Lecture of Guruji Mohan, Bremen, 01.10.2001: 

Intelligence means eating, drinking, clothing, in one word we can say: “Khao, pio, maje caro” (= Indian expression). What is “Khao, pio, maje caro” ? Eat, drink and have fun. This is one type of people: Eating, drinking and clothing. This is known as intelligence. And one more type, second type. You have seen some Indian ….., Indian Sadhus, fathers in monastery, nuns in monastery. What they are doing? Renunciation – they think this world is not good. They pretend themselves, we are going to search something higher. If we are going to search something higher, then this is not good to live in this world. So they want to renounce, they want to give up, they don’t like eating, they don’t like clothing, they don’t like other things. Two type(s) of people, one is intelligence, second is renunciation, to renounce, to heal the world. These two kind(s) of ideology, two kind(s) of thoughts, they gave much more harm to our body. These two ideas, these two ideas - intelligence, renunciation, both are harmful. Because both the ideas, intelligence-people they give different kind(s) of problem to their body. They go to the pubs, they drink wine, they think clothes is everything, they think eating food is everything, nothing else. Today we are eating, tomorrow we don’t know. They give (a) certain kind of problem to their body and their body suffers. There is a suffering in (the) body because of intelligence. And (the) second type (of) people, they also give suffering, they fast, they do yoga, they sit in ….., they chant certain kind of mantras, many, many years they don’t drink properly, they don’t eat properly,  they criticize eating, they criticize drinking, they all the time, this kind of people they are standing naked in India. These kind of people,  they do ( …   ) harm, they create problems in the society. Your body is the most important thing. Your body is the first step to go towards universe, to know unknown things, to know what is soul? Now your body, this soul you can say  I don’t know where is soul? What is God? I don’t like, what is God, where is God? You can say easily.

But I remember in my childhood my grandmother loved her garden very much. Many people 30 years before they praised her garden, many friends, visitors they wanted to see her garden. She had many flowers, many plants, many nice plants, medicion (medical) plants, different kind(s) of flowers. Her garden was very beautiful. And one day she was ill. When she was being taken to hospital, she was worried about her garden. “What will happen? Who will look after this garden?” She never believed my father because my father was careless. I was 15 years old. She told me “Oh young boy, can you look after my garden?”  I assured my grandmother “ I will do definitely this duty. You please go to the hospital, live there, and afterwards you come and you see your garden.” Every day I was cleaning the leaves of the plant(s), I was looking after the flowers, I was kissing every flower, one day, second day(s) five day(s), ten day(s). But I want to tell you the truth: After so much care these plants withered. They lost shining, there is no blossoming. I did every, every effort, I gave too much love, but this was in vain. There was no meaning. After 15 days my grandma came and she became very unhappy. She told me: “You are a foolish man! You promised to look after my garden, but you can see every flower is dead. There is no shining.” I explained my grandmother that “everything, I did every work, day and night. After this plants are withering.” Then she looked after the garden again and she told me. “You are looking after only the flowers. You are looking after only the leaves. My dear boy, you are not looking after the roots. These flowers are because of the roots. If you look after the roots properly, then flowers are maintained. If  you look after the root of a plant properly, then leaves are maintained.” 

And this was my mistake. I accepted that mistake, and since that day I started to search what is the main root, main root in human body. Where is the main root in human body?

What is the most important source of energy in your body, this is the question. On which point? Your soul is there. Where is the root of your life? How to find out this point? These were the questions, these questions started to work at my mind. I was thinking myself deeply. If you ask a man, what is the most important part in your body, man will say: Head is the most important part. If you ask a woman, what is the most important part in your body, woman will say: Heart is the most important part in my body. I want to tell you, mind is the flower of a tree. You know that roots are not visible, you cannot see the roots. This is not the meaning that there are no roots. Roots are there, but they are invisible. Flowers are there, flowers are visible, leaves are visible, but  roots are invisible. In the same way your mind is visible. Your feelings are visible. But there are certain thing(s) which are invisible in your body. You are giving more and more stress on your thinking. Thinking is the centre of your brain. You will laugh to this even that, suppose you have eyes and now you tell your eyes: Now you go and eat. Can your eyes eat? Your ears, you tell your ears: Go and eat, can they eat? This is not possible. But you are doing the same thing. Mind is thinking-centre. You are going to think, day and night. At night-time also you are thinking. You don’t know. I was reading one psychological book. In that book this was written: There are many sleep-laboratories in (the) USA. People go there, they sleep there and these laboratories they test your dreams, what you see at night-time when you go to bed. And these laboratories tell  that most of the people, when they sleep, they do the same activities what they are doing in daytime. If a shopkeeper is selling things in daytime and at night-time in sleep-laboratories the shopkeeper is selling the things in his dream. If a businessman is doing business work  during daytime, at night-time the businessman is doing the same business. Sleep-laboratories, they say, 90 % of your action at the time of dream you are doing the same thing. If you are violent during your dreamtime, you are violent also. If you are peaceful during dreamtime, you are peaceful also. This is the meaning. In daytime and night-time you are in so much tension. There is a big tension in your brain. And this tension, if you disturb a man, the man can become mad. You know, many, many, hundred thousand(s) of people every day they go in psychoanalysis in (the) USA. This psychoanalysis came into existence because of your mind. These psychological things, they are becoming more and more famous because of your mind. And nowadays ….. and diseases, they are coming because of your mind. Nowadays there is a term: psychosomatic. This psychosomatic is coming because of your mind. This is the meaning, day and night you are in tension. The string of your mind is so tighten that nobody knows when this mind will break down. I want to give you one information: At your brain there are 70 million nerves. These 70 million nerves in your brain. This is  a small brain and you are giving so much pressure. You think yourself, these nerves will (be) break down one day? You are giving more and more education to your mind. Nowadays I think people they don’t love, they are loving their thinking. They don’t feel, they feel in their thinking, they don’t eat, they eat in their thinking. Thinking is the most important thing. Thinking is taking (the) place of eating, thinking is taking (the) place of love, thinking is taking (the) place of hate, thinking is taking (the) place of everything in your life. And this thinking,  ……, you are giving so much attention towards thinking, morning to evening, night-time, in dreamtime. This thinking will create chaos. And one day there will be Third World War because of your thinking.

This thinking is the centre of mind. You are feeling hungry, but you are thinking (if) I should eat or not. You stomach is creating hunger but your mind says I will not eat or I will eat. Thinking is a centre, the duty of the centre is to think, not  to function. If you are going to love a woman, then thinking is most important thing. When thinking is there then you cannot do love. If thinking is there, then you cannot do many things, you cannot feel many things. Feeling is also important. If you reject your feeling and you supersede your thinking… In my meditation class I have seen  that some people, they were asking many questions about meditation. What do I think about meditation? Meditation is not thinking. They are meditating because they are thinking. Thinking is a different thing. That’s why I am telling you: that if  your eyes start to eat something, if your ears start to smell something, this is dysfunctioning of your body. And this dysfunctioning created chaos in human mind, human body. And this chaos is the main reason of unhappiness. Now the second centre: Feeling centre. Feeling-centre is heart-centre. I want to tell you, this is very typical that two things cannot exist in one time. Either love will exist or hate will exist. This is the same thing: at the same time you are alive or dead. In morning time one woman says “ I love this man”, and afternoon she says “ I hate this man”. These are the two things, and they are living in one heart. I don’t say that this is love or hate. This is the meaning there is a correlation, there is a degree.  If you are less in love, then hate is functioning, if you are in more love, then hate is going backside.  You don’t know what is love? But you know only the relation, less(er) or more. And this less(er) and more is the main reason that your feeling-centre is disturbed by your thinking-centre. You have no feeling. Feeling is going to die. Your thinking is becoming more and more important, and this thinking is creating problem, interfering your feeling-centre and feeling-centre is cripple. If you are in love then there is no  …. If you are in peace, then there is no question of war. I was reading Mahatma Ghandi. Mahatma Ghandi says: Third World War, Second World War is ended, in is autobiography he is writing, there is the end of Second World War,  there is no peace. All the nations in the world they are talking about peace. Mahatma Ghandi says, I tell you the truth, “There is no peaceful time in mankind. Either they are fighting war or they are preparing for war. Second World War is ended, and we are preparing for Third World War”. This is lesser hate. This is the degree. This is a gradation. You can say 30° water temperature, 100° water temperature, if 100° water temperature, you can say I’m in love. 30° water temperature, you can say I’m in hate, every day. Are you a human being? Again some mistake. I am pointing out this mistake in your life. I have realized this mistake in my  life. When thinking point, thinking-centre disturb(ed) in our body, then our body  is becoming cripple. When you think about this thing, this lesser hate, more hate. We don’t know heart. Mostly we have forgotten the feeling, what is feeling? Nobody knows feeling. Feeling is going to die. Then what is the meaning? That there is world war or not? Then what is the meaning? Whether intelligence is working or not? What is the meaning, democratic value is less or not? What is the meaning? There is no sense, if feeling-centre is died, that everything is right. In Western countries I have this experience also here in ten years, in Western countries love means bargaining. In Western countries love means satisfaction, in Western countries love means to be a slave. These are the definitions. There is no meaning of feeling. There is no meaning of sacrifice. There is no meaning of higher value of  feelings in your heart.

This feeling-centre, your mind is ruling your feeling-centre. In other words I can say like this: This feeling-centre is disturbed, there is no meaning. This mind is disturbed, mind is in tension. This body is like an instrument of veena,  veena is a musical instrument in India. If we tension the strings of veena there is a nice music. This body is a musical instrument. But the strings, mind-string is tighten(ed), and heart-string is loose. How can this music come in this body? There is no music. My aim: to create music, to create balance, to come down from your mind, to go towards feeling-centre. Then you can search the basic root, then you can realize what is  the main root of your life, what is the main centre where soul begins. Then you can say: There is soul. Before this, how can you say, there is soul? You are meditating on your mind. You are meditating on your feelings. Is this possible? To find a solution? Now today evening we will do one thing. I am telling you the truth: Today evening the string of your mind should be loose. And how can you make it loose? I say that relax,  you will not relax, I know this thing. Since many, many years I have been working with meditation classes, talking with meditation-looking and people. If I say: relax, they don’t relax. They pretend. Or they say: I have seen a colour, red colour, white colour, blue colour. They pretend in many ways. But mind is still working. Here I am giving you a trick, little bit trick, how to relax your mind. Maybe this trick can work. You see, you can find a difference between relaxation and tension. At present your mind is in tension. And I am telling that mind is in tension. You do one thing: This is your hand. You create tension, more tension in your mind. You create more tension and then open your hand. You do like this. You are sitting, please relax. And you think yourself that I am in tension. This is thinking-matter. You think, I am in tension. Then you put your fist like this: I am in tension, I am in tension. You do like this: I am in tension, I am in tension, and make pressure, and open this (hand) like this. One more time. Please, you don’t hesitate. Why do you shy here? Because I have come from India to here to talk with you and you are becoming shy, you are escaping from me, this is not good. Hallo, yes. Now I say, please create tension, then you create tension. I have the (hand) straightened already. Yes, please, create tension. --- And loose, open this (hand). One more time. Because we are trying to come downside from your mind, from your tension, so that you can feel. The feeling-centre can function in a different way. Feeling should be more authentic. Yes, create tension  (….)

This feeling-centre  …. In nine months you are sleeping peacefully, you are eating, you are getting energy, electric energy from your mother, and all of a sudden they, this energy is  disturbed. There is a chaos. No more electric feeding, no more feeding. And navel-chord is cut. Then you weep. This weeping is not because your are coming on the earth, this weeping because you are disturbed, you are not in peaceful sleep, you are not getting food. Your mother is separated and you are separated. This first separation from your mother because of this separation you weep. And later on, immediately your mother gives breast. Your mother feeds through her breast. Then this breast-feeding is the second centre. This breast-feeding is the feeling-centre. If your mother is feeding for (a) long time, if your mother is feeding four years, five years, I tell you the truth, the feeling-centre will be very, very good. If your mother is not feeding long, your mother is feeding only five months, three months, or your mother is feeding some fast food, this fast food will create tension in your thinking. This fast food will create problem in your feeling because you should be more and more near the heart of your mother. If you are not more and more near the heart of  mother, then there will be a tension. And this tension will create disturbance in the whole society. This is the duty of a mother. As long as child wants to feed from breast, mother should allow. If mother is not allowing the child this breast-feeding, then this feeling-centre is disturbed. And now you can think yourself: How many people they are being disturbed? How many people they have chaotic life? How we can blame Bin Laden? You are blaming Bin Laden but this Bin Laden, they were 18 brothers, and these 18 brothers, their mother was not feeding. There is no centre of feeling. They are like machine. They are foolish people. They are creating the world in a different way. So this war, this problem, this feeling-centre is important. And we have to be in a certain kind of system. If we are not in a certain kind of system, then feeling-centre will disturb this mental centre.

Our mind is (a) thinking-centre, our heart is feeling-centre. These two centres, they are just like (a) bye-product because they come into existence after your birth. They are no given-centres. These centres – feeling, you learn from your mother, - thinking, you learn from your  society, from your school or at (the) university. Thinking is ruling,  and feeling is ruling. There is no meaning of feeling. This disturbance in our life is the most important problem. If  mankind, if we people will not give attention towards these centres, if we will not create such kind of school for feeling-centre - we have created university, we have created schools for thoughts, for our  thinking, but we have not created any feeling-schools. This is necessary. In (the) future every person has to do something for feeling. If feeling is destroyed, then people will be like machine, and there will be no end, no meaning, no meaning of life, no belief of this planet, and everywhere there is violence. My aim is to create such kind of meditation so that people can learn more, they can do more and more, they can help other  people more and more, so that the feelings can restore in human body. This feeling will give you a new way of life. I am telling you: This mind is not the main root of your life, this feeling is not the main root of your life – your main root of your life is in your navel-centre because from your navel-centre you are born in your mother and you come on the earth through this navel-centre. If you want to know more and more about the root of your life, then you have to come down from mind to heart and heart to navel – this is a long journey. Then you can know where is your root, what is your task – what you are going to do, what you are not going to do. This evening  I am thinking that I am trying to make a balance : mind – heart – and navel. In this balance you will think tonight. If you have any questions about this, about feeding, about navel, about your thinking, tomorrow I will sit in my camp. You may come, you can ask, I can give you practical thing also. If you have (a) personal problem, I can consider personally. So this evening I say thank you very much that you come and attended my lecture, especially I want to give thanks to my organizers, Kai, and my translator Angelika, and Nora and Franziska. Thank you very much.

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