Journey to Enlightenment Part 02

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Nirmala Hanke
Publisher: Create Space

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place of love, it becomes a "bad child”. Give love from the beginning. If the parents are alcoholics, how can the children be nurtured? Parents need to be responsible—you can decide not to attend a party and give to the child instead.
One man here sends money each month to his parents in India. His American wife says, "Why?” She wants to save money for their future. So the man tells her a story. As a child he had a fever. His father got an invitation to dinner with the governor in Bombay. Even rich people would enjoy this, having dinner with the governor, but the man decided to stay home with his sick son. He thought, my time with my son is more important than to be at a party with all the elite. So when the child grew up, he thought, "My parents gave up for me, so then do I neglect them when they get old? I got so much love from my parents, they made it possible for me to go to school, have a career, come to America. So now I give back to them.”
What can you give?
You enjoy your life. Get in touch with your Self. No one can do anything to you as long as you are awakened to your Self. Upa Yoga-be aware of your Self: clean, pure, indestructible, sentient energy. Energy is indestructible, everlasting. Body is a bulb, you are the energy. You realize, I am not the bulb, I am not the body. Don't identify with the body like a car, "I am a Mercedes". It is your body, but you are not your body, you are SO HUM. When you experience your Self, you will know: I am already what I am seeking outside. It will not be overnight, because we are programmed for so many years. The stiffness becomes so strong, like a broken hand in plaster for two months. We have become stiff with conditions. We get bored, we want to forget. So we take alcohol, drugs, marijuana, LSD (like Ram Dass and Timothy Leary). All kinds of addictions hold you back, take you away. Come to yourself, believe in yourself. The moment you feel pure, you are sure. This is your biggest wealth, biggest peace. Meditation is taking you—not to God, not to heaven, not to a Guru-meditation is taking you to your Self. When you are with your Self, you are at peace.
Namo Arihantanum. Namo means I bow, honor, respect; Ari means weakness; and hantanum means overcome. I bow to all those who have conquered all negativity, all that separates me from my Self. For example, when you are angry, you do not like being called that. MAD-mutual assured destructionanger destroys you and the other. You become strong by overcoming what was separating, hurting, destroying you. When you conquer, you bow to yourself,
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