2001.12.30
Yukteshwarji:
Om…..Om…..Om
(The master blessed all and left)
Sai Baba:
Sai ka Pranam.
Pranaam guruji.
Beti (to Dianne) ghar jakar mujhe bhool nahin jana. Tu dur se aati hai aur dur chali jati hai.
Kissi ko kuch poonchna hai, Sai ko? Kuch baat nahin karna chahte, Sai ke saath? Rooth gaye hain?
Bless us. Please.
(Irawati) Sai, maine jo aapko arpan kiya, aapko accha laga?
Iis bacchi kya poochti hai? Sai ko to sub kuch accha lagta hai. Iis bacchi ko pooch. Sai ko to sub accha lagta. Haan, ek baat Sai ko acchhi nahin lagti. Woh kya hai? Bund hriday. Hriday khula hai, to phir Sai ko tu kucch bhi arpan kar, ya nab hi kar, Sai to khush hai.
Sai ko aab aagya dijye.
Sai ka pranaam.
HLM:
Questions.
(One of the visitors) Sir, these problems that I am facing, will they be cleared off? What should I do?
Two more years. Consider them not as your problems but pathways to your growth. Do not accept defeat. Rise, rise above them. Chant ‘Om’ 1001 times every day. The problems will not go away, but you will be stronger. Fear not, my son, fear not.
(To Gauri) With what burden have you come? There is a wall of blackness around you. Do you wish to break it? Before asking how, you must ask yourself if you truly desire to break it. When you have found your answer come back to us and we will shatter your wall. You have raised it brick by black brick. Now it has become heavy and you feel your back will break. Child, soon you will face a lot of back problems if you do not remove these bricks. We can see your burden and it is all your own creation. Come back to us with your reply.
(To Irawati) Soon this too shall pass.
(To Dianne) Child, three times in your life you will be asked if you wish to work for us. Do not ever say yes till you are ready. The first time is now. Are you ready?
Yes, Sir.
(HLM hit D three times on her forehead to open her third eye chakra) Three months from now you will come back to us with your reply. Every day in these three months you must chew and consume one neem leaf every morning. While chewing, while consuming, pray over a glass of water and repeat the name of Sai one hundred and one times and then drink the water. Every day this can be done any time before noon. In three months you will return. Only then will we accept your reply.
Yes, Sir.
(To one of the visitors) Make the change that you desire. It will be fruitful. The change must be made within three months.
(To Sohrab) Son, you have a few difficult months ahead. Do not let them emotionally tar you. If you require cleansing speak to this child and she will be told how to do it.
Yes, Sir, I do require it and I will speak to her. Thank you.
Come June and you will soar. Let these next few months be the guttering out of the last candle.
Yes, Sir. Thank you.
Jade Fire:
Good evening, children, and welcome.
Good evening, Sir.
Did you have a Merry Christmas, Sir?
(Sir smiled) What is important is, did you?
We did, Sir. We spent it wishing you for your birthday.
(Sir smiled)
Sir, thank you for being with us on Friday.
Where else would I have been but with my little son?
You will now find rapid changes.
Sir what happened a few days before that?
It is behind him.
OK Sir.
What subject would you like us to speak to you on?
Sir, could you enlighten us about Bahaullah who founded the Bahai religion?
Son, like all masters he came at the time required, in the place required. And he came at a time when world religions had failed humanity. He came to set it right and the tenets of what he preached were meant for a modern practical world, but as seen with humanity, what he preached and its interpretation and its following is tarnished with obsession and rigidity. He did not preach a religion; he preached a style of living, a life to be followed but his teachings were boxed in by walls of fanaticism. This is the danger of all that we teach.
Sir, why is it that we never get the real truth of the religions? We never seem to get the real truth. The teachings are always contaminated.
Because, my child, the teachings reach you through the minds of so many. Every book that you read, every word that you are taught must eventually come through the filter of the mind. If the filter is clean what will result will be pure. But, dear one, very often the filter is contaminated due to the ego. Wisdom has its own danger. It makes you feel stronger than you are, it makes you feel greater than you are and by giving you this illusion it makes you smaller than you are. Read, my child, as many books as you desire. Learn from as many masters as you desire but always use your own filter. Do not permit another to be your filter, but ensure that your filter is clean. When you find that what has come through another one’s filter has been contaminated, do not pass judgement. Merely accept it for what it is and let it pass. True teachings, dear one, always reach you but they are concealed due to this ego filter that they pass through. It is a challenge for you to look for that truth. There is only one truth and truth can never be contrary. Yes, each master will express the truth in different forms. You must be discerning and for this you must use your mind. But if your mind has been your master, your mind may mislead you. So use your mind correctly and the truth will be laid bare.
Sir, what is the connection between the mind and the physical brain? Is it necessary to have a brain to have a mind? Can a brain dead person have a mind?
A brain, child, only controls physical actions, physical speech. The mind controls all else. Your emotions are mind controlled, your reactions are mind controlled, your responses are mind controlled. So, what is the mind? The mind is not a physical being or form like the brain. It is present and yet not present at all. As you take birth, lifetime after lifetime, and you gain experiences, both pleasant and unpleasant, you build up a store of knowledge, of wisdom and of experience. When you return to our side, you do not come with your physical body or your physical brain. But you do come with your mind. You cannot leave your mind behind. You bring your mind with you and when you come to our side and you are ready to review all that you have done, all that you have achieved and not achieved your mind is there with you. You may if you desire consider your mind to be the intellectual part of your spirit being. The rest of you is your spiritual part. Neither can go without the other. When you have reviewed with the intellectual and the spiritual parts of your spirit being, at this time your mind functions in its purity without any contamination of conditioning. Along with your intellectual being, the spiritual being reviews all that has passed and then decides what it needs to do. The spiritual being cannot make this decision without the intellectual being and the intellectual being cannot take this decision without the spiritual being. Both parts of your spirit being work co-jointly. When you have decided what lessons you wish to learn, you then decide how best to learn these lessons while still on your side. Along with these lessons which deal with growth of your spirit being, you will also learn other lessons of creative arts. Learning the creative arts adds a completely new dimension to a spirit being. When a creative art is learnt by the spirit being, the spirit being becomes three fold; intellectual, spiritual and creative. And all work to become one complete, beautiful spirit being. For a while this spirit being enjoys its glory, enjoys its expansion and then decides to do tasks, much like you do tasks while you are in physical embodiment. Each one of you has a task and each one goes out to do some work. The spirit being does that too and it uses the mind, which is its intellectual being, to decide which task it is best suited for. It may be a task of healing, it may be a task of guiding, it may be a task of counselling other souls, it may be a task of counselling souls who are still in physical embodiment, and it is the mind with all its storehouse of wisdom, knowledge and experience which helps the spirit being to come to its decision. When you move on from lifetime to lifetime, these decisions become almost automatic to a spirit being. The spirit being will decide if it so desires, and which it often does, to continue with the same task that it had been doing before taking a short break while it was in physical embodiment. Remember, child, all this while the mind is working in its pure essence. There is no contamination. Then comes a time when a spirit being decides, for purposes of its own growth, to take birth. You already know that you can take birth in any age, in any universe that the spirit being has agreed co-jointly with all its three fold parts, will be its best opportunity for growth. When you are in physical embodiment, as soon as birth takes place a veil, dear one, is placed upon the intellectual being that you call the mind. Do remember dear ones, a veil is never placed upon the creative or the spiritual being; it is the intellectual part of you that is veiled, however thinly or thickly as desired by you and as considered appropriate by your guides. As soon as this veil is placed at birth, the mind reverts back to its conditioning of past births. It becomes more of a physical being. It does not have any connection with your brain. The brain is not your storehouse of wisdom and knowledge. It only provides the physical pathways for the mind to function. When the link between the brain and the rest of the physical is damaged or broken, the mind is still functioning completely but the physical may not respond to it because the physical pathways have been damaged. When a soul takes physical embodiment even if a soul has desired a thick veil of forgetfulness, initially the veil will be very thin so that the spirit being that now has the fourth aspect added to it, and that is the physical, slowly and gradually gets attuned to a new environment in a new home in which it finds itself. You are so comfortable now with your physical bodies but there were times when all, all of you, found this physical body restricting, almost suffocating, when you wished to break out of this physical body that seemed to hold you tight. It is then that your mind helped you. Your mind made you recall what you felt in the past lives. Every experience is stored in this vast storehouse. This recollection made it easy for you to accept and to grow. As an infant grows it is time for the guides to make the veil over the intellectual being thicker. This is essential because this spirit being has taken physical embodiment in order to experience all that the physical world has to give, and then the intellectual being must remove the veil that separates the intellectual being from the spiritual part of the being. If in the course of a lifetime the creative being can also be encouraged and allowed to blossom, the spirit being will grow in all aspects. And there will be experiences so numerous, once again to be stored in what you call the mind. Each one of these experiences is what you fall back upon every time you face a situation. Each one of you has so many secret fears, fears for which there seems to be no apparent physical cause. This is due to conditioning. And what is conditioning? Conditioning is the recollection of all past experiences. Fear is one great experience. Conditioning is also all the experiences that you are receiving now and storing in the mind.
Sir, what happens when soul comes as a walk-in?
Child, when there is a contract between a living soul and the one you call the walk-in, there is a complete exchange of all parts of the being. The spiritual being must exchange itself as also the intellectual. In many cases, the intellectual part and the creative part may stay co-jointly with the creative part and the intellectual part of the walk-in. But the spiritual part must be completely exchanged. That is why in many cases where there is a walk-in the intellectual and creative of the living soul take over on some occasions and on others the intellectual and creative of the walk-in come to the fore. This is not a very comfortable arrangement for any soul and very few souls contract for this, much fewer than what is erroneously made out.
And what about a walk-out? Would that be like committing suicide?
There is no question of a ‘suicide’ because the intellectual and the creative are very much present. The spiritual exchanges itself and temporarily links with its higher soul so that it can link back to the physical soul at times of stress.
Sir, you said that there is no connection between the brain and the mind, and it is the mind that controls all emotions. But in times of depression drugs are given to activate parts of the brain.
Because the pathways are being cleared. What is depression, my son? Depression is when mind controlled emotions and feelings are allowed to have complete sway over you as the physical soul. In a case like this the intellectual being becomes so large that it seems to take over the spiritual. Do remember my son the spiritual will not exercise its right to grow unless there is a mind-controlled decision to permit that to happen. Your free will choice resides within the intellectual part of you and not within the spiritual part. When the intellectual part becomes so dominant that all emotions are allowed complete sway and seems to have free play over you all the time, the spiritual part will not die but it will, so to speak, sit patiently waiting for you to give it the permission to grow. Son, any case of depression, any case of depression can be overnight healed by just one mind-controlled decision to permit the spiritual to grow. The spiritual growth is so quick that no mind can then be dominant. When you treat a person suffering from depression with medical drugs, then the link between the brain physical pathways and the rest of the physical are just being opened up a little wider. That is all, and that is why, my son, no medical drug can have any permanent healing effect.
Sir, but in those times when the pathways are opened, how can we introduce the spiritual aspect?
In those moments all that you can do is to merely talk to them. But, son, very often all your efforts are in vain. But that must not stop you from trying. Talk; let that person who is suffering know that your strength is there for that person to draw upon. But for that, my son, your strength must be so immense that you have a reservoir for yourself and for the one who will draw upon it. If then you find that in spite of all efforts that you have made, the spiritual side is not yet being given its permission, you must not compel, you must not force. But you must continue giving strength and love and guidance whenever it is desired.
Sir, something is not fitting here. You said that the depression is caused by the mind and yet it is at that time when one is the least responsive to anything.
Yes, because it is the mind whose veil has become very, very thick.
Sir, but at those times how do you get through to that person?
You do what we are doing right now. You merely give someone the benefit of all you know and the benefit of all the love you have. Son, very often we find that you are not doing what we desire. Do we stop? Do we give up on you? We merely do all that we can and we wait for you to do all that you can.
Sir, I have known of people who believe fervently in their religion and with their own family they are filled with love. But outside of the family, love and compassion are thrown to the winds and ego takes over. Why this duality?
And why this sort of judgement?
No, sir, this is not a judgement. This is what I have seen happening.
Son, both aspects are mind controlled. The mind has recollections of the past where family, loved ones have stored very pleasant memories. Within a family circle the spiritual side is permitted free play and so you see it as love and compassion. But, within the mind are also stored many other experiences which you know nought of. Along with these experiences of the past are gathered conditioning from experiences derived from parents, from society as the soul was growing into its physical being. It is this side of the mind that controls this soul’s reactions, and behaviour patterns with all others.
Sir that means each individual is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Each one of you has a Hyde and a Jekyll. You have to decide which will come out after dark.
Sir, would a mentally retarded person have a faster chance of evolving because the impediment of the brain is not there?
There is no evolving faster. That person has come to take an experience. Whether evolution is the result depends upon the whether the intellectual will allow the spiritual to grow.
Sir, but that is also a free will choice the person has made, isn’t it?
Yes.
Sir, if there is a veil that blocks out the memories of our past life experiences……..
No, child, it does not block our past memories. It holds them in. The veil blocks out from the intellectual part of you, your spiritual part and in fact it holds in all past experiences and knowledge that you have.
Can we dip into that bank of past experiences………
You do this every single moment.
Then why do we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again?
I should ask you that. (ALL laughed very heartily) No, let me answer. You, with your conscious, deliberate, physical thinking, intellectual part of your physical, recognizes that it is a mistake. But this intellectual storehouse which has all your experiences pleasant and unpleasant has not yet accepted or acknowledged it as a mistake. Remember, child, what is known, what you are familiar with, has less fear. Even if the experience is unpleasant, which you call a mistake, it is familiar and there is less fear. The mind controlled part of you will do its level best to remove itself and to remove you from fear. Mistakes are made again and again because you are familiar with this pattern that you have followed and there is less fear. There is less fear, my child, in knowing that this mistake will certainly lead you down an unpleasant path, there is still fear than not knowing which path it will lead you to. And so, as you said, mistakes are made again and again.
Sir, you said that we have stored all past experiences. But if for several lifetimes you have been born in one part of the earth and then for reasons known to your higher soul you take birth in another part and there is a mind conflict within you, then what do you do?
It will not conflict, child, but you will keep drawing upon experiences that somehow do not seem to fit.
Yes, sir, you keep feeling like a square peg in a round hole.
Because that is exactly what you are.
Then how do you combat it?
You do not combat it. You accept that you have within you and around you several new experiences that, yes, are different, in texture are different, from what you have experienced earlier, but here is a wonderful opportunity for you to add such a wealth of new experiences to your storehouse. Why would you wish to combat this?
Because you feel misunderstood, you don’t feel you belong.
Look not outwards. But look within.
Sir, we have to change ourselves.
No, you have to be your self. Why would you wish to change? You are such a wonderful soul. Why would you wish to change?
In order to adapt.
If you wish to adapt open your arms wide every morning to the rising sun and ask the sun to bring within your loving embrace all its wondrous experiences. The only adaptation you require child is to stop doing this (made a movement of pushing something away) and do this (made a movement of embracing). Will you find that difficult?
I will have to try.
Sir, often you hear a man saying that he is a woman trapped in a man’s body or vice versa. Is there any such thing, because the soul has no sex?
The soul has no sex but the intellectual part of you that has a storehouse of experiences recalls the number of times you have been a man or a woman. And for many, many souls one sex is predominant. Having lived within a particular physical embodiment the soul begins to find comfort and therefore opts for that physical embodiment time after time. Along with the physical embodiment comes a very, very vital change of the brain pathways. The brain pathways of man and woman are different. Women have a very close link from the brain to the region of the heart and the abdomen. Men have a very, very strong pathway from the mind to the brain and from the brain one side, to the brain another side. Due to this you will find that men are able to change their way of thinking, their perspective much easier than women. They are able to view a situation from several different angles, easier than women. Now if a soul has taken birth in a physical embodiment of one sex for many lifetimes, its experiences have naturally been different. For purposes known to the soul, the soul may now opt for a different physical embodiment. Much like what this child said, it’s a different environment. But, whereas this child spoke of an external environment, we are now looking at an internal environment. When a soul says that it is a woman trapped in man’s body, what it really means is that it has such strong recollections of past experiences that this physical embodiment seems stifling. The spiritual side almost seems to die because the intellectual side is still trapped in the past experiences. Is this clear to you?
Sir, very clear. Can we help such souls in any way?
You certainly can. Your first step to help is acceptance and your second is to explain to this confused soul what is really happening within its physical body. The physical embodiment is given so much importance by society. This importance increases the confusion of such souls because when they look into a mirror they see, not a reflection of what society would like to see, but something that society finds distasteful. This, dear one, is what causes confusion and conflict within the soul.
Sir, am I right in understanding that the mind stops the spiritual growth in some way?
The mind does not do that. You, as a complete spiritual being, dear one, must make a free will choice from the intellectual part of you to permit another part of you to grow. The mind does not make the decision. You as a complete spirit being, you will take that decision but, that decision will made with the help of the intellectual part of you.
Sir, you said the mind has a store of all our experiences. Is there some way in which we can wipe the slate clean?
Why would you wish to wipe the slate clean? What you are at present is the direct result of that slate. You are looking at unpleasant experiences and wishing to remove them. But, dear one, how will you, as a soul evolve, without all these lessons being learnt?
Sir, sometimes you go somewhere and even if you have not been there before everything seems familiar. Is this because you have a recollection of a past life?
Yes. That is exactly what it is. Sometimes you may see the physical environment and suddenly, before your very eyes, the environment changes and you see something quite different. Once again this is a recollection from the past.
Sir, in my next incarnation I wish to come back a very, very wealthy person so that after my family’s requirements are met, I can use the bulk of my wealth for society. But when I take birth and there is a veil of forgetfulness, then I don’t want to be merely wealthy for the sake of wealth. How do I solve this dilemma?
(Sir pointed to SILLA) Here is an example that the veil can be lifted. And if that is what you desire….
Very fervently, Sir.
Then that is what you will get. But, there is a free will choice that we cannot interfere with.
But the free will choice is of my soul, isn’t it, Sir?
The intellectual part of your soul.
But will it remember when I come back here?
The answer lies only within you.
Then I have to wait and see what happens then.
Yes, but we can give you some hope. Every growth, in every lifetime, is remembered and recalled. All the knowledge and all the wisdom and all the growth that you have experienced will not leave you. You will carry on from that point; you will not go back.
Sir, why do we not have the recollection of the one task for which we are here? There is so much confusion about that one task. Why do we not find it?
Because, my child, what is there to recollect? Why are you here? The answer is clear and the answer is only one. It is GROWTH. Yes, you are looking for is your pathway to growth, that is why you are here. Each one’s pathway is different. And sometimes one soul decides on more than one pathway. No, dear one, I know you are asking me to tell you what your pathway is, but we are not permitted to do so.
You are reading my thoughts.
We cannot give you that answer. But we can give you a general answer which we are sure will help you all. So many souls spend their lives looking for this answer and in their search their life passes by. Why not accept that every day is your answer? Every day the Divine Light has provided you with a pathway to your growth. Child, on your way home from here, will you go on one road irrespective of whether a building, a car or a person comes in your way? Will you not turn, will you not stop? And yet, you will reach home. Will you, while going home, keep searching incessantly for that one straight, non-stop road to home, which may not even exist? And yet you will all reach home. Every day is a small pathway presented to you. Accept that pathway and do not search for any more. The pathway is here and the pathway is now. But in your attempt to look into a future that you cannot see, you become blind to the present. Growth is the only answer and your pathway is every sunrise.
Sir, if we wish to grow do we have to take physical birth? Can we not stay with the Lord and still grow?
Yes, it is possible and it is done. No, children, you do not have to take rebirth; not on this planet, not in this universe. You can remain as a spirit form in order to progress. But the reason why souls do take on physical form is because the process of growth by means of obstacles and hurdles is quicker. Let us take an example that will make it clear. If you were to be given residence in a beautiful garden where you had to merely sit and be one with yourself, and with this beautiful environment, how long would it before you desired an environment other than the garden? How many times can you smell the sweet flowers, how many times can you taste the same sweet waters, how many times can you breathe in the same sweet air, before the soul thirsts for another environment? It is this thirst that makes a soul take rebirth.
Is it just too good on the other side? No snakes, no scorpions . . . .?
All are present, child. Why would you fear a snake, a symbol of such immense
power?
Sir, are Dolphins and Whales also some sort of evolved creatures?
Yes, but they cannot take on your form. They have opted for a completely different pathway of evolution. But in their pathway of evolution, they have reached a peak. If you were to compare your pathway of evolution, my Son, and theirs, they have reached an evolution point, far higher than yours.
Is that why they are attacked by men?
They are being attacked, because the human Mind knows, when it sees a Dolphin,
that it is looking at evolution and you have been told time and time again, how
this is the moment when the mind will rebel.
Sir, I read somewhere that there are no pathways and that you make your own
pathways.
Every sunrise you make your pathway.
Sir, a soul is energy and so are stars. Are stars, then a group of souls?
(Sir smiled widely) You are being embraced for this wonderful child like question. Stars are the energy of light. Soul is the energy of light. That is all.
(ANIL) Sir, I would just like to thank you for today.
You will go far, my son. Do not permit what you will undergo for a few more years to take you away from the path you have already chosen.
Peace and light be within you and around you.