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Mohanji Birthday – Satsang<\/strong> | Mohanji<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A life well-lived<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Question: <\/strong>Jai Mohanji! A very happy birthday to you. Thank you so much. Actually, I am so grateful and overwhelmed to be here. I think I should stop with how grateful I am. My question to you is: What\u2019s a life well lived? How would you define that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohanji: Life well lived for me is an authentic existence. It has no imitation, no competition, and no comparison. A well-lived life means a contented life.<\/strong> Contentment has to be associated with what you are, where you are, and how you are. Not that \u201cI\u2019ll be happy with something else.\u201d That\u2019s an illusion we always carry. My happiness is connected to something else. So, if I become that, I\u2019ll be happy. That\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are made this way. What brought you here? Unfulfilled desires brought you here. You\u2019re born here to complete all this. Fulfilment is the main thing. Fulfilment can happen only over time in life because we have a body.<\/strong> Past, present, and future are important. So, being in the present is number one. Accepting things that have happened to you is the second part. The third is to focus on contentment within your capacity with what you have and also in the order that comes – in the way it comes, in the method it comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A well-lived life is a contented life<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no way you can reject anything or anybody. No way you can resist situations that come. But you can choose how much involvement you can have. Some of the things are – if you think that you are being a doormat, you can walk away. Self-respect is our right. Self-love is a very important thing because if you don\u2019t love yourself, you cannot progress. Self-acceptance is even more important.<\/strong> Only when you accept yourself you\u2019ll have a transformation or the possibility of transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t accept yourself, if you always resist, judge, criticise, or fight, it\u2019s very difficult to transform because you\u2019ll always be in victim mode. Never be that. Clear? Contentment! <\/strong>Remember one word, and of course, acceptance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness, Karma and Dharma<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Question: <\/strong>Since you understand what is happiness and you have a better understanding of contentment, how do you rate yourself on a scale of ten? If ten is the best, then you are in the ecstasy of contentment. Where are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohanji: <\/strong>That\u2019s not an easy question to answer. I\u2019ll tell you why. Personally, I would prefer silence and isolation. There\u2019s a deep urge for me to withdraw. That was my state when I met Devi. In 2007 I was in deep, deep silence and had a lack of interest in being with the world. But I was then told to go and speak to the world. This was very painful at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I always feel that I\u2019ve done my part. What next? Whatever I\u2019ve done so far shows in the world. But then there\u2019s something evolving all the time. It\u2019s almost like I am watching the show. I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m doing anything these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not just now. For more than the past two or three years, I\u2019ve been feeling this way. I keep telling her, \u201cThis is enough. Now it\u2019s time to pull the plug.\u201d You know that constantly, \u201cOkay, this is it, this is it. I\u2019m done\u201d \u2013 but that\u2019s not the thing. One thing is that when karma shifts to dharma, there\u2019s no more \u2018you\u2019 anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karma means you\u2019re on an unfulfilled desire \u2013 fulfilment mode. Dharma means you are just an instrument of some flow of tradition \u2013 public property.<\/strong> You don\u2019t belong to yourself. Then there\u2019s no beginning and no end. I don\u2019t know whether my contentment matters in this particular order because I\u2019m just being the flow. I am the flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At this time, since you asked that question, actually, that question is relevant today. During this Covid time, I actually went through Covid in November. I was away from people for 15 days. This hasn\u2019t happened to me in a long time. For 15 days, there were no meetings or interactions. I still did online programs. No physical interactions – I didn\u2019t go anywhere. Nobody came to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gave me time to introspect. I realised one thing is that I should be less in public and more in a source mode, which means activating things – not physically publicly involved in things because that\u2019s not helping. Since there\u2019s a physical body, I need to travel to places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just before Covid, 3 hours before I was flying to London. They had invited me as the guest of honour at the British Parliament. The bags were packed, and I was about to go. I then got a message that a lockdown was declared. This was in March 2020. I felt a bit of relief. No, it\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t want to go. I just thought, \u201cThis is good; no travel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is that many times, it\u2019s that, \u201dShould I be present physically, or the source works?\u201d An answer comes that the source will work, which is happening. As we said, so many countries and so many activities are happening simultaneously. It\u2019s not because I am that powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just that Iccha Shakti<\/em> (willpower) is transferred as the source, and it\u2019s happening. So, Dharma <\/em>– when you\u2019re in dharmic<\/em> mode and not karmic<\/em> mode, your boundaries are different. Contentment factors are also different. Individual contentment as a unit is different. You, as a much larger platform, are different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here the contentment factor is that \u201cOkay, 100 people had food.\u201d I feel very contented. They were showing 50,000 trees were planted. You feel contented. These trees will grow and will provide fruit to somebody. The fruits that we are eating now are from trees that were planted by somebody in the past. We are also contributing to the future. This is contentment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I look at it all, \u201cOkay, all this is happening\u201d, I am contented. I can sleep peacefully. If I personally get a gift or personally, somebody brings me something, I don\u2019t feel anything that way. Likewise, now, we are occupied with Whatsapp. So, people say that I love you and you feel happy. They say I hate you; we feel unhappy. That factor is also not there because both are part of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today they say that I love you, then tomorrow, they say that I hate you. Between this, we play. So many things change. I think that\u2019s part of evolution. As we evolve, this is what works. I\u2019m contented that way. Look at the number of volunteers in the world now, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve had any special capacity to motivate all these people. They are getting motivated in my presence which is very good. It\u2019s like when a person has become a kind of presence. When our purpose is clear, we become a presence.<\/strong> This is how I think it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purpose of life<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Question: <\/strong>If everyone has a purpose in life, what does it take to reveal and fulfil one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohanji: Everyone has a purpose, and that\u2019s why they are born. The purpose in life for a normal karmic<\/em> birth is to have that fulfilment of desires which they go through helplessly or unconsciously from birth until death.<\/strong> All have a purpose. The purpose is given as a birth, a body. It\u2019s given as a place of birth, as a particular set of parents, education, our environment, or we shift environments. All are connected to the purpose of life. That\u2019s basically the destiny path. This is there in karmic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, you can always have the option of looking at higher stuff. That\u2019s the higher purpose that we can reach. That\u2019s the only option while experiencing those things that destiny takes you through is that your awareness can be different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, a person looking through a window from the first floor and the same person climbs up to the 20th<\/sup> floor and looks down. The view is totally different. The outside is the same, but the view is different. Likewise, we can look at life much differently and be less impacted by the situations of life. This is possible in a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re oriented on a particular purpose which is of higher nature, and you are connecting to that in that angle, your evolution will be much higher in awareness.<\/strong> That\u2019s possible in a lifetime. I think this will be the best thing you can do in a lifetime. This means a lot of introspection and a lot of acceptance. When you start accepting realities, not resisting, \u201cOkay, this is what\u2019s happening now. I watch it; this is coming, and this is going.\u201d Like a movie, you are watching the show of your own life with minimal involvement and minimal impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you proceed on that level, it\u2019s not escapism, not indifference. It\u2019s just on a witness level watching the show. You then focus on something higher. In this human existence, higher always means compassion, kindness, selflessness, unconditional love, and ahimsa <\/em>(non-violence). These are all higher aspects of human existence.<\/strong> If you start operating from that deliberately, your whole perspective starts changing. Life starts evolving. \u2018Me and mine\u2019 start reducing. What you then witness in your own life is tremendous transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may have possessions, positions, and relations. We\u2019ve been entertaining these three things all our lives. There\u2019ll be a slight shift from there. Start looking at life in a much deeper, much more harmonious way, and that\u2019s one of the best things you can do in a lifetime amidst all the chaos. It helps to get out of addictions \u2013 so many things. I hope this is clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acceptance and self-respect<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Question: <\/strong>How does one explain friction in a relationship? Is that connected to the level of frequencies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohanji: <\/strong>Yes, it\u2019s connected to the level of frequencies, but it\u2019s more connected to the ego factor. When you have disagreements, it simply means that you are not able to understand the other or not able to sometimes have a discussion. Most of the time, there\u2019s no communication, which causes misinterpretations, or you are guessing or assuming. You are judging. These kinds of things do not help relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moment you start judging, you start separating. The moment you start accepting, you start resolving things.<\/strong> Usually, people who are mature discuss things. People who are a bit immature and egoistic etc., start arguing. When arguments happen, there\u2019s a chance of parting as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question: <\/strong>Being yourself can be very confronting, unpleasant, or unwanted for others. How should we go about that? Should it limit us in any way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohanji: <\/strong>No. Self-respect. You should be wherever you are. It\u2019s not that we need approval from anybody. Society can only have two things: they either love or hate. They accept, or they reject. Both are fine because it\u2019s as per their constitution, as per how they are. Sometimes we look through the eyes of prejudices only. We look at a person only through the eyes of prejudice and say, \u201cI don\u2019t like him.\u201d You don\u2019t even know the person, but you\u2019ve already decided that you are not going to like him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The opposite also happens when we look at a person, \u201cI like him.\u201d These are all connected to our character, our constitution – what we are made up of etc. I believe that self-respect is that you have the power to walk away from where you are unwanted.<\/strong> We have that power. We shouldn\u2019t be in a place where we are not wanted, appreciated, or accepted.<\/strong> Why do we do that? If you are helplessly connected to a place where you can\u2019t leave, that\u2019s a different story. Otherwise, if you have the power to walk away, walk away. Keep your self-esteem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spirituality for profit<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Question: <\/strong>You had a professional life before you became a Swamiji. In the first few years when you were a Swamiji, your thinking was to achieve something in spirituality, or the meaning of life and all of that. Now, after ten years, being the tenth year, you\u2019ve established yourself with various activities, foundations and other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever felt that you\u2019ve deviated from what you started with because of these organisations? I\u2019ve seen many of these people coming to Oman, where I was for a long time. I would go to meet them, but I\u2019ve seen spirituality business being done instead of spirituality. You know that was a disappointment for me in many cases. So how do you tackle this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohanji: <\/strong>That\u2019s a very brilliant point. In fact, I think many people do not address that thing. The first point I\u2019ll answer you. When I started, my original thinking was I\u2019ll be working, which meant I didn\u2019t want to fully plunge into spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was thinking that the expertise and experience would help with consulting as well. I thought I\u2019d work, and the rest of the time, when I have free time, I\u2019ll teach or give lectures. But it wasn\u2019t possible. The number of people started increasing. At one point in time, I couldn\u2019t work anymore, so then I deviated. One of the things which I decided then (and even now I follow) is that I decided I\u2019ll never sell God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not like a problem-solving spirituality. There are so many things that are like an astrologer’s job. \u201cWhat will happen in the future? What\u2019s my destiny?\u201d Then, \u201cOkay, I have a solution for you.\u201d These kinds of things attract people because everybody has a problem, and it\u2019s manipulative stuff. So, I decided that I\u2019ll have nothing to do with it, which I still maintain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The size of my activity – I had no clue; I had no idea. I didn\u2019t imagine that I would be in many countries and all this would happen. The introversion was there at that time also because when I was practising, it took a lot of time for me to withdraw from the world of noises to the state of silence. It took six or seven years because it\u2019s not easy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While working, I was practising. This was a bit difficult. Eventually, when that state happened, I didn\u2019t want to leave it. Whatever happens outside, I said, \u201cWhat I found is good enough, and I don\u2019t want to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People started coming to me and said, \u201cWe would like to be with you.\u201d I used to interact with them, but there was no preaching, no teaching, just interaction. After a while, this started growing. That\u2019s the time when I was forced to talk to the world. Then the meditations came, the kriya<\/em> came; all those things happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time, I thought that we\u2019d probably have a space and we\u2019ll sit there, and some people would come. That was it \u2013 kind of an ashram<\/em>. That\u2019s not the size now. Activities have increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each platform which you saw on the screen evolved automatically. I didn\u2019t make any plans. Even now, I don\u2019t have a plan. The women\u2019s festival – the Festival of Womanhood which is upcoming, happened quite recently. It\u2019s happening in Croatia right now, on an island – women for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, the World Consciousness Alliance happened over a television programme. I was speaking on South African television about crime, etc., that\u2019s happening there, and the Bishop was also there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was talking to the Bishop and asked, \u201cWhat are we doing talking on television about bloodshed, etc., which is already happening on the streets?\u201d That\u2019s when the World Consciousness Alliance came into existence. Artists and entertainers came together for the sake of evolving. One led to the other. Something created something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I decided is that I\u2019m not dependent on any of this. It\u2019s all kind of \u2018auto-run.\u2019 A group of people, and everything is transparent. This was told to me a long time ago when I started Ammucare in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two or three years later, when I was talking to the Commissioner of Income Tax, he told me, \u201cYou are now going to handle public money, so there could be questions and problems. There are four things that you should keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One is that whatever money you get, there should be a receipt. That money should be put into the bank, so there\u2019s a statement corresponding to this receipt. Whatever you spend should have an invoice – all the money that\u2019s spent, and there\u2019s a picture. These four things you should keep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s exactly what we are doing in the entire 21 countries now. Everything is transparent. I decided that I didn\u2019t still want to live on asking money from people. Whatever comes, it comes. All my travels are based on invitations. People call me, so they invite me. I never ask people to invite me. Certain standards and certain principles I keep. Apart from that, I\u2019m not controlling growth or expansion. I\u2019m not even planning in that way. One leads to the other, and it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I understood is that when the world needs something, the world creates it or makes it happen, and somebody becomes an instrument.<\/strong> Apart from that, that\u2019s why I mentioned my birthday. I don\u2019t feel great excitement to celebrate my birthday because I feel that I\u2019m an instrument that the world is using for something. Even the end thing – I don\u2019t know what\u2019ll finally happen. I don\u2019t know, and I don\u2019t really care about that. This is the flow which is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have I deviated from my original plan? I\u2019ve definitely not because what I\u2019m telling people is to be \u2018you\u2019. Don\u2019t try to be me. The path is that of Avadhootha<\/em> – pure consciousness, the Raja Yoga<\/em> path. Even now, that\u2019s what I\u2019m exactly teaching, but there are many platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is to connect to various frequencies. Like some of the scientists we conglomerated recently – scientists who want to do something for the world, not the people who associate with making money. These people tried to conglomerate to make that kind of group. Similarly, there are various situations and various things. That\u2019s how it is going on. I hope I\u2019ve answered your question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read part 1<\/a> here. You can watch the full satsang here<\/a><\/em>.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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