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Each expression of Guruji is total and complete.

Today he was overflowing with compassion as usual, but still, the authenticity in his tone was so clear that it spread a serene silence and attentiveness among the entire crowd, when he addressed the TTC participants. Even the doves in VM unusually kept themselves quiet for some time.

Here is what Guruji discussed today, as we understood (Not exact verbatim). He started with the question.

Are you all doing Padma Sadhana?

If you do Padma Sadhana, you’ll have access to your inner strength, and then your words will have power. Padma Sadhana makes you very strong. If all your buttons get pushed here, then your buttons won’t get pushed anywhere else.

Though we want to spread this knowledge everywhere, I don’t want to create teachers with out quality. You should have focus and interest in three things - Knowledge, Knowledge, and Knowledge.

Q – How can we bring peace in and around?

A- Let us see what all reasons are causing disturbance. When people are stressed and shaken, they get angry and depressed.

To bring peace and calmness,

• De stressing should happen – we have various tools for that, like Pranayams, Yoga, Sudarshana Kriya, Meditation, Being with Nature, Being with Animals. Nature does not create stress in you.
• Understanding yourself and others – Understanding yourself is spirituality, and understanding others is a little bit of psychology and commonsense
• Accommodate people – not everyone is same in this world.
  

If you are not well founded, you cannot be much useful. You cannot change the world.

When you shake hand with others for blaming some one, know that you are becoming not better than them. In Kannada, there is a saying, which states, “Somebody committed a sin, but the sin entered in to the mouth of some body else gossiping about the same”

There is a story of Mulla Nassiruddin. He met with an accident, and got bandages all over his body. Then one of his friends visited him, and asked him – “How you are doing?” – The question which generally people ask (Laughter). Mulla replied with the same automatic answer – “I’m alright”. He continued – “It only pains when I laugh”.

“Oh, can you laugh even at this condition?” Mulla’s friend asked with surprise.

“If I cannot laugh now, then I’ve never learnt to laugh”.

If a child is grown up with out getting scolded even once, he becomes so vulnerable – so that he can’t stand even a single criticism or argument.

You see what is happening in various places – people cannot stand even minor criticism, and they start spreading waves of negativity and violence. People go into streets, burning trucks and vehicles. This is utter foolishness, isn’t it?

About some one's question about making mistake, Guruji replied. If you keep making the same mistake again and again, it is not acceptable. One drop of lemon in a jar of milk is enough to spoil the whole milk. So you have to be careful.

Compiled by Satish, Ishan, Anoop. Jgd.

Posted in: on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at at 9:14 PM