All of my life when I was Ramalingam, that was my one thought. And I had this firm conclusion
that it is all for the body that we are prostituting ourselves. Like if the body is not there,
you don’t need a house. If the body is not there, you don’t need food. If the body
is not there, you don’t need even a job. So the body was the biggest problem that we
have. So I have to do something about this body. I have to transform this body.
And I was not willing to accept any kind of philosophy saying that, “Well, this is quite
natural that the body gets old. It is quite natural that you die and you come back”.
And I didn’t want to do that. I just, ”No, I can’t accept it”. I need to do something
about the body, I don’t want to think about what happens after I die, and I don’t want
to think about reincarnation because these are things I do not know. So what I know,
is I have to do something, you know, realistic. So I have to see how I can transform the body.
That happened because, well, in my previous lifetime, Siva turned my body into Light,
and that was his Grace. And I asked him, “Umm, how did this happen?” And he gave me another
birth, “Go find out”. [laughter] So I came back, and I found out. And in fact
as I am speaking today, they have shipped the two volumes, each volume is about this
big, of my writings. Somebody spent six years to research this material, and the University,
the local University of Madras, published this. And that is a systematic exposition
of how you can transform the body into Light. The University put the money to publish it.
They published about four hundred copies, and they sold about ten copies or twenty copies.
They couldn’t sell the rest of the copies, so I went and bought all of the copies because
nobody wants to care about these things. So they have shipped those things, and they
are coming now. They are so huge, and some of you have seen it in the Ashram. Each volume
is this big, two volumes are that. Very systematic exposition of what is going to happen to your
body when you start the practice. That’s why I am very, very, eager to get all of your
financial needs taken care of so that I can take all of you and then just, “Good-bye
to this world, and then work on your consciousness.” So I have the methodology intact.
And it is the only treatise on how you can change matter back into energy. In fact this
is what Einstein was talking about it, because Einstein, himself, was Bhogar, a Tamil Siddha,
in a previous lifetime. That’s why he is full of admiration for India. And I wanted
to see the guy; he was given a Nobel Prize when another Indian was given the Nobel Prize
for the Bhagavad Gita. That guy translated the Bhagavad Gita into English, and he put
it into a verse form. His name was Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore. And Einstein and Tagore
were given the Nobel Prize at the same time and there was a beautiful picture of both
Einstein and Tagore.