Maharaji in Albany, New York, 3 Day Event, June 2008

Maharaji in Albany, Speaking From the Heart, 3 Day Event, June 2008

(Sustained Applause) So I guess I'm in Albany, New York. There's a lot that's happening and some of it is wild. A lot of spontaneous events taking place. But the main thing still remains the same because what is all this about? What is Knowledge all about? What are you all about? What is this life all about? Many times you have heard about the mortality. One day we all have to go. You heard it many, many times. You know about it. It's in the back of your head some days. Other days you don't bother even thinking about it. The subject to most people is very unpleasant. But that's not the issue. The issue isn't about you going. And the issue isn't about you having come. The issue is about your existence. You, being alive. Just what does that mean? That is what I like to talk about. There are many, many, many attractions in this world and the way I put it is if you have one thing that you're attracted to, then that's an attraction. If you get attracted to two things, well, you're going to be distracted from one. So the issue becomes what are you attracted to? What is the real attraction in your life?

In this world there are millions of issues. There are all sorts of people and they all have "No, this is the problem. This is the problem. If we could find a solution to this problem, then everything will be fine." I know, you know and people everywhere basically do know that they want to be happy. They want to be content. They want to feel good. That's no big news. That is innately how every human being is. This is very much our nature. We seek equiblibrium. Storm in our lives is not a good thing. It's not a good thing. When the storm comes we naturally seek shelter. When a storm comes we don't actually go out and go "I am going out there now. This is the perfect time." No. Lightning, thunder. There are people who are scared of that. And you know the way lightning works and thunder when it's a little bit far away it's really okay, it's fine. But when it comes closer and closer and closer and when it's like five feet from you, even the most adventurous, I have seen them jump "Like Oh my God."

We in our lives need that equilibrium of feeling good. Then I am not even going to define what feeling good means. Good, feeling good. There are certain things for you that work and certain things that don't work. Feeling good works. Feeling bad doesn't work. Feeling good could happen infinitely and you will be fine. You will not be bored with it. Feeling bad, on the other hand, you want to get out of that situation. This is your nature. Do you concur with your nature? Not the definition of your nature. Do you concur with your nature? Do you in your life? Do you in your existence try to perpetuate that good feeling and nurture it and work towards having it all the time as much as possible. That's important.

Or you carry pocket full of band aids, which one is it? I'll explain. Pocket full of band aids. There is no way I'm going to be conscious. There's no way I'm going to perpetuate happiness in my life. There is no way. I will things that are unconscious and when I get hurt, I will simply pull out one of the band aids and I'll take care of it. I'll be okay. Believe me, being unconscious will get you hurt, no question about it. When you don't listen to your own fundamental needs, something is going to happen and I don't have to repeat that it will not be pleasant. I do not threaten people. Therefore I'm not going to talk about the unpleasant. I'm not the master of negativeness. I can talk about the pleasant and I'm going to talk about the pleasant not the present, the pleasant and they are tied together. The present and the pleasant. So what is pleasant? When the heart is filled with gratitude, this is pleasant. When the priority of this life is understood and acknowledged, this is very pleasant. When I don't bank and bet on yesterday nor tomorrow but I bank and bet on this moment called now then this is very, very pleasant. When I have understood the infinite that resides within me, then this is very, very pleasant. When I acknowledge and understand the meaning of the breath that comes into me, then this is very, very pleasant. When I live, not on those tracks that are formed by belief but when I live on the foundation, when my house is built on the foundation of knowing, not suppositions and formulas and ideas and theories but knowing, then this is very, very pleasant. When I know that inside of me. When I know, not believe, not think, not wish, but when I know the friend within, then this is very, very pleasant.

And this is what Knowledge is all about. This is what life is all about. This is what the Master is all about. Filling your life with the pleasant, (applause) filling your life with joy. Now I know that there's hardly anybody here who hasn't had a doubt and doubt what, is that possible? Can my life really be filled with infinite joy. Is that possible? Yes sir. I know people doubt this. Then if this doubt exists in you, then there is only one reason. You don't understand the nature of what resides inside of you because what resides inside of you is complete joy. What resides inside of you is complete, not partial, but complete clarity. Have you ever felt confused? Have you? My question to you is, how dare you. When you have been gifted the tool that we can experience the infnite. How could you? How could you have afforded to allow yourself to be in doubt? Where was your focus? What were you thinking? What was going on? When in this vessel? When in this vessel, custom designed to enjoy, to experience that clarity. Designed, absolutely designed. Do you know? Do you know that whatever it is that you have been looking for has never been far from you. Do you know? Or have you only believed it? It's a big chasm between belief and knowing. Two do not equal, the same. Know. Do you know this is certain, not uncertain. Certain. That's how it has to be. Not too many people will tell you this. People will tell you contrary to this, compromise a little bit. It's okay. You know, once in a while we get confused. That's alright. Up and down. People go "That's life." I hear that so much. I don't say anything. People go, "you know, things are bad, things are-that's life." That's not life. That's not life.

What is life? You know, I'm gonna give you a new definition of life. This is the first time you would have heard it. Think of life like this. It is your opportunity to spend time with the best friend you have ever had. (some applause) It is your time. This chance to be with the ultimate clarity that there is in this whole universe. It is your chance to spend time with the ultimate kindness. It is your chance to spend time with the infinite. It is your chance to spend some time with the ultimate joy. It's a good one, huh? (laughter and applause) I've never said it. That's the beauty of speaking from the heart. That's what happens. And I'm so glad that I was able to come here and tell you this (applause) because now I'm going to think about this (laughter) for hours to come and for days. Its that what it is? That's what a life is. It's not promised to be forever but that possibility exists that you get to spend time with that. That is the most beautiful and that, that resides in your heart. If on this two day event, you don't remember anything. Fine. No problem. Just remember this and wherever you go and whatever takes place just remember this little thing that I said about what life really is. It's not ups and downs. They happened. Why do they happen? That's our doing, us, the human beings on the face of this earth through our unconsciousness for we allow greed and anger and fear and fear to overtake the sanity of being alive.

So this is the opportunity for every living being to spend some time with the Beloved. (applause) Get to know. Get to understand something. Get to feel. Get to be in gratitude. Get to rejoice. When of those things happen. You feel alive. That's when you begin to live. Everything. Such a dance. Such a movement. The most magnificent movement. It's the coming and going of this breath. This does not require a scripture to understand. It needs no proof. It needns no buildup. It's divinity. It's obvious. Is it obvious to you? The people in this world, they believe in scriptures. Certain people. Certain part of the world, actually world is becoming more and more global so certain people believe this is the word of God. Certain people believe no, this is the word of God and certain people believe no, this is the word of God and certain people believe no, this is the word of God and we believe that all this is the word of God. And then they come together and they fight with each other. But who fights? The scriptures or people? So I have a small test for this Rent a hotel room and put all the scriptures in that room, close the door, wait outside. You can put your ear to the door and see if you hear any bickering. Now take the scriptures out. Take them to a nice place. Bring the people who believe in these scriptures and put them in the same exact room, close the door and listen. And I can assure you you won't have to get too close to the door. You could probably be in the lobby of a 40 story high hotel. You will be able to hear them bickering and not only bickering but after a little while somebody throwing somebody out the window.

People say why does God make me suffer? God does not make you suffer. If God wanted to make you suffer. Oh man. (laughter) You know, your and my imagination is very limited but seeing the fact that there's a universe and all these galaxies and explosions and all of this stuff, places that are incredibly cold, incredibly hot, incredibly void of things. I mean, God just, you know, all of a sudden one day you find your head in the middle of an exploding star. That'd be painful. No. If there is suffering on the planet Earth, the suffering is brought very much by the people for the people. Never be a clearer example of that.

We are the ones in our social structures that set the expectation of how everything should be. You should be like this. You should be like this. You should for live for this long. You should look like this. You should look like that. Da da da da da ta ta ta. And then instead of recognising the blame and blaming each other. How stupid we are. We blame God. Why? Because that's easy. Because we know God isn't gonna come around and take us up on it. So what did you say? What did you mean by that comment? We know it. That's why we bicker in the name of God. That's why we bicker because we know God isn't gonna come around and say "What are you doing?"

One thing I find really fascinating is people who are really learned in the scriptures. I don't know how much they know of the scripture, but they know what everything is, on which page and verse number and chapter. (unintelligible) you know pay attention to what's written not where it is. (applause) o but it was written on page 10 and I'm like does it really make any difference? I mean is is the word of God diluted as it gets to the back of the book or gets better as it gets to the back. I mean, why are you interested in what page is that? Just to prove to other people that you have studied it because nobody looking at you would ever believe you have. This is what we do. Why are there problems in this world? Did God create them? No, we did, through our unconsciousness, through our greed. These are anger, fear. All these are by products of unconsciousness. Ignorance is a byproduct of unconsciousness. And we lose what the goal is. What the aim is, which is being planted exactly the same way in every single person on the face of this earth.

I know the way people react to this message. It's the same with whether they live in America, whether they live in South America, whether they live in Australia, whether they live in India because it's about human beings. This is who we are. Who are we? Many saints have said 'dirt'. I like that, 'dirt.' There are people go "I'm not dirt." Actually you are and most of this dust that you find offending in your home. You are the major contributor of that dust. When you go like this to your credenza and you say "Ah, that's dirty." Hey, a few days ago guess what? This was on you. Then you were using, depending on how much money you make, $5 $10 $2 $3 $4 bottle of perfume to make the stuff smell good. And if you are a lady $5 $10 $50 $100 $500 worth of cream to make the stuff look good. And now that it's not on you, you wanna throw it away. That's expensive stuff. The husband should go around collecting it and say "Honey, you know, here's that $500 worth of cream you bought the other day." No pick some of this stuff up. But we don't think like that. Ohthat's dirt. So what is it?

A person all of a sudden, they're not moving. Their eyes are open and they're not moving. Well, the-you know the eyes are still doing their thing. I mean, light is still going through, this is just the nerves aren't able to send it anywhere for it to get processed. The ears, the drum is still sitting there going drum drum drum. Before it used to be tied up to some nerves they could send it for processing. No, this skin still there. You can touch it. Feels cold but you can touch it. It's been touched but the nerves can't send it for processing, Processing? Processing? Is that who we are? So far this breath is coming and going, processing can take place. "I like. I dislike. I remember you. I know you. I know your name." So far this is happening. "I love you. I hate you. I don't like you. I love you. Does that one love us? ????? is this wonderful thing. You know da da to da." Is this person, till yesterday, I love this person, today, two days later "Whatever." Bury them in the cold, cold ground. Few flowers. Few nice words. That's love. That's what love is. So far it was breath is happening, nothing is bad, so far this life is dancing in you, nothing is bad. And if you could just know that is life is the chance. The opportunity to spend time with that, that which is true love, truest love, not conditional. Not about ifs. Somebody runs-I was talking to someone. They said, "Oh, you know those two really love each other." I said "Give them some time." (laughter) "They seem inseparable." Sure enough, ha ha after a few years, whatever, they were pretty much bitter enemies and why? Doesn't it all begin with the fancy and tata tata tata only if you knew the difference between lust and love and two are not the same.

There are people that you say to them or they say to me anyways "Oh, I am I am trying to work on having no selfless action." Ah noble, good, very high achievement. "Yes, yes." What does that mean. "Means whatever I do I don't wanna do it for myself. No selfishness. Nothing." Wow. That's amazing. Why are you doing it? "I can hear good. I have given up everything." Very good. "Why? So I can be happy." Oh you didn't give that up. There is a catch, 22, everywhere. Only catch 22 that does not exist is in here, no catch. You are. You exist. You are alive. Gather then your strength, gather your strength. Not your weakness. What is your strength? Your strength is consciousness, is consciousness. It's your strength. Kindness is not weakness. It is strength. Understand, that's your strength. Remember, that's your strength. Acknowledge, that is your strength. Rejoice, that is your strength. Love the one within. That is your strength. And when you come and when you walk the day, the moment, with these strengths the outcome will be beautiful. Then every time, every time that you will spend, every second, every nanosecond that you will spend with that beauty inside of you, you would have had achieved liberation. That is true liberation, to be lib-erated, to be freed.

People say "Oh liberation is so that I don't have to keep coming back and back and again and again and …" don't worry about that. (laughter) See. It's really cute because I mean you have to understand this, because you are dust and dust you will become again and since everything in this universe is made out of dust you will go because dust just keeps going on and then on and on. I mean, where will it go? You know something here and it's blown up. It becomes dust. One dust packed together and became something that is blown up and it becomes dust is speckled across like dust, dust, dust, dust and then it's brought back together and put it together or something but it's too dust and you are dust too. So will you go on? Of course you will go on. That's not liberation. That's not liberation. That's not salvation.

Feel freedom. I am free. Not because somebody told me "Now you are free." People come and say to me "Hey, it says in that scripture. We do this. Do this. Do this to this. Then you will be set free." That's freedom. No. Do you feel free? Have you felt true freedom? The day you feel that freedom, then you are free. Then you are free. You want true liberation. True liberation happens. (unintelligible). Remember now, you gotta understand certain things will manifest here and certain things manifest here. This understanding changes. It does. Right now somebody actually holds a record for growing fastest going on a motorcycle in the salt flats. I don't know who made it. I know somebody holds it and I also know there's about 7 or 8 people are working on breaking that record. So today you're understanding would be correct that is Joe so and so who is the fastest motorcycle guy. Tomorrow. When, you know, Miss so and so breaks it. (applause) When today's understanding will be wrong and whoever has the understanding that is now Miss so and so who broke the record would be right now.

Just recently, I mean I was in Europe and then I had to come do my training and when we were in training and all you you push this button and this is what happens and oh by the way in a few months this new software is coming out and then we push this button this won't happen, something else will happen. So you're like okay, that's a that's a third foxtrot and okay, okay alright then. But right now I'll go like this and this will happen. And then when I do this it's something else will happen. This changes day to to day to day. Not the most important. Not the most important. What you understand here, never changes. Never. Change. No change. Change. No change. Change. No change. Change. By now most people have it slightly backwards. Their story goes Change. No change. Change. No change. Change. No change. The end result, confusion. I've had their money on a change. Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh, but those two are inseparable. They're completely in luck. Cuban and little time. But here, not change this change change change change change change change and more change and more change and more change.

Understand then and you see you understood when I mentioned to you that life is an opportunity to spend the time with the Beloved, you understood that. You know why because you already knew that. It didn't have to be "But you know because it's written in chapter 45 and page 16 verse 3." Did not need any support nor did it need any credentials. I did not have to come here and say "I'm now, you know when I'm that's me and I'm gonna talk to you and and whatever I …" No. I said what I said and you understood because you knew, that's discovering, not creating. We're not here to create Knowledge. Nor we are here to create the experience of Knowledge. We are here to take away all that unprecious dust so that this can shine. That's all. That's all. And I think for those of you who were able to make it, it's it's an it's an incredible opportunity to spend some time with the one inside. How beautiful, how simple is that?

Some of you have been out of touch. The other day I was talking to some people and I was saying, you know, in America at one point in time there was a formula, the formula was a program in L. A program in Miami. A program in L. A program in Miami and add the whole country is covered. I disagree. I disagreed then and I disagree today. There are people who can't make it to Miami and we can't they make it to LA. They get left out. There are communities all over the place where people, people love Knowledge. If their physical circumstances don't allow them to come to the events and if they could, they would at a drop of a hat, so this year my tack has been, I'm going there. (applause)

It's what I've been doing. It's different. It's different. It's really different. It's really really different. So there isn't this big planning. It is one of the things I have realised and I knew this. This is why I understand it because the Area Managers actually have no clue of what's going on in the community. Zilch. Nada. The beginning of this year there-was the first event was going to be Israel so I was going to go Israel and I said "Well what is the need of the community I'll go and do a public event. He said "Yeah but I had heard that there was a lot of people … "You know, the last time I was there there was a lot of people who were out of touch and dada dada dah" "Oh yeah yeah." I said "Don't you think it'd be nice they could, they could have a separate session." "Yeah good idea. So we just do an event for them in the morning and then the public event in the evening." I said "No way. I'm not gonna do that. Why? I'm not getting any younger and there's no reason for it. Drive everybody nuts." So anyway we just kept going back and forth. I said "But what is your need? What about, what about these people and ??? told me there's a lot of aspirants. What about them?" "Oh yeah, yeah." Ended up, four day event. From one event, four day event and literally, you know, as you entered Israeli airspace you could feel the excitement. (laughter)

When I came to Europe, I was, I was in Europe, I was waiting because there's a event that had been scheduled in Palermo and then it wasn't going to happen because of the elections, so it's been postponed, now it's happening again but um it was like okay um I'm here um let's do something. Let's just let's go do some events. "Where we gonna go do your event?" "Where's the need?" So some Spanish they came back to me "Oh Madrid, Madrid, Madrid. I said "Why Madrid?" "Was very central for everybody." I said "You mean equally inconvenient." (laughter) So I have remembered, you know, I've been doing this for a long time and I remember, I remember people saying "Maharaji, please come to Belfast." I remember there was some Spanish premies. They were like "Please come to Bilboa. Please come to Bilboa." I said "Let's go to Bilbao." They've sent me an invitation. I said "I'm coming."

Berlin. Berlin. "Maharaji there's people here, you know, who can't travel they're old, they're poor and you haven't come to Berlin for a long time." Okay, I'm coming." Just like that. I mean no two week notice that you don't get, just 5, 6 day notice and they were so happy. They were telling me, "Very glad that you did it this way. This way we don't get time to do meetings and this and that (strong laughter) and we just get with it, find the hall and get with it." So it's all right in Germany it's all smiles.

Belfast, you just saw that in the news, you know, Maharaji come to Belfast. That was great, it was just absolutely great. I'm sitting there looking in the Chinese restaurant and the Chinese restaurant was called DUO. (strong laughter) I don't know if you picked up on it but it was a duo so there I am in this in this place and I'm looking at people, some of the people's faces. It was very intimate, you know, it wasn't very deep so the whole, the whole hall or the restaurant. I'm sitting there, I'm looking and it's like "Oh my God that's that person, wrinkles and grey hair and everything yet with the same enthusiasm, same excitement and happy that "Okay, you came."

To me, you know, that is so much fun, fun, because you're responding, for so many years I remember when when, when this is how tours used to take place. Boulder, you know he's sitting there. "Maharaji please come to such and such place" Um okay, go prepare and I'll be there. You know getting me a car and drive up and then the desire was, you know, we go to all these places, would be really nice to have the tools to be able to go to all these places. Then when we got the tools to go to all these places, we started doing them, not that way, and I'll tell you something, I mean, I just I did two events, one was in Bilbao, one was in Calpe, it was right after ended up driving to these places. It was a blast. It was a blast. We had a bus following us, you know, where all the crew and staff and everybody was in there and it was very, very nice bus and I was in a car we were driving and would meet up in different places and it was just it was a blast. What can I tell you is a lotta, a lotta fun. You get to slow down look at the scenery and go "Oh that's what Spain looks like" you know, rather than just every country's basically got little clouds, blue sky above and kinda grey green down below.

Just a blast and just got our invitation from India so I'm driving to the airport and I just sent an SMS to Deepak and I don't know what he was doing. I guess he wasn't asleep because he immediately answered me. I mean, I'm sitting in my car, SMS to him about the invitation I just received and he SMSs back with my answers to my questions and I'm like "Wow this is good, you know, this is good. I don't have to call him right here. He said SMS and great and you know I'm looking at my calendar but they want me to come, these won't be big events. It's hot in India right now. You basically don't need a stove to cook. Really. You don't um so you can you can cook a whole meal just just have your frying pan and just put them outside and you'd cook a whole meal but ah anyways that was the right question. I mean how will these events happen? So he said no both of them are in air conditioned halls. It's just like okay, at least the premies won't be uncomfortable. So, might go there. I don't know. I haven't told them yet and I don't want you to call them up and say (he laughs, crowd laughs) he wouldn't like that.

So so much, so much that is happening, so much that is beautiful and to be a part of this beauty in this life. That's all. You know, however long you have had Knowledge, your head is not being filled with thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of pages of stuff and worse numbers and chapters and no it's been very, very simple and the journey even as of today, I mean as of today things are pretty simple but I know it needs to be even simplified more. There is DVDs, people receiving Knowledge, amazing things are happening. You know when I first started making those Keys I said this will allow people to receive Knowledge in the middle of the desert. That was just a figure of speech. Literally, in the middle of the desert, Keys have allowed people to receive Knowledge. So see there is a God after all (laughter, applause) and I mean this, wonderful things, wonderful things, little-always, always, always the spring comes and brings with it this incredible opportunity and happening in so many places.

So at least, all the places I went to in England and then one place I did a event was Hinckley. So all these people who are either sick or too-or can't travel so I, I did an event for them and they're just so grateful, so happy that it happened. One thing I wanted to tell them and I managed to tell them was, you know, whatever effort you made because some of these people were very active in the 70s, I said, whatever effort you made, rest assured your effort has not gone stray. Due to that effort today there are forests and new saplings are starting everywhere and you know it it was, it was an amazing statement because just looking around, it was like, everybody, there wasn't a dry eye, it's just like yeah I I felt that you know I should thank them because they put in a tremendous amount of effort and there's a lot of people here, I see a lot of faces, the old timers old old old old old old old old (laughter) timers and you have put a lot of effort and your effort has not gone in vain. It's here, propagation is good, it's solid, people are enjoying Knowledge and more and more and more people are receiving Knowledge.

Words of Peace Global, remember there was a time when Mahatmas would come and inspire you to come and listen, come to the hall, come and listen well there's hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people who are listening to my message, Words of Peace, on their own. No premie contact, nobody told them to turn it on they did it, just like that guy from Kazakhstan you saw. On their own. So, what is the issue? The issue always is going to be, do you want to? That's all. Do you want to. If you want to, do it, do it, simple, very simple. Don't want to. I can't help you. I can't help you, you have to have the willingness then! Ha! Then, I can do wonders. (applause) You don't have the willingness and I have learnt to not drag a horse. Period. Forget about water. Do not drag a horse. It's not necessary. You will not succeed. Do not drag a horse. Wissdom gained. Now I had this wisdom when I was very young too. I would always say, you know, you don't want to do it, fine, don't do it. Do it No point is sitting over the fence. You're hurting the wrong part of your body. It didn't do anything wrong to you.

You know, problems begin here and you're hurting the opposite end. It's very unfair. It really is. So anyways have fun, you know, tomorrow is going to be beautiful, have fun. I'll be here and hopefully we'll have an opportunity to have expressions, have question and answers, whatever, but uh whatever you call them these days, keeps changing, ta ta ta ta ta, that's the spice of life. "Now we don't call that anymore." So enjoy, go inside, you know, I know there's a lot of people. da da da da da dad a da da dada There's lots to doing (car noises) You know. I, I, go out to dinner. Fine. You need to eat but uh be a little reflective because this moves too much anyways. And these things can't help it. They listen to whatever seems to be the loudest thing around. So be a little reflective because this is your life and this is your time, your opportunity, your chance to spend some time with the one inside. Do it. Do it. Whatever your problems are, whatever your worries are, whatever your reservations are, just, as I heard this, somebody say this in the training, so I'll say it here "Get over it! Just get over it!" New day, new beginning, you're here, begin, begin because you are all welcome. (applause) You are all welcome. Doors are open. I welcome you to the world of joy. So get over it and get on with it. So thank you very much and I'll see you tomorrow. (applause, shouting, whistling)