“Guru Poornima is the day when we give gratitude to all the Enlightened…”

Guru Poornima is the day when we give gratitude to all the Enlightened Masters who have lived on Planet Earth. Guru is one who dispels the darkness that is your ego and brings in light. Gu is darkness and ru means dispeller. What is ego? According to the Upanishads, as long as you think that life has got a purpose and run behind the purpose, you are an egoistic person. When you realize the beauty of the purposelessness of life, you have dropped your ego. Guru is the one who makes you understand the purposelessness of life. Whatever you think as worthy now, is not the real worthy thing. A man with ego searches with purposes and misses reality. He misses the beauty of Brahman or Existence.

Death clearly shows that whatever mind you lived with has no real existence. When you realize the purposelessness of life, a new consciousness starts blossoming in you. The moment you experience that there is nothing to be achieved and that diamonds you are protecting are not diamonds but stones, and that all your great things in life are mere toys, you will understand the purposelessness of life. You should understand that money is not the mani or bliss that is found inside the lotus. The real purpose of life cannot be understood by ego. When the ego is dropped, you will understand the divine purpose of life, the leelas or the Divine play; you will enjoy the drama. If you keep thinking that life has a purpose and wait to achieve something, you will miss life itself. Life itself is the path, not the goal. When you have a goal, you will run; your feet will not touch the ground and you will miss the beauty of Existence or nature. When you drop the goal, the emphasis will be on the path.

When you understand the purposelessness of life, you understand the meaning of living. Until then, you are just living dead. A person in coma lies in the hospital bed. A person who walks on the road is also in coma but walking, that’s all. Both live without proper consciousness. Guru is the one who makes you realize this truth. The meaning of living is the meaning of life or Existence.

A scientist is a man who creates a formula to reproduce something that he has discovered in the outer world for others to experience. A Master is a man who creates a formula to reproduce something that he experienced in the inner world for others to experience. The bliss or the Eternal Truth that he experienced in his own consciousness, he creates formula for to help others experience.

Sacrificing one’s life for the sake of the goal is not the way to live. If you live this way, only the payday will be sweet. Government doctor Vs. Private doctor. Life has to be lived with satisfaction every moment. Else once you achieve your goal, you will repent that you have wasted on something insignificant. Drop the goal and enjoy life. Meditate on this teaching again and again. The Truth will dawn on you and the Nithyananda state will flower in you, the state which is the very meaning of life.

# Dheekshas

Dheeksha means lighting one lamp with another. When one receives any dheeksha from somebody, he is simply making a commitment to turn his life towards Ananda or Bliss.

# Naishteeka Brahmacharya Dheeksha

This is the step towards making attaining of wisdom one’s only purpose in life. There are 21 different meditation techniques one needs to practice after taking this dheeksha. These brahmacharis will practice these techniques for four months from today. Some of the meditation techniques, you can see visibly - like tonsuring their heads, wearing wooden sandals etc.

Our Energy normally goes downwards, from head to feet. That is why we always feel heavy in the muladhara chakra. This kind of Energy flow is called Taitreya rejas. The flow should actually be upwards. This chaturmasya virat (4-month vow) that these brahmacharis are taking will cause the Energy flow to move upwards. Normally, we all keep our heads warm and our feet cold. It has to be the reverse kept the other way round. Our head needs to be kept cold and our feet warm; only then will the Energy move upwards. In these 4 months, if these brahmacharis observe the vow properly and cause the Energy to move upwards, on Vijayasami day, they will be pronounced Brahmacharis, else they can live as they were before.

In the Chandi (Devi Mahatmyam), when Chandi Devi kills the Rakshasas, it is only a symbolic representation of destroying our own negativities. If Chandi really killed the humans, we would not be celebrating chandi; it would be a criminal offense! So understand that it is only a symbolic representation of killing our own negativities. Chandi kills a buffalo-headed rakshas. Some people behave like buffalos. How many ever times you tell them, they will go only in their path. They will never come to the path of the Master. People who argue with the Master actually punish themselves in doing so. You need not do anything more to them. It is the greatest punishment that they themselves give to them!

This danda is infused with the Energy of the Master and given to the boys. It is the Master’s inspiration and blessing for them to go through the vow. It is a blessing and a constant reminder for them to achieve the Truth that the Master achieved.

# Upakramena Sanyas

Today, one person is taking up the Upakramena Sanyas. Married people take a vow to put their spiritual life before their married life and live and it is called vanaprastha ashram. It is simply deciding to co-operate and exhaust each other’s karmas without causing any further karma for each other. Normally in marriage, the man will operate from the muladhara and the woman from the swadhishtana. The man will exploit the fear aspect of the woman and the woman will exploit the desire aspect of man.

# Ashramite Dheeksha

Today, three people are taking this dheeksha. This dheeksha is given to people who wish to stay and learn at the feet of the Master and do service to humanity.

# Vidyaarthi Dheeksha

This dheeksha is given to children who wish to start their spiritual learning at the feet of the Master. They will be initiated with the Gayatri mantra and given the yagnobavitha or sacred thread to wear.

# Acharya Dheeksha

The acharyas (teachers) who have been training to take classes will be ordained through the acharya dheeksha. The acharyas represent my tongue and speak my words.

# Achievements

1. Anandaradio, our first internet radio has been launched. Devotees may tune in to it at any time and listen to upto 120 discourses and 40 kirtans over the internet. 2. Our first online shop Anandagalleria.org has been launched and our Divine shop items are available for on-line ordering. 3. 2 new books – ‘Dhyanam Jnanathin Thiravukol’ in Tamil and ‘Joke for the day’ in English have been released. 4. In upto 6 different languages (including Portuguese), books have been released. 5. Two new centers have been inaugurated in Bharat, in Salem and Bangalore. I inaugurated it through videoconference from the USA. 6. Before the 30th Jayanthi that is Jan 1, 2007, there will be 30 dhyanapeetam ashrams world over. 7. In the next one year, we will touch Australia, S.Africa and Europe

I don’t ask anything from anyone. You see, normally when people give, the giving hand will be above and the receiving hand below. In our case it is different. The giving hands will below and the taking hand will be above and decide what to take! I don’t ask anything from anyone. Now I tell you, the only thing I ask of you is to do service. (Swamiji speaks on how dirty the devotees leave the rooms and bathrooms and go every time they come to the ashram.) See, people in the outside world afford not to follow these basic disciplines of cleanliness. But people like you who are with the thought that you are spiritually a little more advanced than them cannot afford not to follow these rules.

Kannappa Nayanar and Thirujnanasambandam gold story…

All that I am telling you is, add a little Service and meditation to your life. Automatically Nithyananda will flower in you! My love and blessings to you all to be in, with, become and radiate Nithyananda.