Utilize your Energy in a Positive Way

Embodiments of Divine Souls, Amma's Most Beloved Children,

During my last tour, in so many places I had an opportunity to speak in churches. I was so happy, because everywhere I feel everyone's heart is very open. People have patience and right understanding about so many religions. All religions are paths to the same goal, Truth. Really, Truth is absolute. Truth is one hundred percent pure wisdom. Some meditate on the Truth in the form of Omkara, others in the form of Jesus, Buddha, so many aspects. So have faith in your guru more and more. Give your respect to your guru more and more, offer your heart lotus-the flower of consciousness-to your guru.Give respect to all the great souls, because all true gurus are only one. Solar rays are innumerable, but there is only one sun. Children, we meditate only on the Truth. So have respect, more respect, more and more respect towards your guru, and give the same respect to every religion and all gurus also. That is our humility and humanity.

Today we will talk about energy. There are two types of energies in our life, one positive and the other negative. Spirit, atman, is beyond both these energies. If the mind is working in tamas and rajas, our energy is bound by negativity. We will have negative energy. All our energy is wasted when the mind is limited to tamasic and rajasic tendencies. We have so much energy, but when the mind is limited in this way, we never utilize that energy in a positive way.

So many people know about chakra meditation. We have chakras in the subtle body, and in chakra meditation there is a beautiful focused movement of energy through the chakras. When we say Omkara once, all the chakras in our entire body are stimulated by the power of that seed letter. Gradually after some years, we begin to have awareness in our hearts-Brahmic awareness. With this Brahmic awareness, our negative energies, the tamasic and rajasic tendencies of the mind, gradually disappear by the power of meditation.

Meditation remodels our life and elevates us to divinity. So meditation is nothing but purification, inner purification. Gradually we begin to control our anger, lust, greed, jealousy and hatred. These are the limited tamasic natures of our mind. Before the Spirit, our mind and intellect are spellbound, powerless. Spirit is absolute. You are the Soul, not this body. This body is a dress for the beautiful, self-illuminated Soul. When you achieve the fourth stage, turiya, you experience in meditation: "Oh, I am not this body!" So how can we achieve that stage? That is the question. How can we achieve this? Can we control the anger, and all these things in our life? Can we control our mind, our tamasic nature, and our rajasic nature? In these two natures, pure consciousness is working negatively. Even in our body, in the right hand we have positive force, in the left hand we have negative force. So whatever we take and give, we must give with positivity, and take also from others only with a positive feeling.

The body itself is the greatest place of energy. The soul and spirit are inside the body. Without that spirit, there is no life at all. This spirit is really wasted by our limited mind. The mind is working through all these six natures. These are the arishadvargas. You know all about these negative natures. Because of these weeds we never attain peace in our life. We have no liberation from these little natures. When we have liberation from these negative qualities of anger, lust, greed, hatred, and jealousy, we have so much peace. We enjoy peace; we enjoy a balanced state of mind, equal vision and real wisdom. We understand reality, and the entire universe also, from the inside.

Only he who has this intense desire towards the Soul will be able to understand the inner reality. He will enjoy the play of God: "Oh, this is only God's play. This is just a beautiful play." So how can we achieve that state? By constant practice of meditation. Meditation balances our mind. It reduces the restlessness of our ego, ignorance and all the dark forces. It develops the virtues, the divine attributes, and gradually the buds within us bloom. These buds are inside our body. These divine attributes are in the form of little seeds in our heart. Gradually we have selflessness and we have peace of mind. We never abuse people, never criticize people under any circumstances. If others have caused injury to us, we never want to injure the feelings of others, in religion or in daily life. This is possible because you are an elevated soul. You have all the good natures and good qualities in your heart. That is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is so beautiful. Where there is forgiveness we have tolerance, patience, courage, dispassion, discriminative knowledge and real dedication towards any work. Every kind of work is also a yoga, not only meditation. All work is a form of worship. So we have that elevation and expansion. We expand and become full of cosmic, divine love.

So, children, practice meditation daily. Whatever meditation you do, have faith in your guru. Whenever you are initiated, that is like starting a new birth. All these innumerable births are like human buses, which have stops. With each bus you start a new journey to eternal bliss. So initiation is a new birth. Your guru shows you a good path. That path is permanent. The real treasure is the abode of peace and divinity that never perishes. We always enjoy that divinity and the fragrance of peace in our life. When we can see divinity in our life, we learn to perceive that divinity everywhere in the universe: "Oh, I myself am the Soul, and the entire universe is also part of the Divine Soul." There is a full stop to this long play, the innumerable births of this long play. Your current human birth has not happened accidentally or miraculously. Innumerable births filled with prayers have given you the gift of this human life.

So utilize this life, children, and develop all the divine attributes. The seeds of these divine attributes are all inside already. Small, little weeds cover all the seeds, so that we have no peace, dispassion, or discriminative knowledge. Sometimes we lose all these good qualities and instead we have anger, restlessness, and selfishness. We become so thirsty for meaningless things. Our thirst, our hunger, must always be towards the Divine only. Divinity is only one, although the paths are so many. Through innumerable billions and billions of births also, your question need not be, "What is my path?" There is a permanent aim and destiny for you. That destiny is absolute peace. So achieve that destiny. That is the essence of humanity and spiritual life.

Practice meditation daily in the early morning. Why in the morning? We have rest for five hours, eight hours in the night. After this long rest our mind is so fresh, and with our fresh mind we pray to God with tears, from the bottom of our heart, "Give me purity, O God, give me wisdom, give me real liberation from all these natures of my mind. Control my negativity." Negativity is always in the form of tamasic and rajasic behavior.

If we have a sattvic nature, our life is so beautiful and marvelous. We never curse other people; we never cheat any person in this world; we never expect anything from anyone if we do any service also. We are very humble, noble, and our life is full of the fragrance of sattva. In sattva, energy is working in the form of positivity. Yet spirit and soul are beyond even sattva. So reduce these natures, tamas and rajas, and tune the sattva more and more. Develop yourselves and elevate; expand and achieve your destiny of divinity. If we have not that definite aim, our life is meaningless. From the age of five to the age of sixty, for a period of fifty-five years, spontaneously we have in our mind twenty-five thousand million thoughts-positive, negative, ordinary, spiritual, meaningless, useless-so many thoughts. Meditation is freeing the mind from thoughts. In Sanskrit, this is "dhyanam nirvishayam manah."

In meditation, we even free the mind from good thoughts. You may ask, how is it possible? Imagine all the ants coming out from an anthill. Gradually that anthill becomes empty. When we meditate, all these thoughts-the poisonous thoughts, normal thoughts, negative thoughts, good thoughts, highly spiritual thoughts-come out from the source, from the anthill, and after some time this anthill becomes calm. So we must send all these thoughts permanently away from our heart through meditation.

Meditation is a ladder from mortality to immortality. This is one world and that is a separate world. So be always in that world. That world is inside. The external world is unhappy, full of misery. You know about all those things more than Amma. So be always in happiness. Be always in Truth. Be always in honesty. Honesty is the greatest wisdom.

I saw a billboard once, a beautiful sign which said: "This world is yours." Really, this entire universe belongs to your soul only. In spiritual terms we express this differently. This entire world consisting of the animal kingdom, bird kingdom, rivers, oceans, humanity, everything, belongs to your soul only. Your soul is absolute. The nature of Soul is peace. Soul is happiness-boundless happiness. And every soul is everywhere. Soul is never bound by a little frame. This body frame is just like a dress for our soul. So your soul is limitless truth and wisdom-attributeless.

When we meditate we are in our natural state, that is, peace. Now we are so unhappy because we are not in our natural state. When we elevate to our natural state, our happiness can never be destroyed under any circumstances. True happiness is boundless and it is a real treasure-the treasure of a yogi. So be a yogi. Yogi means one who has control of his mind. We have no control of our mind; we are on a low level. So control your mind. Control this wild horse and ride on that horse. Limit all these little, little things. Gradually send all these snakes from the anthill and be always in beautiful silence. That is the language of the Divine.

In our lives, already fifty years, forty years, thirty years are over. Our body may not be able to sit in meditation for longer than half an hour. Padmasana is the best posture to stimulate our nervous system. In padmasana we have a lot of concentration and our energy has direct tracking to the sahasrara kamala, the thousand-petal lotus. From the root chakra to the entire nervous system, all the energy is beautifully tracked. When we say Om just once, it reaches all the way to the sahasrara.

So have inner vision, develop the inner beauty, understand the value of silence and do not break that silence under any circumstances. Here Amma is not referring to verbal silence. Amma means mental silence, the thoughtless state. So you ask, "Amma how can we silence our mind?" By praying to God mentally. Concentrate on a particular chakra-the heart chakra or throat chakra. All these dark forces will be burnt up by our concentration and we will develop immense strength and concentration. Our willpower develops more and more, and we enjoy meditation as part of our life. Enjoyment simply means we have peace. All of these qualities like jealousy and lust come from our mind. Once we have peace of mind, we develop a balanced state of mind and gradually we want to sit more and more and more in meditation. We want to see God not only in the body but also in this entire cosmos, because that is the highest state of spirituality.

So children, have a beautiful awareness in your spiritual life. You already have that awareness. Develop the intense desire one hundred percent. Have a definite aim and send egoism and the little natures permanently away. Tune into the sattva energy more, reduce the tamas and rajas, beautify your heart and divinize your thoughts with beautiful divine attributes. Have compassion, forgiveness, and dispassion. Discriminative knowledge is very important, as is mental renunciation-not physical renunciation. Mental renunciation is much more important than physical renunciation. So renounce all these selfish natures and have the good aim of realizing the Self. The main aim of human life is to realize Truth. Have wisdom in life.

So how can we achieve that state? So very little time is remaining in our life. We have twenty-four hours in a day. Spend one hour in the morning. Use the other twenty-three hours for your other activities. Spend one hour for God. Spend it for yourself, for your elevation. Attain God-Realization at least in this birth. Open the third eye. The third eye means knowledge, divine knowledge. We have knowledge about so many things in this world. That knowledge is not enough to attain God-Realization, because before Spirit, our knowledge is mute, our mind is spellbound. Soul is very, very powerful. It is the self-illumination of billions and billions of rays of sunlight. In front of that divinity we are spellbound, in silence.

So reduce this limiting anger, jealousy, greed, selfishness, lust, and all these things. Send them permanently away. Say to yourself, "Oh, it is not good for me. I will remove all these weeds from my life because I want wisdom and liberation from these weeds." Pray to God with tears, "O Mother! Give me wisdom! Give me liberation! Please accept my prayer-whether it is one or five minutes long-and grant me a grand life." And you know that a grand life means wisdom.

Where there is no wisdom, there is no truth. Where there is no truth, there is no peace. Where there is no peace, there is no divinity. These are connections with divinity. Where there is discriminative knowledge, we have faith. Where we have faith, we have real understanding; we have inner vision. Only he who has this vision will be able to understand this entire universe: "Oh, this entire universe is nothing but my Self only. It is my Self that I love in all of nature. I love only my Self. I love everyone in this world. There is no duality at all; only oneness is here in this world." That is the spiritual feeling in that highest elevation.

Be elevated to the highest peak of purity. Our main enemies are our egoism and our desires. We can counter these enemies with the beautiful virtues of humility and real devotion. So where there is true devotion and humility, we have correct understanding and knowledge about the Divine immediately-not after seventy-five or eighty years. We enjoy our entire life in peace, in permanent peace, which is the most beautiful, greatest treasure. It is hidden in our life.

So elevate to this highest peak, children! You are already on a good path. Continue, continue on your path. Examine your progress: "How is my heart? Am I selfish? Do I have any boundaries to my heart?" Because we are bound by our limited intellect, we like only a very limited number of persons. If we have true elevation, we understand that everything in this entire cosmos belongs to us. We never limit ourselves to a particular frame. If we have selfishness, our viewfinder is very, very tiny. If there is no selfishness at all, we are without bounds, without attributes. We are everywhere in this universe with our subtle body, but Spirit is not visible to the naked eye.

Children, we are the greatest Spirit in this body cage. Meditation elevates the human life from the physical body to the mental body and from the mental body to the intellectual body. From these three cages we are elevated to the spiritual body, the subtle body. That is the effort we have to make to come back to our sweet home. This is not our home. This is a place of so many diseases, unhappiness, miseries, so many questions and suspicions-always crying, craving for something. We are working, working, working harder than machines for a very, very, very, little, tiny happiness. We are so tired.

Last year I had more than 5000 requests from the American devotees, "Amma, try to build a Peace Village in India. We want to spend our entire life in that Peace Village leading a simple and high-thinking life. We want to stop making a living. We are so tired of this life. We want to realize that wisdom. We want to meditate." So, the building of the Peace Village is in progress now.

Everyone in this entire universe wants only peace. Who talks with us affectionately and freely in this world? Who has the time? Everyone is hurrying, hurrying, running, running after work, running after money. Everyone has so many desires. So children, give your boundless love to this universe. Elevate yourself more and more and more and more and expand your heart, your soul and work along with the Spirit. Think: "This is my responsibility-to love this universe." Reach that highest state through meditation.

Meditation remodels our life. If the home is not proper, you remodel the home. We have beautiful flower vases and furniture in the home. In the same way, exchange a beautiful heart for this little heart which is there now. Remove all these tamasic and rajasic natures, and in their place keep a beautiful peace and immense willpower. Our strength must not be the strength of money and power. It must be the strength of wisdom only. It must be always the strength of wisdom only. Where there is faith you have immense strength in your life.

So have faith, pure faith, a hundred percent faith, not even ninety-nine point nine percent faith. That faith is your strength. Where there is faith, you have a lot of willpower and mental strength: "Oh, I have God! God, save me!" So you solve your problems with the grace of God. Gradually you are elevated more and more with faith, and one day you attain God-Realization. This does not happen miraculously or accidentally but by the intense practice of meditation, together with our burning desire.

Intense desire is important. Sometimes our bhakti is only on the surface. We may sing some bhajans, but we are restless and we watch the time. If we feel we have no time, we stop meditation and all spiritual activity also. If you just pray to God sincerely for only a fraction of a second, from outside the meditation room even, that fraction of a second of real prayer is enough. If you sit eight or nine hours in prayer, but you are restless during that prayer, really, it is meaningless. Physically we are there, but mentally we are not in prayer at all. Mentally, if we truly pray even for one second also, immediately it reaches the Absolute.

You have the knowledge; decide what is good. One second of prayer is enough. If you have no time and you are in a hurry to go to work or somewhere else, okay. Just pray for one second before going outside. Pray for only one second or half a second, but that prayer must be from the bottom of your heart. Prayer purifies our life. Prayer gives immense strength. Prayer gives more and more and more and more peace. Prayer gives us much happiness. All the misery and unhappiness inside disappears by the power of real prayer.

So devotion must be real devotion. Do not show off your devotion under any circumstances. Pray with real devotion, pray for more and more devotion, for realization of the real Truth in this birth, and to put a stop to the cycle of births in this birth itself. If one desire is remaining in our heart, again we will have one more birth. Do not expect more and more births. So imagine, children, what about the twenty five thousand millions of thoughts and innumerable billions of previous births? Calculate how much meditation and prayer is needed, and how much help is needed from God in this birth.

You are already on the good path of spirituality. So you do not have such a karma load. Children, it is a good way, a very good way. In the beginning, on the path of spirituality, there are so many thorns, slippery places, and ups and downs. But after some time, the way is strewn with the fragrance of rose petals. In general life, in the beginning we have colorful flowers; life is very colorful. But after starting the journey, everything is emptiness. No doubt. Everywhere our life is so colorful in this entire universe. But inside, without spirituality, there is only one hundred percent emptiness. There is no destiny at all. There is no definite aim at all. So we have emptiness and feel emptiness.

"What is my destiny?" people often ask. So many people want to commit suicide because they do not know their destiny at all. What can we do? We can have the aim to attain the Truth. We must give service to the universe. Living on this Earth is a boon from God. Utilize this boon; give selfless service to this universe. Give your service to Nature. Mother Nature gives you so much. You never repay anything to your Mother. You must pay something-at least one percent if not a hundred percent. So that is the responsibility of humanity. When you love Nature you will become so wise.

Have satsang with the Divine and in the presence of divine people. You will be elevated, even more than through your meditation. They will give you the essence of love, and will elevate you to the highest peaks by their presence, touch and love. So go everywhere. Give more and more respect to all holy people and have their darshan, have their blessings and have contentment in your life.

Contentment is the greatest treasure. Contentment is the greatest happiness. When we have contentment, we feel our life is so smooth and we enjoy so much. Contentment is a like a jewel for a true yogi. Silence, contentment, compassion, dispassion, real mental renunciation-these are the ornaments of a true spiritual aspirant. This does not belong to a particular religion. Truth is absolute for everyone. So children, go accordingly on your spiritual path. Have a particular aim and destiny in your life and attain God-Realization. Our body is a limited frame, a mortal frame. Merge in the immortal. That is the aim; that is the essence.

The spirit and essence of our human life is selfless service. It is mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita very beautifully. But how many people understand the selfless service explained in the Bhagavad Gita? It is very easy to say, "Be like this and do like this." But in practice it is a hundred percent difficult. So have real mental renunciation. That mental renunciation will give you real bhakti, real devotion.

We have to understand spirituality and wear the real ornaments of truth, purity, knowledge, love, dispassion and all these things. When these divine virtues are in our life, we will feel contentment. These are the main pillars for contentment. How can we get contentment in our life? By gaining knowledge, divine love, and truth. With contentment gradually comes elevation. From our mind, body, and limited intellectual cages we attain Spirit in this birth. This depends upon our practice of meditation.

Meditation is not a blind belief. So many people think, "Oh, meditation is an escape from life!" In reality, it is no escape. It can never be so. The meditator works with a thousand hands in this universe because Spirit is working through his body. This is not the power of man. Humans have only two hands, while the Spirit has the power of a thousand hands, millions of hands, more than a million hands. Working through Spirit is very powerful. Working through Spirit is much more powerful than working as an ordinary human. All human natures are spellbound before Spirit when it is working in the body. So this body is the temple for the Spirit.

In Sanskrit, it is said that "deho devalayah jivo deva sanatana." Every soul is sanatana, divine. The body is a temple for God. This was mentioned innumerable ages ago in the Vedas. Seeing divinity everywhere is the highest level of spirituality. Seeing divinity only in particular places is limited. We limit ourselves to particular things. Seeing divinity everywhere is limitless. That is our destiny. Attain that God-Realization in this birth.

Have forgiveness, kindness, and compassion. You may feel, "I have little compassion." Develop your compassion billions and billions of times, more and then some more. Willpower is based on our devotion and our faith. Have faith, more faith, and purify each and every cell of your body with pure devotion. Always pray to God for purification, for real wisdom: "Oh God! Grant me a grand life of wisdom. Now I have no liberation. I still have anger and these limited natures in my heart. When will I have all those divine virtues of forgiveness, equal vision, inner beauty? When will I attain these positive natures? Please grant me a grand life of honesty."

Where there is honesty and truth, that is the main entrance gate for true wisdom. So, children, be always in that wisdom. Be a practical person, not just one filled with the passive knowledge from books and lectures. That is not enough. Practice the knowledge you have gained-give your selfless service to humanity, develop your cosmic love more and more, and love all of Nature more than anything. Be boundless and try to observe silence mentally.

Verbal silence is also good because we commit so many mistakes with our tongue alone. This is very poisonous. We are always abusing others, telling lies and speaking useless words. If we make our words like rose petals and jasmine flowers, the fragrance of our words will cover the entire universe with truth like the tulasi, the sweet basil-our words will be sweeter than honey.

When you elevate yourself through meditation, you attain vishuddha sattva with one hundred percent purity. This is very beautiful. In this vishuddha sattva we have no desires. We are in the highest peak of desirelessness. It is very beautiful. Desire is the main force behind our emotions. It is impurity of the mind. Desire leads us to hell. Only true devotion, desirelessness, and your thirst towards God or Realization leads you to the Absolute. So understand reality. You have the knowledge. Divine Mother already gave you the knowledge. You have the intellectual power.

Use that power to elevate yourself more and more, and attain peace in this birth. We have peace of mind sometimes, but it is not permanent. Sometimes we enjoy peace also in the presence of satsangs. In meditation, sometimes we are so restless because of the thoughts which come spontaneously from our heart. If the thoughts are negative, we are especially restless. So send all these snakes from this anthill, burn all these enemies permanently and have a grand life, a good life, a peaceful life. At the very least, we need peace of mind. Peace is not available anywhere in this universe. It is only in your Self. If you feel peace in holy presence, in prayers, in meditations, that is also temporary. Have permanent peace. This permanent peace is attained by God-Realization only.

Practice silence daily for half an hour. Saraswati burns our negativity and gives us real knowledge. She opens the seeker's heart, and gradually his faith is developed more and more and more. With that faith he develops a lot of willpower, and gains immense strength in his life. With this willpower he opens the gates of wisdom and attains Realization. This is very easy to describe in words, but difficult in practice. So be a practical seeker.

Your faith is your greatest protection. If you have faith you have everything. If you lose your faith in your God you lose everything. The one who loses faith loses everything. The one who has faith has everything. The one who has Truth in his life has one hundred percent contentment and inner joy. So enjoy the joy and peace inside your life and attain real Spirit in this birth. That is Mother's only wish for Her babies.

Hari Om Tat Sat

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