Deprogramming Programs

The First Layer: Identity

The moment you are born, the first label is given — your religion. You are told you are a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew… before you even know what these words mean. A direction is handed over to you, not as an exploration, but as a conclusion. And the deeper truth is — those who gave it to you were also given the same.

Your parents, your family — they are not at fault. They too were conditioned, shaped, programmed by generations before them. What they passed on to you is what they received, unquestioned.

Programming travels like inheritance. It becomes tradition. It becomes identity.

And slowly, without realizing, your openness begins to close. Instead of discovering life, you begin to repeat it.

The Second Layer: Becoming

As you grow, a new programming begins — your future. You are told what to become. If you are born into a family of doctors, the path seems decided. If into lawyers, businessmen, or any profession — expectations begin to define you. Decisions about your life are often made before your own intelligence has had a chance to awaken.

Your capacity is not explored — it is assumed.

Your individuality is not discovered — it is directed.

And so, you begin living a life that may not truly be yours.

Meditation as Freedom

Meditation is the rebellion against this unconscious conditioning. Not a rebellion of anger — but of awareness. As you begin to watch your thoughts, your reactions, your beliefs — you start seeing what is truly yours and what has been imposed. And in that seeing, something starts falling away. No force is needed. No fight is required.

Awareness itself is enough. Like light entering a dark room — the darkness simply disappears.

Returning to Your Original Self

De-programming does not make you empty — it makes you available. Available to truth. Available to experience. Available to life as it is — not as it has been told to you. You begin to respond, not react. You begin to live, not repeat.

Meditation is not giving you a new belief system. It is taking away all systems — so you can see clearly. What remains then…is you. Untouched. Unconditioned. Alive.

Deprogramming yourself will create the emptiness, the space within you. Unless and until you are empty, new ideas, the real bare truth cannot come unto you. Each day mind keeps on gathering the information, gathering knowledge. This knowledge and information becomes your program; this becomes the basis of how you behave and how you work in your life. Knowledge is good, it certainly helps, but emptiness is also very much required. It creates the openness, it creates the space, the much-wanted space. It makes you reach out. This is your very purpose to come to meditation — to reach out to the existence, to the oneness, to the ultimate power, to the within. This is what is called as journey to the within. With fixed ideas, with a cluttered mind, this journey is almost impossible. The openness creates the further space for the new ideas to come in and this is the way you grow. For the growth of the within to happen, it is important that the clutter of the within has to be cleared. It is a process; it can only happen by meditation, there is no other way.

Deprogramming is a simple process; it hardly takes time. A few hours of meditation each day will help you completely deprogram yourself and within a few years you will be a transformed personality. The word personality here is important; your outlook will change.

Meditation is that deprogramming which will make you a human from a robot. You will be a person with a heart. That heart will want love, it will not reject sex, it will say yes to friends, to laughter because then you will want to live, to live with whatever you have. Then you will feel that whatever you have is enough to give to happiness; then your happiness will not be dependent on something yet to come.

My effort is to make human beings, to deprogram you to make you understand that you may be a Doctor or an Engineer but you are a human first. You may be a soldier but you are a human first. If humans recognize that they are humans first, the entire problem will be solved. Then being superhuman will not be required; then asking for impossible desires will vanish; then running after so-called superhuman Gurus and superhuman priests will no longer be required; then the ego will go; then running after God will no longer be required. Your quest to search will end. The emptiness of the within, the silence of the within will not fetch you answers to your question but in turn, will make the questions disappear; this is when you will experience eternal peace, which is called inner peace.

The mind creates the clutter; it is the dirty mind which gathers the dirt. Work with the heart; the heart is always pure, it has fragrance. The heart will take you to the path of the pureness, the existence, towards the inner silence. The mind will always take you outwards, towards the past; it decides good and bad, which creates the problem. The mind discriminates and the heart unites.

Mind is the place of the devil; the society has used the mind against the people. They have made you followers; they have made you feel burdened. Life is never a burden; how can it be? The things which flow can never be a burden; things which are stagnant are a burden, like a mind.

There was a person whose wife always kept on nagging. He used to pray to God to do something so that his wife loses her memory because all the time she used to talk about the past, to nag the poor husband from all the memories that she had collected. The husband was left with no choice but to pray to God to do something that his wife loses all her memories and it did happen; God listened, the wife lost all her memory. Now there was nobody to nag; now there was nobody to talk over the past. The poor husband again prayed to God to do something so that his wife regains all her memories; God listened and the wife regained her memories and again she started to nag. This is the way people are programmed; they all want things without understanding, without any realization. This has been the problem; you know what you want but you do not know how to use it.

Deprogramming will help you to clear the past, clear the clutter, but at the same time it will create space for the newness to come so that life becomes completely flowing, with joy, with bliss. This is the purpose of my meditation, this is the very reason of meditation.