Sanatana Dharma

There are many conflicts in the minds of people and I don't simplify this problem. Nor is it easy for parents who haven't got the funds to deal with the problem. But more than funds we need opportunities, and to think about how we are going to handle a situation - it's life. Life is sacred.

Identify yourself all the time with divine consciousness and you will forget your human nature. You forget ultimately that you have a body and are separate from God. For God then dwells within you. Your heart will beat with the compassion and love that you have identified with God. Forgiving, caring, helping, and establishing the link between God and yourself all the time. You forget 'I' and 'mine'. There's a universal consciousness in a human being as he progresses to help others discover this mystery that lies dormant in all of us.

If you can qualify all your actions with one simple thought - I want to do it with a lot of love - then you will never hurt or injure another human being.

The more you purify yourself, the more powerful your aura is. The more powerful your aura is the more the Divine wants to interact with you. This is what a person has to master. 

Karma controls your life. If karma controls your life, you may well ask me, “Where is free will?” Free will means you can choose between that which is positive or negative. 

You are in a period of evolution where you have to rely on books to help you on your journey, but I'm saying don't rely on books. If you constantly rely on books you will never begin to step into that direction of Divine consciousness and open your mind to Divine direction.

If we have love for God and all of life we must serve life at every level; this is an important part of spiritual development. If you don't do that I’ll tell you what will happen. You will become very callous in your mind. [Society will say] that only when a person can give something to it [will they have the right to live.] We will have organised in our minds a system that is set out and we will say that when you come to fifty or sixty years old you only have a right to live depending on your ability to react and respond intelligently and positively. 

If you start a family and you have little children then spend time with them and give them love. Love is not just ‘throwing’ every item that you can imagine at the child. No, spend time interacting with your children, that is invaluable.

You don't see God, I can see God. There is the big difference. When I was a young boy, I assumed that everybody could see God and talk to God. It was an amazing thing and I couldn't understand it. Nobody was talking about God, my friends were not talking about God, nobody was doing that. So one day I asked my friends, “Why don't you talk about God?” They said, “Who is God?” Then the penny dropped in my mind.

Don't spend time feeding negative thoughts. The more you think and feed on negativity, the more power you give to the negative. Be positive. Be positive all the time. Say, "Okay, I did this. Never mind. Now I have the power to change. I am divine."

The nature of God is in the elements. The mountains, the rivers, the sun - everything is the nature of God. The personality of God is the elements. Nothing is separate from God, all the stars and planets are embodied in God. That is His nature and this vast power is changing, constantly moving and creating, for the nature of God is life.

If you make a mistake, or if you have done something that causes injury and a lot of disturbances in your relationships in life, you have the power to harmonise and change it and say, “No, no, I am not going to carry on in the same way. I want to change it. I want to create harmony.” Harmony and love are two facets of good spiritual conduct.

What is spirituality? To recognize the divinity and the power of a human being or a life force and help it to advance towards that goal of oneness. This is a voyage of discovery for every single one of us.

There is great awareness in human beings. We realise that we must change our whole attitude to life, and the environment in which we live. If we are not ecology-conscious, and if the food we eat and the resources we have got are not carefully measured and used wisely, we will be in real trouble.

What vibrations do you set in motion? Are they positive or negative? What benefit are you to the people you encounter in life? Contemplate your actions and the reactions that you set in motion and see whether you are creating harmony or a disturbance for yourself. 

Reincarnation continues until a person realises they can have many beautiful things in life but they are only for you to use now. Use them wisely, make a lot of money, and be successful. But with your success, you must know that you are living in a transient, impermanent state.

Just forget your limitations. There are no limitations within you. Only the limitations you put, yes you have those, but transcend them and go beyond this point. The brain has immense power. You have not even begun to discover the power of your brain. 

I find it very, very interesting when people try to pretend that they are good. Don't do that. Be yourself. The secret of life is learning to be yourself. Have the power and conviction that you can change. You will change, and you must change. That is what you are here for and you will succeed.

We pick up a lot of impulses in our lives without our consent. You listen to the radio, watch the television, and watch what is happening in the outside world. All of these vibrations enter our being. 

It is my job to make sure you have the power inside you to say, "No." That is very important. If I don't do that somebody else is going to do it for you. So I will make it my business from time to time. I'll give you a little bit of a shock to see whether you have got your act together, to see whether you can cope with your senses and how you are going to work with them. Mastery over your senses is what this whole thing is about.

We must have a consciousness, a mindfulness that in this 'Tandava', this dance of creation, everything is changing. 

On the anniversary of their birthday, not their death, go to a church or a temple or place and put some flowers and say, "Thank you, this is in remembrance of you. May God grant you peace so you live on in the grace of God."

You have to teach people from an early age when they are little children growing up, that there's a duality in them so sometimes one aspect of that duality will make more demands than the other.

I know you are in a hurry to master yourself and the mind. To master the mind means you must get rid of your undigested thoughts. Why are they undigested? Because you have not spent time perfecting them or your actions. [Analyse] what you should be doing, how you should be doing it, and be aware of the causes and effects that you set in motion in your life. You have to perfect your thoughts to digest them. 

Sit down and say to yourself, "From the moment I got up what was my behaviour pattern? What were the vibrations I set in motion? What did I do? How did my friends react? Was I critical? Was I aggressive? Was I understanding? Was I acting with loving-kindness?"

You must be able to say to yourself, “I lost my temper. I see that, now why did I do that? I must control myself.  I must become aware and mindful, and then I am in charge of my whole being. I become depressed, I'm unhappy, I want more. Why? I am the master. I am the person who is free.”

I don’t like to use the word ‘evil’. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ are very unintelligent methods of looking at life. I would like you to look at the causes and effects you set in motion, which are positive or negative. Positive or negative means you realise what you are doing and the consequences of your actions. It means that you realise what the results of your actions are.  It means that you realise whether or not there is love or whether you are hurting people, or yourself in the process. This is what I want you to study.

Real ‘contraception’ is responsibility. Responsibility means that you choose one partner, settle down in life, and be responsible. We want to see that responsibility because [nowadays] people are using contraception as a way to enable more and more promiscuity.

When you grow up, you throw away the things that you played with as a child. What matters then as you advance spiritually is that all the things that other people are attached to, you will soon push away. You think, “They are not for me. What satisfies me?” Why are you here? Why are you feeling within yourself a sense of satisfaction to come and have this interaction with me? Why?

When you sleep, sleep. When you eat, eat. When you work, work. When you play, play hard, never mind. When you laugh, laugh. You must be aware of all you set in motion in your body and your mind. You must be acutely alert then you develop your senses more and more to register the impulses from around you.

I want every opportunity for every life. My advice to you when you see such a child is to go to the child, clasp your hands together, and say to the Divine Mother, “Mother, I can't understand the totality of karma that this child is born with. Please help this child. I pray that you are the best judge of all this and that you will help to assist this child in birth and death.” That is the best solution to the problem.

Love is a most powerful weapon. You have got a weapon that is more powerful than a gun. You can disarm people with love.

I promise you anything that I have said in this room, I have applied, and I have experienced Divinity. I know what I am talking about, it is not what somebody else has handed to me on a plate.

Parents believe they know it. With all their love they want to do what they believe is in the interests of their child.  Those are the things that sometimes recur in your mind and make you question why you had to have this battle, but this battle was necessary for you to grow up. 

I don't need to tell you, but I am telling you to discover your divinity.  You are divine - realise your divinity. Behave in the fashion and manner of a divine human being, and every day chip some of the old habits away. Push them away every day so that you discover your greater Self and your divinity. Then you will have great peace of mind.

The body is an instrument with which we work to discover the potential within ourselves, which is Divine. Your eyes, ears, voice, actions, and energies - all are but instruments with which to discover the highest embodiment within yourself.

That is what life is about. You want to liberate yourself, to discover your inner power, and your divinity. That is the drama that you are going through. You are fighting for survival. None of your attachments will help you to become liberated.

When you have an animal or anything that is suffering say, “Come I will look after you.” Don't put yourself before an animal or life that is sacred. All life is sacred. When you begin to think like that, then you open the window of your heart for the Lord to dwell in it.

Let each emotion come one by one. If they flood into your mind say, "Wait, wait a minute."  Put them in a queue.  Say, "Wait till I call you," as I am doing now for you. Don't let them flood into your mind because it is uncontrolled.  You tell them to wait. You see, this is what contemplation is about. 

The Divine Mother is ‘Maha Shakti’. Maha Shakti means universal energy.  Form and formlessness. The formlessness that encompasses the whole universe. That formlessness is in the mountains, rivers, Earth, and throughout the whole universe.  The stars, moon, and suns are all a part of the energy of the Divine Mother. 

Remember, from the moment you get up to the moment you go to sleep if you watch that television set it will insidiously plant a vibration in your mind to register in your mind's eye to tell you what to buy, and how to associate that item with your life. My advice to you is don't watch that television set. God has given you intelligence - use it. God has given you the power to discriminate - discriminate. God has given you the power to say to yourself, “This is not for me, I don't need it.” That’s when you begin to change your lifestyle.

If a person has a real problem physically and you want to help that person and say, “I want to heal you”, that means you want to share your karma with them. I want to take that karma from you and wear it, and if possible with the grace of God He will take some part of that karma from you. It’s a big responsibility, not an easy one.

What is that? It’s cause and effect. Somewhere down the line of birth and death, you have picked up this karma - something positive, or something negative. From birth to this consciousness, we have created karma both positive and negative. We are going to have to be accountable for that and suffer the consequences of that. This is very important. We are the architects of both pain and pleasure. So, look at it.

I want you to stand on your feet now. Have confidence within yourself. You have the capacity and the ability to do exactly what I do and more by being able to link yourself, plug yourself into that divine consciousness. You have to discover that ability. That is what it is all about.

It's a possibility that the mind transcends the physical and that's what he's doing. He’s doing it with his mind and he’s able to do it. That is his grace; he's received that grace and he can do that. It's very difficult to put it in a form of analysis so that you can understand it.

Christ was forgiveness; Christ was understanding; To be a Christian is not to accuse another person of being something that you are as well. To realise that every human being has an opportunity to be liberated, in Christ. For liberation means that you have begun to change your lifestyle, to absorb the energies of Christ, to make your heart the temple of Christ.

Develop the power of perception. Do you know what the power of perception means? To feel how things are going your way or what is obstructing you. That was how you (human beings) were before when you were primitive, so-called primitive.

Every action has a reaction - a cycle of reactions. Positive and negative thoughts interfere with our lives. Non-constructive vibrations - vibrations that are interfering and which are an impediment to your own wellbeing - are negative.

Love is compassion; love is understanding; love is forgiveness; love is to integrate — to become one — and without that love, nothing else functions.

You will never be satisfied until you have discovered your Divinity. You will always say to yourself, ”Yes, I have all things that I want. I have a good job and a very kind wife who makes good food for me. Yet there is something inside me that makes me irritable.” That is why you are here. You want to find out what it is that people are talking about; what is it about meditation that would help you - how can you discover the link between yourself and God.