“One great Siddha Narayanaswamy, even now he is alive, he was living in…”

One great Siddha Narayanaswamy, even now he is alive, he was living in my hometown. More than 5 years, I had the opportunity to be around him- never ate or drank anything. The possibility to get energy directly from the sun rays. See what plants do, your body can do. What birds do, can happen to your body. The possibility exists. You need to remind your cells. You need to remind your system about the possibility. I am telling all these things to insist to give you the courage that the possibility exists. I tell you, the same way, the possibility for enlightenment exists in you. Remind your cells, remind your senses, remind your system, you can radiate enlightenment. Reminding your system that you can radiate enlightenment is what I call meditation- tapas. Just reminding you, reminding your own self. As on now only your mind knows you can become enlightened. It should sink in you. Your blood, your bones, your muscles, your whole being, every pore should know that you can radiate enlightenment. That is what I call seeking. The seeking will completely purify your being. When your whole being knows, you can radiate - teaching your being you can radiate is what I call tapas –meditation. When your whole being knows you can radiate, you simply start radiating, that’s all. You simply start radiating.

‘Only one who is capable of listening to pure dharma and find trust in it and through right contact releases the baggage of karma and attains the higher consciousness. One more thing he says, ‘only one who is capable of listening to pure dharma and find trust in it’ - means feeling connected to it. If you are sitting here and if you are able to listen everything without prejudice and if you are feeling really connected to whatever words I am saying - If you feel, ‘whatever this guy is talking, it sounds good, it sounds great, I think I am able to connect with it’ - If you feel that then 66% of work is done. Because Mahavira says 3 things – Capable of listening to pure dharma, finding trust in it and expressing through right contact. In this three, you already done two –66% of work is over and the other 33% you don’t even have to do. Just maintain that feeling connection. Feeling connected to these teachings- simply these words will work on you. Feeling connected is the bridge. Feeling connected is like a bridge.

See, one side enlightened being - other side human being who is ready for enlightenment and feeling connected is the bridge. Here Mahavir says, ‘one who is capable of listening to pure dharma’ - means seeker is one side, finding trust in it –feeling connected that is the bridge and naturally the other side - enlightened being, his energy passes through this bridge to your being and works on you. Listening to the truth and feeling connected.

See, many times people clap their hands during the lecture if they feel what they are thinking is expressed by the speaker –If they listen exactly what they want to listen, they feel like clapping. They acknowledge to the speaker, ‘Yes, this is what exactly we want to listen and we are listening’ - means they feel connected to what the speaker is expressing. So now, if you are capable of listening to pure dharma means understand- the capacity to listening to pure dharma does not mean only having ears, only not being deaf NO - being here without prejudice. There are many prejudices which can come. So many kinds of prejudices. Possibility is there and without prejudices and if you feel connected to whatever you are listening 66% work is done and the last thing, naturally through right contact, releases the baggage of karma.

Please understand, when you start living these great truths - In Sanskrit we have a word Nivrutti. Pravrutti and Nivrutti. Pravrutti means acquiring more and more karma. Nivrutti means going towards the unclutched space. If you just listen to the truth and go to the space of unclutching, the pure energy, that is called Nivrutti. This very listening and feeling connected is more than sufficient to lead you towards Nivrutti. Let you feel deeply connected with these words. Let these words work on you and give you the strong experience of the ultimate.

There are so many people asking to give some meditation. Surely tomorrow we will do that tomorrow and day after tomorrow, we have more time because in the evenings it will become too late. If we go for meditation and everything, may be tomorrow and day after tomorrow- tomorrow and day after tomorrow, we have real sutras. Usually first 3-4 days I prepare people. I do not talk the complete truth. Because 100% the pure truth is too much for human beings and there is every possibility they will run away. First day I told you, I did not speak on Mahavira because I am afraid that people will run away and I know Mahavira is a pure diamond. He is a pure diamond. If you bring diamond- dynamic diamond, Mahavira is a dynamic diamond. Anything except diamond will become just ashes, reduce to ashes. So if you really allow Mahavira to work on you, anything which is inside you except Mahavira, the Mahavira consciousness- will become ashes.

If there is a big stone, only little portion is diamond and all other things are carbon covering that diamond – if you bring a dynamic diamond towards that stone, except that diamond portion everything else will be taken away - will become ashes. Diamond is used to cut the diamond. So with any raw diamond uncut, there will be portion- carbon – the ordinary stone, so if you bring the dynamic diamond towards that uncut diamond, the uncut diamond will be cut and it will be purified. All the other portions except diamond will be removed, will become ashes and will disappear. Same way in your being also, there is a spark of Mahavira consciousness and there is so much of dust, carbon around it and if you bring that dynamic diamond, Mahavira towards your inner space, everything except Mahavira consciousness will be taken away from you, will become ashes, will be reduced to ashes and it will too much . So I always wait and spend two days so that you will sit to listen. Then I can start the truth. So let us start the truth tomorrow and day after tomorrow and have meditations also, tomorrow and day after tomorrow.

There are just two questions I will answer. “Why is divorce not allowed in Vedic marriage?” Because our masters understood constantly changing the outer man or woman is not going to help. Why is divorce not allowed In vedic system? In vedic system, we don’t have divorce. You take vow in front of agni saying that till death these vows will be practiced. You don’t say till I divorce NO and in the vedic system witness for all the vows is the life energy and the cosmic consciousness not any lawyer or any priest. NO. The fire and the cosmic energy is the witness –so there you don’t have –we don’t have actually equivalent word for divorce, only in later Sanskrit, the equivalent word for divorce is created. In the traditional system the words for divorce, we don’t have and one more important thing, our masters are very clear, by changing the outer man or woman, the problems is not going to solve.

First of all, all marriage is failure. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. When I read that book, I felt that it is too close. Mars and Venus are too close and may be men are from Mars of some other solar family and woman are from Venus of some other solar family. So I don’t think from same solar family. And all marriages are failure. They understood the truth, all marriages are failures. But if you tell people directly, it is very difficult for everybody to understand that before going through the suffering. Whatever is said and done, suffering is a best teacher.

No, I tell you really, I can give so many experiences. These young guys especially in the west, these NRI youngsters they will be brought to me by their parents. Usually these guys don’t want to come to these swamis and all these spiritual gurus and all those things till they are married. Their parents will force them and bring them to me. “Hey come and take blessings of Swamiji, come”. They will come and these parents will do sashtang namaskar. Usually I bless them – These guys will be standing and “Hai! How are you?”, I also tell them “Hi! How are you?” And I don’t have problems and I don’t expect them to do namaskar and they talk in a way as if they know the life and this traditional life like sanyas and spirituality and all these things are only for fools and old people like their parents who don’t have intelligence, that’s the way they try to talk to me and they say, “hi how are you? Alright you say something, ok”. And I just think in my mind, ‘Let you fellow get married’. Nothing, just one year after the marriage –The guy when he comes, he will know completely, how to do namaskar and now he straight away falls and not only that now he knows how to say yes. I tell you really –10 years of my training is equal to one year of marriage life. What I can’t do with people –If I work with them for 10 years, one year is enough. That fellow is completely in tune and now he knows how to say, ‘Yes Swamiji, yes Swamiji’ and he knows everything and he is so polite. According to me, the best training- completely that guy is in tune. And nothing can teach like suffering.

The other day I was reading a beautiful one liner, survey –statistics say that married people live longer. But what to do, they only want to die quicker. Dying quickly is much better than wanting to die. Anyhow, our masters they know, all marriage is a failure. Some intelligent guys who understand it before going through they are called Paramahamsas and people who wants to go through and understand by experience – they go through the grihastha- grihastha dharma and take sanyas or whatever it is. Anyhow, usually if you change constantly again and again you will never realize, that changing the outer women or men is not going to help. Only changing your ideas is going to help. That is why, our masters want to stop the outer possibility of changing - the possibility of changes in the outer world and they want to tell you do not waste your time – enough –try once –when you find it’s not working – now its time –turn towards inside. That is why our masters do not want – and if you can’t cope up with one person, how do you think you are going to live by changing the other person?No, because you are going to carry the same mind. So, changing the inside is more important –that is why in our tradition we do not have the very concept “divorce.

“Swamiji, do any scripture say anything about Sati?”. This woman committing suicide as far as I know there is no strong scripture like Upanishads or the shrutis have any reference about Sati and they do not talk about sati and I do not know about this minor scriptures like smrutis have got any reference. And, smrutis are more like the movies of those times. Understand these two different things - it’s not all the movies produced in hollywood or bollywood represent the society’s structure. There can be some fantasies of the producer added into it. So smrutis and puranas are more like movies, created in those days. So you can’t think, you can’t say, they represent enlightenment or enlightened wisdom or the truths of those days society. So we can’t take puranas or smrutis as a standard scriptures. Only shrutis, Upanishad can be taken as a standard book and from them I don’t see any referenence for sati.

There was one another question which yesterday somebody wrote and gave –“Going and listening to other religious masters or other tradition masters –it was a very important question we need to analyse –See in those days –may be some reason they would have created that idea but it is time that we should update ourself.

There was a two great enlightened masters living at the time same time. Both of them had so much of reverence and respect for each other but they always tell their disciples not to go to the other master. One disciple asked him, “Bhagavan, you don’t even put your feet in the direction where he is staying. You have so much respect for him but you say not to go to him or listen to him, why?” Master says, “Fool! Whenever I work on you, when you feel pain during the operation you will try to escape and go away to him and when he works on you, when he does some operation on you, you will try to escape from there and come here. You will not allow the operation to be completed neither by him nor by him. You will escape from both the masters. That is the reason, I tell you not to go there. In those days, may be for that reason they would have told at some point, do not listen to other religious masters but now I feel it is time to update some of these beliefs. I feel now you are intelligent enough to learn what is right and what is wrong and you are intelligent enough , I am very sure that you don’t take all the ideas which I am giving to you. Knowing I am clearly sitting and speaking. Please be very clear, I do not trust you listen to me and I am speaking that is different and I don’t have a trust, you may trust me but I don’t trust you. Let me be very clear. It is time that you are intelligent enough to learn whatever you want to learn from me. So you can go around and pick up best flowers and make a beautiful bouquet, nothing wrong, nothing wrong. It is time to update yourself. So I always tell people, Learn best things from all possible sources –Pluck flowers from all the gardens, make a beautiful bouquet and or a garland for yourself. And one more thing. In Modern days also, I see some of the masters constantly advising people don’t go there, don’t go there. These guys don’t understand people are very intelligent. They are still thinking people are fools. They are going to listen to them and not go to the other masters. There are only two possibilities If I tell you, don’t go. Either you will listen to my words and not go or you will just go and see what is going on there. And if you really feel connected so much to me, even without telling, you will not go anywhere. And if you really want to go and search, even if I tell you don’t go, you will go. Understand, If you completely feel connected through the heart, even if I give you the freedom to go, you will not feel like going and If you are really not feeling satisfied even If I tell don’t go, you will be going. So this ‘don’t go’ word has no use, in modern day. I think it’s time that we update ourself. We must remove this idea of not listening to other traditions and not appreciating the great things from all traditions. It is time that we learn best things from all sources and enrich our life. Let you all learn, learn and learn.

One more thing your ego is such, it will not die even if it is attracted from so many corners, from so many sides, so how do you think, it will die just by 1% teaching? So learn. Nothing wrong. Let you learn and experience and achieve and radiate, the eternal bliss – Nithyananda. Thank you.