You Are Free From Birth And Death: Accept It

There are two things which a human being has, which are very much with him, hidden, and which have been given to him to be used: faith and knowledge, vishwaas and vivek. These two things do not fall in the category of nature. For a human being, nature is any body that appears and disappears. This is his knowledge. It is not his vishwaas, not his faith—not his vivek, discrimination, or knowingness. …

You have the power to accept that the mechanism is not You. But you have accepted it. There are two things: maananaa and jaananaa. Maananaa means acceptance. Jaananaa means understanding, recognizing. After making experiments, you have jaananaa, which is all that you know—such as that Constantinople was there. When you know your name and body are there, you have jaananaa. Anything for which you have jaananaa, which you have known, is not at all trouble. Because nature is like that. Everything in nature changes: you have jaananaa, you have known this. Alright. A child is born. A man got married, had children, money, earnings, all that. You are knowing this. But then you have maananaa, you have accepted that it is you or yours. This is the sense of I and mine. … That is where a human being is called a helpless being. Why? He has maananaa, he has accepted it. Whereas that which you are, you haven’t maananaa. You are trying to jaananaa, you are trying to know, “Who am I?” You should have maananaa. Guruji says that you are Pure. Free, and Forever. Maananaa. Accept it.

But that is where the intellect is which is opposite to the Self. If you take resort to it and try to know that “it is my perfect instrument,” then this will lead you, incarnation after incarnation, through the wheel of birth and death. And you are so brilliant that you want to be free now. I say, “Yes, you can. Maananaa. Accept it.” Just that. … The Self. You must accept that “The Self am I.” The Self is not a thing being known. You have not to try to know the Self. You say, “I want an answer to my question. Give me some solution or resolution to my question, Who am I?” But it will not work. Your knowledge of your Self is not going to work. You will remain as you are. Therefore accept that “I am that who is Unborn, Undying, Unchanging.” …

“As it is.” That’s what You are. That which is changing and is a form, that which is change, does not belong to You—since you are Unchanging. Unchanging is “As it is.” It has never become anything else but what it is. But see, the human eyes have the power of narrowness, or the power of such a colour that even while they are seeing forms, still the colour of the eyes is covering the Truth of the forms. So human beings are seeking some ointment for the eyes. The moment that Guru Words, Guru Knowledge, is accepted, then your eyes have that ointment so that they are opened on the level of the Light. Then there remains no more sense of worry, agitation, happiness, or dark knowledge of death in the eyes. …You are free from increase and decrease, birth and death. Maananaa. Accept it. Anyone who has the capacity or purity of maananaa, the Absolute Bliss Consciousness immediately reflects in him. Reflection is not like the sun in a lake. You just know, “I am.” That’s all. …

You yourself watch. You hear me daily, but something is there: maayaa. Wherever you go, the bars are there. It’s open air, but there’s no door. You go there, there, there, there are hundreds of doors, but you never find the right door. At the proper time, when the right door is open, you sleep. [Laughter.] That is maayaa. …

There are vishwaas and vivek. Use vishwaas and vivek and not the intellect, which is wavering and all the time making decisions whether “this is” or “this is not.” If you reach that vishwaas, then it only comes when purification takes place. Purification means vishwaas, clarity. The mirror is there, but dust was piling up over there. When the dust is cleaned, then the mirror appears, the clean surface appears. That is vishwaas. In that vishwaas, if Guru says, “Thou art Me,” — [he snaps his fingers] —the mirror knows it. Then vivek came. Vishwaas and vivek are through maananaa, not through jaananaa, not through, “Swamiji, I was meditating on this and I have jaananaa of it, I have known this. Now today I was meditating, and I have known this experience. …

As I said, faith is too difficult for you. That’s why I emphasize on your intelligence: do that which suits you. And that which does not suit you, you should never do. Those bhaktas [devotees] are such that nothing suits them—and they’re doing. But at least they are free. So on the level of words, vocabulary, questions and answers, there is so much complication. But you have devoted your time and attended satsang from where you got the point that “Swamiji is saying that which is never there: that which Swamiji calls Truth is never there in the world.” And you are seeking it in the world! Therefore, it’s very easy for a layperson to know that Truth exists and the world is changing. Changing means dying. And you are Truth. …

There is thinking and bhaavanaa. Thinking is mental working; it is all thinking, mental, or intellectual. Bhaavanaa is Love, or Aatma, the Self. Some people are endowed with the capacity of bhaavanaa, which many of you have—but you call it emotions. It’s not those emotions which change and go up and down. They are all thinking. Bhaavanaa is “I am.” That’s it. But you say, “No, no, Don, you’re sixty years old.” He doesn’t contradict it. He smiles. He has bhaavanaa. Bhavaanaa means he has known that “Age and time do not belong to Me.” That is Aatma Bhaavanaa, which is called Love. And gyaan vikaar, the knowledge of change, is of things—the eyes, nose, ears, body, and all relative things. That is why we have all sat together here to unfold the bhaavanaa of Aatma, the knowledge of Aatma, the devotion of Aatma. Whereas we have the knowledge of the body. So it is too contradictory, it is very opposite. …

I have translated the word maayaa as jan-ma [born] and margaayaa [died], … Janma is the beginning; then jeenaa, life—jeenaa, jeenaa, jeenaa—which is a current, like a river, that came from the Source, which is going, going, going; and then it is immersed. The river is immersed, it is absorbed in the ocean. That is human life: janma, jeenaa, and margaayaa. … Margaayaa, means “finished,” or “completed his journey.” The word maayaa is used most often, such as, “It is the trip of maayaa; you are trapped by maayaa.” Then they say, “You are trapped by ignorance,” so maayaa is ignorance. … It’s a maayaa field. You have to know it’s like that. That’s called jaananaa, that’s called knowing. So knowing belongs to the mind-intellect-ego sense. This jaananaa is dependent on your ego-intellect-mind. Otherwise, you are just a ball of an iceberg—part of it. So we cannot do away with jaananaa. …

People think that if you are maun [silent], then you are a meditator. But if you are maun and your mind is chattering inside, then what is the value of that maun? Maun means where your mind is concentrated, where it is dissolved in the vast ocean of the Self, where there are no waves except Knowingness. That is peace. It’s called Supreme Peace. It is the name of That. But that does not mean that Supreme Peace should not initiate the wave of knowledge or knowingness—and that is your human system. So if the human system is not used properly, then improper use will happen. There a human being has been given freedom to use his system properly or to misuse his system, improperly. That is where a human being has forgotten. He uses his system improperly and makes himself miserable. He does all those things which do not suit him. Yet he says, “It is to be done because it is the norm and standard and trait of our friends and people.” Thus, human beings are acting like this.

Again and again, Guru is saying that you should study, examine, and decipher. Your brain is meant to know things which are changing. And your heart is meant to accept that which is he himself and is not changing. So the heart means Love. In Love, there is maananaa, acceptance. You must have seen that when you have made friends with people, you did not recognize them. You just accepted—maananaa. Love—Love. Love accepts Love. The mind does not accept Love. The mind criticizes Love. The mind finds fault in Love. The mind finds some flaws in Love: “What category of Love is it? How many days will it stay? Does it suit me or not? Will it give me some stock market result or not?” Something like that. …

In deep sleep, when a dream starts, you know dream figures and you describe them. But you do not know that which is before the dream starts. You will not be able to know it intellectually. And you are not convinced of this fact. That’s why sometimes they say that without Guru, you will not realize. Because Realization is not the recognition of things, forms, and experiences. Guru is that who says, “You are You. Recognize that which was not born.” However difficult it is, but the disciple has the power—about which Guru says, “That is Me.” If Me has come to know this fact, then you, who is Me, will come to know. So Guru wants to let a human being be free from the illusory illusion or thinking with which he knows he is a changing body that is going to die. Why? Because all his friends and folks know this, so he cannot break the tradition. …

I’m trying to give you the meaning which you can retain at a time when you want to know your mind. The mind is maayaa, which means it is that which is janma [born] in the morning. In deep sleep, it was not there as it is now. That was the Truth. But now, janma. Who is janma? The mind. And in the end, when the mind has finished and deep sleep has come, then the mind margaayaa, the mind has died. So that which dies and that which is born is your mind. But you say, “No, the body is born and the body dies.” Whereas it will never happen that the body dies and then you will be realized. … We leave birth and death aside, because you are neither born nor are you dead. You are totally Free. You have not to get yourself related to your birth or death. … Janma and margaayaa, born and died. Maayaa is that which has appeared—the body—and the body will die. So if you think that You are the body, then you are in the thought of thinking which is totally caught by the maayaa of birth and death. But being a human being, you have all the possibility to understand that “I must be before birth, thus I am not born.” This is the brain power which will be a purified brain. …

I say many things and you hear them, but you will only know maayaa—whatever you see in the waking state field is all maayaa. But you have to know that maayaa is not. When you know that maayaa is not, then you will know that when a human being thinks about birth and death, he is thinking incorrectly. He is to be given the unfoldment of awareness, proper thinking or proper awareness, that You are that who is the Knower, and without the Knower, your life is meaningless—whether dream life or waking state life. If the Knower is not in a human being, watch, then what will the life be of a human being or of the world? How important it is! We can know it. We couple of persons should be convinced of this, that the Knower is important. The Knower is first and foremost—and then the name, and then the body. …

Guru is. Guru is that vishwaas the translation of which is not there—because vishwaas is not there in nature, it is not in the power of nature to bring in vishwaas. Vishwaas is the very Self, which means the Self will never say that “I am not.” That is the type which vishwaas is, which means totally indivisible, unborn, undying, unchanging—faith goes nearly as that. But faith is also used in such a way as “faith in the constitution,” yet with this, people still do all kinds of corruption. That is not vishwaas. Vishwaas has been given to a human being to use for vivek. Vivek is, “This wonderful tool has been given to you. Use it and make use of it to unfold that knowledge which is lacking in a human being by birth.” The possibility is there, because a human being is That.

I am very glad that it has really been the unfoldment of that, very clearly, in every heart and mind, so that you know That. You always know, “I am.” It is not to be described whether this is faith, vishwaas, vivek, knowledge, or ignorance. “I am.” The very Self is there. … This is not to be figured out by the consciousness which is individual human understanding on the level of the intellect. So we’ll not be quiet and think that we have finished this course and now it is over. Because tomorrow…as I said, maayaa is very, very strong and very sticky. It will say, “Fine, in front of Guruji you have accepted this. I was sitting in the corner. Now, you [leave satsang and] come on the steps…[he snaps his fingers].” [Laughter.] So maayaa is afraid of Guruji. Thank you very much. It has been very nice. [Applause.]