| From time immemorial it has been known that some | | | | is borrowed. I'm giving you a sample. It's something like |
| people, Yogis, Gurus, Shamen, Priests, Saints, | | | | if I am chewing some nice candy and you come along |
| Paramahamsas, Buddhas, Christs, have evolved to a | | | | and say, "Hey, what is that? "Candy. "Ah, can I try |
| state of high energy. | | | | some? "Okay, a little piece. "Ah, it's so nice. Where can |
| These pure and good people, wanting benefit and | | | | I get some more? "Go, work, earn money, go to the |
| happiness for all, without a trace of selfishness and | | | | shop and buy it. I just give you a taste; then you have |
| competition have been known to have psychic | | | | to work for it. |
| powers. | | | | Sri Ramakrishna had several thousand disciples but he |
| Their search for energy and goodness has | | | | didn't give all of them even that little taste Vivekananda |
| precipitated within them the next stage of human | | | | got. So the student should have the proper |
| evolution. | | | | qualifications for such an experience. |
| For thousands of years they have been Good | | | | Otherwise, if it is just that easy Ramakrishna could |
| Doctors, Good Priests, founders of religion, Philosophic | | | | have just touched everybody and said, "Come on, |
| Geniuses, Advisors of Kings, Musical Geniuses, Poets, | | | | everybody is a Ramakrishna now. Finished. He was |
| Makers of the Law. | | | | not really stingy. He could have done that to a |
| For thousands of years these people, wielding amazing | | | | thousand people. Why should he do it to only one, |
| Siddhis or Psychic powers, have been recorded as | | | | Vivekananda? |
| healing of the sick, casting out mental sickness, coming | | | | That is the proof that there are certain qualifications |
| in dreams, communicating through telepathy, the | | | | necessary in the disciple even to perceive something |
| radiation of specialised energies, leaving the body, | | | | like that. |
| entering into the body of another, astral travel, telling | | | | The Scriptures say that there are three aids to realize |
| the future, acting at a distance, raising Kundalini, | | | | the Truth: the Scriptures themselves, the Guru, and |
| Shaktipat, the ability to pass healing into amulets, | | | | your spiritual practice. The Scriptures tell you that sugar |
| temples, places of peace, pilgrimage sites, creating | | | | is sweet. The Guru will show you that sugar. Your |
| miracles, birds and beasts come to them in peace. | | | | practice will give you the taste. The Guru will not put |
| Of this disciple Ramakrishna eagerly asked when he | | | | the sugar in his mouth and say, "It is very sweet. You |
| first saw him, "Tell me, do you see a light above your | | | | have to taste it yourself. Even if you open your mouth |
| head when you are going to sleep?" "Doesn't | | | | and he puts the sugar in, if your tongue is totally |
| everyone?" asked the boy, in wonder. He had indeed | | | | coated, you can't taste it. It will be bitter to you. So you |
| a consciousness of light so great, high up the | | | | have to clean your tastebuds. That is the reason we |
| antahkarana, that he took it for granted that someone | | | | say the disciple must be fit to know the taste. |
| had placed a bright lamp above his head. This man | | | | How many people were able to perceive Jesus Christ |
| was the well-known student of Ramakrishna, Swami | | | | when he ascended? Only the very few who really |
| Vivekananda. | | | | had that faith and devotion. So a good student needs |
| Vivekananda asked Ramakrishna, "What proofs are | | | | a lot of sincerity, purity of heart and devotion - even to |
| there of God's existence?" | | | | get a little glimpse. And even then, that just becomes a |
| And Ramakrishna said, "I am." | | | | kind of small incentive to work with. |
| A strange answer. Vivekananda had not expected | | | | The shaktipat, the radiation of psychic energies by the |
| that answer. You also would not have expected it, | | | | enlightened can awaken these abilities in all who come |
| because when somebody is asking for a proof of | | | | to them. This has been known and recorded in the |
| God, then there are traditional, philosophical proofs. One | | | | Sacred literature for thousands of years. |
| expects those proofs. Vivekananda must have been | | | | Indeed, some sacred literature states that only by |
| thinking Ramakrishna would say, "Everything needs a | | | | access to the energies of the Masters, can |
| creator. The world is, therefore there must be a | | | | enlightenment be passed on. |
| creator. We may be able to see him or not, but the | | | | The search for this next step in evolution comes from |
| creator must be there because the world is." | | | | the enhancement, the increase, of energy. |
| But no, Ramakrishna didn't say anything like that. He | | | | As fire is spread from candle to candle. As the sacred |
| was not a philosopher: he was a Sufi. He said, "I am! | | | | word resonates in both he who gives and he who |
| Look at me. feel me! Go into me! I can take you into | | | | receives. As Grace dropeth as the gentle dew from |
| that reality that you are calling God. What name you | | | | Heaven, twice blessed.. So a preparation of he who |
| give to it is irrelevant. I have been to those heights -- I | | | | receives, the student, the candle, by the removal of |
| can lead the way for you too. Are you ready to come | | | | Negative Energy, Energy Blockages, a lack of Energy |
| with me?" | | | | Blockages allows more Spiritual Energy to be |
| Vivekananda was not prepared. He had come to | | | | absorbed and used to crystalise, complete, finalise, |
| argue. But this is not an argument. This is going to be | | | | create the Spiritual Body of another Master, another |
| risky, to follow this madman. One can never be certain | | | | transmitter of the Truth! |
| where he will lead you. | | | | They say that Masters represents infinite power |
| Vivekananda hesitated. And Ramakrishna said, | | | | through a complete loss of the selfish ego - When the |
| "Before you ask a question, you should be ready to | | | | robe was touched no credit was claimed by the |
| receive the answer! Are you a coward or something? | | | | wearer, It was your faith which healed you! said the |
| Why did you ask in the first place?" And Ramakrishna | | | | Master - and so the truism, It takes two to Tango, - |
| jumped -- he was that kind of madman, -- and he hit | | | | the student must be purified and prepared by evolution |
| Vivekananda with his feet on his chest, and | | | | and spiritual practice to accept the Force, the Energy |
| Vivekananda fell into Samadhi. | | | | transmitted by the Master. |
| When after one hour he woke up, he was a | | | | All energy blockages stopping the flow of energy |
| transformed man. He bowed down, touched the feet | | | | through the system and preventing the buildup of |
| of Ramakrishna, and said, "Excuse me, I am sorry. It | | | | psychic power in the system must be removed. |
| was so childish of me to ask such a question. It is not | | | | Thus we learn and practice Yoga, Pranayama, |
| a question -- it is an adventure. And thank you! You | | | | Meditation, Samadhi, Samyama, the Kundalini Kriyas, |
| have given me a taste of something of which I was | | | | Chinese Alchemical Taoism and the Micro and |
| not aware at all." | | | | Macrocosmic Orbits, VITRIOL and The Emerald Tablet |
| Yes, he did transmit something. But if you read further | | | | of Hermes Trismegistus, The Grounding of Negative |
| into the same story, Vivekananda could not retain the | | | | Energies, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Raja Yoga |
| experience. Ramakrishna just gave him a little nibble. | | | | and the Eighteen Classical Yogas of the Bhagavad |
| Then he said, "Don't depend on my touch every time. | | | | Gita. |
| Now you know there is something beyond; work it out | | | | Thus the torch is passed on from Master to Student. |
| yourself." Then it took many years for Vivekananda to | | | | Another candle is lighted up! |
| get that experience again. | | | | And Masters have existed in every time period. |
| Ramakrishna gave even that little experience to him | | | | They exist Now!! |
| because Vivekananda was fit for it. Still, he said, "This | | | | |