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The Energy Field we Create
Wherever we are, we influence the environment; we influence the space around us by our presence from the energy that comes out of us. This is extremely important for us to understand. It is amazing how much information you can receive or recognise when you come into the presence of people. When you look at someone in their eyes, or touch someone’s hand or are in someone’s presence, you will be amazed to know how much you can get in terms of communication with that person or place.
When you go to a sacred space and it is silent, you can feel the energy that has been created by all the people who have been worshipping. The gift to recognise and feel this came to me in India after my profound spiritual awaking. Then I tried to develop the ability even more, and I did. Now my meetings with each person or place are a very special experience and I give a lot of attention to it.
When I meet someone the feeling I get from the person - the eye contact, the person’s presence is like a signature, like a thumbprint. When you go to a sacred place, a temple or a home, and if you become receptive, you can actually feel the energy that has been invested by those who worship or live there. I am saying this to you because you can create this in your home or experience this in any temple or sacred place you go to.
I do believe the deterioration of the energy in our country, the social fabric, the social life, social consciousness and the rise in criminal activities, come from the negative energy that we create in schools, homes and workplaces; and that we do not realise it. If homes are better and in a kind of social togetherness, energy field, and sacred energy, our children will be different and those who live in the home will be different. I say this because I know it and I live it. I worked for years in an industry that was very challenging and then I saw the turnaround of the industry. I saw where people hated the employers and I saw where productivity dropped; and then when it was turned around and people were given incentives, the whole feeling changed and so did the productivity and the quality of the product.
We can change the energy in any environment if we really want or if we really seek and understand how to. But more importantly, we can change the energy in ourselves first. We can make this body worthy of being the temple that it is; if we keep the right kind of thoughts and self-discipline, we can transform the energy field that this body exists in.
Those of you who are scientifically-minded, this body is an energy field; it has energy particles and vibrations throughout. When the body is diseased, the energy field is disturbed. As you begin to try to change the energy field by your thoughts, meditations, chanting and by loving actions, you actually transform the health of the body. This is ancient wisdom.
When you come together in fellowship as you are doing now, you are actually in a noble exercise of transforming not only the health of your body but the energy of your mental space and the energy of the physical space. The power of human beings coming together in disciplined activity has a tremendous power. Let us experience that.
Those of you who came with disturbances of all kinds, know that we can create a field here that can support you. Even more, we are spiritual beings, we are beings of light, we are beings of power but we have forgotten that. We can awaken that in this field of energy today. We can create a sacred energy field that is so powerful that you can have visions of deities, and that you can feel healing energies flowing through your body and that you can experience miraculous changes in moments. Let us make this a sacred evening. Let us make this a meeting place between us and the Divine. Let us bring our attention completely into the moment. Let us be here and now and to know that within, at the core of our being, God exists.
The God we are searching for is really inside of us and more importantly we are part of Him or Her. We are a part of God. We are a spark of God’s divine being. We are Atma and God is Paramatma.
We are involved in a transformation of consciousness and energy. Allow me to guide you in this exploration and in this sacred process. Yesterday is gone, the last hour is gone, the last fifteen minutes is gone, the last minute is gone, and this is the important moment. We call ‘this’ the now. The future depends on what we do in this moment. This moment before us is always the important moment. Give it your full attention. Be fully in the moment. Be fully in recognition of, in surrender to the Divine.
True Happiness
When we become touched by the blessings of the Gurus our lives become different. Open yourself to the grace and blessings that are flowing this evening.
It is possible for the darkness to come out of us if only we will stay in the light. The journey of life is not a journey of materialism. The materialism of the world is only for our survival and comfort but not for true happiness. What you are experiencing this evening is what will bring you true happiness. True happiness comes from the spirit, not from possessions nor from material power but from our spiritual being. You are in a journey of spirituality, of touching the sacred space within you and of experiencing the God within you.
A Journey into your Spiritual World
You are on the journey into your spiritual world, to the space where God exists within you. God is an immediate reality. God exists within you as your own being. These are not just words I am saying to you; this is the truth. You can experience this by direct perception, by direct experience, if you open yourself to the grace of the Infinite.
The Infinite, the Supreme is within you in this moment. You are carried by the Divine but you don’t think so, you think you walk alone but the truth is, you are carried by the Divine and you feel this when you give attention to it. Whenever you think you are alone, it is only ignorance, lack of knowledge because God is with you. The most powerful Being in the universe is with you at all times. But because of your forgetfulness and your mental limitations, you think that God is not with you. The mantra helps you to recall that experience of being carried. The mantra takes you back to that place where you are carried.
Life is a Journey of Transformation
We are in a journey of transformation. Life is a journey of transformation. You work hard every day to acquire all the possession you have but you know you are not going to carry any of this with you when you leave this world.
No matter what you think now, you are going to leave this world. It is a fact of life that we all have to leave this world. Whether you like it or not, whether you want it or not, you have to leave. This body was only given to you for a certain period of time. And we use a lot of effort to acquire things, to work hard in the world and ultimately we leave everything here. Sometimes when you did not take time to enjoy, someone else will enjoy not you. It is important to enjoy.
But more importantly, what you are going to take with you in this life is what you have learned. In the acquisition and in the experiences, what you have learned is what you are going to carry with you.
What did you learn? Can you count what you have learned during the years you have been here? That is what you are going to take with you. Those are the treasures, the karmas you are going to take with you. Let us remember that every day and look for the learning experiences and look for what we have learned. Those are the precious things in life.
