If you look at your senses, the five senses have experienced
the world. Only through five senses we experience the world.
These little eyes, how much it has seen?
You have any idea? A lot.
And these little ears how much you have heard
A lot.
Through this nose you know how much air you have taken in?
Every day 10 000 liters
and this little mouth - per day, what you take - around two kilos of food in one year about
700 800 kilos of food.
If you have 40 years, 35 tons of food has gone through this little mouth
but where are they?
Nothing.
Nothing is remaining
All the experiences - and touch - how much touch you have experienced
pleasant unpleasant hot cold everything on the skin
Where is it?
Gone. Everything gone.
These five things that we experience through five senses are all nothing.
It's all emptiness.
It's all emptiness- nothing remains with you.
Nothing has remained with you.
Such a beautiful scene - how much can you look at it?
Your eyes are like mirror - nothing stays in it.
Everything comes and they go.
The mirror does not capture anything - it just reflects.
So all our five senses they reflect everything and nothing remains with you my dear.
This is all emptiness
Knowing all this is emptiness go deep and rest in your heart
because your heart is that which is true
that stays with you
Heart means here not the physical heart
It's the feeling. The deep subtle beautiful inner feeling.
This is all empty, like peacock feather.
Peacock feather exuberates depth but it doesn't really have.
It's so light.
In the same way all the experiences are beautiful, no doubt,
but it is not something that is permanent
What is permanent is you. Your beautiful feeling of compassion, love.
That's the reason in relationship that
though people have all the physical enjoyment
it doesn't satisfy them. What they look for is something deeper.
Unless there is love in a relationship it is never satisfying it's never complete
And that can happen only through meditation - that experience of deep love.
You can go on searching outside. You won't get it there because it is all temporary experiences only.
But love is something much deeper.
Which is in the very
basis of your energy, which is very nature of your energy.
What is this existence?
The five elements - earth, then water, then fire, then air and ether.
It doesn't stop there. If it's only five elements the whole planet would be just inert.
But what brings life into the planet is something more than this
After these five elements then there is mind, intellect, memory ego and the self
Mind is
a fraction of an atom.
The size of an atom that they described -
you take one hair and split it into 100
and then take one of the string and again split it into 100
and then take that one hair of that and split it to 100
then one tip of that you take again
and split it into 10
That is the micro size of a particle
and you split that again 1000 times that is called anu - atom
And from that you again split that into 100 -
that is the size of the mind
and you split that again into 10 -
that is the size of ego.
The ego inside us is just an atomic particle.
In all our bodies, the ego is a tiny, smallest of the atom
And what is beyond ego, if the ego is broken what comes is called mahat.
An energy called mahat.
You have heard the word Mahatma.
Mahatma Gandhi.
Mahat is when this ego
no longer limits itself to just the body and the surroundings but includes everybody
then your consciousness assumes a state called Mahat.
That is Mahatma.
Every mother experiences it
The boundary is not there.
The child is included in the boundary of the ego
So that is the sense of mahat - means the bigger I.
You have the sense of belongingness and
no boundary or barrier between you and other people in the world.
You are a Mahatma.
So this maha tattva is there
and then beyond the mahat is called Shiva.
So Shiva is not a person sitting somewhere in himalayas
who lived some ten thousand years back - no no no no.
Shiva is just the field - the energy
Shiva itself means you know what -
beautiful and benevolent and so soothing.
So here the intellect want to understand what is this beautiful soothing wonderful bigger energy
which encompasses the whole universe
which is the intelligence of the orderliness of creation
Want to understand and the more you understand the more you come to a level of i don't know
You know life is a journey from an ugly I don't know to a beautiful I don't know
See when you are upset even if you know what you say
I don't know
Don't ask me.
Don't you say it or not.
So stressful mind comes up with an ugly I don't know.
We move from there to
a beautiful I don't know because the more you know the more you know that you don't know.
And loving the unknown is spirituality.
Falling in love with something which you don't know is spirituality.