WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? 

...in Guruji's own words

In this talk, Guruji Shri Rishi Prabhakar talks about how we, in our daily rat run (Busy life), have forgotten the essence of Joyful Living and importance of commune. He brings back to us the spirit that grows in togetherness and Ananda~

In every training, this should be centrally focused. What is the Purpose of life?

If you ask a boy who studies in class 9th, what is the purpose of life? For him, it is simply to pass the tenth standard. If you ask a twelfth standard student, his  purpose  will be to get admission  in  college. What is the purpose of life to a girl after graduation? It is to get married to an appropriate person.   After graduation for a boy, it is simply to get a good job.

For parents, the purpose it is to bring up the child.  By the age of - 50 to 60, what is the purpose of life? It is simply to see that their children are well settled, and see their grandchild and that is the end of their life.

Is the purpose of life just to pass the 12th standard? We have really forgotten what is life? What is it that you have to learn? Why are you studying with so much strain?

First and foremost, it is important to learn to sit quietly, otherwise life is useless.

If you can sit quietly for 30 minutes and be happy, I do not have to tell you anything. To demonstrate this, with Kaya kalpa Kriya (A program by Guruji), the mind begins to settle down, and person can sit quietly, without being disturbed by the outside world or any other thought.

The Purpose of life is - ‘to be happy within’. Being contented and happy is very important. To carry this silence and Ananda (joyfulness) is the very purpose of life.

When you are with me for 3 days, your whole day will pass like this. If you be with me for some more days, your whole life will be like this. 

You go to work and come back with money and you are constantly causing pollution. You must not work where your work is a waste, why can’t you sit quietly? If you don’t work then what should you do? Come to me I will give you food and shelter and look after your family.

I learnt this very early in life, at the age of 21. While I was working in a Canadian Company, I never punched my attendance card, which showed the time of entry and exit. Now it happened that everyone was angry with me, except for my supervisor. All my colleagues were very upset with me.

The office gave me a project, which other people needed 15 days to complete. I completed it within a few hours. But, the complaint against me had gone to the President of the Company. When my supervisor was questioned, he cleared the situation with him. He said, ‘the others do punch in their cards, but they take 15 days to finish the same task, while he who does not punch his card takes only a few hours to finish the same task.’ So my supervisor asked, ‘should I fire those people or him?’   So they would send me to the library, saying - ‘you go and study, we will call you,  if  you  are  needed  here.’ 

I don’t do something, unless I really want to do it, I don't do it  for  the  sake  of  money.

How many of you are going to work happily?  

You cannot say this; I can say it. You are living in small houses. Create an Ashram where thousands of people can come.

The Purpose of life is to live  happily with others. Being with you  must  become  a  paradise.

God has given us so many Ashrams. What we need to change is the - ‘Purpose  of  life.’

Why do we need to create efficient managers?  They  will  kill the world. We should be the contributors to the world. Through yoga everybody  will  be living  together. Only talking about togetherness will not help, living together is required. Nobody can escape this. Look into what holds you back? What is your problem?

Abandon this way of  living. Abandon greed, and you will become effective in this path. Even a person in the village can understand this.

Spend more and more time to be  yogi rather than a bhogi (one who just bears, rather suffers  life). All your time and money  is  going  to  be  spent  on  hospitals. This stand on living in togetherness, will come only when you live your life in a yogic way. Our children can be looked after by the ladies, who are relieved from kitchen duty, by using  a  common  kitchen.

Here productivity increases many fold. If a man is practicing pranayam (a practise of efficient breathing to energies body taught in SSY- Siddha Samadhi Yoga)  for  3  to  5 hours in a day, something more becomes available to him? Manikeshwari Amma  has  not  eaten  for  60  years.

The first purpose of life is to be happy with yourself and with people  around  you.

We need only 40 acres land to host  100 families. Our teachers need not look for a job or go and do some business. Here, our teachers can  be  the central point for bringing prosperity in the world. They can  demonstrate this, by living on  fruits, uplift the villages by their participation, green the surroundings and in short bring prosperity  to  the  land.

-Guruji Shri Rishi Prabhakar

Life is Fun and Learning…together!

Being in a community, which cares and shares like in Auroville, as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo, relieves the couple from being stressful to being creative and free. We are basically gregarious animals living happily as a tribe not just as a family of two or four.

This is not about giving up your family but growing into a large community (a Joint family) to live happily and be productive, multi- dimensionally.

“Ancient Gurukuls where production centers and schooling happened simultaneously is the next step of evolution.”

They will also be high quality Research centers as well, like in Auroville. Industries will be converted to universities. This was how one-lakh twenty five thousand universities existed in the State of Madras alone in the year 1800, according to a British Survey.

How Community building is made practical in today's World?

There are many large complexes coming up with ample shared facilities at very high costs, leaving the couple in the same predicament as that of a nuclear family.  A benevolent leader can muster the trust of many families living together like in Auroville.

In India, many Gurus are there who have this capacity. This thought or idea has not struck yet of they being the catalysts for this progression. India is poised for such community living more than any country in the world.

-By Guruji Rishi Prabhakar

THE REAL BRAHMACHARI...

There is a Russian woman who is doing very intensive study on Tukaram for last about 28 years she is studying Tukaram from Pune University. She was giving a lecture at University few days back and she was asked to present what is special about Tukaram. She said she realised one thing while doing this study that, God comes in the form of a human being, following all the laws of human being and sits among the rest of the people as a human being. He will not show himself as God. He will sit with disciples so that the master’s work can go on. There are many such great gods on earth whom we do not see. We see them as ordinary Grihasthas. But they will have an enormous thought. They are people who are demonstrating how to be an ordinary person who is extraordinarily dedicated. We call them as Grihastha sanyasis.

A Grihastha is worried about himself, he will never invite anybody to his house. He is always calculating what money is going to go if this person might visit and how long this person is going to stay. When they are going to go. And the Sanyasi is not worried, he is just roaming around. Both of these people don’t do any justice to the world. One is very selfish; the other person who has given himself to sadhana is unable to do anything at this time. He is under training. All the people who require a class, an ochre robe are sanyasis under training. One who attains sanyasa doesn’t need a robe. Until you attain sanyasa doesn’t need a robe. Until you attain sanyasa you require a robe, you know. The ochre robe is only to protect yourself from the rest of the people. To announce that look I am not complete, don’t come near me, give me a little peace. Every ochre robe sanyasi is sanyasi under training. Once he comes sanyasi fully he doesn't need the robe. He becomes a Grihastha Sanyasi. He becomes an ordinary man who is an extraordinary person. My Guruji was like that one. Nobody could see that he was a great soul. If you stay with him for a few moments then you will know. But if you just talk of outside - no announcements. It is because of such souls that the real dignity begins to get fertilized. They recognise the sadhakas and just stand behind them and says now you go ahead, I am behind you. These are the people who do the seva of the sadhakas. Many Swamiji’s used to come to Guruji’s place and Guruji used to treat them as great men who have come to the house. After staying for 2/3 days they would realize how great our Guruji is. Instead of him doing Namaskar to them they did Namaskar and go.

                                                                         - By Guruji Shri Rishi Prabhakar

The Power of Silence

Satyagraha & Seva

This is the Satyagraha that Gandhiji undertook. That is how he became fearless, because his path was one of Satya.

When you undertake Satyagraha, you have a cause to being a Rishi. Because you are not afraid, you are completely truthful. Its now that the truth can reveal itself to you.

Until you are untruthful, truth cannot reveal itself. This is the starting point for the commencement of Rishitva. Once you are in a state of truth, when you see something in the world, which you do not understand, you focus on it, contemplate about it and find a way out, to make the world a better place to live in for every body.

Gandhiji did it when he saw people fighting needlessly. He started thinking, why do we have to live like slaves, when we can live like divine human beings. He wanted to discover ways of how to bring about this state. With this intention he began the Satyagraha and he discovered non-violence as a means to remove the British from Indian soil. His discovery of non-violence was  unique.

Gandhiji could start the non-violence movement because he had one thing, "Satya", he was rooted in Satya. Secondly, he was contemplating on the state of the world and how to relieve the world and make it a better place, a more divine place where Truth exists.

Today Gandhiji is worshiped not only in India but throughout the world, as somebody who is holding up the light of Truth and Non-violence in the presence of violence.

So, being rooted in Truth, and being able to go deep into Truth, into the silence within is the first criterion of a Rishi. The second aspect is contemplating and doing Seva (to serve) to make the world a better place.

Once you reach this level, you automatically become a sevadhari. You don't have to struggle to become a sevadhari. This is the  next level of development towards becoming a Rishi.

So these are the processes of evolution. First is Laya Samadhi, next is Nitya Samadhi and Vishistha Samadhi. Then you will start to get rooted and great things will happen.

Actually all this is inbuilt in our genes. We have not done much Tapasya but our great Rishis have done the Tapasya and we are the inheritors of their genes. In the West nobody has inherited  genes from any Rishi, so it is very difficult for them to comprehend, what we can so very easily because we have been gifted with special genes by our Rishi. Everybody wants to be a Rishi. This is the place where Rishis  were  bred.

India is the land of Rishis. We had forgotten about our Rishis, but in the next few generations India will give tremendous power to the rest of the world. It has already begun to happen.

  - By Guruji Shri Rishi Prabhakar

Three Levels of Silence...

 

In terms of Siddha Samadhi Yoga I will give you three levels of silence, which are very  important  to  understand. To go into yourself and experience the silence within yourself, this is called Laya Samadhi. This is what we teach in the first course. For 15 days you learn how to enter into 15 minutes of silence samadhi within yourself.

My Guruji  taught me the art of effortless living. When our living becomes more and more effortless, more and more easy, only then are we progressing in the right direction. If our life becomes more and more difficult, then we are doing something wrong.

First we must learn to live with ourselves easily, so that 'I don't become  a  problem  to  myself'. The first step is to be able to close your eyes for 15 minutes without worrying about anything and become quiet, silent, happy and peaceful within  yourself.

To learn not to be a problem to yourself. To be able to do so, we   have to leave it to God at least for 15 minutes, to take over and nurture us. For 15 minutes you have let go and surrender to the Divine. When you are at the hands of the divine you don’t experience any problem.

It requires courage to let go. It does not require so much courage to hold on-to some-thing. Once you say it is all God's, once you let go and flow with 'life, you experience the joy of life’. What we are learning is this process of letting go.

After that we begin to trust a little more and we begin to let go a little more! Let go! Let go! And then our life becomes easier. You experience the first level Aham Brahmasmi, I am  Divine.

The Second level is that of Nitya Samadhi AMC - Advance Meditation Course, when you start letting go and surrender to another person. You start having total trust in that person. Now begins a new process. You begin to see God in the another person. This stage is called - Tat  Tvamasi.

The first one was Aham Brahmasmi, that you experienced. The Second level is Tat tvamasi, I see the same God in you.  As two people let go totally with each other, then a soul to soul connection will happen. The feeling then is one of ecstasy, a very continuous bond of relationship.

Most people who go through an AMC with their partners, have a fantastic relationship for the rest of their life. They just go for a blind walk and when they come back, they feel so protected by the other that they  start feeling the other to be their nearest, dearest, closest friend. And that relationship goes on for years together, for the whole lifetime. The relationship is between two people. This is the second experience of letting go, of being at ease. This helps you to be with people and let go with people.

Normally we are resistant to the next person.  We don't know what he is going to do. Now as we let go, we don't have to worry. When  we experience that person as good  as God, with whom we can completely let go, then a different relationship  begins  to happen. By going through AMC regularly,  you start developing trust with everybody. This trust will elevate  you  and  the  other  person's  life.

Not only will you be happy within yourself but you will be able to    share the happiness with the other person also. So, the other person  also feels that this person is good to be with. He cares for me, he is able to be with me, so I can trust him. And you bring about a different atmosphere around the people. So you are a welcome guest anywhere.

The Third level is that of effortless living: (Visistha Samadhi).This requires more courage, not just practice. The courage to let go for 15 minutes gives you Laya Samadhi. The courage to let go for three days will get you  Nitya Samadhi.

The next Samadhi is a very powerful Samadhi. This is called Vasistha Samadhi. It happens when you go to Satya Narayan Vrata or Bhava Samadhi Training. Here you enter into Satya and have nothing to hide. Each one of us is hiding some Satya, truth and that is why  our life is hard. Every one of us is afraid of being totally truthful,  we hide something and that is what is our Ahankara - ego.

So this third step of silence comes  out of Satya - Truth, and gives courage  to remain in Satya - Truth.

 - By Guruji Shri Rishi Prabhakar

Evolution of a Rishi

 

How to become a Rishi?

  

Basically a Rishi is someone who is able to delve deep into silence. This is the first qualification of a Rishi.  The second is  to be able to evolve a hypothesis or theory behind a process that is happening.

A  Scientific understanding:  It is the ability to collect information and develop a theory based on this data.Once the data is collected, then you go into yourself, into a field of intuition, not intellectualization, where all this data, will fit to develop a particular theory.

Once you get this theory, which fits all this experimental observation then you have intuited the proper theory.Intuiting a theory requires a very great depth of silence, this is what Einstein  and  Newton  did.

 

SIDDHA SAMADHI YOGA… Understanding Silence

The first quality is to go deeper within. Siddha Samadhi Yoga is a new dimension in meditation, the same meditation, which was forgotten.

Everybody was practicing the 'doing process' in meditation. They forgot that in meditation nothing needs to be done. Total surrenderful-ness is meditation.

People are struggling to become silent. Once you become silent then most of your diseases disappear. Most of these diseases are because of disturbances in the mind and once people go into deeper and deeper silence, they will automatically experience greater and greater Ananda;  inner  joy.

SSY is this new understanding of  the old processes and once you understand and go through this program, everything becomes so totally clear, so totally easy. Before experiencing silence, if people were to listen to a Bhagwad Gita lecture, they would be more confused than ever before, but now silence makes  it very open and easy to understand.

 - By Guruji Shri Rishi Prabhakar

Who is a Rishi?

There is some understanding that I wish to share with you about, who is a Rishi?

A person who is able to convert spontaneous experience into a technique, which if repeated gives the  same  experience, is a Rishi.

I will give you a few definitions of a Rishi. A Rishi is a being, who is  very excited, very deeply happy within; such a person breaks into song easily. If a person is deeply worried and feels very strained, will he stop shouting? Can there be a flow of music?

A divine experience is like music. A person, who is very happy within, has his mind filled with music. Listening to wonderful music will make you also, happy. Thus music creates Ananda; inner joy and Ananda creates Music. Both are true. One is a technique used to produce music, which creates the effect of Ananda, while the other is being in a state of Ananda, which  gives  rise  to  music.

One who is able to write music in such a way that another person can read that music, play it and reproduce the same music is a Rishi. He is spontaneous. Music is written through a code system, the Sapta Suras, -'Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa Dha, Ni, Sa.' Through these sapta suras, you can produce any music. It was a Rishi, who discovered that all sounds can be set to Sapta Suras.

Most of the scientists today are Rishis because they codify a truth and present it in such a way that if other people to apply the same principle, they too would create the same effect, which nature would have  created. 

By this definition, Newton was a Rishi, like all other scientists. Many important Rishi's have made their contribution thus. One of them wrote a whole treatise on the structure of the universe. It is based on the triangle. Another very great Rishi, was the first to discover the two-dimensional model of the earth's sphere, which represents  the exact dimensions of  each country. He discovered that normally in our maps, the physical characteristics of an area may show a particular given piece of land as small. But in reality, the same appears much larger when seen closer to the pole. In doing so he was able to give exact dimensions for each country on a two dimensional  plan. He is a Rishi.

Rishis have always been coming into this world, but we have not gone deeper into silence, we have lost it  all. 5000 years ago India was full of Rishis who discovered more and more and contributed more and more to the world. After those golden years, no particular discovery or major invention has happened in India in  the last 5000 years, because we lost the method of how to become a Rishi.

- By Guruji Shri Rishi Prabhakar