there is a gadget far more interesting
than your phone that’s called the human
mechanism this is the gadget every other
gadget is a small drop off of this so
when we say human being I think for a
long time people have been looking at
this human being with too much emotion
and too much confusion but the yogic
sciences have always looked at the human
being as the ultimate mechanism on this
planet when we see a mechanism we’re
talking about something that can work
systematically something that can do
things something that can consistently
produce something wonderful if it is not
a mechanism that means it’s one chaotic
nonsense so there are both type of human
beings some are just one chaotic
nonsense some have become wonderful
mechanism not because somebody has come
with a great mechanism and somebody has
known all of us fundamentally have come
with the same thing maybe on the level
of our physical form and maybe on
intellectual levels there may be some
differences but essentially all of us
carry the same human mechanism but why
is it that one seems to be in a
phenomenal state and another seems to be
a total mess
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there are many ways to look at it one
simple thing is we can look at it this
way every human experience that human
beings have here they’re little children
you have to do something to make them
unhappy right now you have to do
something to make them unhappy but there
are a whole lot of adults you have to do
something to make them happy they
reverse the equation completely at the
age of five if you were this joyful by
the time you’re 30 you should have been
ecstatic isn’t it if things happen in
the right order but for some reasons
it’s gotten reversed to most people as I
said every human experience has a
chemical basis to it we can call it
peace we can call it joy we can call it
love we can call it bliss fullness we
can call it ecstasy
we can call it agony anxiety misery
stress tension whatever we want quality
every human experience has a chemical
basis to it or in other words what you
call as myself right now is a chemical
soup the question is only is it a great
soup or a lousy soup if I give all of
you the same soup making ingredients do
you believe that all of you will come up
with the same kind of soup now 500
varieties of soups will happen
that’s all that’s happened all of us
have come here fundamentally with the
same ingredients just see in how many
ways we have become the reason is we
have been given such a complex mechanism
and
do you agree with do you agree with me
all the gadget lovers I’m asking you
this is the most sophisticated machine
on the planet do you agree with me so
I’m asking you someone gave you such a
complex and sophisticated machine have
you read the user’s manual so without
the users manual if you operate
something how would you do it by
accident
something will happen once in a way it
works once in a way something is working
and to make this human being happy in
pursuit of human well-being we rip the
planet apart all right I want you to
understand there is no ecological
disaster on the planet ecological
disaster is just a consequence of human
beings not knowing how to be joyful by
their own nature because we are seeking
it everywhere else except here but all
human experience happens from within
what happens here if you try to cause it
from outside then you have to burn the
plant definitely and that’s what we’re
doing
so ecological disasters have not
happened because of something else
only in pursuit of human well-being
isn’t it so hello
so in pursuit of human wellbeing last
100 150 years we’ve done too many things
using the power of science and the
progress of technology we’ve done too
many things so many things that if you
happen to be here 200 years ago and
you’re here again today you wouldn’t
recognize the place for anything
everything has been changed because of
this change much comfort and convenience
has come when it comes to comfort and
convenience we’re definitely the most
comfortable generation ever do you agree
with me I’m asking even those were
standing
we are definitely the most comfortable
generation ever isn’t it but we cannot
claim we’re the most joyful we cannot
claim we’re the most loving we cannot
even claim we’re the most peaceful to be
peaceful and happy today I’m sure many
people are propagating this and even the
so-called spiritual leaders are going
about saying peace is the ultimate goal
of life such people will only rest in
peace because tell me today if you want
to enjoy your lunch today
if you’re not ecstatic at least you must
be peaceful isn’t it hello if you are
not in some state of ecstasy at least
you must be peaceful to enjoy the food
that you eat isn’t it so I’m asking you
to be peaceful to be happy is it the
ultimate goal of your life or is it a
fundamental requirement of your life it
is a most fundamental requirement if
you’re not even peaceful I don’t know
how many have died under your care
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because when you’re not even peaceful
and happy you tend to do things which
have neither good for you nor for
anybody
isn’t it this is the nature of the human
being when we are not peaceful and happy
don’t we tend to do things which were
not good for us and not good for anybody
now this piece has been taken to heaven
people say if you say peace people say
divine peace if you say joy even they’ll
say divine joy if you say love they’ll
say divine love these are all human
things human beings are capable of being
peaceful joyful loving but all these
things have been exported to heaven by
those who are crippled crippled lives
have exported these things to heaven if
you say peace they say it happens only
there if you say joy it happens only
there if you say love it happens only
there even your dog is capable of being
loving isn’t it so you don’t have to
reach as far as God to know love a dog
will do it
yes consistently yes or no if you get
yourself a dog 12 years guaranteed love
affair or no yes I won’t say the same
thing about everybody else but there is
no guarantee about others but a dog is a
guaranteed love happy isn’t it now these
things have been raised like this you
know I I was to speak at Tel Aviv I was
flying out of Atlanta I was to land
there in the morning and speak at 6:30
in the evening but then I land up there
at 6 o’clock in the evening because of
some flight delays and I’m quickly
changing in the airport to rush to the
venue because in this 34 years have not
been late to a single appointment in my
life so I don’t want to break this so
I’m quickly changing and rushing and I
am famished because I’m traveling by
American Airline there’s nothing edible
to on the plane there’s nothing edible
on the plane so I’m really famished and
when I go to the venue to my joy I find
the venue is a very fine restaurant life
can get better when you’re so hungry
they’ve taken you to a restaurant
straight so people are coming in and
greeting me one man comes up and says
Shalom I asked him what does it mean he
says this is the highest way of greeting
I said well that’s your opinion what
does it mean said no no this is really
the highest way of greeting he said all
right but what does the word mean he
said it means peace I said why would
peace be the highest way of greeting
unless you born in Middle East
the
in south india somebody comes up to me
in the morning and says peace i’ll say
what’s wrong with you so I’m saying
anything that you were deprived off will
slowly rise to heaven everything that
human beings are talking about
everything that human beings have
attributed to their gods everything that
human beings have exported to heaven
these are all human qualities yes those
who made themselves incapable they’re
talking it’ll happen somewhere else but
today human intellect is talking like
never before never before this many
human beings could think for themselves
yes never before in the history of
humanity because otherwise a priest
appended the scripture somebody else
taught for you now human beings are
beginning to think for themselves
whether they’re thinking straight or not
is another issue but at least they’re
thinking something it’s a good big thing
you know something they’re thinking once
they are thinking the problem with
thought is it has to be logically
correct otherwise it doesn’t go by even
the most idiotic argument if you witness
people are talking the way they’re
talking because they believe is
logically correct so no nobody thinks
he’s logically wrong and continues to
argue he won’t do that he somehow finds
a way to make it logically correct so
once this happens that human intellect
begins to fire like this even if God
comes and stands here and speaks unless
he makes sense people will reject him so
maybe you don’t have the courage to say
yes your children they are going to
reject it unless it makes sense to them
they’re going to reject it yes or no so
once they rejected it may so happen
heavens will crumble heavens will fall
down you know what is in heaven you
don’t know let me tell you so that you
can make your choices Hindu heaven food
is great
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because Nala himself cooks for you there
Nala himself cooks he is the best chef
in the universe so food is very good if
you are a foodie you must go to Hindu in
another heaven in the clouds white
ground ladies of floating if you like
that kind of ambience you can go there
in another heaven you will have virgin
problems if you want to encounter that
you can go there only problem is what is
the qualification for you to get there
this happened in a Sunday School in
Alabama
anybody from Alabama I have chosen of
the state if you had told me you’re here
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the Sunday school teacher in his
enthusiasm asked the tiny tots what do
you have to do to go to heaven
little Mary stood up and said if I scrub
the church floor every Sunday morning I
will go to heaven absolutely another
little girl stood up and said if I share
50% of my pocket money with my less
privileged friend I will go to heaven
absolutely
another boy said if those who are in
need a help if I reach out and help them
I will go to heaven correct
little Tommy in the backbench too dark
and sad you got to die first
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so you got to die first that is the
basic qualification alright so when you
die depending on your culture will
either bury you or burn you or feed you
to the birds one of the things we will
do to you yes or in other words anyway
your body we put it back into this earth
because this body is something that you
borrowed from this planet isn’t it so
you’re alone if you were planning to
take it to heaven you’re a wilful
defaulter you know yes it’s good to pay
this back isn’t it what we have taken we
can use it well when it’s time we must
pay back the loan or not put it back
into that whether you like it or not
they bail so once you left your body
here what will you do with good food and
virgins and all this stuff these are all
problems that people have when they have
a body isn’t it once you put the body
here what will you do with all these
things so I’m saying once intellect
fires big time we have kept it down
because if you ask questions we would
have you dead
for a long time please understand with
this we had kept it down but we can’t
keep it down anymore now people will ask
all kinds of things when they ask two
three questions heavens will crumble
heavens may crumble but human longing to
experience something more will not go
the human longing to experience
something will always be there if you
take away the hope that somewhere else
is going to happen to you
people will start seeking solutions here
when they start seeking solutions here
if you don’t show them away if you don’t
show them away which is logically
correct and scientifically ascertainable
way where you can take charge of your
inner experience and cause the kind of
experience that you want to be in if you
don’t teach them the ways if you don’t
give them the technologies for inner
well-being then I would say in under 60
to 80 years time 90% of the humanity
will seek chemical solutions there will
be either on drink or drug tell me most
of you whatever your age right now when
you were 20 years of age how many people
were drinking and drugging on this
planet today how many people are doing
has it gone up by thousand percent at
least ten times over more it has this is
because people are seeking solutions
here because slowly all these people are
losing faith that somewhere else it will
be better they’re trying to make it
better right here if you don’t show them
the right way they will somehow try to
do it now I’m not looking at this as a
moral issue 90 percent of the people
being on drink and drug is not a moral
issue for me one responsibility we have
as a generation of people is that when
we leave we have left a generation which
is at least one step better than us this
is a fundamental responsibility we have
as a generation but when we leave if we
are all on 90 percent of us or on drink
and drug when we leave we will leave a
worse generation than us because we will
become incapable of even producing a
better generation
and this will be a complete failure of
who we are everything that we worked for
the development of civilizations all
this will go waste if 90% of the
population goes on this in York City
what do you think is a percentage and
I’ll leave it to you people from New
York tell me what do you think is the
percentage who are seeking some kind of
chemical solution for their experience
to make themselves peaceful they have to
drink something or pop something what do
you think is the percentage I wouldn’t
be that cruel there are lots of yoga
freaks but it’s a big percentage not a
percentage to ignore anymore isn’t it
it’s like you know those who come from
India anyway you know all of you are
largely you know when you were growing
up as children you live a few drunkards
in the town yes one maybe two percent
those they’re drunkards you know they’re
not normal people but they are the
normal ones now there are a few who
don’t drink Oh freakish the two freaks
there are 2% freaks who don’t drink
anymore so this is not a moral thing
this is just that you have become
incapable of dealing with yourself that
is the fundamental thing so what amazes
me is people live here 50 60 70 years
there 60 70 years of age still they do
not know how to deal with their own
thought and their own emotion this is
the this you may think is normal is not
normal I’m telling you if you do not see
these are the basic faculties that you
have a human being can think about
anything he or she wants can a moat in
many strong ways if these thoughts and
emotions don’t work for you they’re
working against you
that means you have not figured the
fundamentals of being human isn’t it you
would have been peaceful if you were
born as an earthworm or something the
problem the problem is right now human
beings are not suffering something that
they don’t have their suffering is
because of their own intelligence if I
take away half your brain most of you
would be peaceful yes it’s being done in
the you know in some institutions it’s
being done lobotomy is being conducted
right when it’s when somebody cannot
control themselves at all pull off a
part of the brain they’re quite peaceful
I think it’s people are even suggesting
it’s time we do it when the children are
born if you take off certain things
criminal attitudes will go this will go
that will go people are suggesting
certain things responsible medical
institutions are suggesting such things
if you cripple everybody there may be no
crime in York City to cut off
everybody’s legs or you take off
everybody’s head there’ll be no crime at
all but it will also take off the
possibility it may take off some small
problem but it will take off the
possibility of being human isn’t it to
be a full-fledged human being it’s
important if you want to be a
full-fledged human being there are two
fundamental things one thing is a human
being has a vivid sense of memory
another thing is a human being also has
a vivid sense of imagination whatever
suffering you go through you may call it
stress anxiety tension misery grief
whatever you want to call it essentially
it is just this you have still not
figured how to handle your memory how to
handle your imagination
that’s all your suffering what happened
10 years ago you can still suffer
isn’t it so what may happen day after
tomorrow you already suffer
that means you are capable of suffering
the non-existent show you are capable of
suffering something that does not exist
I’m sure there are psychiatrists in the
group are they this even by medical
definition if somebody is suffering that
does not exist do they qualify to the
qualifier no they do qualify as patients
right I’m saying I’m saying if you start
suffering something that does not exist
that means even medically you qualify as
a case case number whatever now this is
not a joke because without we are living
human beings with education systems
which will teach you everything about
the world not a thing about yourself
trying to control this with fear trying
to control this with possibilities of
punishment somewhere else it’s not
worked anyway people are doing what the
hell they’re doing on day yes it is time
that we bring sense to the world we are
always thinking in terms of good and bad
this has happened because of certain
types of religious believe certain types
of things where everything is controlled
by fear and guilt and whatever first
thing is you divided the world into God
and devil good and evil this and that no
I’ll ask you a simple question is there
anybody here who is twenty-four hours
good or 24 hours bad hello
yes or no you oscillate right a little
bit here and there one moment you’re
wonderful another moment you’re nasty
and the moment you’re beautiful another
moment you’re ugly
is this not happening so if we have to
divide you between good and evil
probably we have to cut off a part of
you that is what they’re saying if we
take off certain parts of your brain all
evil will go and you will become pure
and useless the biggest problem is we’ve
been trying to produce good people the
world never tried to produce sensible
and joyful people we always been
striving to produce good people and it’s
good people who are constantly at each
other it is always a good Hindu fighting
a good Muslim a good Indian fighting a
good Pakistani more good more fighting
and a good American fighting good just
about anybody
because the more good you think you are
more confrontational you have become
please see this the more good you think
you are you naturally become more
confrontational with just about anybody
around you if you think you are very
good the how this has come to you in
your mind is you look at these people
she’s not okay she’s not okay she’s not
okay he’s not okay he’s not okay
compared to all these people I am good I
am very good means nobody is good nobody
is okay nobody is okay is not a question
of goodness it’s a question of madness
the madness has settled in this has to
go means human consciousness has to rise
you have to look at this tremendous
possibility that we have come with and
is it true can you see me at least hello
everybody even if you’re not listening
can you see me use one hand point out
where am I try
you know I’m a mystic from South India
it all wrong now this light is falling
upon me reflecting going through your
lenses inverted image in the retina you
know the whole story so where do you see
me right now within yourself where do
you hear me right now within yourself
where have you seen the whole world
within yourself have you ever
experienced anything outside of yourself
have you right now someone sitting next
to you you’ve to touch your hand you
think you’re experiencing their hand now
you are only experiencing the sensations
in your hand isn’t it
even without the help of the other
person you can with little imagination
cause the sensations you want isn’t it
so your entire experience of life light
and darkness is happening with the new
agony and ecstasy happens with the new
joy and misery happens within you peace
and turmoil happens within you if every
human experience is generated from
within at least at least what happens
within you must happen your way isn’t it
world will not happen your way and I’m
glad it’s not happening your way because
if the entire world happened your way
where do I go
I’m glad it’s not happening your way
little bit my way a little bit your way
a little bit somebody else’s way it’s
alright but the important thing is this
one is not happening your way this is a
big problem isn’t it
if this one person yourself if this one
person happened your way would you keep
this person blissful or miserable you
must make a choice I’m going to bless
you right now what is your choice for
yourself what is your choice highest
level of pleasantness isn’t it what you
want for your neighbor may be debatable
but what you want for yourself is very
very clear isn’t it something but why
such a simple thing is not happening
simply because you’re not unit Charles
Darwin some hundreds 150 years ago 2012
was 200 birth anniversary of Darwin some
150 years ago he propounded a theory and
he said what was a deer could have
become a giraffe so many million years
what was a pig could have become an
elephant so many more million years what
was a monkey became a human but it
happened rather quickly yes so quickly
that anthropologists think there is a
missing link they’re still looking out
I’m saying
did anybody meet did you meet a missing
link a mask no now
they’re saying the DNA difference
between you and the chimpanzee is only
one point two three percent one point
two three percent is not much of a
difference isn’t it
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not much of a percentage not a
percentage of boast about isn’t it the
thing is just this physiologically you
are only one point two three percent
away from a chimpanzee but in terms of
your intellect and awareness we worlds
apart from a chimpanzee so this is the
problem you have an intelligence for
which you don’t have a stable enough
base now the same intelligence the
shopper it is the more it box you so
people are thinking darling it either
with wine or divine is the solution
somehow Dalek for some time and you feel
peaceful darling it’s not the solution
sharpening it to a point where it will
work for you is the solution isn’t it if
you dull it you somehow crippling
yourself isn’t it in some way you dull
the system maybe you think it’s
temporary but if you dull the system in
some way you cripple in yourself if
crippling yourself is a solution depth
is a better solution isn’t it yes or no
if taking a little bit of the brain is a
solution blowing your brains out he is
definitely a better solution more
efficient this happened I I was teaching
a program in India
and somebody stands up and she
introduces herself she says I come from
Singapore in the last two years I
committed suicide five times I said stop
at this level of inefficiency you are
not getting anywhere
if you in some way thing by darling the
system you will be better off which the
world is practicing large-scale now
you’re saying in New York City it’s 90
percent I don’t think so
but it’s getting rapidly getting there
in that direction drink will lose its
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draw after some time more efficient
things will come slowly all things will
get legalized when they can’t control it
anymore please notice everything will
get legalized the moment they can’t
control it they’ll feel it’s better to
tax it and run the nation rather than
investing too much on policing these
things so when these things happen it is
a question of crippling the human being
in some way yes it gives pleasure if you
take off the brain maybe you can just
float around in total utter peace but
all possibilities are also gone yes
again so this is happening to us because
we have not understood the fundamentals
of how to exercise our own intelligence
we have learned how to make a living we
have learned how to do things we have
learned how to go to the moon or even
beyond but we have still not figured how
to manage our own system isn’t it even
if you have a spacecraft this is more
complex than that
yes Erdem
this is far more complex than that and
this does not mean when I said this I’m
not just I mean all of your doctors
maybe you’re thinking of exploring me
pathologically we are not talking about
just lungs liver kidney heart spleen
whatever all this came from within see
you eat a piece of bread in the morning
you know what two hours this bread
becomes human body you know as doctors
how complex each one each part of the
body is that you know it is so complex
that is why today if we have to go to a
medical check-up we have to go to 50
different doctors because for 50
different parts of the body slowly as
you look at it closer and closer you’re
realizing it’s too complex for one
person to grasp the entire thing isn’t
it its own own just 32 teeth people are
taking nine years don’t understand
what’s happening in the mouth and they
still don’t know yes sir yes just to
teach only 32 nine years of study and
still we know we don’t know all of it
you know you know pretty well but not
all of it isn’t it
so you are realizing it’s so complex but
this complex mechanism with what are you
manufacturing you eat a piece of bread
you eat a banana you eat an apple you
eat whatever you want within a few hours
it becomes this so there is an
intelligence here there is an
intelligence here which can make a
banana and you human being yes sir
suppose I took a banana in my hand and
transform this into a human being who do
you think I am
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who is this where did you see a magician
who made a banana and you human being
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what is this only creator could do this
isn’t it but every one of you are doing
this everyday only thing is you’re doing
it unconsciously
if only a drop of this intelligence
entered your life in a conscious form
you would live magically not miserable
life wouldn’t be a struggle it would be
an ecstatic breeze this happened in 1924
there was a bishop in Istanbul who is
from the Orthodox Greek community you
know the Orthodox Greek community have
their own Pope in Istanbul they believe
they’re the only real Christians the
rest are no good so they have their own
Pope and they have their own stuff going
being in the Silk Road
exhorting stories from India keep
wafting across the Bosphorus too often
so he heard so many magical stories
and he always wanted to go to India but
being a man of cloth he couldn’t decide
where he goes so when he was over sixty
years of age when he semi-retired he got
the opportunity to come to southern
India
so his longing was to meet a yogi he
wants to meet a mystic a genuine one not
the tourist who came to Istanbul and
claimed he wants to meet a real one so
somebody told him you go up this
mountain and they gave him some
landmarks there in front of a cave there
will be a yogi sitting that’s a man you
looking for so he found his way up he
will not build for mountains so he
huffed and puffed and went up mountain
is one place where you can’t deceive
yourself of your age so when there then
he saw this yogi was sitting here eyes
closed blissed-out so he went and they
had told him if you see a Indian yogi
you must prostrate so he went down he
was not wait for that either
with great difficulty he went down and
huffing and puffing you set up again
hearing all this commotion the yogi
opened his eyes and smiled immediately
the bishop asked can I ask you a
question the yogi laughed and said by
all means
so the bishop asked what is life this is
after 60
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you should have asked this question when
you were eight if you missed it out at
least by 16 what
what is life you must ask now isn’t it
but what to do better late than never so
he asked what is life when he asked this
question the yogi went into raptures and
then he said life life is like the
fragrance of jasmine upon the gentle
spring breeze
fragrance of jasmine upon gentle for
spring breeze no our teacher told us
life is like a thorn once it gets into
you if you stand it hurts if you sit it
hurts it lie down it hurts you are
saying it is like fragrance of a Jasmine
upon gentle spring breeze what is this
here there we laughed and said well
that’s his life
than your phone that’s called the human
mechanism this is the gadget every other
gadget is a small drop off of this so
when we say human being I think for a
long time people have been looking at
this human being with too much emotion
and too much confusion but the yogic
sciences have always looked at the human
being as the ultimate mechanism on this
planet when we see a mechanism we’re
talking about something that can work
systematically something that can do
things something that can consistently
produce something wonderful if it is not
a mechanism that means it’s one chaotic
nonsense so there are both type of human
beings some are just one chaotic
nonsense some have become wonderful
mechanism not because somebody has come
with a great mechanism and somebody has
known all of us fundamentally have come
with the same thing maybe on the level
of our physical form and maybe on
intellectual levels there may be some
differences but essentially all of us
carry the same human mechanism but why
is it that one seems to be in a
phenomenal state and another seems to be
a total mess
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there are many ways to look at it one
simple thing is we can look at it this
way every human experience that human
beings have here they’re little children
you have to do something to make them
unhappy right now you have to do
something to make them unhappy but there
are a whole lot of adults you have to do
something to make them happy they
reverse the equation completely at the
age of five if you were this joyful by
the time you’re 30 you should have been
ecstatic isn’t it if things happen in
the right order but for some reasons
it’s gotten reversed to most people as I
said every human experience has a
chemical basis to it we can call it
peace we can call it joy we can call it
love we can call it bliss fullness we
can call it ecstasy
we can call it agony anxiety misery
stress tension whatever we want quality
every human experience has a chemical
basis to it or in other words what you
call as myself right now is a chemical
soup the question is only is it a great
soup or a lousy soup if I give all of
you the same soup making ingredients do
you believe that all of you will come up
with the same kind of soup now 500
varieties of soups will happen
that’s all that’s happened all of us
have come here fundamentally with the
same ingredients just see in how many
ways we have become the reason is we
have been given such a complex mechanism
and
do you agree with do you agree with me
all the gadget lovers I’m asking you
this is the most sophisticated machine
on the planet do you agree with me so
I’m asking you someone gave you such a
complex and sophisticated machine have
you read the user’s manual so without
the users manual if you operate
something how would you do it by
accident
something will happen once in a way it
works once in a way something is working
and to make this human being happy in
pursuit of human well-being we rip the
planet apart all right I want you to
understand there is no ecological
disaster on the planet ecological
disaster is just a consequence of human
beings not knowing how to be joyful by
their own nature because we are seeking
it everywhere else except here but all
human experience happens from within
what happens here if you try to cause it
from outside then you have to burn the
plant definitely and that’s what we’re
doing
so ecological disasters have not
happened because of something else
only in pursuit of human well-being
isn’t it so hello
so in pursuit of human wellbeing last
100 150 years we’ve done too many things
using the power of science and the
progress of technology we’ve done too
many things so many things that if you
happen to be here 200 years ago and
you’re here again today you wouldn’t
recognize the place for anything
everything has been changed because of
this change much comfort and convenience
has come when it comes to comfort and
convenience we’re definitely the most
comfortable generation ever do you agree
with me I’m asking even those were
standing
we are definitely the most comfortable
generation ever isn’t it but we cannot
claim we’re the most joyful we cannot
claim we’re the most loving we cannot
even claim we’re the most peaceful to be
peaceful and happy today I’m sure many
people are propagating this and even the
so-called spiritual leaders are going
about saying peace is the ultimate goal
of life such people will only rest in
peace because tell me today if you want
to enjoy your lunch today
if you’re not ecstatic at least you must
be peaceful isn’t it hello if you are
not in some state of ecstasy at least
you must be peaceful to enjoy the food
that you eat isn’t it so I’m asking you
to be peaceful to be happy is it the
ultimate goal of your life or is it a
fundamental requirement of your life it
is a most fundamental requirement if
you’re not even peaceful I don’t know
how many have died under your care
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because when you’re not even peaceful
and happy you tend to do things which
have neither good for you nor for
anybody
isn’t it this is the nature of the human
being when we are not peaceful and happy
don’t we tend to do things which were
not good for us and not good for anybody
now this piece has been taken to heaven
people say if you say peace people say
divine peace if you say joy even they’ll
say divine joy if you say love they’ll
say divine love these are all human
things human beings are capable of being
peaceful joyful loving but all these
things have been exported to heaven by
those who are crippled crippled lives
have exported these things to heaven if
you say peace they say it happens only
there if you say joy it happens only
there if you say love it happens only
there even your dog is capable of being
loving isn’t it so you don’t have to
reach as far as God to know love a dog
will do it
yes consistently yes or no if you get
yourself a dog 12 years guaranteed love
affair or no yes I won’t say the same
thing about everybody else but there is
no guarantee about others but a dog is a
guaranteed love happy isn’t it now these
things have been raised like this you
know I I was to speak at Tel Aviv I was
flying out of Atlanta I was to land
there in the morning and speak at 6:30
in the evening but then I land up there
at 6 o’clock in the evening because of
some flight delays and I’m quickly
changing in the airport to rush to the
venue because in this 34 years have not
been late to a single appointment in my
life so I don’t want to break this so
I’m quickly changing and rushing and I
am famished because I’m traveling by
American Airline there’s nothing edible
to on the plane there’s nothing edible
on the plane so I’m really famished and
when I go to the venue to my joy I find
the venue is a very fine restaurant life
can get better when you’re so hungry
they’ve taken you to a restaurant
straight so people are coming in and
greeting me one man comes up and says
Shalom I asked him what does it mean he
says this is the highest way of greeting
I said well that’s your opinion what
does it mean said no no this is really
the highest way of greeting he said all
right but what does the word mean he
said it means peace I said why would
peace be the highest way of greeting
unless you born in Middle East
the
in south india somebody comes up to me
in the morning and says peace i’ll say
what’s wrong with you so I’m saying
anything that you were deprived off will
slowly rise to heaven everything that
human beings are talking about
everything that human beings have
attributed to their gods everything that
human beings have exported to heaven
these are all human qualities yes those
who made themselves incapable they’re
talking it’ll happen somewhere else but
today human intellect is talking like
never before never before this many
human beings could think for themselves
yes never before in the history of
humanity because otherwise a priest
appended the scripture somebody else
taught for you now human beings are
beginning to think for themselves
whether they’re thinking straight or not
is another issue but at least they’re
thinking something it’s a good big thing
you know something they’re thinking once
they are thinking the problem with
thought is it has to be logically
correct otherwise it doesn’t go by even
the most idiotic argument if you witness
people are talking the way they’re
talking because they believe is
logically correct so no nobody thinks
he’s logically wrong and continues to
argue he won’t do that he somehow finds
a way to make it logically correct so
once this happens that human intellect
begins to fire like this even if God
comes and stands here and speaks unless
he makes sense people will reject him so
maybe you don’t have the courage to say
yes your children they are going to
reject it unless it makes sense to them
they’re going to reject it yes or no so
once they rejected it may so happen
heavens will crumble heavens will fall
down you know what is in heaven you
don’t know let me tell you so that you
can make your choices Hindu heaven food
is great
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because Nala himself cooks for you there
Nala himself cooks he is the best chef
in the universe so food is very good if
you are a foodie you must go to Hindu in
another heaven in the clouds white
ground ladies of floating if you like
that kind of ambience you can go there
in another heaven you will have virgin
problems if you want to encounter that
you can go there only problem is what is
the qualification for you to get there
this happened in a Sunday School in
Alabama
anybody from Alabama I have chosen of
the state if you had told me you’re here
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the Sunday school teacher in his
enthusiasm asked the tiny tots what do
you have to do to go to heaven
little Mary stood up and said if I scrub
the church floor every Sunday morning I
will go to heaven absolutely another
little girl stood up and said if I share
50% of my pocket money with my less
privileged friend I will go to heaven
absolutely
another boy said if those who are in
need a help if I reach out and help them
I will go to heaven correct
little Tommy in the backbench too dark
and sad you got to die first
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so you got to die first that is the
basic qualification alright so when you
die depending on your culture will
either bury you or burn you or feed you
to the birds one of the things we will
do to you yes or in other words anyway
your body we put it back into this earth
because this body is something that you
borrowed from this planet isn’t it so
you’re alone if you were planning to
take it to heaven you’re a wilful
defaulter you know yes it’s good to pay
this back isn’t it what we have taken we
can use it well when it’s time we must
pay back the loan or not put it back
into that whether you like it or not
they bail so once you left your body
here what will you do with good food and
virgins and all this stuff these are all
problems that people have when they have
a body isn’t it once you put the body
here what will you do with all these
things so I’m saying once intellect
fires big time we have kept it down
because if you ask questions we would
have you dead
for a long time please understand with
this we had kept it down but we can’t
keep it down anymore now people will ask
all kinds of things when they ask two
three questions heavens will crumble
heavens may crumble but human longing to
experience something more will not go
the human longing to experience
something will always be there if you
take away the hope that somewhere else
is going to happen to you
people will start seeking solutions here
when they start seeking solutions here
if you don’t show them away if you don’t
show them away which is logically
correct and scientifically ascertainable
way where you can take charge of your
inner experience and cause the kind of
experience that you want to be in if you
don’t teach them the ways if you don’t
give them the technologies for inner
well-being then I would say in under 60
to 80 years time 90% of the humanity
will seek chemical solutions there will
be either on drink or drug tell me most
of you whatever your age right now when
you were 20 years of age how many people
were drinking and drugging on this
planet today how many people are doing
has it gone up by thousand percent at
least ten times over more it has this is
because people are seeking solutions
here because slowly all these people are
losing faith that somewhere else it will
be better they’re trying to make it
better right here if you don’t show them
the right way they will somehow try to
do it now I’m not looking at this as a
moral issue 90 percent of the people
being on drink and drug is not a moral
issue for me one responsibility we have
as a generation of people is that when
we leave we have left a generation which
is at least one step better than us this
is a fundamental responsibility we have
as a generation but when we leave if we
are all on 90 percent of us or on drink
and drug when we leave we will leave a
worse generation than us because we will
become incapable of even producing a
better generation
and this will be a complete failure of
who we are everything that we worked for
the development of civilizations all
this will go waste if 90% of the
population goes on this in York City
what do you think is a percentage and
I’ll leave it to you people from New
York tell me what do you think is the
percentage who are seeking some kind of
chemical solution for their experience
to make themselves peaceful they have to
drink something or pop something what do
you think is the percentage I wouldn’t
be that cruel there are lots of yoga
freaks but it’s a big percentage not a
percentage to ignore anymore isn’t it
it’s like you know those who come from
India anyway you know all of you are
largely you know when you were growing
up as children you live a few drunkards
in the town yes one maybe two percent
those they’re drunkards you know they’re
not normal people but they are the
normal ones now there are a few who
don’t drink Oh freakish the two freaks
there are 2% freaks who don’t drink
anymore so this is not a moral thing
this is just that you have become
incapable of dealing with yourself that
is the fundamental thing so what amazes
me is people live here 50 60 70 years
there 60 70 years of age still they do
not know how to deal with their own
thought and their own emotion this is
the this you may think is normal is not
normal I’m telling you if you do not see
these are the basic faculties that you
have a human being can think about
anything he or she wants can a moat in
many strong ways if these thoughts and
emotions don’t work for you they’re
working against you
that means you have not figured the
fundamentals of being human isn’t it you
would have been peaceful if you were
born as an earthworm or something the
problem the problem is right now human
beings are not suffering something that
they don’t have their suffering is
because of their own intelligence if I
take away half your brain most of you
would be peaceful yes it’s being done in
the you know in some institutions it’s
being done lobotomy is being conducted
right when it’s when somebody cannot
control themselves at all pull off a
part of the brain they’re quite peaceful
I think it’s people are even suggesting
it’s time we do it when the children are
born if you take off certain things
criminal attitudes will go this will go
that will go people are suggesting
certain things responsible medical
institutions are suggesting such things
if you cripple everybody there may be no
crime in York City to cut off
everybody’s legs or you take off
everybody’s head there’ll be no crime at
all but it will also take off the
possibility it may take off some small
problem but it will take off the
possibility of being human isn’t it to
be a full-fledged human being it’s
important if you want to be a
full-fledged human being there are two
fundamental things one thing is a human
being has a vivid sense of memory
another thing is a human being also has
a vivid sense of imagination whatever
suffering you go through you may call it
stress anxiety tension misery grief
whatever you want to call it essentially
it is just this you have still not
figured how to handle your memory how to
handle your imagination
that’s all your suffering what happened
10 years ago you can still suffer
isn’t it so what may happen day after
tomorrow you already suffer
that means you are capable of suffering
the non-existent show you are capable of
suffering something that does not exist
I’m sure there are psychiatrists in the
group are they this even by medical
definition if somebody is suffering that
does not exist do they qualify to the
qualifier no they do qualify as patients
right I’m saying I’m saying if you start
suffering something that does not exist
that means even medically you qualify as
a case case number whatever now this is
not a joke because without we are living
human beings with education systems
which will teach you everything about
the world not a thing about yourself
trying to control this with fear trying
to control this with possibilities of
punishment somewhere else it’s not
worked anyway people are doing what the
hell they’re doing on day yes it is time
that we bring sense to the world we are
always thinking in terms of good and bad
this has happened because of certain
types of religious believe certain types
of things where everything is controlled
by fear and guilt and whatever first
thing is you divided the world into God
and devil good and evil this and that no
I’ll ask you a simple question is there
anybody here who is twenty-four hours
good or 24 hours bad hello
yes or no you oscillate right a little
bit here and there one moment you’re
wonderful another moment you’re nasty
and the moment you’re beautiful another
moment you’re ugly
is this not happening so if we have to
divide you between good and evil
probably we have to cut off a part of
you that is what they’re saying if we
take off certain parts of your brain all
evil will go and you will become pure
and useless the biggest problem is we’ve
been trying to produce good people the
world never tried to produce sensible
and joyful people we always been
striving to produce good people and it’s
good people who are constantly at each
other it is always a good Hindu fighting
a good Muslim a good Indian fighting a
good Pakistani more good more fighting
and a good American fighting good just
about anybody
because the more good you think you are
more confrontational you have become
please see this the more good you think
you are you naturally become more
confrontational with just about anybody
around you if you think you are very
good the how this has come to you in
your mind is you look at these people
she’s not okay she’s not okay she’s not
okay he’s not okay he’s not okay
compared to all these people I am good I
am very good means nobody is good nobody
is okay nobody is okay is not a question
of goodness it’s a question of madness
the madness has settled in this has to
go means human consciousness has to rise
you have to look at this tremendous
possibility that we have come with and
is it true can you see me at least hello
everybody even if you’re not listening
can you see me use one hand point out
where am I try
you know I’m a mystic from South India
it all wrong now this light is falling
upon me reflecting going through your
lenses inverted image in the retina you
know the whole story so where do you see
me right now within yourself where do
you hear me right now within yourself
where have you seen the whole world
within yourself have you ever
experienced anything outside of yourself
have you right now someone sitting next
to you you’ve to touch your hand you
think you’re experiencing their hand now
you are only experiencing the sensations
in your hand isn’t it
even without the help of the other
person you can with little imagination
cause the sensations you want isn’t it
so your entire experience of life light
and darkness is happening with the new
agony and ecstasy happens with the new
joy and misery happens within you peace
and turmoil happens within you if every
human experience is generated from
within at least at least what happens
within you must happen your way isn’t it
world will not happen your way and I’m
glad it’s not happening your way because
if the entire world happened your way
where do I go
I’m glad it’s not happening your way
little bit my way a little bit your way
a little bit somebody else’s way it’s
alright but the important thing is this
one is not happening your way this is a
big problem isn’t it
if this one person yourself if this one
person happened your way would you keep
this person blissful or miserable you
must make a choice I’m going to bless
you right now what is your choice for
yourself what is your choice highest
level of pleasantness isn’t it what you
want for your neighbor may be debatable
but what you want for yourself is very
very clear isn’t it something but why
such a simple thing is not happening
simply because you’re not unit Charles
Darwin some hundreds 150 years ago 2012
was 200 birth anniversary of Darwin some
150 years ago he propounded a theory and
he said what was a deer could have
become a giraffe so many million years
what was a pig could have become an
elephant so many more million years what
was a monkey became a human but it
happened rather quickly yes so quickly
that anthropologists think there is a
missing link they’re still looking out
I’m saying
did anybody meet did you meet a missing
link a mask no now
they’re saying the DNA difference
between you and the chimpanzee is only
one point two three percent one point
two three percent is not much of a
difference isn’t it
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not much of a percentage not a
percentage of boast about isn’t it the
thing is just this physiologically you
are only one point two three percent
away from a chimpanzee but in terms of
your intellect and awareness we worlds
apart from a chimpanzee so this is the
problem you have an intelligence for
which you don’t have a stable enough
base now the same intelligence the
shopper it is the more it box you so
people are thinking darling it either
with wine or divine is the solution
somehow Dalek for some time and you feel
peaceful darling it’s not the solution
sharpening it to a point where it will
work for you is the solution isn’t it if
you dull it you somehow crippling
yourself isn’t it in some way you dull
the system maybe you think it’s
temporary but if you dull the system in
some way you cripple in yourself if
crippling yourself is a solution depth
is a better solution isn’t it yes or no
if taking a little bit of the brain is a
solution blowing your brains out he is
definitely a better solution more
efficient this happened I I was teaching
a program in India
and somebody stands up and she
introduces herself she says I come from
Singapore in the last two years I
committed suicide five times I said stop
at this level of inefficiency you are
not getting anywhere
if you in some way thing by darling the
system you will be better off which the
world is practicing large-scale now
you’re saying in New York City it’s 90
percent I don’t think so
but it’s getting rapidly getting there
in that direction drink will lose its
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draw after some time more efficient
things will come slowly all things will
get legalized when they can’t control it
anymore please notice everything will
get legalized the moment they can’t
control it they’ll feel it’s better to
tax it and run the nation rather than
investing too much on policing these
things so when these things happen it is
a question of crippling the human being
in some way yes it gives pleasure if you
take off the brain maybe you can just
float around in total utter peace but
all possibilities are also gone yes
again so this is happening to us because
we have not understood the fundamentals
of how to exercise our own intelligence
we have learned how to make a living we
have learned how to do things we have
learned how to go to the moon or even
beyond but we have still not figured how
to manage our own system isn’t it even
if you have a spacecraft this is more
complex than that
yes Erdem
this is far more complex than that and
this does not mean when I said this I’m
not just I mean all of your doctors
maybe you’re thinking of exploring me
pathologically we are not talking about
just lungs liver kidney heart spleen
whatever all this came from within see
you eat a piece of bread in the morning
you know what two hours this bread
becomes human body you know as doctors
how complex each one each part of the
body is that you know it is so complex
that is why today if we have to go to a
medical check-up we have to go to 50
different doctors because for 50
different parts of the body slowly as
you look at it closer and closer you’re
realizing it’s too complex for one
person to grasp the entire thing isn’t
it its own own just 32 teeth people are
taking nine years don’t understand
what’s happening in the mouth and they
still don’t know yes sir yes just to
teach only 32 nine years of study and
still we know we don’t know all of it
you know you know pretty well but not
all of it isn’t it
so you are realizing it’s so complex but
this complex mechanism with what are you
manufacturing you eat a piece of bread
you eat a banana you eat an apple you
eat whatever you want within a few hours
it becomes this so there is an
intelligence here there is an
intelligence here which can make a
banana and you human being yes sir
suppose I took a banana in my hand and
transform this into a human being who do
you think I am
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who is this where did you see a magician
who made a banana and you human being
[Music]
what is this only creator could do this
isn’t it but every one of you are doing
this everyday only thing is you’re doing
it unconsciously
if only a drop of this intelligence
entered your life in a conscious form
you would live magically not miserable
life wouldn’t be a struggle it would be
an ecstatic breeze this happened in 1924
there was a bishop in Istanbul who is
from the Orthodox Greek community you
know the Orthodox Greek community have
their own Pope in Istanbul they believe
they’re the only real Christians the
rest are no good so they have their own
Pope and they have their own stuff going
being in the Silk Road
exhorting stories from India keep
wafting across the Bosphorus too often
so he heard so many magical stories
and he always wanted to go to India but
being a man of cloth he couldn’t decide
where he goes so when he was over sixty
years of age when he semi-retired he got
the opportunity to come to southern
India
so his longing was to meet a yogi he
wants to meet a mystic a genuine one not
the tourist who came to Istanbul and
claimed he wants to meet a real one so
somebody told him you go up this
mountain and they gave him some
landmarks there in front of a cave there
will be a yogi sitting that’s a man you
looking for so he found his way up he
will not build for mountains so he
huffed and puffed and went up mountain
is one place where you can’t deceive
yourself of your age so when there then
he saw this yogi was sitting here eyes
closed blissed-out so he went and they
had told him if you see a Indian yogi
you must prostrate so he went down he
was not wait for that either
with great difficulty he went down and
huffing and puffing you set up again
hearing all this commotion the yogi
opened his eyes and smiled immediately
the bishop asked can I ask you a
question the yogi laughed and said by
all means
so the bishop asked what is life this is
after 60
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you should have asked this question when
you were eight if you missed it out at
least by 16 what
what is life you must ask now isn’t it
but what to do better late than never so
he asked what is life when he asked this
question the yogi went into raptures and
then he said life life is like the
fragrance of jasmine upon the gentle
spring breeze
fragrance of jasmine upon gentle for
spring breeze no our teacher told us
life is like a thorn once it gets into
you if you stand it hurts if you sit it
hurts it lie down it hurts you are
saying it is like fragrance of a Jasmine
upon gentle spring breeze what is this
here there we laughed and said well
that’s his life
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