Sri Bhagavan Q&A session: Sheffield, UK 4th February 2012
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UK Q&A Sri Bhagavan Feb 4, 2012
Dear Sri Bhagavan, welcome to Sheffield, to the central England, we are so, so, so happy to have You here. We are very, very happy; thank you for everything. Lots of gratitude for everything You are doing and you've done for us, Bhagavan, and please bless us strongly for awakening and Godrealization, all of us.
Bhagvan: Yes. Yes.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Bhagvan: Yes. I`ll do that. I`ll do that. Very happy to see you all. Shall we start?
Tejasa will ask the questions and I'll answer them.
Q1: My beloved Bhagavan, what would be the best way to support Oneness in the UK over the coming year: should we be trying to make more Deeksha givers or would our time be better spent helping to deepen the state of the current Deeksha community? Thank You, dear Bhagavan, for your patience, and please guide us as to the best way to serve You better, Bhagavan. I love You, Bhagavan. Thank You Bhagavan.
Bhagavan: The best way to help Oneness would be after we have released the powerful Deeksha on February the 25th [actually will be February 29,2012]. You should take it to as many people: atheists, communists, non-believers - it will be easy for any of them. So this is a very unique and powerful Deeksha. And you should give it to almost anybody you could give it. That is the one which would really bring about the change we're talking about in 2012. So we will be giving you this power and you could literally use it on anybody.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q2: Bhagavan, please could you tell us how to make the best use of the new Deeksha you are giving us now for the awakening of UK. Thank You, Bhagavan.
Bhagavan: Yes this new Deeksha it is powerful enough to put a newcomer into an awakened state almost immediately, and after he has taken it a few times he could become awakened. That is its power. Though it also would help you in many other ways, as byproducts, the main thing is to help you become awakened. And it has already started in the U.S., started in Russia, started in South Africa. It is going on very, very well.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q3. Bhagavan, I can appreciate how resolving one's stuff can radiate out and affect those immediate family members and friends. But how can the awakening and heightened conscious of only 70,000 people spread out and affect the whole world, Bhagavan?
Bhagavan: Actually, though we appear like individuals we're all connected at the collective level. As we go deeper inside our consciousness we would find that we could link up with somebody else. A total stranger you could link up with him. If you go deep inside your consciousness, we're all connected. And through certain experiments we know that we can affect 100,000 people. Each individual could affect 100,000 people. Therefore, if you have 70,000 people, we could affect seven billion people. That is what we're talking about.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q4: I feel blessed for having met You and Amma and for all the help I've received from both of You, Bhagavan, but sometimes I despair and wonder will the suffering every end. Will there be a point in our lives where suffering will actually stop, and can we be awakened without so much suffering, Bhagavan? Can we be in joy to reach awakening, Bhagavan?
Bhagavan: Suffering could definitely end. We have thousands of men in surrounding villages who no more have suffering. It's a fact of life. And suffering is not necessary to become awakened; people could joyously also become awakened. It depends on the life situation.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q5: How can we help each other see our unconscious behaviors and patterns that are keeping us stuck? Thank You, Bhagavan.
Bhagavan: One is to practice inner integrity; the other is to share with the other what you see. If you could share what's happening inside you with another, the process gets triggered in the other and it becomes very, very easy for the other person also to have a good look at oneself.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q6: Many of us in the West are steeped in the mythology of individualization where uniqueness and definition from the collective mind is celebrated. How do you see Oneness challenging or supporting these Western traditions of individual unfoldment and expression?
Bhagavan: We would neither be supporting nor confronting these views. What happens is, once you become awakened, in one sense you seem to be an individual; in another sense you are an individual because you are very, very unique. That's why I've often said there are seven billion people on the planet there will seven billion varieties of awakening. Each one becomes unique. The awakened person is like a final product, and the nature of God does not duplicate. Each one is unique. If there are hundred people who become awakened, they would not all be of the same variety. They will be totally different from each other. So there is a certain kind of uniqueness. I don't know if you'd call that individuality, but certainly uniqueness is there once you become awakened. Right now we can say you're not so much unique. But once you are awakened, you are really very unique.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q7: Dear Sri Bhagavan, I would like to get awakened and God-realized as soon as possible. Can you please tell me if this is possible for me, and give me clear instructions how to get there if yes.
Bhagavan: It is definitely possible once the new Deekshas are introduced.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q8: Sometimes I feel very empty inside and cannot see my life purpose. Is there anything that I could do to fulfill this emptiness, Bhagavan?
Bhagavan: Well, escaping from the emptiness is what all people do, but what Oneness is suggesting is do not escape from that emptiness but soak in it, stay with it, embrace it. Do all these things and you see what happens.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q9: I have a Sri Murti and Padukas from India. I usually take Deeksha from them every day. From Sri Murti I can feel little energy sometimes coming, but from Padukas I cannot feel anything. In this case, is it still working, Bhagavan, or is it better just to take a Deeksha from the Sri Murti, Bhagavan?
Bhagavan: In this case, for some time, it would be best to take Deeksha only from the Sri Murti.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q10: My involvement with Oneness and the rituals, prostration and processes, have triggered a lot of conflict within my family, my close friends and my community. Please talk about how we can best resolve these conflicts in a loving and compassionate way. Thank You, AmmaBhagavan, for this Divine gift of Deeksha that you are bestowing upon humanity and your gentle nudging towards awakening and God-realization.
Bhagavan: Whatever you do you must not create conflict within your family. You must do only things which are acceptable to your culture and to your people. The Grace you would get in any case.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q11: Sri Bhagavan, thank You for blessing the UK this time. Many of us here are new to Oneness and Deeksha. Can you help us have a deeper understanding of how to raise our consciousness; that is, is there a daily practice that all of us can do to help us to have even more awareness, Bhagavan?
Bhagavan: See, Oneness is all about a neurobiological shift in your brain. This cannot be brought about through you. The Deeksha that we use sets in motion a process by which it automatically happens. So all that you need do is you should not resist the Deeksha; that is your contribution. If you do not resist, the Deeksha begins a certain process which actually transforms your brain. Unless there is a change in the physical brain you would not be able to you would not be awakened.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q12: Bhagavan, You often say that we should visualize things very clearly in three dimension and colors. But since some time, it does not really happen like it was earlier. There are sometimes pictures inside but they appear of its own; otherwise there is nothing. There is either bliss and happiness or deep silence when in Your presence. Otherwise, it's most often some depth and space. Even my antaryamin seems to be this depth and space. Rarely a picture comes as it was a few years ago. In life it looks like it would be needed to create more money, but when I recently did the Wealth Course for people in Poland, I just sat there, with You and Amma, totally happy, and there was no wish for anything. I'm telling You only as You told me during the meditation on Thursday that it is important to tell you this, Bhagavan; any comment on this, Bhagavan?
Bhagavan: It is not a problem if you do not have any pictures. But what is important is you must have the emotion. If the emotion is not there it does not work.
Thank you, Bhagavan.
Q13. Last question, Bhagavan. Bhagavan, we have even a few children and teenagers here. What message do You have for children and teenagers: what Oneness is really about and how it would help them in their lives now in 2012?
Bhagavan: The teenagers must be helped to love themselves. Once they start loving themselves, everything would fall into place.
Thank You, Bhagavan.
Bhagavan, please make us even better tools for the Divine Power, Grace and Love. Thank You so much, Bhagavan.
Bhagavan: I certainly will. Love you all.
