The Danger of Seeking the Message in “One Line”

Listen: since yesterday, I have started receiving many questions following the initiation. Many people have tried to ask me one single question: “Swamiji, can you tell me in one line what you are trying to convey? Can you give your message in just one line?” From my experience, I tell you: those who wanted my message in a single line simply never followed it or transformed.

Why do you want it in one line? It is just so your ego can judge it. Naturally, your ego is going to say whether it thinks a statement is “good” or “bad.” Regardless of whether it judges the line as good or bad, the ego will finally reach the conclusion that it is simply not practical for you. You will find 125 reasons why this truth is not possible for you, and you will proceed to dump the whole thing into the dustbin. If a truth is reduced to a single line, it becomes very easy to discard.

All those who ask for my message in one line—asking for just the “gist”—are usually asking only so they can dump it in the dustbin. They are never asking for the sake of transformation. If you are sincere about your seeking, if you are sincere about manifesting enlightenment, and if you are a sincere seeker of Janma Mukti, then listen: Shastra Adhyayana (the study of scriptures) is a basic need. You need to have thousands of ultimate truths, deep understandings, and supporting answers to convince yourself when you go through various mood swings and hormonal ups and downs during your life’s rain and shine. Understand that a sincere seeker has to study elaborately because you need to be able to convince yourself repeatedly, in multiple ways, across multiple situations, and in multiple moods.

Therefore, I am not going to give you a mere gist, saying “Tat Tvam Asi is the essence, please take it.” It would take hardly three minutes for your mind to ask, “How can I be that?” and then give up. It would take only three minutes for your ego to brush the whole thing aside, dump it in the dustbin, and move ahead, continuing with its old way of functioning.

Listen: I am attacking every one of your patterns. I am attacking each pillar on which your ego is established; I am shaking the whole foundation and delivering a powerful earthquake to your ego. That is why, when the ego can’t do anything else, it tells you that the teaching is “confusing” or “overwhelming.” All those who ask for a gist or essence are only planning to brush it aside and dump it into the dustbin of their mind.

Understanding Chit, Buddhi, and the Inner Speech

Listen: today I am going to explain five different truths, all leading to one ultimate truth. I am giving you the essence of yesterday’s initiation and the Satsang truths regarding Chit, Jada, Chit-Granti, Buddhi, and Chitta.

• Chitta refers to the component through which you consciously talk and listen.

How many of you understand that you are talking to yourself in exactly the same way others once talked to you? I am repeating this: you are talking to yourself in exactly the same way others once talked to you. When a child is learning to walk or tie his shoelaces, the parents give instructions: “First take this lace over that one, then pull it under and through the loop.” Later, the child will repeat those same instructions to itself. They learn every skill in exactly this way. This is what our ancient Rishis teach, and it is why so much importance is placed on having Sat Buddhi (Right Intellect).

I insist that all my disciples and followers—whoever comes to me seeking the ultimate—spend a little time, at least through AI, to learn basic Sanskrit. It is very easy with AI; use those tools to learn basic Sanskrit. To truly understand the scriptures, I have spoken elaborately on:

1. Bhagavad Gita
2. Brahma Sutras
3. Upanishads

For all of these Prasthanatrayi, I have given commentary. Just learn enough Sanskrit to read these three books—or read them in both Sanskrit and English—and that will be enough for you to attain Sattvic consciousness.

Listen: our ancient Rishis knew this secret. They repeatedly tell us that inner speech actually begins as outer speech—as actual conversations with others that we gradually internalize. Listen: all the outer speech you hear is internalized, and that is what becomes your conscious inner speech. If you internalize the Shastras—at least these three: the Upanishads, Brahma Sutras, and Bhagavad Gita—then your conscious talking (the Chit component) and your conscious listening (the Buddhi component) will become a powerful Sat Buddhi. You will have clear words to identify each of your delusions, your problems, and your confusions. Millions of your questions will be resolved before they even arise; by the time a question tries to form, the answer will spontaneously and simultaneously manifest.

Listen: this basic Shastra Adhyayana will empower your Buddhi with Sat Buddhi. Consequently, all your conscious talking and listening will be so powerful that you will be equipped with all the weapons and tools needed to handle any of your questions, confusions, or situations. Come what may, you will be ready and fully alive.

The Focal Point: You Are the Creator of Your Reality

Listen to your focal point—the place where you feel you exist right now. Identify where you feel that “I.” In this “I,” you spontaneously experience memories of the past, the reality of the present, and the anticipations or hopes of the future. You should be very clear: you never actually entered the past, and you never entered the future. You have always lived only in your focal point, which is now.

• If you are boiling, repenting, or fighting and upset about something from the past, that activity is happening right now in the present.
• If you are hoping, visualizing, or fantasizing about the future, that activity is also happening right now in the present.

So, your past, your present, and your future are all happening simultaneously, spontaneously, and synergistically in your focal point right now. Your experience of yourself, your experience of the world, and your experience of God—everything is happening in your focal point. All of this is occurring spontaneously, simultaneously, and synergistically.

Listen: no matter which God you may talk to, you are talking only to yourself. Let me be very clear as I open these truths as they are: with any God you may talk to, you are only talking to yourself. You are only talking to your focal point. Your focal point is Param—it is ultimate. It is from your focal point that:

1. God manifests.
2. Your deluded self or enlightened self manifests.
3. A suffocating/torturing world or a happy/successful world manifests.
4. Everything you need manifests from your focal point.

The good news is this: not only your God, your world, and your self, but your past, present, and future all manifest spontaneously and synergistically from your focal point. You are the creator. This is the greatest news. I am telling you the truth: your focal point is the creator of your past, your present, and your future. Whether you manifest a deluded self or an enlightened self, your God, your world, and your identity—you are the creator. Your focal point is Param.

The Lie of the Past and Future

Listen: sit now with your focal point. Understand that there are multiple parts in the memories you carry about your past. The past you carry is recreated; it is creatively reconstructed. It is not actually a fixed, objective truth. In reality, your past is dead. Everyone’s past is dead. The past is dead—be liberated! You bring back your memory of the past and constantly try to have a relationship with a dead body.

Everything you know about your past is a lie; it consists of creatively reconstructed lies and false memories. If you are constantly criticizing yourself internally, you will only remember those who criticized you; you will never remember the thousands who praised you. Your past is a creative reconstruction that is completely fake.

In the same way, regarding your future: everything you are building is just a different packaging of the lies of your past. Just as your past is a creative reconstruction, your future is a creative construction—that is all. (My apologies for that technical glitch.)

The present is an eternal ultimate; the best way to live is to celebrate it. Without understanding the nature of your past and future, if you try to perform some Vipassana or Upasana to “live in the present” or tap into the “power of now,” you will simply increase the internal conflict. Your ego will only get stronger. Understand that your focal point—what you feel right now just as “You”—is Param, the ultimate.

This means you can create it exactly as you want. Ultimately, you can create your present, your future, and your past as you want—that is the truth. Stop all negative self-talk. Desire to manifest your ultimate reality. Decide that you are altering your past, because since the past is dead, you can write what you want. Your past is dead; just write what you want. That is the truth.

Stop trying to get sympathy by saying, “Oh, I had a very difficult childhood; nobody else could have survived. I am special because I went through so much; nobody suffered like I did.” You think that because you went through so much in the past, you have a right to be given the best in the present and future. That is an “entitled stupid” way of thinking. If you had the worst past, you are technically entitled only to the worst present and worst future according to the law of the universe. So, stop all victim stories. Stop victimizing yourself.

Manifest your ultimate: your ultimate future, your ultimate present, and your ultimate past. If you are not yet convinced to manifest an ultimate past, at least don’t manifest the old one—leave it alone. It is dead; let it be dead. Manifest the ultimate present and the ultimate future. Give a conscious framework for your focal point to manifest that. This conscious framework is what I call “Being Ultimate.” Manifesting your ultimate through the intellect is Buddhi.

Addressing the Inner Critic: Second Person in the First Person

So, understand: never try to find a “gist” of my Satsang. Every line is the gist; every line is the gist.

Your inner voice is a chorus of all the voices you ever heard—all the instructions you were given and all the judgments passed on you. The best way to manifest the ultimate inner voice—the term I am using in this Satsang is Sat Basha—is to use these powerful tools and equipment in your conscious self-talk and conscious self-listening.

Stop engaging in this negative self-talk before you even try something new. Stop bringing up the thought: “Oh, I tried all this.” Stop trying to “double” what I am teaching you. You have neither heard, nor understood, nor internalized what I am teaching yet; I am revealing this to the universe for the first time.

Have you ever noticed that your inner critic often sounds exactly like those who criticized you most? Perhaps it sounds like your parents, a teacher, an uncle, or relatives from your childhood. It is literally their voice absorbed into your psyche. It is like a second person or third person has entered into your first-person space. Your “first person” has mastered the role of playing that second or third person inside yourself.

It is not just an individual’s voice we internalize, but entire cultural patterns of thought. You internalize an analytical, categorizing way of dividing the world into subjects and objects. Don’t you see that the second and third person are sitting inside the first person, and the first person is doing the job of the second and third person? I am telling you that in the great drama of your life:

• You are the hero
• You are the villain
• You are the director
• You are the story writer
• You are the producer
• You are the audience
• You are the fan
• And you are the critic

Stop condemning and judging yourself. Start living your ultimate. This cultural bias—the second and third person inserted into the first person—is just “cultural garbage” that got into your system; it is not universal truth. This is why in Sanatana Hindu Dharma, the moment a child starts developing a mind, they are told to go to the Gurukul. Parents could not see the child in those days; at roughly seven years of age, the child would go to the Gurukul until age twenty-one. For those fourteen years, parents could not see their child. King Dasharatha sent all four of his sons to Vasishta’s Gurukul, and even he, as a king, could not see his own kids.

Why was there such a hard rule? Because Vasishta did not want the “shit” of the second and third persons getting into the children’s first-person space and destroying them forever. Vasishta says, “This is the forest; you do not have sovereignty over this land.” The King does not have sovereignty over the forest, which is why a Rishi’s Gurukul is always in the forest—so that political power or decisions do not interfere with the education system. It was an amazing system.

Anyhow, even if you missed the Gurukul when you were young, don’t worry. You can build it now. You can manifest your ultimate now. You have your focal point with you, and that is all you need because you are the ultimate. From you, you can manifest the ultimate present, ultimate future, ultimate God, ultimate self, and even the ultimate past. Start right now. Start right now.

Manifesting Ultimate Reality: I Am Atma Brahma

Decide that you will manifest the ultimate now. Do not worry that you may forget this knowledge tomorrow. That worry is just you trying to create more negative self-talk. Remember that tomorrow will only ever come to you as “now.” When the future arrives, it will come to you as “now” in your eternal focal point, and you will manifest the ultimate then.

Your focal point is: Aham Atma Brahma. I am the Atma; I am Brahman.

Stop identifying with the voice that comes into your head in which you play no active role. Stop identifying with the voice you cannot edit or interfere with. The moment you stop believing that those are your thoughts, something extraordinary happens to you. You start manifesting the ultimate self and the ultimate world. The distance between the subject and the object begins to dissolve, and the Paramatma starts opening up.

So, sit now. Consciously speak and consciously listen. Drop the negative self-talk. Even if negative self-talk arises, stop identifying with it. It is not yours. It is just the voices of those who have criticized you from your birth until now. It is the second and third person inside the first person, doing their job. Stop owning it. Stop identifying with it. Those are not your thoughts. Own this truth: they are not yours. Now, sit.

Enter the ultimate Samadhi—the space of Janma Mukti. Sit and close your eyes. If you have an Atma Linga, take it and keep it on your Anahata chakra. Hold the truth: Aham Atma Brahma.

Your focal point, where you are feeling the “I” right now—that I am the Brahman. Do not try to “catch” where I am or how I am; the more you try to catch it, the more it will slip away. Aham Atma Brahma. Sit, and I will guide you step-by-step into Nirvikalpa Samadhi.

Close your eyes. Aham Atma Brahma. Aham Brahmasmi. I am Atma Brahma. I am not taking you into any metaphysical or altered state of consciousness; I am simply taking you to the simple truth. I am Atma Brahma.

Desire to manifest the ultimate:

• Ultimate body
• Ultimate mind
• Ultimate Buddhi
• Ultimate Chitta
• Ultimate being
• Ultimate God
• Ultimate self
• Ultimate world
• Ultimate future
• Ultimate present

Don’t wait for it to manifest; you have it right now. Start creating, manifesting, and living it. I am not giving you hope; I am giving you the truth. Aham Atma Brahma. Aham Brahmasmi.

You are the ultimate from that start manifesting your life. You are the ultimate—that is the truth. Live it, and you will see that you break the world; do not allow the world to break you. You break the world. I am the ultimate; I am manifesting life, and I will expand as I want.

Aham Atma Brahma. Aham Atma Brahma. Aham Atma Brahma. Just sit with your focal point—the space in which you create the present, past, and future—and enjoy the radiation of Brahman from me.