there's now widespread spiritual ego
I've come across a lot of people who are
now on a spiritual path
not using the group
how much of one's life
is a result of their past Karma
the injustices and unfairnesses that one
faces in one's life a result of their
past Karma if so
do you accept these injustices on and
find solace in the fact that okay the
karma is being cleared
even though it might seem detrimental to
our lives in so many ways
I'm not saying you're old I said you're
old enough
that do you still expect the world to be
fair to you
that's why I'm asking this question
can I blame it on my past karma is what
I'm asking
the world to be fair to me is the school
girl question
by now you should know the world is not
fair
it will not be fair to you
but
if you dig deep into yourself and have a
taste of life
not a taste of your thought and emotion
the taste of life that you are then you
will see life is not just fair it's just
fantastic
so do you want Fair life or fantastic
life you must decide
I've noticed this that beyond the
material ego there is now suddenly a
widespread your friend
is all around me
and in my industry the heights of it
so beyond the material ego I've noticed
this com there's now widespread
spiritual ego I've come across a lot of
people who are now on a spiritual path
who who consider themselves Superior to
people who are not on a spiritual path
how would you advise such people to
ensure that they don't fall a prey to
this new spiritual ego
will uh first we'll address this ego guy
okay
if you show me where it is I'll fix it
right now I wish I knew where it was it
just keeps coming suddenly you don't
know where it is
the thing is just this
say at certain moments
as a person as a woman
you are a beautiful person
wonderful person I mean
I'm sorry I I didn't say only at certain
times you're beautiful you're always
beautiful but certain times you're
wonderful all right
certain moments maybe you're nasty
possible
so whenever you're nasty you say it's my
ego
why don't you say it's me I'm sometimes
wonderful sometimes nasty if you see
this
naturally nastiness will go down
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but if you say whenever your nasty
mystery ego does this
and you don't know where he is you don't
know his address or ID nor do you know
his phone number
how do you fix this guy
so everybody has this going in their
life
because this is a spiritual jargon
without being spiritual is all over the
place particularly in India
because we have you know fifteen twenty
thousand years of spiritual history so
we know all the words
we know what Atma paramatma this one
that one Ankara everything we know words
only
so we can just throw words like this and
confuse the Western population quite a
bit
so unfortunately spirituality
uh
in some in some ways it's come there
it's come there because
there is need in the society there is
not enough source
because of that people are manufacturing
this here and there this happened uh you
know a few years ago 15 12 15 16 years
ago
and uh I was in the United States and
then somebody in the office our office
told me said Guru did you know every day
a hundred thousand people are typing out
the word spiritual
I said is that so type it out and see
what comes out
are we even there in the picture
they typed out spirituality first thing
that comes up is a spa in Mexico
you've been there
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and the next thing that
call girl in Northern California
she has learned all that SEO
for everything she says spiritual
spiritual spiritual 108 times she uses
the word spiritual on our website you
say spiritual she comes up number two
I thought this is a shame
for thousands of years anything
spiritual means people looked East
means India that's what it meant
so I said we must start something a
spiritual Gateway
that if people say if they seek
spirituality they must look towards
India
because this is one culture which has
spent maximum amount of time
maximum amount of time exploring human
consciousness and the mechanics of what
a human being is how this functions on
the surface and it's very core how does
this function what can we do about it
this is being explored I am not saying
this out of my Indian origin I am saying
this after looking at the world closely
that nowhere else
has it been looked at like this
so I said we must start a spiritual
Gateway India the spiritual Gateway I
must tell you this till about 15 years
ago I had not met a single Guru in this
country
I I just did not meet I was just busy
doing my own work I never thought I had
to go and look for somebody I had never
been to any other ashram anywhere
and then I thought okay let me make an
attempt then I started making phone
calls
uh they all received my call pretty well
and then I started visiting some people
and started putting together we had one
meeting with 125 gurus we made this uh
thing that nobody talks about their
philosophy
you keep your philosophy this is just a
meeting
this is just about how to enhance your
ashram or your Yoga Center whatever you
have how to enhance the quality we will
teach you management we will teach you
branding we will teach you how to make a
website we will teach you how to present
yourself to International Community your
philosophy we don't we don't touch you
don't touch mine I don't touch yours you
do your own thing because that is the
beauty of this culture that it can exist
in hundreds of forms thousands of forms
and it's okay with us
so when I went about doing this
well I met many wonderful people
but at the same time at least 60 to 65
percent I it hurts me to say this
I found that if I walk into an airport
or a golf course I meet better men than
in the so-called spiritual centers
because it's full of jargon
no heart
no depth no profoundness simply one one
chant one man nonsense one philosophy
that they read somewhere it's going on
like this this needs to change
so to bring this profoundness to people
as people get closer to me I get harder
and harder and harder those who are very
close to me I am bloody cruel
yes because just to bring Integrity into
spirituality is so hard because the
moment they get spiritual little like
you said you're calling it spiritually
ego I call it spiritual heirs
they get spiritual heirs air bubbles get
in their head
suddenly they start acting funny they
start saying things that don't exist
they start talking about nonsense that
nobody understands
if you speak something whatever nonsense
you speak people in front of you must
understand otherwise why the hell are
you speaking
because the purpose of speech is to make
somebody understand what you're saying
no if I say something that you don't
understand I become big you become small
this is rubbish this is going on for too
long
so this whole spirituality has a thing
unfortunately has fallen on bad times
but slowly it is rising because people's
longing is increasing I must tell you
this 40 years ago when I first started
the programs in our engineering programs
in various different forms 85 percent of
the people used to come to the programs
only for health problems
only 12 15 came to know something
today over 90 percent of the people come
because they want to know something
experience something only eight to ten
percent
only eight to ten percent are coming for
health issues which is a significant
change in human consciousness about this
ego business this is one thing we must
settle
see within you
is there only one person or two
you think one
I'm going to go with one one
that means you're an individual
an individual means the word individual
comes from indivisible you're not
further divisible that's good you're an
individual
if you are too
then you you give this schizophrenic or
possessed
psychiatrist or Exorcist
either a psychiatrist or an exorcist has
to come
so this is very important everybody
settle this
that don't talk about Atma paramatma ego
this one that one you are an individual
what kind are you are you a wonderful
one or a nasty one fix the damn thing
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