Hi all,
Watch the video of Sri Bhagavan London talk : How to shift Perceptions -
Transcript:
Sri Bhagavan Says :
First thing, you got to understand all suffering is only a story. Story is what causing the suffering. So merely understanding the story is not sufficient. You must know what is the story. So you must stay with the suffering. That is the next stage. When you stay with the suffering, the suffering will tell you its own story, which will be very surprising to you. You would not have expected that.
For example, many years ago, I knew a young man who was studying at IAT. He later on became a very big scientist. IAT, as you all know, that’s cream of India. When doing his Physics there, he developed tremendous amount of lust. So, he began to do yoga, lust would not go. When he began to do many other things, lust would not come under control. This was the condition, he was. Whatever he was trying, he could not control his lust. That is affecting his academics. That was his suffering. So, when he was made to experience the suffering, first by make him stay with it, what happened was the story came out. The story was, this person hated experimental Physics. He is all in love with Theoretical Physics, but he was dead against experimental Physics. He has love for Mathematics and all the abstract concepts of Physics, that was his fascination. And he would not like to waste his time on experimental Physics. This dislike, hatred for experimental physics manifested as lust.
Whenever you are involved in some work which you do not like, which you hate, then lust becomes too much. Because then you are doing for survival sake and you always have a fear of survival. Because he knew, he might fail in experimental physics which means he will fail in his MSc, which means he might not become the scientist that he wants to be which means his survival is, becoming the great scientist that was shaken. So when survival is threatened, lust would automatically go up. There is a close link - lust, survival and security are closely linked. When that is threatened, it would automatically go up. Suppose you are playing in the share market and your shares are coming down, you would see your lust is going up. Suppose you engage in business and your business is failing, your lust will go up. Always failure, which leads to ...survival, lust will automatically go up. So, this began very very clear to him and then he had the courage to stay with the suffering and then also to experience it, so it began to reveal itself, the story. And then he knew, is this it. So what happened, he suddenly developed a love for experimental Physics. As he knew that ...ok, I will put little more effect and then he did that and then the lust disappeared, it came to normal proportions. And later on he became a world famous Scientist also.
So, the story gets revealed. That is why we talk in terms of created problem and real problem. Whenever you tell us this is our problem, we know that it is a created problem. The real problem is something else. So, how to get there? Stay with it. First understand everything is a story. In reality there can’t be any suffering. When you experience reality as it is, there is only joy, there is only bliss, there is only love, No matter what it is. But, you do not experience reality as it is because your mind is all the time interfering. And what is the mind, it is all the time judging, it is commenting. Why? Mind is a flow of thought. What is thought? Thought is measurement. It compares yesterday with today, today with tomorrow, you with somebody else, all the time it is comparing, it is measurement. Thought is an instrument to measure. Constantly measuring it is. So when you are measuring, suppose there is this vase, you must look at this vase, not measuring it, in terms of colour, size or shape. But, mind is nothing, just a flow of thought and thought is from the past and past is memory and memory is dead. So, death is flowing through you, and if you truly die to the past and to the future, psychologically if you die to them, then you will live in the present. There is great joy and bliss there. That’s what we are trying to do to you.
So, now what happens is if you are going to stay with suffering, mostly the story will be revealed. If that also does not reveal then you can move into experiencing suffering, then story will definitely be revealed and not only that, there could be a charge. Now, staying may give you the story, but it might not remove the charge. In this boys case what happened was ...staying with he became to know the story, ok I hate experimental physics and all this. But, that was not the end of the story, still there was a discomfort. So as he began to experience suffering, it became very clear to him that there was a remark by a uncle of his, who was a big professor of Physics in an American University who made...a comment, only fools would do experimental Physics. The greater your brains you would move into theoretical Physics, so there started the bias against the experimental Physics. So there is such a dislike for it. So, he experienced the suffering there and the charge went away.
So to remove the charge you have got to experience suffering. Whenever anything is re-experienced, the charge goes away. Fully you must be experiencing. Two people can not stay on the same spot, isn’t it? You have to knock down one and put the other in. Similarly what happens is, when you re-experience it that charge is removed. It is gone. When charge is gone, entire perception changes. It comes from the story or from a charge. Once perception is changed everything changes. Your experience of reality depends on your perception. If that changes, the experience changes. And the suffering is gone. But the ultimate suffering is there should be no perception at all. So this is the first level. This is like normal suffering. If you want to go to a level where experiencing as they are, then thought itself must stop. And that is possible. When you are drinking coffee, you must be drinking coffee. Why should be thinking about the cricket commentary there or the score. It should be drinking the coffee. That is when completely all suffering ends. There is nothing, but joy and love. What joy? Unconditional Joy and Unconditional love. You could be a beggar, but you have unconditional joy. This joy does not depend on whatever you are gaining or whatever you are loosing. It is just there, you could be anybody, you might be the world’s most powerful man, world’s richest man, but you will not have this joy, unless you experience reality as it is. Then unconditional love, there will be love towards the king and towards the beggar, because there is no thought. All this is possible to achieve.
