Is all this out of experience or some kind of inner conscious?
Now that he mentioned Vedas, in Vedas there are many aspects.
One aspect is they're talking about the constellations, you know,
the arrangement of galaxies in great detail, with diagrams,
with mathematical calculations and so many other aspects of galactic constellation.
Today modern cosmologists see these diagrams and calculations
and they say these kind of constellations could have existed only 100,000 years ago.
Based on this we say Rig Veda is over 100,000 years old.
There are other factors also to prove this but this is one of them.
Now, these constellations that the cosmologists are talking about
can be viewed only with very powerful telescopes.
Hundred thousand years ago in India definitely there was no telescope;
I'm sure there was not even a lens.
Then how did they see it?
They saw it with eyes closed, not with eyes open
because everything that's worth knowing can be known from within
rather than trying to learn from other ways.
I have taken lot of care to ensure that I never read any scriptures or anything spiritual.
The only things that I read is Asterisks or Dennis the Menace and,
you know, just pure wisdom.
Spirituality and reading is totally not allowed.
No spiritual reading.
But everything that's worth knowing is within you, not outside of you.
Apart from that, information - you know, today you go on the internet;
for ages there has been a yogic net.
Whatever work that people did... see, if you work with your body, with your
physical body or with your muscle the span of that work
or the lifespan of that work is very limited.
If you use your mind and do work the lifespan of that work is little more,
it lasts a little longer.
If you use your inner energies and do work, the lifespan of that is eternal.
Now, I talk about Gautama or Jesus or anybody with absolute authority
not because I am a scholar, I have not even read anything, simply because as ...
as far as I am concerned they are not 2500 years ago;
for me they are today because one part of their work is always alive.
Those people who did things beyond their body and mind, their work is always alive.
If planet earth goes away still their work is alive; it will not go away.
So, that's always there.
So, this is what is being referred to as the Grace of the Masters.
I'm just talking about two people because somehow they got to be well-known.
They were good with their marketing, both of them.
Other yogis and sages are unknown to you, that does not make them any less beautiful.
It is just that they never bothered to market themselves; they just stayed.
Like I've been around for 20 years, people have barely heard of me
because we started marketing only in the last two years or two-and-half years time.
Till then there was absolutely no marketing.
People knew us like we are some secret school, nobody knows that we exist
but at the same time lakhs of people have gone through our programs
just by word of mouth.
As a rule no brochure, no poster, no banner, no television, no newspaper,
we never entered anything.
Then people thought we are some kind of secret school
and something must be happening there and they started giving us negative publicity.
Then we decided anyway they're giving us publicity, let's go out and say what we want to say.
They started saying all kinds of weird things about us,
so we said okay, lets step out and speak up for ourselves.
And also because we are launching this Rural Rejuvenation Program in Tamilnadu state.
In all the 13,000 villages we are setting up centers to rejuvenate rural life
with yoga and other aspects.
So, we are launching medical dispensary...mobile dispensaries on the trucks.
About 150 trucks will be launched in the next few years.
A few are going.
Just some of the Detroit meditators just now sponsored one truck just two days ago.
So because this work is being taken up we are seeking publicity now.
We need...we need money, that's why I'm here, I need lots of money.
This will service about 60 million people.
These 150 trucks will be servicing about 60 million people.
It's a huge thing.
In terms of investment it's nothing for that large a population.
So, knowing something is not by reading.
By reading what you know... what you know by a book is...
it will forsake you somewhere.
Whatever you learn by book reading, it is going to forsake you somewhere.
You may be an expert in Vedas and Upanishads and Bibles and Korans,
you may speak very authoritatively but when it comes to your own stuff
you will not have anything because what you gather intellectually will not liberate you.
What you gather intellectually will nourish you only to a certain point
but only what comes from within takes you beyond your limitations.
That's why so much significance is given for meditation, always it's been given.
For those of you who come from these cultures, you know even in Jesus' life he went about
doing certain things and then he withdrew into the mountains to
be by himself.
Yes?
Do you know certain periods of his life he is absent.
Because without an inward turn, what you do outside has really no meaning.
So, getting lost in activity is very easy but without turning inward and being sustained
by that it doesn't mean anything.
And anyway, like internet there is a yogic net, you can access it.
Everything that you ever want to know is there.
And I don't carry...
I don't carry what I know with me at all.
It's not in my memory.
When I walk on the street I'm absolute empty.
When I need something it's there.
Till now, in these last 20 years since I started involving myself with people,
so many kinds of situations have come in front of me...
situations means I'm talking about spiritual situations.
Not once have I been left not knowing what to do
nor have I studied this.
It is just that what needs to be done is always there.
Very complex situations, not simple situations, very very complex situations
but what I need to know is always there and I don't have the problem of carrying this
in my memory.
I don't have to burden myself with knowledge.
I walk light like a child without knowing anything
but what you need to know is always there.
This is what is referred to as Grace.
The Grace of the Masters is just that they left their work to be there forever.
If you wrote it down it wouldn't be there, it would be misinterpreted.
This cannot be misinterpreted.
If you access it, it's pure knowledge.