[Interviewer] Acharya Shree, someone on YouTube asked if enlightenment goes beyond positive and negative energy, then why do spiritual gurus and swamis emphasize positive energy?
Wonderful question.
First you have to understand that energy is not positive or negative.
Energy is just energy. In Sanskrit it is called Uurja.
And every living being and non-living being has energy.
Or uurja. Uurja means lifeforce.
Uurja means also force. So when someone talks about positive energy, they don't know what energy means.
What uurja means. They try to create illusion among the people, among the innocent people about to be positive and to be positive to grab the positive energy.
There is no way you can get the positive energy or anything can create positive energy.
Energy is always energy. It is like saying that milk has butter in it.
That milk will create butter. It is already butter in it.
Is butter will be positive or negative?
Butter is just butter. Milk is just milk. Energy is just energy.
Enegy is our life. And nonliving being, they have different kind of energy, uurja, force, whatever you name it.
I have heard that one fool swami establishing 1,008 Shiva lingam and Shiva lingam on the some kind of hill.
In India. When I heard it, I couldn't stop praying for that ignorant and fool swami that how he can manipulate the people.
Because people will not go for one Shiva lingam, so he's establishing 1,008 Shiva lingam.
And he's telling the people if you will go around, make a circle around of that hill, you will get positive energy.
What ignorance! A piece of stone, it has force. But there is no energy into it.
What he's talking about? He's talking about positive energy and divine energy, that you will feel positive energy when you make a circle.
And people are fools too. Because they are seeking that kind of people.
Birds of the feather flock together. That is saying, that is true saying.
They don't think, even they are educated. They don't think that the 1,008 pieces of stone can create that kind of energy that they can be affected by.
They are full of energy. First of all, you are all right. That there is no positive or negative energy.
And enlightenment is beyond that. Can those teachers understand that?
And they are not ashamed to call themselves enlightened even.
They don't even understand even that much little bit.
So who is asking on that question is right. That positive and negative is the same, both sides of the same coin.
Yes, energy is just merely energy.
By thinking all the way, right way, you are always being positive in whole day.
But by, if you cannot think straight, so you can be negative among your friends.
That is totally different. But energy has nothing to do with positivity and negativity.
If it was the positive energy, Somanath Temple in India, thousand years ago, Mahmud Ghaznawi with thousands of soldiers, the Shiva statue was hanging in the air.
That was the significance of that temple, Somanath Temple in Gujarat.
And he came, he broke it, and he stole all the diamonds. It was full of diamonds.
And people used to think it was miracle and it creates all the positive energy.
What happened? It cannot save itself even.
That was broken in the pieces.
Even the Shiva statue cannot create positive energy because there is no positive energy.
There is just energy. If you sit together, you meditate together, you create such an energy that energy is a good energy.
It can influence all the other people who are going on the wrong way.
That can be, that you can understand. But if you can not understand that much, how it can be positive, positive, positive?
There is no positive energy. You have to understand that much.
Energy is just energy. It is uurja. It is full of everywhere, this cosmos, this universe is full of that uurja.
You are uurja too. You are energy.
You are not body or senses. You are energy.
So you are energy. You can be even everywhere because energy doesn't need oxygen.
It can go anywhere. You close your eyes, you sit in meditation, and your energy will be so big, it will be everywhere. You will be touched...
From the whole universe. That's what it is. So your soul is uurja.
Your soul is lifeforce. So that has nothing to do with positive or negative.
So don't get trapped into those teachers who are teaching that positive energy, it will create positive energy.
The water from the Ganges or 21 rivers will create positive energy? That is a wrong idea.
There is no such energy. It's energy is energy. No positive, no negative. You are all right.
Enlightenment is beyond positivity and negativity.
They both don't exist. Only energy exists, and energy is you.
You are energy. I am energy. All people are energy.
But it can be very calm, peaceful if we sit quietly in meditation state.
If we are in that state of being which is always always calm and peaceful.
Then the whole world can be peaceful. Whole universe can be very calm and peaceful.
Then there is no waves of attacking or no waves of negativity what we talk about, negativity and positivity.
Because energy will be everywhere calm and peaceful.
And that's what enlightenment is.
Where there is peace, where there is calm. Where there is love. Where there is nonviolence.
You have the beautiful energy already.