Butterfly EffectPost #1Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Daily Sutras and Knowledge Sheets"You know, what is unseen is much more than what is seen. Nowscientists are coming up with this theory about parallel universes anddark matter, dark energy. If you look at this room and everyone," hisgestured toward the walls and the 600 satsangees, "what you cannot seeis 100 times more than what you can see. That's dark energy, darkmatter. It's not dark because it's scary or anything, it's called darkbecause it cannot be seen. This is mentioned a long time ago,thousands of the years ago in the Upanishads. It says the universe isfullness enveloped by fullness or nothingness surrounded bynothingness. For many years, this has confused scholars; they have notunderstood the true meaning of these words. Now scientists arelearning that this space is alive, it's vibrant.""Our brain is just a frequency analyser. You know, if you switch on aradio and move the dial and you tune to a particular station - thebrain is very similar it's tuned to a particular reality - particularfrequency. And schizophrenia is just when the brain is caught betweentwo stations - between two realities. You can hear all the disturbancethen.""Have you heard about the butterfly effect? How many have heard?" Helooked around with bright-eyed curiosity to see how many hands wouldgo up. About a hundred hands went up. "Yes, you know when a butterflyflaps it's wings in Africa, it can cause a thunderstorm in SouthAmerica. Scientists have studied this.""And there is the other one about the 100 monkeys? Have you heardabout the 100 monkeys?" Now in any satsang with Guruji, laughter isalways hiding an inch below every one's smile, so it is only naturalto have laughter come to the surface when the Guru asks about '100monkeys' with his child-like sincerity. Guruji waited for the rippleto subside and continued, "They say that if you were to teach a monkeyhow to peel a banana, and teach more, 100 monkeys or 200, some numberof monkeys how to peel a banana, then monkeys in far away lands wouldalso pick up this skill. See it's all connected.""It's like if you think everyone is nasty, people are nasty, then theywill be nasty!" He said the next sentence slowly looking around thewhole room, "You are responsible for all your experiences. If you aresurrounded by hopeless people, then you have sown the seeds of yourexperience - somewhere you have put these seeds, these thoughts in thedark energy and the experience has come. If you continue to think youare right, you are just and are simply surrounded by rude and unjustpeople, then you have not understood the law of creation.""Do an experiment, for two days, three days - start thinking everyoneis nasty, everyone is hopeless - I tell you, even the people who arenice will turn nasty around you; you will attract nasty people. Butthe reverse is also true. You put good thoughts out there then alsothe result happens - I remember, I was traveling in a plane once, manyyears ago. And this young lady was there with her young daughter. Shehad a middle seat. And you know in economy section there is not muchroom. So she asked the elderly lady next to her if she could exchangeseats with her. So then the young mother could sit in the aisle seatand take the baby to the restroom or whatever was needed. But theolder lady said, 'I have reserved this seat many weeks ago. I don'twant to change it.' I was sitting across and I just had this thought,'Why can't the older lady relax a little - why is she so stiff?' - andyou know what? A few hours later before the journey was over the olderlady gave up her seat."Laughter and applause greeted the story and someone shouted, 'Howcould she resist the Guru's intention?' - Guruji smiled and replied,"No, no you can also do this. Just having that light intention. That'swhy when you do your meditation and kriya it has an effect on theentire planet - the effect is very wide.Q: Is it possible for other people to be there in the dark energy, inthe parallel universes?Guruji: All is possible. Every possibility is there.Q: But in the advanced course we become hollow and empty - so we won'tbe full of this dark energy, then?Guruji (laughing): No, no. It is when you become hollow and empty thatyou can actually start to feel this unseen energy.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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