 Skype Call with Sri Bhagavan
Broadcast in Austin, Texas for Oneness Blessing Facilitators
November 22, 2009
Questions and Answers
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Namaste,
Noni Kaufman
Oneness Blessing Facilitator in Austin, TX.
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Skype Call with Sri Bhagavan 11-22-09 Austin, Texas
http://www.vimeo.com/7767817
Video Recording of Broadcast
This broadcast picks up the audio of Bhagavan only and doesn't include the audio from the Austin audience.
(Broadcast was held immediately
following U.S.teleconference with Sri Bhagavan
http://bit.ly/88yzwt)
Q1. If we are not in Golden
City spending time with you and Amma and instead are in our own cities, which
are the most potent ways for us to receive transmissions from you and Amma, for
example listening to Skype calls or teleconferences, giving blessings,
connecting through the sri murthi, chanting the Moola Mantra, etc? Are the
transmissions going through an acceleration process?
A1. Whether
you are in the Golden City or in any other part of the planet, it does not
matter at all. it's exactly the same.
The
phenomenon is accelerating now and it will be growing by leaps and bounds in
the coming weeks and months and it will be the same all over the world. It does
not make any difference whether you are in the Golden City or Texas. Absolutely
no difference at all. It's the same.
Q2. If people who receive
blessings or our fellow facilitators are having difficulties with their
process, what is the role we should play and how best to support them?
A2. There
are two things you must do. The
first thing is you listen to them without and condemnation or justification.
Just you merely listen to them. That's all. Then as you listen to them, you
might feel that you might have to hold their hand or weep with them or pat them
on the head. That's the first part.
The second part is that as you listen to
them, something will be happening to you. If there's true listening,
non-judgmental listening, something will happen to you. There could be a change
in emotion, there could be a change in perception, there could be a fresh
insight. So whatever happens to you, you must tell this to the other person.
You must share this with the other person saying "As you have been speaking and
I have been listening this is what has happened to me." If you do that,
something very strange will happen. The person will immediately come out of his
or her problem. This can be practiced quite easily and then you can see it
works wonders.
Q3. Is there any new or
more current information you want to share with us about how we prepare
for giving each blessing or intent we should be holding?
A3. I shall
answer this question at our next meeting because it requires a detailed
explanation. I'll do it next time.
Q4. Can you say more about the
21 day practices. How much of the days to commit? Still live our external
lives, but focusing as much as possible first on the physical awareness for 21
days and then on the internal awareness for the next 21 days?
A4. See your
brain as an instrument, it takes about 21 days to unlearn what has become a
habit. So, our lives have become very habitual that is why we lack awareness.
As children we had a lot of awareness, but as we developed habits through
conditioning and through training school and through society, we have lost the
sense of awareness. So now we have to unlearn those habits for which you need a
21 day practice.
It exactly requires 21 days of
uninterrupted practice for the brain to unlearn. So as you keep practicing
awareness, physical awareness for half one hour or one hour a day. I believe it
should be at least for 49 minutes or units of 7, 7 or it could be 30 minutes
and another 15 minutes, but about 49 minutes is required a day for 21 days. And
suddenly you'll find the habits are no more holding you. Instead, you're
intensely aware of what is going on. So it's ideal to start with the physical
world, and physical sensations.
Once that is
over, you could do the same thing for the inner world. Again it would require 49 minutes a day for 21
days. Then you will find that when ever awareness is required, it naturally
comes to you, But then in 2012, it is likely to become 2 hours, 20 hours, or
even 24 hours and it will be your natural state. In case you proceed with all
these practices and do what I've been telling you to do in the year 2012.
But now, in the
meanwhile it would be possible to be in awareness for at least a few hours of
day if you do this practice. But you must do it without a break. If you break
it, you must start from the beginning. That's how it works. This is a very age
old technique. It is nothing new which I am giving. This is very, very ancient
technique which we have tried and practiced and which works very, very
effectively.
Q5. How can we present the
Oneness Blessing acknowledging the
Divine to people who are wary of religious or New Age concepts?
A5. You've got to
tell them it is their own higher self which is the fact. What we call the divine is not separate
from ourself. It's our own self, the higher self, with which we've lost touch.
When you finally discover God, you would actually discover that you are God.
That is the strangest thing. As you move on the path of oneness, first you
discover inner oneness. Then you discover oneness with your family and friends.
At the next
level, you'll discover oneness with the animal world. Next you'll discover
oneness with the plant world. And next you move on to other realms with the
physical world like matter. You will realize that you and matter are actually
one. A piece of rock. You will discover actually that you are no different than
the piece of rock, that you are one and the same. And as you move on, you of
course, we move on to God. And let
us say you are a Christian, you would come across Christ. Actually it could be
consciousness or even the physical Christ. Then, of course Christianity forbids this, but otherwise you
can actually realize that you are that Christ himself.
In Hinduism of
course we have varieties. That is you will see your God as out there and you
are separate and if you proceed further you become that God. Actually you
become that God and then, as you proceed further, you go into the formless God
also. That's why we say in Hinduism you are God, but I think that is not
permitted in Islam and in . . . (lost Skype connection for a minute)
So, the God we
are talking about is nothing but your own higher self because you are actually
God, but unfortunately you have this illusion that you are separate from God
and that God is somebody you cannot reach out to. It's actually yourself. Now
what happens as we progress on this path of awareness and the 2012 Deeksha
giving, you will come very close to God. And if there are no obstacles if the
form of cultural conditioning or religious conditioning, you'll actually
discover that you are that God. As far as we in Oneness are concerned, to us
God has become this creation. All that you see in creation is God. He has
become this. For example when I am looking at you talking to you, to me you are God. I am God.
The only
difference is you are God with a particular problem and you are God that is
suffering from the illusion that you are not God. And here I am God and I do
not have that illusion. So this God wants to help that God who is suffering
from that illusion. That's all.
Then you will discover that you and I are the same. That's the illusion that I
want to tear apart.
So you can tell
them that it is their own higher self. I'll go more into this later. That is
the whole beauty of it. The ant that we see, is God has become an ant, that is
why we have a term in India that means the beggar God. The beggar whom you see
is God has become a beggar. The leper whom you see is God has become a leper.
So God is everything. The evolved God, the not-evolved God, the cruel God, the
loving God. It's everything. So that's why when I'm helping you out, I'm not
helping you, I'm helping God. I'm helping myself. And you'll discover the same
thing. So It is one's own higher self.
I hope from
tomorrow morning, you've heard the audio by now (audio of US national
teleconference preceding this call) you'll start practicing with your brushing.
Meditation.
Shanti,
Shanti, Shanti, Love you all, Love you.
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