Word quality as a basis and degree of perfection

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh"  (The Gospel of John, 1:1; 1:14)

The way you speak is the way you live.

The Buddhistic psychology says that the main energy loss is resulted of speaking.
The Christianity teaches: "It is not so important what comes IN to your mouth as much as what is going OUT". Someone can use this instruction to justify his style of choosing foodstuff that looks like swine’s taste : eat what you observe and desire, ignoring the second part of this idea. Many ascetics and saints left for lonely places, in order to avoid  idle talking. In the Vedas idle talk is called "parajalpa". It is one of the main obsticle on the way of spiritual and material development. The initial judge of a person we obtain when he speaks. Speech identifies personality.

Almost all people interested in yoga, east psychology and philosophy are aquainted with the name of sage Paranjaly and his monumental work "Yoga-sutra". But it is not very well known that previosly he had wrote also famous  works, devoted to speach and medicine: "Patanjala-bhashia" and "Charaka". "Patanjala-bhashia", commenting the grammar of  Panini, teaches the correct way of speaking and correct speach making. There is a strong relations between brain and speaking, brain and body, brain and soul. Healthy body, healthy brain and healthy words create the harmony in a person. Current researche shows that the wrong wording is nonrandom. It is originated from spiritual growth. Stutteringa and stammering while speaking is caused by deep emotional deviation, Almost all  body disorders are psychosomatic by nature.

Every person  to be perfect, should become firstly a doctor caring of his body, secondly become an expert in grammer, watching his words, thirdly become a philisopher  cleaning his consious and  perceiving the Absolute truth. The life of such person is free from phisical deseases, indifference towards self development and uncontrlolled speach.  The sage Paranjaly called such person - yoga. It doesn˙t matter what kind of yoga or spiritual practice is used, all the above can be totally applied to that person.

THE WORD can influence level of health and wealth. It is important not only for spiritual people, but also for those who want to get material success. Speaking and listening skills are studied in every business school. Even in criminal world one need to watch the words in order to go up through bandits hierarchy. They realise the Buddah note that a WORD can kill.

Three minutes of anger can stop the ten years of friendship. Words influence karma. One can devote ten years of  spiritual practice and charity, but one rough word to a good person can make you loose everything on any level and decline to a primitive form of life. How can it be? It comes from rough words.

The Vedas astrology says that the dark planet Кеtu supports rough words. Кеtu is the planet which  reacts very fast, almost immediately.  Кеtu gives freedom. But in negative sence it punishes for indicent words, by distracting everything that a person possessed  both in material and immaterial aspects. In the Vedas civilisation every person was tought to take big care of the speach. It is difficult to identify a peron until he starts speaking. It is possible to differentiate a fool fom sage only by speech. A WORD has a very strong energy. Extra sensoric specialists say that people using rude and durty words while speaking, mark the fine body with black spot that can grow into cancer within one-two years.

WORD is the manifistation of the life power.

 

The main opportunity of our speaking ability is to pray, read mantras and discuss the topics transfering us to  divine intent. It is not excluding our every day activity, discussions and communication with relatives. But not to go to extreems. Ayurveda says that a WORD is manifistation of prana. Prana is the life power, energy of the Universe. As much prana one can have as much success, charisma and harmony he obtains. Therefore, first of all prana volume decreases while speaking. Especially when criticising, blaming, claming and using rude words. According to statistics 90% of all alteractions are caused by our critical poins to somebody.

The most successful people are those who say pleasant things and can control their words.
 The Bhagavad-Gita says, that ascetic speech is a skill to tell the ruth with pleasant words.

People, who speaks rude obtain last places in all hierarchies. It is the point also the countries. Please draw your attention that the countries with the high level of culture are more successful, Japan, Germany and other the Big Eight countries. However even there it tends to degeneration of cultural level including speech degradation. It influences the economy and spiritual life in general. The Oriental person who cannot control his speech can be treated as a primitive, however at the same time he can be a recognized professor in Europe.

Karma is determined by our speech.

It is importatnt to know that when critisizing somebody, we take into possession the negative karma and bad habits of the crtitisized person. This is Karma Code. And the opposite, we obtain the good habits of a person, whom we prise. That is why the Vedas appeal us to speak more about the God and Saints and prise them. It is the easyest way  to obtain the goodness. In other words if you want to gain any quality you only need to read about any Saint who possesed this quality or discuss his dignities with somebody else. It was noticed long time ago that we obtain the same quality of a person whom we are thinking about and keep speaking. That is why even European psichologists recommend to think and speak abot harmonious persons. But as more egoism and envy we possess as more difficult to speak good about somebody else. We need to learn not to critisize anyone. I had a patient who was predicted by horoscope to get a seriuos sikness from a certain year, but he was in order.I asked him what he did in this year. He replied that that year he vowed to stop critisizing anybody. He noticed that his life really went better and his spiritual practice got a new stage.
Those who critiseze us, take our negative karma and give their positive karma to us. That is why as in the Vedas say that it is a good sign that somebody critisizing us.

How a word influences our Karma? Mahabharata says that if you have intentions, plan to do something don’t tell anyone. Since you told, the possibility that your plan comes true is reduced till 80%, especially if you sherad your plans with jelous and greedy person. Why people who speaks less and considerable achieve more? They don’t loose the energy.

The other simple rull concerning the talking is  when you do something good to somebody and boast of it, at the same moment we loose our positive karma as well as positive results gained by that good deal. Boasters don’t achieve anything. That is why we should never swagger about our achievements because this moment we loose what we have earned. “Let your left hand be ignorant of what the right one does.” (The Gospel of Matphey, 6:3).

Thoughts disclose, it is importatnt to avoid bad thinking about anyone.

A student asks his teacher:

- You recommend to live with open mind. But it will let my thoughts fly away?

- You just neet to shut your mouth thoroughly. And everything will be fine.

The more chaotic thoughts we have in our mind, the more they appear in our words, the more disordered our speech. He who thinks clearly, can speak clearly.

There is one more lesson to accept critics. One of the intellect’s characteristics is to excuse itself in any situation. The lower intellect level a person has, the more excuses he will present. Even if his crime is the gravest, the person discharge himself. I made seminars in jails including jails for dangerous special offenders, I was surprised that almost none of them admitted the guilt.

One of the basic assets of the high cultured person is his ability to accept any critics with patience.

There are three yogs meditating in the cave. Suddenly they heard an animal sound.

One yog says:

-It was a goat.

After one year the second yog replies :

After another year the third yog mentioned: - If you don’t stop arguing, I will leave you.

The first rule of the clever speech is to count till ten before you want to say something rude. It may look silly. At first time we can hardly count till three. On the other hand if you reply after a small pause it will sound more wise, because the first reaction after somebody’s critics is to look for excuse and give a cruid answer. That’s why learn to think 5-10 seconds before you give an answer. Besides it will reduce the emotional atmosphere. A person realising his true self, speaks little but thoughtfull. I read in great people’s biographies that they never replied immediately after being blamed and preferred to keep silence being in anger. They postpone the conversation for the next day or till the moment when emotions come down. Because they knew that if temper and irritation influence their speech, the reasults might be sorrowfull or even distructive.

Moreover don’t go to extreem. God shows up in trivial things, devil – in extreems. Don’t vow “I will always be still and dumb”. Especially if your nature is open and extravert, it may harm you. If your psychophisical personality openes in talking, go on speaking provided that people who hear you  could feel goodness. Please be open and benevolent and live delibertaly. It is important to notice that our maturity is disposed by small and insignificant actions, the way we react on the rude words while shopping, what emotions we get when somebody “wrongly” critisizes us, and so on.

Three levels of speech.

A person standing on the high spiritual level (1) can experience phisical pain, when he hears rude words, sees something  desecrative. He can feel that somebody fliged mud at him.

But such person always tells truth using pleasant words. He deliberately choose the right words, and every word bring s harmony into this world. His speech contains simple humor, mostly jokes about himself. Such people are practically always healthy and happy. From the begginning it might be difficult to avoid stupid words or incoherent talk.

Passionate people(2) are very sensitive to any critics, they enjoy speaking about sex, money, prosperity, politics, discuss shopping events, speak good about oneself, be sarcastic at smb.'s expense and so on. They speak very fast. Their humor is mostly dirty and vulgar.

At the beginning of their talk they get satisfaction and enthusiasm but afterwards they feel ruined and disgusting. The higher their perception is,  the stronger is their feeling. Such style of communication can drive to complete degradation.

Ignorant people(3) supplement their speech with outrage and  rude words,  pretensions, blames, threatents and so on. All words are soaked with anger and hatred. When such person opens his mouth, it seems that the room inflates with objectionable odor. And when you tell him something nice about someone, he feels sick. As a rule such people deliberately or undeliberately provoke others for anger, irritation, injury, envy, because they made up their mind to such destructive emotions and feed themselves with inferior energy.

Their grim humor contains humiliation and satisfaction about somebody’s troubles.

They are full of illusions. The Universe treat them with misfortunes and heavy deseases.They experience mental disorders. It is better to avoid being and communicating with them.

It is not often to meet a person standing only on one level. As a rule it is a mixture of diffrerent levels or floatable levels. It depends on:

1- Society that we choose at work, rest, etc. For example, if we start speaking with the pationate person, in several minutes we can find ourselves arguing about politics. However 10 minutes ago we didn’t care about it.

2- Place. For example in casino, night clubs, near beer stalls, drugmen den and so on, where we can hardly imagine any spiritual talking. If the place is full of pation and ignorance, the speech will sound the same.

3- Time. For example from 9 p.m. till 2 a.m. is a period of ignorance. Right in this period of time one gets a desire to visit ignorant place, watch ignorant movie, speak vulgar topics. “Take counsel with your pillow”  - people’s wisdom.

It was noticed long time ago, that the subject discussed or decision taken in the evening looks different and useless. That is why it is wise to follow the rule: to skip decision making in the evening time or even reduce talking in that period helps to improve your life and to avoid mistakes and troubles. The nature also sleeps at night. Have you ever heard the birds singing during that time?

At the end of the week we can analyse what words dominated ing your life during this period. If it were benedictory words, then you would notice the harmony and happiness coming into your life. If it were pationate and vulgar words, you would feel sick, depressed and unhappy.

Gratitude is the first step to harmony and love.

What can I say about the life

That keep on going?

Only suffering accompanies me

But until my mouth is stuffed with soil

It will keep thanking my lucky stars.

(I.Brodskiy)

The main rule is to get rid of pretensions. The first step to love is a gratitude.

People are not much thankful to anybody. As a rule they express negative remarks openly or not. It is importatnt to mention that if we are not thanking somebody, it means that uncontiosly we keep critics, pretentions. Support means not only material help, but first of all spiritual help, love and move to God. Everything that we do without love brings only misfortunes and destruction, even if it looks noble from aside.

 The teachers say that every second we move to or from the God.Every situation is a lesson. We need to thank God for every lesson.The Most High, the Top Good, he wishes only well to us. Every second is aimed to teach us. As soon as we find pretentions our heart center gets blocked.

The most often claims are made on fate, people, oneself and the world. Pretentions are expresed not only in words, but also in thoughts, tone, communication style and attitude to life.

Every situation is given to make us work at ourselves. If we don’t have enough harmony, we are tensed and tough lessons will be given. And the opposite, when we accept the situation, we relax and the difficult situation will be settled easily. 

 Ayurveda says that you cannot get rid of desease until you accept it. This is the first step to get well and settle any problem. Accept from inside as a mercy of God and do your best to settle it from outside. Until we accept the situation, we spent 90% of our energy to “bear” it. Our body is able to kill any desease. We are able to settle any problem with success. If we get a test of life, we are able to withstand it. If God  gives lesson, than we can learn it. God gives us releveant lessons. And we should keep thanking instead of blaming everybody.

Pretentions is the first step to illness and unhappiness.

Track your volume of gratitude and pretentions to the others. You will find out that you have more pretentions. Pretentions are coused by intellect and falce ego. Every pretention is destructive by nature, it takes our energy and close our heart. Real resignation is to accept any situation.

Most of the people understant the resignation as something external: if you are slaped, turn the cheek. On the contrary, we speak about internal attitude. We accept every event as a destiny present. We should react as: Everything is God’s love. I have noticed that people who repeated this phrase, chaned features, they became mild, untensed and as a whole they got happier and healthier. Please try, it works! If unconsiously we are ready to accept everything as a God’s good will, it  will forward us to perfection.

In May 2006 I was invited to provide astrological seminar on the festival that took place in New-Vrindavan (USA). Radhanath Svami the Great Teacher from Bombey told us a story about one of his students. It was long story, but the summary is that his student seriously devoted himself to spiritual life and  from 20 to 40  he kept celibacy. He popularized spiritual knowledge very actively and participated in different charitable projects. Once he made up his mind to get married. He got beautiful young wife and a child. But soon this student to sick with cancer. His spiritual friends organised the best treatment, but nohing helped. Every day his body got destructed more and more with big pain. But he kept thanking. Nobody heard him complaining “My God! Why are you doing it to me. I served you faithfully 20 years and devoted my best time!” No one complain, only gratitudes. He thanked God and his spiritual teachers , who visited him every day and spoke about Saints and praised God. He thanked God for the best care. Once Radhanath Svami called in order to teach and support him. The student was imressed that his teacher remembered him and wanted to give him his last instructions. He praised his tutor: It is Great teacher, he has many talented students but he still remembers his ordinary one like me”.

It is strange, but he didn’t beg for health , however followed all doctor’s prescribtions. He thought that God knew better about was necessary. The only thing he requested was blessing, the opportunity to honestly serve the people  in both this and his next life.

In one of his last days Saint Babagi came to Bombey who lived permanently in Vridavan (saint place in India). This man never left Vridavan before and he couln’t know about the coming death of our hero. He arrived to stay with him during his last days. The devoted guy kept thanking everybody till his last moment. In spite of the awfull pain in the body, he radiated so much light, calmlness  and love that every body came not only to support him but also to enjoy his positive aura.

But if you arrive to a hospital, you can hardly hear thanking words, mostly claims: Why did God give me this suffering? Why is he so unfair to me inspite of me being  so nice? Especially if a person kept goodness life and visited local church, he can’t stop wondering…

It happens not only in hospital, look around, you can hear only pretentions: to government, to ecology, to relatives and friends, to service people, etc.  Almost all people think that they are owed. Or if somebody does something good, then he pretends to receive something the same or more in exchange.

We have a choice: we may join those people and continue terrible life of claims and pretentions with blocked heart or learn to see God’s mercy in every event of life. And instead of asking “Why?” we should ask “What is the lesson here for me?”, open our mouth only for gratitude, understand that happiness is unselfish givings. One can feel love only with giving. We have got a lot of opportunities for that in our time. And we should thank God for that.

Today, let’s agree to start care about what we say, take our aim to love God and try to bring ourselves to perfection. 

With best wishes to everybody, Ramie Bleckt.

Note: the author of this article is the President of the international league of alternative psychologists.