Master Says

You can meditate on a mantra, you can meditate on God's name, you can kiss the stones, perhaps, or kiss the plants, whatever, so that you can get in touch with God. Whatever your way is fine. Hes doesn't say you have to do things in a particular way. But through my search, through my spiritual thirst for wisdom -- I went all over the place, learned with many teachers -- I found that the methods imparted by the Indian sages of olden times and the modern time are the best.

The ones that emphasize the inner light and sound, they're the quickest. If you meditate on all the mantras or have another concentration, you will see the light and hear sound, too. But if you meet a master who can impart it to you directly, quickly open the door, you'll see it right away. You don't have to make so much effort. From then on, you continue all the time. That's what I was fortunate enough to have imparted to me. I'm just reporting to you. You know already, anyhow.

So, after that we have choice. We have choice all the time, but righteous choice, noble choice; choice, but not hurting other people, choice but not at the expense of other people; the choice of being faithful to your wife and husband, and knowing truly that the spouse is God, and hurting others is truly hurting yourself; because you have the choice of knowing God, and you know that you have to behave like God. That's what my teacher taught me. That's how I experienced it through my own humble journey in search of the true wisdom.

Men and women are different than animals. The animals they just eat, sleep, and have sex. They don't have any knowledge about morality, obligation. They might have love between mates, some of them do, and very faithful. But many animals are not like men and women; they don't have the higher consciousness of God. We're all God, like our reverend, minister and other distinguished speakers before us. We all have God inside, we're all God, even stones and all that. But different beings are bestowed with different levels of consciousness, and human beings are the highest in this consciousness. So human beings behave like God; animals do not. We are human, so we have a distinguished difference -- we have love.

Sex with love is different than sex just for enjoyment, in my humble opinion, because God is joy, God is love. But God is not hurting others. Suppose we take the spouse of other people and have sex for physical enjoyment. That is okay with God. God does not judge us, but how about the other one? We hurt her, we hurt him, and we don't like that. As God we want to represent the highest, the noblest idea of divinity, and that's why we choose to live righteously. We live the life of ahimsa. We choose it, because we know that we are God, not that God will judge you. You can do what you want, of course; you can have fifty wives, fifty husbands, God will never say anything. But is that the way we want to represent God? I don't think so.

Love on the higher level is for all humanity. You can love fifty women, you can love five hundred, you can love fifteen million galaxies of inhabitants, but it's different than personal love. There are two levels, personal and impersonal. On the personal, we have to take care of our family, love our spouse and children, and discharge our duty the best we can. That's personal. On the impersonal, we have to serve human beings with a very, very undiscriminating and unconditional love.

That's what the sages of India, for thousands of years, since the beginning of creation, have been teaching us, and have been showing as an example. The sages are the embodiment of love and unconditional sacrifice. They would not teach us ever to harm other sentient beings in the spirit of ahimsa. That is the three dimensional level of ahimsa. On the other hand, of course, God gives us free will.

So, there is another point that I have just noted from the other speakers before. They all tell us to live righteously -- all of these speakers, the distinguished ones here. So why should we do that? If God doesn't judge us, if God is undiscriminating, you can do what you want, that's true. This is the only life, perhaps, that you know; why worry about moral obligation, about loving responsibility, about being faithful, about being loving, kind? Just enjoy!

Enjoyment is fine, but enjoy in a noble way, not in the animal way. That's what the sages tell us. We can do anything we want and degrade ourselves to the animal level; that's our absolute right. But is that the way we want to live? I don't think the sages of India taught us, ever, this way. Am I right? (Audience nod in agreement) Thank you.

There's another point about why we have to keep ourselves noble and pure. Because people can see us -- the seers, the sages and the pure in heart can see our aura. If we do something right, we are God-realized, we are God-loving and one with God, our aura is golden, is brilliant. If we do something wrong -- we hurt other people emotionally, physically, mentally or spiritually -- our aura is dark. People can see us, so we cannot cheat. That's why we have to keep ourselves beautiful. Yeah, like me. (Laughter and applause)

I don't know what my aura looks like so I tried to make it golden with the Indian embroidery. I don't have a very good habit of wearing this, but I try hard. That's why I came late; please forgive me. I had to walk like a fair lady...

So, as much as we put on make-up, we put on ties and beautiful dresses to represent God to the world, outside, we must also put on make-up, a beautiful dress of purity, Godliness and holy love, inside, so that we can represent the true God within us.

Thank you very much for your patience. (Applause) End of the report. Please give me a '10'.กน