Chapter 14
Meditation gives so much joy, such bliss, that why would one care for the pleasures of sex?
Except myself what else do I have?"
Similarly, a soul entered the body of Marys husband and Jesus was born.
Today it has become even more difficult.
All of these become helpful in allowing the genius, the health, the capability, the potentiality of the child to manifest fully.
Every day a part of your mind must become blank so that it can receive new impressions, otherwise how can it work? As the future arrives, the past disappears every day.
Mahaviras teaching was that until you have relived your past lives, you cannot drop your serious attitude.
She has recounted all her experiences of these two years in a book called The Sense of Wonder.
Its a difficult thing to do, not a simple matter.
WHAT IS THE WHOLE TECHNIQUE? WOULD YOU KINDLY EXPLAIN THE SUTRA FURTHER.
A seventy-year-old woman has written a book.
In the case of religion you wager your own self, and there is no question of losing or winning, because when you have wagered yourself, who is going to win or lose? Now you are the stake, now there is no way to either lose or win.
Some people think they will buy truth once they have earned a lot of money; there are others who believe they will find truth if they renounce the money.
WOULD YOU KINDLY EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY "I AM READY" AND "IF YOU ARE READY"? PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT PREPARATION IS REQUIRED ON OUR PART, AND HOW DO WE PREPARE OURSELVES?
So the direction has to be changed.
We will have transformed the entire world the day parents become friends of their children.
Someone says, "Ill renounce my home, Ill renounce my parents, wife, son, property.
It would become difficult to live if you were to recall all the memories of even this life.
However, the subsequent experiments proved that if pressure is applied at a particular place on a pregnant womans abdomen, it causes a remarkable change In the childs Intelligence.
Those who are simple and light-hearted, who can play and laugh with children, for them it will be easy to go back into the past memories.
She forgot the general, she forgot the party, her whole attention remained focused on the thumb.
The whole of astrology was developed for the very purpose of finding out the exact moment of conception, because the influences working in that particular moment alone can give some indication of the conceived soul.
Similarly, your memories go out of sight, but remain accumulated in some corners of your mind.
But how can this world look like a dream? The key to that lies in jati-smaran, remembering past lives.
For example, Mahaviras mother was kept under very special conditions.
Nothing happens as long as you have not attained it in one instant; till then you remain in utter darkness.
Remember, consciousness has no age; it only consists of conditionings.
As she went through labor pains, as the child was taking birth, the thumb was in her thoughts -- not the child.
Question 3
So those who wish to return to their past memories will have to break their fixation with age.
Its a small book containing the story of her experiment of befriending a five-year-old child.
What we call the birthday is in fact the day which falls nine months after the birth has happened -- it is not the right birthday.
And as you will grow older in your memory, the more hazy everything will look.
The result will be twofold.
This means he must have had some belief before in the existence of God; otherwise how could he have a doubt about it?
She would look into the childs eyes, and watch her own eyes too.
Once your hands are cupped, once you have settled down a little, once you have become grounded even for a moment, the water can be poured.
We cant imagine how much attention was paid to this phenomenon.
People are always ready to give away things.
An artificial womb can certainly be created.
Both are absent.
Nothing in this world is attained without losing something in return.
And whatsoever is worth attaining in this world, cannot be attained without inquiring, searching.
A few days ago a Jaina monk came to see me.
He is doubtful, but he is also confident -- both things are there.
Or what else would you give? At such a moment would you be able to give yourself away? Would you be able to say to God, "I offer myself.
" And then if he were to say all this to a woman today, he will burst out laughing, because now he knows he can live very well without her -- in fact he has been living for lives without any problem.
I also talked to him the same way a child talks to another child.
Then you dont need to do anything in life.
As you think, you lose; as you think, you miss.
" The man was about eight or nine years old at the time of his marriage; he couldnt recall.
They are totally useless today.
That thought becomes so strong that it frightens her.
The more you will move backward, drawing closer to childhood, the more transparent will be the memory.
Up to now man has discovered who knows how many ways to cause mischief, but he has not been putting enough energy into discovering ways which can build, enrich the future of mankind.
So in this situation, if you can invite certain souls, the subsequent results will become more clearly evident.
He was able to narrate that day only under hypnosis: in the waking state he would forget everything.
It is just like having an attic or a basement where all the unwanted things are stored.
It is good that you didnt circle around me, because that business is meant only for those who can do it.
If he were to remember his past lives just before reaching Delhi, he would turn back realizing the absurdity of the whole thing.
A half-hearted wager is possible only if there is a little doubt.
He said, "Please teach me meditation.
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The prediction was that at the time of Jesus birth, four stars will appear in the sky.
And if the conception does not occur during these moments, the results can be to the contrary.
You cannot find religion in installments.
This celibacy will not be the consequence of a vow, rather it will be a spontaneous flowering.
It becomes apparent to him every hour of the day that she is not his possession.
You wont know whether to take her as a wife or a mother!
One, the energy will become very dynamic and intense.
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I know a man who is a house-cleaner.
So giving birth to a divine soul is not merely a biological phenomenon.
The information was that those who recognized the stars would be guided by them to the place where the child was born.
Jesus was indeed born of a virgin mother.
So the gambler finds a compromise -- he wagers five.
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He goes for the middle and saves the remaining five anyway.
In other bets you wager and either you lose or win something, but you always remain outside.
And the same man is once again racing to Delhi in search of a position.
One man went from Egypt, and two from other countries.
But if there is neither doubt nor belief, if the mind is total, not divided, then the stake is total.
However, I cant tell you the sutra for moving from one life to another.
Finding answers is an absolutely intellectual thing; it has nothing to do with living totally.
But it is necessary that the paradise be taken away, because when it is found again the feeling is rare.
The people were puzzled.
What do you suppose he is watching? He is, of course, watching a movie.
If you want to cross a river, you need a real boat -- the word boat described in the dictionary wont be of any use.
Dont be conscious of your age all the time.
" They both laughed and took no serious note of it.
You may not be aware of the fact that more people go mad on the full moon, and less on the new moon.
When you remember the past following the technique of meditation, you no longer remain fifty years old; you become five years old.
His wife was pregnant at that time.
Natures arrangement is such that it allows you to carry only as much memory as you can bear.
People even began offering her coins, coconut, fruits and sweets.
In my view, the moment of sexual union is a moment of prayer.
The right type of possibilities and conditions can be created so higher souls may find their way into this world.
So you will have a big surprise reviving memories in meditation, because the situation will be reversed.
The man asked with a surprise, "Can you tell me, when did I get this injury? I certainly dont remember.
You may say you do inquire, you do ask questions.
There was nothing like a childhood for her.
It is easy to be a father, a mother, a brother, a guru of a five-year-old child; to be a friend is very difficult.
How else could she have broken the tremendous age barrier between her and the child? Her picking up the stones and pebbles along with the child was not just to advance her friendship with him.
They said, "Your son is twenty-five, you are also twenty-five years old -- how can this be?" He had no problem with it, because for him twenty-five was the last number, there was no number beyond that.
The house where she lived in her previous life was situated in a village.
The wise man from Egypt who had set out in search of the child first came to Herod -- the emperor at the time of Jesus.
Let me first discuss this with my family, let me consult my friends.
He was not a conscious participant in the birth of Jesus.
There is a reason for it: if one experiments with it just out of curiosity he can go mad, because in doing so, if the memories of the past life come crashing down unexpectedly, it will be difficult to bear them.
An invitation came to bring her to America as well.
So he remembers whatever is meaningful: whatsoever is worthless he slowly forgets.
What difference does it make if God has created the world? And if he has not, how does that matter? So ask yourself, "Am I truly in search of an experience?" Make this point very clear inside you.
So inquiries were made in the old village to find out if anyone remembered this incident.
Wait a moment or two and all will turn into memory.
Someone had wanted to attain a high position in his past life and had become like an emperor.
Every detail was foretold -- so much so that Mahavira had even predicted in his previous life how many dreams the mother of his next life will have before his birth.
Not that one cant achieve instantly -- one can; except that one has to be in a state where he has no instant demand, where he says, "Let it be whenever it has to be, it is okay with me.
In pregnancy, if the mother becomes irritable, angry, the child will be born with an angry temperament.
The first thing is: our whole attitude toward sex is sick and dangerous.
Its merely an idea which has taken hold of us very strongly.
Only when you have seen this life as a dream and feel the burden lifted from your mind, and only after you have gained the capacity to see the previous lives as a dream too, can this key be given to you.
Hence, deep down the experience that your mother had becomes your experience too -- it is automatically transferred to you.
But he doesnt know what it means to be born of a virgin -- he is unable to prove it.
Otherwise, ordinarily, they cannot be explained to everyone.
The more the husband tried to persuade her to drop the thing and forget about it, the more it became crystallized.
She was always nitpicking everyone in the house.
She would watch how thrilled the child was, how he was looking at those pebbles with such wonder and excitement in his eyes.
He told her, "The author of this book says, Whatsoever a mother thinks, whatever she feels, whatever she lives -- all of that is directly transferred to the child.
And the third thing that is expected of you in regard to your preparation is infinite awaiting, infinite patience.
So in order that a higher soul may enter a womb, the first condition is that it be a divine moment of lovemaking.
You should have drawn the boat in the book and the river as well -- that would have worked.
So make these three things clear in your mind, and the preparation will take place on its own accord.
At the time of lovemaking, even small things bring distinct results, such as the color on the walls, the light in the room, the fragrance.
All the keys can be told only to an individual who is ready to experiment.
So, go back into the memories of this birth -- but not just out of curiosity.
No, religion is either attained instantaneously or not attained at all.
The second thing you need to be clear about is: "What am I ready to let go?" If God were to stand before you and say, "I am ready to come to you, I am ready to be yours, what can you give me in return?" the chances are you will start feeling your poc藏书网ket -- most people will.
And if he should go on making money like this, he can earn millions someday.
When that becomes an enjoyable experience, and when the entire situation of this life
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In order to take each step on the path one has to walk, one has to put oneself at stake.
AT THE DWARKA MEDITATION CAMP YOU HAVE DISCUSSED THE PROCESS OF ENTERING INTO THE MEMORIES OF PAST LIVES.
You did not agree when it was possible to do something about it.
Some countries -- such as Mohammedan or Christian countries -- do not believe in reincarnation.
The second thing is that normally, when we set out to achieve something we have to lose something.
No, a seeker has neither any doubt nor does he have any belief.
" She did not say, "Go to sleep now.
But they dont extend that hand of friendship.
" In fact he was at least about sixty.
It needs to be clear to you that "Should the time come, I am willing to give myself.
YOU HAVE SAID ONCE BEFORE THAT IF PEOPLE LIKE KRISHNA, CHRIST, BUDDHA, MAHAVIRA DO NOT APPEAR ON THE EARTH IN THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS, THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY MAY PERISH.
Science is not yet fully clear why this is so.
There is nothing but inquiry.
Answers are cheap.
Since she was sitting next to the general, she saw the thumb as he ate, as he shook hands with people.
The father was very astonished to hear this.
She completely freaked out.
He wagers only five rupees because he is not sure what the outcome will be.
If your mother fell down when she was pregnant with you, her memory of that fall, that hurt, will become part of your memory too.
I once helped a woman experiment in recalling her past life.
A whole science exists around it.
Then one is able to put himself on the line totally.
If one can become again like a child before his death, the paradise returns to him.
How can a seventy-eight-year-old woman play? She looked serious.
In that moment of darkness, those who have no patience begin to look for something immediately available.
It may well be that the child was naturally endowed with such high intelligence, and the whole thing was just a coincidence.
Under hypnosis you can be taken even into your past lives, but it would essentially be in a state of unconsciousness.
As a witness, I can simply say, "Yes, this man has indeed joined his palms and the phenomenon of water pouring into them has taken place.
I am not interested in supplying answers.
It is not very difficult to relive one life.
The child walked, step by step, softly so as not to disturb the crickets.
Without forgetting what has already occurred you wont have the capability to see what is ahead of you.
All he has is himself to offer, he has nothing more than that.
The difficulty arises for us because we have numbers beyond twenty-five.
Its very difficult for them to regress.
Just as it brings storms in the seas, it stirs our emotions and raises them to the heights of lunacy.
Question 2
Through the medium of Jesus father, another soul remained present in his place.
You wont be able to recall anything if I ask you what you did on January 1, 1960.
Even little things make a difference.
I had written only what I saw or what had occurred to me.
Let me just explain to you the meaning of your preparation.
There are many breathing techniques for the same purpose.
Instead, be a friend to them.
And the third thing you need to make plain to yourself is that when you set out in search of the eternal, a childlike impatience wont work.
They alone are responsible for building their consciousness -- children are simply manifesting it.
Turn one year back, two years back, ten, twenty years back; keep moving backward and you will have a strange experience.
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Similarly, in an overall sense whatever we do, whatever we live through is recorded onto a film of memories which can be seen again.
The word lunatic means one who is affected by the moon.
When the memories will come back to you, you will be amazed to see the things you took so seriously many times in the past exist nowhere today.
When someone does this going around, I know a wrong man has come, because it shows he still has time to do it.
No mother, no father is ever able to be friends with their children.
At this age, she was filled with as much bitchiness as a seventy-eight-year-old man or woman is.
The father became very worried.
IF THAT COMES TRUE, THEN IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO SAVE NOT ONLY THIS COUNTRY, BUT THE ENTIRE HUMANITY.
As long as the party lasted, the poor woman remained totally obsessed with the generals thumb.
Nevertheless, one can certainly experiment with reviving this lifes memories.
The bodies are meeting, yet the meeting is not physical -- it is very profound and spiritual.
But if you apply the same technique in the state of meditation, you will be greatly surprised.
Then it would not be difficult to reach to the point of your birth.
What we call conception today is absolutely animal-like -- there is no science behind it.
And one whose inquiring has come to its conclusion, his stake will also be total, because a total inquiry cannot make a half-hearted wager.
If we are on our way to seek the ultimate, to unravel the essential mysteries of the world, to find the truth, to find God, then the question is: what are we going to put at stake?
You will see that whatever you were ready to stake your life for doesnt even exist anywhere.
It is neither difficult nor dangerous to go back in memory this far, because it pertains to this very life.
He was only made to function as an instrument for this phenomenon to occur.
God is close, all around us, herenow.
As I said yesterday, our consciousness moves with the aid of will, determination.
The rest will happen very easily.
So, reliving the past memories will cause two things to happen.
She says in meditation, all of a sudden strange thoughts start coming to her.
You will come to know what you need to put on the line.
A system with the same degree of heat, the same amount of water, can be produced.
At that moment you are not a fifty-year-old man remembering the days when you were five years old.
You need infinite patience.
As soon as you have relived your past memories, you will find it is all nothing more than a dream.
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If he were to remember them all he would go mad.
Thats why the initiated monk of today is not really initiated nor is he a monk -- he is neither.
By placing ones fingers on a sleeping persons eyes and sensing the movement or non-movement of his eyeballs, one can determine whether he is dreaming or not.
It was the same story the life before that, and the one previous to that.
In that state she is not even remembering her childhood; it is reliving.
She couldnt go to school.
All three are inevitably related with each other.
But Christianity is not clear on this point.
And if the total outcome of life is nothing but memories, then how is an ordinary mans life different from the life an actor lives on the screen? After all, whatever an actor does, the final outcome is the creation of a film which we see on the screen.
It is just an idea.
They stopped bringing her to me.
Even if it were possible to attain everything else without searching, ones own being cannot be attained without a quest.
A man of fifty is not willing to step back even five years -- he wants to remain stuck at the age of fifty.
She says with great conviction that she once again found a sense of wonder, that even the greatest of all saints could never have achieved more than what she did.
He simply took hold of the master and said:
Or, if she was unhappy at the time you were in her womb, her memory of that suffering will be your memory as well, because in the mothers womb the states of your being and hers were not separate -- they were combined.
She is not aware, at that moment her present age disappears.
To suppress that strong doubt the poor fellow has to believe strongly.
But Jesus was born of a virgin girl in the sense that his father was not consciously present at the time -- he was only a medium.
Afraid that her child may be born with a deformed thumb, she tried deliberately not to see the generals thumb.
As long as the sacredness of sex is not recognized in this world, well go on causing more and more harm to mankind.
As soon as such people become ready, those things can be imparted to them.
One who cannot do so will never be able to set out on the great journey.
Such a mind is bound to miss.
So before entering sex, one needs the strength of meditation, years of celibacy behind it.
Seeing the child, the monk broke down and began crying bitterly.
They asked, "How old is your son?"
And what is there to remember in the future anyway? In fact, there is no future.
One whose inquiring has come to its conclusion will be able to see clearly that except his own self there is nothing else he can stake.
But sex has been condemned so much that the moment of copulation hardly ever becomes a divine moment.
In fact, I dont have to do any preparation, I am ready.
If you bring the dictionary which describes the word boat as a vessel that carries you across the river and you try to use it, the dictionary will drown and so will you.
Even a female animal is able to carry a baby in her stomach -- all animals do it.
Actually, seriousness is a psychological disease.
In other states something else gets added to it.
The generals thumb was squashed during the war.
The girl had recognized all the relatives of her past life from a crowd of thousands.
Two years of this friendship brought exceptional results.
You will come to realize that whatsoever you are taking so seriously today -- profit or loss in business, quarrels with the wife, a father showing his annoyance, the son leaving home, the daughter marrying an undesirable person -- all will end up tomorrow in the junkyard of your memory.
This is indeed very remarkable.
No search is without a price.
I am very much afraid my child will be born with a deformed thumb.
How is this different? When you remember your childhood -- and you are now fifty years old, for example -- you are fifty now, at this moment, and you revive the memory when you were five years old, or two years old, or one year old, what happens? Your fifty-year-old mind stands in between this moment and the memory of those years.
There are people who seem to be inquiring, and their inquiry seems religious.
And secondly, without a prolonged period of celibacy preceding the sexual involvement the creation of a powerful sperm is not possible.
The time for my departure has come.
Finally, an old woman of the village corroborated the story, although the man himself had no memory of it.
But that will not be enough to meet the requirement of motherhood.
But in her current life she was born in Madhya Pradesh.
Never say to your son, "I know, because my age is such and such.
Even I can be nothing more than a witness to it.
Now it has a divineness of its own.
Understand these three sutras and search within yourself.
The birth of Jesus was awaited by the whole world -- especially so in the Middle East.
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Her family was very happy with all this.
How can a man initiate another man? One always receives initiation from God alone.
In order to make love, freedom, openness, purity are essential.
If an old man can see the world with a childs eye, the kind of peace, the kind of joy and bliss that will shower upon him is beyond comprehension.
If husband and wife can meditate regularly for years, they wont be able to enter sex.
"Tell me quickly what you want to say to me, because I dont even know what I want to ask.
The river will say, "If you really wanted to go across with the help of the word boat given in the book, you should have also crossed the river described in the book! You shouldnt bring the boat given in the book to cross a real river.
For example, a gambler wagers five rupees although he has ten rupees in his pocket.
With that clarity, an honesty will arise in you.
That will have a twofold effect.
So the same memory can be revived by applying two methods.
" The girl is totally out of her senses.
However, it will be a one-to-one communication.
Often it happens that many superior souls wish to take birth but they dont find any appropriate situation for their conception.
Pay attention to the search for experience.
The time I have wasted so far could have been put to a better use -- in the pursuit of some tangible gains, in working toward substantial achievements.
In meditation, reliving the memory turns you into a five-year-old.
He was very worried lest he should die before the advent of Buddha.
To initiate means to lead someone into meditation -- thats the only way initiation can happen, not otherwise.
When we remember consciously, we are remembering.
Patience is the very root of religion.
Only the connection be99lib.nettween your consciousness and the memory is severed.
People look at sex as if it is some kind of sin, a crime which has to be done surreptitiously, without anyone knowing about it.
So if you are renouncing that which was never yours in the first place, you are simply deceiving yourself.
And normally, people make love in dark chambers, sneakily, with a sense of fear and guilt.
This is what initiation means really.
The memories become hazy because you are looking through the layers of fifty years spread in between.
Doubt is seated firmly inside and when it tries to come out, his equally strong belief suppresses it.
There is no conflict in their belief in reincarnation.
Obviously, sex of this kind is bound to produce grave consequences.
In order that the mind stays free to handle the events of the future, the past has to be forgotten.
She is in a confused state.
There is nothing like a five-year-old, a ten-year-old, or a fifty-year-old consciousness.
Maybe it is already too late, its time to give up.
But they dont realize that they are the ones who have sown the seeds of their childrens wrongdoings.
The same system that exists in the mothers womb can be created in a machine run by electricity.
So the third element is awaiting -- infinite awaiting.
It would be helpful if he consciously lived like a child for an hour; that would make it easier for him to return to his past in meditation as well.
You will see how some moments had taken such control over you that for a second everything seemed like a matter of life and death.
If you are hypnotized, and a part of your consciousness is put to sleep, and then if you are asked to describe what you did on January 1, 1960, you will recount everything.
Of course this much is possible, that the one who has gone a little ahead can testify that the hands are indeed joined into a cup, and therefore the initiation will happen.
And sooner or later, instead of growing babies in a mothers womb, they will be placed and grown in a mechanical womb.
You might say, "I will have to check the diary, or look into a calendar, or consult the horoscope.
And the funny thing is, that age exists just as a thought, a memory.
No matter how much she tried, she couldnt forget it.
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I would like them to stay a little longer so that I may destroy their desire to find the answer, and instead help grow the seed desiring the experience.
Even a little thought and all is lost.
Tell me, in the process of going around three times, and bowing down seven times, and sitting in the corner respectfully, if I were to die, who will be responsible? Will you take the responsibility for my death or will I be responsible? If you promise me I wont die while doing all that, I am willing to go around and bow down not only seven but seven hundred times.
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This was purely accidental; a particular center of the childs brain was pressed.
Buddha has given a very significant name to this storehouse.
Patience means as if the sea has calmed down -- not a single ripple, just mirrorlike.
For example, a man says he doubts Gods existence.
" An impatient mind such as this can never become free.
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So, as I mentioned earlier, the day the inquiry comes to an end the other thing too will be taken care of easily, because when you set out in search of the ultimate you will come to realize what is at stake.
So long as one has not become meditative prior to entering sex, his sex will remain animal-like: it can never have a human quality.
The question is: is the wife really yours that you can renounce her? No husband can ever put a claim on his wife.
So when we recall memories consciously we should call it remembering, whereas the same in meditation is reliving.
As one gains clarity and depth in meditation, and as it becomes possible to go back into the past -- which is not difficult -- one can go as far back as the mothers womb and revive memories of that time.
The births of Mahavira and Buddha had been prophesied.
I have to do my own preparation -- you have, of course, nothing to do with it.
So they came and asked for my help.
Once a girl was brought to me.
I am willing to wait.
One is that after meditation it wont be possible for them to enter into sex for years.
All four of them knew that the appearance of the four stars would herald the birth of Jesus.
Where there is no belief, there is no doubt either.
This key can be given only to one who has revived all the memories of this birth.
luna means the moon, and lunatic means one who is moonstruck.
This is no time to go out.
So when the girl was brought to me, she remembered three of her past lives.
Finally I consented, and she did as I explained to her.
Sooner or later machines will do it as well.
As the days passed and the time of the childs birth drew closer, the thumb began to weigh heavily on her mind.
Only he can doubt who believes, but one who does not have a belief, how can he doubt? Who will he doubt? How can he doubt? Where there is inquiry there is neither doubt nor belief, because doubt takes place only when one is believing in something.
The woman writes, "I forgot I was seventy years old.
So the next day the monk arrived to see the newborn child.
People are ready to have answers, no one wants to know really.
Many things will have to be considered.
So the first thing is: one should have a mind full of questions.
Only one who is patient can be religious.
It wasnt even important enough to remember.
But your memory of the day before yesterday, that of a year back, or that of twenty-five or fifty years back will be increasingly hazier and hazier.
Once you become present like a mirror, everything that is, that ever was, is at once reflected in it.
Only after prayer and meditation should the husband and wife enter into sex.
The man has a scar on his head.
But then it will be strictly an individual matter.
But dont be under the wrong impression that I will be pouring the water -- as soon as your hands are cupped, the water just flows into them.
By coincidence, the majors wife sat next to the general at the dining table.
But he felt very happy too, because his wife had already mentioned to him the special dreams she had.
For a long time I experimented on a young man.
It is easy to remember a thing but very difficult to forget it, because once a fact has become part of our knowledge it is very difficult to erase it.
Once in a while hold a childs hand and run along with him forgetting how old you are.
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This is true: a child cannot be born of a virgin girl.
If conception can take place during the time of these unique extraterrestrial influences, the results will be highly significant.
If you are looking for answers, then a book is good enough.
He was totally unaware.
There are no stages in between -- you dont find it in parts.
In fact, only those doubt who believe in something, who carry some belief.
Neither can you buy the truth by having wealth, nor by losing it.
He replied, "Just about twenty-five.
And in order to do that, as I mentioned earlier, you need to turn the mind away from the future.
It would be good if he did jogging, swimming, dancing.
Very few people are able to regain this paradise, however.
The monk said, "There is no bad omen for the child.
You are the kind of person who is in search of an experience, not an answer.
Question 1
So the second element is: are you ready to disappear? Are you willing to give yourself away? And it is not that you have to give or anything, because why would truth be interested in having you? The readiness to give yourself is enough.
I asked him to bring the girl to me so that I could help her forget in a weeks time; otherwise, I said, the girl will be in a lot of trouble.
Then at least you wont have to bother about going through the experience -- you will follow the answers and be finished with them.
If you really want to forget something, you will at least have to remember it.
All the differences of age between the child and me disappeared.
The dreams were mentioned in a sequence with their contents.
He said, "Maybe about twenty-five.
A very potent sperm is needed in order to give birth to a pure soul.
She really tried to see the stones and pebbles with the same joy and delight as the child.
He talked to me as he would talk to any other child.
LETS SEE IF AT THE TIME OF MY DEATH I WILL HAVE TO SAY AS WELL THAT, I WAS LOOKING FOR A HUNDRED INDIVIDUALS, BUT COULDNT FIND THEM.
It is not only free from doubt, it is free from belief as well.
Only an intercourse which is preceded by years of celibacy can be effective in allowing a powerful soul to enter the womb.
That means in meditation she turns into a five-year-old girl.
Sooner or later, it wont be too difficult for science to discover a way to draw this film out and project it on the screen.
In Buddhas case too, symbols were mentioned.
But first it is necessary to make it clear within yourself: "What exactly am I looking for? Is this just out of fun, out of mere curiosity, or is it a mumuksha?" Mumuksha means a burning desire, a search, for experience.
If he could remember it even once, it would be impossible for him to do it again.
Break your fixation with age in living the outer life; and in your inner life, when you sit in meditation, move back year by year.
In this world, anything you want to search for has a price tag.
He has devised a small belt which is to be tied around a pregnant womans abdomen.
There is no other reason for the decline of religion than this lack of patience.
Remember, the very recognition of the fact that you are only looking for the answers will immediately make you realize the futility of your search, because after all, what will you do with the answers given in words?
However, that which you dont remember is not completely erased from your mind.
The experiment of jati-smaran, remembering past lives, was meant for this very purpose.
This was too much for an ethical and chaste woman like her to bear.
The first thing that will happen after meditation is that you wont be able to enter sex.
Remember, however, your inquiries only look for an answer; I dont consider them inquiries.
There are many words which, when articulated properly, bring about a certain pressure.
They begin to look for money, fame, and so on, which can be achieved without waiting for long, which seem to be just around the corner.
His interest is simply that he should meet someone he can believe in, someone who can provide the answer and satisfy his curiosity.
Ordinarily, babies are born in the darkness of night.
It is not too difficult to imagine babies growing in a machine.
YOU ALSO STATED, AS DID VIVEKANANDA, "I AM IN SEARCH OF A HUNDRED INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN SHOW COURAGE IN ATTAINING THE ULTIMATE HEIGHTS OF SPIRIT.
Those who knew the secret understood the symbolic meaning of the stars.
I am a monk from Acharya Tulsis order.
It cannot be discussed publicly, nor is it right to do so.
Look and see if there is any desire for answers lurking inside.
He would laugh, seeing how many times he went to Delhi, and how each time ultimately the mad scramble ended up in death.
It has been almost impossible to create superior conditions for the conception of higher souls, because the whole science pertaining to it has been lost.
No man can really become a sannyasin until he has realized the whole world as nothing but a dream.
Peace and impatience cannot go together.
Those moments have become worthless today, they are lying like a heap of dust somewhere on the road, they are like trash lying in a pile of rubbish.
because everything was always present, only you were not present as a mirror.
Those who wish to relive their past, who want to remember their past, will have to give up their fixed identities; they will have to relax a little.
She thinks she is a child playing with dolls.
Doubt appears against that which was previously believed.
In it you will not find rising waves of doubt, nor is it contained within the shores of belief.
Just the very readiness in itself is as good as giving away yourself.
It is unscientific.
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But the question is, firm belief against what? Against oneself? Then it is certain there is doubt inside.
In fact, as long as you are not ready to give up yourself you wont be able to attain truth by renouncing whatever else you may have.
Who are you deceiving really? Is your wealth really yours that you talk so much about giving it away? The fact is, you have nothing to call your own except your self, that which you are.
Each second, each hour has its own implication.
Similarly, if the soul of an angry disposition has entered the womb, a woman who otherwise never became angry would begin to show anger.
The interesting thing is that the moon always shines above -- if the sea could calm down and become mirrorlike, it
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could catch the moon in its reflection this very moment.The majors wife suddenly remembered what her husband had read to her that afternoon.
In a dream, your eyeballs move in the same way as when you watch a movie.
She would look at his hands picking up a shining pebble, and she would look at her own hands doing the same act.
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Do you follow me?
Mahaviras prophecy was, "When these many dreams occur, know that I have entered the womb.
Let me tell you a story as an example.
So dont think.
I asked him, "You have received initiation from Acharya Tulsi and have not learned meditation? Then what have you learned? What did you take the initiation for? What does initiation mean really? If you have come to learn meditation from me, then why did you take the initiation? If not even meditation was taught to you there, then what else was taught? If Acharya Tulsi doesnt teach meditation, then what else does he do?"
In fact in the very attempt of forgetting you have to keep remembering it -- just to forget it.
For example, if a person lives for fifty years, billions of memories will be formed in his mind.
The news reached Mary in time and she escaped.
Then nothing will hurt you.
But it was all in vain.
YOU SAID ADDITIONALLY THAT YOU DID NOT INTEND TO EXPLAIN THE WHOLE SUTRA, THE WHOLE TECHNIQUE FOR REMEMBERING PAST LIVES.
She suspects someone may see her in that condition and feel strange about her, so she opens her eyes now and then to make sure no one is watching her.
The child would run, pick up stones and pebbles, and the woman would do the same.
Not only that, but sooner or later words will seem worthless; all theories and doctrines will look like trash; you will feel like throwing away the weight of all scriptures, and a quest for experience will begin.
Let my son be married first.
The difficulty right now is that you are standing with open hands, while I am holding a jug of water asking you to fold your hands, make a cup of your palms so that I may pour water into it.
So let this be clear to you.
Perhaps very few mothers on this earth have fulfilled the role of motherhood.
Beyond that, the communication of sutras will be strictly on an individual basis.
It will be altogether a different world, it will no longer be so hideous and ugly.
When meditation gives the command -- that is, when the possibility to enter sex exists even after one has been in meditation -- then it means that even sex has taken on a sacredness.
The validity increases a great deal if both the techniques are applied.
Currently, a scientist is carrying on a small experiment which will bring about a fundamental change.
Age is a byproduct of all these.
He returns to the age when he was six months old.
Ostensibly they ask, "Does God exist? Is there moksha, salvation?" But it appears they are looking for answers; someone should provide them the answers -- thats all.
Memories of our past life have been prevented by nature.
A believing mind has come to exist instead of an inquiring mind.
It needs courage to lose yourself as you are.
So as soon as they saw the stars, they hurried in search of the child.
He asked the monk, "Are you crying because you see a bad omen?"
By celibacy I mean that which comes on its own, which happens spontaneously.
Actually this journey is such that it would be a kind of childishness for anyone to ask for immediate results.
This is how the mind functions.
But she was very curious to know and went on insisting.
I wont say, Wait a little while.
" Age has nothing to do with knowing.
A small technique of hypnosis can revive the memory of that day.
If you have anything to say, then speak!"
Age exists because of our calculations based on calendars, dates, days.
You wont know how old I am by looking inside me, because age is purely an external measure.
As you draw closer and closer to your present age, your memories will become more and more clear.
The meeting of two bodies simply provides an opportunity for another body to take birth; but when two souls meet as well, a situation is created for a greater soul to descend.
What we call life is not much different from focusing a camera.
I know this much: that I dont know anything.
Her first birth happened in Assam, where she had died as a seven-year-old girl.
In fact, the primary condition for going into the memories of previous lives is that one should be able to see the world as nothing more than a dream, a leela, a play.
She told them of a treasure buried in the old house -- it was indeed found there.
Once you begin to see this world as a play, a dream, then there is no problem.
But our impatient mind -- unstable, restless, wavering -- fails to have any grip over God.
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Keep in mind, however, my understanding of brahmacharya, celibacy -- it is neither an outcome of suppression nor repression.
But alas, I am nearing death and this child will take time to grow and flower -- I cannot wait that long.
You have mentioned
" If these nails become too much set, it will be difficult to go back into the memories.
In fact, when the seeking, the inquiry is finished, there is neither belief nor any doubt.
A quest for experience is needed, a probing for the sake of experience is required.
For the next two years she maintained her friendship with him in every possible way.
The whole world turned into a wonderland, a fairyland for me.
Deep down, this layer keeps you disconnected from your previous birth.
The child would run after butterflies, and she would run with him too.
Her relatives in that life had now moved to Jabalpur.
The woman followed him exactly the same way.
How strange! You go on talking about renouncing all that is not yours, while that which is truly yours, you never even mention giving it up! This wont work.
There is a reason for saying this, because the father was irrelevant.
The master said, "Sit down.
Its a very strange situation.
That means, Jesus father was not there, only his body was.
" As long as one doesnt show the readiness to give himself up, he cant progress on the path of finding truth.
It is okay if you are not seeking an experience.
The poor fellow died.
In that crowd she spotted people from her previous life: her son, daughter-in-law, grandson, and so on -- she recognized all of them.
First I kept restraining her from doing it because it was just out of curiosity.
He was old and had been waiting.
The biggest problem with religion is that it is not attained piecemeal -- an inch today, a couple of inches tomorrow -- so that one may live in some hope.
When two individuals make love in this divine moment, it would be better to say the union is not physical, it is very spiritual.
It is already rooted in our consciousness as something impure.
This readiness should come simply as a clarity -- and thats all.
And an incredible thing happened: the child was born with a deformed thumb.
They always pry into things out of curiosity, but such an attitude may sometimes prove dangerous.
Thats why I did not explain all the keys.
I indeed ran, picked up rocks, chased butterflies.
The stars kept moving ahead and the travelers followed them.
She could perform as much Assamese dance as a seven-year-old girl can.
She was in great trouble.
Even an impatient man carries hope that if he has earned a rupee today, he can earn two tomorrow, or four the day after.
Only inquiry remains.
Just stop for a moment or two and everything will look absurd.
And the river will simply laugh at your stupidity.
It is simply impossible to enter sex after meditation.
So it was difficult for me to determine whether or not he really took a bath at nine oclock on the morning of January 1, 1960.
The only difference between jati-smaran regression and the technique of hypnosis is that while regressing you go into your past lives with consciousness; in hypnosis you are taken into your previous lives by being made unconscious.
Thats why we dont remember all the memories that we create during our lifetime.
He had thought that once he attained the highest honor everything would be fine.
He said to the emperor, "Perhaps you dont know, but the king of kings has arrived at last.
And without it there is no possibility of giving birth to a powerful soul.
In order to look ahead it is necessary to forget the past.
This woman of seventy would go to the sea-shore with that child who happens to be her friend.
One prediction made before Buddhas birth was that he would be born when the mother is in a standing position; and that he will be born not inside, but outside the house.
And the second thing you say is the willingness to let go.
or do further research.
Weak sperms wont do.
The same technique works in returning to the past lives.
But that is not the case in attaining truth.
After a few months when I asked him to describe his activities of the same day, he couldnt recall anything.
It keeps coming back to your mind.
In regard to worldly things, there is one advantage: you can get them in fragments, in installments.
The biggest argument against Jesus in the West has been over how he could be born to a virgin girl.
Hence it is interesting to note that all these believers actually carry doubt within themselves, and the one who says he believes strongly, an equally strong doubt exists within him.
In meditation, if one can relive his past lives as well, he will find that experience to be no more than watching a film.
And when she gives birth to an angry child, when he behaves angrily, she scolds him, rebukes him, and wonders who has spoiled him, what bad company he must have fallen into.
But that will put him in trouble.
So what is your preparation? There are three things involved in it.
Seven years have gone by since I saw her last.
I am crying for myself.
The purity ensuing from these bygone years will not be the product of a suppressed sex.
It is in fact a dual process.
It so happened that once a woman had to wear a belt for some reason in her pregnancy -- she was ill -- but it created a strange effect on the child.
Thats why I purposely left out one key in my explanation, and that is how to enter from this life into your previous life.
" He also pointed out the symbols that would appear in the dream -- a white elephant, a lotus, and so on.
The births of Mahavira or Buddha are of this kind.
You must understand the difference.
So you need to fulfill these three conditions.
What I did not know at the age of five, I came to know at the age of seventy by becoming a five-year-old child.
The seeker says, "I dont know anything, how can I doubt? How can I believe?" A seeker is not a nonbeliever; a seekers mind is without any doubt, because a seekers mind is free of any belief.
So that adds up to sixty-seven, plus eleven years of this birth.
Those who are very serious always suffer from illness.
Dont think over them; try living them and they will be in your grasp immediately.
It is easier to see things clearly with closed eyes.
It is necessary to understand the difference between remembering and reliving.
Milarepa went straight to the master and caught him by the neck.
We all lose our paradise, of course, but we never find it again.
The sexual union between husband and wife takes place in the shadows of sin; it does not transpire in a worshipful moment of prayer and bliss.
The moment he enters into meditation, his thumb goes right in his mouth.
In hypnosis you can be taken as deeply inside your self as one would like to go.
Mariam was qualified to give birth to Jesus, but her husband was not.
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Hence the Christian priest somehow tries to prove Jesus was born of a virgin mother.
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So first, you will have to go back in your memory to the day you were born -- but that is not your real birthday.
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The relatives of her past life were my neighbors in Jabalpur; they brought her to me.
The first preparation is to have a probing mind.
You did exist on January 1, 1960, and you must have done something from dawn till dusk, yet you will be unable to remember anything.
You will start counting rupees, and begin figuring whether to give five rupees, or ten, or whatever.
Emile Coue has written an anecdote in his biography.
Throughout the party she avoided the generals thumb, but the more she tried not to look at it the more her eyes wandered toward that thumb.
Religion is the only thing one can go in search of only if one is ready to pursue it with patience.
And one who is ready to have infinite patience -- he attains now and here.
Following this incident, the scientist has carried out many more experiments.
There is no point talking about them before everyone.
She ran with him to catch the foam as the waves lapped on the shore.
When I saw that eleven-year-old girl her eyes, her face looked like that of a seventy-eight-year-old wom99lib•netan.
If you complete the first you will reach the second, if you complete the second you will arrive at the third.
I wrote down everything he did on a certain day.
If this becomes clear to you, then the second sutra: "I am ready to give myself," will become instrumental in changing your life.
One who is very serious cannot return to his childhood memories.
There was only one way to do it.
It is something like a university which may give some people education up to the B.
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And there she had died at the age of about sixty.
The actual birthday is the day a child is conceived.
They start collecting rocks and pebbles which are lying all around, and are accessible right away.
" Herod couldnt follow what the man meant by "king of kings.
Words neither satisfy your hunger nor quench your thirst -- words are good for nothing.
Its a Herculean task to be a mother.
Those who had given full consideration to the phenomenon of conception had worked out all the details.
Someone may find it impossible to recall anything beyond the age of five, and even up to five the memories may be few and far between.
In fact, there is no connection between impatience and peace, between impatience and equanimity.
I wont fail in that.
The experiment succeeded; the woman recalled that she was a prostitute in her past life.
There are many souls which can take birth but havent been able to yet.
He had no knowledge of what happened.
When I saw her, she was eleven years old.
Insofar as he was concerned, Mariam was virgin; in his eyes, the son was born to a virgin Mary.
The president of India invited her to Delhi.
In meditation you remember as a five-year-old child.
After years of meditation when someone goes into sex -- that is, when meditation makes him competent to enter into sex -- then naturally it will have to be a divine moment, because if there had been even a slight impurity left in that moment, meditation would not have given the go-ahead.
THIS IS THE REASON WHY IN VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE I KEEP LOOKING IN THE EYES OF THOSE WHO CAN BE USEFUL.
Presently, she could speak as much of the Assamese language as a seven-year-old girl can.
He was unconscious all along.
You know very well -- that which you want to forget, you never can.
The serious people are sick people.
Every rung of the ladder that you climb increases your blood pressure.
Instead of looking at the future, look in the past, and go on making your resolve stronger and stronger in your mind.
Make sure you are not looking for any intellectual theory built around the idea whether God created this world or not.
The situation will be totally the reverse.
And what is stored in the container of your memory is as much a film as the regular celluloid film.
Thats why it is necessary to go through a special discipline before reviving the memories of past lives.
And that is the very element which is absolutely lacking in the world today.
For him, beyond twenty-five was the infinite, the numberless.
The only difference being that the film we normally use can be enclosed in a box, while the film recorded in life has to be stored in the container of your memory.
She befriended the child when he was three.
And there is a difference between the two.
It was found that the belt pressed against the babys head and the child was born with a very high IQ.
But essentially, both types of people carry the idea that truth can be purchased by means of wealth.
But your forgetting does not mean the memory is completely wiped out.
It is as though we firmly believe there is nothing on the other side of this wall; by and by well stop looking beyond it.
How can I just give myself right away? Please wait for a few days.
If you look within there is no age.
" But it wasnt so easy to forget it; a lot of effort was needed.
Of course, sowing the seed and its manifestation are two different phenomena.
At least some rough data can be obtained of the possibilities hidden in that moment of conception.
So try to break the fixations of your external life.
Those who practice even a little bit of meditation will have no difficulty forgetting about the future.
In the right sense of the meaning, one is not a mother just because she has carried a child in her womb; she is also a mother because she has given a special direction to the childs consciousness.
So this is the first thing.
So when he came to beg at the palace, he told Buddhas father,"I know a child is to be born here.
Then one may enter in sex with a prayerful heart, invoking pure souls to accept the invitation.
Impatience means unrest, impatience means excitement, agitation.
Somewhere in the book it was mentioned that when a child is in the womb, whatever impressions the mother may receive are automatically transferred to the child.
The whole technique can of course be explained saving one sutra -- this one cannot be practiced.
So let me repeat the few basic points.
Dont behave with children as if there exists a gap of fifty years between you and them.
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Most people live by curiosity alone.
It buries the layer of your past lives memories, and the layer of this lifes memory starts building over it.
Even a small step on the path has its implications.
You go on driving nails in your consciousness, saying, "Now I am fifty, now I am fifty-one, now I am fifty-two
As soon as a woman conceives, she begins to reflect the possibilities the child is endowed with.
And when the inquiring is complete and the stake is total, one is ready for eternal patience, because in order to find the ultimate one cannot be impatient and approach it in the same way as we do trivial matters.
Religion is absolutely invisible: you cant touch it, you cant lock it in a safe, it cant become your bank balance, you cant put it in a safe deposit vault and then go home and sleep without a care.
Sex has already been branded as sacrilegious.
I have come for his darshan, to see him and pay my respects.
In meditation, today will look the foggiest, while the first day of birth, fifty years ago for example, will be the clearest day in memory.
I advised the girls father to do something for her to forget those memories.
Anyone can give you an answer; no one can give you the experience.
It wont be the result of any vow taken by the husband and wife both practicing celibacy by sleeping separately in locked rooms, or the husband sleeping in the temple all by himself.
It was quite a strange thing: as Buddhas mother was traveling to her parents, on her way she stopped for a while and stood under the sal tree, and Buddha was born, under the open skies.
Already she was facing great difficulties.
Awaiting turns mind into a mirror.
In remembering you face great layers of memories which make everything fuzzy.
Beyond that we have no means to help them further.
One simply wants to know: What is it? When one asks, "What is it?" there is neither any belief nor any doubt.
And the task is, for nine months giving the childs consciousness a specific direction.
Once you have shown the readiness, the matter is finished.
As you will draw closer to the childhood memories, the clearer they will be, because the minds slate is never so clear as it is during the childhood; the writing on it is never so clear after that.
When I put him under a deep state of hypnosis and asked him to narrate the particular day, he not only recounted all that I had noted down, but described many other things which had not been written.
and the same I had done and said the life before that, and the same thing the life previous to that one.
Thats why he could say he had nothing to do with Jesus birth.
When the photographs of the childs and the generals thumbs were compared, they looked identical.
His body was simply used as a medium.
She said, "I dont want to remember all this, I want to forget all about it.
When Jesus was asked what kind of people will enter his kingdom of heaven, he replied, "Those who are like children.
If your preparation is complete, then I can be the witness to it.
He knows nothing.
I missed all that for nothing.
She is not sure whether this brother, or this father is from her present life or her past life -- everything is mixed up.
He calls it alaya vigyan -- the storehouse of consciousness.
He is doubtful; otherwise he would have wagered all ten rupees.
Shobhana is here with us.
Consoling her, the husband said, "Are you crazy? Whats in a book? Do you believe something will happen just because it was written by somebody? Drop the whole thing from your mind!" But the wife couldnt drop it.
Also, when such a soul is conceived, for nine months the baby needs to grow in the womb within a certain psychological and spiritual environment.
Ordinarily, if we go back into our past without meditation, even in a conscious state, the further we go back the hazier the memories will become.
It illustrates the question you have asked: "What preparations are necessary in order to give birth to a higher soul?" Jesus soul was ready to take birth.
if you have been taking your wife to be real and you come to remember that she was your mother in the previous life, you will be confused.
This is very interesting and it will be good to take a look at it.
Truth can be discovered not by losing what you have, but by disappearing as you are.
Even today there are aboriginals who find it difficult to answer if you ask them how old they are, because for some of them the numerals stop at fifteen, for others at ten, and for some the number doesnt go beyond five.
Whatsoever I am saying publicly are things which can lead only up to a point where it is safe for you.
First, it will become evident that whatsoever you had taken so seriously did not prove to be such a grave matter after all.
WHAT ARE THE DISTINGUISHING FEATURES THAT MAKE A WOMB WORTHY ENOUGH TO RECEIVE A HIGHER SOUL, AND WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A WOMB IN WHICH AN INFERIOR SOUL MAY ENTER? WHAT PREPARATIONS ARE NECESSARY IN ORDER THAT A HIGHER SOUL MAY DESCEND? HOW ARE THE PREPARATIONS MADE? AS COMPARED TO ORDINARY WOMBS, HOW SPECIAL WERE THE WOMBS THAT CARRIED GREAT SOULS LIKE BUDDHA, MAHAVIRA, KRISHNA, AND JESUS?
During these nine months, if the mother stays angry
I told them, "Now it is a difficult situation.
And the captured moments we once considered so significant are just like pictures projected on the screen.
But my problem was how to be sure of the details he gave of January 1, 1960.
It means the man has gone mad because he has been attacked by the moon.
Therefore, for thousands of years the mind of this country has been filled with the belief in the possible existence of past lives.
This world of ours develops the being and intelligence of some people only to a certain point, and then deserts them.
So was Buddhas mother.
It would help him greatly if he dropped his fixation on being fifty years old, if he stopped being serious for a while.
The fact remains that the full moon does affect our mental state.
IF YOU ARE READY, THEN COME ALONG!"
You can find them in books, gurus can provide them.
He says a friend of his, a major in the army, was once reading a book on hypnosis.
Let each birthday come alive one by one; go back slowly.
In fact, Mahavira or Buddha never initiated anyone until he had gone through jati-smaran.
EXPLAINING THE PROCESS FURTHER, YOU SAID THAT FIRST ONE REGRESSES TO THE AGE OF FIVE, THEN TO THE AGE OF THREE, FOLLOWED BY THE MEMORY OF BIRTH, THE POINT OF CONCEPTION, AND FINALLY INTO THE MEMORIES OF PAST LIFE.
The people who heard him were a little surprised.
All other bets are very small in nature.
In India, no matter how much disagreement the Jainas, the Buddhists, the Hindus may have among themselves, they agree on one point -- the existence of past lives.
This way the mind goes on becoming empty, it is able to look ahead.
This was purely accidental -- just an error on the part of nature.
So this woman of seventy really carried out an amazing experiment.
Even before I was born a human being I had repeated the same act, whether I was an animal or a bird: I have been doing and saying the same things all along.
Once someone asked him how old he was.
For example, if a man wants to go back to his childhood it would do him good if he played with children for an hour or so every day.
The nonbeliever inside him creates fear that he might lose; the believer is also right there telling him to go ahead.
First answer me; the formalities can be done later, at leisure.
Naturally, it is not possible for a pure soul to be attracted toward a womb surrounded by a cloak of sin.
Our mind does innumerable things out of curiosity.
Once thats taken care of, the matter is finished.
If even under the meditative state he gives the same account of his previous lives, you gather additional evidence and the validity of the story is established.
Obviously I could not have noted everything.
The monk was a renowned figure, very famous, a divine person in his own right.
In the morning she said to her husband, "I am in trouble.
Hence inquiring is the purest state of mind.
So patience is needed.
And in order to forget, the more you will need to remember it the stronger that memory becomes.
For example, when you sit for meditation and begin to go deep into it, make a resolve to go back when you were five years old and find out what happened to you then.
Milarepa said, "Ill do all that later.
It would be good to understand her attitude toward this friendship.
When he was due to be born, a monk from the faraway Himalayas arrived at the palace.
A particular memory may surface which cannot be restrained later on.
People generally live in the state of "paradise lost"; the situation of "paradise regained" comes in the lives of very few.
We dont see the connection between the two because an enormous gap exists in between.
Mothers come to me complaining about their sons and daughters having fallen into bad company.
The story of Jesus birth is even more significant than that of Buddhas or Mahaviras.
But that will be absolutely in person, individually.
The only problem is we have become identified with our age.
She cant figure out which memory belongs to which birth.
In that deep state of meditation you will suddenly find you have indeed become five years old, and whatever happened to you at that age is coming back to you.
But the members of her family were enjoying the way she was.
That evening they were invited to a party in honor of a general.
Suppose you hypnotize a man, ask him about his previous lives and write it down; then in his conscious state you lead him into meditation.
So inquiry is a very pure thing.
The crickets chirping sound so beautiful.
Years will go by without sex.
God does not reflect in it, because it fails to become a mirror.
If I do speak a little in terms of answering the questions, it is only so that the questioners dont altogether run away.
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Today the girl is mad.
Nature makes a great arrangement.
It is the most uncontaminated state; there is no other state more purified than this.
The master said, "Now wait a minute and behave yourself.
A bodiless soul, which the Christians call the Holy Ghost, had to enter the body of Jesus father.
But an agitated sea, full of waves, cant catch the moon.
At first, enter into the memory of this birth.
He did not miss anything from what I had written down; rather he added many more things.
We immediately believe, we never go on a search.
The girl said, "On the day of your wedding you fell from the marriage horse: the horse reared and you fell down.
In her past life she was the elder sister of my next door neighbor.
The day you attain it, it comes in an instant -- it explodes on you.
When does one doubt? Remember, doubting is not inqiry.
Even at the age of eleven she looked so jaundiced and pale, so worried and troubled, as if she was close to death, because she carried within her an awareness of the sequence of memories spread over seventy-eight years.
He had thousands of devotees, and he was asking to pay his regards to the child! The father was simply amazed.
Thats all the difference there is.
Arent you aware of the etiquette for asking a question? Dont you know that you are required to go around the master three times, bow down to him seven times, and then sit in a corner till you are called?"
Close your eyes and try to find how old your consciousness is -- you wont be able to say anything.
They are worth no more than a film.
And in view of this fact, experiments can be done for treating the anger of the conceived child right when it is in a seed form.
" Perhaps children do live in a kind of big heaven.
It is necessary that in the overall system of ones life one forgets most of the things that happen to him every day.
First, over the past thousands of years, we have become believers rather than inquirers.
But a systematic provision can be made.
Until this happens, it is not right to take a person into his past life.
Everyone has different kinds of thumbs, disorders which have been given to them.
It makes you so capable that nothing ever confuses you.
You wont know a thing.
5 August 1970 pm in Bombay, India
Such an understanding will transform your life, because then you will come to see that the thing you are willing to kill or be killed for will someday be rotting in a heap of garbage.
So people were waiting eagerly for a woman to declare she had seen all the dreams with these symbols.
The techniques I am working on with you collectively are such that they cant harm you.
Thats why it has always been said Jesus was born of a virgin mother.
the first condition is that one should have an inquiring mind and a longing.
He closes his eyes and repeats, "Rama, Rama," so that the doubt can be buried deep inside, so that the belief stays firm.
The man at whose feet I could have attained a timeless bliss, is born.
Now you are gone.
A suitable mother was available, but not the father.
A man from India journeyed to Bethlehem in order to offer his greetings on Jesus birth.
" But no one ever says, "Ill renounce my self.
No matter how much wealth you may be willing to give away, the truth will not be found.
There is a reason for it.
She tried to look the same way -- becoming a child too.
Even though the objects are out of your sight, they still remain present within the house.
He has initiated me.
How can you enroll a seventy-eight-year-old woman in a school? She couldnt learn anything -- she already knew too much! She couldnt play.
YOU SAID THEN THAT BY DISCONNECTING THE CONSCIOUSNESS COMPLETELY FROM THE FUTURE, THE POWER OF MEDITATION SHOULD BE FOCUSED TOWARD THE PAST.
During pregnancy, the mothers state of mind plays a vital role in the formation of the child.
Everything else except religion is tangible, perceptible.
Its not much of a problem, because when we close our eyes, we see the same film being projected on our optical screen.
So I have given you three sutras for your preparation.
Man wants to repeat all he has been doing in his previous lives, but he has no memory of it.
The first thing is: the purer the moment of lovemaking is, the purer the soul a womb can attract.
I have mentioned before how Shankara entered another body.
For no specific reason she had a memory of her three past lives.
The moment this girl recognized him, the first thing she said was, "Good Lord! The scar is still on your head!"
The day the soul enters the mothers womb is indeed the correct birthday.
So the three steps I have talked about are deeply interconnected.
The memories of a play are not the kind which can cause any harm.
But as long as there is an inquiring mind, as long as there is doubt, how can one let go completely? Actually, the day your inquiry is over there will be no doubt any longer.
He neither went around him three times, nor did he bow seven times and wait his turn sitting quietly in the corner.
They had taken into account, for example, the minutest calculation of time in terms of finding the exact and the most characteristic moment to conceive.
In that case, many graduates would have to be on the lookout for some place where they can work toward an M.
Since you forget what happened yesterday, you become capable of living the tomorrow.
The question should not just look for an answer, it should look for an experience.
The fact is, the very thing we are asked to drop becomes difficult to let go of.
There is no gamble greater than religion.
But this outer measurement becomes fixed on the inner consciousness -- it sticks there like a nail.
If the query is only to find the answer, then sooner or later the answer will turn into a belief, because the questioner is not ready to take much trouble.
Jesus was born in hiding in a dark and dingy stable.
The birth of Jesus is even more incredible.
Truth cannot be found through money.
The movement of his eyes will indicate he is watching something.
But waiting is very difficult, because the mind says, "Who knows whether I will attain or not? Perhaps I am waiting in vain.
It merely slips out of your center of consciousness and is stored in some corner of your mind.
But if this world looks very real to you
If a man were to remember once, "I had made love to a woman in my previous birth and had told her, I cant live without you even for a moment
So Mahavira and Buddha gave initiation only after one had relived his past lives.
It got so bad that she even shut her eyes, but by shutting her eyes she saw the thumb even more clearly.
Inquiring is the purest state of mind.
But then it should become clear to you that your only interest is in having the answer, not the experience.
" She immediately went along with him.
You go back to the fifth year of your life.
You will have a clear memory of yesterday; your memory of today will be even more clear.
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A whole crowd would gather to see her.
But if you become clear about this, then the book will soon begin to bore you.
But it is all possible.
At night, she woke up with a start several times.
FROM MY SIDE I AM READY TOTALLY TO TAKE YOU INWARD.
Not only are many such souls available, but there is a continuous race among them for entering a womb.
There was a custom in Tibet that when someone went to see the master, he had first to walk around him three times, then bow down to him seven times, and then sit in a corner reverently until the master called and allowed him to ask.
Truth is ever-present.
" He thought an enemy was born who would finish him someday, so he ordered all newly born children in Jerusalem to be killed.
We cannot carry the full memory of even one life.
As you will go into meditation, the desire for sex will disappear -- meditation will become the way to celibacy.
In such countries children are not born with the memory of any past life because the people in those countries are not attuned to that direction.
Her second birth happened in Madhya Pradesh too, in Katni.
There is a complete science that studies how the earth is affected by various forces every moment, every hour.
The point is, it should become clearly evident to you that when the time comes, you can stake yourself without the slightest hesitation.
Like this, all mothers give their own thumbs, their own disorders to their children.
If we could make use of the science of child-conception, a complete transformation of the human race could be brought about.
You simply need to be prepared to disappear.
But it will be done by someone else; you will be unconscious.
So I said that unless that girl was made to forget the past memories, she would go mad.
Hence with those who will progress fast, I will start sharing things which otherwise cannot be told openly in public.
We take their heaven away by schooling and tutoring them.
It was the mother who gave this thumb to the child.
Their coming was awaited for years.
So the second thing I look for is the courage to let go of ones self.
Returning to the past memories in meditation is not remembering.
In Tibet lived a mystic called Milarepa.
So the first element I look for in a seeker is the element of inquiry: the quest, not for an answer, but for the experience; a search not to find a philosophy, but to discover ones own being; a probing not simply to know, but to attain; not even just to attain, but to be.
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The fact is, no one knew what his age was until horoscopes, calendars, the counting of years, the numbers came into existence.
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It will be easy for such a woman to return to her past memories.
There is a young man here: in meditation he begins to suck his thumb -- he becomes six months old.
And as soon as this future becomes the past, it disappears too so that we are free to receive what lies ahead.
Often it unexpectedly happens that if a man dies with a deep feeling to remember that life in the next one, then without his going through any yogic practice or following any meditation technique, he will be able to retain the memory in his next birth.
And the day one becomes a mirror, he attains everything that very moment
Although the process of regression is simple, it has its own hazards.
I have no answers for anyone.
She had never been to Assam: she had nothing to do with the Assamese language.
The child once came up to her in the middle of the night and said, "Lets go out.
There are many asanas, body postures, which are meant to bring about the required pressure at a particular point.
So from my side there is no need for any special preparation.
They said, "We dont want to help her forget the memories -- its a good thing.
Otherwise he remains rigidly at the age of fifty.