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Guruji on the 4 Traditions of Śrī Vidya
Video courtesy of William Thomas
English
Video courtesy of William Thomas
Video courtesy of William Thomas
Video courtesy of William Thomas
Video courtesy of William Thomas
Video courtesy of William Thomas
TRANSCRIPTION:
Question: I remember if I may ask, you said you didn't want to go into the past life, but if you could go into one, about your past life … can you shed some light, how you found out?
Guruji: If I were a politician, I would say "I would rather not answer this question". Well, I think Her grace, and the mediation; you can go through, through regression, you can go through. If you remember who you were, you can go through, if you go back. It'll come automatically to you. You don't have to search for it. If you get concentrated on Anahata sound, it'll take you through your birth, until you are fed up with it. And I'm having enough problems in this life. I don't know….
But to give you a brief idea of what I had been going through if you want to know. I was a sanyasi who went begging in Kashi to a place and I was waiting, waiting, outside almost exhausted on the point of death. And then I was waiting for…, and the lady of the house came and she brought the food on a golden plate. I saw that I didn't take it and then I died. That was my previous birth, I was a sannyasi. Maybe I belonged to the Buddhist order. And then earlier to that I was a soldier who died in a plane crash. And I saw myself falling on a barbed wire. And then I went, through lives, I would not like to talk about not because I didn't want to share them with you; maybe I'll share with you privately, not in public. The reason is that it may appear to be egotistical.
Okay. There have been many, many things, I have seen - 10, 20, and I lost interest, and I told Saraswati - "That's enough, I don't want anything more."
But the way to do this is fairly well-described. It's available in the form of, out of the body experiences after the regression, this concentrating on the…, these kinds of things are there. Then you can study and go, go back into an experience. And I had them in one night, I lived a whole life and I went through a whole life. Expansion Of Time. Various kinds of things are there, but again, the more I go into it, the more questions are generated. So it is much better to have your own experience rather than...
But I do have a Guru, to whom I can go in the case of a difficulty. Fortunately, in my case it happens to be Guru inside of me, so I don't have to go anywhere. And I wish to communicate the way in which you can get connected to your inner Guru. That would be the most appropriate thing I could do. Not give you the experience directly, but the means to get an experience is what is communicable. And that's what I would like to try. The ritual is one means, meditation is one means, yoga is one means, tantra is one means. There are so many ways, so many paths. You have to choose the right path. And when the time is right, the Guru comes to you and the Guru is inside of you. Your own effort is the Guru.