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