Strike at the Imperishable Truth!

Mundaka Upanishad 2:2:4

Interpretation: Paramahamsa Hariharananda


Pranava dhanuh, sarahi esa atma Brahman tad lakhyam ucyate

Om is the bow; the soul is the arrow; and Brahman is its target. It is to be hit by an unerring man. One should become one with it just like an arrow.

You are only magnetizing your spine, bending it on the ground, and it is just like a bow. Then with a short breath, you are throwing the arrow. The breath is going just like an arrow, touching the Almighty Father Who is remaining in the fontanelle. He is the Supreme Almighty Father. Only your breath is going and touching Him by the practice of Kriya Yoga. In your every breath if you watch Him and touch Him in the fontanelle, then all your evils in your body will disappear. These are represented by all the arrows you are throwing at people all the time (at that time there was no gun). So this is pranava dhanuh, and sarahi esa atma.

And Brahman tad lakhyam ucyate means that it cannot be perceived by the five sense organs, it can only be perceived by the atom. So by the atom, in every breath it is going and touching the Almighty Father, so your mind is fixed and you are watching whether in every breath you are feeling heaviness in the fontanelle. You should not talk -dead in your mind, past the intellect and ego. You are magnetizing your spine, so you are getting a new type of circulation in your whole body. Scientifically speaking, you are giving pressure over the liver, so bile is produced. And you are applying pressure over the kidneys, spleen, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon... you are giving pressure everywhere, so you will be free from diseases.

Strike Beyond Delusion.

You have no delusion. You are throwing one arrow, you are touching the Almighty Father, and you are only absorbed in Him in every breath, you are the Almighty Lord. And you do not have anything of the world -the whole thing of the body, all evils, all wrongs, all immorality, and all debauchery will disappear. You will not even feel any body part. If you watch all the people of the world what they are doing, they are doing it by the five sense organs... but this is not bad.

You are going there, and calmly you are sitting. You are free from thought, mind. You are a person of meditation. You have no desire. In every breath you are feeling your all-evolution. You are not in rajaguna activity, you are free. You are spiritual. You are constantly absorbed in the Almighty Father. The whole day and night, you watch your breath, and in every breath you watch Him, and love Him, and thank Him, with a short breath. As the arrow is going and touching the evil person, similarly, the breath is going, just like an arrow, and it is touching the Almighty Father.

Feel His Presence.

You are getting a little presence of the Almighty. You are getting the Formless. Even in only two minutes' time, three minutes' time. You are hearing the Divine Sound, you are getting the God-movement sensation in the whole body - all the time it is moving from top to bottom, in the hundred body-parts. So you are feeling the Almighty Father. He is the King of Kings, and He is abiding within you. In your every breath you are feeling Him, then you will never get any negative habit. You will feel that every man is the living power of God. Wherever he casts his eyes, he is perceiving that the Almighty Father is there.

So if you calmly practice this Kriya in the bowing posture, and you throw one arrow after another, in every breath, then you will be free from desire. Your mind will be free. It is the enemy. Your anger will disappear. You will get nothingness. You will get only Godhood. It is
extreme pleasure. It is your liberation. In this way, the whole day and night, through your every activity, you watch your short breath. And then you are compassionately detached. As the drunkard drinks wine and does not know what he is doing, similarly, you will remain detached, you will remain in God, you will feel that you are free from the whole universe. So this is the explanation of the Mundaka Upanishad chapter 2, part 2, verse 4.

The Body's Fifty Seed-Syllables

By Paramahamsa Hariharananda

Vacuum center (16 letters)

There are sixteen letters in the sixteen-petal lotus in the face: ang, aang, ing, iing, ung, uung, ring, rring, ling, lling, eng, aing, oing, oung, aung, ah.

Air center (12 letters)

Starting on the left-hand side: kong, collar bone. Khong, next bone. Gong, third bone. Then ghong, wong. Then chong, on the right side. Then chbong, Jong, jhong, neong, tong, thang. This is the twelve-petal lotus. It is called ka-tha. The beginning letter is ka, and last is thang.

Fire center (10 letters)

It starts on the left-hand side of the liver at the stomach. Just under the sixth rib, then below. Dong, dhong, nong, tong, thong, dong, dhong, nong, pong, phong. This is da-pha. You say da first, and last letter is phong. This is the ten-petal lotus in the stomach area.

Water center (6 letters)

It starts with bong, above the sex. Then bhong, by the side of the sex, mong, below the sex.

Then on the right-hand side: Jong, rang, long. It is in the sex center, a six-petal lotus. These make two "Vs. One bracket and another bracket forming a triangular bracket. The female triangle is flat at the top, and pointed down. And the male triangle is flat on the bottom, and pointed at the top. Assemble them together, and it makes a six-petal lotus. This is ba-la, at the sex center.

Earth center (4 letters)

Then there is the coccygeal center, in the area of the four last vertebrae. The letters are vong, shhong, shong, and sa. Vong, on the left hand-side. Then below, if you place your middle finger on the left hand-side joint, this is vong, and at the last vertebra, this is shhong. Ta-la-ba means that the tip is touching on the palate. The upper portion of the tongue. It is called (ta-la-b a) shhong, which means shanti, peace. Then shong. murta, shantosh. Shantosh means contentment. And, last is (don-ta) sha. Don-ta is the tip, it is touching the teeth. When you say don-ta, then the tongue is touching the upper and lower teeth. Don-ta-sha is shantosh - contentment.

Soul center (2 letters)

Now you are coming to the pituitary. It is ham and Sa. Sa is in the front side, towards the forehead, in the fontanelle. Focus your attention in the fontanelle, a little forward, overhead, just like on the top of an egg. The front side is Sa: this is Krishna. And the back side is ham: Arjuna.

So Krishna was sitting and driving the chariot in the front. Generally people misunderstand where is ham sa. They say it is on the left and right of the forehead: no! It is in a straight line. So I am telling that Krishna is driving the car, and Arjuna is sitting behind him. He is not willing to fight. He is pressing his hand, and Krishna is saying to him, "You please listen to Me, and do as I say: you are to fight with your evils." Krishna is sitting in the front; this is Sa. And Arjuna is sitting behind; this is ham. Everyone is Arjuna.

In many books, they are wrong! It is shown that Sa is on the right side and ham is on the left side. They cannot draw it, because then it would overlap. So in the left they put Sa, because you write from left to right, then they write ham on the right. But it is wrong! The head is like an oval egg - at the top, the front side is a little smaller, and the back side is a little bigger. Similarly the front side is Sa, and the back side is ham.

The seed syllables within each chakra

Yong is the air element, in the heart. Rang is the fire in the stomach. Vong is the water in the sex center. Long is the earth, in the moneycenter. And shhong is in the fifth center, but everyone is telling it is in the top. No, it is in the fifth center, in the vacuum center. The seed of
vacuum is shhong.

THE SYMBOL OF KRIYA YOGA

By Paramahamsa Hariharananda

The meaning of the Kriya Yoga symbol is: the two brackets represent the two eyebrows. And above them in the middle, there is just like an eye; this is the third eye, in the pituitary. If you remain above the eyebrows, and keep your attention above the pituitary, that is the only way to reach God. If you fix your attention above the pituitary, above the two eyebrows, and calmly remain there with a short breath, then in your every breath you will get God-realization. Your mind will remain in the third eye, then although you are doing material work, you will feel that "I am not doing the work, work is coming from the pituitary."

But this Kriya Yoga symbol means that Truth is not below the eyebrow, not in the material world; spiritual work is only there, above the eyebrows, with the short breath. You are to watch your every breath and feel "O my Almighty Father, You are so kind to me, you have given me extreme power".

So in every breath you should give love to Him, because you are doing work. You have some experience about it. So you love God. So in every moment you love God, thank God that you are still alive. I am also still alive, at my age of 89. I am talking with you with the finest brain. So if you practice Kriya Yoga you will live long, you will eat moderate food, and you will have everything. This is the place, above the eyebrows, where you can get God-realization. Then, you are to go to the fontanelle, where is the Supreme Almighty Father, Who is above the gross body, perishable body, above the imperishable body also - He is the Supreme Almighty Lord, All-Pervading, Formless and Omniscient and everywhere. He is remaining compassionately detached everywhere, but He is helping the people to do the work.
Thank you very much. I want to bow all human beings. God.


God is remaining detached. As the sun rises and remains detached while activating every work in the world, similarly the Soul is remaining detached. The Imperishable power of God, the Formless, is remaining compassionately detached in the pituitary and is helping you. If you go and stand in front of the mirror and show your hand, the mirror will show the hand. Then if you leave, no impression will remain in the mirror.

And if a second person comes and stands in front of the same mirror, no impression of the first person remains in the mirror. Similarly, this is the third eye where you are fixing your attention.

This is the place I am talking from; I am thinking "This is not talked by me, it is my indwelling Self Who is remaining in the third eye." He allows me to provide answers to questions. According to your question, I am giving the answer. This is called spiritual talk. Similarly, those who do material work and have ambition to earn money, huge

If you feel some heat,
you can understand
the fire is very near.
Similarly, if you perceive
the Divine sound,
Divine Light
and Divine vibration,
then you are very near
the power of God.

THE WAY TO CALMNESS

Parts of this message was addressed by Paramahamsa Hariharananda to the delegates attending the First International Kriya Yoga Seminar in Spietz, Switzerland. May 7-14, 1994

O God, O God, O God, I am so happy, so happy, so happy. I have reached Switzerland and seen the power of God here. John wrote in the Bible "Blessed are they who come in the name of God." So you all are blessed, you have come from a long distance. But how will you be blessed? If you do not know thyself, you cannot know God.

Where is God? I am telling that God is all-pervading, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. So when He is all-pervading, He is also remaining in your whole system.

In the Bible, Matthew 4:4, it said that "your mouth is not made for bread only, but the words that proceed from your mouth is the talk of God." So you should know that you are not talking. From your birthday, the power of God is inhaling. It is written in Genesis 1:27 and 2:7, "He made man and woman in His own image, and He breathed into the nostrils the breath of His life and He became the living Soul in the whole universe."

The Kingdom of God is at Your Hand.

The marvelous power of God is remaining in your whole body, but you are ignoring it. So you are not able to know; you are in delusion, illusion and error. Jesus also said "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at your hand. "What is hand? It means you should meditate, then you will get God-realization. It is at your hand. Also, it is written in Matthew 6:22-23, "The light of your body is your eyes. If therefore thine eye be single, the whole body shall be full of light. If therefore thine eye be evil, then thy whole body shall be full of darkness."

All the persons who have come here - you are the living power of God. Just take a rusty wire and plug it, immediately you will see the marvelous current is in the rusty wire. Your whole body is the body of God but you do not feel it. Because many are teaching many things and practicing them yet are not getting calmness. But the authentic, original Kriya Yoga technique taught by Lahiri Baba, Swami Shriyukteshwarji, who also taught me, I taught that very thing to Rajarshi Peterananda and some other authorized Yogacharyas. They know the same technique and nobody else knows that technique, so you can learn from him. Kriya Yoga is the stepping stone of all religions. As you climb up on the seven-storied building, you are to climb up with every step. So we will teach you how, within three minutes' time, to purify your body. Kriya Yoga is the highway of common religion. What is the highway of common religion? Calmness.

Get His Calmness.

How you will get that calmness? You are to come to the touch of Rajarshi Peterananda and Swami Hariharananda, who will purify your body. In your body there are 108 body parts. We will purify them, and within three minutes' time we can give you divine sound. Then the whole body and 108 body parts and divine light will be in the whole body, and divine movement sensation of God in your whole system.

What makes it move? God, Who is inhaling since your birthday. It is written in Genesis that He is inhaling from your birthday but you are not seeking Him. You are fortunate that you all have come here, now we will teach you how to get that calmness. It is also written in Mark 8:36: "Ifyou gain the whole world and lose your own Self, then what is your life? What is your profit?" You are God in human being, you are born to perceive God, to conceive God and to realize God. In your whole system, wherever I am touching, I am touching the power of God. But you are not feeling it. Why you are not perceiving? Because of maya, kundalini.

What is that kundalini! Kundalini is remaining inside your brain. On the back side of your head, there is the occipital bone. Below the occipital bone there are two cracks, two sharp holes. From that place 11 pairs of cranial nerves are entering. Six pairs remain in the upper mid-brain, and six pairs remain in the lower midbrain. So you are forgetting that you are God. You are busy with eating, drinking and being merry. Undoubtedly, you are to eat and drink and be merry. But without breath you cannot do it. So you should know Kriya Yoga. Kriya Yoga will teach you how to get merrymaking joy. God is within you, and He has given joy in your five sense-organs. But you do not feel that it is God's joy. He is constantly inhaling through your nose, He is evolving you for your God-realization.

The 18th Century English poet Alexander Pope said:
Know thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
What is the proper study of mankind? To know oneself. Know thyself. Presume not God to scan. How you will know? By coming to the proper person who will remove all your negativity. Your divine kingdom is inside the cranium. And one pair of vagus nerves is coming down in the whole body. That is your kundalini, maya. Pindam kundalini shaktim. Mula-padme kundalini yavat nidra-yata prabhuh tavat kinchid na sidhyate tantra-mantra archanadikam.

The power of God is inhaling at the top of your head, so you are to fix your attention in that place. And if you magnetize your spine, with a short breath, then automatically you get extreme calmness. You will be free from your body-sense and free from worldly sense. You only hear divine sound in the whole world. Your body is full of maya and delusion, full of evils. But that evil will disappear if you turn on the switch. You will see that the whole room is God in a moment's time.

Learn How to Turn the Switch On.

You should know how to turn the switch on. You have two bodies: one is Sa and the other is ham. Sa is hiding in the divine kingdom. He is inhaling constantly. This is your life. If He doesn't inhale, then you will die immediately. So you should not die. You are not born for death. You are born for immortality. You are God in human being. Any work you do is done by the power of God. You may be rich, you may be poor, you may be a scientist, you may be a business person, no matter. Any work you do is done through the agency of the breath. That breath is the inhalation activated by the power of God from the fontanel.

If you practice this technique, only for five minutes' time, then you can get extreme calmness, which is Godliness.

[Baba sings:]
Authentic Kriya Yoga is the stepping stone of all religion. Without this no one can stop his worldly sense. Without this no one can stop his worldly sense. Kriya Yoga, in three minutes' time, can give you divine calmness.
Within three minutes' time,
You can get divine movement sensation, sound and light.
Kri means do your work, Ya means your indwelling Self. Kri means do your work, Ya means your indwelling Self.


Kri means do your work; any work you do, that is kri. And who is doing that work? Your indwelling Self Who is inhaling from above. Any work you do, that work is done by Him. If you feel it, then you will remain in the material world and will get God-realization. That is your spiritual world. It is why you are coming here. If you only hear our words, then you cannot profit from it. You have come and are staying here the whole day and night, so you should only say to Peterananda Rajarshi "Please teach us Kriya Yoga."

Meditate, Meditate, and Meditate.

You constantly meditate for seven days. You have left everything, you have spent money, so you meditate and meditate and meditate. One day surely you will behold the divine goal. Just now! We can purify you. You will be free. I am telling that Kriya Yoga is the highway of common religion.

Kriya Yoga will give liberation in a short period. The only star of God. If you turn on the switch, you will see that the whole room, the body-room, is lighted. Then you will feel that your skin, your flesh, your diaphragm, your cells, atoms, tissues, your whole body do not belong to you. They belong to the Almighty Father. So, kindly meditate and meditate and meditate. Just now, for seven days you have come. You have come from a long distance. You all sit, don't make any amusements for seven days. Only you tell Rajarshi Peterananda, "Give us divine vibration, divine sound, divine light, give us extreme calmness." Then you will gain in seven days' time, you will earn. That will be your asset.

You can practice this for five-six minutes, the whole day and night, your whole life; you will feel that you are God in human being and human being in God. I want to bow you all. Yoga karma sukausalam. Only the technique will enable you. Sarva roga upasamam. Your diseases will all disappear. Jathamgni vibhardanam. You will get extreme appetite. Babusakantim amalam. You will get beautiful, lustrous body. You see Hariharananda: he is eighty-six, he is so old, but still his body is just like that of a young man. And why? Because he practices Kriya Yoga.

You should not just believe it. Your Guru will be your own Guru if you have taken initiation from any other person. No matter. But you
should practice the technique. Kriya Yoga will cultivate the body land. It is also said in the Bible that you should cultivate the body land. Then you can get a good harvest. One land is well cultivated so the farmer gets a good harvest. Another land is just medium cultivated, so they get a medium harvest. And this land is not cultivated. It is written in the Bible - Jesus used a parable to say that you should learn how to cultivate your body land.

[Next Baba sings a Bengali song by Ramprasad: "O Mind You Do Not Know How To Farm. "]
Ramprasad is a very realized person. He said, "You do not know how to cultivate your body land." If you cultivate your body land, then you will get extreme calmness. Then you will feel the power of God. The power of God is always remaining within you. You will see you are God in human being and human being in God.

Thank you very much. I want to bow you all.

Do not carry the cross on your chest and the devil on your back

Young Shankara Defeats the Old Scholar

By Parmahamsa Hariharananda

Shankara was an extremely spiritual person, working day and night but never forgetting Him. By the age of 16 he had taken sannyas and was roaming all over India and founding ashrams in the four corners of India. At that time there was no plane, no train, no car, just bullock carts. So Shankara materialized four bodies and founded four maths (monasteries) simultaneously in the four corners of India - Sringeri in the South, Badrinatha in the North, Dwaraka in the West and Puri in the East. He entered mahasamadhi at the age of 32.

Once he went to debate a great scholar whose name was Mandana Mishra. It was decided that if Shankara won the debate, Mandana Mishra would renounce the world and become a sannyasin, and that if Mandana Mishra won, Shankara would renounce his monkhood and become a householder. The debate went on for several days and it appeared as if Shankara was winning. When Ubhay Bharati, Mandana Mishra's wife, saw that her husband was about to lose and have to renounce marital life, she requested Shankara to answer her questions as well before deciding who the winner would be. Shankara agreed. She asked "What are the various forms and expressions of love? What is the nature of sexual love? What is the effect of the waxing and waning moons on sex urge in men and women?" Shankara, being a young boy of 18 and a celibate monk, was not prepared for this kind of question, so he asked for some time before giving an answer, which was granted.

He then left with his disciples. In a nearby town they came upon a burning ground where king's body was just about to be cremated. Shankara, through his yogic power, entered the dead body who immediately came back to life and asked to be taken back to his palace and to his queen. In the meantime, Shankara's own lifeless body was hidden under some bushes at a little distance and watched over carefully by his disciples until he was to re-enter it again.

Shankara went to the king's palace, and his wife and servants and everyone were astonished and delighted by his "return." Shankara now spent all his time enjoying with his wife, and asking her so many questions. His wife was intrigued and asked "why do you ask so many questions all of a sudden?" So Shankara replied "I was almost dead and through God's grace came back to life again, but in the process I have lost my memory. So it is only normal that I should ask you all these questions." This answer satisfied the wife for a little while, but as her "husband" wanted to enjoy continuously with her, which he had never done before, she grew more and more suspicious that maybe an evil spirit had taken possession of her husband's body. So she sent her personal attendants to the cremation ground and to see whether they could find the body of someone who had recently died lying nearby. They went there and, having discovered Shankara's lifeless body, they snatched it and brought it back to the queen. A funeral pyre was constructed in the courtyard and Shankara's body was placed on top. The funeral pyre was lit. Meanwhile, Shankara's disciples were hiding and praying fervently to Shankara to come back to his body immediately. Shankara then left the king's body, re-entered his own body and immediately jumped down from the funeral pyre, having being just slightly burned on the leg. He left the town with his disciples.

Shankara now returned to debate Ubhay Bharati on sexual matters, and he easily won, having mastered in a few days all the arts of sexual love. Mandana Mishra and Bharati admitted defeat, and both became sannyasi and disciples of Shankara. Mandana Mishra remained in the ashram, and Ubhay Bharati took up residence in separate quarters. Mandana Mishra later headed one of the new monasteries founded by Shankara.

Shankara was very young, yet extremely spiritually advanced. If a person meditates very deeply in the fontanel by the practice of Kriya Yoga like him, then within a short period he can go to the fontanel. In the fontanel there is no negative, no money, no sex mood, no anger, no pride. By the practice of Kriya if one can reach the fontanel and remain there in their every breath—because breath is our life, our activity—by breath-control one will get self-control, and by breath-mastery one will get self-mastery. Shankara achieved self-mastery. Even as a young man, he became the top teacher in India. Sannyasins—people who are getting sannyas—attain this stage of Kriya.

Kriya Yoga is the foundation of all religions. It gives extreme calmness which is Godliness, freedom from material sense—there is no question of age. Kriya Yoga is the easiest, simplest technique—one is only to remain with 99% attention in the fontanel the whole day and night, watch the breath and watch Him. Then it is possible.

In this world many people are teaching many things but always by the five sense-organs. They get hallucinations, imagination, they speak high of themselves and commit many mistakes. In the Bible, Matthew 7:15, it is said "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. "And in Matthew 7:19 "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire." This is also found in the Upanishads: ''Living in the midsts of ignorance and considering themselves intelligent and enlightened, the senseless people go round and round, following crooked courses, just like the blind led by the blind." (Katha Upanishad 1:2:5). Also: "Remaining within the fold of ignorance and thinking, 'We are ourselves wise and learned', the fools, while being buffeted very much, ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone. Continuing diversely in the midst of ignorance, the unenlightened take airs by thinking, "We have attained the goal'. Since the men, engaged in karma, do not understand the truth under the influence of attachment, thereby they become afflicted with sorrow and are deprived of heaven on the exhaustion of the results o/karma." (Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8-9)

So Kriya Yoga is a short-cut technique. In a moments time,
you can change your falsehood, you can change your extrovert stage
and go to the fontanel. Then you will be free from all negatives and
get constant liberation.

Anchor your body-boat in the fontanel, and you will never drift in the worldly ocean.

- Paramahamsa Hariharananda

ISA UPANISAD [4]

The Ever New Metephorical Interpretation for Soul Culture
by Swamii Hariharananda Giri

anejad ekam manaso javiyo
nainad deva apnuvan purvam arsat tad dhavato'nyan atyeti tisthat tasminn apo matarisva dadhati

Anejad ekam manaso javiyo means that the Soul in your body is not moving, but the Soul is still more speedy than your mind. The soul is so powerful. You are sitting here, you are thinking of India; within a second's time you can reach there, and you can see everything. So your mind is undoubtedly powerful. If you feel that you are sitting in the high heaven, then in a moment you can reach there and can feel extreme calmness. That mind is a part of God. Although the Soul is very calm, still it is more powerful than the mind.

Nainad deva apnuvan purvam arsat means that your mind, your five sense telephones, even the powerful sun, moon, air, fire cannot reach it. You think you are only a body and a most ordinary man. But you are not that.
When you think anything, when you perceive anything, then you feel as if your mind, five sense telephones and thoughts have brought it. But it is not that. In your Soul, in your brain, you are thinking of that object. It is not your mind, nature, or five sense telephones that brought it to you. It is called from within, and immediately you are transformed with that thought, and automatically seeing means being.

Suppose fear comes in your mind. Your whole body is transformed into fear, and that fear is the new perception of the Self. You are absorbed in that thought. You are also thinking of how to get rid of that fear. Through this, you decide in what way you will remove your fear. It is done by Soul only. Through this you are also getting new inspiration and evolution. If you feel that this inspiration is given by the Soul, then you will get divine evolution. Sorrow and happiness may arise in your mind. They are also the living presence of the Soul, but without the Soul you cannot perceive either sorrow or happiness. The Soul is your only witness. Without the Soul you cannot do anything. If you feel this through your every action, you will get divine evolution and gradually be transformed into the Soul.

Atma is formless, abiding in the human body. The human body and mind are restless, but the human Soul is still. In the Bible it is written that you should be still and feel that you are the power of God. If a man gets good guidance, he can convert his mind into knowledge, consciousness, and super-consciousness. He can feel that his body is limited, but the Soul in his body is all-pervading and very powerful.

Tasminn apo matarisva dadhati means that the Soul remains in the body, because the super-power, Soul, is constantly inhaling and exhaling in every human being. This is the life force of every human being, which is called matarisva. If inhalation and exhalation do not continue in a human being, the person then is a dead body and cannot do anything. Inhalation and exhalation are the life of every human being. By the control of this inhalation a man can remove his restlessness or any work or any thought he is getting. All are coming from God and are given as an oblation in the divine fire. Through his every activity he is getting some material object, and also feeling that he is the living presence of God and that he is merged in the divine fire. In the Upanisads the wife of Yajnavalkya said, "na vare pratyaksa maya pratihi priya bhavasti." The wife of Yajnavalkya is saying, "Not for the satisfaction of my husband do I love him. I love my husband because my living Soul is within me, and I feel the oneness of my Soul with his Soul. I am merged in my husband, and I become transformed with him." The whole Isa Upanisad is giving the same teaching as here given by the wife of Yajnavalkya. We are to perceive the Soul in all matters.

Your every restlessness is serving the soul. So your every restlessness is also worship of the Soul. If you enjoy any material thing, that is your Self-realization, oneness with the Soul. Your every pleasure is the pleasure of the Soul.

You do not see anything in your mind, in your life, without the Soul. You do not know that your birth and death, your dream and thought, your sexual pleasure and movement, whatever you are perceiving and feeling is your Soul only. Without the Soul you cannot perceive and enjoy. It is not your downfall if you feel that whatever you are meeting with, and the whole universe, is the Soul. Once you feel that the Soul is giving various sensations, then you are spiritually evolving.
Without life, without inhalation, the fire cannot remain; the Soul cannot remain. So any work that you are getting is coming through your inhalation and exhalation, that is, your life. If you can control

and balance your inhalation, then you will feel that whatever is coming to your mind is Isa only. It has come for evolution, not for degradation.
The psychologist says that in the human body we generally see flesh, bones, marrow, five sense telephones, etc., along with the life and the Soul. Through this a person can perceive that the whole world is Isa. But ignorant people do not do it. After that they die, and from the dead body we get some water, lime, and coal. From that time they cannot do anything. Every man should remain alert and feel that death is inevitable; realizing that, no one knows when he will die. Knowing this, they should seek Isa in the whole universe. Then every moment, through every activity, they can get God-realization.

AUM

Letter to Brian

AUM June, 1991

My Affectionate and Divine Brian Father,

I am extremely happy that you showed great regard to Swami Atmananda Giri and Acharya Lyzanne Mother when they visited the San Francisco area in May. You also have shown great regard for Hariharananda and my treatment.

God is watching this from your indwelling self. Surely, God will give you more, both materially and spiritually. I am also praying for your all-round development and peace. Please meditate deeply. Remain in the Kingdom of God inside the cranium in an atom point. From that place He is inhaling breath. That is why you are doing work. So you are all learning "soul culture" for self-realization.

Soul culture means that you only bow 7 times, each time remaining 10 seconds, and watch your soul moving in your whole system. Through that practice you will get calmness, which is Godliness. You will always hear divine sound.

Work is worship, so constantly watch your soul before and after and while performing action. The actor is He, your soul.

When you talk, see, hear, walk, work, gossip, laugh, every time in everything in every action, He is doing. Without His breath you are all a dead body. So thank Him, love Him, see Him in every breath. Breath is your life breath. Breath is your soul. This is soul culture. So watch Him always.

Humble Hariharananda