Awareness is the master key with which you can open any lock inside yourself. That is why again and again I say: bring in awareness. Question: Swamiji, how would you describe your concern for us? My only concern for you is to help you to flower. That is the greatest thing that I can do for you and you can do for me! I want people to realize their innate bliss, their potential energy. Right now, man thinks that he is a human being looking for spiritual experience. He needs to understand clearly that he is a spiritual being looking for human experience. I am working on teaching him that. And the only way he can learn it is by becoming aware of the forms of ego that are making him feel he is a human being instead of a spiritual being.

When man moves from praying to becoming, he has found the key. Question: Swamiji, how does the transformation happen when one meditates? And can you tell us more about the role of the master. When a person meditates, all his base emotions like anger, lust, jealousy, over-attachment etc. get transformed into higher energy. This propels him into higher realms of consciousness and awareness. Then, he will not be restless like before. Transformation of energy can happen only through meditation. When this transformation happens in every individual, the whole of society gets transformed. There will be less violence and more global harmony. The most practical way to global peace is through transformation of the individual. With meditation and the master's guidance, transformation is a process that you go through to destroy all that is not you.

It is a painful process that you go through with a master, because you have to let go of all the things that you held close to your heart; all the things that you thought was you. The master will continuously show you what all you are not and everything will start dropping. He will create situations for your suppressed feelings to surface. You just need to allow him to work on you so that he burns all the rubbish that you have accumulated over many lives. I keep telling people: if you try to run away, you are missing me one more time. Dont try to escape. I will place my hands exactly on the tumours that are hidden inside, the tumours that are your ego.

Simply place your faith in me and have the courage to open up. I will then be able to heal all your tumours. Just by opening up to the master, half your ego has left you. The rest, he will take care of. You just need to put out your hand; he will lift you out, that's all. When you are a sincere seeker, when you are ready for a transformation, you will open up to the master and things will happen automatically. If you are just a window shopper, then nothing much can happen; you will just move from one master to another and not learn anything from any of them. When you meditate, meditate intensely. When intensity is there along with meditation, the transformation is bound to happen; the Super Consciousness is bound to happen.

Normally, we are either intense and miss the meditation or meditate without intensity. We catch one and miss the other. We need to catch both in order to really flower. It doesnt matter how long you meditate; how intensely you meditate is what matters. The quality of consciousness is what matters. When you make a conscious decision to turn inward, that itself will give you the intensity of meditation. Question: Swamiji, we are always looking to achieve something in life. Is this also a play of our ego? Yes, of course! You have come to the point. When you think that life has got a purpose and you run behind the purpose, you are being egoistic. When you realize the beauty of Existence and flow with it, and understand that life itself is the purpose and all goals are just illusions, then you have acquired awareness; then you are no more egoistic.

A master is the one who makes you understand the purposelessness of life. When you search with a purpose, you miss reality, because when you run behind the purpose, you miss the present. You simply miss Existence. When you realize the purposelessness of life, a new consciousness starts blossoming in you. You will then understand that the diamonds that you were protecting all along are mere stones. You will understand that the things that you thought were great, are mere toys. You will understand that money is not the real bliss that you are seeking. You are seeking beyond it. You will start looking at life as a great divine play of Existence. You will enjoy the drama and play your role with utmost enjoyment and perfection.

You will not live for goals; you will live for the sake of living and enjoying living. Understand that I am not saying that you should stop earning money. Without money, there is nothing you can do in life. I am only saying to enjoy living every moment and make your goals just incidental in the whole process. You must understand that the whole thing is just a drama wherein you are a player. When you get attached to goals, you miss this whole idea. In a drama, does it make any sense to get attached to your role or to another character or to anything? No! It will straightaway seem ridiculous, will it not? In the same way, life is also a great drama; so dont get attached to it in any fashion.

Just play your role and enjoy the whole show. Understand that life is not the goal, but the path itself. When you have a goal, you will run. When you run, your feet will not touch the ground. When you dont touch the ground, you miss the beauty of Existence. When you run, you are literally missing the feel of Existence beneath you. When you drop the goal, the emphasis will automatically be on the path. The path is meant to be enjoyed; the goal will be taken care of automatically. When you understand the purposelessness of life, you will understand the meaning of living. Until you understand this, you live your life in an unconscious fashion. You live without a proper consciousness. You live with a solid ego that sees only goals, and not the beauty of life itself.

Sacrificing your whole life for the sake of the goal is not the way to live. If you live this way, once every goal is reached, you will only repent at having wasted your whole life on insignificant things. Drop the goal and enjoy the path. Meditate on this teaching again and again. The truth will dawn on you some time. One more thing: dont exclude anything from your life and never think that you are missing something in your life. Spirituality is never excluding; it is always encompassing. When you exclude anything from your life, you are missing something. Instead, integrate and include everything. You will then become whole. When you become whole, you become holy! Of course, if certain things dont interest you, then it is a different matter.

You need not bother about including them in your life. Just function with awareness and keep flowing. Understand that a scientist is a man who creates a formula to reproduce something that he has discovered in the outer world for others to experience. A master is a man who creates a formula to reproduce something that he experienced in the inner world for others to experience. He creates a formula to reproduce the bliss that he experienced in his own consciousness, for others to experience. I am now giving you a formula to realize the ultimate bliss or Nithyananda. Question: Swamiji, how should we go about destroying our ego? First, understand clearly that you have ego in some form or the other it may be active or passive.

Then, understand the different ways in which ego manifests itself, the ways we have discussed until now. All your guilt, desires, fear, humbleness, self-importance etc. are all different forms of ego, which happen in you because you feel a solid I and mine. Once you have understood this, become the watcher so that you understand that the whole of life is a drama. By doing this, you will be able to feel your solid self dissolve, your ego dissolve. When this starts happening, you will automatically resonate with Existence and see how things re-arrange themselves and make life beautiful for you. Then, live with the only aim of killing your ego. Dont guard it in any way. Be ever ready to kill your ego. When you are ready to kill your ego, you are ready to become liberated, that's all.

Question: Swamiji, you said that the ajna chakra is associated with innocence and intelligence. How would you explain innocence and intelligence? When you break free from the rigid mechanism of the mind, you become fluid, flowing, like a river; then you are intelligent. When you are able to think laterally, you are intelligent. When you are spontaneous, you are intelligent. When it is difficult to challenge you, you are intelligent. When you know that life is a drama, you are intelligent. When you understand that Existence is the ultimate life force, you are intelligent. When you are aware and conscious of your inner silence, you are intelligent. When you can smile and laugh spontaneously without applying your mind to it, you are intelligent. When you radiate energy by your mere presence, you are intelligent.

When you are not stuck anywhere for a long time, and not easily challenged, you are intelligent. When you can feel your ego consciously, you are intelligent. When you know that you are rich not because of your riches but because of your being, you are intelligent. When you recognize a master, you are intelligent. When you are ready to let go your ego to the master, you are intelligent. When you play the game of life enjoying every moment of it, you are intelligent! A small story: Three men were asked the same question, What would you do if you were told that you had only 10 more days to live? The first man said, I would put all my work in order, and tie all loose ends up so that my family does not suffer after I am gone and then I would live peacefully.

The second man said, I would enjoy life to the maximum doing all the things I have never done before. The third man said, I would consult another doctor! This is intelligence! When you can be spontaneous instead of getting caught in the solid and familiar tracks that you have built for yourself, you are fluid and intelligent. Another small story: In a hospital, the telephone rang and the nurse answered it. A voice asked, May I know how Chanda Basu of Room no. 10 is doing please? The nurse replied, He is doing well and we are hoping to release him tomorrow evening. Who am I talking to? The voice replied, This is Chanda Basu. You never tell patients anything in this place. This is intelligence! When you are not stuck at a point for long, when you dont stay challenged for long, you are intelligent.

Now listen to this: A man took his city friend to his farm. He showed him around and later asked him, You must have found it amazing to see so many sheep! Did you attempt to count them? The friend replied, Oh yes. There were 300. The man was surprised and asked, How did you manage to count them? The friend replied, Oh, it was simple. I counted the number of legs and divided them by four. This is not intelligence! This is a way to show how we complicate simple things in life. Next, coming to innocence: children are the best way to understand innocence. They just speak out without any editing. They dont calculate; they are so total in their behaviour, never cunning or hypocritical.

This is innocence. But what do we do to them? We try our best to teach them how to edit their words, how to manipulate. We teach them to move from their heart to their mind so that their pure innocence becomes contaminated by the mind. A small story: A boy was told that a wealthy aunt was coming to his home that day and that he had to be on his best behaviour. The aunt arrived and a grand dinner was served for her. The boy was watching her continuously throughout the dinner and finally asked, Auntie, when are you going to do your trick? The lady asked, What trick my dear? The boy replied, My dad said that you drink like a fish! Children simply say what they feel like.

They express so freely. That is why they are so joyful to watch and why we all enjoy them. Their innocence attracts us. But we dont understand this and we teach them to become cunning, to become manipulative. This is what we do continuously.