The soul is called the being. The Spiritual being. We say human being.
Today what has happened is, we are human beings. Human being means the body is human. The word human is derived from the Greek word 'humus', which means soil or Earth.
So human and being means Body plus Soul. The soul is called the Being. That is why we are human beings.
Today instead of human beings, we have become human doings. Doing this, doing that . .
. How is the 'Being' going to be? That we don't know.
Being Bliss means the soul is blissful. The Being is bliss, that is its nature. The soul is peaceful, blissful, pure.
That is this being. So every morning if we just create this one thought - "Being Bliss" I am that, already. But why does it not show in my personality?
When I am a soul with qualities like bliss and peace, why don't they show in me? The white kurta you are wearing is originally white itself. It is originally white, which means when you wear it in the morning it is white.
But if you happened to deal with mud or coal during the day, then by night Or even if something spills on it while you are eating Then it will no longer look white. But now if you ask why it doesn't look white although it is white. And wonder why red, brown, black, blue and green stains are seen on it Answer is - 'Journey'.
It was on a journey the whole day. But important is knowing that it is white. We should be clear that its color is white.
Regardless of the number of stains on it. When I am clear that the original color is white. Now there are so many stains seen on it.
While I am removing the stains, my goal is very clear about the original color. But if I don't know the original color, see what will happen. Suppose we see a kurta with so many stains but we don't know its original color.
Then while cleaning it we will not know which color we should finally arrive at. How do I know it if it was originally yellow, cream, off white, or light brown? Similarly the things that I am searching or seeking today I want them, but I am not feeling them.
Those are my original colors. Why do I like peace? I want peace, I seek it from Temples Gurdwaras, and Gurus I learn yoga to experience peace.
What else do you want? Peace and Happiness. Peace and happiness are enough.
What else do I need? I did everything for happiness. Suppose you need to cut off from people and live in a forest No, I want peace when living at home.
So at home what do you want from family? Love So see, this is the third ingredient. So peace, happiness, love.
Do you want anything else? Good relationships. What do you want in good relationships?
Mutual love and no conflict. Harmony. Anything that is clean and pure attracts our attention.
Why do we like this place? Clean, beautiful and this place has purity. Purity which is attractive just like purity in children.
The list of things that we seek is the things which 'we are'. Which we are. My question still remains - if I am actually these, why am I different and not feeling them?
It is like, each of us needs water? There is no one who will not need water. Similarly each of us needs air.
Why do we need them? Because our body is made of them. Every body is made out of these ingredients.
The five elements. When the body is made of these five elements, even if there is a slight imbalance in any of them. We will need water or air.
The body is made of those five elements, so it wants those 5 elements. The very reason body needs those 5 elements proves that it is made out of them. Likewise the soul is made of 7 qualities.
That is why it is also called 'Sato-Guni Atma'. Because it is made of 7 qualities, these 7 are the soul's original nature. Could you please list the 7 qualities?
Purity - every soul is a pure soul. Peace. You said you want peace.
We are looking for it everywhere. Power - Sometimes we feel powerless. For example, we feel powerless when we cannot control our mind.
It is a very uncomfortable feeling. That is why we are looking even for power outside. We are looking for power of position, power of money, power over people.
We are actually searching for power. Does it mean I am not weak? You are a very powerful being.
It means I say things that are opposite to my actual personality - that I am weak? Likewise even peace is our original personality, but we contradict it saying anger is our nature. '"I am very restless.
" "I want peace, I want power. " Today that has become our vocabulary. So - Purity, power, peace, knowledge The knowledge that we are seeking outside today The wisdom that we are seeking outside today Every soul is filled with it.
It is available in abundance in us. That is why when we experience streaks of wisdom, we wonder how we thought of it or where it came from. And then we say, "It was The Divine inside me.
" We also say God resides within us and he answered us. Truth. Yes.
What is the truth? The innate wisdom of the soul. When this truth touches us, we feel it is from God.
Because today it happens only at times, is it not? Moreover God is also truth, is it not? Soul is this child of the Supreme Soul.
So every soul is also Truth, is it not? It is wise. But when many layers got accumulated on top of wisdom We started looking for wisdom outside.
We are seeking, reading and searching for it. If there is a problem we go to other people. Our wisdom.
What is intuition? If we silence the top layer (of the mind) Our own wisdom will give us the answer of what is to be done. But for that, we need to clear the stains on the top.
It is like - when surface water in a well is not clean, bucket is dipped deeper to fetch only clean water. This is it, we need to do the same thing. From top, it will seem like there is no water in the well at all.
Just like how it is not seen from top, today we are not feeling that we are peaceful. I am not feeling that I am powerful. But I still need it.
When I felt I don't have it, I started asking it from others. So purity, peace, power, knowledge (wisdom) Love. Every soul needs love.
Happiness. Every soul is loveful. We are not feeling it but we want to experience it.
So we are seeking it from others. Then comes Happiness. We are unable to feel it, so we are searching for it in objects.
searching for it in achievements. And then - Bliss. Being Bliss.
Blissful soul. We say 'Sat Chit Anand Swaroop'. The Soul represents Truth.
The soul is an embodiment of bliss. It is an embodiment of bliss. That is its nature.
It is an embodiment of bliss. We have heard - 'Sat Chit Anand Swaroop'. Embodiment of peace and love.
It means the nature of the Self. People even have names like 'Gyan Swaroop' or 'Anand Swaroop' What is Swaroop? 'Swa ka roop' which means nature of the Self.
Love Nature of the self - Gyan. Nature of the self - Anand (Anand means Bliss). The nature of the self is bliss.
It means I, the being, is bliss. 'Anand Swaroop' Now I just need to remember this the whole day. That the nature of I, the soul.
That my nature is of bliss, peace and happiness. This is my original color. But very gradually, the few acquired layers that have got accumulated on top of it are the stains.
Now I cannot remove each stain individually. I do not have the time to individually work to remove anger and every other stain. Instead, I will only start reminding myself of my original color.
Like putting them all in a Washing machine. So how will all the stains get removed? If you wake up in the morning and think, "Why do I get angry, let me please not get angry today, I don't want to get angry.
. " No, it doe s not help. Like you said, I cannot simply keep questioning the stain on my kurta.
I need to use a soap and remove it. What is the process to remove the stain? Everyday keep reminding yourself Remind yourself again and again - "I am a peaceful being.
" "I am a blissful being. That is my nature. " Even in terms of physical appearance, we often keep checking how we appear.
"Should I change anything in my appearance? " This is the inherent nature of every soul. Beauty, accuracy and perfection.
But we started limiting that only to our physical appearance. Likewise, if we check our appearance through the mirror of wisdom "Does everything look fine? Is there any wrong thought?
" What do we do? Just wipe it clean like this. We ensure hair is well-groomed, we wipe the face clean.
If we do it often, there will be no stain at all. There is a quote - "All through our life, we committed a mistake. The dust was on the face, but we kept cleaning the mirror.
" How beautiful. The stain was on the face but I kept wiping the mirror. So where was the stain?
In my Sanskars (habits). It was in my nature but where was I cleaning? We were trying to change people and situations.
I kept saying, "My staff is like, this my wife is like that. " What was I supposed to do? My Sanskars were to be cleaned.
My thought was to be cleaned. When I start my car every morning, I splash water on the wiper The glass automatically gets cleaned. I can see it.
But how can I clean the stains in me? You said so beautifully. We splash water on the wiper and the glass get cleaned.
Suppose we do not clean it for a day and we take the car out. It is the same car, the same route. the same traffic on the road too, but today my car's glass is not clean.
So the probability of an accident is high because we cannot even see what is in front of our car. Now can we blame the driver of a car in front of ours, that he is not driving properly? That is physical.
Even physical beauty is visible. Suppose there is a slight increase in my weight The weighing machine will indicate, is it not? Thereafter, immediate steps will be taken.
I can see that here also. When I think too much it feels heavy as though I am bearing the weight of the world. As if I need to run the show.
I feel so tired thinking of it when somebody is not doing their job properly or something else is going wrong. Emotional weight has increased. How do we start dieting now?
We need to reduce the weight and remain light. If physically the body puts on a lot of weight Basic activities like standing sitting and walking become difficult for the same body. Activities that were natural now seem difficult.
Earlier we could run. We could lift heavy objects but now our weight has increased. So sitting and standing become difficult.
Even knees start aching due to excess weight. Even blood pressure gets affected by weight. So an increase in weight affects so many parameters.
So now should we heal the knee, treat blood pressure and so on? Or should we reduce weight? So you came back to watching the diet.
Let us reduce our weight from here (mind) else it will affect everything. If my thoughts are getting heavy, there is heavy thinking Suppose we get critical about somebody, we go on criticizing. It becomes our nature and then we start criticizing everybody.
"How could you say that to me last night? I could not sleep the whole night. " "He said something nasty 7 days ago so for the last 6 days I haven't even slept.
" "He said something 10 years ago and I have held on to that. " So the mind has become heavy, is it not? It is all accumulated and there has been heavy thinking.
We have to check, "Is my thought heavy or light? " How am I feeling after creating that thought? Yes it feels heavy.
How do I make it light? How do we reduce weight? We need to cut down is it not?
We need to reduce it. This thought is hurting me. Regardless of what the other person said.
Even if I was right and he was wrong. but this thought is harming me. Why can't I understand this as clearly as I understand when physically a weighing machine shows overweight.
When physical weight increases its first consequence It shows in my physical appearance. So I say I am not looking as nice as I used to look, because my weight has increased. So it first affects physical beauty.
Second, it affects physical health parameters. Third, my routine activities that I would easily manage starts to slow down, and issues crop up. So things get affected - beauty, health and activities.
Likewise when my thoughts are heavy, first my inner beauty gets affected. A soul which was blissful by nature which was beautiful Its nature changes to that of anger and irritation So inner beauty reduces and it reflects on the face too. Second, my emotional health starts getting disturbed.
My every activity, whether it is relationships, career and other small tasks, they all get affected. Because my emotional health is disturbed. Because I held on to that thought.
As my emotional health decline, my weight increases further. Because now I don't have the strength left, to let go of situations that I face. The weaker my emotional health gets, the more I hold on to things.
Whenever there is a situation some people get anxious and eat too much, take medicines, cigarette, alcohol, or even chew tobacco. When emotional health declines, even physical health will decline due to it. When so many things are involved, we need to be aware of the consequences of what we are doing.
If I want happiness I cannot afford to hold this thought. I cannot. I just have to tell myself "Even if the whole world is wrong, I am right in anything.
" I cannot afford to oldest thought because there are so many consequences. Then I have no right to say that I want peace. No, it is not about I don't have the right to say.
I am saying one thing but doing something else. Then how can I want peace? I just have to tell myself that I will not get it even if I want it.
I won't get it. Because I have held onto something else. If I am having something in my hand and I say I want to actually hold something else First I have to release whatever I'm holding.
I can only hold one thing at a time, either this or that. Holding one thing but wanting to hold something else? Reminds me of the story of a monkey which put its hand into a jar of peanuts.
Its hand was so full that it could not take out the hand back. It had to release a few peanuts. In order to take its hand out of the jar.
The monkey wanted freedom is it not? If I also want freedom Freedom from pain, restlessness and worry I want to feel light, free and independent. I need to release things from my mind.
Let go in the sense - thinking and holding on damaging for me. Only if it lets go of a few peanuts, the monkey can take out its hand from the jar. Else the hand will be stuck within and cannot come out.
But if it thinks that despite holding on to all the peanuts it can still take its hand out, that is not possible. Likewise I have to decide quickly. What do I want?
If I have held on to hatred towards somebody And then if I go to temple, mosque, gurdwara or to a Saint seeking peace, it will not happen. If I release date, I will not need to go anywhere. Everybody is facing this issue.
Just let go of the thought and you will experience your own nature of peace. We are searching for something which is already here. Searching is also not an issue.
We meet nice people and listen to good words from them. Whatever we heard from them, we also need to implement them. Is it not?
Let's say somebody is watching this TV program. They will say, "Nice. I also want to do it.
" Who will do it? Finally they will need to do it themselves. It will not go away like this.
But every time I start thinking about it, I will have to put a full stop faster. The faster we start applying a full stop, the more that matter starts becoming weaker. We always need to remember - where attention goes, energy flows.
Even if a seed is already sown, if you do not water it If you do not nourish it That seed loses its power. Where attention goes, energy flows. Like for example at the gym, when I exercise with dumbbells for my biceps, I pay attention to it.
Even the instructor asks me to pay attention to it. Where attention goes, energy flows. That thing gets your energy.
And where energy flows, things grow. You paid attention while exercising Energy flowed there and created what you wanted. 3 things - Attention goes, energy flows, things grow.
This Garden did not get created just like that. Attention went in, it got energy and things grew. Today if you withdraw attention from it It doesn't get attention, doesn't get energy, so it withers away in a few days.
It all dries up. Likewise, whatever issues are accumulated in the mind, just withdraw your attention from it. It is accumulated and not getting out of the mind.
Does not matter. Withdraw your attention from it. So do not let that issue get your energy.
Suppose you notice something in a person right now You said you find it wrong. Don't pay attention. Do not pay attention here means do not think about it.
It will be visible and audible. But your mind should not go towards it. Because we will be seeing such things happening around us today.
We listen to news and we see people. Watching and hearing it is different from registering it on the mind. The moment something gets registered on the mind It means I have started to pay my attention to it I have started to give my energy to it So that issue starts growing in my mind now.
Remember the whole day - where attention goes, energy flows, things grow. Withdraw attention from anything that is damaging or toxic. Now whatever is the new Sanskar we want to create, let attention go there.
I am a peaceful soul - we never paid attention to this. We always said, "I get very angry I get very angry. " "Why do I get angry?
"Why do I think negative? " "I cannot control it. I am not a nice person.
" "A bad person is who I am. " Where did my attention go? Where did the energy flow?
I just kept cursing myself. Energy kept flowing and that thing kept happening. Now just one thought - "I am a blissful being.
" Being Bliss can become our mantra. This is me. Just by saying Om Shanti, nothing will change.
We need to take something concrete. Whatever I want to become. Mantra means what I become.
The mind should get completely absorbed in it. Not just absorbed by the word, but become that by nature. This should be my mantra.
This is me, this is me, this is I. Where attention goes, it will happen. How much attention to pay to an issue I have to choose.
The more we start doing this, the more we finish all the old issues that we have held on to. We need to re-emerge our original sanskars. So first of all we need to remember our original sanskars.
Like you said last time, "This is my nature. " I am a Sagittarian, so these are my traits and this is my nature. Not only that.
Even what I see in me the whole day. The way I speak, do things or think. And I said this is my nature.
But this is not my nature. Suppose there is a black stain on this kurta. You will not say the kurta is black in color.
You will say it is white but it just has a black stain on it. So original color is the original nature. So what is MY nature (nature of I, the soul)?
These 7 qualities are my nature. So we need to pay attention the whole day that this is my nature, and everything else are stains. Everything else are stains on the soul.
Original nature is what we are searching for. But now we do not need to search. We just need to remember "This is my original nature.
" Peace, purity, power, love, knowledge, happiness and bliss. Being bliss. In Hindi - Sukh, Shanti, Shakti, Prem, Pavitrata Gyan, Anand I, the soul an embodiment of these.
It is my nature. We need to remember all these the whole day When we have this information, what kinds of thoughts arise in the mind? Earlier if we said, "I get very angry.
" now we will automatically say, "I am a peaceful soul. " When our thought is, "I am a peaceful soul. " how will the feeling be?
Like you said at the beginning of the show, "I am feeling blissful today. " If we repeatedly think about being bliss, being peace So our feeling changes because thought creates feelings. When feelings change what happens to our attitude towards our self?
Earlier our attitude was negative. We felt we were not good or nobody is happy with us. Now - I am a pure soul.
Attitude. This morning water in the shower was very hot. I just had to switch the button to get cold water.
The being bliss you are talking about, is that also equally easy? We just need to do one thing - whatever we want, think of only that. I didn't want the water to be so hot so I wanted cold water.
I could do it easily by turning the button. Beautiful. Now if you want cold water but standing under a stream of hot water And wanting cold water Complain also that water is so hot whereas you wanted it cold.
Similarly we want peace. So what should we create? What should we think and how should we speak?
Shift. How should our actions be? Even if you get angry at someone, remind yourself, "But peace.
I want peace. " So what will I have to do? Switch immediately.
Switch immediately from being critical or judgmental, to becoming accepting. Say, "Okay, enough". With that, my mind starts becoming peaceful.
Even if it questions, "Why is he like this, why is it that way? " They are like that because it is their sanskar. Thought changed, feeling changed and calmness set in.
I will not be able to get this peace anywhere. It is not there. It is a choice in my every thought.
That is why what you have been sharing with us for so many days Like you choose the clothes that you wear Choose every thought that you create. Choose what suits you and what is comfortable. Like how we wear clothes which are comfortable for us.
Likewise we need to choose our thoughts. Very soon it will shift and go back to its original nature. Today we will speak to the mind like we speak to a child and explain the seven virtues.
Sure. Thank you so much. Om Shanti.
Namaste.
