Universal Enlightenment in Action : Bhagavan Speaks
Question: What is Antaryamin? And how does Anteryamin awaken in us?Kalki Bhagwan: We often us the word God, but God means different things to different people. But actually we can define God as your higher sacred self, higher intelligence, higher consciousness…Sometimes you might have seen hundreds of birds flying like one bird. Have you seen this? So, actually you can know that the whole group has got a single consciousness, but the individual bird will follow the consciousness of the whole pack. Sometimes you will find one or two birds dropping out and again they get back to the main flock. If we say that the individual bird is you, then that full total bird consisting of all birds is the Anteryamin. It can be called God or higher intelligence etc. So when we say you have the Anteryamin or that Anteryamin is awakened , what it means is you are the part, are in touch with the whole. In the flock of birds, if one bird drops out of the group, two or three birds come out and help that bird to go and join back. Only thn the whole thing can function. So as long as the small bird is following the big pack, you can say the small bird is following the will of the group or the pack. So if you have the Anteryamin and can talk with Him, then, ‘You’, the part is following the will of the whole or the Divine will. So it is not enough if you are willing to follow the Divine will, you must know what the Divine will is, what the will is of the higher consciousness, without which you are like a bird fallen of the pack.You are in fact an orphan.
The Anteryamin is the Whole, and to have the Anteryamin means you are in touch with the whole. The whole of human consciousness put together is more than the individuals consciousness. It is not 1 + 1 = 2 but it is 1 +1 = 4. That is what is “Synergetic emergence”. Hydrogen and oxygen fuse to form water, whose properties are totally and fundamentally different from hydrogen and oxygen. This emerging consciousness is called God or Cosmic consciousness. And this cosmic consciousness is what is the Anteryamin.The Anteryamin is you inner guide and your supreme friend who can guide you and protect you. Today many a time you are in conflict. What is right and wrong? what is good and bad? You unable to decide this. Even when you decide, many times you regret your decisions. But when the Anteryamin is awakened, you will exactly know how to respond to every situation of life. At every step you will have someone to guide you, on whom you can trust and who accepts you exactly as you are. And also when you have the Anteryamin, enlightenment is very easy.So until now we have seen what is the Anteryamin and why do you need an Anteryamin. Now I will tell you how the awakening of the Anteryamin actually happens.
Basically in our society, the kind of schooling, education and life style one has, you are not allowed to experience and express your emotions. You are quit suppressed. That is why some have difficlty in getting Anteryamin. So once you have got in touch with your suppressed emotions and if you invite the Anteryamin with your whole heart, it will awaken in you in the way it chooses or in the form you desire. To have the Anteryamin is the natural state of Man, it is your birth right; it is just like breathing or digesting. In the Ancient days everybody was in touch with their Anteryamin. There were tribes in Africa a hundred years ago, who where in direct communion with their Anteryamin. They lived a wonderful life. All that you must do is, from your heart, with emotion, with great feeling and with a bond, a liking, you must invite the Anteryamin and then it will awaken in you. It is not at all difficult. You think it is difficult and have all kinds of wrong perceptions. The Anteryamin is not bothered about what kind of a person you are. The Anteryamin is your friend and so doesn’t judge you or condemn you. All it want is that you invite it with a feeling and a bond.============================================================
Question: One of the fundamental teachings of the Dharma is to set right relationships. Exactly how can we improve or set right our relationships?Answer: It is essential for you to first understand that “Life is relationships”. Now coming to your question how to improve relationships? The problem of relationships cannot be solved through psychology. All effort to understand the other person completely can never help. It is like peeling an onion. As you go on peeling an onion nothing remains. Say, you are eating khova (a south Indian sweet dish), you don’t try to understand, but just experience the eating of khova. In the same way, you need to experience the other person just as he or she is.A husband trying to analyze or understand his wife will take him nowhere. “Analysis leads to paralysis”. Everybody is constantly trying to understand, analyse, judge others while struggling to change the other person. Unfortunately, people fail to realize that this is impossible as all of you are like computers who have been programmed and hence have no free will of your own. Your past lives, birth traumas, childhood, education, culture and all your conditionings are in possession of you and your lives. Your life flows according to this program.
So, when you are trying to understand and change the other person; it is only one programme trying to alter another programme. This game goes on from birth to death. Supposing you are going to a movie everyday, hoping that there will be a new ending, a new climax. Will it really change? All of you are trying to change each other in the same way!What you need to do is experience the other person fully.When the husband returns home to find his wife screaming; he must experience her like watching a movie or drinking a glass of juice. What happened? Why it happened? Why is her nature that way cannot be really known. Remember, it is like peeling an onion.If you experience – life becomes Joy!It does not matter what the event is. You have to only experience the programme. Stop judging and being critical. When you experience the other person, you would know exactly how to respond.Abraham Lincoln was shot. Who is to be blamed? The person who shot, the person who made the gun or the person who invented it or somebody else. No person can really be blamed, for, a situation is dependent on so many factors. It is not possible to pinpoint a single reason. If you look at The Bible, it also tells us “Judge not least ye be judged”.============================================================ 
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=Q. : What should I do to discover causeless love and limitless joy?Kalki Bhagavan : One of the most important teachings of the dharma is that the content is not important. How you experience the Content is important. What ever is happening in your life, you must learn the art of experiencing Others. That is the true ‘art of living’. The true art of living is to experience fully, totally and completely whatever is going on.So mostly what is going on is human interactions, your friends, your relatives, your boss, your children and your family. You are all the time interacting with them because life is relationship. Without relationship you don’t exist. So, in this relationship you are transacting some kind of interaction. You may get hurt, you may get provoked, and you may get back some memories, all these are happening.Whatever is happening if you can experience fully, as I was speaking earlier, then you will find there is limitless joy. Now, what happens when there is so much of joy. It doesn’t stop there. It becomes love. Only a happy and joyous person can truly love. An unhappy person cannot love. That love is nothing but attachment, possession…true love comes only when there is true joy and true joy comes only when you experience what ever is going on inside. It is not very difficult.Practice this in some kind for 21 days, if you keep trying it will become natural. What is not natural, what is not easy, I don’t teach. There is no point in teaching that. Only what you can do I am teaching. The brain must learn a new pattern of functioning.
It takes 21 days for that. After 21 days of practice you will find it easy. It becomes like alcoholic addiction or drug addiction. Why are you addicted? Because it gives you so much of joy or happiness or freedom. Same thing happens here also. Only thing is there are no negative side effects . There are very good effects on the other hand. You discover love, compassion. All these things happen.So basically you must start with pain. You hold that pain like you hold a newborn baby. So carefully you must hold that pain you must know that it is blessing. You must hold it, you must not condemn or judge it and strangely you’ll find it is very painful. It will become pain in the chest region but slowly you’ll find, you’ll discover a freedom, joy and that will become love. That is the way to get this causeless love and limitless joy. ================================================================= 
Kalki Bhagavan on the path to Liberation (Mukti)Q : Apart from the teachings and sadhanas, what is your message in this path of Mukti (liberation)?Kalki Bhagavan : See, basically my teaching is this. Though you have been taught some sadhanas and some teachings, as far as Mukti is concerned no sadhana or any teaching will take you to Mukti. That is why I insist that all sadhanas and teachings must ultimately be dumped into the waste paper basket. They just will not help you when Mukti is concerned. They can prepare you for it. It can be any teaching of Ramana Maharshi, RamaKrishna Parama Hamsa, Buddha’s teaching; any teaching for that matter will not take you to Mukti. Rama Krishna’s disciples did not become enlightened, or Ramana Maharshi’s disciples… Buddha’s disciples did not become enlightened. So teachings can’t give you enlightenment , no technique or sadhana can give you enlightenment . That must be understood very clearly through the yajna (course) you have attended. At best what can happen is; there can be a pursuit of enlightenment , a temptation to achieve Mukti and some clarity. I always maintain that psychology and philosophy, any teaching will fall under these categories.They will at best help to bring about transformation within the mind. That’s all. Like we can rearrange the furniture in this room; but they’ll still remain. So, we can do some kind of a decoration inside. We can bring some kind of happiness, get over some problems, adjust and readjust. Sadhanas can take you deeper and deeper into you consciousness but going deep into your consciousness is not Mukti.
Rearranging your mental structure and framework, having improved relationship, better success in the world… all this is not Mukti. Mukti is to be completely free of the mind itself. That , no teaching, no technique can give you. It is because, it is not a psychological process; it is not a philosophical process; it is not a meditative process. It is a neurobiological phenomenon. Fundamental changes must occur in your physical brain. That is why I tell you, do not follow any teaching. Then you become a 2nd hand human being. If you try to follow a Jesus Christ, you will become a 2nd hand human being. Jesus Christ could love the whole humanity. Can you love like Him ? Jesus Christ says *love thy neighbour as thyself*. You cant do it. He can do it because his brain is wired differently., But if you try to take like Jesus Christ, you had it. Ramakrishna can be jumping in ecstasy and dancing away. Unless your kundalini is awakened you cant do that. If you try to copy Ramakrishna you become a 2nd hand human being. His brain wiring is different. Ramana can ask ‘who am I’. If you do the same you will go mad and end up in the mental asylum! That’s why I, in one sense, is anti-teachings.You become a second hand human being. You develop conflict within yourself. You are something. You want to be something else; a Christ or a Ramana or a Sri Aurobindo. What not! You can read all their books, you can do all that, but you will not move an inch. Maybe you will get some clarity. Maybe you will feel nice. “Ah, I’am doing this sadhana”… you’ll fell more secured. These benefits are there. But they will not take you to Mukti. Very often they induce conflict because you can only be yourself. How can you be something else? However much you can try how could you be something else? You cannot become. That is the illusion from which must become free. 