You can still see the holes. Babaji said to take it off; there is no need to distinguish. Sometimes I put it on, sometimes I take it off. There is no rigidity. Then of course, I had the great opportunity on the other side, of meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama personally.
He came to Delhi for the teachings, and I had not started my walk, so I decided to try to meet him. You know one thing -- the greater you become, the humbler you become.
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So, in the hotel, in the banquet hall they were having the empowerment with Dalai Lama, and I met him before that. He was standing with his assistant, another monk, at the door of the room when I came. I told him, this is not required. Why are you walking? Sit down, sit down. I have a picture of that. And then he put it down. When we touched the verge of philosophy, I said, "Your Holiness, I think now you let me walk. And then it was time to go because there were so many people, including diplomats, waiting outside and then he said, "Wait!
He has strong hands, you know? So, I sat down. Who the hell are you? He said, "Ahh, right, so, what does it say about the supreme truth? It means, "That which even the mind cannot reach, because of which the mind owes its existence, to know that alone is the Truth. Nothing that you worship. So he said, "Ahh, that's what I want. So the mind cannot reach there? If the mind cannot reach, so what happens?
I have nothing to do with it. The ordinary mind cannot reach there. The Buddhist concept is Shunya emptiness , and I was saying that Shunya is not different from Purna completeness. Shunya is called Shunya because there is no word to describe it.
No way you could understand it with the limited mind. Yes, I am now very careful of the word I use to describe the mind. This is one example of the humility of a great person, of a great being, someone who is not only spiritual but temporal head of a state, and so on, and a Tulku, a reborn Rinpoche.
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This is on this side. But here, Buddhism has various orders and hierarchies and rituals. Look at Krishnamurti on the other hand. Nothing is there, right? I spent the last few years of his life with Krishnamurti -- I was close to him. So, one day, I went to one of his talks, in the headquarters in Chennai. At one point, he said, "Throw all your holy books into the sea," he said: I've not read any of these books! You must understand I was 23 yrs old, maybe 24, and here was a man who was nearly In the evening, I was supposed to take an Ayurvedic oil to him, as he has bad knees.
So I went up, I said, "Sir, 5 minutes? If you have not read them, you wouldn't know what is in them, right? You know what he said? But there are others who might, and when you speak people take everything as gospel truth, so you have to be careful what you say. I can say something and get away it, but you can't. You have to think. Now the reaction could have been, "Shut up, what do you know?
Do you know his reaction, though? He said, "You are right, sir. I think I should think before I speak! There is a species of people called "Krishnamurtites.
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Now, we have come to another established order, like the Ramakrishna Mission. I met two of their stalwart swamis of the Ramkrishna Mission. One was Swami Ranganathananda who has spoken a lot, written a lot on the Upanishads. When I first went to join, because Babaji told me to go and spend some time in the Ramakrishna Mission. He was not the president then. I remember him as a tall thin austere looking man with a Brother typewriter in his hand, because wherever he went he used to write.
He called me to his room one day and he said, "I need to talk to you. He said, "You know, don't be under any illusion, that you have come to an ashram, so everybody is a saint. This is a small community, so when there is a small community, there will be politics, there will be groups, there is everything here. Please don't think you are in heaven. But, if you want, all facilities for you are also there.
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It's for you to choose, you want to develop, or you want to join the groups. If you have any doubts, talk to the old monks who are in the order. Don't get caught up in this thing. Ok, then about not distinguishing between outward expressions of religion The vice president of the Ramakrishna order, Swami Tapasyananda. I had known him from high school when I was in school in Trivandrum, he was heading the ashram there. Wonderful man, I had studied a lot from him. Many years later, , he was living in Chennai in the ashram.
He was already the vice president. Now, you know, in the Ramakrishna Mission, apart from the general teachings and all that, there is an initiation. You have to be initiated, and the rule is, or was, that only the president of the Ramakrishna Mission, who sits in Belur Math, can initiate since he is supposed to be linked to Swami Vivekananda himself and to Thakur, which is Ramakrishna Paramahansa. They are the only people authorized to give initiation.
It is basically a simple mantra, but much more important is the link that is established. In Buddhist terms you can say empowerment. You can go and read any book and stand on your head and practice anything you like, but without an empowerment it's not possible, so it's like this, similar. So, they have an initiation I had not taken. I had spent years in different parts of the Ramakrishna Mission but I had not taken initiation. For some reason, it didn't work. I went once, and something happened, I had to be posted out, and so on.
I knew some very senior monks, I knew the president who was a very great man, but in that time I couldn't get initiation. So anyway, in , I went to the Belur Math Ramakrishna Mission and found that Swami Tapasyananda had become the vice president, and I went to see him. He asked, "You've not been initiated right?
The rule has just been changed, I can initiate.
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So I said, "Now what to do? And then he said something very interesting, since he knew me from childhood and knew all my background. He suddenly asked me, "Do you pray five times a day? Why do you ask Swamiji? This is a mind, an expanded mind. So I have met so many people like this. I met the people that belong to complete dualism, like the Madwas -- it doesn't matter, these are all different strands.
The most important thing I understand as much as I know is that you should be sincerely seeking after something and accept nothing but the best.
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To seek, first you need to follow rules and regulations and develop a compassionate mind. I don't think the mind can be purified by sitting for an hour quietly, or ten hours, or half a minute. Well, you can become aware of your mind, of course, mindfulness. But you have to practically act in a kind way, not just theorize about that. In fact, among the Jains, Ahimsa is a physical act, not a philosophy.
They say the greatest dharma is nonviolence. Mahavira said, "Every living being loves his or her life, and you have no right to take it. This kindness, Ahimsa, now that is Jain. In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, there is not even a God mentioned, there is no Iswhara, nothing is mentioned. First stanza The stopping of, the clearing of the distractions of the mindstuff is yoga.
So what is the first rule to be followed? I hope you all know that Yoga is called Asthanga Yoga in it's orthodox sense of the term which Patanjali wrote. This reminds me, once in Wisconsin I went to address an Asthanga Yoga circle. I thought to open we should ask a question, so I said, "I am sure you know who is the founder of Ashthanga Yoga?
Well, he was a great teacher, no question about that. So, even in Sankhya, in Yoga, in all modes of philosophy, you may say that you cannot dissolve and there is only the supreme being, nondual. Everybody agrees that you have to evolve. Everybody agrees that you have to become less selfish. Everybody agrees that you shouldn't harm others. After that, when your mind is purified, you can decide. Once, one person came to Babaji, my Guru Babaji, Maheshwarnath Babaji, and he was an Vaishnavite, you know how the orthodox Vaishnavaite like ISKCON for instance, has markings vertical lines on forehead , came and said, Babaji, I know you are a great being, but according to you who is the supreme God — Vishnu or Shiva?
I want to have the Dharsan of the lord. So finally when you develop and when you see the head, then you can see if the mark is this way or this way vertical or horizontal Why are you discussing this now? To develop, to move forward. Your life has this quality of an untiring mind, that you continue to serve, even to think of doing a country-wide walk at the age of In your autobiography you had this moment where you heard an inner voice say, "follow the Bodhisattva path.
Can you share more of your understanding of the Bodhisattva path? You know, when you say Bodhisattva, there are two distinctions in Mahayana. The Sutrayana, also known as Theravada Buddhists, don't have a concept of a Bodhisattva. One attains perfection and becomes and Arahat. Arahant means perfected being. One who has touched nirvana has become an Arahant. Even the Jains pray to such a one. The Bodhisattva concept is that one has crossed over, almost.
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