H.H.Tat Wale Babaji's Thougths on Human Life:

1. To find God and attain Self-realization you must have faith, trust and love.
2. The mind resides in our imagination, trust resides in the brain, and love resides in our hearts.
3. If you want to become something new, you must completely destroy what you were before.
4. A person can find peace and God by using japa (repeating the name of God), and tapas (spiritual penance).
5. With a dirty mind it is difficult to find God.
6. Using trickery and cunningness it is impossible to find Self-realization.
7. Don't desire things that are impossible for you, and what you have don't misuse.
8. You must think that your duty is your religion, then the world will attain peace.
9. Fear and anxiety creates politics.
10. Using japa, tapas and spiritual pursuit anyone can change their destiny.
11. If you want to have the same happiness you have now in this life again in your next life, you must do tapas.
12. To achieve liberation, chant the mantra, meditate and surrender to God.
13. If you want to enjoy life, keep your body, mind and brain active.
14. Someone engaged in selfish activities is human.
15. Someone engaged in selfless activities is like a Demigod.
16. In times of faithlessnesas, when a person comes to help you he or she is like a God.
17. If you want peace in your life, be content with what you have.
18. If you want to end your suffering, then you must renounce the source of the suffering.
19. A devotional truthful person cannot understand the intelligent person.
20. A healthy body and honest lifestyle requires handwork.
21. If you want peace in the mind, then always think about God.
22. If you want to control your mind, then develop a friendship with God.
23. If you want to clean your brain, then do service to the guru, God, saints and the elderly.
24. An enlightened person never criticizes the honest devotees of God.
25. It is not a sin to criticize the hypocrites.
26. If you are criticizing other people, you are wasting your time and energy, and losing power.
27. Beside planet Earth, there are no other planets that have human life.
28. Yoga practice is a universal, spiritual super-science.
29. Your karma is your destiny; your destiny is God.

H.H.Tat Wale Babaji's questions of enlightenment:

1. Where is the soul, what is nature, and who is God?
2. What is birth, what is life, and what is death?
3. Who is a demigod, where is God, and what qualities does one need to become a real human?
4. What is the cycle of life and death on Mother Earth, where is heaven, and where is hell?
5. How are all creatures born, what is their lifestyle, and how do they die?
6. How does the universe create, how is the universe preserved, and how is the universe destroyed?
7. How does a soul become a human being, after death where does the soul go, and how does a soul attain liberation?
8. What determines ones destiny, what is karma, and what is the purpose of religion?

An enlightened person is someone who knows all the answers to these twenty-four questions, above. A realized soul also knows the manner in which all creation occurred through the Earth's elements.

Having attained this supreme knowledge one is free of all desires, and bondages. These evolved yogis are no longer slaves to the material world. Any normal human can follow the instructions of these yogis and will attain freedom from the material world.

There are two types of slavery in life. The first category is ruled by enemies outside of oneself and the second is ruled by enemies inside of oneself.

1. People ruled by powerful force; ruled by the highly intelligent; and ruled by the wealthy.

2. People ruled by multiple desires, lusts, and samaskars (desires from past lives).

These enemies of freedom cannot influence an enlightened master. Also free from bondage is a person who is on the path to enlightenment; a person with a strong will, who has renounced the material world and is free from societal attachments.

Religion gives the means to attain happiness, peace and respect in the material world. Moreover, religion teaches divine devotion, knowledge of the soul, and shows you the path to liberation from the birth and death cycle.

Searching for happiness, humans are acquiring material gains using deception, corruption, cheating and hypocricy. This futile search does not give peace, superpowers, heaven or liberation. Instead, it requires yet another human birth. Therefore, one must forget the pursuit of material desires. This is the TRUTH.

Written by Swami Shankardas, disciple of Shri Shri Tat Wale Baba, Bhoothnathgufa, Rishikesh, India, 1995. Translated by Preya Shah, U.S.A 2011.

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