See, you don't try to convince people who don't know what meditation is. Even if they get convinced, they will not do it. So better leave it. Say to them, "You have not meditated, you have missed something great in your life", that's it, and you walk away with a royal attitude. They will come behind you.
It is not your convincing power that will make people start. It’s your conviction that will make them start. How much conviction you have in what you believe. That changes the world around you.
Do you know what the spider does? It makes a net all around itself from its own saliva. It walks and weaves a net. The spider does it all by itself! This is what you must remember. Have this conviction that you create your world, you create the people around you and you create the situations around you.
Don't give too much importance to what others think, what others say because it has no basis. They just vanish in no time like bubbles in the air.
Why do we give so much importance to what people think? People who you think are great friends, how much time will it take for them to turn against you? Hasn't it happened? You have done so much for people and they have turned against you. How many of you have this experience? For no reason, they became your enemy. You wonder one fine day what happened to this guy, what happened to this lady? You can't find logic. You search for a reason why they have gone against you, and you can't find one.
Similarly, someone who you did not know come to your help. Hasn't this happened? All this happens on its own law. If your time is good, even enemies behave like friends, and if your time is not good, it can happen the other way around. So remember you are like the spider. You weave your world around yourself. When you move with this conviction, everything falls in place, not you trying to convince somebody.
People having known something is good, still they don't do it. Who does not know exercising is good? Civilized, educated people, they all know, but do they do it? No! Educated people know very well that junk food is bad for them. Do they stop eating it? No! So it is not necessary that people do what is good for them. But when you give them a vision of something beyond, something mysterious, something more beautiful, then they will want to find out what it is. When you trigger the interest in them, trigger the spirit of enquiry in them, then the people will walk the path, not because they know or they are convinced.
The law of attraction is an ancient concept. It’s nothing new. You call it the law of attraction or you call it the karma theory, it’s the same. What you need to know is: you are much bigger than that. You are much more than the law of attraction, for you have the power. .
Don't give too much power to the law of attraction. You have a say in the law of attraction as well.
Somehow, when the new-age people talk about the law of attraction, they make you feel as though you are a slave to this law, as though it is fatalistic. It’s not fatalistic. The law of attraction is one of the powers of your existence; your mind. , So you have the power to say no to it also. ,
Yes, many experiences happen in life but you don't have to give too much importance to it. You may see things, you may hear things, you may smell things, you may taste - all the five senses can get different experiences, but you just take them as they come. This is a door to another dimension; the unknown dimension. So all that we are doing – singing, meditating, is not just some technique to relax, it is the door to a deeper dimension of existence.
Yes, the movie has already been shot and you are just seeing it. That's from one dimension. .
Mysteries cannot be explained, it can only be experienced. Mystery is only there to create a wow! And the wow is when the mind transcends and goes into your being. All understanding is only to silence the mind and to create a wow. In the wow, your whole dimension shifts to somewhere deeper.
That's important. It’s not enough to see the divine in me. You have to see it in you also. That’s important – and to see it everywhere as well.
Ego is that which needs somebody else to express itself. Ego needs two and there are many definitions of ego. One of the definitions of ego is, it is the antidote to being natural, and naturalness is the antidote to ego.
Second, on another level, there are three types of ego - Satvik, Rajasik and- Tamasik ego. Satvik ego is "I am everything" or "I am light", this is Satvik ego. Tamasik ego is "I am somebody", identifying with particular qualities.
Ego has many dimensions. When you say, "I am bothered by ego", you are bothered because there is some unnaturalness. You don’t feel at home, that is when ego is a botheration. When you feel at home, then you can say, "Oh that is Nirahankaar", i.e., no ego; being at ease. That which puts you at ease is egolessness. This is one of the definitions.
Yes, it’s possible. You think of someone whom you don't like, immediately something happens in your body, isn't it. When you dislike somebody and you think of them, something happens in your body, and then don't you think that something will also happen inside when you think of the Guru? Yes, it should happen (laughter) and it will happen.
