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Maharaji in Miami Beach, Friday, 18 April - the first day of the three-day event



18 April 2003

This report of the first day's event came to the site from Marcy Pilzer.

In the beginning of our existence, there was a unique freedom. Though we were dependent, we were able to freely receive and accept. Then we got older, even by 2 yrs. of age -- still there's receiving, but there's no fear.
Then, parents say don't do that, or I'll do something to you. The fear stays. Then, its embellished upon. A person grows older, and the chips of fear are added on -- to the point where you are afraid of God.
By the time you're old enough, it's there, and your whole life evolves around how to cope with it, how to manage it -- the fear of failure.
At first, we get up; then we fall down. Is this a bad thing? Our parents say it's OK. But then, fear builds and builds and won't let off. The mapping of our life has begun. The roads where they go to are all based on fear -- when it's not a reality.
The concept of peace itself starts to be based on fear. I'll have a bigger army than you. Then everything is consequence-based. Isn't fear good? What keeps us from falling? Why would you fall? Are you stupid, inherently so reckless that we need the support of fear to walk the line straight?
Are you good or inherently bad?
Who are you?
What do you give yourself?
How do you receive, accept?
If you can't receive, you can't give.
A plant knows how to receive.

I made a scene on my computer: there were mountains, clouds, desert, and dry-cracked earth. In the middle there was a well, and around the well, there were a couple of flowers. Where and how would this flower grow in this situation? Where it can be? Or where it wants to be? Where there's water! Shade! Where it can grow! It's not a question of painting a rosy picture. It's more perfect than you can ever paint it to be! There are more gifts for you to receive than you can imagine!
You can't talk, express, or give with fear. There is a difference between talking and mimicking. Don't mimic your life.
Only when you are free from that fear can you feel life.
How many things are you afraid of. We're so afraid of failure. You're not even close to success. Shouldn't a person know what success is naturally?
If you've evolved this far, there must be a reason. You hit on something a long time ago which said "yes, I will change."
And evolution begins, towards the betterment without fear. But better at what?
If all that happened was that we became perfect at being afraid, evolution would have made a mistake.
What is that force?
How powerful is that force?
What recognition do we have of that force, that force that brought you here?

There are 15,000 ways to say "hello." If what is reflected in my existence are the things I don't want -- what about the things that are dear to me?
The beggar dreams of being rich. The rich man dreams of being poor. Both shoot to what they are not. When his eyes open, the beggar may have dreamt he's a king -- but don't go out and open a bank account! Should the rich man borrow a bowl and beg?
The fears, the goods, the bads, the rights, the wrongs -- rob us from being content.
There are 10,000 reasons to have war; there is hardly one to have peace. No one talks about it. It is an unknown street address.
The heart is fundamental to you. The mind will get bored of the fulfillment; the heart will never get old/tired/bored of that fulfillment. It lasts a lifetime. As I draw my last breath, a reality to embrace without fear. Knowledge is the realm of no fear. The heart is the realm of no fear. Breath is the gift that freely flows into you. There are add-ons; they come with no fear -- the things we have gathered to most represent the true statements of existence.
Everyone will use fear to get you to do the things they want: your wife, your kids, your friends, the government. 99.99% of parents are afraid of their kids.

You may have driven your whole life. But when you go to take your driver's license test, you forget everything. When fear grips you, you are no longer enjoying life, happiness -- you can't relate to peace. The reality of the heart becomes a far and distant thing. You hear someone speak of it, and you go, huh?

One lady recently received Knowledge in India. She gets up and says: "Maharaji, I have no experience."
Do you feel the joy? "Oh yea, a lot."
Do you feel the peace? "Yes, a lot."
Are you happy? "Incredibly."
I giggled. Then everyone giggled.
The fear of failure too over her, petrified her, so she couldn't move.

This fear is like "bad medicine." The next thing you know, it's everywhere. I'm not saying we should drive on the wrong side of the road -- nor to be cautious. You cannot be afraid of this breath, this joy, this dance; you cannot be afraid of life.
We put trust in our expectations. Trust this breath. It does come. It never lets you stray. Trust existence. It's all you have. All the things you think are yours are not -- you have use of them, but all you really have is life.

Don't be caught up in the nightmare of your dreams. What does that dream signify? Projection of where I don't want to be. You are sitting in this hall. Can you imagine brightness of the sun? Yes or no? Can you? When you do, do your eyes squint?
It's always brighter than you can imagine. The fulfillment is greater than you can imagine. There's a good surprise and a bad surprise in your life. Be in the surprise that says, "yes, my existence is sweeter!" Don't' say I get so confused I can't remember the sweetness. If you carry an umbrella, nothing will get wet -- only your head stays dry, but everything else...
The challenge is to be in clarity. Things will happen that you can't figure out.

Sailors train for sailing. Their sails are piqued. But here comes the bad weather, their main mast snaps, the waves come and beat their boat. That's a bad situation. The objective is to one day find yourself dry on a dock somewhere.

I can't remove the fear of other things. When the fear of Knowledge is gone, it's like a cloudless sky on a clear, sunny day right smack on the equator. Then your purpose is crystal clear, there is no more ambiguity. Then you are alive. You have the purpose to go on. You have the purpose to thrive. Like that plant, the seed is sown and it sprouts. It takes all the plant has to just break the surface -- so diligent, persuasive to open its leaves, even if dirt was thrown on it, it would do it again. There's a crack in a rock where a tree grows. It's not a question of where you want to be; it's a question of where you are. Like the tree, it's that perfect place. It's not a palace. It's not a tropical island. In the middle of a desert, in hot rock, in that rock a crack, in that crack a tree grows. Which is your perfect place? You're too busy trying to create the green grass. Are you copying life or living it? The one's who are living it have come from real joy.

Here's Ram. He has a good life. He grows up destined to be the King. An announcement is made that he will be the next king. His father is happy. People adore him. He's smart. He has it all. The public receives him with joy! He has popularity!
99.99% poll ratings.
The next thing -- he's exiled -- for 14 years! He says to everyone, you don't have to go with me. We want to go with you. His wife, his brother. Trauma? Slightly? No! It gets worse. His dad is so sad he dies. From one day to the next, it all falls apart! Everyone wants to go with him into exile. The one chosen to rule says, "I can't rule!"
Your next bad hair day, think about this! Then, the story begins: Ram and Sita sleep on the ground. Is that sad? He's on the ground and almost a King! Laksman says: no man is exempt from good or bad. In the worst situation though, good things are happening: joy, wishes are fulfilled. But things keep getting worse. His wife is kidnapped. There's a joy; there's an acceptance -- not the sadness!
Learn to accept joy! Not sorrow! Sorrow freaks you out!

A car can take gas, oil, water. A half-decent car has a tank for washer fluid, power steering fluid. But you just can't put these fluids anywhere! You have to put them in the right places! Or don't be surprised otherwise if you car doesn't work well.
Learn to accept the joy, not the sorrow. Fear fear itself. Be afraid of being afraid. Get used to the freedom, and the gifts will keep coming. And as they come, you need to know how to receive them.

This instrument needs to be played. This flute will sing out. This is its property. Its nature. There is a particular sound this instrument makes. Don't use the flute as a drumstick. Don't you know the sound of this flute?

You read recipes. You say, that sounds good. We forget that food is not made to sound good. It tastes good. It satisfies the hunger. Brings sustenance, fulfillment, nutrition. That's why hunger is there.

Cast away your fears. Accept the light of existence, the gift of Knowledge. Not a million excuses. Life is not about excuses. Life demands that you accept it; not control it. The fear was "added" on. If it was added, it can be subtracted. It's an add-on accessory; it's not needed.

There are no questions about hell.
The doors don't squeak because they are not used so much; the pathway has a groove on it. We know the address well. Are you as familiar with heaven? Is it a place, or a beautiful heavenly feeling? Heaven's a feeling. Hell's a feeling. You know that. You can be in an incredibly nice place and be miserable.

Knowledge has to be real. Heaven has to be real. Joy has to be a real experience. Hone that skill. Like those marks on the road that have been cast because you walked a lot; and hopefully the other road stays less traveled.
Let your heart be the guide. Heart only says one thing. Be fulfilled. Doesn't give commands or directions. It's priority is to be fulfilled.


Be afraid of being afraid and get used to the freedom...
18 April 2003

This report is an informal account of the event taken from notes as Maharaji spoke

Nearly 7000 people from around the globe came to hear Maharaji in Miami Beach today.

"I know it's been a while for some of you, but not for me. I have been talking all over the place. But today I want to talk about something different, although it will come back to the same place.

He began to talk about fear and the part it plays in all our lives

"I was thinking at the beginning of this existence how we have a unique freedom. As children we are dependant on our parents, but we have the unique freedom to accept. And as we get older, we are still receiving. What is most important is there is no fear."

But Maharaji said that he had observed many time that fear is brought into the lives of children by their parents. This fear not only stays but it is embellished. And as a person grows older "the chips of fear" are added on. People's whole lives revolve around fear. They're even afraid of God. Then it becomes fear of failure.

"At one time we were not afraid of failure. Then we start thinking and the fear builds and builds and buildsЎ­ Before you know it innocently enough, the mapping of life has become ЁC at every intersection on this map ЁC all based on fear. But it is not a reality.

"It gets more interesting when we realise that the concept of peace is based on fear. All of a sudden everything becomes consequence-based. If you do this, this will happen. So, is fear not good?

"Just look at the question. It is filled with fear.

He addressed this issue by asking: "Are we inherently so stupid, so reckless that we need the support of fear to walk the straight line. Are we inherently good or bad? Who are we? How do we receive? How do we accept in our lives?

"If we don't know how to receive, we don't know how to give.

What we don't realise, he explained, is that life is more perfect than we can imagine. It is not a question of painting a rosy picture or trying to make it perfect."

He described how the day before he had been working on his computer with software called "Scene", which allows you to create your own landscapes. He had been creating a desert scene, when he started to think where would a flower grow in this situation.

"It would go where it can grow, not where it want to growЎ­ We have to learn to receive. A person, who receives in fear, cannot. You cannot talk in fear."

He described how it would be if you came out on stage in fear and were just mimicing. "You couldn't do it. But if you are coming from a sincere place you can do itЎ­"

"There is a difference between expression and mimicry. Don't mimic your life."

Then he posed a question to the audience: "How many things are there that you are afraid of?"

"Time's up," he then joked.

"Fear, dreams, the good, the bad, the right and the wrong ЁC they all take on a significance which robs us of our true potential ЁC to be content.

"The beggar dreams of becoming rich, and the rich man dreams of becoming poor. They are both shooting towards what they are not.

"The beggar dreams all night long about being rich. But that doesn't mean he can wake up, open a bank account and start writing cheques. Likewise a rich man can dream of being a beggar, but that doesn't mean he has to get a begging bowl and go out on the streets."

PEACE ЁC AN ADDRESS UNKNOWN

"In the world there are 10,000 reasons why we should go to war, but there is hardly one for us to have peace. Nobody talks about this.

"Peace has an unknown street address. But I am here to tell you that this is not the case. Peace is fundamental to you.

"Mind will inevitably get bored with fulfilment. The heart will not in a million years."

This he said was "a major difference."

He went on to describe " a reality I can embrace without fear ЁC the realm of Knowledge. The realm of Knowledge has no fear. The heart is a realm of no fear.

"And breath comes to you with some attitude ЁC no fear. It comes to you freely. Life comes to you with no fear."

"But there are the add-ons ЁC the things we have gathered around us and do not represent our true state."

He explained that everybody ЁC the government, religion, our friends, husbands or wives and even our kids ЁC use fear to get us to do what they want us to."

He talked of fear in every day life ЁC when you take the practical part of the driving test. Sitting in the car with the instructor, feeling you can't drive even though you have probably been driving since before your instructor was born.

Fear constricts us. "When fear grips us we are no longer sure of this breath, no longer sure of what happiness is, no longer sure how to relate to peace, or the reality of this breath and the joy of this existence."

Once in the clutches of fear, we lose touch with what is real. He recounted how a woman at the follow-up to the recent Delhi event had told him that she was having "no experience" of Knowledge.

"I said to her: 'Nothing'." She replied: 'Yes.'

"I then asked: 'Are you feeling joy?' 'Yes,' came her answer.

'Are you feeling peace?'

'Yes, a lot of peace.'

'Are you feeling happy?'

'Yes, incredibly happy.'

"I giggled and this started the whole place gigglyЎ­

"She then realised she was having an incredible experience of Knowledge. Fear of failure had taken over and grabbed her.

"Fear takes over like bad medicine ЁC and next minute it's everywhere.

"I am not saying 'not to be cautious.' There is a big difference between that and fear.

"You can't afford to have fear in the core part of your existence. You cannot be afraid of the breath, joy, and existence. You cannot be afraid to embrace this longing. You cannot be afraid of love coming into your life, when it comes knocking on your door, saying: 'Let me in'."

TRUST

Maharaji then talked of trust: "Trust the breath for it always does come. Trust the heart, for it will never let you stray. Trust this existence because that is all you have."

"All these things that you think are yours are not. You have only use of themЎ­Don't be caught in dreams.

He went on the say that our imagination is always eclipsed by reality. When you imagine the brightness of the sun, its actual intensity is always greater.

"Two nights ago I decided to cook. I took some canned beans, onions, ginger, garlic and then at the end I added the final spices. I took a sip of the juices and just blurted out: 'That's good.' What I had cooked was better than I imagined,

"I cannot remove fear of everything, but I can remove the fear of this breath. Then the purpose of acceptance becomes crystal clear. Clarity becomes crystal clear. There is no ambiguity.

"The purpose is to be alive, to go on, to thrive like a plant. When the seed is sown, it sprouts, it takes everything the plant has to push through to the surface. It has to be so diligent to open the leaves, to gather the light. That plant will not quit, even if the leaves get broken. It repeats the cycle again and again.

He described seeing a tree growing out of a rock, adding: "It is not a question of where you want to be, but of where you are. For the tree it is the perfect place. How do I know? Because that seed found the perfect place in a desert where there was the moisture in a crack in a rock where it could germinate.

Then he asked: "Which is your perfect place? Are you living this life? Or are you mimicking this life? (Mimic means to copy.) The ones who are really living this life have come for the 'real' joy."

He talked of one of his favourite Indian singers, whose CDs he always got as soon as they were released. His latest album was a sung version of the Ramayana. Maharaji went on to prЁ¦cis the tragic tale of how the golden prince was sent into exile, where more disaster overtook him with the kidnapping of his wife.

He said to think of all Ram's traumas "the next time you are having a bad hair day be glad of the one hair you have on your head."

In the Ramayana, "even in the worst situations, good things are happening, joy is coming into the hearts of people; they are being fulfilled. At each step there is some fulfilment taking place."

"Some say that we should learn to accept sorrow. I say No ЁC learn to accept joy that is how you are made. You cannot accept sorrow, it freaks you out."

Using the analogy of the car with the different fluids it requires to operate ЁC water, gas, steering fluid, he said it will only work with the right fluids in the right places. He emphasised that we have to learn to accept joy and not sorrow.

"Be afraid of being afraid and get used to the freedom, the breath, the joy and the moment. The gifts keep coming and you need to know how to receive. There are people who are more interested in giving, but I am more interested in receiving. I need to receive life each day. I need to learn to accept all this is being given to me.

"This instrument needs to be played. The breath needs to flow through the flute. This is its property. This is its nature. You can take a flute and bang it on a drum, and it will make a noise. But there is a particular sound that this instrument is supposed to make.

He talked, as he had earlier in the month in LA, about the difference between reading recipes in the library and cooking in the kitchen. It is not a question of a recipe "sounding good" because "you can't roll up a tortilla really tightly and ram it into your earЎ­"

"No food doesn't have to sound good, it should taste good, satisfying you, bringing you sustenance and nutritionЎ­"

"Receive in your life every day, the gift of this KnowledgeЎ­ Life demands that you accept it ЁC not control it but accept it.

"Remember that fear was added and as it was added it can be subtracted, it is not what you need.

He continued to remind the audience that they had to know what is real in their lives. "If there is a heaven, you have to feel it. You have no questions about hell, you know the address. You can walk there blindfolded. But knowing the address of hell is not important, knowing the way to heaven isЎ­"

"Heaven is a feeling and hell is a feeling. You can be in an incredibly beautiful place and be miserable. To me Knowledge has to be the real experience, heaven has to be a real experience. Don't settle for anything less."

"Travel the road to that place of joy and hopefully the road to the other place stays less travelled. Let your heart be the guide. It wants you to be fulfilled."

He wound up by saying that a lot was going on and how exciting it was to reach people.

One comment after the LA event was: "I want to taste the appetisers that he is talking about!"

"Hearts are responding," he said.


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