Impression and expression

Weekly Knowledge #147
Calcutta
02 Apr 1998
India

*Impression And Expression*

Do not make an effort to impress others, or to express yourself. Your effort to express yourself becomes an impediment. Your effort to impress someone also becomes futile. If you do not try to impress, expression comes naturally. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

Often you don't seem to have a control over your impressions and expressions. Wisdom is selecting your impressions and expressions. Enlightenment is when you do not take any impressions at all, whether good or bad. Then you "master" the art of expression. Many impressions in the mind cause:

- Confusion

- Distraction

- Chaos

- Lack of focus

- and finally, derangement of the mind.

Nature has inbuilt in us a system through which it releases some of the impressions - through dreams, and through meditation.

Excessive expression loses the depth and luster, the serenity of yourself. Meditation erases the impressions and improves the expression.

�� *Jai Guru Dev* ��

Changes after kriya

Q. After kriya, lot of changes have happened mentally and physically, but some sort of sorrow keeps coming in. How do I get over this?

#SriSri: You have come here, now leave all your sorrow here. You just keep the faith that everything will be good.

Temples on hills

Q. Why temples are built on hills in India?

#SriSri: When you walk up the hill, there will be a difference in your body and breathe, inside some sort of kriya happens. And when you go inside the temple and sit, the mind calms down. That is why they built temples on hills. When you walk pranayama happens, when you go up the hill, body gets an exercise and when you go up there and sit, meditation happens very naturally. God is inside us, the only way to meet God is meditation. As you sit to meditate, then gradually you will be calm and peaceful from within, after that it will be blissful, after that there will be lot of light & clarity, that is God, that is Divine.

Marriage an obstacle to enlightenment

Q:Is Marriage an obstacle to enlightenment?

#SriSri: If you think it's an obstruction, then it will be. If you think it won't be an obstruction, then it won't be. It depends on us. There are so many people who do seva even after being married. It all depends on the state of our mind.

Blaming

Q: What should one do if someone blames us about something we didn't do?

#SriSri: Without knowing if they say something, you should educate them about the facts, the situation and then ignore. Then let it go.

Shiva has no form

Q: You said Shiva has no form. Then all the stories in Shiva Purana - are they not right?

#SriSri: In the scriptures, the Puranas, they have only given examples. The principle in those stories is what you need to take.

Moksha

Q: Is it possible to attain Moksha without reading the scriptures?

#SriSri: It is possible through Meditation, no need to read so many scriptures. If devotion is there, it comes very naturally.