Celebration

Preface
Celebration is one of the pillars of School of Life. But what is celebration? Is it the rituals we
perform every year during festivals? Is it what we do on birthdays and anniversaries?
Celebration is actually an attitude. If you have an attitude to celebrate, life becomes divine
and religious in the real sense. You no longer remain dependent on the calendar in order to
celebrate. Every moment becomes a song; every step you take becomes a dance step. When
you rejoice life, life rejoices with you. When you have an attitude to celebrate, the world
works in your favour and gives you opportunities. In fact, you are able to celebrate sorrow
and happiness alike.
But how is it possible?
In this series Shreee talks about what Celebration means in the true sense and how can you
experience is. These are live talks given to his disciples by Shreee, a spiritual mentor. He is a
visionary who has simplified religion, spirituality and the world with his insights and real life
examples - meant for the modern man.
YouTube links are available for each of these talks.
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Contents
Preface .................................................................................................................................................... 2
Life is God................................................................................................................................................ 4
Life is beautiful ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Celebration............................................................................................................................................ 15

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Life is God
fpjkx fny dk tykvks] [+kqnk dk t'u gS
Rkjkus >we ds xkvks] [+kqnk dk t'u gSA
jD+l ls cT+e ltkvks [+kqnk dk tu gS
Xkkvks mlds uke ds rjkus xkvks
ljs uekt+ >qd tkvks] [+kqnk dk t'u gSA
va/ksjk feV gh tk,sxk gjsd vka[k dk
ft+nxh uwj ls txexkvks] [+kqnk dk t'u gSA
;s iwjh dk;ukr lc mlh dk jD+l gS
'kqdz , ltnk esa vkvks] [+kqnk dk t'u gSA
(The above lines talk about celebration. It is an invitation for everyone to the festival of God,
to dance, to rejoice, to sing and to bow down. It tells everyone to lighten their lives on this
day of Gods festival. The universe is dancing and calls everyone to celebrate in gratitude.)
I dont think there is someone who hasnt used the word God. The question is not whether
you have used the word or not. The question is how many times you have used the word
God. We cant count it. Oh my God!
What does God mean? Who is God? All of you sitting here have used this word countless
times. But even you are confused about who is God. There are so many Gods. There are so
many Gods because there are so many beliefs, and the interesting thing is that everyone at
some point thinks or says that there is one God. Despite saying that there is one God, we
see there are many Gods. A different God for you, a different God for her, and a different
God for someone else. So, there are many Gods. I think if there is one God, He must be very
confused if He is asked how he is perceived by His people. He would be confused because
someone perceives Him in one way, the other in another. So frankly speaking dont you
think God is just a philosophy? A word written in scriptures; and spoken about in lectures? It
is a word used primarily in the time of trouble. Is God a reality? If you say yes, there is God
then show me? OK forget about it. You say He is invisible, it cant be shown but are you
feeling His presence? Are you sure what you are feeling is God? Then you will be confused
again because even you are not sure. For me, a better word is Life. I would rather use the
word Life than God. Or if I use the word God, I mean Life.

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Life for me is a synonym of God. God is not a reality because all these concepts, beliefs,
misunderstandings and ignorance have caused the real essence to disappear. For someone
God is a human like figure somewhere above in the seventh sky or somewhere beyond the
clouds watching us, controlling us, judging us. For many people God like human like figure.
Would an animal perceive its God to be like human? If animals were to have Gods, their
Gods would look like them instead.
God is formless, eternal, consciousness and bliss. Life. What do you understand when you
hear the word Life? The same life that keeps you alive and if it leaves the body you die.
So, that which leaves the body when death comes, is life. You have life. So life is the
opposite of death. Between birth and death; what a person lives is not life because it
eventually dies. What dies cannot be life. Life simply means no death. So life is what was
before birth and will remain even after death. Life does not consist of death. Life does not
consist of death means life does not die, because if life dies it is not life, it is gradual death.
Life means there is no death. That life is within us, within this body and mind. It lives, it
pulsates, it breathes, it laughs it is because of that life that the body and mind are working.
This life is eternal, this life is God. This life is truth, this life is conscious, this life is blissful;
provided you enter into itself. Life experiences itself through meditation. When
consciousness becomes conscious of the consciousness itself, that moment it feels bliss,
which is its essential. So life is eternal, no death. That life is within us. That life is God. But
the word God has lost its essence. The word has been used so many times in so many years
that we dont feel anything when we hear it. The word has lost its true meaning, it means
differently to different people. There is no reality in the word. God just a word. God a
word read in scriptures. God a word we utter sometimes. But what God? Nothing happens
within. Even when I say ice chuski (ice candy), something happens, something stirs in you. If
I talk about a dessert, something happens. When I say God, nothing happens. Because God
is only cerebral, mental not experiential. Where is God existential? Are you feeling it now?
When I say the word God, do you feel it? You feel nothing. What if I say mother? You feel
something. When I take the name of your beloved, you feel something. God! What do you
feel? My God and your God - let us fight. My God is bigger than your God. No other feel at
all. The word God is dead. Substitute it with Life. Life is God. Dont you experience Life? Who
is listening to me right now? Life. Who is thinking? Life. Who is alive in you? Life. Can you
deny Life? You can deny God. There are people who deny God. One can deny God but can
one deny Life? How can God be denied when he is everywhere? When God is present in
everyone; within and without, how can it be denied? People deny it because the word is
dead. The right word to me is, Life. Life is God, the life which is breathing in you. It is your
very heartbeat. Life is the life in you, which goes on, which was there before birth and will
remain after death also. It is eternal and formless, it has entered into a form called body but
it is otherwise formless. You minus life, and you are no more or if you are there, then you
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are life. So life is God. Once you understand it you will understand that to love God is to love
life.
When we say yes to life, we say yes to God. So for the real religious person, Life is divine.
He loves Life, rejoices it and says yes to it. He is life-positive. Dont you see that in the name
of God and religion a lot of life-negative rules were made? Dont enjoy life, dont enjoy
taste, dont enjoy music, and dont enjoy anything in the world. Renounce everything. So
when you renounce everything in the world, you renounce God itself. You renounce life and
life is God. So renouncing the world, renouncing happiness is renouncing God itself.
Renouncing life is renouncing God. And rejoicing life is rejoicing God. Loving life is loving
God. Saying yes to life is saying yes to God. And you have life. How can you be religiously
religious in real sense? How can you religious in the real sense? I am not talking about in the
religion that is communal. I am using the word religion in place of spirituality. So how would
you become religious? Only if you beautify Life, adorn Life, if you love Life. How to love Life?
The life which is within us? Sitting only with oneself is taking a step to become one with Life,
coming back to Life. Life comes back to life itself. So come back! Come back and that is
meditation. Coming back to life. Life comes back to life itself. The time you spend between
birth and death is called Life span it is not the real Life I am taking about. Ordinary life is a
sense of humour of the humour of senses. You get life because of the senses and is forever
lost is the pleasure of the senses only. When Life comes back to itself, that is meditation,
Samadhi. So meditation is loving life and life is everywhere. It is not only within, it is outside
also. Everything is life. Even the dead are actually not dead. It is life in a dormant state. Even
a stone is nothing but energy. In scientific term, everything is energy. There is no matter.
Matter is dead. Science found that matter doesnt exist. Theres nothing solid but just
energy, this is what science understood, discovered. Everything is made of energy, even a
stone. You know that if you break an atom; electrons and protons are simply energy. But
they revolve so fast that it appears to be solid. Look at the fan above. If it starts turning so
fast that there is no time lag between its two spokes, it will appear to be solid. We are
sitting here, there is no solid but the energy is revolving too fast, that is why we dont fall.
Everything is energy. So there is life at a conscious level and there is life at less conscious
level. So there are level of consciousness only. A stone has very low level of consciousness;
human beings have relatively higher level of consciousness. Animals a little less, birds a little
less, trees a little lesser and then other things. Gradually the level of consciousness is
decreasing. What is dead is also sleeping consciousness. So everywhere everything is life,
nothing is mundane and nothing is special. Everything is divine. When you understand that
everything is divine; even sipping a cup of tea, just looking at the sunset or a simple walk,
everything is divine. When you understand this, you are spiritual. Rejoice life, say yes to life,
participate with life is my message.
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So life is God. And life is a reality you cannot deny. Life is existential. Here and now. You can
feel it, you can touch, so to speak. You cannot deny life. There is only life in different forms,
immediate forms. Somewhere un-manifested, somewhere manifested but what exists is life
and when we say yes to life, we say yes to God. We are religious in real sense. Be lifeaffirmative. Dont renounce, rejoice. Life is an opportunity to rejoice, to love, to dance, to
sing, to celebrate. If you do, you become religious in the real sense.
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Life is beautiful
;s pkan flrkjs jDl rsjk
gj Qwy&Qwy ij vDl rsjk]
gS jDl rsjk gj gok&gok
gj [+kq'kcw&[+kq'kcw gS vDl rsjkA
gj Mky&Mky gh ikr&ikr
cl rsjh ckr cl rsjh ckr
yEgk&yEgk gj lkal&lkal
vugn dh ckr vugn dh ckr
gj vka[k&vka[k jks'ku ftlls
oks uwj&uwj gS vDl rsjkA
;s pkan flrkjs jDl rsjk
gj Qwy&Qwy ij vDl rsjk]
(These lines talk about the beautiful manifestations of God. The moon and the stars, all the
flowers, the wind and the fragrance are all His manifestations. Every branch and each
dewdrop talk about Him. All moments, the beautiful music, and the twinkling eyes are all
because of Him.)
Life is another name for God. Life is beyond death. Life is eternal, perpetual, and conscious.
It beats inside us. It lives within us and is spread all around us. Somewhere it is more,
somewhere it is less. But it is Life. And it is manifested in the entire universe. And the one
who loves life loves God. The one who rejects life rejects God. The one who says yes to life
says yes to God. The one who celebrate life celebrates God. The one who admires life
admires God; and one who curses life curses God. His reflection is seen in beautiful flowers,
leaves, plants, rising sun and setting sun, in the moon, clouds, stars, flowers, fragrance, in
ponds, rivers, sea and in the nature. Everywhere we see His reflection. He sings through
birds. Life sings everywhere, all around us. There is a constant celebration that is going on;
but we need to look around.
Human beings are just breathing, moving dead bodies - dull, tired, frustrated, irritated,
ready to blast, a moving volcano, full of rage, anger, hatred, stressed, tensed, empty, scared.
Life is hell. Life is like a mirror. What you feed, you get the reflection back. When someone
approaches life as dull and dead, then life becomes dull and dead. We can hate life or we
can love life or we can be indifferent. Its our choice and this choice decides how we are
going to be in life. Normally, when we look at human beings, we dont see any celebration,
any happiness. Bliss is nowhere to be seen.
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Human being generally is not happy. Life is just a pursuit of happiness. People are pursuing
happiness somewhere in future and they always keep pursuing it. The pursuit doesnt even
end when they reach their death bed. People think about future even on their death beds,
In the name of religion many people prepare for afterlife.
A poet once said, Is paar priye madhu hai, tum ho, uss paar na jaane kya hoga?
Meaning: On this side, there is my beloved as well as nectar; who knows what lies on that
side?
This side, at least you are there, love is there, liquor is there, who knows what lies on that
side? The one who learnt to live happily this side, will learn to live happily that side too.
How to live life? The trick to live life is only that you live truly in this moment, drink this
moment with utmost beauty and that is it. We get to live only this moment, the moment
which is present now, just one moment; not the one which is coming or which has gone by.
Whether one lives 100 years or 200 years, he will not get anything more than this moment.
And we keep getting moments till eternity. So, the one who has learnt to live and drink one
moment has learnt to live his entire life. The answer lies here. Human being is Gods highest
creation. The most sophisticated gadget and the latest one is the most frustrated, despite
having such a great configuration. No other species on earth has such a great configuration
as the human being. But he is most frustrated, most scared, most tensed, and most
stressed. Wow! What an irony! Theres so much comfort that even to wipe tears fragrant
tissue papers are available. But life is frustrated, unhappy, and empty; like a tale told by an
idiot, having lost of fury and noise, signifying nothing. No significance in living. That is why
you think, why life has been given?
And every child feels like suing his parents for giving birth to him. Thank God there is no
such law. Otherwise who would not think at least once, to sue their parents for giving birth?
He would say, But why could not avoid it? You could have managed. It was manageable
and avoidable; but you chose to bring me to hell. Thank God there no such law. We cant
sue our parents for giving birth to us. I think that is the reason a lot of people preach that
one should respect his parents. If these things were not taught to us, we might have
considered taking revenge for not avoiding something that could have been avoided easily.
Such a great gift has been given to us. Life! But if we dont know how to love life, it is going
to be hell and it is hell for us. Life is bliss but look at your long faces. Life is like a mirror that
shows our face. We are hell, we are frustrated, we are pathetic, and we are not happy. Life
is just a mirror.
Life is bliss, we are missing the point. We dont know the art to rejoice life. The first point is
life is God. Life is existential. It is not a mere word. None of you is taking life as a word. Had I
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say God you would have taken it as a word only, but now whenever I say life you feel it. It
touches you. So we need to learn to rejoice life because life is God. We need to love God.
We need to rejoice God. We need to enjoy God. We need to embrace God. We need to
dance with God. How can we not do such a simple thing? Because we are not attentive. We
are lost, or in spiritual language; we are sleeping. Are we ever in the moment? Rarely. Most
of the time we are where we are not. We are somewhere else. And we are never where we
are. Like it happens so many times when we go for a vacation, we are hardly there. If you go
to Shimla, you keep talking about Manali. You dont enjoy the beauty in Shimla. If we are in
Manali, well talk about Kashmir. If we are in Kashmir, well talk about terrorism. But we will
never talk about beautiful trees and its beautiful green leaves. We know nothing about the
beautiful flowers which are blooming just by our side. We see them; but is that seeing real?
We are not attentive to its beauty at all. Be attentive and be present in the moment. Be
total. There are a few things we need to bring back. When we were babies, we had these
qualities. Now we have to regain these qualities of being in the moment, being total, being
attentive and then we would be able to see the beauty disseminated all around us. And you
have to live it. Its yours, you are a wave in the ocean, and you are the ocean. How can you
live? How can a part live without joining the whole? So, we need to feel the beauty that is all
around us. Be sensitive. We are totally insensitive. We are living life as a hockey player plays
hockey or a football player plays football. Running very fast without feeling the grass
underneath. Even if there is tiny little flower on the ground, do you think a hockey player
will notice? No he wont notice. He is running. And we all are running. The only thing is that
there are degrees of running. Sometimes we are run very fast, sometimes not that fast. But
we are always running, we are never Here and now. So when we travel, we travel we
dont halt and enjoy the beauty of the place. If you keep running, how will you be able to
see what you have gone there to see? We never stop and hence live a divided life.
We are walking the path with anger from the past, and tension of the future. So we are not
present in the present. In that case, how can we love life when we dont even pay attention
to it? Love means paying attention. That is why opposite of love is not hate, it is
indifference. Because you pay attention to the person you hate. Weather you love someone
or hate someone, you pay attention. The object of your love as well as hatred has some
value. It matters to you. But where you are indifferent, that is the actual opposite of love. So
we are indifferent towards life.
Life is dancing around us; singing around us, celebrating around us and we are absent. Let us
be sensitive. Let us start enjoying by being attentive, being present to what our senses
experience. Watch the sunset, and watch the sunrise. And we live in a modern world so you
dont need to wait for the sunset. Just switch on the TV or surf YouTube and you will find so
many Sunsets, it is not difficult. The only thing is are you present? Are you sensitive? Does
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something happen? Is your heart cultivated? Or it is just a blood pumping station, just a
biological device?
So, we have to cultivate the heart. We have to cultivate sensitivity and when I say
sensitivity, I mean the senses. We need to be present and feel what senses are sensing. Be
aware of what sounds you hear. Watch beauty, listen to beauty, touch beauty, taste beauty,
smell beauty. Then you are enjoying life. The more you enjoy, the more opportunities you
will get to enjoy. Dont put conditions for celebration. You can never celebrate if you keep
trying to fulfil conditions. It is quite the opposite. If you celebrate unconditionally, you will
find a lot of opportunities. Its not like we will only be grateful when we are happy. No. If we
are grateful we will be happy. In the very moment of gratefulness, we are happy. The same
way if we celebrate we get more and more opportunities to celebrate and if we dont
celebrate, if we are dull and dead we get more and more opportunities to be duller and
more dead. That is why with age most people become more and more dead and dull, more
and more rigid. When I say rigid I mean stone-like. That is why I have simply declared to
avoid 50+ age group people. Dont motivate them. They are rigid, they are stone-like. They
are not flexible. They are not ready to learn anything. Their conditioning is very deep. Their
habits are so deeply engraved that a lot of courage is needed to break out of them and take
a jump. I love such people but out of compassion. I cant help them because these people
are unwilling to change and a lot of energy goes into trying to help them change. They try to
nit-pick things that suit their conditioning. They are not ready to take the whole package. If
you dont take the whole package you miss the whole package, you will get nothing. On the
contrary, you will be disturbed. Always remember, either pick my entire message or not at
all. Because you will neither get this nor that.
So, participate in Life. Start living your life sensitively and life will become beautiful. You will
leave your body with a smile because your life has been fulfilled. Look at a flower and feel it,
participate with it. Youve seen so many flowers, but have you really looked at one? And you
grow flowers in your own house! Sit beside a flower for 5 minutes and just look at it, gaze at
it lovingly. That is the reason saints say they dont have eyes. It is not that they dont have
physical eyes. They mean they see things with their hearts. We dont have eyes of the heart;
we are not sensitive and attentive. You might think what is the use of looking at a flower
lovingly? Who cares whether the sun is rising or setting? But imagine for just one minute,
what is you were blind literally? What would you have missed? What if you were unable to
hear? What would you have missed?
Now you can understand what we are missing despite having ears, eyes and other senses.
We have not watched, we have not loved, and we have not participated. Just have
companionship with a flower for a minute and you will see how you feel. You will then
understand that life is happening all around you. Birds are always singing - they have no
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doctors, they have no arrangements, they have no bank balance, they have nothing in the
name of security, they have nothing, but have you ever seen a bird tensed?
When you have real eyes, you can see celebration. Even when you see a waterfall, youll feel
joy in life. You will look at it like a kid; youll be delighted. Everything is interpreted as
celebration when you are full of celebration. It would be reflected everywhere. This is loving
life. Be sensitive, start enjoying moments, and love someone with so much intensity and
totality as if that moment is the last moment of life. When you love someone, you embrace
someone; do it in a way as if it is the last moment and I am telling you if you have that
talent, that art, it is never going to be the last moment. Because life is eternal.
Human being is deprived of love because of his own dullness and deadness. Otherwise love
can be felt with a tree also. You wont believe it but even trees respond. Have you ever
loved a tree? Love first, even if it doesnt respond you wont complain because what you get
will be much higher. You will feel something that even a multi-crore building will not be able
to give. Trees respond. I am telling you. Yuo need to be sensitive. We need to participate in
life, we need to love life. We need to be present in this moment with totality. A song is
playing, where are you? Why dont you sing along? Why dont you participate? Dont be a
spectator, be a participant. Why dont you sing along? Why dont you enjoy the fragrance?
Life is God when you say yes to life, when you are life-affirmative. When you embrace life
then life is beautiful. You know... many times you hear this phrase, life is beautiful and you
cant understand where this beautiful life people refer to is. Life is beautiful. A normal
person keeps wondering where is the beauty in life.
Life is beautiful in itself when you are with life. Here and Now. Meditation is loving life,
celebration is loving life. So, let us adopt this lifestyle now. When we live life sensitively, we
will enjoy life. A glass of mock-tail can give you bliss that a seeker doesnt experience in
years of Samadhi. Why? Because the one who refuses life, how can he find God? The
journey to God is travelled through senses. Life is lived through senses. Life has two
directions: Inner world, which you get to know in Samadhi (super-consciousness). That is
when you turn inside. It is where this life has come from. We need to know this inner state.
And it comes outside through our senses. We are already outside and so now the question
is, how do we go inside? And how to live outside? You have moved outside through these
senses and so you will have to move back inside through the senses only. And if you dont
accept the outer world, you are not sensitive to the outer world, then your senses become
dull and dead. And when they are dull and dead, they are weak. When the capacity of your
sense is so low that you are not able to enjoy the outer world through them; how would
they help you go inside? Samadhi is nothing but the experience of senses, the inner music,
inner light, inner fragrance, and inner touch. The inner Onkar (music) reverberates inside
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you. How would you experience the music inside if you are insensitive even to experience
the outer music? How would you delve in inner fragrance when you are not sensitive
outside? If you see a beautiful rose, and sit next to it admiring its beauty and colours, its
freshness and it fragrance; you will see yourself dissolving. The flower will dissolve too. The
beauty that is left is God itself. You have already turned inside. He is inside and outside. God
is a feeling. He has many characteristics. But you feel Him.
We have become insensitive so we dont feel anything. We are always running. Can a
hockey player or a football player be sensitive while hes playing? Even when his foot is
bleeding due to a wound, he wouldnt feel it. Hes so unconscious, when hes in the game
and when the game ends, he notices the amount of blood he has lost. And then he falls on
the ground. So, we are also to some extent like that football player who is playing football.
We are also playing a game called life, which we are supposed to win. So it is a challenge.
That is why people say Life is a challenge but it is quite the opposite, life is beauty. Life is
beautiful, and you have to experience its beauty. You have to be sensitive towards it and
then you will see that you are blissful. I am not saying that when you incorporate this
lifestyle there will be no challenges. I am not saying that there will be nothing to worry
about in life. I am not saying that there is nothing to do in life. There are important things to
do in life. You have to earn. There are so many things we are supposed to do in life but we
are not supposed to worry. We can encounter them without getting stressed. Cant you go
to your office? Cant you go for your exams while being sensitive? If you live sensitively, it
doesnt mean you cant participate in an exam or you cant work. On the contrary it would
be far easier to face challenges in life. Because you are so contended, so blissful that
acceptance is very easy for you, even if you dont get favourable results or expected results
from life situations. You would not be that shattered. You would not be that miserable. You
would not be that sad. Because you are already contented. So this lifestyle makes
encountering life situations easy. Achieving your goals becomes easy. Sensitivity becomes
your very attitude. Let alone these flowers and all, just breathe. You can feel your breath
and add love to the simple act of breathing - you will see that it is a love affair. The very
respiration is becomes a love affair. You can do it. Inhale lovingly, exhale lovingly. The
incoming breath is bringing life, so welcome it, embrace it, and then bid goodbye. Who can
love you more than your breath? It works 24 hours incessantly to keep you alive; without
asking for leave or rest. It is much in love with us, just be thankful for its love. Close your
eyes, watch your breath, welcome it, and feel love and you have lived a love affair.
Life is God and God is bliss and you are blissful if you love life. If you dont love life, you are
not going to be blissful. Be religious or nonreligious, spiritual or non-spiritual. I am telling
you; without loving life neither you can find God nor can you be a meditative person. Life is
then a tale told by an idiot, having lots of fury and noise, signifying nothing. There is no
significance in life without loving life. So one who loves life, actually lives life. One who does
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not love life is actually living or dying a gradual death. So here is an opportunity to begin a
sensitive and new way of living.
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Celebration
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eukuk pkgrk gS xj R;kSgkj rks eku ckr esjh
R;kSgkj dk fnu vkt gh gksxk
meaxsa ;wa vdkj.k gh ugha mBrha
Uk vuns[ks b'kkjksa ij ;wa ukprk eu
[kqys ls yx jgs gSa }kj eafnj ds
Ck<+k ix
ewfrZ ds Jaxkj dk fnu vkt gh gksxkA
Uk tkus vkt D;wa fny pkgrk gS
Loj feykdj vulqus Loj esa fdlh ds
dj mBsa t;dkj
Uk tkus D;wa fcuk ik;s gq, Hkh /ku
vpkud eu fcdy gS
O;Dr djus ds fy, vkHkkj
dgha rks izsj.kk dk Lkzksr gksxk ghA
meaxsa ;wa vdkj.k gh ugha mBrha
Uknh esa ck<+ vk;h gS dgha ikuh fxjk gksxk
vpkud f'kfFky ca/ku gks jgk gS
dgha rks HkkxhjFk lk/kuk iwjh gq;h gksxhA
fdlh HkkxhjFkh ds
i`Foh ij vorkj dk fnu vkt gh gksxkA
Ekkuys esjh ckr
eukuk pkgrk gS xj rks R;kSgkj dk fnu vkt gh gksxk
(If you want to celebrate. Celebrate now! Today is the day of celebration. You are feeling
enthusiastic and that is not without a reason. The entire existence is inviting you for a
celebration. So, celebrate now! Today I feel like singing, expressing my gratitude to the
source. Celebrate now, today is the day of celebration.)
Life without celebration and life without festivity is a life with no life in it. A life which has no
festivity is just gradual death; dull and dead. The body breathes and moves, but if it doesnt
dance and sing life has not flowered. The seed has been planted, but there is no sign of a
sprout. Flowering happens when the fragrance of celebration spreads around you.

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Festivity is completely missing in life. There is no room for festivity in the society we live in.
There are festivals but no festivity. Festivals without festivity! You do not want me to tell
you how you celebrate your festivals, right? Are you delighted for the upcoming festivals?
Lets say Deepawali. Are you delighted about it? I am sure when you think of Deepawali,
your only thought is that it should not fall on a weekend. Because then, you will lose out on
a holiday. What will make you happy more than Deepawali? - The fact that it falls on a
working day. So, festivals are no more festivals. I have seen so many examples. The latest
example is my dear Anaam. Do you know today is his parents 50th wedding anniversary
and Anaam decided to celebrate it. He convinced his parents to celebrate their 50 years of
togetherness. He must have been thinking theyve never celebrated their anniversary in
the last 50 years and there might not be a tomorrow so it is a good opportunity to
celebrate. So, anyways he somehow convinced his family, his brothers. You cannot imagine
what has been going on in the family ever since the decision to celebrate the anniversary
was taken. People know that the battle of Mahabharata happened in India; and still people
fight over such petty things. People are so innovative that they can convert any event into a
reason to fight. So, a lot of catharsis is going on amongst all members of the family. Nobody
is talking to each other. They are punishing the other with their silence. The very feminine
way. Come to think of it the whole fight started because someone decided to celebrate!!!
Not only have festivals lost festivity, we too have lost the very attitude of festivity and
celebration. We dont celebrate at all. In the name of celebration, at the most we meet
friends and family and drink and dine together. I dont understand why people say, give me
a treat when there is a reason to celebrate? Are you forever hungry? Have you never eaten
a full meal in life? Why is food synonymous to celebration? What kind of celebration is this?
Give me a treat. Nobody gives you food at home? Cant you afford good food at home or
restaurant or a cafe? You can afford it. Especially Delhi it is a food hub. You might not find
public toilets here but you will find a place to eat in every nook and corner. And even then Give me a treat! The very attitude of celebration is missing. People dont celebrate. They
have forgotten how to celebrate. In the name of celebration, people look for various media
of entertainment. But entertainment is a very bad compensation for celebration.
Entertainment is not celebration. Entertainment is a very poor consolation for celebration.
Like how they give away consolation prizes to people who dont win the competition. So
entertainment is only a consolation. Entertainment is only a consolation for people who
have no celebration and festivity left in their lives just to make them feel better; just so
they dont find life mundane and commit suicide. Entertainment is not celebration.
Celebration is when you are a participant, not a mere spectator. If someone here decided to
stand still while the music was played here, he is merely looking for entertainment. But if
someone was dancing with the music, it was celebration. When you see other people
dancing, it is entertainment. When you dance yourself that is celebration. You are a
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participant. And celebration is not possible if you are not a participant. Always remember
there is no problem in you watching a movie; just dont confuse it with celebration. For
entertainment, people watch movies, cricket or football matches, theatre; sometimes
people even watch a couple loving. All this is entertainment. Until you are a participant, you
are not celebrating and celebration is participation with life. When you participate with life,
then you celebrate. This is so weird, we are living and yet we are not participating with life.
That means we are taking life for granted. Our lives can be a boring, dull, rat-race. Our lives
can also be poetry, humour, joy, a song. Life can be any of the two. You have the option of
living a dull life and you also have the option to be live a file while is alive with celebration.
Our way to approach life is the latter. And I am telling you celebration is unconditional.
Favourable or unfavourable, I celebrate. I celebrate when I am sad; I celebrate when I am
happy. I celebrate when I find someone new; I celebrate when I lose someone. I celebrate
everything, because it is my choice. What you chose defines your life. You can choose a dull
and dead life and you can choose a life worth living. But always remember, when you
choose to live the dead life, you deny God. Because Life itself is God. God is otherwise just a
word mentioned in books; there is no reality in it nothing existential. Look at life it is so
real. Can you deny that life doesnt exist? How will you deny? Who will deny? Life will deny
life? How can you listen to me without life? How can you think without life? So no one ever
can deny life. Only a dead body can deny. But even a dead body cant deny, because even to
deny, you need life. So, no one can deny life. And how can one deny God? He is everywhere.
But in reality, God has been denied. There are theist and there are atheist. God is a dead
word. The real word for God should be Life. Life - which is the truth. You cant deny it. It is
alive. It is conscious. It is bliss. Only thing is, you are not participating with it. God is often
referred to as Sat-chit-anand; meaning Truth, Life and Bliss. The characteristic of God is Sat
Chit Anand. Is there such characteristic in the word, God? Do you feel anything at all when
you hear the word God? Nothing happens when we talk about God. Nothing! When I talk
about cold weather, you feel something. When I say, the lemon is so sour, I just tasted it.
What do you feel? And I say, I found God. Any feelings? Because this word is only a part of
old scriptures now it has lost its meaning over the years. It has no life in it. It has no
existentiality in it. Life is the right word to choose now, instead of God. Life is synonymous
to God.
Life is God and if you dont participate in life, you dont participate with God. If you dont
love life, you dont love God and loving life means celebrating life.
So remember. You are not religious in in the true sense. You are not spiritual until you
celebrate. When you celebrate, it means you love your life and remember celebration is the
real prayer. The real prayer is gratitude. When you are thankful to the whole existence.
When the reason for your gratitude is life itself. Thats it. Not thankful that you got a good
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job or you got divorce! No! I know how happy you would be once you get it. But being
thankful even if you havent got the divorce yet that is the real prayer. You say thank you
God! You are in prayer when you are thankful, without any reason. You are simply thankful
and you express it. Celebration is the expression of gratitude. When you celebrate, the
creator is delighted to see its creation. He rejoices that he did a fine job in creating you. So
celebration is religious. It is spiritual. I am telling you without celebration no one can go
deeper into meditation. This is my experience and yours too. You are celebrating and
meditating together. That is why you are able to experience meditation. Without
celebration even meditation is not going to happen. The deep state of meditation is not
going to happen without celebration. And let alone meditation, you cannot even be happy
in life. When you celebrate, you feel so enthusiastic, you feel so exuberant, you feel so alive,
you feel so delighted, you feel so rejuvenated. You feel ecstatic. What else do you need to
face the challenge of life? You need accept these things with ecstatic aliveness. What else
you need to encounter lifes challenges? Celebration is not against life. It is for life, it is for
life situations also. Celebration is divine, religious, spiritual. Not celebrating means
disrespecting God. It is disrespecting life. Cursing life is cursing God. The person who doesnt
have the attitude to celebrate curses life.
But you have been so entangled, that youve been saying no to happiness. Dont you see,
we work so hard to be miserable and we work so little to be happy? Finding bliss is the
easiest thing, I am telling you. But we are not happy with the easiest things. We try to look
for difficult things in life. So we work very hard to be miserable. I want to be the Prime
Minister, or the CEO, and I want to be the most powerful person in the world or in the
country or in my locality. I want to be this, I want to be that! My dear! You already have
what you need for happiness. Being is what is needed for happiness, not becoming. And
Being is already there. You are already there. So, not becoming, being is needed, and that
you already have. But we choose not to celebrate. Everything we do in life is a preparation
to be happy. We are constantly preparing to be happy - and happiness is present here and
now. But we keep procrastinating all the time; we sacrifice higher for the lower. We choose
the lower and forget about our real goal. We give high priority to the mediums that are
supposed to bring us happiness. In the process, we forget about the target which is
happiness. Isnt it funny? Our search for happiness is the biggest joke. We already have what
we are looking for.
Ordinarily, human life is the biggest joke. But the thing is nobody laughs at the joke. Nobody
laughs at that joke because if they know how to laugh, it would have not been a joke for
them. So I hereby share this understanding with my beautiful people that life is God. If you
love life, you love God and loving life is celebrating life, participating in life. We used to think
that we should celebrate an occasion or an event. Something like a birthday, or an
anniversary. Do we even need to celebrate these events? I dont think so. But celebration
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for us is to mark a special event, that this day, something happened, so we will celebrate
today. And mostly celebration ends up in a fight because the other person forgot the date,
etc. So whatever! To me celebration is not for an event or an occasion. Of course we
celebrate an event too, no problem, you can celebrate birthdays, but that is irrelevant. My
understanding is, celebrate when you feel like celebrating. Why should you seek or wait for
a special day in order to celebrate? When we fight with someone, we create reasons. We
bring up incidents from the past just to support the fight. We fight because deep down,
there is a lot of anger and frustration that wants to come out. That is why, when we want to
fight, we make up reasons. What will a person whose life has no celebration do? He can only
fight. Give it any name call it road rage or anything else.
To me celebration is unconditional. I celebrate because I want to, because I like celebration.
Celebration is divine, so I celebrate. Thats it! I celebrate because life is celebration.
Everything is a celebration if you will look deeper, even a challenge is a celebration. How
interesting it is to encounter a challenge? It gives life. Dont you see if something sensational
happens, we give so much energy to it? That is why media becomes interested in such
things. When they introduce Breaking News, you immediately become interested in it.
You become disappointed if nothing interesting is there in the news. Then you feel angry for
paying for a useless channel like that. So even challenges can be celebrated because they
are interesting, out of the ordinary. But you will only be able to celebrate if there is an
attitude of celebration; otherwise challenges will bring misery. You will be depressed,
utterly depressed, scared to death, because your approach is not right. You can approach a
challenge as a worry or you can approach a life challenge as a celebration, like an
opportunity to learn something. You can learn to become a fighter. You can see it as a
chance to enjoy war poems enough enjoying love poems.
So, for a person who loves life, everything is a celebration. When you start celebrating, you
become religious, spiritual. How can you meditate of you are frustrated? You cannot enter
deep within you if you are frustrated. God or Meditation or Samadhi is not for frustrated
people. How can God love them? How can God enjoy their company when God himself is
Paramanand? God loves happy people. The simple thing is that if you are sad and frustrated
and miserable, you are far far far away from God. Because God is Anand. Believe it or not,
this is a fact. God is Paramanand, state of bliss and you are miserable that means you are far
away from God. You may be in the temple, bowing down to the idol, whatever, but still far
far far far away. And a person who is celebrating is actually embracing God. When you
celebrate, who are you with? With God. With life. You are embracing life hand in hand.
So celebration is unconditional, no condition at all. Just being is enough. Your presence is
enough for celebration. So, it is not only to mark some special day. Of course we can
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pretend to mark a day and celebrate, but without marking any day, we mark every moment
and celebrate.
The second misconception about celebration is that there has to be a gathering, a gettogether, we will call people, we will arrange the caterer and all, and we will manage how to
arrange the food, etc. Is celebration dependent on other people? You can celebrate alone
also. Celebration has something to do with you. Even if you are with a hundred other
people, while celebrating, you celebrate alone. And everyone has their own degree of
feeling bliss. So even if you are with a hundred people, you celebrate alone. And even if you
celebrate alone, you celebrate. Celebration does not mean that there should be gettogether. It can be get-together, and it may not be a get-together. So no condition, it is
unconditional. Any day, any moment just decide and celebrate.
I do not need to define what celebration is. I just need to remind you of celebration. I only
need to remind. I dont need to define. What is there to define? Dont you know what
celebration is? Just start dancing, singing a song, hug someone, crack a joke, laugh out loud,
this is celebration and life without celebration has no meaning in it. Life is meaningless.
There are people who always say life has no meaning. One of the eternal questions has been
- what is a meaning of life? A rose or a lotus does not ask what the meaning in life is. It is
simply celebrating life, celebrating to the extent that it flowers. Because when you celebrate
- you flower, you grow. So even in nature everything is celebrating. They are not sad. They
are never sad. Have you noticed house-sparrows have left Delhi? But when I met sparrows
in Ranikhet I did not find a single sparrow sad about leaving all their property in Delhi. They
werent sad about the beautiful nest they had to leave back in Delhi. I never found any tree
sad, they are all delighted, birds are singing for no reason. People say that specific bird is
singing to call her beloved, or his beloved or whatever, but just ask them. Birds sing even
when their beloved is around. So celebration is unconditional, it is divine, it is spiritual, it is
religious. It is very important. Without it you are dull and dead and if you are dull and dead
how will you face the challenges of life? There are many challenges in life. Someone has to
appear in the examination, someone has to find a job, someone has to quit a job, someone
wants to start a business, someone wants to get married, and someone wants to get out of
marriage. There are so many challenges in life. How would you encounter? You are already
dead. So celebrate life, because without celebration, there is no life in life. And remember.
Celebration is spiritual. You cannot go deep into meditation without celebration. Dont take
celebration for granted and dont think that celebration is for dumb people. Dont think you
are very intelligent if you are not celebrating. Remember, in life, wisdom lies in being
intelligent and foolish at the same time. That is the real wisdom.
So friends here we have created a platform to celebrate. So why wait? You people are lucky
because you not only have the philosophy of celebration. No! I am not giving you
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philosophies. I am giving you experience. My talking about it is just a motivation for that
experience. But the real thing is experience. That is why my place is a laboratory, a practical
place where we experience what we understand, we experience instantly.
That is why I simply say, my religion is more instant than instant coffee. Even instant coffee
takes time. But it does not take a single second. You just switch. Because meditation is inner
celebration and celebration is outer meditation. Laughter is celebration. Love is celebration.
Everything beautiful is celebration. Make your life beautiful.
Click here to watch this recorded talk on YouTube.

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