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Bhagavan said:

Truth never changes through the ages. If I tell him (a three-year-old child), ‘I going,’ it will be bad English. It should be, ‘I’m going’. Like this, Truth never changes. I have to say that I am God.

God blooms in front of his devotee. He gives evidence to his devotees. He got up and stood. He said, come and touch me. A boy touched his feet. He said a long time ago, Swami Shankarananda touched me and could not go back to his life. He got a new life. So what will happen to you?

When you have become empty, thinking of me as much as possible is good for you. Observe yourself all the time. Be independent all the time. When you work under someone else for money, you are also losing your independence. Always be free (indicating himself).

Commentary by Koji:

Truth is eternal and never changes because someone says it is something different. Truth bows down to no man. If someone wants to live an elevated life, he or she has to bow down to Truth. Bhagavan has to say he is God because it is true.

Bhagavan does not hope that devotees simply believe that he is God without any proof. He does not want to make an army of sheep. He wants people to follow him through knowledge, not through ignorance and blind faith. Therefore, he gives proofs of his divinity to his devotees. The majority of proofs are samadhis. Those that receive proofs are those prepared through devotion, discrimination, sincerity and having a clean and open mind. Different people need more or less time depending on their condition when they come, and their progress. It is necessary to have patience and determination at a profound level, and everything will come to pass.

One day Swami Shankarananda was a boy that knew nothing. He touched Bhagavan, and some time later, entered nivikalpa samadhi. He became completely enlightened. This normally happens to one or two people in the whole world in a cycle of twelve years. That is a proof. He could not return to his materialistic activities. That does not mean he could no longer enjoy anything in the world. It means that his ignorance had disappeared. He knew he was Brahman, that everything is One. With this Knowledge, his egoism disappeared automatically and he always felt realised, so he began to do things for others, full of love, instead of for himself. Spirituality and materialism are attitudes towards life. If one has Knowledge from realisation, one lives in a spiritual way, feeling and projecting love, as one is no longer under the sway of ignorance.

You, too, can realise the Highest, and project Love always. Only in this way is life truly enjoyed.

To be empty refers to the state in which no uninvited thought enters, like the state of Krishnamurti we were discussing a few weeks ago. It is in that state when we are truly masters of the mind, and not its slave. When we have reached a state in which the mind is more disciplined, we should try to remain in that state, and not invite any old unnecessary thought in, which would risk compromising that state. Spirituality is not meditating once or twice a day, but being in a state of meditation all the time. There is nothing good about being a slave. We should decide when the mind moves, not the mind, just as the driver decides when the car should move, and not the car. The roles of the mind and of a car are those of an instrument, and not to behave themselves like wild things. We should observe to make sure that the mind and ego do not act in a naughty manner.

We must have the mind on Bhagavan! Through having the mind on Bhagavan Sri Krishna, the worst people in the Bronze Age realised themselves.

If we work for money, which is only for our own ego, we lose our independence. We would be embittered if we lost the money, as something belonging to the ego has been lost. If only the body has been lost, and we are full of love, conscious of being neither the body nor the mind nor the ego, we do not lose our independence. We would not be disappointed if we lost our money as it was never for us. In any case, where did the universe, money and everything in the universe come from? They came from God, not from us. Through the grace of God, his things sometimes fall into our hands, and our role is not to gather them up for ourselves, but to think, “what does God want me to do with his things?” and then do what the answer says.  

Bhagavan said:

Sri Krishna and Sri Rama are imagination to you. Have you seen them with your own eyes? Me, you have indeed seen. I am saying that I am God. So seeing me or living with me is much better than even brahmajñana (Knowledge of Brahman), as you are seeing God directly. That is what an incarnation of God is.

Therefore it is not necessary to read Upanishads. See me and confirm within yourselves that you are seeing God himself. One day people will come to see you or hear the words of Bhagavan from you, as you have seen and lived with him. When you confirm that you are living with God, you will see that your path is clear. You will not find difficulties on your path.

Commentary by Koji:

The brahmajñani, who has Knowledge of Brahman, which is the complete enlightenment attained in nirvikalpa samadhi, always feels the presence of God in his heart, but he does not see him with the physical eyes. However, when God incarnates, he is seen even with those.

The Upanishads compose the Knowledge portion of the Vedas, the ancient revelations of the rishis, the seers, of Ancient India. All orthodox Indian philosophies have them as the base, and aspirants from time immemorial have meditated on them hoping to gain transcendental Knowledge of Brahman. It is very difficult to recognise God inside ourselves; in a cycle of twelve years, one or two people in the world normally attain brahmajñana. However, if we can recognise God outside, whither our senses lead us, which is possible only when there is a divine incarnation, the recognition of the God inside will follow automatically.

Here is the translation of a text on this subject that I wrote for the brochure of the convention in Benares in November 2006:


Know the Glory of God, yea, even in this Lifetime

For so many thousands of years, they have been telling us tales from the life of Rama, O! such beautiful stories that show the grandest of what was in the exalted souls of a bygone age of heroes. Again and again we hear of how the gopikas of Vrindavana were swept away by the tune of the flute of Krishna, of how a mortal actually became Radha. So many tears of longing have been shed, looking back at the days of yore, when God walked the Earth, when everything was possible.

Now, as has already been realised by so many, no longer are we stranded between oh so fleeting visits of God to this karmic plane, for He has come, He has come, though the world still knows it not, just as the world never knew Ramakrishna in His lifetime. No longer are we reduced to listening to a story for the opportunity to catch a whiff of divine ambrosia. Now has come the time when we, in truth, may leap into the story and drown in the ocean of that ambrosia. No longer do we need to listen about the lives of exalted hero souls, for in a world in sore need of heroes, we can now ourselves become transformed into that ilk, as did Lakshman, Sita and Hanuman before us. No longer do we have to dream of being Radha, for that dream can become reality, if we but seek out the flute from which that bewitching tune dances.   

To Valmiki we give thanks for the joys of seven thousand years, to Vyasadeva we prostrate, but, O Krishna! O Rama! What need could we possibly have for books, when once again You Yourself walk the Earth? It is, in truth, the event of the age; for ten thousand years You will not grace this sphere again. Is there a moment to tarry? Listen not to the mind, but let your hearts be magnetised by Hari, the Stealer of Hearts Himself.

For just a short time, no longer is Krishna a picture in a book, but He has rather leapt out of the book to pull you into it. Radha is no longer crying for her beloved in an age-old verse, but in your own heart… We have seen Him… we have felt that, in our hearts, she does reside, wants to come out, and now the door is open…

Listen to your heart, come, stay, and all shall unfold…

Bhagavan said:
 
Inside me is One, and I know neither what that One is going to do, nor when. When I am in daitya (duality), then I am under Him, so I have to say He is holding me, but when I am in samadhi, there is no-one. I do not know what more He will do with me.
 
You also cannot leave me. It is like an electric charge that has transferred from me to you. You are not holding me, but I am holding you, so you cannot live without me.
 
Commentary by Koji:
 
A person is like a bucket of salt and sugar. A materialistic person contains much more salt than sugar, and a spiritual person has changed the majority of salt for sugar. Bhagavan is pure sugar with one grain of salt. The grain of salt is his psycho-physical organism. He has to keep this grain of salt, or else he cannot remain in the body. If he did not have this grain of salt, he would be omnipresent. Although this would be a grain purer still, it is better if he keeps that grain of salt so that he may remain in the body and sit with us to teach us. If he is omnipresent, he cannot speak to us and do that.

As there is one grain of salt in an incarnate God, when he is in the body, there is something higher. The Supreme knows absolutely everything, as it is the root of all creation, omnipresent, and therefore omniscient. The body is a projection of ignorance, and that ignorance keeps an incarnate God in his body. If Bhagavan knew everything that will happen, he would not have any reason to remain in the body. The Supreme has to keep this grain of ignorance in its incarnation so that it may continue to work. If there is nothing to find out, the universe no longer has any mystery, and there is no longer anything to do in it.

We think we do things through our own will. If I go to the shop and buy something, I think I am doing it because I decided to do it, but that is an error. My mind is only an extremely small part of the manifestation of the Intelligence that projects, directs and dissolves the entire universe, including our minds and bodies. Everything is interconnected and depends on the root of all the projection, which is called the omnipresent Bhagavan. We decide to do something because Bhagavan has decided that we should decide to do that. If we do not see the cause of everything that happens, we live in ignorance. We do not know what the Omniscient will decide to do with us.

The incarnate Bhagavan is the omnipresent Bhagavan in a body, with a grain of matter. If there is a vibration in the omnipresent Bhagavan, there is a vibration in the incarnate Bhagavan. If there appears a vibration in the mind of Bhagavan, there appears a vibration in the universe. Through noticing a strong vibration in his mind, Bhagavan has foreseen that various disasters would come to pass. A little after saying that something terrible would happen, a tsunami appeared for example.

One day when I was with Bhagavan in Birati, the news that everyone was hearing was that a boy had fallen into a twenty-metre-deep well in Kurukshetra, and they could not get him out. There were reports on this on the radio all the time. The boy was in danger for his life. Kurukshetra is where Krishna spoke the Bhagavad Gita, showed his form of God to Arjuna and both armies on the battlefield, and just afterwards took place the last battle of the Mahabharata War, the conclusion of Dwapara Yuga (the Bronze Age). Although the boy was a Muslim, and was in one of the most important Hindu tirthas, pilgrimage sites, the whole of Hindu India was praying that the boy may be saved. On television, they were showing people in different parts of India praying. “Truth is One; sages call It by various names,” is written in the Veda. He had been there for days already. During that time, Bhagavan felt himself affected by a strange vibration in his mind, so he could not relax properly. Swapon Kaku and Sudarsan called him from Lake Gardens to ask him to do something for the boy. Bhagavan prayed, and twenty minutes later, they got the boy out of the well. Bhagavan realised that that vibration was the result of the prayers of all those people praying for the sake of the boy. Our prayers do indeed have results.

If someone asks me if I can do a certain great work, I do not know. It depends on if Bhagavan wants me to do it. If someone asks me if breathe another breath, I do not know, as it is not I who decides if I may or not. I am completely in the hands of Bhagavan. I cannot live without Him.
 

Bhagavan said:
 
Thoughts are killing our supreme silence. A gas balloon naturally goes up, so cut the thread attached to something, then it will easily go up. In this way, we are all bound by relationships or other things, so cut that and go deep into samadhi.
 
We all want to live happily, but this is like a gold chain which we do not want to beak. Always pray to God to keep you in a bad condition, then only will you come closer to God and experience tranquility. Just try to go deeper, deeper and deeper. Become empty. Lose your identity.
 
Commentary by Koji:
 
The material world is a prison. The gold chain is material happiness, which binds us to the prison wall. We must break the gold chain, but as we like the chain, we do not do it, and therefore do not attain true happiness.
 
If we are attached to worldly happiness, we will not make the effort to become spiritual. The pleasures of the world are transient, as the effects always disappear. True happiness only comes from spiritual realisation, as only this kind of pleasure has effects that are eternal. One cannot lose a realisation.
 
We become blind towards spiritual truths when comes the happiness of the world, and when this happens, we become diverted from the path to true happiness. Therefore, we should pray that material pleasures like money, woman and name and fame should not come, so that we do not become diverted from the path to eternal happiness.
 
We are on the surface of the sea, trying to catch nice waves, nice vibrations. However, each wave disappears after a time, and we are left with our hands empty. When we understand that it is useless to search for eternal happiness on the surface, we go down below, thus escaping from the noise. At the bottom, there are no vibrations, only Supreme Tranquility.
 
To achieve this, we have to go deep into meditation, cutting all the attachments to the material world, and ultimately its root, the individual ego. When we become empty of attachments and all vibrations, and lose our identity, we will see that the self with its happinesses is illusory, and will find our true Self, with its Absolute Happiness.
 
 

Bhagavan said:
 
Always think yourself lucky, as I have touched you. One day, you will surely be in demand, as I have touched you and I am God.
 
Commentary by Koji:
 
One day Swami Probuddhananda told me that some day thousands of people would visit me solely because I have seen Bhagavan.  
 
At the end of one of Bhagavan’s visits to Benares, we accompanied him to the station. I got on the train and sat by his side. Gorop Babu and Mr Mukerjee were also there. Bhagavan was happy and talking to the others in Bengali animatedly. I did not understand anything. During the whole conversation, he was rubbing my arm. The others were sat there, listening in silence, seemingly amazed. When the time came for the train to leave, Gorop Babu, Mr Mukherjee and I got off, and the train left. Later, Gorop Babu told me that during that conversation, Bhagavan was explaining that if he touched someone at that time, the life of that person would change totally. The whole time, he was rubbing my arm, hard. And now I see that I have totally changed.
 
Hare Krishna,
 
Koji