Maitreya:
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the Mission of Maitreya’s
Satsang.
As usual, we will to be here for the next two hours, and we will be
available for anyone to ask any questions you have or anything that
you want to discuss about God and spirituality.
We gave a calling to
humanity to come and join us for the dawn of the new Golden Age.
Whatever God has given us for our purification and to create the
environment that we can progress physically, mentally, and
spiritually to the highest, we will follow. We are calling the
most dedicated to come and join us.
If there is any question,
please go ahead.
Ishvara:
Maitreya, could you explain your answer about Revelation.
This is a great question for me. If we are going one day, not
tomorrow but one day, to be sons of God too, it would be very
interesting to speak about that again. I mean, the direct
relation with God, the contact we can have with Him in our level, of
course.
Maitreya:
Sure. Yes. Well, you already have the contact with God.
There is no separation at all. You are already one with Him
because as we have said many times, who are we? We are Self,
and Self and God are one. It is the same thing. There is
no difference. That is why they say, “Know thyself to know
God.”
There is no difference.
There is no separation. There is nothing between Him and us.
It is our delusion of separation from Him that makes us think that
we are separate from God. And that is the greatest delusion
that the human has.
That is why we meditate,
to awaken our spiritual forces. We do The Reminder,
and we try to do all those exercises and purifications, and
eventually we realize, “Oh, I am already there.”
It is just like, there is
the story about a man who was looking for a treasure that he knew
his father had. He went out to everywhere in the world and dug
all the places to find the treasure. Eventually he became very
tired and went home. One day he went into the basement and saw
that the treasure was there. So he did not have to go
anywhere, all over the world, looking for it. He already had
the treasure right where he was living all along, but he was looking
for it in the wrong places.
If we realize that God is
already within us and is one with us, and there is no separation between
us, then we do not have to go and look. That is what most
of the people do, don’t they? They spend their time and energy
to go traveling, go for sports, go to this country, go to that
country, go drink, go to the parties, and go here and there.
They are looking for what? They are looking for that happiness
that they know they are longing to reach. But are they going
to find it? Has anyone heard that anyone has become
enlightened by doing all those things in their lives?
We can find that we
resist the very thing that makes us to reach that happiness and
oneness, and that is looking within ourselves, meditating, and
realizing that we do not have to go anywhere. We already have
the treasure right within ourselves.
So we can see that with
realizing that, we are ahead of 99.99% of humanity for what the goal
of the life is: It is to be(come) Divine. What does that
mean? It means to know God, to realize that we already have
God within ourselves, and there is no separation. If you
meditate, one day you will realize, “Hey, I am not really my body.”
That is what the yogis
meditated on for thousands of years, and their mantra was, “I am not
my body. I am not my body. Please do not tell me I am my
body. I am not my body.” And one day they saw, “Really, I am
not my body.”
Who sees? Who
feels? Who understands? Is that your body that sees,
feels, and understands? What happens to a dead man? The
body is still there. Can he see, feel, and understand?
No. He does not anymore. What happened? He was
seeing ten minutes ago before he fell down and died.
What sees? What
feels? If you can see that, you can see. If you meditate
on that, just look at where you are looking. Who is looking?
Who is watching? Who is seeing? Who is seeing that
camera there? My body is not seeing that camera there.
God is seeing that camera. God is talking.
If I were dead, could I
talk? No. Who is talking? God is talking through
me. But how much can I talk in a higher level or lower level
depends upon where my consciousness is.
If my consciousness is
crude, all the talk is about taxes, and “How can I make better money
and put my investments in better places?”
If I am in even a lower
nature, the conversation is about, “Where can I obtain a job?
This market is a better place for getting a job. And if you go
to the United States, you can get a better job. If you go to
a third-world country, it is harder to find a job.” That is
the first level, physiological and safety needs.
The second level is,
“Where can we find a party? Where can I go and find the
opposite sex and satisfy my second chakra?”
The third chakra is, “Oh,
how can I run for this office, gain more power, prestige, and
attention of the people?” and all of that. So we can see that
it depends on what level you are in.
Are they talking about,
“I am not my body?” It does not even occur to them to say, “I
am not my body.” So that is why the very people who want
to know God are ahead of 99.99% of humanity that they even think,
“Who am I? What am I doing here?” and they want to know.
Of course, they are poor
in spirit also. They feel the world is too strong, too
powerful, and they have no control over anything. And because
they are meditative people, the world does not like them
that much either. That is why they usually become outcasts or
feel not completely right with the world.
So they eventually say,
“What is this? What am I doing here?” and they start
meditating and wanting to know. That is why they start
searching. Only 1% of humanity wants to know God, and the Path
has a lot of pitfalls also. Many times we have talked about
them.
Someone comes in the
fourth chakra, and they find unconditional love. They say, “Oh, God
is unconditional love. That is what it is. God is love.
That is all there is about God.” So they go around and become
teachers of the third chakra people and say, “God is love.”
And the third chakra people say, “Oh yes. God is love, and we
do not have to do anything.”
They go a little higher
to their fifth chakra, and they gain a lot of knowledge or do astral
projection. When they come back, they say, “No, God is astral
projection. You leave your body and go to the astral body,”
etc.
The one who goes to the
sixth chakra is touched by God, comes back, and says, “No, no.
It is not only astral projection. It is also siddhis and
powers.”
Eventually, God sends His
Messengers and tells them, “No, it is more than that. It is
from the smallest thing you do in your life to the highest thing,
has to be evolved around spirituality. It is that you are born
to be Divine. The Goal Of The Life Is To Be(come) Divine.
That is why we are here. The goal of the life is not to become
a doctor, professor, or this or that.”
That is fine, if you are
a Divine doctor, great. If you are a Divine professor, that is
fine. If you are a Divine sweeper of the floor, it is good.
So we can see that God’s
Vision is much greater than all these little teachings that come to
us. Of course, in order to do that, as we have said many
times, God sent the Seven Seals, Seven Revelations to humanity.
And each time the Spirit of God brings it to humanity, that Spirit
of God is called the First Begotten Son.
What happened in the
beginning of the creation? The First Begotten Son went through
the Eternal Divine Path and eventually realized that,
“Oh, God and I are One already. I am from the Spirit of God.
There is no separation.”
That is why there are
humans who will recognize, realize, and become the sons of God, and
there is the First Begotten Son of God, who is already One with the
Spirit of God, and God, which is everything.
It is a very hard concept
to imagine that you become the son of God. But when you become
a son of God, you become back one with God. Then the Spirit of
God comes to humanity as the Son of God, or the First Begotten Son
of God, and God Himself.
But there is no
separation. There is not that, here is God, here is the Son of
God, and here is you. When you recognize that you are not your
body and you see, “Yes, the seer, the toucher, the feeler, the
recognizer, the speaker, all is God,” then you realize, “I am not my
body. I am one with God. Therefore what the First
Begotten Son says, I am one with it. I can understand it.
I can see what he is saying, and I recognize the truth that is
coming to me.”
So then you become what?
If
Maitreya is the first one who brought this Revelation to you,
you become the second Maitreya, the third Maitreya,
the fourth
Maitreya, and one hundred and forty-four thousand
Maitreyas, or millions of Maitreyas come on earth.
That is why at the end of our Bath Ideation, the people who do that
prayer say, “The act of offering, the heat which was used to offer,
and the one who offers are all He.” All are what? All is
God.
So there is no
separation. Even your body is a part of God. It is a
part of His Consciousness. To recognize that we are not our
bodies and we are one with Him, and to follow His Scriptures, makes
us to become sons of God.
And if you realize that,
liberation is when one day you are sitting there and you recognize
that, “I am not my body. What sees is He. What feels is
He. What talks is He.”
That is why when we do
something, we say, “All thanks go to God,” because if I think I am
the doer, what am I doing? I am doing that separation again,
“I am the doer.” But when we say, “No, God is the Doer through
me,” there is no separation.
All the purification and
techniques, the whole teaching, all the exercises, are to bring us
to that point that we say, “Yes. I am not the doer. Do
not thank me, thank God, that comes through me. I am not doing
anything. I am not going to create a big ego that, Oh, I am
such a great person.”
The moment you do that,
you might feel good in that moment. What are you doing,
though? You are separating yourself from God. You are
separating to recognize that you are not the doer.
If you go on and say, “I
am getting better now. I am progressing. Look, look, I
am progressing,” you are not progressing. You are getting
closer to where you are supposed to be. That is your
birthright to reach that point.
Does that make sense?
Ishvara:
Yes, Maitreya. That makes sense.
Maitreya:
Yes. Well, being a son of God is not really that difficult.
Apparently it is very difficult for the carnal mind to recognize
that they are not their bodies and realize that God is One.
God is already with you all the time. When you recognize that,
then you can see.
Just ask yourself, “Who
is seeing? Who is doing?” Then you realize, “Oh, I am
not the one,” or, “I am the one but really He is doing it through
me.”
Question:
Would you mind talking a little bit about Tantra Yoga, what really
it is and how it relates to the Sixth Seal?
Maitreya:
OK, that is a good question.
Audience:
One of the reasons I am asking is because last night I was looking at a Time Magazine that has a cover page about yoga.
Then you open it up and it describes different kinds of yoga, and it
says that Tantra Yoga is mainly about sex. That is what it
says. I do not think that is correct.
Maitreya:
No, it is not. It is one of the misconceptions that have been
brought to the Western world. Even in India probably a lot of
people relate Tantra Yoga or meditation as the sexual relationship
only.
Actually, there is a book
that talks about the three kinds of Tantra: lower Tantra,
middle path, and the higher Tantra. I do not remember who
wrote it. I have not even read it, but I heard about it.
There is some truth in that.
Tantra means the path of
facing your deepest fears and deepest desires, and then overcoming
them by going through the process and realizing that, “No, that is
not it either.”
As we said, Tantra Yoga
was brought by Shiva. Shiva was known as a very unorthodox
teacher. So that is why usually they show him meditating in
the graves with a lot of skulls around him. He meditated on
death, destruction, and how finite life is, and that everyone is
going to eventually end up in the grave. And really this glory
and all the ego trips that we go through, we are not going to take
with us. Even the wealthiest people and the most powerful
people are going to end up as a skull. If you believe you are
a body, that is what your glory is; you become a skull in the grave.
That is why the only
glory you really have is your spirit. You recognize that you
are that glorious Spirit that was never born, will never be
destroyed, and will never ever die. So that is what he was
doing. He was meditating on all this finiteness of the
creation.
He taught to face your
fears. He said if you have a lot of sexual desires or things
like that, there are two ways: by yoga, meditation, pranayama, and
doing a lot of exercises, to overcome them and eventually completely
destroy them; and/or, by the use of the path of Tantra.
He said that you go the
path of yoga, or you go the path of Tantra. That meant that
eventually you could control yourself completely in that desire and
overcome it completely.
Has anyone ever told you
that they are satisfied of their sensual desires and longings?
No. The more you go for your sensual desires, what happens?
You want more and more and more. So that is why in the Tantra,
sexual practice, even their whole practice, is based on the control
of your sexual desires instead of the fulfillment of them. So
even that part is not quite as presented in those magazines, like
Time Magazine.
But if you are afraid of
that situation, the recommendation is to go to the situation, and
face it. If you are afraid of a spider, read about spiders and
know more about what kind of being it is. At the end you will
not be afraid of it. You might actually say, “It is a
wonderful creature that controls the population of the bugs, and it is
actually very helpful for the garden.” So eventually you might
even like them.
It has been found that a lot of people are afraid of spiders.
But most of the spiders are not harmful at all. They are very
helpful. So go through it, and face it.
The sexual part of the
Tantra path is a very small part of the teaching, and even that has
to eventually be overcome. Tantra teachers who had
disciples who had problems with their sexual desires recommended,
“Why don’t you just go ahead and go through it?”
One thing in the Mission
is to marry. Get married, and then if you want to practice the
Tantra way, that is fine, go ahead, and do it. It is not to
fulfill it, but to control it, to recognize that, “That is not it
either. That is not going to fulfill the greater longing that
I have for infinite happiness, which comes from recognizing my
spirit.”
So the Tantra path is
another way to reach to the same point as the yoga is but it is a
more direct approach. Instead of meditating and denying
yourself the pleasures of the world, it is to recognize their
finiteness. But you have to be a very high person to follow
the Tantra Path because it is not to go through it and let the Maya
pull you down like everyone else. You actually have to be a
very good yogi first before even starting on that path.
That is why it is a very
dangerous path. Even in India the people who follow the Tantra
path are considered as weird, kind of strange people, because their
path is completely different than the yogi path, which is denial,
meditation, and overcoming the lower nature. So it is not for
everyone. It is a path of amazingly high spiritual people who
have a few things to overcome. They can go through it with
complete awareness that they are going through that path, not to be
bogged down and pulled down to the Maya, but to go through it and
realize that, “That is not it either.”
That is the reason it
became very interesting to the carnal mind, those people who say,
“Oh, Tantra is good. We can fulfill our lower natures and
desires through it.”
And some people did, and
where are they? All of them probably were pulled down to the
Maya and completely destroyed. That is why the Tantra path is
a very, very dangerous path. And not everyone can follow it.
But if you are very aware
of yourself, if you really have complete control over your emotional
and physical bodies and your spirit, and you have a few desires
left, you can go through them the Godly way. If you have
sexual desires, get married, and even then you can realize that it
is not the highest.
So Tantra does not mean
sex only. But the human mind apparently likes that part a lot,
so that is why they say, “Oh, that means…” It is not. It
means to face your fears, face your desires, go through them, and at
the end realize, “Well, that is not it either.”
This is why a part of our
teaching is to meditate on your desires, on what your desires are.
In our teaching, you do not have to go physically through them but
you can think about them, meditate on them, go through them in your
mind, and at the end realize, “Oh, that is not it either. That
is not what I am here for. That is not going to make me
Divine. That is not going to make me completely overcome
whatever I am supposed to overcome.”
So that is really the
true meaning of the path of Tantra. It does not mean what that
Time Magazine said.
Does that make sense?
Audience:
Baba taught the Tantra, and the Sixth Seal relates to the concept of
Paravipras. How is Tantra related to the Sixth Seal?
Maitreya:
As I said, you have to become a very aware person to even consider
the path of Tantra. The path of Tantra means to overcome your
fears and face your deepest fears.
So really the people who
have to go through that are the people in the Sixth Seal. They
have awakened their spiritual forces, they work for the creation of
the Communities of Light, they sacrifice, they become
surrendered and submissive, and they become universalists.
Then their path of Tantra is to overcome every fear in their lives,
go to the society, and become preachers, become teachers, and become
people who have no fear of anything.
As I said, you could put
them in the worst environment, but that environment does not affect
them. So in a sense we are looking for a Tantric people who
have no fear about anything, that they have gone through all those
attachments and desires, and now the only thing left for them is to
completely be a Paravipra, to be completely fearless.
Fearlessness is a part of
our teaching. And how many people are fearless? Many
people have a lot of fears. That is why again, in the
Mission, eventually we have to come to a point where we can
support these people so that they do not have to worry about their
physiological and safety needs, so fearlessly they can go and preach
the Mission and spread the Word all over the world.
So we can see that the
result of going through the Path is to become a person who is
very Tantric. As I taught in the beginning of the Mission,
Go where fear fears to follow you. It means that you are
where even fear cannot reach you. So that is actually the path
of a Tantric person.
The Sixth Seal means the
person who has really reached the highest Tantric path. They
have meditated for many lifetimes.
We have not just started
meditating this lifetime. Many of us have probably been yogis
up there in the mountains for many lifetimes not eating too much,
eating bird food, meditating, and being completely detached from
this world. Now we come here. Again we meditate a little
bit, and probably we do not need as much meditation anymore as we
used to. But we have meditated many times. So now it is
easier for us to come here, see the teaching right away, and say,
“Yes, that makes sense. I love it.”
Why are there six billion
people out there and not all of them love it, but you love it?
Hopefully there are at least a couple of million people in that six
billion who will love it also. But we have to reach them.
We have to connect the
Mission again to the Internet, connect with more people, and
have teachers to go, preach, and reach out.
But the sixth level,
which the Paravipras are in, is a very high level. We are
looking for people who absolutely have overcome these little
problems in their lives. They have no other ambition or reason
for being here but to do the Will of God, which is to preach the
Eternal Divine Path to humanity and bring them also to that
level.
So the Tantric path is a
beautiful path. It is not for everyone. At the same time
it is a very dangerous path. That is why the people who think,
“Oh, Tantra means sex,” are usually the people who are of a very low
level of consciousness. They like only that part, and they
even do not know what exactly it is, and they are going to fall.
Does that make sense?
[We had a very long
meditation here]
Actually I like it very much to come
here and have a nice meditation the way we did today. I hope
everyone had a good meditation also. If you have any
questions, of course, you always can bring them up even in the
middle of the meditation. But if you do not have any, I will
be here every month for the new people and also for your questions
and a good meditation together.
I am not going to just go
ahead and talk, and talk, and talk, like the preachers jumping up
and down. What do they call it? They say that The Holy
Ghost gets to them sometimes [laughter], and they do strange things
at the top of the podium.
You all have a good
month. See everyone at the next meeting.
Sal-OM.
