I've been really cooking for the last couple of days with these satsangs and today I really want to talk about the practice of Gandhi.
Some of you know about Gandhi and his and again it's an unpronounceable name but I'm going to try Satya Graha.
It's non-violence and Satya Graha,
He is a person who practices non-violence and we think of it often politically because you know Gandhi got the Brits out of India through the practice of non-violence.
So you know the Indians and the British would face off and the Indians wouldn't defend themselves when the British beat them and finally the British got grossed out by their own brutality and left India.
Okay,
So it's really,
I really want to talk about this as it applies to us,
Our personhood and psychologically because Satya Graha,
You know Gandhi taught these people that they were standing in truth.
These were the principles.
A true Satya Grahi would be fearless,
Would be non-cooperation with any oppression and you know they just would,
It's like it's beyond justice.
It's more it's beyond justice.
He was really training people to tap into their soul energy and stand for the truth of themselves in a non-violent way which is the only way you can stand for your soul energy because if you go into any kind of violence at all it's fear.
Okay,
So many of us are familiar with this idea politically.
You know there were non-violent protests even in North America but we're not so comfortable or familiar with the idea of an individual making a radical decision to be a Satya Grahi to live in truth as an individual apart from any organization.
Just living,
Listening to soul energy,
Following it,
Expressing it.
You know,
Amma talks about being fearless and again Gandhi taught the Indians to be fearless and you know it's one of the hardest things to do in working with you about to transmit the fearlessness because it doesn't transmit.
You know,
The soul energy can be transmitted and strengthens your soul and that will tend to reduce fear but it is also a deep inner choice on your parts to just decide to live in truth and face anything that comes fearlessly.
Face anything that comes inside us or outside us.
This is what this one did and it's been much easier since I,
You know,
With the bond with Amma.
It's like bonding to a generator.
In the early days it was just,
You know,
A very sort of already like heavy ego,
Suffering under as heavy ego and trying to come out from under this heavy ego and trying to live in truth and I used to feel like I was like a car that kept on banging into obstacles,
You know,
Crashing into obstacles because I didn't know how to walk in.
I didn't know myself well.
I didn't really know what truth was and it took me some years of clearing resistances till I could really feel that there was a path and that this one was walking it.
