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on a certain day two cows were grazing

on the English meadow English cows one

cow asked the other what is your opinion

about the mad cow disease the other cow

said I don’t care a hoot

I’m anyway helicopter being a mystic

being a realised being is just like this

a cow realizing that it’s a cow and it

becomes a celebrated cow holy cow isn’t

is it that simplistic so let me tell you

my story so as a child one thing that I

realized was that I was utterly

absolutely ignorant and everybody around

me seemed to know just about everything

I did not know anything at all so

because I did not know anything I had to

pay enormous attention towards

everything my sense of attention become

became like this if I see a leaf I could

just sit there looking at this leaf just

tearing at it for hours if I set up in

my bed just staring at the darkness I

could just do this for the whole night

so this attention brought a completely

different level of involvement and

interaction with just about anything and

everything around me animate and

inanimate but everybody else seemed to

know everything and they were just going

about their life busy and happy but I

was just tearing at every little thing

then I saw that I realized that even

they did not know anything it is just

that they had their assumptions and

belief systems that they were happy with

either their own or what was handed down

to them by someone else and they not

only knew about what is here they also

knew about other worlds about gods about

heavens and everything and here I was

struggling to figure out what is worked

so this so intrigued me that I started

planting myself outside a maintained

major temple here in Mysore because I

wanted to really see after having a

meeting with God after having a

conversation with God how people will be

so I stood there intensely observing

every face that’s walking out of the

temple and generally I heard local

gossip

sometimes in Indian temples your

Footwear walks away with someone else

and then I see here people cursing the

creation and the creator I always found

people walking out of restaurants as are

always had more joyful faces than people

walking our temples divine versus dosa

those who seems to win I could not come

to terms with this and so I slowly

became more and more and more skeptical

about everybody and everything around me

skeptical about social structures

political systems religious beliefs even

scientific theories because none of them

match with my experience of life on a

certain day I started moving towards

Chung Underhill you must see this place

and there is a tradition in Mysore if

you have something to do you go to

Chamundi Hill if you have nothing to do

you go to Chamundi Hill if you fall in

love you go to Chamundi Hill if you fall

out you go to Chamundi Hill I had just

fallen out and I had nothing to do so I

started moving towards Chamundi Hill and

I went up and sat in a rock there till

that moment in my life I always thought

this is me and that somebody else in

something else but for the first time I

did not know which is me and which is

not me suddenly what was me was just all

over the place the very rock on which I

was sitting the air that I breathe the

very atmosphere around me I had just

exploded into everything that sounds

like uh terrain

this I thought lasted for 10 to 15

minutes but when I came back to my

normal consciousness I was about four

and a half hours I was sitting there

fully conscious eyes open but time had

just flipped in my experience for the

first time in my adult life tears were

flowing down and I’ve always been

peaceful and happy that was not an issue

but here I was drenched in a completely

different kind of blissfulness every

cell in my body bursting with ecstasy

when I shook my head and trying to get

some logical explanation for what’s

happening to me the only thing that my

wear is smart mind could say was maybe

I’m just going off my rocker this

experience as it deepened and it started

repeating itself if I just sit here

what is moments for me seem to be hours

for others I think it’s a minute hours

have gone on a certain day I happen to

be sitting in a certain place

I actually thought it’s about 25-30

minutes but when I came to my normal

senses thirteen days had gone by or

sitting right there

India being what it is a whole crowd had

gathered Garland’s around my neck people

touching my feet somebody wants to know

what will happen to his business

somebody wants to know when his daughter

will get married all the things that I

hated were just happening around me and

I had to move away from this place just

to avoid this crowd around me and as

this experience deepened into me one

thing that happened to me was everything

that I believed was me suddenly was not

me this was always me and suddenly I

found this is just an accumulation of

food that I’ve eaten what I accumulate

can be mind but can never be me this is

just a huge heap of impressions in my

mind and this body and mind not being me

but just being mine a distance arose

between me and my body between me and my

mind this also facilitated a certain

experience within me that suddenly the

equation of time and space was suddenly

not applicable for me I was seeing that

what is here is there what is there is

here past present and future got mixed

up it was one majestic eos but utterly

beautiful

so my skeptical mind not able to come to

terms with it was I was static start

conducting experiments these experiments

are too weird to talk about and the

results too fairy tale is for anybody to

believe but one thing that I arrived at

was that existence is not human centric

and all human experience is self-made

most people believe that their

experience is molded by what situations

in which they exist but all human

experiences 100% self created from

within I think today a lot of science is

beginning to agree with that and having

realized it if all experience is created

from within if the basis of your

experiences within you the seat of your

experiences within you as it is what

kind of experience of life would you

want to have for yourself I’m sure you

want it to be at most pleasantness

whatever you may be doing what you want

for your neighbor may be debatable but

what you want for yourself definitely

you want at most pleasantness as I

realized the basis of my experiences

within me I shifted from staring at

things to sitting with my eyes closed

this was a dimensional shift in my life

from staring to sitting with my eyes

closed I got so fascinated with this

human mechanism I wouldn’t want to open

my eyes for days on end I’m just keeping

my eyes closed

wanting to see everything about this one

and what I realized was if I take a

piece of bread and put it into this

system this piece of bread becomes my

body in a few hours and I begin to

experience this has my self this amazing

process as I became more and more aware

of it I saw the very source of creation

the very maker of this body the

manufacturer of this body is within once

I saw this and I could see that I could

my brains completely in 24 hours

changing myself beyond social upbringing

family situations even genetic qualities

in me I could see I could just

completely change everything about

myself in 24 hours I’m a different

person under 24 hours I’m a different

person I was like a conscious kids

effeminate trying out different things

on a certain day I just in a field

hockey game I fractured my left ankle

and I went and sat down in a place I was

in excruciating pain

and by then I had also become a chronic

ystem addict and I had a very serious of

estimate and this pain and this

inability to breathe together they were

quite something

at that moment it occurred to me if the

maker of this body is inside why is it

that I cannot mend this from inside I

thought I sat down with a certain

resolve if this is true I must be able

to allow it to mend itself otherwise I

must be completely in a wrong track i

sat down with my eyes closed for about

little more than an hour when I came out

my asked my left me never to come back

again and above all my fractured leg was

perfectly okay and little about little

more than an hour’s time armed with this

experience I started creating methods

and systems through which every human

being could access that intelligence and

that capability within the system which

can make a piece of bread into your

human being this intelligence and this

competence within the human system which

is not just about thought process exists

in every human being but unfortunately

remains untapped and I went about

creating systems that people would make

use of today these technologies for

inner well-being these methods to

engineer your interior tea the way you

want it millions of people are making

use of it and enjoying the benefits of

that but the essential part of this is

that there is such a high level of

intelligence and competence competence

on every millimetre of the body every

point of the body not just in the

thought process

this is completely untapped by human

societies there are ways to do this and

as I went into this process what I saw

was what is it that determines what is

me and what is not me I am capable of

taking a piece of bread and making it

into myself if I look at this body it is

just a piece of this planet that I have

borrowed but why is this separate and

this is separate then I found that it is

just the boundaries of sensation which

determines what is me and what is not me

here there is sensation so this is me

there seems I don’t feel the sensation

so that’s not me as I looked at this

boundaries of sensation very very

closely from within myself this was a

face of my life where most of the time I

remained with my eyes closed I realized

that the boundaries of sensation can

either be stretched expanded or even

made smaller than what it is right now

you can sit here and not feel anything

that’s happening here right now this

happens in sleep to some extent or you

can sit here and extend your boundaries

of your sensation for this whole hall

and anything that is within the

boundaries of your sensation you will

always experience as myself there is a

glass of water here and this is not me

that’s very clear but if you drink it

you just included it into the boundaries

of your sensation and that becomes you

so if you throw the boundary of your

sensation out in an expanded form you

can sit here and experience everybody in

this hall as yourself you can stretch it

further experience the very cosmic scape

and like you experience your own body

this sense of inclusiveness if it comes

into you when this came into me I

suddenly realized that to be loving is

not somebody’s teaching to be

compassionate is not an idea to be an

empathy is not some esoteric principle

this is the way a human being is made if

only he does not constipate his

consciousness with limited

identifications with things that he is

not if you do not identify with anything

that you have accumulated over a period

of time including your body and mind

every human being is capable of this

when it comes to external situations

each one of other differently capable

but when it comes to inner situations

every one of us is equally capable no

human being is better endowed than the

other when it comes to the inner realm

it’s only in the external situations

that we are all differently capable if

this inclusiveness enters human life if

you can sit here and experience people

around you as yourself I don’t think I

have to teach you to be good I don’t

think I have to teach you to laugh I

don’t think I have to teach you to care

because caring for this one is very very

natural this is ingrained within the

very nature of the existence this

inclusiveness definitely has to touch

humanity so this became my life my work

and my endeavor to develop methods so

that people can experience this

inclusiveness

if this inclusiveness is experienced by

humanity particularly by the leadership

people who will power and probe

different aspects of responsibility in

the world definitely we could find

solutions for everything because today

we as a generation of people this is

very significant for the first time we

are capable of addressing every human

problem on this planet of nourishment

health education ecology you name it we

can address it all we have the necessary

resource capability and technology for

the very first time but are we going to

do it simply depends upon how inclusive

is our experience of life if you stand

here and we experience this planet as

yourself I don’t think I have to tell

you take care of it every human being

would do his best when we do not have

this inclusiveness what we could do we

will not do in our lives if we do not do

what we cannot do that is not a problem

but if you do not do what we can do we

are a disaster my hope and my work is

just to see that we as a generation of

people do not become that kind

for disaster that what we can do we will

definitely do and right now what we can

do compared to what we could do 100

years ago is so incredibly different so

incredibly different but what’s missing

is an all-inclusive consciousness are

called all-inclusive experience of life

if only we bring this about in the

leadership in the people only then we

will seek solutions that are relevant

for all otherwise we’ll go about

dabbling creating in the name of

creating solutions we go about creating

more and more problems if we truly have

to create solutions that are relevant

for all an experience of absolute

inclusiveness has to happen to humanity

and it’s possible thank you very much