Sri Bhagavan Teachings SRI BHAGAVAN TEACHING - THE FOUR FACTORS OF SUCCESS View video http://www.worldonenesscommunity.com/video/the-four-factors-of-success There are four factors that are essential for the success of an individual. First and foremost you need a clear vision. A life without a vision is like a journey without a destination. Every one of you has an option: either to drift along like a dry leaf carried hither and tither by the winds, or fly like an arrow towards its goal, and the universe would help you reach where you want. The universe is like Aladdin's magic lamp. It will give you whatever you seek. Secondly, you need to have a focused mind, a mind that is capable of attention, that is capable of hard thinking. Thirdly, you ought to have excellent relationships within the family. A strong civilization stands on the foundation of a strong family. In a world of accelerated change it requires a very loving relationship between children and parents to keep ourselves sane. If your relationship with your parents is set right all problems whether with your academics or your career would be solved miraculously. Ultimately, you need to live in a state free of conflict, a state of existence where you feel connectedness and love. =============================================================== SRI BHAGAVAN TEACHING - HOW SHOULD I RELATE TO THE DIVINE? View Video http://www.worldonenesscommunity.com/video/how-should-i-relate-to-the First of all the divine you must cast the divine in a human mold, like father, mother, brother, sister, friend or whatever you like. So, the divine must be cast in a human mold. And then suppose you've cast the divine in the mold of a father. You must relate to the divine as you would relate to your father. Suppose you've cast the divine into the mother's mold. Then you must relate to the divine as you would relate to your mother. The relationship you have with your mother or your father that is the way you've got to relate. It is very important that you cast the divine in the best relationship you have. Suppose your relationship is very good with your mother, then the best thing is to cast the relationship in your mother's mold. Suppose the relationship is very good with your husband. Better to cast the divine in the husband's mold. Suppose the relationship is very good with your friend then you would cast the divine in a friend's mold. And then start relating to the divine as you would start relate to them. You must start with conversations you could ask your questions, you could ask for help. Initially, you might get the answers in the form of a thought or insight. But as it grows, it will be a real communication. Then how are you to be sure it's the divine who's talking? You must ask to solve problems, to get you out of difficulties and you must ask for blessings. If it happens then you must be sure that you are in touch with the divine and in case the divine is not answering your prayers, then you should ask for an explanation as to why yours prayers are not being answered. If you are really in touch with the divine, the divine would then show you why your prayers are not being answered. That is the way, slowly you have to build up your bond with the divine. ============================================================================ SRI BHAGAVAN - DEFINITION OF MUKTHI View Video http://www.worldonenesscommunity.com/video/defintion-of-mukthi Mukthi could be defined in various ways. The general definition which I give for mukthi is the liberation of senses. Now, when you see, you do not see without the interference of the mind. If you can see without the mind interfering, that is mukthi. If you can hear without the mind interfering, that is mukthi. The same applies to smell, touch and even thought. Thought also can be observed without you getting involved with a thought. Now, what is happening is when you are thinking, you think you are thinking. But, it is actually possible to see thoughts flow as though they are independent of you. This is a physical reality. Actually you can see thoughts. Any kind of thought would be coming to you and would be going out of you and you can watch them. So, this is the state of mukthi. That is, the complete liberation of the senses from the control of the mind. It's only such a being who is actually living. Wherever the mind is in control you are not living. When the mind is not there, then you are actually living. That's why when people ask me, "What is the purpose of life?", my answer is, "if you are living you wouldn't ask that question." The purpose of life is to live. What does that mean? To live the life of the senses. The senses must be independent and free of the mind. Now what's happening is you are not at all experiencing reality. Reality to you is what is flowing through the senses. Now, all the time you are interpreting whatever data is coming into you. You look at a tree and you say it's a big tree, small tree, green tree, mango tree, this, that. All the time comments are going on. When you sit down to eat food, you are not eating food. You start worrying about your office or your family or this or that, or comment on the food itself. The food is not being experienced. That's why I've said in the mahavakyas (great sayings), if you experience reality as it is, then you will just experience bliss. You will see this whole creation is perfect. It's the most beautiful thing and that you are already in heaven. You have made it into a hell. It is possible to liberate the senses from the clutches of thought. So, thought is necessary when required, otherwise why should thought interfere. There is no need for thought to come and interfere. It's an actual experience. Now, when the senses become free of the control of thought or the mind, then we say you have discovered unconditional joy, unconditional love. Such is this joy that you will feel that you are connected with everybody. So, you'll discover true love. So, this true love and this true joy are not separate things. They're all one and the same and this is a natural occurrence. That is what you are designed to be. That is what human being is supposed to experience all the time. Since you do not experience that, your lives have become miserable and to escape that misery you have created various escape routes through which all the time you are escaping from your misery, which misery itself is because you are not experiencing reality. That is why people take to alcohol or to drugs, or sex or whatever that is, because otherwise what is there in your life. It becomes meaningless. So, the whole attempt of this movement is to help you experience reality as it is. When that happens you'll discover unconditional love and unconditional joy. You'll feel connected with everything and everybody. You do feel you are a separate individual. You do not live for yourself alone anymore, because the yourself has become everybody. You live for the sake of humanity. This is not a concept or some imagined thing. This is a day-to-day reality once you become enlightened, or you become a muktha (awakened or liberated being), and thousands of people have already got into this state. Even right now there are a few people sitting here who are in this state. ================================================================ SRI BHAGAVAN TEACHING -Loving Oneself
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View Video: http://vimeo.com/22878657 Bhagavan, it was said that, one should love oneself. What is the need for us to love oneself? When we say love yourself, see all of you have got what we might call a negative self also. There is a negative side to all of you, which western psychologists will call the 'Shadow Self'. We will call it the negative side, because there is a slight difference in the term and contents. Now each of you, for example have you not spoken lies? So many lies, average lies per day is sixty- any human being. But would you like to accept that you are a liar? No. And sometimes planned lies, because survival. I am not blaming you. I am just telling what is happening there. But then would you like to see that? You don't like to see it. Would you like that aspect? No, you don't like it. And you say oh I love you so much. I wish all the blessings for you; inside, full of hatred. So inside there is lot of fear, but appear to be very brave. You talk very bravely, but only fear inside. So for all the so called images that you are giving, there is a negative counterpart. There cannot be anything without a negative counterpart. You have jealousy, anger, hatred, violence, lust. You put it into the most peaceful man in the world, while you will be plotting his death and secretly hoping a lorry will go over him, he will be destroyed. But say, I wish you good luck. This negative side, you have put under the carpet and it is hiding there, which is unconscious. There it is stinking. From there it is creating all the trouble for you. When we say love yourself, we are telling love 'That'. Love that ??? no? the terrible thing. You are hating it. You are hating it, you are afraid of it, you dislike it, you pretend it's not there. It is like getting married to some lady somewhere and saying, I don't know about her, she is not my wife. Similarly it is all there, this side is yours. No human being can be on this planet without this negative side. It is just not possible. So who are the great people? The Mahatma Gandhis and let us say the Ramanas, the Budhaas. What is their basic journey? They know it is there and they accept it and they love it. Whereas you, you don't see it, you don't accept it, you don't love it. You are running away from it all the time or pretending it is not there. So the journey on spirituality is the first and most important journey is you dig up all these things. Remove the carpet, bring it out. It is so, that's all. You are helpless, powerless people. Nobody has got any power anything. We only imagine we have got. It is there. It is dominating you. It is crushing you. So, that is what is happening. So, you must dig up and come to terms with it. We can't do anything about it because that contamination is there. The air is contaminated, consciousness is contaminated. It is there. You are only pretending as though it is not there. And the journey of spirituality is you first say yes, I am this and confront it. And then you see a miracle will take place. That miracle you find out what it is. So this is what we mean when we say love yourself. All this dirt, this muck, which nobody likes- when you don't like it, when you are even afraid of it, how will you love it? But then it is possible to love it and say yes, it is so. It is there, what can you do about it? You can't do anything about it. So that is what we mean by saying love yourself. | 
