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Bhagavan said:

Follow all the words of the Sadhanas. It is the only way to become perfect. I do not want everyone to sit in front of my photo and pray, but that they should use my words in their life. You should show the world the changes after being touched by me.

Commentary by Koji

Spirituality is not going to church or sitting in front of a photo of your guru and praying sometimes. On the contrary, it is a practical thing, an attempt to be perfect in every movement you make, every moment of your life.

A man is sitting in front of the table, dying of hunger. There is food in the kitchen, but instead of getting up and cooking it, he remains sat in the dining room, praying to God, asking Him to give him food. What does God say? Disappointed with the man, God asks him why he is too lazy to cook his food himself. God does not want his devotees to be useless, but independent and capable of doing anything that the situation requires. Furthermore, God is not our servant; we are his.

Becoming perfect is the goal of life. If we have found a good way of really advancing towards perfection, it is our responsibility to show it to the world. Just telling people is not enough. people need to see that we are perfect, or at least genuinely approaching perfection. It would be very unreasonable to expect people to believe you without showing any proof. We ourselves should be that proof, perfect in everything that we do.

Bhagavan explained the meaning of  “Guru Vandana,” a famous hymn from the Guru Gita, and which is sung in IVS every day. It begins, "Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Maheshwara........." click here for video

Bhagavan said:

We sing this hymn every day, but we do it unconsciously, without knowing what it means. Brahma is the lord of creation, Maheshwar (another name for Shiva or Rudra) is the lord of destruction. So Brahma is not Shiva, and maheshwar is not Brahma, the guru is Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar. Three powers in one. The guru is so powerful that, if Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar are angry, he can save you, but if you injure the guru, it will be dangerous for you. Therefore, always keep him pleased.

How does the guru help us? He leads us to Truth. He makes us realise that the world is not real. It is the apparent projection of the Self. God is the only truth.

We meditate on the idol of the guru. We worship his feet. We realise ourselves when he wants. His words are the mantras. His word is the Veda. When he speaks spiritual words, they are his blessings, and when he discusses mundane things, it means that he is avoiding you.

The taste of having realised Brahman is the original pleasure. He shows you the path to the inner world. He takes you out of the materialistic world. He takes you beyond everything, beyond pleasure and sorrow.

The Vedas, the Upanishads, explain the power of the guru.

Commentary by Koji:

Ishwara is all the power that exists in One; Brahma, the power that creates, Vishnu, the power that directs, and Maheshwara, the power that destroys, in One. The guru is an incarnation of That.

What is the world? Who am I? These are questions that the guru causes to be answered from our own hearts. If we receive the answers to them, we will know what the relationship between ourselves and the world is, we will know what the goal of life is, and we will fulfil it. There cannot exist anything more important in existence real or apparent. it is the only thing that can be truly important as it is the only achievement that has permanent results, so the guru is the key to everything.

What are mantras? Words that dissolve the ignorance of our own identity. When someone with sufficient realisation speaks to us about spirituality, the power with which his words are uttered dissolve the ignorance on the subject about which he is speaking, guided as they are by his thought, which manifests as his words. Even if we do not understand the words, the power contained in them will do its work.

What is Veda? It is what is said by that voice that comes from the heart. That Knowledge does not come from the intellect. It is not the product of the mentations of the individual. It is intuitive knowledge, which comes from the omnipresent and omniscient soul, the Holy Spirit. As the entire universe is only a modification of that Spirit, and there is no second, it is omniscient, and cannot be wrong. If we listen well to the heart, we are hearing the Veda. If another person says something from realisation, or we read an Upanishad or other revelation, that too is Veda, and it does not come from the intellect of the person that said it. His words are not his own, but merely a reflection of the Truth in your own heart. We do not know how to listen to our hearts, therefore we need the guru to pass on to us the necessary knowledge and instructions. His words do not come from his ego, for he has no ego, but from the Omniscient. When the guru speaks to us, God speaks to us.

Worldly pleasure is second-hand pleasure. That pleasure is mixed up with the attachment to a name and form outside, so a part at least comes from the world outside, therefore it cannot be pure. True pleasure, the original pleasure, comes solely from the heart, and shines from within, onto the world.   

Bhagavan said:

Today, the first thought that came to my mind was that I am the greatest. I am on the peak of the Himalaya, so you too are closer to that height. You are living your lives in Heaven. Look at the world. No-one is well-off. Everyone is suffering from something. But you do not know how many years are left to you. It is only by the grace of Bhagavan that you are living with Bhagavan. With that, it is too difficult to survive even a single day. It is too difficult to earn money to survive.

However, you are with me, with my thoughts, my work. That is not possible without His grace. People say that, as you are living a spiritual life, you must be sacrificing, but if you look at yourselves, are you better-off now or before you first came to me?

Now you have a life in which you do not need to lie, hear bad words, or say them. You have no reason to be afraid of anything. You feel tranquillity all the time. This is not sacrifice, but the way of truly enjoying yourselves.  

Commentary by Koji:

Everything that happens does not happen through our own efforts, but through the grace of Bhagavan. If the desire to elevate ourselves appears in our minds, and we begin to do spiritual practices, how does this desire appear in our mind? By the grace of Bhagavan.

The world is a hard world, which hits you hard, with coarse people that speak coarsely, in which it is necessary to behave coarsely to survive, and one develops the habit of speaking coarsely, and becomes coarse, like everyone else. However, if you begin to transcend the world by the grace of spiritual power, you begin to transcend the coarser aspects, and instead of pulling you down, they pass through you, and you stop being affected by them. The world no longer seems unpleasant, people no longer seem coarse, and the world turns into a heaven. The problem is not the world, but with our own perception, as we are not elevated enough to live like the lotus; in the mud, but unsmirched by it.

We are living in Vrindavan, but being so blind, we think ourselves in a coarse world, and complain that we have to sacrifice to become spiritual. Incredible is the power of Maya!

Bhagavan said:

I am one and incomparable. You all have come with me for the sake of the world. International Vedanta Society is just a small one of my works. I am now thinking about the world. We are here to work for the world. I am giving the world something more than ‘-ism’.

My thoughts will work for the world. My power first enters your body to make you perfect, then it pulls you beyond your body so that you realise that you, I and everyone are One. So try to go beyond that. I am Bhagavan incarnate. My everything has been One since that realisation.

Commentary by Koji:

What entered Bhagavan’s mind when he had his mahabhava is the omniscient Bhagavan, and Bhagavan has the complete manifestation of that. There is only one complete manifestation of Bhagavan in the world at a certain time, just like there is only one sun. Like the sun, a complete manifestation is incomparable as there is nothing else with which comparison is possible.

When Bhagavan descends to the world, his eternal devotees also come down with Him to help in his works. It is not like God comes down and does everything; it is a team, and the devotees have great responsibilities, as the destiny of the world is on their shoulders.

Bhagavan teaches non-dualism, which is a philosophy that includes everyone, so it is not a sect that only includes a few. He teaches universal love, not love just for your friends. ‘Isms’ are only for some; they represent just a part. Universality is beyond ‘ism’. We have the custom of identifying us with groups like ‘isms,’ making more barriers. I am a devotee of Shiva, of Kali, of Christianity, I am an atheist, I am from India, from the UK, I am a socialist, student, dentist and so on. The Truth explained by the Upanishads, Bhagavan, and which comes from the heart of any that has the highest realisation, is that I am Brahman, and those names are merely superimpositions from minds hypnotised by Maya. We are beyond names and forms. In nirvikalpa samadhi, there are no ‘isms,’ names, forms, and we will even see that the word ‘Brahman’ is a degredation.


The power of Bhagavan enters a devotee, cleans up his mind, makes it capable of containing spiritual power, and fills it with power with the effect that the devotee transcends the mind and realises that he is Atman, which is One without a second. Then, seeing that God is looking at him from all the eyes in the world, he is ready to do great works for the world, and the divine power of Bhagavan will guide the instrument of God to do his works.
 
 
 

Bhagavan said:

We say we are giving birth to a child, but in a practical sense, the child comes out from the womb of the mother. If the child does not want to come out, then you have no power to give birth to him or her. Furthermore, the power chooses the person into whom it enters. It is not to the merit of the person into whom it enters, as that person may have little. Therefore, you do not have the power to get the Knowledge of the Supreme until He wants to give it to you. You simply surrender yourself.

I am like the searchlight in an airport whose light shines not only on India, but onto the whole world. If you see the light, you can advance towards it until you discover its source.

Only a human being can become God for only a human being has the capacity to go beyond his or her individuality. For this reason we say that man is God.

Commentary by Koji:

Our children do not come from us, but through us. They do not belong to us, but are entrusted to our care. The Divine decides when has come the time for someone to have the opportunity to have the responsibility of looking after one of the children of the Divine, not us.

We should not develop spiritual ego, attached to the thought that the power has entered us because we are very holy, as we are then still operating on the level of the ego, which is an illusion, and we wreck everything in this way. The Truth is that it is the Power that decides who it wants to prepare, who it wants to enter, and everyone will reach the Ultimate some day in some life.


The light of Bhagavan is his love. we need to open the Divine Eye to see this love, then it will guide us to its source, and we will receive the bottle of the perfume of love.


A microcosm, an embodied soul, is Atman, the soul, which is like a sword, in five sheaths. The sheath of alimentation, so-called as it is maintained with food, is the physical body. The subtle body contains the sheaths of prana (vital forces), of the mind, and of the intellect. The causal body is the sheath of bliss, as when it manifests, we experience a reflection of the bliss of Brahman.

Every soul from bacteria to saint has these five sheaths, but more developed beings have more sheaths developed, and can remove them, and therefore they manifest more of the divinity of the Atman. Atman is always the same. The bacterium is as divine as the saint, but the saint manifests his divinity. A plant has the first two developed, but not that of the mind. An animal does have the mental one developed too, but it cannot realise itself, because the intellectual one, as it is not developed, still cannot be removed. A human being does have the intellectual one developed. The sheath of bliss can be removed through doing spiritual practices. Therefore, only man has the opportunity to realise his inherent divinity. If you are divine, but you cannot realise it, it seems the same as if you are not divine. Only man can realise that he is God, and for that reason we say that man is God.