Vankhandi Maharaj.
The life of yogis is so complicated and difficult that not everyone will be able to walk this path. For some, this is not available at all. It's like climbing up a sheer cliff. I used to make entries in my diary, I recorded various events from my life, but I don't know where these entries are now. Somewhere someone has them stored.
The story of life is not connected with one of your births. The history of a person's life can be understood only in combination with his other lives, as a link in the chain of many rebirths. The experience gained during one birth is not enough to comprehend the whole meaning of one's existence.
Rama said: "You will know God when God himself manifests in you as the knowledge and meaning of all things."
If the meaning of words and phenomena is not available to you, you do not see clarity, harmony and rhythm in them, turn directly to God, and by His mercy He will manifest in your heart and reveal to you the whole meaning directly.
There are fruits that can be plucked and eaten immediately, in a natural form, since nature created them. And you can process them, change their structure, they will also be edible, but it will be a completely different, non-natural product, with a different quality as a result of artificial intervention.
So is knowledge. You can receive them directly from God. They showed you the way – here it is – follow it straight, don't turn off, and it will lead you to the goal. Or you can make yourself dependent on others, seek the help of intermediaries, subject your consciousness to processing, but this will be a different experience, a different quality of knowledge.
Man is most afraid of death. People are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of rupees to prolong their existence for at least one day. They go abroad in search of treatment for the incurable. And that our life is 2 days! One day we come, the other day we leave. And these days are pre-determined. So what's to be afraid of! Nothing can be changed anyway. Neither the date of birth nor the date of death. Even for a moment.
Those who are afraid of death and die in fear are doomed to wander through different circles of hell, reaping the fruits of their karma. Those who are not afraid of death are either born in a human body later, or go to heaven, enjoying the fruits of their righteous life.
A person gripped by fear cannot concentrate on anything. Fear clouds his eyes. He doesn't even notice his children. The fear of approaching death paints terrible pictures to his eyes. Death before the very end is seen to him as a terrible figure with a sword, in clouds of smoke and flame. Consciousness is clouded. A person in such a state cannot even recognize himself. His mind wanders in the dark.
In whom there is no fear, such pictures do not come to him before death. After all, we generate fear ourselves, it is a product of our consciousness. From fear, a person can lose the power of speech, lose the ability to recognize their own and others.
A person passes away with the baggage of values that he has formed during his life – what he held on to, what he believed in, what he prayed for – with that you die.
Mahatma Gandhi as a child was afraid to be alone in a room, afraid to move from one room to another without a babysitter. Until I received wise advice to constantly repeat the Name of the God Rama. The one who constantly keeps his attention on the Divine Name is not afraid of anything. Mahatma Gandhi followed this advice all his life, achieved perfection in this practice and lived with the Name of God on his lips until the end of his days. "Ram Ram" were his last words.
Now we live in a free country, and still, people grab firearms in a moment of danger. Gandhi lived in a time of colonial slavery and violence, while he walked everywhere without any fear with just a staff. He traveled to England and performed freely in front of the British, he wore only a dhoti. Fear was gone from his life forever.
There was a time when Nathuram Gojo threatened Gandhi with murder to his face. And Gandhi, who had a small child sitting on his lap at that moment, calmly responded to the threat: "Wait, now I'll take the child off my lap, then shoot." When, four years later, the real hour of the murder came, and Gojo put several bullets in his chest, Gandhi managed to say, "Ram Ram," and passed away.
Fearlessness is a great gift. An even greater gift is to free from fear. And live in such a way that birds and animals are not afraid of you. This is a wonderful criterion. If birds and animals are not afraid to approach you, then there is no fear in you. Only a coward exudes and instills fear. A person free from fear does not transmit fear to others. The one who threatens, scares and terrifies, is at heart a coward himself and is full of fears. If you're trying to intimidate someone else, then you're just as easily intimidated.
