WHAT IS IMPORTANT...PROF ANIL KUMAR WITH SWAMI.

[Guest guest]

"I never desire anything from anybody" what is important? I know that a number of you are here for the first time, but there are also many others of you here today who have visited from Iran several times before. There are lessons that we should all seek to learn by coming here. You should not think that this learning depends upon the number of times that you have visited this place. One can make many, many visits here, and yet not transform as a result. Equally, one can achieve enlightenment during their first visit. Some students retain what they read once and never forget it, while other students might read something ten times and still not retain the teaching. Similarly, one may make several trips here but not transform, while another may transform in just one trip. You may spend years here, but not change as you may have expected; or you may quickly transform beyond your own expectations during one short visit. Therefore, my friends, it is not the number of trips you have made here or the number of years that you have stayed in CONTACT _Con-3F6E9E02185 \c \s \l Prashanti Nilayam that is important. Awareness, awakening, transformation ARE important So, what is important? Awareness, awakening, transformation, our spiritual practice--these are important, not the number of trips we have made here. Spirituality is a journey, a path that we walk, a continuous process of transformation. It does not end at a certain point. It has neither beginning nor end. The spiritual path is a continuous process. We should not stop at any point along the way, thinking somehow we know everything. We should always remember

well that the spiritual journey is a continuous learning process. It has neither beginning nor end. Instead of stopping, you might instead pause while you are here to ask yourself to what extent you have improved and in which direction you have moved spiritually. If you get a degree, an M.S. or Ph.D., you can declare yourself highly knowledgeable. If you are very successful in your business, you can declare yourself a rich and thriving businessman. In education and business and position, my friends, you can achieve a particular status and know to what extent you have

improved and advanced. But in your spiritual development, you never know what you have achieved or should achieve. In spirituality, you will never know what you have and what you don’t have. You cannot say this I know, but that I don’t know. Spirituality sometimes gives you a false sense of knowing, of believing that you understand something, even though you do not yet understand. A feeling that you know sets in, even when you really don’t know. So we should know that we do not know! In the Upanishads, it mentions that if anybody says, “I know”, then he doesn’t know. The Upanishads also say that if someone says, “I don’t know”, then he may know something. Therefore we should know that we do not know. Why? (Sharing with Sai Love) Ram.Chugani Ram ChuganiKobe, Japanrgcjp

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