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Spirituality can sometimes be a balm that soothes the wounds of the heart. 

At other times it can be a fire that burns away ignorance and evil and creates a revolution. 

I believe it is time we all gather our forces together – all spiritual teachers, Social reformers, educators, mothers, fathers conscious young people 

let us hold a vision to truly awaken the hearts of  every child, teen and young adult.

Look at what is happening in India -a nation that taught the alphabets and the numerals of non-violence to the world, a nation that has for millennia considered woman sacred  What is happening to us?

Please don’t shut your eyes to truth because it is hard to bear. We can’t change what we don’t see  what we don’t meditate upon.

What makes one human being hurt another? 

What makes a man molest a child? 

What makes a group of men rape, mutilate and kill a girl? 

Can you feel? It is only a heart that is totally dead, that is dead to all feelings. It is only that heart that can perpetrate such acts of cruelty. Dead to feeling what another is feeling. Dead even to what they are feeling in themselves  their own lust, rage, their own fear, their own thirst for pleasure. 

When the heart dies, what remains is not human, not animal 

something beastly and monstrous emerges in its place. 

It is terrifying to imagine that millions of such people roam the face of the earth. 

Poverty and the rage of hunger, frustration and anger towards those who live better lives, addictions and total loss of sensibilities, maddening pleasure-thirst fueled by various media - all building into the disasters we see around ourselves. 

What is the cure? How do we prevent the arising of such people in the next 5 years or 10 years? 

What we are seeing today is the result of a failed education, failed religion, failed law. From where do we begin the remedy? 

I believe this situation calls for a national education on sensitizing the heart. 

It needs a massive education not on morals, not on religion but on being human. 

Our national education needs a strong element of meditation and life wisdom that can awaken the hearts of children, awaken the hearts of young people to compassion for themselves and others, to respect the weak and the powerful, to care for one’s own family and others. 

We need an education that will educate, that will teach young people to dissolve their frustration, their anger, their insecurity and lust through the universal art of meditation and not to succumb to destructive habits. 

In a country with over a billion population, with millions battling for survival, how can we expect parents or caregivers to engage in human cultivation? 

The government of India is now engaged in the process of transforming education. 

I urge the government that a hope for a better nation lies in introducing elements of heart centered education now. It is okay to be late than never.

How do you know if what you are going through is depression or a deeper search for meaning ? 

The line is thin and the demarcation hard.  

But let us enquire deeper. 

Does life intrinsically have meaning? Does the tree that stands outside your window have a meaning? 

It is existence isn’t it?. Pure existence. 

Do the droplets of rain falling to the ground have a meaning?

They are rivulets of existence. Pure existence. 

Does your breathing or waking up have a meaning in itself? 

It is a movement of existence. Pure existence.

 The tree may not have a meaning but it is true that it does serve a purpose.

 The tree is  necessary for the earth and its existence serves millions of life forms

 So does the drop of water falling from the sky in nourishing the earth

So does your smile in bringing a smile to someone else's face.

This search for meaning is an existential quest. Why do I exist at all?  what is the meaning of it all? 

marriage ? 

job? 

money?

mine - not mine?

holding?

owning?  it is as if you are relentlessly searching to go to the root of everything. 

For some of you this search is a conscious act. It is a quest you are on. For some others it is as if the search has possessed you. Everything loses its charm quickly and discontent grips. All relationships, all achievements, all glamour - everything feels utterly superficial. Life feels fake, like a Truman show - all display and nothing real. 

Let me ask you a critical question here. Does your discontent feel like an inner calling to rise beyond separation, beyond the mind created suffering to something beyond, to a state that is untouched by sorrow? 

Or does it feel like a habit?

a depression?

a meaningless self engagement

a continuous process of taking offense for the smallest remarks

a feeling that life is going wrong

a helpless process of clinging on to something 

Where do you think you are going? 

Pause. Know your answer. And your answer will show you the way forward. 

Whether you recognize that yours is a spiritual quest or that what you are going through is depression the  journey ahead will only be beautiful. 

you either have two stops or one. 

your first stop could be healing your brain and body of depression and then to a process for spiritual awakening  to never again fall into the trap of mind-created suffering. 

Or 

Yours is a single stop journey, a journey to awakening into higher states of consciousness. 

When your consciousness truly wakes up, the search ends, living begins.

On the occasion of international world peace Day, let us immerse in a beautiful peace meditation.

Kindly sit still and close your eyes.

Inhale into your lungs deeply and say the word “ peace” within. 

Exhaling slowly say within “Peace”. 

Now place your palms on your heart , breathe into your heart , breathe out of your heart, 

For whatever you have been angry with yourself, say to yourself- I forgive myself. I am at peace 

Feel it deeply and say within yourself - I forgive myself. I am at peace   

Relax your palms and feel as if you are breathing peace in and breathing peace out. 

Now think of one person you judge and dislike. For a few moments stay in the knowing that the other person’s sadness, other person’s fear is no different from your own. 

From this space of compassion, wish that the other person be free of pain and unhappiness in life. 

Feel as if, you are placing your palm on the other person’s heart and say - I am at peace with you 

As you say this feel the other person smile. 

Now see all the children and the young people of the world experiencing beautiful states of peace and joy. See them peaceful and joyful like little Buddhas. 

Feel a world where these peace loving people are heading tomorrow’s politics, businesses, technology, science and entertainment. 

Make a sacred intention to bring peace to the children around you.

Deeply inhale and say- I am at peace with the future 

Expand your sense of peace even further.

Think of the world,  All the people. Thousands of them who travel with you on road everyday. Feel the anxiety behind their faces. and say -I and you are one.

 Expand your awareness even further. Think of the earth. 

She is that mother who has become our body. We are made of her earth, her soil. She is that mother who becomes our food. She is the energy that courses through our brains and bodies. It is her water that courses through our veins as blood. Feel the inter connection with the earth and bless her that she be peaceful. 

Bless that the earth may live well. That all her life forms may live peacefully. 

 Om Sarve Jannah Sukhino Bhavantu

Lokaan Samasthan Sukhino Bhavantu

Om Shanti…Shanti…Shantihi

May we be instruments of peace for all life on earth.

Take a deep breath. 

Slowly open your eyes.

Let us speak today of the impact COVID 19 is having on our inter personal relationships.  
let us turn our attention to what COVID  is likely to do to us as a race - as a human race.
 Pandemics have happened before in human history. This perhaps is the first one that is happening in our lifetime.
Spanish flu killed 50 million population while the  Global population was a mere 1.8 billion. It was 182 times more life-threatening than COVID.  
Smallpox killed 1/3rd of people it affected and it blinded so many millions. COVID is certainly not so deadly. How  is COVID affecting us then?
 COVID has sadly claimed many lives, yes. COVID has led humanity to a collective nervous breakdown. Yes. It  has broken the back bone of global economy.Yes
 COVID has driven millions into financial loss and poverty. But is that all it has done? 
COVID has affected the already fragile state of human relationships.
 The fact is, that with the advert of social media and the internet based entertainment streaming through phones people were actually alienating themselves from one another. 
We did not look so much for our brothers and sisters or parents when we felt bored. We did not meet our friends, family or visit cousins for fun or play.
We were dependent on the crazy labyrinth world of internet. We could get lost in the labyrinth of YouTube or Facebook or Netflix's seasons for hours, days and even weeks.
And COVID has in a sense precipitated that social alienation even further. Fear of the spread of the disease has already taken touching and hugging out of the equation now.
Fearing the spread of disease, today we leave our loved ones alone in some nameless ward in a hospital  we have moved away from actually caring for each other.
 Even if a loved one passed away, we are in the pitiable condition of sending a WhatsApp message as condolence. We are afraid to wipe the tears of family.
 This is not to blame anyone. This is the current circumstance.
 But please bring awareness to what is happening to your heart,  what is happening to your capacity to love, to feel, to hold another in sadness and to reach out when we need.
 At the end of covid-19 for how many ever weeks, months it may last - let the majority of us not have gotten into the habit of crying in loneliness or ignoring each other.
 For what is life, if not relationships?   Ultimately everything we do can only have meaning, if it can add to the joy and the well-being of others around us. 
 I say this is to you because every pandemic has left a mark on human societies that almost took a few centuries to erase.
 After the black plague people refused to bathe -  in fact bathe only once a year or once in 6 months in Europe - somehow believing that water was the cause of plague.
After years of smallpox, parents refused to name their babies after birth.  They waited for the baby to survive after contracting smallpox before naming him or her.
In 1901 plague epidemic saw racially segregated Quarantine which long after the disease was gone, lead to segregated towns and communities in Apartheid South Africa.
 So be conscious of what is happening inside you and inside your family members.
Create small ritual of love that you will do as a family throughout this crisis.  keep the flame of love alive.  
Eat together as a family at least once a day.
 Meditate together or pray together as a family even if it is 5 or 10 minutes every week.
Within the family hug each other. 
And share and listen to the stories and anecdotes from your every day life.
COVID will pass.  but remember to emerge as more loving and caring beings from this, than otherwise.

Let us talk today of mantra. Mantra by definition is a sacred tool that actually  silences unnecessary thought chatter.
Mananam Trayati iti mantra, which means Mantra is that which silences the mind.

Continuous repetition of a mantra silences an overactive amygdala which then silences our painful mental chatter. That is why you find this age-old practice of chanting God’s name to actually calm an agitated mind.

Let us see what happens when mantra chanting is taken to the second stage.
At this stage mantra is combined with “Dharana”, which means focus on a form or on the essence of a form. For example you may chant a Hanuman mantra or do dharana either on the form of Hanuman or may do dharana on the essence of Hanuman. Do you know the meaning of the word Hanuman? Han-maan, means one who has vanquished his ego. That is why he could love Sri Rama so much.

While doing Hanuman mantra japa, you may do dharana on egolessness.
When you combine dharana and mantra together, the occipital region of your brain gets activated and you experience a powerful darshan of the diety, whose chant you are doing. At this stage when mantra gets combined with dharana it becomes Mananaath TraaNanaath. Which means mantra becomes that which protects.
Mantras are various kinds. There are Bija mantras which are like single syllable vibrations that unlock the doors to particular aspects of universal consciousness. There are also multi-worded mantras that directly call out to the deity’s name to intercede.
Let us now talk of how a mantra is chanted.

Mantrajapa is done in 4 ways. 
The 1st way is to loudly chant the mantra. The 2nd way is not to utter it loudly, but to move your lips in accordance with the mantra. The 3rd way of chanting is to internally repeat the chant over and over again but quietly. And the 4th way of mantra japa is called Ajapa-japa. Here you do not chant the mantra. You listen to the mantra echo spontaneously in your consciousness.

Chanting a mantra in itself has great impacts. But, if you have a mystic connection to the diety of the chant you can even generate mantra shakti by chanting it for a certain number of times and you dedicate it as an offering to someone who may need it.

Not all mantras are the same. Some rare mantras are Siddha mantras. They have immense power built into them. Siddha mantras can be chanted anywhere, anytime, with any intention.

Like Gayathri mantra, Ekam mantra is also a siddha mantra.

Let us say someone in the family is sick, you can chant the Ekam mantra - Hamsa-Soham-Ekam. You may chant it a 1008 times, 10,008 times or 100,008 and offer the fruit of your chant to the sick person to aid his or her recovery.

Let me narrate a real life experience to you of a couple who used the power of Ekam mantra to enhance their child’s intelligence.

This man is a math professor and his wife is a musician. After many years of marriage they gave birth to a baby boy. The boy looked healthy but was too slow to learn anything. Everybody in his school made fun of him. Because he took huge amount of time to understand anything. At the age of 8, he learnt slower than a 4 year old. Brain scans showed no problems. Everyone merely declared it as a problem of low IQ.

His parents after visiting Ekam, took a vow that they would chant Ekam mantra 100,000 times. They held the intention that their child must be blessed with great intelligence. Upon completion of the chant, they offered the fruit of their chant to their son.

Less than a month after this, the parents noticed his comprehension levels grow. Today he is 10 years old. Today he learns like any other child. In fact he has greater attention than many kids his age.

The power of mantra is a vast esoteric science.

When millions of us will awaken to the ultimate states of peace- there will be a phase transition in human consciousness. These awakening experiences will flood human consciousness. They will begin to erupt spontaneously in people.

With this awakened, oneness consciousness alone we can find technological solutions, political solutions, financial Solutions, environmental solutions.

For without this awakening, the self-centered human consciousness will find loop-holes even in the best of systems and create chaos. 

The solutions you find from oneness consciousness are not quick fixes, they are enduring solutions.

We will be offering Mother Earth a chance to thrive, to rejuvenate and allow a beautiful future to be. 

Ekam, where we are sitting now is created as a Mystic space to facilitate this awakening. 

There are places on earth where you go to find pleasure. There are places where you go to find money or political power. There are places where you go to find religion. 

Ekam is created as a space where you access the power of the universe to awaken to God Realization and self Realization. The universal energy at Ekam pushes you into transcendence by facilitating profound neuro-biological shifts during deep processes.

This awakening is the evolution for which you have prepared for several life times. Please wake up. Awaken.

PLEASE LIVE 

All I want to say to you is please do not die. LIVE.

What ever is hurting you today, I promise you, will pass.

If every door in the world feels closed, let me tell you there is one door waiting only for you to walk through it.

PLEASE LIVE

If you are thinking of dying because you see no way to rise out of your financial abyss, let me tell you - there is a way out.

BREAK, Break out of your inner desperation. Break out of this space of self - pity and anger at injustice.

OPEN. Open your heart to the pain of others - then and then alone, magic will unfold. You will wake up to your own unique gift.

You are born with a gift with in you that is yet unopened.

You have a gift to give the world. In that gift is your salvation. In giving that gift will be your abundance.

All I want to tell you is LIVE.

Live long and abundantly.

If you are thinking of dying because you have lost a loved one.

Let me remind you - you may have lost a loved one, but the love you shared together remains with in you for ever.

Neither separation, nor death can take away the love you have felt.

Do not shut your eyes and heart to those beautiful moments of love - feel them and honour them. Cherish them and be grateful for them.

In greatfully immersing in the moments of love from yesterday will a new road open up today. Love will once again come upon your path. You will become love.

You have hit the rock bottom. You can only rise from here.

Find the courage to rise and love again.

All I ask of you is to live and love again.

If you are thinking of dying because you are unable to bear the torture of your own mind - let me tell you this tyranny will end.

This loneliness and meaninglessness will end.

Observe the force of habit. Listen to me - pushing you to distraction - but dont believe your thoughts.

For your mind is but a liar. For your repeated thoughts have no truth to them. Let not old wounds and new hurts dictate the directions of your future. Dont believe your tricking mind.

Observe it - dont give in.

Today, you feel lonely and lost - afraid and numb - not because you have no one who cares.

But because and old habit of the mind is disconnecting you from love and care.

Close your eyes.

Think of one person who can feel your pain. Open your eyes.

Go reach out to them. Open your heart to them.

You will find the courage to laugh at your mind's games.

This moment, this rush will pass.

All I want to say to you - is live on. Live this moment.

Now if you want - allow me to hold your hand.

Please close your eyes.

Feel the divine with in you. - as a friend, as a force, as a power - that will change the winds of life for you.

Simply ask - help me - LIVE

Bless me to live with Love. Bless me to live with purpose.

Bless me to live everyday as a Blessing to others.

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So, make a difference

Look back at the riots that broke out in USA this year against racial prejudice. Millions world over voiced their pain at the humiliation they had to endure, all because they belong to a different race. It was centuries of pent up anger and sorrow pouring out. These fires of racial discrimination have been passed on as behaviours and meal time stories by grandparents and parents to grandchildren and children. 

For centuries we have hurt our fellow human beings not because they did something wrong to us, but simply because the color of their skin or the shape of their nose or eyes was different.

We hurt them because they speak a different language, worshipped a different God or bear the tag of a different caste.

KRISHNAJI IN CONVERSATION WITH MENG FOON, RACE RELATIONS COMMISSIONER, NEW ZEALAND

When Preethaji and I spoke to Meng, we were very touched by his simplicity and delighted by his humour. As race relations commissioner of human rights he is the perfect person for us to have this conversation.
Question:
How do we bring about a change to dissolve racial discrimination in the world?

We can train our minds consciously and ensure that what we are saying to people and what we are doing to people is for the betterment because obviously if we think about it we can’t say something nasty. Would you actually like that particular aspect come to you? 

So putting myself in other people’s shoes is very important.  I think when we say actually have a bit of life experience and knowing what has happened to myself in the past then I do not want it to happen to other people. That is very important. 

I will give you a prime example of me generally and may be its across the world. Mean when they get sick they do not acknowledge that they are sick, they feel the pain but they won’t go to the doctor. They think this is going to be self-healing. 

And when we put it into a racism context or discrimination context people know that it is wrong but they don’t want to admit that they are wrong. The prime issue is we don’t self acknowledge that there is a problem here and I need to change. 

And I mentioned before if you put yourself into their shoes of the receiver, victim you may actually say, gosh! i didn’t realize it was so hurtful. I am actually listening to myself and the words i am saying in perpetrating so am I going to change? and that’s a brave person, a brave person will say, look I have been wrong in the past.  I apologize. I need to actually change and I hope that change. 

The important thing is that we need some people to change and we need those people to be proactive to be anti-racist, like people are anti-plastic, make sure our waterways are clean. anti-plastic means I am not going to buy any more plastic I will see, and plastic on the shelf I am not gonna buy it. but also I am going to lobby that the super market doesn’t actually have nay more plastic. So in terms of the racism part when people are active and making sure that they call out or tap somebody on the shoulder anytime when some one says something derogatory that is hurtful to somebody they actually say - can you please stop it, can you please be kinder. 

When are we going to realize that we are a part of this ocean of one humanity?

We are inseparable from each other.  

Every human being needs to awaken to peace in consciousness. We need to realise

 Ekam Sath - Vipraaha Bahudhaa Vadhanthi. 

Which means that beyond all the forms, appearances, colours of our bodies as different races, beyond all religious beliefs, beyond all our biological and emotional inclinations, we are part of one cosmic reality, the one - Ekam.