Anything that happens to you, which is beyond your control – like any vision, like anything happening to you which is beyond your control – is not your own. Supposing a person is driving a car and he just… car goes into a slide and falls into a ghat (deep mountain valley) And he said, “I had an experience!” What will you say to such a thing: that the car is not in his control. But the person believes that he had a big experience because he had a big hit on his head.
The things that are beyond your control are not your own. Self-realisation is your own. Everything has to be in your own control. Like somebody starts jumping on the chair, he starts thinking, “I’m flying.” Do you fly that way? Do the birds fly that way? They know when to start and when to stop. Those who fall into these traps just start doing it by some force and what is that force is the negative force, one must understand.
You should be completely in control of yourself. Whatever happens to you, is it completely under your control or not? Of course if you are driving your car and you go to a particular beautiful place, it’s a beautiful experience because you have gone there. But not the way people are thinking that if you start jumping or if you start shouting or screaming and making noises it’s something very great.