Best You Reach Out - 11th January 2021

Now, and I was saying to another young one the other day because she said, "I just sometimes I feel like I want to jump out of this window, you see, and kill myself" or something like this. And I said to her that you don't jump out of the window; you jump into an aeroplane and you come to Bangalore, you see. And I want to tell you also the same thing: that instead of going with that kind of thing, you just come. And I think flights and things will also open soon, so it's not going to be that difficult to come.

So the advantage of having a master, a living master, is that when it feels like it is too much, you see, he's available to you as almost like a physical entity to support you, to hold your hand through this. And you see, when things are a little more open and you find yourself a little more spacious, then he's pointing you to the true master within yourself, to the Atma. So you don't have to take any burden either way. You don't have to take any trouble of this sort in any way. So if something becomes too much and you feel like you're in too much pain, too much suffering is happening, just reach out. Just reach out.

And many times I realize that I don't have the best response time because I get a lot of messages and emails every day, but the Satsang, the sangha is there as well. And just, I will promise that I do read every one of your messages, and in that reading there's a prayer that goes to you and I'm with you just in the reading itself. But that's not a great excuse; I have to try to be more responsive as well. But I want to recommend that if you feel like there are sangha members also that you can share with them—just not from a place of, you know, from any place of going to them for them to be superior in some way or for you to be inferior in some way, just like brothers and sisters sharing with each other. You can do some of that as well. But you can just write to me and I'll be very happy. If you are here, then I take care of you whenever.

So these things... but when these things are just so strong, it's easier sometimes to just let it go and let me handle it rather than trying to be too strong and saying, "But this is just a thought, I should not be feeling this," you see? Because that creates like an inner war which can be even more difficult to deal with. That "Now that I am so free and Ananta said it's so easy, and this pain comes, why isn't it easy? I'm not doing it right," you see? All of this thing just adds to the turmoil and it doesn't help. So in those moments, it's best to accept that, yes, this seems really strong at the moment, I need some help. Can I reach out to Ananta? Can I reach out to the sangha? Can I reach out to anyone who's willing to just listen, you see?

And when we are a little more spacious, then of course it is very easy to resonate with our inner master and we don't need that kind of external support or help. So it's very good, it's very, very good to just be very open about these things. And I see this, what you see, that when things are open and light and things like that, it can seem like there's not much compulsion to identify with those feelings, so it can be open and empty easily. But when a familiar feeling of dread or fear or pain of some sort comes—because that is what has been nurtured in the past unwittingly—that can feel like it is very natural to attach to that.