Three things are required for spiritual success
Attitude, attitude and attitude
What sort of attitude must one have?
It is like a lover’s passion or a lover’s state of heart.
Now, coming to this anxiety and depression
when you have it,
how do you sit for forty minutes of meditation?
So, this question is something like, you know,
when we are making a deal with the child
the child is running a fever of 102 degrees
and your daughter, or granddaughter argues with you, “Mommy, mommy,
I will take only two drops of this medicine.
Would you agree with that?
Of course, you will agree and say, “Okay,
why not two drops, I will give you two drops”
and you will cheat and say, “Okay, let us finish this”
and instead of two drops you will give a complete,
proper dose as a mother
Here, the mother and the taker are both the same individual myself
The conscience is your mother,
your desire is yourself. And you say, “Oh, I cannot.
The very thing that can cure
meditation
you are trying to postpone it and you want to take one-tenth of a dose
And even that will not work, because meditation to me, is not about time
You can meditate for one hour
and not get a single beat of transformation within you.
But, people like Babuji, who would meditate for two minutes
and dive
to the deepest level of their consciousness, and within two minutes they re-surface again
So the idea of meditation is to go as deep as possible in a very short time.
And we need to cultivate certain attitudes,
towards the practice, because practice is hardly ninety-five percent
towards our success. You know, I tell you, in our business world
what are the three requirements for a successful business?
They say, the retail stores,
about the retail stores success, they say, location, location and location
If you have a pharmacy or a drug store,right in front of a hospital,
it has greater chances of being successful than a pharmacy in a remote village.
It would be disastrous. Likewise,
Three things are required for spiritual success
Attitude, attitude and attitude
What sort of attitude must one have?
It is like a lover’s passion or a lover’s state of heart.
Now when we were all teenagersremember the crush we had on the other person
And by chance, if we had a date and said, “Okay, we will meet at 3 O’ clock
afternoon at such and such a theatre or such and such a restaurant
what happens to you then? The whole morning,
I mean you wake up so early, you get dressed up so fast,
and hardly there is any sleep,
you may not even take your lunch
The moment your mommy gives you lunch you will say, “ No, mommy I am not hungry.”
and
if you are a boy, you will end up going to the theatre, one hour before.
You will be there at 2 O’ clock, walking on the pavement left and right, left and right, left and right,
waiting for your beloved to come
And if she decides to tease you and comes five minutes late,
you will say, ”Oh my God, my world is ending.
Maybe, she is not interested in me, maybe she will say no,
maybe she will forget about that
So this is the kind of attitude we have got to have, when we are pursuing God.
Are you crazy about realising the Ultimate?
If we have that sort of madness,
restlessness,
then it is possible to even achieve those depths
because all night you will be restless As soon as I wake up in the morning
I meditate and be with the Lord.
And a time will come, when you will not have to wait because you are all the time with the Lord
Even your night sleep becomes as if you are sleeping in the lap of God.
You wake up in the morning and you will say, “Oh
I do not need to meditate, I have always been with the Lord.”
So, this is what we are looking for. Turbulences in life, day-to-day life will be there.
Turbulence will be there even during meditation. When a Preceptor is giving you a sitting
and within five minutes “Oh no,
lots of thoughts are coming and my back is hurting and I am so uncomfortable,
let me open my eyes.” Okay. You open your eyes. What next?
So you might as well close your eyes and go through the process
and see what really happens. Accept the situation,
for twenty minutes, or thirty minutes.
If thoughts bother you so much, things like this you can do
Especially people who are depressed and having anxious minds,
there are volcanoes going on in their heads
Especially if you are meditating, you will chase the trail of all those thoughts,
like a mad person.
Nothing wrong with it.
Constantly keep reminding yourself, ‘Oh, I am meditating.
If thoughts overwhelm you again, then what do you do? Breathe deeply
hold your thoughts and have attention towards the heart.
If that also does not help
gently look, open your eyes and look at the sky
and gently close your eyes again.
So, few things like that, can happen. Or
pick up one book that you would like to read,
and read it for five minutes, things like Whispers,
or our literature, or any spiritual literature you read
for a few minutes and then again close your eyes and see what happens.