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Swamiji Answers Your Questions 10 CONTENTS 1. Satsang with Swamiji - How to Develop Yourself on the Spiritual Path 6. My Turn – A Break in the Ashram by Dhriti, France 8. Swamiji Answers Your Questions 10. News from the Premananda Youth 12. Experiences with Swamiji – by a sannyas disicple 16. The One Without Name or Form – Don’t be a Beggar “In your life the problems you face are the first tests that help you get closer to God. Don’t think that problems are agonizing and move away from God. The only way in which you can get closer to God is to face difficulties.” Swami Premananda 1 Prema Ananda Vahini JULY 2016 Satsang with Swamiji How to Develop Yourself on the Spiritual Path This is part of a satsang that Swamiji gave in the Ashram in February 1993 We have come to this world with various thoughts. We have started a journey but where do we intend to go? You can go anywhere you like. There is no specified route that you should take on this journey to say that this is the path you should tread. Lord Jesus Christ gave people a route to take, why don’t you take that route? After the Old Testament was written they then wrote the New Testament but now they have closed the Bible and have even stopped going to Church. The prophet Mohammed came into this world and stated beautiful thoughts which are in the Quran. Lord Buddha came into this world and taught the path of meditation, yoga and so on and thereafter so many saints and sages came into this world. They all taught good ideas. We have so many books about spirituality and we have read all of them - we don’t leave any out, we read everything. After reading them all we become confused and nothing gets into our heads. The reason is because you are not following the teachings properly but we can’t blame anyone. Today I asked an Ashram resident how the food was and she said she is fed up with iddly. She wants something new such as puri, chapathi or ice-cream and a nice cup of tea. So even when it comes to food it is not possible for us to eat the same thing over and over again because we will get fed up with it. Spirituality is just the same; when I repeat myself, it is like eating idly again and again. In the early days idly was made on a wood fire but now we have become very modern. We have a steamer, electricity and so on. The idly is the same but the equipment used to make the idly is different. I am only going to polish and modernize whatever teachings were there in the ancient stories and then give it to you in a new form - that is all I am going to do. I am not going to teach you anything new. I was 2 Prema Ananda Vahini JULY 2016 born to bring you a message but it is the same old message that has been given to me in order to put across to you in a way that would be understood by all of you. That is why I have built this Ashram in an ancient way, to show you that I am not going to teach you something new. The ancient thoughts, ideas and path are presented to you but in a modern way. What is spirituality? Each of us will have a different idea of what spirituality is. None of them are wrong. All of them are correct. I will not find fault with any of them. The only thing that I expect or want of you is that whatever you do, you try to do it in the correct way, in a perfect way. You can have faith in any number of gurus. You can trust all the saints and sages. There is nothing wrong in that. Even if you think of your own guru, I will still be by your side to help you on your path. I am not expecting you to think of me as your guru, or as an avatar. I prefer to cook and feed you, I like that very much. This Ashram resident asked me why I go and cook in the kitchen. She said, “You are supposed to be a divine incarnation so why do you go to the kitchen to cook?” She said that she is prepared to cook. She wanted to leave the printing work and go to the kitchen and start cooking. I told her that if I allowed her to go to the kitchen to cook then there would still be burial grounds here. She immediately asked me what I meant so I told her that many of the people here have killed a number of animals and eaten them and made their stomachs into burial grounds. They have already eaten chicken and beef biriyani. Even if it is digested the stomach is still a burial ground. After we die we are buried in a cemetery and the dead fish and dead chicken is buried inside our stomachs. So as a first step I thought to change the burial ground into a spiritual ground. That is why I went to the kitchen. When I go and put my hand in the idly mixture I think that a little divinity will enter it and change the burial ground inside your stomachs. The burial ground inside you will change into a spiritual garden. I asked her if she could also do that but she said she would go back to the printing press and went away. There is always a reason behind whatever I do but I can’t give you an explanation for everything I do. Even if you don’t like your idly and dosa, don’t forget there is divinity in it. Spirituality starts from the moment you take your bath, to your eating habits and the manner in which you behave. Don’t think that if you sit down somewhere and practise a little meditation that you will go straight to enlightenment. There are some people who curse others as they cook and they complain about how many people they have to cook for. But when people come to eat their food they put a smile on their face and then serve it. Don’t think that this type of food is good to eat. This is what you get in restaurants - the cook grumbles and scolds others whilst cooking and then the manager smiles, serves the food and gets the money. It’s much better to eat fruits because fruits will never curse you. You can eat anything you want but what I want to tell you is that the vibration of whatever a person thinks about while they are cooking will enter the food that is served to you. Next we should consider the place where we live. What would happen to you if you went to live in a place where there is a competitive mentality, jealousy and hatred? You will never be able to spiritually advance if you go and stay in such an environment. There should be a sense of freedom wherever you go. That is why I won’t question you about why you have come here, where you have come from and for what purpose you have come because I allow you to be 3 Prema Ananda Vahini JULY 2016 yourself and to live freely here. You are given the freedom to do whatever you like here. I trust you that you will do good things when you are here. When you visit another country you should know the culture of that country. I would like to say that India is a divine country. You may wonder if other countries such as U.K., Germany, Singapore and the Philippines are also divine. The entire world is divine but many divine people are born in India. Why is it? That’s a big question! There is a belief that because so many saints were born here there is a divine vibration in the soil. Lord Jesus Christ was born in another country. It says in the Puranas that he lived in India for twelve years. I thought I would live in Sri Lanka but now I am here in India and have been here for ten years. It seems to be that whoever is born with a spiritual background outside of India must come to India, it’s like a rule. There were riots in Sri Lanka and I had to pack my bags and come here in 1983. I am hoping to go back to Sri Lanka in two years time. After all, Lord Jesus Christ lived in India for twelve years so on that basis I should get back to my country in two years time. I am just thinking. My mind says I should go and stay in Sri Lanka. It’s a good country. Here there are restrictions regarding visas. So I’m saying that this country has divinity in the soil. You could be living anywhere or be following any path but there is divinity in this country. Now you have come to this divine country and sat on the divine ground so therefore divinity should arise in you. How is that going to be done? Are we going to spend our time cursing the type of food that is being given to us or cursing the mosquitoes that are biting us or reacting to everything that’s happening around us? Is this how we are going to spend our time? Or are we going to complain about the toilets? When you come to this country there are a lot of problems that you have to face but why have you come here? In your country there are good toilet facilities, there are no mosquitoes, and there are air conditioned rooms so why don’t you stay there? Isn’t it because you need a little spirituality that you came all the way here? When you come here you find that the toilets and mosquitoes are disturbing you.
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