The anxiousness of the future and the imprisoning feeling arising
out of my past, can never help us attain liberation, you see.
You are too busy with the other time zones.
Actual liberation comes when you are absolutely free from
any sort of conditioning.
People have understood as liberation as, ‘No more life and death.’ But
what is wrong, if I may ask you, what is wrong with your life that
you do not want to come back?
If I have everything I need in my life – food, clothing, good family
- and if I can serve those who are in need, I am doing a noble task.
So, liberation to me, is arriving at freedom.
If I like to come back, I should be able to come back.
If I do not want to come back, that is also a kind of a freedom that
you have, ‘Absolute freedom.’ That does not mean, no life, no death.
No, that is wrong – that you will not be born again - that
is a very limited view of it.
Salvation is a much lower state, where you attain some level of mukti.
It is like you are in a jail and they release you on parole for some time and
you are back to jail again, you see.
That parole period is salvation.
It is temporary freedom.
You are given a break for some time.
And depending upon what you do during this break - if you end up
doing some good things during that break time - that salvation can also
become liberation in the future.
But that cannot happen unless and until I do something in the ‘Now’.
I cannot remain bogged with my past and so I made this mistake.
Of course, everybody makes mistakes.
But I cannot keep on worrying about that, “Oh, I did this, I did this.” I
cannot be imprisoned in my past and I cannot become a fanatic, or I cannot
become so anxious about my future.
The anxiousness of the future and the imprisoning feeling arising out of my
past can never help us attain liberations.
You are too busy with the other time zones.
Actual liberation comes when you are absolutely free from
any sort of conditioning.
It is like you are walking into a coal mine with a beautiful white shirt.
Even though you may not harvest any coal, yet the nature of the coal
mine is that you will have some specks of coal dust on your shirt.
It will get spoiled by just being there.
Consciously or unconsciously, you are quietly sitting in your
office, doing nothing whatsoever.
Somebody cries and you hear it, “Oh, one of the employees is crying.” Or you are
watching TV and there is an advertisement, a very provocative advertisement.
What happens to you?
You are not participating in that act, but that provocative ad captures your mind.
Someone is crying in the background, it draws your attention.
And when you try to meditate in the evening, what happens at that time?
Then all these things, if you are very conscious of all these
things, it will come like a movie reel, unwinding in your mind.
But we do not have to worry about it.
Through this Heartfulness way, we have many methods, many ways of getting rid
of all these impressions, that we gather knowingly or unknowingly, and we call it
‘antah karan shuddhi’ (inner Cleaning).
This antah karan shuddhi happens through a sankalpa (subtle, prayerful suggestion)
and this sankalpa is a yogic sankalpa.
In order to make it active, we get training from a preceptor.
And preceptors are all over the globe.
Even if you do not have someone in your own town, you can use an app.
Somebody nearby – and they will walk you through this whole process of
meditating and will also enable you to do this ‘antah karan shuddhi’.