Bowing Down, Means I Am Giving The Ego To You

Sri Ramakant Maharaj a recorded discussion from Ranjit Ashram in Nashik of Satsang with Sri Ramakant Maharaj February 24, 2012.

Today’s questions?

Q: I have a powerful experience today. That vibration we have been talking about, lately it somehow it changed frequency and became more intense. This morning suddenly, it personified into Ranjit Maharaj image and I felt 100% trust there. With this experience. I used to have with Ramesh Balsekar and with you, but never with a person who had passed away. This morning that experience was with Ranjit Maharaj. During morning Bhajans also I felt his presence.

Very nice. Everything opens.

Q: Yes, it feels like something inside opens by itself without my efforts.

It comes out of you only. This is the reflection of your spirit. Nisargadatta Maharaj rightly says that except yourself there is no god, nothing is there. Spontaneous reflections appear before you and you assume the seen. The seen is a reflection of seer. Whatever you see, Ranjit Maharaj, Ramesh Balsekar, myself, and so on, it is the seen of seer. It is a good sign. It means that, see, human life we are looking for happiness, everybody.

In human life, everybody wants happiness, peace, tension free life, fearless life. For which in human life everybody is struggling. Spiritual science says there are three types of happiness known to the people. Publicity, some people want publicity, they want to be known to get happiness. Some people are after money, they want to extract money for a source of happiness. Some people are after sex. Spiritual science says these three types. Your happiness is beyond that. Here in these three types of happiness, some object is required. Some material cause is required. But in the case of that spiritual happiness, there is no material cause. There is no object, there is no man, no woman, no money, no publicity, it is spontaneous happiness which cannot be defined cannot be explained in words. I am trying to establish that happiness.

At that moment you are totally fearless, no tension is there. Even some clouds, black clouds are coming, but you are not taking any touch of the black clouds or any circumstances. You are keeping yourself totally aloof, aloof, because you are in your own spiritual life. The life cannot be described but you feel it, there is feeling, spontaneous feeling should be there.

Q: Yes. His image sometime melts down and I felt only myself and he came back again and anyway the same vibration I felt it was very strong.

This is a sign that ego is melting. Intellect, ego and mind is melting, a melting process. You are getting open and open.

Q: Yes, I could see my ego, mind like energy, energy moving.

Ultimately you are coming close with you. Ego, intellect and all that mind will be totally dissolved. Even though you are having experience with the mind, ego, intellect, but you are not giving any importance to all these. You are not taking any qualities from these. These are stages. So, therefore you see everybody bowing down, that means I am giving the ego to you, Master. So, I am totally egoless, no mind, intellect.

Q: Yes, that happened to me when I bowed down to Ramesh Balsekar the first time. And it happened spontaneously, I was shocked, my ego disappeared suddenly.

Yes. That is the basic. But, since ego did not disappear, ego does not dissolve. If you are trying to pray to gods or master’s with ego, that purpose is not severd. Because ego is there ‘I am somebody else, why should I bow down?’ That ego is there, that is a hinderance in life, spiritual life. So, purpose behind it, to give respect to you and to give respect to your Master. Unique example Eklavya. Very, very, unique example. Though Master rejected him “I will not give this knowledge because of certain circumstances.’ But he had full faith in Master. Out of that faith, he got such a knowledge that even Master is surprised. ‘How did he do this?’ Just to encourage, internal Master, external Master is a must.

To be stable in spiritual life your ego is supposed to be dissolved totally. Ego is the cause of your loss of mental happiness. After knowing this spiritual life, this ego, intellect, mind. The moment it dissolves totally you will have such a feeling that cannot be explained in any words. Prior to having this spiritual knowledge, you lived life with the help of ego, intellect, mind. The moment you realize that behind all this ego, mind, intellect my presence is there. At that time the forces or the impressions of the ego, intellect, mind, totally dissolve. One thing to keep in mind for everybody, what we need is happiness, not with the help of any material object or causes but that internal happiness. Instead of searching here and there, if at all you want to search, you search within yourself. So many people, so many masters, so many temples you will get some temporary happiness. One thing is that we need a fearless life. Everybody is having the fear of death. And that moment is very, very, painful. If you are to overcome this fear of death, you have to undergo this spirituality. Find out who is dying and who is taking birth. Death and birth are related to the body only. Spiritual science says that you are not body. Don’t count yourself in body form. It is easy to understand at an intellectual level. But not an internal level. Therefore, in our lineage, sadhana is given. That means you have to recite that Mantra repeatedly. After reciting continuously that Mantra, some dramatic, some miraculous changes are taking place within you internally, internal part of the body.

Because we are a slave of our mind, ego and intellect. We are trying to live under the force of these three things. If it all you want to remove the force of this mind, ego, intellect you have to undergo this discipline. In that case you must have strong faith within you as well as your Master. It is not a blind faith, keep in mind. Because through the media of the Master, you are inviting attention of the listener that you are the source of all this world. So far you are considering yourself as a man or woman and you wanted to extract happiness through this body. Body is having some limitations. Child, young man, old man, all this are body having some limitations. But, spirit is not a child, or young man or old man. This type of concentration is required. Therefore, you must have total humbleness and politeness. Then your ego, intellect, mind will be dissolved. Casual devotion will not work. You must have total devotion.

Because in our lineage we are not expecting any money, or anything commercially. Since you are here, you must know yourself in a real sense. There should not be a dual mind. Be firm. Your foundation, your foundation of spirituality is supposed to be very, very strong. All questions arising within you will be totally, automatically solved. Then thereafter, ultimate stage you will be totally fearless. The main fear, that fear of death, you will overcome that death fear. The main fear within the being of death. When you come to know the secret of death, automatically, you won’t have the fear of death. Because, you realize that birth and death are connected with the body only. I am not body. Simple, after leaving the body whether they are burning or burying, I am not concerned with that. That conviction is most important. Unless you have conviction, doing something, external spirituality will not help you.

One should be very serious to know oneself. In this way I am not discouraging you to live your routine life. You live your routine life very happily. But you know yourself in a real sense. One thing the source of happiness is not the body. It is a temporary relief you are getting through body. You are getting temporary relief, whatever enjoyment you are getting through the body, it is temporary relief. Just like cookie and tea, it is a temporary relief. You must develop your own taste without any object or without any material cause. So, beyond that happiness, nothing is there in the world. I am inviting the attention of the silent, invisible listener within you. Don’t measure yourself in body form. In the world, hundreds of thousands of attractions are there. That is called Maya. You just know what is Maya. These are illusions. As a matter of fact, there is not any existence. The thing that is not real, you see it as real. Just like a mirage. You know mirage?

Q: Yes.

Therefore, basic thing. You must have strong faith within yourself, strong faith with your Master. You are supposed to be totally surrendered with the Master. To your internal Master.

Sri Ramakant Maharaj