Amma / Bhagavan

NEW -- Sri Bhagavan's Message (March 7 2007)

The root cause of all suffering is the sense of separate existence. We have a divisive consciousness that
perceives things as the me and the not me, the mine and the not mine, as my people and yours, as my
nation and yours. Having divided all things, we feel threatened by the other. Fear in turn breeds war,
conflict and further forms of violence.

Are we then beyond redemption? Are we to remain a bunch of pessimistic philosophers or apathetic on-
lookers bemoaning our collective doom? Not necessarily.

We as a race are on the brink of a colossal transition from one of separation to that of Oneness. We
would awaken from darkness to light, from untruth to truth. We would realize the oneness of all living
things.

Though each of us may live different lives, located away from each other in space and time, we are
biologically, emotionally and spiritually one.

There is only one body. What happens to the animals in the seas, happens to us - men and women.
What happens to the forests happens to us in our bodies, since our bodies like the trees are made of the
same earth. Are not our bodies moving clay forms endowed with intelligence?

A conscientious effort at healing the earth would manifest as the ultimate healing of our own bodies.

There is only one mind. This is the mind that has flowed through our fore fathers, us and would in turn
continue to live through our children and their progeny. The collective torment or fear suffered by our own
brethren in one part of the world would manifest as sleeping or waking nightmares to someone else-
where in the world. Our pleasures and pains are interminably interlinked. We are one and cannot
continue to live any further in an illusion of separation.

There is only one consciousness. We live in a holographic universe. Every individual, awakening into
oneness is automatically affecting a few thousand people pushing them towards the only sane alternative
way of experiencing reality.

Our experience of reality having changed we would go on to discovering newer ways of living and loving.
We would create a better planet for the present and the future. This is our shared destiny.

- Sri Bhagavan

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Sri Amma Bhagavan's Messages on the occasion of World Oneness Day, May 20, 2007

Sri Bhagavan’s Address

The World Oneness Day shall bring about an end to human suffering. It shall also mark Man’s liberation
from the human mind. The human mind is a very ancient mind and it is the one mind. It has been so for
the last 2 million years. It is important that you realize that we cannot transform this mind, but we could
become free of the mind. Such a thing is going to start today. The Oneness Blessing will bring about a
new generation of human beings with a new outlook and a new sense of being world citizens concerned
with everything living on earth. It is your grave responsibility to make this happen. Amma and Bhagavan
would be giving you a very special Oneness Blessing with which your consciousness would rise to such
levels that you yourself would become Amma Bhagavan. Once you become Amma Bhagavan you will
become free of the tyranny of the human mind. What you would experience thereafter is unconditional
love, limitless joy and oneness. You are going to make this happen. We are going to give you this power
today and you are going to make this happen. And we are going to see the birth of a new age. So we will
be starting the Deeksha very soon after Amma has spoken in Telugu. Thank you so much. Thank you all
very very much. We feel completely one with you. You are in us; we are in you. You are Amma
Bhagavan; we are Amma Bhagavan. We will become one. There will be no more separation between us
starting from this very moment. It will snowball itself. So we will start very soon.

Sri Amma’s Address

When I look at all of you, I am unable to speak out of joy. Today is a festival day for the whole world. It is
the beginning of world transformation. You are all the children of Amma Bhagavan born in different
places and today we have brought you all to us again. You always think about the past, “Oh! My thoughts
are not alright; my behavior is not alright; would Amma Bhagavan’s divine grace really come into me?
Would we become like Amma Bhagavan?” You always keep suffering in this manner. In the struggle for
survival, innocence, love and values are being lost. I am well aware of this condition of yours!

Definitely, here this very moment we will make you all into Amma Bhagavan! Once Amma Bhagavan
come into you, we will bestow upon you the power to see Amma Bhagavan in every human being.
Thereafter, you will be able to love every living being, every individual. Such grace we would bestow
upon you!

Thereafter, we will increase the Deeksha power in you. Through you, we will create awakened beings in
this whole world. It is you who will transfer Oneness Blessings and create awakened people. Because of
you, the whole world would be awakened. This is the beginning of the Golden Age. Amma and Bhagavan
would come with you; we will reside in you.

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Kalki on The Significance of the Golden City and How enlightenment happens.

Kalki, or Sri Kalki Bhagavan, the founder of Golden Age Foundation, is considered to be the Kalki Avatar
capable of bringing enlightenment and to introduce the Golden Age. Here he is commenting on The
Significance of the Golden City.

Question: What is the significance of the Golden City -

Answer: There are certain energy lines flowing on the earth called grid lines. These are like latitudes and
longitudes. These grid lines can be measured by a special instrument known as the Laker antenna. We
have done a lot of work on this and have found out that f your chakras rotate at 33 times per second,
then you become enlightened. We have also discovered that by making the grid lines vibrate, we can
make the chakras rotate at that particular speed.

After scanning a number of places, we have discovered this place- the Golden City and some of the
major gridlines are surfacing from this place. It is here that we are building the temple. This structure can
hold 5 000 people. When 5 000 people will start meditating continuously in turns, (?) the grid lines will
start vibrating not just in G.C but across the globe, as the energies will rise due to the power generated
by meditation. These grid lines will in turn affect the chakras taking you into different states.

And also the Golden City, otherwise called as Global city, is constructed totally according to the Vaastu
that was revealed by me. This would enable to hold the auspicious energies and negate the negative
energies, so that it becomes easy for me to increase my grace thousand folds as the energy level of a
place is very essential for grace to come.

So let us say you are in Beijing and the vibrations are set in motion here, in Beijing you will start getting
experiences and then whatever should happen will start happening. Then, whether you like it or not you
will become enlightened. So, to make this happen we are building the Golden City. I want all of you to
come and meditate there once it is completed.

* * * This article was an excerpt from a meeting with Kalki.

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LIFE IS TO BE EXPERIENCED

An old man had lived most of his life on what was considered to be one of the loveliest islands in the
world. Now that he had returned to spend his retirement years in the big city, someone said to him, “It
must have been wonderful to live for so many years on an island that is considered one of the wonders of
the world”

The old man gave that some thought, then said, “Well, to tell you the truth, if I had known it was so
famous I would have looked at it.”

Life is meant to be experienced. Man over the last few thousand years, has lost the art of experiencing.
The human body is the most complex and the most wonderful in creation. The complex nervous system
is designed for a rich experience in life.

There was once a young boy who asked a question to Sri Kalki in one of His darshans, “Bhagavan, What
is life?”

Bhagavan said, “A living person would not ask this question. Life is not a puzzle to be solved but a
mystery to be experienced.”

Living life is possible only when we experience our life. In a constant endeavor to avoid suffering and
make pleasure last forever; we are dead to life. In daydreaming we are dead to reality.

LEARNING IS UNLEARNING

A scholar came to meet a wise master in quest for knowledge. “Master I have traveled a great distance to
meet you with the desire to drink from your ocean of knowledge. Please enlighten me.”

The master bade him to sit. He took a kettle from the table and poured the tea into an already full cup.
Startled at the master’s behavior, the seeker hurriedly reminded, “but the cup is already full…”

“So are you”, said the master unruffled.

Most often we listen to others full of our own ideas and concepts. We listen to ourselves. This inhibits our
learning. To learn one must first empty oneself of old concepts and ideas.

Sri Kalki says, “All learning is unlearning.” When we are stuck to our views what happens is mere
‘hearing’. Once you have labeled your colleague as injudicious, any suggestions coming from him
thereafter will sound irrational. You see his idea through the spectacle of your assumption about him. So
is it with all relationships. A husband turns a deaf ear to the agony of the wife, as she is labeled ‘silly’.
The suggestion of a child is most often ignored as being immature.

Lack of listening stems from ones ego which incessantly plays the game “I know better…” Taking
security on your knowledge or view, you refuse to accept anything that lies outside your domain of
knowledge, lest your ego might break. Not wanting to lose the battle you.prolong the argument even if
the truth were to stare at your face.

Without an open mind, progress in the material and spiritual planes is but a fantasy. A quick glance at the
lives of great men would reveal their tremendous humility. With humility comes listening and learning.

Sri Kalki says, “The first step towards listening is to become conscious that one is not listening.”

To be enlightened is to be liberated form the ego. Listening is natural for an enlightened man as all
struggle to prove himself ceases. He does not pollute facts with his assumptions

BECOMING

Once a king was approached by his friend and asked, “Sir! If you conquer Rome, what will you do next?”

The king replied, “Sicily is next door and will be easy to take?”

“And what shall we do after Sicily is taken?”

“Then we will move over to Africa and conquer it.”

“After Africa!” Sir

“The turn of Greece will come.”

“And what will the fruit of all these conquests be?”

“Then”, said the king, “We can sit down and enjoy ourselves.”

“Can’t we enjoy ourselves now?” said the friend.

This story is self-explanatory. The joy and peace one expects to find after the accumulation of wealth or
what one considers an ideal future can be attained now and here. Possession of wealth can help us to
enjoy a comfortable life. Possession of material wealth alone is not a criterion for relaxation and
enjoyment of life. By applying a little thought when one explores the inner world and the complex human
emotions one finds that most of human suffering is because a human ‘being’ is only constantly
‘becoming’.

Sri Bhagavan says, “Suffering is the movement from the ‘what is’ to the ‘what should be’ ”

This constant ‘becoming’, marks when one tries to move from jealousy to non-jealousy, from bad to
good, from foolish to intelligent, from imperfect to perfect, from profane to sacred is the struggle that has
gone on the human mind for thousands of years.

Sri Bhagavan says, “Embracing yourself as you are is the first step and the last step. You must be who
you are. What you should be is not important. Who ever you are, you are unique. The universe has made
you like that. God has made you like that. Why do you disturb His work? To surrender to God is to be
yourself.”

To be yourself is to be enlightened.

CARRY OVER

A Sadhak once asked his teacher, “Master, Why can’t I remain peaceful, in spite of doing so many
spiritual sadhanas. Why can’t I be devoid of suffering in spite of reading so many spiritual books and
listening to

religious discourses? Is enlightenment possible for such as I?”

‘To be liberated from suffering you must first understand what suffering is’. Sri Bhagavan says, “Suffering
is nothing but the continuous thought processing that happens in the mind over an event or incident of
the past. Suffering is nothing but the ‘carry over’ of the past events of our life.

There are two kinds of people who have walked on these sands, enlightened and unenlightened.
Enlightened ones are those who are ‘ordinary’ and unenlightened are those who are ‘extraordinary’ (extra
suffering). An enlightened one, does not suffer because he is constantly living in the present,
experiencing every bit of what life is offering him. But for those who are unenlightened, life itself is
reduced to nothing but suffering.

To be aware is to be enlightened. The whole purpose of life itself is to live life moment to moment. If one
observes the thought process in oneself, then it can easily be discovered that the ‘CARRY OVER’ is the
suffering. For instance, there were two friends who were very close right from their childhood. Out of
sheer misunderstanding, they landed in a bitter quarrel and they broke up. The fight by itself is nothing
but mere ‘calling names’. But it doesn’t end there, the event continues to plague the mind, be it at
kitchen, office, watching TV or even at a party! It follows… It continues. The suffering springs only when
our mind indulges in unnecessary thoughts about living in past or future, without living in the present.
This constant commentary or dialogue in the mind is the cause for all suffering, where even after an
event has ended, it is continued within where we still talk to the other person, who has hurt us.

An enlightened person experiences everything, which makes his life rich, eternal and ever fresh, but for
an unenlightened, life is mechanical and repetitive, hence boring. One who is enlightened enjoys the ice
cream whereas one who is unenlightened does not enjoy the ice cream because he would be busy with
the question – who made the ice cream? Which factory? Which cow’s milk? Which grass did the cow
ate? One who is living will never question the purpose of life. Why would he! He is only experiencing.

Now the question is how to end this unnecessary thought process. Any effort in this direction is a futile
endeavor, because any effort to silence the mind would only create more noise - “THOUGHT CANNOT
END THOUGHT”.

Buddha was Buddha not because he read books. Venkataramana didn’t become Ramana Maharishi
because he attended religious discourses. Enlightenment is something that is beyond the purview of the
mind. It is not transformation within the mind; Enlightenment is a state where you transcend the mind and
its limitations. Such a happening is a benediction.

SELF CREATED SUFFERING

It was lunch time at the factory and a workman opened his lunch box dolefully. “Oh! No”, he said aloud,
“Brinjals and Dal again!”

This happened a second, third and fourth day. Then a co-worker who had heard the mutterings of the
man said, “If you hate Brinjals and Dal so much, why don’t you get your wife to make some othert ypes?”

“Because I am not married. I make the Dal and Brinjals my self.”

Does the word “Self-created-miseries” ring a bell? Sri Bhagavan says, “Most of human suffering is only
self-created miseries. Life is naturally occurring but you make even a simple incident complex. Once an
image forms in your mind that my wife doesn’t love me, even an eye movement is enough to drive you
into frenzy. Consider the case of a young man who was sacked from his job. He thought of living with his
friend whom he had helped out once before. He was happy with these thoughts until he was assailed by
another thought that said, “What makes you so sure that he will have you with him?”

“Why wouldn’t he”, said he heatedly to the thought, “after all it was I who advanced him the money to pay
his rent for the first six months, surely the least he could do is put me up for a week.” That settled

the matter until after dinner, the thought again peeped, “If suppose he refuses...”

“Refuse?” said the young man. “Why in God’s name would he refuse? The man owes me everything he
has. It is I who got him his job; who introduced him to that lovely wife of his, who has borne him three
sons he glories in. Will he grudge me a room for a week? Impossible!”

That settled the matter until he got to bed and found he couldn’t sleep. The thought continued to stay,
“How the hell could he refuse? If he is alive today it is because of me. I have saved him from drowning
when he was a kid. He wouldn’t be ungrateful.”

But the thought was persistent “Just suppose…” Poor man struggled within as long as he could. Finally
he got out of the bed around two in the morning went over to where his friend lived and kept his finger
pressed against the door bell button till the friend, half asleep, opened the door and said in astonishment,
“What is it! What brings you here in the middle of the night?” The young man was so angry by now he
couldn’t stop himself from yelling, “I’ll tell you what brings me here at this hour of the night! If you think I
am going to ask you to put me up even for a single day, you are mistaken. I don’t want to have anything
to do with you. To hell with you.” With that he turned to his heel and turned away.

See this event in your relationships? Maybe in varying degrees? As long as the mind is alive you cannot
but relate to your own mind and its images and hence create suffering for your self.

Sri Bhagavan says, “To be Enlightened is to relate to reality and not to your interpretation of reality.”

Unless you are free of your mind, your life would be repetition of the above-mentioned incident.

CHANGING THE PROBLEMS

An incident soon after World War II:

A London bus conductor noticed a passenger with a heavy parcel on his lap.

“What’s that you have there?” he asked.

“An unexpected bomb fell near my house. I am taking it to the police station.”
“Good God! You don’t want to carry a thing like that on your lap man! Put it under your seat!”

Man is involved in a similar task, don’t you think? In solving the problem he is only changing the
problems. Problem here doesn’t pertain to the physical world where food, clothes and shelter are
concerned. It refers to the frameworks of the mind.

Sri Bhagavan says, “The human mind cannot live in guilt. Therefore it creates a lie and then goes on
repeating the lie to itself until it believes in it.”

We have a few values in life, which, due to a variety of reason we are not able to follow. Once it goes
against our existing frameworks, we cannot accept, since acceptance has never been our nature. We
can accept only that which is good, hence justify our actions in myriad ways; creating new frameworks.

We successfully manage to explain things to ourselves. We create lies, which are conveniently forgotten
and believe them to be the truth, whenever the truth is disturbing. This is the game man is playing.

Transformation within the mind is impossible. You can rearrange the furniture but cannot empty the room
of furniture. Any new framework only postpones your freedom from the mind.

To be free of the mind is to be enlightened.

FREEDOM FROM NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

Every one of us is basically in searching for

1. A God who can fulfill our desires.

2. A State of mind where there is no suffering.

We are frustrated with our unfulfilled desires and our mind prevents us from enjoying what we already
have. In spite of having many comforts we are not comfortable today. Basically we are not comfortable
with ourselves. We are tormented by various emotions like anger, hatred, jealousy, fear, comparison etc.,
which does not allow us to live peacefully.

Every one of us has tasted moments of pleasure and pain. Pain is unpleasant experience to every living
creature.

How about pleasure?

Let us observe the most intense pleasurable moments of our life. Moments when our son hugged you
and whispered in our ears, “Mom, I shall never leave you. I will look after you all my life.” Or, those
moments when we were recognized as the best performer in our company and given an award in the
presence of a few hundred people. Even a little awareness will reveal to us the accompanying fear with
the pleasure. Even in our son’s loving embrace our mind starts speaking, “Will this love really last
forever? Is it true? What if it changes?” They day after we receive your award, if you find somebody else
in your organization proving their efficiency, there arises an immediate fear of him excelling us and taking
over our hard earned position.

With fear, comes the accompanying sisters – jealousy, hatred, frustration, lack of love … so next time we
see our colleague the fear inside us, will make us compare at every step leading to jealousy and
gradually to hatred.

One can be liberated from these negative emotions only through the liberation of the mind itself, because
the mind is the storehouse of all these negative emotions. Liberation from the mind is Enlightenment or
‘Jeevan Mukthi’. It is the cessation of all conflict, of all suffering and the beginning of ecstasy, tranquility
and auspiciousness.

This altered state of consciousness which as a prerogative of a few saints and sages of the past is now
being given to men and women from ordinary walks of life by the Divine Avathars, Sri Bhagavan and Sri
Bhagavathi Padmavati Devi.

Sri Bhagavan says, “Man deserves to be happy.” To end man’s suffering and to take man into this Divine
state of existence has been the only desire of Sri Bhagavan and Sri Padmavati Amma from childhood.
Sri Bhagavan says, “Enlightenment is the only solution to all problems faced by man today –
economically, socially and spiritually.”

THE POWER OF THOUGHT

Many a times, in different phases of our lives when anything significant happens, the question that is
uppermost in our minds is, “why me?” Why is it that I am faced with a particular set of situations in life? In
particular when the situation is of negative nature the tendency of man is either to blame others or to
blame

God for whatever is happening. But in actuality who is responsible for what is happening to us? Are the
external factors in control or are we responsible for it ourselves?

One Sri Bhagavan says, “We are the architects of our life”. We are completely and totally responsible for
whatever is happening in our lives. Mind and matter are connected. Mind influences matter and matter
influences mind. The power of mind over matter is the power of creative thought. This universe runs on
certain laws and principles, which are the basis of human existence. For the external universe it is the
laws of science and for life it is the laws of karma that are operational. of the principles of Karma says,
“Yad bhavam Tad bhavathi” – (you become what you think). The world is a manifestation of our inner
state. The situations we come across, the people we meet, the problems we confront, and the varieties of
life experiences we have a projection of what lies with in. In other words we create our Reality. We are
the architects of our Destiny. Perceptions are filters, filtering the experiences we have reality. And the
perceived Reality eventually becomes a manifested Reality. You become what you think. We find what
we perceived. Thought is immensely powerful. It has the power to create. Every time we perceive;
harbour a thought containing a charge or emotion, the process of creation has been set into motion. An
arrow has been released into the ethereal planes, the thought sphere. Once released the “law of
attraction of homogeneous species” takes over. This thought attracts all similar thoughts. All the similar
arrows bundle up and when the threshold is reached, the “law of Reciprocal action” is in motion. The
thought you unleashed has now materialized into deed. You reap what you sow many times over. If the
arrow you released was judgment, you will come across judgmental people. If it was betrayal you shall
be betrayed, if it was hatred, you will be hated, if you have feared that situation will manifest and so on.

“Why did this happen to me?” is no more a paradox. You created it for yourself. We are not perceptive
enough to see the relationship between the thought and deed. Perhaps the time lapse between the two is
too much for us to keep a track. From thought to deed, it may take a week, a month, a year, a decade or
more. As a young girl Seema always used to think that people don’t realize her worth only if she falls sick
or she is not around anymore. With the passage of time, as she got married those thoughts left her. But
then just as the time came when she had a good life with her husband and children, she was struck down
with cancer and no amount of treatment could cure her.

Constant review of our lives will help us see the connection. The speed of reciprocation depends upon
the evolution of the individual. Sometimes reaching the threshold point could mean a lifetime or more. If
we do not find answers to our questions even after examining our lives in the light of these cosmic
principles, only the “theory of reincarnation” can explain the rest.

The whole process of the thought materializing into deed is a karmic cycle. Our life is a series of karmic
cycles. An awareness of these eternal laws gives us the power to alter the course of karma but not while
in the midst of a karmic cycle. We have the power of wisdom and choice of freewill to review and make
changes to our life but not before the cycle comes to an end. A frog in mid air cannot alter the course of
its flight. However, on landing it can choose the direction of its next leap.

When we ask the question “why is the world so bad?” the world we see is a manifestation of our negative
thoughts and emotions. But then many a times we find that in spite of our best efforts to think positively,
the mind tends to move towards the negative. What does one do then?

Ultimately as wise doctors always say, “Prevention is better than cure” – real prevention is possible only
through true transformation or flowering of the heart. Sri Bhagavan says, “If you discover love you shall
know exactly how to live”. But this love is not a matter of cultivation but a happening that occurs only
through the intervention of the Divine Grace. To discover love is to be enlightened. And this man cannot
make it on his own; it has to be given to him.

EMBRACING YOURSELF

A man who took great pride in his lawns found himself with a large crop of Dandelions. He tried every
method he knew to ge t rid of them. Still they plagued him.

Finally he wrote to the Department of Agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed
his letter with the question, “What shall I do now?”

In due course the reply came, “We suggest you learn to love them.”

I too was greatly proud of my goodness, nobility and God fearing nature, until I found a great shadow
lurking within me. It was a series of accidents that led me to the doorsteps of Sri Bhagavan.

For the first time ever I came face to face with myself. I thought I did not have jealousy, frustration,
discontent and fear. To my great surprise I found I had jealousy, fear, discontent and frustration. I thought
I was beyond selfishness while Sri Bhagavan showed me that behind every action of mine there was a
self. Sri Bhagavan showed me that the ‘Rama’ that I thought I was, never existed. I was a Ravana. I’ll
repeatedly say to my son, “Son, you have to study well and hold a good position in the society. I want
you to be happy in life. I love you very much. I don’t want you to suffer.”

my eyes. The It was not fatherly love that made me say them, instead my own traumas and insecurity
and the fear of ridicule from friends and relatives, acted behind the scene. Darshan was coming to a
close.

Suddenly Sri Bhagavan spoke from within, “Embracing yourself is the first and the last step.” The Lord
fell silent. That minute the gates of paradise opened up in me. A joy beyond everything that I have ever
known coursed through my body. As Sri Bhagavan left I found myself dancing in ecstasy. I danced my
jealousy, I danced my selfishness, I danced my anger, I danced my frustration. This joy stays with me till
today.

In my office as I perform my duty I find jealousy, fear and anger racing through me and I dance them.
People around me join me in my dance. I am four times as efficient as I was before and still I am left with
a reservoir of energy when I go to bed.

GOD IS WHAT YOU WANT HIM TO BE

A thief entered a village in search of new people to burgle. As he entered the village he saw the village
temple thronged by hundreds of eager ears listening to a lecture by the Pundit on the life of Sri Krishna.
The thief also sat among the crowd with the motive of looting a few innocent people. The pundit was
describing the beauty of Krishna and Balarama, their appearance, their dress and their jewels. Mistaking
them for rich landlords of the village, the thief desired to thieve them. At the end of the session the thief
stopped the pundit and threatened him to reveal Krishna and Balarama’s address. Though the pundit
tried to convince that they were after all the celebrated Avathara Purushas of the past and did not exist
now, the thief did not sway. The thief also promised him a share of the loot if successful.

Wanting to escape the lunatic and uneducated thief, the pundit gave him a far off address and walked
home to safety. The thief earnestly set off in search of the place and reached there after a tiring two-day
journey.

Seated under a banyan tree he anticipated their arrival. And they did come! Krishna and Balarama
grazing their herd of cows and dressed exactly as described by the pundit appeared on the scene. The
thief was jubilant on seeing their dress and their shimmering jewels. He went near them and said, “Hey
you both. Give me all your valuables.” Krishna and Balarama smiled at each other and readily gave away
all their jewels and continued their way.

The triumphant thief, as promised, hurried back to pundit and narrated the event that transpired after
their conversation. The pundit was alarmed. The description that the thief gave was unmistakably that of
Krishna and Balarama. The thief indeed had the Darshan of his beloved Krishna! With tears of anguish
the pundit sent away the thief asking him to keep his share of loot too.

That night the pundit could not sleep. He was deeply pained. He being an erudite and a great devotee of
Krishna was not blessed with His Darshan, whereas the thief who was uneducated and was unaware
even of the existence of Krishna (leave alone being his devotee) had seen Him. “Hey Krishna, why this
injustice to me? What is wrong with my devotion?” he wept within himself.

That night Krishna appeared in his dreams. With a benevolent smile adorning his lips Krishna caressed
his pained devotee and said, “Though you have been worshipping me all your life, you never believed
that I could appear to you, talk to you and play with you. You worshipped me as an idol, never as a God
with life. Those who seek me with their whole heart shall attain me. I am what my devotee wants me to
be.”

“God”, says Sri Bhagavan, “Is what you want Him/Her to be.” The Hindus most aptly describe him as
“Bhaktha Paradheena” and “Yathokthakari”, the one who is dependent on the perception of his devotee
and the one who does as bidden.

The amount of grace you receive depends upon your perception and discovery of God. “To each
according to his measure” is the law that works here. There are some devotees in whose houses Sri
Padmavati Amma and Sri Bhagavan manifest and eat the food offered to them. Such is their faith, while
others wallow in doubt – Is this possible in my case? With bigger problems accompany more doubts.
Remember, a problem is big or small only in your view. For the Lord curing the incurable AIDS and
driving off a small headache is just the same!day, Sri Bhagavan and Sri Padmavati Amma shatter all our
ancient and erroneous concepts about God. Sri Bhagavan says, “Create your own God.” If you feel ‘your’
God is all-powerful to do anything for you, He will be that to you. If you strongly believe that your God can
make you a billionaire overnight, or that He can clear all your debts in one day, it will be so. Creating your
own God does not mean actually producing a God. It is like a potter making use of the shapeless clay to
create masterpieces. The clay is already there; he only shapes it.

The idea of a judgmental God - the God who rewards the good and the God, who reprimands the bad,
makes us feel unworthy of the desire we pray for. Most often one feels undeserving. Namadev, the great
devotee, when challenged by the king to bring back a dead cow to life, asked for three days time. After
three days of desperate and incessant prayers, Krishna, his God, performed the miracle on the last
minute of the third day. The furious Namadev asked Krishna, “Krishna! What would have happened if you
hadn’t come? Why did you make me desperate when you could have done it immediately?” Smiling,
Krishna said, “It is you who gave me three days time!”
The Lord’s grace is like a vast ocean. One can take whatever he likes. One can sit on the shore and
collect shells. One can go further still and catch a fish. Or one could dive deep and bring back a pearl.
The Lord has an ocean to give. Don’t come with teaspoons.

PURPOSE OF LIFE-BOND WITH GOD

Once, a Rishi of forbidding appearance arrived at the doors of the palace. No one dared to stop him as
he made his way right up to the throne on which the saintly Kind Janaka sat.

“What is it you want?” asked the king.

“A place to sleep in this lodge, inn”

“There is no lodge. This is my palace.”

“May I ask who owned this palace before you?”

“My father. He is dead.”

“And who owned it before him?”

“My grand father. He is dead too.”

“And this place where people stay for a short while and move on – did I hear you say it was not a lodge?”

Have you taken birth to study, to get married, to beget children, to earn for them, get them married, play
with your grand children and die? Does human existence only sum up to work and money or a good
name in society?

“You have come here to discover love and a communion with God”, says Sri Bhagavan. Life is throwing
at you problem after problem, so that you will learn these two lessons. However, you do not face them.
Instead of confronting, you escape from the problem thus landing in a more severe crisis and going
farther and father away from love and God.

Only when you discover a bond with God, a personal relationship with Him/Her, you will be liberated from
your Karma. This relationship is necessary not only for those few who have chosen spirituality as their
path.

You could be a student seeking a glorious future or a graduate searching for a job, a well-settled
engineer or doctor, a housewife, businessman; it is you who need this relationship with God more than
anybody else. Without this communion your heart cannot flower and you will remain forever the victim of
Karma and suffering.

Are we, what we choose to be in any moment? Is intelligence the degree to which we can expand and
connect to a vaster intelligence and consciousness in any moment?

Our culture has a serious misunderstanding of intelligence and the workings of the mind. In truth, our
intelligence extends the depth and breadth of the universe and anyone, of any age, of any measurable
IQ, can access this intelligence.

Do you truly understand the implications of this? Any child can know anything they want, from any time,
on any subject. Any person can ascertain the true meaning of situations as they arise, seeing the depth
and breadth of possibilities and potential in every moment. This is actually the truth of our human
capacity for intelligence…it stretches way beyond the limits that we’ve lived under so long. It’s time to
break the myth of IQ, to extend the mind into the ‘great unknown’ and make it the ‘very well known’ for us
all.

In the past, we were locked away in an individualistic and mind oriented culture, so how could we know
there was so much available to us? These abilities are a part of our natural birthright. All human beings
can read the sensory input around them. Many people already have access to these abilities. In fact,
some have had them all their lives.

Is intelligence a matter of cultivation through effort? One can accumulate knowledge through effort.
Knowledge and intellect can give one a cutting edge over others in this competitive world but then
intelligence is a totally different ball game. A person who functions from knowledge is functioning from
the past memory, as knowledge is only what is already known. Intellect being the quality of the brain will
function only within the frameworks of the brain.

Let us look at the instances of people who have had access to this intelligence. The best example one
can find is of the rishis of the Vedic times. In a recent convention held at California about maintaining
ecological balance and conserving natural resources, various deliberations were held on the best
methods to protect our environment from further pollution and to save the planet. Finally some
resolutions were formulated. Towards the end of the convention a paper was presented by a group of
Indian scientists, which was on the basis Vedic suktas. Astonishingly all the resolutions passed coincided
exactly with the contents of Indian scriptures- mainly the Bhu Sukta.

Intelligence is tapping into the unknown. It is that flash of insight that made Archimedes scream “Eureka”
while lying in the bathtub. It is that dream which Kekule had of the snake swallowing its tail, which led to
the discovery of the structure of the benzene ring. It is that experience of cosmic consciousness that led
Einstein to the discovery of the theory of relativity.

One can clearly see that this intelligence did not happen through effort but it simply happened when the
individual after all effort gave up and became empty. It was then that the cosmic intelligence or God
worked through him and great things happened. Ramanujam, the mathematical genius had the
Antaryamin (indwellers) of the goddess ‘Namagiri’ who gave him various mystical experiences and
revelations that led to great discoveries. Einstein when asked, “Do you believe in God? is believed to
have replied, “You Fool! I don’t believe in God, I know God exists!”

The Antaryamin or cosmic intelligence is immanent in every being in creation. It is this intelligence that
protects and nurtures all creatures on the planet. The response to crisis for all species is guided by this
intelligence. Japanese crabs when faced with the crisis of extinction due to excessive fishing for
consumption acquired the design of a Japanese face on their crust (shell).

It is only for the human species that this intelligence is not activated, as he is not in communion with the
Antaryamin.

When God awakens as the Antaryamin, He becomes the inner guide, teaching, nurturing and helping the
individual to achieve his highest potentials. The devotees of Sri Bhagavan and Sri Padmavati Amma who
are in intimate communion with their Antaryamin have had experiences where Sri Padmavati Amma and
Sri Bhagavan have mystically guided them through varied situations in life and they have emerged
victorious with solutions so unique, that one can know it has not been achieved through human effort.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

A philosopher who had only one pair of shoes asked the cobbler to repair them for him.

“Its closing time”, said the cobbler, “So it won’t be possible for me to repair them now. Why don’t you
come for them tomorrow?”

“I have only one pair of shoes and it won’t be possible for me to walk without shoes.”

“What! Wear someone else’s shoes? What do you take me for?”

“Why should you object to having someone else’s shoes on your feet when you don’t mind carrying other
people’s ideas on your head?”

“Truth when it is not yours”, says Sri Bhagavan, “still remains untruth.”

Several years ago, a sincere Buddhist practitioner came to meet Sri Bhagavan. He was a system’s
analyst highly reputed for his keen intelligence. He had practiced meditation for years and was well-
versed in many schools of philosophical thought. However, as he sat in front of Sri Bhagavan that day he
was in great distress. He asked Sri Bhagavan, “Lord, I had done spiritual sadhana for the past twenty
years. Before two days I saw my wife being excessively friendly with a friend of mine. Intense jealousy
arose in me. Remembering that these things are transient I immediately came to terms with it. It is not
causing me pain now. Nevertheless I am extremely sad that I haven’t made much progress.”

Sri Bhagavan said to him, “When you are not enlightened, don’t behave like an enlightened person. You
will be miserable. When you are not a Buddha do not behave like a Buddha. The Buddha was free of
craving because that was his natural state; he had a profound insight that altered his consciousness. To
a Christ compassion was his most natural state of existence. None of these saints and sages practiced
the insights and got into the state. They got there through grace. Well! The rest of humanity is seriously
practicing compassion and love. Is it ever possible? Can a horse ever become an elephant? Sri
Bhagavan had further guided him about his personal inner calling that would push him towards greater
wealth, fame and harmony in his relationship.

Truth however profound will only remain untruth if it is not backed of a personal experience that comes
through grace. Only a personal experience would lead to God realization or Enlightenment.

A DIVINE EXPERIENCE

It is known to everyone that ‘Mind is a monkey!’ The mind continuously plans or broods over something
or the other or it has been thinking repeatedly about events that are going to happen in the future or
those events that have taken place in the past. However, all experiences and feelings that occur to us
might not happen as we planned or we determined. All feelings rise automatically. That is we do not plan
and resolve - I am going to be happy

today, or I am going to show anger, or I am going to feel grief! These feelings arise in us naturally and
automatically according to each situation.

Therefore, if we wish a change in our feelings, perception, intentions, motives, opinions, we must first
realize that it is not possible through human effort. If there is to be a real transformation, we must have a
divine experience. The main reason for our suffering is lack of divine experience.

On several occasions, it seems to us as if our life lacks enthusiasm or as if something is missing, or life is
not fulfilled. A feeling of emptiness, alienation, loneliness occurs in our heart. We might work in the midst
of many in an office or be in the company of many friends. When we are with our relatives in our family
too, we are affected by the sense of loneliness. Something divides others and us.

Surrounded by mountains in a marvelous environment, listening to the chirping sound of birds, near a
crystal clear stream, we forget ourselves and enthusiastically enjoy the nature. But even this will last only
for a few minutes. There also, the same sense of loneliness shows its ugly face again. It looks as if we do
not belong to this place. There arises a thought that we are only a visitor. Something obstructs us from
mingling with others, nature and the world. We may share something with others. But, there are many
things buried inside that cannot be shared with others. The reason why we have the feeling of being an
‘individual’ is – we do not have any divine experience.

Anger

There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time
he lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail in the back fence.

The first day, the boy had driven thirty-seven nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He
discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came
when the boy did not loose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the
boy was to pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the
young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took the son by the hand and led him to the fence. “You have done well, my son”, he said.
“But look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they
leave a scar just like this one.”

This is a traditional story that has been told and retold, heard and reheard, for thousands of years in India
and also the world. Right from our childhood we have been aspiring to be rid of anger. Every guru,
philosopher, or our own parents and grand parents have told us. But thinking a little deeper, is it as easy?
Sri Bhagavan, the Divine Avathar says, “Anger is man’s natural response to fear. Mind is fear. As long as
the mind exists fear exists and so anger exists. A complete liberation is possible only when you are free
of the mind. To be free of the mind is to be enlightened.”

It is absolutely necessary to be rid of anger, not because it is wrong or bad.

The holes made on the fence are the result of the nail. Similarly karma is the result of your anger for it
has caused pain. The more you acquire karma, the more you suffer. If you have to be free of suffering,
you have to be enlightened.

Gone are the days when man waited several life times doing severe penances and austerities to reach to
this state.

Antaryamin

A woman was leaning over the victim of a street accident and the crowd was looking on. Suddenly she
was roughly pushed aside by a man who said, “Step back, please. I have had a course in first aid.”

The woman looked on for a few minutes while the man got busy with the victim. Then she said calmly,
“When you come to the part where you have to send for the doctor, I am already here!”

The solution to any problem is always there with in you. Be it physical, psychological or spiritual, the
doctor for all these problems is within you in the form of your indweller. The Antaryamin. Do not waste
your time in looking for first aid.

Consider the case of this simple farmer, Srinivasa Reddy, from a remote village in Andra Pradesh. For
three consecutive years a severe drought had prevailed over those parts. The fourth year, supremely
happy at having received heavy and timely rains, the entire village had borrowed money from banks and
invested heavily on their paddy. Then to their horror, an unidentified pestilence struck, immune to all
pesticides, eating away the plants by the hour. The rich among them tried new pesticides for they had
money to experiment while the poor contemplated suicide. This poor farmer an ardent devotee of Sri
Bhagavan too was one among them. As a last resort, he went to the field, calling upon Sri Bhagavan
within his heart he said, “you are my father, you are my mother, you are my family, my kinsman, my guru,
my God. I beseech you protect me. Chanting his beloved Bhagavan’s Japa he went around the field a
number of times. The next day the entire village witnessed a miracle beyond everything. Lakhs of strange
birds descended upon his 10 acres of land, pecked away all the insects in 2 hours and flew away. While
thousands of acres were infected with the same pest, those birds were not found anywhere apart from
his land; neither were they found anywhere after that day. His field harvested a triple bumper crop. The
awestruck villagers too, realizing the power of his God came to a ‘Vara Oneness Blessing’ of Sri Amma
and sprinkled the Theertha (holy water) on their fields effectively ridding the village of the pests.

Sri Bhagavan says, “Formless as I am, I the Antaryamin shall awaken formless within you or in the form
you desire or the form I choose.”

A communion with the Divine or the Antaryamin is the surest way to be rid of suffering once and forever.

Expectation

A visitor to an insane asylum found one of the inmates rocking back and forth in a chair cooing
repeatedly in a soft, contented manner “Lulu … Lulu…”

“What is this man’s problem?” he asked the doctor. “Lulu… she was the woman who jilted him”, was the
doctor’s reply.

As they proceeded on the tour, they came to a padded cell whose occupant was banging his head
repeatedly against the wall and moaning, “Lulu…Lulu…”

“Is Lulu this man’s problem too?” asked the visitor. “Yes”, said the doctor, “He is the one Lulu finally
married.”

Pain is not only in not getting what you wanted, but in getting what you want too. Human relationships
have turned painful and stifling due to constant expectations. Sri Bhagavan says, “Expectation when not
fulfilled is pain, it leads to frustration and hatred. Expectation when completely fulfilled also is pain; it
leads to boredom. Hence most relationships become old and insipid. We thereafter search for new
pastures in the need of fulfillment and pleasure. The very process of expectation is pain. Life appears to
be one long process of waiting.”

All so-called love is only mere attachment. Attachment and hatred are two sides of the same coin. We
find ourselves entangled in emotions like jealousy, anger, hatred etc. An insecure person is an unhappy
person and hence creates unhappiness for his or her near and dear ones.

Fear

A king ran into a Fakir and in keeping with the custom when a king met a subject he said, “Ask for a
favor.”

The fakir replied, “It would be unseemly for me to ask a favor of one of my slaves.”

“How dare you speak so disrespectfully to the king”, said a guard man. “Explain yourself or you shall die.”
The fakir said, “I have a slave who is the master of your king.”

“Who?”

“Fear”, said the fakir.

If we search the depths of our hearts we come face to face with the fact that we are zeros. We are empty
inside. Be it a prime minister or a petty laborer, every man feels empty. Man cannot face this emptiness.
So he creates any number of images and imaginations about him and the world around. In our
relationships, in our workplaces and in the society at large we try to be something; to project to the near
and dear ones an image of a good man, a humble man, an intelligent man, an integral man.

A lot of effort foes into keeping this image intact. However life is a strange thing. Whenever something is
founded on untruth it goes on to give you a blow, pushing you towards truth. Its constant endeavor is to
show you ‘you are a zero’.

When the image you have created within and outside of yourself faces the threat of a collapse or crashes
then fear arises in you. That is why Sri Bhagavan says, “Mind is fear. Fear is never in the action. It is only
in the anticipation. Mind is an amplifier. It controls and manipulates life.”

Enlightenment is liberation from the mind.

Enlightenment is liberation from fear.

Karma

Once a master, a confirmed atheist was traveling with a servant along a forest route. The servant
happened to be a great devotee who worshipped ardently, the divine mother as Devi. Now it so
happened that just near the vicinity of an old Devi temple the master and the servant were overcome with
a strong urge to attend to nature’s call. Without any qualms the master began to urinate on the temple
walls not deeding to the distraught servant’s pleas. Upset, the servant walked a long distance alone, far
away from the temple and emptied his bladder.

While going back to his master a sharp thorn pricked his feet and blood gushed out. Just then the master
came bounding to him holding aloft three bars of gold. “Look what I found while was coming back.” And
looking at the servant’s bleeding feet, “Didn’t I tell you God didn’t exist, Ha, Ha … look what you got for
your devotion.”

The greatly distressed servant for a moment was swayed by the master’s words. But his inbuilt devotion
surfaced and soon the doubt converted itself into a fight with God. He began to scold the Devi for having
let him down.

That night the Devi appeared in his dream and said, “According to your master’s good karma he was
supposed to find an enormous treasure but the profane act of his reduced it to three gold bars. While
your own bad karma was supposed to bring you death in the form of a snake bite, your devotion reduced
it to just a thorn prick and disappeared.”

Karma is both ‘action’ and the ‘fruit of your action’. Sri Bhagavan says, “Karma is a set of laws. The first
law states ‘As you sow you shall reap but many times you reap.’ There are no violations to this law. If
suffering it is that you have caused to others then suffering you shall reap. While the law itself cannot be
violated, the blow can be minimized to a great deal with devotion to God. One’s failure to recognize God
and lack of bond reduces even the pile of good karma that one has accumulated for one self.

Conditioning

A bear paced up and down the twenty feet that was the length of his cage.

When after five years, the cage was removed, the bear continued to pace up and won those twenty feet
as if the cage were there. It was, for him!

So are we. We are prisoners of our conditioning. There is conditioning on the one hand, body on the
other, and witness consciousness on the other. What is more operational in ma today is conditioning. It
has completely suppressed the other two. It is the society with all divisions as the right and wrong, good
and bad that condition the individual to think, speak and perform in a particular pattern.

Sri Bhagavan says “There is nothing wrong with conditioning except that it stifles the heart and thereby
destroys intelligence and spontaneity in life.”

There is no scope for exploration and discovery. We become narrow in our perception. There is
suffocation because the response to every situation in life has been pre-fixed and pre-determined. You
are like a computer that is programmed. You have no freedom. A spacious mind is required for learning.
Only a mind that is capable of listening is capable of leaning and listening cannot occur if one is ready
with a response. A conditional mind has lost the flexibility of taking different positions. How often do we
find ourselves caught up in the game of right and wrong? There is confusion and conflict every time we
come across a new idea; a new concept, a new belief etc. We are hurt and afraid of giving up what we
believed to be truth. On the whole there is so much of unnecessary thought that drains our energy and
causes us to suffer.

Conditioning makes use of your life for its survival. To be free of conditioning is to be enlightened.

One Mind

There was once a candy maker who made candy in the shapes of animals and birds of different colours
and sizes. When he sold his candy to children, they would begin to quarrel with word such as these: “My
rabbit is better than your tiger. My squirrel may be smaller than your elephant but it is tastier…” and the
candy maker used to laugh at the children

Are we as grown ups less ignorant than the children when we think that one person is better than another
or still more fundamentally, different from another? This mind is the same for the entire humanity
irrespective of class, creed and color

The life experiences of a person, his past life traumas, his cultural conditionings and a multiplicity of other
factors may have designed him to be a considerate and sensitive and self sacrificing person while the
same variety of factors could have molded another to be aggressive and selfish. However, the
fundamental emotions namely fear, judgment, comparison, anger, conflict, discontent, frustration etc. is
common to all. The fear that you experience could be that of darkness while for another it could be of a
snake. Your desire could be that for a car while other’s desire could be of getting the first position in the
finals. You could be scared of humiliation while another could be scared of distrust. But fear itself is the
same in every human being. The desire, disappointment, anger, conflict, jealousy, greed, selfishness is
the same in all human beings.

Sri Bhagavan says, “There is only one mind. This mind is identical in everybody.”

It is ignorance to labor in the illusion that you are superior or inferior, great or small, perfect or imperfect,
while all that is there is this ONE MIND, in whose shackles and limitations man has forgotten Love and
God.An experience of Love and God is possible only when this mind is absent.

All the so-called virtues in the present state of man are only cultivated by the mind, which is a horror and
are as good as vices. Many times in the state of violence suppressed due to good conditioning, often
lands up in scolding and hurting the person within. Love that is a practice and forgiveness that is a matter
of policy are not real.

To be free of the mind is to be enlightened

Unconscious of Suffering

A fire broke out in a house in which a man was fast asleep. They tried to carry him out through the
window. No way. They tried to carry him out through the door. No way. He was just too huge and heavy.
They were pretty desperate till someone suggested, “Wake him up, then he’ll get out by himself.”

“Man is unconscious”, says Sri Bhagavan. “There is enormous suffering in every individual. Like the rats
that eat away the hands of a leper and he is unconscious of the bite having lost all sensations, people
are unconscious of the suffering that gnaws at their being.”

There are a lot of things going on inside you to which you have never paid attention. For instance you
could be helping a person not knowing that you would rather not help if given a choice. If you go a step
further you will see ulterior motives in helping him. The aim need not be monetary or physical but a
simple craving to project a good image. Many forces are acting behind the scene, of which you are
unconscious.

A person who denies that he is suffering is telling a plain lie to himself and to the world. His tail is on fire
and he is not accepting it. You do not know yourself.

The first step in the path of enlightenment is to be conscious, to see the prison that holds you. The state
itself is a benediction.

Sri Bhagavan and Bhagavathi Padmavathi Devi are Avathars of enlightenment who have incarnated on
this planet to bestow enlightenment to Man.They have descended to usher man, as a species, in to the
next evolutionary cycle. Bhagavan’s vision being enlightenment, His mission is to bestow the state upon
60,000 people. After this critical number is reached the present consciousness of man would undergo a
phase transition. Mankind as a whole would then taste an existence of love and bliss, a state beyond
suffering.