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Swami: Pretty close but let me tell my small story as an example. I’m telling about one Shiva Ratri day in India. The Shiva Ratri means it’s one of my favorite festivals. I love that festival. It’s the Shiva’s festival. My favorite place is Sri Sailam. It’s a thickest forest where Adi Shankaracharya meditated thousands of years back in the caves. Still we can see it. I showed many people. And he drew a Sri Chakra like the petals and stuff on a rock. Still we can see that.
That particular Shiva Ratri day, I woke up like 3 p.m. and thought, “Why can’t I go to Sri Sailam. It’s like about seven hours drive. On that day I really wanted to touch his Shiva lingam on the...” That’s my desire. It really came very strong. I called the helicopter people, “Hey can you go to Sri Sailam?” The helicopter operator said, “Why not. I’ll land in the ashram and we’ll go there.” The helicopter landed and me, Dr. Smith, and one more guy, my construction engineer, we went. I’m sitting in front with the pilot and these two guys sat in the back. We went. In Sri Sailam how many people were there?
Ron: A million.
Swami: You counted them?
Ron: Well there’s a million or more people every year that goes there for the Shiva Ratri festival. As we approached Sri Sailam, which is a tiny little temple town inside of a huge forest. There’s nothing for miles around. All of the sudden there’s a temple town cut out of a forest. And as we approached it we started to see people in every single open space everywhere. There was a sea of people. The helicopter approached the area, and there’s a helicopter landing place behind the temple which is also full of cars. As the helicopter approached and started to circle to land, there was some police there to move the cars. But then crowds of people just started coming from everywhere to, toward that area.
The helicopter tried to land and the pilot couldn’t land because it was too dangerous. And from what I could see, you and the pilot were talking back and forth and the pilot was sweating. And you were telling him strongly to land and he circled up and around the massive people underneath and we flew up the hill behind the temple to a rocky area. And the helicopter lowered toward the ground. People were running up the hill towards us. When we were maybe fifteen feet off the ground, you opened the door and jumped out, and the helicopter pilot took off immediately and started circling around you and we were watching. You started running away from the people. They were all running towards you, and you were running down the hill. But soon there were too many people and we lost sight of you in the people. Then all the sudden, out of nowhere a motorcycle came to you and you jumped on back of it and took off. Many hours later, by Baba’s grace, we found you again or you found us.
Swami: There’s a law in India, generally before we go there, we need to get a permission. The helicopter landed and I said no worry let’s go. It’s completely forest and crowded with people. There’s no landing place. Then about fifteen, twenty feet up, there’s a small kind of rock with a bushes. I told the pilot, “Just you stay there and I’ll jump.” He said, “Are you crazy Swami? You might lose your legs, you might fall off and kill yourself.” I said to the pilot who’s a good friend, “You trust me.” He said, “I know, I trust you but it’s very dangerous.” Also forty-five minutes already we circled around there. I said, “I want to see the Shiva today! I want to go in the temple. Otherwise we’ll have to go far away to land. Don’t worry I’ll just jump. I’m active. Just put it.” I jumped. Just thinking on him very strongly with the strong devotion. That’s illusion. I should not do that. But with strong spirit I jumped. I stood up. I looked at my legs. I’m ok.
Then I turned and looked at the people - like thousand people are chasing me. They want to touch me. They’re very close. I started running. Then one smart guy, he came from somewhere with his motorbike. He said, “Just come on, jump.” It’s like a movie. I jumped on the motorbike and went to the temple. Huge crowd. Without permission you can’t go inside. The big police officer came, “Who gave you permission, to you to land the helicopter and coming here today?” I told him, “Shiva.” He turned with such a red face. Then inside the temple, officer came. He told the other officer, “He always does like that. It’s ok. Whenever he wants to do certain things, he shows up, it’s fine.”
I went to the Shiva temple, had darshan, then to the Mother Divine temple and also had darshan there. I’m unbelievably hungry. Since the morning I hadn’t eaten anything. Just sitting close by to the temple. The first time I asked to the priests, “You have any Prasad, or any seeds, some food or something I can have?” “Sorry Swami, we gave everything out to all the thousands of people. Only the flowers are left.” I said, “Ok that’s my karma. It’s fine.” Then there’s a small tap there if I want to drink the water. Few minutes just I closed my eyes deeply thinking what is the illusion. Pretty good I was super dizzy. From nowhere one guy brought two packets of lemon rice. Super tasty lemon rice. He said, “I kept this secretly. Now you can eat this.” Just the tears started in my eyes. That’s the proof. It’s late night. Ok just I had two bites, and water, and search again where Ron and the engineer is. I found them outside of the gate hanging. I pulled them inside.
Why I’m saying this, if we have the Divine protection circles around us, even if you jump out from a helicopter, or you’re starving, you’re well protected. Then if you lose the protection circles, the Kalachakra, the game will start on you. First you got it, whatever... Every person has a protection energy, what you call a Guardian Angel. If it’s not strong enough, then you start to face the problems. If it’s very strong, you’ll miss it, you’ll escape and come out from that.
So you need to get those Protection Circles as much as you can in your life. The protection circles you can develop through the deep inner silence. To develop that deep inner silence in you, there’s only the Sky Mantra that you did last night. And today I’m going to give the prayers too to develop the Protection Circles, the Guardian Angel, to become very strong on you – super strong. Certain angles no matter what you’ll be protected. Then if it gets less, then types of horrible things can happen.
That particular Shiva Ratri day, I woke up like 3 p.m. and thought, “Why can’t I go to Sri Sailam. It’s like about seven hours drive. On that day I really wanted to touch his Shiva lingam on the...” That’s my desire. It really came very strong. I called the helicopter people, “Hey can you go to Sri Sailam?” The helicopter operator said, “Why not. I’ll land in the ashram and we’ll go there.” The helicopter landed and me, Dr. Smith, and one more guy, my construction engineer, we went. I’m sitting in front with the pilot and these two guys sat in the back. We went. In Sri Sailam how many people were there?
Ron: A million.
Swami: You counted them?
Ron: Well there’s a million or more people every year that goes there for the Shiva Ratri festival. As we approached Sri Sailam, which is a tiny little temple town inside of a huge forest. There’s nothing for miles around. All of the sudden there’s a temple town cut out of a forest. And as we approached it we started to see people in every single open space everywhere. There was a sea of people. The helicopter approached the area, and there’s a helicopter landing place behind the temple which is also full of cars. As the helicopter approached and started to circle to land, there was some police there to move the cars. But then crowds of people just started coming from everywhere to, toward that area.
The helicopter tried to land and the pilot couldn’t land because it was too dangerous. And from what I could see, you and the pilot were talking back and forth and the pilot was sweating. And you were telling him strongly to land and he circled up and around the massive people underneath and we flew up the hill behind the temple to a rocky area. And the helicopter lowered toward the ground. People were running up the hill towards us. When we were maybe fifteen feet off the ground, you opened the door and jumped out, and the helicopter pilot took off immediately and started circling around you and we were watching. You started running away from the people. They were all running towards you, and you were running down the hill. But soon there were too many people and we lost sight of you in the people. Then all the sudden, out of nowhere a motorcycle came to you and you jumped on back of it and took off. Many hours later, by Baba’s grace, we found you again or you found us.
Swami: There’s a law in India, generally before we go there, we need to get a permission. The helicopter landed and I said no worry let’s go. It’s completely forest and crowded with people. There’s no landing place. Then about fifteen, twenty feet up, there’s a small kind of rock with a bushes. I told the pilot, “Just you stay there and I’ll jump.” He said, “Are you crazy Swami? You might lose your legs, you might fall off and kill yourself.” I said to the pilot who’s a good friend, “You trust me.” He said, “I know, I trust you but it’s very dangerous.” Also forty-five minutes already we circled around there. I said, “I want to see the Shiva today! I want to go in the temple. Otherwise we’ll have to go far away to land. Don’t worry I’ll just jump. I’m active. Just put it.” I jumped. Just thinking on him very strongly with the strong devotion. That’s illusion. I should not do that. But with strong spirit I jumped. I stood up. I looked at my legs. I’m ok.
Then I turned and looked at the people - like thousand people are chasing me. They want to touch me. They’re very close. I started running. Then one smart guy, he came from somewhere with his motorbike. He said, “Just come on, jump.” It’s like a movie. I jumped on the motorbike and went to the temple. Huge crowd. Without permission you can’t go inside. The big police officer came, “Who gave you permission, to you to land the helicopter and coming here today?” I told him, “Shiva.” He turned with such a red face. Then inside the temple, officer came. He told the other officer, “He always does like that. It’s ok. Whenever he wants to do certain things, he shows up, it’s fine.”
I went to the Shiva temple, had darshan, then to the Mother Divine temple and also had darshan there. I’m unbelievably hungry. Since the morning I hadn’t eaten anything. Just sitting close by to the temple. The first time I asked to the priests, “You have any Prasad, or any seeds, some food or something I can have?” “Sorry Swami, we gave everything out to all the thousands of people. Only the flowers are left.” I said, “Ok that’s my karma. It’s fine.” Then there’s a small tap there if I want to drink the water. Few minutes just I closed my eyes deeply thinking what is the illusion. Pretty good I was super dizzy. From nowhere one guy brought two packets of lemon rice. Super tasty lemon rice. He said, “I kept this secretly. Now you can eat this.” Just the tears started in my eyes. That’s the proof. It’s late night. Ok just I had two bites, and water, and search again where Ron and the engineer is. I found them outside of the gate hanging. I pulled them inside.
Why I’m saying this, if we have the Divine protection circles around us, even if you jump out from a helicopter, or you’re starving, you’re well protected. Then if you lose the protection circles, the Kalachakra, the game will start on you. First you got it, whatever... Every person has a protection energy, what you call a Guardian Angel. If it’s not strong enough, then you start to face the problems. If it’s very strong, you’ll miss it, you’ll escape and come out from that.
So you need to get those Protection Circles as much as you can in your life. The protection circles you can develop through the deep inner silence. To develop that deep inner silence in you, there’s only the Sky Mantra that you did last night. And today I’m going to give the prayers too to develop the Protection Circles, the Guardian Angel, to become very strong on you – super strong. Certain angles no matter what you’ll be protected. Then if it gets less, then types of horrible things can happen.
