be only one space left.
Your body is nothing but a pitcher. When death demolishes your pitcher, and if you have not been identified with your pitcher during your life, only then will you be able to say, "It is okay, take this pitcher. The space cannot be taken, only this pitcher will be gone. In any case this pitcher has become old." At the moment of death, if you can realize that the pitcher is breaking and that the inner space is untouched, then you will not need to find an other pitcher — then you will not enter into another body.
But you believe your body to be your existence. And there are so many bodies in this world; naturally, then so many personalities and so many dif ferences. Each body then becomes a wall and that encircles and separates the one space.
In existence there is only one space and one soul. But nothing will happen if you go on repeating this all your life as a theory: you will have to experience it. You will have to know it by separating the pitcher from your self; only then will all the pitchers disappear and only one space will be left. The name of that one space is the brahman, the divine. It is the divine that is outside and inside, below and above, that is everywhere; in the small and in the vast, in the lower and in the higher, in mountains and in rivers, in earth and in sky — it is everywhere.
    "All gods honor this One. It lives in the middle of the body; it raises the prana upwards and pushes the apana downwards."
There is a very profound research of Indian yoga hidden in this sutra. Even today Western medical science is almost ignorant about it. This research is about prana and apana. The Indian medical science, ayurveda, yoga and tantra all say that there are two directions of energy-currents in the body. The current of energy which goes upwards is known as prana and the current of energy which goes downwards is apana. There are two qualities of energy in the body and also two kinds of flow. Apana causes the movement of urine and stool; the current of energy that goes down wards causes the stool and the urine to move out. And all that goes up wards in the body is caused by prana. This is why the more proficient one is in pranayama, the more one will rise upwards because pranayama is nothing but expanding, extending and enlarging the prana, the current of energy that flows upwards.
These are the two currents of energy in the body. Exactly at the center of these two dwells the divine, the soul, consciousness, or whatsoever name you want to give it. The soul, which is the size and shape of the tip of the thumb, is situated just at the center of these two currents: it pushes the energy downwards and it pushes the energy upwards. The current of energy that moves upwards is prana and the current of energy that moves down wards is apana.
Up to now Western medical science has not been able to recognize this double current of energy. They think that there is only one kind of energy. Because of their awareness of these two directions of energy, what allo pathic medicine cannot do, ayurveda can do. A person who understands these two currents of energy can revolutionize his life.
You may have noticed that when a little baby breathes, his belly moves up and down, but his chest is not affected and it does not move up and down. When a baby is lying down and breathing his belly moves up and down and his breathing is very deep. When you breathe only your chest moves: your breath is very shallow, it is not deep. Psychiatrists are puzzled over this fact: "Why does this happen, why does the breath become shallow as people grow older and why is the breath of a child so deep?" An animal's breathing is also deep, the aboriginals also breathe deeply. The more civilized a man, the more shallow his breath will be. It is a little difficult thing to understand what relationship civilization can have with breathing. What happens in the moment when a child stops breathing deeply?
Yoga knows this secret. It is becoming a little bit clearer now to psychology also because psychologists say that the child's breathing becomes shallow as soon as he learns to be afraid of sex, when his parents have warned him against sex. When breathing goes deep it hits the sex center; it becomes apana and awakens the sexual urge. The deeper the breathing the stronger will be the urge for sex.
Children are made to feel guilty and afraid: they are told that sex is evil, that sex is sin. They become frightened and start supporting the shallow breathing, they don't allow it to go deep. Slowly, slowly their breathing will start to reach only the upper part of the body so a distance is created between their being and their sex center. Their sexual energy becomes perverted: they cannot enjoy any sexual pleasures because for that, deep breathing is needed. When the breathing is deep the whole body vibrates. In this vibration of the whole body, when the whole body is immersed in this energy, some semblance of joy happens. But even that much semblance of joy becomes impossible when the breathing is not deep.
Many diseases are created by this, because your apana has become weak. The people whose breathing is shallow are constipated because the apana, the current of energy which goes downwards and throws out the excrement, is not moving downwards. But the fear is the same because semen is also a type of excrement, and to throw it out the energy has to move down, it has to become apana. A person who is afraid of sex will also be constipated because it is the same energy that pushes these two.
Brahmacharya, celibacy, cannot be attained by blocking the apana: it can be attained only by increasing the prana. It will be good to understand this difference very clearly. Many people, in the name of brahmacharya, have made the mistake of blocking the apana. Because of this they have become morbid, sick. The grace and health of their personality is destroyed. The body becomes full of many poisons because the apana which was throwing all the poisons out of the body cannot throw them out. You are afraid: this is a negative process of celibacy.
There is a positive process: you don't interfere with the apana but you increase the prana. The prana should increase so much that in comparison to it, the apana becomes weaker. You just draw a bigger line — the apana should remain but the prana should become vast. Then your energy will start flowing upwards.
This is why pranayama is so important in yoga — because it pushes the energy upwards. The sex energy which becomes sex through the apana becomes kundalini through the prana and begins to flow upwards. It finally reaches to the head where its lotus blooms. With the push of the apana the sex energy causes the birth of a baby, and with the push of the prana the same sex energy causes your own rebirth — but only when it has reached to the head. The prana is what takes the energy upwards.
The sutra says that the divine is hidden between the prana and the apana. It takes the apana downwards, thus it is the base for the manifest world; and it takes the prana upwards, thus it is the base for the realm of the divine. It is up to you to decide into which current you want to enter. If you want to enter the current that goes downwards then you will have to increase the apana.
All animals have a very strong apana but their prana is very weak. Only yogins have a strong prana. Their apana is healthy but their prana is so strong that even the healthy apana cannot overpower their prana; the apana is under the control of the prana. The ordinary man's prana is already weak and he also makes his apana weak because of his fear.
A fearful person does not breathe deeply, only a fearless person will breathe deeply. A person who is afraid for any reason will not breathe deeply. Your breathing will stop immediately if someone puts a dagger to your chest. Whenever you feel terrified your breathing will stop. Whenever you feel nervous — for example, you are going to meet a big official and you are nervous — immediately your breathing will become shallow. You will breathe normally again only when you have come out of his office. People have frightened each other so much that their whole breathing system has become unhealthy. The divine is hidden between these two, the prana and the apana, but it is the master of both.
There is no need to be afraid of the apana because the total health of the body depends on it. It causes excretion, and if excretion does not happen properly many poisons and toxins will accumulate in the body. They have already accumulated in the body: there is poison flowing in everyone's blood. If a person does exercises such as walking, running or swimming then his apana will become stronger. This is why the body becomes fresher and healthier after exercise. You can just breathe deeply — but pranayama is not only breathing deeply, pranayama is breathing deeply with awareness.
Try to understand this difference. Many people do pranayama without any understanding or awareness; they just go on breathing deeply. If you just breathe deeply the apana will become healthier. That is also good but there will be no upward journey. The upward journey is possible only when awareness is joined together with deep breathing.
Buddha has said that when you breathe you should remain aware of the breath touching your nose. You should be conscious of the breath touching your nose as it goes in, and when the breath goes down into the throat you should be aware that it is touching the throat, and when the breath reaches to the lungs and goes down into the belly you should continue to witness it. Your awareness should follow it. Then the breath will stop for a moment, there will be a gap — and that gap is very valuable. When you take a deep breath in for a moment there will be no breath, in or out, everything will stop. The breath will go out; after resting for a few seconds it goes out. Then your awareness should also go out with it, rise with it, come to the throat with it, come to the nose with it. When it goes out you just go on following it. Again, after it has gone out, everything will stop for a second; then a new breath will start, again in and again out. Buddha has said that you should make a string of beads with the breath and in this way you can awaken your remembrance with each breath.
If there is awareness with deep breathing the prana will expand and the life energy will start to rise upwards. Awareness is the key for rising upwards and unconsciousness is the key for falling downwards.
If a person can come to awareness through breathing then he needs no other practice, this is enough — but it is very difficult. For twenty-four hours a day, whenever you remember, be aware of your breath. Nobody will know, it can happen quietly; nobody will ever know what you are doing. Jesus has said that your right hand should not know what your left hand is doing. This also is something that no one else will know about. Silently, along with your breathing, your remembrance will gradually grow. As the breathing becomes deeper and the remembrance becomes more profound, it will hit and raise your energy upwards through the spine.
This is not imaginary: you will certainly feel the electric current rising in your spine. The electric waves moving in your spine will be hot. If you want to you can even feel this when you touch your spine with your hand: it will be hot where the waves are vibrating. With the rising energy your spine will become hot: you will be able to feel the point up to where the energy has risen. Again it will fall down and again it will rise.
By constant practice one day this energy will reach to your sahasrar, the crown chakra. But meanwhile it will pass through other chakras and on each chakra there are different experiences; on each chakra your life will be filled with a new light. And as your energy passes through each chakra, new fragrances, new meanings, a new significance will start to happen in your life, new flowers will bloom in your life.
After experimenting many thousands of times, the science of yoga discovered what exactly happens on each chakra. I will give one or two examples so that you can understand, because the chakras have also been named according to the experiences connected with them.
For example, yoga has named the chakra between the two eyes the agya chakra, the command chakra. It has been called the agya chakra because the day on which your energy passes through that chakra, your body and your senses will start obeying you. Whatsoever you desire will immediately happen. You will have command over your personality, you will become the master. Before your energy reaches to this chakra you are a slave. You will become the master only on the day your energy enters into this chakra. From that day onwards your body will obey you. Now you are obeying your body because in the place from where the body can be mastered you are empty. The energy is not in the place from where you can command it. This is why this chakra is called 'the command chakra'. All the chakras are named in this way. These names are meaningful because there is a particu lar state connected with each chakra.
The seventh, the last chakra, is sahasrar. 'Sahasrar' means the lotus with a thousand petals. And on the day when the energy reaches there your whole head will feel as if transformed into a lotus with a thousand petals. Now your lotus has blossomed and all the petals have opened and are facing the sky. For the first time in life there is an experience of bliss, a unique shower of fragrance and total light.
We have chosen the name of the lotus rightly, and there are many reasons for this. We have called it sahasrar or sahasradal kamal. The unique quality of the lotus is that it is born out of mud — and there is nothing more beautiful and more pure than the lotus. It is born out of the dirty mud, a stem comes out of the mud, grows and rises above the water: this stem is your spine and the dirty mud is your sexual desire. One day a flower blossoms out of the stem of your spine and when this lotus that has been born out of water and mud blossoms, the water cannot touch it. Even if the water were to fall on it, it would remain untouched. Nothing can touch it, it remains untouched and unaffected.
The lotus flower is the ultimate expression of sannyas — nothing can touch it. Anything can fall on it but it remains untouched. Born out of mud and yet beyond mud.... This possibility for the lotus to attain to such purity is also the potential of each human being. That is why we have called the last chakra 'sahasradal kamal'. These two, the prana and the apana are the energy-currents, and the divine dwells just exactly in the middle, between these two.
    "When the embodied soul leaves the body on its journey to a new body, what is left behind?
    "This, is that.
    "No mortal, living being lives either through the prana vayu, the upward current of life energy, or through the apana vayu, the downward current: they both live through something else which also sustains these two.
    "Nachiketa, of the lineage of the sage Gautama, I will tell you what the mysterious and eternal brahman is; I will tell you once again what happens to the embodied soul after death."
There are some truths which must be told again and again. It is not that the person telling them gains anything by repeating them, but that you are so deaf that perhaps you may not have heard the first time so it has to be repeated.
Buddha had the habit of saying everything three times. Now the people who are translating Buddha's words leave out two parts because they say it is a repetition: "What is the need for this repetition?" They think they are more intelligent than Buddha himself.... Repetition was needed because the people to whom Buddha was talking were incapable of hearing the first time. By repeating three times Buddha was trying his best to hammer it in somehow.
Yama also says to Nachiketa, "Nachiketa, now I will tell you again..."
    "According to their actions, according to the inclinations developed from all they have heard and learned, many disembodied souls find other wombs; many others enter the realm of the inanimate — trees, creepers, mountains.
    "The One which is the creator of all situations that living beings will experience according to their past actions, which remains awake when all else has gone to sleep in pralaya, the end of creation, is the purest essence; it is the brahman. It is immortal and all the worlds dwell in it. None can transcend it.
    "This, is that."
In this sutra one thing needs to be understood: "It remains awake when all else has gone to sleep in pralaya." This is the very divine about which Nachiketa has asked. When everything is annihilated in pralaya, or when all goes to sleep and all of nature's working stops, even then, what remains awake...?
How to understand this? — because you don't have any experience of pralaya, the end of creation. It will be easy to understand it by looking at your sleep.
The body goes to sleep — 'the body' meaning the divine's manifestation; it goes to sleep — but have you ever realized that something remains awake in you?
When a mother is sleeping with her little baby, nothing disturbs her. There may be a storm outside, there may be thunder and rain, there may be lightning but nothing disturbs her sleep, she sleeps soundly. But if her baby cries just a little she will wake up immediately. It is amazing that outside there was thunder and lightning and her sleep was not broken and then she wakes up with just the small sound of her baby. There is something in her which keeps remembering the baby. If there are a thousand people sleeping here, in deep sleep, and I call out the name Rama, nobody but the person named Rama will wake up and ask who is disturbing his sleep. Certainly, some part of him which knows that his name is Rama must be awake.
When you get up in the morning and say that last night you slept soundly, who knows it? If you were absolutely asleep then who is it that is knowing that he had a sound sleep? Who is the knower of sleep? If your sleep were sound then there would be no one: all parts of you would have been asleep. But there was something that remained awake; some part was watching if the sleep was sound or not, if there were dreams or not. Some part inside remembers the dreams that you see at night. If you were totally asleep then who has this memory? Who remembers the dreams after waking up? No, you were not absolutely asleep.
Hypnotism causes the deepest sleep. Many experiments in hypnosis are happening in the West. It has become a legitimate science now; it is no longer considered to be magic. Hypnosis is now even being used in hospitals. They are using it not only for minor things but also for major surgical operations. You cannot undergo surgery in ordinary sleep: the patient will wake up even if he is pricked with a needle. But a major surgery can be per formed in a hypnotized state: an appendix can be removed or the stomach can be operated on. The surgery may take many hours but the patient will remain asleep, so hypnotism is the deepest sleep. But there is one very interesting thing about hypnotism and that is that the patient will keep on sleeping even when his stomach is being cut open, but if you want him to do something which is against his morality, against his beliefs, then he will immediately wake up.
For example, if a Hindu woman, who in accord with the Hindu tradition, has not loved anyone except her husband, is hypnotized — if she has loved another man then it's a different thing — and told to kiss a man who is sitting next to her, she will immediately come out of the hypnosis no matter how deep it had been. She will get up and say, "What did you say? This is impossible!" But you can cut the stomach open and it won't break a hypnotic sleep. Inside, some part remains awake. If the woman agrees to give the kiss, then psychiatrists say that it is because she wanted to do it but it was suppressed in her unconscious because of her moral code. Now in a hypnotic trance she has the opportunity and she will not be held responsible for her action. She can say that she was unconscious — "I can't take any responsibil ity for what I did" — so she can give the kiss.
A person will wake up from a deep hypnosis if something goes against his moral values. He will do only what he wants to do. Ultimately the choice is his.
Even in the deepest sleep, within you there is something that is awake. This sutra says that the One that is awake while the body is asleep, that very essence remains awake when all of nature has gone to sleep in pralaya, the end of creation. Western scientists and mathematicians have now begun to respect the insights which have been prevalent in India. In the West the Christian theory is that God created this world just four thousand years ago. Now this idea has been proved to be wrong. This has harmed Christianity because they keep on insisting that it is written in their holy book, so it must be true. But their own scientists have discovered that this Earth has existed for four billion years and the Christians say that it is only four thousand years old. On this Earth there are fossils which prove to be millions of years old, so this Christian theory has been proved wrong.
The Hindu calculation goes back for billions of years, and they say that billions of years are like one day to the divine. They say that the beginning of creation and the end of creation are the same as one day to the brahman; billions of our years are as one day to the divine.
Then comes night and the whole of nature goes to sleep; finally, nature also becomes tired. It is not only that you get tired in a day: the trees, plants, these mountains, this Earth, this moon and these stars also get tired. This understanding of the phenomenon of tiredness is very clear to the Indian sages. If you can become tired, then one day everything will become tired. It does not matter how long it takes — the day on which all of creation tires and goes to rest, then this will be pralaya. When everything returns to sleep then it is the beginning of the Night of the Brahman. But even then, the one that will remain awake is the divine.
The relationship between your body and you is the same as the relationship between physical nature and the divine. It can be said that this whole universe is the divine's body. You are but a miniature existence, a miniature universe. You and your body, it is the same as the physical universe and the divine. And when all else has gone to sleep, even then, the divine will remain awake. This is why in the Gita, Krishna has said that a yogin remains awake also when the worldly person has gone to sleep. He is wakeful even when he sleeps at night. His body sleeps but inside he remains continuously awake, aware.
As your awareness grows you will find that you can be awake even in your sleep. The day that you feel that even in sleep you are awake and sleep has become your direct experience, on that day, understand that now your anchors in the shore of the body have started loosening and your boat has begun to move towards the shore of the soul.
Now get ready for meditation.
 

 
 
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