Function after the Peace Concert

This is something special I am telling, very special. We always say that imagination is infinitely more beautiful than reality itself. If we live in India, we imagine something about America – what it looks like, how much power, and all kinds of things. Then when it comes to the reality-world, our experience can be totally different. Anything we can imagine, anywhere in the world. Our imagination-world is so beautiful. Then when we face the reality – alas, alas, alas! There is a yawning gap between the reality and our imagination. Our imagination is so beautiful, so sweet, so thrilling.

But when we dive deep, very deep, we feel the reality and we see the reality is definitely more beautiful than imagination, which is difficult to believe. Again, go beyond the mind. Otherwise, you are not going to believe it. Go beyond, beyond. Now I am here. I think of, let us say, Lord Buddha’s statue at Kamakura, Borobudur, the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids, and all kinds of places. In a book you can read and hear from people about these manmade wonders, and now this one, Niagara Falls, is called a natural wonder. When I see them, I do not know why it happens but imagination gladly surrenders to the reality.

Today you are seeing this water, Niagara Falls. By virtue of my imagination, by exercising my imagination-power, I saw it in my imagination. But then when I see Niagara Falls, and when I see the Kamakura Buddha and other places, my imagination gladly surrenders to the divinity or infinite power or infinite peace. When you imagine them or when you hear about them – Borobudur, the Kamakura Buddha and other places – you feel some-thing. You are thrilled that they are world wonders.

When you are in front of them face to face, what you see is not something manmade or nature-made. It is something that embodies and reveals and manifests. Embodiment, revelation and manifestation – all three go together. When you imagine something, at that time you cannot get all three – embodiment, revelation and manifestation. But when you face them, when you are in front of them, you see the three aspects all at once. Then naturally imagination is no match for the reality itself.

This is my philosophy, how imagination surrenders to the reality, which is so unusual. You think of something, and it is so beautiful. Then you face it, and it is so ugly, ugly, ugly. Why did I think of it? Here my imagination played its role. But when I am facing the reality, I see the embodiment, revelation and manifestation – all three at once. This far surpasses my imagination.

If you use your minds, you will sadly disagree with me. Use your hearts. Be one with my heart. Then you will see that what I am saying is absolutely true and authentic.