# THE SCIENCE OF LIVING ENLIGHTENMENT

*Revealing the four sacred principles that empower YOU!*

## **THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM**

*All meditation techniques, practices and procedures described or recommended in this book, are suitable for practice only under the direct supervision of an instructor, trained and ordained by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Further, you should consult with your personal physician to determine whether those techniques, practices and procedures are suitable for you in relation to your own health, fitness and ability.*

*This publication is not intended to be a substitute for a personal medical attention, examination, diagnosis or treatment. Should any person engage in any of the techniques, practices or procedures described or recommended in this book, he would be doing so at his own risk, unless he has received a personal recommendation from his own physician and from an instructor trained and ordained by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.*

*Listen! There is nothing called 'Impossible'! Impossible is just the border you create.*

*Actually, what separates you from the Cosmos? Just your skin, and the identity you carry, that you exist only up to the border of your skin!*

*What separates your mind from the Cosmic Mind? Just the border you made, called – 'I can do only this much!'*

> *'Impossible' is nothing but the border you built inside the Cosmos, to separate yourself from the Whole.*

> ~ THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM ~

*Listen! You always think that Life just happens to you. No.*

*Every moment, you are creating your chosen future. Whatever you carry in your inner space is your life's possibility.*

*If you are carrying sadness you are commanding the cosmos to bring greater sadness into your life. If you are carrying fulfillment, you are ordering the cosms to bring greater fulfillment to you.*

*The four spiritual principles or tattvas are powerful keys to return again and again, to the right inner space.*

*I bless you all to imbibe these tattvas, and experience the extraordinary power in your life called YOU!*

~ THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM ~

## *Table Of Contents*

*I LIFE IS EXPANSION*

*Enrich With Enlightenment Technique For Healing Past Pains Technique For Integrity Integrity Is Not Morality What Are People Thinking About You? What Is Authenticity? Are You Responsible For How Others See You? Discover Your Peak Capacity! Vision For An Ideal Spiritual Community (Sangha) What Is Your Response To Life? Listening Is The First Step To Spirituality! You Are Naturally Programmed For Success Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage A Life Without Fear Is Possible Wake Up To Your Highest Possibility Four Truths Of Life Power Of Responsibility Authenticity Empowers You! Law Of The Cosmos Is 'Responsibilism' Success Is The Space Of 'Possibility' Transforming Your Negativity Is Shiva-Power*

*The Tattvas - Nectar Pot Of Spirituality*

*Responsibility Means Expanding Your Possibilities*

*Life Is All About Relationships*

*What Is Integrity In Relationships?*

*Get A Permanent Solution!*

*Love Makes Life Happen To You*

*Enter The Space Of World Leadership*

*Do You Really Love Yourself?*

*Have The Right Relationship With Wealth*

*Everything Is Possible!*

*Build The Right Logic*

*Responsibility Is A Divine Quality*

*Go Beyond Boredom And Tiredness*

*The DNA Of Leadership*

*Enrich The World Through Sannyas Life*

*Discover Your Peak Performance*

*Reclaim Your Powerful Inner Space!*

*Completion – Technique To Alter Your Past*

*Discover What Controls Your Life*

*Understand The Source Of Your Suffering*

*Awakening Your Bio-Energy!*

*Are You Living In Completion Or Compulsion?*

*Listening Awakens Your Intuition*

*Science Of Living Enlightenment The Answer To The Great 'Why' Practice - The Ultimate Technique! Vedic Tradition, Spirituality And Sannyas! Practicing The Presence Of God Death, Karma And Mystical Powers*

#### *II GO BEYOND TIME*

*Change Your Past To Change Your Future! Drop Your Past To Own Your Future! Don't Let Your Past Swallow Your Future!*

### *III CREATE YOUR REALITY*

*Integrity Gives Power To Your Words! Are You Preparing For Failure? You Can Manifest Your Reality Don't let your mind cheat you Choose Your Reality Single Key for a Conflict Free Life Do You Really Know What You Want? Are You Limiting Your Expansion? Know Your Real Enemy Your Idea of 'You' Creates Your Reality* *Drop your Fantasies about Failure! Create the Space for Your Chosen Reality The Nature of Perception Authenticity is your Vitamin A Your word can change the world!*

#### *IV THE POWER OF KUNDALINI*

*Experience Kundalini Awakening! Two Steps To Awaken Kundalini! Experience Your Dream Life Through Kundalini Awakening Third-Eye Awakening Kundalini Awakening Is Your Decision!*

### *V ENRICHING WITH ENLIGHTENMENT*

*Life Is For Enriching Consciousness Fulfilling Others Makes You Powerful! Enrich Others And Life Enriches You Enriching Makes You an Incarnation*

*VI SHARINGS*

*VII GLOSSARY*

*VIII APPENDIX*

*Don't give up on people. 'Enriching with enlightenment' means enriching yourself and others with these four great truths of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching. Enrich people so that they also enrich others. Let the whole universe be enriched with enlightenment!*

## **Enrich With Enlightenment**

**Tuesday, 01st January 2013**

Today is the tenth anniversary of our spiritual mission. It is said that the tenth year gives rebirth to the *sangha*, the spiritual community. I think that in this tenth year of our spiritual mission, we are really reborn!

Today's message, as you all know, is going to be the message for the whole year. I know all of you are waiting for the *mahavakya*, the core message for this year! This year's *mahavakya*, the core message with which we will all work, is **'***Enriching with Enlightenment'*.

Enriching with enlightenment has many layers of meaning. Enriching yourself with enlightenment, enriching others with enlightenment and enriching the whole world with enlightenment. Go on, enrich everybody with enlightenment. Enrich yourself continuously with enlightenment!

Bring integrity into the words which you utter to others and to yourself. Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for yourself, and the

way you hold yourself for others to experience you. Bring responsibility in your inner space for every happening, for everything. Go on enriching others, go on enriching everyone.

Drop the past records. The past track never gives you the confidence, the possibility. Unless you see the possibility, life does not flow in you! Excitement does not happen in you. If you are seeing the past records, there will be a deep sorrow. The past records always bring deep sorrow, because by nature, past records are death. Possibility, by nature, is Life! Forget about the past records. Look at the possibility. Whoever is interested in life should look at the possibilities, not the past record. The past record is neither as bad as you remember, nor worthy of remembrance, of being remembered.

Understand, it is neither as bad as you remember, nor is it worthy of being remembered. The past records never let you remember or believe the possibility. Possibility is life. Life is possibility, not past record.

When you plan for the unimaginable, when your nervous system is loaded with things that you are not able to even comprehend, the excitement that oozes in your nervous system is bliss! Understand, bliss does not come to lazy bums! Bliss does not happen to people caught in the past records. Past record is death, possibility is life.

*When you plan for the unimaginable, the excitement that oozes in your nervous system is bliss.*

O my devotees, disciples and humanity! I give the clarion call this day look only at the possibility, not at the past records! As I said, it is neither as bad as you remember, nor worthy of being remembered. Possibility is life. In every zone, when you look at the possibility, life happens to you. Bring tremendous integrity in every word you utter. Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for yourself and for others.

Please understand, these four words are the keys to enrich with enlightenment. First word – Integrity; second word– Authenticity; third word – Responsibility; fourth word – Enriching.

Let me first define integrity. *Integrity is you fulfilling the words and thoughts you give to yourself and to others, and experiencing a state of completion with yourself and with life.*

Integrity means honoring the words you utter to others and to yourself. Stand by your word. When your life stands by the words you utter, the words you utter become reality. It is a method for ultimately achieving *vak-siddhi, making whatever you utter as reality.*

Understand, when you have integrity, if you give a word, you will give your life to fulfill it! When *you* make that decision, the cosmos fulfills any word you give. The cosmos comes to your rescue. Understand, when you have integrity, if you give a word and you are ready to give your life to fulfill it, the cosmos comes to fulfill your word. This happens due to the integrity in the words you give to others and the words you give to yourself.

The next is authenticity. *Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive yourself to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, and what others expect you to be for them.*

Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for yourself, the way you hold yourself for others, and the way you hold yourself for others to perceive you. Enrich yourself with authenticity.

Keeping Mahakala as witness, with integrity and authenticity I declare: *I happened, created and am running this sangha with integrity and authenticity. There are some things which you don't understand about me. I am very clear. I declare this with the integrity and authenticity with which I and the sangha are functioning.*

Every devotee, every disciple, every *satsangi*, every *samaji,* every *sannyasi* should bring every human being into integrity and authenticity, in their life, in their words, in *everything*. Wash your whole life with integrity and authenticity. Do an acid wash with integrity and authenticity.

The third word is responsibility. *Responsibility is living and responding to life from the truth, that you are the source of and therefore responsible for, all happenings in and around you.*

Responsibility means feeling responsible for everything that is happening! Understand, whenever I feel responsible for everything that is happening, all the problems get dissolved. They just disappear. Every time a problem is brought to me, when I take the responsibility, I feel empowered.

*Responsibility means feeling responsible for everything that is happening.*

'*I am responsible for everything happening in and around me.*' It is a very powerful strategy for victory and success. This is the strategy.

Responsibility empowers you, however complicated the enemy may be*. All of you know the story of Hiranyakashipu, the demon who was defeated by his own child Prahalada? This* guy asks Lord Brahma for a boon, that he should not be killed, either by man or by an animal, either indoors or outdoors. What a complicated boon! But Lord Vishnu took the responsibility in the form of Lord *Narasimha*, and won the game!

### *STORY OF PRAHALADA*

*Prahalada, the child-hero, excels as the example for the tattva of integrity. In spite of being born to the arrogant demon-king Hiranyakashipu, Prahalada remained a great devotee of the god Vishnu.*

*In order to maintain his power, Hiranyakashipu did some penance and obtained a boon from Bramha, which would prevent him from being destroyed by any being living in this planet earth. With this power, he started behaving arrogantly and kept harming the people who were earnest in connecting to the higher truths.*

*Hiranyakashipu was angered by Prahalada's devotion to Vishnu, as he felt that no one other than himself should be worshipped by his subjects. One day, when Prahalada was praying to Vishnu, Hiranyakashipu demanded, 'You say your Vishnu is everywhere? Come on, show me your Vishnu now! Where is he? Is he in these pillars?' And Hiranyakashipu pointed to the pillars in the hall. 'Yes, he is in this pillar', said Prahalada simply, pointing to one of the pillars in front of him. 'Then let me find him!' roared Hiranyakashipu, and hit the pillar forcefully with his mace.*

*To the utter amazement of everyone, Vishnu emerged from the pillar in the form of a ferocious lion-man (Narasimha). It was not a living being from planet earth! Narasimha destroyed Hiranyakashipu and blessed Prahalada with enlightenment.*

Understand, in this story, when *Hiranyakashipu was* pointing towards the pillars, *Vishnu* was resting in *Vaikunta*. But the moment *Prahalada's* hand started moving, Vishnu started running towards earth. His consort *Lakshmi* asked, 'What happened, what happened?' 'My devotee is moving his finger; wherever he indicates, I have to enter into that pillar!' said Vishnu.

The integrity and authenticity of *Prahalada* was such that wherever the hand of the innocent child stops, *Narasimha* has to appear in that pillar. And the small kid is looking at which pillar is nice and choosing!


When you have the integrity and authenticity of *Prahalada, Narasimha* lands for you; he appears wherever you ask, even in stone. When you don't have authenticity and integrity, even if God comes, you will throw stones on him! With integrity and authenticity, you stone Him unto eternity. Without integrity and authenticity, you stone him unto death. Stoning Him to death and stoning Him to eternity! I am coining a new word - stoning to eternity. It means carving his deity out of stone!

*Responsibility empowers you, however complicated the enemy may be.*

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When you have integrity and authenticity, even a stone becomes God; God appears even from stone for you.

When you have the integrity and authenticity of *Prahalada*, when you have integrity and authenticity, when you give your life to fulfill your words, cosmos intervenes and fulfills your words.

Ten years before, on this very land, by the grace of *Mahakala,* I made this very *sankalpa,* and I make this very *sankalpa* again: I will be available here continuously to the whole humanity, enriching with enlightenment.

Responsibility empowers you. I tell you, an important secret to be responsible again and again without becoming powerless: never give up on people. I never give up on people. Even when they give up on me, I don't give up on them. I continue to work on them. Understand; take this as an important key. Don't give up on people. This is the maths of life.

The number of people you have given up on is the minus sign in your life. The number of people you still don't give up on is the plus sign in your life. Make the calculation; make the balance-sheet of your life. This will prove if your life is in profit or loss. This will prove whether you are running in success or failure. Whether you are running in failure or success is not decided by the incident; it is decided by your spirit.

I tell you, nothing has been lost if you have not lost your inspiration. I was talking to some of my *ashramites*. One *ashramite* was asking me, 'Swamiji, I think we lost so many valuable years in the religious attack which happened on us.' I told him, 'No. Nothing, nothing has been lost as long as you don't lose your inspiration. Nothing is lost. What are a few years? Time is eternity. I am going to be available here continuously

with the body, and even after leaving the body. This is our life!'

If the inspiration is not lost, nothing is lost. If the inspiration is lost, everything is lost. Understand, by the divine grace of *Maha Kalabhairava, Mahadeva,* we have not lost inspiration. So nothing, nothing, is lost. Inspiration is life. Don't give up on people. This is the first step to feel responsibility. Be empowered and responsible.

The fourth spiritual truth is enriching. Let me define Enriching. *Enriching is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity that you are committed to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and Life in and around you.*

Life happens to you, outside you. Please understand, life happens to you with others. When there are students, you are a teacher. When there are kids, you are a mother. When there are brothers, you are a brother. When there is a father, you are a son. When there is an employee, you are a boss. When there is a boss, you are an employee. Life happens to you with others, with people who are outside you. Enrich them. Only by enriching them does your life gets enriched. Don't be selfish. Your life does not happen just inside you.

When I was young, I used to wonder why Swami Vivek*ananda* gave this ideal for his *sangha*

*When you have integrity and authenticity, when you give your life to fulfill your words, cosmos intervenes and fulfills your words.*

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(spiritual community): '*ātmano mokṣārthaṃ jagat hitāya ca - for one's one enlightenment, and the well-being of the world.'* This is the ideal he gave for his *sangha*, the *sangha* he created for enlightenment and for the good of the world. I was wondering why he gave such an idea, 'for the well-being of the world'. When I became mature enough to understand Vivek*ananda*, I realized that life happens to you outside yourself, with others.

If you are just sitting inside the dark forest and you don't see any human being, not even an animal, then *atma mokshartha* is enough. Working on yourself and your enlightenment is enough; enriching yourself with enlightenment is enough. Even when you are imagining others, you are interacting with others. If you don't even remember others, enriching yourself with enlightenment is enough. But that is not the way life is happening with you.

Let us see experientially, how life happens to you. We have to start from where we are standing, the experience of life happening to you through others. Your employees decide whether you are a good boss or not; your children decide whether you are good father or not; your father decides whether you are a good son or not; your brothers decide whether you are good sibling or not; your teacher decides whether you are a good student or not; your student decides whether you are good teacher or not; your patient decides whether you are good doctor or not and your doctor decides whether you are good patient or not! Life is happening to you from outside, from others.

Unless you enrich others with enlightenment, your life is not going to be completely enriched with enlightenment. Decide to enrich your boss with enlightenment; you will have completion in your relationship with your boss. You will be a complete employee. Decide to enrich

your employees with enlightenment; you will be an enlightened CEO. You will be a complete boss. Fulfill in that dimension. Decide to enrich your spouse with enlightenment.

Now you need to remember, don't give up on people. I tell you, your spouse can never be worse than the people who I am facing! But I never give up on people.

If you have to learn just one thing from me, learn this one thing. I never give up on people. I don't stop training. When they are in training, I have the passion that they have to transform N O W. And I have the patience to wait even for years, with the same passion, if they have not transformed. The burning passion of the sun, and the cooling patience of the moon!

Just now, there was an incident that happened. The *brahmachari who* was responsible for the garlands, made a small mistake in arranging them. When I asked him about it, my words were so passionate; *he has to transform now!* But do you know, I am asking him the same questions with the same passion for the last ten years! And he has still not transformed. I still have the same passion to ask him the same question for ten years, for the same mistake!

I don't give up on people. Don't give up on people.

*Life is happening to you from outside, from others.*

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People are life. People around you are life happening to you. If you give up on them, you are giving up on life. Whenever you give up on people, you commit partial suicide. *Giving up on people is partial suicide!*

Not giving up on people is the victory of war. Victory in war, victory in life, is not decided by one incident. It is decided by the ability to not give up on people. There are people who have happened in your life in the form of family members, team members, customers, clients, suppliers; in different ways. When people happen in your life, don't give up on them, enrich them with enlightenment, with integrity and authenticity.

Whenever you don't give up on people, when you decide not to give up on people, you are empowered. You are empowered! When I train one of my disciples or question him about a mistake he made, I *trust* that he will transform by the next time. But I don't *expect* that he will transform by the next time. Understand, I *trust* that he will transform by the next time, but I don't *expect* that he should be transformed by the next time. If he fulfills my trust, he blesses me! Don't give up on people. That is life! That is life!

Life is happening to you through others, through people. When you give up on people, you give up on life, which is suicide.

The *brahmachari* who messed up the flower garlands this morning, he has been with me for ten years! Based on my past record of him, I didn't think, 'Oh, for ten years he has not transformed; is he going to transform now?' Then I would give up on him! But if I say, 'Alright, you don't do this work, I will find somebody else,' again I give up on him. No. Neither keeping quiet, nor discarding, is what is called '*not giving up on people*'!

The *damaru (drum)* of Shiva is the symbol of not giving up on people. The fire is integrity and authenticity, the *trishul* (trident) is enriching. Don't give up on people. We have not lost anything because we have not lost our inspiration. Listening, listening, listening, listening and not giving up on people!

People ask me sometimes, "You say that the *damaru* is not giving up on people, fire is integrity and authenticity and the *trishul* is power. Then, what does *Shiva* have to show responsibility?

I tell you, his very life is responsibility! By his very presence, he makes a statement on responsibility. He is the *aadhara.* He takes responsibility for Existence, for everything he has - holding the river *Ganga* to save the planet earth; drinking the poison to save the universe*. Neelakantha* is responsibility, *Gangadhara* is responsibility. Keeping the snakes with himself and getting people out problems all this is responsibility. Everything of *Shiva* is responsibility. He does not give up even on *bhootas, pretas and ganas* who are not part of the society. Everything around him shows his responsibility!

Understand, all of you think for a moment with integrity and authenticity, how quickly you give up on people! If I would have given up on humanity that quickly, do you think you would have been here? When I came to this forest as a youth and

*Don't give up on people. People around you is life happening to you. If you give up on people, you give up on life.*

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declared, 'I stand with integrity and authenticity to enrich the world with enlightenment,' even the few people who were standing around me, were smiling inside their heart - *what does he mean!* Some stood with devotion, some with a lot of fear, some with apprehension, some with a mocking smile, some thinking that I may be *loosu*, crazy! Only the few, trees, plants and nature stood with me, saying, *'Tathasthu'*, so be it! And we did it! We have done it. We are doing it. We will do it!

O humanity, listen! Don't give up on people. This is one *tattva,* one truth that again and again strengthens my shoulders. Don't give up on people. Go on enriching, enriching and enriching!

In the Inner-Awakening program, a person was asking me a question. She herself had experienced levitation and *kundalini* awakening. But she was not able to advise her daughter to attend the program, because her daughter did not believe in mysticism.

I said, 'What do you mean? Tell her that you are her mother, you are not mad to go through this experience! Tell me, are *you* authentic in your *kundalini* awakening? Do you really jump by *kundalini* awakening, or are you just jumping inauthentically?'

'No,' she said, 'I am authentic in everything that is happening.' I told her, 'Then go and show it to your daughter. Tell her that you are an authentic being, you are her mother who loves her with all the authenticity and you want her to test this.' Only then did she realize that this is right. I said, 'Don't give up on people based on the past record. Earlier she may not have listened to you, because you yourself may not have been integrated and authentic. Now, bring that integrity and authenticity. And don't give up on people.'

Enrich people, enrich people and enrich people. If you give up on people, you will give up on yourself. You will lose your confidence. You will give up on yourself ! Don't give up on people. Don't give up on others. Not giving up on people is life! That is the mathematics of your life. The number of people you have given up on is your loss, and the number of people you have not given up on, is your gain. This is the profit and loss account statement of life. Find out which list you yourself are in! Find out whether you yourself are in the list of people you have given up on, or you still have not given up on you! Find that out - that is a very important thing.

Many times you give up on *you*. When you stop trying to wake up for *yoga*, you are giving up on you. When you stop practicing integrity and authenticity without compromise, you give up on you. When you start giving up on people, you give up on you. Find out whether you have given up or not. Don't give up on you. That is the first step you need to do today. Don't give up on you.

Decide! 'With integrity and authenticity, I decide that I will not give up on me. I will not give up on me, based on my past track record, my past records. I will work on the possibility.'

Not giving up on people, is not just about not giving up on your family! It includes people in your community, locality, society, state, country

*When you give up on people, you give up on you. Don't give up on people, go on enriching, enriching and enriching people.*

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and in your universe. Don't give up on people. When you don't give up on people, when you decide not to give up on people, you feel empowered in the shoulder. Your shoulders feel the strength. Whenever your shoulders feel tired, whenever you feel tired, remember - 'I am not going to give up on people!'

I am a person who has no individual family. But thousands see me as their family member! Even on Facebook, I get so many family requests! I am literally living with a cosmic family. Rahu, Ketu, Shani, Shiva, Durga, Kali, Subramanya, Shukra, *Guru*, Chandra - these are my family members. I literally live with a cosmic family. I don't give up on anybody, including *Shani!*

I am not going to give up on people. I wanted all of you to understand, never to give up on people. The important message on our tenth anniversary, on the completion of one decade, on the completion of ten years of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM *sangha,* is this: don't give up on people. *Don't give up on people!*

I tell my *ashramites*, 'If you can't teach a worker in your department on the science of living enlightenment, if you can't teach him integrity and authenticity, whom are you going to teach? If he is alive, he can be enriched. Don't give up.'

Carry this one message - Don't give up on people. That is the message for this whole year. That is a practical instruction on how to enrich with enlightenment. Don't give up on yourself and don't give up on others. Don't give up on people. Enrich with enlightenment.


See, what do we do in *nirahara samyama*? Nothing! Simple, with the power of our integrity and authenticity, we declare that this body should produce the energy, directly from space! Over! For days you don't eat, but you are not tired! Energy is directly produced from space! How many of you feel energetic with *nirahara samyama* and *The samyama*? Come on! You are working twice as much as your regular routine! Am I right? You wake up in the morning at at-least 4:30 a.m, and you are up till 11pm. Am I right? With just four to five hours of sleep, you do heavy physical and mental work the whole day! Physical *yoga* and mental work of *dhamma*! No food, no sleep, but you are alive and energetic! How many of you found out this miracle? (People raise their hands). That is the power of integrity and authenticity!

Your body starts producing the food directly from space. Your body starts producing the energy directly from space.

And finding your root-pattern is not an easy joke. It's not that you don't spend any energy at all in finding your root-pattern. You go through so much of emotional turmoil and ups and downs! Usually when you go through emotional turmoil, your body will become tired, you burn more calories, you work out more! But even after going through this tough emotional turmoils, your feel powerful, full of energy with no tiredness! How many of you feel this? (People raise their hands). Relax! It is because of the power of your integrity and authenticity! Integrity authenticity and responsibility!

Understand, it is the power of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching! You need to know the power of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching. It transforms your very body, mind, emotions, and cognition itself !

Understand, Poosalaar Naayanaar is a great saint from Tamil Nadu. What will be the power of his integrity and authenticity! Shiva himself wanted to reside in the temple that he built in his heart. And He (Lord Shiva) told the king, 'His (Poosalaar Naayanaar's) temple is much greater than the stone temple that you (the king) built!' Then what should be the power of integrity and authenticity of Poosalaar Naayanaar? It is the space of completion that he would have been living, the space of enlightenment that he was in!

*The space you carry is the capital for your life.*

# Practice - The Ultimate Technique

The space you carry is much more important! That is the capital for your life. Listen! The space you carry is the capital for your life. Even with so much of heavy work, you continue to be energetic, because of the power of your declaration.

So you should know that the moment you understand the power of integrity and authenticity, you will fall in love with *dhamma*! It is not falling in love; rising in love with *dharma*! Start at whatever level you know, you understand about *dharma*. Don't think, 'I am only listening to *satsang* through TV! I will go and attend the Inner Awakening; then I will start practicing these four *tattvas*.' No! Start practicing wherever you are, whatever little you understand.

If there is an obstacle, it is because of root-patterns. Break it. Complete it. That's all! Anything is possible! When you are in the space of *anything is possible*, you understand that you are the favourite child of the cosmos –'*Brahmanyam Bahuputratham*'. I am the favourite child of the Universe!

So the essence of today's *satsang* is this: Start the four principles wherever you are, from that level and don't stop there. Go on intensifying it. Let your thinking become *tattwamaya*! Let the thinking itself become through these four *tattvas*. Let your thinking become based on these four principles, the *tattvas* will become *satya*. You will reach the highest possibility and enlightenment!

*Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Thank you!*

*The first thing you need to do is practice pure listening of the four tattvas, and think through these four tattvas. Integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching - let your thinking be aligned with these four tattvas. Continuously think through the four tattvas. You will simply be successful with you and with society!*

# *Vedic* **Tradition, Spirituality And sannyas!**

**Wednesday, 15th May 2013**

Today is Adi Shankara *Jayanthi*!

The great being Sri Adi Shankar*acharya* was born today. One of the greatest philosopher on the planet earth, he still has the unbeaten record. Please understand, for somebody to have an unbeaten record in the field of philosophy even after almost 2500 years is not a joke! I can say that he is the first *acharya* who went from the south, and established the *Vedic* tradition all over the world. Please understand that at that time, different parts of India were different countries. So, it is equivalent to establishing it all over the world! The civilization was such and he had the strength - he had the strength! Adi Shankara is still one of the greatest philosophers who walked on the planet Earth! He still has an unbroken record!

Understand, in the world of philosophy, there are only 2 groups - the ones who accept Shankara and those who reject Shankara. But, nobody can go beyond Shankara, that's all! They are either those who accept Shankara or those who reject Shankara. Nobody is above Shankara!

I still can't introduce Adi Shankara. Because when I remember him, I am just lost in the ocean of his glory, for what he has done! He was in the body for just thirty two years! Some biographies say thirty four, but no biography claims that he lived more than thirty four years on the planet earth. So, the maximum possibility is thirty four years. He studied the *shastras*, wrote commentaries on all the major books like *prastanatraya* - even on the *stotras* like 'Vishnu sahasranama', composed hundreds and hundreds of *stotras* of the level of 'Bhaja Govindam'! And above all, he argued - did '*vada prativada*' and transformed millions of people!

He established four *peetas* – Shringeri, Dwarika, Puri and Bhadrikashrama. He established four *peetas* to keep the *dharma* (of *Vedic* tradition) alive. Of these, three are still are an unbroken lineage of masters. Only for Bhadrikashram *peetadhipati*, the *Shankaracharya* was killed by Aurangajeb before he initiated the successor. But by that time, the Puri *Shankaracharya* had taken charge and initiated the next *Shankaracharya*. Three of his mutts are (still) an unbroken lineage! And he created the philosophies!

Please understand, I am not saying that Shankar*acharya* created the philosophy. I am using the word 'philosophies'. Because he is so vast! He cannot even be contained inside *Advaita* philosophy. He was a space for the philosophies to happen! The best philosophy that happened out of

*In the world of philosophy, there are only 2 groups - the ones who accept Adi Shankara and those who reject Adi Shankara.*

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him is *Advaita*, so *Advaita* became his brand. But he is not just an *Advaiti* alone. If you see his devotion – his composition 'Soundarya Lahari' - Oh God! Anybody will be mesmerised by the way he has described the form in his song. A person who can describe the form so beautifully can never be only an *Advaiti*! *That was also a breeze happened in his space!*

No one can imagine that he has done all this in just thirty four years! Please don't think – 'Oh, Swamiji also did it.' No! Now, we have so much of modern equipment that supports this. For all the five hundred books that I published, I myself don't need to sit and write it, because there are video records. Whatever I speak is video recorded, it gets transcribed, then gets edited and published. But in Shankara's time, he wrote every book, he himself has to write it! For every arguement that he conducts, teaching that he conducts, *satsang* that he conducts, he himself has to speak, as there is no (separate) audio recording system. It is not that when he speaks, it gets audio recorded and then transcribed. No! So he has to spend time separately for the conducting arguements and spend time separately for writing books.

Shankara has written three types of literatures. He wrote commentaries on the traditional scriptures - like 'Brahmasutra' *bhaashya*, *bhaashya* on the 'Dwadashopanishads' and 'Gita' *bhaashya*. That is the first.

Next, he established four monasteries. Please understand that it is not a joke to establish a monastery! Even in this modern day, with fifty five *sannyasis* directly supporting the mission and around a thousand two hundred full time volunteers (including *rishis* and everyone else) I am not able to establish monasteries everywhere. It is so much of work, you don't know! He established four *peetas* in four different countries he established! Understand that all of it was not India at that time. They were different countries - like Kalinga *desha*, Chola *desha*, etc. In

those days, Sringeri was under the Chola kingdom. So he established in four *peetas* in four different countries - Chola *desha*, Kalinga *desha*, Goorjara *desha* and Himachala.

And his contribution to the world of philosophy is another major one! See, philosophers will usually be so impractical that they will not even have their own house! Philosophers will be so impractical that neither can people live with them nor can they live with others. That is why they can never create even their own house. They will always be beggars in the streets! But here is a philosopher who is so practical! He established four huge monasteries which are still alive, flourishing and thriving.

And incidentally, today is also the *jayanthi* of Ramanuj*acharya*. Both of them are born on the same day, but of course with the gap of maybe a thousand five hundred years. Ramanuja's birthday was on the nine hundred and ninety sixth *jayanthi*. Of course because of the *shaiva-vaishnava* problem, *vaishnavites* usually tend to celebrate Ramanuj*acharya*'s birthday one day before. But the original *thithi* and *nakshatra* is on same day (as Adi Shankar*acharya*).

Nothing – nothing – nothing can be compared with Adi Shankara! I and my *sangha* pay homage to the *adhipati* of the Hindu tradition, the *sarvangyna peetadhipati* of the Hindu tradition. He is the

*Philosophers will be so impractical that neither can people live with them nor can they live with others. Adi Shankara was a practical philosopher!*

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establisher of the Hindu tradition – of what you are seeing today as the Hindu tradition. Adi Shankara is the architect. Understand, even for *mahanirvani akaada* (oldest apex body of Hinduism), even though it was originated by Kapil *muni,* the by-laws are formed and reorganised as a *sangha* - as an organization, by Adi Shankara.

*We bow down to the aachaarya with great respect! Let him shower his grace on all of us and bless us to experience what he experienced and expressed through his great words!*

With this tribute to Shankaraachaarya, I will move to *nithya-satsang* today. I will answer the questions from Inner Awakening participants and all the participants. Please read the questions!

Q & A session with Inner Awakening program participants:

1) Question: *Respected swami I am working in business con where my job is to make our buyers believe that they are getting the products at the best cost, without giving a good profit. If I lead a life of complete integrity, I may or the company may not be out of business. Please help me for this situation.*

Swamiji: This is a very important question. I tell you, I really tell you. You do not need people to know what is your margin or profit. When I say integrity - please listen - do not reduce the quality of the product and do not try to cut corners. Do not try to cheat and do not try to delay the delivery.

For example, I say that this is the best product and the cost is ten thousand rupees. He does not need to know that I made it only for two thousand rupees. I can continue to be in my integrity by maintaining the quality of this product, the delivery date and all the services. Being in integrity does not mean that you need to tell the cost of the product

# Vedic Tradition, Spirituality And sannyas

to the buyer. Understand; make the buyers understand very clearly we are a business organisation, we are not a charitable organisation. We are a business organisation. What profit we make is ours. All you need to know is that you get the best product. Please understand, if you maintain integrity in all these, then you are in integrity. Don't lie, don't talk about the cost price, and make it very clear to people that whatever words you utter will be honoured. Whatever words you utter will be honoured!

May I know who asked the question? Yes, please be seated. Whatever words you utter is honoured! For example, take this program - the Inner awakening program. Whatever I commit, I go on honouring it. But nobody needs to know about the expense we incur. Nobody needs to compare what they are paying to the expense we incur. You understand? Neither do we tell you nor do you expect to know. Everyone knows that what is finally delivered to them, is worthy of much more than what they are paying. There ends integrity.

Understand, please understand. *Integrity is not transparency*! It is honouring the words you gave. You are confusing integrity with transparency. Tell the people - we are in business. I have a wife, I have a car, and I have a house. I need a cell phone. Who will pay my bills? We are a business organisation. You can be very clear when you say that you are a business organisation.

Forget about business organisation, even charitable organisations need to run. I have to take care of one thousand two hundred people per month, they eat because of me. Understand, it is not a joke to run an organisation with one thousand and two hundred people!

So integrity is not transparency. Integrity is honouring the words you

give, trying to honour the words you give. And go on trying to provide the best, this is authenticity. Neither in integrity nor in authenticity are you asked to be transparent! You are only asked to be transparent about the product and the cost. When you say this upfront, that perfectly alright! Understand. Your life is added into each product. For each product you create, your time is added, your energy is added and your creativity is added. What's the cost of your time, your creativity and your energy? So, integrity is not transparency. How many of you are clear? If you maintain your integrity in all these places, that is enough. Your business will flourish and pick up.


2) Question: *The practice of the four tattvas has to manifest in our behaviour as a human being. And the correct practise of this will make us role models in the society. How can we achieve this?*

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM: First, drop the greed to be a role model in society. Live these four *tattvas*, people will simply accept you as a role model. If you are rolled in the four *tattvas*, you will be the model for society. Understand, intensely, intensely, as intensely as possible, as authentically as possible, think-thinkthink through the four *tattvas*. Please understand, think through the four *tattvas*.

The first thing you need to do is practice pure listening of the four *tattvas,* and thinking

*Integrity is not transparency. Integrity is honouring the words you give.*

through these four *tattvas*. Integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching - let your thinking be aligned with these four *tattvas*. For example, now if you are feeling very sleepy or drowsy, immediately bring authenticity. 'Come on, I was always like this until yesterday. Now let me wake up and practise these *tattvas*. Let me push myself to the space of listening. Let me take the responsibility for transformation and enriching.' Continuously think through the four *tattvas*. Think through the four *tattvas*. You will simply be successful with you and with the society. I tell you - thinking through the four *tattvas* is the best way to be a success and a role model to the humanity. When you think through the four *tattvas,* you will have a breakthrough in thinking.

# 3) Question: *What does it mean to be complete with any situation in life?*

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM: What does it mean to be complete with any situation in life? May I know who it asked this? Yes.

Completion means feeling empowered, powerful, without any hangover, after every situation in your life! Completion means feeling empowered, feeling powerful, without any hangover, without feeling powerless during and after any situation in your life. If you are powerful, you won't be violent. You will not be lying spontaneously. You will not

*Continuously think through the four tattvas. You will simply be successful with you and with the society.*

be in guilt, fear or pain. So completion means you feeling empowered after every incident.

Listen! Every incident only adds to you. Sometimes it adds wealth and success. Sometimes it adds knowledge and experience! It only adds and adds and adds! If you are feeling that every incident is adding to you, you are empowered, you are complete. If you are feeling disempowered or powerless, then naturally you are in incompletion. So only when you live, you will understand this principle based on your experience what you feel, what you are and how you perceive you.

4) Question: *Swamiji, I heard you say that sannyas is the best lifestyle and is the need of the hour for the world. You also said that sannyas is the true freedom. I don't understand how sannyas can be freedom. Can you please explain?*

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM: If you are married, you will understand! In so many different levels, *sannyas* is freedom.

# I have a story for you guys.

*One American soldier was in a bunker in Afghanistan with another American whom he did not know. The first soldier said - 'Why did you come to this war?' The second soldier replied - 'I am not married and I love war. So I came here. What about you?' The other guy replied - 'I am married and I love peace. That is why I am here!'*

Listen! Listen! Listen! Alcohol does not need any marketing. Do you know that in India, marketing or advertising alcohol is banned? Advertising of alcohol or any form of spirit is banned. It is not legally allowed. But do you know - this non-advertising - does it stop people consuming it? Understand, just by the experience it gives, it gets, one

fellow enriches another fellow about alcohol and gets enriched, and the whole world is drinking! At least in India, the whole country is drinking! They import and drink! They make local arrack and drink! Sometimes, they mix and drink! Listen! You don't need a marketing department. just by the experience of the alcohol, people pick up the lifestyle of alcohol.

I tell you, *sannyas* does not need separate promotion. If they see me and my *sannyasis*, that is enough! It will spread! Alcohol is addiction, *sannyas* is de-addiction. That is the only difference! Come and see my *peetadheeshwar* training centres. Come and see my Gurukul.

*sannyas* is freedom even from the idea of freedom! What is real freedom? Freedom to surrender to the four *tattvas* is real freedom. Other than these four *tattvas*, nothing else that exists in me is freedom. Freedom is not simply doing what you want! It is allowing the four *tattvas* to live through you.

See (this decl*aratio*n) - from today, as long as I am alive, I am going to be at *pada pooja* at 7 o'clock in the morning. At 8 o'clock, I am going to be in *satsang*. Do you understand? I did this for at least the last three years, and I am going to be doing it for all the years that I am going to be in the body. But I don't feel this as bondage! You may think - 'Oh, every day, day in and day out, I have to come out and sit and stretch my legs, and then I have to sit and talk something and entertain people for one hour!' You can get bored with anything, understand! If you are inauthentic, you can get bored even being worshipped! If you are authentic, even while you worship you won't get bored!

Understand, I never even feel that my commitment towards the world is bondage. See, you may be here today; somebody else may be here

tomorrow; but this is my lifestyle. 7 o'clock in the *garbha mandir* and 8 o'clock in this seat. I will have to continue this. It is not a joke! How many of you understand? (People raise their hands). Then you know! But, I do not feel it is bondage. And I do this not only my morning routine but for my whole day!

After this Inner Awakening program, I give only a few days break, and then immediately start Inner Awakening Level-1. Then a few days break and immediately start the next program - Bali Inner Awakening. Immediately after that is Kailash *yatra*. Then immediately after that is the August Inner Awakening! My whole calendar for next year calendar is already on the website. You can see! I already know what I am going to do for next full one year. But I don't feel it is bondage. I don't feel it is boring. Freedom is free from boredom and idea of bondage and freedom. Allowing the four *tattvas* to live through you is freedom. Getting it?

With integrity and authenticity, tell me - even if you are worshipped by people every day but you have to come exactly at the same time to receive the worship, the *pada pooja*, how many of you will be really bored? See, I am neither bored, nor tired. And I am not going to change the time. I am going to continue to receive this as long as I am in the body, and even after I leave the body! And the morning *satsang* is going to happen! I will continue to speak

*If you are feel that every incident is adding to you, you are empowered, you are complete.*

*sannyas is freedom even from the idea of freedom!*

*sannyas* in my life. There was a time I decided I will live without both of them in my life, before my realization of my mission. Maybe, I can say that I was in that space for maybe ten hours. Once I even thought of disowning Hinduism! I was in that space for three to four hours. I felt that the whole Hinduism is fake! All masters are fake! I was in such a deep depression. The last depression just before enlightenment - it means that flowering, that last phase that I have to walk and I have to walk it alone. So in that loneliness, I felt that all masters are fake and Hinduism is fake! Even at that moment I never thought I will leave *sannyas*! Of course, when I realized the ultimate, I understood that everyone has to pass through that phase. So, my connection with *sannyas* is more than my connection with *Vedic* tradition.

I tell you, even a failed *sannyasi* has progressed a thousand times more than a successful householder. Because as a householder, the responsibility you take is a totally different direction. It is all about enriching one family. The very scale you set for yourself is so low. It is like a mom-shop pop-shop guy. His whole goal is only a yearly turnover of ten-thousand-five-hundred-and-fifty rupees. A *sannyasi* - his every day turnover is two-and-a-half crore. So, even if he fails, he will be at least two crore! Even if the mom-shop pop-shop guy is successful, he may be twelve-thousand rupees. Understand, the very level in which you put your scale itself is different in *sannyas*. But only one thing - you have to be a responsible *sannyasi*. Of course, only with responsibility does *sannyas* come. A *sannyasi* is not an outfit (of society), he is an overfit. If mainstream *Hindus* take up *sannyas* again as a lifestyle, even if it is at least after sixty-five - after the retirement, I tell you, so much can be done to you and to the world! Of course if you ask me, I will say that you should start the *sannyas* life at the age of six, or if not, little early.

I commit, I will make mainstream *Hindus* accept *sannyas* as a lifestyle.

Any model citizen - the mainstream *Hindus* should take *sannyas* by the time you retire. I will make this as a lifestyle and I wanted it to be a lifestyle. Only then will people understand that there is a different way of living!

The lifestyle taught to us by the mainstream western philosophy is a lie, it is a failure! It is already proven that it is a failure, with the amount of depression, addiction, suicide, legal suicide and illegal suicide we see. When I say legal suicide, I mean things like bringing cancer for yourself and dying; bringing diabetes for yourself and dying; bringing blood pressure for yourself and dying all of this is legal suicide! You know that if you do all this, you will have diabetes and blood pressure. Then why are you doing that and dying? It is legal suicide! Socially accepted suicide and unaccepted suicide, that is all! If you drink poison straightaway and die in a few hours, it is unaccepted suicide. If you sip it little by little every day in the form of alcohol and die, it is accepted suicide! Accepted and unaccepted suicide, addictions and depression have proven that the lifestyle you adopted as a mainstream lifestyle is a failure!

I give my clarion call - *Oh Hindus of India! Oh the people of Vedic tradition all over the world! Wake up! I give you my call for both groups. People of Vedic tradition from all over the world and Hindus of India wake up! sannyas is the only solution! This is the best*

*Only with responsibility does sannyas come, sannyas happen.*

*alternative lifestyle! Let the mainstream Hindus accept sannyas as a lifestyle like Buddhists. Only then will you understand and taste the joy of freedom and enlightenment - jeevan mukti!*

I am coming! I am just preparing the ground and doing the groundwork. I will initiate at least one million – ten lakh *sannyasis* with this very hand! I will make *sannyas* as a mainstream lifestyle. Just like *Buddhism*, let the *sannyas* become the mainstream lifestyle! Understand, only with *sannyas,* you can go to the extreme of living those spiritual principles. Seeing the peak of spiritual life!

It is time, it is time! Only then can we save planet Earth! Planet Earth can be saved only by creating responsible *sannyasis* - *sannyasis* who take the responsibility to teach these spiritual principles. It is time!

The essence of today's *satsang* is this - *SANNYAS* IS 'THE' LIFE!!!

*I bless you all to achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with enlightenment! Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss – 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM'! Thank you!*

*Listen! Listen to what I am saying. I am your soul. How you relate with me outside will be how you relate with the world outside. How you relate with me inside, will be how you relate with you inside. I just reflect the quality of your ability to relate with others and you.*

# **Practicing The Presence Of God**

**Thursday, 16th May 2013**

Today, I will answer the questions from Inner Awakening participants to help you all realize the four principles (*tattvas*) as satyas (*truths*) in your life.

1) Question: *Swamiji, I have a feeling that I am connected and not connected to you. Back home I am so connected to you. I talk to you through the Gurumurti photograph. Whenever I have pain, I touch the photo and feel the vibration entering me, and the pain is gone. I talk to you freely, like I am talking to a friend.*

*I am staying alone away from my family, but I live with you. When I go out, I tell you that I am going out, and when I am back, I again tell you that I am back. When I go to sleep, when I get up, I talk about everything to you. If I am late, you wake me up. I live with you in my home. I drive my car and so many times I feel that you are with me. I have even escaped from an accident because I know that you pulled me out of it.*


the dimension in which he is successful. If he is successful in business, he has to have integrity and authenticity in that. If he is successful in relationships, he has to have integrity and authenticity in that. Make it very clear that you are the source.

*Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss - THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM! Thank you!*

*Success or failure is first decided by you, inside you, and then expressed by you, outside you!*

*The whole time is your time. That is the first right cognition you need to have. Whatever has passed is not your time. It has no power over you; it has no influence over you. Only the future is your time!*

# Drop Your Past To Own Your Future!

**Tuesday, 9th April 2013**

Today, I will expand on how the *kundalini* awakening can help you create the reality of your choice.

Human beings are only programmed for the right future that they want to build. They are not given the power to correct the past. Please listen! You are only empowered to build the future, as you want it. You are not empowered to correct the past. So, the more and more you brood over the past, the more suffering you will have! You are only empowered to build the future - which has no connection with the past, which has nothing to do with the past!

As long as you believe that your past has the capacity to influence your future, you are in delusion! Human beings are hardwired to build the future as they want it, but they have no capacity to correct the past. All the struggle you put in to correct the past will only be a failure!

You have no power to correct your past. You only have the power to build your future. The more and more you think about the past, the more and more powerless you will be!

You are hypnotized into believing that your past has an influence over your future. No!

Even if somebody was a sinner until this moment, the next moment he can become a saint! Even if somebody was a saint until this moment, the next moment he can become a sinner! That is the beauty of *Mahākāla* – Time!

Your cognition about you and about life depends on what you think as *your* time. Usually, you think of hundred years as your time. So, you think of whatever has passed, as your time, and whatever is going to come, as your time. This is completely wrong! Neither is your life hundred years, nor is the passed time your time. Only the time that is going to come – the future – this is your time.

The whole time is your time. That is the first right cognition you need to have. Second, whatever has passed is not your time; it has no power over you; it has no influence over you. Third, only the future is your time.

Your delusion, that the time spent while you are in your body is *your* time, is wrong! It is not your time; it was not your time. It was perceived by you with your broken, beaten and abused cognition! Your cognition is not complete cognition, till integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching becomes the basis of your cognition. Until then, your cognition is nothing but confusion! You can never develop your life, as long as you think that whatever has happened in the past, as perceived

by you as the past, *is yours*. No!

Not owning what you cannot own and owning what you can own, is Life. Unfortunately, you try to own what you cannot own, and not own what you are supposed to own! You are supposed to own your future time, but you do not own it. You do not take the responsibility for it; you do not take the ownership for it. You cannot own your past, yet you continuously try to own it!

This is because your mind teaches you that the 'known' is right! No! Freedom from the known is the real freedom. Just because the past is known, don't think that you can own it!

You *are* supposed to own your future! You *are* the owner of your future! You should take ownership for your future. But look in, ninety percent of your thoughts are all about the past! When I see a person, I can tell based on his eyes and the expression of his eyes, whether he is lost in the past or looking towards the future. The eyes which have no power mean that he is lost in the past!

You don't take ownership of that for which you are supposed to be the owner, which you are supposed to own. *Your energy does not even flow towards it.* And the things which you cannot own, you go on trying to own it, own it and own it – like your past!

*Your cognition is not complete cognition, till integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching becomes the basis Until then, it is nothing but confusion!*

You might have lived with her for fifty years. She might have been your first and last love. You might have had the most romantic life with her. But even then, you cannot keep her dead body with you for more than a few hours. This is exactly the way you need to behave with your past!

Wake up! You might have lived with her for years. She fulfilled all your dreams. You had a romantic relationship and she was part of you. You had an amazing life and loved living together. She was your first and last love. BUT, just because she was your beloved, don't forget the truth that you cannot keep her dead body! Once she is dead, she is dead! You have to bury her body! It is time you bury her body! It is time to give farewell to her!

You are constantly trying to brood over your failures. When you try to brood over your failures, you empower your failures. You have already planned that your future is going to be a failure! One of the biggest delusions that human beings suffer from is that the future comes out of the past. I tell you - the future comes 'OUT' of the past, not 'OUT OF' the past! Future comes 'OUT' of the past, not 'OUT OF' the past!

That is why when you take *sannyās*, you just break from the past! If you are still brooding over the failures of your past, *sannyās* has not yet happened in you. The space of *sannyās* is yet to happen in you!

You trying to own the past is abuse to *Mahākāla* (the Lord of Time)! Not owning your future is like shutting your door to *Mahākāla*. Owning your future means receiving *Mahākāla,* receiving *Kālabhairava* (the Lord of time). Brooding over your past is like living with your dead body, not looking at the life possibility, not looking at the possibility of life!

Decide, that you will not abuse *Kālabhairava* any more by brooding over the past. You will get ready and will welcome and receive *Kālabhairava,* with responsibility and ownership. Take the ownership for your future. If you take the ownership for your future, your eyes will be shining and bright, expecting the future, ready to receive it, planning for it, taking ownership for it and owning it!

Take ownership for your future. Let your mind think about your future with responsibility. Kalabhairava will bless you!

By nature, you are hardwired to move towards your future. The only mistake you do is that you move *without responsibility*. Just move with responsibility, you will be on the right track and move towards enlightenment! It's only because you moved towards your future without responsibility that you have failed with so many fantasies! Then the failures of your fantasies occupy your inner space so much, that you are lost in the past and the guilt of the past! When you don't move towards the future with responsibility, it will be the same past, filled with guilt, like wasted pages of your history, like rotten pages of your bio-memory, as rotten pages of your biography!

I tell you, your smile and laughter is in taking ownership of the future! Your long face is lost in trying to own your dead past! The smile and the

*You are hardwired to move towards your future. Just move with responsibility, you will be on the right track and move towards enlightenment!*

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laughter in your face look at the possibility and the future. A long face shows that you are drowned in the past! Whenever your face has a smile and laughter, your consciousness - your cognition, is moving towards the future. The possibility of life is reminded to you. The possibility that your best possibilities are yet to come, is reminded to you.

People who hold on to the past are trying to hold on to the back leg of *Kālabhairava*. Hold on to the leg of *Kālabhairava* that is going forward. Do not hold on to the leg of *Kālabhairava* which is at the back, and try to pull him! He is not going to wait for you even if you try to pull him! He will just kick you and walk! Hold on to the leg which is going forward. He will bless you and take you forward! Do not hold on to the leg which is back, because he is not going to be stuck in the past like you!

When you cognize time, when you cognize life, do not commit the crime of holding on to the past, or trying to own the past. If you try to own the past, you are trying to keep the dead body of your beloved! However beautiful a life you had, keeping the photographs are okay, but keeping the dead body is not okay! Even for the most beautiful and romantic life that you had with your beloved, keeping photographs is okay, you can own them. But you cannot try to own the dead body. Owning the dead body will only destroy you! If you own twenty dead bodies around you like this, tell me what will happen to you? Tell me, *what will happen to you?* You will simply be dead! You will be dead. You will be dead!

Sit and design your future, and take responsibility for it. When you own your past, *Kālabhairava's* compassion or sympathy will not be on you. Because you decide to pull Him back! He will only show anger towards you! Do not try to own your past. Instead, plan your future with responsibility.

Just as the army tanker has teeth in its wheels, and leaves its footprint when it goes on the road, in the same way, you leave the imprint of the guilt from your past, when you plan your future with fantasy, without responsibility.

Listen! When you take responsibility, it is no more a fantasy. But when you don't take responsibility, it is a fantasy. When you plan for your future without responsibility, you leave the imprint of the guilt from your past!

But if you see the road rollers, when they roll on the road, they make the road strong. Road rollers are like planning for the future, with responsibility. When you plan for the future with responsibility, you are like a road roller. You strengthen the road and make it smooth. If you plan for your future without responsibility, you are like an army tanker - only you can go, and after that nobody can go!

Most of the time, your mind is engaged in your past, brooding over your past. Whenever you give rest to you, you are with your past, hugging the dead body!! I tell you, if you are constantly brooding over your past, you are doing the same thing – hugging a dead body!

Your past has no future, don't waste your life with it. The more you realize that your past has no power over your future, the more you are free.

*Your past has no future, don't waste your life with it. The more you realize this, the more you are free!*

When J.Krishnamurti says that freedom from the known is the ultimate freedom, this is what he means. Freedom from your past is the ultimate freedom!

You need to know the truth. You need to know the truth! Having the wrong emotion towards the future will destroy it. You need responsibility towards your future, not fear.

Understand, when you take responsibility towards your future, you neither have fear nor have greed. When you take responsibility towards your future, you live with integrity, authenticity and responsibility. Your *kundalini* energy flows towards building your future. Your cognition IS your *kundalini* energy. If it is fully engaged in your past, you are dead, building the dead as your future! If you are responsible towards your future, you will neither have fear to think about it, nor have a fantasy to drool over it.

This is the essence of what I want to tell you today. *Let you not waste your inner space by brooding over the past. Let you enter responsibly into your future and plan for your future by taking responsibility.* Your past has no future and your future has no past!

With integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, declare today. Declare NOW that you will respect *Kālabhairava* in the future. From this moment, you will not abuse *Kālabhairava* by brooding over the past, *which is not your property*. You will only responsibly plan for your future, which is your 'possibility'.

Neither the past nor the future is yours. But, the future is your 'possibility', so you have the right to think about it with responsibility. If you take responsibility for the future, it is possibility. If not, it is just

probability. Anything which is probability is not your property.

The fear of the past destroys your future. When you take the responsibility of your past, you will not have both - fear or greed. Learn this one lesson - not to engage with your past, not to be deluded with your past.

*When you bring integrity, you are purified from the dead body of your past. When you bring authenticity in your thinking, your whole energy is pushed towards the future. When you bring responsibility into your thinking, your future is getting created. And when you enrich yourself and others, the best possible future for you is happening!*

Every moment that you brood over the past, you are moving closer towards death. Listen! That is why when the elders age, and they know that they do not have a future, they are so filled with the past! But when they are so filled with their past, they become useless to others and to themselves.

Yesterday, somebody gave me the news that a former celebrity had passed away. When I heard the news, I asked, 'Oh, was she still alive?!' That's all I asked! What does that mean? It means that for the last part of her life, she was not active or alive; she was not directly useful to the society. I tell you, the only thing that I will not want in my

*Having the wrong emotion towards the future will destroy it. You need responsibility towards your future, not fear!*

### Drop Your Past To Own Your Future

life is people asking this question when I leave the body. 'Oh! Was he still alive?' As long as I am alive, people should know that I am alive! It means that I am active, alive, kicking around and enriching people! If you are not enriching people, people will naturally ask when you die. 'Was he still alive?' 'Was she still alive?'


Now, almost all of us experience our self as a mixture of both. You experience yourself as a mixture of both – a little health and a little disease, a little goodness and a little badness, a little joy and a little depression, a little fight and a little reconciliation, a little wealth and a little poverty. So you are a possibility for any extreme. You are a possibility for any possibility. When you are in the state of possibility for any possibility, you are called a seeker.

A seeker is a person who is a possibility for any possibility. If you have already become a sinner, you can't be a seeker. If you are already a saint, you can't be a seeker. If you perceive the possibility for both as a possibility in your reality, you are a seeker. It means that you do not know which side you are going to take, you do not know what your life is going to be.

Most of us experience ourselves as a possibility for both possibilities and every possibility. I have

*A seeker is a person who is a possibility for any possibility!*

# Are You Limiting Your Expansion

seen people planning to enter into politics even at the age of 60, and thinking that they will become Prime Minister. I have seen people at the age of 70 wanting to start some business, and imagining that they will become the world's richest individuals. So we all feel we are a possibility for all possibility.

Please listen, you are a possibility for many possibilities, and your life is also possibility for many possibilities. Nothing has as yet become reality. It has not yet become reality. But all your suffering is because you think life has become reality. It has not. Because still you are in the mode of trial and error, life is also giving you time, life is also waiting.

Authenticity is the right way of creating your life's possibilities. If you have not yet built the building, you are just sitting and waiting, the empty land is a possibility for any type of construction. The same land can become a hospital, a school, an ashram, a temple or a house; it can become anything. Empty land is a possibility. Same way, your life is also a possibility. Authenticity is the right architect. If your life is an empty land, bring in authenticity as the architect, or the empty land will become a wasteland. Bring authenticity as the architect, so that the empty land can realize its ultimate possibility. Let it not become a wasteland.

If you feel that you are working better than last year, you are thinking more clearly than last year, you are experiencing more than last year, you are more active than last year, you are more energetic than last year - whatever may be your age, you are growing younger. If you think that you are more tired than last year, you are sicker than last year, you are more depressed than last year, you are less energetic than last year - whatever may be your age, you have started travelling towards death; you have started ageing. Ageing can start happening even at

18, and anti-ageing can start happening even at 90. Ageing or anti-ageing has nothing to do with the calendar. When number of years that are passing is not making you tired or retired, you are *kaalakaala*, one who has conquered time.

Authenticity will make you better and better with every passing day. Authenticity has so much power, that when you are living authenticity, every third day you will feel that you are becoming new, new, new. New possibilities are opening, new experiences are happening. Authenticity will make you feel stronger and stronger every day; it will make you experience new-new possibilities. It will open up new-new possibilities continuously.

Bring the right architect. Bring authenticity. You will continuously expand. You will grow in health, you will grow in energy, you will grow in possibility, you will grow in thinking, you will grow in every level. So you will be growing younger! Authenticity is the direct technique for growing younger.

Authenticity makes you grow younger in your inner space, because every day the way you think about you is expanding, the way you perceive you is expanding, the way you experience you is growing. When authenticity happens to you, your possibilities continuously expand; your *mamakara*

*You are a possibility for many possibilities, and your life is also possibility for many possibilities. Authenticity is the right way of creating your life's possibilities!*

# Are You Limiting Your Expansion

(inner image) gets newly built. When the *mamakara* is newly built, the possibility is completely new.

With authenticity, the very source of how you cognize you is transformed. When that source is growing, you are growing younger. You become *kaalakaala*. Authenticity has the power to continuously expand you. I can give you hundreds of examples. The way you perceive yourself today, and the way you will perceive yourself tomorrow, if you achieve something that you think you can't achieve – both will be completely different. When your perception about you is transformed, your possibility in life is transformed. When the possibility in life is transformed, the possibility of everything is transformed.

Listen! When your cognition is broken to pieces from inside, life is happening. Life is happening! If it is broken from outside, death is happening. If an egg is broken from outside, life is killed, it is death. If the life inside the egg is not authentic to life, even a breeze can roll the egg and break it from outside. The grass which is moving in the breeze can break the egg from outside; death will happen. If the life inside the egg is authentic, it will grow from inside and break the shell and come out; then no breeze can kill it. It will eat the grass and walk through the breeze!

The amount of authenticity you carry in your cognition makes the shell break from inside. Continuously, new-new-new possibilities happen. Your old cognitions about you are broken for good. Sometime your cognitions will be broken by failures - then you are inauthentic, you are shrinking, you are getting destroyed. If your cognition is broken by goodness, you are becoming authentic. Inauthenticity is the corruption that can happen in your soul. Don't allow it.

A corrupt official takes away your confidence in the whole system. A corrupt politician takes away your confidence in the whole country. A corrupt leader takes away your confidence in society. A corrupt consciousness takes away your confidence in life itself. Don't allow the worst corruption which can happen on Consciousness, which is inauthenticity.

Listen! If you don't bring authenticity, inauthenticity is waiting to take you over. Because you trained yourself for so many years with inauthenticity, inauthenticity is waiting to take you over. Bring authenticity continuously; expand how you feel about you, how you project yourself to others, and how others experience you. Go on expanding, go on expanding. Authenticity is the possibility of life in you.

It is authenticity which constantly opens the possibilities in you. New-new-new doors of life open in your health, in your wealth, in your relationships. In whatever form you perceive your life, in whatever way you measure your life - authenticity brings life into everything! Authenticity literally makes you a being with a thousand heads and eyes, a thousand hands and legs - *sahasra sheersha purushah sahasraaksha sahasrapaad.* Authenticity can create your life with so many possibilities.

*Listen! When your cognition is broken to pieces from inside, life is happening! If it is broken from outside, death is happening!*

# Are You Limiting Your Expansion

At every step, when your cognition about you changes, the way you project yourself to others changes, and the way you fulfill others' expectations about you changes. Authenticity means bringing your perception about you to the peak, bringing the way you show yourself to others to the peak, being at the peak in fulfilling the way others want you to be for them.

Without authenticity, life is dangerous, with authenticity you are dangerous even to dangers! No danger can come to you. With authenticity, death will say that you are dangerous to him! When you are at such a high level of authenticity, Death is killed.

If your cognition about you is broken by failure, it means you are shrinking. If your cognition about you is broken by goodness, your cognition is growing, expanding. Life is happening. How you perceive you and how you project you to others has to expand, just like the universe. The universe is constantly expanding. It is constantly expanding into Expansion itself. It is expanding into Expansion!

You may ask, how can the universe expand? Into what it can expand? I tell you, it is expanding into Expansion. Expansion is the space into which it is expanding. Either today or tomorrow, the scientists who are doing research in this field will come to this conclusion.

Many conclusions which Swami Vivekananda made and delivered in the fields of physics and psychology were proved true many years later. In the same way, some day in the future, people who do research in this field will prove what I am saying, but I am giving you the conclusion right now. The universe is expanding into Expansion itself. It is expanding into Expansion. There is no separate space.

You don't know where the things sucked into a black hole go. Whatever goes into a black hole, nobody knows where they go. They disappear into the black hole itself. Whatever comes out of Big Bang, nobody knows where it comes from. Black hole goes into black hole; Big Bang explodes into Big Bang. The whole universe with its Big Bangs and black holes - nobody knows where it is expanding. I tell you, it is expanding into Expansion itself ! It is expanding into Expansion itself. In course of time, science will prove what I am saying.

Listen! Expansion is the space in which expanding can happen. Authenticity is the space where Life can happen. Here, because of the air, the words I am uttering are travelling and reaching your ears. Listening is happening. The space of air makes listening possible. The space of expansion makes expanding possible. The space of authenticity makes life possible! The possibility of authenticity makes life possible. Continuously expanding you without any limit before your eyes is universal life.

If you see the end of your life before your eyes, you are an atheist. If you see the end of your life in front of your mind, you are a materialist. If you are able to see your end in front of your emotion, your visualization, you may be called a seeker. If you don't see the end, but just go on expanding with authenticity, your life is universal life. You are a *jeevan mukta*, you are living enlightenment!

*If your cognition about you is broken by failure, it means you are shrinking. If your cognition about you is broken by goodness, your cognition is growing, expanding. Life is happening!*

# Are You Limiting Your Expansion

First bring this possibility of expansion in your cognition about you. Not as imagination or visualization. I just know I don't have death! I just know I don't have death and I will go on expanding, doing that for which I assumed this body. I will go on delivering that for which I assumed this body. I tell you, this can become your experience also; just remove tiredness and boredom form your inner space. That is all!

It has been a long time since somebody openly came out and declared the power of these Vedic truths to which human beings need to listen. I tell you, even if you just listen to somebody declaring these Vedic truths, your Consciousness feels the sweet taste. The authenticity of the declaration does not even need to be verified. The very declaration brings so much of sweetness to your consciousness. Authenticity brings inspiration to your consciousness.

*shraddha – authenticity -* continuously connects you with you, and with your highest possibility. Life is for realizing that possibility. Life is for realizing the Self. Life is for realizing itself. Tiredness and boredom are your enemies which stop authenticity from happening in you. Drop this to bring authenticity in whatever you are; how you feel about you, how you project yourself to others and how others want you for them. In all this three, bring yourself to your peak.

*Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Thank you!*

*You need to know that there are simple solutions which exist for any problem you have in your life. Most of the time, you suffer with fears which you can't imagine. What you can imagine is always a solvable problem. That is why you constantly carry the fear of unsolvable problems.*

# Know Your Real Enemy

**Tuesday, 02nd April, 2013**

Reality is nothing but your alliance with the Real.

Listen: it is not your experience of the Real, it is your alliance with the Real. Whatever is real, whatever you need to experience, is there on one side. Whatever you *want* to experience is there on the other side. These two having an alliance and coming to a conclusion is Reality.

Many times, people think that all these intellectual truths and ideas are not required. I tell you - No! Your whole life is nothing but intellectual clarity. You don't go and put your hand in the electricity socket. Why? Because you know that you will be killed. Why don't you go and put your hand in the fire? Because you know that you will be killed. So intellectual clarity, intellectual understanding, *is* required for life.

If somebody is teaching you that all these big principles and intellectual jugglery is not required, then know that they are trying to keep you

in darkness. Maybe they do not know how to expand and explain these principles. Or they do not have the patience to understand or make you understand.

Please listen: just like there are simple rules like *'Don't touch fire and you will not be burnt,'* in the same way, simple rules exist to be out of suffering. Simple rules exist to be successful. It is so unfortunate that you are never allowed to believe that there are simple rules existing to be out of suffering and to be in completion and to be successful. Are you struggling in a big way not to be burnt by the fire and not to be electrocuted? No! You don't struggle! It becomes your lifestyle when you understand and start living.

Listen, in the same way, there are simple rules to make what you want as reality, to make your life as you want, and to be successful in life. It is so unfortunate that neither have we been told that it is possible, nor do we try to make it possible. So we continue to suffer, and we think, 'All this knowledge, all these ideas, are not for me! I am an ordinary housewife. I am an ordinary man, a householder. How will I be able to understand all these things?'