(Below is a continuation of the post Honesty Is The Best Policy)
The soul is God, but in many people the God inside is sleeping, and so you are not able to see the light that is deep inside. The Divine is also in those who do wrong things. It is not that people who do bad things are devoid of God, no, it is just that the Divinity is covered; sleeping.
In Sanskrit we say, 'Devi Jagran'. This means that Divine qualities exist in everyone, it only needs to be awakened. These Divine qualities are dormant in our consciousness and need to be awakened.
If you see, in an awakened consciousness there will be no negativity or violence.
We should see the world and all its event as a play. That is why it is called as a Leela (Divine Play).
Well, you can be greedy to do seva, and to get higher knowledge. No need to be jealous of others near the Guru.
Guru keeps all kinds of people around him or her. He keeps some people closest so that they don’t cause problems to others. Some are very thick skinned, and some are sensitive.
Ashrams are like a zoo. It is not homogenous type of people. In our ashram also, there is a whole zoo. At the entrance, there are monkeys, then there are a whole lot of squirrels, snakes, and mongoose. At the back there are geese, swans, and plenty of birds. There are around a 100 varieties of birds and 200 varieties of butterflies. There are deer, horses, rabbits, turtles, cows; there is an elephant, and if there are some animals missing, there are people who behave like them. They pounce like lions and tigers. We have a miniature zoo here. But it's very interesting and everyone is happy. That is the thing.
Take a long time to eat your food. When eating, feel the food, sense it, chew it 32 times and you will find satisfaction. So if you are given a bunch of grapes, keep each grape in your mouth and eat it with full awareness.
Bulimic people tend to gulp things. They don’t taste it, chew it. So chew and chew and chew and taste the food well and then you will feel the satisfaction. In fact, you will feel tired and then there is no bulimia.
Pranayama and meditation will definitely help you get over bulimia. Or if you fall in love with somebody then also bulimia disappears. When there is love, then food is not a big issue. It is not a compelling thing. That is why when there is longing, people eat a lot of food as a way to fill the emptiness. So if you have a lot of love or if you have a purpose in life, bulimia will disappear.
Yes the result of it is only positive. It may appear to be not so positive somewhere in the middle but definitely at the end, it has got to be positive, uplifting and evolutionary.
This is like driving a car. Do you know how to drive a car? You have to see the rear mirror, side mirror and the windshield. How do you do that balance? The same way you do this. You should have an intense desire and at the same time not be in a hurry; just relax.
If you want to make good food, you have to start the process of cooking but you can't hurry up. If you are making rice, it will take its time to cook. If it takes ten minutes, the whole ten minutes are needed for the rice to cook. You cannot put the rice on the stove and say, I want it to be cooked in one minute. Then that quality of rice cooked for one minute will not be good.
That is why it is said, 'Samadha siddhi, ishwara pranidana'. You know the big mind is part of you and you are part of it, so just relax. This is when Samadhi happens very quickly.
No, even they say don’t give much importance to it. It is nothing. It is just a technique. There are many such vidyas (techniques) to do those things. You don’t have to be enlightened to do those things.
What is much more important than bringing a ring from there to here is bringing a change in the mind, and a change in one’s life. That is important.
