Everything has energy : fear,anger, jealousy and hate. You are unaware of the fact that all these things are wasting your life. Your energy is leaking from so many holes. This way you are going bankrupt, sooner or later. And another significant point to remember : if you witness anything – fear, anger , hate – they will disappear, leaving a tremendous amount of energy in you which you can use for creativity. You will have to use it. When the leaking holes disappear, you will be overflowing with energy. But if you witness your love, compassion, kindness and humbleness, they will not disappear. They also have tremendous energy, but the more you witness them, the more they will become strong in you; they will over-power you, overwhelm you.

So this is the criterion to decide what is right and what is wrong. If by witnessing, something disappear, leaving all energy to you, it was wrong….I give you whole secret of spiritual life : witness. If the thing disappears and leaves a great amount of energy behind, it was wrong. If by witnessing, the phenomenon becomes even bigger, love becomes more Himalayan, it means this is the good you have been searching for.

If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, sensitivity, compassion, and creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold.

Alchemists had small labs in which there were many tubes and bottles, many – coloured things, and stoves. It gave the appearance that they were doing something material, that they were scientists, that they were not mystics – because the mystic was dangerous to organised religion. These people were just trying to change base metals into gold. That was perfectly good…. But this was else was going on inside. Being scientists was just the superficial mask. Not a single iota of base metal was changed into gold in thousands of years…. And who is not interested in changing base metal into gold ? Everybody was interested. Alchemists were respected for their facade.

What they were actually doing was of a different dimension. They were trying to change fear, anger and hatred into love, compassion, creativity, and sensitivity. They were trying to bring a transformation in the soul of man. So this is the basic ‘alchemy : you watch, witness without any judgement. That which is wrong will disappear, leaving a great energy behind. And that which is good will become bigger and will start absorbing the energies that have been left by wrong things.

When everything that is ugly in you has left, only a great fragrance of love, light, and laughter remains behind.