Jai Gurudev
first of all
Guruji you have such an infectious kind smile
just as soon as you entered just made me smile and I have not stopped smiling since
thank you so much for being the kind amazing person you are
I learned so much from you and I'm really really
feeling so good to be here in front of you and I have the honour to ask you some questions
yeah yeah go ahead go ahead
so Guruji my first question to you is
my most important question actually I'm going to be honest with you
is that how to overcome trust issues?
I think everybody all my friends every age group has this question
that when you trust people in life and sometimes the trust gets broken
and it becomes like a huge wall inside our hearts
and it becomes so difficult to trust a new person
and it always is always in my mind that I have these trust issues how to deal with these?
yeah
there are three types of trust
one is trust in yourself
trust in the goodness of people around you
and trust in something that is ethereal
something that is so big
something which is unseen unknown
yeah say God Ishwar or something trust in that
now the trust can be broken in all the three levels
the trust in you gets broken when you are very confident and when you
take up something and it doesn't work out when a failure you have to face
then you lose your confidence
you lose your trust in trust right?
this is one thing second type of trust is what you have been asking
that many people have this issue you trust somebody
and then they break your trust and then you don't feel like trusting anybody else
now the third type of trust is you pray to God and you have faith that
you would get something and you don't get it and then your
you know trust in God is also broken isn't it?
but trust is the backbone of progress
the backbone of business its the backbone of social interaction with people
now I would like you to see from a broader perspective suppose in a shop
a shopkeeper encounters a thief
and from the next day he doubts everyone who enters into the shop as a thief
sees them from that eye would you like to go back to that shop?
obviously not tell them hey I'm not going to take away things from your shop man come on
wake up
so in Hindi there's a proverb
one who has burnt one's tongue by drinking hot milk
they are afraid to drink buttermilk too they blow on it to ensure its cool before drinking it
so that kind of a situation happens
that is when you lack trust in yourself
first of all you must trust that only good thing will happen to you number one
second
don't get too emotional and make your intellect get shrouded
listen to your inside your inner instinct gut feeling
I tell you once what happened once um
a journalist in the Scandinavian islands he asked me he looked at me
he asked me are you enlightened?
and I just smiled at him I said no
if you say yes you have to prove all that why to take headache to prove to somebody
you say no it finishes no? the story finishes
and he's a very well known very famous journalist
I said I smiled I said no
but then he wouldn't take that as an answer
he said no you are lying don't lie to me
don't beat around the bush I'm asking you
I said look I gave you an answer
and you cannot take it because your heart your mind says something no this is not right
so why don't you trust your inner voice? what it says
so you trust your instinct your intuitive ability intuitive power
and see things with a fresh outlook
don't see it from the same old um glasses or colored stained glasses
you know in any relationship any interaction with people see them fresh and new
yeah? because you don't want others to see you in the in with prejudice
so we should also not do prejudice then you know you see that
the people trust you and you trust people
without that you know we will end up in
psychiatric clinic if you don't trust anybody what will happen?
your inside
will shatter correct? yeah
thank you so much Guruji
my second question is do you believe in astrology?
because there's so many times I see predictions about myself this tomorrow
this is going to happen to you and it does not happen
but sometimes they'll tell me okay next three months good things are coming to you or
this is going to happen to you and it comes true
so it's a very confusing concept and I know it's a very big concept but it's very confusing so I
wanted to know your opinion you should take astrology with a pinch of salt
you know don't take it as the gospel truth as the ultimate truth
it only gives you a just
like in the GPS it gives you a certain route suppose you miss an exit
you miss a road but the GPS re-routes you
and you go around another route
so similarly in astrology
if you the astrology is not a fatalistic science it just means many things influence you
the cosmos the macrocosm influences the microcosm and that's true
but don't forget that the microcosm is also influencing the macrocosm
a small atom a tiniest atom can make an impact on the whole environment for years to come
a tiny radiation can impact the whole world and a virus which you can't even see in the microscope
can shut the whole planet we have seen
so when a virus has so much power you are much more powerful than virus
isn't it? so your sankalpa your intention also has a power you can counter all the
negative things that comes to you through
the predictions of astrology again I am telling this you know astrology is not a fatalistic science
but you don't need to every day look into that you know in the newspaper it comes today
you will feel you will meet your soul mate or be careful all that sort of thing
it's all just nonsense and it's generalization of some
you know the paper needs a column and people are interested so they put those sort of things
even those people who write and predict such thing in the in the television they also know
it's just a game they are just playing with it it's not to be taken too seriously yeah
my next question to you is uh that I've read in studies also and this
is an experience also that I've got from me and my friends most of us gen z's are
too much like they're overthinking a lot we are not in the present moment and we say
that we want to be in the present moment but anyhow some ways we'll always end up
overthinking we try to listen to music we try to meditate also
but sometimes some thoughts just come in our head continuously and we end up over thinking
how what is the solution to this?
yeah first of all you become aware that you are overthinking that's a great thing
half job is done with that
second is um bringing to the feeling level when you are feeling your thinking is in the background
when you are thinking too much your feeling goes to the background you start becoming
you start feeling very dry and maybe some sort of inertia dawns on you
so as you said listening to music and getting up and doing some workout and dancing
and meditation and breathing kriya will help you a lot
doing Sudarshan kriya at that time can calm down the thinking definitely
one last question yeah my last question to you is that there are a lot of times
I think because of situations or circumstances in life where you feel very lost and it's very
difficult to know what is the next step and negative thoughts surround us a lot during
these times because everything just feels like everything is out of place and it's very chaotic
so what is your opinion how do we overcome this?
yes yes yes especially with the artist this happens right?
I can see this from Hollywood to Bollywood to Tollywood to Sandalwood and every where
in all Woods all over the world this is an issue especially with the artist community
that's where it is very necessary for the artist community to take on some spiritual path
once they know they are in a spiritual path they do some practices
a little bit of meditation every day
see life from a bigger context and greater possibilities
you will simply see these problems simply vanish
the negative cloud simply bursts and then you find yourself in such a beautiful spot
and I'm I'm also very concerned with the the
amount of depression and suicidal tendencies that is in these field
also in student community it's appalling
especially after covid this has
really tripled over
so meditation is the answer
everyone should do meditation and kriya Sudarshan Kriya helps a lot okay
Gurudev despite all the knowledge of truth when we experience something painful it really hurts
do realized souls have no pain since they are realized? or does
the knowledge help them bear the pain whether physical or emotional?
now when you you are experiencing pain this is not the first time you are experiencing pain
isn't it? is it the first time? no in life it has come many times
and knowledge meditation all these practices help you to overcome them
don't they? yeah it it gives inner strength to you
physical pain of course
it helps you to overcome even the physical pain emotional pain definitely
yeah it's in your experience but yes when there is pain then only that is there nothing else
that's why we have this process in in the advanced course you know?
meditation in motion you have done it?
you see how the pain switches into pleasure
the intense physical experience
initially binds you to the body later on it just helps you to
become more free more free yeah
again here meditation plays a big role