With meditation, you can live your life in a much better way with greater clarity and greater intensity. You will be more aware, more creative. Yet internally, you will experience a deep and undisturbed silence.

You will no longer be doing, you will only be watching the doer. This is the whole secret of meditation - to become the watcher, to become the witness of your own actions and emotions.

Once you become aware that the real you is not the one who acts, that the real you is not the one who feels angry or hurt or depressed, then you experience in a tremendous sense of freedom. This will happen through meditation. And this is real freedom.

All our life we are searching for freedom. Whether we realize it or not, every single one of us is searching for freedom. We think our freedom is dependent on others. Now you know that the other person is in no way connected to your freedom.

MEDITATION MAKES YOU FEEL LOVE AND JOY FOR NO REASON

With meditation, for the first time, you will understand what it means to love for no reason. For the first time you will not be giving something in order to receive. You will give love simply because you have so much to give! You will shower love upon the world in the same way that a rain cloud showers upon the earth or a flower spontaneously spreads its fragrance all around. You will love because you are so full and overflowing!

WHEN YOU MEDITATE YOUR DAY TO DAY WORK CAN FEEL LIKE PLAY

Most of us feel that life today has become so competitive and stressful that we have no time to do anything that we want to do. Actually if you see the truth of the situation, it is not a question of less time or more work. It is you attitude about these things that makes the difference.

Just try this: whatever you do, act with awareness. If you are eating, eat with awareness. No extra time is needed to do this. In fact, it will take less time to eat because when you eat with awareness, you will eat just the amount your body needs rather than stuffing food down your throat thoughtlessly.

Awareness has tremendous knowledge. Awareness can do better miracles than all your planning. Awareness doesn’t contradict, it complements the plans. It will add to the potentiality.

When you are aware, you are absent. When awareness is present, your ego can’t exist. When your ego exists, awareness can’t be present. ‘Your absence’ will make you live enlightenment.

When you are aware, you will work optimally and use your energy efficiently. So at the end of the day you are just as fresh as in the morning. You see, it is not the work that exhausts you; it is your mind, your attitude. The whole game of meditation is to get out of the work-oriented mind and look at every moment of life as a beautiful Divine play.

The Karma theory (theory of action and reaction) has no basis according to me. It is only a faith, a belief created by man. By creating this law, man has done a great service to society, but he has done a great conspiracy against humanity. For social well being, this theory or law is good. For example, one implication of this is that you will not kill me, so I should not kill you. It is only an understanding between people so that they can live in peace and harmony. There is no spiritual attribute to the law. But, we can start giving a spiritual explanation saying that you will be punished for your sins. This sense of torture is not correct. It is just to instill fear in you so that you follow the dictum of morality as dictated by society.

May be when you are teaching kids about morality, you may resort to telling stories to teach them the idea of right and wrong and what repercussions can happen if they don’t follow morality. But this type of fear is not necessary to make mature people understand morality.

The truth is that you neither carry your sins nor merits with you. Then you may say that means we can do whatever we can in our lives without regard to others. What you carry with you is the mental setup. For e.g, a murderer carries the mindset which tortures him. Be clear , it is not the burden of a hundred murders actually that he carries with him.

You think that you will go to hell if you do sin. Actually, it is the other way around; you sin because you are in hell! when you are in bliss, you can not harm anyone. It is only your conscious attitude that will make you joyful.

As long as the Karma theory is based on fear, it will never give fulfillment. No morality should be based on fear and greed. It should be based only on understanding. Man should be given techniques to create such a deep awareness; he should be taken to that level of maturity to understand the laws, there should be no fear of hell and heaven. Surely there is no hell or heaven based on Karma theory. In fact, if you associate yourself too much with the so-called ‘wrong actions’, you are tied so closely to your body that you can’t disconnect yourself from it at the time of death.

For instance, a man who has lived only for sensual pleasures can’t leave his body easily at the time of his death. There is too much pain and that is really what hell is.

If you live with awareness and consciousness, you will radiate joy, bliss and compassion. You will experience life to be so enjoyable and radiant that living leaves little time for anything else.

This is the reason I never give rules even during our meditation camps. I never ask people to refrain from non-vegetarian food. Surprisingly, even confirmed non-vegetarians have become vegetarian after attending my meditation camps. The awareness and consciousness will become so sharp and heightened that your very being will start guiding you. There is no need for any law. If I force vegetarianism on people, they will come up with excuses for not giving up non-vegetarian food.

So, I don’t believe in morality since I know it is not going to work. I believe in experience. I don’t believe in conscience; I believe in consciousness. When the consciousness happens in you, automatically, awareness will happen in you. All the social morality will start happening in you. There will be no conflict between inside and outside. Morality will become your life.

When you have even one glimpse of pure consciousness, no Karma can influence you. Your frequency becomes much more than the frequency of Karma. Karma can work on you only as long as you have thoughts. In conscious awareness you go beyond thoughts. So , naturally you will start ruling over Karma. Any meditation when done intensely can give you a glimpse of consciousness – the Truth.

That is why they say, meditation is like exposing your film directly to the sun. If the camera shutter opens for one second, whatever is in front of the camera will be recorded on film. If the shutter is left completely open, what will happen? If the sun’s rays directly fall on the film, what will happen? Whatever is recorded will be erased.

When you took birth, for a moment the camera shutter opened and life entered your body. Whatever was there in the scene outside at the moment was recorded. By the word scene, I mean the planetary positions at that moment. That is why the time of birth is very important. Based on that, your consciousness functions. However, during meditation, I consciously keep the shutter open for quite some time! So naturally, whatever is recorded will be erased!

So the first time the shutter was opened was when you took birth. The second time the shutter is opened is when you are initiated. This time the shutter is kept completely and naturally open so that the sun’s rays enter and wipe out all you Karma. That is why when you are initiate by a master, you are call dvija – twice born a new life. And the man who operates your camera, who holds the shutter open for the period of time, is called the guru. He is the master!!