(Below is a continuation of the post Marriage Means Sacrifice)
What is the surety that you will take my advice and do what I say?
If you would have taken it, you would have done it already. You don’t take my advice, so what can I do?
Come on drop it! Some karma, something made you misbehave, and it is finished. Why to sit and crib about something that has happened in the past.
Every action happens because of four things:
1. You had the intention to do the action
2. Someone else wanted you to do it and that made you do it
3. Neither you or the other person wanted it, but somehow it happened against both your will
4. Both wanted it so it happened
Are you getting what I am saying?
Two people are involved in a fight with each other.
First possibility is, you were upset and it came out of you. You were upset and your own anger caused it.
Second possibility is, one comes to you in an angry mood and you catch that angry vibration and you also shout. You were very happy but someone’s vibration took over and you reacted.
Third, neither you nor the other person expected but something happened, like an accident. This is because of time and some karma.
Fourth is, both you and the other person wanted to go on a ride, so you went together.
So actions or mistakes have these four types of possibilities.
It is useless to sit and worry about the past. Just move on! Every moment there is sparkling, scintillating energy within you, so move with that.
Mistakes have caused pain and that is good. Pain has given you depth and that is good. You have learnt from the mistakes and now you don’t want to commit the same mistakes again. That is good also.
You know, karma is unfathomable. It is very deep, like measuring the depth of an ocean. Which karma, where, what? It is all simply too big to explain, but it is the cause for any action.
No event or action can happen without a cause, this is simply a scientific theory. There needs to be a cause for every result. So every effect has a cause and this cause is karma. But this cause is so deep because it is not connected to just one incident, it is connected to many things and it is enormous.
That is why Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, 'Gahana karmano gatih', unfathomable are the ways of karma. So don’t sit and waste your time thinking about karma.
In the scriptures also it is said, 'If you do this you will have this karma, and if you do that you will have that karma', but there is no need to go into it.
My dear, in the subtle you are already connected. The breath only makes you realize that you are connected.
Your mind is always outside and it does not come back to itself, so the breath is the first step in bringing the outgoing mind inward. It is the doorway or the pathway, and meditation keeps the mind in the inner chamber.
Quantum physics has discovered that matter does not exist. What exists is just wave function.
The table, floor, ceiling, all appear to be there, but they are all just wave functions. If you take one piece of matter and go deep into it, you will see that it is only space. Everything is just space. So what you see does not exist.
You know, one great quantum physicist, when he met me, he said a wonderful thing. He said, 'You know Gurudev, for forty years I studied matter only to realize that it simply doesn’t exist. Now if I talk on quantum physics, people think I am talking on Buddhism'.
I told him that in Yoga they talk about the five elements. He jumped out of his seat. He was shocked. He said, 'Greeks only knew four elements, Fire, Water, Air and Earth'. I said, 'Yoga talks about the fifth element which is Space'.
If you read Yoga Vashishtha, you feel you are reading quantum physics. Yoga is all about realizing the oneness of consciousness and that’s exactly what physics talks about.
So, one is a materialistic approach and the other is an approach from the level of consciousness, and they meet at the same point.
Spirituality is only an extension of science, it is not anti-science.
Yes, martial arts can bring strength to the body, discipline in the mind and sharpens your intellect. It can channelize all the energy and emotions in you. If your emotions are not channelized, they go haywire and that’s when you get aggressive, angry, upset or depressed.
If you do some martial arts, karate or even workout at the gym, then it helps you harmonize your emotions.
If you are not useful on this planet, nature would have taken you away a long time ago. Nature is very intelligent, and if nature has kept you here, there is some use for you, so don’t be too hard on yourself.
Each one of you is capable of doing something, and whatever you can do keep doing it. From time to time, see if you can extend yourself a little more. By this your capacity to do will also increase.
One gentleman came to me who could play forty instruments. He could play the flute, guitar, sitar, tabla, and many other more instruments. It was fascinating.
I also knew a gentleman who had nearly forty five degrees, and he was not more than about 47-48 years old. I wondered how he got so many degrees. He is a lawyer, he is a doctor, he is an engineer; my goodness! Unfortunately, he died in a car accident.
At the age of 47, he knew a lot of things. He simultaneously did a lot of degrees, otherwise you can't do this. He had an amazing personality.
Whatever you is good, but when you take up something, complete it. It is not that you take up something and then you drop it and take something else. Then you may be very talented but it is totally useless. So you take up something and see it through.
