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In Your Heart

You can dance, great. But have you learned to dance in your heart?

You can sing, great. Have you learned to sing in your heart?
You can fly, great. Have you learned how to fly with this heart?

Maharaji

Where I Can Be

Look for the immortal. Because I guess if you find the immortal, immortality can’t be far behind. What is immortal? Can we even imagine what is immortal? No. It’s just a definition of something that never dies.

What is it that never dies? Everything that the eyes see - it’s already been proclaimed: That’s not real. “It’s not real? The sun is not real?” No. One day, it will have vanished. “Oh, surely the Earth is real.” Sorry. Once it wasn’t, and one day, it’ll be gone.

It’s the nature of all that you see. All that you thought is permanent, it never was. It just pretended to be and you wanted to believe it. Desperately.

It’s like the team that builds their house out of sand on the edge of the ocean. Many houses have been built here. Sand is compressed to give it a shape. And then it’s disintegrated. Put back exactly as it was. The waves come like a rake, and rake that sand. The great equalizer. Do not be saddened by this, but awaken. That’s the point.  Don’t sit there and go, “Oh, the great equalizer—I don’t want to be equalized!” Because that’s not what it’s about.

You can dance, great. But have you learned to dance in your heart? You can sing, great. Have you learned to sing in your heart? You can fly, great. Have you learned how to fly with this heart? Because if you haven’t, it remains incomplete. The journey remains incomplete.

It’s a journey to whom? Where? What? People talk about the journey. You know, it’s like, path well walked on, path not so well walked on. Path nobody has walked on, the path that hasn’t been built yet, the path that is being manufactured. Journey to whom? To what? Journey, journey—Are you journeying? "Yes, I’m journeying. My journey’s afoot. My journey, my journey." What journey? To whom? To where? Where are we going?

People like to pick up on all these phrases. “Peace. Oh, yeah, peace, peace, peace. Peace is great. We all need peace. Peace, yes. The world needs peace.” Do you understand what peace means? Do you have any idea what peace is? “Journey, journey, journey.” Do you know what journey means? Where are you going? To whom? Where is the destination? Any ideas?

The day I can recognize, I can reach that feeling within me, the immortal within me, that’s it. That’s the journey, too. Journey home. My trek home. Home. Without any regards to anything else—where I can be. Where I can be content, where I can be happy, where I can be in that joy. Where I can be in that clarity.

Maharaji

Success

Look at your life through my eyes, and you will see a simplicity.  Not the burdens, not the pains, not the dualities, not the clashing.

But see this human being. A success story. The success that started a long time ago, and is still unfolding. And will be a success till the very last breath.

If the heart is full, that’s it. Success.

Maharaji

In this Moment

What is happening in this moment—that is where the celebration is. It’s not about contemplation, but it is about experience. It is not about a theory, it is about reality.

Reality does not exist in the past. And reality certainly does not exist in the future. There is only one place reality can be. Not hypothetical situations, but reality.

If there is a truth, then that truth is now. And there is no greater truth than to say, "You are alive."

Maharaji

What do I Choose?

I came in this world.  When I came, how I came, I had no clue. Most people don’t seem to.  There is a picture of me which I can remember being taken.  And from there on, I remember, I remember, I remember.   A lot has happened in my life. Many stories, many war wounds. And yet, I know that everything in my life has changed.

Everything. Everything that I thought would never change has changed. Everything I didn’t want to change has also changed. And, conveniently, everything I did want to change also has changed.

There have only been two constants in my life. One is the change—it has been constant. And the other is this desire to be fulfilled. To be content. To be happy. To be in that place of joy that I have been shown. To feel the feeling of the heart filled with gratitude again and again.

You can get objects in this world and you will grow tired of them, believe me. But a heart welling up with gratitude—you will never, ever grow tired of it, regardless of how many times it has happened in your life. And every time your heart fills with gratitude, it will feel like it has never happened before. New? Yes. Exceptional? Yes. Gratifying? There is no better gratification than the heart filling with gratitude.

The want for that feeling has been a constant and the change of everything on the outside has been a constant. And some days, you’re just inundated with questions, just wherever you turn—question, question, question, question. Right down to the point sometimes of: What do you want to eat? “I don’t know, just leave me alone—it’s okay. Make something.”

But those are not the important questions. The important question is, every day what do I choose? I have to invest. Time is pouring down. Just pouring down. Nonstop. The clock is ticking. There is nothing I can do about it. Nothing. Can’t slow it down, I can’t speed it up—nothing. It just keeps coming.

What do I do? What do I choose? Do I save it? Do I conquer it? Do I capture it? Or do I just let it go? Came / went. Came / went. Time doesn’t go any quicker or any slower, it’s flowing at the same rate—it’s only my perspective.

If I can save this time, I can make it work for me instead of me working for it.  How do you save it? How do you keep it? As a human being. The package that was sent with us—we have forgotten to open our package, and that is the reason why we are penniless. This is what Kabir says. What package? Really? Did we come with a package? What package? There is a package. And where is it? It’s within you.

Riches beyond belief. Gratitude, fulfillment, understanding, joy.

Maharaji

A Chance to Live, A Chance to Thrive

Today in this world, people pray for everything.

Imagine the maker of time - the maker of this universe is listening just to you.  What would you say?  What would you like to say? 

Let me put it in context for you.  Your wife or your husband is in the hospital.  Been in a coma for 8 years.  The doctors have predicted that this person is going to come out of a coma for 5 seconds, and then gone.  That's it.  What would you like to say to them?  Oh, by the way, you have been looking for the lawnmower.  You have 5 seconds.  And you love this person very much.  What would you say?  You would say what matters the most.  Forget about the lawnmower.  Forget about the will.  Forget about the keys to the house.  Just,  "I love you." 

There is a very simple reality when everything is going down.  What is important in your life?

If my God was hearing me,  what would I like to say?  Just "Thank you."  Not, let me pass my exams, not "Make me a richer man."  Not,  "Bring back Fido."

If you have to pray, then pray.  And when you pray, then thank.  Thank that maker for having given you a chance to be alive.  "Thank you."  To have given you a chance to exist.  To have given you a chance to feel.  To have given you a chance to be fulfilled.  To have given you a chance to be in peace. 

This is gratitude.  When you say it, when you pray like that, you know your God is listening.  Because you are immediately touched, and filled with the most incredible feeling within.  Say it from the place where you really mean it.  Because you have felt.  Because you have understood. 

This is not about beliefs.  This is not about religion.  This is about you being alive, dancing on the face of this earth today.  When you were born, what religion did you have? And when you are gone, what religion will you have?  We are talking about you being alive.  Knowledge is about putting you in touch with that place inside.  It is so simple.  It is so simple that in it's simplicity, it is profound. 

Maharaji

The Best Ever

Maharaji I am so happy to have been invited to your birthday event here in San Diego and to have made it across the Pacific to see you.

This was the best event I have ever attended. You helped me again to feel gratitude for what I have got and then you gave us all so many exquisite gifts.

So much laughter, fun and you even wrote us 3 pieces of soothing music and had them played by leading classical musicians, and singing by Daya, one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard. The musicians performed with such feeling and love.  

I am at home sitting in your company and in the company of those people who love love, soaking in your clarity, wisdom and amazing love.

It was a Celebration of Love.
You encouraged us to make 2008 the best year ever, letting more people know of this gift and about you, the giver.
You are the light in this world today.

Thank you Maharaji

Stephanie

Find the Thirst

Find the thirst, and that is your ticket to the immortal.  That is your ticket, your lead, your guide, to what you have been looking for all your life, and what you will be looking for for the rest of your life. 

Maharaji

Celebration of Love

So much to celebrate.  Standing ovations, exquisite sounds of clarity, exquisite music, laughter, fun and poetry in motion - all for the heart.

Welcome to San Diego.  Time with Maharaji.

more to come!

Enjoy It

So much to talk about, but it really all comes down to one thing.  One thing that is pertinent to us.  A recognition of what we have been given.  An understanding of what this breath is - what this life is.

What I what you to do is celebrate something every single day.  Celebrate every single moment.  Because it is the only anchor you have.  In the middle of the ocean. 

There have only been two constants in my life.  One is change.  It has been constant.  And the other - is this desire to be fulfilled.  To be content.  To be happy.  To be in that place of joy that I have been shown. 

Riches beyond belief.  Fulfillment.  Understanding.  Joy. 

Do you really understand what the word joy means?  Joy.  What does joy mean?  What's going through your head?  Joy, joy joy.

It is the equivalent of a mute person eating candy.  It is like a mute person eating candy.  Just because he cannot describe it, doesn't mean he cant enjoy it. 

All he can do is enjoy it.

Maharaji