To know and experience this divinity means evolving
our energies to higher possibilities, and evolving our energies to
subtler dimensions within ourselves. If your energies are in muladhara,
food and sleep will be the main qualities in your life. If your energies
moves into swadhistana, then you are a pleasure seeker, you want to
enjoy the world in so many ways. If your energies move into manipuraka
you are a doer in the world, you are always doing something. If your
energies move into anahatha, you become a very creative person. If your
energies move into vishuddhi,you become a very powerful being. If your
energies move into agna, then you are intellectually fully enlightened.
You have attained peace. When your energies move to sahasrar, you will
burst into ecstasy, unexplained ecstasies for which there are no
external reasons.
From muladhara to agna, there
are many ways. There are many systems through which you can move your
energies to agna, but from agna to sahasrar, there is no way. There is
no path. There is no particular way to do this; it is just a jump. It is
because of this, that so much stress has been laid on the guru-shishya
relationship. The master-disciple relationship has been held as the most
sacred relationship in this culture because of this jump. If you have
to take this jump you need deep trust on the guru.
Now
let us say that you wish to go to Kedarnath right now. Somebody is
driving; the roads are laid out. If you go alone and there is no proper
direction, definitely you would wish there was a map to tell you how to
get there. Similarly, on one level, a guru is just a map. He is a live
map. If you can read the map, you know the way, and thus can go for your
destination. A guru can also be like your bus driver. Even if you fall
off to sleep in die bus, the driver would take you to Kedarnath, but to
sit in this bus and doze off, or to sit in this bus joyfully, you need
to trust the driver. If every moment, with every curve on the road, you
go on thinking, "will this man kill me? Will this man go off the road?
What intention does he have?" then you will go mad sitting in the bus.
Similarly, a guru needs your trust; if there is no trust you will drive
yourself mad.
This
is not just for sitting in a bus or going on a spiritual journey. To
live on this planet, you need trust. Right now, you trust unconsciously.
Let us say you are sitting in a bus, which is just a bundle of nuts and
bolts and pieces of metal. But unknowingly, you trust
this vehicle so much, isn't it? You have placed your life in the hands
of this mechanical mess, which is just nuts and bolts, rubbers and
wires. You have placed your life on it, because you trust the bus
unconsciously. The same trust, if it arises consciously, would do
miracles to you. When we say trust, we are not talking about anything
new in life. To be here, to take every breath in and out, you need
trust. Your trust is unconscious. I am only asking you to bring a little
consciousness to your trust. It is not something new. life is trust,
otherwise nobody can exist here.
So, if you can
draw your own map, if you can drive your own bus, it is wonderful. But
on an uncharted path, if you go without a map, it may take a lifetime to
find a certain place. But if you go with a map you can find your
destination easily.
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