# If you analyze your mind and your attitude towards wealth with integrity, you will understand that you are actually afraid of wealth. You hate wealth! That is the truth. Many times, you sit and calculate, 'If I take responsibility and make wealth in a few years, then I will possess it for a few years, then I will spend it in a few years' By the time you complete your calculation, you understand that when you

*Wealth means, having the resources in the inner world and the outer world, available for you to fulfill what you feel as your life's purpose.*

#### Have The Right Relationship With Wealth

start spending, you are old and your life is gone! So you think, 'Oh God! My whole life will be gone if I take responsibility for wealth and start accumulating it! So it is better for me to just fantasize about wealth and go on blaming myself that I don't have it, and just retain the greed. Somewhere, I might win a lottery or THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM will bless me for wealth!' No! At the most, I will bless you to have wealth to do some meditation program and have the right mental set-up, that's all! Not more than that. Have the right mental set-up; that will bring wealth. I will always bless you for that.

The fear of responsibility and the greed for wealth always go hand-inhand. If you look in, you have greed for wealth, but you are not ready to take the responsibility that comes with wealth!

We keep our greed, thinking that one day, this egg will hatch. Understand, if the egg is broken from outside, a life is destroyed. A life is killed! The possibility is over! If the egg is broken from inside, then life happens! Life comes out! If you take up the responsibility for your greed, you break the egg from inside and life happens; wealth happens; expansion happens. If you just keep the greed, but have not taken the responsibility, then fear will attack from outside and break the egg. Then the possibility is over!

Are you going to keep your life as a fight between fear and greed, or a victory of responsibility? Responsibility continuously declares *Īśvaratva*, victory, leadership! Look in! Spend a little time with yourself. Do *manana* - *intranalizing*. Are all your thoughts about wealth in integrity with your desires? Are they in integrity with your desires and with your responsibility?

Just yesterday, I found a dangerous pattern with one of my *sannyāsinīs*.

I told her, 'You be healthy. You have to take class. I am able to rest only because you are taking the class. If not, the load will fall on me. Be healthy.' And with all the humility, gratitude, dedication and sacrifice, she melted down. She said, 'Swamiji, I will work, work, and work and fall at your feet and die! You don't worry! You take rest!' I said, 'Don't suffer with this pattern!'

We have the idea that we will be like Paramahamsa Yogananda, who gave discourses until the end of his life. He was giving a discourse until the end of his life and just dropped his body gracefully and achieved *mahāsamādhi*. Or like many other yogis who think, 'We will work, work and work and leave the body.' Please understand, I am not disrespecting any of those great yogis. All I am trying to tell you and my *sannyāsinī* is this - *why should you have the wrong visualization*? Instead, visualize this! 'I will work, work, and work and become more and more healthy! I will live for at least a hundred-and-fifty or two-hundred years and then leave the body, *at my will*!' Have the right integrity, because your integrity creates the body.

Work does not need to make you tired. It is a wrong idea taught to you by society. The only two enemies human beings have are boredom and tiredness. When you entertain them, you build wrong patterns. When you are bored of doing some work, you invoke tiredness: *Om Tiredness*

*Work does not need to make you tired. It is a wrong idea taught to you by society.*

#### Have The Right Relationship With Wealth

*Svāhā! Ihagachcha! Ihagachcha! Ihatiṣṭha! Ihatiṣṭha!* (chants to invoke the presence of a deity or a quality) Please come here! Come here! Reside here! Reside here!' You invoke tiredness! You invoke depression! '*Oh Depression Devathaya! Ihagachcha! Ihagachcha! Ihatiṣṭha ihatiṣṭha, I will do pūjā for you. Please come here and settle down!*'

Scrutinize your inner space with integrity. *Intranalize* your inner space. You will see that whenever you don't want to take responsibility, you invoke boredom, tiredness and fear. Sometime, even greed is used as a substitute for enjoyment. Listen! Sometimes, greed is used as a substitute for real wealth. You know that to enjoy the wealth you really need to take responsibility. But now, you don't want to take the responsibility. So, what do you do? You just fantasize that you have wealth like a huge palace in the centre of the city. In India, these crazy fellows always love to live in the downtown; while in the western countries they like to live in the suburbs. You fantasize a huge bungalow in the downtown, with hundreds of cars and workers! Many times, by the time you finish your fantasy, you are tired and fall asleep, which you are very comfortable about!

Greed and fantasy are used as substitutes for alcohol and drugs. Listen, when you have the pattern of addiction for alcohol and drugs, you go for it. When you are afraid that they will spoil your health, you use fantasy and greed as a substitute for alcohol. Fantasy and greed are powerful substitutes for alcohol!

Intranalize yourself with integrity. You will understand that most of the time - a hundred percent of the time - your relationship with wealth is not taking responsibility to make it a reality! It is more like, 'Let me just have a fantasy about wealth and live with it!' You don't want to take the responsibility of making it a reality in your life. You just want to keep wealth as a fantasy in your life.

I tell you, wealth as reality is Lakshmi, it is fulfilling. Wealth in reality, was never renounced in the *Vedic* tradition. In the *viraja homa mantra,* the *sannyās mantra,* you declare before taking *sannyās*:

### *Śrīśca Lakṣmīśca Puṣṭiśca Kīrtim cha Ᾱnṛṇyathām |*

*Brahmanyam Bahuputhrathām |'*

If the *Vedic* tradition was against wealth, why will you ask for wealth before taking *sannyās*? It is a *Viraja homa mantra*, a *sannyāsa mantra*.

Listen! *Vedic* tradition was never against wealth. *Vedic* tradition is against the fantasy about wealth. It is against you not taking the responsibility for wealth. Have the right relationship with wealth. It should be like a stable marriage relationship. Your relationship with wealth should be like a stable, responsible relationship, and not just fantasy or flirting. If you want wealth in your life, you should be able to take the responsibility for the wealth. You should be able to take the responsibility to make it, live it and celebrate it.

One of the important lessons you need to learn is that only people with integrity create and celebrate wealth. You always think that only people without integrity get wealth. You think, 'I am with integrity; that is why I don't get wealth.' No! You are wrong!

*Whenever you don't want to take responsibility, you invoke boredom, tiredness and fear.*

#### Have The Right Relationship With Wealth

You are wrong! Only people with integrity get and celebrate wealth. For people without integrity, even if they have it, it will be in the Swiss bank! They only know the zeros, *śūnyas*.

I tell you, when you make money without integrity, you will never be able to live with it. When integrity brings you wealth, you live and celebrate it. I tell you, only wealth earned with integrity can be lived and celebrated!

*Wealth created with integrity brings fulfilment to you and your life's purpose.* I can see this in my own organization. When you hand over some property or wealth to the *swamis* and *swaminis* who have taken responsibility, they enrich the world using that wealth properly. But if you hand over property to people who have not taken responsibility, they destroy it in a few months. They are again standing as beggars with a begging bowl, in a few months.

With integrity, you will first build the right relationship with wealth. You will not have fear. Sometimes, if you intranalyze, you will find that if some wealthy person behaves egoistically or arrogantly, you think, 'If I have wealth, I will also become like that! Let me not have wealth,' and you start hating wealth. You start living without wealth because you are afraid that you may become egoistic or arrogant, if the wealth comes to you. I tell you, if somebody wants to be arrogant, he will be arrogant even if he doesn't have wealth. Poverty, like wealth, is equally capable of making you arrogant.

Listen, I have seen this in my experience. The so-called poor people are the most arrogant people. At least the wealthy people become polite, because they have a lot of experience in the society and they get beaten by the society. They become polite, polished, humble, and processed.

But these so-called poor fellows are so arrogant, that they demand hundred times more than what they can take responsibility for or a hundred times more than their worth, and then, they say, 'Because I am poor, you are not ready to give me this.' So, I tell you, if somebody decides to become arrogant, wealth is only a reason. Even without wealth, that person can be arrogant. But if you start thinking in your heart, 'These fellows have become arrogant because of wealth; if I become wealthy, I may also become arrogant!,' then your hatred towards arrogance, turns towards wealth.

Only if you intranalize this, will you understand. When you are thinking about wealth the whole day, see what relationship you are building with wealth. Analyze, again and again and again. What are the words you utter towards wealth? I have seen, many times, that you start enjoying poverty because of the self-sympathy it brings towards you.

Somehow from the very young age, you started believing that *poverty means you are right*. If you are in poverty, then you have not done anything wrong. You started believing that people with wealth do all the fraudulence, wrong things, tell lies, cheat others and accumulate wealth which is a completely wrong pattern. The *have-nots* have a deep hatred towards the *haves*. And the *have-nots* constantly spread rumors and stories about the *haves*.

*Wealth created with integrity brings fulfilment to you and your life's purpose.*

#### Have The Right Relationship With Wealth

Go to any middle-class Indian town. If there is a rich man in that town, there will be rumors floating about him that *he printed currency*! I tell you, go to any town of India, any town, whether it is Tamil Nadu, Andhra, U.P., Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, or any town! In any town, there will be two or three rich people. There will be rumors floating around the richest man of the town, especially if he is selfmade in one generation, *that he printed currency!* In Tamil Nadu, there is a standard statement - *All is Sivakasi rupee, Sivakasi currency is playing!*

The *have-nots* have a deep hatred towards the *haves* and they spread rumours about them. Even if the richest man is your close friend and you know that he has not done anything illegal, you just want to enjoy the rumor to justify to yourself as to why you don't have wealth and why he has it. You do not want to accept the fact that he took the responsibility for life and that you did not take responsibility for life. Because I walked the length and breadth of India, I know the Indian psyche from its deep roots. I tell you, in Indian psyche, we carry a deep hatred for those who have. That is why media is always successful when it attacks the people who have, when they go behind the blood of the people who have.

They will neither take the responsibility to have, nor allow the people who have taken the responsibility, to have peacefully. This is what I call as *poverty consciousness* or the beggar mentality. India needs to wake up and come out of this mentality! All of India needs the practice of integrity!

Listen! We need integrity as a lesson in our schools. I will expand on this subject continuously in further *satsangs*.

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

*The lower dimensions of you are nothing but rejected parts of your higher dimensions. When your higher dimension is not materialized, when it is not realized, your lower dimension is empowered!*

### **Everything Is Possible!**

**Monday, 25th March 2013**

I will expand on the second principle, authenticity, and how authenticity expands your wealth and the life, wealth and possibilities.

Listen, I will define authenticity. *Authenticity is the state where you are established in the peak of your possibility and capability, and you respond 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 yourself to the peak of what you perceive as yourself and project yourself as.

If you are projecting yourself to the world as an IAS officer or an IPS officer or the head of a state, village, town or country, bring yourself to the peak of how you project yourself to the world. That is when you become authentic to your possibility and to your capability.

When you bring yourself to the peak of you, there is no wastage of inner powers. I tell you, when you waste your love it becomes lust, when you waste your responsibility it becomes jealousy. The lower

dimensions of you are nothing but rejected parts of your higher dimension. When your higher dimension is not materialized, when it is not realized, your lower dimension is empowered!

I have seen this even in my organization. I am telling you this from the experience of handling millions of human minds, that whenever somebody is not able to or not interested in expressing their capabilities and potential possibility, I am afraid of them! Listen! Not only do they waste their life, but they also end up in building so much negativity around themselves. They become a big disturbance for flow of life! They become such a big negative element in the flow of life happening.


Because *you* are bored with you, people will still be bored with you, with whatever you do to cover up your boredom. Many times, people are bored with you. But they don't directly tell you, because you will start screaming at them. So they will start moving away politely using some other reason. If ninety percent of the people do not interact with you as friends and people who love you, then I can tell you that you are bored with you and people are also bored with you. They just don't tell you because you will scream at them. If ninety percent of the people whom you interact with love you, if they are your friends, if they love to spend time around you, then I can say that you are not bored with yourself.

*When others don't get bored with you, it is joy. When you don't get bored with you, it is bliss! But if you are bored with you, or if you are with somebody with whom you are bored, your life must be worry!*

*Anything you try to do to cover your boredom about you, bores others and brings boredom to others!*

#### Go Beyond Boredom And Tiredness

Only with the principle of enriching can any marriage be successful for more than one week. The boredom starts in one week. If it is an arranged marriage, then the boredom starts in one week. If it is love, you decide to get married after the boredom starts! Please listen. If it is an arranged marriage, it is by the first week that boredom starts. If it is a love marriage, only after you feel bored and not before, that you will decide to get married. Otherwise why will you get married? No, only when you feel bored with the other person, are you afraid he may also be feeling bored with you. You now need a security knot.

As long as you have not experienced boredom with the other person, you will not feel insecure that the other person is also experiencing boredom with you. Only after the boredom starts, which means when he is not opening the purse as much as he used to, and she is not opening the mouth as much as she used to smile, the fear that the other maybe feeling bored settles in you. Only when you feel insecure that the other may be feeling bored of you now, you decide to tie the knot of marriage.

Most of the time, marriage is just a confirmation, a lifelong insurance, a guarantee you give each other that you will love each other. Please understand, I am not against marriage, but I am against the marriage of incompletions. I really want to create a matrimonial website where these basic principles of marriage will be taught to people. They should decide to marry only after they learn the principles. After learning the principles, if you decide when you want to marry, it will bring a stable family. When you don't know the principles, the marriage itself may be out of boredom or feeling insecure. Many times in your love, when you are feeling bored or when you are afraid the other person may start feeling bored, you decide to get married for the sake of security!

Each time, when I ask you to sit in *unclutching* or in *nirvikalpa samadhi,* you need to be in completion with yourself and you need to conquer the boredom about you and the tired feeling of you. Only when you conquer the boredom and tiredness, can you sit in *nirvikalpa samadhi*. Otherwise, the moment you sit and close your eyes, either you are off somewhere or asleep. Either you are off somewhere or asleep. Either you are off somewhere or switched off. Either you slip away or sleep away.

Slipping away is out of boredom and sleeping away is out of tiredness. These two are the enemies of life. Boredom and tiredness can be life-imprisonment. It can just stay inside you and stop you doing anything new in your life. The highest level of boredom happens in people who are constantly working with the mind, without these four principles. That is why there is so much suicide in the field of psychology and psychiatry. I tell all my followers and youth, either become an MBBS doctor or a psychologist. I tell them to chose one between these two. If they are my *sannyasis*, I tell them to take up psychology, because I want to revive this field. With that field, these four principles can enlighten the whole world. Without these four principles, I tell you, there will be the largest number of suicides in just these two fields. The percentage of suicides will always be the largest in these fields, because this is the field where the people are working constantly with the mind.

*Slipping away is out of boredom and sleeping away is out of tiredness. These two are the enemies of life.*

#### Go Beyond Boredom And Tiredness

Listen! For a person who makes pots, who works with mud, no matter how much he cleans his hands, there will naturally be a little mud settling inside his nails. If somebody is working in the charcoal godown, no matter how many baths he takes, there will be a little charcoal sitting in his hair. In the same way, for people who work with the mind without these four principles as the basis for their cognition, no matter how much they try, they will have tiredness and boredom inside them. This is their own and inherited, which they accumulated from others!

I am really telling you that because of these four principles, I saved myself. Otherwise my devotees would have made me mad long ago! I tell you, I cannot imagine how you work so much to destroy yourself. I have seen some people, they want to disprove me; they only want to prove that what I am teaching is wrong. For that sake they are ready to put themselves into tiredness, boredom, depression, *anything,* and destroy themselves! Sometimes, I ask people, 'Hey, there is such a simple solution for solving the problem. Why don't you solve it?' They say, 'I am not interested in all these principles.'

Because, of the anger they carry towards everything around them, their first priority is to prove that everybody is wrong. They are not interested in the solution; they are interested in proving everybody wrong. Why do you think psychiatrists continuously kill themselves? Psychiatrists kill themselves because they are continuously working with the mind; they don't know how to remove the tiredness and boredom from themselves, and the tiredness and boredom from others.

I know, lawyers can easily get enlightened, because they know how logic can be used, misused and abused. A successful lawyer knows how to convince the court or confuse the court. Convince the court if you can; if you can't, just confuse the court. You win the game. How to use

## The Science of Living Enlightenment - Revealing the four sacred principles that empower YOU!

logic to use, misuse and abuse! Understand, when you catch the truth, you will easily understand how to go beyond logic. You can become enlightened. You can become enlightened. Psychiatrists, I just wanted you to know the truth. If I can revive and revolutionize the spiritual psychology which was practiced by the raja Gurus, the *brahmins* of the *Vedic* age, I will feel that I fulfilled the mission for which I assumed the body.

Listen! If I revive the spiritual psychology practiced by *rishis, brahmanas, rajaGurus*, I will feel I have achieved my life's mission. That's the reason I tell all my kids, all the *krama brahmacharis*, to study psychology.

Understand, you are going to be studying psychology only. Get ready. I think *Gurukul* should get the psychology syllabus and start teaching it for all the *krama brahmacharis* from now on.

Instead of wasting time with information which is not useful – like, 'Who won the Panipat war?' What is he going to do with it? Do any of you even remember now? But every one of us studied this. Do you know who is going to win the war happening in your house? If you learn that, at least it's useful for your future!

Our education has become completely unnecessary with outdated information. This happened in my

*When you catch the truth, you will easily understand how to go beyond logic.*

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life. I studied very little! I was studying for a diploma in mechanical engineering. I was supposed to be studying the subject of Machine shop engineering. I went to the workshop and they showed me a very costly machine. It's called MNC, multi- numerical computerized machine or something. They showed me MNC. Then I asked the professor: 'Sir, if I learn to work with this machine, will I get a job? Will I have the same kind of machine, sir?' He said, 'No, no, no. This is outdated , thirty years ago.' Now many modern machines have come since them. You will not be able to see any of these machines in any workshop. This is outdated since thirty years ago.'

Then I asked him, 'Why are we still keeping this in our syllabus?' He said, 'Usually, our syllabus in polytechnics and engineering colleges is thirty years outdated syllabus and subjects. In the last thirty years, we have not upgraded or updated our syllabus.' I said, 'Oh God, even if I study this, when I go out, it is not going to be useful in anyway, either for a job, or for life.' He said, 'No'. From that day, I stopped going to the machine shop. I said, 'Why should I go? What am I learning here that is going to be useful.' They said, 'No, it is like a base, a foundation. After you go out, you go to an industry. They will give you the training as to what you should do.' I said, 'It's better if I directly take the training there.'

That is why our Indian education system is a complete failure in every line! Listen, in every line, the maximum we produce is clerks. The Indian mind is a genius mind. Close to thirty four percent of NASA scientists are Indians. In the US, Indians are ruling in the field of psychology, psychiatry and medicine. The Hospital and hospitality industry of the US is completely in the hands of the Indians. The hotels and motels are literally in the hands of Indians. But unfortunately, one of the most untapped resources in India is the power of youth, the youth power!

Youngsters are never allowed to think, by their colleges and universities, and the syllabus taught to them is the embodiment of boredom and tiredness!

When a child happens, he is so enthusiastic about everything. He wants to learn everything. The other day, my *Gurukul* Principal was reporting to me, 'Swamiji, the kids are learning anything and everything. Somebody is learning the piano, somebody is learning the flute and somebody is learning the *tabla*. They are learning anything and everything. Somebody is learning the *veena*. I tell you, this is what life is! Enthusiasm is such that anything seen is grasped. Eye means, anything seen should be grasped. Ears means, anything heard should be repeated. Hand means, anything shown, you should be able to recreate it. I tell you this from my experience.

My life has been steeped in temples, dressing the deities, worship in the religious dressings and the religious jewelry. I tell you, it has given me this ability - I can create anything I can see. I don't need to learn to stitch this curtain. I don't need to learn to weld this bar. I don't need to learn to operate this TV. I don't need to learn to carve this lion. Fortunately, when I was young, I was brought up in the ambience of temples, where I have seen all these so much. By seeing, seeing, and seeing, my hand can create anything that is seen. That is creativity!

*Enthusiasm is such that anything seen is grasped. That is life!*

### Go Beyond Boredom And Tiredness

Please listen, anything you see, you should grasp it. Anything you listen to, you should be able to repeat it. Kids are born with so much enthusiasm, but unfortunately the so-called education and books make them completely tired and bored of life. Anything which brings tiredness and boredom in your life is poison!

Let your principles of reviving you be enriching you and enriching others and not just zeroes in your bank balance. Every day, it is the zeroes in your bank balance or the jealousy with your competitors that is making you run. You will be sick and tired. If it is the principle of enriching you and enriching others that makes you run, I tell you, it is eternal fuel. You are like a solar-equipped vehicle. If it is jealousy and greed that make you run, you're running on petrol. You may dry out any day, your car will not move and you are working on a nonrenewable energy source.

If you are functioning out of this principle, if the principle of enriching yourself and enriching others is the fuel for you, I tell you, you are working on a renewable life source, on a renewable energy source. You are like a car that runs on solar power. You will never stop. You will run forever.

Make yourself run with renewable energy sources. That ís good for you and the world!

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

*Listen! Leaders are created with the DNA of responsibility. Take responsibility not only for everything. Only when you feel and decide that 'you' are responsible, you will look in that direction and solve the problem!*

# **The DNA Of Leadership**

**Thursday 4 th April, 2013**

Today, I will expand on the third principle – 'Responsibility', and the unique relationship it carries, the unique equation it carries, to construct the reality of your choice.

Let me define responsibility once more. Please listen! I am defining responsibility.

*Responsibility means, thinking, feeling, acting and cognizing life from the truth that you are the source of everything; therefore, you are responsible for all happenings inside you and around you.*

Please listen! Responsibility is thinking, feeling, acting, responding and cognizing from the truth that *you* are the source of everything!

Listen! I am not talking to you about some corporate values and principles, or on something that *rishis* have uttered in the u*panishads.*

I am talking to you about what I have directly experienced, which you have to experience. I am talking from the context of being responsible for making you responsible.

Be very clear, the person who talks has only one reason – of making you responsible. I am responsible to make you experience responsibility as I have experienced it.

A person with eyes is responsible to give vision to a blind person.

- G A person with wealth is responsible to guide a poor man to wealth.
- G A person with power is responsible to make powerless people become powerful.
- G A person with energy is responsible to make energy-less people full with energy.
- G A person with knowledge is responsible to make ignorant people knowledgeable!

If you have knowledge, the moment you have knowledge, you become responsible to make the ignorant, knowledgeable. If you are powerful, you become responsible to make the powerless, powerful. If you are wealthy, you become responsible to make the poor, wealthy.


'Will they take away our temple?' That's all I asked him! He said, 'No, no, no! Don't worry! The temple will not be taken away. The temple will continue to be with us. After that I was not interested in anything. I left it. I said, 'Alright, then I don't care!' and I went away.

After a few days, in another situation, the teacher explained to a few of us who used to go to his

*With responsibility, a new life, a new possibility happens to you. You become a new person with everything.*

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house for tuition. He said, 'Long ago, there was a riot in our place. Two religions and religious people attacked each other and killed each other. It was a *Ganesh chaturthi* festival.'

# *Then, I started budding with responsibility, for the first time.*

I asked him, 'What can we do so that this does not ever happen again?' He said, 'We should organize programs, festivals and functions. We should invite them to our functions and we should go to their functions.'

I said, 'Yes, I will do this,' and for the first time in my life, I organized a *Ganesh chaturthi* function and called some of my Muslim friends and celebrated it.

And then I went to the local mosque. After they finished their chanting, they would come and blow the through the mouth, and bless the visitors. This is still there in villages. Once they finished chanting their *Quran*, they would come out and blow the air by chanting *Quran*. So I went to attend that ritual.

I tell you, after I decided to take that responsibility, even my idea about myself changed. What I was feeling about 'me' itself has changed. I was a different person. I tell you, I'll say that this incident is more important for my *happening* than me spending time with *Arunagiri Yogishwara*!

LISTEN! Listen to the statement I am making! I will say that this incident is more responsible for my *happening,* because the incident with *Arunagiri Yogishwar* would have anyway happened. To realize who I am is not a big thing. But to take the responsibility for who I am is the real thing!

Realizing who I am is not the real thing. Taking responsibility for who I am is the real thing!

My experience with Arunagiri Yogishwara was only for the realization of 'who I am'. But this incident is about 'taking responsibility for who I am!'

That was the first function I organized. I went around and collected money from all of my premonastic family, friends, and even from people on the street. I went and called the temple officers, the local VIPs as guests, and organized a *pandal* with garlands and decoration items. I did the decoration myself with a few disciples and arranged all the music instruments and *arathi* vessels.

I think that I started almost all the departments that day - publication department, spreading department, temple, sacred-arts - I started almost all departments at the age of eleven! What we are now doing as *sangha*, I started doing this at the age of eleven! I tell you, I have just been continuously expanding, expanding and expanding from that time! Life is just expanding, expanding and expanding, nothing but expanding!

If you are a housewife, take responsibility for that. If you are working, take responsibility for that. If you are a father, take responsibility for that. If you are a student, take responsibility for that. If you are a son, take responsibility for that. Whatever

*When I decided to take responsibility, even my idea about myself changed.*

# The DNA Of Leadership

dimensions you have in your life, take responsibility for everything.

Unless you experience the ultimate as reality, you are not going to feel fulfillment, you are not going to experience completion. The ultimate will happen only when you take responsibility, only when you become responsible. Only when you become responsible does the ultimate happen!

Know very clearly that unless you take responsibility, nothing will be solved in your life. When you take responsibility, everything in your life will start happening as you want it. You will create the reality of your choice!

It is responsibility which makes you experience you that are a 'Being'. Only responsibility makes you experience that you are a possibility. Responsibility makes you experience everything you want in your life. Responsibility makes you experience the choice of your reality.

The essence of today's satsang is this. Only Responsibility can make you experience the reality of your choice. Responsibility makes you experience the highest possibility. Responsibility makes you experience the highest reality.

*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! One of the biggest problems we have is this - 'Let me have the power, status and position first. Then, I will take the responsibility.' No! Take the responsibility and build the state inside you. Then, the cosmos gives you the status.*

# **Enrich The World Through Sannyas Life**

**Saturday, 6th April 2013**

I will expand on the unique equation and relationship that exists between the state of responsibility and reality.

Feeling responsible happens in you when you start practicing integrity and authenticity. Only when you start practicing integrity and authenticity, you will realize that you are responsible for feeling deprived, for all your powerlessness. You are responsible for everything you experience.

Listen! Only when you understand that you are responsible for anything you feel in you as an incompletion, powerlessness or the feeling of being deprived, you will even start thinking in the angle of taking responsibility. When a person takes responsibility, so much flowers in

him, so much happens in him!

Sometimes, I used to wonder. I have seen that even among my devotees, of two persons who have completed M.B.B.S from the same batch and come out of the same college – after thirty years, one will be the MD of chain of hospitals, while the other will be sitting in the same old village, attending to the same old ten patients for ten rupee per patients, with a big magnifying glass reading the same old newspaper! Why is it that from the same batch, same college and same training, two people come out, but one becomes the MD of a chain of hospital, while the other sits inside his own chains? Sometime, the MD of the hospital would have failed in few subjects in the college; as stories usually have it! Why?

Listen! The only difference, the only reason for difference is this - *Feeling Responsible!* Feeling responsible!

Yesterday, one *sadhu* from North India came to our ashram. He was talking to some of our *sannyasis* and *sannyasinis* in our Welcome Center.

When he saw all our *sadhus* intensely active, alive and working, he said, 'This is the first time I am seeing a Hindu organization with so much of activism!' He said that hundreds of them stay in his ashram. He said that he was tired of just

*You are responsible for feeling deprived, for all your powerlessness. You are responsible for everything you experience.*

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sleeping in the room. He was literally crying. He said, 'I am a *sadhu* for te last thirteen years. I am tired of just sleeping, sleeping and sleeping in the room! I came to learn some *kriya*, *yoga*, ways of initiation and methods to practice spirituality and teach.'

But you know - this is the worst part of the human mind - once you are settled, the patterns settle inside you wasting your life. After that, even if you suffer because of it, you don't come out of it. He left that evening! He said, 'Even this air is so dynamic! Inside your campus, even breathing is so dynamic!' Literally! He came and met one of my ashramites! And after all, he met the wrong ashramite, who is so dynamic, she straight away said, 'Which department do you want to take? Do you want to be in the temple? Do you want to be in the kitchen?' But he left.

Please listen! I tell you, this is an important fact. It only takes just four days for your muscle-memory to taste laziness, boredom and tiredness and settle down with it!

If a tiger has not tasted the salty blood, the human blood which is the most salty blood, it does not become man-hunters or man-eaters. Once it tastes the human blood, it becomes a man-eater. Understand, for a tiger, it only takes one human body. Then the bio-memory and musclememory of the tiger settles for man-eating. If it has not already tasted the human blood, it doesn't hunt human-beings; it doesn't attack human-beings; it doesn't eat human-beings. If it attacks a humanbeing by mistake or by hunger or for protection and tastes the human blood – because the human blood is the saltiest blood – if they taste the human blood by mistake, only then do they start attacking human beings and they become man-eaters. Understand, one meal, human meal, is required for the tiger, one human flesh meal is required for the tiger's muscle-memory to settle down as a man-eater.

In the same way, human-beings only need four days to settle down with tiredness, boredom and laziness.

Please listen! I am talking on something very important and very mystical! I tell you, never ever take a vacation of four days, continuously in your life! Do not allow four days of vacation in your life! The very frequency in which you function is reduced. Because, in four days, your musclememory gets settled with tiredness, boredom and laziness! Even if you are without a job for four days, be active in something. Go and meet your friends and family. Take up some voluntary service. Do not be without responsibility for four days.

If you have some enemies and you want to destroy somebody, just somehow make him be without responsibility for four days. He will be destroyed! Don't do that to yourself ! Don't do that to yourself ! Don't be without responsibility for four days. You may ask, 'Why four days?' It takes four days for anything to become part of your muscle-memory. If you don't come for morning *yoga* and satsang for four days, on the fifth and sixth days, your musclememory will start proposing alternatives to you at that time. What are the alternatives? Sleeping, rolling on the bed, TV - there are so many things!

I want to tell all human-beings, whoever think of themselves as human-beings. Please listen! Do

*It takes just four days for your muscle-memory to taste laziness, boredom and tiredness, and settle down with it!*

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not allow laziness, tiredness and boredom continuously for four days, because that will then become a part of your muscle-memory. In any field, especially if you are in the field related to the body, like dance, *yoga*, sports, gymnastics - anything related to body, I tell you, don't give a gap of four days! If you are a sculptor, painter, artist, dancer or *yoga* practitioner, don't give a break for more than four days. Please don't give a break. If you give a break for just four days, your practice will have a drastic reduction in quality on the fifth day!

Only when you take responsibility does life happens to your body. If you have any disease, take responsibility for it, so that you can heal, help heal and then take care that you don't attract that disease back again.

And in the same way, if you have broken a relationship because of your irresponsibility and unconsciousness, now take the responsibility. Next time, you don't do it. Life does not end by breaking one relationship. You don't need to be depressed or you don't need to start being in that same space. When you take responsibility, you can even patch up the relationship you broke. You can approach the person and rebuild the relationship.

I did not wait for anything else to come. Listen, one of the biggest problem we have is this 'let me have the power first, let me have the status first, let me have the position first, and then I will take the responsibility.' No! That does not happen in life! Take the responsibility, build the state inside you. Then, after you have been tested by the cosmos, it gives you the status. That status can never be taken away.

I took the responsibility for teaching the science of enlightenment. I took the responsibility in my life. I started living it, I started building the

state, and then human society has tested me enough. Now, I can simply see that many powerful positions are automatically coming towards me. Listen! I am not going in search of them. Responsibility attracts more responsibility. The problem is that we are afraid of more responsibility, so we deny even the responsibility that we have in our hand. But more and more responsibility adds more and more lifeenergy into you!

Why do you think these politicians don't die at all, even though everyone else is waiting for them to die? They live such a long life! No, really! Whether you like them or not, whether they are corrupt or non-corrupt, they take responsibility for something! At least they take the responsibility for their life to be a power centre. They take responsibility for something. They may be corrupt but when they take the responsibility, whether you want it or not, it is a cosmic law – life energy oozes in their muscle-memory, in their bio-memory, and they go on living! The rich old father-in-law and the rich old politicians don't die very easily! Even though there are so many waiting for them to die! When you take responsibility, life oozes in your muscle-memory for some reason. That is why they continue to exist.

A *sannyasi* is not 'out-fit' of the society; it is an 'over fit' of the society! A *sannyasi* is not 'out-fit' he is a 'over-fit'! India needs at least a hundred

*Responsibility attracts more responsibility.*

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thousand responsible *sannyasis*. Please listen! *sannyas* is not the lifestyle of depressed people or drop-outs. Consider this lifestyle. It is a lifestyle!

Feel responsible for everything you see around. If you see poverty around, feel responsible for it. If you see ignorance around, feel responsible for it. If you see lack of health around you, feel responsible for it.

Don't think, 'I am not the reason! I cannot be responsible!' You may not be the reason, but you are the cause! Sometime, you may not be the reason, but you are cause! Even if you are silently participating, you are cause.

Good people not working and not being active is the reason for all the bad things happening, more than bad people actively working! Bad people actively working is not the first reason for bad things happening. Good people not actively working is the first reason. Bad people actively working is only the second reason!


See, if you want you can raise your right hand. If you want, you can smoke. If you want, you can eat. This is normal power for you. In the same way, only when I create the civilization of human-beings, with what you call as 'miracle powers', living all that as a normal power, only then will I rest! My mission is to create human-beings living extraordinary powers as normal powers, as a normal lifestyle! You don't claim raising your hand as a miracle, because everyone can do it. At least, majority can do it. In the same way, I will make sure that majority of the humanity has their body, mind, time and their inner space under them; they own their inner space under them!

I tell you; your inner space is not an individual, isolated, island, as you think. All of us are connected in the inner space. So, for anything you do in your *chidambara*, the whole world supports you. That supports the whole world. Anything is done in *chidambara*, the cosmos makes it as reality. The world makes it as reality. The cosmos says *tathaasthu* – So be it! Even if you experience a little bit of the powers of *chidambara*, you will not have the greed for perverted powers like political power, social power, power which you feel by abusing others, power which you feel by ruling over others. No! All these are the perverted powers. Power perversions! I tell you, if you experience even little bit of your *chidaakaasha* powers, the powers of your *chidaakaasha*, you will simply be free from the greed for power!

*Your inner space is not an individual, isolated, island, as you think. All of us are connected in the inner space.*

One of my *sannyasi* asked me the other day, 'Swamiji, we people who live around you, we don't feel that you are such a powerful person. We only feel that you are a relaxed child or kid playing around in a relaxed way. That is the way we feel when we are around you, based on your vibes or words, behavior, actions, lifestyle.'

I told him, 'Not only you, but even I feel like that!' This is because I have tasted my *chidaakaasha*, I do not have the greed for perverted powers. So, even if those powers are lying around me, I am neither excited by it nor inspired by it, nor do I even feel like tasting it. If you enjoy beautiful food in your kitchen, you will not feel like eating or drinking from the drainage outside your house. When you don't have anything, you are really thirsty or you are about to die; then nothing can be done. Only then will you feel, 'Alright, at least let me drink the drainage water!' If you have good food, beautiful food, nice food in your kitchen, why will you go and drink the drainage water?

Power perversion is drainage water! Perverted powers are drainage water! I tell you, people who are greedy for power just need only one thing - knowledge of their inner space and the simple decision to reclaim their inner space. If they can just cure their headache - if they experience that much of their inner space and the power of their inner space, their greed for power will disappear. They will stop giving headache to others! But I am telling you the truth! That is why, in India, people who are going to become power-centers are first trained to experience the power of their inner space.

If you see the life of Shivaji, if you read authentically, you will see there is no perverted power hunger in Shivaji. That is why Aurangzeb felt so powerless just by remembering Shivaji! Shivaji was so powerful even in front of the whole Moghul Kingdom! As a single man, Shivaji protected

the whole South India and South Indian temples! Nobody was able to cross him and come to South India! Whenever I see the temple in my native place, Arunachala, that temple is so beautiful, you will not see a single damage! Whenever I see that temple, I feel grateful to Shivaji. His inner space was so powerful, he reclaimed his inner space! That is why he was not hungry towards perverted powers.

The essence of today's *satsang* is this. Be aggressive and reclaim your space, your possibility in time, mind, body and your responsibilities. Whatever is yours, just reclaim them. Let your space be yours. Let your space be yours! Let nobody else, no other force, nothing else have incursion over it. If you are a man, you will not allow somebody else to interfere in your life. If you are a living being, do not allow some other patterns, somebody else to get into your inner space. 'Reclaiming Your Space' is the essence of today's satsang!

*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!*

*When you reclaim your inner space, you will not feel hungry towards perverted powers.*

*Only with completion do you become one integrated being , all your inner space, body, mind - everything comes under your contro. When you do completion now, don't think that only your future will be in completion and complete. No! Even your past gets altered! Completion is the only method where you can even alter your past!*

# **Completion – Technique To Alter Your Past**

**Sunday, 2nd May, 2013**

I discovered some of the very important truths about completion, just this morning. I will expand on it.

The first thing I want you to understand is that the four *tattvas* work only in 'completion'. Only in 'completion' are you able to live the four *tattvas* as it should be lived. Please understand, only in 'completion' the four *tattvas* happen in you, as it should happen. It does not happen when you do not spend enough of time, energy and intention towards the completion. You need to understand that intention is important ingredient for completion.

Let me define 'completion'. You need to understand incompletion first; then you will understand what completion is.

Listen! Whenever you talk to yourself, there is a part of you that is constantly disrupting you - that is incompletion! It means the not

believing part! Understand? You say, 'I will live the four *tattvas*!' Immediately, one part of you laughs at you, 'you have said a millions of things like this!' You say, 'I will be successful!' It says, 'You tried so many things! What happened?' Understand, when you utter something, when you talk something to yourself, the part of you which does not believe you, the part of you which does not agree with you, the part of you which is not saying 'Yes' to you, is incompletion.

Listen! One of the biggest problems with this incompletion is that you will not be able to settle, with you. You will not be able to live, within you. You will constantly have a kind of a life imprisonment experience and because of that incompletion, you will not be able to live any *tattva*. You will neither be able to live integrity nor be able to live authenticity. You will neither be able to live responsibility or nor be able to live enriching.

See, incompletion first attacks your self-assessing mechanism. You have a self-assessing mechanism in you. Just like internal auditing for any organization, there is a self-assessing mechanism in you. Once in a while, you see, 'What am I doing? What am I doing? What is going on? Am I on the right direction? Will I be on the right direction? Is this okay?' The more number of times you do self-assessing, more you will be self-centered and self-torturing. It is incompletion which gives you the insecurity, makes you do self-assessing again and again. *Tattvas* as it should be lived when you don't spend enough time, energy, intention towards completion. Intention is an important ingredient for completion.

Please understand, only with completion inside, you can even *listen* at this moment. If your clothes are unwashed and lying in your room, if you have put some clothes in your laundry machine, if you have

kept milk on the oven, if it's boiling, if there are any incompletion around you, you will not be settled, you will not listen! Listening happens with completion. *Listening happens with 'completion'!*

There is one more thing you need to know. I explained how the space of incompletion will be, but I cannot explain how the 'inner space of completion' will be! The space of completion - how will it look? How will it feel? I cannot explain this because you will not understand any word I use. It will be '*shuddha sukhabodha chinmaya swabhavananda*! What did you understand? No! You can't!

I can explain and you can understand what incompletion is, because it is your experience. When you are in the space of incompletion, a part of you will laugh at any decision you make, laugh at you, not co-operate with you, not say '*tathaasthu'* to you, not listen to you and not involve itself with you!

Understand, in the state of incompletion, you don't listen! You act like you're listening, but you don't listen! You don't see! You act like you're seeing, but you don't see! It is very important. Humanbeings need to understand that with incompletion, you will neither be able to practice the four *tattvas* nor will the four *tattvas* bring the desired results in you. If there is incompletion, you cannot practice integrity with integrity.

*Listening happens only with completion.*

Listen! Only when you practice integrity with integrity, will you have *vak-siddhi*! Only when you practice authenticity with authenticity, will you have the space of possibility! Only when you become responsibly responsible will you become a Leader!

The first thing you need to bring completion in you. You need to bring completion in you to start the four *tattvas* to work on you, to bring the result in you. After initiation into these *tattvas*, spend the first six months just for completion – *svapoornatva* and *poornatva,* completion with others, by not disturbing or sacrificing your regular life. I have seen that people don't work and or fulfill their responsibility, in the name of completion. They just waste their time and energy! Understand, completion has to be done along with your intense, active routine! It is like you should continue to build the new building and demolish the old building. If you are trying to demolish the old one and not build, that gap will again be filled with incompletion!

When there is completion in you, the four *tattvas* act like a fire put on the blasting explosive material! If you put fire on explosive material, is it going to slowly catch the fire, then a little smoke, and then a little fire? Is it going to happen? It will just explode! There are some people - the moment they listen to the four *tattvas*, it will become an experience in them. They will start living it. There are some - the four *tattvas* work on them very slowly! Why do the four *tattvas* work like explosive material in some people? Why do the four *tattvas* work like fire put on wood and sometimes fire put on stone, for some people? Sometime, it's like a fire put on wet land, the fire gets put off ! The four *tattvas* disappear!

*svapoornatva* and *poornatva* should be your spiritual practice. *svapoornatva* and *poornatva* should be your spiritual practice! Completion, completion is an important lesson you need to learn, to make these four *tattvas* as

an experience. Listen! If you are in completion, you will not be in restlessness during the gaps I give. By giving the gaps, I find out whether people are in completion or incompletion; what is the level of the space they are in. Then I start my *satsang*. Then I continue what I want to offer.

Understand, this is a very important truth which you need to catch. There are some more things that I want you to know about completion. It is only after completion, complete completion inside, that you will be able to practice these four *tattvas* as reality. If I am asked to pick up one more *tattva* along with the four, I will pick up completion. It is that important! Without completion, the four *tattvas* never become reality. Understand, it is completion that makes the right things happen in you. It is completion that makes life happen in you!

Completion is Shiva. Listening is Devi. When you are in completion, you are established in Shiva, the masculine energy in you. If you are listening, you are established in Devi, the feminine energy in you. When you are in completion, Shiva will be available to you as Dakshinamoorthy. When there is incompletion, he will be in you as Kalabhairava, to destroy the incompletions. Only with completion do you become one integrated being, all your inner space, body, mind, everything comes under your control, everything comes under you, becomes you and is a part of you.

*Completion is Shiva. Listening is Devi.*

Another thing you need to know is that when you do completion now, don't think that only your future will be in completion and complete. No! Even your past gets altered! Even your past becomes complete! Completion is the only method where you can even alter your past! Human beings are made to believe that the past cannot be altered. You need to know that if the past cannot be altered, the future also cannot be altered! Past, present and future, all three are in the same DNA seed of *Kaala*! Listen! If *Kaala* is the seed, past, present and future, all these three are in that seed, in the form of DNA! Your attitude towards the past and your attitude towards the future will be same! If you think that you are powerless, you were powerless in your past and you will be powerless in your future also! If you are powerless in the past, you will be powerless in the future!

So, spend time on completion, spend energy on completion on mainly the intention for completion! Decide to be complete! Decide to be complete! More than spending time, it is your intention, your decision that keeps you in completion. The decision to be in completion keeps you in completion!

Understand, if you feel that you were powerful in the past, you will be powerful in the future. I will give you one small example from my own life, from my own experience. I always felt that I was complete and successful, that I was powerful in the past. So the future automatically prepares me. The future automatically reveals whatever I need to know. The future automatically teaches me whatever I need to know.

All I want you to understand is that any inability you perceive is because of the inabilities you perceive about you, in your past. The selfassessing mechanism, the mechanism which assesses you continuously will give you high rating only when you are in completion. When you

Decide to be in completion! Decide to be in completion! Decide to be in completion! When you are in completion, all the four *tattvas* work miracles in you! If I have to describe the life of completion, the only words I can use are 'eternal ecstasy' and 'joy'! There are no other words that can be used! When you are in completion, you experience ultimate health.

Listen! Your inner space experiences the past and the future in the same language, in the same way. I will tell you how your past is built. Incidents,

*If you feel that you were powerful in the past, you will be powerful in the future.*

If you complete yourself now, if you complete your perception and self-assessments, sixty six percent of your past will be burnt! Then can your past stand as it is now? No! It will just be with facts. So, your past will lose its power over you. Your past will be transformed. That is the way your future will be transformed!

You need to catch it! You need to understand it! You need to live it! Go on completing with everyone and with you, through the proper techniques. Whatever you can't complete typically, complete it through a catharsis processes. Completion can be done by three ways

- One self completion, sitting with a mirror.
- Second sitting with the person with whom you have incompletion, talking to them and completing it.
- Third and very important through catharsis methods!

Sometimes, you don't even know with whom you have incompletion. You will not be able to find why you have incompletion. Is it with you or with others? Do completion through catharsis.

Completion - completion is the base for life to be built. Completion is the base on which life can stand. The first thing required for completion, is the decision to be complete, the intention to be in completion. When you are in completion, only then do you start living. The decision to be complete is the most important thing you need.

Understand, tomorrow I will expand on root-thought-patterns of suffering and how you can experience deep completion by discovering your root-thought patterns. The subject for tomorrow's *Nithya satsang*

will be 'your root-thought patterns and discovering your root-thought-patterns'. The root-thoughtpattern is the source of your every response to life. That is the source of your every response to life.

*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 required for completion, is the decision to be complete, the intention to be in completion.*

*Listen! Look in! Unless you find the root thought pattern and complete with it, your independent life does not start. Your root thought pattern is living through you. Sometimes you even enjoy it; because with the flow of sufferings and pain you feel there is a challenge in life!*

## **Discover what controls your life**

**Friday, 3rd May, 2013**

Today, I will expand on root thought patterns and completion.

Please understand, all of you need to know why you behave the way you behave, why you act the way you do and why you do what you do. You may be a doctor, an engineer, in a corporate field, a politician, in the field of finance or religion - whatever you may be, whether you act with softness, peace, agitation or irritation, it is your root thought pattern that is responsible for the way you react, the way you function.

Let me define root thought pattern. *The first strong cognition you go through in your life, which influences you to continue to function based on the same cognition, is a root thought pattern!*

Understand this. For example, at the age of three or four, for some reason, somebody tries to attack you. Shivering and frightened, you run and hide yourself. The cognition was so deep in you that your whole inner space was filled with fear for few minutes. All other cognitions –

the possibility is shut down and this one cognition just fills you for a few moments. Even after that person has gone, you are still shivering in your hiding place.

Please understand, if you had this kind of experience at that young age, you literally never come out of your hiding place after that! You may physically come out, but the suffering and shivering continue to happen! The shivering and the suffering continue to happen! They continue to be in you! Even at the age of ninety five, you will be shivering just like the three-year-old boy, with the fear inside you!

Once some root thought pattern starts in you, your growth stops! After that, only that pattern grows in you, not you! Listen! Only the pattern grows, not you! If you had chosen to attack him back with whatever you got in your hand, then that also will be a pattern!

Listen! Listen now, only if you listen intensely can you get this truth! Non- listening is not going to help. Listen! How you behave, how you feel, how you respond – it means the cognition which happens in you and fills you at a very young age, and overpowers you. Sometimes it is fear, sometimes it is greed, sometimes it is jealousy and sometimes it is the decision to prove yourself. Sometimes, it is just blocked out, being blocked out with confusion and worry!

The first thing you need to know is that your life as a human being starts only when you find your root thought pattern and complete with it! Otherwise, you go on cheating yourself most of the time!

One of the worst things is that the root thought pattern becomes so much a part of you that you don't even realize that the root thought pattern and you are two different things! You just listen to your root thought

pattern and behave as if the decision is your own. It is like a traitor becoming the Prime Minister of a country or the President of a country, some traitor becoming the power-center of that country! What will happen to that country? In the same way, root thought pattern is your traitor. It means that it is your enemy! If your enemy becomes part of your decision-making mechanism, your life will be destroyed!

Listen! Look in! Unless you find your root thought pattern and complete with it, your independent life does not start. Your root thought pattern is living through you. I have seen people getting completely imbalanced for a very small thing that they don't find – for example if they don't find where their cigarette lighter is! Just a gross stop and they fall! They are totally disoriented and imbalanced! They do not know why!

Just like you have the flow of air and the flow of blood as part of you, in course of time, this flow of pain and suffering also becomes a part of you. Sometimes you even enjoy it, because with the flow of sufferings and pain, you feel that there is a challenge in life! Even though you don't have anything really worthy to show that you are a success, you create pseudo-pain and pseudochallenges to show that your life is worthy and you are great! Most of the time, you create and brag on with pseudo-challenges, pseudo-pains, pseudo-

*Once some root thought pattern starts in you, your growth stops.*

sufferings, just to justify to yourself that your existence is worthy.

You say, 'See! Being a person of my background with so much of suffering and pain, I have finally become an MLA!'

You go on; you go on creating pseudo-sufferings, pain patterns and unsettled decisions. See, just taking powerful decisions and destabilizing yourself becomes almost a new kind of excitement and adventure for you. Not being stable almost becomes an adventure for you. Come back! Don't be foolish! At the end of the life, you are going to be measured based on the success, not based on the adventure!

Most of the time, you yourself create foolish obstacles, you struggle with it and name that as an adventure! To take a decision whether to wear the watch on the left hand or right hand, if you sit and brood for twenty-one days and then finally wear it on your hip and go, it is not an adventure! You are a fool who wasted twenty-one days to make this simple decision! But you come out and show, 'See, see, see! To wear this watch here, I took twenty-one days!' In what way is it going to be useful?

Understand, your life should be measured only based on the level of enriching you did! That is the scale with which your life is going to be measured, not based on the struggles you had in your life! All the great leaders' biographies should be re-written for the next generation! At least my *Gurukul* kids - you will not read the idiotic, perverted biographies of the so-called many leaders, whose life is described with so much of conflict, struggles and finally, adventure. No! A person can be considered as a great leader only based on how many people he enriched, and in what ways he enriched. That's all!

There are some foolish games where the horses are made to jump many obstacles. The more obstacles the horse jumps, it is considered as a victory! But what is the use? What are horses for? To cross the distance! It should be used for crossing the distance! I tell you, making your life look adventurous is nothing but too much of fat that you collected in some unnecessary spots of your body! It is not real an energy expression. The real energy expression is supposed to be based on how many people you enriched!

Your root thought patterns continuously swallow your life! Listen, when your root thought patterns are responding through you, your cognition is called '*maya*' – 'delusion'. Find your root thought pattern, where your main behavioral pattern started and where your main cognition occupied your inner space.

I have seen, sometimes people want name and fame, but they don't want to take the responsibility for other human beings. Please understand, only when you take responsibility of training and helping other human beings, you will have name and fame. Why will somebody praise you? Only if you contribute to their life! Some people desire to have name and fame, but they will not take the responsibility of enriching or contributing to others life. They go on desiring, but don't take responsibility.

*When your root thought patterns are responding through you, your cognition is called 'maya' – 'delusion'.*

Please understand, the gap between your desire and responsibility is your inauthenticity. Bring more and more authenticity. Bring more and more authenticity. Take more and more responsibility. I tell you, until you find your root thought pattern and complete with it, your life has not started!

People sometimes ask me, 'What do you give during Inner Awakening?' I tell you, I give you life. I give your '*life'* to you in Inner Awakening!

Sometimes, not just sometimes but, many times, the plants cover the whole pond and tank. People don't even know whether the water is there or not in the pond, and whether the water can be used. The water plants completely cover the whole water body so thickly that you neither know if there is water, nor do you know if you can use it.

In the same way, the sufferings created by the root thought patterns fill you, fill you so strongly, so powerfully, they fill you so strongly and so powerfully that you lose life! You don't have life anymore! Only when you clear those water plants, will you know how much water is there. Only when you clear root thought patterns and the patterns you built because of the root thought patterns, you will know the consciousness you have! The consciousness you have! Only when you have found your root thought pattern and removed it and regained your consciousness, you will understand, 'Oh, God! I have literally wasted my whole life!'

I tell you, even what you call as your basic instinct - like the lust pattern are all nothing but combination of few root thought patterns! Lust is not at all lust! If you go deep, there will be some other root thought pattern which is drilling your lust, rekindling it again and again. It may be the power to prove you! And the root thought pattern of asking for others attention!

Only when you clear your root thought pattern, you will even know, you will even know your life! You will even know your consciousness!

How many of you cognize that only after removing and completing with the root thought pattern, you understood how many years you wasted in your life? This is the example. Only when your root thought patterns are cleared, you will know what life is, what freedom is. Until then, you don't even know life! Your effort to make money, your effort to have relationships, your effort to have fulfillment, *everything* will be out of the incompletion. Incompletion will be driving you. Your root thought pattern will be driving you.

If your enemy is driving you, will he be driving you towards success? He may make you believe that you are going towards success, but he will never ever lead you to success. If your root thought patterns are driving your life, you may believe that you are successful, but you will never be driven to success. Understand, if you are running behind alcohol, if you are using alcohol for joy and relaxation and restful awareness and feeling fulfilled, I bet, even if you have a billion dollars, you are a failure! I sympathize with you! Your life is waste!

Understand. For example, if you have a root thought pattern of fear or shivering in you, even if you make billions of dollars out of that root

*In the 'Inner– Awakening' program, I give your 'life' to you.*

thought pattern, you will not achieve satisfaction. Because the reason why you are making money is to feel secured. You will feel secured only when you break that pattern, not by money! It is like a wrong strategy. Wrong strategy, for the wrong reason!

In India, hooliganism is the most practiced religion! These hooligans, when they get angry, they make an effigy of the person towards whom they are angry and burn it. Is it in any way going to affect the guy towards whom you have anger? Instead, you can collect all the dust in the street and burn it. At least the street will be clean! Just like that, even if you make billions of dollars, you are not going to achieve satisfaction if the driving force is the incompletion, if the root thought pattern is fear.

Whether it is lust, anger, agitation or irritation, whatever it may be, please understand, all the moments you feel powerless in your life is because of your root thought pattern. A person who does not have even one moment of powerlessness in his life is an enlightened being! A person who never had powerlessness in his life, from birth, is an incarnation!

Understand anything is worth giving up. To find your root thought pattern and complete it, you can give up anything. It is worth it. Because once you complete with your root thought pattern, you will feel so much of energy and powerfulness! There won't be a single moment of powerlessness! Whether it is in your house or job or relationships or life, if you feel powerless somewhere, please understand, it is because of the root thought patterns you carry. If you feel powerless somewhere, it is because of the root thought patterns you are carrying.

Every human being should be helped to find their root thought pattern

and the incident where the root thought pattern started occupying their inner space and destroying it, perverting their inner space and killing their life, swallowing their life. Every human being should find that root thought pattern and complete with it.

Understand, I am defining 'root-thought-pattern' once more. *The feeling of powerlessness overpowering your cognition and imbalancing your cognition from your consciousness, and the birth of the mind happening, is 'root thought pattern'.*

It is the root thought pattern incident where the birth of your mind happens. And, I tell you, if you consider me as your *Guru*, whoever considers themselves as my followers, your first responsibility is in finding your root thought pattern and completing it, living these four principles of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, helping whoever you meet, enriching them by helping them to find their root thought pattern.

All my disciples should help every individual. It does not need to be a formal class. If you are waiting to make a formal class, you will be waiting forever! Later on, when time comes, I will organize it as formal classes and programs. Now, start helping whoever you meet, guiding them to find their root thought pattern.

*A person who does not have even one moment of powerlessness in his life is an enlightened being.*

Understand, every moment of powerlessness that you are feeling in your life is your root thought pattern living; it is not *you* living! Then understand, your life is literally swallowed by your root thought pattern! Your life is literally swallowed by your root thought pattern! You have to find your root thought pattern and help people find their root thought patterns. This is real enriching!

Understand, in the 'Inner–Awakening' program, I give you your life, because we help you to find your root thought pattern and destroy it!

The feeling of powerlessness overpowering your cognition and imbalancing your consciousness and being, the cause of the birth of your mind, is 'root- pattern'.

Understand, without completing your root thought pattern, your DNA layers are not awakened, mitochondria cell energy is not awakened. Once you discover your root thought pattern and you complete with it, your *kundalini* is immediately awakened, your mitochondria cell energy goes up, your DNA level, DNA awakening, DNA layer awakening drastically increases!

For common human beings, for normal human beings, two layers of DNA are awakened. If you find your root thought pattern and complete, six layers of DNA will be awakened in you! If six layers of DNA are awakened, your child will be an enlightened being! You will have an enlightened child! Even if you marry, you will enrich the world by your enlightened child! Even through marriage, you will be enriching the world!

If you have not found your root thought pattern and completed with it, even with *sannyas* you will only be a headache to the world! You

will not be enriching the world, you will just be encroaching the world!

Either you encroach or enrich. If you don't enrich, you encroach! If you find your root thought pattern and complete it, even with marriage you can enrich the world! If not, you will be encroaching the world! Enriching or encroaching, it is up to you! It is up to you!

So, the essence of today's satsang is this. Find your root thought pattern and complete it. Only then, life starts for you!

*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!*

*Every moment of powerlessness that you feel in your life is your root thought pattern living, not you living.*

*Please understand, when you first had the feeling of powerlessness, you never grew once the root pattern started! You physically grow, but mentally, you are sealed! If you mentally grow, your physical age will be sealed and you will be young forever! You will be growing young!*

# **Understand The Source Of Your Suffering**

**fourth May, 2013**

I will expand on how you can identify your root pattern. Please understand, I will remind all of you once more - only when you give your listening, I can help you. Any transmission of knowledge, energy or experience happens between us only when you give *listening*!

Even *Vedic rishi*s start with this chant:

*shṛṇvantu vishve amṛtasya putraaha |* Oh! Sons of Immortality, please listen to me!

*shṛṇvantu vishve amṛtasya putaraaha | vedaarameham purusham mahaantham ||* Oh! Sons of Immortality, listen to me!

Identify your root pattern! Listen! I am defining 'root pattern' once more. *The first attack of any strong emotion happening in you and imbalancing your whole cognition, giving birth to your mind - the pattern you develop*

*from that moment, is root pattern.*

Please understand, it can be anything, from something as simple as your mother did not give you the cake and gave it to your brother!

In India, that is a big problem! Male kids are pampered and female kids are not supported. This is one of the biggest patterns with which the whole of India suffers. You need to know - in India, the practice of not giving a share in the property to women is still practiced! This has to be abolished. Women should be given equal rights over the properties and you can also use mother's name as an initial with your name. All this should happen. Only then are we going to come out of this mental cognition. We forgot that in the *Vedic* tradition, men and women had equal respect. We need to understand, we need to evolve as a society and give an equal right in name and property.

*Root pattern is the pattern which you develop, at the time when powerlessness takes you over for the first time in your life*. And your cognition is imbalanced and your mind is born! It may be as simple as your mother making you sit on the dining table so that you will not run around and make a mess; your brother chasing you into a room and trying to beat you; or you tried your best but failed in your exam or some competition. It can be even that small! But that is the root on which the mind is born.

Understand, if you sit with yourself even for half-an-hour and think through, dig out, you will be able to find your root pattern. The only thing is that whatever you think through, continue to speak in front of the mirror. Without speaking, your thinking will not have its clarity, depth and strength. To find your root pattern, you may have to speak; you may have to speak in front of the mirror.

Sit comfortably in front of the mirror. Whatever you think as your root pattern - it may be at the age of three or four, when powerlessness overpowered you for the first time in your life, or the earliest memory you remember. It would have happened sometime when you were three or four, but you may only remember the incident which happened when you were seven or eight.

But whatever you remember, start talking, talking and talking out! When you start talking, you will understand - please understand - you will understand, and you may suddenly remember the deeper root pattern which started much earlier, the incidents which happened much earlier!

I have seen that there are some people who suffer the disease of spontaneous lying. The moment they open their mouth, lying, lying, lying! I tell you, spontaneous lying means you feel powerlessness. You are inauthentic to yourself. Feeling powerlessness is slavery. Feeling powerful is freedom. If you feel powerful throughout your day, you are a jeevan mukta! You are living enlightenment! If you feel powerful, from when you wake up in the morning to the moment you fall asleep, you are a jeevan mukta!

Everything has roots. The way you behave, the way you think, the way you react, the way you respond, way you cognize, why you behave the

*Feeling powerlessness is slavery. Feeling powerful is freedom.*

way you behave - everything has a root pattern!

Understand, whether you feel unhealthy, or helpless, or emotionally weak, tired, bored, lazy, agitated or irritated, all these put together is what I classify as powerlessness; feeling powerless. The good news is that you can live without any of these. The bad news is that you need to work for it!

I tell you, if the kids can be helped during the young age to remove their root patterns and not to build root patterns, they will do wonders! I have seen! I have seen! Whatever I am doing in 'Inner Awakening', ten times more than that happens in eN-Genius (spiritual program for kids), without my physical presence, because they are ready to receive it! Kids are ready to receive!

I still remember, as a small boy, I was going around the hill alone, reading the *Arunagiri Andaadi* - hundred songs on *Arunachala* written by Guhai Namashivaya, a great saint. Even now I can repeat all the hundred verses by heart! I was walking with that book! I was asked to go round the hill every day, by my 'heartless' *Guru*, Kuppammal, Vibhood*ananda*devi!

I was supposed to go around it at night, because I didn't have time in the day. During the day I either went to school or sat with her studying the *vedas* and *upanishads*! And usually, it will be very hot in the day time. So after sunset, she would tell me, 'Now lessons are over. Please go round the hill and come back and sleep! She used to say it as though it was just next door.

If I go round the hill, when will I sleep? Because, by the time I come back, I have to take bath in the tank and go to the temple for *suprabhaatham*!

When Shiva is waking up, when the lord is waking up, when Arunachala is waking up, you should go and see him early in the morning when he wakes up! So, I would have to run!

Anyway, I went around every day. And I keep that as a habit even now! Even now, if I am staying in Arunachala, I will go around the hill. Only then will I come and sleep. Even now, whenever I can, I don't miss walking around the hill. I will always walk in the night, with a group of disciples, and that will be the best moment of my life. The way I run! You can see the high energy around me!

One night when I was a child, some ten hyenas came. A hyena is an animal which is very shy when alone, but will attack and kill any human-being if they are in groups. And they will simply kill children, they will simply kill! Children are the best dinner for them! They will kill!

I was walking alone. It was *amavasya* (new moon day) or just near *amavasya*. No light and complete darkness! In those days, the path for going around the Arunachala Hill was very dark and it was a narrow road - not even a road, it was more like a forest road. Suddenly, some ten hyenas were standing in front of me! In the middle of the night, I am all alone with just that one book 'Songs of Arunachala' in my hand!! From the lower abdomen – the *swadhishtana*, I gave a voice,

*You can live without powerlessness in your life.*

'ARUNACHALAAAAAAA!!' I don't know if the whole Arunachala Hill vibrated with that! Suddenly, an old man appeared with a stick and drove the hyenas away! They all ran away. Somehow I got saved. Otherwise I would not be here! I would not be sitting here. I would have been sitting in their stomach within the next few hours! Anyhow, I came back and narrated the whole story to my *Guru*, Vibhood*ananda*puri, with the deep feeling that from the next day I wouldn't be asked to go walking around the hill. She heard everything, and finally all she said was, 'Wow! Arunachala saved you!'

There is no doubt that Arunachala saved me. But Arunachala may come and save me once, how can that be a routine? But next day, she said, 'Come on! Go around the hill!' I was shocked! I asked, 'What do you mean? Will Arunachala come and save me every day?' She just hit at me with one question, 'Will hyenas attack you every day?' Listen! I asked her, 'Will Arunachala come and save me every day?' She said, 'Will hyenas come and attack you every day?' That's it! When I told about this incident to my mother, who is always over-protective of me, she heard the whole thing and finally asked me, 'What did *paatti* tell?' *paatti* means my *Guru*, Vibhood*ananda*puri. 'What did she tell?' I told her what she said. Then she just walked into the house and said, 'Alright, you go the walking around the hill!' She just walked into the house and said, 'You go now!'

I am telling you, it really hit me! Yes, will hyenas come and attack me every day? Then she said, 'If hyenas come every day, then Arunachala also will come every day! Go! I tell you, I am seeing this even now in my life. Whenever hyenas come, Arunachala comes and protects me! It may be ten hyenas or twelve hyenas or six-hundred hyenas! Arunachala comes and protects! Had I not gone for my walk around the hill - *giri pradhakshina,* the next day, I would have continued to be a