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We mark our patterns, not our possibilities. We never mark where we should in the bigger picture of our lives. We are so caught up with marking our small desires and goals fueled by our incompletions. We never mark the spot of our peak possibilities. These markings of desires and worldly goals continuously get washed away and new markings are made. They update themselves based on inputs from the world around us, based on what society has to say. We forget that these markings are temporary and do not reflect *the space of possibility* within, which comes only from completion.
What truly matters is inner transformation, which we never bother to think about. We never allow any understanding of completion to work on us. If we are consciously aware of our root patterns, why we are doing what we are doing and what our pitfalls are, we can start to complete with them and grow to be powerful, complete individuals. But again and again we make the same mistakes. The scale may differ but the mistakes are the same!
A leader is one who commits mistakes on a large scale and hides them, whereas a follower is one who commits the same mistakes on a smaller scale and justifies them. That is the difference between a leader and a follower. To be honest, we are not intelligent enough to create new patterns. We are not creative and innovative enough to make new mistakes. Even if you merely decide not to make the same mistake out of the same pattern once more, your life will be transformed. But again and again, we make the same kind of mistakes because our mind works in the same route. That route is only called *saṁskāra*: a recorded route, an engraved bio-memory or a root pattern. If we take up the life of either *karma* or *sannyāsa* based on an incomplete recorded bio-memory, we will never achieve completion, bliss.
#### Surrender to experience Karma-Sannyāsa as One
Let us deeply analyze these paths of *Karma* and *Sannyāsa.* Karma is normally out of greed and desires. Sannyāsa is always invariably out of fear, *bhaya*. There is a fear of life. When you are not ready to take the risk, you renounce everything. The fear of getting hurt is the first reason for *Sannyāsa*. *Sannyāsa* is a way of escapism, turning away from the responsibilities that life presents. When a person is bogged down by responsibilities of life, he takes *Sannyāsa* as an easy escape route. In the name of renunciation, he covers his deep fears. This is not true *Sannyāsa*.
Then we have people running after material wealth in the name of *karma.* On one side are the people who are running away from fear. On the other side are those who are running towards their greed. Both categories of people are not going to achieve eternal bliss or consciousness. Both are not on the right track of completion.
In the entire world, only three types of human beings exist: One who has surrendered to greed, one who has surrendered to fear and the one who has surrendered to the supreme intelligence, divine consciousness. The person who has surrendered to greed gets lost. Such a person runs after many things in life to possess them, which in turn leads to more greed. He literally becomes a slave to greed.
There is a beautiful story in *Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad*:
There are two birds on the same tree.
One bird, a completely satisfied and fulfilled being, is sitting calmly, enjoying the silence of its own inner space.
Another bird is sitting a little below, busily pecking at the fruits. It keeps flitting from place to place, trying to eat the fruits. When the fruit is tasty, it enjoys. When the fruit is not tasty, it suffers. It continuously oscillates between enjoyment and suffering.
Suddenly, this bird looks up and sees the bird that is sitting silently and thinks, 'How is this bird so calm and beautiful? Let me go closer and see. Let me talk to this bird.' Slowly, the small bird moves towards the peaceful bird.
As it goes closer to the other bird, it continues to taste more fruits and suffers because the fruits are sour. Suddenly, when it is close enough to the other bird, it realizes that the other bird is nothing but its own *self,* which is sitting silently and beautifully watching the small bird getting distracted in its path, suffering with sour fruits! The small bird simply becomes one with the other bird.
This is a beautiful story!
In the same way, as long as you are a *jīvātman,* an ordinary soul, you struggle between fear and greed. You go from one extreme to another. The moment you realize there is something inside your being that is untouched by your greed and fear, you start traveling towards it. When you get closer to it, you realize you are that Consciousness.
Here, Kṛṣṇa explains the same thing, we are caught between fear and greed. Either we constantly surrender ourselves to fear or we surrender ourselves to greed. Very rare individuals surrender to intelligence, to Divine Consciousness.
Arjuna asks here, 'Which is more beneficial for me?' Keeping track of accounts is good in business but not in life. People come and ask me, 'Why should I surrender to the Divine? If I surrender, what will I get?'
If you don't surrender to the Divine, you will be surrendering to your fear or greed. I am not asking you to surrender to the Divine just to get something out of it. When it comes to life, profit and loss doesn't work. Life is beyond calculation. The moment we ask, 'What will I get by surrendering to the Divine?', we miss the whole idea of surrender.
Venkaṭeśvara (incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu) holds the cakra (discus) in one hand, and this represents fear. In the other hand, He has the śankha (conch), which represents success. The conch is blown when you achieve success or victory. This represents greed because man is constantly seeking success in everything and is never satisfied.
If you don't surrender to Venkaṭeśvara's pāda (feet) and His pāduka (sandals), you will surrender to His conch and discus. In other words, you will surrender to fear or greed. Those who constantly approach God for fulfillment of their desires or for refuge for their problems are actually surrendering to greed and fear. Only very few surrender to the feet of Venkaṭeśvara, which is the ultimate surrender.
Our whole life is spent running behind greed or fear. The path of *Karma Yoga*, seeking liberation through action or responsibility, happens because of greed. The path of *sannyāsa yoga*, seeking liberation through renunciation, happens because of fear. Neither the path of *karma* (action) nor the path of *sannyāsa* (renunciation) will enrich us unless we complete with our greed and fear and transform our very space into the space of completion. If we change the incomplete space to that of completion, *karma or sannyāsa* or anything can enrich us. All we need to know is this—it doesn't matter if we are a *karma yogi* or a *sannyāsa yogi*. It is the attitude, the space from which we approach and live life that is most important. Let your inner space be the space of completion.
Listen! When you are in incompletion, you constantly feel powerless and anything you do comes out of powerlessness. Anything done out of incompletion, be it *Karma Yoga* or *Sannyāsa yoga*, leads you to more and more incompletion. Anything done out of completion, leads you to more and more completion.
I am defining Sannyāsa.
#### Sannyāsa is you living in the space of completion and constantly enriching everyone to be in the space of completion.
Again and again, Kṛṣṇa is placing the emphasis on the space of completion, on the being. If we don't know the root cause of our actions, why we are living with *karma* or why we pick up *Sannyāsa,* we will not be able to solve our problems. Our suffering is neither because of *karma* nor because of *Sannyāsa.* Suffering is because of our wrong attitude of incompletion. And with this wrong attitude of incompletion, be it *karma* or *sannyāsa*, the path will feel only like a punishment. With the right space of completion, any path will feel like a true blessing for you and for others.
With the wrong space of incompletion, if you take the path of *karma* or *sannyāsa*, you will struggle and suffer, and make others suffer as well. If you decide to enter *karma,* drop the goal. Just enjoy doing the *karma* and don't worry about the goal. Living itself is beautiful. Realize that life itself is beautiful. On the other hand, if we decide to take up *Sannyāsa*, again drop the goal. The goal of a *Sannyāsi* (monk), which is renunciation, is also a goal and it must be dropped. The karma yogi runs towards the goal, the *Sannyāsi* runs away from the goal.
Kṛṣṇa says—*sāṅkhya yogou pṛthagbālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitaḥ* (5.4). Indirectly He tells Arjuna that he has yet to learn, that he is still ignorant. Only the ignorant man says that *karma yog*a is different from *sāṅkhya yoga*, the *Sannyāsa.* Here, the words *karma* and *sannyāsa* are equated to *Karma Yoga* and *Sāṅkhya Yoga*.
The experienced say that both *karma* and *sannyāsa* lead to the same truth. Through both these paths, one achieves the results of both. If we complete with the pattern of greed in *karma yoga* and complete with the pattern of fear in *Sannyāsa Yoga,* we will drop into eternal consciousness. Through both, we will achieve when we create the right space—the space of completion.
So Kṛṣṇa says here, 'Only the ignorant person says that one is superior to the other or that they are two different paths. Both the paths are one and the same.' A person who can travel alone, who is courageous enough to live in the space of completion and decides to enrich others with completion takes the life of *Sannyāsa*. A person who decides to live in the space of completion and who wants to enrich others by sharing his life takes the life of *karma*. It is up to us. Both the paths are one and the same.
What is important is having the right reason and the right space, not what we are doing. What we are *doing* is not important, who we are *being* is important. These three words should be understood: *being, doing and having*. If we are continuously *doing* only for *having*, we will never *have* it. Even when we are *having*, we will be *doing.* The man who is doing just for having will never be able to experience or enjoy life because even when he is having, he will be doing. The man who is established in his *being* will enjoy both *doing* and *having* at the same time. By just *being*, he will enjoy *doing* and *having*. All we need is a simple technique. The whole idea is now reduced to a one-line message.
#### *Let all our feelings, let all our mental thoughts, let all our physical deeds be directed towards gratitude to the Divine.*
Don't work out of fear or greed, because no matter how much we achieve out of greed, we will not be fulfilled. It is like pouring ghee (clarified butter) into the fire. Can we quench fire by pouring ghee into it? Never! All our actions that are done out of greed will only create more desire and make our senses weak, tired and incomplete. In the same way, all our laziness born out of fear will only make our mind restless and incomplete. We may not be doing things physically, but our mind will be worrying.
If we have become a *karma yogi* out of greed, our senses will be weakened. How much can we run? If we become a *Sannyāsi* out of fear, again, we may not do anything physically but the whole day we will be worrying.
A simple truth:
When a man doesn't have money, the problem is money. When he gets money, the problem is sex. When he gets sex, the problem is comforts. When he gets comforts and everything is going well, he starts worrying about death. Some incompletion or the other will always make his mind powerless.
Don't think that all the *Sannyasis* sitting in the Himalayas are in bliss. No! Unless they create the space of completion, they cannot experience power and joy. Unless the very space changes, they cannot experience bliss. Bliss is directly related to our inner space. Our whole life will be spent in doing and having if we are caught in fear and greed. If we surrender ourselves to being, doing and having both will happen to us with tremendous ecstasy.
Never work out of greed because whatever we achieve is going to be taken away at the time of death. Never become silent and inactive out of fear because there is really nothing to lose. Whether we are afraid or not, everything is going to be taken away at the time of death. So why be afraid? In either case, why not be blissful?
One important thing: Working without motivation is completely unheard of today. All psychologists, psychiatrists and scientists always emphasize that we cannot work without motivation. That is why there are so many motivational Gurus today. These people have come to the conclusion that 'work without motivation is not possible' after analysis on diseased patients, not on enlightened beings. They never had a specimen of a Buddha! They never encountered an enlightened person. That is why they say that work without motivation is impossible.
I tell you, work without motivation is the only real work. It will never make us tired! Every moment we will be working out of bliss.
# Devotion Above Action
* 5.5 He who knows, knows that the state reached by renunciation [sāṅkhya] and action [karma] are one and the same. State reached by renunciation can also be achieved by action, know them to be at the same level and see them as they are.
* 5.6 Renunciation without devotion afflicts one with misery, Oh mightyarmed one. The wise person engaged in devotional service attains the Supreme without delay.
* 5.7 The person working in devotion, who is a pure being, self-controlled and having conquered the senses, identifies his Self with the Self of all beings. Though engaged in work, he is never entangled.
* 5.8, 5.9 One who knows the truth, though engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, dreaming, and breathing, always knows within himself that—'I never do anything at all.' While talking, letting go, receiving, opening, closing, he considers that the senses are engaged with their sense objects*.
*yat sāṅkhyaiḥ prāpyate sthanaṁ tad yogair api gamyate I ekaṁ sānkhyaṁ ca yogaṁ ca yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati II 5.5*
One who knows that the state reached through *sāṅkhya yoga* and *karma yoga* are both one and the same, and that the state reached by *sāṅkhya yoga* can also be achieved by *karma yoga*, sees both of them in the same level and sees things as they are. |
### Drop Greed and Fear, Live Power and Joy
Beautiful verse! Not all of us are *karma yogi* or doers and not all of us are Sannyāsis or monks. No Sannyāsi is a Sannyāsi for 24 hours. When he surrenders himself to the greed, he is a doer. No *karma yogi* is a doer for 24 hours. When he surrenders to fear, he is a Sannyāsi. So, whenever we make an optimistic decision, we are a *karma yogi.* Whenever we make a pessimistic decision, we are Sannyāsi. It is we who play both the roles.
Who is an optimist and who is a pessimist? An optimist is a man who created the airplane. A pessimist is a man who created the seat-belt. In life you always play both the roles. Sometimes you are an optimist and sometimes you are a pessimist. Here, both can lead to the same goal if the inner space is pure and complete. Anything created out of greed will create more greed. Anything created out of fear will create more fear. Anything created out of incompletion will create more incompletion.
Please listen: Whenever we move our body while feeling a particular emotion, that emotion gets settled inside our system. That emotion will become part of us and get created again and again in our system. Jiḍḍu Kṛṣṇamurti, an Enlightened Master from Bharat, made a wonderful statement about emotions. He says, 'If you can, try to remain centered, silent, without moving your body when a particular emotion rises in you, without co-operating with it. Within eleven times, or I can say within eleven emotional upsets, if you have managed to be this way, you will be liberated from that emotion.'
For example, if you are caught in an emotion, say lust or fear, then for eleven cycles, whenever that emotion rises in your being, don't allow your body to co-operate. Don't allow your body to flow or move with that emotion. Within eleven cycles, I assure you, you will be liberated from that emotion. You may think, 'What is this, *Swamiji?* Just eleven times! Is it so easy?' It is easy. All great things are easy. Only we complicate them because we don't believe that anything is easy.
A small story:
A person goes to the doctor and asks, 'Doctor, how much will you charge to pull this tooth out?' The doctor says, 'Ninety dollars.' This person asks, 'Ninety dollars just for a two minute job?'
The doctor says, 'I can do it more slowly if you like!'
We don't believe in simplicity. We want to complicate things.
I can tell you with integrity and authenticity, eleven times is too much. When that emotion rises in you, don't cooperate. Let your body not go after that emotion. Don't be taken away by that emotion, whether it is anger, irritation, depression, lust, fear or anything else. Just decide, 'I am not going to be taken away by this emotion. I am completing with it.'
I tell you, within three or four times, you will be liberated from that emotion because you will learn the technique of completion. You will have the key now in your hand: How not to be taken away by that emotion, how to be complete, rooted in your Self, in your being. Whether it is anger or fear or greed, it gets more power and strength if your body cooperates with it. With whatever emotion your body moves, that emotion gets recorded inside your system. And that emotion will happen again and again, and much more intensely. Both frequency and intensity of that emotion will increase.
There is a movie, 'What the Bleep Do We Know?' In this movie, they show this idea beautifully. It is a truth from *Vedānta*. They say that whenever an emotion happens within your system, it is like a shower of rain. The emotion pours like rain. It happens inside your system, in your being. There are particular cells that catch these emotions. For example, if you think with anger, there are particular cells that catch anger as an emotion. Not only do they catch the emotion, they start reproducing as well. Each cell will create at least four or five more cells that can catch this emotion.
Listen. An important truth is that the basic quality of life is reproduction and expansion. This is the survival instinct governed by the *svādiṣṭhāna cakra*, the fear energy center within our body. Reproduction is governed by the *mūlādhāra cakra*, the sex energy center in our body. These cells that catch the anger emotion start reproducing and each cell creates five or six more cells. Next time, when the anger shower happens, all these cells will also catch the same emotion. They grow to the same original size. Now these cells also start reproducing. The third time, when the shower happens, all these cells catch the emotion and start storing it. That is why, every time we experience the same emotion, it becomes stronger and stronger. We are addicted to that emotion. If we are affected by anger for ten minutes the first time, then the next time, it becomes twenty minutes, then half an hour. This is how the emotion becomes stronger and stronger.
In our being, again and again, when we cooperate with these negative emotions, we create the same type of mood, the same type of pattern and lifestyle in us. Not only will this emotion get recorded in us, but we will express the same thing to others also. What we have within us is what we will vomit on others also.
#### **Drop Greed and Fear, Live Power and Joy**
If we are working to strengthen our greed, we will be caught by the emotion of greed and we will radiate that emotion. Next, if we strengthen our fear, again, we will be caught by that emotion of fear and express that emotion, torturing others with it. Be very clear: Warriors are caught in fear. That is why they torture others. They give fear to others. Warriors are the most cowardly people. A real warrior is a person who has conquered his being; who has won his being. Only he can be the only real warrior. If we do anything out of fear, we will reproduce the same fear in others.
Now, take a few minutes to sit and analyze, 'Throughout this life, all these years I was driven by greed and fear. What have I achieved? What have I got? Where am I standing? What has really happened?' Consciously and actively think about it. Consciously allow this idea to work on you. Decide, 'From today, I will not do anything out of greed or out of fear.' Immediately the fear will rise in you, 'What will happen to my bills? What will happen to my house? Who will repay the mortgages? What will happen to my car? My kids, who will feed them? What will happen to my social prestige and name and fame?'
Understand, you have enough energy and strength to maintain yourself without fear and greed. All you need is trust that you don't need energy from fear or greed to run your life. That is the first thing you need
to understand. You have enough potential energy to live your life and to achieve what you want.
When you come down to this planet, you bring enough energy to live all your desires or to achieve whatever you want to achieve in this life; to create your reality as you want. You have already brought enough fuel. You don't need fuel from fear or greed. You always think, 'If I stop fueling myself with fear or greed, I may stop working.' No. There is enough reserve fuel in you. But psychologists can never believe that unmotivated action is possible because they have never seen a Buddha. They conclude, 'Only with motivation can a man work.' What motivation have birds got to sing? But modern day psychologists are so focused on sex that even for that, they have started giving a meaning! They say that the bird is calling out to its partner. They can't see anything as it is.
That is why here, Kṛṣṇa beautifully says—'*yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati'*. The man who is beyond the pull of fear and greed is the only one who can see things as they are. If you are caught in fear or greed, you will see things only as you *want,* never as they *are*. For example, on seeing a beautiful, tall building, a man who is caught in greed will think 'If I have at least one building like this, how nice it will be!' The man caught in fear will think, 'I should not see these things. They stress me out. I should go and live in the forest.' But only a person who is liberated from these two emotions will see it as it is.. His seeing will be a pure perception of *seeing*, beyond any patterns.
Now, decide strongly, 'Throughout my life, I have been either pushed by fear or pulled by greed. Do I want to continue that?' For someone trained and conditioned by society, it will be very difficult to believe that you don't need energy from greed or fear to live. I know you are thinking, 'He is talking, so let us listen. What can be done?' I know thousands of questions are rising in your mind. But let me tell you: Your whole past, whatever your age may be, you lived only fueled by fear and greed.
Just decide, 'For the next ten days I will trust the words of Kṛṣṇa. I will practice this truth with integrity and authenticity. I don't need fuel from fear or greed because I have brought enough energy.' When the Divine sends you to earth, He sends you with whatever you need. In *Vedānta,* that is what we call *prārabdha karma*. When you come down you bring enough of energy for your senses and body to acquire whatever it needs to live life blissfully. The only problem is you don't trust that you have brought everything. And after coming down, you accumulate more and more desires from others and then you try to fulfill all those desires too.
Work only for your desires. Don't waste your life working for others' desires. Decide clearly, 'For the next ten days, I will work only out of my power, my joy and bliss. I will do everything out of my completion.' I can assure you, it will transform your life. Anyway, I am going to be here even after ten days. If it does not work out, come and catch me! I tell you, just living ten days out of joy and bliss rather than fear and greed will transform your whole life. This one idea can liberate you straightaway from all bondages.
When you start practicing this, for the first few days you will feel a little unsettled because a new inner space is created. Say 'No' to any desire or any fear that comes up. Initially, you will feel some emptiness, a vacuum, but don't worry. In a few days you will beautifully settle with the new space. Don't worry when you fail a few times. Starting this way is much better than staying in fear of failure. So start! At least you will know the technique. If you don't even start, you will not even know where you are failing. I tell you with integrity, it will transform your whole life. It will give you such great strength and courage that invariably you will be liberated. Don't be bothered about the initial feeling of emptiness. It is like this: If we don't have anybody to nag us we will feel we are missing something! So, when you practice this, you will feel you are missing that constant nagging. Don't worry. You will settle into that new consciousness. Your whole being will become new.
It is important that you trust that you have enough energy to run without fear and greed. Only children need candy to make them work. For you, trust in power and joy of completion should be enough. Now, you are all grown-up. If you still need fear or greed, then you have grown only physically and not mentally.
One more thing: In just ten days, you will not lose your wealth. Is there anybody who thinks, 'If I practice for ten days, I may lose all my wealth?' If that is the case, that wealth is not worth having. It is better to lose it. In ten days if you can lose it, do you think it is worth having it? The earlier it is lost, the better it is for your being.
**Remove the tremendous stress and load from your inner space. Decide, 'For ten days, I will do all my actions out of deep bliss, out of a settled mood of powerfulness and joy.'** If you practice this, the constant irritation that remains in you will disappear. Knowingly or unknowingly, you carry constant irritation in you. That is why all of us are just waiting to burst and explode even for small things.
Look into yourself: How many of you can authentically cognize, agree that you carry that constant irritation in you? Raise your hand (A few raise). Others are not authentic! Everyone carries it. This irritation we carry in our inner space is because of fear and greed. There is uneasiness between you and your being. That uneasiness expresses itself continuously to others. That uneasiness is what I call dis-ease.
Let you be liberated from it from today. So, decide that just for ten days, you will not fuel yourself with fear and greed. You will suddenly feel a new energy coming up from your being—pure enthusiasm and causeless auspicious energy. Causeless auspicious energy is what we call Śiva.
**In Saṃskṛit, 'Śiva' means causeless auspiciousness, reasonless energy.** It is possible to live with that reasonless, unmotivated energy. Only two things are needed for that. The first thing is trust that you have that energy. The next thing is starting to live it. Only these two things are needed to reach the Divine Consciousness. When we start working with the causeless auspicious energy, we become Śiva. Otherwise, we are Śava (dead body).
Here, Kṛṣṇa does not refer to renunciation the way we traditionally understand it. Normally we think renunciation is giving up everything, especially responsibility. Just by so-called renunciation without completion, if we just go to the Himalayas and try to meditate, we will not become a Sannyāsi. When we use the word 'renounce' the way we understand it, we exclude something. Exclusion can never be the solution. When we say 'I should give up or avoid something', we exclude some creation of Existence. When we try to renounce the world, we are renouncing the creation of Existence. We are trying to prove that we are more intelligent than Existence. Our renunciation then becomes a show of our ego, even though this may not seem very obvious to us.
Actually, we try to renounce because we want to escape from the situation. The outer world, situations or people are never the cause of trouble in us. How can they control us? It is our patterns of fear and greed and the projections of our mind that are really the cause of all the trouble. Ever minute, our mind continuously creates subtle expectations of how things should be, how people should be, how life should be. The thought pattern needs to change from running away from something due to fear of it to facing the reality. Running away from material pleasures due to fear of facing reality or guilt imposed by society cannot be called renunciation.
Just sit down for five minutes and be aware of how you perceive situations. With completion and awareness, look at everything you think and do, and you can understand what I mean. When we come to an understanding of our own self and are able to live as a witness to everything that goes on around us, unaffected by situations and people around us, we become a realized soul, living enlightenment. If we do things fueled by fear and greed, we become hypocrites.
**Brahmacarya literally means living with reality. It does not mean celibacy, as you understand it. When we are complete and ecstatic, flowing spontaneously in tune with the wonderful symphony of Existence, we are true brahmacāris.**
When we are completely in the present space of completion, totally involved in what we are doing, we become the action itself, we no longer exist as the doer. That is when we have truly renounced the sense of 'I am doing', or the ego. Then we are true *Sannyāsis*. All we need is to experience that behind the shallow emotions that exist in the periphery, at the very core of our being is a complete, solid, silent center that is absolutely unaffected by external incidents. It is a pure witness to everything and is eternally pure. Don't try to go to the Himalayas to escape from the world. Create the Himalayas within you. Realize the silent, complete center in you. Create the space of completion in you! Look at the cause and address the root pattern in *your world* rather than addressing the symptoms of *the world.*
You see, renunciation, *Sannyāsa* is going beyond desires, including 'desirelessness.' Apart from material desires, the desire to be spiritual and attain God is also a desire. The mind always hankers after something in the future. Only when we drop all desires, when we are completely at ease and ecstatic in the present moment of completion, we have gone beyond the clutches of the mind. Only then do we see reality as It exists here and now.
Seeing this reality *as It exists* is what Kṛṣṇa beautifully calls—*yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati*. Otherwise, we always live in our world of illusion, *māya*, because the future is unreal; it is an illusion. The real, the present, can never be perceived by the mind because it is beyond logic. That is why Existence can never be understood and experienced by the mind. The truth can only be experienced. How can the limited mind even come close to understanding the vastness and the splendor of Existence? How can we desire God or Enlightenment, which we have never known? We can always desire Enlightenment in a way that fits our limited, inadequate cognition, but that is still our imagination.
#### **Experience Your True Nature**
You can never possess or achieve Enlightenment. It is only Enlightenment that can possess you. It happens to you when you drop all desires. Actually, our true nature is neither pure nor impure. Whether we accept it or not, believe it or not, we are bliss. Our very nature is bliss. Our true nature itself is self-control. When we realize and experience that our being is pure bliss, the other emotions automatically drop.
When we allow ourselves to be our true nature, to be bliss, we live spontaneously and respond with intelligence instead of programmed unconscious reactions. Then there is no need to control the senses because they are under the control of the ultimate Existence. There is no question of having to control them.
In the Mahābhārat war, Kṛṣṇa drives Arjuna's chariot. The horses represent the senses held beautifully in control by the divine charioteer. He drives the being represented by the warrior, in the body represented by the chariot towards victory, towards bliss. When the individual consciousness surrenders control to the Divine, the Divine controls the body-mind-spirit and steers one towards one's true nature, bliss.
We have programmed reactions, default cognitions about everything. We see a situation and we react based on others' expectation from us, *anyakāra* and our expectation from others, *svānyakāra.* We can only react by looking up our database of the past records, referring to the reaction of people then. If what we did was appreciated, we will react the same way. If we are not appreciated and there is a gap between others' expectation from us and our expectation from others, we create a self-doubt and feel uncomfortable and restless. And to remove the discomfort, we now react in a different manner, one that we think will be acceptable to others.
We have forgotten what it is to respond with intelligence. No situation can be exactly the same as before. How can it be? Can a river flow in exactly the same way at two different points? The very water would have changed from the time it flows from one point to the other. Life is like a river. It is continuously changing.
**Existence is energy. It can never repeat itself. Every moment is unique**. We see it from the limited perception of our mind, and organize life into different categories. We say, 'These are pleasant situations, those are unpleasant situations, this is good, that is bad, this is right, that is wrong, this should happen, that should not.' It is not Existence that makes these distinctions but us. If we can allow this new cognition to penetrate us, we can simply relax. We will then allow our consciousness to respond.
Have the courage to live life with intelligence, with consciousness and completion, with spontaneity. Just this small shift in your space can do wonders for you; every moment will then be a celebration! When the intelligence happens, the compassion also descends. Compassion for the whole world automatically happens in you because you see yourself in every one. How can you feel anything but compassion then? That is why Masters can only feel compassion and responsibility towards the whole world.
When we flow in tune with Existence, we become a channel for the divine energy to flow through us. If the bamboo can remain hollow, it will become a beautiful flute and simply the air from the lips of the Divine will come out of the flute as heavenly music. Instead, if the bamboo is blocked with dirt in the form of ego, it will remain dead and can only be used for carrying a dead body!
These verses of Kṛṣṇa are very powerful, but often misinterpreted.
'One who knows the truth, though engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, dreaming, and breathing knows that he never does anything.' It is like you commit a murder and then claim you didn't do it but your hands did it! Be very clear: Not being the doer does not mean we give up responsibility for our actions. It means exactly the opposite. When we are so involved in the action, when we are completely relaxed, we are overflowing with compassion and love, and we just do out of the blissful energy in us.
Listen. When we are complete and total in what we do, our whole intelligence, our whole energy will be behind the act; we become the action. The action and we are no longer separate. Energy is intelligence. So, when our energy is not total, our intelligence is not completely behind the action. When the energy behind the action is total, whatever we do will always radiate the blissful energy that is behind the action.
Another important understanding from this verse: Every moment, every action, whether it is talking or breathing or seeing, should be done with awareness and completion. That is true meditation. Many people claim that they have been meditating for thirty or forty years. Even after so many years, the person inside remains exactly the same. Absolutely zero transformation has happened. Meditation is actually a quality that needs to be added to our life. It should permeate the very way in which we view life, the space from which we perceive everything. When we infuse the space of completion into every action, we are in meditation.
So how to be in completion? We can be complete only when we can distance and disidentify ourselves from what is happening now and what we think happened in the past. When we can witness the past happening without identifying and getting involved in it ourselves, only then can we watch the scene as It Is. Otherwise we assume some role in the scene. When that happens, we create some incomplete cognitions, some vested interest in it. We have some expectation that things should happen in a certain way. The moment we get involved and identify ourselves with the happening, the distance between the scene and us has dropped and we can no longer be the witness to see things as they are.
It is just like when we are in a dream, we don't realize it is a dream. We think everything that is happening is reality. The moment we wake up from the dream we realize in a flash that it was just a dream. The way we are living life now is exactly the same. We are living life in the dream of the future and the past. And we think that the dream is reality.
The reality is actually in the present, which is the space of completion. When we realize this, we simply wake up to the true reality from the dream of illusion. Then, we understand that the senses, body and mind are not us. We are something much beyond these. With this awareness we become complete and blissful.
## Controlling The Mind
*5.10 He who acts without attachment, giving up and surrendering to the eternal consciousness, he is never affected by sin, in the same way that the lotus leaf is never affected by water.*
*5.11 The Yogis, giving up attachment, act with the body, mind, intelligence, even with the senses for the purpose of self-purification.*
*5.12 One who is engaged in devotion, gives up attachment to the outcome of one's actions and is centered, is at peace. One who is not engaged in devotion, attached to the outcome of one's action, becomes entangled.*
*5.13 One who is controlled, giving up all the activities of the mind, surely remains in happiness in the city of nine gates (body), Neither doing anything, nor causing anything to be done.*
Time and again Kṛṣṇa talks about detachment. This is the whole essence of the *Gītā.* This detachment is renunciation. Renunciation of attachment is true renunciation. You can give up all material possessions and move into a forest or an ashram, but if the mind still hankers for those possessions, renunciation has not happened.
One can still be very much in the material world, busy with wheeling and dealing, and yet be totally detached about the outcome.
Kṛṣṇa says here, '*saṅgaṁ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ* (5.10)—Action without attachment is renunciation.' It is only this renunciation that leads to liberation.
If you see the lotus flower, it grows in a dirty pond; its stalk is
completely inside the dirty water. The flower is so beautifully above the water and the dirt around it is hardly noticed! Similarly, when you are neck-deep in the activities of the world and yet unaffected by what goes on, when your core is undisturbed, you have reached the goal of renunciation.
A small story:
A Master was walking with his disciple when they came to a river.
The disciple asked, 'Master, are we going to cross this river now?'
The Master calmly replied, 'Yes, we are. And be careful not to wet your feet.'
The Master was trying to tell him that spirituality is all about crossing the ocean of life without getting your feet wet. Spirituality is *not* about running away from worldly things. Be very clear about this.
A beautiful history about Swāmi Brahmānanda, a direct disciple of Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahamsa:
> One day Swāmi Brahmānanda was meditating in Briṇdāvan.
> A devotee came and placed a costly blanket before him as an offering. Swāmi said nothing. He just silently observed what was going on. A couple of hours later, a thief came by, spotted the blanket, and took away the blanket. Still, the Swami watched in the same way, silently, with no reaction. Some of the junior disciples were very perturbed that a costly blanket had been stolen.
However, it made no difference to Brahmānanda.
These realized souls were so centered in themselves that the outer world incidents happening in the periphery did not affect their core in any way. When we can become like this, we won't identify with outer world incidents. We will not get caught in the sway of emotions.
The basic truth behind creating this space of centeredness and completion is really this: Existence is a loving Mother caring for us every moment, providing all that we need. When this understanding happens, we surrender to Existence. The wave drops into the ocean, blissfully aware that it is a part of the ocean. It no longer feels it is a separate entity trying to fight Existence, thinking that the ocean, the Whole, is its enemy.
Surrender needs to happen out of a deep understanding, not out of a superficial acceptance of the inevitable. If it happens out of acceptance, it will be just a compromise out of fear. There is no point in saying, 'Oh, it is destiny. It is written on my forehead and it is foretold by the stars.' This is not true. We have free will and we can do what we want. We neither have to accept nor reject, but surrender to the flow of life with the true understanding that we are being taken care of. When this completion happens out of deep understanding, it is beautiful, total and it is true.
Listen. One more important truth. To whom or to what we surrender is not important. What is important is the surrender itself. Swāmi Vivekānanda says that all our prayers to God do only one thing: they awaken our own inner potential energy. When we pray intensely, our own inner potential energy is awakened and it showers its blessings on us in the form that we believe as God, irrespective of what form we worship. Having the wisdom or *buddhi* to understand that Existence cares for us, and surrendering to Existence is the ultimate intelligence. Realizing that Existence is not just a brute force or power but that it is intelligent energy is the key to a life of bliss.
#### **Witness and Be Complete**
Again and again, Kṛṣṇa is repeating a single point in various ways: action without attachment—*saṅgaṁ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ* (5.10). He emphasizes that life happens only when we live as a witness to everything that happens, when we do not identify and attach with external incidents. We just have to watch what is happening in and around us without letting what happens outside affect our inner space. The moment we catch this thread and start living life in the space of completion, we will find that all our incompletions simply disappear. It is not that anything outside has changed. It is just that what we wish to see has changed. |
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| Interaction | 3 |
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| Introduction | 33 |
| Be a source of love energy | 61 |
| Live without worries | |
| Transform lust to divine love | 191 |
| Face the Fear | 253 |
| You are unique | 303 |
| Drop the ego | 365 |
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| Flower in gratitude | 441 |
| Appendix | 521 |
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# Interaction
I welcome you all with my love and respect.
You have all come here with some expectation, some hope, to enhance your knowledge; to get a new perspective of life; to see if you can live your life in a better way.
I want to tell you a few things before we get into the subject so that you can get the maximum benefit from your stay here.
# *Become Empty First!*
You might have gone to many other places, listened to many other lectures, practiced many other techniques before coming here. All that is alright. Just one thing: when you are here, just be totally here, that's all.
Leave behind all the knowledge that you have gathered in other places and then come in here. You would have seen a board outside that said, 'Leave your shoes and mind outside'. You might have wondered what it meant. It means: when you leave your shoes outside, just decide and leave your mind also! Leave all your gathered knowledge next to your shoes and come in. You can take it back when you go out. Don't worry, no one will take it away. It will be perfectly safe. At least your shoes, people might take, but your mind, people will not touch; I will guarantee you that! People are unable to handle their own minds; they will surely not touch yours!
When you come in with an empty mind, with no prejudice, you can absorb what I am saying in its totality. If you come in with your knowledge, you will be constantly comparing every word of mine with what you know about it, with what you have heard about it from someone else earlier, and you will simply miss what I am trying to tell. You can absorb me only if there is some space in you. If you are already full, you cannot take me in.
A small story:
A learned professor from the West went to meet a Zen master in the East, in Japan.
The professor had done a lot of research in many areas of study.
He went to meet the master to get some spiritual knowledge, to understand spirituality in a better fashion.
He arrived at the master's place and found the master brewing tea.
The master saw him and gestured to sit, and continued to brew tea.
The professor sat down and after a while, started talking of his background, of all his studies, his discoveries, his travels around the world, his experiences with different people, his conclusions on various subjects and what not.
The master finished brewing the tea and placed two cups between them.
He began pouring tea into the professor's cup.
He poured and poured and slowly the cup started overflowing. The tea spilt over the saucer and flowed onto the table. The professor was watching what was happening. He could not contain himself any more. He screamed out, 'Master, what are you doing? Stop pouring! The cup is overflowing!' The master stopped and calmly said, 'So are you.'
The professor was shocked but understood what the master was trying to tell him.
The professor was so full like the teacup! Anything that the master might tell him would only overflow outside, not into him. The professor understood from that one word of the master, what he meant, what he was trying to tell him.
So understand: if you really want to gain something, just be like an empty cup here. Be totally open and receptive. Be like a child, innocent and curious; like a sponge, ready to absorb; that is enough.
# *Three Types of Knowledge*
You see: there are three types of knowledge. The first is intellectual knowledge – the knowledge of the mind. For this, you need only your mind, nothing else. If you are attentive and have a good memory, it is enough. If you can apply logic well, if you have a little common sense to connect things and understand, it is enough. This is the kind of knowledge that you gain in school, with your books. To learn mathematics and science, your mind is enough. You can become a great mathematician or a great scientist.
The second type of knowledge is knowledge of the heart. Here, you need to use your heart also, not just your mind. Art, music, poetry, dance – all these come under this category. If you use only your mind, nothing will happen. You have to use your heart also. To paint, to write poems, to sing, you need to emote. All these are creations. They are expressions from your heart. Can you write a poem with no feelings at all? Can an artist draw and paint with just his mind? No! He needs to connect with his heart, then he will simply flow.
With only the mind, you can pick up certain points, certain techniques about writing poems or about painting, but ultimately the stuff will come from only your heart.
The third type of knowledge is spiritual knowledge – knowledge that is neither of the mind nor of the heart, but of your being! Actually, we can't even call it knowledge; it is just a deep understanding beyond your logic. It can neither be taught nor picked up. It can happen simply out of a deep communion - at the being level.
I always tell people: I cannot teach you spirituality, but you can learn! You can learn by just absorbing these words at the being level – like energy. The energy behind the master's words is so powerful that if you allow it, it can penetrate you and touch you at the being level. It can bring about a transformation that cannot happen with just words of the mind and feelings of the heart.
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When I talk, I talk from my experience of the ultimate truth; from my being. So when you listen, listen totally, from your being. Only then can you get a glimpse of the experience behind these words. I am not here to give you just words. I am here to take you beyond words. If you are here with acute awareness and silence, you can go beyond words and get a glimpse of your own being.
### *Trust and Be Open*
Alright, let us alter the seating arrangement a little. When you sit, don't sit with your relatives or friends or people known to you. Sit at random, next to anyone whom you don't know much, with whom you are not very familiar. When you sit with familiar people, you will be compelled to exchange glances, exchange words while I am talking. If you sit with strangers, you can absorb me better, by yourself.
One more thing: When the session is happening, there will be a beautiful flow, there will be an energy that is created and vibrating in the room, a deep communion between you and me. Don't interrupt it by coming in late. The flow will be broken. It is just like encountering a speed breaker when you are going smoothly on the highway. The speed breaker is only a small interruption, but to cross it, you have to slow down, go over it and pick up speed again. The smooth flow will be broken.
And please switch off your mobile phones. They are another very common speed breaker today! In fact they can cause the journey to be totally bumpy, one speed breaker after another! I am sure each of you has a cell phone here!
Next, when you are here, don't be serious and heavy. Be sincere in listening and listen with an open mind. Don't expect that in the very first session, you will experience God! Just be with a light and easy mood, without expectations, you will be able to receive much more.
The next thing: decide and leave your social ego outside and try to be an ordinary person while you are here. The ashram and the presence of the master is the best laboratory for you to experiment with yourself, to let go of your ego, to shed your illusions, and understand that you are just a beautiful part of Existence. So even if you are somebody in society, try to be ordinary here and mix with everyone from your heart. Not only my words, but every moment of interaction, every moment of just being here, can cause a transformation in you. You just need to be aware, that's all.
A small story:
There was a great Zen Buddhist monk, an enlightened master.
One day, the Governor of Japan came to visit him.
The Governor sent in his visiting card to the master.
It had the words, 'Zak-San - Governor of Japan'.
The master took one look at the card and said, 'I have no business with this idiot!
Ask him to leave this very minute!'
Zen masters can be very harsh when they want to break somebody's mind, somebody's ego. They will never hesitate to use harsh words. The energy behind their words can simply pierce and transform a person.
The disciple came back to the governor, gave back his card and repeated what the master had told him. The Governor saw the card and understood. He was an intelligent man…not just intellectual, but intelligent also! He quietly struck out the words, 'Governor of Japan', and gave back the card to the disciple, who took it inside again. The master took one look and said, 'Show him in!'
All our titles, our designations, are mere labels pasted on us by society. And we go about thinking that we are these labels. We forget that we are not the labels but the stuff inside! We feel great about the labels. But you can never approach a master with these labels. You can never know Existence with your labels! A master is Existence in human form.
What the Governor did cannot be called wrong. It might have been the right way to approach society, to be in accordance with the social protocols, but with a master, awareness must step in and you must leave your ego behind!
Something transpires between the master and the seeker. They share something of the inner world. When this happens, labels of the outer world will stand in the way. Forgetting your personality is spirituality, because personality is societal. We are here to find our individuality – our inherent nature, our aloneness that we enjoyed in our mother's womb, our connection with Existence – the only connection we need to find and celebrate!
# *Decide to Experiment!*
When you listen to whatever I say, there are two ways in which your mind will work. One is with doubt and the other is with belief*.*
Doubt is the way of the intellectual mind. With doubt, too much logic and reason will come in the way of receiving. When this happens, you will miss the whole thing.
With belief also, if you straightaway believe, you will miss. Understand: you don't need to believe in anybody, let alone in me. The so-called believers are the weakest people, because it takes great courage to live without beliefs. When you don't have a belief, you don't have a fall-back system to support your actions. You don't have a readymade idea to tell you what to think and how to act. To be without a belief requires great courage, because then you have to depend on your own intelligence for everything and this makes you feel unsure and insecure.
Both doubt and faith are two sides of the same coin – that is your mind. At a very deep level, your greatest doubt will carry some faith and your greatest faith will have some doubt in it. I can assure you that!
Then what should you do? How should you listen?
Just listen with an open mind, with a readiness to experiment, that's all*.* When you are ready to experiment, you are ready to translate teachings into practical life. When I tell you, 'The sun rises in the east', you neither need to believe nor doubt; just get up the next morning and see for yourself – as an experiment!
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That is the right way. Just take in everything with an open mind and experience what I am saying every moment. There is no need to have faith. Just the willingness to experiment is enough. Take what I say as a hypothesis, integrate it into your life and see for yourself whether it works or not. To know that an apple is tasty, you don't have to believe or doubt. Just take a bite and you will know!
# *Stop Seeking, you are already bliss!*
Time and again, ancient *rishis* and masters have said that man's true nature is bliss. Over the years, so many masters have happened on planet earth. Whether it was Buddha or Christ or Krishna or Mahavir, the core of their message was the same. They all said that man's true nature is bliss and they all gave techniques to connect to that bliss. |
How does the mind work? Just look at this diagram here. It is a diagram to show how the information that enters through the eye is processed; actually, not just the information through the eye but information through all the fives senses - nose, ears, tongue, touch and eye. As an example, we are taking the eye. Let me explain it to you.
When you see something, first, the eye sees it. There is something called *chakshu* in Sanskrit, which digitizes the information seen by the eye. It is something like a digital signal processor – the DSP. The signal or the input is converted into a digital file by this *chakshu*. This conversion happens to the information received through all five senses, not just the eye.
Then the file goes to the memory. In Sanskrit, we call this portion *chitta*. In the memory, a little more work is done on the file. For example, if you are seeing me now, the file is processed through the *chakshu*, then taken to the *chitta*, memory and the memory starts analyzing the information. It does a process of elimination on the file received. It starts saying, 'This is not an animal, this is
not a plant, this is not a rock etc.' The process of elimination is done by the *chitta*.
Then the file goes to the mind or *manas*. The mind does the job of identifying the file. It says, 'This is a human being; a human being who is conducting a class.' The mind concludes, 'This is it.'
Next, the whole file takes a quantum leap to the ego and your ego decides based on your past experiences what your next action or decision will be. If you have past experiences with similar classes, say yoga or meditation, and they have been alright for you, if you think that it has helped you, you will decide to sit here, or else you will think it is better to leave!
Just try to understand this process: you are seeing me. The eye passes the information to the *chakshu*. The *chakshu* converts it to a digital signal. The memory then does all the elimination on the file – 'This is not…', 'This is not…' Then, the mind does the identification of the file – 'This is it.' Then the whole file takes a quantum leap to the ego. Here, you decide based on your past experiences, whether to sit here or leave the hall.
The process of elimination versus that of identification can be more easily understood by understanding this:
Let us say you want to find the word 'Home' in the dictionary. You start from the letter 'A' and you eliminate: not A, not B, not C, until you come to the letter 'H'. Until you come to the letter 'H', it is only an elimination process. Once you come to 'H', it is an identification process. You start identifying 'HO', then 'HOM', then you come to 'HOME'. Even in the identification process, there is elimination, but that cannot be considered elimination, because your whole attitude is changed during this time. Until you come to 'H', you don't even look at anything; you only eliminate. Once you come to 'H', 'H' becomes a standpoint. Then you start looking for HO, HOM, etc.
So, it is like this: you have thousands of files stored in your mind. Now let us say that you are seeing me. You will first start eliminating: this is not a stone, this is not a tree, this is not an animal. Then you come to the conclusion, 'This is a man.' Once you come to man, you start identifying: saffron clothed, my master, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM etc. So through elimination you find the right classification. In identification you go in-depth into that classification. Elimination is breadth, identification is depth. The elimination process is like handling many files. The identification process is like going deeply into a file.
Now, the process between the eye and the mind is logical and conscious. You are completely aware of this process. It happens with your awareness.
Now, the quantum leap from the mind to the ego is mostly unconscious. That is the time when the actual decisions are made and is mostly an unconscious process for you. It happens without your awareness. During this time, you decide illogically. You make an illogical decision.
Why does this happen? Why do you decide unconsciously and regret it later?
The reason is, this unconscious zone is filled with negative memories and restlessness; all your past memories which we call
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*samskara* in Sanskrit. All your past thought patterns are stored in this zone as files. In the field of psychology they use the word ito denote these stored memories. There are so many files stored in this zone. Without any logical connection between them, these memories or incidents are stored here.
What happens is, when the file takes a quantum leap to this zone, there is so much data stored, which causes so much restlessness in you, that the file does not even reach the ego properly for a decision. These stored engrams simply start playing upon the information received. They just impose themselves and cause havoc in the decision making process.
As a result, the ego just makes a hasty decision - purely at the instinct level, and passes the file back. The decision is taken through an unconscious process.
For example, according to the data that you have collected, you know that smoking is injurious to your health; it is not good for your body or your mind. You hold on to this decision as long as you are in the conscious zone. But once the mind takes the leap to the ego, the engrams just instruct you to smoke; you simply decide to smoke! The conscious process says, 'No, it is not good for health.' But the unconscious process says…actually it doesn't even say, it *just* takes the decision and you execute it! It is a pure instinct-level decision.
This unconscious area is very powerful. It can be used in three ways – at the instinct level, at the intellect level or at the intuition level. As long as the unconscious is overloaded with negative memories and restlessness, it works at the instinct level, as we just saw. You simply decide instinctively, unconsciously.
When you are at the instinct level, you always end up regretting most of your decisions. You wonder, 'Why did I behave in that fashion? This is not me! How did I allow this to happen? How did I make that decision?' This happens because the unconscious is working at the instinct level. At this level, you just associate things without any logical connection and jump to a conclusion unconsciously.
For example, if you have been disturbed by somebody who was wearing a white dress, the moment you see somebody wearing a white dress, the past memory simply comes up without your knowledge and you feel anger. This is the instinct level. Without your conscious mind, without even you understanding, just like that it happens.
In the mind map diagram, when you have to plough through many files in the quantum leap to the ego, you are at the instinct level. When the file goes to the unconscious, the decision is made with many distortions. You will be continuously passing judgment on the pending decision. Your unconscious will be overloaded with your memory files. When you function this way, you will also feel tired.
It is something like this: when your hard disk is loaded with all high-resolution photographs, there is no scope to work further on your hard disk. In the same way, when your unconscious is loaded with many past thoughts, it becomes inefficient and makes superficial and illogical decisions.
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The next is the intellect level. Here, you are conscious; you make decisions logically, but you do not have any extra enthusiasm or energy. You are not creative or innovative; you don't take big steps; you don't grow. You are like a faithful servant. Einstein says, 'The intellect is a faithful servant.' You can be a servant throughout your life. You can be just a servant, but nothing more or big can be done through you.
At this level, you will just be collecting the data, processing it and delivering it; you will be nothing more than a computer. You don't make wrong decisions out of restlessness; you make decisions in a logical and conscious way. You are in a break-even state. At this level, you are still not using your potential to the maximum – the extent to which it can be used.
The next level where you can actualize your entire potential is the intuition level. If you can infuse a deep silence and awareness into the unconscious zone and replace your engraved memories or files with silence and awareness, you can be at the intuition level.
If you can be free from your memories, be empty and blissful in this unconscious zone, if you can be alive and fresh every moment without the burden of your past, without the burden of these engrams, the energy of your being will express itself in its purest form. When this happens, we can say that your intelligence is at its peak, because energy IS Intelligence. Then, you make decisions out of an energy called intuition, where you simply *know* with tremendous clarity. Understand: The past memories are themselves not the problem. The bondage to them is the problem.
When you are at the intuitive level, you will make decisions from the energy of your intuition, from deep awareness and peace, from bliss!
This concept needs a deep understanding. You need to go deeply into the whole science, only then will you be able to understand what I mean by the word, 'intuition'. Intuition is something which happens in you beyond your intellect.
# *The power of intuition*
What is intuition?
Let me explain. Suddenly you know for sure that something is the right thing and you feel that you have enough energy also to do it, but you don't know the steps involved in doing it. You don't know the steps that led you to the conclusion but you know for sure that your conclusion or decision is right. This is intuition.
This energy of intuition is needed when you are faced with a situation with no precedent. When you are stuck with minimum data and you need to make decisions, or you have many choices and you are not able to decide, in such situations, the energy of intuition helps you. Not only in such situations…if you can be in this zone of your being continuously, you will be totally present in every moment and you will give birth to future moments also in the same fashion.
If you try to assimilate what I am telling you now, if you can just spend a few minutes sitting with yourself and feel how your stored engrams are causing havoc in you and burdening you, if
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On the other hand, the religion of gratitude is based on just an overwhelming gratitude from within, towards God or Existence. It is quite contrary to what is taught to us from childhood. We have always been taught to thank only for what we receive, that's all. We have been taught gratitude as social etiquette; nothing more than that!
How then can we be thankful all the time? It is too much to digest! That is why these religions of gratitude are followed only by a select few.
Only a few meditative religions, like Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism and Jainism touch upon gratitude. These religions have very few followers, but the quality of the followers is high.
There is nothing wrong with prayer, but getting stuck in the act of asking while praying is where the trouble starts. Prayer should be used as a jumping board to enter into meditation; a meditation where gratitude becomes prayer and your being becomes bliss!
You might think, *'Giving your gratitude can be a social habit, but how can it be a meditation?'* You will understand what I mean when you actually *start* giving your gratitude. When you start giving your gratitude, you will understand the value of your life.
I tell you: You are only aware of the people who are directly responsible for providing and caring for you. But during all these times and thousands of other times that you are not even aware of, you are helped, protected, and cared for by Existence, by the cosmos, by the universal energy.
You always think that whatever was given to you was either because you deserved it or because it was an accident. When you start seeing and feeling the invisible hand of Existence taking care of you, you will understand that you are wanted here by Existence. Only then you will understand that you are being showered upon continuously by Existence.
The fact that you are *alive* is enough to show that Existence wants you here and cares for you. It is only when you don't understand this, you feel dull and depressed and keep asking as if you are the most deprived person in the world.
If you listen from your being to what is said here, you will be able to tune yourself and become sensitive to the wonderful giving ways of Existence!
# *God is loving, not terrifying*
Most of us pray with fear to God. You can see mothers telling their children that if they don't do certain things, God will get angry with them. These statements take root in the child at a very young age, and give them a wrong concept of God. This is the conditioning that you give your child at an early age. When they grow up, they face serious dilemmas because of this. Instead of embracing Existence with love and gratitude, they stand apart from it with respect and fear.
Religion, if followed out of fear, will not take you anywhere; it will not pave the way for a transformation to happen in you. You might progress materially by the faith that you have in your asking, but you will remain where you are at the being level. The purpose or real fulfillment of life can never happen on the material path; it can happen only at the being level. People who undergo what is called depression of success will be able to relate to what I am saying in a better way. We have discussed depression of success in the earlier sessions.
Religion has to be followed out of deep love and gratitude for the divine or Existence. Although society teaches you to worship God in the name of fear, I tell you: never do it. Always pray with love and gratitude towards the divine.
A small story:
A Sufi Master, Junnaid, used to pay his gratitude to God five times a day.
One time, he and his followers were wandering through some villages where Sufism was not accepted as a religion. In the first village, people accused them of begging, and threw meagre alms at them.
The next day, in the second village, the people refused to give them any alms.
On the third day, the village they passed through was so hostile that the villagers drove them out with sticks and stones.
That night as usual, Junnaid knelt down and offered his gratitude to God.
His disciples were watching him. It was too much for them. They could not understand why Junnaid was thanking God. They were furious. |
They cried out, 'Master! For three days we have gone without food! Today we were even driven out of that village like dogs! Is this what you are offering your gratitude for?' Junnaid looked at them and said, 'You talk about three days of hunger! Have you thanked God for the food you have received for thirty years? And know one thing: my gratitude is not for receiving or not receiving anything. It is simply an expression of the deep joy and love in my being. It is a choice-less and prayerful expression, that's all.'
When you live with overwhelming gratitude in you, you have found a space wherein nothing else is needed. It means that you have fallen into meditation. Then, you will not worry about anything else. You are on the right track. Your mind is no longer a hindrance to your growth; your mind has disappeared. The mind cannot step in when you are brimming from your heart. When there is no space for the mind, where will discontentment come from? Discontentment cannot come from the heart. It is purely a product of the mind.
#### Awaken to the beauty of Existence
Your mind always stands between you and Existence. It prevents you from hearing, seeing, feeling and emoting with Existence. Once you go beyond your mind and see the beauty of Existence, gratitude will become your prayer and bliss your being! You will then enjoy liberation and permanent joy!
When you drop the mundane logic of your mind, you will flow like a river – choicelessly, effortlessly, joyfully with the flow of the current. You will then play your role and enjoy every moment of it. You will then understand that you are a part of a wonderful drama, where the more sensitive you are to the director, the more effectively you can play and enjoy your part!
When you go against the current, you need to put in effort and exercise choices. When you go with the current, you don't need to make any effort; you will not feel tired; you will not feel frustrated; you will only feel a flowing lightness! Everything will then appear beautiful.
A small story:
A man was on a cross-country train.
He spent all his time in the observation car, watching the passing scenery outside.
An elderly lady was seated next to him and he told her that the best part of the journey was the breathtaking scenery outside.
The lady shook her head, sat for a while looking out of the window, and left.
A little later, the lady came back, sat for a short while looking out of the window, and then got up and went.
After some time she came again and this time she sat behind him.
After a few minutes, she tapped him on the back and asked, 'Excuse me, but do you see something that I don't?'
We simply miss the beauty of Existence! We are always looking for reasons to enjoy, reasons to celebrate, questioning what we enjoy, and what not! We have lost our connection with Existence altogether because of this.
Instead of feeling gratitude towards everything around us, we are *asking* and questioning all the time. We need to get back this connection with Existence again. Gratitude can help bring back this lost connection. It can help you find your roots once again. It can help you commune with nature, with Existence.
A small story:
A man prayed very hard in a temple one day, 'Oh Lord! Please give me 1000 rupees for 15 days. I am very desperate to receive it. I will return the money to you on the 16th day from today when I get my first paycheck.'
The temple priest was listening to his prayers.
He felt very sorry to see the man in that state.
He had with him 500 rupees. He put it in an envelope and gave it to the man saying that God had asked him to give him the money.
The man was overjoyed. He took the envelope home and opened it.
He counted the money and saw that there was only 500 rupees and not 1000 rupees.
The next day he went to the temple and prayed, 'O God! Next time, please don't send the money through the priest; send it directly. He took half of it.'
We take everything for granted and remain discontented!
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# Don't take anything for granted
Remember that life *itself* is a gift to you! Have you worked hard to get it? Can any of you say that you have worked very hard to earn this life? No! That is why we don't realize its value! We simply take everything for granted – our bodies, our daily food, the beauty of Nature – everything is taken for granted. We ask God for diamond rings – but do we thank him for giving us fingers to wear them? With time, even the diamond ring will lose its value to us!
> One day, the Geography teacher in a school asked her students to write down the Seven Wonders of the World.
> All the kids listed the great wonders like the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower and so on.
> One girl was writing and she kept writing, shaking her head and continuing to write.
> The teacher came to her and asked, 'What happened; have you forgotten what you learned?'
> The little girl said, 'No. I am a bit confused. There are many more than seven.'
> The teacher was surprised and took her sheet and read it. She then read it aloud for the class to hear, 'The seven wonders of the world are: I can see; I can touch; I can smell; I can hear; I can taste; I can laugh; I can love…'
The class was suddenly filled with penetrating silence.
These small things are forgotten because we think that they are small. Everything becomes small to us when it is easily available. There are so many millions of people in this world who can't see, who can't hear, who can't talk, who can't taste. We never think of all these things. We are always thinking of what more, what better, what next, all the time.
A small story:
A man was traveling on the highway to get to his village.
After just one hour of travel, his car jerked and stopped.
He was panic-stricken and saw that he had run out of fuel. He walked a few kilometers praying and sweating and panting and finally came to a town.
He spotted a gas station and went in. He explained that he was penniless, but badly needed fuel to get to his village. They turned him away.
He then spotted another station on the opposite side of the road and walked into it and explained his situation.
The manager of the gas station took pity on him and agreed to give him a few litres free of cost.
The man asked, 'Can you give me the money instead? The station across the road is cheaper.'
Until something comes to us, it seems very precious and we remain in a prayerful mood; the moment it comes, it loses its value and we move on…to another prayer!
We always live with a 'what next' attitude. We are unable to relate to gratitude because of this.
For example, if we go to a shop and see a new type of alarm clock with some new features, immediately we feel that our life will be much better with these new features. We will feel that the whole quality of our life will change if those new features become available to us. We will feel that we will become a lot more efficient with this clock in our lives. So we buy it and take it home.
After a few days, what happens? We won't even have the time to wipe the precious clock! The poor clock will be lying somewhere covered with dust and you will even get scolded for buying it and cluttering the house with one more item! And you will have also moved to some other gadget, some other desire!
We always feel that something that we don't have is as big as a mountain without which we cannot survive, but when we actually get it, somehow it becomes too small a thing. This is how we miss the wonderful attitude of gratitude in our lives. We keep running behind 'what next'.
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, enlightened master from Bharat, tells God: 'I am so very intelligent. I gave you all that I had, all my life, full of suffering. You in your compassion gave me in return your presence of bliss!'
Bhagavan tells God that he is more intelligent than God Himself because of this intelligent exchange! Such is his adorable sense of gratitude towards Existence!
Another small story about Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa:
It is said, that whenever Ramakrishna saw someone from Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's place, he would fall at his or her feet.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a great enlightened master from Bharat.
On one such occasion, when Ramakrishna fell at someone's feet, the people around him asked him why he fell at ordinary mortals' feet.
He replied, 'Whether they are ordinary or extraordinary, it does not matter. They are from Baanigaati – where Chaitanya did an important *sankeertan*. The moment I hear that they are from there, the very name creates memories of Chaitanya in me; that is enough. I pay my gratitude to them by falling at their feet for having brought Chaitanya to my mind. If I had not met them, in those moments, I might have been thinking of something else unworthy. They are therefore instruments through whom divine memories and ideas are kindled in me.'
That was Ramakrishna's reply!
For bringing thoughts about Chaitanya to him, Ramakrishna fell at their feet! Can we imagine this today? This is what I mean when I say, everything and everyone should be looked upon with gratitude for whatever they are doing. They are all part of Existence and they are all moving in some synchronicity, orchestrated by Existence. When we are sensitive to this happening, we will be able to feel gratitude for the way things are happening.
We need to imbibe this sense of gratitude from great masters. This is the only thing we need to imbibe from them; the rest will be taken care of automatically, because when you imbibe this, the power of coincidence will make things happen for you and Existence will simply shower upon you. But today, things are very different.
Listen to this small story:
A beggar stopped a man on the road and asked him, 'Two years back, you used to give me 20 rupees. Last year fully, you gave me only 10 rupees and for the past few months, you have been giving me only 2 rupees. Why?'
The man replied, 'First I was a bachelor, then I married and now I have a baby, that's why.'
The beggar cried, 'What? You are using my money to run your family?'
The beggar says, 'You are using my money to run your family!' Actually, many of us think that it is our birthright to expect another person to keep providing for us and for our needs. And we simply take them for granted.
Understand: Even our own father or mother or husband or wife should not be taken for granted.
So understand: When you change your attitude from seeking discontentment, worries and depression, to seeking the present with gratitude, you will automatically be able to harness the energy of Existence better. You will then be able to appreciate Existence better and gratitude will then become your attitude.
A man went to the market to buy vegetables for his wife. He bought ladies' finger, came home and showed them to
his wife.
The wife saw the ladies' finger and said, 'Oh! These are so over grown. I will not be able to cook them.'
The man went the next day and bought some more ladies' fingers, choosing carefully this time, and came home and showed them to this wife.
The wife said, 'What have you bought? They are too tender to make the dish I had in mind.'
The next day, the man went to the market, prayed to the shopkeeper and said, 'Please give me some good ladies' fingers that are neither too ripe nor too tender.'
The shopkeeper picked the best ladies' fingers himself and the man took them home and showed them to his wife.
The wife saw them and said, 'What? You've bought ladies' finger today also!'
When we take things for granted, appreciation will never come spontaneously for us. We will never appreciate anything including our relationships.
Another small story:
A man came home from work one day to find his wife in a terrible mood.
She screamed at him*,* 'I finally managed to train the maid to do all the work in the house and she has now quit!'
The man asked sympathetically, 'For what reason, dear?'
She replied, 'Well, you are the reason! She claims that you spoke so rudely to her over the telephone that she felt she needed to guard her self-respect and therefore quit.' The man was baffled and blurted, 'But I thought I was talking to you!'
We always take relationships for granted. Learn to treat every individual as a part of the whole and feel gratitude towards him or her; then you will never take anyone for granted. You will then worship and respect everyone for being a part of Existence.
When you don't take things for granted, you will count your blessings. If you sit and analyse, you will realize that we always count what we have not received! However much we are showered, we are not happy because we are thinking about the things that have not yet reached us!
Imagine if you had to sit down and make a list of things that you feel you have been showered with in life. You can start the list with your own eyes. As I said earlier, do you know how many people have not been blessed with eyesight? Can you even imagine what will happen if you woke up one day and realized that you have turned blind? You will not even be able to get out of bed and go to the bathroom! Every task you performed thanklessly earlier will demand all your effort now.
Anyway, if you started writing a list of things that you have been given in life, it would be a long list. Once you finish this list, write down a list of the things that you feel you have not been given. This will also be a long list... a very long list actually! The list will probably start with a Benz car and end up being longer than the Benz itself! Both the lists are endless, infinite actually, if you write sincerely without missing a single thing.
Alright, now we have the two lists in front of us. It is now up to us to decide which of the lists we are going to focus on. Are we are going to look at the things not given to us and make our lives dull and dead, or look at the things that have been showered on us and enjoy, making our lives beautiful? It is purely our choice!
A person who takes everything for granted will look at the second list with greed and discontentment. When you are greedy, you will automatically feel only discontented, because there is no end to your greed and therefore contentment can never happen in you! Anyhow, this person totally misses out on the joy of life that is there in the first list.
Anything that comes his way, whether it is small or big, will seem ordinary to him and he will only wait for the next thing to arrive. And when the next thing arrives, that will also look ordinary to him because he is already thinking of the next thing! |
Children are trained from a young age, to think of hell and heaven as entities outside of them. They are trained to think that God is sitting above, on a big throne, and watching every movement of ours, and noting down our sins and good deeds.
By thinking in this way, we start the cause and effect cycle of all our actions. We associate good deeds with heaven and bad deeds with hell. We start thinking of God and the whole of Existence as a transaction center. Each one of us becomes a businessman in our own way, whatever may be our real profession!
What do you do when you go to the temple? You purchase flowers, coconuts and fruit, and go to the deity inside and make an offering in your family's name to the deity. You tell the name, birthstar etc. of each and every member of your family and do the ritual.
The poor priest will hold one bowl in his hand and you will be telling him a long list of names with all the details of each of your family members. You are so afraid that God will send the blessings to the wrong person, to the wrong household! You give him the exact geographical location etc. and emphasize to him that it is *you* and no one else who has come with the offering. Only after doing this, you leave the temple. Am I right?
As if God does not know you if you don't tell him all this! As if you need to remind God of your existence so that he will shower on you.
All you need to do is feel continued gratitude towards Him, that's all. He is always showering on you.
It is not that he sees you in trouble and then decides to bail you out, or sees that you are alright and therefore ignores you. All this is our own conditioning that we project on God. All this is what society has taught us from a young age.
Simply enter into the temple with a feeling of gratitude; stand before every deity for a few minutes with deep thankfulness, and leave the temple in that same mood. That is enough. The rest will be taken care of. This is the ultimate prayer. Gratitude is the ultimate offering.
Use these few days you are going to be here effectively to experience what I am saying. Allow gratitude to take root in these few days, when you are away from the outer world. Open up and allow yourself to flower. This is a rare opportunity for you. This is a chance for you to transform. Don't miss it. Create that new inner space in you, which will go with you when you leave this place.
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# *Gratitude happens from the heart*
The problem is, we are always trying to reach God through our heads. You can never reach God through your head. If you simply drop your head, you will automatically function through your heart and discover that you need not even reach out to Him; He is already there in you!
With your head, you will always seek outside and you can never find God outside. Also, you will be looking for reasons to feel grateful. When you move from your head to your heart, a whole new space will open out for you, and you will realize that you always knew, and that it was your mind which was causing all the havoc and not letting you realize it.
When you operate from your heart, you are always in gratitude. Do we ever say 'mind-felt gratitude'? No! We always say 'heartfelt gratitude', do we not?
Next, you will ask, 'How do we move from our head to our heart Swamiji!' Just be aware of your head, that is enough! Only because you are unaware of your head, you allow it to function in an undisturbed fashion, in a mechanical fashion. Once you become aware of your head, you will be able to drop it.
Gratitude is not any virtue. It has to be your very attitude. When you feel *only* gratitude, you can tune yourself beautifully to Existence, and then Existence will reveal to you its magical splendour. All you need to do then is sit back and enjoy!
Let me explain what I mean by tuning. We all know how the radio works. The same radio, without any change in its physical form, can be connected to many radio stations airing different programs, can it not? While you are listening to a particular station, if there are any disturbances or cross-talk, what do you do? You fine-tune it. Now, just apply this same concept to tuning to Existence.
There are thousands of programs happening around us. Whatever we tune ourselves to, *that* we will experience. Now, tuning to any one program is purely our own choice. You have the freedom to choose the program you wish to listen to, right? In the same way, if you choose to tune yourself to discontentment and similar negative things, you will be caught in the never-ending whirlpool of worry, discontentment, dilemma and what not. Whereas, if you choose to tune yourself with the central chord that is running this whole show, you will catch the right thread in all the chaos that is around you and will be free from all these emotions. You will become a beautiful flower that blossoms with a fragrance.
The more you fine-tune yourself with Existence, the more ecstatic life will be.
Discontentment will pull you down, make you heavy and miserable. On the other hand, gratitude will make you light and blissful.
## *Feel causelessly grateful*
A small story:
- In a Christian household, a girl was sitting at the dinner table with her mother.
- Food was served at the table and she started eating her food without saying grace.
The mother was shocked and asked her how she could do such a thing.
The girl promptly replied, 'There is nothing on this plate that I have not said thanks for at least once before.'
We know to feel grateful only with a strong reason.
One more small story:
A young girl asked her mother, 'Mom, how many more days remaining before Christmas?' The mother asked, 'Why do you want to know?' The girl replied, 'I was just wondering whether it was time for me to start being a good girl.'
This is how we train children to think and behave. We teach them how to do transactions. We teach them that everything is nothing but a transaction. We don't teach them to be spontaneous and flowing. We don't teach them to live without a purpose. We make everything goal-oriented for them.
Because of all these things that have been done to children, you have to work hard in undoing them first. Be very clear that all that I am doing with you is only undoing. I am continuously undoing. Imagine the amount of doing that has been done to you! Over generations, people have been passing on their ideas to you. I have to first undo all that and then create a space in you for you to flower.
When I tell people to feel a continued sense of gratitude in them, they come back later and tell me, 'Swamiji, these days I say thank you to the cab drivers and to the servants at home.' Be very clear: when gratitude becomes your being, you will not even report these kinds of things.
When you are grieving the loss of a dear one, do you verbalize your grief? Will you be able to verbalize your grief? No! It becomes such a deep-rooted emotion that it becomes the state of your being. You can only *feel* it; you can never *report* it.
In the same way, gratitude when it becomes your very being, will simply become your state; you will not be reporting it. You can never report it also. Of course, saying 'thank you' is alright for social reasons because unless you express it, it doesn't reach the ears of the other person.
But what I am trying to tell you here is, we need to move from gratitude of the mind to gratitude of the being. The gratitude that we are talking about, you will never be able to express, because it runs *so deep*.
## *Real gratitude runs very deep*
People often say to me, 'Swamiji, we are so grateful to you for so many things that have happened in our lives after association with you.'
For reasons of social etiquette, you may thank a person for something, but gratitude is not something that you direct towards a person. When you feel gratitude towards a person for something you have received, it is simply gratitude of the mind. This is the kindergarten stage of gratitude.
Real gratitude is a deep overwhelming feeling inside yourself, not as a result of any gain but just at the thought of existing, at the thought of the compassionate life force that is Existence, that's all. This gratitude does not need any relationship; it is not dependent on anyone or anything; it is not under the sway of any emotions like lust, anger, hatred or love. It simply IS, that's all.
You express your gratitude with words because you are egoistic and you don't want people to think you lack courtesy. But the moment you express it, you belittle or falsify it.
Actually, your very *body language* can convey the state of gratitude in you. Your eyes can convey it; your smile can convey it; your warmth can convey it much better than words. Tears of gratitude express it better than anything else. When you are overwhelmed, when you are brimming, tears overflow.
I am not asking you to cry! I am only telling you that when you overflow, your body will show it, you cannot hide it, and that is the real indication of the state of your gratitude.
And remember, these tears don't belong to any caste or creed or religion. They cannot be classified as Hindu tears or Muslim tears; these tears don't belong to any religion. They belong to the being and the being is beyond all this. Gratitude is one thing that can dissolve all man-made barriers and conditioning; that is why it is the ultimate prayer.
Anything deep can never be expressed wholly. Poets may write poems to express it, painters may paint to express it, writers may write to express it, but there will remain a portion that can never be expressed through any of this. Existence can never be expressed by ordinary things. That is why it is so mystical and luring. That is why it is so exciting beyond what words can describe! That is why you can only feel it and not express it. That is why you come here again and again!
When you come here, you don't have to express any gratitude, because even without you expressing, I will know. When real gratitude is overwhelming in you, I will know it even before you do! I know the beat of your heart! I know it from the look in your eyes! In fact, when you express to me, you might be deceiving yourself because most of the time, you think and talk in contradicting ways. You might be thinking something inside, but you express something else outside.
Existence *knows* when a person is flowering from within. Just feel the deep gratitude towards Existence, that is enough. You don't have to express it, just *become* it, that's all.
In Bharat, there is a tradition of touching the master's feet. When you are overflowing with gratitude to the master, there is no way to express it. You then simply touch his feet, feel the oneness and express the gratitude in you.
Many people come from many places to visit me. Some of them come and stand in front of me and don't say anything. Just tears of joy flow from their eyes. They don't feel compelled to say anything, because they cannot say anything more than what their tears are conveying. They are just emoting from their being.
When you are in the presence of the master, just be there with a deep sense of gratitude and love, with a feeling of gratitude at just being present near him. You will find that all your questions will dissolve and you are filled with a certain joy in no time. When you fill up easily, it means that you have caught the right thread.
Always be with the master with deep awareness; then you will not miss it. When you are in gratitude with the master, the master's energy will pour into your being and his experience will simply flood you.
And when you feel *only* gratitude towards the master, the need to be physically near him will also slowly dissolve. Gratitude helps you cut across space and time. It dissolves boundaries and makes you expand. When you expand, you feel one with everything. After some time, even gratitude will seem like a disturbance; just silence will prevail!
Even in relationships, if you feel that any relationship is coming to an end with no love lost, you can simply feel gratitude towards the other and depart, that's all. Just feel gratitude inside you for having been associated with the other person for that period of time, for all that you learned and enjoyed because of your association with him or her for that period of time, and depart. Then, even *that* becomes beautiful.
# *Feel grateful to your enemies too!*
People ask me, 'Swamiji, how can we feel gratitude towards our enemies?'
I ask you, *why not?* Your so-called enemies are responsible for making you stronger. They are a challenge to you; they make you grow. By hurting you, they show you a different perspective of life to deal with. Why not then feel gratitude towards them?
After all, you want to grow, do you not? Every moment, you want to become more intelligent, do you not? If these people did not open up opportunities for you, you would be living deluded by only friends surrounding you. That is not going to help much. You need to get roughed out; only then you will rupture and intelligence will flower.
The seed *has to* rupture for the tree to grow. If the seed is happy remaining a seed, it will simply disintegrate with time and die, that's all. No transformation will happen to it.
When it comes to so-called enmity, an ordinary man will make it look ugly. He will take it to a point where everything becomes a vicious cycle, moving from hatred to hatred. In so many families, there are feuds. It becomes ugly and too much to deal with. Why? It is *you* who have allowed it to grow in that way. You did not function with deep awareness and intelligence. You were not functioning with fulfillment and so you allowed it to grow in an ugly fashion.
If you were functioning with fulfillment, you would not have been able to see any *space* for the enmity to grow. It will be an unknown language to you. Even if the other person wants to continue the enmity, you will not feel any hatred towards him. If he wants to end the relationship, you will end it only with gratitude again!
In so many families, people don't look each other in the eye or they actually even take pains to avoid each other in public places. Why all these unnecessary things? Why are you wasting your energy in these kinds of things? Never allow hatred to consume you. Look at it with deep awareness and intelligence. Hatred will disappear and only love and gratitude will remain.
# **Q: These days I feel only gratitude to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, and in a way, I don't have any wanting from you. But strangely, I want you to remember my name and call me by it now and then! Is this a kind of discontentment or craving from my side Swamiji?** |
This is a beautiful thing you have come up with. It goes to show that you have analyzed yourself very deeply. You see: When you seek attention from your mind, through jealousy or discontentment, it becomes unhealthy. But when you ask with love and gratitude, it is not a craving; it is simply a deep love for me, that's all.
When you pray with a wanting, it is simply ungratefulness and a play of ego. But when you ask out of deep love, it becomes a prayer, filled with gratitude and devotion. There is a difference between the two.
You are in awareness, so it cannot be called discontentment or craving. With time, this too will drop for you. And one more thing: You have had the courage to come up with this question! I am sure many others secretly feel the same way, but have not said it aloud! They may have consoled themselves by saying, 'What is there in a name,' or they may feel shy to come out with it! Of course, there is nothing in a name. But, you need to go beyond it with an experiential understanding, not delude yourself out of it. The fact that you have come up with the question shows that you are willing to courageously go through it.
# Gratitude and the master
People ask me, 'Swamiji, what can we do for you in return to show our gratitude to you?'
I tell them, 'The best that you can do for me in return is flower!' That is the best that you can do for me and the best that I can do for you. Understand that. When you internalize these words and make gratitude your being, you have done a lot in return for me.
But, If you feel that you have to do something in return, do some service to society; help others. Help awaken others to the joy that you have discovered. Don't do it out of ego or superiority. Do it for the *love* of sharing, for the *joy* of sharing. Give your full energy and enjoy doing it. It will become a joyful meditation for you and an awakening for them.
Every time you feel deep gratitude, you are actually in meditation. So just imagine if you were in gratitude forever! You would be in meditation all the time.
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Gratitude can never be taught. Of course, the idea of feeling grateful can be told to children when they are young so that they know about it. But it remains social conditioning just like other things, in the same way as you are taught to respect your elders, and to wish your teachers a good day in school. It is just a mechanism of the mind, not an actual feeling inside you.
Even now, be very clear: I am not teaching you to be grateful. I am only trying to create an *inner space* in you wherein you will *feel* what I am saying; wherein it will become your own experience. The energy behind my words can create that space in you, that's all.
Whenever you are given freedom, you become a better individual and you are ready to open up. When you are under psychological slavery, it becomes difficult for you to explore and find your inner space.
I always tell people that I am a *liberating* Guru! I give tremendous freedom when working on people. Only then it becomes easy for them to explore and evolve.
Of course, I am not telling parents that they should give their children complete freedom and watch them without interfering. I am only saying that psychological slavery should be avoided. Just create the conditions for children to evolve. Take the necessary precautions, no doubt, but allow them to experience the truth for themselves instead of stuffing it down their throats. Give them enough space to grow and experience their inner bliss.
Sometimes people ask me, 'Swamiji, how is it that you are so blissful all the time!'
Masters are always in an ecstatic state because of the deep state of gratitude that just continuously bubbles in them; because they are in communion with Existence all the time!
When you feel gratitude only towards me, or just towards anyone else, you miss the whole. Gratitude is not a beam that is directed in a controlled manner towards appropriate people. It is a fragrance. When you wear it, it simply radiates from you. That is why a master appears so blissful all the time. A master is like a fragrance that you can experience and enjoy! That is why you are drawn here again and again!
Understand that every moment is beautiful, if you are ready to receive and see it. It is not only when we are celebrating a function or we have seen success, or we have achieved something, that the moment is beautiful.
Every single moment is beautiful because Existence simply flows spontaneously and joyfully and all events happen in synchronicity all the time. When you understand this, nothing will ever seem 'wrong' to you. You will then wonder what people are complaining about all the time!
When you feel gratitude towards Existence, the whole of Existence becomes a temple to you. Then you are in a prayerful and meditative mood anywhere you are. You no longer need to go to temples and pray. You simply merge with the whole and feel blissful all the time.
When the whole of Existence becomes a temple, the trees, the sky, the earth, everything becomes one. When you bow down before it, what can you ask for? You will simply bow down with gratitude for being part of the profound Existence, that's all.
When this happens, you can relate to the trees, to the sky, to the earth and to everything else. You then move from communication, which is a language of the mind, to communion, which is the language of the heart. You then shift your center from your mind to your heart.
# How God functions
For those of you who believe that God answers your prayers, let me tell you one thing: God is so compassionate that most often than not he leaves your prayers unanswered!
It is like this: When a child asks for an ice cream when he is suffering from a cold, do you give it to him? No, you don't give it to him.
Now, the child might feel ungrateful to you for it, but you know that you are doing your best for the child because he does not know that what he is asking for is not the right thing for him at that time.
In the same way, with your deep ignorance, you don't know what is best for you but keep asking God for various things. But out of pure compassion, God gently brushes aside your prayers and bestows you with the things that you actually need and prods you on towards better intelligence, which is his *only* concern for you. Remember that the more your inner intelligence grows, the less you pray or ask.
What can you ask God for? The moment you ask, it means that you think that there are a few things that God does not know! It means that you feel that unless you ask, God will not know. It sounds ridiculous, does it not? Can there be anything that God does not know?
Understand that God gives you what you *need*, not what you *want*. If he starts giving all that you want, you will move from misery to misery! When he gives you what you *need*, you will move from intelligence to more intelligence and somewhere, the asking will drop and gratitude will happen.
God gives you the strength and courage that you need to overcome difficulties.
He gives you the wisdom to dissolve your so-called problems.
He gives you an invaluable resource that is your own updated intelligence, to bring you prosperity.
He gives opportunities for you to explore your own love and care.
He gives you the intelligence to understand that all that you have is all that you need.
He gives you the maturity to flower with a fragrance.
The basic problem with all of us is, we are all ready to believe that God has the *shakti* or power to give us what we want, but fail to understand that he also has the *buddhi* or intelligence to decide whether or not it is good for us! Simply because we believe that God has *only power*, we keep asking and asking.
We always feel that we know what is best for us and pray to God for that. We want to use *our* intelligence and *God's power* to get us what we want! We clearly tell him, 'This is what I want and this is how things should be, so please do this for me with your power!' We give all our wants with our preferences within brackets, as a prayer to God!
This is the attitude that gets us into complications. We have to understand that God not only has the power, but also the intelligence to decide what is good for you. When we understand this, we will stop our method of praying.
We think that the whole world is running because of our intelligence. Be very clear: the world is running in spite of our intelligence!
A small story:
God and all the scientists of the world had a meeting and a competition.
Whatever item that God made, the scientists reproduced it identically out of some material. The scientists were able to reproduce things with no problem.
Finally, God made man out of dust and challenged the scientists.
The scientists started to pick up dust…
God said, 'Wait! Make it out of *your* dust, not *mine*!'
Man has to understand that Existence is the creator, the created and the creation. Only then can he simply start enjoying things without a care. Only then can he relinquish possession and doership.
We are so used to the concept of trading that it becomes difficult to understand that there can be someone who is not even our blood relative, who can care for us unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. It is too much to believe!
I tell you that Existence cares for you like no one else can. This truth I can tell you, but it is up to each one of you to realize this from within, from your own experience. Only then it will be first hand knowledge.
I always tell people, 'I cannot teach you spirituality, but you can learn!' I can tell you great truths so that you will at least know what you don't know. But making that truth into an understanding for yourself is up to you. I am ready to tell you how many ever times you want to hear the truth.
A small story:
Once when Adi Shankaracharya, a saint from ancient Bharat, was on a pilgrimage by foot with his disciples, at one place he felt very thirsty.
They looked around but could not find anything to quench his thirst.
There was only a palm grove, where they were producing country arrack.
Shankara entered the grove and asked the workers if they had anything to quench his thirst.
They said they had nothing except the country arrack.
Shankara asked for the country arrack and drank it.
The disciples saw Shankara drinking. Immediately, they also asked for the arrack and drank it!
The arrack did not affect Shankara because he is an enlightened being, having boundary-less consciousness!
He walked on steadily but his disciples were staggering behind him!
After a few days, again they were walking, but this time in a desert area.
They felt thirsty and this time they saw only an iron forgery.
Nothing else was available.
Shankara asked the worker attending if there was anything to drink.
The worker said there was nothing to drink.
But Shankara saw the molten iron, the liquid iron and asked the worker for it and drank it.
After drinking the liquid iron, he turned to his disciples and offered it to them!
The disciples were simply shocked.
Shankara wanted to make them understand that they should do what he *says* and not what he *does*. The arrack did not affect him because he was established in boundary-less consciousness. Unless you have experienced it, you will not know. So you cannot simply imitate from outside. It has to happen from inside for each of you, and then you will know.
How committed or how connected you want to feel with the truth, is your own decision. I can only help those who help themselves. I can give my hand to lift you up, only if you are willing to at least lift your hand to reach out to mine. If you really want to be lifted, you would at least put out your hand to me. Otherwise, I will allow you the freedom to simply be where you are, that's all. That is why they say, 'God gives you the freedom to be in bondage!'
Most of us think that we are not helped by God the way we should be. I tell you, God knows you better than you know yourself. This is the truth. You have to understand this, that's all. Just try to drop the doubt and have some faith; that is enough. The rest will be taken care of automatically.
A small story:
Two goldfish were inside a fish tank. One of them asked the other, 'Do you really believe in the existence of God?' The other replied, 'What else do you think changes our water everyday?'
If you believe that Existence takes care of all your needs, you will be free from any kind of worry. But remember, as I told you, your needs are different from your wants. Your needs are few but your wants are many. Your needs are automatically fulfilled by Existence. When your wants increase, you lose faith in Existence because you don't see them being fulfilled.
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You see, ordinary belief is just believing, that's all. Faith on the other hand, is belief plus energy to put it into action. You can start with belief but you have to end in faith. With belief, there will be a doubt; with faith there will be no doubt, because you would have experienced it. When you have experienced for yourself the wonders of gratitude, you will attract more and more fortune for yourself. I am declaring this from my own experience.
#### *Gratitude brings more to you*
A small story:
A boy once visited a king's palace.
He requested to allow him to stay for a night in the palace. The king agreed and the boy stayed.
The next morning, the boy came up to the king and complained endlessly about the shortcomings of the accommodation provided to him.
The king ordered the boy to be taken out saying that even a day's accommodation was too much for a person such as him.
The boy felt very bad and went to a Sufi saint and narrated to him the happenings.
The saint did not say anything. He simply asked the boy to become his disciple.
A few months later, the saint told the boy that he was going to visit the king and asked him to accompany him.
They went and asked to be allowed to stay for a few days in the palace.
The king agreed.
The next morning, the king asked the saint if he was comfortable with the arrangements that had been made for him.
The saint expressed heart-felt gratitude towards the king for the comforts made for him.
The king was very happy and immediately ordered his men to pay more attention to the arrangements made for the saint.
The saint told the boy, 'Do you see now? This is the secret of life. Feel grateful and you will be showered.'
This is what happens when you thank Existence instead of finding fault with what has been given to you. By feeling gratitude, you send out positive vibrations that will automatically bring back more than you can imagine for yourself. |
# The Sahasrara Dhyana
(Total duration: 60 minutes)
#### Part of this meditation is the Nithya Dhyaan meditation
#### Why Nithya Dhyaan?
Emotions and thoughts give birth to our mental set up and attitude. Understanding the play of emotions and thoughts is the first and final step towards moving beyond it. Nithya Dhyaan is a 35-minute meditation designed by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM to unclutch from the mind and move beyond it.
Man by his very nature is an *unclutched* and blissful Being. What do we mean by the term *unclutched*?
Every thought that arises in us is like a bubble that forms, rises and dies. Every thought independently rises and dies before the next thought comes up. For example, if you are sitting in a chair and suddenly get up, the moment you have decided to get up, *that* moment the thought of sitting has left you. If you are working on your computer and decide to shut down the machine, *that* moment, the thought that you want to *work* has died. So every thought is unconnected and happens in series, one after the other. One thought *has* to die before the next one comes up. This is our true nature.
Our true nature is to *renounce* thoughts every passing moment; to allow each thought to rise like a bubble and burst and allowing the next thought to rise. Our thoughts have only a vertical existence, like rising bubbles.
This process of allowing thoughts to rise and die without trying to connect them is what we mean by being *unclutched*. As long as this natural process is allowed to happen, things are alright.
But what we do is, we start connecting these thoughts randomly and forming a shaft. By doing this, we convert the vertical and unclutched process into a horizontal one with linear connectivity. Here starts the whole problem. As long as each thought is allowed to rise and die, we can take on any amount of load at the physical and mental planes and our consciousness will remain light and blissful. Once we start connecting the thoughts, our consciousness suffers and we start feeling burdened. It becomes damaging to our Being.
All emotions like worry, lust, discontentment, jealousy, fear, ego and attention-need are purely because we find a connection between independent incidents, between independent thoughts and create a concept for ourselves and start relating with that concept. We create an imaginary shaft with our thoughts and we suffer because of this.
It is these emotions that create all forms of violence be it religious wars, social conflicts or political unrest. The basis or the root of all forms of violence is our emotions and the basis of our emotions is our habit of creating imaginary shafts of our thoughts and empowering them to work on us.
The key thing we do while creating these shafts is, we choose the thoughts depending on whether we want pain or pleasure. We pick pleasant thoughts at random and connect them to form a shaft of pleasure or pick negative thoughts and connect them to form a shaft of pain. We create shafts of pain and pleasure alternately for ourselves and keep oscillating between these two emotions. To *unclutch* from this shaft is the master key to a blissful life.
If you deeply analyse how we connect our thoughts instead of renouncing them, you will understand how we create suffering for ourselves. It is the mind that finds the connection. As such, there is no connection between our thoughts.
We have been trained to all the time feed on words and thoughts. That is why we create these shafts. We feed on words because we operate out of fear or greed all the time. Out of fear or greed, we create connectivity in our thoughts. We are afraid to let go of this process because if we let go, there is nothing else to hold on to. We have never experienced an *unclutched* state of mind where there is no shaft, there are only bubble-like thoughts.
In the *unclutched* state, there is no scope for fear or greed. You will simply BE, that's all. It is a dimension that we rarely experience because we are so used to clutching into the familiar shaft of thoughts.
A small story:
An eye specialist was treating a blind man.
He assured him, "Once I operate on your eye, you will have your vision back and you can throw your stick away."
The blind man became afraid when he heard this. He asked the doctor, "I understand that I will get my vision, but how can I walk without my stick?"
The man was so used to walking with the stick that he could not understand that by getting his vision he can throw away the stick! In the same way, when the truth is that we can live in an *unclutched* fashion blissfully, we wonder how we can be without clutching into the shaft of thoughts. We see it as something inevitable!
We fail to see how mythical the whole thing is. Our mind is a myth. We have empowered it and become a slave to it. It is nothing but mental slavery.
Just watch the thoughts rising in you. Clearly see how each thought rises and dies and the next thought comes up. Observe how you effortlessly connect these thoughts and create ideas and concepts. Watch the play of these concepts upon yourself; you will understand how you create the whole myth. Connecting thoughts is the original sin.
Living in an *unclutched* fashion is the only way to a blissful living. Just decide that you will not connect any two thoughts, that you will not pass any judgment on any thought or any incident. The moment you find yourself connecting, simply *unclutch* from it. Keep on *unclutching* every time you remember this technique; your mental setup will automatically be transformed.
When you work in an *unclutched* fashion, you will find your capacity expanding; you will take on a lot more responsibility without getting stressed; you will not experience mood swings between pain and pleasure; you will be blissful all the time. We are so used to happiness that comes in with a *reason*. This *reason* is again a shaft that we create with our thoughts. Once you stop creating these shafts, you will be blissful all the time.
The term *unclutched,* does not mean that you should be aloof and cold to people and situations around you. Just don't connect your thoughts and start the process of creating shafts, that's all.
Remember that you are a beautiful and *unclutched* being by nature; that is enough. You will stop creating misery for yourself and for others.
Nithya Dhyaan cleanses and energises the vital energy centers in your body which are responsible for the swaying emotions and stored negative memories. It brings intense awareness into your system to awaken the inner intelligence; causes to experience a growing explosion in consciousness that can steer you towards a life of totality. It expels deeply engraved and unwanted negative memories and suppressions.
Meditation as such purifies and lays the foundation to experience the true nature of your body, thoughts and emotions. It is the direct way to connect to the land of the beyond, of eternal bliss, free from the clutches of one's own mind.
Nithya Dhyaan is a technique that gives you what you need to balance your self and be in complete harmony with your body, mind and spirit; to harness the inner intelligence as a propelling force to excel in the inner and outer worlds.
It is a guided meditation technique comprising 5 steps. Please listen to the instructions carefully.
#### Instructions:
#### Step 1
Sit in *vajrasana* with hands on your hips. Sit on your mat on the floor with both your legs stretched out. Next fold both the legs, one after the other at the knees and rest your posterior on your heels with your toes turned outward. Let your hands rest on your lap. You can use a cushion or a rolled turkish towel under your ankles. Sit comfortably with your head,
neck and spine in a straight line. Now close your eyes and breathe chaotically for 7 minutes. Don't follow any rhythm in breathing. Just move your entire body and breathe aggressively and chaotically from the bottom of your stomach.
## Step 2
Continue to sit in *vajrasana*. Form '*chin mudra'* with your fingers. This is how we form the chin mudra: Place your hands on your knees. Your hands with open palms should be facing upward. Let the tip of the index finger touch the tip of the thumb, as if forming a circle. The three other fingers, arms and the hands remain relaxed. You will now hum intensely for 7
minutes. The humming should be done with lips together with the sound coming from the navel center – as deeply as possible, as lengthily as possible and as loudly as possible. (This is actually the *mahamantra* humming).
#### Step 3
You may now sit cross-legged on the floor if you wish to or continue to sit in *vajrasana* and for 7 minutes you will take your awareness from the *muladhara chakra* to the *sahasrara chakra*.
* *Muladhara chakra* – base of the spine
* *Swadhishthana chakra* – 2 inches above the *muladhara*
* *Manipuraka chakra* – at the navel center
* *Anahata chakra* – at the heart center
* *Vishuddhi chakra* – at the throat center
* *Ajna chakra* – between the eyebrows
* *Sahasrara chakra* – top of the head
Dwell on each *chakra* for a minute with the awareness that – the *chakra* is pure; the *chakra* is filled with energy and the *chakra* is radiating eternal bliss - *nithyananda*.
#### Step 4
For 7 minutes just be unclutched in silence.
#### Guided meditation for offering gratitude
This guided meditation is taken from Sufism.
Sit straight, hold a few flowers as offering in your hands and close your eyes. Concentrate on your *sahasrara chakra*. Forget
all other parts of your body. Concentrate only on your crown center and relax there. Wear a smile and relax.
With your whole Being, offer your gratitude to your mother for giving you this body. Remember and give your gratitude to her with all your Being.
Offer your gratitude to your father for giving you this life and providing for all your needs.
Offer your gratitude to all the doctors and nurses who received you when you came to planet earth.
Offer your gratitude to all the people who built the hospital or home where you were born.
Offer your gratitude to all the people who took care of you when you were an infant.
Offer your gratitude to all those who worked for your food, clothes and living when you were young.
Offer your gratitude to all the teachers who gave you primary education.
Offer your gratitude to all your young age friends who made your life happy and blissful, who shared their innocence and joy with you.
Offer your gratitude to your brothers and sisters and other relatives for nurturing you and caring for you. Seek their forgiveness for any hurt that you may have caused them intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or unconsciously.
Offer your gratitude to all the people who gave you professional education, who helped you stand in your profession, who gave you the courage to stand on your own feet.
Offer your gratitude to all the people who helped you financially, whenever you needed it.
Offer your gratitude to all the doctors and nurses who took care of your health, who gave you medical assistance whenever you needed it.
Offer your gratitude to your wife or husband for giving you love and security in your life. Forgive them for anything that they might have done to you that hurt you. Seek their forgiveness for anything that you might have done that hurt them with or without your knowledge.
Offer your gratitude to all the people who encouraged you and gave you inspiration in your spiritual life.
Offer your gratitude to all those who have served you in one way or another all through your life: the milk man who delivers milk, the grocer, the laundry man, the garbage collector, your servants, your driver, all these people who you take for granted. Seek each one's forgiveness for any hurt that you may have caused intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or unconsciously.
Offer your gratitude to your enemies and those who have hurt you, for making you strong and forgiving. Seek their forgiveness for any hurt that you may have caused them.
Offer your gratitude to all those who helped you physically, mentally, socially, economically and spiritually.
Remember each one of them and offer gratitude taking your own time.
Offer your gratitude to your body and all its parts one by one.
Offer your gratitude to your mind for its miraculous functioning.
Offer your gratitude to the Divine, to the Whole, to God, for making all these things possible in your life.
## Step 5
For the last 7 minutes you may sit and chant the *Guru Puja Mantra* or just sway with the flow of the chant on the cassette and offer your gratitude to Existence and to the great lineage of enlightened masters. Offer your gratitude with your whole being.
You may now offer your flowers.
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# ABOUT THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is an enlightened master living amidst us today. With a worldwide movement for meditation and inner bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM offers solutions for situations as practical as every day stress to the quest for something as profound as enlightenment.
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM left home at a young age and traveled the length and breadth of Bharat, visiting holy shrines, associating with several yogis and mystics during this period. He realized his intrinsic knowledge through the paths of meditation, yoga, knowledge, devotion, Tantra and other Eastern metaphysical sciences. With an enlightened insight into the core of human nature, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM has defined his mission for humanity at large.
Rooted in the ancient tradition of enlightened living, and embracing all world
religions as sacred and unique. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM draws people from around the globe, crossing all societal, cultural, language, age and gender barriers.
The services provided by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Mission include • meditation • yoga • corporate leadership programs • free energy healing through the *Nithya Spiritual Healing system* • free education to youth • promoting art and culture • *satsangs* (spiritual gatherings) • free medical camps and eye surgeries • free meals at all ashrams worldwide • a holistic system of education for children through the ashram *gurukul* • a two-year free residential spiritual training program in Bharat called Life Bliss Technology • a three-month residential program for international youth called Life Bliss Engineering, and more.
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM says, 'Enlightenment flowers when individual consciousness disappears into Universal Consciousness. When you start living enlightenment, you automatically raise the human consciousness around you. Living enlightenment holds the key to global peace and inner bliss. Every individual should be a pioneer in the transition of human consciousness to Divine Consciousness.'
# PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS |
# **Inner Awakening**
Inner Awakening is a 'master' program that is intensely transformative. It is a 21-day energy cycle that brings about an irreversible alchemy of moving from the mundane to the Divine. It is a program where the master is completely available to work on the true seeker and guide him to the Ultimate. Further, it gives you the lifetime opportunity to stay in the intense energy field of the Bengaluru ashram for 21 days.
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM says,
'The Inner Awakening program is designed to reproduce all the components of *jeevan mukti* or 'Living Enlightenment' in every being.
Each of my programs is designed to reproduce one component, one dimension of me in you. For example, Life Bliss Program Level 1 (LBP 1), is designed to reproduce one component that is 'living joyfully'. Life Bliss Program Level 2 (NSP) is designed to reproduce another dimension that is 'living death beautifully'. Nithya Yoga is designed to reproduce yet another component that is 'having a yogic body'. Each program is designed to reproduce one component of *jeevan mukti* in you.
Whenever you experience one dimension, you experience an opening, an inspiration or feeling to go deep. Unfortunately that one opening is not enough to pass into *jeevan mukti* and start staying in *jeevan mukti* itself. It is more like having one glimpse of *jeevan mukti* .
The Inner Awakening is designed in a complete, whole way – it is like all the programs such as Nithyanandam, Nithya Yoga, everything put together and something more...reproducing all the components of *jeevan mukti* which is in me, in you.
The whole thing is now available to you in one place.
Living every moment with the understanding that life is introducing new dimensions of the cosmos to you is 'Living Enlightenment'."
# **Life Bliss Engineering**
A residential program to experience the intense and transformative power of being in an enlightened master's presence. Life Bliss Engineering (LBE) is a 90-day program in the Bengaluru ashram in Bharat, which takes you to the depths of your being through yoga, meditation, and helps you to awaken your innate peak potential. Learn directly from the master, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, to engineer your very body and mind for enlightened living.
In LBE, you will:
- Experience life in its most authentic form of 'Living Enlightenment'.
- Learn and imbibe the ancient inner world science of an awakened consciousness through direct talks and meditations delivered by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM himself.
- Create a yogic body through daily practices of Nithya Yoga, the yoga for enlightenment designed by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM from Sage Patanjali's ancient system of yoga. Nithya Yoga unites mind, body and being for greater energy, mental clarity, physical and emotional well-being.
- Participate in the 'Inner Awakening' sessions, a 21-day enlightenment-intensive program with the master, that leads you to discover the very purpose of your life and rise above the clutches of your mind. This program includes life solutions and meditations for all levels of seekers, daily Nithya Yoga sessions, initiation into Nithya Spiritual Healing - an energy-based healing science and more.
- Embark on travel studies to culturally, historically and spiritually significant locations including Tiruvannamalai, the birthplace of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, and Chidambaram, the birthplace of Patanjali.
- Engage in revealing discussions, debates and study groups for deeper insights and understanding about the human mind-body mechanism and how to live life as a celebration.
- Concept, design and execute project work(s) that will help expand your capacity for creativity and intelligence, and to serve society with responsibility.
- Experience continuous inner healing in the energy field surrounding the mystical Banyan Tree at the ashram in Bengaluru.
- Enjoy ayurvedic satvic food during all meals in a day.
People from all over the world participate in this unique program and experience a quantum jump in their inner space and outer life.
# **Kalpataru**
A one-day meditation program that sows in you the seed of Living Enlightenment. Through Kalpataru you will be blessed with:
*Shakti,* the Energy to understand and change whatever you need to change in life,
*Buddhi*, the Intelligence to understand and accept whatever you don't need to change in life,
*Yukti*, the Clarity to understand and realize that however much you change, whatever you see as reality is itself a continuously changing dream,
*Bhakti*, the Devotion, the feeling of deep connection to That which is unchanging, eternal and Ultimate, and
*Mukti*, the Ultimate Liberation called Living Enlightenment when all these four are integrated in you.
This program empowers you with the energy to **align your actions with your intentions** so you move with success and inner bliss.
# **Life Bliss Program Level 1 (LBP Level 1)**
#### *- Energize yourself*
A *chakra* based meditation program that relaxes and energizes the seven major *chakras* or subtle energy centers in your system. It gives clear intellectual and experiential understanding of your various emotions such as greed, fear, worry, attention-need, stress, jealousy, ego, and discontentment. It is designed to create a spiritual effect at the physical level. It is a guaranteed life solution to experience the reality of your own bliss. When you are liberated from a particular emotion, you experience a new world, a new energy. It is a highly effective workshop, experienced by millions of people around the globe.
# **Life Bliss Program Level 2 (LBP Level 2)**
*- Death demystified!*
A meditation program that unleashes the art of living by demystifying the process of dying. This program creates the space to
detach from ingrained and unconscious emotions like guilt, pleasure and pain, all of which stem from the ultimate fear of death. It is a gateway to a new life that is driven by natural intelligence and spontaneous enthusiasm.
# **Life Bliss Program Level 3 - Atma Spurana Program (LBP Level 3 - ATSP)**
*- Connect with your Self!*
An indepth program that analyzes clearly the workings of the mind and shows you experientially how to be the master of the mind rather than be dictated by it. It imparts tremendous intellectual understanding coupled with powerful meditations to produce instant clarity and integration.
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*- Integrate your Devotion*
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you can just see the truth in what I am saying, you will slowly know the knack of how to get out of this cycle and move to a higher plane of your being.
One more thing with intuition: it gives you the energy not only to make the decision but also to execute what you have decided. When I say this to people, they ask me, 'Swamiji how do I find out whether I am having an intuition or I am just being intellectual.' They tell me, 'Swamiji, I am confused about whether it is intellect or intuition.' I tell them: be very clear: if you are confused, it is only intellect. The very confusion shows that it is only intellect! When you have intuition, you will be so confident and brimming with energy that there will be no room for confusion.
With intuition, the potential power which is inside your being is simply unleashed. You open up and start expressing it, executing it. If you read about scientists and CEOs who have been involved in major breakthroughs in their fields, again and again they say their success came from something beyond their intellect, that something gave them the energy or the guts to make those decisions.
Each and every one of you has the power of intuition in you. Let me ask you: how many of you have experienced at least once in your lives, that when you are thinking of a particular person, the phone rings and that very same person is on the line? Or you enter a place and you feel you have been to the place before? Or similar intuitive things?
*(More than 80% of the people raise their hands.)* You see, these are the moments of intuition that you have experienced accidentally in your lives. During these moments, you are accidentally in a meditative state. In these moments, your being tries to relate with you. But what do you do? You brush these things aside as coincidence and ignore your being. You completely ignore the higher dimensions of your being. How can something that has happened to 80% of you be a coincidence?
Be very clear: these moments of intuition are clear signs of the latent power in you. If you recognize and encourage it, you can express the higher dimensions of your being.
The other day I had an opportunity to have a meal with Dr Charles Townes, Nobel laureate in the field of LASER and MASER. I asked him, 'How did it happen? How were you able to do this?' He answered in a beautiful way. He said, 'I was just sitting in a park in Washington DC and suddenly something happened in me. Suddenly the conclusion was revealed to me. I immediately wrote down what I got. I then realized that I had a difficulty. I had the conclusion but not the steps! I was not able to present it to anybody because I knew only the conclusion; I did not know the steps. Then when I sat down, I was able to get the logical steps.'
Not only with Charles Townes, even Albert Einstein the famous scientist says, 'Whatever new understanding happened in me, came through intuition, not through intellect*.*' He says beautifully, 'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant*.*' We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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Whether we believe it or not or accept it or not, there is something called intuition in us. Of course, even Einstein calls this a gift because he didn't know whether it could be consistently had. He was not sure *when* it would happen and whether it would happen or not. But *yogis*, the great eastern mystics, again and again say that you can very well have it all the time. You don't have to think that intuition is a gift. You *can* work for it. It can become a part of your life.
When intuition happens beyond your intellect, your whole being is integrated. You are at your peak. When you are at your peak, something opens. You may call it a revelation or an intuition or something else. *Yogis* have again and again said that it is a science. If you can tune yourself to this energy of intuition which is continuously available in your being, you can use this in your regular life.
Intuition is the energy of your being. When this pure energy starts flowing out from the unconscious level, it also heals you physically, mentally and emotionally. Apart from healing, it reduces stress and helps you to make decisions spontaneously.
Spontaneity has nothing to do with the data that you collect; it is something to do with the way in which you process the data.
The same data, the same information, can be processed in many ways. Intuition is all about how you process data and how you come to conclusions not limited by your intellect. We can prepare ourselves; we can tune ourselves to this energy of intuition through techniques and methods.
These techniques are what we call meditation. In the East, we use the word meditation to tune ourselves with the higher energy which is in our being, and which continuously invites us to experience it.
Whenever you find time, just sit with yourself and observe yourself. We are always ready to give appointments to others, but never to ourselves…! If you just sit with yourself, you can always see that some part of your being wants to express, wants to do something more, but you never give the chance or time to that portion of your being.
We are so caught up with our intellect. We think that our intellect is the ultimate, but again and again *yogis* have proven that something more than intellect is possible.
# *Energy centers within our body*
If we understand how the mind works, how to unload the deeply engraved memories in our unconscious, how to prevent further loading and how we can awaken the latent power of our being to move into the zone intuition, we can live like a master and not a slave.
Just take a look at this chart here. Here you are able to see a human form with seven markings on it. Are all of you able to see? Yes. These seven markings on this human form are called *chakras*.
The *chakra*s are the subtle energy centers of our body. They are seven wheels of energy in our body.
We don't have only one body, as we think. We have seven bodies – energy bodies. I will explain the first three bodies now.
The first body – the one in which you have come here, in which you are moving, talking and writing – this is called the *jagrat shareera* - the physical or waking body.
The next body is the *sukshma shareera* - the dream body, the one that you use in your dream state. It is the body you use to travel from place to place in your dreams! In your dreams, you see yourself in various places. Sometimes you see yourself in places which you have not even been to in the waking state.
The third body is the *kaarana shareera* - the causal body, which you use when you are in deep sleep. This body does not move.
Now, the latter two bodies meet the physical body at seven points along the length of the physical body. These seven points are known as the *chakra*s. There are seven major *chakras* in our body. There are also a number of minor *chakras*, but these seven are the major ones that are responsible for our physical and mental well-being.
These *chakra*s were discovered a long time ago during the *vedic* age. In fact, in many of the spiritual chants, you will find reference to the names of these *chakras* very often. Today science has proved that there is a gland located near each of these *chakras* that is related to that particular *chakra*. These seven *chakras* supply energy to the glands.
These seven major *chakras* deeply influence our physical, emotional and mental activities. They have great power. They are energy centers and if they are kept in a cleansed and energized condition, they can cause us to live an ecstatic and healthy life.
Dis-ease is only an imbalance in any one of these *chakras*, because our body and mind are rooted in our inner consciousness. Keeping these *chakras* in a healthy state, we can see a transformation happening in us at the mental and physical levels.
Let me tell you a small story:
After World War I, a biplane was abandoned near a remote tribal settlement in Asia. The tribal people had never seen an aircraft in all their lives. There was a lot of excitement and commotion about it and a big crowd gathered around it. They wondered what it might be and each one started giving some suggestion about it. They finally concluded that since it had wheels, it must be a bullock cart! News spread in the village about the new bullock cart. There was a lot of celebration in the village and the biplane was taken around the settlement yoked to bullocks, and it served as a bullock cart.
Some weeks later, a young tribal boy who had returned from the city where he was studying, saw the biplane. He got into it and looked around. He saw all the gears and mechanisms in it. He fiddled with the switches and levers. Suddenly, the engine came to life! He managed to taxi the plane on the ground for a short distance and the villagers were shocked at what they saw. The boy had seen tractors being used and declared to the people that the biplane was not a bullock cart but some kind of tractor.
There was great celebration once again and the biplane started being used as a tractor!
Six months passed by and a retired army officer came to the village. He saw the biplane being used as a tractor and was shocked! He told the villagers that it was not a tractor and that the plane could actually fly.
They refused to believe him because the only things they had ever seen flying were birds! The army officer got into the aircraft, flew it for a short while and landed.
The villagers were wonderstruck. Then they understood its true potential.
Understand: man is a wonderful mechanism meant to fly. But we don't know our true potentiality. We have a very limited view of ourselves. Most of us operate only as a bullock cart, at the instinct level, surrendering to our emotions.
When we associate ourselves with mostly external things like a home, a car, a profession, and other basic things, we use our bodies as a bullock cart. We just operate at the instinct level and remain with an over-loaded unconscious mind.
When we additionally move into art, creativity, philosophy and such things involving not just the mind but the heart also, we use our bodies as a tractor. We will find a certain fulfillment in ourselves. A poet who has given birth to a poem will be happier than a woman who has given birth to a child. In the case of the latter, the womb is centered in the stomach whereas in the former it is centered in the heart, and so the fulfillment. These people will be able to operate at the intellectual level.
Finally, the man who enters into spirituality and develops a thirst for true knowledge and realizes that he is the ultimate existential energy in physical form, uses his body as an aircraft! Enlightened masters use their bodies as an aircraft. They are so ecstatic all the time. They rise beyond all the miseries of the bullock cart and tractor and just fly! They operate at the intuitive level.
What should we do to become an aircraft? What was the difference between the villagers and the army officer? The aircraft remained the same. Nothing was added to it or removed from it. No physical changes were made in it. Then what was the difference?
Knowledge. The knowledge of the mechanism of the aircraft. The villagers did not know that the device had such a mechanism that could be operated in a way that it could fly, whereas the army officer knew about it, that's all. The technique with which they handled the aircraft made it first a bullock cart, then a tractor and then finally an aircraft.
Just like this, there are mechanisms or gears inside us, called the *chakras*, which are boundless energy centers. Each of them is associated with a particular emotion within us. If we understand how to handle the emotion properly, we can function as an aircraft.
When we understand the science behind some of our basic emotions, we can become aware of our present deep unconscious state. Then we can free ourselves from the load of the unconscious and start moving to the higher dimensions of our being.
These *chakras* are not physical entities in our body. They are metaphysical representations because they belong to the auric body and not the physical body. Kirlian photography has enabled us to capture these *chakras* and prove their existence on the metaphysical plane.
It has been proven that when a person is locked with a particular negative emotion, the *chakra* associated with that emotion shrinks to the size of a coat button. It becomes that small. But when the same person experiences the associated positive emotion, the *chakra* expands to the size of a cartwheel! This is the effect that our emotions have on these energy centers, our *chakras*.
Our energy flow in these *chakras* is blocked by our negative emotions and we are totally unaware of it.
Understand: man has not been designed to be a worm that crawls on the ground; he has been designed to fly in the air. Just as the villagers had no idea that the device could fly, man has no idea that he can fly. Man always thinks that enlightened people are gifted people and that he should stand at a distance and look at them with awe and respect. He never aspires to become like them. I tell you now: if you are really interested in achieving in the inner world, you will achieve it, come what may. The problem is, you don't believe that you can achieve. Just as the villagers refused to believe that the device could fly, you refuse to believe that you are actually designed for much higher things.
# *Don't learn from experience, learn from intelligence!*
A small story:
A young girl was learning how to play the piano. She was struggling to cope with the master's lessons. The man next to her was an expert pianist and was playing a song by himself. The little girl walked over and watched him play for sometime. She finally asked, 'Sir, do you by any chance have more fingers than I do?' |
You need someone to take care of your needs. You need someone who will boost you up when you are down. You need someone who will sympathize with you and confirm your worries for you. This is what you call love. But true love is beyond names and forms, body and mind. Only a person who can love the whole world beyond all these can become a *sannyasi*. Only he can become a Vivekananda!
### *How we complicate love*
When Vivekananda says, *Arise! Awake!* Does it mean that we are sleeping? Of course! We are sleeping even without knowing that we are sleeping. And we pass judgments while we are asleep. We criticize when we are asleep. We condemn when we are asleep. We think we are awake and we criticize. We think we know everything about everything including love.
A small story:
A man had a wealthy old aunt whom he visited regularly.
He coveted her wealth and went out of the way to please her.
She had two cats, which she loved.
The man knew this and would look after the cats religiously hoping to win her over.
His secret wish was that she would make him a part of her will when she wrote it out.
He would come everyday, feed the cats with milk, play with them, spend a lot of time and go back.
The old lady was very pleased at the way he looked after the cats.
Soon, she passed away. In her will, she had left him the two cats.
You can imagine the disappointment in the man! He must have felt cheated!
With ordinary love, there is every possibility that you will feel cheated. People love for wealth, for the favors that they get done, for the words of advice that they get, for other people's forgetful ways, which they can exploit… and what not. Love always comes with a reason.
But people will never accept this for a fact. They don't accept it because they are deluded by their own ordinary love. They think that that is the way love happens. And they think that while they are so loving, I am simply bringing down their love.
Honestly, if you sit and think by yourself, you will understand that what I am saying is true. Do an honest enquiry on yourself and see. Just sit down and try to visualize how you would react if your father or mother or sister behaved in a slightly different way towards you. You will then understand what I am saying.
We are all the time in need of something from someone and so we are continuously paving the way to get it from them in a smooth way. This smooth way is what we call love. Don't think that this applies to getting only material wealth. Even when you expect a person's behaviour to be in a particular fashion, you behave accordingly with them. As long as both of you are behaving in this fashion, you love each other. If someone misses it somewhere, your love takes a momentary dip!
Take me for example. You all claim that you love me very much. Each one of you has got a particular idea of how I should behave
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towards you. I simply behave towards each of you in the fashion. That is what I am doing now actually. What happens? If even once I don't smile at you or I say something to you that does not fit me into your frame, you start thinking that I don't love you any more.
You start thinking that maybe I am not so loving after all. You start imagining about why I said a particular thing to you, or why I did not smile at you.
I might have been talking to someone else, or I might have simply not smiled at you, just to allow your ego to settle a bit, that's all! But you miss the whole game and start interpreting my actions with your own dictionary of love. What will happen? You will land up in deep misery.
This is how you simply complicate love. At least when it comes to me, there is no complication added to it from my side! Imagine what will happen when two of you start relating with each other in this fashion? There will be total chaos! You will simply be moving from low love to high love to low love, that's all!
People tell me, '*Swamiji*, we love our children…'
When it comes to putting up with their naughty behaviour, how many times have you sworn at them? One girl was telling me at the ashram, '*Swamiji*, my mother loves my children only if they behave themselves well. She wants me to bring the children to show them off as her grandchildren to her friends and then scolds me for the chaos that they create!'
When you see children, you are pulled by their innocence. That is one thing. The second thing is, it gives you a feeling of pride, an ego boost, when you see that they are your creation. And of course, you provide for them and make them happy. But what I am saying is, this love also comes with limitations and preferences. It is highly subjective to the ways of the children.
A small story:
A man was laying a concrete road.
He had just finished laying the road when a group of children from the neighborhood came running onto it leaving footmarks.
The man got very angry and swore at them.
His friend asked him, 'Hey, what is the matter? I thought you liked children.'
The man replied, 'Yes I do, but not on concrete.'
Ordinary love always comes with some condition somewhere! With some fine print somewhere. This is what I am trying to say. We love people subject to name, place, moods and situations.
#### *The love of an enlightened being*
A small story from the life of Vivekananda:
One night, Vivekananda woke up at 2 am and awakened his disciples. His disciples were anxious and wanted to know what was happening. Vivekananda said that he was feeling a lot of pain and that in some part of the world there was a natural calamity that was happening which was causing him the pain. The papers the next morning announced a terrible earthquake in Fiji islands that had consumed many lives.
He was sensitive to a calamity that happened in some corner of the world, thousands of miles away! Do you think normal humans can be this sensitive? Even if our neighbor is sick, it will not have any effect on us!
A small story:
A man called up his family doctor and said, 'Doctor, I think you should visit us and do a check-up on my wife.'
The doctor asked, 'Why? Is she unwell?'
The man replied, 'I think so, doctor. Yesterday, she got up at her usual time, had a bath, cooked food, sent the children to school, cleaned the house because the maid did not turn up, washed our clothes, brought the children back home, attended to their homework and went to bed. Around midnight, she was complaining that she was tired. Maybe she needs to be checked up.'
We have become so insensitive today! We are not able to connect to the other person who is living with us 24 hours a day and 365 days of the year. Enlightened beings on the other hand are deeply sensitive to the universe surrounding them.
What happened in Vivekananda is what you call empathy. Mind you, it is not sympathy; it is empathy. Sympathy is a very superficial word. We are all capable of sympathy. When someone tells you about their suffering, you just confirm their suffering for them; that is sympathy! If someone tells you that their husband is ill, you tell them, 'Oh! How awful, you must be very unhappy. Don't worry, everything will be alright*.*' In the name of sympathy, we confirm their suffering for them and they in turn tell us that we are so caring and loving.
Actually, they love us because we have agreed that they are enduring suffering; it is a subtle ego boost for them. They feel good that we are acknowledging that they are managing such big worries. This is what society calls sympathy.
What masters feel is not sympathy; it is empathy. Empathy is when you feel another's suffering in your own being. Then, a person does not have to tell you his suffering, but you simply know because the Existential energy in you feels it.
Masters are one with you, because they are one with Existence, and you are a part of Existence; only you see them as separate. And because they are one with you, they feel *your* pain in *their* heart. They don't know any other way. And they have the capacity to witness the pain that comes with it also.
Ordinary love gives birth to children while real love gives birth to your own real self. You give yourself a new birth, a transformation. Like how the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, man becomes a realized soul. You awaken to the energizing love that is lying dormant in you.
A master transforms you with his love. I always tell my disciples, 'When I am compassionate, I cheat you and when I fire (scold), I
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teach you.' Either way, you grow! Sometimes I demonstrate my compassion in a very loving way so that you are more malleable to my transforming fingers! Sometimes I show my compassion by simply firing you so that you are jolted into deeper awareness. In both cases, pure love for you is the only reason.'
A master is an ocean of infinite love and knows only to give. If you approach him with a bowl, you will take back a bowl of him with you. If you approach him with a pitcher, you will take back a pitcher of him. It all depends on how thirsty you are, that's all. The thirstier you are, the bigger the vessel you will approach with.
But he is there always, watching you walking up to him with vessels of various sizes and laughing to himself at your own uncertainty, at the play of your mind which you project on him!
Be very clear: I am not asking you to love God or any Master. It is very difficult for you to love something you haven't seen. But you can love all that you can see, can you not? You can love the animals, the plants, people and what not. Simply love them for no reason except the joy of loving.
Feel a deep connection with them and love them. Once you start doing this, you will develop a certain faith in Existence because Existence is the common thread that runs through all these things. Faith is something that cannot be imposed upon you. If it is imposed, you will harbour a deep vengeance towards the object of faith.
When faith happens, slowly, your love will become love towards the whole of Existence. Then, the ultimate religion will take root in you – the religion of gratitude and love.
Gratitude and love are closely related. When you experience gratitude at the core of your being, there will be only love in you, nothing else. The first step towards feeling real love is feeling gratitude. As long as there is discontentment in your system, there cannot be real love. Gratitude and love go hand in hand.
# *Just disappear! That is love*
Some people tell me, '*Swamiji*, I love the whole world. I don't do harm even to a small ant…'
Why do you want to delude yourself by saying all these things? Can you even love your neighbor whole-heartedly? I tell you: it is easy for people to say things like they 'love the whole world', because they don't have to do anything tangible to prove it! They can continue to say that they love the world and not do anything about it! They don't have to do anything special to show it. The world is after all an intangible entity; it is not a clear representation.
But when you say that you love your neighbor, the problem starts! You have to see his face everyday. You have to do something tangible to prove your love for him! Then it becomes a problem!
And how can you feel great in not doing any harm to an ant? Is the ant capable of violating your property or person? Is it capable of testing your love for it? It is not even visible to the eye and you talk about it to me. These are all ways to escape from the truth.
Just try to understand one thing: your inherent nature is love and love is permanent. All other emotions simply come and go, that's
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all. You are caught in thinking that all the other emotions are real and that they are destroying love. Love can never be destroyed. If love could be destroyed, it would have become extinct long ago.
Also, when you really love, the opposite emotions cannot enter into you. They will simply be excluded. When there is bright light in a room, can darkness be brought in? No! Only when you dim the lights, darkness can enter. In the same way, only when real love has not happened in you, the other emotions can enter. When you are brimming with love, there is no way another emotion can enter.
You might have experienced that when you do something intensely, you forget yourself. It can be anything - as simple as coloring or painting or reading….or anything. When you go deeply into it, you forget yourself. When you have an intense headache, just try doing some activity very keenly. Your headache will go away!
Because you are continuously aware of your head, your headache continues. The moment you go deeply into something else and lose awareness of your head, your headache will simply disappear. Only when you remember your head, you can have a headache. When you go deeply into any emotion, only that emotion remains and *you* cease to exist. This is what we mean by 'totality'.
This moment of 'you' disappearing, you may experience for just a few seconds. But if you work on being intense and total in everything, this experience of 'you' disappearing will happen more often to you and for longer periods also. Soon, you will master the art of doing work intensely, and being absent!
In the same way, when you are brimming with love, you don't feel yourself, you feel only love; you *become* love. Only when you become love, have you found real love. When you become love, you automatically exude compassion towards everyone and everything around you. You take up a lot more responsibility around you. This responsibility is not out of ego of serving people, but out of the overflowing love energy in you.
# *Love and responsibility*
Love and responsibility always go hand in hand. When you truly love, you will take up total responsibility as well. People think that *sannyasis* are those who run away from responsibility. Understand: When you forego responsibility towards your own family, you are taking up responsibility for a much bigger family, for humanity at large, for a family which is millions of times bigger than your own. People don't understand this and they simply criticize.
Responsibility is something that can be easily shrugged. The more responsibility you take up, the more you expand and the divine energy will automatically flow in you! I always tell my healers to take up as much responsibility for the suffering and pain around them as they can and to continually heal people.
When you feel that you are responsible for the pain around you, you will automatically stand up to help reduce it in some way or the other. People often think that it is enough if they do things for their own family. This is a way of contraction, not expansion. You need to expand for growth to happen. Existence will automatically flow through you when you take up responsibility. |
People tell me, '*Swamiji*, it is enough if I am able to feed my family properly*.*' Be very clear: this is just an excuse to draw a tight boundary around yourself; a way to contract yourself.
You might have heard of the famous lines of Bodhi Dharma:
*Buddham sharanam gachami Dhammam sharanam gachami Sangam sharanam gachami*
It means:
I surrender to Buddha; I surrender to *Dhamma* - the teachings of Buddha; I surrender to the *Sanga* or institution created by Buddha.
It is very easy to surrender to Buddha or any master. You don't have to do much for it. Masters are so alluring because of their divinity. It doesn't take much from your side to do this. People tell me that the moment they see me, they feel a certain belief and faith in me. I tell you, it is not a big deal. The Existential energy that is flowing through this form simply pulls you, that's all!
The next statement: *I surrender to the teachings of Buddha*, is a little more difficult to follow than the first, because the moment you say this, you have to show that you are following it! For example, I say to you, '*Be blissful'*. That is my teaching. What do you then say? 'No, no *Swamiji*, it is not practical…' Be very clear: I say *only* practical things. You start thinking that I am enlightened and that I don't know anything about your so-called practical life.
I say only those things that you can *become* in day-to-day life. I am sharing my experience with you when I say, *'Be blissful.'* I am not just preaching the words. Understand that first. When I say, '*Be blissful'*, I am drawing you to experience the bliss that I am in. And it is perfectly practical because I am alive here in front of you, experiencing it!
The third line says: '*I surrender to the institution created by Buddha*.' Here starts the real problem. This requires a tremendous responsibility to be taken upon oneself.
Understand that masters live in their mission more than in their body. Only 33% of their energy is in their body. The remaining 66% is in their mission and teachings. That is the kind of responsibility they taken up. I always tell people that I get my energy from my *movement,* not from the food that I eat.
Masters never take up birth to fulfill any *karma* or unfulfilled desires in themselves, because they don't *have* any *karma* to be fulfilled. They take birth out of sheer compassion, sheer love to kindle divinity in people.
Masters live more in their words and movement than in their body. That is why I always tell you to drop my form and become sensitive to the energy in my mission instead.
But what do you do? You try to keep holding my elbow all the time! Instead of doing my work, which is your own flowering, you tag behind me wanting to be around me all the time. You never understand when I say this to you.
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Understand that when you do the work of a divine mission, you are doing two things. One is meditation for your own spiritual growth and the second is service to society which is the greatest responsibility. The second is only a by-product. The transformation that happens in you while you are doing the work is the actual mission of transforming you!
So just take on responsibility with joy! You will feel selfless love growing in you. The whole world will become your family. When you are confronted with seemingly high responsibilities, simply nod your head to them. Mere nodding without resistance is enough. The rest will be taken care of by Existence.
Have you heard of the *mysore pak,* the famous Hindu sweet? It will look and feel heavy, but the moment you put it in your mouth, it will melt and dissolve and give you a renewed source of energy. Likewise, when you simply nod your head to any heavy responsibility, you will immediately get the energy to execute it. The very act of taking up responsibility will bring the necessary energy into you. This is the loving energy of Existence that you need to discover in you.
To take up responsibility, you need to love the whole of Existence without discrimination. When you love without discrimination, you can take up responsibility without discrimination. Responsibility is nothing but the ability to respond spontaneously. When you can respond without a thought, without a plan, ready to take on anything, you have arrived!
### Q: I want to be loving but I am unable to let go...
To be totally loving is a big challenge for the ego. To be totally loving is to merge oneself with the Whole. This is great trouble for the ego. You are right now fragmented; you are not integrated. When you are fragmented, you simply play with your different fragments and escape, that's all. To become loving means to become integrated. But you are scared because when you become integrated, you grow as a whole. Your parts have to die and become a whole.
You are so used to being fragmented that you feel threatened when you have to integrate yourself. Your ego refuses to allow it to happen. When you become loving, you are melting your ego. Earlier your ego was hard; it was solid and you felt good. What will happen when your ego melts? You will feel like you are losing your whole identity, your grip.
If you just decide to let go at least once, you will feel such a tremendous freedom, such liberation inside yourself. You need courage to let go and become loving. As a first step, at least become aware of this deep inside; the rest will automatically happen. Awareness is the key to open any lock.
When you start loving beyond names and forms, you are not losing anything, you are only losing what you are *not*; the illusion which you need to lose. What you have gained is reality. So just have faith and don't fear when you find yourself merging with the whole.
Just let go and watch the inner transformation happen in you. You will then realize how foolishly you were holding on to the ways of your ego; you will realize how much you missed because you were behind the mask of ego.
And understand that real love never calculates. Real love is from the heart and the heart never calculates. Only the mind calculates. It is time to move from the mind to the heart. You have listened enough to your mind. Decide now and listen to your heart. When you live with your heart, you will never regret anything in life because there will be completeness in anything that you do.
You can never experience true love with your mind. You can experience it only with your heart. Love needs to be experienced at the very center of your being. The center of your being is totally silent; it does not know any words or thoughts. No thought can ever penetrate it.
That is why time and again masters tell you to go deep inside yourself to discover your real nature. Your center is your true nature. This is actually *you*. But you seek to find yourself in all other places – in relationships, in material things and what not. You continuously miss seeing the truth. It is now time to look in.
We continuously talk about love, simply because we are missing it; simply because we have not had a taste of it. When a person is thirsty, he talks and dreams of water all the time. The moment he has quenched his thirst, he will stop talking about it. We need to let go and experience true love, the love that merges you with the whole. Then we will stop talking about it.
Love is actually surrender. But it becomes a fight for most of us. When I say surrender, I don't mean surrendering out of acceptance. I mean surrendering out of a deep understanding. When you surrender out of acceptance, you are compromising. Love can never be a compromise. The moment you compromise, it is not love. Only when you understand and dissolve, it is love.
When you are with a master, you have a lifetime opportunity to discover love; you have the opportunity to die and resurrect with true love. The alchemy process that happens in the presence of a master will give you no option but to die and be born again with true love. All you need to do is be willing to dissolve in his presence. When you have the courage to do this, you are ready to take a leap into higher consciousness that is called love.
Love is not an object, it is the subject. It is *you*. *You become love*, that's all. Then you will start loving without a reason. You will love the trees, the flowers, the earth and what not. You will simply radiate love and merge with Existence.
### *The root is love*
You see, when you grow in love, you learn to include everything and everyone. When you see a master, you will understand how encompassing he is. He never excludes anything or anyone. He sees no imperfections in anyone. He is just pure love, that's all. And pure love sees no imperfections.
Existence is pure love. Society is *always* against pure love. Deep inside, society is actually against Existence or God. All its worship is mere hypocrisy. It hides in the name of worship. The best way not to follow anything deeply is to start worshipping it! Society escapes in the name of worship. When you worship, you don't have to do anything else! And people will not trouble you because you are worshipping! But what happens to your inner space? It remains where it was.
Society never approves of letting go and loving every plant and animal with love. It would tell you that you are mad. It will approve only of love that is governed by give and take; love that comes with a reason.
But I tell you: don't give up. Keep on loving with all your heart. See Existence in everything. Feel the plants with tenderness in your heart. See the animals as if they were your own. See every person, stone or tree as a part of God. *That* is real worship. It is easy to worship God in the temple. The real worship is seeing everything as God. Start with your neighbor first.
People never go to the root of anything; that is the problem. The root of God is love. The root of God lies in seeing Him in everything. People are afraid to go to the root and so they delude themselves in superficial layers. They don't have the courage to explore beyond a certain point in anything in life. That is why they don't allow you also to explore. They tell you what they have found is the truth. They tell you that it is enough if you follow what they are saying.
Have the courage to go deep inside and love. You will start feeling the common thread of Existence in all that you see. You will understand that all that you see are illusory happenings held together by the real thread that is Existence. Automatically, you will start loving everything in the same way without any trouble because you will see only Existence in everything. This is the real shift in consciousness.
You can talk for years about Existence or God, and still not have any experience of it. Of course, your ego will be nice and solid because you will feel that you know so much about God! But if you look in, there will be no solid experience. And because you have no solid experience, you will keep getting caught in words, because if you stop talking, there is nothing left; there is no experience.
So start feeling love towards everything simply for what it is. Understand: because all of you are here, I am talking to you. If you were not here, I would be continuing to talk to this banyan tree, to these plants, to these animals! Every leaf here talks. That is the language of love!
For years people have been telling you that you are an advanced species of animals. Be very clear, even animals are not merely animals. Each and every atom on this earth is divine, a part of Existence. If you understand this clearly, you will be able to start feeling for everything around you.
Your mind does not need love, but your being needs it. Love is an adventure where you go into dissolution. When *you are not*, love *is*. We don't have the courage to 'not be' and so we hold on; we pull back from unconditional love.
Those who are ready to take the adventure into dissolution, into experiencing the whole, are the brave ones. The ordinary love that you know is like fighting within four walls. Real love is like fighting in the cold on the open streets. The courageous ones will fight on the streets and win. When you fight within four walls, you feel good, but you are missing reality. When you are ready to fight on the streets, you are in reality and alive!
You need not have any fear of fighting in the open. If you fight knowing that you are fighting under the compassionate eyes of Existence, you need not fear because even if you fall you fall into the very lap of Existence! But you have to have the courage to stand up and fight. That is the step that you take on your side. The rest, Existence will take care.
This will happen if you are just a little more than curious to know the truth. Mere curiosity is not enough. If you are just curious, you will come, flirt and get away. If you are more than curious, if there is a burning desire in you that surfaces at least once in a while, you can start knowing and experiencing the truth. If you are merely curious, there will be no devotion or dedication. If there is a fire, there will be devotion and dedication. Dedication is what brings you here, again and again.
Try as you might to run away from here, you can't! You might stay away for a few days, but the burning desire inside will draw you again and again. To discover true love, you have to have this intensity within you.
# *Love makes you beautiful and rich*
Love as much as you can, without asking for anything in return. Loving for a reason is not love; it is just a business deal. When you can love without a reason, when you can love anything and anyone that comes your way, you will release tremendous energy and beauty. You will appear beautiful irrespective of whether you are physically beautiful or not.
Don't think that unconditional love will not get you back anything. It will get you back things in more than one way. But you should evolve to an extent where you see these things coming to you and continue loving, for the sake of loving. Your intelligence will make you see the things that you get in return, and the same intelligence will keep you blissfully untouched by them also!
There will be a revolutionary change in your heart and you will be a new person. Others will see a beautiful change in you. They will develop a new respect for you. They will see that you are flowering in a way incomprehensible to them.
To be able to love unconditionally, you need to feel free. What do I mean by free? Not being bound by caste, creed, sect, religion, family, relatives and any such thing. Because when you are bound by all this, your love will remain bound, and bound love is not real love. How can you love with boundaries? It is against the very definition of love! |
Can you say that the Ganges is inconsistent? Can you say that the Ganges should flow in a more orderly fashion? No! That is the way it flows, that's all; you can't pass judgment on it. In the same way, a master also flows. You can't call me inconsistent. I live moment to moment. You live with interconnected and complicated moments. What is the result? You feel burdened and worried.
When you have so many moments weighing on you, you will definitely feel heavy. In the same way, when only the moment is on you, you will feel so light. All your worries are because you connect the present and the future with past patterns. In the whole process, you miss the present, which is actually a gift for you. You continuously miss the present for the sake of the past and the future. Finally, only the future and the past remain, never the present.
These patterns that cause the current of worry have become a life-sustaining element for you.
A small story:
- Two friends went to a cinema theatre to watch a newly released film.
- One of them noticed that the other was frequently looking at his watch.
- Finally he whispered to him, 'Are you not enjoying the film?'
The friend replied, 'I am. I am just wondering how much more time is left to enjoy.'
Most of us are like this! We are so tuned to worrying, that even if there is nothing to worry about, we worry about how long this state of no-worry is going to last! When we are enjoying ourselves, we worry about how much time is left to enjoy. How will we ever enjoy then? When you are continuously thinking this way, you are keeping yourself in the future all the time. When you do this, you have missed the pleasure of the moment!
Everyone feels important and productive when they harbor worries. Actually, the more a person worries, the more he feels good about himself because he feels he is managing so much worry! That is why most often you will see that when you talk about your worries to someone, they will say, 'Ah! This is nothing; listen to my problems; then you will know what worry is.' People feel superior in shouldering big worries!
By thinking of worries all the time, what is going to happen? Nothing. With your ten worries, an eleventh worry called depression will happen, that's all.
We worry while we work. When there is worry, you cannot work and when you are really working, you cannot worry. Where there is worry, there cannot be any creativity and where there is creativity there cannot be any worry. Creativity is God's job. When you create, you are close to God. Creativity comes from the heart. Worry comes from the mind.
### *Past is an unwanted baggage. Drop it.*
By going behind the past or thinking about the future, you miss the present. Spirituality is all about dropping the past and living in the present. Right now, you are accumulating the past. You feel bogged down because of this.
You don't know how to unload your past. You feel that you have to carry it with you. Society has taught you that you have to carry it with you. You are taught to feel guilty if you try dropping it.
Society tells you that you are ungrateful if you drop the past. There is absolutely no need for you to carry your past with you. The people who tell you these things don't know that gratitude is something that you have to feel continuously in you towards Existence and everyone as a whole, and not something that you feel towards isolated incidents in life.
When you drop your past, the present will take you by surprise. Society always teaches you to enjoy the present as past, never as present. It teaches you to make everything a past and then enjoy it.
I have seen people who go out on holidays – they are all the time with their still camera and video camera. In the most scenic of places, instead of enjoying the nature surrounding them, they will be scrambling with their cameras to capture all the scenes.
They will then go home, wash their film rolls, sit on their sofa inside four walls and enjoy the same scenery through the camera. And they will show all the photographs to family and friends just to tell them that they have visited the places seen in the pictures. But they never enjoyed the places when they were there!
You enjoy the present after making it a past. That is why people say, 'Those were the golden days.' When the days were actually there, you would have surely not thought they were golden. At that time you would have been saying that the earlier days were golden days!
When you are in the present, every moment will become a celebration and you will not be searching for past incidents to celebrate.
Also, it is such a waste of time dissecting the past for worries because you are a new person every moment. Every moment you are evolving; every moment you are getting updated. You are a part of Existence and Existence changes every moment. Then how can you dissect past incidents with your updated intelligence? It is totally irrelevant and meaningless.
Never analyze the past with updated intelligence. It is a totally foolish thing to do. It will only lead to more worry and guilt. Every moment you are dying and becoming a new person. This is the truth.
Have you seen any buffalo or cow worried? Have you heard of any plant that is worried? Are they not conducting their lives without a hassle? Why do *you* worry then? I tell you: worrying is the most unproductive habit of man.
# *Words are the unit of worry*
All our worries are nothing but a collection of words in the languages that we know. And they cause so much confusion and misinterpretation in us. But what to do? Words are the only form of communication man is familiar with.
I always tell people: when I say something, you understand it as something else. And that is where the problem starts. Each one carries his own dictionary and interprets the words in his own way.
A small story:
One man told his wife, 'You know, it is said that over 5000 camels are used in a year to make paintbrushes.' The wife replied, 'Oh God! Is it not amazing to see what they can make animals do!'
The husband says something and the wife understands it as something else. This is how most of us relate. That is why I say, words cause confusion. Sadly, the only form of communication that man knows is words. He gets caught in words and more words.
You see, words will always give rise to more words. But there is a silence or a gap between one word and the other – a tiny gap not perceivable by us; this is the gap we need to be aware of! This is the gap that holds what we are seeking.
This gap is so microcosmic that although we go through it all day, we are blissfully oblivious to it. When I talk, you become intensely engrossed in my speech. Sometimes, I give long gaps between words. I give those gaps for you to absorb and witness the silence, which holds what you are seeking. But invariably what happens? The moment I give gaps, you start getting restless. You start fidgeting with your things or you start looking around and talking, collecting words again!
Real silence is that which is flooded with only awareness and nothing else. It is not just keeping your mouth shut.
Now your mind will start asking, 'How can I stop this inner chatter and thoughts? How can I experience real silence?' This thought will start haunting you and it will become one more worry!
Try to understand: you can never stop the thinking. The thought that you have to stop your thinking itself is another thought! If you forcibly try to be silent for a second, that silence is not the silence we want to achieve; it is just a forced and dead silence. The silence that we want to achieve is a vibrating and blissful silence, the silence of Existence.
So what is it that needs to be done? Simply watch the mind, that's all. Be an observer. Don't pass any judgments; don't resist any thoughts. Watch it with the deep gratitude that it is God's gift to you. Automatically, silence will happen.
Your awareness will slowly grow and make you centered in yourself and increase the silence in you. When I say increase the silence, I mean your inner chatter will reduce and you will be more of a watcher. With that increased silence, there will be more awareness in you and it will become a cyclic process.
With greater awareness, you will be able to enjoy the beauty that surrounds you. It is not that the beauty came in suddenly; it was always there! But you were not aware of it. You were too busy within yourself. Now with your awareness, you will be able to celebrate it! Suddenly, nature will start revealing itself to you as very beautiful. Your inner self will transform, and along with it, the outer world will transform too!
When you learn to be in awareness, you can use your mind at your discretion. It becomes a vital tool at your disposal. You can use it just when you want to. From being a dangerous enemy, it becomes a reliable friend.
# *Bring down the number of thoughts per second*
When your inner chatter comes down, when your TPS or Thoughts Per Second comes down for even a split second, for that split second you are totally in the present and for that split second, you have the ability to access your past and future like an open book! When your inner chatter is high, your TPS is high and you are all the time either in the past or in the future; never in the present.
Let me explain to you what I mean by being able to access your past and future. Sometimes you might have experienced that when you are at a lecture or at a party, or in any other place, suddenly out of nowhere, you feel that the whole scene has happened before. The voices, the conversation, the place, even a few curios in the place, all will look like a replay of a scene that you have witnessed earlier. You are shocked.
Or, suddenly you think about a particular person, a friend whom you haven't contacted in a long time, and that person calls up on your phone. You are able to predict what is going to happen in the next few moments. You feel jolted when these things happen to you. Be very clear: in these few moments, you are accidentally completely in the present. Accidentally, somehow, you fall into the present.
You are never consciously in the present. You are always in the past or future. You move from past to future without touching the present. This is the truth. But accidentally your thoughts per second come down for a moment and you are jolted into the present.
When you are completely in the present for even a second, your past and future become transparent to you. That is why you see these kinds of intuitive things happening in you.
Our thinking is never clear. It is always just association; it is never real thinking.
Let me explain what I mean by association. You wake up in the morning and see a rose that has bloomed in your garden. Immediately your mind goes to someone who gave you a rose sometime in the past. Your thought then goes through your reaction at that time to the flower, or you start thinking about that person. You then start thinking about incidents that have happened with that person. In the end what happens? You miss the rose that is in front of you!
This is how you run behind the past and miss the present. This is what I mean by the word association. This is the nature of your current mental set-up. As long as your mental set-up is mere association, you will continue to go behind the past or the future, creating words and more words within yourself.
Enlightened masters live always in the present. That is why they have access to the vast ocean of the past and the future. For you, it is an accident. It is a split second when this happens to you. You even feel scared when this happens! You are so used to living unconsciously, that when you are jolted into consciousness, it is too much. Reality becomes too much!
Your TPS plays a major role in determining how far you are from the present. When your TPS is high, you live unconsciously; you are so far flung from reality. When your TPS is low, you come close to the present. Meditation and awareness is the way to bring down the TPS.
People tell me, '*Swamiji*, we went for a vacation and it turned out to be hell*.*' I tell you: hell is inside you; you carry it with you everywhere. Obviously you will find it anywhere you go! When you live, you give hell to others. When you die, you get hell! Wherever you go, you want to carry your hell with you. You are so familiar with hell that even if you are shown heaven, you will feel a misfit there!
A small story:
Three fisherwomen went to sell fish one day and it became late that night when they were returning home.
They decided to spend the night in some house on the way. They entered the house of a lady who sold jasmine flowers for a livelihood and they requested to spend the night there. The lady agreed and they went to sleep in the room given to them.
The house was filled with the fragrance of the jasmine flowers.
But however hard they tried, the fisherwomen could not sleep.
They were tossing and turning, and they did not know what to do.
Then suddenly, one of them got up, brought in the empty fish basket and kept it by their heads. They went to sleep in no time!
We carry our worries with us everywhere we go and feel comfortable nurturing them! But we also complain that we are so worried all the time! We want to be free from something but we are not willing to transform and be free from it. This is what I mean by being self-contradictory. If we don't want to worry, then we should not worry. On one side we don't want to worry but on the other side, we want to worry all the time!
# *Stop reacting*
How can we be free from this? What should be our attitude?
Both questions have only one answer: *whatever* you do, do with a feeling of bliss, that's all. Your inner space decides the quality of your life. This space should be pure and blissful always.
It has been proven that the consciousness of a scientist plays a major role in the experiment that he conducts. It has been observed that the same experiment when done in the same controlled environmental conditions produce different results when done by different scientists. They have clearly proven that a person's thoughts control his actions and the results of his actions.
Bliss attracts fortune. This is a great truth. When you are blissful, automatically, Existence showers on you. Material wealth comes to you. Be with a sense of gratitude always. The rest will happen automatically. |
One day, they came to know that his wealthy uncle had died leaving one million dollars to him.
They were very excited and at the same time did not know how to break this news to him. They were afraid that he might collapse hearing it.
One of them suggested, 'I think we'd better call the family doctor and tell him to handle this.'
They all agreed.
They called up the family doctor and told him the matter.
The doctor said, 'Don't worry, I will handle it. It is not so hard as you think.'
He soon arrived at their house and went into the room and started talking to the man. He casually asked him, 'If you were suddenly told that you were given one million dollars in cash, what would you do?'
The man replied, 'I would give half of it to you, doctor.' The doctor collapsed and died.
We are ready to see life as a drama when it comes to others but when it comes to us, it becomes hard to digest! We are always ready to give advice to others. I read in a book that advice is something which everyone loves to give but no one is ready to take!
You can watch your own life also like a witness. You can be like a lotus – untouched by the water although deep inside it. Then you have learned to play the game of life. Understand one thing: Existence is trying to express itself continuously in many ways. Our role is to understand and flow with it with deep awareness.
Understand that the whole of creation is flowing in accordance with Existence. Then you will automatically drop your worries and anxieties. You have to reach a stage where your core is untouched by what is happening around you. This will happen if you understand that Existence is continuously changing.
Outwardly, you may express different emotions, but in your innermost core, you must be able to continuously see that all the incidents outside are like beads that are strung on the common thread of Existence. The thread is what holds them together.
## Q: But we don't intentionally worry. How do you then say that we bring worries upon ourselves?
Worry has become the unconscious state of your mind. You don't have to put any intention into it. It simply happens, that's all! You don't have to make a conscious effort; it is there in you all the time.
#### A small story:
A woman called up the reception desk of a hotel and screamed for help.
The receptionist came to her room.
The lady screamed at her, 'I can see a naked man, across the way in the window of the other room.'
The receptionist looked through the window and saw a man standing with his upper body bare.
She said, 'Ma'am, only his upper body is bare. How can you conclude that he is naked?'
The lady screamed, 'Get on top of the wardrobe and see!'
Even if everything is alright, we search with a torchlight for worries! We don't do this intentionally at all. We do it in the most natural fashion ever - that is the problem! Our state of mind has to undergo a 180 degree change.
Another small story:
A policeman was going on his night rounds when he saw a cow dead in the middle of a lane.
He started dragging the animal towards the adjacent street. A passerby asked him why he was dragging the dead animal all that way.
The policeman replied, 'When I report this tomorrow, it will be easier because I know the name of that street.'
Because we don't know how to be spontaneous, we are worried all the time! We complicate things in our lives in order to fit them into our framework. We don't live in a fluid way. When you live in a fluid way, you don't have to work unnecessarily. You can simply enjoy and move on.
For example, if I now tell you that you should be blissful always, you will start worrying about how to be blissful! You know to start anything only with worry; that is the problem. That is why most of the time when you ask me something, I never tell you anything directly or in many words. I simply tell you a few abstract statements so that your mind cannot be put into any track of worrying but at the same time I give you the energy to understand and implement it.
### Q: Then how do we start following what you are saying if we don't start worrying about it?
Just absorb the energy and inspiration behind my words and start living in the present, that's all. When you allow logic to come in, the trouble starts.
Just feel the energy behind my words, what I call the silence, the silence with which I am trying to enter you all the time. This silence will ultimately take you where it has to take you. Never try to get into the real meaning of my words. I have my own dictionary, while you have yours! It will not match. Just absorb the energy. Energy is intelligence. It will guide you.
Never collect words. Only intellectual nuts collect words and more words. They collect words and get more and more confused. They collect words thinking that they will get clarity at some point in time, but it never happens.
Whatever I say, even if it seems contradictory, it is the complete truth for the moment that it is spoken. Whatever I say is the complete truth for that moment that I am speaking it. But you cannot infer from my words alone. So for that moment, simply take them in with a mood to experiment. That will give you the energy and intelligence to follow through.
So don't listen with your intellect. Listen with deep meditation. Whatever may be your emotion or path at that point in time, just go deeply into it and listen to me. That is enough. You will automatically be filled with energy and clarity. These are all the basic secrets that I am giving you.
When you cling to my words, you will be worried that you might forget them. You will start jotting them down. I tell you, the moment you start jotting things down, you miss the whole thing. You will neither have absorbed the energy behind the words nor would you have completely taken down the words. You will go home with scribbled notes and a few days later, even that will be lying in some corner of the house. Sometime later, even if you find them, you will not be able to make anything out of them.
It is something like this: Let us say you read a book and retained only the last two pages of it in your hand. With just those two pages, would you be able to re-compile the whole book? No! In the same way, don't try to jot down a few of my words and try to recollect the whole thing. Just be present completely when I am talking. That is enough.
These words will penetrate you and do the work if you give your whole presence here. So listen with your being, not with your mind. Don't bother about forgetting these words. When you understand something and transform, you will never forget it. If you have forgotten, it means that you have not understood!
Not just my words; don't cling on to *anything.* Every moment is going past; then what is there to cling to? Clinging will bring misery upon misery. There is no point in thinking about the future also. It is yet to come. What are you thinking about? The future will also come in the form of the present only. So focus on the present.
When you are in the present, you don't choose at all. Worry basically arises because you are in the past or future and choosing all the time. When you decide not to choose at all and just totally accept and drink in the whole experience, there will be no worry.
People ask me, '*Swamiji*, I am afraid when I think that the world might suddenly come to an end.'
So what if the world comes to an end? If the world comes to an end, everyone is going to be ending along with it. There will be no one and nothing remaining for anyone to be worried about! You were earlier worried only because there was something in the world to worry about. If the world itself is coming to an end, then there should be nothing to be worried about. But you worry about that also!
See how self-contradictory the mind is? It worries if there is something to worry about and it worries if there is nothing to worry about also. But it wants to be free of worry all the time!
Actually, all of your emotions are nothing but the play of the unconscious in you. When you live with total awareness, you can never be under the sway of emotions. That is why again and again I tell you to flood yourself with awareness.
You see, your worries, your words, really make or break your life. They have got that much power - to influence you and others. For example, when I utter the word 'cow', immediately what happens? A figure with 4 legs, 2 horns and 1 tail appears in your mind. A simple 3-letter word can bring to your mind a whole image! Words are that powerful. When we don't respect words and use them wrongly, we are asking for trouble.
A small story:
Birbal, an enlightened master, and Akbar, his king, were walking together on the streets.
They saw a sandalwood dealer and Akbar said to Birbal, 'I don't know why but I feel like hanging this man.'
A month later, they walked past the same sandalwood dealer and Akbar this time said, 'It's strange but I feel like giving this man some endowment now!'
Birbal replied after a long pause, 'A month back, the sandalwood dealer's business was suffering and when he saw you walking past, he thought to himself that if you die, the courtiers would come to buy a lot of sandalwood from him for your funeral pyre. He sent out these negative vibrations, which prompted you to feel hatred towards him. I immediately purchased a lot of sandalwood from him to make tables and chairs for our kingdom. Today, he feels very grateful towards you and you have been struck by these positive vibrations from him and therefore you feel like giving him some endowment!'
Understand that your thoughts have a lot of power in themselves. It is therefore very important that you have positive thoughts and a worry-free mental set-up.
#### Q: There are books that say 'don't sweat for small stuff'. But small things do matter, do they not?
When you function with intelligence, you will not fall into the category of sweating for small stuff.
A small story:
A young man went to visit his friend. He found him scraping the wallpaper off the wall. He asked him, 'Are you repainting?' The friend replied, 'I am moving house*.*'
You see, you cannot ignore the small things. But you should be intelligent enough to pay only the amount of attention it warrants, or else you will start to sweat. Never listen to people when they say not to pay attention to small things. Remember that small holes can sink a great ship. Just operate with your intelligence and awareness and you will know which the real small stuff is.
If you are convinced without self-contradiction that you need to do those small things, automatically you will find the energy to do them. When you are not fully convinced, you will not have enough conviction and energy to go behind them. Your intelligence will not be fully backing you, because intelligence is energy and energy is intelligence.
If you are sweating about the small stuff, then there is something wrong somewhere. Be very clear that all miseries arise because of self-contradictions. You yourself are not fully clear about what you want to do and so you are unable to do it. For that clarity to happen, you need to nurture your own intelligence.
When intelligence happens, self-contradictions disappear and you start becoming integrated. When you start becoming integrated, your intelligence grows more. This is the cycle you need to get into. This is the cycle that can clear your worries also.
If you are really interested in dropping your inner chatter and worries, you could try a small exercise. Think of all the things that give you joy. Make up your mind that you will allow your mind to linger on only these things and nothing else. Anything else, you will give just enough energy to get it done and then forget about it. Try this exercise and you will see that you conserve a lot of energy.
Understand that you have given a lot of power to your worries by simply talking about them more and more. For example, when a housewife picks up the telephone, she will start by telling her friend that the house maid did not turn up for the day. That is her depression for the day. If you are really depressed about the maid not coming and you are really interested in coming out of it, then you should simply finish doing the work yourself! Doesn't this sound more logical?
But what do you do? You keep on talking about it and expecting your friend to feed your depression as well. If she doesn't sympathize with you or if she tells you that is how life is and you have to move on, you will make a call to another friend and tell that friend about how inconsiderate this friend was! Just think, if you really wanted to move on with your life, you would appreciate the words of the friend, would you not?
But why are you reacting differently? The reason is, you are so comfortable just talking about your worries and not finding a way out of them.
If you start doing this small exercise, you will see that all your worries simply disappear and you acquire a new mental set-up altogether. You will find a surge of energy within you because all the energy that you previously spent on harboring your worries is suddenly available to you!
Do an honest check for yourself and find out if you are secretly nurturing your worries or whether you are ready to take on the transformation.
When you stop going behind your worries, you will be able to see how others are helplessly caught up in that cycle. You will be able to see how they magnify their worries by endlessly talking about them to people. This talking about worry is what I call 'worrying about the worry'! Only when you are able to watch this, will it stop. Until such time as you become the watcher, you are caught up in the emotions, giving so much of power and control to them.
I am not asking you to run away from your worries. I am saying, don't magnify them by talking about them. Don't expend your energy on them. Instead, address them for what needs to be done so that they stop worrying you. Address them without loss of time, that's all.
Check yourself to find out if you are starting to feel comfortable with your worries. This is the scale to see if worries are controlling you or you are controlling your worries. If you are feeling comfortable talking about them repeatedly without taking any action, then worries are controlling you. If you don't linger on them and address them correctly, then you are controlling them!
## Q: *Swamiji***, earlier you mentioned about drinking. My husband drinks ever so often claiming that he drinks to forget his worries. What do I do?
As I told you, this is a common problem and if your husband were here, it would have been helpful. If you analyze the habit of drinking, you will understand how self-contradictory you are in this habit. Let me try to explain:
You drink to feel joyful, but you end up becoming miserably miserable. |
I was shocked. I told him, '*Ayyah*, why do you want to move from coffee to acid without any reason? All she did was spill coffee in some anger and haste and in any case, she is going to be the one who is going to wash your clothes!'
He continued, '*Swamiji*, during our marriage ceremony, there is a custom wherein three pots of water are kept and the couple are meant to leave their hands in all three of them to try and find a ring which has been dropped in one of them. As early as that time, she scratched my hand with her fingernail!'
In order to zero down the distance between the couple, small games such as these are played during Hindu weddings. The man had been keeping a 10-year track of such trivial incidents!
I asked him, '*Ayyah*, if you maintain such a police track record, how can one live with you?'
You see: there are two things that we do: One is, presenting arguments and looking for a judgment, while the second is, forming a judgment and then collecting arguments to support that judgment. The second is what we do *99%* of the time.
There are many things happening around us but we register only what *we want* to register, never what is really happening. Because of this, we miss reality. Reality continuously exists but we see only what we want to see. In marriage, within the first few months, the man or woman forms a judgment about the other and from then on, whatever the other does, he or she sees from the point of view of the judgment. They search and collect arguments to maintain their judgment.
That is why, if you decide that your wife is a fool, she will always look like a fool no matter what. If you decide that your husband is the type who controls you, he will always appear in that way to you, whatever he may be doing.
If you do this, you will never be able to see the real aspects of your spouse; you will see only those aspects that feed your judgment. This is like when you are hungry, only restaurants hit your eye on the road. In the same way, before killing a dog what do we do? We call it a mad dog and then kill it.
Drop this attitude. Only then you will find a certain freshness in every person and thing that you come by.
A small story:
A man walked into a police station to complain that his wife was missing since three hours.
The policeman asked him, 'Can you give me details about her height, weight etc.'
The man said, 'Oh! I don't know.'
The policeman asked, 'What was she wearing when she left the house?'
The man said, 'I did not notice, sir. But wait, she took the dog with her. I know that.'
The policeman asked, 'What kind of dog is it?'
The man replied, 'A dalmation breed with grey spots instead of black; he weighs 50 lbs and has a pure white tail with no spots on it; he wears a brown collar with a silver chain. His name is Spot.'
The policeman said, 'That's enough. We will find them!'
A husband and wife live with each other with a certain freshness for probably a few months after marriage. In those few months, they collect judgments about the other. After that, they don't relate with each other at all. They don't actually see the other person itself. They relate with the judgments, that's all.
The husband relates with the judgments that he has collected about his wife and the wife relates with the judgments that she has collected about her husband. The actual husband and actual wife are different! They become four people in one house.
Just do an honest check. How long is it since you looked into the eye of your husband or wife and spoke to him or her? A very long time I am sure. And we feel that the early days were golden days and that life has become boring. If you really see, it is your attitude that makes it boring.
You give absolutely no room for a person to evolve. You are in such a hurry to typecast them. You don't want to take in anything new on their account. I tell you, you don't even see your wife or husband after a few years of marriage because you are happy relating with your image of them.
What will happen then? You will land up like this man who was clueless about his own wife's particulars! Not knowing a wife's particulars is a very superficial level problem. The understanding I am trying to express goes deeper than that. You actually miss the real person who is living with you. You live with your *idea* about the person.
For just 24 hours, make up your mind that you will see your wife or husband as if you are seeing her or him for the first time. Receive every word or action of hers with a freshness and innocence without jumping to conclusions. Feel lovingness in you towards her. Even if she says things that provoke you, listen to those statements with awareness and respond in a calm and loving way, instead of in the usual resistive way. You will see that you are actually opening out new avenues for both of you; you are giving the two of you a new space to relate.
Suddenly, you will realize that all along it was your attitude that made things look miserable. Of course, you might say that the other person too must reciprocate. You have the power to transform yourself and others. With just a change in your mental make-up, you can do much. When you decide to change, the other person will automatically change their ways too.
A small story:
A man was walking past a cemetery one day when he heard a loud cry from inside.
He felt obliged to stop by and see if he could offer help. He walked in and saw a man crying loudly near a tombstone.
He was repeatedly saying, 'Why did you have to go? Why did you have to go?'
The man felt really sad for his suffering, so he went near him and asked, 'Sir, I am sorry. Was it your wife?'
The man replied, 'No. It is her first husband.'
Relationships turn out to be a trauma because of a sheer mismatch between one's own imagination and reality. Still worse, people move from one relationship to another thinking that the next one is going to match their imagination. They go with it for some time and find out that there is something lacking there also and move onto the next. It never occurs to them that there is nothing wrong with the other person.
Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult for youngsters to tolerate one another and marriages are breaking up so easily. It is such a pity to see these things happening. An awakening is needed now. Only a deep understanding can bring about this awakening.
If you read all the love stories written until now, you will find that nowhere have the man and woman stayed with each other on a full- time basis at a functional level, in reality!
In a story about eternal lovers written by Rabindranath Tagore, the hero and heroine decide to live as eternal lovers on the two sides of the river Ganga. Periodically, they come by boat, meet each other and get back.
If they do this, obviously they will be at peace during the time they meet. Every time they meet, there will be freshness in the air because they know that they will be together for only a few hours; the moment becomes precious!
All eternal lovers, be they Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or Ambikapathi and Amaravathi, never really lived together!
The problem is, life doesn't have background music! When you watch the love stories on television, they all come with background music and so you easily enter into a fantasy world. All the scenes that you see, especially the love scenes, come with background music. You enjoy it so much because of the background music. You are completely mesmerized by the atmosphere created in the television box.
In real life, you search for that music and don't find it! But if you find that music within yourself, then you won't look for it outside. Finding it within yourself is nothing but creating the beautiful space within you where everything is experienced as wonderful part of Existence.
Remember that your husband or wife is a creation of God. Your creation cannot compete with God's creation! Only His creation will win!
Today, there is a very large instance of pornography, fantasy, dreams and perversion in society. People have started going to other poor substitutes to fulfill their fantasies. Pornography does not fulfill sexual life; it creates more fantasies and perversion, that's all. But there is such a compulsion for fantasizing. Understand one thing: unless you are weak, nothing becomes a compulsion for you. When you are strong, you can drop anything.
*(A lady shares her views) Swamiji, you ask us to be as we are. But how can we live in society just as we are? I think we have to change according to the family, the society.*
Yes, everybody faces this problem on a practical level. You say, 'Swamiji, I have to act according to the other.' I ask you, why not also make sure that others act according to you? True, in society, we have to be dependent on each other. There is no other way. But be very clear of your limits.
Be independently dependent!
Be very clear, which is your space and which is the other's. Try your best to enrich your own life, without disturbing one another.
### Q: Can't the other person's muladhara chakra be opened, so that he drops his expectations?
How will you do that? You can only make sure that your own expectations are dropped, so that from four people sharing one house, you at least come down to three!
How to change the other person...? These days marriage counselors suggest even hypnotism!
The other day, I read about a case where a woman wanted to bring down her husband's anger levels. I read that the Chicago University once performed an experiment where they implant electrodes in a person's brain and completely control anger. When they asked for volunteers to participate in this research, it seems hundreds of women forcibly brought their husbands!
After the experiment, 72 women – this is a fact – 72 women came back and told the university, 'Please remove these electrodes. I want my old husband back! I want my old angry husband back!' When asked why, they say, 'Life has lost its taste! Unless we fight, there is no interaction. He pays me no attention!'
Everybody needs attention! Behavioural psychologists say that a normal man can survive without food for up to 90 days, but without attention from others, only for 14 days! He will start going insane.
What has happened is that we have forgotten how to love each other and care for each other. Love is a forgotten language! So the only interaction and attention we can hope to have is by fighting with each other!
I think even the people sitting here and complaining that their husbands or wives are not spiritual… if their spouses become spiritual, they may come back and complain that they want their old partners back!
### Carry heaven with you wherever you go
The beautiful thing about this *mūlādhāra chakra* is, if this one *chakra* is opened, you will find that 50% of your problems have disappeared! This one *chakra* manages more than 50% of your life. In whatever you do, you will find a trace of this *chakra*! Even in your signature, you'll find a trace of this *chakra*! What I mean is, even the way you put your signature shows what kind of emotions are pent up in you. When the *mūlādhāra chakra* is activated, even your signature will look different. If you pluck a flower, the way you do it will be different. It will be so soft and gentle, with no violence.
There are a set of Tamil saints called the *Nayanmars*. There is a song which says about them, that when they pluck a flower, the tree will not feel the pain! What do we mean by that? You become so sensitive and loving, when this *chakra* is opened. When the energy of this *chakra* is transformed, it will overflow from you as love!
Sex is carbon, love is diamond. Sex is mud, love is the lotus that blooms in the mud. It is the same substance. But the thing is, you should know how to process it. Just drop your expectations, and you will find a tremendous upsurge of energy.
Today I want you all to try this technique when you go home:
Sit down and concentrate on your *mūlādhāra chakra*. If you notice, your *mūlādhāra chakra* is always tense. It is always tight.
For five minutes, mentally forgive your husband or wife for anything disturbing that they have done. Really forgive them. Go to the root of all your misgivings and drop the feeling of resentment. Do it totally. Just welcome them as they are. Give them your deep love.
After just five minutes, you will see that the *mūlādhāra chakra* is totally relaxed.
If just five minutes can give you this result, just imagine what will happen if you change your entire attitude! What a tremendous energy flow you will experience!
The way you are living now, it is as if you have got 100,000 rupees, but you have locked away ninety thousand in some place where you can't recover it. You try to manage your whole life with the remaining ten thousand. Then naturally you will feel that you are poor!
In the same way, all your energy has been locked away in this *chakra* – in anger, in sex and what not. You don't have enough energy even for your day-to-day living! Once this *chakra* is opened, your life will become rich. You will be able to think better, understand better, plan better. You will feel this energy consciously working in you. It will open a new dimension that you would not have experienced before. You will actually realize that your husband, your wife, and everyone in this world are spiritual beings!
You need to understand that heaven and hell are not geographical places. You can't locate them on a map. They exist only psychologically. It's up to you to transform your life into heaven or hell.
When you are full of expectations, you carry your own hell in you. So wherever you go, you will find that your personal package of hell travels with you! Like how a circus troupe carries and spreads its tents everywhere it goes, so also you carry this hell with you to any place you go to. And when two such people meet, there is a great clash of hells, not bells!
Why do you want to carry this load around with you? Just drop it!
Just think of all the energy you waste in trying to chisel the other person to suit your expectations. Isn't it much easier to just drop the chisel? If even 10% of that energy is channeled into meditation, your life can be transformed into true living.
Living is 'life led with awareness, with freedom'. We have a choice! We have a chance to become conscious. It is up to us to decide.
### Lust to love, the alchemy process
Lust, like anger, is a tremendous energy. Actually, until such time when you understand what lust is and how it can be transformed, any action that you do is lustful. Even if you pick up a pen, it is lustful; if you are petting a small child, it is lustful. There is a certain animal nature in it because your energy is still driven by greed. It has not transformed into higher energy. |
When love becomes the centre of your being, sex becomes a deep union of two beings. The problem is, true love is lost under the covers and lust has taken over. As a result, the beings never come together; only the bodies come together. The relationship remains at a very superficial level. Anything superficial can be shaken easily.
Also, lust always blinds you. It takes you into unconscious intoxication. Love also intoxicates you, but it takes you into deep awareness. Lust and love are two ends of the same spectrum. Anything that puts you into deep awareness is meditation. Anything that puts you in an unconscious state is not conducive. This is the scale to see if what you are experiencing is good for you or not.
Also, when you love deeply, there will be no room for jealousy. Jealousy is there because you are afraid that the shallow roots will give way. If the roots are deep, why would you be afraid? Why would you get jealous? The trust in your partner gets shaky because the relationship is superficial, it is a relationship based on fantasy and lust.
Romance is not real romance if you feel it towards only one person. Life itself is romance! Your very being has to exude romance - towards Existence. When your being expresses itself through your head, it is intelligence; when it expresses itself through the heart, it is compassion; when it expresses itself through the body, it is energy and when it does not express itself but just IS, it is bliss!
When you reach this stage, you will not be dependent on anyone outside for joy. You will simply resonate with joy all the time inside yourself. Of course, you will be able to multiply it by sharing it with others outside.
When you feel deeply connected to a person, there will be no need for physical proximity to that person. You will feel happy and satisfied with just the feeling of connection with him or her. You will feel complete unto yourself and not look for anything outside for fulfillment. This connection will not suffer separation or anything else.
A relationship is all about feeling connected to someone at a deep level, beyond all things. When you don't understand this, you bind yourself to people with many conditions and you call it a relationship. It becomes shaky and you work hard at maintaining it and conclude that relationships are a problem!
People tell me, 'Swamiji, I want to come and stay in the ashram. I am not happy staying at home.'
I always tell them that if they are not able to be happy with 4 people in their house, they cannot be happy with 100 people at the ashram! Do you think that the ashram is some escapist lodge?
Be very clear: home is not anything outside of you. Being blissful all the time irrespective of what goes on around you is what is 'being at home'. If you are not able to do this, you will not be at home anywhere.
When I stayed for months together in an 8 feet by 8 feet enclosure, I was as blissful as I am today sitting on this throne. Please try to understand this. The capacity lies in understanding that your happiness has nothing to do with the outer world objects.
Imagine that a dog is biting a bone and starts bleeding from the mouth. It thinks that the blood is coming from the bone and bites further into it and licks the blood. What will happen to the dog? Only pain will happen. In the same way, we also think that the pleasure or pain is to do with things outside of ourselves and indulge further and further in it and become miserable.
## Q: How can we protect our children from developing these kinds of problems?
To be frank, you cannot fully control the process. You cannot control all of the child's interactions with society. But there are some things you can practice at home.
As I said earlier, don't suppress the child's other half. Let it freely express and experience itself in different ways. Don't teach it to be gender conscious.
Just allow the child to be its own natural self, giving it adequate opportunity to explore itself. Children when untouched by social conditioning are by nature so comfortable inside their own boundary.
You might have noticed babies playing with their genitals, or pulling their big toe to their mouth and doing similar other things. These things just show that they are so comfortable and loving inside their own boundary, exploring and enjoying. But we don't allow them to do these things. We immediately stop them and tell them that it is wrong. It is good to allow them to explore.
And when it comes to their clothing, it is always better to dress them in single-piece clothing instead of two-piece clothing. The latter gives them a sense of dividing their body into two and with time, they forget and become insensitive to the lower half of their body. It is almost a division in their consciousness. That is why today, if you are asked to visualize yourself, almost always, only your upper half will come to your mind. You simply neglect your lower half.
Just allow the child to be free in its ways, even if it means that you have to take certain risks. Children have with them a certain sense of intuition and instinct. So, you can take the necessary precautionary measures and allow them to explore.
Also, children are so total in their expressions. So don't suppress them. They don't know to bring in their mind and exhibit superficial or hypocritical behaviour. We have all mastered the art of hypocrisy by allowing our mind to exercise restraint. We never express totally.
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Also, allow them to use both their hands freely. We all discourage them from using the left hand for various things. Why can't the child be ambidextrous? There is nothing wrong in it. Arjuna in the *Mahabharata*, the Hindu epic, was ambidextrous. When we hear of these things, we listen with awe but fail to understand that we are also perfectly capable of these things, if only we give ourselves the chance!
Also, if you have noticed, all children enjoy whirling. Whirling is their way of allowing centering of their energy to happen. You can whirl freely only when your worry center is clear. Children are so innocent and worry-free and hence they are able to whirl effortlessly. But when we see them whirl, our head starts whirling and so we stop them! We tell them, 'Sit in one place! It's not good for health,' and what not. I tell you, just allow them to whirl. Place a blanket beneath them so that even if they fall, they will not get hurt.
Never instill fear in your child! Let him be free; let him climb and fall a few times. If you constantly discourage the child, it can lead to various phobias like height phobia, darkness phobia, which can later turn into fear of climbing, of making new decisions etc. Just follow these simple things, it is enough.
### Q: *Swamiji*, you were talking about how there is no such thing as a perfect partner. Then what is the purpose of matching horoscopes before marriage?
Now if I start speaking on this subject, I will have to pull down the whole structure of astrology! Not astrology itself, but the way we follow it today is foolish and nonsensical.
Understand that it is *your* life. You are living it; you should know the pros and cons. But you don't know anything about your life, and so you go around asking others! Where is your intelligence?
To surrender your life to a stranger, to let him make your life's decisions, just shows that you no longer even know how to run your own life. You have to take responsibility for your own life.
When people come to me with questions about their future, I tell them: Don't approach me to predict your future. Approach me to design your future. All these predictions are only for the weakminded, be very clear about that.
Ancient astrology was a pure science. There was truth in it.
Let me tell you how astrology evolved.
In the past, when a child was sent to the *gurukul* to the master to study, astrology was used to diagnose what kind of personality, what kind of attitudes and aptitudes he possessed. Accordingly, he was trained.
The master would see what his natural tendencies were. If he had *brahmin* tendencies where intelligence was the prime factor, he would be initiated into *Veda Vidya* - studying of the *vedic* scriptures. If his personality was that of a *kshatriya*, where bravery and strength were the most dominant, he would be trained in martial arts. If he showed *vaishya* tendencies, wherein he exhibited many skills, he would be taught business. If he seemed to possess *shudra* qualities, where he was happy giving his time to routine labour work, he would be initiated into service. All four roles had equal value and earned equal respect.
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This was the purpose for which astrology was used. Incidentally it also helped predict certain major milestones in a person's life. It was a science mainly used for this kind of diagnosis. Look around you today. A person who is a doctor by nature has become an engineer and an engineer has become a serviceman and what not! That is why there is a sense of total chaos in society.
#### Q: So ancient astrology is a proven science?
This is what I was afraid of! The moment I say, 'Yes,' you will all start running behind astrology! Tomorrow morning I will see a long queue before me with each one carrying his horoscope and saying '*Swamiji*, please predict my future!'
Don't worry so much about astrology!
Vivekananda gave a befitting answer to someone who questioned him about astrology. He told him, 'Go, eat well, exercise well, sleep well. You will become strong, physically and mentally. Then you won't worry about all these things!'
Only a person who is mentally weak depends so much on astrology.
## Q: Does that mean that all the people who follow astrology are weak-minded?
No, you can't say that. But the majority are weak-minded. Even people who are normally intelligent sometimes behave foolishly in these matters. They come and ask me, 'Swamiji, if I wear such and such a stone or gem, will it be lucky for me?' How can you depend on a stone! You are live consciousness. You are nothing but God! I can't imagine… I am teaching you the science by which you can harness this whole cosmic energy, and you ask me about stones!
You might have heard about Swami Yateeshwarananda. He was a great man, an enlightened person. When he traveled abroad for the first time, he started out during *rahukala -* an inauspicious hour of the day, calculated by using the positions of the planets.
Someone asked him, 'Swamiji, how can you start during *rahukala*?'
He answered, 'You fool! I am the energy that guides the planets! How can they control me?'
See the courage of the man! It is a courage that comes out of deep understanding.
I am teaching you the science by which you can control the planets! So why do you bother about where the planets are and how they will affect you? Pick up the science of meditation, that's enough. Then nothing can touch you.
#### *Go by consciousness*
All our values are nothing but a substitute for consciousness.
If you are conscious, aware of what you are doing, you don't need values to tell you what to do. You don't have to follow any rules. Rules will be following you! If you are conscious, all virtues and discipline and spirituality will happen to you and you will naturally flower into a state of spiritual elevation.
Somehow, whenever we hear words like consciousness or spiritual elevation, we always think, 'No, no, this is not for me!' Without even trying any meditation technique, any practical way of elevating the consciousness, we come to the conclusion that this is not for us. So we go in for a substitute, for pseudo-consciousness – which is called morality, conscience, values.
Values are fine when you are at the starting point – but not as the ending point!
Vivekananda says beautifully, 'It is good to be born in the church, but not to die there!'
We should first drop the idea that to be spiritual is very difficult and different.
There is a song by Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi, an enlightened master from Bharat:
*Ayyae, ati sulabham, atmavidyai, ayyae, ati sulabham!*
It means, *'Oh, so easy, this spirituality; oh, so easy!'*
In a later stanza he says,
If you want money, you need to work hard.
If you're looking for name and fame, you need to work hard.
*If you want self-realization, all you need to do is keep still!*
If you can slip into deep laziness, you will fall into divinity! This laziness is not what we normally know as laziness. It is not physical laziness. It's a kind of… mental laziness! If you can
completely – I mean completely – calm yourself, you can verily be spiritual.
To be spiritual is neither easy nor difficult. It's just the idea that you have. If you think it's easy, it's easy. If you think it's difficult, it's difficult. To be as you are, what is needed? Is it difficult or easy?
You cannot even use the word easy! It is as you are, right? You are already that, then how can you say it is easy to become that?
Just look in. Turn inward. A little trust in spirituality and a little meditation; that is enough! When you drop the fear that to be spiritual is very difficult, you will get the confidence that, '*Yes, I can be spiritual. I can be conscious.'* Then the question of 'is it right to drop my values', will not arise at all.
Right now you are afraid to drop your values because you have nothing else to hold on to! We know, once we drop our values, all the suppressed desires will jump as if the Pandora's Box has been opened! And we know, if the Pandora's Box opens, there will be only chaos! We are afraid of our subconscious.
If you continuously practice meditation, your subconscious will be cleared. Then you will see, even if you open the Pandora's Box, there is nothing in there to jump out. You will see your face reflected in it; you will see a clear mirror!
Now let us enter into a meditation technique called the *Dukkhaharana* Meditation that will act upon the *muladhara chakra* and awaken the energy in it.
Emotion: Lust, desire, greed
*Chakra: Muladhara chakra*
Location: Base of the spine
In Sanskrit, *muladhara* means 'the root and basis of Existence'. Mula means root and adhara means basis.
This *chakra* is locked by fantasy and imagination and it flowers when you drop your fantasies and welcome reality!
*Meditation Technique to transform lust to love:* Dukkhaharana Meditation – a technique from Kulaarnava Tantra
#### *The Dukkhaharana Meditation*
# **(Total duration: 30 minutes. To be done on an empty stomach.)**
This meditation technique is called *Dukkhaharana* and is taken from Kularnava Tantra. It will bring out all the suppressed emotions in you. Many masters have employed this technique. It takes a total 30 minutes. |
So don't try to escape from the master. Understand that he is here only to show you what you actually are. Your inherent nature is fearlessness. Over years, you have been instilled with fear. The master tries to break the layers of conditioning that you have taken upon yourself. If you just allow him to work upon you, with trust and love, you will see yourself transform in front of your own eyes.
Let me tell you a small story about a *Swami* with whom I was acquainted:
> This *Swami* used to have a number of clocks in his room, and each of the clocks would show a different time! I asked him about it one day.
He replied, 'Time is not my master. I am the master! Whatever time I want it to be, I simply choose the time from that particular clock.'
This *Swami* had already predicted that he would be leaving his body on a particular day and time.
On the night before his death, the Swami asked all his disciples to gather around him and sing hymns.
One of the singers was somewhat arrogant about his musical abilities. He never sang on this occasion.
As was the custom, the *Swami* wrote something on a piece of paper and passed it on to him.
The disciple was flattered, thinking that it was a request for a particular song.
But when he opened the note, he saw that the Swami had written, 'Please don't sing after my death!'
Even on his deathbed he was in a humorous mood!
Later that night, he instructed his disciples to take good care of the orphans who lived in the ashram. He said, 'Especially tomorrow, you will all be busy with preparations for my cremation. Don't forget to arrange for food for those children!'
Till the last minute, his concern was for the people he was leaving behind.
The next morning, exactly at the time he had mentioned, he joined his hands in a *namaskar* to all and his hands dropped, simply like a drama.
What a beautiful, calm and courageous way to face death! That is the way we should all go to death and that is the way we should look upon death even when our own family and relatives pass away. When you understand this, your whole idea of fear will slowly dissolve, because as I said, the underlying basis of fear is death itself.
# **Q:** *Swamiji***, is it that fear is normally associated more with women?**
Men are mainly caught in the lust and women are mainly caught in fear. The fact is, they both know this and exploit each other appropriately!
The man knows where exactly to touch the woman's weak chord. He will play with her insecurity and fear and exploit her. Similarly, the woman knows where the key lies with the man! She will play the game appropriately and exploit him. This is what goes on all the time in marriages.
Actually, at the time of Hindu marriages, a vow is taken wherein the man and woman vow to each other that they will both work towards exhausting each others' *karma* – unfulfilled actions and desires - in a smooth way, without accumulating any more *karma* in this life.
But these days, people are not even aware that they have taken such a vow because they are not the ones who are getting married. The priests are the ones who utter all the chants and get married!
It is such a beautiful vow that they take. We have accumulated enough and more *karma* in our lives. The only concern for us should be to exhaust it all at least in this birth, and attain liberation.
If you watch the drama of marriage from outside, you will understand how the couple create *karma* for each other.
Only when you watch from outside you will understand what a foolish game is being played. I always tell people that for actors and actresses it would be so easy to watch life as a game because they are all the time assuming roles and enacting them. They are the closest to seeing life as a great drama. The rest of us are so caught up with our roles that it becomes a solid reality for us.
# *Fear of small things*
First of all understand that all small fears are mere projections of the ultimate fear of death. Second, don't resist the fear in you. Just keep repeating to yourself that you are scared and go through it, that's all! You will soon find that the fear is no longer there because you saw it through. Start doing this every time you feel fear.
When you consciously work on this, you will understand that what you call fear is nothing but your response or reaction to an incident or thought. Depending on how you respond, you can claim that you did not have fear or had fear. And, with more and more awareness, you can respond towards fear without fear!
Remember one thing: No one can claim to be fearless. One can learn to handle fear without fear, that's all. If anyone professes to be fearless, be very clear that they have not analyzed deeply the subject of fear and human response to it. Don't start thinking that they are superhumans and you are a lesser human being.
*(A young girl speaks)* Swamiji*, I remember how you made me overcome my fear of spiders! While in our discussions one day, I jumped up when I saw a spider and THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM laughed at me for it. You told me to meditate on the spider every time I saw one. Every time I saw one, I looked at it with awareness and concentration. Slowly I started wondering why I was scared of it after all*!
Yes. It is only a question of bringing awareness into our fears. You will then wonder what it was that caused the fear in you!
You can even sit by yourself and imagine that your fears are happening to you. In your imagination, confront them with deep awareness and calmness. If you suffer in the process of visualization, it is alright. Don't suppress it or punish it. If your body shakes with fear, let it. Just co-operate with it. Anything when lived out completely will have no effect over you. All your fears are simply fear of your fears, that's all!
A small story:
A disciple was caught in a river one day. He was terrified of losing his life and he shouted out to his master to save him from drowning. The master said, 'Stand up!' The disciple screamed out, 'How can I? I am drowning.' The master said, 'Have I not taught you to help yourself? Now stand up!'
The disciple said, 'Master, you are preaching to me at this moment of my impending death. Why don't you just save me!'
The master persisted, 'I said, stand up.'
The disciple was enraged at the master's persistence.
He simply stood up. The water came up only to his knee!
All your fears are nothing but the fear of your fears. If you shake off your fears and allow your intelligence to surface, you will find that your fears are just shadows of objects that don't exist.
## *Live in the moment and leave!*
If you deeply analyze the fear of death, you will come to know that people are afraid to die because unconsciously, they feel that they should have been somewhere higher up than where they are now. They feel they have not reached their actual place in life and so they are not ready to leave.
Some people feel that others have cast eyes on them and so they have not been able to progress! The truth is that you have not cast your own eyes properly on yourself. That is why, even in your last days, you prolong your death.
If you properly analyze and understand your desires, fear and other emotions, you will not blame anyone for anything.
People who live their lives without any of these convoluted fears, will be able to live their death also. As I told you earlier, there are so many stories of living masters who told their disciples exactly what time of what day they would die and they died that way.
Many of the disciples have learned from their masters' death what they failed to learn from their teachings when they were alive. When we say that they lived their death, we mean they were able to announce that they were going to die and they died consciously. In their case, their death is literally 'leaving their body', that's all.
We all leave our bodies unconsciously, with a lot of suffering – the pull and push of unfulfilled desires torture us on one side and the body tortures on the other, saying that it has had enough. The mismatch between the mind and the body tortures us while we are alive and at the time of death also. When we are alive, if we live inside our boundary, inside our body, we will also leave our body peacefully. The problem is, when we live, we are always outside our body, never inside.
Let me explain this to you. Just look deeply into your way of life. Early in the morning, when you brush your teeth, what are you doing? You are already thinking of going to work. When you are at work, you are thinking of catching the bus to go home. When you are at home, you are thinking of work next day! When you are on vacation, you think of your office and when you are at office, you think of going on vacation.
Wherever your body is, you can be sure that your mind is not! You have never lived any moment of your life with fullness. You have always lived either in the past or in the future. This is what is called 'not living inside your boundary'. This is why at the time of death, you feel so pre-occupied and unfulfilled and unwilling to go. This is why you fear death.
You may ask why you need to know about dying consciously. Only when you know about death, can you live with the right understanding of life. Otherwise, you will not live life the right way.
# *Stop procrastinating*
In life, you keep postponing everything. You postpone your enjoyment, you postpone your work, you postpone everything for tomorrow. You have to understand that 'tomorrow' also comes in the form of 'today' only! When it comes as today, you say 'tomorrow' again! It is a game that you play with yourself.
Finally, when death comes, you are so unprepared! You feel there is so much to be done. You feel cheated by life itself. The truth is, you have been deceiving yourself all along. But you land up blaming life for everything. That is why a clear understanding of death is necessary for you to live. Then there will be no delusions and you will be ready to die any time.
Procrastination is the mentality by which we lose out on life itself. People ask me, '*Swamiji*, how are you able to do so many things in such a short period of time?' It is amazing for them to see my calendar for the year! They are amazed to see the various things happening throughout the year across the world. I tell them, 'It is very simple – I live totally in the present. I don't procrastinate like you.'
In our meditation programs, we take people through a guided meditation wherein they are told to visualize that they are going to die in just 24 hours time and that they should complete all the things that they would like to complete before they die. It is a beautiful meditation technique. They are even made to visualize their own death ceremony.
Once after this meditation, a young girl shared her thoughts.
She said, '*Swamiji*, I saw a poster in a shop which said, 'When you plan, plan concretely taking into account the future years to come. When you execute, execute like you are going to die the very next minute. After doing this meditation, I understand what it really means!'
You see, when you plan, you have to have a futuristic plan, so that too many things don't have to be re-structured for at least a few years. But when you execute, you have to execute in such a way that every sub-task that you take up in the master plan is completed successfully without any loose ends.
Even if you are going to die then, up to the point of what has been executed, everything will be perfect and the master plan will still be there as a reference for people to follow or amend as the situation demands. This can be achieved only if you work without procrastination in every sub-task that you take up.
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Often, procrastination is what takes you to poverty. Poverty is your own choice. When you defer decisions, you take steps towards being poor. But you are blissfully unaware of this. You feel you have not been treated rightly by God and that life has been too short for you to realize your dreams. If you had used all your energy in the proper channel and with clarity, you would not feel this way and you would be ever ready to die.
If you just look at the mirror everyday and tell yourself that today is the last day in your life, you will stop procrastinating. You need not tell yourself this all your life; just a month will do. Automatically, you will start living your life without procrastination. Not only that, your fears about losing your prestige, embarrassment, pride and expectations will all dissolve, because you will know that you have nothing to lose.
People who have had a near death experience in some way like a narrow escape from an accident or a cure from cancer or something like that, will be able to live more fearlessly because they will know that they have nothing to lose! They will also live their lives with greater clarity and more intelligence.
The first lesson that you need to learn from all your education is that you should do the right thing at the right time and move on. Somehow, this is the last lesson that we learn thoroughly! After having gone through all the other lessons, we learn this lesson!
Procrastination is something that you bring about yourself. But the rest of the fears, society instills in you. Society makes you afraid of your own self, of others and of God. It makes you afraid of yourself with simple things like morality, names and forms, prestige and what not.
In the name of morality, it makes you lose confidence in yourself and that is why you are so unsure of yourself when it comes to morality. When you start following morality out of fear, there will be no chance for your inner intelligence to guide you.
Morality always instills fear
In our lives, morality is nothing but a poor substitute for intelligence. When you act out of your own intelligence, you can be confident of yourself. But when you act out of rules and regulations, you can never be sure of yourself, because you are not yourself to start with! You are not centered in yourself; you are centered on the rules.
If you live out of intelligence, these types of fear will never grip you. People who preach morality are so deeply in fear. That is why they preach about it. They are afraid either because they are unsure of themselves or because they know to be moral only with fear. Moralists can become neurotic with their concept of morality and discipline.
A small story:
Once there was a moralist who normally walked on the streets with carefully measured steps. One day it suddenly began raining very heavily. The moralist just followed the crowd and ran along.
After running for a while, he realized that he was careless about his manner.
He said to himself, 'What am I doing! Running is undignified. A gentleman must correct his mistakes regretfully if he has made any.' |
So he returned in the rain to the place where he had begun running, and walked again, with measured steps.
Morality makes you totally dull and dead!
When I tell you this, I am not telling you that this is a free world and you can do anything you like. I am telling you that you have to develop your own intelligence and live so that rules will only be a confirmation of what you already know and feel. This is real intelligence. Any proper rule will only be a confirmation of what the rightly flowered intelligence feels. So drop your fears and try to find your inner intelligence, your inner master.
A small story:
A young *sannyasi* lived across the road from a beautiful courtesan.
The *sannyasi* was all the time trying to meditate.
The courtesan on the other hand, carried on with her way of earning money.
Many men came and went from her house.
The *sannyasi* used to try his best to concentrate on his meditation, but his attention was more on the young woman and he kept cursing her for the kind of immoral life that she was leading.
The courtesan on the other hand, was not even aware of the *sannyasi* staying across the street.
Despite her lifestyle of offering pleasure to men, the courtesan was immersed in her love for Lord Krishna and spent as much time as she could in praying to Him and playing with His image.
The *sannyasi* and the courtesan died on the same day and reached the gates of Lord Yama – the Lord of Death.
After their records were analysed, the courtesan was sent to heaven while the *sannyasi* was sent to hell.
The *sannyasi* expressed deep feelings about the injustice of Yama.
Yama calmly explained to the *sannyasi*, 'All your life, under the guise of meditating, you were harboring lust for the courtesan. She, on the other hand, despite whatever she was doing, was totally focused on the reality of God.'
Moralists live a superficial, fearing and shallow life. They don't live totally. They are in constant fear of stepping out of morality. Their true intentions are kept well covered under the guise of morality.
## *It is alright to lose prestige*
Like morality, prestige also gives rise to fear. Prestige, name and fame, social status – all these give rise to fear. These fears are nothing but fear of hurting your own ego. What prestige are you trying to cover? Just live with inner fulfillment and dignity; that is enough. The people who guard their prestige tend to be hypocrites.
They are also the people who live in constant fear. Their so-called prestige is so much in control of them.
A small story:
A man was fishing in the river one day. He was sitting for a long time without catching any fish. He dozed off with the fishing rod in his hand. Suddenly, a heavy fish caught the bait and tugged at it. The man just tumbled into the water before he could wake up. A boy was watching this from a distance. He asked his
father, 'Dad, was he catching the fish or was the fish catching him?'
With prestige, you have to be very careful. When prestige becomes larger than life for you, it will start consuming you.
Prestige makes you feel that you are extra-ordinary. It gives you a solid identity in society. People with money and prestige do all sorts of nonsensical and immoral things and get away with it. People talk about them behind their backs and greet them to their face because of their power and prestige.
This is the kind of prestige they are trying to guard so carefully. Understand: Existence will never choose you if you are like this. In the material world, you may get what you want, you may appear successful, but in the eyes of Existence, you will remain poor. Existence has its own ways of choosing.
Understand that prestige, name, fame and power are all your own imagination. You give life to them. You create them and develop a fear about losing them.
Just live with infinite love for everyone and everything around you. Feel deep love for anyone and anything that comes your way. If you live this way, automatically prestige will come to you. People will respect you for your quality, not for your quantity. And with this kind of prestige, there is no fear of losing. You don't have to guard it all the time.
### *Fear of hurting your own ego*
Even fears like fear of public speaking are fear of losing one's prestige in a way. When you are afraid of talking in front of a gathering, you are actually afraid of what they might say about you. You are afraid that your ego might suffer because of something that they might say about you. And so you get into stage fear. It is a passive form of guarding your ego. Fear is very much a manifestation of ego. Understand that.
So what if people don't approve of your talk? The moment you are afraid of what others will say, you are only guarding your ego.
Fear of the ego suffering is also the reason why people get afraid when they go into meditation. When you go into meditation, there is always the fear of losing yourself – to Existence, to the Existential energy that is surrounding you. So you hold on. You resist meditation. Instead, if I tell you to chant something, you will happily chant. There will be no fear.
Your ego is so afraid that it will dissolve. If it dissolves, all the labels with which you identify yourself will also dissolve. You become a nobody! So you resist and remain somebody at least to yourself. This resistance is purely the fear of the ego.
## *Fear of the unknown*
## **Q:** *Swamiji***, you spoke about fear of the unknown. Can you explain further about that?**
Yes, I am coming to that.
Fear of the unknown is nothing but the fear that we have of darkness, of ghosts and spirits, of God and finally of our own death.
A small story:
One man was traveling on a train.
The ticket collector came to him and asked him for his ticket.
He frantically started searching for the ticket in his wallet, in his luggage and in his pants pocket.
The ticket collector was watching him and said, 'Sir, why don't you search in your coat pocket.'
The man replied, 'Please don't ask me to look in it now. My only hope is that it will be there.'
We are so afraid to look! We are afraid to look at our fears; that is the whole problem. So we delude ourselves in comfort zones and keep carrying on.
Never fear to look. The moment you fear to look, you are only creating more fear because it becomes more unknown to you.
When we talk about fear of the unknown, fear of spirits and ghosts is very common. There is no need to fear them at all. Just understand that spirits and ghosts are much less powerful than we are. We give them much more power than they naturally would have and let them control our fears. There starts the problem.
Don't go too much into the subject of spirits and ghosts. It is of no use. If you are well-centered and clear about yourself, it is enough. Automatically, nothing can touch you and you will also not have fear of such things.
Fear of darkness is also fear of the unknown. Fear of darkness is nothing but the fear of death. The same garden in your house, which you walk in at daytime, will you walk in at nighttime? No! You are afraid! Why? You know the boundaries of your garden well, yet why are you afraid? You are afraid not because of your garden but because of the darkness.
You are afraid that something might happen to you in the dark. This is what I mean when I say that every fear of yours is in some way related to the ultimate fear of death. In the case of darkness, it is very obvious, but in the case of your other fears, it is very subtle, that's all.
Actually, darkness is beautiful! It is like your own mother's womb. When you were in your mother's womb, you were in complete darkness. But after you came to the world, you lost this connection with darkness. You started fearing it as something unknown. Tantric followers meditate upon darkness to feel the intensity of Existence.
There is no need to be afraid of darkness. Just once, if you can look into darkness with deep love, with the soothing feeling that it is your mother's womb, you will not be afraid of it anymore.
When a child gets scared of darkness, don't tell him, '*Be brave'!* If you tell him this, he will only become tense because he is not supposed to get afraid. He will not drop his fear for darkness. Just allow him to go through the fear of darkness. Let him tremble a little. At least he gets a chance to explore his fear. When he does this a few times, he will slowly lose his fear of darkness.
Now we come to the fear of God. God is also unknown to us and so we fear God. Understand that God is nothing but the name that we give to Existence, to the Cosmos, to Existential energy, to the Life Force that pervades this universe. This Existence, this Universal energy knows only to love. If you can understand this much, automatically all your fears will drop.
# *There is no need to fear God*
People ask me, '*Swamiji*, people say that if we do good deeds or *punya* instead of doing bad deeds or *paapa*, we will go to heaven and not to hell. Is this true?'
First of all, understand that hell and heaven are not geographic. There is no heaven located above your head or hell beneath your feet. They are terms created just to instill fear and greed in you, that's all. Hell or heaven can be interpreted as having either a tumultuous death or a peaceful and conscious death, that's all.
Any moment in your life that you have spent in meditation is a moment of *punya* or good deed. When I say meditation, I don't mean closing your eyes and sitting. I mean, moments that you have been consciously in the present; when your consciousness has been with you.
Any moment that has not been spent in such states is *paapa*. All the moments of conscious states are like your bank balance. At the time of your death, it is these states that will surface and liberate you.
People think that if they offer pots of milk to the deity at the temple, their *punya* will increase and they will reach heaven! Let me tell you: by offering milk to the Lord, nothing is going to happen. When you feel a swelling gratitude towards Existence, you can express it by offering milk to the deity that you worship as Existence. That is perfectly alright. But please do not link it with *punya* etc.
Even a drop of milk offered with pure joy and gratitude is a moment of sincere meditation that will stand by you at the time of death. On the other hand, pots and pots of milk offered out of sheer fear of missing out on gathering *punya*, will not get returns. So, please increase your awareness and live consciously. Make every moment, whatever may be the thing you are doing, a meditation. That is enough. Then you can live without fear of sins.
Let me narrate to you one incident:
I went to a Shiva temple in a remote village in Bharat. At the entrance of the main deity, there was a tubelight burning.
The light was hardly visible because on it was written in black ink, Vishnunathan B.Sc.
I was wondering how Lord Shiva was called Vishnunathan. Then under that I saw in small font, Kailasanathan – the correct name for Shiva.
Vishnunathan was the name of the person who donated the tubelight!
We have been taught to collect good deeds in our lives. So we start creating bank balances of good deeds. And we don't stop at that. We inform God repeatedly about all the good things that we have done… so that he doesn't forget! We become materialistic even when it comes to God!
Understand: God is not running a resort in heaven where you can enter by doing these good things on Earth. Thinking this way is like building a house in your dream, painting it, decorating it and waking up to find out that the whole thing was a dream. Where is the house? Is it of any use to you after you wake up? No! In the same way, you are only deluding yourself by this 'good deeds' concept.
I have seen people who decide to visit a particular deity in a particular temple with an offering, every Saturday of the week. If they are not able to make it on a particular Saturday, they will send their driver with the offering to the deity!
God knows you better than you know yourself. So there is no reason to fear Him or please Him. Even better than your mother or father, God knows you. He knows you not only in this birth but in all the births that you have taken until now. You are an open book in front of Him. He can refer to any page at any time!
So drop your fear of God and look upon Him as a totality of Existence. Look upon Him as the ultimate friend. However hard society tries to make you afraid of God, don't listen to it. Develop your own relationship with God - a solid and trusting one; the only relationship that is required in your life.
When you start relating with Existence or God, you start relating with yourself much better than before. You will know what exactly is going on inside you. Your inner intelligence will grow. Your fears will drop. You will learn to look properly into anything before feeling fear about it. You will not feel any compulsion to do anything. Intelligence will replace fear. You will be more relaxed and joyful. You will feel liberated.
When you understand this about Existence, all the wars that go on in the name of religion will not be there. The people who are in fear of their religion, the people who fight for their religion are people who have not understood the loving Existence. They simply miss the whole thing. They are like blind people fighting with one another.
And most importantly, please don't pass on your ideas about God to your children and instill fear of God in them. Teach them to embrace God. Teach them that God is the all-pervading Existence. Teach them that God is pure love and nothing else. Help them to grow with a loving attitude towards God and Existence as a whole.
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# **Q: We often wonder, whatever is happening to us, is it fate or is it our choice?**
A very commonly asked question!
Your present moment is the totality of all your past decisions. Now you are here in this place. You decided to wake up early in the morning, take the proper route, come here, sit, and continue to sit, am I right?
Like this, all your past decisions form your present – like being here right now. Your future is going to be a result of all your present decisions. When we make our decisions unconsciously and don't expect some of the results that come our way, we call it fate.
When we make conscious decisions, we are aware of the sideeffects and after-effects. When we are not aware of the sideeffects and after-effects, we call it fate. Actually, life is pure choice. It is we who make the decisions; never somebody else for us. May be a few major things in your life is driven by fate. But even those can be changed. Attributing every small thing to fate is pure escapism. |
Take another example: You may never have felt the need for a refrigerator in your house, but if your neighbor buys a refrigerator, immediately you will feel that you cannot do without it! Immediately you will find all the reasons in the world why you need a refrigerator. All these days you were managing without a refrigerator! Nothing has changed, but what has happened? Your mind has stepped in with comparison.
Borrowed desires happen so subtly in our mind, that is why although they are continuously happening, we continue to say that we are not bothered about the others!
A small story:
One man returned to his neighborhood after almost 10 years.
He went around the neighborhood with his friend.
He was surprised to see the many changes in the place.
He commented to this friend, 'Prosperity has changed the face of this whole neighborhood!'
The friend replied, 'No, not prosperity, just plain jealousy.'
We are all the time trying to beat the other. When you are after borrowed desires, you will never stop, because when you are on the verge of realizing any one of them, another borrowed desire will come up from somewhere and you will be on track once more!
You keep running because you are centered not within yourself but on something outside. Your center is on other people. And their center is elsewhere, not inside themselves! Imagine how much you have to run, how much you have to pull and push according to the mass sway of off-centric thoughts and emotions! You become a puppet.
I tell you: Every time you want something, sit by yourself and think if you really want it or you want it because someone else had it. Do an honest analysis of each of your desires when they surface. Drop all your prestige problems and do a self-analysis. If you can't drop your prestige when you are alone, how will you drop it when you are with people?
If you are able to live out only *your* desires, you will die a peaceful death, full of satisfaction even if it is on the platform. If you live your whole life with borrowed desires, you will never see real fulfillment and even if you are living in a marble house, you will have a prolonged death, pulling and pushing, unable to get liberated from your unfulfilled desires.
In Jainism, there is a belief that when you are born, the entire quantity of food and energy that you will need during your lifetime is sent along with you. This is a way of saying that whatever your true requirements in this birth are, Existence equips you with the energy to fulfill them before even sending you to planet Earth.
But when you start using this energy to realize borrowed desires, you start feeling that nothing has been given to you; that nothing is enough. You feel tired, exhausted and frustrated that nothing is happening.
There is a difference between *needs* and *wants*. Your needs are already taken care of in some way. It is possible to satisfy your *needs*, but it becomes impossible to satisfy your *wants* because they are changing all the time.
For example: Let us say that you go to the shop to buy a fan for your house. But on the way you meet some friends on the road, who tell you that they are going to buy some other things in other shops. Immediately, you are tempted to go with them to buy them and so you change your track and go and buy along with them. Then you find that you don't have enough money to buy your fan!
In some places in Bharat there will be monkey trainers who make a living out of training monkeys.
They will carry a stick with them and use it to prod the monkey to do whatever they want it to do.
They will wave the stick and shout, 'Dance Rama! Dance!' and the monkey will dance!
Then they will say, 'Turn cart wheels Rama! Turn cartwheels!' And the monkey will turn cartwheels.
The monkey will simply dance to the tunes of the stick.
Like this, we allow a stick called *comparison* to run our lives. We dance to its tunes, doing things that are not our own but that are dictated by the stick.
We are constantly in the rat race. And the thing about being in the rat race is, *even if you win, you are only a rat*!
But somehow, late in life, at some point in time, you understand that even success in the rat race doesn't give you a sense of fulfillment. Even success leads to a deep sense of discontentment, because, while you may have fulfilled all the material desires in the outer world, you have ignored your being all the time.
The call of discontentment is from your being. When you understand that, you turn towards spirituality. But when you don't understand that, you turn towards depression, because you don't know where you are missing it. You don't know where the thread is. You don't know what went wrong.
#### *What more do you want?*
I can tell you from my experience: Existence is always showering upon us. There is such abundance! But we are so well trained in the discipline of discontentment that we have become insensitive to what we receive. We always want more.
A small story:
One man was doing rigorous penance in the jungle for God to appear.
God appeared before him. He told the man to ask what he wanted.
The man was overjoyed and said that he was a landlord and had lost all his wealth and that he wished to become wealthy again.
God took pity on him and said that the following day, if the man ran from dawn to dusk, all the area covered by him would be his.
The man was extremely happy.
The next day he started running even before dawn.
He ran as fast as he could.
Close to noon, hunger beckoned but he didn't pay heed and kept running.
Early in the evening, thirst and fatigue gripped him but he was goaded on by the thought of the neighboring landlord who owned many acres of land. Pictures of all his wealthy contemporaries came to him and he ran on.
A little before sunset, he felt giddy and weak but managed a few more steps.
At twilight, he faltered…and fell dead.
This is how we all live our lives. We run the race without even stopping to think why we are running! We run because everyone else is running! Shankaracharya beautifully describes this as '*thatha kim, thatha kim.'* meaning 'what next, what next.' We are all the time thinking 'what next'.
Another small story:
One man was found crying at the doorstep of his house.
His friend asked him what the matter was.
He said, 'My grand aunt has died leaving all her wealth to me.'
The friend was puzzled and said, 'But she was really old and besides she has left all her wealth to you. Why are you crying?'
The man replied, 'You don't know… the week before that, my uncle died and left all his wealth to me.'
The friend was puzzled and asked, 'Why are you crying then?'
The man continued, 'And the week before that, my aunt passed away and left all her wealth to me.'
The friend could not understand why all this was causing him to cry.
He asked, 'Please tell me why you are crying for all this?' The man said, 'There are no more relatives who will die and leave me wealth!'
Of course, this is an exaggerated story, but we are like this. We don't feel happy with all the things that we have.
For just 24 hours, from morning till night, just imagine that you have lost your eyesight. Try going about your work keeping your eyes closed. In just a few minutes, you will understand the difficulty. It will be such a relief to open your eyes and see the world again. You will probably then thank God for your eyesight!
Do you ever compare yourself with people who don't have eyesight and thank God that you have been given eyesight? No! Why not? Because whatever has been given to you is *always* taken for granted. That is the reason. You think, 'It is anyway there, let us go to the *next thing.*'
## *Doing, having, being*
We all function around these three axes: *doing, having* and *being*. *Doing* for *having*, without enjoying *being*, is the sole cause of all our misery. *Doing* never catches up with *having*. Every time we work hard and fulfill one desire, there are more desires to make us run.
Never think, '*Let me work now, I can enjoy later.'* Don't think you can come back later and enjoy! I tell you, it will never happen. Every tomorrow comes in the form of today. *Doing* should lead to *being* every moment, only then you are on the right track.
Don't postpone living. Celebrate! Enjoy life – it is now or never. We all run throughout our lives thinking that we can enjoy later, but we land up finally running into the graveyard. When you get onto the running track, you lose your real capacity to enjoy. You forget how to enjoy.
As they say, '*There is more pleasure in the pursuit than in the attainment!'* Always, as long as you are chasing something, it seems that it is worth the whole world, but after you get it, somehow it loses its importance! If you become aware of yourself and understand what exactly you want, and try to do *that* alone, you will never find yourself in this kind of a self-contradictory and fragmented situation.
Ramana Maharshi beautifully says:
*Adaivadar mun kadugey aanaalum malayaay kaatti
Adainda pin malayey aanaalum kadugai kaattum maya manam*
It means, 'Mind is that illusion which shows a tiny mustard seed to be a huge mountain until it is attained, and a mountain to be as insignificant as a mustard seed once it has been attained!'
People ask me, 'Swamiji, unless we compare, how will we know where we stand?'
In the whole world, someone is sure to be better than you at whatever you do. There is a 99.99% chance that you are not the world's best engineer, the fastest runner or the most talented painter. Does that mean that you enjoy these things any less? Only when you think that you might be enjoying less than someone else, you start enjoying less! The moment the thought that 'someone else might be enjoying more than you' comes in, your whole flavor changes. You become uneasy and jealous.
It is like this: Poverty *itself* doesn't trouble us. The *thought* that we are poor troubles us! We might be leading a peaceful life as we are, but when the *thought* that we are poor enters us, we suffer. And how does this thought come? By seeing others and comparing. We feel this way because this thought directly hits our ego and we shrink - like a mango.
A small story:
There were two shops opposite each other across the street, selling the same kind of things.
There was always a stiff competition between them.
The shopkeeper of one of the shops came out one day and put up a signboard outside his shop: *Established in the year 1929.*
The shopkeeper of the shop across the street was watching this from inside his shop.
The next day, he came out and put up a signboard in front of his shop: *All fresh stock. No old goods.*
### *You are unique*
When you don't understand the potential you have been blessed with, when you have not discovered that you are enough unto yourself, you automatically don't feel confident about the stuff inside you, and you start following others.
Buddha says, 'Nothing exists except in relationship.' Suppose you were the only person on a new planet, would you call yourself tall or short? Ugly or beautiful? Rich or poor? Tell me! You can't call yourself anything, am I right? You will simply be *you*! That's all! Understand that this is the truth even when you are on *this* planet.
Each individual is unique. Can you compare a lion and a horse? Do we ever compare ourselves to flowers or birds or mountains? We simply enjoy their beauty. In the same way, why can't you see and enjoy other human beings also?
Although human beings appear to be the same, each one is unique and traveling on a different path. As long as you travel on your path with full concentration, you will experience fulfillment every minute. You won't even know what it means to look at another person's track.
A small story:
One man was driving along a dark village road where there were no streetlights.
He decided to follow the car in front of him to play it safe. They went on for some distance and suddenly the lead car stopped.
The man went and crashed into it.
'Why didn't you signal that you were going to stop?' he screamed out.
The driver put his head out and asked, 'Inside my own garage?'
If you concentrate on your own track, you will be continuously progressing and expanding your own capacity. You need to compare yourself with only yourself, never with others. You need to win yourself only by yourself, not by others. Every minute of comparison with others is a waste of time in *your own progress*. Another small story:
A man was running in a 1000-metre race. After running 200 metres, he looked back and saw that the rest of the runners were after him. Happily he ran on. After 500 metres, he looked back again and was happy that he was still leading and ran on.
Every few meters, he did the same thing and finally won the race.
If the man had not looked back and instead concentrated only on running faster, he would have won the race in a much shorter span of time. He would have probably set a new record! In the same way, in our lives also, if our concentration is always fully on our own progress instead of on others, we can actualize our entire potential.
We are all the time talking about conserving petrol, water and electricity. What about conserving our own energy? What about using our own energy in a proper way? If we used all our energy for our own expansion, just imagine how much we could achieve.
See, the thing about comparison is, you always measure yourself with the weakest link in yourself or your performance. That is the trouble. Never measure yourself with the weakest link. You don't have to be egoistic and claim yourself to be something great. But you can have some self-respect and realise that you are unique unto yourself. Then you won't measure yourself in this way.
When you have self-respect, you will appreciate that each one is unique and understand that there is no scope for comparison. This is also the first step towards feeling grateful for just being!
A small story:
A king once went to a master to attain some magical powers, so that he could become more powerful than his neighboring kings.
He sat in front of the master and started telling him the purpose of his visit.
The master listened patiently to the king.
He then told him to go into his garden, where a rose bush and a cactus plant were growing side by side. He told him, 'They are your teachers. They can teach you what you need to learn.'
The king went into the garden, saw the two plants and could not understand what he was meant to learn from them.
He came back to the master and asked, 'What do you mean, master? I am not able to understand how they will teach me.' |
The master took him to the plants and explained, 'This cactus plant has been next to the rose plant for many years. Never once has it even aspired to become a rose plant. Similarly, the rose plant has never ever aspired to become a cactus plant. They just attend to their own duties of growing and blossoming every day. If man had been the cactus, he would have compared himself with the rose and felt jealous at the attention that the rose plant was getting from people. Or if he were the rose, he would have looked at the cactus enviously thinking how peaceful the latter was without the torture of getting plucked by people all day!'
The master said, 'This is the most powerful magical power you can attain!'
The two plants prospered because they used all their energy for their own growth. Not even an iota of energy was wasted on analyzing the other's growth.
### It is time for self inquiry
In this world, people respect you only if you have achieved something tangible in the outer world. Educational degrees, beauty titles, company designations, published papers, bank balances, are all scales that society uses to grade you.
See, first of all, you don't need to be graded by anyone. Place trust in your own intelligence and grade yourself.
But understand that there is a lot to be achieved in the inner world too. The outer world achievements are all incidental. They will get you instant name and fame and money. The real achievement is in the inner world.
Center yourself well with acute awareness and simply take part in the outer world activities like a lotus untouched in a pond. Let the work in the periphery go on undisturbed, but center yourself in your being. You will then be able to perform much better in the outer world, because your inner intelligence will be growing and guiding.
Then automatically, you will stop swaying in accordance with the outer world achievements and feel stability and joy in the center of your own being. Finding your center is the only way out of this whole cycle of comparison and jealousy.
How many successful businessmen today are facing what is known as *depression of success*? They have achieved everything they wanted. They have realized their own dreams, borrowed dreams, everything. But they don't feel fulfilled. There is still a void in them.
They start wondering why they ran so much. This is because they ran without awareness, without stopping to give an appointment to themselves, without any self-inquiry. As a result, when they stop running or when suddenly they can't run anymore, they fall back into themselves and find that they are out of synch or dis-eased with their own being, and this is what becomes 'depression' or 'disease'.
When you fall into depression of success, you can resort to three ways. One is, resorting to drugs – addiction that will lead to further depression. The second way out is suicide – which is escapism. The third way out is meditation – looking inward for the solution. The intelligent ones take the third way out.
Self-inquiry is the way to bail you out of this depression. The problem is inside, while you search for a solution outside. You have neglected your being for such a long time and the depression that you feel is actually the call of your being. That is why again and again, masters have given ever so many techniques to center yourself in your inner core and merely function in your periphery.
When this same thing is told to you when you are at the peak of your career, you will not be willing to pay attention, because you have enough energy. Once your energy starts waning, you will feel that something is wrong somewhere. *That something* is what masters try to tell you again and again.
> Albert Einstein, the great physicist was on his deathbed. There were some close people sitting around him.
One of them asked him what he would like to be reborn as if ever he was reborn.
Everyone expected him to say that he would like to be reborn as an even greater scientist or something to that effect.
Einstein replied, 'If ever I would be reborn, I would like to be reborn as a plumber.'
He felt that he had achieved all that was to be achieved, but *what for* he achieved, he had not achieved. He gave the world great truths but felt that his whole life had become a lie.
You see, in this whole process of comparing and running, you actually become a machine. Much of your daily activities becomes unconscious. You are able to drive a car without even being aware that you are driving it. You become a machine just like the car.
Right from brushing your teeth early in the morning to going to bed, you work like a programmed robot, with absolutely no awareness of your Self. You become efficient in all that you do no doubt, but you have lost the humanness in you! You have gone so far away from the purpose of taking birth on planet Earth. You become disconnected from your being!
When you are in continuous awareness, you will not only be able to do things efficiently but you will also do things with totality, with a sense of fulfillment, because *you* – the microcosm - will be in tune with Existence - the macrocosm - and you will fly with roots on planet Earth. When you fly without roots, you are forever in the danger of hurting yourself any moment. So understand, working with awareness not only increases your efficiency but also ensures that you don't stray from the purpose of your being.
### Jealousy about another's body
Alright, now…let us talk some more on jealousy! Jealousy as you all know, arises out of comparison. When we are unable to bear the excellence of others in any aspect, we start feeling jealous. There are ever so many reasons why we get jealous.
For example, the moment you see that another person is more beautiful than you, you are unable to bear it. You start feeling terrible inside yourself.
First of all understand that God is an artist, not an engineer. If he was an engineer, he would have made every woman or every man with the same mould. He would have probably made every woman with the mould of a Miss World and every man in the mould of a Mr.Universe!
But God is not an engineer. He is an artist. He has made everyone in a unique way.
With what scale are you measuring beauty? There *is* no scale. It is all your own ideas and concepts. Even if a cinema star is beautiful, can you enjoy a single cup of tea through his or her form?
When you start longing for other people's bodies, you create a wedge inside yourself. You create a split personality inside yourself. Slowly, you start hating yourself.
Do you know, the eyes that don't linger on another's body have a certain beauty and innocence in them? Have faith in what God has done to you. It is only when you don't have that faith, you try to update yourself by indulging in all sorts of methods. When you accept yourself completely, a certain grace comes to you. This grace is far more superior to mere physical beauty.
Physical beauty is one thing while grace is another. Physical beauty can be achieved by any means. These days, you have ever so many methods of achieving physical beauty. There are beauty packs, plastic surgeries and various other methods. But grace is something that comes when there is tremendous confidence and calmness in you, when there is no craving in you, when you are completely at ease with your body.
When I went to America for the first time, the officers at the airport asked me how people would listen to me if I spoke wearing this saffron robe! I told them, 'Give me one week and I will make this a fashion in America!' A leader is one who has totally accepted himself. When you accept yourself, you become a unique flower, and tremendous freedom and confidence will happen in you.
It is very important that you learn to live with your own body. The moment you think that another's body or another's dimensions are more attractive, you create a gap between yourself and your body. I have seen people who have photographs of male or female models in the walls of their rooms and do physical exercises to attain the body structure of the model. When you think that another's body is more beautiful, you create a distance between you and you.
None of us deeply love our body. We carry it only like a load. We are never inside our body because we hate it. We are everywhere else except in our bodies. We therefore have a continuous uneasiness in us and are ready to burst at any time.
For example, if your driver does something minor, you explode effortlessly. At work, you are continuously in an irritable mood. Don't think the reasons for these lie with the people around you. People tell me, 'Swamiji, all my workers are so inefficient and that is why I get irritated.' Please understand that this is not the reason for your irritability. You are not at ease with your body and that is what causes the uneasiness and irritation in your system. It is a very subtle reason and that is why it is difficult to perceive it.
## Q: Your face appears to be changing every time to me. Is it my imagination or is it true?
An enlightened being is like liquid – slowing without any ego. That is the reason why they appear to be changing all the time! You will understand how an egoless state expresses, when we discuss about ego.
#### Drop possessiveness
#### **Q: How do we get over possessiveness and jealousy?**
Yes, how do we get over it? The fact that you have asked this question shows that you are ready for better understanding.
Human beings can never be possessed. When you try to possess a person, you actually reduce him or her to an object. You make the person a dead thing. Only dead things can be possessed. If you understand this, you will be free from possessiveness and the jealousy that arises out of it.
Can you try to possess a river? If you try to grasp the water in your hand, you will be doing a foolish thing, will you not? In the same way, don't try to possess people; just enjoy them for what they are and you will be free from the grips of jealousy.
When you try to possess a person, it becomes difficult for that person also. You will start projecting all your ideas on him. He will have to act so as to gel with your projected ideas. He will feel caged. He cannot be his natural self with you. Then it cannot be called a relationship anymore!
Also if you really love a person, liberate him! Don't try to possess him. Just love him with no strings attached.
I am reminded of a story:
In a remote village in South Bharat, where people did not know that civilization existed, there was an old couple. One day, for the first time ever, there was a fair in the village.
The man went to the fair and saw all the items on show.
He picked up a mirror and was awestruck by what he saw! He had never seen a mirror in all his life before.
He took it home with him.
Now and then he would take out the mirror, glance at it and put it back before his wife could see it.
The wife however noticed it and when he was out one day, she picked it up and looked into it.
She exclaimed, 'Another woman! Just as I had thought!'
There is no end to our imagination because of our possessiveness and jealousy!
Of course, you might say, 'Swamiji, how can I keep quiet if my husband or wife is eyeing someone else.' If your husband or wife is really eyeing another person, just look into the matter consciously, with awareness, and sort out the matter with your husband. This is different from possessiveness.
#### How to overcome jealousy?
By telling yourself not to feel jealous, you can never come out of jealousy. Only if you bring awareness into the whole thing and understand deeply, it will help.
To overcome jealousy, just see how the jealousy came into your system. Just analyze the sequence of thoughts and emotions that led to jealousy.
Soon you will understand that jealousy is there like a shadow without an object, tormenting you. Getting liberation from jealousy is a great liberation in one's life.
Second thing, don't condemn the object of your jealousy. Just by condemning the object of jealousy, you will not be liberated from jealousy itself.
By condemning the object of jealousy, you might be liberated from that particular object of jealousy, but you will get fixed onto another object of jealousy, that's all! It is like saying 'sour grapes' and moving on to another vineyard! So, trying to overcome the object of jealousy is not the solution. You need to work on the subject that is *you*.
If you feel that you are holding an emotion that you wish to get rid of, something that you feel is not conducive to your growth, don't resist that emotion. When you resist it, you will only be empowering it more. When you say, 'I should not get jealous,' you will be giving the same power to the word 'jealous' as you give to the words 'I should not'.
Instead, say to yourself, 'Let me be always compassionate towards everyone.' Don't use the word 'jealous' at all. Say something totally positive in the same context, that's all.
Also, instead of avoiding or running away from jealousy, live it through with total awareness. When you try to avoid it, it will confront you at some other time with more intensity than before. Just remember that jealousy is not your true nature. Society taught you to be jealous.
Jealousy is not the real you. When this clicks in you, you will laugh at it instead of being involved in it. When you are able to laugh at it, it means you have started witnessing it instead of being a part of it. The moment you become a witness, it becomes easy to go beyond anything.
Also, if you see that the whole of Existence is nothing but a divine play, you will be able to see the jealous feeling also as a divine play.
If you understand that you are unique and there is no one in this world like you, the comparing nature in you will become meaningless and you will automatically stop feeling jealous. Always remember: Existence loves everyone and everything equally.
#### Make the most of the masters' messages
### Q: Masters time and again try to inspire in us traits like love free from jealousy, better understanding and non-judgmental attitudes. Why is the understanding not happening in us?
You see, there are two things in this: When we catch the masters' messages and make a sincere effort in transforming ourselves, we have caught the right thread and we enter into bliss! But when we start giving importance to the master's personality instead, there starts the problem.
If you follow the master's teachings, you will become a spiritual fruit. If you cling on to his personality, you will remain a religious nut. Religious nuts are the ones who create confusion and conflict in society. |
Each of them gave a suggestion.
The first man said, 'Alright, let's draw a circle and throw up all the money. Whatever falls inside the circle is God's and whatever falls outside is ours.'
The second man said, 'No. I have a better idea. We will draw a really big circle and throw all the money up. Whatever falls inside is ours and whatever falls outside is God's.'
The third man said, 'Look, anyway God is above us. Let us throw all the money up. Whatever he wants, let him take. Whatever comes down is ours!'
As long as we want something, we bribe God for it. As soon as we get it, we drop him until the next want arises! This is how we are taught to function.
Anyhow, coming back to the topic of rituals, there is something definite about them. It is structured and you know when exactly it is going to start, when it is going to finish, where you are going to do it, why you are doing it, etc. With rituals, you go into them, and come out as the same person. There is so much security in the whole process. That is why it has spread so much. Anything that is definite spreads.
But what happens in meditation? First of all, meditation seems too simple to produce any benefits when compared to rituals. People always ask me why I do rituals at the ashram. I tell them, 'If I tell people to simply come to the ashram and sit under the banyan tree and meditate, which is actually enough, they will not listen.'
If I did not have the temple, if they did not see the deities there, probably only I would be sitting under the banyan tree and meditating!
To make people take the first step towards their inner journey, I have to show them some of the things that exist in their minds. I have to talk in their language.
They will be very happy to see the *Dakshinamurthy* deity under the banyan tree, although they will be blissfully unaware of the energy field that is actually there around the banyan tree even in the absence of the *Dakshinamurthy* deity. This banyan tree is live energy. Its silence is a vibrating silence. It is enough if you just sit under it in meditation. You don't have to do anything complicated. Every leaf and twig here talks.
See, when you continue to worship idols, you have to become more and more aware of the tremendous presence of Existence that you are trying to connect with through the idol. Then you will automatically start seeing God everywhere. You will understand that it is not just the idol but the whole of creation that is pregnant with the presence of God. Then you can start relating with the whole of Existence.
In the case of meditation, if you go into it with sincerity, the outcome is not definite. A personality change may happen. You may emerge as a different person and this is seen as a great risk! It is like taking a gamble. Transformation starts happening. It is this transformation that you are actually seeking, but when it happens you are afraid.
You feel comfortable in the security of rituals. Rituals become a part of your every-day routine.
When you meditate, your awareness increases and when this happens, the fence that you have imagined around yourself, which actually society has put around you, slowly dissolves and you feel rebellious, not against society but against your own unconscious and ignorant state. This rebellion causes you to probe more into the cause of it and it opens out further avenues for you.
This is how you move deeper and deeper into a space that you have never entered before; a space which society does not even know; a space that has all along been inside you but locked; a space for which you have been unknowingly searching for a key to unlock. When you have found this space, you have arrived!
It is like this:
A cow is tied to a rope and given a few meters of radius to move around.
It moves around and becomes aware and mature through its intelligence.
Then, the rope is loosened a little, giving it a few more meters of radius.
It goes further around and becomes more intelligent and then it is given still more length of rope to wander.
Depending on the cow's growing intelligence and consciousness, it can even be let free at some point in time!
## Guaranteed Solutions
The same thing happens in man. The more his consciousness grows, the greater freedom he enjoys and the cycle continues.
#### How does the master help
It is a question of how willing you are to allow the transformation of your energies.
But when this happens, society will tell you that you are moving away. You only have to have courage and faith in Existence and yourself and move on.
Here is where, more than any books or lectures, a master can serve as a *yoga danda* to you, a stick of support to help you stand up for yourself. Every time you feel beaten by society in your path of spirituality, when you feel you are against the majority, the master will pull you up in his own way and tell you to move on.
This does not mean that you are dependent on the master. It is like this: You are trying to find your way to a particular place. If left by yourself, you will ask for directions at several places. Sometimes you may be guided wrongly and so you may have to retrace your steps. After spending considerable amount of time, you will reach your destination. It may take you a long time to do so, but you will reach it. But what if you have a map or a guide? You will reach your destination without loss of time! Does it mean that you are dependent on the map or guide? No. It was just a quicker way of doing things, that's all. In the same way, a master is a guide who knows the way, who has already been to the place you are searching for and is available to guide you there.
#### With courage and conviction, it happens
When you have dedication alone, you will no doubt work hard towards reaching your goal, but when you have dedication with courage, you will take a leap towards your goal. This courage will come if you stop looking at others and look only into yourself, if you stop comparing yourself with others and watch yourself with awareness and make the necessary changes in you.
You need to stand up with courage of conviction on your own path. Courage of conviction will happen in you only when you are strongly centered in yourself without comparing yourself with others.
Society is waiting to pull you into the familiar patterns that it knows, into the miseries that it is familiar with and can handle; into the well-trodden and worn-out path. It is very easy and does not require courage to fall into this path. But to tread the lessertrodden path of spirituality requires courage. When I say courage, I don't mean ordinary courage, I mean total courage.
To wear gypsy beads does not require courage, but to wear *rudraksh* beads requires courage! I give *rudraksh* beads to those who wish to wear them. The *rudraksh* beads are nothing but energy storehouses. They store the cosmic energy for you. They are like a battery house and recharge you when you get into a low. But society sees these beads as clear signs of *sannyas*! They see them as something worn by renunciates, without even understanding the meaning of renunciation.
They condemn people who stay in family life and wear *rudraksh*. But when they see the *rudraksh* beads on deities or *sannyasis*, they are happy and pray to them. So many of the younger ones come and tell me how their family reacts to them wearing the beads.
It is ironical. When people pray, they pray to the cosmic energy, but when the same energy is available to them in simpler forms, they are not ready to take it! They pray to it but run away from it!
If you deeply analyze this, it will seem so contradictory. They see themselves as so distinctly different from God; that is the problem. They are not ready to accept that they *are* God. Now I tell you: Whether you know it or not, whether you accept it or not, whether you like it or not, whether you believe it or not, you ARE God. This is the underlying basis of the *vishuddhi chakra* also – discovering your own unique self and infinite energy.
When your courage grows, society automatically fades into insignificance. When your courage is low, society automatically assumes power over you. It is all in your mind. How much power you give to society, that much power it will have over you. Never blame society for anything.
The choice has always been yours. Due to sheer lack of courage, you choose to go with what society says; you choose to pull and push by comparing and trying to beat one another, and then you blame society for it. It is not the right thing to do. Remember, the choice is always yours.
Just function with awareness, and infinity will simply open out. When it does, you will feel afraid because you are not used to seeing such open space. You are used to seeing boundaries all the time. Now you are not able to see the fence anywhere. You start getting apprehensive.
You immediately think that you have entered the wrong space. Reality seems too much to digest. You start feeling insecure. You feel like going back to the warmth of your past beliefs and illusions. You feel you have made a mistake by not listening to society when it told you that you were going on the wrong path. You start doubting and then doubting the doubt as well. You feel like a lonely child left in the middle of a desert.
It is in times like these that you need to remember that Existence is always with you and that your courage needs only to mature and go hand in hand with faith upon Existence and then everything will be alright. Faith is the prodding stick for courage.
Unless a revolution happens inside you, you can never rupture and grow into a tree. Most of us remain a seed and die, because of lack of courage. We always try to dissect the seed to find the fruits and flowers. Will it ever help? No! The seed has to rupture to grow into fruits and flowers. Similarly, when a radical change happens, when a revolution is created in man, he will rupture and grow. All meditations are nothing but techniques to make the seed rupture.
When you start rupturing, all your priorities start changing. What was important before becomes less important now. Only the things that nurture your being will seem important. Your whole attitude will change. Your whole presence will change.
Your presence will automatically lure people to you although they might not approve of it! The radiance felt in your inner core will attract them with deep curiosity. While society will criticize you for your changed attitude, it will start finding your presence distinctly different.
When the transformation is happening, just utterly ignore anything from the past. The past will again and again try to pull you into familiar patterns and deep bondage. When you listen to it, you are allowing yourself to be in bondage. Just decide to hold on to the ecstasy and conviction of the transformation happening in you. This is your greatest test, the test of your perseverance to transform completely. Hold on until the transformation is complete and mature.
There is a cosmic energy that fills this universe and there is an energy that fills you. Spirituality is all about establishing a live connection between the Cosmic energy and the energy in you. When your individual consciousness merges with the Universal Consciousness, you become enlightened.
Just a desire to get enlightened will not do. It needs to be a conscious decision. See, ordinary desires are nothing but greed that don't really propel you towards your specific goal. A conscious decision is what will make you work towards achieving.
People don't understand these things properly and simply talk at a superficial level. When you don't understand, you misunderstand. But you think you have understood and there starts the problem.
# Persist and it will happen
Spirituality is a science that gives a deep understanding of our body, mind and spirit. When you enter it with awareness, the outer world will slowly dissolve. When people see you from outside, they will think that you are renouncing. Only *you* will understand that you are not renouncing anything; the outer world things are simply dissolving on their own. The illusion disappears and you become de-hypnotized.
At one of our programs, I asked how many of the participants thought that I had hypnotized them. Out of a group of eighty, three of them lifted their hands. One of the ladies who was sitting next to the girl who had her hand raised laughed at her. I asked her why she was laughing. The girl was honest enough to lift her hand.
I am sure out of that group, many of them would have been tempted to lift their hands but didn't, fearing what I might say! Anyhow, three of them lifted their hands. I told them that I had not hypnotized them, but had actually de-hypnotized them.
They had started feeling the clearing of *maya* or illusion. But what happens is, you are so used to being in a state of illusion, that if it starts clearing, you think something has gone wrong! The problem is, when too much truth is told to people, a certain fear sets in. The comfort they were enjoying under the cover of ignorance suffers.
See, in whatever quantities your ignorance dissolves, in that much quantity you become possessed by God or Existence. Any effort that you put in your everyday life should be directed towards emptying yourself so that you may be filled with Existence. Any other effort is just incidental and trivial in life. Remember this.
Every breath of yours should be towards increasing your awareness and consciousness. Only then have you really made a conscious decision to experience Existence or God. If this firm resolve is not happening in you, then you are still pretending to seek, that's all. You are simply cheating yourself. Don't for a moment think that you are cheating others. You are cheating yourself.
To turn your steps from outwards to inwards is the first step. That moment of taking the U-turn is the most significant moment. You will know when you have taken the U-turn. Until then, your mind will have been giving excuses and more excuses, citing people and situations and outer world circumstances as reasons for not being able to integrate yourself. Once you take the U-turn, all these thoughts will fade into insignificance. They will slowly lose their prominence. They will be there no doubt, but you will be steadily progressing, taking them in your stride. They will help you become a more effective watcher as they play their parts meticulously.
Taking the first step or the U-turn is what is the most difficult thing. When you take the U-turn, half the job is done. You then become more malleable to the ways of Existence.
When you take the U-turn, everything becomes meditation. Whether it is walking or talking or singing or dancing or simply putting your clothes on or taking them off, everything becomes a meditation and is done with increasing awareness.
You will simply watch yourself doing these things and slowly understand that the whole world is an illusion. When you take your first step inwards, you have in effect taken a leap because the first step is the real leap. Until then, you only philosophize, convince yourself and others that you are seeking and get more confused with less determination day by day.
When you take the first step, you are ready to win yourself. To win others is very easy. Just take a few weapons or use your tongue and simply destroy them, that's all. But to win yourself takes real courage. This *vishuddhi chakra* is all about winning yourself.
When you look inwards, you are ready to win yourself. Of course, when you are on the path inwards, there might not be anything tangible to the people around you in what you are doing. Only *you* will know that everything is happening inside and not outside. Only *you* will be aware of the revolution that is happening inside you. Only *you* will be able to tell the growing intelligence inside you.
People around you will not be able to understand the experiences you are enjoying. I tell you: never try to convince anyone that you are evolving inside. You may share your experiences with your spiritual friends who will be able to match your wavelength of thinking, but if you try to share these experiences with other people who are blissfully oblivious to the inner journey, you will only land up in deep misery.
Just allow the experiences to happen in you; neither hold on to them nor run behind them. Allow them to work like steam on you so that you may fully ripen. If you hold on to them, you will stagnate at some point and miss the whole thing.
Remember that all these experiences are tell-tale signs that you are well on your journey inwards. They are like signboards that you see on the road. Do you cling onto the signboards and say that the destination has been reached? No. Don't cling onto them. Move on to your destination.
A total commitment and determination is needed and this will come automatically to you when you are ready; when you are ready to drop your mind, that is society, and live with your heart; when you are ready to stop pointing fingers at others and point to yourself, come what may; when you understand experientially that your mind is societal and your heart is natural.
Also, when people ask you for proof of your experiences, just understand that there is no need to prove to them. Your experience is so intimate and personal to you that you will not be able to effectively share it with the other person. In fact if you share it, you will be bringing down the whole experience. Also, the other person may not be willing to believe what you are saying. They may tell you that you are deluding yourself. They may want you to explain the whole thing logically.
Logic cannot explain these experiences. God is beyond logic. If logic can explain God, then logic has to be superior to God and that can never be the case! So just relax and allow the experiences to happen to you. When anyone questions you, have the maturity to smile and move on. A smile can convey more effectively what you can't in so many words.
Great enlightened masters have experienced such tremendous joy in communion with Existence. People ask me to narrate my experiences but I tell you, it is all so personal and intimate that I cannot explain it to you in words. I can guide you; I can show you the way - the path for you to experience. The moment I start explaining, it will become mundane.
But I can give you the highest assurance that you will experience it, if you have the fire within you. The promise given by a master is enough energy for you to achieve it.
I am telling you all these things now in reply to your question about meditation and spirituality. You may think that we are moving away from the main subject. No! This *chakra*, this *vishuddhi chakra* is all about expanding yourself; about discovering your own unique self, with total awareness and understanding of the fact that there is no scope for comparison and jealousy in life. Just take in whatever I have told you and allow the energy behind it to transform you. I tell you, miracles can happen inside you! It will change the whole quality of your being.
## *The three layers of energy*
Alright...Now, from all that we have discussed, you have understood that comparison and jealousy are non-entities and don't have any actual relevance to you at all. Now, let me try to explain some more on the *vishuddhi chakra* and the energy house that is in it.
We have three layers of energy in us. The first layer of energy is from our mind and it is this that we use for our day-to-day activities from morning till night. Once this energy expends, we start feeling tired and irritated if we are given more work to do.
The second layer energy is the emergency layer. It is the energy that arises from our emotions. At the time of emergency, this energy opens out. Let us say you are really tired and walking back from work to your home. You feel you have enough energy only to enter your house and crash on your bed. At that time, suddenly if a dog starts chasing you, what do you do? You start running much faster than you have ever run before. Even if you are dead tired, even if you were earlier unable to move even a limb, suddenly you run with a different kind of energy! This is the emergency energy that arises out of emotion.
The third layer of energy is the being level energy. This is an infinite source of energy within you, which you don't use at all. This energy layer can be opened and experienced by deep meditation. Whether you accept it or not, you are in connection with all these three layers of energies. This *vishuddhi chakra* holds in it the key to these higher energy levels.
Let me narrate to you an incident that actually happened during my days of wandering:
> In a beautiful place called Almora in the Himalayas, there is a small ashram with a few huts for those who wish to meditate.
The place is known to be frequented by tigers at night!
I was there for a short while during my days of wandering.
I used to meditate for long hours there.
They had a system wherein, when the head of the ashram senses the tigers coming, he would ring a bell and all the *sannyasis* would get into their respective huts and close the doors, until such time they were asked to come out.
On one occasion, at night time, while we were meditating, the bell rang and all of us got into our respective huts.
The next day, the head of the ashram came around to see if we were all alright.
He found that one of the huts was closed and the *sannyasi* inside was shouting through the window to open the door.
We all ran to the hut and tried opening the door but couldn't open it.
Finally, a few of us got in through the window and entered the hut.
To our surprise, we found that he had placed a big grinding stone against the door so that the tiger would not be able to push its way through.
We jointly moved the stone away to open the door.
It suddenly struck us how the man might have moved the stone single-handedly against the door in the first place! We asked him how he had moved it.
He replied, 'Moved it? I simply lifted it and placed it!'
When he heard the call of the tiger, he simply lifted the stone to place it against the door, that's all!
This is exactly what I mean by the emergency layer energy. Under normal circumstances, the same man would not have been able to lift that stone. Do you understand? Even after the incident, once the emergency was over, he himself was not able to lift it away from the door in the story!
Out of fear or greed, the second level energy opens. For example, if there is an important meeting, do you feel tired? No! You will be alive and fresh. The desire or greed to attend the meeting will keep you in an energized condition.
The *vishuddhi chakra* is the door through which all these three layers of energy can be opened out, but you are not aware of it because you have not used these layers effectively in a long time.
It is like this: In all harbors, there is a place called a boat jetty where the boats are kept. It is commonly said that if the boat is kept in the jetty for long without sailing, it forgets that it can sail in the water!
In the same way, because you have not used the third layer of energy for a long time, you forget that you belong to it or it belongs to you. Meditation can open out this third level energy for you.
If you keep this *chakra* in a cleansed condition, you can scale great heights in the outer world and great depths in the inner world. When you have low self-esteem or jealousy, this *chakra* is locked. Low self-esteem is a passive manifestation of jealousy, that's all. Jealousy is active while low self-esteem is passive. Both are a result of comparison. With low self-esteem, you feel you are no good and resign yourself to it. In jealousy, you are unable to bear it and start reacting; that is the difference.
Understand that any self-esteem that you have that indicates to you that you are less than God is low self-esteem, because you ARE God. That is why I say there is no scope to compare yourself with anyone else.
You need to experience the second and third layers of energy hidden in this *chakra*, in order to understand the infinite potential that is lying hidden in you. This *chakra* is really the seat of energy for us. When we concentrate on it, we will be able to feel the energy radiating from it.
In the Himalayas, when I used to wander in my earlier days, so many miles I would cover by foot. I used to start walking at a slow pace, concentrating on my *vishuddhi chakra*. Slowly, I would pick up speed concentrating on the *chakra*. After a certain point, my body would start moving with a swinging pace and I would be just a watcher of it! I would cover many miles in this fashion.
All the food that you take or exercise that you do helps only the first layer of energy. Food is not the only source of energy. It is a common misconception that only food gives you energy. Food is one source of energy, that's all.
*Yogis* in Tibet do not eat at all. They simply drink water out of the shell of a *bilva* fruit. I lived like that for six months in the Himalayas. I got the energy from the sun, from the water while taking my bath, from the air while breathing. These are all *yogic* methods. *Tapasya* is the penance you do for enlightenment throughout your life. That alone vibrates in your being.
#### **G**uaranteed **S**olutions
When you start competing with others, you forget your own self. You forget to strengthen your own being, which is your actual untapped source of energy. If you have physical strength and intellectual strength without the strength of the soul, it is of no use. It is only when you discover the strength of your soul, that you have touched your life source and energy.
# **Q: Once we are able to be without jealousy, have we completely gotten freedom in at least one aspect of our shortcomings?**
Of course, if you are able to see a space where love can exist without passion or jealousy, you have definitely moved forward, but continue moving with complete awareness because you can very easily slip back into your old unconscious ways and find yourself going through all the old emotions once again.
Hold on to the newly discovered awareness and move with it. It can open up many more beautiful avenues for you to explore. Don't stagnate. The greatest danger is to cling on to a few experiences thinking that they are solid.
Masters never allow their disciples to stagnate in any experience. They always prod them on further so that the disciple may look deeper and deeper in his quest. People who have had visions of gods and goddesses most often tend to stagnate in their spiritual journey. They feel there is nothing more to be seen and therefore stay right there holding on to that experience. This should never be allowed to happen.
Until you have reached the state of eternal bliss, you can hit rock bottom at any time. So remember that and nurture your awareness continuously to take you to realms of deeper and deeper understanding.
Understand one thing: The work of a Master is so delicate. He has to handle each and every one of you with utmost care and delicateness. He has to see in which way each of you will grow and make you flower in that way. Each of you has been through so many lives and accumulated so much ignorance. He has to work through all that and wake you up.
Life offers plenty of solutions, but there is always something that fits you the best. The intelligence lies in finding that out. When you apply your own intelligence and find it out, you will enjoy the benefits of it. Whereas, if you start looking at others and start applying their solutions to yourself, you will lose track of where you stand.
A small story:
An old woman was going about dusting her old house in a remote village.
Suddenly the door opened and a young sales man walked in. He spoke excitedly when he saw the woman dusting.
He told her that he had many gadgets that would help her clean her house.
The old woman said, 'But…'
The man interrupted her and pulled out a lot of rubbish from a bag and put it on the floor.
The old woman tried again, 'But…'
The man told her to stand by and watch. He pulled out a device and explained, 'You see this machine? It will clean any amount of dust in no time. It is so light in weight and therefore very easy for you to handle at this age. Let me demonstrate.'
The old lady tried, 'But…'
The man interrupted, 'Just show me the plug point.'
The lady finally said, 'But… electricity hasn't yet reached our village!'
In life, we need to be able to figure out what suits us the best! If we are clear about this, we will grow without a worry. But most of the time, we covet and apply others' solutions to ourselves, and then feel unhappy.
If we are clear about where we stand and what we need, we will grow steadily. Even setbacks in this way of living will only be ones that teach us how to function more intelligently. In this way, we at least function with our own intelligence and so it becomes an experiential understanding.
When you simply follow another's solution, there is nothing happening inside you; you are operating from your periphery. When nothing happens inside you, you cannot grow; remember that. When I say that you cannot grow, I mean you don't evolve from within. Material benefits may come, but you remain dead inside.
Remember that only when you grow from within, you are really growing. Don't get dangerously caught in outer world races. See them as mere play and play them well. Material benefits are needed for survival but all these should remain in the periphery. Your inner core should steadily grow. It is this that will guide you in your play outside.
The process of discovering your infinite intelligence is what life is all about. That is why I always say, 'Life is the path and not any goal.' As your intelligence grows, you will become more joyful and you will be able to play the game of life more effectively. So stop comparing and start discovering – the source of your real growth.
The *vishuddhi chakra* is the seat of higher creativity. When the energy of this *chakra* is unlocked, you will see that a tremendous flow of creativity becomes available to you.
When you change the quality of your *being*, naturally the quality of your *doing* also changes. Whatever you do, you do with greater efficiency, greater creativity. As a result, the quality of your *having* also changes. You will be happy with whatever comes your way and you will see that material wealth and success flow towards you naturally. So drop comparison and return to your being and discover eternal bliss, *nithyananda*.
Now let us enter into a meditation technique called the *Shakti Sagar.* It will make you understand experientially how you can harness the tremendous energy source that is available to you through your *vishuddhi chakra*.
Emotion: Comparison and jealousy
*Chakra: Vishuddhi chakra*
Location: Throat region
In Sanskrit, *vishuddhi* means 'beyond purity and impurity'. The name therefore means that this chakra can never get impure and hence never needs to be cleansed. That is why comparison, which locks this *chakra*, is like a shadow without an object. There is no basis for the concept of comparison. It is purely a figment of our imagination.
This *chakra* is locked by comparison and jealousy and it can be made to flower when we exhibit our individuality without worrying about others, and express fully our capacity, uniqueness and creativity.
# Meditation Technique to realize one's uniqueness and energy reserve:
Shakti Sagar Meditation **-** a technique from Zen Buddhism.
#### The Shakti Sagar Meditation
*(Total duration: 30 minutes)*
The *Shakti Sagar* meditation is taken from Zen Buddhism. The key to this meditation is to keep the mind fixed on the *vishuddhi* while the body moves.
Stand with your eyes closed and focus on your *vishuddhi chakra*. Stand behind a chair or some support and hold it (if required) and start walking slowly, very slowly in the same spot where you are standing.
Now start increasing your pace very gradually. Keep walking faster and faster in the same spot. Push your limits only to the extent that you can, with no discomfort. Don't over exert yourself at any time. At all times focus on the *vishuddhi*. You will be able to feel the energy coming from it. The important thing is never to slow down at any point in time. Try to jog faster than what you are jogging but never slower. Stop after 20 minutes.
For the next 10 minutes, just sit down quietly wherever you are. Keep your eyes closed and focus on the *vishuddhi*. You will absorb the energy that is generated during the movement. When you do this, the cosmic energy enters through the *vishuddhi chakra* and becomes a tremendous source of energy to you. While doing this meditation, you may wear your *mala* around your neck. It will serve to store the energy that you create during the meditation.
Thank you. We will meet for the next session.
**Drop the ego**
Seriousness is nothing but paying undue importance to something, at the cost of everything else. It stems from the inability to see that all of life is just a drama that is unfolding every minute. Seriousness is the result of over-expectation from life.
A small story:
Two boys were building sand castles on the beach.
They suddenly had a quarrel and one of the boys got angry and kicked the sand castle.
The other boy went and complained to the king about it.
The king began to laugh at him for making so much out of just sand castles.
But the king's advisor, a Zen monk, started laughing at the king.
He asked, 'When you can fight battles and lose sleep over stone castles, why do you laugh at these boys for fighting over sand castles?'
If you really go to see, all our seriousness is just about sandcastles! For the child, at that young age, sand castles seem precious, whereas for us at our age, stone castles seem precious, that's all. Whether it is a sand castle or stone castle, the seriousness behind it is the same; just the object of seriousness is different. So don't laugh when children fight over sand castles.
Seriousness closes your mind to the openness and freedom of life. It makes you dull and dead. It curbs your thinking and makes you stick to the familiar patterns that you know all the time. It makes you egoistic.
> In a Zen monastery, there was a competition among disciples as to who had the best garden. One disciple was a very serious sort. He took the competition also very seriously. He kept his garden always neat and clean, and well-swept. All the grass was of the same height. All the bushes were neatly trimmed. He was sure that he would get the first prize. On the day of the competition, the master went around all the gardens. Then he came back and ranked the gardens. This disciple's garden got the lowest ranking. Everyone was shocked. The disciple went and questioned the master about it. He asked, 'Master, what is wrong with my garden? Why did you rank me the lowest?' The master looked at him and asked, 'Where are all the dead leaves?'
A garden maintained in such a way is no longer alive! It is dead.
Seriousness kills creativity. It destroys spontaneity.
Science has proved that when you perform a task in a relaxed and light manner, your thinking and decision-making capacity is automatically enhanced. The same task when performed in a serious manner dulls your mind.
All our seriousness is just sickness. When I say all, I mean ALL. And all our sickness originates from seriousness. Seriousness begets sickness and sickness begets seriousness.
One night, a man called me on the phone and started crying.
He said, 'I fall at your feet, Swamiji! Please help me. I'm so depressed! I am going to end my life!' and so on.
I tried to calm him down, and finally said, 'Why don't you come to the ashram tomorrow morning and spend a few days with me? Let us see what can be done.'
He replied, 'Tomorrow Swamiji? Oh… tomorrow I have to go to the office… shall I come next weekend?'
Most of us are like this: getting unnecessarily tense about our socalled problems. Just one jolt is enough and our seriousness will drop. When we wake up to reality, we see how insignificant our problems really are.
When you do something too seriously, when you are too concerned about the result, you are actually not allowing yourself to perform at the optimum level.
Of course, you need to make plans, you need to think ahead, but with sincerity, not with seriousness. Seriousness is not the same as sincerity. Sincerity is focusing on the task with enthusiasm and youthfulness. Sincerity is giving the task your best without worrying excessively about the result.
When you are serious, you don't enjoy; you don't laugh. How can you laugh when you are serious? Either you are serious or you are laughing. You can't be both at the same time because the very definition of seriousness is such.
But when you are sincere, you can be laughing and playful. You can continue to do in a playful and joyful way, and because you have finished the job, you have been sincere!
With sincerity, there is no worry, there is only enthusiasm.
When you are serious, you are egoistic, because you fail to see that the whole thing is only a cosmic drama. You feel that you are a separate entity… too much of 'I' and so you are serious. If you understand that the whole thing is only a drama, you can never be serious. When this understanding happens at a deep level, you will do things for the sheer joy of moving in tune with the cosmic drama or Existence.
# Chronological planning Vs. psychological planning
You see, there are two types of planning: chronological planning and psychological planning.
Chronological planning is planning on a timescale. You decide that you will get up at such and such a time, finish your morning routine by a particular time, reach the office at a particular time, and get certain tasks done that day at the office. This is alright. It is a practical way to organize your work in order to get the best results. This kind of planning with sincere action will take you from happiness to more happiness.
Psychological planning on the other hand, is planning in your head with no relevance to time or space. It is just constant serious planning going on in your head, over and above the chronological planning. It is actually nothing but complex negativity being applied to the chronological planning that has already been done. It keeps you thinking that you are serious and dutiful. But you get into a dull state because all your energy is going into analyzing the plan again and again.
Psychological planning boosts your ego. It makes you feel great and worthy. It makes you feel that you are handling things of a great magnitude. It makes you feel that it is wholly in your hands to worry about it and make it happen. This is psychological planning.
This is actually a way of postponing happiness, postponing life, waiting for something particular to happen to start enjoying life.
We always think, *If I get married, my life will be settled. So let me work towards getting married.*
*If I have two children, my life will be fulfilled.*
*Once I retire, I'll be peaceful.*
It is the attitude of: *now I'll be serious; later I'll be happy!*
In the end, you will be happy neither now nor then. You will lose your capacity to be happy at any time.
Just live with simplicity, with spontaneity and with innocence; that will itself do the job.
# Strive for totality not for perfection
Don't harp too much on perfectionism. I tell you: Perfectionism can make you neurotic. Whatever you do, do it wholly, totally. Then automatically, you will never worry about perfectionism.
Perfectionism is always something from your mind. It becomes a goal for you. You work towards it as a goal. And when you work towards it as a goal, it becomes dead and mundane. But when you are total, you are established in your heart, and it becomes a deep experience. The outcome then has to be beautiful and it will give you joy also. Then, whatever you do, you will be in tune with Existence.
Perfectionism never gives you joy; it only fulfills your ego. Even if you feel fulfilled at the end of it, it is only a fulfillment of your ego, never a fulfillment of your being. Be very clear that perfectionists are the biggest egoists. They miss the dimension of being total. Totality is possible when you enter into it deeply from your being. Perfectionism is never possible because it is in your mind and your mind keeps changing its definition of perfection.
Also, have the courage to make mistakes. Serious people are always afraid to make mistakes. They take themselves too seriously. They think too much about themselves. It is too much to make mistakes and have someone point it out to them. Actually I tell you, these people who are afraid of making small mistakes, end up making big blunders!
What is wrong in making mistakes? You will say, 'Swamiji, I can't afford to make mistakes in my work; that is why I am so serious.' What you say might be true; your work may not permit you to make mistakes, but that is not the point I am trying to make here. When you make a mistake, people will point it out and you will not be able to bear it. Your ego is bound to get hurt and you are very sensitive to this; you know this. So to avoid getting your ego hurt, you try your best not to make mistakes!
You plan so unconsciously and continuously to keep guarding your ego. But the reasons you give are all different. It is not that you are lying. It is just that you are not aware of the subtle way in which your system works. But if you deeply analyze and see, you will understand what I am saying.
There is nothing wrong in making mistakes. In fact, by making a few mistakes, you come to know clearly how to avoid making mistakes. The more you learn from mistakes, the more you know about how not to make mistakes.
Knowing how not to make mistakes is a very important thing. Only then you have seen both sides of it; only then you have explored the two sides experientially. Else, there is always the danger of falling into the unknown side at a critical time when you really can't afford to.
However, don't make the same mistakes again! Your mind always repeats patterns. Don't do it with mistakes also. Make new mistakes! And move on to better and better understanding!
I am not saying to deliberately make mistakes. That is foolishness again. I am only saying, do things to the best of your intelligence and enthusiasm but without worrying about whether it might be a mistake. The moment you are worried that it might be a mistake, you are worried about your ego getting hurt.
When you are not so concerned about your ego getting hurt, you will have the courage to take any jump. All your so-called worry is actually about your ego getting hurt. When you are free from it, you will act with more freedom and courage. You will be more willing to experiment.
A small story:
In a clubhouse, one man had finished his round of playing cards and was leaving.
He went to the coat stand and was putting on his coat, when suddenly a meek voice spoke behind him, 'Sir, are you Mr. Philippe?'
The man turned around and replied, 'No, I am not.'
The voice said, 'Thank God. I am Philippe and that coat is mine.'
We are so afraid that we might make a mistake and hurt our ego. So we move cautiously, with cordiality, just to be sure. These are nothing but passive forms of ego. You are so terrified of your ego getting hurt and so you behave in these ways. Drop all your guard of your ego and move about freely.
Move away from seriousness. Somehow, we always associate spirituality with seriousness. It is a big misconception. Seriousness can never be religion or spirituality.
Why do you think I keep telling you so many jokes and small stories? If I don't tell you all these things, you will start becoming very serious and when you become serious, you become dead and heavy. You will not be alive and light. I am not here to make you heavy.
I am here to unload you and make you light. I am here to show you that your seriousness is nothing but a form of your ego.
Laugh and let go your ego
Laughter is that which brings in a ray of energy from your being to your body. It totally rejuvenates your whole self. It can heal like nothing else can. It gives you such wonderful glimpses of the present, which you try to achieve through other difficult meditation techniques. Laughter is the most powerful meditation technique.
Laughter is the greatest spiritual quality. Sincerity and laughter always go together. As I said earlier, seriousness can never coexist with laughter. Either you are serious or you are laughing. When you are sincere, you can laugh and do your duty sincerely.
How many of us can laugh with all our heart? Even in laughter we manage restrain! The so-called social etiquette has taught us to laugh in a polite way. When kids laugh, we condition them. We are a spray of cold water on their laughter. We tell them, 'Now that is enough!' We try to condition even their laughter.
I have heard mothers telling their daughters, 'Don't laugh like a man; laugh like a lady.' How can you culture laughter? Laughter is something that comes from your being. I tell you, all the conditioning of your children is just to make replicas of your own dull and dead self. Until you replicate yourself completely, you will not rest.
I spent some time with a few children during my visit to America this year. I spent about an hour interacting with them. I was so shocked when I saw that they simply did not laugh however much I tried joking with them. Children these days take on pseudo maturity and manage to exclude laughter from their system. If they cannot laugh as kids, what will they do when they grow up? It was too much for me to see them.
People tell me that my laughter is infectious. With those kids, for the first time, my laughter seemed non-infectious! They were just looking at me with the same mature look on their faces. I left them afraid that they may make *me* serious!
You see, maturity does not have anything to do with how you laugh. But somehow, we feel that when we are mature, we should automatically laugh less.
Laughter is such strength because it brings in energy from your core to your periphery. If you sit through my sessions, most of the time there will only be laughter. Some joke will be cracked or some story told and everyone will be laughing. I never allow seriousness to set in. Even with people who live in the ashram, I never allow seriousness to set in.
A small story:
One very humorous speaker was invited to a town to deliver a speech.
He came to the program with a big group of people.
The organizers were surprised when they saw the number of people with the speaker.
The speaker saw their surprised look and explained, 'It is becoming difficult to get people to laugh these days, so I carry my own audience.'
In the so-called elite circles, people will be laughing, but in a very cultured and well-mannered way! This is not real laughter; this is dead laughter. Laughter can never be conditioned. If it is conditioned, it is not laughter; it is not the meditative laughter that we are talking about. It is simply an expression of the ego inside, that's all.
If you analyze why you laugh when a joke is cracked, you will understand: A set of logically connected statements is first told to you. When you are clinging on to that built-up logic, the punch line is delivered and your logic is shattered! At the moment your logic is shattered, your mind is also shattered and you are in a state of no-mind or *satori*. You are Buddha!
When you are in no-mind, you are in the present. When you laugh, you are in the present because when you laugh you are in no-mind. When you are thoughtless, you are in the present. When you are with thoughts, you are either in the past or in the future.
Laughter is *total* and it can simply heal and transform you. It is the best and most easily available medicine for humanity.
Life is so precious that it is not worth spending it on dull and lethargic moments. Laugh and infuse your life with energy and bliss. Just decide to enjoy continuously, whatever the job may be that you are doing. Be sincere, not serious.
When you laugh, you radiate energy around you; it is infectious; you radiate a therapeutic bliss around you. This is also why, when a person in a bad mood walks in, he radiates the same mood around him and there is every chance that the people around him will be affected by it. I always tell doctors to do some kind of cleansing meditation because they are continuously in touch with patients who come to them with a lot of negative thoughts and diseases.
# Q: But we need a reason to laugh. How can we simply decide to be humorous when we don't find anything humorous?
We always think that we need a comedian or a joke to make us laugh. When you start living in the present moment, your very existence will be beautiful and light. Your inhalation and exhalation of breath, the process of bread getting converted to blood in your body, the synchronous happenings of events in Existence; everything will be so beautiful. You will feel so much bliss and you will be ever smiling and laughing. Your whole being will exude laughter and bliss.
Laughing at a joke is alright, but when you fall in tune with Existence, you simply enjoy the big cosmic drama that is happening and you laugh at everything. Then there is no place for seriousness, no place for ego. You are no more solid. You are porous and playful. You develop a deep understanding of the Existential game and so you laugh.
You are able to see that everyone is only a player who has become so serious with their role, and you laugh at that. You laugh at how each one is deceiving the other when playing the game. You laugh at the thought that you are playing a game! When you are able to laugh, you have become the watcher, and when you have become the watcher, you are separate from the 'I' and 'mine' - the ego.
A small story:
Once there was a conference of Buddhist monks on the meaning of true spirituality. Each monk went onto the stage and gave a long speech. Finally, it was the turn of a Zen monk to speak. He went onto the stage and simply started laughing! He laughed and laughed…from his being.
The laughter just rose from his belly. He started shaking uncontrollably with laughter.
His laughter was so infectious that soon all the others in the room started laughing, without even knowing why!
The laughter of all the monks produced a huge wave of positive energy in the room.
The monks reached a state of tremendous elevation.
Their thinking was shattered and their being was filled with bliss.
The Zen monk finally spoke, 'This is true spirituality.'
Laughter is the highest spiritual quality. It can lead you to enlightenment! Laughing is a great healing energy. If you laugh at your sickness, you will become healthy. Laughter is a beautiful way of connecting with the energy of Existence, which is pure healing energy.
In our meditation programs, we always include laughter and dance. They are the easiest ways to becoming a Buddha! Dance can make you simple and light. Dance, like laughter, is another easy and enjoyable meditation. When you can dance without a care, you become the dance itself. Energy will then gush from you.
You can dance without a care only if you are free from all your pseudo identities. As long as you think you are someone, you can't dance in joy. Dance is an outward expression of inner joy. And I am not talking about programmed dance where you know which step is going to come next. I am talking about letting go of your so-called identities and feeling the oneness with Existence and dancing with that joy.
The self-conscious ones are the egoistic ones. They are so bothered about what others will say about their dance and so they sit quietly. Again, they are guarding their ego and they are missing the joy of life like anything.
Once in a while at least, in your home, play some music and dance. Simply decide to let go. It can become an intense meditation that can take you beyond your mind and transform you in a way that words cannot. Be natural. Be original. The people who comment on your dance are simply missing out on the joy of dance. Don't bother about them. Just dissolve and become the dance itself. Laughter and dance are the easiest techniques to shed your ego and merge with Existence.
#### Q: When do we know that our ego is no more?
Simply put, when you no longer feel yourself as a separate entity, ego has dissolved. When you become enlightened, your ego has ripened and ruptured. When your ego drops, the resistance you posed earlier will disappear and Existence will simply flow through you.
Whether you know it or not, accept it or not, like it or not, Existence is trying to flow through you every minute, but you are so full of ego that you are unable to allow it. You miss the miracles of Existence because of your ego. You are unable to connect to Existence and so you continue to live in ego, ignorance and misery.
You are so full of ego that you are living far away from your own being. There is so much of accumulated stuff inside you that you need to get rid of, the stuff that you have accumulated over many lives; not just this one life. There is no space for even yourself inside yourself! And because of this, you are operating from your periphery all the time instead of from your inner being.
When your ego dissolves, you cease to exist separately, and you simply merge with Existence! This is the state of enlightened masters. I often tell people, 'Destroy what you are not.' People look at me with shock. When I say this, what I mean is, you are your inner being. That being is now contaminated with all that it is not - the various active and passive forms of ego. These are what you need to destroy and that is what I mean when I say, 'Destroy what you are not and you have arrived!'
You are a part of Existence, and whatever causes you to think otherwise, is ego. A fish, whether it likes it or not, whether it accepts it or not, whether it believes it or not, is a part of the ocean. It has two choices. It either lives happily in the ocean, or fights with the ocean and still continues to live in it, making its life miserable.
If you flow with Existence, you will enjoy every moment of your life. You will become, sensitive, creative and fluid.
A small story:
A teacher took her students out for a picnic. They played games, ate their snack and enjoyed themselves. Suddenly, the teacher drew their attention to a beautiful rainbow that had formed in the sky. The children looked up at it with awe. The teacher watched them and said, 'Alright now, let us give a clap to the artist behind it!' The students were for a moment confused, but quickly understood and broke into applause!
Children need to be taught to appreciate the Existential beauty surrounding them or else they will lose the connection with Existence very quickly and become egoistic. They should not be allowed to become mechanical and egoistic. They should be brought up to be porous and sensitive.
When you can appreciate Existence, you have come closer to it. The whole of Existence is creativity. A creative person is closer to his heart than his mind. When you create, you are close to God. God is the creator, the created and the creation. When you create, you express your being, the quality of Existence. When you create, you are showing your love and appreciation towards Existence; you are adding a little more beauty to Existence.
When you are full of wonder for Existence, you can create. On the other hand, when you are full of ego, you cannot create; and even if you create, your creation will be a dead creation. It will be like a plastic rose, which looks perfect but lacks the fragrance and life. When an artist creates out of love, he can give a special quality to the creation. If he creates out of ego, the creation is dead in a way.
When you are not in tune with Existence, you will miss the fragrance of Existence. It is as if, when a beautiful fragrance surrounds you, you are closing your nose with stinking fingers. This is ego. When you experience the fragrance of Existence, you will start experiencing the synchronicity in it also.
You will be able to resonate with the whole of Existence. You will be able to see that every single leaf and twig are orchestrations of Existence or God. When you are in this state, whatever you seek, you will find, because you are moving in tune with Existence. Life then becomes a miracle! This is what we call the synchronicity of Existence.
And understand one thing: When you are resonating with Existence, you will not seek greedily. Simply, Existence will keep giving you what you need for the moment – even before you seek it. This is what I mean when I say, 'Whatever you seek, you will find.'
The problem is, we have distanced ourselves very much from Existence, from our source, which lies deep within us. So we need constant reminders about it. You can start shedding your ego by first admiring and appreciating the beauty surrounding you. That itself will start sowing the seed of transformation in you. It will cause you to understand that there is a life force mightier than your ego, which is conducting this universe.
The more you lose yourself to Existence, the more egoless you become. The more egoless you become, the more you lose yourself to Existence!
# Q: Although we know at the intellectual level, that we need to surrender our ego, we are unable to. Why?
You see, man never wants to let go in totality. He wants to cling on to something all the time and that something is his ego. Your ego is your very strength. You have guarded it so well over the years. It is the basis of your very existence.
You don't know that there is a world beyond your ego which is much more blissful than what you are feeling now. Your ego is a life-sustaining element for you. But the simple truth is – you have to let go of it!
It is like this: Imagine that there is a seed that is sown. The seed *has* to rupture for the tree to grow, is it not? If the seed thinks that it will wait for the tree to grow and then rupture, is it possible? No! Like this, man's ego *has* to rupture for him to blossom. The longer he guards his ego, the more he is postponing his own flowering.
Until man meets his master, he might not even know where his blockages are, where his ego is hindering. But once he meets his master, he will know! He can transform. The master's sole purpose is to remove the ego of each of his disciples.
The words and actions of a master will seem abrupt and inappropriate when you see it from your logic. But it is pregnant with the truth; it is pregnant with the single intention of destroying your ego. A master himself descends out of sheer compassion for mankind. He has no vested interest in anything or anybody. He is beyond the treacherous ocean of desire. He is here simply to lift you to the state he is in; the state of eternal bliss; the state where only consciousness exists without the 'I'.
In the *Chandi* recitation, which is a recitation of 700 Sanskrit verses on Devi, the female energy principle, it talks about how Chandi Devi kills the various evil demons. It is not that She killed real humans. If She had killed real humans, we would not be worshipping Her through the recital!
The demons symbolically represent the various kinds of evils or ego inside man and it is this ego that is slain by Devi to liberate man from them. We have to understand that. One of the demons is a buffalo-headed demon! This is to make us understand that some of us are so thick skinned that no matter how many times the master awakens us to his path, we firmly stick to our path! We are not sensitive to the master's call. Understand, arguing with the master is the greatest punishment that you give to yourself. I tell you honestly, when you are caught in arguing with the master, no one can do anything more to harm you. You harm yourself enough.
Anyway, the master knows how to make each one flower in his or her own way and the least that one can do is open up to him with faith and courage.
## Q: Although I know that You are my master, I feel hesitant and scared in your presence.
The very fact that you have come out with this statement means that you want to overcome your fear. You have decided to take the leap.
Let me explain. Your being has clearly identified me; but your mind is fighting. If your being has not identified me, you would not keep coming to me again and again. You face a lot of trouble at home for coming here, do you not? The easiest thing for you to do is stay at home and do your work. That would have made your family happy.
Why is it that you again and again want to come to the ashram and see me? Why do you want to again and again face the arguments at home for coming here? Is it not easier to just stay at home and make the others happy? The reason is, the pull that you feel is at the being level. It will not allow you to go back, once it has recognized me. Try as you might, you can't escape!
Your being now knows me. But your mind seems to be the hindrance. Remember to always follow your heart. That is exactly what you need to do here. When you follow your heart, you will reach me. When you follow your mind, you will keep missing me.
You are so afraid of losing yourself to me. That is your problem. Your ego comes under threat. You feel insecure about losing your identity. You start wondering where you are heading without an identity for yourself. Your ego faces a grave crisis when you come near me.
The ego immediately demands its food and the only way to provide it, is by running away from me. Your mind sways like the elephant's trunk, from one side of intense love for me to the other side of intense fear.
Remember, love is from your heart while fear is from your mind. Always, always, follow your heart. Love is natural; fear is societal. Fear and doubt are deeply related and are mere conditionings that have gone into you.
Understand very clearly that there is nothing wrong in doubting either. Doubt is your torch to enlightenment. It is very difficult for your mind to proceed without doubts. But your doubts should be ultimately transformed to trust. Only then you are progressing. As you move inwards, this will happen.
#### Q: What do we need to do THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM?
Just fall totally in love, that's all! Falling totally in love is falling totally into the egoless state. That is why a master who is in the egoless state is capable of only love and compassion. All other emotions like anger, irritation etc. are pseudo manifestations of his infinite love. He pretends to be angry and irritated. He comes down to your level, emotes at your level, and takes you through one more phase of understanding, that's all. He talks in your language until you understand his language - the language of Existence!
## Q: But how do we start falling in love totally? It seems like it is easier said than done!
The first thing is to flood awareness into every action of yours. Become the watcher. You will start feeling that the whole thing is a drama and you are only watching it while playing a role yourself incidentally. The second thing is to stop being judgmental about everything that you see. When you stop being judgmental, you will simply love everyone and everything with total innocence.
When you are judgmental, you don't see what IS, you see what you want to see. Most of us have already formed our judgments in advance. They are the foundation stones for us. Then, we simply act using them as a base. Anything we see, the first thing we do is, view it through these judgments.
If we act in this fashion, how will we see things as they are? How will we ever fall in love? You can fall in love only if you welcome everything with freshness, with innocence. But what do you do? You start analyzing the pros and cons for even loving. When you start analyzing, you miss it. When you finally decide to do it, it may be too late.
See, the master-disciple relationship is there only for you to lose your ego. When you are alone, you cannot lose your ego. The master becomes the device, the support, for you to lose your ego. The more you dissolve into him, the more you will be ready to open up and lose your ego. When do you know that your ego is dissolving? When you start experiencing a certain joy that you have not experienced before.
You will start feeling joy for no reason at all. Just existing will make you happy. Of course, with the master, you are always undergoing a surgery of your ego and there will be moments of suffering as your ego is getting slashed. But when you emerge out of those moments, you would have taken many steps forward in your growth and you will feel boundless joy for no reason at all. Just look at young children. They are so enthusiastic towards life. They are so loving. Have you ever wondered why you are not as enthusiastic as them? You were like them once upon a time, were you not? Then, where have we lost this enthusiasm and innocence?
*(one participant ventures) We have grown up and become more mature* THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM*. We are more experienced than them.*
Experienced at what? Boredom? Be very clear: We all think that we are more mature than children and that we have the right attitude towards life while children need to go through life and acquire this maturity.
The truth is, we have become so intellectual, that we have lost our connection with our heart. We operate purely from our minds. Even our emotions are dictated by our minds. We have stopped emoting from our being. We have lost touch with our core.
When we arrived in this world, we were in a state of celebration and spontaneity. Over years, society conditioned us and created the mind for us. The mind then solidified itself and started dictating terms to us. The spontaneity in us got lost.
Let me tell you, in this whole process of shedding our ego, we are trying to rediscover the child in us. When we were young, we were closer to realizing God. As we grew and became so-called mature, our social conditionings marred the child in us.
So many people ask me, '*THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM*, how is it that although you speak about the ultimate truth, you appear to be so childlike?' Now you tell me, am I childlike because I have not grown up and become mature? No! You simply interpret things in your own convenient ways, in your own philosophical ways; that is the problem.
*But* for societal conditioning, we have the ability to swim and fly without any training. It may sound absurd to you, but it is true. We have these abilities in us. We can swim and fly, until people start telling us that we are not capable of swimming and flying. If you place a new-born baby in a swimming pool, it will stay afloat without drowning.
The ego manifests itself in so many ways and we live according to it every minute of our lives. We all actually use masks in our day-to-day lives. We use one mask when we deal with our mother; we use a different mask when we deal with our father; we use a different one for our boss and so on. As long as we use the right masks with the right people, it is alright. The moment we use the wrong mask with a person, it means the ego has stepped in. All you have to do is switch masks efficiently and enjoy the show. Then you are a watcher and not involved in the game as a solid entity.
You can enjoy only when you know that you are something beyond the mask. Otherwise, you will get carried away by the mask and lose the whole charm of living. When you know that you are only using masks, your desires will drop.
It is like this: When you grow up, you automatically drop your toys. The toys don't interest you any more. In the same way, when you look at these masks intelligently, you don't have any desire for them; you simply use them and keep moving.
The ego manifests itself in many cunning ways. That is why all these explanations are needed about it. All these will help you see where you are standing as a blockage in your own journey inwards.
The fewer blockages you have inside you, the more fluid and flowing you become. When you have fewer blocks, you are more porous and vulnerable. When you have many blocks, you are solid and difficult to penetrate. Your ego poses such a solid barrier to everything.
For example, whenever someone says something to you, what is your first reaction to it? Your first reaction is a certain resistance, a 'No'. When you say 'No', it is so ego fulfilling. You feel solid and firm inside yourself. When you say 'Yes', you feel liquid and vulnerable. Your ego feels submissive. So you say 'No'.
This is also why you feel good when you break rules at home or school or workplace or anywhere. Actually, the moment you defy a rule, you will have a great feeling about yourself. School and college students feel good when they cut classes. Why? Because they feel good in breaking the rule. With small children, the moment you say they are not meant to have certain things, they will ask only for that. Grown ups also enjoy defying each other in so many ways.
Husband and wife rarely concur in the first instance about any suggestion! Take for example our own devotees. If the husband gets attached to me first, the wife's first reaction will be only resistance to me. She might even read my books secretly and like them, but in front of the husband, she will not be willing to embrace me. The same holds good for the wives who get attached to me first. Their husbands will do all that they can to make it difficult for them, before finally falling in tune with me.
Such is the play of ego. Saying 'Yes' keeps you flowing naturally in a liquid state with no blocks. This does not mean that you should blindly say 'Yes' to everything. No! It means, make a decision trusting your spontaneity without the influence of your ego, that's all. Automatically, you will fall in tune with the right things.
Understand that saying 'No' is not a cautious move or any protective force that is going to be your guardian angel. Just be open without resistance and preconceptions; that is enough.
*Comment: But* THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM*, I was thinking until now that claiming self-importance is the only manifestation of ego!*
No! Ego comes in various forms: active and passive, which we have been discussing until now. That is why it is such a tricky element to discern.
## *Active ego and passive ego*
The active ego is easy to recognize. People with active ego will behave in a highhanded fashion; they will claim self-importance openly; they will not bend down to people; they will be haughty. This ego is actually easy to deal with, for a master. He just needs to bang on it a few times and it will break!
A small story:
A man lost all his wealth in gambling and got reduced to almost a pauper.
One day, he went to a roadside hotel and sat at the table for breakfast.
The waiter came to take orders.
The man was surprised. The waiter was his old friend who had been as rich as he had been earlier.
He looked at him and said, 'You serve as a waiter in this sort of a hotel!'
The man replied, 'I'm only a waiter. I don't eat here.'
Active ego is very easy to recognize! A person with an active ego will not be willing to let go of it even if all his other defenses like money, wealth etc. are taken away from him. Active ego can be easily pruned.
But passive ego is very subtle and cunning. People who have passive ego will pose to be very humble, lacking courage to face people, shying away from taking credit etc. The worst part of this is, they think they are like this because they are not egoistic! The truth is, they are more egoistic than the other lot! They are so carefully guarding their ego from getting hurt by doing all these humble things.
When you are in deep awareness and understanding, you will be a mere watcher of your ego and in this state, you will automatically be neither humble nor egoistic; you will neither take credit nor shy away from it. And you will not even think or claim that you are
neither of these; you simply will *be*, that's all. When anyone appreciates you or gives you credit, you will simply resonate with Existence and leave it at that, that's all. And there will be no need for any comparison or claim.
So be very clear: Most often, people think that active ego is the only kind of ego ever present. No. There is something called passive ego, which is more difficult to deal with.
People with active ego are like a dried and hard twig. If you bang, they will break. People with passive ego are like a fresh and green twig. Each time their ego is hit, they will bend but they will not break! Their ego is so well safeguarded that it becomes difficult to deal with it. Actually, they work very hard to safeguard it, but in a sweet and passive way. Passive ego is more dangerous than active ego. |
Your inherent nature is actually 'being alone'. When you were in your mother's womb, you were alone. You are actually enough unto yourself. This is your individuality. Over time, this individuality is taken over by what you call personality. Individuality is natural; personality is societal.
It is like this: A parcel moves from one place to another and at every place, it starts getting stamped with various details. The parcel is actually not these stamps but the stuff inside it, is it not? In the same way, you are not the stamps that people put on you; you are the stuff inside yourself.
With time, your ego is built on these stamps and you need more and more people to feed it. That is why you will observe that you are totally unable to be alone, with yourself. When you are with yourself, you don't hear the voices of the others feeding your ego. Your ego goes unfed. So what do you do? You at least turn on the television and watch!
A small story:
A man belonging to a long-standing political party was dying.
His friends came to know that he had switched his loyalties to the opposition party at the time of his impending death. They were astonished and asked him why he did that. The man replied, 'Oh! I'd rather one of *them* die!'
So strong is our pseudo-identification! It has become such a solid reality to us that it blinds us from seeing anything else. Even at the time of death, we find it difficult to drop our prestige! We live *and* die unconsciously.
The fear of losing your personality, which is your only anchor point, causes you to behave in the ways that you behave. That is why we say *your ego is playing up*. The whole of spirituality is all about losing this personality, this pseudo identification.
This can happen when you start watching. When you start watching, you will understand that you are the stuff inside the parcel and not the labels on it. When this awareness happens, you need no lecture, no sermon, no teaching or preaching.
## Q: If we surrender to you, our master, will our ego be taken care of?
First of all, if you really surrender, you will become enlightened. There is no question of 'when I surrender' etc. But for argument sake, if you decide to allow me to work on you, I will prune your ego and keep it like a bonsai tree until such time you totally lose it and become enlightened.
You will have enough ego to run your business, and do your daily activities, not to hurt other people and yourself. Your ego will be like roasted seeds that do not grow any more.
Understand that a man who is not yet enlightened has ego in him in some form or the other. But whether you have active ego or passive ego, the more you start being the observer, the more your ego will dissolve. That's enough understanding for now.
With ordinary people, you can easily shield your ego and get away with it. With a master, you can never deceive him. You can only deceive yourself into thinking that you have deceived him. However deeply hidden and well covered you keep your ego and cunningness, they will be simply bare under the master's gaze. While you struggle to shield it, the master tries to heal it. Only he knows what a cancerous disease ego is.
Let me tell you a few things from the Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita was Lord Krishna's teaching to the world.
When the Bhagavad Gita starts, Arjuna is confused.
He says, 'Oh Lord! I don't know what to do in life. Please guide me.'
Krishna explains to him the *Sankhya Yoga* – the way to reach the soul.
He then explains the *Karma Yoga*, then the *Bhakti Yoga*, then the *Karma Sannyasa Yoga*, then the *Gnana Karma Sannyasa Yoga*, then the *Raja Vidya Yoga* and so on.
He explains different meditation techniques through 700 verses in 18 chapters.
At the end of it Arjuna says, 'Krishna, I am more confused than what I was when you started explaining. Which technique do I follow? Which is the technique that is best and the quickest? Which is the shortcut method, the ultimate technique?'
Krishna replies to this in the concluding 18th chapter.
With any master, the words that he concludes with, are the final, firm and ultimate truth.
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Krishna says, *Sarva dharman parithyajya mamekam sharanam vraja, aham thva sarvapapebhyo mokshayishyami ma suchaha*.
This line that he says is such that if we imagine all the religions, philosophies and spiritual books to be a pot of milk, this is the butter extracted from it all.
He says, 'I have explained all the forms of justice to you. Simply surrender everything to Me. Surrender to Me and I will take care of you. I will free you from all your sins and lift you to liberation.'
Krishna is actually making a beautiful promise in this stanza.
Through this stanza, Krishna shows the world that *surrender*, is the final, firm and ultimate technique – the shortcut to the egoless state, to liberation.
Another beautiful story about Krishna and Arjuna:
One evening, Krishna and Arjuna were spending time together.
Krishna suddenly pointed out to a crow and said, 'Arjuna, look at that green crow!'
Arjuna looked in that direction and said, 'Yes Krishna, I see it!'
A few minutes later, Krishna exclaimed, 'Arjuna, see that black crow!'
Arjuna said, 'Yes Krishna, I see it!'
Krishna asked just to test Arjuna, 'Arjuna, how idiotic you are! There is no green crow ever. How could you have seen it in the first place?'
Arjuna replied, 'Krishna, when you said it was a green crow, I *saw* it as a green crow.'
Arjuna's very *senses* had surrendered to Krishna. Surrendering the senses to the master is the most difficult surrender ever. The master is Existence itself; he is the formless in form. When your senses perceive only what the master says, you have reached the highest point in surrender.
What is surrender? The word surrender has a very deep meaning. If we don't understand it correctly, we will misunderstand it! We will be committing a grave mistake. We will be misunderstanding deep truths.
A small story:
One night, 2 drunkards were walking down a street past a halogen lamp.
One of them saw it and exclaimed, 'Look, the sun has come out for us!'
The other replied, 'No, it is nighttime; it is the moon.'
The first one continued, 'It is yellow in colour and therefore it is the sun.'
A third man who was drunk, walked past them.
They asked him, 'Sir, please tell us whether this is the sun or the moon.'
The man replied, 'I am new to this neighborhood; I do not know.'
So, when you ask someone who does not know, you will either not get an answer or you will get the wrong answer.
Only those who have experienced can explain clearly. If you ask the meaning of surrender to a person who has not experienced it, he will say, 'Just give everything to God, that's all.'
That is not surrender.
One man came to me and asked, 'If I surrender everything to God, will everything be alright?'
I replied, 'Yes, if you truly surrender everything to God, everything will be alright.'
He returned after 3 days and told me, '*Swamiji*, I have surrendered everything to God.'
I was happy and asked him, 'Where are you going now?'
He replied, 'To the bar.'
He continued, 'Whatever I do, God is only responsible from now on.'
This is actually a method of fooling oneself. If he has really surrendered, he would have surrendered the drinking habit also. He would not have even been able to drink any further.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the enlightened master from Bharat beautifully says, 'When real surrender comes from your heart, God will guide you in every step of your life and you can never do wrong.' When surrender does not blossom from inside you and is only at the lip level, you will fool yourself and others.
Surrender will keep you thinking of Existence all the time. You will slowly lose your own identity, your own ego. In the Bhagavatam, an ancient Hindu epic, there is a verse wherein a *Gopi* (name given to a group of ardent female devotees of Krishna) says, 'I am not able to think of anything other than Krishna. I have surrendered my mind to Him. If I have to think of anything else, I will have to take back my mind from Him. How can I?'
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa suffered from cancer during his last days.
He had healed many people of many diseases.
Someone asked him, 'Why can't you keep your mind on your own disease for a moment and heal it?'
He replied, 'I have surrendered my mind to the infinite energy. How can I take it back to keep it on my disease!'
This is true surrender.
The cosmic energy will take care of us. You might ask, 'Will this cosmic energy take care of all my problems if I surrender?' In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna beautifully answers or rather promises, 'Without any other thought, when a man thinks only of Me, I will take care of his gifts as well as retention or enjoying of them. For those who surrender with commitment to Me, I will take care of their income as well as their prosperity. Their problems will dissolve.'
Commitment and maturity of mind are needed for real surrender to happen. You need not surrender to God or any master. You can surrender to anything. Surrender *itself* is a virtue and has a great power in itself. When you surrender, you are acknowledging that there is a life force greater than your ego, that's all.
Actually, God is only an excuse for you to surrender. The *act* of surrendering is what is important. God is not the goal; surrender is the real goal. When you surrender or when you lose your ego, you are no longer a separate entity from Existence; you merge with Existence or God. You will then understand that there is no God sitting above. There is only Existence that fills everything in this universe including you!
A small story:
A man decided that he was going to surrender but did not know to whom to surrender.
He decided that he would go to the forest and surrender to the first person who came his way.
He went and waited in the forest.
The first person to appear was a burglar who was escaping from policemen.
The man caught his feet and declared that the burglar was his guru and that he had surrendered to him.
The burglar was perplexed and did not know what to do.
He replied hastily, 'Alright, if it is so, then close your eyes and remain here until I come back,' and he ran away.
The man was a very committed person and remained there without food or sleep for a very long time.
The story goes that just by seeing his commitment, the Lord appeared before him and gave him liberation!
It is not important to whom you surrender; it is the thought of total surrender that has the power to change your life into a blissful one. When you surrender, you become a possessor of the inexhaustible energy that is Existence, and you handle anything that comes your way.
You become strong and unshakeable, come what may. People around you will find you to be a pillar of strength. They will be able to feel the invisible hand of Existence through you.
If you have not surrendered, it means that your ego is still holding you back from merging into the infinite and you automatically become finite in your resources and energy.
A master is a device to help you surrender. Surrender does not mean that you are dependent on someone. It simply means that you are taking that person's help in dissolving your own ego, that's all.
# Q: Can you please tell us more about meditation and how it can help in losing our ego.
Yes, but let me first tell you how and why meditation techniques came into being.
Man, ever since his creation, has wondered about and researched what it is that has created this beautiful universe; what it is that has created this beautiful earth and rolled it into space; what it is that makes the rivers flow and the mountains grow. He concluded that there is a force or energy that is conducting all this. He concluded that there was some tremendous energy that is running the whole show. He then started wondering about how to establish a connection with that energy.
The first people to come to this conclusion, and do research and establish a connection with this energy, were the *rishis* or realised souls or enlightened masters. Once they attained enlightenment, they created many ways for future generations also to realize this energy. The ways that each of them gave are the various meditation techniques and religions.
Each of them realized God through a different way, through a different technique, and recorded their way independently. This is just like how scientists create research reports on their discoveries and inventions. Each *rishi* gave a report on his enlightenment and this became a religion or a meditation technique.
These early realized souls formed different religions to establish these ideas on the life force that is conducting this world. We call this life force Jesus, Allah, Shiva and so on. You don't even have to believe in any God. Atheists don't believe in any God, but they have to believe in their own existence, is it not? If we believe in our own existence and search for an answer to the question 'Who am I?' that becomes a meditation technique, and we can realize God. Anyhow, these different ways or meditation techniques became different religions over time.
But what happened after that? People left this basic idea behind all the religions and started fighting in the name of religion.
A small story:
A Tamilian, an Englishman, a North Hindu and a Bengali were traveling together.
They saw a lake from a distance.
The Tamilian saw it from the south and called it *thanneer*, which is the Tamil word for water.
The Englishman saw it from the west and called it 'water'. The North Hindu saw it from the north and called it '*paani'.*
The Bengali saw it from the east and called it '*jal'*.
All four of them were referring to the same thing, 'water'. But they started fighting over it saying that what each of them was saying was the correct thing.
None of the four people attempted to get into the lake and see for themselves what water exactly is. The Tamilian was holding on to what his grandfather told him; the Englishman claimed that his grandfather told him it was 'water'; the North Hindu and the Bengali were also clinging onto what their respective grandfathers had told them.
They landed up fighting without even attempting to drink a mouthful and see.
This is exactly what we are doing also. People who fight over religion are doing the same thing. They have to understand that from whatever angle the early-realized souls saw, from that angle they named it; but everything is one – Existence or God. Krishna and Christ mean the same. People have seen them from different angles, that's all. |
# 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.*
### Enrich With Enlightenment
(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.*
### Enrich With Enlightenment
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!*
### Drop Your Past To Own Your Future
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?' |
As I said, superimposing any idea on life takes away the joy of life. The fear which has spread in your body when you see the 'snake' will not allow you to take the natural responses of 'fight or flight'. An integrated man will not perceive a rope as a snake. An authentic man will not allow the fear to spread in his body. A responsible man will not have the 'fight or flight' response. When you are in a space of enriching, you will not be beating the snake or running away.
The basic truth is - bring integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching to have the best perception! With the best perception, create your own understanding and knowledge bank about what is security, what is fear, what is good, what is bad, what is right, what is wrong, what is the goal, what is *tathaata*, 'isness'.
Listen: this is the best strategy I am teaching you for your life! I am not giving you any spiritual principles, moral science, life solution lessons. No! I am just giving you the best possible strategy for life! Best strategy for life! Best strategy for the possibility! When you understand security, understand it purely from the angle of security, not from the angle of revenge. Even if you take revenge, it is not going to bring your security back. Even if you kill all the fellows who killed others, all those who got killed are not going to come back to life. Maybe it will maintain the law and order. I accept that. But that cannot be the reason for your cognition of security.
The funniest thing is that all the basic necessary cognitions of your life are confused, messed up. If I ask you - what is disease? What is your cognition of disease? Your answer will be all about your plans to handle the disease. You do not have the cognition about the disease itself. You have the cognition only about the doctor or the medicine or what you will do after you get the disease. Look in.
*Bring integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching to have the best perception! With this, create your own understanding about what is the goal, what is *tathaata*, 'isness'!*
#### The Nature of Perception
What is your cognition about your sickness? 'I will go to Swamiji and get healed,' or 'I will go to this doctor,' or 'I will go to that doctor', or 'I will do this,' or 'I will do that'. But that is not your cognition about the disease itself. Have the right cognition about the disease, then you will not allow the disease to happen inside your body, inside your system!
Have the right cognition about security, and you will have proper security. Wherever you can't make yourself secure, you will at least know that you have to find some other solution. Then you will understand that your body can never be secure. Your mind can never be secure. What can be made secure is only you, and it can be done only by you which is Soul and Consciousness. You have to be enlightened as a basic need!
There are three levels of perception:
- No pattern, no perception this is the worst.
- Pattern with perception this is okay.
- Perception but with no pattern this is the best.
When the rope is not going to play any role in your walking in that forest, and when you don't even cognize a huge tree standing in front of you, why will you cognize the three-feet rope? The cognition coming from the correct perception keeps you completely powerful from that moment onwards.
Seeing the rope as a snake and getting frightened is *shrishti-drishti* – seeing what IS. Then realizing that the rope is a rope, not a snake, is *drishti-shrishti* – seeing what you want. The theory that none of these
possibilities exist - not being bothered about the rope, or not cognizing the rope in your inner space as a snake, or having fear for the snake – if you say that none of these possibilities exist, it is *ajaata siddhanta.* Your delusion is unborn. Your powerlessness is unborn. Your wrong perception is unborn. Your failure is unborn. When you know this, when you perceive this, you are new-born!
Dangerous perception is the only danger you have in your life, because most of the time, that is what you do!
A blind man was sitting in front of a huge fire with a burning stick in his hand. Somebody came and asked him, 'What is this? Such a huge fire! Don't you see? What are you going to do about it?'
'Yes, yes! That is why I took this burning stick and put it on my eyes. Now I am not seeing the fire!'
Can that be the solution?
You may laugh now, but all your solutions are usually of this type. And you even accept as your guru, the fool who tells 'Take the stick and put it on your eyes! You will not see the fire anymore, and the problem will be solved!' Burning your eyes is not going to give you liberation from the scenes you are seeing. It is like saying, 'Now I don't need to bother! Even if the snake is in front of me, I will
*A perception with no patterns is the best perception!*
#### The Nature of Perception
not have fear!' Look in! Shrinking from life is nothing but putting the burning stick on your eyes!
It is so unfortunate! Just because your eyes are burnt, it does not mean that the fire will not impact you or the world will not impact you! Perception of the fire is still burning from inside you, as per your experience. The innermost perception has to change. You need to realize that it is not the outside scene, but the innermost perception you carry for the outside scene, which is impacting you and giving you the experience of your reality.
I tell you, if there is a fire burning and you sit at a distance and just go on gazing at the fire, you will feel the heat in your body! If you just turn your eyes away - maintain the same distance but just turn your eyes away - you will not see the burning, and you will not experience burning in your body! How? The seeing has not reduced the distance between you and the fire! That is perception and reality!
The great news for human beings is that Maya can be crossed! Perception can be transformed! You *can* become enlightened! O humanity! I am here to give you that great news! Perception can reach perfection! When you bring perfection into the perception, a moment of perception can literally bring enlightenment!
I will give you an example. Recently we visited the cremation grounds in Varanasi. When we were watching the dead bodies burning in front of us for hours, some of us were just sleeping, some were affected and were feeling nauseated, and some were not at all affected by the same scene of the body burning part by part in front of their eyes. What is the difference? It is just the processing of the information with patterns, or the patterns with the information! The possibility of the perception!
Look in. Drill all these great truths inside you with integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching. With integrity and authenticity, drill, drill, drill! When you drill with integrity and authenticity, normal perception itself is nothing but perception of God! Because any perception will directly lead you to the space of the root of all actions, including perception!
The essence of today's satsang: bring integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching in your thinking, in your perception. You will see that the ultimate perception becomes your reality. It becomes your reality!
*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!*
*Bring integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching in your thinking, in your perception. You will see that the ultimate perception becomes your reality!*
*Always be in a place where you will be pushed to live in authenticity. Choose friends who expose your inauthenticities to you, who constantly supply you with vitamin a authenticity! The vital vitamin for vitality is authenticity.*
## Authenticity is your Vitamin A
**Thursday, 25th April, 2013**
Today, the subject for the Nithya Satsang is perception, and the ability to go into complete perception, higher perception, and non-tolerance towards incomplete perceptions.
Listen! After the egg happens, if life still continues to happen inside the egg, only then it becomes chicken. Same way, after your body happens, if your life still continues to happen in your body, only then your perception expands. The moment your perception stops expanding, life stops happening in you. That is why I tell you - contemplating authenticity, living authenticity every day, is much more than vitamin supply for your body and mind!
Please listen: the supply of authenticity is much more important to your body and mind than vitamin supply, protein supply, glucose supply and energy supply! Knowing about your inauthenticities and getting rid of them is as important as knowing about your bad
#### Authenticity is your Vitamin A
cholesterol and getting rid of it.
Listen: always choose places and situations where your inauthenticities will be constantly exposed to you, and you will be pushed to live in authenticity. If you are in an ambience where people don't let you be inauthentic, where those around you force you to be authentic, understand that you are in heaven! You are in heaven! It is unfortunate that people choose the other way. You choose friends who never expose your inauthenticities to you, who never question you, who don't constantly supply you with Vitamin A - authenticity! The vital vitamin for vitality is Vitamin A – authenticity.
Add authenticity to your thinking in every step, every step, every step. Constantly expand, expand, and expand! Go on expanding! Don't settle down with the lower perception. What you know about human beings, what you know about the world, what you know about you – it is all imperfect perception. When you settle down with imperfect perception, it is the most horrible mistake of your life.
How to become the perfect perceiver is the next step. How to achieve that state of perfect perception is the next step. But please understand, the first decision, the major decision you need to make is, 'I will not settle down with imperfect perception!' Any conflict you have, any powerlessness you have in your life, is imperfect perception. Don't settle down with that. Allow life to happen in you.
Please listen! Inside an egg, if life is not happening, the chick won't come out. Inside your body, if authenticity is not happening, the completion, fulfillment, enlightenment, won't come out. Inside the seed, if life is not happening, the tree won't come out. Inside the seed, life has to happen, tree has to come out! Inside your body, authenticity has to happen,
enlightenment has to come out! Add authenticity to your thinking in every step.
When you have a certain perception about somebody, don't sleep with it. Don't decide that it is the ultimate. Decide you will be more authentic the next day, and you will try to understand more. Because you fought with your daughter-in-law or mother-in-law yesterday, because you fought with your husband one year ago, don't expect that it is going to be the same tomorrow also. Decide, 'Tomorrow I will expand my responsibility and my possibility, and bring new energy into life!'
When you are in conflict, suffering is naturally going to be there. It is so unfortunate that people constantly say, 'I am in conflict, I am in suffering, because of *his* inauthenticity, *her* inauthenticity, *their* inauthenticity!' Courage is the fragrance of authenticity. Cowardice is the smell of inauthenticity. Wherever you are in conflict, be very clear, *you* are in conflict, even though you point at others' inauthenticity.
If life is not continuing to happen in the seed, it is not a seed, it is dead! If authenticity is not continuously happening in you, you are not a possibility, you are dead! Constantly make authenticity happen in you, in your work, in your thinking, in your health! Constantly expand your thinking, constantly expand your perception!
*Any conflict you have, any powerlessness you have in your life, is imperfect perception. Don't settle down with that. Allow life to happen in you!*
#### Authenticity is your Vitamin A
Neither *dvaita* nor *vishishtaadvaita* nor *advaita* is wrong. All three are right at different levels. It is nothing but the ripening of authenticity; different levels of authenticity. If your authenticity has not evolved, even if you believe in *advaita,* it is inauthentic. Everything has to be based on your authenticity and experience of life.
I have seen that some people constantly experience conflict. Wherever they go, they will find some reason to be in conflict, and they will try to correct that situation! These kinds of fellows, wherever they go, will be constantly creating conflicts - in their work, in their family, in their marriage, in their relationships, in their team, everywhere because the lower perception goes on making you believe that others are responsible, and it is they who have to change.
I tell you, decide that you will become authentic. You have such a huge inner space, you can put everyone in that and process them and make them as you want! Your inner space is a huge processing unit. If you don't take responsibility, you will have only a small processing unit. You can't even process yourself and transform yourself. If you take responsibility, it will become a huge processing unit; everyone can be put in that and processed and come out as transformed beings.
If you take the responsibility and people are put in your processing unit and transformed and come out, they will all be embodiments of you, extensions of you. That is what a mystery school is all about. Mystery school is nothing but the master's inner space with his vast responsibility - whoever comes inside in whatever form is processed, transformed and released! Integrity, authenticity, responsibility, enriching – these are the huge possibility for transformation. Authenticity goes on expanding you.
If you are the head of a family, don't put the blame of any conflict or suffering on the members of the family. You take the responsibility. Then you will see, even if you put the blame on them, it will only be transforming them; boiling them only to transform them! If you are the head of a team, don't put the blame on the members of the team. The moment you put the blame on others, the responsibility on others, you renounce the power also. When you take the responsibility, you don't renounce the power. Don't settle down into the pattern of conflict and putting the blame on others. Take the responsibility to resolve your conflicts. Take the responsibility to go to the next step.
Every statement you make is very, very important! Understand, every word you utter to yourself and to others defines you to you and to others. How you define you to others can at least be changed after a few days. But how you define you to you is the most scary part, because you have to struggle so much to change that. Define yourself to you as a *siddha, mahapurusha*, incarnation, *sarvajna,* allknowing. When you define you, define yourself now itself as all-knowing, all-powerful! That is why I give spiritual names like that to devotees - *Tattvananda*, *Tattvabodhananda*, *Tripurananda*.
All the gurukul kids should know, the name I have given you is YOU! You should define yourself as that! If you are given the name of *Tripurananda*,
*Understand, it is your lower perception that makes you believe that others are responsible, and it is they who have to change!*
then you are the Lord of Tripura - all the three Universes! If you are given the name *Tattvajananda*, then you are the source from which all the spiritual principles are born! If you are given the name *Tattvabodhananda*, then you are the source where the joy of the *tattvas* resides! Define yourself now properly, because the definition you give to you is the most important thing! If your name is *Satyamayananda*, you should have *vak-siddhi*, the power to manifest your word as reality! You should be very clear, 'Whatever I utter will become reality! So I will be careful with my words! I will utter only those words which I will make into reality!'
Defining yourself to yourself should be done with life, with authenticity. If the seed defines itself to itself, 'I am a seed. I cannot do anything. Ah, my life is over!,' then it is dead! If the seed decides to be authentic, 'No, today I will at least just break my shell. Today I will sprout one small leaf. Come on! After all, now I am able to sprout one leaf. Now let me make my second leaf !' Then life is happening! Tree is happening! Our huge banyan tree's seed also would have had this dilemma when it was breaking! Because it decided to break and become a tree, today it is standing as a *kalpavriksha*, a wish-fulfilling tree!
I tell you, each one of you goes through that moment: *egg or chicken?* I am not talking about the question of whether the egg came first or the chicken came first. No, I am talking about whether you want to remain as an egg or become a chicken! Unfortunately, you cannot remain as an egg. There is no status quo in life.
Do not settle down with low-level perceptions. Live with the highest possibility! Go on expanding, expanding, expanding your possibilities. The day you decide that you are not going to settle down with your lower perceptions, your life starts expanding. You become a seeker. The
day you decide that you will settle down with your lower perceptions, you are dead. You are dead.
Go on making impossibilities into possibilities. What is life? Continuously making impossibilities into possibilities is life. When you accept that impossibility is impossibility in your life, you are dead! After that, where is life? Life is life as long as you are making all 'Impossible' into 'I-M-Possible', all 'Impossible' into 'I AM Possible'!
Listen!
* Constantly practicing integrity brings you to the space of positivity.
* Constantly practicing authenticity brings you to the space of possibility.
* Constantly practicing responsibility brings you to the space of leadership.
* Constantly bringing the space of enriching into yourself brings you to the space of enlightenment.
This is the essence of what I wanted to share with you all today.
Listen! Constantly expand your possibility.
*Continuously making impossibilities into possibilities is life!*
I tell you, your mind makes you believe that you can't expand. If your memory can work today to hold 200 pieces of information, you don't believe that tomorrow you can hold 300 pieces of information.
I tell you the truth: when you stop believing that expansion is possible, when you always refer to the past, or have an old reference for any future decision of life, you are dead! You are dead and gone! You are dead and gone.
* I still believe my memory can expand.
* I still believe my perception can expand.
* I still believe my energy can expand.
* I still believe my intuition can expand.
* I still believe everything auspicious can expand in my life!
This is the essence of what I want to convey in today's satsang: don't settle down with small perceptions, lower-level perceptions. Go on being authentic, authentic, authentic, and expand the possibility of your perception. Expand the possibility of your perception. That is 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 space you carry inside is not the effect of the happenings of your life, it is the order you are giving to the Cosmos. Anything you decide in your inner space becomes reality in the Cosmos, reality in Existence! Have the right inner space to create your life.*
## **Your word can change the world!**
**Sunday, 28th April, 2013**
I welcome you all with my love and respects. I welcome all the devotees, disciples, *samajis, satsangis* sitting with us around the world.
Today, I will expand on the subject, 'The space we carry inside, and how it directly affects the reality we and the people around us perceive.'
In Sanskrit we have two beautiful words, '*drishti-shrishti*' and '*shrishti-drishti*' - 'seeing what exists' and 'creating what you want to see'. Please understand, the subject I am talking about is a very subtle, very important truth. I need your complete listening. I want you to be complete.
Understand, the space we carry inside directly affects the reality which we and the people around us experience.
Internalize these two words, because I am going to use these two words, again and again: *drishti-shrishti* and *shrishti-drishti*. *drishti* means seeing.
*shrishti* means creation. *Shrishti-drishti* means that you believe what is seen by you. You see what IS. *drishti-shrishti* means that you create the reality you want!
Sometimes you believe what IS. The creation IS and you are seeing it; which most of us cognize most of the time. Most of us always feel, 'It is there. I am seeing. So I am caught! I don't know what to do!' Feeling powerless! You put all the blame on what IS. 'It is there! What can I do?'
Please understand, when you cognize, 'It is there! I am seeing!,' you already lost the game! You are fighting a losing battle! It is like you trying to conquer your wife through argument! No! It can never happen! It can never happen. You may be a great lawyer. I have seen great lawyers. You can be a great lawyer in the court, convincing any judge with any argument, but you can't win the argument at home!
The moment you cognize that what 'IS' is perceived by you, the possibility for transformation is closed. The possibility for enlightenment is closed. But the good news is, it is not true!
Please understand, the moment you cognize that what 'IS' is seen by you, the bad news is that the possibility for enlightenment is closed, the possibility for transformation is closed. The good
*Understand, the space we carry inside directly affects the reality which we and the people around us experience!*
news is, it is not true! You are not seeing what IS. You are only seeing what you want. It is always *drishti-shrishti*. You create what you want. You don't see what IS. You create what you want.
But, it so unfortunate, human beings are in such an unfortunate space, they very strongly believe that only what 'IS' is perceived by them. Especially when you cross 35-40 years, when the possibility for new ways of thinking becomes difficult and you have already built your personality with the old way of thinking, you now start feeling that if you change those basic truths, you have to change your whole existence! You have to change your whole life, which is too much!
Please understand: all your sufferings and ignorance is because of the decisions you made due to some other vested interests. Why don't you want the transformation? Because transformation now literally means that the earth on which you are standing for the last 40-50 years is going to shake!
One of the biggest delusions we create around us is that we are a success. We cannot bear the truth that we are not a success. We have to constantly reaffirm to ourselves that we are a success, and so we go on planning, looking, altering and continuously convincing ourselves to believe that the ideas with which we built our life were right. 'See, my colleagues don't have all this;. I have all this. So I am successful.' One corner of your mind laughs at you, but the other corner says 'No, no, no, I am a success!' You don't know which side to support.
You finally land up in utter confusion, thinking, 'Which part should I support? One part of me claims and consoles me that I am a success. The other part condemns me as a failure. Which part should I support?' If you are in utter confusion, be very clear, the seeking has started in
## The Science of Living Enlightenment - Revealing the four sacred principles that empower YOU!
you! If you have not yet faced the confusion, the possibility for transformation has not yet opened.
Utter confusion is the first thing any person has to face in his life for enlightenment: 'Am I a successful being or am I a failure?' As long as you are convinced that you see what exists, you will not have this confusion. And also, you don't want to enter into the confusion! You do not want to rock the boat. 'No, it is all going well! Why create problems unnecessarily?' You don't want to come to terms with reality. You do not want to take any argument rising in you to the logical conclusion!
How many of you postpone taking any logical arguments in you to their logical conclusion? Whenever an arguments arises, you postpone it, you push it aside. You don't want to take it to a logical conclusion. You suppress it. You push it under the carpet. How many of you do this in your life? It is life! Look in. Anything you push under the carpet without taking it to a logical conclusion becomes a mechanism which restrains your possibility.
Please understand, the pattern of not reaching the logical conclusion is what I call 'life imprisonment'! It is life imprisonment! Constantly pushing things under the carpet, under the carpet, under the carpet! You don't understand, a big volcano is now there under your carpet! You are sitting on
*You are not seeing what IS. You are only seeing what you want. And you create what you want!*
a volcano! How will you be able to rest? How will you be in restful awareness? That is why you are not able to sit with you. I have seen! I have seen people who are not able to sit with themselves.
See, when I started this *sannyas sampradaya* (monastic tradition), with a large number of youngsters getting trained and initiated into *sannyas*, the first and biggest problem I had to face was to teach human beings to sit with themselves. Meditation is secondary. I used to wonder – why, what happened? Have we lost trust on the *sannyas* tradition? Have we concluded that *sannyas* is not required for enlightenment or for the spiritual tradition? Have we distanced ourselves from the *sannyas* tradition?
When I started studying the situation, I realized that we have forgotten to learn and teach the basic ability to sit with ourselves. Unfortunately, we forgot to teach human beings to come to terms with reality. Why does the mainstream society not feel the need of the *sannyas* tradition? Because we have not learnt to sit with ourselves! We use religion only to the extent of makeup. Makeup is not surgery. Religion is just for a little help and a little peace and fulfilling a few desires! NO. Religion has to start from the space of restful awareness – conflict-resolution, and the ability to take our logical thinking to the logical conclusion.
We have to start with restful awareness. We have to start with carrying the right space. We have to start taking our logical questions to their logical conclusions. This should become the mainstream Hinduism. See, all religions will have both components: the knowledge component or enlightenment science, and the prayer component for consolation. *You don't have a job? Pray to God and you will have a job. You don't have health? Pray to God and he will give you health.* That is one component. And cognitive shift, spiritual knowledge, enlightenment science - that is the
other component.
All I am trying to tell you is that I am not here to judge that one is lower and the other is higher. No! I am not saying that. If you can't pray to God, where else will you go? You have to pray to Him only. But the teaching of religion has to start with the science of restful awareness, by helping human beings create the right space inside. The concept of prayer should come next. First, human beings should be taught to create the right space inside. Mainstream Hinduism should start with the teaching of creating a right space.
Please understand, the space you create inside is so powerful, it can straightaway affect the way you experience life, and others around you experience life. Let me define the term 'space'! How *you* feel things are going to be – that is what I call the 'space you create inside'. If you are very clear that your space is already in a low energy, and you have thoughts like 'Anyhow, whatever I do is not going to work out, it is not going to be successful!,' then you have already dictated it! You have already given the plan to the Cosmos - 'I want my life to be like this only, as a big failure. Please make it happen for me!' So Cosmos will stitch it and give it to you.
The space you carry inside is not the effect of the happenings of your life, it is the command you are
*The space you carry inside is not the effect of the happenings of your life, it is the command you are giving to the cosmos!*
giving to the Cosmos. You may put the blame somewhere else. You may say, 'No, no, no! I am in a low mood because of the continuous failures that have happened in my life. If you were in my shoes, you would understand why I am like this!'
You may give many reasons for the space you are in, but you need to understand the seriousness of the space you are in. Please understand, your space is the order you give to the Cosmos to prepare your future! Listen! Just like how you place an order in a restaurants after looking at the menu card, the inner space you carry is also an order you give to the Cosmos, 'I want this, this, this in my life!'
Whatever you carry in your inner space is a possibility. If you are carrying sadness, you are ordering the Cosmos to bring greater sadness into your life. If you are carrying joy, you are waiting for more joy to come in your life. If you are carrying fulfillment in you, if you are carrying completion in you, you are ordering the Cosmos to bring bigger completions in your life. If you are carrying an inability, 'Yes, I have the wrong inner space. I am depressed, but I don't know how to change it,' that is one more inner space; it means you are ordering the Cosmos to give you more powerlessness.
You are a human being! You can't afford to say, 'Yes, I have a problem, but I don't know how to transform!' No! You *have* to transform. You can't afford to say, 'Yes, yes, I am hungry, but I don't know how to get food!' Then you have to die! That is the only solution. You *can't afford* to give up on you! You can't afford to be powerless. You have to stand up. You have to find the method. You have to transform. That is the only way life is possible!
Please listen! The space you carry has to be changed. The good news about your inner space is that you can change it at this moment if you wish, because this space is not gross, it is subtle. Gross things take time to clean. Subtle things can be cleaned immediately. Please understand, if the earth is dirty, if the ground is dirty, it takes time to clean. But if the air is polluted, you can clean it easily just with a spray. Subtle things are easier to clean.
Your inner space is such a subtle thing, one right declaration is enough; you are free! One completion is enough, you are free! You are out of that low mood you were carrying! You are out of that wrong inner space you were carrying! You are out of that deep negative cognition you were carrying!
Just one thought of fear can make you unsettled. Just one thought of lust can make you excited. Just one thought of your enemy can aggravate anger in you. So, just one thought of completion can purify your inner space! If just one thought of lust can excite you, if just one thought of fear can agitate you, if just one thought of your enemy can bring anger in you, then just one thought of completion is enough to transform your space.
Somehow, we don't believe that last statement. 'No, everything else looks logical. I have experienced it. But the last statement - is it true?' Then we say,
*Your inner space is such a subtle thing, one right declaration is enough; you are free! One completion is enough, you are free!*
## Your word can change the world
'No, no, no! You are an enlightened being. Maybe it is possible for you; not for us.' See, whenever you feel you are cornered, you are forced to transform, you immediately push me aside. 'No, you are a great person! You are an enlightened being! You are an incarnation. It is possible for you; not for normal people like us.'
Sometimes people show devotion just to escape from my teaching! Please understand, if devotion is for the wrong reason, it cannot transform you. It has to be for the right reason. It has to be for the right reason. The first thing you need to know is that your inner space can be transformed. Inner space can be transformed!
I will guide you into a very simple process. Take a few moments and look in. See what kind of space you are in. Is it peaceful or sleepy or dull or agitated? What kind of a space are you in? Look in. Be sensitive. Be aware of that space for just two minutes. Close your eyes and try to be aware.
Take these few moments to bring your awareness to your inner space. Because, now I am experientially going to support you, help you, to transform your inner space.
Yes. Now please understand, can somebody else be responsible for what you feel about you? No! It is your boundary! Your inner space is your boundary. Nobody else can be responsible for it. It is only you who can be responsible for it. It is only you who can be responsible. Even if you say that somebody else is the reason, that person does not suffer. Who suffers? You! So when something is affecting you, whether you are the reason for it or not, you are only responsible for it, and for changing it if needed. It is not that the person who is the reason will always take the responsibility. Many
times, when you are the reason for something, you don't take the responsibility. Now it is time; understand that whether you are the reason for it or not, you are responsible for whatever is inside your inner space.
Whether you are the reason or not, you are responsible. The moment you decide that you are responsible for the inner space you are carrying, you know that you have to change it. Your inner space is nothing but the words you repeat, again and again, within you. Am I right? Is there anything else? So, now decide consciously that you will repeat the right words within you. Consciously repeat the right words.
You will say, 'No, no, no! I tried this, but I failed!', How many times did you try? You must have repeated the negative words ten thousand times. So, try at least ten times now to repeat the right words. You may fail ten times. Nothing wrong! You fail because of the pattern built by you. Now try ten times. Bring awareness. Decide that *you* are responsible, and *you* have to change it, because it is affecting *you*. Your wrong inner space is directly affecting *you*. So, naturally, whether you are the reason or not, whether somebody else is the reason or not, *you* have to change it. *You* are responsible. It is you who is responsible. It is you who is the reason.
*Your inner space is nothing but the words you repeat, again and again, within you!*
## Your word can change the world
The inner space you carry has to be transformed, because you take decisions based on your inner space. Please understand, if you are in a peaceful, relaxed mood, even if there are big risks, dangers, difficulties, you will take the right decision with patience, and you will expand in your life. If you are in agitated mood, feeling suffocated, you won't take even small risks.
How many of you feel that just because of the wrong inner space, you missed your business deals, your expansion in life, your growth in life; you missed many possibilities in many dimensions? So, all of you know the importance of the right inner space.
Now I want you to understand, whether you believe it or not, whether you accept it or not, and no matter how many millions of reasons you give, there are some things which can't be changed. Whether you accept it or not, believe it or not, understand it or not, you are God! Your inner space is all-powerful! It carries the DNA of *aham brahmasmi*! Your inner space carries the DNA of *aham brahmasmi*.
How many ever arguments you may give, a country's constitution cannot be changed. In the same way, you may give a million reasons, many arguments, to prove that you are not God, and you are not divine, and you are not all-powerful. You think, 'I am not even able to get a cup of coffee when I want it. Then how can I be all-powerful? I don't even know what is happening in my spouse's mind. How can I be allknowing?' You have very silly reasons to deny the possibility of your inner space. Please understand, you never tried to explore your inner space. How can you deny it before even trying?
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi gives a very beautiful example: 'People go on saying that God is not there. He is just walking behind you!
You never look back even once! You never look in even once! You just go on denying His existence. You never tried to work on your inner space with authenticity and integrity even once!
Understand: if I am expressing the *ashta maha siddhis*, extraordinary *yogic* powers, it is not to show that I am extraordinary; it is just to show that it is possible for you! It is possible for you! Nothing more is required than carrying the space, with the understanding - 'When THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM can do it, I can do it!' That's all!
To learn swimming, all you need is to see somebody swimming, and cognize, 'When he can do it, I can do it!' That's all! Then you will simply know which leg to move first, which leg to move next; which hand to move first, which hand to move next. Even if you read encyclopedias on all types of swimming, you won't be able to learn swimming! It is just a knack. It is just a knack.
Same way, the space of possibility is just a knack. You need to see somebody playing with it and doing it. And you need to know, 'When he can, I can!' When you see somebody swimming, the first step is to understand, 'Wow! When he can, I can!' That is the first step. Second step - 'Let me jump and do what he is doing!' But you will have all possible reasons not to jump! 'No, no, no! What will happen if I drown?'
*Whether you accept it or not, believe it or not, understand it or not, you are God! Your inner space is all-powerful! It carries the DNA of aham brahmasmi!*
## Your word can change the world
## A story for you:
Once, an enlightened master and his disciple were traveling through a forest. After a long time, the master decided to rest under a tree, and the disciple went to fetch drinking water from a nearby river. Suddenly he fell into the river. He started screaming, 'Master, save me! Save me! Save me!' The master came and just stood on the bank. He said, 'You can save yourself.' The disciple was shocked. 'No, no! Teach me all your philosophy, all your *Vedanta*, at some other time! Please save me first!'
The master just said, 'Save yourself.'
The disciple started shouting, 'I have to be *alive* to practice all your *Vedanta*! Teach me all that when I am on the ground, not when I am in the water! I am drowning! I am drowning!'
The Master coolly repeated, 'Just save yourself !'
The disciple started wailing, 'Oh, save me! Save me! Save me!'
Then the Master roared, 'Fool! Just stand up and see!'
In that fear, the disciple did not know what he was doing. He just stood up - and saw that the water was only up to waist-level!
I tell you - all your problems are like this! It is just your decision to stand up in your inner space! But the fears you carry look so real that you say, 'No, I cannot stand up! I cannot stand up! I will do whatever else you say. I will worship you! But don't tell me to stand up!' But you have to do exactly what you don't want to do! You should be made
to do that forcibly - because that is where your inauthenticity is!
What you resist will persist. You don't need to do anything else; only do whatever you are resisting. Please understand, only what you resist persists in your life! It is just a pattern! You need to look in; what is the pattern you resist strongly in your life? What do you think you CAN'T do, you CAN'T manage? If you look, that will be the exact thing which stops you, binds you and keeps you in life imprisonment!
I have seen this with one of my devotees who had stage-fear. He couldn't even stand on a raised platform! I started speaking to him about why he has this fear. Through root-pattern analysis, we discovered an incident that happened when he was very young, when he was just a two-year-old baby. One day, because he was throwing a tantrum, his mother put him on the dining table, threatening, 'Keep quiet and don't move, or you will fall down!' See, for a child, a dining table is too high! So from that moment, the fear of heights started in him. And he was still carrying it..!
If you just look inside, the reason for your powerless inner space will be some root thought-pattern. Break that! Reclaim your freedom! Declare your freedom! Raise your inner space to the peak of joy, fulfillment, excitement!
*If you just look inside, the reason for your powerless inner space will be some root thoughtpattern. Break that! Reclaim your freedom!*
## Your word can change the world
In the Upanishads, it is told that when the seeker Shvetaketu was initiated by his guru, his guru said to him only nine times, '*Tat tvam asi! Tat tvam asi! Tat tvam asi!*' (You are That!) Shvetaketu became enlightened just by hearing those words! Then how come you don't become enlightened even if you listen to '*Tat tvam asi!*' nine thousand times? You have to be carrying the right inner space!
On a rock, a seed cannot sprout and become a tree. Only on the right, fertile ground, the seed can become a tree. Only in the right inner space, the teachings can become reality. The right inner space is one where all the root thought-patterns of suffering have been destroyed. When your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideals and ideas, all the root thought-patterns are destroyed.
I tell you, start playing with your inner space, to gain courage, to gather courage. Start with the small things which impact your life every day. Decide to tell yourself, 'With the inner space of completion, I am declaring, I am the space for my spouse listening to me!' You will see, miracles will happen! He or she will simply listen to you! Tell yourself, 'I am the space for my boss granting me a vacation!' Go with that space and play. If you try ten times, at least eight times you will see miracles happening.
Actually, only when you play with that space and see miracles happening, you will understand the power of your inner space. Don't think, 'I will be a failure even if I go with this space!' Then, naturally, you will be a failure. That is the miracle! See, if you go thinking, 'I am going to be a failure even if I go with this space!', then the space of failure is the space you are actually carrying! Because you go with the space of failure, you attract failure.
Understand, the inner space you carry is such a powerful space! It is *hiranyagarbha*, the space where the planets get created, where whole worlds happen! Your inner space is so powerful; worlds can be created or destroyed by your inner space. You may be individual, but your inner space is not individual; it is well-connected with the whole universe. So, anything you decide in your inner space becomes reality in the cosmos, reality in life, reality in Existence.
So the essence of today's *satsang* is this: have the right inner space to create your life. That will always lead to enlightenment, inspiration and success in every level of your life, in every sphere of your life, in every dimension of your life.
I bless you all to experience this great principle of right inner space, and change the world through your word. Your word can change the world! Experience this extraordinary power in your life.
*Let you all radiate integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching with eternal bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM! Thank you!*
*The right inner space is one where all the root thought-patterns of suffering have been destroyed!*
*The largest untapped natural resource lying with humanity is kundalini energy. When you awaken your kundalini energy with the right knowledge, right context, right understanding , right technique and right process, it can give you anything you want!*
## Experience Kundalini Awakening!
**Sunday, 07th April, 2013**
Today, we will work on *kundalini shakti*, experientially understanding and experiencing it.
First, I will define *kundalini shakti*. Please listen! *Kundalini* energy is your inner potential bio-energy, which is available in your being, in the form of potential. Only when you awaken it with the right method, knowledge and process, it becomes a reality in you, a realization in you.
Listen! The largest untapped natural resource lying with humanity is *kundalini* energy. When you awaken your *kundalini* energy with the right knowledge, the right context, the right understanding, the right technique and the right process, it can give you *anything* you want! *Kundalini* brings the space of 'positivity' to you, the space of 'possibility' to you, the space of 'leadership' to you and the space of 'enlightenment' itself to you!
*Kundalini* is like a *kalpataru* (wish-fulfilling tree). It gives you anything you want, and the space of not wanting anything! All the techniques like *kriyas*, *yoga*, *pranayama*, meditation, process, rituals are done only to awaken your *kundalini*, either partially or fully. Vivekananda beautifully says, 'Even during your intense prayers, it is your *kundalini* which is awakened and answers your prayers and responds to your prayers'.
All the religious traditions, spiritual traditions and mystical traditions only work on awakening the *kundalini* energy. If you remove the methods and process of *kundalini* awakening from any religion, they will just become a socio-political set-up. It is the *kundalini* awakening process which brings religiousness to any religion! It is the *kundalini* awakening process that brings religiousness to religion and spirituality to spiritual traditions. Other than the *kundalini* awakening process, everything else is just a socio-political set-up, with socio-politico rules and regulations. Just as how the essence of a sweet is sugar, the essence of a religion is the *kundalini* awakening process!
Understand, the *kundalini* energy is your inner potential energy, the inner potential bio-energy and your physiological psychic energy. Psychological physic energy is sex. Physiological psychic energy is *kundalini*. Listen! Psychological physic energy is sex. Physiological psychic energy is *kundalini*.
*Kundalini is like a kalpataru (wish-fulfilling tree). It gives you anything you want, and the space of not wanting anything!*
## Experience Kundalini Awakening
It means that if it is established in the psychological space but flows towards the physical plane, it is lust. Even though it is established in the physical plane, if it is moving towards the psychological plane, it is *kundalini*.
Science is proving again and again that we use less than thirteen percent of our brain - one-three percent! Even the top scientists like Einstein, and people who are considered as the most intelligent beings who happened on planet Earth, even they have used only thirteen percent of their brain! Then most of us must be using much less than that!
Listen! The brain has two parts. One is the mechanical part, which takes care of the mechanical functions of the body, like movement of blood, intestine, heart, lungs - just the mechanical needs, the basic survival needs and managing the mechanical parts of the body. It is like this - whenever you have a *bandh* (curfew) in India, we only allow the basic survival needs to function, like milk supply, food supply, medicine supply, etc. In the same way, you have been in *bandh* in your body, for practically your whole life! You only allow the basic survival mechanisms to function, like the lungs, heart, intestine, which are the minimum needs. These are what I call the 'mechanical parts of the brain'.
There is the other part, which are the non-mechanical parts of the brain. These are endowed with extraordinary powers. Please understand, powers like telepathy, teleporting and materialization are no longer just mystical or mythological powers. No! They are math and logical - 'mathological, they are no more mythological! There is enough of scientific research that has been done on them, and established that they are not magic! They are Math and Logic! The possibility for telepathy, teleporting, *kundalini* awakenings and extraordinary powers like materialization are all available in every one of us!
Our brains are hardwired to experience higher possibilities and higher consciousness. It is this part that I call as non-mechanical parts of your brain. Please listen! There are tons and tons of scientific research done on telepathy. I was recently reading an article on a study done, where two People are made to sit in two different rooms and asked to meditate. If a light is flashed in front of one person's eyes, the other person's brain also responds and reacts to the same light, as if the light is flashed in front of this other person's eyes (even though the light is not flashed in front of his eyes)! There are tons and tons of researches like this that have been done to prove the power of telepathy, teleporting and materialization, and to prove the possibility that human beings have!
Listen! Whether you accept it or not, understand it or not, your body carries at least seventy times more energy and power than what you use in your day-to-day life. Science has proved this through various methods and ways. Just one small alteration in your brain can make you live without food, for months! I am not giving you any fantasy theory. I am giving you the practical experience of hundreds of my devotees - my disciples who are living this through *nirahara samyama*.
The inner potential energy you have and the possibilities you have is what I call the 'nonmechanical' parts of your brain. Awakening
*Our brains are hardwired to experience higher possibilities and higher consciousness. The possibility for extraordinary powers is all available to us through kundalini awakening!*
## Experience Kundalini Awakening
your *kundalini* directly awakens these non-mechanical parts of your brain and gives you extraordinary powers like telepathy, teleporting, materialization and what not! It gives you the space of positivity, possibility, leadership and enlightenment!
The *ashtamahasiddhis* (like *anima, laghima, mahima, eeshitvam, vashitva and praapti*) are possible with this! Your brain is hardwired for all these higher possibilities. Just because the common man does not have access to this science, it does not mean that it does not exist! Just because the common man does not have access to the country's treasury, you can't say that country's treasury does not exist. In the same way, just because you do not have access to these extraordinary powers, do not think that these powers do not exist! All these great powers ARE possible. It is a simple inner science!
Listen! *kundalini shakti* can directly make you more productive, more aware, more conscious, more intuitive and ultimately, more rich! It will take away the low idea you carry about you! It will take away the lower self-image you carry about you. It will show you your possibilities. It will show you the power of your intuition. It will awaken your intuition. It will awaken your intelligence. You will forget about tiredness and boredom! You will do smart work, not just hard work but smart work. And with this smart work, you will naturally see that you are more active, alive and productive in your job, in your business and in your day-to-day life.
You see, if I speak on all the ways in which *kundalini* will be useful to you in your day-to-day life, it will look like this – 'If you win a lottery of one hundred crores (hundred million), then you can buy the best shaving blade. You can buy a good cot. You can buy a good flat. You can buy a good pair of *chappals* (slippers). You can buy a good
doormat!' How funny this statement sounds! But that is exactly how it is, if I speak on all the things you can do with *kundalini* energy. You can just do anything with it! You can do *anything*!
First, it will first bring the space of positivity and possibility in you. And it will make you a leader! People will know that you are the leader, anywhere you go! People will know that you are the owner; that you are responsible and you are the energy center!
It is because of the non-availability of the right technique and the right Gurus that people are in a way distanced from *kundalini shakti*. And once the weird ideas about *kundalini* started spreading, the fear about *kundalini* also started spreading!
Soon, very soon, I will officially start a mystery school. Of course, unofficially, I am already literally running a mystery school. The morning *satsang* every day and this whole organization are nothing but a mystery school. But soon, I will officially start the mystery school, where this science of *kundalini* awakening is taught to everyone, from a newborn child to the elderly, from having a great entry to a graceful exit! All levels people will be taught the *kundalini shakti*.
You just need the right understanding, the right method, the right process and the right Guru. Then, *kundalini* IS practical and the extraordinary IS possible!
*kundalini shakti can directly make you more productive, aware, conscious, intuitive and rich! It will take away the low idea you carry about you and show you your possibilities!*
## Experience Kundalini Awakening
When your *kundalini* is awakened, you can just program your biomemory *as you want*. When your *kundalini* is functioning, when your body is responding to the *kundalini* energy, just declare to yourself at those moments - 'I am the space of positivity and integrity, the space of authenticity and possibility, the space of responsibility and leadership and the space of enriching with enlightenment!' *Your body and mind will simply radiate it, and the universe will respond to it!*
When your *kundalini* is awakened, when your body is responding to the *kundalini* energy, you can heal others and yourself. You can enrich your mind and others' mind. You can enrich your body and others' body. You can even give energy *darshan* (initiation)!
You can catch the fire for your lamp only from a burning lamp. So, *kundalini* also can be transmitted only from a bio-memory in which the bio-energy is already awakened. The bio-memory can be awakened with concepts and ideas. But the bio-energy can be awakened only by living it, and enlightened consciousness. Only in a bio-energy in which enlightenment itself is happening, in an awakened bio-energy, only an awakened *kundalini* can transmit that into another body and awaken another person's *kundalini*!
*Kundalini* can be awakened by thousands of methods. I usually use four methods.
- First, *kundalini* can be awakened by giving the right principles about life, mind and body. When you understand the right principles, your *kundalini* can be awakened.
- Second, *kundalini* can be awakened with the right *pranayama* and *kriya*.
- Third, *kundalini* can be awakened with the initiation, through transmission of energy, by the touch given on the third-eye - *ajna chakra*.
- Fourth, *kundalini* can be awakened, just by the mere will. Just by will, the transmission of energy can be done!
Through these four methods, *kundalini* is awakened.
- In the Nithya Dhyana Yoga, I use the first method - awakening your *kundalini by* giving the right knowledge.
- In the Nithya Kriya Yoga, I use the second method - awakening your *kundalini* by giving the right process.
- In Healer's initiation, I use the third method - awakening your *kundalini* by the touch on your third-eye.
- In the *satsangs*, I use the fourth process awakening anybody's *kundalini* wherever they sit, just by the mere will.
- In the Inner Awakening program, I use all the four methods to awaken your *kundalini*, so that the awakened *kundalini* energy stays eternally and permanently in your being,
*When your kundalini is awakened, you can heal others and yourself. You can enrich your mind and others' mind!*
## Experience Kundalini Awakening
forever! It becomes part of your bio-energy and bio-memory forever!
When an enlightened being awakens your *kundalini*, you will not have any negative side effects. You will only experience all the positive things happening in you.
Now, I will enter into the process of awakening the *kundalini* energy. During the next few days, I will also teach meditations to all the viewers. Today, I am going to demonstrate with people who have already experienced *kundalini* awakening. In a few days, I will teach the process to awaken your kundalini also, to all the viewers.
*Meditation to awaken the kundalini:*
*Now, I request all the people who are sitting all over the world to just sit in upanishad. It means - be unclutched. Visualize that every thought happening in you is just the fish jumping in the ocean of consciousness.*
*Sit straight. Close your eyes. Cognize with integrity, authenticity and responsibility, on the space of unclutching. With integrity, authenticity and responsibility, be unclutched! Feel that every thought happening is just the fish jumping in the ocean of consciousness. Either sit in vajrasana or padmasana. Close your eyes and be in upanishad.*
*Let the power of kundalini be awakened! With integrity, authenticity and responsibility, I declare, let the power of the kundalini - awakened kundalini from this body - awaken the kundalini in all the bodies sitting with us all over the world! Namah Shivaya!*
## *Kundalini meditation*
*Relax! You can open your eyes. Om Shanthi! Shanthi! Shanthihi!*
In the next few days' *satsangs,* I will expand more on *kundalini*, its awakening, methods and process to awaken it and its benefits. I will expand on the details.
I invite all the viewers to participate in our twenty-one day meditation program to experience *kundalini* awakening experientially in you, and for that energy to eternally reside in you.
*Blessings to all of you! Let you all radiate with integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching with eternal bliss - 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM'. Thank you*
*When an enlightened being awakens your kundalini, you will not have any negative side effects. You will only experience all the positive things happening in you!*
*Integrity will clear the path. Authenticity will awaken the kundalini energy. Responsibility will send the awakened energy which is in you into the world, so that world will listen to you. With enriching , the world just follows you!*
# **Two Steps To Awaken Kundalini!**
**Monday, 08th April 2013**
Today, I will continue expanding on the unique relationship between the state of responsibility and your reality, and the *kundalini* energy's involvement in this whole.
*Kundalini* is the huge possibility residing in you, like a seed! A Seed! A small banyan tree seed is a huge tree in the form of possibility. In the same way, you are God in the form of possibility! *You are the seed for God, in the form of possibility!*
Just as how the banyan seed is a possibility for banyan tree; you are a possibility for God Himself !
Integrity means aligning your thinking with what you want. Integrity clears the path for *kundalini* to travel. Authenticity awakens it. Every time you raise yourself to the peak of your inner image, outer image and others' image, the *kundalini* is raised. That quantity which is required is raised. For example, you feel tired and you want to sleep in the *satsang* today. But, if you decide and say, 'No! I am going to listen to the *satsang*, internalize and live,' the moment you make that decision, a part of your *kundalini* is awakened! For each decision that you make with authenticity, your *kundalini* is awakened! Each time you coil, shrink and lie down, your *kundalini* falls and reduces!
'Energy suicide' starts happening in you. Only then does any disease start. Inauthenticity is 'energy suicide'! Listen! Whenever you make a decision based on authenticity, your body and mind is immediately supplied with the *kundalini* energy required, to fulfill your authentic decision. When you take the responsibility, the *kundalini* energy is infused into the world. Then the world starts co-operating with you and listening to you. When you start enriching, the whole universe follows you!
When you start living in integrity, you continuously align your thinking. It means that the path for the *kundalini* energy to travel is getting cleaned and all the blockages are getting removed. If you bring integrity in you, your fantasies will disappear; your fears will disappear; your worries will disappear; the attention-need will disappear; the jealousy will disappear; the ego will disappear and the discontentment will disappear! Just integrity itself will open all the seven chakras for the *kundalini* energy to flow!
Listen!!
- Integrity will clear the path.
- Authenticity will awaken the *kundalini* energy.
- Responsibility will send the awakened energy which is in you into the world, so that the world will listen to you.
- With enriching, the world just follows you! It not only listens to you, it also follows you!
These four *dharmas*, the principles of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching are the best and most amazing ways to start awakening your *kundalini* energy. It is the most-safe method to start awakening your *kundalini* energy. If you awaken your *kundalini* energy without integrity, you may become powerful but you may not be intelligent. Without authenticity but just with integrity itself, you may be intelligent but you may not be powerful. But with integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, life is such power!
When you are integrated and authentic, your *kundalini* is awakened very safely. With responsibility, it will be sent into the world to make what you want as reality. And with enriching, whatever you are just becomes a reality!
Whether you want anything in the outer world, you want to make your dreams into reality, or you want to realize that your reality itself is a dream - for all of these, your *kundalini* needs to be awakened.
*Whether you want anything in the outer world, you want to make your dreams into reality, or you want to realize that your reality itself is a dream, your kundalini needs to be awakened!*
dreams into reality, or realize what you see as reality itself is a dream, your *kundalini* needs to be awakened for both purposes.
Sometimes, people ask me, 'Swamiji, for some people who attend your sessions and program, the *kundalini* is awakened on the first day itself ! But for some people, their body does not respond to the *kundalini* even for years. Why is this?'
It is because of this – integrity, authenticity and responsibility! People who decide to immediately enrich themselves and others will have the *kundalini* awakened immediately.
Listen! When your *kundalini* is awakened, when your bio-memory starts responding to the *kundalini* energy, you become the source of the Universe. You can send any thought current into the Cosmos, when your body is levitating through *kundalini* energy. When your body is responding through *kundalini* energy, anything you say will become part of you and will be sent into the space.
*Kundalini* is a very powerful, mystical science, to make man into Divine! Till your *kundalini* is awakened, your spiritual journey has not even started! You can sit and read libraries and libraries worth of books, close your eyes and sit in caves for ages and ages, do any *homa*, ritual or *pooja*, but until your *kundalini* is awakened, your spiritual life has not even started! After your *kundalini* is awakened, even one wrong idea you entertain can be dangerous to you and to others! When your *kundalini* is awakened, your body and mind now have to be highly integrated. Or you can misuse and abuse that power! You can bring dangers to you. It is like lying in the shadow of *kalpavriksha* (wish-fulfilling tree, boon-giving tree). Lying under the *kalpavriksha*, whatever you think will become reality!
In our ashram, we have a *kalpavriksha*, a powerful banyan tree, which has grown on the *samadhi-peeta* (living energy) of two Enlightened Masters! This is the only banyan tree radiating spiritual energy and is a very powerful tree! It showers you with *anything* you ask it!
Many of my devotees are still afraid to go under our banyan tree. Because they feel, 'We should not think or anything wrong under the banyan tree. Anything you think under the banyan tree comes true! It is better to be under the banyan tree for just a few minutes, thinking of the right things, and come away!'
Your *kundalini* is also like the *kalpavriksha*, the *kalpataru* tree. When your *kundalini* is awakened, anything you ask is immediately granted! That is why I don't awaken the *kundalini* of kids. I wait until they become mature. Until they learn to live in integrity, I don't awaken their *kundalini*. I wait, because they should not misuse it or abuse it.
The only thing that human beings need to learn in their life, to achieve *anything* they want, is to learn to 'awaken their *kundalini'*.
When you drop responsibilities, when you drop authenticity, it is 'energy suicide', your *kundalini* shrinks and goes back to sleep! Many times, I awaken the *kundalini* and send people back to their
*People who decide to immediately enrich themselves and others will have the kundalini awakened immediately!*
life. But if they don't take up responsibility and enrich, it again goes back to sleep!
It is so sad - mainstream human beings neither understand the science of *kundalini*, nor work on it. They waste their life without knowing how to raise their consciousness.
Sometime, these fools think that the science of *kundalini* is related to religion. Listen! In Vedic tradition, religion is a way of life! If you move religion out of your life, if you keep religion out of your life, you are dead!
Listen!! Religion is not separable! It is inseparable and is an everymoment-part' of your thinking, your cognition. When you drop authenticity, it is 'energy suicide'!
Yesterday, some of my *sannyasis* informed me - 'Swamiji, when I start speaking, so many words are flowing so beautifully! Even I understand these *tattvas,* these principles, deeply!' I said - 'That is the power of enriching!' When you enrich others, do not think that only 'others' are listening. Even you are listening! You are also enriched!
Every time you bring yourself to integrity, some blockage which blocks your *kundalini* flow is removed. You move further, further and further!
Every time you make decisions based on authenticity - even if it is small decision - like, 'I will not have tea! It is really not necessary now, so I will not have it!' Even these small decisions awaken your *kundalini*. If you decide - 'I will not smoke cigarettes, which is not being authentic with my body. I will not drink alcohol because it is not authentic with my physical and mental health.' If you decide, even this one-small-
authentic-decision awakens your *kundalini*!
Why do people have so much of difficulty with spirituality? Because until your *kundalini* is awakened, you cannot understand anything you read! You cannot understand anything spiritual. But when you make authentic decisions, you raise yourself to the next level of peak possibility. Every authentic decision from your peak possibility raises your *kundalini*!
I tell you - until your *kundalini* is awakened, not only has your spiritual life not started, but even your life has not started!
When you start your spiritual life, the first thing you need to do is bring in integrity and authenticity. Bring responsibility for everything that is happening around you. Whether you know it or not, want it or not, *you* are responsible for whatever is happening around you! You are responsible for whatever is happening around you! When you start feeling responsible, the *kundalini* energy overflows through your body into your actions, life and life outside! When you are enriching, life outside you simply follows you!
When the *kundalini* is awakened with the right Guru, you get healed from any disease that you carry. Your mind is healed from any problem it carries. Outside life - the outer world life moves
*When you enrich others, do not think that only 'others' are listening. You also are listening! And you are also enriched!*
as you want! Whether it is in the line of wealth, relationships, success, excellence or leadership, *anything* you name, you have it!
That is why I insist so much on authenticity and taking more and more responsibility! You do not need a separate time to practice spirituality. All you need is the cognitive shift, to practice spirituality. The ideas based on which you make decisions - only this decides whether you are growing spiritually or not. It is not the number of hours that you sit with closed eyes, or the number of *pranayamas* or *suryanamaskars* you do, or the number of times you do *japa*. It is this cognitive shift in your ideas based on which you make decisions, that decides whether you are growing spiritually or not. God is not waiting for your bank balance report! It is not that for every *japa* you do, it gets put in the bank balance and God says, 'Wow! He has done five lakh *japa*! Now let me appear in front of him!' No! It is just like your greed for money! The number of times you chanted the mantra is just like your greed! I tell you, spirituality does not need a separate time for you to practice it. It just needs the cognitive transformation, the cognitive shift, for you to practice!
*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 your kundalini is awakened, the overflowing experience of life will be tasted by your bio-memory for the first time. For every human being , kundalini awakening is a basic need. Only then does your new life start!*
# **Experience Your Dream Life Through Kundalini Awakening!**
**Friday, 12th April, 2013**
Today, I will expand on how your *kundalini* is awakened in our Inner Awakening program. I will expand how it is established in you permanently, and how it brings health, wealth, good relationships and success in every aspect of your life, and bring you the ultimate, enlightenment itself !
If I equate your body to a mango I will equate the *kundalini* to the seed inside. A mango fruit does not achieve its ultimate, if you just eat the fruit and destroy the seed. The fruit realizes itself only when the seed is able to give more fruits. In the same way, your body has two components, the *kundalini* and your body. Just living with a little money, comfort and ending your life is like eating the mango fruit. But, that will not to lead to realization. The fruit itself realizes its purpose of existence only when the seeds start giving more fruits.
Listen! The mango does not realize itself when if just the fruit is consumed, just the pulp is consumed. Just by somebody eating the mango fruit, the mango does not realize its high potential and its highest possibility. The mango realizes its highest possibility only when its seeds start giving more fruits. Your body realizes its peak only when your *kundalini* is awakened and established in your system.
I tell you, if your *kundalini* is not awakened, you will carry continuous discontentment and lack of fulfillment. You will not even know the reason, but you will go on blaming everything, and carry discontentment.
It is so unfortunate that most of the human beings you envy suffer from this discontentment. Whether they big social leaders or big political leaders or a person with huge wealth or the rich and famous or a celebrity, whoever you envy, they all suffer with this great punishment of discontentment.
Listen, when your *kundalini* is awakened, the first thing you will experience is deep fulfillment and such contentment in every dimension of your life! You will say 'God, it is enough, it is overflowing!' The overflowing experience of life will be tasted by your bio-memory for the first time. Your muscle-memory very rarely tastes the overflowing experience of life. But unfortunately,
*If your kundalini is not awakened, you carry continuous discontentment and lack of fulfillment. When your kundalini is awakened, the first thing you will experience is deep fulfillment!*
it is immediately forgotten and so your bio-memory never experiences this. For every human being, *kundalini* awakening is a basic need. Until then, you will have deep un-fulfillment and discontentment, in some form or the other.
I tell you, somehow find the right master and awaken your *kundalini*, as only then does a new life starts. Only then does your new life start! Only then does even your life start, whether it is at the level of physical health, mental health, the clarity to do what you want to do or the clarity to experience what you want to experience. Many times, even if what you want is in front of you, you don't know what to do, you don't know how to enjoy it and instead get caught with foolish unconscious emotions!
Every individual should somehow experience *kundalini* awakening, and allow the *kundalini* experience to settle down in your muscle-memory and bio-memory. Many times, people ask me, 'Swamiji, why is your meditation program for twenty one days? If it is for just a few days, a lot of people can come; a lot of us can come.' I know that a lot of you will come. But what is the use, if I am not able to do what needs to be done, and you do not get what needs to be gained? Then what is the use even if you come? If I do a two day or three day program, that is more like giving you a glimpse of *kundalini*.
Listen! I will make sure that even your body responds to the *kundalini* awakening! I repeat my commitment once more, with integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching. I give you the word. This is the greatest gift any human being can receive in their life. *kundalini* awakening can be done just by the initiation by the right master, but only if your body is prepared by the proper *yoga* and *kriya*, and mind is prepared by the proper *dhamma* (teachings). Then, cognitive
shift that happens by the awakened *kundalini* will become permanent in your muscle-memory and bio-memory. Only then will it have a permanent impact in your life. Otherwise I have seen. Some people have so much of discontentment in their life, I feel sympathy towards them. Oh God! Poor fellows!
Your body needs to be prepared with the proper *yoga* and *kriya*. Your mind needs to be completely rewired with the new way of thinking, with this four *dharma* or principles as the base, and the cognitive shift has to happen. I tell you, with a cognitive shift, you build a new being for yourself and you radiate so much of goodness. And ultimately, you achieve the most powerful truth.
The energy gushing in your body will give you a new excitement. I tell you, it is not just about creating the health you want or the wealth you want or relationships you want, even the *darshan* of the *ishta devatas* – the Gods that you pray to or meditate on, is simply possible when the *kundalini* is awakened.
I have seen thousands of people directly having the *darshan* of their *devatas*, experiencing the extraordinary restful awareness, the *advaitha anubhoothi*. Realization of non-duality - eternal restful awareness and oneness happens. Please listen! This happens when your *kundalini* is
*kundalini awakening can be done just by the initiation by the right master. Your body should be prepared by proper yoga and kriya, and the mind prepared by the proper dhamma!*
awakened. Whatever you think as auspicious, great, right, best - they simply become a reality .It unfolds inside and outside. You just know that you are living the exact life you always wanted.
And you know how to keep this awakened *kundalini* alive in your body, in your muscle-memory, in your bio-memory. *kriyas* and *yoga* prepares your body; these four *tattvas* prepare your mind; *kundalini* awakening causes the conscious shift, the cognitive shift in your being, which leads to ultimate completion and contentment.
Completion with yourself is contentment. Completion with everyone around you is peace. Completion with the whole cosmos is bliss. You will experience all the three when your *kundalini* is awakened.
Awakening the *kundalini* and making that energy stay in you eternally, is the first step for life. Listen, it is the first step for life! Somehow without the right knowledge, the *kundalini* word has been corrupted and given the wrong meanings. Some call it voodoo, jadoo, cult, giving it that kind of a look. I tell you, *kundalini* awakening is a scientific process. The results can be scientifically verifiable, scientifically validated, it can be validated.
When your *kundalini* is awakened, your level of authenticity goes up. The level of integrity goes up, the level of responsibility goes up. The level of enriching goes up. The way you think about you, the way you think about others, the way you project yourself to others, the way you fulfill what others expect from you – all of these go up to a different plane altogether. You become a new being. When you experience *kundalini,* the internal conflicts you carry disappear. The struggle you are going through internally, 'Should I do this or do that?', 'Should I think this way or that way?", 'Should I look like this or that?', 'Should
I feel like this or that?", 'Should I go for this or that?' - *everything* just disappears!
Life and the very perception and response to it becomes totally different when your *kundalini* is awakened. For the first time in the world, we have proved *kundalini* awakening is possible, with so many medical research, scientific research and medical recordings. The effects of it are scientifically verifiable, including the extraordinary powers happening through *kundalini* awakening - like teleportation and materialization, it is possible.
Patanjali says that the highest *kundalini* awakening experience is '*jagrat sushupthi*', restful awareness, deep restfulness and peak awareness. We proved this through the QEEG research, and other medical and scientific researches. When your *kundalini* is awakened by initiation, when I was awakening people's *kundalini* by initiation, we studied their brains through QEEG. It shows very clearly that they are in the deepest restfulness and peak awareness.
The '*jagrat sushupthi*' and '*nirvikalpa samadhi*' that Patanjali talks about is medically recorded and scientifically proven by this *kundalini* awakening. Only then does *samyama* happen in you, because for any *samyama* to happen; *prathyahara*, *dharana*, *dhyana*, and *samadhi* has to happen. *dharana*, *dhyana* and *samadhi* put together is *samyama*.
*Completion with yourself is contentment. Completion with everyone around you is peace. Completion with the whole cosmos is bliss!*
*For the first time, by the God's grace and the grace of the Guru parampara, we have proved the power of kundalini awakening through medical and scientific research, and medically recording the data and scientifically validated it!*
When the *kundalini* is awakened, people start living the four *tattvas* powerfully. When they start living these four principles powerfully, *kundalini* energy is awakened.
Your body should be prepared with proper *kriyas and yoga* and your mind should be prepared with the proper *tattvas* and principles.
Then, when your *kundalini* is awakened with the proper initiation, the whole awakened energy stays inside your system eternally, as part of your muscle-memory and bio-memory. You become a new being, a '*jeevan mukta*'! You know how to carry the space of '*Nithyanandoham*', the eternal bliss, in you!
Sit listen to the *satsang* with restful awareness every day. When you are sitting in my presence for this one hour, listening authentically for this one-hour itself will awaken your *kundalini* !
The essence of today's *satsang* is this. Somehow experience *kundalini* awakening. That is the first thing you need to do, in your 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 – 'Nithyananda'! Thank you!*
*Your life is nothing but seeing. If you can see something through the eyes, you can experience it with your physical body. If you can see something through your mind, you can understand it with your mental body. If you can see something with your consciousness, you can control it, as the Lord of it.*
Let us understand about the third-eye.
Please listen! Your life is nothing but seeing. Seeing is your life. If you can see something through the eyes, you can experience it with your physical body. If you can see something through your mind, you can understand it with your mental body. If you can see something with your consciousness, you can control it, as the Lord of it.
Seeing is an important aspect of life. I can say that life starts with seeing. Even blind people continue to see in their inner space. Whether you are blind or have physical eyes, you continue to see through your inner eyes.
Listen! The third-eye is nothing but 'conscious seeing'! The thirdeye is nothing but conscious seeing. The third-eye-awakening awakens the non-mechanical parts of your brain and helps you to
experience extraordinary powers, like telepathy, materialization, teleportation, etc.
The concept of the third-eye is the unique contribution of *Vedic* tradition. If you see all the Hindu gods, you will see them with three eyes. It means that only if your third-eye is awakened, you can become a God, not otherwise! Hindus have worked so much on the third-eye. Even if you are born as a Hindu, the possibility for the opening of your third-eye is already there, because our ancestors have worked on the third-eye for ages. The possibility for opening the third-eye is programmed in our very DNA, because our ancestors have been keeping the *bindi* - processed turmeric on the third-eye, continuously working to awaken it, for ages!
The third-eye is an important power which is stored in every human being. It is a possibility in every human being. We need to awaken it. We need to make it as a reality.
All the extraordinary traditions, mystical traditions and spiritual traditions continuously work on awakening the third-eye. The third-eye awakens the moment you start giving attention to it. The third-eye is awakened, the moment you start giving attention to it!
*Your life is nothing but seeing. If you can see something through the eyes, mind or consciousness, you can experience it. The third-eye is nothing but 'conscious seeing'!*
## Third-Eye Awakening
It is one of the important energy centers in your body. In Sanskrit we have a proverb, 'If you die in Varanasi, you will achieve liberation!' 'VaraNasi,' means the space between your nose and eyebrows. The very word in Sanskrit means 'third-eye If you leave your awareness on the third-eye, if you leave the body while your awareness is on the thirdeye, you will become enlightened. Of course, Varanasi, the city on the banks of the sacred Ganga in Uttar Pradesh (India) also has sanctity. It is a very powerful spiritual centre. But if your third-eye is awakened even while you are alive, you will have so much of benefits.
Please understand, the third-eye can be awakened in so many ways. One of them is right thinking. What is 'right thinking'? Aligning all your thinking based on the cognition of the *tattvas* (integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching) is 'right thinking'. Aligning all your thinking based on the cognition of the four principles is 'right thinking'.
Listen! Listen! The third-eye is not just an eye, it is the very source of your consciousness! If you align your thinking based on the four principles, all your energy will become centered on the third-eye. All your energy will become stable in your third-eye. The functioning of your third-eye will enter into the next frequency.
Please listen! The third-eye is not just your brow centre, it is also the browsing centre! It's like how you can upload or download anything through the Internet world through the Browsing Centre, in the same way through you can download and upload anything from the Cosmos through the third-eye. Any *akashic* record can be downloaded by you when you open your third-eye!
Please listen! All the *akashic* records are done by me because of the third-eye awakening! That is the process through which *akashic* records
are read out. The third-eye is like a door to the Cosmos. You can receive anything. In the same way, you can send any command to the Cosmos through the third-eye. Anything sent through the thirdeye to the Cosmos is immediately - immediately experienced!
Bring integrity in your thinking; your energy will immediately be aligned in your third-eye Bring authenticity in your feeling; the thirdeye energy will immediately be awakened. Bring responsibility into your conscience. Please listen, conscience will become consciousness the moment you bring responsibility to it. Conscience means struggling with do's and don'ts, guilt and desires. Consciousness means the pure flow of life. As long as you do not take the responsibility, you will be struggling with dos and don'ts. Understand, you will be struggling with dos and don'ts!
The moment you take responsibility for all aspects of your life in which you are struggling and feeling powerless, realize it is conscience that is struggling and take responsibility in all those fields. Suddenly, you will see that your conscience becomes consciousness. You don't struggle any more. Life becomes a smooth flow.
When you start enriching yourself and enriching others, your third-eye flows like a wild river. Listen. Whenever you enrich others, the third-eye energy
*If you leave your awareness on the third-eye, if you leave the body while your awareness is on the third-eye, you will become enlightened!*
flows like a wild river. Conscience is dos and don'ts, consciousness is flowing with life.
The third-eye is not just extraordinary power; it is an extraordinary way of life. Don't think that it is like a power, (that) you can possess it and use it for your ulterior motives. No! It is an extraordinary way of life, through which you inspire everyone for the ultimate motive. Ulterior motive is different and ultimate motive is different. When you keep something for yourself, for selfishness, it is for ulterior motive; when you share with the world, it is ultimate motive.
The third-eye is the bridge between the physical world and the psychic and cosmic space. All the extraordinary powers and psychic powers are achieved through the third-eye. All the extraordinary powers are lived when your third-eye is completely awakened.
Work on your third-eye, you will see extraordinary powers immediately. There is nothing much to talk about the third-eye other than giving you the direct technique to awaken it. Awaken it and see. You cannot talk about the power of seeing both the eyes to a man who is born blind. However much you talk, he won't understand. In the same way, I can't talk about the third-eye till your third-eye is opened!
I'll give you the method - technique to awaken the *kundalini*-*shakti*, the third-eye. Only then will you understand the power of the third-eye. The third-eye is a direct bridge to God!
*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!*
# The Science of Living Enlightenment - Revealing the four sacred principles that empower YOU!
*Every single moment, the awareness you bring to you either awakens your kundalini or puts your kundalini to sleep. Whenever you allow your inauthenticity, you shrink the kundalini. Every time you become authentic, your kundalini gets awakened!*
# Kundalini Awakening Is Your Decision!
**Tuesday, 16th April, 2013**
I will expand on how these four *tattvas* can be lived continuously, how the *kundalini* awakening in these four principles can be strengthened.
Please listen! Your *kundalini shakti* is not disconnected from your thoughts and actions. Just one thought can trigger your *kundalini* and awaken it, or make it shrink and coil back! Just one lust thought and your body is already ready! Understand, just one lust thought and your body is already ready!
Your thoughts, your actions, your brain and your words - all these are directly connected to the bio-energy. Your bio-energy is directly connected to it. So the moment I utter the word '*kundalini* ,' don't think that it is there somewhere, somebody at some point through some method and some technique on some day may be awaken it. BUT, it may not be awakened now. Now - it has nothing to do with my dayto-day life.' NO!
You are seeing me, because of your *kundalini* energy. You perceive the breeze on your skin, through your skin, because of *kundalini* energy. You are listening to this sound because of *kundalini* energy. You are processing this sound because of *kundalini* energy!
Listen! So, when you alter the way you think, respond or speak now, your *kundalini* can be awakened!
Your *kundalini* energy can be altered. You can awaken your *kundalini* energy before the end of this *satsang*. You can experience *kundalini* awakening, before the end of this *satsang*!
Listen! Even if you sit and listen intensely, your *kundalini* can be awakened now! Even now, if you sit and listen sincerely and intensely, your *kundalini* can be awakened now! Every thought you create, maintain and cognize has a direct effect on your bio-energy. If you cognize and encourage a natural lustful thought, it will have its own effect immediately on the body and the mind. If you cognize and react to a spiritual thought, it will immediately have its own effect on the body and the mind. If you cognize and react to the thought of integrity and authenticity, your bio-energy and your *kundalini* energy will have an immediate effect on it. It will have an impact on it. Please listen!!
*Your kundalini shakti is not disconnected from your thoughts and actions. Just one thought can trigger your kundalini and awaken it, or make it shrink and coil back!*
For example, the constant tiredness and fatigue you carry! Please understand; when you start practicing authenticity, the first wall you face will be tiredness and laziness. You can either make this wall a stopping-stone or a stepping-stone. Tiredness, laziness and boredom these will the first few enemies for your authenticity. When you try to expand your experience about you and others' experience about you, these three - tiredness, boredom and fatigue will be the first things to stop you!
Listen! I will give you one example. In the office, you can leave your office by 5 o'clock in the evening, if you are not authentic. But if you want to practice authenticity, you may have to do a little more work to make everything authentic. It may take one more hour to complete your work. When you decide to be authentic, what is the first thing that is going to stop you? Boredom! You will think, 'I can't sit in office after 5 o'clock! It is too much! I am too tired! I am bored of these same sick fellows! I am bored, tired! I feel lazy!'
Listen! If you decide even once - 'No! I am going to be authentic! I will break this laziness - tiredness - boredom pattern,' then your *kundalini* opens up. For even one decision that you make in the line of authenticity, your *kundalini* opens up, your *kundalini* is awakened!
The moment I utter the word '*kundalini* , all of you think, 'We have to do something very secretly, sitting inside some dark cave, and use some *mantra* or meditation, some practice and you have to go to a remote place in the Himalayas to some Guru, and you learn some *mantra* which he will whisper in your ears, which you may understand only half of it and may not understand the other half, and you may have to collect different skulls and herbs, and sit on that and start chanting during *amavasya* (new moon day) midnight and only then will your *kundalini* be awakened!!
No! No! Your *kundalini* can be awakened through your office, through your office work!
For every single decision that you make based on authenticity, your *kundalini* IS awakened! For every single decision you take based on authenticity, to break your laziness, tiredness and boredom, your *kundalini* is awakened! See! The moment you decide to break the pattern and make the decision to do so, see in your muscle-memory and bio-memory, so much of energy will be flooded into it! You will feel a certain joy. You will feel, 'Yes, I am going to do it!'
That joy is '*ananda*' of *sat-chit-ananda*! That energy is '*chit'* of *sat-chit-ananda*! That courage is '*sat'* of *sat-chit-ananda*! Understand, *sat-chit-ananda* is not something you will experience somewhere, when you are almost about to die, or after death! No! *sat-chit-ananda* can be experienced in your everyday decisions! To make *sat-chit-ananda* as '*nithyaananda'* – eternal bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM has happened!!
Listen! This is the basic truth that you need to understand. Unless you start awakening your *kundalini* NOW, everyday, in your day-to-day life, the possibility does not exist! The possibility does not exist! Either it is NOW or NEVER! Because when you start believing that it will happen after some time, and after some time, and after some time, that belief itself becomes like lacquer coating
*Unless you start awakening your kundalini NOW, everyday, in your day-to-day life, the possibility does not exist! Either it is Now or Never!*
on you. You will never be able to touch the 'present' time, experience the moment 'now' or experience the zone 'now'!
Please listen! For a person who is thinking about the future, his eyes will not be seeing the present, even if his eyes are open! There will not be a connection between him and his eyes. How many of you cognize what I am saying? In the same way, in exactly the same way, if you start believing that *kundalini* awakening can happen only after some time, that belief itself will become an obstruction between you and the *kundalini* awakening! That is one of the worst dangers! You need to break that negative belief, with integrity, with the right commitments.
If you have committed with you, again and again - '*kundalini* will not awaken for me! It may happen only after twenty or thirty years of practice! It is not for me! Maybe it is for all *sannyasis*, seekers and evolved souls, but not for me! It will take years to do this - this - this - this…' If you have all these beliefs, that itself becomes a negative commitment that you have given yourself. And because of this very negative commitment, it really does not happen in you!
When I was young, I used to have this strong feeling that these miracles and powers will come to me only if I meditate, without moving from a place, for twelve long years! No, I had this strong belief ! I believed this, 'I have to sit for twelve years without moving! And my hair has to grow and enter the ground like a banyan tree root! Even then, I can't get up even if when I want to get up, because my hair has entered the ground like a root! Only then will I have *siddhis* (miracle powers)!'
This commitment had become a negative commitment to me! I delayed achieving the *ashtamahasiddhis*. It was already there, right from my birth. But I delayed expressing the *ashtamahasiddhis* because of my own
negative commitments.
You also see this in your life. You may be giving a lot of negative commitments to you. To be a leader, a *siddha*, a *mahapurusha*, a *jnani,* you may be giving a lot of negative commitments to you! You might have given a lot of negative commitments to you. 'How can I have *vak-siddhi*? Swamiji can have it, but how can I have it? I will have it, but may be after twenty years, or when I am old, or maybe in the next *janma* (lifetime)!'
Even these thoughts become negative commitments to you! How many of you are getting it? How many of you feel, 'Oh, God! I have so many negative commitments given to me!' Raise your hand!
(People raise their hands.)
Sit and complete with all of that. You have to restore your integrity and complete with all these negative commitments. Only then will *kundalini* awakening start happening now. And it is possible, NOW! You have to awaken, NOW! You CAN awaken NOW!
Every action of yours can awaken your *kundalini*. Every action of yours can become a part of *kundalini*. Please listen! Understand completely! Even now, your decision to sit straight and listen with authenticity can awaken your *kundalini* ! Or
*Every action of yours can awaken your kundalini. Even now, your decision to sit straight and listen with authenticity can awaken your kundalini !*
your decision to just fall asleep can shrink your *kundalini*!
Listen! Listen! Every time you bring an authentic decision, your *kundalini* IS awakened. Every time your *kundalini* is awakened, you are raising yourself to the next level of authenticity. You can see this in your everyday life. You can see this every day in your office, in your relationships. If your spouse is shouting at you, if your wife or husband is screaming, shouting at you, screaming at you, you decide - 'I will raise my authenticity level! Now I will not shout back or react! I will respond with integrity and responsibility!' Even this one decision awakens your *kundalini*! It awakens your *kundalini*!
Every single moment, the awareness you bring to you either awakens your *kundalini* or puts your *kundalini* to sleep. When you wake up early in the morning, the awareness you have either awakens your *kundalini* or puts it to sleep! When you listen, the awareness you bring to your ears can awaken your *kundalini* or put your *kundalini* to sleep. When you read, the awareness you bring to your reading - your eyes - it can either awaken your *kundalini* or put it to sleep. When you think, the integrity you bring to your thinking can awaken your *kundalini* or put your *kundalini* to sleep!
It is unfortunate that sometimes, you give up on you. You say, 'No! I cannot raise myself to the next level!' When you give up on you, you are dead! Dead! Giving up on you is the worst thing that can happen to you, especially due to the laziness pattern! When you decide to give up on you, you are '*patita'*, the fallen one, the dead one. If you live these principles, even if you leave the body, you continue to radiate and inspire millions. You continue to exist! If not, even while you are alive, you are dead!
Listen! Whether you practice authenticity or integrity, the moment you start practicing, the moment you start practicing itself your *kundalini* is awakened! Your *kundalini* is awakened! Listen! The moment you start practicing, your *kundalini* is awakened! It is so unfortunate, it is so unfortunate that you have the wrong beliefs about *kundalini* awakening. You should complete with all of that. Start awakening your *kundalini* NOW!
Whenever you allow your inauthenticity, you shrink the *kundalini*. Every time you become authentic, your *kundalini* gets awakened. Every time you become authentic, your *kundalini* gets awakened!
Thousands of people come and ask me, 'Swamiji, I was suffering for years with this disease, that pain. But the moment you put your hand on my head, it disappeared! How is that so? How can it be?' Just a few days ago, one of my *ashramite* was suffering with whole body pain. All I did was just send this kerchief (to bless). In ten minutes, he became alright! People ask me, 'How, how it is possible?'
Listen! When you practice integrity and authenticity, your *kundalini* energy is so alive and awakened, that it radiates and fills anything you touch!
*Every single moment, the awareness you bring to you either awakens your kundalini or puts your kundalini to sleep!*
You should know that your life is your life. You are the owner, you are responsible! You are the experience! You are everything! You are the organizer, you are the conductor, you are the owner; you are *everything* for your life! Take the responsibility for your life and bring authenticity to your life. That is the essence of my *satsang* today!
*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!*
*Life happens to you with others. If you don't enrich others, it is stealing and life does not happen to you. I tell you, decide to enrich everyone you see with these tattvas; in just a few months you will see that you are surrounded by gods and you are living in heaven. Go on enriching people with these tattvas.*
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**Friday, 01st March 2013**
I welcome all of you with my love and blessings. Let us enter into today's *satsang.* I was expanding on the four *tattvas* of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching others. Today, I'll move to the *tattva of* enriching.
*Enriching is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity, that you are continuously committed to enriching, which is expanding yourself and life, in and around you.*
I am defining enriching - listen! 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. Listen! Enriching means constantly enriching you and others! Listen! Enriching is infusing all these three *tattvas* continuously in your life and others' lives.
Even in the *vedas,* the first three *vedas* are only the *tattvas*. The fourth *veda* is about making those three *tattvas* into life. It is the same way with these four *tattvas* also; the first three are the *tattvas* itself and the fourth one is about making the other three *tattvas* as life.
Listen! Not just listening, but *real* listening. Not just listening. I don't even want to use the words, 'just listen'. Not just hearing but listening!
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. You always ask, 'Why should we enrich others?' You conveniently forget that life happens to you with others. The ego forgets, the *ahankara* forgets, that all its joy comes only when it stretches itself to *anyakara*, not when it fights with *ahankara.*
The *ahankara* thinks that by fighting with *ahankara* it can extract joy. No! Only by stretching to others' *anyakara* can it experience joy. It is very unfortunate; the *ahankara* thinks that just by fighting with *ahankara,* it can experience fulfillment. I tell you, that is the way *ahankara* survives! In these three *mamakara, ahankara*, *anyakara,* the leader, the gangleader is *ahankara.* The other two fellows are both *chota,* small, frightened fellows. By the strength of the leader, these fellows also act like rowdies,
*Enriching means constantly enriching you and others! Enriching is infusing all these three tattvas continuously in your life, and others' lives!*
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but they themselves do not know anything. The *ahankara* is the most cunning strategy planner. Unfortunately, he is caught in the net that he himself created!
We very conveniently forget an important fact, and take life happening for us with others for granted. We think, 'My brother has to behave like a brother, father has to behave like a father, friend has to behave like a friend, son has to behave like a son, student has to behave like a student, teacher has to behave like a teacher,' without taking the responsibility that we ourselves should also fulfill our role!
Why should the teacher behave as a teacher, if the student is not taking the responsibility of enriching the teacher? Listen! When you don't enrich the teacher as a student, even what you receive from the teacher will not be useful for you! It will not be useful for you! *Anything you receive without enriching, is stolen*!
The Bhagavad Gita beautifully says – 'If you don't do *yagna* and give back to the divine energy, you are a thief !' Listen! Bhagavan Krishna does not mean upi just pouring some offerings into a fire; he also means doing the proper action. For example, if you are cutting a tree, you have to plant at least five trees. If you are taking water from the river, you should make sure that the recycled water is purified and added to the river. Constantly enriching the source and keeping it alive for the next generation is *yagna*. Do not touch anything which you can't replace, like sources which can be exhausted but not replenished. Do not use nonrenewable energy sources. Use only renewable energy sources. That is part of enriching, *yagna.*
Bhagavad Gita is very clear. Krishna is very clear. Listen! If you are not enriching, but only taking and enjoying, you are a thief. *Asteya* (non-stealing), one of the important vows of *sannyas*, can be maintained only by enriching. Only when you continuously enrich others will non-stealing be maintained. Listen. Enriching is where life happens to you. I can say that enriching means infusing all the three *tattvas* into *satyas*.
I have a quotation here from Bhagavad Gita, third chapter, twelfth verse:
Istan bhogān hi vo devā dāsyante yajñabhāvitāḥ
tair dattān apradāyaibhyo yo bhuṅkte stena eva saḥ
Translation: Satisfied with selfless service, the celestial beings certainly award you the desired necessities of life. He who enjoys things without offering them to the celestial beings is certainly a thief !
Listen! Life happens to us with others. I tell you, how many of you listen with integrity and authenticity? I ask all my *sannyasis,* 'How many of you think that even if you are alone in the forest, you will be able to maintain the standard of your *sannyas l*ife without the help of other *sannyasis* or the *sangha* of *sadhus*?' No! I tell you, try, try and try. I have seen hundreds of *sadhus*. As the spiritual head of the one of the oldest *sannyas sampradaya*
*Listen! Life happens to us with others!*
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and member of the apex body of Hinduism, I tell you, for a common seeker, it is impossible!
I have seen these young seekers guided by the wrong idea that they can do it on their own. They go and sit in some hut, in some corner, forest or hill. They come down to the nearby village just for food. And in two years, they end up marrying some old widow! *Arrey*, when you don't see anybody, you will just fall for anybody you see! You will fall for anybody you see!
Whether it is *sannyas* or *samsar,* the joys of spirituality or the joys of the world, the joys of authenticity or the joys of inauthenticity, everything happens with company, with *sangha!* Understand, whether it is *satsanga* or *dussanga*, you need a *sangha*. Life happens to you in *sangha.* If life can happen to you without *sangha,* why will you be here? It cannot happen, it cannot. Being one of the spiritual heads of the *naga-sampradaaya*, I tell you, even to become a *naga-sadhu,* initially, until you are established, a *sangha* is required.
Life happens to you with others. Whether it's basic food or the ultimate luxury, everything happens to you with others. If you don't enrich others, it is stealing and life does not happen to you. I tell you, decide to enrich everyone you see with these *tattvas;* in just a few months you will see that you are surrounded by gods and you are living in heaven. Go on enriching people with these *tattvas.*
Even if you are in the remote forest, only with the river Ganga and the hills, your life happens. Even if you are a *naga-sadhu* in the forest, life happens to you with *Ganga* and the hills, the rivers and forest. Listen! With whoever or whatever life happens to you, you start enriching it. You start protecting it. That is why Hindus are so, so devoted to *Ganga,* *Yamuna* and Himalayas, because life happens to them with that. That is why they are so sincere in keeping them alive and enriching them.
- If life happens to you with a river and you enrich it, you are called *teertha.*
- If life happens to you with a hill and you enrich it, you are called *giri.*
- If life happens to you with people and you enrich them, you are called *puri.*
- If life happens to you with forest and you enrich it, you are called *aranya.*
- If life happens to you with kings and you enrich them, you are *Indra*.
- If life happens to you with the pandits, the educators, and you enrich them, you are called *Saraswati.*
That is the way Shankara created ten *sampraadayas* of *nagas - Giri, Puri, Teertha, Aranya, Indra, Saraswati.* Enriching life is Life! What you enrich, enriches you. What you enrich, enriches you!
Listen! Enriching is the way in which you relate with the expressed component of God, the expressed part of God. Listen! Integrity and authenticity are
*Whether it is sannyas or samsar, the joys of spirituality or the joys of the world, the joys of authenticity or the joys of inauthenticity, everything happens with company, with sangha!*
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the ways in which you relate with the unexpressed, '*avyakta'* part of God. Responsibility and enriching are the ways in which you relate with '*vyakta*, the expressed part of God. Listen! Integrity and authenticity are the right ways to relate with the unexpressed part of God. Responsibility and enriching are the right ways to relate with the expressed part of God, the world. Enriching, enriching, enriching! If you do not enrich, you actively create a selfish pattern. Be very clear, either you give or you swindle. There is no middle. How many of you cognize this?
When you chant the *swasti-mantra* in the morning, it is a very powerful way of enriching the world, through our integrity and authenticity. You take the responsibility for those words, and for making the *swastimantras* into reality. Listen! When you chant those words in the morning with integrity and authenticity and bless the world, you are sending those vibrations to the world. When you take responsibility for the words you utter and start working, you enrich the world mystically and physically, metaphysically and physically.
Let us understand what is being chanted…
*Go-braahmanebhyah shubhamastu nityam*
You should take the responsibility of protecting the cows, and the people who practice these four *tattvas.*
*Kaale varshatu parjanyaha prithivee sasyashaalinee*
It means that we should make sure that the trees are not cut, and rain is showered properly, three times a month.
*Raaja dharmapatihi prajaah sucharitaaha*
It means that you should make sure that the king rules righteously. It is our responsibility now. We will all take the responsibility for the rulers to rule the world and all the countries righteously, by constantly educating them and teaching them in all possible ways. We are responsible!
Chanting is the first level of metaphysical support that we give to the world, enriching metaphysically. Start taking responsibility for it, so that we enrich physically also. So when you chant every day, remind yourself that now you have to make sure that the king rules righteously! Understand, guiding the rulers is our mission. The saint *Jnanasambandar* himself guided the *Pandya* king. So it is our right and it is our responsibility. It is our responsibility that enlightened beings and saints are protected. I think we will have to structure our whole *sangha* based on the *swasti-mantra*. That is our mission statement. Understand? The *swasti-mantra* we chant every day is our mission statement.
*Go-braahmanebhyah shubhamastu nityam*
We should plan that every ashram has a *goshaala, that p*eople take the responsibility of protecting cows, and that every state of India passes a law protecting cows (anti-cow-slaughter bill). We should constantly promote the truth of protecting
*Chanting mantras is the first level of metaphysical support that we give to the world, enriching metaphysically!*
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the cows all over the world. *A brahmana* is a person who practices these *chaturvedas.* Whoever practices the *chaturvedas* must be protected!
It is time we take the responsibility for enriching all the words we utter in the morning, through *swasti-mantra*. We are responsible for the king ruling, the rulers ruling the country righteously and citizens living the life righteously. We are responsible for everything. We are responsible! We'll take the responsibility by constantly teaching these four *tattvas* to everyone. Understand? Taking responsibility and enriching make life happen to you!
With integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, I declare today - you all make me an incarnation. It is not just me, by myself. By myself, with my integrity and authenticity, I can only become an enlightened being. Only by taking responsibility and enriching all of you, do I become an incarnation. How many of you cognize this? So, I happen because of you! My integrity and authenticity only makes me an enlightened being. Only my commitment to taking responsibility and enriching all of you makes me an incarnation!
Listen. Go on, go on, go on enriching! Go on enriching with these *tattvas*. 'En-reaching' is enriching. Enriching is 'en-reaching'!
*Integrity is the root, authenticity is the tree, responsibility is the fruit and enriching is sharing the fruit, which creates more fruit.*
I can also say that enriching is enjoying the fruit and sowing the seed for having more fruit. In enriching, you also enrich yourself. So enriching is enjoying the fruit and sowing the seed for more fruits to happen. Go on enriching. I tell you, extraordinary powers will support you.
Listen! When you start enriching, life happens. I tell you, even in profession, in business, *everywhere*, when you look beyond what you get, creativity happens in you! Listen! When Steve Jobs starts looking beyond money, he creates better and better products. When Bill Gates looks beyond the gates of bill, he creates better and better and better enriching products! Gates of bill will never make you do anything, either in the micro-level or the macro-level. I tell you, in every field, only when you look beyond what you get, great things are born. Great things are born!
All my *sannyasis* and *ashramites*, understand. If you are not able to do great things, be very clear, you have still not started looking beyond what you are going to get. Maybe what you want is just my attention, but even that is a salary. You are stuck. Only if you look beyond that and decide that you will enrich just because you want to enrich, great things will be born out of you.
*Jnana-garbha* (womb of wisdom) happens in the womb of one who is looking beyond the possible return. If the mother's womb is constantly thinking about what it will gain by giving birth to a son or a daughter, it will never conceive, produce and give birth. When the womb looks beyond what it is going to get, it gives birth. When your inner space looks beyond what is going to be returned to you or what you think as the benefit, great things are
*Integrity is the root, authenticity is the tree, responsibility is the fruit and enriching is sharing the fruit, which creates more fruit!*
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contributed. Great creativity is achieved. Impossible becomes possible. Same way, when a master looks beyond what a disciple is going to contribute to him, He makes the disciple a master. When I look beyond what you are going to contribute back to me, I make you a master. Listen! In every field, when you look beyond the possible fruit of that field, great things are born!
Whatever you see as being useful in planet Earth, is from enriching consciousness. Listen! If Edison has invented the bulb, it is from enriching consciousness. If somebody else has developed it to the next level, that is from his enriching consciousness. It is never from the mind which thinks of a salary. And listen, the mind which thinks of returns is a worker, *vaishya*. From the consciousness of *vaishya*, nothing, nothing new or creative can come out. They only know how to make a number of moulds. They can make ten thousand bulbs, but they cannot do even a small change. Even the small change happens only from enriching consciousness. The same apple has fallen ten thousand times from ten thousand trees in front of ten thousand people. Why then did only Newton get the idea of the theory of gravity? When you are in enriching consciousness, even a small happening gives birth to creativity, and you enrich the world.
Of course, I also wanted all of you to know that the theory of gravity has not been uttered for the first time by Newton. It was uttered long before, and recorded in *vedic* tradition. It is recorded in modern history as defined by Newton, that's all. I read somewhere that in modern history, three apples changed the world: the apple of Adam, the apple of Newton and the apple of Steve Jobs! Understand, one represents religion, another represents science and the third represents technological revolution.
You can create anything only when you see it and experience it from the state of enriching consciousness. You can create anything only when you see everything from an enriching consciousness state. Everything, everything, everything - from the seat you're sitting on, the laptop you are using, the energy beads you are wearing, the house you are living in, to the food you are eating, anything creative comes only of enriching consciousness. Only if there is a passage in the earth, the underground water can come out, the river *Saraswati* can come out. In the same way, only if there is an enriching consciousness in you, in your inner space, creativity can come out.
Being in the state of enriching means doing actions in the enriching state, without postponing! Enriching means doing it NOW, not postponing! So I tell you, today, list all the enriching thoughts that you are postponing without making them as actions, and start acting on them. Don't postpone even this act.
This morning, I was speaking to one of my ashramites who was having mood swings. I asked him, 'Do you want to leave?' He said he doesn't want to leave, but he cannot commit to that! He said, 'I am not going to commit now. I will become clear and then follow. ' I told him that he will never become clear. Either you commit now or never, because whenever you utter a statement like that,
*You can create anything only when you see it and experience it from the state of enriching consciousness. Anything creative only comes from the state of enriching consciousness!*
'When I become clear, I will declare,' then that 'will, will, will, will…' will be there to make you postpone that commitment. Do you think that you will be able to break that 'will'? The parasites of your inner consciousness are 'if', 'but', 'will' and 'may'! Understand?
I tell you guys, postponing means not living, not beginning life. It is literally death! Your body may be breathing, but don't think that you are alive. When I see a person, I can tell very clearly, how many years he has lived. All the moments you did not postpone, you were living. All the moments you were postponing, you were breathing, but you were not alive!
And the moments when you are breathing, but not alive, form the source for sickness. Disease grows in a space where you breathe but don't live. That is why I said, when you take responsibility, you destroy the roots where disease can grow. The best medicine for your heart to function forever, beautifully and smoothly, is enriching. Postponing means that you are not alive, postponing is death!
I tell you, not taking responsibility even for the acts you committed is poverty. Taking responsibility only for the things that you are involved in is a middle-class mind, a mediocre mind. Taking responsibility for things even though you are not the reason for them is the consciousness of a leader. Whenever there is a problem, you are too busy justifying that you are not the reason for it. Listen, even if you justify to everyone around you that you are not the reason for it, the sufferings for that problem are not going to leave you until you take the responsibility for it!
As a child, if something has fallen from the table and broken, you try to justify to your parents, 'I did not do it. I did not do it. I did not do it.' Unfortunately, even after growing up, you are doing the same thing, 'I did not do it. I am not responsible. I am not responsible.' You don't understand that whether you are responsible or not, the pot is broken!
From tomorrow, you will not be able to drink tea from that cup or pot. You are affected. Take the responsibility, so that you will bring it back. You will buy one more or repair this. If you are too busy in crying, 'I did not do it. I did not do it,' are you going to think about repairing or buying one more? Are you going to sort this issue out?
I have a story for you.
*In a village, there were two naughty brothers whom nobody is able to control. The whole village experiences their presence so heavily! All of them decide that they won't be able to handle the hell anymore. They go and complain to the parents. The parents go to the village pastor. The Pastor takes the responsibility and says, 'I will try. Don't worry.'*
*He calls the younger child and slowly starts talking to him.*
*'Do you know where is God?'*
*The child starts screaming and runs away as fast as he can to his elder brother. He says, 'Hey, we are both really in trouble!'*
*The elder one asks, 'Why?'*
*Taking responsibility for things even though you are not the reason for them is the consciousness of a leader!*
*'We used to steal money, toys and clothes from every house. Now, the whole village suspects that if anything or anybody is missing, we are responsible. Just now the Pastor is asking me, "Where is God?" Did you hide him anywhere without telling me?'*
Listen, we are in the same space as both the children. First we are out to say, 'I am not, I am not, I am not, I am not'. The space which first tries to disown is the space in which the spontaneous lying pattern is rooted. How many of you cognize what I am saying? Listen! You may not be the reason for something, but when it affects your life, you have to take responsibility for it.
Living in the same space without taking responsibility, even if it affects your life, just because you are not the reason, is equivalent to living in a pigpen. With authenticity and integrity, raise your hand, how many of you are living in a pigpen? True. Because you are not the reason for the stones lying there, because you are not reason for the beautiful garden not happening, you are not ready to take the responsibility of having a beautiful ambience. Taking responsibility for something even though you are not the reason for it is the consciousness of a leader.
I tell you, enriching makes you live these *tattvas* without forgetting. Enriching others makes you realize these *satyas,* without getting buried in unconsciousness. Go on, go on, go on enriching yourself and others. I tell you, only in the actions of enriching yourself and others, these *tattvas* become the life of you, and get life from you, and become *satyas* in you. Enriching others ensures that you are not drowning in an unconscious state. I tell you, if you are in the space of enriching yourself and others, you continuously perform miracles. When you don't live these principles, the mind is occupied with suicidal tendencies, maybe slow suicidal tendencies, that's all. Bring responsibility and enriching
in your inner space and consciousness! Go on enriching others. Do not allow laziness to bury you before you are dead! Allow authenticity to grow on you even if you are buried.
If you are in the state of enriching others continuously, you will be able to create miracles! It is constantly bringing that state in you, that space in you, that strength in you – 'Thanks to these four life-saving *tattvas*! I am enriched by it, and I am going to enrich it!'
I name all the ashram gates on the basis of these four *tattvas*. The East entrance will be called as 'Integrity' entrance; the south entrance will be called as 'Authenticity' entrance; the west entrance will be called as 'Responsibility' entrance; and the north entrance will be called as 'Enriching' entrance.
The *ashram* is an extension of the *dharma* that we are living, the *Buddha* who is the embodiment of it and the *sangha* which is radiating with it. These four *tattvas* are our *dharma*. Constantly bring the state of these four *tattvas* in you. Constantly bring these four *tattvas* in you, again and again.
All the *ashram* heads should now plan for having a *goshaala for cows, n*ot only in India, but all over the world. And you should make sure you are also contributing to the rulers ruling righteously, by
*If you are in the state of continuously enriching others, you will be able to create miracles!*
voicing right opinions and reminding them about the *dharma*. Enriching is such a favorite subject! I have gone on and on, I think for almost two hours! And I have still not yet completed. I will continue tomorrow also.
*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!*
*Others' expectation about us is not out of enmity; it is not forced, it is not a suffering or a torture! When you suppress your out expectations about you in your own body and are not ready to listen, it comes out in another body, as their anyakra for you. It is your own expectation giving you another more chance!*
# **Fulfilling Others Makes You Powerf***ul!*
**Wednesday, 13th March 2013**
Yesterday, we had a *sangha* meeting, where I spoke about one important *sannyas vrata* to my *sannyasis.* I wanted to share that in the *satsang* also.
For all my *swamis* and *swaminis,* I am redefining '*aparigraha'* - responsibly possessing. Ok? It is not even possessing; the word is 'responsibly owning', responsibly owning and responsibly using. Not having anything is not the purpose of life! Have the things required to enrich people with these four *tattvas.* Ok? You can have whatever you want, if it is directly required to enrich people, only to enrich people; but it should be the minimum required. For example, you can enrich people by going in a car, and by going in an helicopter. Then, you should only be having a car. It is not that you can buy a helicopter and justify the reason that anything is ok for enriching! So, each one of you guys decide – 'responsibly owning'. But be aligned to this one *satya* – living and radiating these four *tattvas*. Live and radiate these four *tattvas.* See, when you have that tuning, you actually don't own anything; *satya*
owns everything. Now, you yourself are owned by the *satya*. Then how can you own something else? No!
And *swamis* and *swaminis* also have one more commitment. It's not just a commitment; it is a lifestyle. If anything belongs to you and anybody asks for it, it is theirs. You should continue to radiate that.
Today, I will expand on '*shraddha'*, authenticity. The word *shraddha* happens in *Katopanishad*. The earliest record available to us of the word *shraddha* happening is in *Katopanishad,* where *Nachiketa* was described as *shraddha vivecha -* owned by *shraddha.* Please listen, with *shraddha*, you should not own it, *shraddha* should own you. With integrity, you will own it, you are the owner. With *shraddha,* it should own you.
I will describe *shraddha* - authenticity. Authenticity is the state where you are established in the peak of your capability and 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. Listen, now what I gave is a definition. Let me expand on it. What you feel as you, what you show yourself to others as you, and what others perceive you as you - all these three put together is your personality, it is your being.
*Please listen, with shraddha - authenticity, you should not own it, shraddha should own you!*
Your being has these three components - what you show to yourself (what you believe as you), what you show as yourself as to others, and what others expect you to be. Living in your peak capability in all these three is *shraddha*. Please understand; I will expand now. The three components of your being - the identity you believe as you, the identity you project as you to others, and others' expectation about you - living in the peak capacity in all these three is *shraddha.*
*First, you* should be in your peak of what you believe as you, raising it, raising it, raising it and raising it. Second, whatever you project as you to others, take that also to its peak, raising it, raising it and raising it. Third, stretch yourself, stretch yourself and stretch yourself to the peak of fulfilling others' expectations about you.
One important problem we have is this, 'Swamiji, I am responsible for what I feel as me, and what I project as me to others. But why should I take the responsibility for others' expectation about me?' Please understand; it is you yourself who is sitting in the inner consciousness of everyone who has some expectation towards you, and making them expect these things from you! Some of your words and body language is responsible for them to have that expectation from you. So you are responsible for it!
Living to your peak responsibility is *shraddha.* I wanted all of you to understand an important truth. Some part of you which is suppressed by you, which wants to realize itself, goes and sits in another's heart and becomes their expectation about you, so that the suppressed part is realized! Listen. When you are not ready to listen to your own heart and expand, the divine helps you by creating the same expectation in others, so that you can expand!
I have seen this in my own life, from my own experience. I tell you - when I decided to fulfill others' expectations about me, when I started stretching myself, I realized that this is also what is my own expectation about me. When you fulfill others' expectations about you, and realize that this is also is your expectation about you, you reach the space of self-realization. |
Sometimes, people ask me, 'Swamiji, why do the founders of Hinduism all look larger than life? Masters like Shiva, Krishna, Meenakshi, Rama - they all look more like gods and less like masters like Mahaveera or Buddha. Why?' This is because the Hindu incarnations were playing from the space of enriching, they knew the constitution of life, not just the science of life! Even in the science of life, you have to develop to achieve something. In the constitution of life, it is just power!
Listen! *Integrity is the mathematics of your Life. Authenticity is the biology of your Life. Responsibility is the science of your Life. Enriching is the constitution of Life.*
When you start enriching, you just play with extraordinary powers! Nothing, nothing else is required. Just sit under a tree and go on blessing whoever comes in your breathing space. Just go on blessing and enriching. Just feel and think, 'Good! Let you be healed! Let you be alright! Let you be well! Let you be blissful! Let you have wealth!' Go on! Don't think, 'I have not done tapas. I am a sinner! How can I bless? How can my blessings work?' Don't worry about all that. Just sit and decide, 'For the next one month, this enriching is my life; it is my breathing. I will bless everyone. Whoever I see, I will try my best to do good things for them, as much as I can.' I tell you, all your past sins will be washed away! All your past *karmas* will be washed away! You will have extraordinary powers! Your words will become reality. You will have *vak-siddhi!* This is the process to have *ashtamahasiddhis!* This is the process to have *ashtamahasiddhis!* I tell you, this is the solution for any problem you have.
If you have marital problems, business problems, relationship problems, loan problems - just decide. I tell you, just decide that for the next one month, you will go on blessing people from your heart.
Do good to people, from your heart. You will just change your aura! You will just change the way the Cosmos responds to you! You will just change the way you respond to the Cosmos! Miracles will start happening around you! You will become the center of miracles, because now, you know the constitution of the Cosmos!
If you are practicing integrity, you are the mathematics teacher of society. How much a mathematics teacher will receive, that much you will receive. If you are practicing authenticity, you are a doctor of society. How much a doctor receives, that much you will receive. If you are practicing responsibility, you are a scientist of society. How much a scientist will receive, that much you will receive. If you are practicing enriching, you are the President and Prime Minister of society. How much he receives, you receive that much, because you are the head of the constitution. Miracles will start happening around you. You will become the center of miracles, because now, you know the constitution of the Cosmos.
Listen. Mathematics is integrity; authenticity is biology; responsibility is science; enriching is constitution. If you are in trouble, if you are not able to attend the Inner Awakening program, just go around and enrich ten people to attend the Inner Awakening. Your problems will simply be solved. You will be here for Inner Awakening. I challenge
*Do good to people, from your heart. You will just change the way you respond to the cosmos and the cosmos responds to you. Miracles will start happening around you!*
#### Enriching Makes You an Incarnation
and I commit with you; I will make it happen.
Constitution does not function based on your communist logic. Your logic is poisoned by *commies*. The equality of the Cosmos does not start from the lowest rung of society. It starts from the highest rung of the society. Cosmos wants everyone to be equal. That is why He is sitting on the top rung and asking every one of us to come there! The communists are sitting on the lowest rung of society, and they also want everything to be equal. They are asking everyone to come to their level. The equality of the Cosmos and the equality of the communists is totally different. Both of them want things to be equal, but Cosmos is sitting on the top and asking, 'Please be integrated, authentic, responsible, enrich; come here!' communists also want everything to be equal. They sit on the lowest rung and say, 'You are making it, but I will take it away from you! I will take it away from you! I will take it away from you! I will try to share, share, let everybody have it. Come on, come to the lowest rung. We will all be equal.'
Either God wins, or communists win! It is up to you. Do you want to follow God or the communists? The whole society is poisoned by the Commie mentality. That is why the have-nots carry so much of hatred and anger, towards those who have. Why do the have-nots carry so much of violence towards those who have? Listen. I am not against people who don't have. They have all my sympathy, love and compassion. That is the reason I want to educate them to take responsibility and become those who have. All I am telling you is that the Commie solution is not the solution, it is dummy solution. Commies will only lead to comical solutions, not cosmic solutions.
Just sit and go on blessing people. Go on blessing people. I tell you, go on blessing, blessing, blessing. You will become the head of the
constitution. A person who practices integrity becomes head of the mathematicians. You may get a few thousands in salary, maybe a few lakh rupees bonus. A person who practices authenticity becomes head of the doctors. Yes, you will get a few lakhs salary, a few crore rupees bonus. A person who practices responsibility becomes head of the scientists; you can create anything you want. But even then, the infrastructure is in the control of the head of the constitution. When you start enriching, you become head of the constitution. Everything, *everything*, is under you. Your whole energy changes. Your whole aura changes.
Start going around and start enriching. I tell you, your very face will become shining. Your words will become inspiring. You will see Kali shining in your face, *Saraswati* in your tongue and the grace *of Lakshmi* in your body language. The grace of Lakshmi will be in your body language when you start enriching. Saraswati will be in your tongue when you start enriching. Kali will be shining in your face when you start enriching.
This is the essence of today's *satsang*: Continue to feel responsible for everything you see inside you and around you. Decide to transform everything by enriching you and others around you.
Listen. When you take the responsibility, life expands, expands and expands. When you become
*Continue to feel responsible for everything you see inside you and around you. Decide to transform everything by enriching you and others around you!*
#### Enriching Makes You an Incarnation
head of the constitution, you do not get logical benefits. It is not like you worked for ninety years to become the head of the constitution, so you will have these many benefits. No. You are the head. So, when you start enriching, you will have benefits that are beyond the logic you can imagine. Cosmos showers on you. Miracles happen around you. You need to know, life is life. It has to be lived at its peak. Life is life; it has to be lived at its peak.
If you achieve the ultimate integrity, you become a powerful teacher. If you achieve the peak of authenticity, you become a powerful master. If you achieve the peak of responsibility, you become a powerful enlightened being. If you achieve the peak of enriching, you become God, an incarnation.
I tell you, it is enriching that made me an incarnation. Integrity gave me *satori*. Authenticity gave me the ultimate enlightenment experience. Responsibility made me a Guru. Enriching myself and others made me an incarnation. Start enriching yourself and others continuously. That is the ultimate.
Integrity gives you *satori*. Authenticity gives you *samadhi*. Responsibility makes you a *Guru*. Enriching makes you an *incarnation*.
When I decided to be integrated, I had *satori* at the age of twelve. When I became authentic, I had *samadhi* at the age of twenty-two. When I decided to take the responsibility, I became a Guru at the age of twentyfive. When I started enriching the whole world, I became an incarnation at the age of thirty-five.
Listen! Even when life hits at you, decide to enrich yourself and others. Do not decide to wind up, shrink and roll back. Listen. All the lessons
the Cosmos was teaching me from age zero to twelve was bringing me to integrity with my body and mind and being. All the lessons society was teaching me, Cosmos was teaching me, from twelve to twenty-two, was to bring me to authenticity. All the lessons Cosmos was teaching me between twenty-two to twenty-five was to make me take responsibility. All the lessons that society was teaching me between twenty-five to thirty-five, was to make me enrich myself and others.
I tell you, when I write the biography, you will see me expanding on how an incarnation is made, how an incarnation happened, how the Cosmos rolls an incarnation!
Learning *yoga* and *shastras* is like bringing integrity to your body and mind. Learning *yoga* means, bringing integrity to your body. Learning scriptures means bringing integrity to your mind. Going around and practicing, doing my *parivraajaka yatra (spiritual wandering)* – all these was living authenticity and being authentic, raising my body and mind and being to the highest level of possibility.
Creating this *sangha*, initiating this *sangha* is taking responsibility. Deciding to enrich whatever may come, made me an incarnation!
In your life also, decide strongly. I am telling all
*If you achieve the peak of enriching, you become God, an incarnation!*
#### Enriching Makes You an Incarnation
this to glorify these principles, *tattvas. L*ive them in your life. You will realize what I realized. You will experience what I experienced. It is for you!
*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!*
### **I Am Transformed 180 Degrees Physically And Mentally By Living The Four Tattvas!**
*Nithyanandam.* I am Dr.Shilpa from Tumkur. I am a Homoeopathic practitioner by profession. My husband is also a Homoeopathic Doctor.
I apply every teaching of Swami in my life, and I am transformed 180 degrees.
For the past four to five months, I am practicing the four tattvas that Swamiji is teaching. I am person-
ally tremendously benefitted. I would like to share two benefits that I got from this.
1. I have had dry skin problems since childhood. And since March 2011, I developed psoriasis in my palms and soles. Psoriasis is a psycho somatic and auto immune disorder and very difficult to cure.
Recently in a satsang, Swamiji said if we take responsibility for our health we can get out of any health challenge. That day I declared that with integrity and authenticity, I will take total responsibility for my health. Suddenly, from that day onwards, I saw visible improvement in my skin. The skin started to heal rapidly. I have never seen my skin so healthy and clear, for the past two years. Thank you Swamiji!
2. In January 2013, Swamiji said that I should reduce my weight and bring it down to a lower level BMI, and asked my son studying in the Gurukul, to mentor me. Since that day, the only thing on my mind is that I have given word to my Master and my son and that I should keep my word. That made me to keep a watch on what goes into my mouth and kept me motivated to work out intensely for one and
half hours every day. Now, I have already lost 12 kg and 4.7 BMI reduced in a span of less than 3 months. For the past 15 years, my parents and my husband were really worried about my obesity. I am just a little away from the goal Swami has set for me. I am 100% sure I will get it done by Swami's grace and practicing the four tattvas intensely. I am feeling so good about my body, my knee pain has reduced, no more acidity problem and the craving to eat, has gone. Thank you!
- Dr.Shilpa, Tumkur.
### **Integrity Makes Miracles In My Life!**
*Nithyanandam.* I am Dr.Sri Lekha, a pediatrician by profession, practicing in Bangalore.
Practicing the tattvas of AIRE at the work place has brought in tremendous fulfillment in my professional life. I feel that there is so much more that I am giving patients/parents, than just the drugs to cure them.
The smile in their eyes when they leave the office speaks volumes. Interestingly, many patients walk in to seek advice to the problems they are faced with, other than their medical issues. At the end of the day, not only are my patients happy and healed, it leaves me with deep fulfillment, knowing that I am offering them what they would not otherwise get in a regular clinic, and also a better bank balance!
I would like to share this sweet incident that happened when Swamiji started sharing the essence of the four tattvas with the world.
I had been to the ashram for the morning satsang and darshan, hoping to get back to the clinic by 11am. On that particular day, the satsang continued well past 11.30 and by the time I could convey the information of delay/non availability at the clinic to the receptionist, appointments were already given and patients were waiting at the clinic. I decided that as a praayaschitta for falling out of integrity with clinic timings, I would not charge the patients who went unattended, when they came back in the evening.
When I settled down with the evening consultations for the day, I get to see that the
babies who went unattended in the morning were all doctors' kids, whom I would not charge even otherwise for reasons of professional ethics. Not only that, I had the busiest outpatient consultation, in a very long time.
The cosmos responded to that one decision of living integrity and completing with my commitment, by not only not depriving me of anything, but showering me immensely not only in financial terms, but with a deep fulfillment in the interactions that happened with every patient/parent who walked in to the clinic. Life unfolds its beautiful colors in the most unexpected of ways, once we start practicing these truths, has been reiterated by many an experience!
- Srilekha, Bangalore (India)
### **Tattvas Have Given Me Complete Control Over My Life!**
*Nithyanandam.* I am Swathi Subramanian, a trained Bharatanatyam classical dancer. I am married with one child, living both in India and USA. I graduated with a B.Tech in Information Technology and an MFA in Bharatanatyam, and run my own Natya school (Indian classical dance) in the U.S.
Practicing the four Tattvas have given me back complete control over my life. I was introduced to |
Prahalada – son of Hiranyakashipu, the deamon-king. He is known for his piety and devotion to Lord Vishnu for whose sake he assumes the half-lion, half-man incarnation of Narasimha
Prana- subtle energy present in the air that is inhaled
pranaami- one who bows down
Pranaprathishta- consecrating energy in a deity
Pranayama – part of Yoga system involving extention and control of the breath pranic body- the breath body, the body which holds the engrams of desires, this is the second layer
prarabdha - collection of past karmas or incompletions which are ready to be
completed through the present body that is assumed
Prasad - gift from God
prathyahara - withdrawal of senses; one of the dimensions of yoga explain in Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga
Pratyagaatma Chaitanya - the non-mechanical parts of the brain
Pravachana- giving a discourse on sacred subject
prayaschitta –act of expiation
Premavatar Shree Shree Vishwananda Swamiji - a contemporary Master, founder of bhakti marga movement
preta – ghosts
Pundit- a learned person
punya- merit; completion
Puranas - ancient recording of events
puri - place, the spiritual title given by Adi Shankara to the head of his mutt in Sringeri
pushpakavimana - the ariel car described in Hindu texts
Quran- the holy book of Islam
### Raghupati yogi - the teacher responsible for preparing THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's body and mind for enlightenment
Rahu - a shadow planet according to vedic astrology. According to the puranas, Rahu and Ketu are the two parts of the demon who tried to take the immortal nectar from the hands of Mohini, an avatar or Lord Vishnu and his body was cut into two. The top portion is called as Rahu; one of the shadow planet that is malefic
raja guru- mystics or enlightened sages who used to guide the kings in olden times
Raja Sabha, Chit Sabha - names of meditation halls in THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Dhyanapeetam, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's ashram in Bidadi, Bengaluru, India
rajas - the second characteristic of the three human behavioural modes, referring to passionate action
rajju-sarpa nyaya- the theory of superimposing the snake on a piece of rope and reacting based on that assumption
Rama Dasa - the disciple of Sri Rama
Ramakrishna - Enlightened master from West Bengal in India. His chief disciple was Swami Vivekananda.
Ramakrishna Mission - the mission started by Swami Vivekananda, an enlightened disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
Ramanagara – town in Karnataka, India
Ramanamaharishi - Enlightened master, based in Tiruvannamalai in South India. He taught the method of Self-inquiry, asking oneself, 'Who am I?', as the path to Self-realization
Rambha, Menaka, Urvashi - celestial dancers in the court of Lord Indra, the King of heavens
Ravana - the demon king of Lanka, who abducted Sita and was later was killed by Lord Rama
rig veda - the oldest of the Vedas, ancient Hindu scriptural texts.
Rishi – a sage
roga bhaya - the fear of disease
roopa - form
Rudra- the fierce and powerful form of Lord Shiva
Rudraksha – energy beads; refers to the fruit of Elaeocarpus Ganitrus which is used as a bead for prayer; literal meaning the tears of Rudra
Rupees – Indian currency
### Saamagaana – the song of sama veda
Saamaveda – the vedic chants that were put to music
Saarvabhoumya vratas- vows that are universal in character
sadhna - a continuous practise; a spiritual practise
sadhu – a saint
Samadhi - the state of being one with the whole
samadhi-peeta – the space of a living energy
samadhi-sthala - the place of Samadhi, the place where the body of an enlightened being rests
Samana –the air that is circulated to all organs, acts as balancing all the organs
Samana mudra - yogic sign with the hands
Sampradaya - a tradition or religious system.
Samyama – exploring the possibility of expressing extrordinary powers
Sanatana - meaning the Eternal
Sanchita - sum of one's past karmas from the very first birth/existence. The incompletions that are unfulfilled since the first birth in a form
Sangam- the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Jamuna and saraswathi
Sangatham- united with
Sangha- the spiritual community that is created by the enlightened Master
Sankalpa- a conscious resolution
sannyas - life of renunciation
sannyas sampradaya- the tradition of sannyas
Sannyasi – person who has taken up the lifestyle of sannyas
Sannyasini – a female following the lifestyle of sannyas
sansaar- worldly existence
Sanskrit - The scholarly language in ancient India. Most Hindu texts are written in this language.
Saraswati – Goddess of wisdom
sarva vyaapi - Omnipresent
sarvagna - the Knower of all
sarvaroga nivaarini – that which cures all diseases
Sat - truth
Sati - Lord Shiva's consort
satori - the cosmic experience that gives one a taste of the state of enlightenment
satsang – the messages and teachings that puts one in the space of being in the company of wise
Satsangi – people attending spiritual talks
sattva - the highest attribute of spiritual calmness
Satya - truth
Seva - service
Shaastras - the sacred teachings of any religion
Shaiva siddhantha
shakti peethas – energy seatsor places of worship. According to the puranas these are the holy places where part of the body of Sati, the consort of Lord Shiva fell when it burst into fifety-one pieces
Shakuni – character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, uncle of Duryodhana Shani – Saturn, one of the most malefic planets but also capable of bestowing great heights in material as well as spiritual life.
Shankara- Enlightened master from India who lived only 32 years in the eighth century CE. Greatest exponent of the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta or non-dualism,
whose movement restored glory to the declining vedic tradition and Hinduism during that period. Shankara established the Hindu order of monks which continues unbroken till today.
Shiva – the divine energy responsible for rejuvenation by destroying the negativities, the Lord signifying the energy of rejuvenation and auspiciousness
Shivaratri-the holy night dedicated to the rejuvenating energy of Lord Shiva, to gain completions and become enlightened
shraddha - authenticity
Shravana - listening
shreyascha – fame pertaining to this world
shuddha chitta – the pure inner space
Shudra- the class of beings who contribute by physical work and by giving their time
Shukra - the planet Venus in vedic astrology
shyamantaka - jewel believed to be blessed with magical powers.
Siddha medicine - an Indian system of medicine
siddha purusha - one who has supernatural powers
siddhis - miraculous powers
Sita - She is the consort of the Hindu god Rama (avatar of Vishnu) and is an avatar of goddess Lakshmi
sloka – a sanskrit poem
Smashaana- the cremation ground
somarasa - intoxicating drink of the gods and heavenly beings
Spandakarika - sacred text of Tantra philosophy belonging to Kashmir Shaivism Srishti- creation
srishti-drishti - seeing what is fantacized as reality
Subramanya - the warrior god, the son of Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati
subtle body- the body which holds the pain engrams, this is the fourth inner layer
Sundareshwara – incarnation of Lord shiva who ruled Madurai
suryanamaskars - sun salutations
Svaati nakshatra - the star Swathi
Svapoornatva - the process of completion with one's self
Swaaraajya Siddhi - the cognition of one's pure inner space as the ultimate space of enlightenment
Swadishtana-the subtle energy center in the lower abdomen
Swamiji - address of respect to one's Master Swaminarayan- an enlightened Master who lived in the 16th century swaminis - respectful form of address a female renunciate swamis - respectful form of address a male renunciate swashraaddha, atma shraaddha - one's own authenticity swasti mantra-the chants of public welfare swayam prakasam- self effulgent
Taluk – congregation of villages tamas - laziness or inaction Tapas – penance, severe spiritual endeavour tapasvi- one who does penance Tathaasthu – Sanskrit word for the blessing, 'Let it be so.'
### Tabla- a percussion instrument
Tattvas – principles
Tatvam Asi - the Upanishadic statement meaning, 'You are That.'
Tatvamoolas- source of the tattvas or truths
Teertha- the holy place of pilgrimage
Thathaata- the state of being in the present moment
third-eye - Another name for Ajna chakra, the suble energy centre present in between the eyebrows
Tiruvannamalai - town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, birth place of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
Trisandhagrahi- one who can grasp anything by being exposed to it thrice
trishul- the trident held by Lord Shiva
# Udhana –the air that moves upward
Uma - Another name for goddess Parvati, Lord Shiva's consort
Upanishads - collection of philosophical texts which form the theoretical basis for the Hindu religion.
Upayanam- sanskrit word referring to Responsibility
Urvashi - celestial dancer in the palace of the god Indra
### Vaajashravas- the name of father of Nachiketas in katopanishad
vak siddhi- the power to utter words which become reality
vaidika sampradaaya – the Vedic tradition
Vaidya Sarovar – healing pond at THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Dhyanapeetam, Bidadi, Bengaluru, India
Vaikunta – eternal abode of Lord Vishnu, the space in which the energy of Vishnu resides
Vairagyashatakam- the hundred songs on detachment, composed by Adi Shankara
Vaishya- the class of the society involved in business and merchandize
Vajarasana - yogic posture
Vajraayudha - weapon made from the bones of rishi Dadichi
Vanavaasa - period of life spent in the forest
Vara - gift/boon
varada - the giver
Varahi - name of Raghupati Yogi's pig
Varanasi ghat - the bathing area on the banks of Ganges in Varanasi
Vasant Rutu - spring season
Vashitva - the power to attract
Vedaagni - fire of knowledge (of these four tattvas)
Vedanta – the essence of the Vedas
Vedantis - followers of Vedanta philosophy
Vedic age - period during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of the Indo-Aryans, were being composed; the period when the Vedic lifestyle was practised
Vedic - pertaining to the Vedas
Veena – stringed musical instrument of India
Vibhuthi, Kumkum- the sacred ash, the paste used to decorate the forehead of women in Hindu tradition
videha-mukthi - liberation attained after death, after leaving the body
Vidhi-nishedha - rules and exeptions
Vidyalayas - schools
Vidyas - the knowledge
Vignana Bhairava Tantra – Sacred text cast as a discourse between the god Shiva and his consort Devi or Shakti, it briefly presents 112 meditation methods or centering techniques
Vikalpa – transformation into a particular mode
Vipassana - the breath watching that was propounded by Buddha as the means to centering
Viraja homa- Hindu fire-sacrifice which is performed during the ceremonies whereby a Hindu monk takes up the vows of renunciation (Sannyasa).
Vishnu - Hindu God who sustains the universe
Vishva - cosmos
Vishvaroopa – cosmic form
Vishwanatha - the presiding deity of Kashi temple, another form of Lord Shiva
Visishtadvaitha – the philosophy of qualified Non-dualism propounded by Sri Ramanuja
Vivekananda- a great enlightened Master, the disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
Vrata - vow
Vyaghrapada - a siddha who lived in the southern part of India
Vyakta - seen
Vyana – the air that moves outward-spreading to the peripheries of the body
Vyasa - the ancient enlightened Master who is said to have codified the Vedas, upanishads, puranas, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavatam
yajnopavita - the sacred thread worn to symbolize the transference of spiritual knowledge
Yama - lord of death
Yamuna - name of river; it is the largest tributary of the river Ganges
Yoga – one of the oldest system of philosophy that laid stress on training the body
and mind to receive the power of enlightenment Yogacharyas- teacher trained by the Master to teach yoga Yudishtira- the eldest among the Pandava brothers yugas - period of time than spans millions of human years
### H.H. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM & His Spiritual Mission
His Holiness THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is a world teacher in the science of living enlightenment. As a spiritual head of the world's oldest apex body of Hinduism, he is revered as a living incarnation of superconsciousness by millions worldwide. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's morning satsangs (spiritual sessions) are viewed live in over 30 countries every day via TV and video-conferencing. He is also the most watched spiritual teacher on YouTube.com, with nearly 16 million views. He is also the author of more than 300 books published in 27 global languages.
A spiritual genius with an enlightened insight into everything from management to meditation, relationships to religion, success to spirituality, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM brings to us a wealth of practical wisdom and techniques for lasting inner change.
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is the spiritual head of several non-profit organizations worldwide which enrich lives through personal transformation programs and courses, publications, spiritual healing and humanitarian services.
As a global humanitarian, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is working to promoting global peace, through transformation of the individual. His spiritual mission includes ashrams and centres worldwide which serve as spiritual laboratories where inner growth is profound and outer growth is a natural consequence. Service activities include conducting meditation and de-addiction camps worldwide, free medical camps and artificial limb donation for the needy, support to children in rural areas, conducting meditation camps for prisoners, relief work and disaster recovery management in flood hit areas.
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is also deeply committed to creating international awareness about Indian culture and the ancient Vedic tradition. As an enlightened mystic, a spiritual evolutionary, a trained yogi, a powerful healer and a siddha, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is actively involved with scientists and researchers worldwide to decode the mystical yogic sciences of the East, including levitation, teleportation and manifestation (materialization). |
Today I only wanted to speak on this subject of creating the ambience for people to restore their integrity and authenticity. Each one of our *sangha* members should look in authentically, with integrity. 'Have you taken the responsibility for an ambience where people practice integrity and authenticity?' I have decided that I am going to create an ambience where people can practice integrity and authenticity.
*Enlightenment flowers in you only when you take the responsibility for others' inauthenticity.*
# Vision For An Ideal Spiritual Community (sangha)
We will create an ambience where people can practice integrity and authenticity. Go on supporting this. It is possible, we can do it. Even when the *ashram* administration people come to me, I tell them 'let us deal with this as per the *tattva*. We have to think as per the *tattva* and *satya*' I am so happy that these *satyas* are getting pumped in every way, in decision making. So, each one of you is literally a *sangha*. Don't think that the *sangha* needs thousands of people. It is one person vibrating in the highest frequency, that integrated frequency is *sangha*.
Let you all vibrate with highest frequency of integrity and authenticity. Keep drilling these *satyas*. You may have failed many times but does not mean that you are a failure. You may have failed many times, for so many reasons. You cannot eat the reason; you can only create the vegetable and eat it. A farmer cannot come to the market and shout, 'Please give me money, I have valid reason due to which the vegetables have not grown.' The reasons cannot give you money, only the vegetables can give you money. It is the same way for the *sangha*. Each one of you should constantly cognize these four *tattvas* and live these four *tattvas*. If you open your mouth, naturally, only these four *tattvas* should come out. We should go on believing and living these *tattvas*. This *tattvas* should make you live in your peak capacity and success.
I tell you, when these *tattvas* become and form your inner space, there is no leakage of energy. Energy leakage does not happen. Any *kundalini* awakened and poured in you, stays. Otherwise, I pour energy, but the leakage happens. *kundalini awakening* is more about living these *satyas,* and making more and more joy, making an ambience for more and more people to live these *satyas*. *kundalini* is about how many people you are able to inspire, with your energy. Every individual should become the *sangha* by constantly living these four principles of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, enriching yourself and others.
So much of suffering is avoided just by becoming aware of the root patterns. How many of you feel, 'The moment I catch my root patterns, it has no powers, because the moment it repeats in me again, I just catch it.' How many of you feel this and think, 'I want to help others to come out of their root patterns?' That is all this *sangha* is. Even if you sit in the train, you can do this, help people come out of their root patterns. If anyone comes in your breathing space, give them the gift of finding their root thought pattern. Only then are you a moving storehouse of *ananda*. Wherever you go, you go on giving, giving and giving.
How many of you feel that you spent years just to find this root thought pattern? If you would have found just this root thought pattern, you would have been out of it! This is our responsibility. Create an ambience where people can find their root thought pattern, do completion and get out of it. Flower, flower, flower, go on flowering! That is the real service. Giving food, giving education – all this is service, no doubt. But authentic service is this - helping every individual to find the root thought pattern of suffering and helping them get out of it. Help them, more and more. As I told you, you will have less than ten patterns at the most.
Usually, when I see your subtle body, I can see your weight. For all of you, for your weight, there cannot be more than five knots, five patterns. Some
*Authentic service is helping every individual to find their root thought pattern of suffering and helping them get out of it.*
# Vision For An Ideal Spiritual Community (sangha)
may have six or seven, but not more than that. Even if you find one, all the others will suddenly lose their stiffness. See, the one knot you find will completely lose power over you. With this, the other knots also lose 30% or 40% of their power, because the knots support each other. If you lose the lust knot, the fear knot too will drop by forty percent. Jealousy and attention knots will drop by eighty percent. So by the time you complete with three-four knots, you are free!
In our community, everyone should only talking in this language. The language of spiritual strength is cognizance. The language of cognizance is spiritual strength. Take responsibility, take responsibility and continue to take responsibility. Without taking responsibility, even your breathing can kill you. But when you take responsibility, nothing can kill you, because you have stretched the point of death. It is inauthenticity that is afraid of death, not authenticity. Making millions of people feel and experience this - 'I am the favorite inheritor of the cosmos,' this is our *sangha*, this is our mission!
Apply these four *tattvas*. It can solve every problem you have and can make you live in your peak, in your best! The rituals we do should be authentic, the deities we create should be authentic, the *yoga* we do should be authentic, the *kriyas* we teach should be authentic, the claims we make should be authentic and we should authentically deliver the claims we make. People should be authentically enriched in every way. In each city, even if a few people vibrate with this high frequency, the *sangha* happens just like that. Think continuously in this language, in this format and with these *satyas*, think with these *tattvas*.
So, the essence is this: create the ambience inside you for you to practice integrity and authenticity, and create an ambience around you for people to live integrity and authenticity. You should prove to them
with your actions that when they approach you, you will only create an ambience for integrity and authenticity.
*I bless you all to achieve success in the completion process. I bless you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM'!*
*It is inauthenticity that is afraid of death, not authenticity.*
*When all the creative knowledge available in the universe, all the natural resources available in the universe, and all the extraordinary powers available in the universe, when all three of them are at your disposal, only then you experience the truth, 'brahmanyam bahuputrataam', I am the favorite inheritor of the cosmos!*
# **What Is Your Response To Life?**
I welcome you all with my love and respects.
Completion is the basis for all the four *tattvas*. It is continuous tireless completion, which creates the basis for the higher level practices. Now, the real life starts!
Please understand, when you try to find the root thought pattern of suffering, you have to go back to the earliest memory, of age three, two or one – the earliest memory. But the completion will not happen if you just work on that one incident; you need to complete all the impacts of that root thought pattern, every incident.
Please understand, when you find the root thought pattern of suffering, you have to go back to the earliest memory of childhood. Then you rewind, step by step by step, incident by incident, until today. A continuous tireless completion process creates the basis for higher level practices.
#### What Is Your Response To Life
Please listen, only when you are complete, extraordinary powers will express in you, like those that *Mahanarayana Upanishad* describes: *'shreeshcha pushtishcha keertimchaanrnyataam brahmanyam bahuputrataam!'*
When all these three are available at your disposal - all the creative knowledge available in the universe, all the natural resources available in the universe, and all the extraordinary powers available in the universe - when all three of them are at your disposal, only then you experience the truth. '*brahmanyam bahuputrataam*', I am the favorite inheritor of the cosmos! I am very clear. I can authentically say with integrity, that all these three are at my disposal. Please be very clear, it is completion which forms the basis for me to share and transmit the experience of 'I am the favorite inheritor of the cosmos' to you. So go on completing - complete, complete, complete.
I have a question here: '*Swamiji, how do we know that we are complete?*' You will know when you are complete! If you have a doubt, you are not complete. Go on completing with every single pattern, with every single person. If you are not able to reach out to that person, catch the mirror. Do *svapoornatva*, sit with yourself. Go on and on and on, pattern by pattern, layer by layer. Take it out, take it out, take it out!
So, all the *'brahmanyam bahuputrataam*'*' program* participants please listen, this is a very important instruction for you. Completion has to be done, through the *prarabdha*. When you find the root thought pattern of suffering, work does not end there. That is where work starts. Work starts there! The completion has to be done throughout. You have two months – sixty full days. Take the commitment that for at least five hours a day, you are going to spend with the mirror doing *svapoornatva*.
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# INSPIRING A GLOBAL Vedic Renaissanc |
Jung's biography says, 'He was in the south, within two hours' distance.' He could have reached Ramana Maharshi. He was in India for three months, but he avoided (meeting him). From Gingee to Tiruvannamalai, it is now only forty give minutes, but in those days, it took two hours. I am reading out from his biography. I have read some of the letters where he describes the incident - 'My car stopped near Gingee, and I had a panic attack. And I felt, if some of my ideas with which I built my whole life and am teaching are disproved by Ramana Maharshi's presence, it is too much vested interest to alter for me and my followers!' Because, he had at least ten thousand people following his theology and the theories he built. Psychology is nothing but another of religion, just like communism is another religion - worshipping no God!
The statement Jung made is basically factual, truthful and right. When you are not in conscious, restful awareness, you only cognize two percent of the information! Listen! When you are in restful awareness, you cognize ninety eight percent of the information! If not, only two percent.
Listen! You cognize information and the concept of storing in your system, based on the concept of volume, 'If there is more volume, I am going to forget, or it is going to be a load.' No! If it is volume-based, I should have lost my brain long ago! I should have become imbalanced. How many of you feel that I am storing at least ten times the information you store, in my brain? At least ten times! Then I should have lost my brain! So understand, it is not volume, it is not quantity, it is quality. Listen! Capturing, storing, reclaiming and restoring - this process does not operate on the *tattva* of *quantity*, it operates on the *tattva* of *quality*.
So the first thing you need to do is go back to the root pattern. Who gave you this wrong cognizance? How many of you already tracked who gave you this wrong cognizance? Great! If not, sit and contemplate, do *manana*. Catch who gave you this wrong cognizance, that this process happens based on volume, NO! There is no such thing like this - if you have two thousand files, you will forget things, so we ourselves better throw away two
*Listen. Capturing, storing, reclaiming and restoring information - this process does not operate on the tattva of quantity, it operates on the tattva of quality.*
## What Is Your Response To Life
hundred unnecessary files out, and make space for two hundred new files. *It is wrong cognizance*! Any amount of files can be handled; you just need a powerful inner space of completion and restful awareness.
Understand, when somebody comes to meet me, I can literally repeat verbatim all the meetings that they had with me and whatever was shared. People who live around me can understand what I am saying. Verbatim I can repeat every piece of information. Many times, the words which they wanted to say, but did not say - this also gets recorded! That is a mystical power, forget about that. But this memory is not related to mysticism or mystical power. It is simple completing the inner space.
There is a question – '*Is Swamiji agreeing with Jung's theory that it is either two percent or ninety eight percent based on restful awareness, and nothing in between?*'
YES! It is either two percent or ninety eight percent. There is nothing in between. That is the truth. That is the truth for all common men. Of course, when you become enlightened, you will have one-hundred percent. That is very rare, an exception. Other than the exceptions, as a rule, it is either two percent, or ninety eight percent, that's all. There is no in-between!
Listen. Go back to the root thought pattern, when you have been given the wrong cognizance - that our memory functions based on volume. And complete with that person who gave you the wrong cognizance. If you are not able to reach out to the person, sit with the mirror and do the *svapoornatva,* and complete with the wrong cognizance!
Understand, you have to complete with each wrong cognizance that is responsible for limiting you and making you powerless. Limiting you
and making you powerless! A strong, clear, right understanding about memory is a basic requirement for any successful leader. You becoming a leader by accident, by fluke, or by destroying others, is different. But if you really prove your capability and become a leader, you need this wide memory. A wide memory is a quality required for any successful leader.
So listen! Today, you will spend time in going back to the root pattern, of when you have been given that wrong cognizance, that memory works based on volume. Capturing, storing, reclaiming and restoring do not function on the basis of the volume of information; it is not limited Gmail storage. Your brain is not a storage space; it is an opening for connection. You need to just develop the bandwidth of your net connection.
You do not need to expand the storage space. If you think from the angle of expanding the storage space, what will you do? You will try to create more and more storage space by using some technique, which will only create stress in your brain. Unfortunately, you will remember all the unpleasant things of your life, and all those things will come and occupy the extra storage space that you create. You will remember what your wife said, what your husband said, what your motherin-law said, what your father-in-law said - you will vividly remember all those fights; but you will not
*A wide memory is a quality required for any successful leader.*
## What Is Your Response To Life
remember your bank balance! No, really! How many of you cognize that you do not remember all the vital information - like your blood group, bank balance, some close people's cellphone number, or the emergency cellphone number, your passport number - you don't remember any of that. But you vividly remember all the fights that you had with your mother in law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law and all your in-laws? Raise your hand. Because, you think that memory is based on volume.
Memory does not function on the basis of volume; it functions on the basis of restful awareness, the quality of your inner space, the quality of your inner space! Listen! When you reach completion, your inner space cognizes *everything*! Everything means *everything*. Cognizing happens for whatever is happening around you. Cognizing happens with your innate completion. Completion is responsible for your cognition.
Yesterday there was a big discussion among our ashramites*,* on the commitments and completion session. Some of the biggest points were this: Why does a certain type of response and reaction happen to us? Who makes the decision? Why do we react in the way we react?
See, each person responds differently, each person reacts to things differently. For example, in some incident of your life, if you start feeling that you are dirty, and for various reasons, that stays in you and goes on reminding you, and a certain kind of a distance is developed with your body. A certain kind of an untouchable feeling is developed with your body.
Yesterday the main discussion in the ashramites' session was why we choose to respond or react in a certain way, in certain situations. What is the reason for our response? Please listen, this is the answer - *casual curiosity*, nothing else. Neither *sanchita* nor *agamya* or *prarabdha*. These
three *karmas* are not the reason for behaving in a certain way. It is simple, casual curiosity. You would have seen your mother responding that way, you would have seen your father responding that way, you would have seen your friend responding that way, and with casual curiosity you collect that information. That's all - you start responding in the same way! Unfortunately, once you show a certain response, you get affiliated with it, identify with it, and decide that this is the way you should respond. This is your individual identity. Later on, moving from one type of response to another needs completion.
How many of you cognize the casual curiosity as a *tattva*? Please raise your hands. Now, it is your responsibility to make this *tattva* into *satya.* Dig out; dig out all the situations where you started responding out of casual curiosity. Today, you will do this as homework.
I have a question from a disciple, '*If it is casual curiosity, why does it make such a big impact on us?*' See, when you make the first decision, it does not make such a big impact on you! Even yesterday, the ashramite who was sharing the feeling of 'being dirty' that she carries, this decision did not make a huge impact on her, when she first made the decision to feel dirty. But after that, she gets affiliated to that way of responding. And after that, she continued with the same way of responding,
*Memory does not function on the basis of volume; it functions on the basis of restful awareness. When you reach completion, your inner space cognizes everything.*
## What Is Your Response To Life
because of her affiliation to that way of responding. Because of the continuity, that first decision made a huge impact.
Understand, your decision to be a *sannyasini* made a big impact on you because you continue to be a *sannyasini,*. If you had run away after the third day in the ashram,, the decision of becoming a *sannyasini* would not have made a big impact on you. Continuity makes the impact of your first decision bigger. Clear?
Listen. Success writes the history. So it is the success and the continuous reactions you do, based on which you look back and cognize the impact of that casual curiosity. Got it? If the ashramite who was sharing yesterday has come out of that suffering, if she did not react in the same way of feeling dirty the second time, that would not have made a big impact on her, it would have died down as a casual curiosity, and she will not remember that now with so much of impact. The continuous support you give to the casual curious reaction makes that as *agamya. agamya* means intense casual curiosity. When you bring the word intense, the casual is taken away. Intense curiosity leads to casualty. Clear? When you are affiliated to that response as your own, there comes the possibility of the deeper impact and pattern.
So for today, dig out the root pattern where you have been taught that memory functions based on volume. Are you clear? Go back and dig out the root pattern when you have been made to cognize that capturing, storing, claiming and restoring information (memory), functions based on the concept of volume. Clear?
The second *tattva* is this - why do you respond to certain situations or have a certain cognizance. Find out the source of your casual curiosity. This is the second *tattva*. Finally, *complete* with both the *tattvas*.
*I bless you all to achieve success in the completion process. I bless you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM'!*
*It is continuity that makes the impact of your first decision bigger. hen you are affiliated to a response as your own, there comes the possibility of deeper impact and pattern based on it.*
*Listen! Many times you would have heard people say, 'However much you listen, only when you practice will you achieve it'. But I say, 'However much you try to practice, only if you listen will you achieve it! Only when you listen does practicing start!'*
# Listening Is The First Step To Spirituality!
**Sunday, 17th February 2013**
Let's enter into today's *satsang*. Listen! The first statement I wanted to make today is this: Usually, many teachers say again and again – 'However much you listen, only if you practice it, you will achieve it.' I wanted to reverse it. However much you try to practice, only if you listen, will you achieve it! Listen! However much you try to practice, only if you listen, will you achieve it!
Many times you would have heard people saying, however much you listen, only when you practice, you will achieve it. But here I am saying however much you try to practice - only if you listen, you will achieve it. How many of you cognize what I am saying? You should have observed the word, 'try to practice it'. It means that without listening, however much you practice, it will only be *trying to* practice, not practicing! Only when you listen, practicing starts.
Listen! Today, I am going to share some of the *tattvas,* truths about integrity. I wanted to define integrity once more. Integrity means
## Listening Is The First Step To Spirituality
honoring the words you give to you and to others, as your life. Integrity is neither morality nor ethics - it is beyond both.
Listen. Only when you utter the word 'I', you exist. Until you remember the word 'I' in your inner space, you do not exist. You may say - 'No, no, no! When I sleep in the night, I don't remember 'I' in deep sleep, but when I come back, I remember 'I'. But I see, I existed throughout the night!'
No! Your body existed throughout the night. You have not existed. Listen! This argument is not going to win. It is not right. When you did not remember you through the night, you did not exist, only your body existed. For example, I went to Kumbh Mela last month and returned to Bidadi. Now, just because Bidadi ashram existed for the last few days, it does not mean that *I* have existed here even when I was in Kumbha Mela. Only the Bidadi ashram existed. Just because your body existed, it does not mean that you have existed too. When you remember the word 'I', only then do you exist. You exist only when you remember the word 'I'! Everything starts with the word. Everything starts with a decl*aratio*n. Everything starts with a commitment. So listen!
A clearly expressed word is fulfillment. The word which is perverted and hurting yourself is guilt. The word which is hurting others is violence. The word which goes on expanding you is desire. The word which constantly keeps you in completion and expands you, is integrity.
Listen, if you just decide from this moment – 'I will honor the words I utter to me and to others, as my life,' the inner thoughts, the inner chattering, will drastically reduce! A breakthrough will happen in your thinking process. Because, the moment you become aware that you have to complete or fulfill every word you utter to you and to others, you
will become aware of your thinking and your every thought; you will know if a thought is coming from your fear or greed or jealousy or ego or arrogance. And you will immediately complete it. |
*There was an eating competition in one village. There were about twenty fellows who were participating, and everyone started eating* – *five hundred idlis, fifty banana, a hundred liters of juice! One fellow came first; the second fellow missed by just one idli. Everybody asked him, 'Why did you miss the prize just by one idli?' He said, 'Everything went well when I was doing the rehearsal this morning, but I somehow missed it now!'*
So if you are waiting for training in life, you miss actual life. Life is not like football, volleyball and cricket, where the training ground is different
*Life has no training period. If you are waiting for training in life, you miss actual life.*
## You Are Naturally Programmed For Success
and the playing ground is different. Life is like an eating competition - training is *living*! If you want separate training, you will fail in the game.
With integrity, you will literally clean your inner space of the constant unwanted beliefs that you carry, like the strong belief that you will be a failure. *This continuous belief leads you towards failure*! When you start thinking with integrity, you will diagnose those self-fulfilling negative prophecies that you constantly give yourself.
How many of you behave like a self-fulfilling negative astrologer for yourself? You go on telling yourself, 'M*y time is not good, I will not be able to do anything,'* and even after you do it, you start believing so strongly that you fulfill it. Each one of you is your own self-fulfilling negative astrologer. You are the astrologer for you, you are the trainer for you and you are the judge for you! You first give the self-fulfilling prophecy, '*I am a failure*'. Then you train yourself for that, so that even the *Guru* should not make you successful, by mistake! And you wait for those kinds of responses from society. You do not bother about the support you receive, but you are haunted by the discouragement you get, *because you are training yourself to be a failure*!
So who is the decision-maker in your life? First, you are an astrologer who declares that you are a failure. Then, you are a trainer who trains you to be a failure, and if failure does not come even then, you become a judge and declare that you are a failure!
When even a small thing happens, you immediately declare failure. How many of you authentically cognize that you do this? We go on doing this. The first thing to do is to declare your integrity, not your failure. Declare your integrity. When you start thinking with integrity,
you will diagnose your own self-fulfilling negative prophecies.
When you are about to get into the car, you declare to yourself that you are going to have an accident. Then while you drive, you train yourself to continuously sleep. Even after that, an accident does not happen but maybe you just hit one corner of the road and the car stops. Nothing happens to you or the car, but you say, '*I told you that accident will happen! Now see what happened!*' The power of integrity will teach you to diagnose these selffulfilling negative prophecies.
Sometimes, you take up failure as a self-sympathy creating mechanism. Or you think that you have to work for success, but failure is natural! How many of you think that you have to work for success, but failure comes naturally? Raise your hand. NO! Success is natural; you have to work for failure. Bring integrity; you will understand that success is the natural flow of your life.
Krishna says very beautifully, 'By nature, the senses are tuned to be extrovert' - active, alive and creating. I give you a different interpretation. 'Extrovert' is not something negative. Extrovert senses will always be alive, creative, active and contributing. All great creative persons took the responsibility for their extrovert senses.
*The first thing to do is to to declare your integrity, not your failure. Bring integrity; you will understand that success is the natural flow of your life.*
## You Are Naturally Programmed For Success
Listen, listen! The senses are extrovert, flowing naturally. By nature, they function towards achieving. They naturally flow towards achieving. It means that are programmed by nature to be successful. The natural programming is for you to be successful. Lack of integrity allows the poison of self-fulfilling negative prophecies to grow in your system. I tell you, the first thing a human being needs to do is weed out all selffulfilling negative prophecies.
How many of you feel that you need to weed out the self-fulfilling negative prophecies you carry in you? Understand, the can be weeded out only when you are functioning in your daily routine. When you take time off, all those weeds will just disappear. Only when you are working tightly in your everyday routine, you will discover those selffulfilling false negative prophecies. How many of you are able to cognize this truth? Try to take off for few days; all those negative self-fulfilling prophecies will hide themselves in some unconscious decisions.
Listen! Not fulfilling your everyday commitments will only make the weeds hide behind your unconscious patterns. Vivek*ananda* is very very clear, *yoga* can happen in you, only along with responsible actions. *karma yoga* does not happen without responsible actions.
Sometimes, you execute actions the whole day, but there is no feeling of responsibility for it!
In Tamil there is a proverb, '*naayikku velai illai, nikka neramum illai,'* the dog has no job, but it does not have the time to even stand still! This is what action without responsibility is. How many of you authentically cognize that you are stuck with the pattern of action with no responsibility?
Sri Ramakrishna gives a very beautiful example - however much water you bring to your paddy field, if there are too many frog holes and rat holes, all the water will go and settle there. You will not have water for growing the paddy. The frog holes, rat holes, snake holes are the negative self-fulfilling prophecies. All the energy you bring, all the *kundalini* energy I pour into you, goes and settles there. Finally, there is no water! Neither can paddy grow, nor can *Ganga* water flow. Because for the entire twenty-four hours, you are weighed down and loaded with negative self-fulfilling prophecies.
The first thing a human being needs to know is how to weed out the negative self-fulfilling prophecies. Integrity makes you aware of negative self-fulfilling prophecies. Self-fulfilling negative prophecies are the iron chains tied to your leg. Nothing moves in your life, even if you are pushed. Just imagine an elephant whose legs are tied with chains and a big iron ball! It has to be pushed, and even then it moves with restriction. Self-fulfilling negative prophecies are like that. They are the weight on your inner space.
Integrity is the only way you can even find those negative self-fulfilling prophecies and weed them out. If you start looking in, you will naturally not give life to your negative self-fulfilling prophecies. If you start looking at your negative self-fulfilling
*It is lack of integrity tat allows the poison of self-fulfilling negative prophecies to grow in your system.*
## You Are Naturally Programmed For Success
prophecies even for ten days, they will die. Understand, a tree that has grown for a thousand years takes only a few minutes to die if you pour acid on its roots. Integrity is the acid that can destroy the weeds of negative self-fulfilling prophecies in you. Thinking with integrity removes the weeds of negativity.
You do not need courage to remove negativity, you just need awareness to remove negativity. The moment you think you need courage to remove negativity, you are caught in the wrong fight. You only need awareness to remove negativity. If you think you need courage, it is like bringing an atom bomb to fight with your shadow! If you throw an atom bomb, who is going to die? You are also going to die. You just need a torch to fight with your shadow, not an atom bomb. You just need the torch of integrity to fight your negativity.
If you have a strong idea or belief what you are doing is going to be a failure, the moment you think that it is a failure, it is a commitment and word you are giving to you. Do you understand? So if you give that word, you naturally have to fulfill it. Do you want to fulfill that word? No. Then tell yourself that I am not going to fulfill it. It means that whenever you have a thought*,* '*I am a failure*,' you should know - *this is a commitment I am making to me, and I have to honor it.* You may say that it comes on its own. Then complete it! Consciously disown and complete with it.
If it comes back, do this again. How many times will it come back? Practice it. Your belief is not required; only your cognizance is required. Have you cognized theoretically? Now apply this mechanical process; then come back to me with the result. This is a homework for you. Practice this for 48 hours, cognizance this and get back to me.
'*Athaatho brahma jijnaasa*' - let us inquire into reality. With this clarity, let us enter. You neither need to believe my extreme nor your extreme. Let us inquire. Clear? How many of you did not try this earlier, after trying these four *tattvas*? It means you have not tried these four *tattvas* also. If you have driven from Bangalore to Mysore, you would have hit Ramanagara. But you sat in Bangalore and changed the name of your board to Mysore. Changing your name-board to Mysore does not mean you reached Mysore.
Understand, all of you carry that negative cognizance inside. Listen:
*work not done plus valid reasons is not equivalent to work done!*
The essence of the whole *satsang* is this. *Integrity removes the self-fulfilling negative prophecies in your life, in your cognizance, in your inner space!* When you start something new, if you decide to remove the negative cognizance, you will suddenly have the courage to grasp the whole scene.
Whenever you give a commitment, you will knowingly or unknowingly fulfill it. So complete it and say, '*No, I am not going to be this way, I am going to give the fulfillment as a cognition*.' When you do this again and again, do you think it will come up again? If you do it, it will not come up again.
*You do not need courage to remove negativity, you just need awareness to remove negativity.*
## You Are Naturally Programmed For Success
## That's all I am saying!
*I bless you all to achieve success in the completion process. I bless you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM'!*
*Listen!*
*Bring integrity to you, you are always worthy of nice things! You don't need to achieve something to have nice things. Have the best things of the world as your lifestyle. Resting out of tiredness is not the best thing for you to have. Resting out of completion is the best thing for you to have!*
## **Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage**
**Sunday, 24th February 2012**
Whenever you create anything, you carry the product you create in your heart. In the *Vedic* tradition, we call it as *hridgarbha*, 'carrying it in your heart and delivering it'. *It is delivery by creativity*! Whenever you deliver something by creating and carrying it in the heart, you will have extreme fulfillment in the heart.
Even giving birth to kids! For what do you give birth? It is because of the extreme fulfillment that they give, to your life. But giving birth to a movie or a painting or work of art is deeper fulfillment than having children. So, please listen! Giving birth to a movie is a spiritual practice. If it is done with awareness in an *unclutched* way, acting can become a process for enlightenment.
In *Vedic* tradition, we believe that all of us are actors. People get attached to the role they are playing, that is why they are suffering. If you are acting in an *unclutched* way, you will realize that life itself is nothing but acting. Acting can become a process for awareness.
Be aware of what you are carrying; by the time you deliver it from your heart, you will have tremendous fulfillment. I tell you, anything you give birth to from your heart, directly leads to spiritual enlightenment. *Vedic* tradition believes that life itself is acting. Done with awareness, acting can make you realize that you are beyond body and mind - the pure consciousness.
All '*THE nirahara samyama'* participants, be very clear. Bring intensity to your integrity, authenticity and enriching. Let that become your bio-memory. Only then will your need for external support disappear. Your need for food, love and energy from outside - all three are bondage.
- The need for food is the bondage with the physical world.
- The need for love is the bondage with the emotional world.
- The need for energy is the bondage with the spiritual world.
That is why at one level, the Master leads you to his formless form, where the energy is experienced from the very source. Your own *atman* is experienced as cosmos. Right now, don't bother about spiritual bondage; that can be freed at the last. First break these two bondages, the need for food and the need
*Be aware of what you are carrying; by the time you deliver it from your heart, you will have tremendous fulfillment.*
## Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage
for love. Bring integrity and authenticity into your thinking. Your biomemory will stop asking for external sources.
You may wonder how integrity can help in *nirahara samyama*. I tell you, when you bring integrity into your thinking, you will realize that the constant feeling of tiredness and constant low energy is what makes you eat. The idea of negative energy is nothing but a negative weed. You have to take it out with integrity. Hunger is a negative weed. Human beings can live without hunger. Sorry if I hurt your logic, but what I am saying is true!
When you constantly think with integrity, all the air which you take inside is converted to energy - *prana*. I tell you, If all the air which goes in becomes energy by your bio-memory and your muscle memory, you don't need anything from outside. Your breathing will be very deep. You will have such a strong experience of fulfillment. The only thing that you need to do with this *nirahara samyama* is, somehow break the obstructions that the mind brings.
Listen! The mind will not directly bring an obstacle directly - like*, I am hungry.* It will bring up some other obstruction. But you know, you somehow need to catch it. Inauthenticity is like the demon Ravana.
Ravana did not come as himself to kidnap Sita. He came disguised as a sage, as a *rishi*. So your inauthenticity always comes up in some other way, as some other cognition. |
When you start practicing integrity, you will weed out even hunger. Hunger and sleep are nothing but lack of integrity with your soul, with your consciousness. When you are with integrity with your consciousness, hunger and sleep will both suddenly disappear! Your sleep will be just be *samadhi*. Even if you have a little hunger, it is just to run the body. Maybe once in a week you will eat, to maintain the body. I tell you from my own experience.
No animal has breakfast, lunch and dinner! Do you know any animal which has breakfast, lunch and dinner? They go hunting once in a week. Even if they do hunt, they leave it once they are done, they don't dump it inside. And not a single animal dies of obesity, even elephants! So bring integrity to your hunger.
Bring integrity to all the beliefs you carry about *you*. Bring integrity to all your habits, eating, drinking, talking. Infuse integrity in every activity. Bring integrity into how you feel about you. If you achieve something that you think is big, your mind will immediately say, 'I am now eligible for a nice rest, a nice treat and nice food!' Bring integrity to you. You are worthy of nice things, *always*! You don't need to achieve something to have nice things. Have the best things of the world as your lifestyle. Listen. Resting out of tiredness is N O T the best thing for you to have. Resting out of completion is the best thing for you to have.
Question: '*Swamiji, what do you mean by integrity to hunger? How do you bring integrity to hunger?'*
Swamiji: Whenever you are hungry, whenever your
*When you are with integrity with your consciousness, hunger and sleep will both suddenly disappear.*
## Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage
body asks for food, ask your body, 'What do you mean by hunger? What do you mean by bringing the thought that I am tired and I need food?' Just look in and see, is it real, or is it just lack of integrity? Maybe you are constantly uttering negative commitments constantly to yourself. Just because you uttered the words that you are hungry yesterday, you may also be doing the same thing today! Try to weed out and watch it for a few days. You will see that your hunger and you food intake drop drastically!
Just try this one technique, bring integrity to your eating, to your hunger. Every time you feel like eating, the first thing you will feel is that you are tired or hungry. But it may be actually be because of the visuals of food, smell of food, taste of food or remembrance of food. Listen. When I say bring integrity, I mean, let not hunger be a negative pattern in you. Remove, remove and remove this continuously. Then suddenly, you will see that the pattern-based hunger will disappear. Real hunger will come, which will be once in a week. I lived that life and that is why I am telling you!
When your saliva, visualization, smell, all of them come to the peak with awareness, *amrita* - nectar, happens in your system. That takes care of your hunger and everything. Unfortunately, when you eat, the saliva, visualization - everything comes together, but not awareness! If you eat once a week, all of them will come together to the peak, with awareness. If you are continuously eating, all the five senses will come together, but not awareness. That is why the nectar is not happening. If it comes together with awareness, *amrita* happens to you, and you feel so fulfilled.
Bring integrity to your hunger. Even for people who are not doing *nirahara samyama* or *THE samyama* or any *samyama,* just bring integrity to your hunger. Just bring integrity, whenever you are tired, whenever you are sleepy. You will just see that your chronic fatigue disappears, and your quality of sleep changes.
Lack of integrity with your sleep is dreams. If you are in integrity with your sleep, there is no dream. You will have deep sleep and you will come of it like a flower. Your ability to rest is disturbed, because your eyes are loaded with heavy lights, and visualizations are forcibly sent into your inner space. The more the lights, the more the visualization, the more the visualization, the more you are tired, and eventually the quality of your sleep gets disturbed. I never ever feel that I need sleep! I lived life with just with inner light, not outer light. I always wanted our campus to be without artificial lights, with just the traditional torches, traditional lanterns. We will have it that way.
Question: - *'Is it possible to rest in samadhi without being enlightened?'*
Listen! Enlightenment comes to you after you achieve all these things. Resting in *samadhi* does not need to be the pre-requisite.Start resting in *samadhi* today itself - the way you live, the way you radiate.
Any tiredness, hunger, low energy or powerlessness is lack of integrity. If you feel tired and hungry
*Lack of integrity with your sleep is dreams. If you are in integrity with your sleep, there is no dream.*
## Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage
and then eat, it is an action out of incompletion. Even if you are not practicing *nirahara,* bring integrity to your hunger; it will reduce drastically. You will feel high energy. If you don't bring integrity to your thinking, to your mental patterns, *niraahara* will not be successful.
Even during *pooja,* all five senses does not come to their peak. *pooja* is a different process. But during eating, all five senses come to their peak. I tell you, bring integrity to your thinking again and again and again. Weed out all the powerless experiences, weak feeling experiences. Whenever you feel tired or weak, weed them out.
How many of you struggle with this pattern of tiredness and laziness, raise your hand? It is just lack of integrity. Be integrated to your soul. The soul can never have tiredness, consciousness can never have tiredness. That is the truth. Don't think, *after enlightenment I will not have tiredness; now I have body, so I will have tiredness.* What is this? Negative weed. Whether you realize or not, you are soul and consciousness.
There is no practice period. There is no training period. Just start living! From today, say I am
## *Śrotriya, brahmaniṣṭha, saccidānanda praṇava svarūpa!*
I tell you, best way to practice integrity is by taking up more and more responsibilities. Best thing to do is taking up ten responsibilities and maintain the integrity with time. Go on taking up more responsibility. The best thing I took up is giving *kaavi* (initiation into monkhood) to so many people. Now, I am responsible for all of them.
Constantly take up responsibilities that expose your lack of integrity to you. you Only when you form a team and take it up as a project, will your inauthenticity be exposed to your inauthenticities. Cognize the lack of integrity and your selfishness.
In each center I can see, only when you take up a project, only when you work together, your lack of integrity will be exposed to you; your inauthenticity, your laziness, your tiredness, all your negative patterns will be exposed to you. *sangha* becomes *dhamma*. When you take it up in your heart, you will imbibe these four *tattvas* intensely.
## Question: '*If we are in integrity with the body, then will hunger also not come once in a while?*
If you reach that level of integrity, it is authentic. When you reach the peak of authenticity, then hunger also will not come. With integrity, the flesh component is still there. Only when you cross authenticity, the flesh component is not there. Only with authenticity do you start stretching. That is the power of authenticity!
I tell you, all your responsibility is not a hill sitting in front of you. It is just an air balloon in front of you! Anything you feel, like, 'my responsibility is too much, my lack of integrity is too much,' is nothing but a huge air balloon. It just looks like a hill. You just need a little bit of authenticity to pull it, or a small needle called initiation to poke it!
*The best way to practice integrity is by taking up more and more responsibilities.*
## Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage
Listen! When you fall into the water, whether it is a bathtub, a swimming pool or an ocean, all three will look the same. When the water crosses your chest level, all three will feel the same. When the water level goes above the chest level, whether it is the bathtub or the swimming pool or even the ocean, you will feel that all three as same!
*A new doctor in a mental hospital asks the senior doctor, 'How do you know when somebody is ready to leave and live their life normally? How do you know when to discharge them?' The senior doctor says, 'We give them a bathtub full of water, and a spoon, a mug and a bucket to empty it. Based on their choice, we will find out.' The new doctor says, 'So if somebody tries to empty the bathtub with the spoon, you will not send him home; if he tries with mug, you will keep him a few more days, and if he tries with the bucket, you will discharge him immediately. Right?' The senior doctor said, 'Well, a normal person will remove the water plug to empty the bathtub.'*
When you compare with a mug or a teaspoon, a bucket looks like a very intelligent idea! When you compare, you will always be lost in comparison. But the real click happens when you come out of the comparison zone. Why do you feel that your inauthenticity or integrity is a huge hill? Because you are in a huge comparing zone. When you compare spoon, mug and bucket, the bucket feels like a good idea, the most intelligent idea. But it is not the most smart way of working! Smart work and hard work never go hand in hand. When you compare, bucket looks best, but the bestest solutions always come out of comparison zone.
If you think it is a huge hill - my lack of integrity, my inauthenticity, my responsibility - you are still in comparison zone, either with someone else, or with your own past. In your past you never broke your inauthenticity, that is why your inauthenticity is like a hill. Now you are trying to break. When you try to break, inauthenticity disappears on its own. So, best solution for your huge inauthenticity, huge lack of integrity, huge responsibility, comes with very simple thing like pulling the water plug! It comes out of the comparison zone.
For example, if you believe - from age three I built this inauthenticity, when will I be out of this inauthenticity? From age three to now - so many years! It is built over twenty-five years, it will take twenty-five years to come out! That is like using a mug to empty the bathtub! Instead, say, 'No, I have the power of initiation! I will finish in one year.' That is like using the bucket. Just removing the plug is 'declaration'. Start living it! Start living it!
I tell you, only when you continuously take more and more responsibility, will you will be in communication about the *tattvas*. You will enrich each other, enlighten each other, you will be exposed to your inauthenticity, you will be exposed to your lack of integrity and you will be exposed to your incompletions. If you are sitting all by yourself, you will not even be exposed! You will be just sitting and worrying.
A very high standard of integrity and authenticity is required. You should not miss anywhere, especially when you have the power. When you have power and you have still not realized the ultimate purpose of your happening and integrated
*Only when you continuously take more and more responsibility, will you be in communication about the tattvas.*
## Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage
all your powers with that one purpose, If you are playing with the powers, it can lead to inauthenticity and shrink your possibility!
For example, when you are doing the job of teaching, a high standard of integrity and authenticity is required. You can't even complete or do any *prayaschitta* if you have done some damage. Sometimes the damage will be irrevocable. When you take more and more responsibilities, you start expanding!
I tell you, whenever you open your hand to give, you receive even before you give. The words I am uttering are from authenticity and integrity. When you open your hand to receive, you lose even before you close your hand. When you open your hands to give, it is poured even before you start giving. When we started this *sangha*, I started giving without keeping a reserve. I opened my hands to give everything away. But before I started giving, it started pouring in. It started pouring, pouring and pouring. And I am continuously giving, giving and giving.
Just last night, my senior *swami* said that the amount of training we give to each *brahmachari* and *brahmacharini* is a million-dollar training. In any corporate company, if this amount of training has to be given to an individual, the company has to spend a million dollars! And he said, 'You are giving it away, and there is no guarantee they will be staying in the *sangha*.' I told him, 'This is the mission statement: I love people. People make me happy, not money. Money is just to train people. We need some infrastructure, that is why we need money.'
Enriching people is our *sangha*. I love people, not money. If I love money, if I start working for money, I can simply make a billion dollar company in a year! But I am not going to start a company and I am not interested in starting. I love people and people make me happy. So enriching people is our *sangha*. Enriching people is our *sangha*! All money is just to create the place where you can train people.
I tell you, people are the most important energy in our life! I don't want to say 'resource'. It is a dirty word. People are the most important energy in our life. Work with people. Have interest in people. The interest you have towards people is the interest you have towards life. The interest you have towards money is the interest you have towards your security, which is like a safe tomb!
Money is okay if you want it for immediate projects, to enrich people. Your involvement with people shows your involvement with life. Your involvement with money shows your involvement with inauthenticity. People are wealth, people are life, people are energy. Finally, people are God! Give everything to people. People bring everything you need. Whether it is basic things like food, or things like love, joy, laughter; people bring everything in your life.
If you are expecting that the right people should happen in your life, you are a load on them. If you are making the people right in your life, you are a boon for them. Don't make right people to happen in your life. Make whoever has happened in your life as right! Make every one right, by taking responsibility. Okay?
*Whenever you open your hand to give, you receive even before you give. When you open your hand to receive, you lose even before you close your hand.* |
## Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage
When you have become integrated, but not yet become authentic, that is the zone where you will have powers. There is a possibility you can become inauthentic. Only when you take responsibility for the powers that came out of integrity, do you become authentic. Only when the danger of inauthenticity leaves you, are you safe. When you start enriching others with all the powers you have without allowing the inauthenticity of self-pride or self-importance, you cross the danger of inauthenticity. Until then, you still carry the danger of inauthenticity.
When you are incomplete, the job you do will also be incomplete. Listen. Go on infusing integrity into every emotion, feeling, thinking and experience you have in your life. Go on, go on and go on bringing integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching.
I tell you, any of our centers, temples or ashrams which take up the higher-level projects to grow spiritually and become successful. Whenever a center, temple, ashram or a group takes up big projects, they become so authentic, responsible and integrated and enriching; they become successful in all three, their personal life, professional life and *sangha* life. Go on infusing integrity into every emotion, feeling, thinking, experience you have in your life.
When you all gather as a *sangha* and do the *sangha* work, so much of energy happens in you, because others are happening in your life, and that energy will make you do the *sangha* work and your housework, both together. You will be successful in profession and in *sangha*, both together. When you know how to deliver, inspire and make others as part of you and become part of others; you are creating a success formula wherever you stand and breathe. Your family and your extended family, your job and your part-time job, you will be successful everywhere.
## The Science of Living Enlightenment - Revealing the four sacred principles that empower YOU!
I tell you, whoever takes the lead role in the *sangha*, you will see that he will also be a leader in his life. When you sit together as a *sangha*, take up a common project to enrich yourself and others, how you behave to that project is exactly the way you behave with life, and that is the way life is going to behave with you. Whenever you are in *upayanam* and take up more and more responsibility, you are in a state of expansion. I am constantly expanding, because I take more and more responsibility.
If you want to be successful in your life or in your business or profession, or in your relationship, or in your spirituality, your fulfillment, gather as a *sangha* keeping these four *tattvas* as the center; take up some huge responsibilities, projects that expand you and enrich others. How you behave with the *sangha* is exactly the same way you behave with life and life behaves with you. Just listening to these four *tattvas* is not enough; start living them by taking up higher responsibilities. Only then you pull the *tattvas* into your life, and the *tattvas* pull you into their life. You are pulling the *tattvas* into your life and *tattvas* are pulling you into their life. That is the only way any growth is possible.
Inner Awakening is nothing more than a vacation for you, if you are not taking up any responsibility. Only when you take up any responsibility, will Inner Awakening be a real awakening for you. Otherwise it is a good vacation - not bad, but a
*Only when you take responsibility for the powers that came out of integrity, do you become authentic.*
good vacation, spiritual vacation. Find out whether Inner Awakening was a spiritual vacation for you or a spiritual beginning for you. Is it a spiritual life or a spiritual vacation - find out what you got out of Inner Awakening.
Continuously express the four truths in your life; only then will you have the possibility of any kind of growth in your life. Only when you continuously express the four truths in your life, will you have the possibility of any kind of growth in your life. Take up the responsibility as a *sangha*. If you can inspire a volunteer team and make them deliver something, I tell you, I am a hundred percent sure you can inspire anybody and be successful in leading a team, whether in your company or in your home. Home is also nothing but a team. You need integrity, authenticity, responsibility. If you complete all these three Ts integrity, authenticity and responsibility, then it becomes a team. You become team. In Tamil, 'M' is the completion of any statement. Team is completion of all these three Ts.
Whenever you use your energy for the expansion of others, only then will you yourself be able to walk on the path of expansion. Only then will your own energy will be accessible to you, you yourself get to access your energy. Only then will your energy is awakened. Only then is it possible that your energy is awakened!
Constantly give life to this four *dharmas* of AIRE! I tell you, *dharmo rakshathi rakshitaha*! When you protect *dharma*, it protects you. When you excite *dharma*, it excites you. When you enrich *dharma*, it enriches you. When you are integrated to it, it is integrated into you. When you are authentic with it, it is authentic with you. When you take responsibility for it, it takes responsibility for you. Only when you enrich it, will it enrich you. *dharma* means the natural law of the cosmos. It
is an independent intelligence. Whenever you are integrated with it, it is integrated with you. Only then is it possible that your energy is awakened. Only then is your energy is awakened.
*I bless you all to achieve success in the completion process. I bless you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM'!*
*Whenever you use your energy for the expansion of others, only then will you yourself be able to walk on the path of expansion.*
*When you are in inauthenticity, you will be afraid to look into my eyes. Because I am looking at you with the 'thirdeye'! You are not ready to look at it; you are afraid. Your inauthenticity runs away from me. The state of fear can be born in you only when you are inauthentic. Only a man in authenticity, living authenticity, is a liberated one!*
### **A Life Without Fear Is Possible**
**Monday, 25 th February 2013**
Listen! Every time an inauthenticity is allowed to live in you, it leaves a powerful fear in you! Inauthenticity makes postponing and procrastination a pattern in you.
How many of you can cognize that when inauthenticity starts in you, the first symptom of is that you postpone everything? Continuously bring authenticity to you. It is possible, because inauthenticity cannot really take root in you. All your inauthenticities are only a roof garden, not a rooted garden! Only a rooted garden is difficult to uproot, but a roof garden has no roots. Roof gardens are only to the depth of a few inches of sand!
Inauthenticity constantly puts you in a state of postponement. Inauthenticity can put you in a mental state of postponing life. I tell you, *postponing life is nothing less than death*! If you are not living, what is the use even if you are breathing? Not living even when you breathe
- what is the use!! Live along with breathing. Live along with breathing. Don't postpone, live along with your breathing!
When this pattern of postponing settles in you, it eats away your breathing period; it kills your breathing period and puts you in death. It keeps you in temporary death even while you are alive. If you decide to do something, if you decide to express your life in some way, don't postpone it. If you postpone it, it is temporary death. You are dead! To postpone is death. Unfortunately, the word 'postpone' does not convey the meaning and the seriousness of postponement. Postponement is death as long as the pattern exists. Postponement is death as long as the pattern exists! With integrity and authenticity, I tell you, only when you take the risk of stretching to others' *anyakara*, will you know the miraculous powers you carry. If you have not tasted the miraculous powers you are carry, life is boredom for you!
Go on drilling yourself. Go on drilling yourself. Go on drilling yourself with integrity and authenticity. I tell you, only when you take the risk of stretching to others' *anyakara*, will you know your power, your inner power, the miraculous power you are carry. If you have not tasted the miraculous powers you are carry, life is boredom for you. You will experience life only as boredom.
I tell you, if you see me having any miraculous power, it came to me only when I decided to stretch myself to all your *anyakaras*. If you say that others have no right to have any *anyakara* about you, that may be a fact, but it is not authentic. When I am ready to stretch to your *anyakaras,* I see the extraordinary powers expressing through me. Continuously practice authenticity and integrity. You will experience miracles. You will continuously see miracles happening in your life. I am continuously seeing miracles happening in my life.
Today, I wanted all of you to do the homework of finding out how *dhamma* happens in your life, reminding you of your inauthenticities, and how you are afraid of *dhamma* and avoid it. *dhamma* is the power that radiates in my eyes, which you are afraid to look into, when you have done something that is in *adharma.* When you are in inauthenticity, you will be afraid to look into my eyes. You are afraid of the *dhamma that* radiates in my eyes. Whenever you are afraid to look at my eyes, because you know that they will be burning, be very clear - my third-eye is also open at that time! Because I am looking at you with the third-eye, you are not ready to look at it. You are afraid. Your inauthenticity runs away from me!
The ability to stare into your inauthenticities is the ability to look into the eyes of Kalabhairava. Why do you think Kalabhairava and Mahakali are depicted with big-big eyes? Because they constantly expose your inauthenticities to you, and you are afraid to look into their eyes! If you see Kalabhairava, you see nothing other than eyes! If you see Kashi Kalabhairava, *it is* as if the eyes have a mouth, nose, eyes, ears, hands and legs! It is not as if the body has eyes; the eyes are having hands, legs, lips and nose!
The state of fear can be born in you only when you are inauthentic. Only a man in authenticity, living authenticity, is a liberated one. The courage
*Inauthenticity makes postponing and procrastination a pattern in you.*
of authenticity is the ornament of a *sannyasi*. It is the grace of a *sannyasi*. The courage of authenticity should be the *rudraksha* for *sannyasi*. The courage which comes out of authenticity is the only true ornament around the neck of the *sannyasi*. With authenticity, even the *halahala* poison cannot do anything to you. With inauthenticity, even if you drink nectar, you will be cut into pieces!
Rahu drank the nectar with inauthenticity. He did not live, he did not achieve the result of the nectar; he did not achieve what he should achieve by the nectar. Instead, he became piece-piece! He is still hiding without identity. Rahu is called the shadow planet, do you know that?
With authenticity, even if you drinkthe *halahala* poison, it will not have any effect, because enrichment protects you. Devi protects you. *Halahala* cannot cross the power of enrichment - the heart. That is why it could not cross from Shiva's throat to *anahata,* where Devi is sitting and enriching. If enrichment is sitting in the heart, even poison cannot cross your throat!
Authenticity is the ornament of a *sannyasi*. Only with authenticity does love starts flowing. Two days ago, a *brahmachari* came to me with a problem he was facing. There was a discussion between him and me. I did not utter a single loving word to him, but he has realized that I love him. I have not uttered even a single word like 'I love you, you are my child; I will help you'*.* Mine is Kalabhairava's love; I have not uttered a single loving word or made a loving gesture, but he realized I love him. I tell you, with authenticity comes real love, care and concern. Only with authenticity comes not giving up on people, not giving up on people and not giving up on people. Only with authenticity, can you express true love.
Drill yourself again and again with authenticity and integrity. Again and again, let your thinking become integrity and authenticity. Only with authenticity, can you enrich others and yourself. Whether you or others, you can enrich only by authenticity. Go on enriching in every possible way and enrich people. It will happen only with authenticity. Inauthenticity is the pus. Until it leaves your system, neither will you be healthy nor will you make others healthy. Remove the pus from your system; you will be healthy and you will make others healthy. Inauthenticity is the unnecessary fat in your body; push it out, there is no other shortcut. You can't put everything under the carpet. Bring integrity and authenticity, in every step, in every line, in every thought. Enrich people in all possible ways. That is possible only with authenticity. Listen! Enrich people in all possible ways. That is possible only with authenticity!
*I bless you all to achieve success in the completion process. I bless you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM'!*
*Only with authenticity, can you enrich others and yourself.*
*Wake up to your responsibilities. When you take up responsibility, you begin living life. I tell you, when you sit with this responsibility in your ananda gandha, you will see that your kundalini awakens and sends a strong wave to the cosmos, and your word changes the world!*
# **Wake Up To Your Highest Possibility**
**Tuesday, February 26th 2013**
Today, I will explain about responsibility.
One of my *sannyasis* has a question, *'Swamiji, you had earlier said that if we are in depression, we should just close our doors and not come out, and we will see that the depression will just go off."*
No! That is in a different context, for a different reason. Okay? I thought you will have good company within you, but that is not happening. So you have to at least have good company outside of you. |
# Wake Up To Your Highest Possibility
Wake up to responsibility; you wake up to life. I tell you, each petal in your *ānanda gandha chakra* opens up with new powers, when you take up responsibility. *ānanda gandha* is visualized as an eight-petal lotus. Each petal opens up, when you enrich others and yourself. Go on enriching, go on taking responsibility, go on enriching, go on taking responsibility. Even when you are fighting with your enemy, if you are
fighting out of completion, you are only enriching him with the right lessons.
Listen! When you fight with your enemy out of completion, you are only enriching him with the lesson he needs to learn. Out of incompletion, even if you are teaching, you are only creating some more mental slaves for you, ideological slaves for you. How many of cognize this?
Even the most sacred thing like teaching should not be done out of incompletion. Out of completion, even the scariest things like fighting will only be teaching the right lesson to the enemy. Even fighting can become teaching, if you are in completion. If you are in incompletion, even the teaching will become fighting.
All of you start. This is the first instruction - *Guruvak*. From today, declare that you are complete, and do completion from all your old patterns, the self-fulfilling negative prophecies and complete all of them. I can see each one of you guys shining. I can see you guys doing it! Wake up to your responsibilities. When you take up responsibility, you begin living life. I tell you, when you sit with this responsibility in your *ānanda gandha*, you will see that your *kundalini* awakens and sends a strong wave to the cosmos, and your word changes the world.
I tell you guys, responsibility is the energy in which your life flowers and blooms. Responsibility is the lotus on which this *peetha* is sitting. Only if you learn to think with the four *tattvas*, you will learn to be in no-mind space, you will experience non-thinking space, not before that. First learn to think with these four *tattvas* as reality. Responsibility is the energy on which your life flowers. Responsibility is the energy on which your life flowers!
I tell you, sit with the space of impossible possibility, which I call responsibility. Responsibility means, the space where the impossibility becomes possibility. Miracle powers are at your disposal; they start expressing. I tell you, now each one of you who are vibrating with responsibility in your heart, you will start expressing these miracle powers like *vak-siddhi,* materialising, awakening your *kundalini* and others' *kundalini and* enriching yourself and others with these *tattvas.*
Responsibility is the space where the impossible becomes possible. Wake up! Wake up to the call of your heart's responsibility. How many of you have felt authentically, the joy of taking a huge responsibility in your life? I tell you, that is 'THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM'. Make that in your heart as THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.
Listen to the call of responsibility of your heart. Remember, this season is the *poornatva* season, the season of completion. Continuously do completion, so that your irresponsible patterns die down, wither away and responsibility starts happening. Wake up to the responsibility. Every *sangha* should have this collective responsibility meeting within this *poornatva ritu*, until *Guru Poornima*. Before the *Guru Poornima,* you should all have the collective responsibility meeting, after completion. Or if you have done the collective responsibility meeting, you should even then continue the completion. All
*Responsibility is the energy on which your life flowers.*
the *sanghas* should do completion and collective responsibility meetings. Remember, this is the season of *poornatva*.
Continuously awaken the state of completion in you. I tell you, by this declaration and completion, you guys have already become Kali, *Durga (symbols of courage).* Now *Lakshmi (wealth) and Saraswati (wisdom)* will simply support you. It'll simply happen, because whenever *Durga* happens, *Lakshmi and Saraswati* rush there to support *Durga's* mission, *Kali's* mission. You guys have now shown the power, now *Lakshmi* and *Saraswati* will simply be there to support you guys.
Even I feel that something which I can't even grasp, is happening! I can see very clearly - the *sangha* has made all these declarations with integrity, authenticity, responsibility, and enriching. They have not said it with lack of integrity or authenticity, thinking, 'Let us just say it for now, what is there!' No! No inauthenticity! They did it with authenticity and that is why I see that I am also responding with so much of power of authenticity. That is why it is provoking and awakening so much power of authenticity in me. I tell you guys. Now, even your lack of integrity, inauthenticity - whatever is there now - *everything* will be imbibed and absorbed into your authenticity and integrity. It is like all the unnecessary things will become manure for the banyan tree that you guys are growing!
One of my *ashramites* is sending me a reminder, that I said I will talk on *viraja homa* today. I tell you, I am not just talking on *viraja homa, I am doing viraja homa now! Because, burning each one of your incompletions and irresponsibility I S the *viraja homa*.
*virajā vipaapmā bhūyāt svāhā* Let all the unnecessary dirt which is in me be burnt away.
*antaratmā me śuddhyantām* Let my inner space become pure.
*bahirātmā me śuddhyantām*
Let the life happening outside of me also become pure.
Understand, you don't have only *antaratma*; life is not happening to you only on the inside. It is happening to you outside also. That is why the *Upanishad rishi* is using two words; otherwise he could have just said, *'antaratma me śudyantām'.* No! He says, '*antaratma me śuddhyantām, bahirātmā me śuddhyantām, jyotiraham, virajāvipāpmā bhūyāt svāhā.'*
Because life is happening to you inside and outside, both. If life is not happening to you inside, it is depression; if life is not happening to you outside, it is inefficiency. If life is happening to you inside, it is responsibility, if life is happening to you outside, it is success. Understand? You cannot say life happens to me inside, but not outside. No! Be very clear: if life is happening outside, then life is happening inside also. Whoever is saying, *life is happening to me inside but not outside,* are called pseudo-*vedantis*. Whoever says, *life is happening to*
*If life is not happening to you inside, it is depression; if life is not happening to you outside, it is inefficiency.*
*me inside and outside also*, you belong to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM *sampradaya*. Some teachings say that life happens only outside, there is nothing called 'inside'. I completely differ. Life happens to you inside and outside; if you think it is only inside and not outside, you don't know outside. If you think it is only outside and not inside, you don't know inside. Life happens inside and outside ,both.
Every conflict inside you and outside you should be solved only with these four *tattvas*. These four *tattvas* are the fire in which the *viraja* happens to you*. Vi-raja* means *viraja* - free of impurities. Only when you offer yourself into the fire of these four *tattvas, this vedaagni, this jnanaagni - the fire of knowledge,* you become '*viraja' -* free of impurities.
I always wanted to initiate a hundred people into *sannyas,* in one batch. Now my dream is going to be fulfilled, my vision is going to be fulfilled. This *Shivaratri,* we will be initiating a hundred people into *krama brahmacharya*, *naishthika brahmacharya and sannyas*. At least a hundred people will be going through the *viraja homa, and I will be initiating them.*
Stand up with the courage of authenticity as your bone marrow, with the sweetness of enriching as your skin glow, with integrity as your inner software, with responsibility as your muscles, with completion as your blood flow, with commitment to the *Guru* and *sangha* as your breathing energy, with this one declaration that whatever may be the conflicts inside and outside, you will only resolve them with these four *tattvas.* And you will not give up on you; you will never give up on you. Live these four *tattvas*! There is nothing which can't be solved with these four *tattvas*. We will use nothing else to solve any conflict, other than these four *tattvas*.
Life means continuously practicing these four *tattvas* with excitement; not allowing you to settle down with the 'it's okay' pattern. You should settle down only with the four *tattvas.* Sometimes you may think, 'No, I need a vacation!' Your vacation IS settling with the four *tattvas!* When you don't settle with the four *tattvas*, you are at work. When you settle with the four *tattvas,* you have vacation. That is the truth. Live these four *tattvas* and enrich the whole universe!
When you live these four *tattvas,* your job is also enriching, your breathing is also enriching, *everything* is enriching! Whatever you do should be directly enriching. If you're maintaining an ashram, it should be enriching. If you're working in an IT company, it should be enriching people. You may get paid to take care of your family and your responsibilities, but you should only be aiming at enriching. Living life means continuously living these four *tattvas.*
*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 don't settle with the four tattvas, you are at work. When you settle with the four tattvas, you have vacation. That is the truth.*
*The word that you give you and others is the bone structure of your life. That is the bone structure of your life! If you continuously break the bones of your life, how will your life be? The word you give to others is the inner structure of your success in life!*
# Four Truths Of Life
**Wed, 27 February 2013**
I am going to define the four *tattvas* – integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching yourself and others. Today, I am going to redefine these four, for all of you to imbibe them clearly.
*Integrity is fulfilling the word and thought you give to yourself and to others, and experiencing a state of completion – poornatva – with yourself, and with Life.*
Listen, the word that you give you and others is the bone structure of your life. That is the bone structure of your life! If you continuously break the bones of your life, how will your life be? Full of pain, distorted, '*vakra'*, perverted. The word you give yourself is the bone structure of your inner personality, the word you give to others is the inner structure of your success in life. If you are constantly breaking your bones, then life will be painful, a suffering and a torture!
Life is based on the word you give yourself and others. How many of you cognize what I am saying? It is based on the words that everything starts. So, the word you give yourself and to others is your life. It is literally your LIFE!
You have to fulfill the word you give yourself and others as your very life. If you are really sure that you can't do it, then you should at least do the bone transplantation, but not fracture the bone. Do bone transplantation. It means you should complete the word by declaring that you will not be able to fulfill that word. Finally, complete it.
For example, you have given a word that you will give a million dollars to somebody. It is your life! You *have to* fulfill that word now. But if you are very sure that you will not be able to fulfill that word, at least complete with them saying, 'I will not be able to fulfill it. I am taking my word back. Please look for some other source.' Even this is a completion.
But the second choice should be used like a bone surgery. Will you do bone surgery to yourself every day? No! You will rarely do bone surgery. It cannot be done every day. In the same way, you cannot just complete by taking back your word every day. While giving the word itself, you should be aware enough that you are going to fulfill it. Only rarely is surgery allowed. But there should be nothing incomplete without fulfilling or completing it. Experience a state of *poornatva*, completion with you and with life.
How many of you do more completion and less fulfilling? Raise your hand. Giving a word and then taking it back; completing it, instead of fulfilling it. Raise your hands. You are all living in unconsciousness. You are living in utter unconsciousness! You give your word, but you are not aware of what you are doing.
Integrity is you fulfilling the word and thought you give to yourself and to others and experiencing a state of *poornatva*, completion with yourself and life.
If you give a word, be very clear that your life has already started building. You have started building your life. You have to fulfill it. It is your LIFE! Dropping the word and completing is like pulling down the structure and rebuilding it. How many times do you pull down the structure and rebuild?
If you build a hundred buildings, maybe one will be pulled down and rebuilt. But what do you do in your life? If you give hundred words, ninety-nine are pulled down and rebuilt. What does it mean? You still have no respect for life. You are not aware of what you are doing. You need to become sincere. You need to have the courage of authenticity before you give a word. You should ensure that your authenticity is kept alive. I tell you, *authenticity is death for your boredom, and excitement for your life*. Because authenticity kills the old way of living, it is a death for you and it is an intense excitement to live.
Applying the sacred ash on your forehead means that you declare and commit, 'All my decisions will be based just on this one truth of authenticity, because nothing else (other than authenticity)
*Authenticity is death for your boredom and excitement for your life.*
should interfere in my decision-making. Everything else is only ash. It will only become ash. So, all these things, which will become ash, should not be a part of my strategy planning! My strategy for life, my strategy for success, *everything* should only be from authenticity.'
I have a question from a participant, '*Sometimes, we commit to something when we are in the mood, and in some days we don't feel that we need to fulfill it. Should we do it, just because we gave the word, without the spirit behind the words? Can we drop that commitment in this case?*' |
# Success Is The Space Of 'Possibility'
In eleven days, he declared and decided to build the temple and cover it in gold. He allotted enough number of people and villages to keep this alive. He allotted four hundred dancers, five hundred and seventy priests and ten thousand people, who maintained and settled around the temple, just to take care of it. Can you imagine the houses of the people, who belong to the temple? It is the space of making things which you can't even grasp through your eyes but which you can grasp only through your visualisation! That space is *life* oozing in your muscles! Come on, let us live it!
We have sixty days to make the space of possibility as a part of our bio-memory. Let this be used by you and by your muscle-memory to taste the space of possibility! It is not only divorcing tiredness and boredom, but also imbibing ecstasy! Your heart and being should continuously tell you that it is possible. I can see it happening. There is no question of struggling and no question of visualizing failure, because *there is no failure*! If you are visualizing failure and failing, even that is success. So there is no such thing as failure. There is only success in life! You get what you visualize!
You will all only cognize success, and the space of possibility, like Hanuman, he is the space of possibility, as is Nandi. Your chest will expand when you carry that space of possibility. Be constantly in the space of success. When you go to a person to enrich him, know that he is getting enriched. Go in that space. Don't think, 'Oh! His logic may not match with my logic. I have to prepare myself, argue with him and convince him. No! Enriching people will be your breath from today. All of you understand, no matter how much you do, if the thought 'It is impossible' has interfered, it is impossible!
Just imagine how much Rajaraja would have suffered, internally and externally. The Tanjore temple was built in five years – three days less than five years! He completed it and the *kumbhabhishekam*
*Ecstasy is the space where anything impossible looks possible, because you are in the space of possibility.*
was done. The gold plating was done later, but the *kumbhabhishekam* of the temple was done! The gold was donated for his birthday. Then, the sheets were made, carved and fixed on the temple.
*Taking up the responsibility is the space of possibility*! You may say, 'He said it, and so everyone listened.' Please understand, his regime was almost like a democracy. He was like a president that's all. All the local bodies agreed to it and took it up.
He made this possible, just by inspiring people with his charisma! It's not like the whole country worked for this project. His son recorded all the sculptors and craftsmen. And just so that they don't go out of a job, he created a *second* temple! He also thought that he should not be taller than his father. So he reduced the height of the second temple by six or seven feet, just to respect his father. He created a second temple just to engage the sculptors and craftsmen. This means that only one section of the people worked on the first temple, and not the whole country.
Can you imagine the spirit and inspiration of the space of possibility? Life starts with the space of possibility!!
I tell you, bliss or *ananda* means 'the space of possibility, where life oozes out of you'. *Everything* should create a space of possibility in you. This temple structure was also the first time on planet earth when a structure was fully built with granite. For this, Raja Raja's heart would have said it, and his inner space too would have said 'It is possible'.
See, all I am trying to tell you guys is to taking the jump of 'possible'. When you see the space of possibility that Raja Raja lived and radiated, enriching a thousand human beings and inspiring them seems too small.
We are not taking any risk here, of trial-and-error, or gambling. But Raja Raja literally gambled his whole name, prestige & credibility. If something had happened while building it or the structure did not stand or collapsed, Raja Raja would have collapsed. Because his gambled his prestige, credibility and the trust that people had on him. *He did everything from the space of possibility and he did it*! In those eleven days when he declared and laid the foundation stone, he was in the peak of possibility and he made it happen!
I assure and commit with you guys, I will put you guys in the peak of possibility within the next few days. I am already pushing the whole collective consciousness of the *sangha* to the peak of possibility! Use this enriching celebration to experience the peak of possibility. The peak of possibility should be realized in every human being so that you become empty. You are nothing but a 'NO'. When the 'NO's disappear, you disappear and the *satyas* start living through you. Your personality is made of 'NO's and your identity is made of 'YES'. Let your personality be dropped and identity be awakened. Your personality is given by society but identity is natural. Start enriching others in the best way, you will see that you are getting enriched!
I can see that since yesterday the *sangha* has entered into a new phase. Listen! Listen! Listen! Through
*Taking up the responsibility is the space of possibility. Life starts with the space of possibility.*
# Success Is The Space Of 'Possibility'
this May-2013 IA celebration, let us all make authenticity as our lifestyle. Let us make living to our peak possibility as our lifestyle. We have to earn it and build it. It will not happen tomorrow, it will happen NOW! When you are in the space of possibility every person is a possibility. Constantly be in the space of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching others. Enrich, enrich & enrich, you will make it and do it. The moment you remember the *tattvas*, the space is ecstasy. When you go with the space of possibility, you will engulf whoever you speak to with your ecstasy and inspiration. They are taken along with your Tsunami and Tornado! The *garbha* of each woman carries the space of possibility and that is why it can create a body. Let all of you carry the space of possibility in your *ananda gandha*.
The space of possibility is ecstasy, the space of positivity is joy, the space of leadership is *ananda* and the space of Enlightenment is *THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM*.
*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.*
*Whenever you look at any destruction as a reminder of your inauthenticity and irresponsibility, it is no more a destruction in your life. You have learnt how to make anything negative into something positive, to strengthen your life. If you are able to make anything negative into positive the moment it enters into your life, you are S HIVA - Causeless Auspiciousness.*
# Transforming Your Negativity Is Shiva-Power
**Sunday, 10th March 2013**
Today is *Shivaratri* - the day when timelessness – formlessness -namelessness appeared into the space of time, form and name, as Arunachaleshwara, for conflict-resolution and giving enlightenment to the gods Brahma and Vishnu. So the appearance itself happened for the sake of conflict-resolution.
Once, there was a conflict between *Brahma* and *Vishnu*. Conflict happens only when there is an ego. Both sides are responsible for the conflict. Even if one side does not have ego, the conflict will not happen. For any conflict, two egos are required, both of which are not ready to resolve the conflict, be authentic or take responsibility for the other's inauthenticity. For a conflict to happen, there must be lack of integrity, lack of authenticity and lack of responsibility to take responsibility for the other's irresponsibility and selfishness, and lack of the *tattva* of enriching. Only when all four are lacking, conflict is possible. When anybody who is in space, time and form forgets to take responsibility for other's irresponsibility, there will be conflict.
Between Brahma and Vishnu, a conflict happened about who among them is greater. Both of them were exposing each other, but were not ready to take responsibility for the other's inauthenticity.
The conflict started between Brahma and Vishnu. In a way, it's a fight between the father and the son; just the generation gap! The son is trying to teach a lesson to the father, 'You may be older, but I know much more about computers than you know. I can use this gadget much better than you!'
Listen! People who don't feel responsible even for their own actions are living in poverty. When I say poverty, I don't mean physical wealth alone; they also live a low-level existence, animallevel existence. People who take responsibility only for their own actions are human beings. People who take responsibility even for others' actions, others' irresponsibility, are leaders. Even though you or your action are not responsible, taking responsibility for others' inauthenticity and others' irresponsibility makes you leader, makes you divine. Unfortunately, here neither Vishnu nor Brahma was ready to realize their own inauthenticity and take responsibility for the other's inauthenticity.
Realize one truth: the moment you have conflict, you have lost the space of the ultimate in you! In
*Conflict happens only when there is an ego.*
# Transforming Your Negativity Is Shiva-Power
the space of the ultimate, there is no conflict. If there is conflict, the space of the ultimate is lost.
Brahma and Vishnu both lost the space of the ultimate in them. Now the universe is at stake! So Shiva (Mahadeva), the guy who is responsible for everything, who has to come and rescue everybody, who has to take responsibility for everybody's irresponsibility and inauthenticity, enters into the realm of space and time. As *Arunachaleshwara*, as a pillar of light, a *jyoti sthambha*, *Mahadeva* appears to teach them the truth. Anybody who is bound by space, time, name and form has to take responsibility for their existence. Mahadeva appears to do the conflict resolution, to remind Vishnu and Brahma to take responsibility for their way of existence.
*srishti* (creation) and *sthiti* (sustenance) think that they are the ultimate until destruction enters their life. Only when destruction enters their life, do they realize that they are not the ultimate! That is why Mahadeva has to happen in their life in the form of *Rudra,* destruction. You should realize that whenever *Rudra* has happened in your life, it is to remind you of your inauthenticity. All forms of *Rudra* happening in your life is to remind you to take up responsibility for your inauthenticity and irresponsibility.
Mahadeva appears to Brahma and Vishnu to expose their inauthenticity to them, and make them responsible for their inauthenticity and others' inauthenticity.
Today is the day Mahadeva appeared to resolve the conflict between *Brahma* and *Vishnu*, to remind them of their inauthenticity and ultimately enrich them with enlightenment. *Mahashivaratri* is the day to celebrate timelessness entering into time. I can say that in a way,
today is the day the Hindu calendar starts. The calculation of time starts from today. So naturally, *Shivaratri* is the oldest celebration, because the calendar starts today, the calculation of time starts today. Mahadeva has to appear again and again in your life to remind you that you are in state of inauthenticity and make you take responsibility to restore authenticity.
Whenever you look at any destruction as a reminder of your inauthenticity and irresponsibility, it is no more a destruction in your life. You have learnt how to make anything negative into something positive, to strengthen your life. If you are able to make anything negative into positive the moment it enters into your life, you are SHIVA - Causeless Auspiciousness. I am grateful and thank and congratulate my *sangha* for being and continually becoming Shiva. It is so beautiful. They are fulfilling my vision of one hundred *sannyasis* today, so refreshing, so alive, so joyful; feel like just born today, to live forever!
There are some things that have birth and death, such as your body. There are some things that have no birth but death, like illusion and delusion - *maya*. It has no beginning but it has death, it has anend. There are some things which only have a beginning, no end. That is the *sangha* of the Master. It only has birth and no death.
*If you are able to make anything negative into positive the moment it enters into your life, you are SHIVA - Causeless Auspiciousness.*
# Transforming Your Negativity Is Shiva-Power
*The river Ganga* only has birth but no death. It never dies. It becomes an ocean, but never dies. It may become an ocean, but it is still alive. It has no death. So listen! When any destruction comes in front of our face, we should know that *Rudra* is coming to remind us to take more responsibility and become more authentic. We are doing it; we will convert everything into the space of positivity and possibility!
Listen! Intense integrity brings you into the space of positivity, because if you are integrated, you will constantly be looking at the words you utter to you and to others. You will weed out all the negative processes, all the negative commitments you are giving to you and to others. This will leave you with the *prasad*, the gift of positively positive space, real positive space. And authenticity gives you the *prasad* of space of possibility, just a space of possibility.
When Rudra comes, face him with possibility and authenticity, and he becomes Shiva. Rudra becomes Shiva, causeless auspiciousness. He becomes the space of rejuvenation, not just destruction. When he becomes the space of rejuvenation, he is no more the space of destruction. The space of possibility makes Shiva happen in you. Shiva happens in you. Whenever you view any destruction happening in your life as happening only to expand you, you are in the state of *Shiva*. *Rudra* becomes *Shiva.*
Brahma should have been established in the state of integrity, because he represents the word. Vishnu should have been established in authenticity, because he is all-pervading, *sarva vyaapi*. When Brahma fell from integrity, Vishnu fell from authenticity. The conflict happened, and responsibility has to appear in the form of Mahadeva, taking responsibility for both, the lack of integrity and the lack of authenticity; reminding them and putting them back into the space of integrity and
authenticity. This action is enriching. *Mahadeva*, the embodiment of responsibility, appears to enrich Vishnu and Brahma, and to remind them about their inauthenticity and lack of integrity. |
The four principles are the essence of all spiritual scriptures! Any problem of your life, any conflict in your life can be handled very practically, very efficiently, very skillfully, with these four principles. I can say with my entire experience that these four principles are the essence of all spiritual scriptures!
Listen! The first principle is integrity. Let me define integrity. *Integrity means you fulfilling the word and thoughts you give to yourself and to others, and experiencing the state of poornatva, completion, with yourself and with life.*
We all know honesty. Honesty is more like ethics, morality. But with the *tattva* of integrity, I am taking you a step deeper than honesty. With honesty, you only have to honor the words that you give to others. In integrity, you have to honor even the words that you give to yourself. Honesty is not integrity. Integrity is *also* honesty.
Listen! It is very unfortunate that society teaches you that you have to honor the words that you give to others, but forgets to teach you that you also have to honor the words that you give to yourself. The society treats you more like a utility. That is why it teaches you to honor the words that you give to society, but not the words that you give to yourself !
*The society only teaches you to honor the words that you give to society, but not the words you give to yourself.*
The words you give to yourself are as important as, or more important than, the words you give to others. Because the flow of your life - the amount of contentment that you feel in your life, the degree of fulfillment that you feel in your life and the experience of fulfillment that you feel in your life, *everything* depends on the words that you have given to you and the words which you have given to you.
Listen! The words you give to yourself form the bone structure of your life. If you commit with you that you will become a doctor, and if you don't honor that word, and you don't even bother to complete that word inside your heart, that word hangs inside you as a broken commitment given by you. When you break the commitments you give, you lose selfconfidence.
The more commitments you give and break, the more your selfconfidence is lost. You lose confidence in *you*. When you break the words given to others, it takes away their confidence in you, when you break the words you give to yourself, you lose confidence in yourself. When you don't honor the words you gave to yourself, and don't even bother to complete with them, the broken commitments that hang in your heart take away your self-confidence in life.
Listen! I will give you an example. If you give your word to somebody that you will give them ten lakh rupees, you have to honor that word as if it is your *life*! Do whatever it takes and get that money to them as per your commitment. If you know that even if you give your life, you will not be able to give them that money, at least tell them ahead of time that you will not be able to do what you said. Tell them that you are taking the word back, and you are completing with them about it. Even completion is integrity. Completion is also integrity.
Listen. Honoring is integrity. If you know that you cannot honor your commitment even if you give your life, only then can you go for completion. When you don't honor the commitments, the broken commitments take away the life happening to you. Life doesn't happen to you when you break the words you give to yourself and to others. When you break the words given to others, they lose confidence in you. When you break the words you give to yourself, you lose confidence in *you*!
In my life, I have seen, thousands of people who suffer with some form of addiction. Addiction does not mean addicted to alcohol or drugs or smoking. There are millions of addictions. There are some people who are addicted to talking. Some people are addicted to sleeping. Understand, those with addictions suffer more due to their low selfconfidence than due to their addiction. A drug addict suffers more because of his broken selfconfidence than his drug addiction. Again and again, he gives a word to himself that he will break the addiction pattern and come out of it, and again he falls into it!
Every time you honor the word you give yourself, self-confidence starts oozing in your musclememory and your bio-memory. When you honor the word you give to others, confidence oozes in your relationships. Others losing confidence in you takes away all the wealth of your life! You
*When you honour the word you give to others, confidence oozes in your relationships.*
losing confidence in you take away *life* itself from you! Please listen! Others losing confidence in you takes away the wealth of life from you! You losing confidence in you takes away life itself from you. How many of you are cognizing it?
When you break the words you give to others, they lose confidence in you. When you break the words you give yourself, you lose confidence in you. If you do not honor the words you give to yourself again and again, then the habit of not honoring the words you give yourself becomes part of your muscle-memory. Losing confidence over yourself becomes part of your muscle-memory. That is why even your willpower cannot heal your body.
I see this many times in my experience with people. Some people come out of even cancer with their will-power. Some people can't get out of their simple cough or headache, even with all their meditation and everything. It is because of the power of completion, integrity. If you are in integrity with you, any word you give yourself, even your muscles will listen to it.
The word you give yourself is the bone structure you form for your life. You *have* to honor it. If you are not able to honor it even by giving your life, at least you have to complete it. The words you utter towards yourself, the words you give to yourself, can be nectar or poison. The words you constantly repeat to yourself, the words you constantly tell yourself, have to be enriching you, inspiring you, exciting you and enlightening you. The words you give to you are *aahara,* what you consume to create life in you.
The first principle of life is integrity. When you start thinking and speaking with integrity, the ultimate possible inner cleaning happens.
Your inside becomes clean. Your *antaryami*, inner Presence, starts shining. Listen! As of now, your inner space is like an unattended, spoilt land with so many thorny bushes and weeds. That is why, whenever you make any decision in your business or any plan about your future, a corner of your mind always laughs at you and makes fun of you. It looks at you like a comedian. How much ever you try to be a hero, you judge yourself only as a comedian. You perceive yourself only as a comedian. You may struggle, struggle and struggle to be a hero, but you perceive yourself only as a comedian - because you constantly broke the words you gave yourself ! When you plan now for your future, or you try to give any word to you, you yourself don't have confidence in you because breaking the word you give yourself has already become your muscle memory. When you start thinking and speaking with integrity, the ultimate possibility and positivity happen in you!
Listen! You can run your life just in the level of mom- shop or pop-shop; that does not need great integrity. Because your whole investment is just a few hundred rupees, just a few dollars. Your whole income is just a few dollars or rupees. Then you may not need integrity. But if you want to live life - when I say life I mean LIFE - if you want to live life in a real way, then integrity, especially with yourself, is the first principle you need to start living.
*The words you constantly repeat to yourself have to be enriching you, inspiring you, exciting you and enlightening you.*
Today, I will expand completely on this one principle, integrity.
Whether you are happening to life, or life is happening to you, is the question here. You can happen to life in your scale, or life can happen to you in its scale. When you try to take over life, when you try to take over the *vishva,* it is more like trying to possess life. When *vishva* tries to take your *roopa,* it is *vishvaroopa, the experience of universal Life.* When you try to take over *vishva,* you try to possess, politically manipulate and control. But when *vishva* tries to take your *roopa*, *vishvaroopa* happens. The word you give yourself should be honored as the very life, life, life!
Integrity with yourself is the first thing you need to do in your life. Now, sit and list out all the words you gave yourself which you did not honor. At least now, complete with them. Tell yourself that you will not be able to fulfill them or honor them. Free yourself from the word you gave yourself. When you complete or honor the word you gave to you, you experience tremendous self-confidence, which is the base of the life that happens in you. With integrity, your relationship with you and your relationship with *sangha*, your relationship with others, starts. Your family is also your *sangha*; your place of work is your *sangha,* your place of profession is your *sangha*. Your circle of friends is your *sangha.* Your Facebook friends are your Facebook *sangha*. Whatever you do with people becomes *sangha*. That is why *satsanga* becomes very important in your life.
If you are not in *satsanga*, be very clear that you are in *dussanga (bad company).* Either you are in *satsangha* or in *dussanga*. You can never be in *nissanga* until you are enlightened.
I want to repeat the essence of today's satsang. Identify wherever you are in integrity with the words you gave to others and to yourself. I
repeat again and again, because you don't listen! Until you listen, I will repeat, I will continue to repeat!
*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 complete or honor the word you gave to you, you experience tremendous self-confidence.*
*Every one of us is greedy for powers that leaders have, the powers that gods and higher souls have, but unfortunately no one wants to take the responsibility for it. I tell you: the world has abundance. Neither wealth nor extraordinary powers are restricted when you take responsibility. When you start becoming responsible, powers, wealth, spiritual powers, all the auspicious things, start expressing through you intensely.*
# Responsibility Means Expanding Your Possibilities
**Thursday, 14th March 2013**
Today, I will expand on the concept of Responsibility.
*Responsibility means living, thinking, speaking, acting and responding to life from the truth that you are the source of everything happening inside and around you, and therefore you are responsible for all happenings inside and outside you!*
Let me repeat. Responsibility means living, responding, thinking, speaking, acting and reacting to life from the truth that you are the source of everything happening in and around you, and therefore you are responsible for all the happenings in and around you.
The biggest question we now have in our mind is, 'How can I be responsible for everything happening around me? I can be held responsible for what is happening inside me. How can I be held responsible for what is happening outside me? For example, if an accident happens in my life,
how can I be responsible?'
Everybody asks this question. Let me answer you.
- A person who does not feel responsible even for his own actions is an animal. He lives in a very low-level consciousness!
- A person who feels responsible for his own actions is a human being. He lives in a middle-level consciousness.
- A person who takes responsibility even for others' actions is divine. He lives in leadership consciousness, *ishvaratva*.
Sometimes, you may not be the reason for some happenings. But if it is affecting your life, you ARE responsible for those happenings. Just because you are not the reason as per your logic, you can't say that you are not responsible in truth. You may wonder, *how can I be responsible?* You need to know that unless you take responsibility, you are neither going to improve the situation, nor expand in inner space.
Vivek*ananda* says very beautifully, 'Take more and more responsibility; your shoulders will become stronger and stronger.'
In any field, freedom is the basic condition for growth. Responsibility brings the experience of freedom. With responsibility, your consciousness expands. Every one of us is greedy for powers that leaders have, the powers that gods and higher souls have. But unfortunately, no one wants to take the responsibility for it. I tell you: the world has abundance. Neither the wealth nor the extraordinary powers are restricted when you take responsibility. When you start becoming responsible, powers, wealth, spiritual powers, all the auspicious things, start expressing
# through you intensely!
Listen! Let me define responsibility. *Responding to you and the world from the best possibility is responsibility.* Responsibility not only awakens leadership qualities in you but also awakens leadership consciousness in you. Qualities are different, consciousness is different. In the corporate life, in the outer world, if you are taking responsibility for some position or post, you may express leadership qualities. But only when you take responsibility for everything happening in and around you do you express leadership consciousness.
When you expand, expand and expand, the commitments and responsibilities you hold in your being for yourself go on expanding and expressing all the possibilities. You either react or respond. You only have two ways of relating with the world. If you feel that you are not responsible, you react. If you feel that you are responsible, you respond. When all your actions are responses and not reactions, you are a *karma yogi*; no *karma* binds you, you are living in completion and expressing completion. When you feel that you are not responsible, you react. *Reacting puts you in bondage. Responding keeps you in completion!*
Only when you express all the possibilities out of liberation cognition, are you living your life. Life is
*A person who takes responsibility even for others' actions is divine.* |
Lived when *jeevanmukta sambhaavana,* the space of possibility, the space of leadership becomes your lifestyle! I tell you, nothing else is required for you to be a leader; just leadership consciousness is enough. When Vivekananda walked the length and breadth of India, he did not have anything other than leadership consciousness in his life. But wherever he went, kings washed his feet, gave their own thrones for him to sit, received his blessings and guidance and requested his spiritual support.
It is responsibility which makes you realize all possibility. It is leadership consciousness which brings not just success, but fulfillment in you. I tell you, I have seen thousands of politicians who have power without having the state of leadership consciousness. Sometimes, people sit on the throne or get the power and become power centers, without having the state of a leader. I have seen them dying in depression or suffering in suffocation, due to the power! They never enjoy the power. Unless you achieve the state, the status is a liability! If you have not achieved the state, the status binds you and also brings suffering to others. The state of responsibility, the state of the leader, *īśvaratva* - leadership consciousness has to be achieved first.
When you do not carry the consciousness of leader, even if you get the powers of the leader, you are bound by it. You will also bind the people who come under you, accepting you as leader. This is one of the biggest diseases with which India is suffering. There are many seats which are occupied by people who are not responsible enough for the seat they occupy. From the individual house, to official power, political power and media power - in every field, many people who have not achieved the state get the status. They become a liability!
Leadership consciousness is an independent intelligence; it cannot be hidden from others. Once you have it, the whole world will know that you have it; the world simply listens to you! You do not need any power, political strength or infrastructure for the world to know that you are a leader. Even if you walk on the street, you will stand tall - as a MAN among men. And the world will respect you!
I want all my *swamis* and *swaminis* to create their resume with a photograph! You can all post the way in which you want to express your unique character or energy. It should be published on the website. See, each one of you represent one ray of my energy. Somebody represents my intellect, somebody represents my devotion and somebody represents my being. Each one of you represents one ray of me.
Listen! If I am the sun, each one of you are the rays; each one of you represents a ray. So present yourself as the ray you represent - what you are offering to the world, what are the ways in which you are contributing and enriching the world. This is the statement you want to make to the world about yourself, the *ahaṁkāra* you are projecting. So, the *anyakara* of the world will start evolving around this. So be very clear on what you are!
And I tell you - you have the full freedom to declare that you are enlightened. You have complete freedom to declare this. Because when you declare, you are responsible, and you will have
*It is leadership consciousness which brings not just success, but fulfillment in you.*
# Responsibility Means Expanding Your Possibilities
to live it. You will have to demonstrate it. When you declare that you are enlightened, you should be able to stretch yourself to the *anyakaras* you create. Declaring enlightenment is not more power, it is more responsibility! Clear? So it is your individual choice. You can declare any day that you are enlightened. You are after all a *swami* now. You are an independent entity by existence. You can move the cosmos as you want. If the cosmos is not moving as you want, just create another one, that's all!
The space of positivity, possibility, *īśvaratva* and enlightenment is your space. So from there, you can declare anything you want, and make it into reality, in any way you want. And anybody who wants to be part of this order can start applying and preparing yourself to be part of this order. Great!
*Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share and explode in eternal bliss – THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM!*
## The Science of Living Enlightenment - Revealing the four sacred principles that empower YOU!_English_part_6.md
*Do not think that if you only enrich yourself, you will experience completion and fulfillment in life. No! Enriching others is a basic necessity of your life, for experiencing fulfillment. When you enrich those with whom life is happening to you, only then will life be complete and enriched for you. Enriching others making others life alive!*
# **Life is All About Relationships**
**Friday, 15th March 2013**
Today, I will expand on the fourth principle of life, enriching. Please listen!
*Enriching means you taking the responsibility with integrity and authenticity that you are committed to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and life in and around you.* Enriching means continuously expanding you with these four principles, and continuously enriching others to expand with these four principles.
Listen! This is the first question that will usually come in peoples' minds, especially, if you are a spiritual seeker. 'Why should I enrich others with these principles? If I live these principles, is that not enough? Why do I need to enrich others with these principles?' Most of you must be having this question!
You should understand. *life happens to us outside us*! Consciousness may be inside, but life is happening outside! If you are just sitting inside a cave in a deep jungle, you eat some forest fruits and drink the *Ganga* water and sleep and you don't see people at all, then you may not need to enrich others. But even then, you need to enrich the tree which gives you fruit and the river which gives you water! In our life, in practical life, life is happening to us outside us!
Let's analyze this, internalize this and understand. *manana* - let us do *manana* - contemplation, and understand this. Who are you? You are just a collection of all your identities. I can take any one example. Any one of you would like to volunteer? Come to the mike. Let me analyze your life and give you the right way of enriching.
Swamiji: Let us see. What are the identities which put together, make you who you are?
Devotee: *Daughter, mother, wife, daughter-inlaw, friend, teacher, student, devotee, disciple, entrepreneur… that's all.*
Swamiji: Now, I will take her example and tell you. See, if your personality is one hundred percent, each one of these identities has some percentage in your personality. Maybe, the identity that you are a daughter occupies twenty percent; the identity that you are a wife occupies twenty to thirty percent; the identity that you are a disciple may occupy some twenty to thirty percent and the
*If you give up on you, you fall into depression. If you give up on others, you fall into loneliness. Don't give up on you and others.*
# Life is All About Relationships
identity that you are a teacher may occupy ten percent. These different identities occupy certain percentages of your being. Am I right?
So now, your identity as a daughter can get fulfilled only if your father is enriched! Life can happen to you in the ultimate form as a daughter, only if your father is enriched. Life can happen to you completely as a wife, only if your husband is enriched. So if your personality is one hundred percent, each person has a share. Only if each person involved in your personality, in your relationships, with whom life is happening to you, only if all of them are enriched, will *your* life be complete and enriched.
Do not think that if you only enrich yourself, you will experience completion and fulfillment in life. No! Enriching others is a basic necessity of your life, for experiencing fulfillment. You can never be complete or fulfilled if all the people who are involved in your life are not complete or fulfilled. Only when they are all enriched with these four principles, you will experience enrichment with these four principles. When you enrich those with whom life is happening to you, only then will life be complete and enriched for you. Enriching others making others life alive!
Swami Vivekananda says beautifully, when he defines the ideal for his organization, '*ātmano mokṣārtham jagat hitāya ca' -* for the sake of the world's well-being and for the sake of one's own liberation. Please listen! He is not just saying 'for one's own liberation'; he says, 'for the sake of the well-being of the world also – '*jagat hitāya ca'*.
Again and again, seekers have this problem, 'Why should I enrich others' life?' This is one of the biggest problems we have. 'I should live, I understand that, but why I should bother about others? After all, the world is an illusion!' You can realize the truth that the world is an illusion only when you are in completion; only when the *pūrṇa* is experienced! *pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṁ -* only out of *pūrṇa*, is *pūrṇa* experienced! Only out of completion does completion happen. Listen, only when you enrich others are you enriched! I can tell you one thing from my experience. Only when you start teaching others do you realize the truth completely.
There is a proverb in Sanskrit: 'When you listen to the truth from the master, you only understand twenty five percent. When you clarify your doubts, you understand fifty percent. When you discuss among your friends, you understand seventy five percent. Only when you start teaching and sharing with others do you understand one hundred percent!
Vivekananda says that unless you enrich those with whom life is happening to you, you can never experience fulfillment. Especially the people who are involved in your life, like your employees, boss, father, mother, whoever is involved in your life. If they are not radiating these principles, you are not going to be experiencing fulfillment, you are not going to be experiencing the truth, you are not going to be experiencing completion, enriching does not happen to you. Unless you enrich others, you will never be complete, because life is happening to you outside you!
*You can realize the truth that the world is an illusion only when you are in completion.*
# Life is All About Relationships
Please listen, only consciousness is happening to you inside; life itself is happening to you outside. Because consciousness is inside, you think that life happens to you inside. The source may be inside, but the happening is outside!
Enriching is taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity, that you are committed to continuously enriching yourself and enriching others. Not giving upon you and people - this is the *mūla mantra*. Not giving up on you and people! I tell you, if you give up on others without enriching them, you will give up on yourself. You will give up on yourself ! If you don't have the patience to continuously enrich others, without giving up on them, you will N O T have the patience to enrich you without giving up on you!
*When you give up on you, what happens to you physically is disease, what happens to you mentally is depression, and what happens to you consciously is bondage*! When you give up on yourself physically, your health will be broken. When you give up on yourself mentally, you will fall into depression. When you give up on yourself spiritually, you will fall into bondage. When you don't give up on yourself, you build the *yogic* body, *Vedic* mind and enlightened consciousness. When you don't give up on others, you also create the same for others. I tell you, if you have the pattern of giving up on others, you will give up on you. Each person that you have not given up on in your life is one extra pair of hands that you have Each person you gave up on in your life is one broken hand!
Listen! Enriching happens to you only when you are also enriching others. Don't give up on others. If you give up on you, you fall into depression. If you give up on others, you fall into loneliness. Don't give up on you and don't give up on others. This is the essence of what I wanted to share with you all today.
From tomorrow, I will continue to expand on how to create a beautiful relationship with these four principles and how to apply these four principles and create fulfillment in the areas of health, wealth, life - in *every* line!
Please listen! Expansion in your consciousness happens only when enriching happens to the people around you. Without enriching others, completion and fulfillment will never be experienced inside you, however much you may try. With this understanding, even the business you do will be a great fulfillment. Until you experience fulfillment in others who are living around you, your inner space can never settle in completion.
*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 give up on you, what happens to you physically is disease, mentally is depression, and consciously is bondage.*
*With integrity, you will experience the relationship with yourself, for the first time. Until you align yourself to integrity, even you do not know what you really want in your life! Until you align yourself to integrity, even you do not know what you want in your life. You want something and you are doing something else!*
# **What is integrity in Relationships?**
**Saturday, 16th March 2013**
Today, I will expand on how these four principles of life can enrich you in your relationships.
The first principle of life is integrity. Just take a few minutes and visualize - if everyone around you talks to you with integrity and speaks only the truth to you and relates with you with integrity, how nice your life will be! Just take a few seconds and visualize this.
How many of you suffered in your life because people around you lied to you or did not have integrity towards you? Raise your hand.
Then, when you have suffered, why do you want to give the same suffering to others? We expect sympathy and integrity from others. But unfortunately, we ourselves don't live it. You expect integrity from others, but you do not feel the need to practice integrity in your own life.
# What is integrity in Relationships
Listen! I want all of you to know that integrity is not being promoted by me, as a morality or ethics. I am not promoting integrity as a morality or ethics. Integrity is much more than morality and ethics. I am offering integrity to you as a cosmic principle, as a cosmic law! When you are integrated, so many resources which are only there in you as a potential suddenly becomes a reality in you!
With integrity, you will experience a relationship with yourself for the first time! Until you align yourself to integrity, even you do not know what you really want in your life! Until you align yourself to integrity, even you do not know what you want in your life. You want something and you are doing something else.
Yesterday one of my *ananda yogam* students sent me a question about freedom. He was asking, *'Swamiji, you said freedom means aligning the possibilities you are creating with your free will. Is this freedom?'*
You are right, but your question needs to have a little more integrity! If you start living integrity, you will have the question itself from a deeper angle. Let me explain.
Please listen! When you give a word to yourself and you honor it, three things happen. First, your bio-memory will be aware while you give words to yourself; second, it will decide to remember whenever you give words to yourself; third, it will have tremendous self-confidence about the words you give to you.
Sometime people come and tell me, 'Swamiji, I forget the words that I give to me.' It is like you when you were a kid - when your kids give you words but you don't take them seriously. Why? Because you know that they won't fulfill them! They will say, 'I will wake up in the morning.' But, you know that they will not do it, because they have failed many times. So you don't take them seriously. In the same way, when you have not honored the words you gave to you many times, not only do you not take them seriously, you don't even bother to remember them. How many of you cognize what I am saying?
Many times, many times, because you built the pattern of not honoring the words you give to yourself, not only do you not bother to fulfill them, but you also do not bother to execute or remember them. Every word you talk to yourself is a commitment that you are giving yourself. With this understanding, you should think. It means, that you have so much of awareness, it needs to be infused while you think, while you give words to you.
Listen! It is unfortunate that society constantly reminds you to fulfill the words you give to society, but it does not teach you the basic truth that you need to fulfill and honor the words you give to yourself. Many times, you don't honor the words you give yourself. You don't even bother to remember the words you give yourself, because you built the pattern of not honoring the words you give yourself !
In *Spandakarika* and *Vignana Bhairava Tantra, when Mahadeva (Bhairava) teaches Bhairavi,* he brings in
*With integrity, you will experience a relationship with yourself for the first time!*
# What is integrity in Relationships
this point again and again. In almost twenty meditation techniques he says, 'By self-remembrance, enlightenment is achieved!'
Please listen! The first step towards self-remembrance is being integrated with yourself ! You should honor every word you give yourself, you should remember it. Only then will you have a beautiful relationship with yourself.
I tell you, if you are not complete with yourself, you can never have a vacation in your life. You may go to any beach and lie down, you may go to any resort and lie down, you may go to any tourist spot, you may go to any spa and try to have a vacation, but I guarantee you - if you are not complete with you, you cannot have a vacation! You simply cannot have a vacation if you are not complete with you!
Even if you lie down in a beach or sit in a park trying to enjoy the evening sunset, you are carrying an incomplete being. So, you will constantly be haunted by you, harassed by you. You carry the incomplete part of you, in you. You cannot leave that guy anywhere, no matter where you try to escape. Escaping from *you* is a race you will always lose!
So, the first step you need to do to have a vacation, is not booking your resort or flight ticket or golf course. No! Do completion with you. Do completion with you! That is the first step you need to do, if you want a vacation in your life.
It is so unfortunate that human beings don't do first things first. First, have a beautiful relationship with you. The best relationships start with you having a great relationship with you. How many of you cognize this truth?
Listen! Listen! LISTEN! I still have not asked the question. Listen! You prepared yourself for a great vacation; you booked your tickets, you booked your resort, and the whole family is ready. You go there for your vacation, but because your incompletions are haunting you, you are only more depressed, more disturbed and you come back to your work more tired. How many of you have experienced this? Raise your hand.
Now, first make a list of all the commitments you gave yourself and did not fulfill. Sit and write them down. Complete them first. If you have already honored them, great! If you are going to honor it, commit to honor it within a clear time-frame. If you are not able to honor, if you feel that you will not be able to honor it even by giving your life, then at least complete with yourself ! Relieve yourself from that commitment; consciously fulfill it. It is so unfortunate that you care so much about the words you give to others due to your fear or greed, but you don't care for the words you give yourself. Only if you complete with you, only if you are complete with you, you will be able to even be in the space of self-remembrance, restful awareness*, atma smarana*.
When I teach people techniques about selfremembrance, they come back and complain to me, 'Swamiji, I am not able to constantly be in remembrance of myself, of my *atman.* I drift off
*The first step towards selfremembrance is being integrated with yourself!*
### What is integrity in Relationships
into other ideas and subjects. Why?'
Listen! It is because of your incompletions that you are not in restful awareness when you remember yourself. The first thing you need to do is complete with you, build a relationship of restful awareness with you, a relationship of completion with you. The words you give to you and to others have to be integrated. You need to bring integrity within you. Only then, the technique of *atma vichaara* given by *vedanta*, the technique of self-remembrance given by Buddha, the self-remembrance techniques given by Mahadeva in *Vijnana Bhairava Tantra*, everything will produce the result of *atma jnaana* in you, enlightenment in you. If you do not have completion with you, how can you remember yourself beyond the incomplete identities? Your incomplete identities are responsible for the constant inauthenticity, the lack of integrity and irresponsible thoughts happening in you.
When I was young, I used to sit in *samadhi* for hours together. At first, my classmates used to make fun of me. After a few years, they started asking me, 'We do not know what you think when you are sitting quietly, but we are really shocked that you are able to sit for hours together, silently.' I said 'What is there in this? It is my body and my mind. I just tell myself to sit and I sit, that's all!' Only when my classmates expressed their inability to sit with themselves did I realize that to be able to sit with yourself silently is one of the great gifts you can have. First, you have to build a relationship with *you*.
Today, the truth I wanted all of you to experience is this. Unless you complete with you, you will not have restful awareness. Restful awareness with *you* is very important. I tell you, restful awareness with yourself is not just wealth, it is a basic right for you. In the cosmic constitution, restful awareness is your basic right. Enlightened beings
land on the planet earth to ensure that your basic right is restored to you. I am defending the cosmic constitution continuously, to ensure that your basic rights are restored to you, and you reclaim your basic rights.
Restful awareness with you is your basic right, and I proclaim that it is possible for you to reclaim your basic right. Self-completion, *svapoornatva*, is the direct method to reclaim your self-completion, your space of restful awareness.
How many of you cognize with integrity and authenticity that self-completion makes you experience restful awareness with you? Raise your hand.
I tell you, this is your basic right. Reclaim it and live it.
*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!*
*Unless you complete with you, you will not have restful awareness.*
*Human beings unfortunately do not look for permanent, real solutions. They only want consolation, not solutions. That is the main reason why the teachers who give temporary solutions are more popular; it feels more like a fast-food restaurant! But I tell you, permanent solutions are easier and quicker than temporary solutions. The mind which goes for temporary solutions has a certain sickness, and will not execute even the temporary solutions!*
# **Get a Permanent Solution!**
**Sunday, 17th March 2013**
Today I will speak on how being in integrity expands your relationships with others. Yesterday I was expanding on how integrity directly creates a relationship with *you*.
Please listen. Relationship is of different levels. The first level is being able to sit with you and be in peace with you and in completion with you.
You need to understand integrity. I will give the explanation once more. integrity is the most powerful, profound, immediate solution.
First, integrity makes you feel comfortable with you, because completion makes you feel comfortable with you. When you are complete with you, so many wonderful things start happening. Completion with you means that the possibility for creating new disease disappears. All the disease you create newly is from the source of incompletion.
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integrity stops you from creating new disease. Authenticity heals even the disease you created earlier. When you start thinking with integrity, with awareness, every word you give yourself becomes a commitment that you give yourself. It means that every desire you have is a commitment you have given to yourself !
So listen! When you know that every word you give yourself is a commitment you make with you, and you have to honor it, you will only give conscious commitments to you, you will only say conscious words to you.
It's really unfortunate! You have so much knowledge and awareness about so many things happening in so many places around the world, but you do not have the knowledge about what is happening inside you. You are not aware of what is happening inside you!
When you bring integrity in your thinking, the first thing is that you will know what is happening inside you. integrity makes you feel comfortable with you, because completion makes you feel comfortable with you. If you have not honored the words you give to yourself, they remain as a hangover in you and continue to burn you with incompletion. If you don't honor the words you give to yourself, you lose self-confidence and self-respect. If you don't honor the words you give to others, you will lose others' confidence in you and their respect over you.
Listen! Everything in your life is the totality of honoring the words you give to yourself and to others, because the respect you carry for you and the respect others carry for you, the confidence you have on you and the confidence others have for you - these two put together is your life.
When you honor the word you give to others, not only will they have confidence and respect for you, but even the relationship itself exists only then. Please understand, each human being carries so much of energy that even if you have an integrated relationship with only one human being, your life can be different. Every person with whom you have an integrated relationship adds strength to you - not just mentally, like confidence, moral boost or social power; but even consciously. They add strength to you.
If you are having an integrated relationship with your mother, she consciously adds strength to you. If you have an integrated relationship with your father, he consciously adds strength to you. Every individual with whom you have an integrated relationship consciously enriches you.
Listen! When you have incompletion with your mother, there is every possibility that the left part of your body will be paralyzed in the latter parts of your life. If you have incompletion with your father, the right part can get paralyzed. Because it is your mother's bio-memory and your father's bio-energy that you carry in your body!
You need to know that relationships are not something external. It is an expression of yourself, how you feel with you. The relationship you carry with you is projected as the relationship with the
*Relationships are an expression of yourself, how you feel with you.*
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world. Just visualize. If everyone who relates with you is integrated, how happy your life will be! Whenever they are not integrated, how much you have suffered!
When you bring integrity by either honoring or completing the word you give to others, others will have so much confidence in you, and you will have so much confidence in others. The conflicts in your life will drop drastically.
When you bring integrity, the conflicts in your life will drop drastically. Success happens in life, fulfillment happens in life, when the conflicts reduce. When the conflicts reduce, life energy starts oozing in you.
Unfortunately, human beings don't look for permanent, real solutions. They only want consolation, not solutions. That is the main reason why the teachers who give temporary solutions are more popular; it feels more like a fast-food restaurant! But I tell you, permanent solutions are easier and quicker than temporary solutions. The mind which goes for temporary solutions has a certain sickness, and will not execute even the temporary solutions. If you are asking for temporary solutions, that itself shows that your mind suffers with the laziness pattern, the boredom pattern which will not allow you to practice even simple, temporary solutions. |
# 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.*
#### Go Beyond Boredom And Tiredness
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.*
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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 |
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