(Below is a continuation of the post Learn To Care For The Environment)
Do you feel at home everywhere? You find a sense of unshakeable peace, a sense of unknown inner-strength? Do you feel comfortable with people or without people? Then you are progressing!
If you feel uncomfortable with people, or uncomfortable without people, in both cases, you need to work on yourself a lot. Do you see that? You should feel at home when there are people around you and when there is nobody around you -- that is the strength that meditation brings within you. It brings a smile that is undying.
If you think this is a little too much, then never mind, it will take its time.
Where is it difficult? It is not difficult here. Somewhere else it might appear to be difficult. You sit here and see how I guide you all through meditation. Meditation is happening.
What do you think I am doing? Forget about all the others around you, I am just talking to you only. Even when there are millions, I only talk one-on-one!
Well, take up some good project, do some work, then you will have more chance to interact with me and talk to me.
You can’t get any more closer to me because you are already close to me. From your side you should always think that you are close to me, that’s it. Don’t expect me to look at you and smile at you and say, "Hi, how are you doing?" and all that. And if I say, "Hi", to someone next to you, then don’t get upset saying that 'Guruji looked at him and smiled but he didn’t even look at me’. Leave all this, this is nothing, okay. Don’t look for these sorts of gestures that I may be doing to someone else. That doesn’t in anyway indicate any closeness.
If you can love the fearful, the fear disappears. Fear and love are not two different emotions. It is the same emotion standing upside down.
Since the last 10 years, if you see the toys, the figures and characters that children are using or are fond of, it is very different. It is fearsome. The fearsome characters either bring in valor in you or take away the fear from you. That is the reason that those days, such fearsome pictures were depicted and worshipped. When you worship that, there is no fear left inside you.
I have described the symbolism behind the garland of skulls. All that is to remove the fear. Skull is used either to create fear or remove fear. In modern days, to depict anything dangerous, there is a skull and two bones put in front of that. That is to warn you to be careful. In all the countries in the world, this is the symbol that is used to depict danger. In ancient days, people used that same depiction to get over fear. There is much deeper meaning to it. We will take that up some other time. Symbolism should be taken only as symbolism.
Shiva again is a symbolism of the inexpressible. It is not someone with a snake hanging around his neck as some people are propagating, "Oh, Adi Yogi lived some 10,000 years ago", This is all rubbish and has no scientific evidence. Nobody lived 10,000 years ago in the Himalayas like Shiva with a snake around his neck and water flowing from his head. Absolutely not! Shiva is a principle. Shiva is the fourth state of consciousness, which is neither waking, nor sleeping, nor dreaming. The fourth state of consciousness which is benevolent, which is absolute peace is Shiva.
Vedanta is the real essence of Indian philosophy. There you understand all these symbolisms and it comes to you as an experience. Meditating on it brings that experience.
See, compassion is your nature. Channel it with measurement to others, give how much ever they need to get.
