Webcast with Vikramji and Venezuela- August 14

(Apparent technical issues at beginning. Confusion about the first question.)

You're in your heart. You don't have intellect. No questions, no answers, no nothing. You are like a new baby that has been reborn. Now you're learning how to walk again. This is your second childhood. How to relate to others?

See, this is a state, it's an experience nevertheless the mind is still active. So the mind will

know how to relate to the other. Mind is not yet dead so it knows how to relate to the other person, how to play a game. All that will be the same. You will be in a state. It will be an experience for the body, but still the mind is still functional the same way it is. Whatever state you are in, it is the same mind which is flowing. You may not be able to convey clearly to others, but the mind is functioning in the same way. So either the Divine will help you respond or the mind will directly respond. It depends on how intense state you are in.

Blessings could be given with other songs other than the moola mantra?

It can be given. We have to see how much it is responding in the brain. How much the particular sound is creating a response. You can use any sound which is making the deeksha powerful. Only through trying out different things, you'll know how the brain is responding to the deeksha. So try out different things and see for yourself and follow what is the best option. What does the moola mantra do? It naturally tunes you in to the Divine. So some other music may connect you to the Divine or some other music may divert your attention, divert your focus. See what helps you and follow that.

What is important for deeksha givers to give blessings to themselves every day?

Why should you give deeksha to yourself? You receive the blessing from the padukas or the sri murthi. It is not necessary when you have the sri murthi and the padukas -- it is not necessary to give yourself deeksha.

How do the blessings help the country and humanity?

Blessings is deeksha? What does deeksha do? It makes you tune into the presence. It reduces conflict in the mind. It reduces the inner violence as you accept yourself. It makes you respond to others in a better way with more love. We are slowly reducing violence in relationship in families in communities. That affects the world, leading to more peace in the world. We have a lot of inner violence generally. We want to hurt a person, we want to beat a person, we want to kill a lot of people. All these are our thoughts inside. All these violent thoughts somebody is attracting there, a lot of people attracting and they are engaging in these violent activities. So through deekshas, we are creating world peace. As you become at peace inside, as you accept yourself, slowly we are attaining global harmony.

(Next question relates to financial questions in paying for processes in India. So no transcript)

How can I conquer my fears?

Who is trying to conquer fear? The mind is trying to conquer fear. The mind wants to become free of fear. But the mind is made out of fear. So how can the mind become free of fear? It is a trap by the mind. All you can do is to become conscious of the fear and slowly become aware of the fear. And Bhagavan says fear is an anticipation, never in the reality. This fear is a charge which you are carrying from your past. You've always been postponing this fear. Never confronting this fear. When you confront this fear you become free of the fear. Every particular charge has three aspects.

The emotion, the particular kind of the thoughts--the particular series of thoughts and the physical response of the body. So the emotion, the particular kind of thoughts and the physical response. If you could stay with these or one of these, it will take you to your past to the original source of fear.

It will lead you to the origin of that fear. To confront that fear, you need a lot of strength and courage. But all the time you've been avoiding this fear because of lack of strength and courage. Obtain that strength and courage from AmmaBhagavan, face the fear, confront the fear. Allow the fear to consume you, to pass through you. As you become free of that charge, you will become free of the fear permanently. That is the way you confront fear.

How can we handle the death and its process?

Death itself is a beautiful process. The actual truth is you never die. Because you are part of God and God can never die. What dies is the physical body. If you could confront what is there after death through a near death experience or an experience in the process--the deepening process is a kind of death process which happens --like how you'll go and meet the light, you'll meet Amma and Bhagavan. You'll heal your relationships...??.there is life review. So death itself is a beautiful process if you understand this process. Even the people who are seeing this whole process of death if they have this right understanding or perception. For someone who is dying? (interjected in Spanish) then you could pray for that person to become one with the light--to obtain moksha. Also conveying to the person who has died that now it is time to leave this planet, to become one with your God, one with AmmaBhagavan to obtain moksha. Moksha is mukthi after death. Awakening after death. So you convey to the person that you must now leave this planet and must become one with the light and ask for moksha. And all of you there also pray for the person to become one with the light, to attain awakening. So that he no more comes to this physical planet. He moves to the higher realms.

Now we'll have prayer. We'll pray to AmmaBhagavan to help us in our awakening process. All the problems that we are facing in our life, all the difficulties are stepping stones for our awakening process. Life itself is pushing you towards awakening, towards God. It could be through a natural calamity or through a financial crisis or an economic crisis. It could be political problems, it could be family problems, relationship problems. All this conveys to you that there is a world beyond all this.

For that you have to become awakened. You have to connect with God. So feel grateful for the problems you are having right now because all of that is only going to help you with awakening. If you did not have problems you would not have come for awakening. So all of us here have to become free of our problems and to become free of the mind. So let us pray to AmmaBhavan to liberate us, to give us mukti or awakening.

All of you close eyes in a meditative posture. Join your palms near your heart and ask AmmaBhagavan to help you in your awakening process. To create a beautiful oneness community in Venezuela so that we could help each other progress spiritually and let us help out the rest of the people in Venezuela.

Close your eyes and do this prayer and then I'll give an intent deeksha, smarana deeksha asking AmmaBhagavan to bless all of us today...(Lost words between Part 3 and 4) Closed with singing Moola Mantra. Ask Amma and Bhagavan to bless you for awakening.

Now we'll be concluding this session with gratitude to AmmaBhagavan for coming down to this planet and for helping us toward awakening. You can prostrate to AmmaBhagavan and convey gratitude.

I will see you all again later. Happy to see all of you. Since Marina is my friend. I know her from the deepening. I wanted to meet all of you through her skype. So I'll meet you all again next month. Throughout Venezuela you can organize better and then we'll have a great meeting next time. So see you all again. Namaste to all of you. Our love to all of you and have a great time tomorrow during Amma's birthday. I wish you all full blessings from AmmaBhagavan tomorrow.

Sang Feliz Cumpleaños (Happy Birthday.)

transcript by Noni Kaufman