Trust Can Do Miracles

The moment the word 'spirituality' is uttered, a number of misconceptions and misunderstandings surface. A spiritual process is neither an invention, nor something that you create. It is just a life process, which has unfortunately remained beyond common perception. It is the work of a guru to take a person from one dimension of life to another.

Right now, the only things that are in your experience are your body, your mind, and your emotions. You know them to some extent, and you can infer that if these three things have to happen the way they are happening, there must be energy that makes them happen. Without energy these were not possible.

Today modern science is proving that everything you know as life, everything that you know as existence, as cosmos, as galaxies is just an energy that is manifesting itself in millions and millions of ways. The whole process of yoga is about bringing this experiential reality into every human being. When I say yoga, I am not referring to any one particular practice or system. Yoga is the oneness in the existence. Either you can simply go at it with the strength of your emotion, or you can approach it systematically so that you find result as soon as possible. Or in other words, if everything is just one energy, the difference between a rock and a human being is just a question of subtleness of energy. Though it is the same, it is in different levels of subtleness. When it is very gross we call it a rock, when it is in its utmost subtleness, we call it divine.

Positions of energy

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.

Unconscious & Conscious Trust

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.