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25th<\/sup> August 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Q: How do we know that emotions we express in this lifetime pertain to this life or a past life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mohanji: I don\u2019t think we need to know that, right? Emotions are happening, so they could be acquired emotions from the life, probably acquired during growing up or we could have collected and trapped them from another life. If they are trapped from another life, we call it a pattern because then it keeps repeating like a broken record, i.e. the same thing will come back again and again. If they are collected from here, they exist for some time and then they get dissolved because they don\u2019t have a deeper root. Depending on the deeper root, you understand whether it is from the past or this life. But I believe we should not even look at it because it is a complete waste of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you are concentrating on emotions etc. your frequency is of that level. Instead, I would say concentrate on the sunshine. Be brightness. Awakening.<\/strong> That is much better because emotions do not have a permanent existence anyway. Emotions stay for some time and then go away. Neither you are the emotions nor the emotions are you. They only have entertainment value, whether they are good or bad. Therefore I would say that you should not concentrate much on emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q: How do we live a normal life without attachments in this turbulent time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mohanji: How else can you live? Ask this question. When you say \u201cnormal life\u201d, what is the criteria of normal life? We are all living normal lives as we know, as we are, as our frequency permits us. Don\u2019t think that normal life is something else. That\u2019s mind\u2019s separation. What you are experiencing right now is your normal life. Now have that awareness. That\u2019s the only thing we can do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Time, space, situations, experiences are all programmed, prescribed and they\u2019re happening. We cannot change them. I am here in our ashram in Toronto, Canada. If I am not happy to be here and would like to be in Paris, at this time, is it possible? It\u2019s another location, another place and I need another time to reach there. We are all bound by time, space, situations and certain emotions. So accepting them completely without resisting and enjoying them whether they\u2019re good or bad, is our maturity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spiritual maturity is in the levels of acceptance<\/strong>. When we are really mature, we will be very accepting. We will accept everybody, everything, as they are all our expressions. There will be nothing like right living and wrong living. What is right and wrong? Everything is experience. When everything is experience, we can\u2019t say that something is right or wrong. I always talk about one thing: ahimsa (non-violence) in thoughts, words, actions. That is because violence creates energy which binds you.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you are violent in thoughts, words and actions, it binds you. Instead, be kind in thoughts, words, actions, it liberates you. That\u2019s being on the path of liberation, which I propagate and for which, it\u2019s a good idea to be kind, compassionate and loving. Do not talk negatively about anybody, including you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nobody needs to know your weaknesses. Everybody has weaknesses, just as everybody has strengths. I have all the weaknesses and all the strengths of the whole world. I don\u2019t consider myself special in any way. When you put yourself in cages or frames, you have to live it and it\u2019s a big burden. Instead, a liberated existence means total acceptance of the way you are. You may not be perfect in your eyes and in the eyes of others. It doesn\u2019t matter, this is an incarnation, a flavour you have brought forth. This is how it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When we accept ourselves totally in this manner, as we are, 80% of the war is won in the path of liberation. <\/strong>We are already treading the path of liberation. Acceptance takes us to liberation, to a liberated existence. Liberated existence has a lot to do with acceptance of yourself (self-acceptance) and the acceptance of the environment. Even if you cannot accept people outside of you, if you accept YOU completely, automatically everyone accepts you as well as you accept everybody. It becomes spontaneous, that\u2019s why. The brightness <\/strong>which we talk about should start from inside and it should reflect outside. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There is nothing called right person, right living, dos and don\u2019ts. When I say \u201cdon\u2019ts\u201d, violence is the only thing I talk about. Don\u2019t express violence in thoughts, words, actions. This idea also extends beyond species. Everyone should feel nice and comfortable; we should take care of ALL beings in the same way. Every being has the urge to live. We have no right to capture, conquer, kill or torture. We should never do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On another note, I was talking about having more counsellors, i.e. those who counsel, rather than law enforcement groups. <\/strong>What happens is that sometimes a person is hungry and he has no money. He might have stolen some food, but then we brand him as a thief. For life and beyond he has to live the life of a thief. Instead we should understand the problem and help. We could bring him out of the situation by giving him a job or teach him some skill. This will have a REGENERATIVE EFFECT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We are trying to make someone stable in his existence. When instead, we brand people as criminals or thieves, what happens is that firstly, you come into that kind of frequency. Secondly, the other person does not have a chance<\/em> or a choice. We need more people who can counsel affected individuals out of their aberrations, fears, perversions and so on and then stabilise them at a certain level so that the society is better because of their existence rather than being fearful of them. So many fears can be removed in such individuals by nurturing truth in them. All of us have weaknesses. When we concentrate on weaknesses, they stay. When we concentrate on strengths, they grow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We should concentrate more on growth, stabilisation and strengths. \u00a0We should then express that in the world. That is why I keep saying at this point in time what we need is more human humans \u2013 people who are nurturing, loving, caring, compassionate and kind, who are very conscious about what they do, what they eat, how they interact with the society. This is important today, even more than sitting down and meditating in a corner. Many times the act of meditation itself becomes escapism. Instead, you should be responsible. Responsibility should be reflected in the society as what you are, how you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So I believe there is nothing called right living or wrong living. When I say right living, it refers to anything which leads you to liberation further and further while wrong living is anything which binds you further and further. Very simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q: How is it possible to be in more places at once?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mohanji: (Laughs) It\u2019s very simple. Become a unit once. You should align yourself, collect the scattered mind, and put it together. When mind, body, intellect, spirit are in alignment and you exist as a unit, then the expansion happens, because expansion as a state<\/em> is already there, just as the energy is all over, everywhere. Ether or energy is everywhere. You are scattered, so you are not able to see the energy. I am not saying that you<\/em> are scattered, people<\/em> are scattered because mind is scattered. Therefore we are not experiencing THAT energy. Rather, we are experiencing emotions. When you go beyond your emotions, beyond your mind, beyond your intellect and you are aligned perfectly, once you become a complete unit, then expansion is your nature. You automatically start expanding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When your unit energy becomes the universal energy, when the unit becomes the universe, you are everywhere already. When people connect to you intensely, in that place you form or you intensify in that place, automatically. It is not as if that person says to himself, \u00a0\u201cNow people in India are thinking, so let me go there.\u201d It is not like that because you are already there. You are already everywhere, but when people connect with intensity, that\u2019s the space where the energy conglomerates<\/strong>. The intensity of connection is the factor for intensity of the presence<\/strong>. So when one connects with intensity, full of bhav, full of bhakti, full of devotion, then the form also intensifies. The energy becomes more conglomerated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When it is weak and casual, it becomes that much less conglomerated. Essentially everyone has the potential to become the universe. However, first and foremost, you have to become a unit. First you become you, and then you become the universe. That\u2019s the secret. Very simple. Easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q: Do we need to detach from the outside world to become a unit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mohanji: Can you? Actually, there is no outside world. Can you detach from anything? Can you detach from food for a day, or water or relationships? You don\u2019t have to detach from anything because the awareness<\/em>, the state, settles in<\/strong>, when you realise that nothing belongs to you and you belong to nothing. It is all situational. Everything has come together for experience\u2019s sake; various experiences, which could be good or bad. You can\u2019t really detach and you can\u2019t detach consciously with the mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When we detach what we usually do is, suppress it. When someone says, \u201cI don\u2019t want this,\u201d then that person always thinks about it, but keeps it under wraps. That is even more dangerous because it will come out at some other point in time. So what you need to do is, you need to grow inside even more and the outside spontaneously becomes insignificant<\/strong>. That is the best way. Do not use the mind to detach. Don\u2019t detach from anything. Whatever may come your way, receive it. When you are completely a unit, nothing outside will affect you anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First and foremost, your being a unit is about your growth inside, it is not connected to anything outside.<\/strong> That is why I said God is not outside. When you grow inside and when you are energised inside, the sun rises inside, you become aware that the God factor exists within you. Then, if you look outside, you only see the God factor. There is nothing else. This is exactly how we evolve. It is like an egg. When an egg is broken inside, it becomes a new life. When an egg is broken from outside, it\u2019s death of existence. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is exactly how it works. Always remember this carefully \u2013 you can\u2019t detach from anything and you should not. Let everything that destiny has given you, exist. It can be good, bad, nice, not so nice, everything. Let it all exist, while you have nothing to do with anything – that\u2019s your freedom. That is when you are actually experiencing freedom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Otherwise it\u2019s all mind\u2019s play. Mind keeps illusions. It says, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be here, so I\u2019m going away.\u201d This is the dimension of likes and dislikes. \u201cI like, I dislike…\u201d – this is mind. In fact, there\u2019s no like or dislike! You are everything. (Laughs<\/em>) What can you like? You can\u2019t say, \u201cI don\u2019t like my right hand. I love my left hand\u201d or something along those lines. It doesn\u2019t matter because it\u2019s all part of you. All people, all beings, all places, all situations, are part of you. You are everything. For that realisation to happen you have to exist inside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Otherwise it remains just an imagination where you say, \u201cOh, I\u2019m everything.\u201d Some people say, \u201cI\u2019ve realised God.\u201d When you have realised God, you have nothing to say, because you see God everywhere! When you say, \u201cAm I enlightened?\u201d what is the big deal? It should reflect as kindness, compassion, love, intensity of activity and clarity of purpose. Only then do you know that you are fully settled. Otherwise, they remain mere words or ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So you don\u2019t have to do anything, you only have to go within and integrate more and more. Connection inside starts with contemplation<\/strong>. You connection with yourself starts with contemplation, \u201cWho am I? What am I? Why am I?\u201d and that should spontaneously lead to meditation. It is not that you meditate first and then you connect. You ask yourself questions, next you integrate yourself, then it becomes meditation and awareness grows; awareness <\/a>stabilises and you become Buddha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Mohanji](\"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/satsangs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mohanji-176.jpg\")
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