Respected elders, dear sisters and brothers,
Joy is quite palpable. It is infectious.
I am immensely moved with joy since we are meeting almost after more than two years,
under the same roof. We have gone through a big cycle, an exceptional cycle,
making us more cautious about our physical, mental and spiritual health.
Though some of our family members have lost their loved ones,
they are coping up so well under the guidance and grace of Pujya Babuji Maharaj.
Is it the end of such calamities like COVID?
Babuji Maharaj says that it will only accelerate and only intensify as time goes on.
We have participants from almost sixty countries,
and every area, every state of India, except Mizoram.
And almost eight thousand out of almost forty thousand abhyasis participating here,
are new, are here for the first time.
I would be very happy to meet these newcomers, eight thousand of them,
tomorrow at 9:00 pm. Only the newcomers, please keep this in mind.
Such Bhandaras (spiritual congregations) give us the opportunity of assessing, accessing
that which is inaccessible the Dimension. The Grace that pours propels us into that Dimension.
I have been telling you about what has been received as a special Message. But it is nothing new.
Babuji Maharaj has iterated, reiterated that many a times.
Lord Krishna
reminds us further, that it is A E I O U.
This is the second requirement.
‘A’ meaning, ‘Acquiring a spiritual condition.’
How will we ever acquire a spiritual condition, unless and until we receive it?
Often we receive it, but we lose it before it can even settle in our heart.
One abhyasi, after my morning talk,
wrote a very painful email to me
saying, “You are lecturing us,
asking us to meditate for one hour
while Babuji used to meditate only for two minutes, three minutes,
five minutes.” So my suggestion to that sister
is to please read Autobiography of Babuji Maharaj, part I, while he was a sadhak (practitioner), abhyasi.
This book was not available, but it will be available tomorrow.
Follow the words.
The condition, spiritual condition that he used to harvest
during those two or three minutes of meditation,
it will take us days of meditation, not just hours.
So please do not waste your time in futile arguments that Babuji used to do that.
He could do so many other things.
Without closing his eyes,
he could go deeper not only in himself, but in others also.
How to penetrate into others’ consciousness?
Well, that is not our business.
It is left to the great Masters, like Babuji Maharaj.
Transmission, that used to descend from above,
the saints used to be
surprised, “How and what sort of a vessel, Lalaji Maharaj has created, that seems to be bottomless?
We go on pouring this transmission and Babuji never seemed to be
filled up with the transmission.” Imagine his level of approach!
We need to cultivate that.
Go deeper into this.
If you can attain
such a spiritual state
in half-a-second,
we will not insist that you meditate for more than that half-a-second.
If you can acquire such states, please go ahead.
But if not, follow this protocol which Lord Krishna has been emphasizing this time. And there must be a reason.
He says, “Do it only for one year, then see where you all go.”
One year. Morning meditation at a fixed time.
The second requirement, AEIOU. Having acquired the condition, enliven it consciously with efforts.
Intensify it during daytime.
You all know how to enliven it. Still, I will repeat it. After each meditation,
sit quietly for five to ten minutes,
try to write down what you felt. Introspect on the newly acquired state.
Be one with it. Make a mental note of that condition and move on into worldly life, with your activities.
During daytime, having reached the office, or some new place,
or if you are at home, and as you digest this spiritual condition,
if you have time, for five minutes, ten minutes, or whenever you go to bathroom,
sit quietly for five minutes.
Revisit your spiritual condition, and if need be,
connect with the Master, receive more Transmission, and see how a new condition descends.
Such repeated mini-meditations can help us plunge into different levels of spiritual states,
not only intensifying the morning state,
but it will open up newer states also. So, that is about enlivening and introducing new states.
And as you remember it again and again, connecting with Master, it only can intensify.
‘O’ and ‘U’ - oneness, and union,
very simple to say,
arrive at a state of vacuity, shoonyata,
insignificance, subdued state, again and again it comes to the same principle.
‘O’ and ‘U’, once we are in such a state,
of being insignificant, insignificant servants of the Master,
then something magical can happen.
So, this is the second tip.
I will not take more of your time. Tomorrow I will share the third tip.
Meanwhile, we shall listen to Sister Sonali Rathore, who is here amongst us from Mumbai,
and make this occasion even more special.
Thank you all. Welcome her please, thank you.