““Sound the Way to Awareness”.”

“Sound the Way to Awareness”. Shiva is giving meditation techniques for all kinds of human beings. Usually man is more connected to some one sense. It is not that all of you are caught in all five senses, no. If you are caught in all five senses you can not even move one step in your life. One sense is enough to create problems. Most of us are caught more in one sense; maybe eighty percent of engrams are related to one sense. Only the other twenty percent will be distributed among the other four senses. Somebody will be too much caught with the tongue, taste. Somebody will be too much caught with the eyes, seeing. Somebody will be too much caught in just listening, hearing. Somebody may be too much caught with the sense of touch, pleasure of the touch. But usually eighty percent of your energy will be caught in one sense. You are not caught in all five senses. If you are caught in all five senses nothing can save. Fortunately, that is not the fact. You are not caught in all five senses. Most of your engrams, if you see the root, if you dig deep you will end up with one sense. It’ll end in one sense. Eighty percent will be with one sense. Here Siva is giving five techniques for each sense. If you are caught with eyes, for you he gives you five techniques. If you are caught with your ears, music, he gives you the techniques. If you are caught with your smell, he gives you techniques. If you are caught with your lust, physical touch, pleasure, he gives you the technique. If you are caught with your tongue, taste, he gives you technique. If you are caught with the cerebral layer, means dreaming, day-dreaming; understand your day-dreaming and night-dreaming are very closely connected. If you are dreaming in the day too much means too much thinking. You will have too much of night-dream. Insomnia problem means not because you work too much, because you think too much. When you think too much you are not ready to rest. The person who constantly thinks will feel so insecure. He can’t sleep. He’ll think, “When I sleep if something happens to the world, what will happen? I will not know what is happening in the world.” Just because of that he can’t sleep. He can’t sleep. He will have some problem. If you’re caught in the cerebral layer dreaming, too much of day-dreams, he gives solution, techniques for you also. Siva is giving techniques for enlightenment, for the ultimate bliss, for every human being. These five techniques are related to sound. Here these five techniques, yesterday we started all the five techniques, yesterday, today, tomorrow, day after tomorrow and one more; five techniques are related directly to sound. Through sound, how to become enlightened. If you enjoy music, if you are musician, if you are more aware of sounds, if you feel connected with the sound, these techniques will help you. They will help you a lot towards enlightenment. Siva says beautifully, “You can’t give one technique for all.” No. People ask me, “In Bharat, why so many gods? Why so many meditation techniques?” I ask them, “Why in the west you have so many varieties of cars? So many pizzas? So many cans of food?” Because you enjoy, so you created variety. You spent so much of your energy in that field. In any field that society spends so much of energy there will be variety. So many variety of cars because you have put so much energy in that field. So many variety of meditation techniques. So many variety of gods. Because we put so much of energy in that field. The east, we put all our energy to create the best inner software. So that this way, anybody who masters the science, he creates his own inner software. He creates his own inner software, and he has got his own copyright. That’s what we call different traditions. Different maths, different monasteries. Each master who has mastered the mind, who has experienced enlightenment, he creates his own program. He writes his own software. And he knows how to train people in that software. And he creates his own tradition. Naturally, since so many enlightened beings are there, there will be so many traditions. So many methods to make you enlightened. That is why so many gods. In Bharat we have 33 crore, means 330-million. I think that was the population at that point. In those days when they wrote that story, 33 crore gods, that was the population. So they said that each one can have his own god, ishta devata. Customize version. You can have your own god, your own method, your own technique, your own ideal. We call that your ‘chosen ideal’, ishta devata. You can have your own way. We have variety in this field because we have spent so much energy in that field. We have done so much research and development. Just by teaspoon feeding, giving readymade faith, readymade ideas, readymade belief you can’t have inner growth. Maybe you can have consolation. Say when you are hurt. It will be like a lubrication. It can be like a lubrication. Oh, don’t bother, there is a hell, there is a heaven. If somebody does bad they will go to hell, and somebody does good, they will go to heaven. Some sort of a consolation. Any readymade theory, any readymade theology, anything that is readymade like a spoon-feeding that is given, can’t give solution. It can be a little consolation. Consolation is different, solution is different. Lubrication is different, creation is different. It can be like a lubrication. When they come, when they are hurt, just do a little psychological healing, maybe a little conversion or a little counseling, that’s okay. But it’s only the preliminary level. No readymade theory can help. You can’t say all should use the same type of car. You can’t force what naturally they won’t be comfort. The quality of life is less if the variety is not allowed. Vivekananda says beautifully, “Freedom is the basic condition for any growth in any field.” The east there is tremendous freedom in the inner field, in the inner science. Each one can do his own research. And one more beauty, with that country, with that great tradition, if you do the research in the inner field, the inner science, you are given food, stay, shelter, education, everything with respect. Understand, this only you should understand. Now all the software companies are declaring that knowledge is free. Five-thousand years ago our Vedic masters have declared that knowledge should be free. In 1902 we had 200,000 universities in only in south Bharat which were giving free food, stay, and education to students. We had 200,000 gurukulams, spiritual universities in 1902. Was doing a little research; how, see for the last 5,000 years there are so many invasions, no country was invaded like Bharat. No country was invaded like our Barath. In the last 3,000 years, 5,000 wars; 5,000 wars in 3,000 years. But we had not lost our tradition. But in last 50 years we have lost it. How, how the other guys are able to manage, and the last 50 years it happened. When I started studying, all the other invaders destroyed only our temples, which is just an architectural excellence. We can redo it in a generation. We had the technique, technology, method, everything. We can rebuild it. We can just establish it in just one generation. But, the British when they invaded they killed our ability to reconstruct. They destroyed our gurukulum system, the education method where the science was preserved, the science of energizing, our science of reconstruction, our very science to use the temples. The science was destroyed. In 1902 we had 200,000 spiritual universities; 2 lak only in south Bharat. Those days they called it as Madras District, Madras State. South Bharat which was giving free food, shelter, and education completely free. You’d be surprised they developed all sciences, not just chanting mantras or doing rituals. (Shrud Sutra??13:16 PartI ) did heart transplantation. Open heart surgeries. Actually we could have embibed western sciences without loosing our roots. The whole thing could have been embibed. But they know that unless our system, our science is destroyed, we can’t be controlled. Unless you destroy the uniqueness of a country you can’t control that country. Unless you destroy the uniqueness you can’t make him slave. 1902 we had 200,000. In 2002, within 100 years we are just 600 (veda?? ..14:00 Part I) which are giving free food, stay and shelter. Just 600 in the whole five states. The whole south Bharat five states now we have only 600. Means the system is lost. When the system is lost everything can be lost. Otherwise it’s not that Bharat did not face the foreign invasion, cultural invasion, or wars, we have faced. But it was not cunning. It was very straight forward. You kill me, I’ll kill you. Over. It is far, more better then cunningly killing. The tradition, destroying the science that was created and enslaving, making people dependent. Bringing them under the slavery. Of course, this was done in such a cunning way, people are not even able to aware of the whole thing. The tradition which gives food, shelter, education all with respect. I tell you from my own experience, nine years cream of somebody’s life is youth. From 17 to 25 I did not do anything useful to the society. That was the age either you are expected to study. Studying means what? You are promising that I will deliver my results in future. That’s what is study. Study is nothing but promise to the society. Or, you are supposed to work. Either you deliver at that age or you get ready to deliver. Seventeen to 25 is the age everybody is expected either to deliver or get ready to deliver. That was the cream of the life. I did not do anything that was useful to the society. I was sitting with closed eyes, constantly meditating, meditating, meditating; you can see the photographs. You can see the photographs. Meditating, meditating, meditating, nothing else. I was neither giving a promise to the society that I will be useful to the society nor I was useful to the society. Either you give promise or be useful. I was neither useful, nor I was giving promise. But that great tradition was ready to give food, shelter, education with respect. Understand, with respect. In any other country I would have been called as homeless and put in the homeless shelter, or given psychiatric medications. In any other country that is what would have happened to me. That’s what would have been done to me. Either, they would have tried their best to give psychological counseling, and if I’m not ready to listen they would have put me in the homeless shelter. There also, if I am not ready to stay I would have been given psychiatric drugs. But, this great tradition, this Vedic culture, gave me food, shelter, education with respect. One more thing I want to tell you. It is not that I was staying in one place. If I am staying in one place I can tell, that city is very generous. That gave me food, that gave me shelter, that gave me everything with respect. No. I was wandering throughout Bharat. Means what? The whole country has absorbed this ideology. The whole country is ready to receive saddus. The whole country is ready to receive people that are doing research in the inner science. Even now we have 10 million, understand, means 1 crore, means practically 1 percent of our population is sannyasis. Just now we had a kumba mela in January. January we had a kumba mela. Ten million, means 1 crore, only sannyasis gathered. Just sannyasis, saddus, (biyogis?? 18:57 Part I)), babbas, 1 crore. They are the backbone of our culture. They are the backbone of our tradition. They kept everything alive. They kept everything alive. First thing British did, they took away the certifying authority of gurukulas. They said those with gurukula certificate can not get a job. So, if you are to survive you should go for western education. You have to listen to your history interpreted by them; your history, edited by them. Your history told by them. So naturally what do you have to do? You are conditioned. You are conditioned. Especially kids are so innocent. Anything that you teach goes inside. Anything that you tell goes inside. And, still that country is suffering with a clerk-producing education system. Not leader-producing education system. The clerk-producing education system. Still we are producing clerks; clerks for whom we don’t know. Still we are producing only workers for whom we don’t know. It’s going on. Once you take away the power; once you destroy the reproduction system, anything can be destroyed. Five-thousand years ago our masters declared education, knowledge should be free. Knowledge should be free. Means what? Encouraging the research and development in the inner science. So much of energy has been put. Somebody the other day took me to a university. And, he was explaining those things and he was really enjoying. Suddenly he made a comment, “In Bharat, all you guys did not do anything like this.” I said, “Relax. You all worked in different way. Come to south Bharatn village. Every village has got much bigger infrastructure than this university in stone. Each village will have at least 3-4 acres of built up area in stone. Temples. Their houses will be simple hut with thatched roof but the temples will be granite, stone.” Because we know the value of the inner science. We know the value of our tradition. We know the value of our culture. Still, 72% of Bharatn gold is stored in temples and universities, temples and ashrams. 72%. Bharat is the largest gold consumer on the planet Earth. And 72% of the gold is preserved, protected in temples and spiritual universities, what we call ashrams, monasteries. 72%. It’s not a joke. It’s in the temples and universities. That was the nerve center of our tradition. Where we created all this knowledge, inner science, practiced and preached. And further research and development was going on continuously. I told him, “We worked in a different way. We worked in a different line. We worked in a different direction.” We did not spend too much time, too much energy on building dams or roads. We have spent energy in creating a society in which people will have extreme, ultimate inner bliss. We have spent our energy to create best inner software. You’ll be surprised; without any media, newspaper, magazine or printing material or any other communication system from Kashmire to (KanyaKumary ??? 23:36 Part I) they are chanting same mantras. No communication system. You don’t know how they standardized it. From Kasmire to (KanyaKumary??? 23:48 Part I) anybody who sits in meditation, anybody who gets initiated at the age of seven, the same technique is given. And we know how to start. And, of course, then the (material?? 24:06 Part I)) is offered to them, but the method, the procedure, how they have standardized it, how it has spread all over the country? There is no road, there is no communication system; how the system has spread all over the country? Because we have put all our effort and energy to create best software for the human beings. Understand and be proud, you are descendents of the people who have spent all their energy to create best inner software. Who spent all their energy in creating the best inner software to deliver to the whole world; not only they created, they never copyrighted. They never copyrighted. The whole system itself does not allow copyrighting. The system says only to spread more and more. System encourages only to spread more and more. The great tradition that believed that knowledge is free. The great tradition that was ready to support the students. There is a beautiful sutra, it’s an enlightened masters responsibility to feed, to take care and give education to any student that comes. If he’s not able to give food, enlightened master is supposed to work, make money, and feed the students. That’s what I’m doing now. That is what I am doing. In Bharat, even now, anybody who comes one year, he can stay. In our ashram, they’ll be given food, stay, clothes and education. Means, all our spiritual literatures for studying. Anybody, any age. The only request is one prerequisite, interest in spirituality. Anybody can come, can stay, one year. Full one year they are given free food, stay, and the ambience to study, and support to study like books or any other literature and all the other possible things. People ask me, “Swamiji, if you do this service who will pay to attend your programs?” We say, “Not that is our way of supporting these projects. That our core truth is sharing the knowledge.” Anybody who is ready to study, who is interested in receiving the knowledge, it’s our responsibility; I am supposed to work and feed them, and give them the knowledge. That becomes a commitment to an enlightened being. See, sometimes I think, surprised how much of respect is given for creating this knowledge and reproducing this knowledge and doing further research and development in this level. We have a beautiful mantra, I wanted you all to know that background, only then you will understand the greatness of this knowledge. Otherwise this will look very, oh what is there, some mantra you chant and you just sit. No. If you understand the amount of energy spent behind this whole system, the amount of research and development done behind this whole system, then you will be able to realize, feel connected to this great tradition. This beautiful sutra which says, (Sahana bhavatu, sohana bhonatu...???? 28:29 Part I) Before starting the classes, master and disciple, both of them chant, “Let both of us have a good relationship. Let both of us grow together.” Understand, an important thing, master is teaching disciple. He his telling, “Let both of us grow together. Let both of us help each other. Let both of us not hurt each other. Or hate each other.” Master is not telling, “Let you grow by my teaching.” No. Understand the humbleness. Understand the attitude of Bharatn Vedic education system. They don’t say, “Student is growing.” The say, “Both of us are growing.” Only when a student is there, teacher is called teacher. Only when you have a child you are a mother. Otherwise you are just a woman. Only when a child is given birth, not only you give birth to a child, child gives birth to a mother. Until then you are not mother. You are just woman. When you give birth it is not only child, mother also is given birth. Same way, when a student learns, when a student is taught, when there is a student, not only the student is growing, the teacher also grows. That is why we say “sahana bhavatu…” Let both of us grow together, and let both of us expand, help eachother. Let both of us not hate or hurt each other; because it’s a process. It is just process. So much of humbleness. So much of energy is spent on this creating this knowledge, spreading it. That is why you see so many varieties of techniques. The reason for so many techniques is so much of energy is spent in that department, in that research and development, in that field. These five techniques are related to sound. Small difference, but great. I can say, when you look superficially, small difference; but when you start working on it you will realize the greatness of every technique, the uniqueness of every technique. This is like a manual for intelligence. We can say this book is owner’s manual for intelligence. If you have it, better to read this book once and know how to use it. Know how to use it. This book is like an owner’s manual for intelligence. Mahadeva is giving a technique for all human beings. Even if you are music oriented, oriented towards your ears, even for you he’s not just giving one technique, he’s giving you five different techniques. You may ask, how to find out? See, the rough idea, whether you are music oriented or visualization oriented, or feeling, touch oriented, or smell oriented, you can very clearly understand just by seeing your lifestyle. If you just sit with yourself and think, you will understand. You will know. If you understand the major portion of your energy, major percentage of your energy is tuned to once sense then take up those few techniques. Just play with them for three or four days. Suddenly you will see that one technique clicks. That subtly happens. Suddenly you feel, this is for me. Just that clicking. People ask me, “Swamiji, how will I know if you are my master? How to find out my master?” I tell them, “Go to different masters, whoever you think. Even if you doubt somebody’s enlightened, go and sit at their feet.” Just try, decide. Just say one year I’ll spend just in seeking. Nothing wrong. Make it like a project. One year. Whoever you doubt as enlightened, try to sit at their feet. With somebody, suddenly that click will happen. That awakening of the kundalini. Of feeling connected. You know, now, he’s your master. There won’t be any doubt. There won’t be any doubt. As long as you have doubt, he’s not your master. As long as you have doubt, he’s not your master. I always tell people, “As long as you have doubt, relax, I am not your master, continue seeking.” Wait for that click, that satori to happen or continue your seeking and forget about me. For no reason should your seeking itself be dropped. Do not drop your seeking. That is such a great treasure, such a great blessing that happens to human being. Seeking means, what? Feeling uncomfortable just being inside your skin. Feeling suffocated just with this small boundary. Feeling, Oh God, how long I’ll be here, just sitting, feeling bored? Tired of just playing with these five senses. How many times you can have joy by rubbing that object to the pleasure points. See, you have five pleasure points. When the objects rub those points, the pleasure points, like the tip of the eyes where the scenes are experienced, or the tip of the nose where smell is experienced, the edge of the ears where music is experienced, the edge of the reproductive organ where the touch is experienced, the tip of the tongue where the taste is experienced. These are the five tips. Five points where we experience pleasure. When you are tired of using these five points; when you feel enough. When you feel suffocated. Just with these five points. When you wanted to expand. The feeling to expand is what I call seeking. When you are tired of these five points, the seeking starts. Please do not miss seeking. Even if you have not found your master in me, it’s perfectly alright. But do not drop seeking. Continue the seeking. Decide, whomever you doubt, just go and sit with them. Just for a few days, try. Suddenly something will click. I tell you five, six masters that you try, that is enough, that will be more than sufficient. You are not so dull that you can’t have connection within just five, six. You are not so dull. Even if you think you are so dull, you are not so dull. You are not as ignorant as you think. Even in ignorance you are not so perfect. Relax. Because you think, “No, no, no, this all may work for others but I know this can’t happen to me.” No. Even you can feel connected. At one point, all you need to do is make it like a project. One year, I’ll see. But when that click, that satori happens, it is beyond your logic. Then decide, now drop everything. Now, once that click happens, once that feeling connected happens, now I’m going to work with him, over. Now drop everything else. And decide strongly to work with him. Go all out. We call in Sanskrit two words: (viveka and vayragya?? 37:55 Part I ) Viveka means analyzing. Going around and seeking. Nithya, nithya vastu viveka which is right or wrong. Seeking. Trying to work. Will this guy, will I feel connected to this guy? Will I be able to feel connected with this master? Just go around. This is called viveka. Analyzing. Vayragya. Once you feel connected drop everything else. Drop everything else and decide strongly to work. Ramakrishna says beautifully, “Until the food is served there will be sound in the party. Once the food is served, the sound will slowly reduce. Once the people start eating there won’t be any other sound except glup, glup, glup; that eating sound.” Same way in the seeking time, there will be a little sound a little noise in you. There will be a little disturbance going around. But when you see the right person the sound will come down. And when that click happens, over. After that, only that sound, click, nothing else. Nothing else will be there. You will completely settle down. Same way, play with these techniques. Just play with these few techniques. Nothing wrong. And these techniques are fool proof. No side-effect. Time tested. So you can play with them freely. And one more thing, these techniques are such that even if you make one or two small mistakes you won’t have side-effects. You won’t have side-effects. If it do it properly you will have the positive effect. If you do it a little mistake there won’t be any effect, that’s all. But there won’t be negative effect or side-effects. That is the beauty of these techniques. Time tested, fool proof, powerful techniques. All you need to do, just play with the techniques. Don’t even be too serious. Don’t be too serious. Do it in a relaxed way in your easy chair. When you are sitting in your home, when you are sitting in your office, but not when you’re driving. When you are sitting in your office. When you are sitting in your home. Just play with these techniques. Suddenly you will see something opens up. If you play with two, three techniques, something will click. Something will catch. I always tell people, “Just three, four days. If it does not click, drop. Next”. Shiva has given 112 meditation techniques. I have spoken, I think, we are on the 40th sloka. Just try one by one. Just try for a few days. Suddenly, something will click. That is the technique for you. And you will see you are able to explore and experience the inner space through that technique. Let me enter into today’s sutra. A very powerful sutra. (sutra chanted here 42:06 Part I) A beautiful sloka. “In the beginning and gradual refinement of the sound or any akshura, any letter, oh yogi, enter into the power of void and become enlightened.” Understand, if you are too much visualization centered, this technique is not for you. It won’t work. If too much centered on physical touch, this technique is not for you. If you are too much centered on eating, this technique is not for you. If you are a musician, if you enjoy music, if you have the sense for music, this technique is for you. If you have sense to enjoy music, if you are too much oriented in your ears, this technique is for you. If you are trying the wrong technique you won’t feel connected. Even when I say this translation, “in the beginning a gradual refinement of the sound or any letter, enter into the power of void and just become void and let you be enlightened.” It feels like, how can someone become enlightened just by hearing some sound and entering into the soundlessness. Looks so simple. You may not feel connected to it. If you are not based on sound, see, some people, if they are completely connected to sound they can’t live without listening to music. They’ll die. If you are that kind of a person, this technique is for you. All human beings are not equal as we think. Human beings are unique, not equal. Understand, you are not equal, you are unique. The idea you are equal creates so much of problem in you. All the tension inside your being is just because when you start thinking that you are equal, when you think you are equal, you know that in society you are not equal. Then jealousy starts. Comparison starts. Running starts. The worst thing in the rat race is, even if you win you are a rat. The worst thing in the rat race, even if you win you are a rat. Even if you win, what to do? Just a rat. When you think all are equal, problem starts. You are not equal, you are unique. All your tension, see inside it starts with the basic theory all human beings are equal or are supposed to be equal. No. Neither you are equal, nor you are created to achieve equality. Understand? Neither you are equal, nor you are created to achieve equality. God is not engineer. If he is engineer he would have created one mold and made a million copies. He would have created Miss Universe and Mr Universe. And this 10 million, and that 10 million and over, job is done! He is not engineer. He’s an artist. He paints everyone of you. He carves every one of you. He creates every one of you. That is why we are unique. We are not equal. I have seen people coming and telling me, “Swami, give me some technique to be more beautiful.” I ask them, “What is the concept of beauty?” Just tell me. What is the concept of beauty? Nothing. It is just an idea promoted by all this cosmetic industry. See, some proportion, some measurements are considered as a beauty. This cosmetic industry, the people who sell all the spare parts, spare parts and paintings. They need to promote their product. It is they that sponsor for all this Miss Universe competitions. They who conduct because if they create and idea of some model then everybody will try to become like that model. Try to paint, or try to change the measurements. Through so many ways. People who have vested interest who are in that field, whose business is dependent on creating a model, they create a model. Otherwise who can say which is the right measurement or wrong measurement? You are unique. You are enough unto yourself. Understand, beauty comes by adding more and more spare parts and more and more makeup. Grace comes from accepting you as you are. Grace is different, beauty is different. Beauty can come and go. In Bharat I have seen people do that black painting here and white painting here. And they go in the rain and the color changes; that becomes white and this becomes black. I tell them, “If you are painting, please don’t go in the rain!” Because a color exchange will happen. Beauty comes by makeup, external things. Grace comes from internal acceptance. When you accept, what is there? There is no such thing as a standard measurement. There is no such thing as model. There is no such thing as model. Understand. I am not talking about male feeling attracted to female. Or female feeling attracted to male. No. It’s nature. I’m talking about male having a male model in the mind and trying to look like that person. Or female having a female model and trying to paint constantly like that person. Trying to appear like that person. One important thing you should know, the moment you start thinking some other body is beautiful or handsome you have created a gap between yourself and your body. Unconsciously you will start hating your body. You won’t feel comfortable in your body. Already vengeance has been inserted between you and your body. Understand, feeling that somebody else is beautiful will create a gap between you and your body. Look into your life. None of you feel completely comfortable with your body. Do you touch your body completely? Do you touch with a love and care? Do you feel comfortable? You don’t even look your whole body in the mirror. No. You cover everything, and the remaining portions are painted as you want. Not as it is. Only after everything you look into the mirror. To do the final touch. You don’t even feel completely comfortable with your body. You don’t understand an important truth. The other body may be pretty, handsome, beautiful, but you can’t drink this cup of tea through that body. You can’t enjoy even a cup of coffee through that body. You have to enjoy everything only through this body. First thing to work with all these techniques. You should come back to your body. You should be completely relaxed with your body. Shiva gives one more beautiful technique: to completely feel connected to your body. He says to sit in the water, maybe in your bathtub, and just feel completely inside your body. Do not be outside your boundary. Now, when you are here, your body may be here but your mind may be somewhere. If you sit inside the water it will be easy for your mind to feel your boundary. Because the water pressure is there around you. That is why in those days yogis used to sit naked in the water, in the flowing river. They will sit. It will give them that clear cut idea about their boundary. If you stay inside your boundary you will be in the present moment. You can see in your life. Morning when you come out of your bed and start brushing your teeth you are already in the office. Your mind is thinking about the office. When you are sitting in the office your mind is thinking about evening beach. When you are at the beach or the place your mind is thinking about the temple lecture. When you are here you are thinking, “ When this Swami will end I can go to the house and relax?” When you are in the house, “When will tomorrow morning will come we can go to the office?” If you are here, one thing is sure your mind is not here. You don’t say inside your boundary. You’re bodies are not your homes, your lodges. You put the luggage and go around for sight-seeing. They are not your homes. That is why you don’t feel homely inside your body. Understand, your bodies are not your homes. As of now they are lodges. You put your luggage and they are there, your just go around. That is why sometime, just come and go, nobody is there just empty. Why not let me also live? Ghosts. People ask me, “How people get possessed by ghosts?” If you are not staying in your boundary, because it is empty, somebody will come for renting. Somebody will also feel, why not me have a little space? After all, nobody is living there. If you are living inside your boundary no possibility of possessiveness, being possessed by anything, by any spirits or ghosts or anything; or, even the split personality. People ask me, now, next million dollar question, “Is there ghost, Swamiji?” Don’t bother whether it is there or not, that problem which comes in the name of being possessed happens when you don’t stay inside your boundary. If you just sit in the bathtub, this level water, (Navel or nipple?:11:47 part II) and feel the boundary and just sit inside your body, feel you are sitting inside your skin. The skin is your boundary. You are not going anywhere else. Just observe what is going on inside the body. Do you have any small pain anywhere? It’s like doing a small, simple overhauling, taking accounts. All the bones are there in their place. Or, you are able to feel all the parts of the body. Just once in a while, it’s like taking accounts. You don’t need to do it like a big meditation technique, just 10 or 20 minutes. Sit with your body, with your boundary. See, your spend at least one hour every day maintaining your body, taking bath, or giving food or decorating it; at least one hour. That one hour just be inside your boundary. You will become enlightened. You don’t need to do anything else. People come and ask me, “Swamiji, give us some meditation technique for busy people; I am too busy in my life. Busy without business. In Tamil there is a proverb: Dark cannot stand in one place but it doesn’t have anything to do. It may not have anything to do, but it can’t stand in one place. So we are busy but with no business. People come and ask me, “Give me some technique for busy people. I’m too busy, I can’t do meditation.” I tell them, “Do you eat?” “Yes.” “Do you take bath?” “Yes.” “Do you brush your teeth?” “Yes.” “Totally per day, how many hours, how much of time you spend on your body?” At least one hour. Brushing, taking bath, washing yourself, and eating, at least one hour all put together, one hour. That one hour decide, you will be inside your boundary. That one hour that you brush your teeth, you will feel only what is happening in that area. When you are taking bath, you will feel only what is happening all over your body by the water, when the water is being showered on you. Just feel what is happening. You will not think about your accounts. You will not think about shouting at your subordinate. You will not think about your boss. Just be inside the boundary. When you eat, just enjoy. That one hour every day, just be with your body, nothing else is required. You will be integrated. You will not have split personality. Split personality happens to you just because you don’t stay inside your boundary. Here, all these techniques will work, they’ll be very powerful on you if you integrate yourself. Because unless you integrate yourself you will not even know in which sense you are established too much. As of now, understand, sometime you may think, people come and tell me, “Swami, I am too much caught with my tongue, I eat like anything. But I see in their energy, they are caught with their lust, it is not tongue. Suppression of lust turns as a craving for food. They are not directly connected to their tongue. They are connected to their lust. But when they don’t feel satisfied, when they are not satisfied, then they start eating. The emptiness inside usually male fill by pouring, female fill by putting food, stuffing. In Bharatn tradition male drink, female eat. Over. That emptiness, when you feel that emptiness inside you somehow want to feel fulfilled and you dump food like a dustbin. Like dustbin, you dump. You won’t even know in which sense you are caught. In which sense you are stuck unless you integrate yourself. Sitting with your body, these things will help you a lot, to integrate yourself. Completely be inside your boundary. Decide from today; from today you decide, make a strong will. Everyday I am spending at least one hour on my body, when I brush, when I take bath, when I eat, at least one hour. That one hour I’ll spend with me. I’ll spend within my boundary. Actually, this mala, this bracelet, all these things are just to remind you, this kind of sangalpa. People ask me, “Why are you recommending this mala and bracelet, Swamiji?” I tell them, “All these things will remind you. If you take this sangalpa and decide to wear that bracelet, every day before eating you’ll remember, yes, now I’m supposed to be with my boundary”. These are all reminding techniques. You are not such a great person to have a memory that every day you will remember without this external help. If you are that great a person you don’t even need meditation. They are not that aware, we know that. That is why all these external things. That is why all these small, small, external things. These things are just to remind you about this great ideology, life-style, or the decisions that you made. If you don’t remember those decisions, these things have no use. They are just weight on your body. They are just weight on your body. These things are just to remind you. From today, whatever time I spend with my body, maintenance time, I’ll spend with me. Over. I’ll be within my boundary. This one decision can transform your life. I promise. Just 21 days, this one decision is enough to change your life. Can change the way in which you think about you and the world. Understand? If your idea about you changes, your idea about the world and the god will change. Jiva, jagad, ishwara. Jiva is your idea about you. Jagad is your idea about the world. And ishwara is your idea about the ultimate. All these three are very closely connected. If your idea about you changes, your idea about the world will change. And your idea about the ishwara will change. If you’re fear based, you will feel very connected to the deities with all weapons, eighteen-handed Kali, or (Munir Swami, Karupana??? 19:43 Part II). With all the deities that are violent. You will feel very connected because you are deeply feeling insecure. You want somebody to protect you with all the weapons. If you grow, if your idea about you changes, if you raise to the level of anahata, love, suddenly you will connected to Krishna. More love, more bliss, more joy. If you elevate yourself a little more, if your personality becomes a seeker, a seeker of enlightenment, you will feel connected to the master. With no other god you will feel connected. All those gods are okay, but you won’t feel connected. Only that connection will be with master. You will feel, master is everything. That is everything. People ask me, “Are you God?” I tell them, “No. Only for selected. I am not God for all. But only for those few who are seekers.” People come and ask me, “Swamiji, I heard that fellow had some miraculous experience in his life by you. You did that to him, this to him, why not do for me also.” I tell them, “No. It’s not in my hand, it is in your hand. How much you feel connected.” If you feel connected to me as a teacher, I will do only the teacher job. Only the teacher’s job will happen. If you feel connected to me as a master, the master’s job will happen. If you feel connected to me in a much more deeper level, those kinds of things will happen. It is feeling connected that creates the possibility for miracles. That creates the space for power of coincidence to happen. Understand. It is you feeling connected. Your feeling connected. That creates a special space where miracles just continue to happen. Miracles are not done, it happens. If it is done, it’s a work. Only if it happens it is miracle. How can miracles be done? No. It can’t be done. It can only happen. Sometime in somebody’s house they get darshan, vision. Virbudhi is coming from photograph, something like that. They come and tell me, “Why Swamiji, only in their house in your photograph virbudhi is coming, not in my house?” I tell them, “It’s not in my hand. It is in their hand. It is in their personality. How much they feel connected. It is their devotion, their trust. That is the way they wanted, so that is the way it is expressing. I won’t even be aware of what is happening there. Understand, I am breaking all the business secrets. I won’t even be aware. It is the person’s feeling connected. When you deeply feel connected you create the space where miracles start happening. There is the possibility of super-conscious expressions start happening where the power of coincidence starts expressing itself. Here, with these techniques, you can experience the ultimate truth if you just decide only one thing, to be inside your boundary, to be inside your boundary. That one thing is enough. Decide strongly for next 21 days I will inside my boundary whenever I maintain my body. Maintenance period, I’ll be with my body. I think this is not a big thing. Everybody can do it. Because all of you are maintaining, you are taking bath, you are brushing your teeth, and you are washing yourself, and you are giving food to your body. At least it takes one hour every day to do all this work. Maybe twenty minutes, ten minutes, five minutes, part by part, about one hour. Just decide that one hour, enough, I’ll be with my boundary. It’ll just transform your being. You will very clearly understand in which sense you are caught. You will very clearly understand what is supposed to be done further. Here Siva is giving a very powerful technique to work on the sound. Let me translate the technique: In the beginning and gradual refinement of the sound or of any letter enter into the power of void, become the nature, and the form of void, let you be liberated. This technique is supposed to be done with a tremendous awareness. It’s like you are supposed to be aware before any sound starts. You should become just ‘hearing’. You should forget all other senses, only hearing and the starting of the sound, and the sound reaching the peak, and sound slowly disappearing. And when you go into the disappearance, along with the sound your mind will also disappear. Understand, it means whole mind, your whole awareness should be established just on the ears. It should forget about all other senses. Complete centralizing on the ears and going through that sound, peak of that sound, and where you have that sound, and disappearing along with the sound. You may ask, “Is it possible?” It is. All you need is a little awareness. With a little awareness, if you start working with this technique, more than a month is not required, maximum a month is enough to play with this kind of technique. Suddenly you will see you are into the space where there is no sound and no thought. Let me explain the technique. It’s like the first ten minutes you will completely concentrate on your ears. Means the spot where you hear the sounds, where you feel the sounds, where you experience the sounds. See, from outside those waves are coming and touching you and at one point they hit you. And you realize that you are hearing some sound. Concentrate on that point where the sound waves hit you and you realize that you are hearing some sounds. Concentrate on that point, forget all other things. Everything else. Then in that concentration, in that deep awareness, create some sound like a bell or a gong or some mantra. Create. One more thing, you should not miss the beginning, the starting point. As if your life is dependent on this, you should be so centered as if you will die if you don’t do this properly. So centered and don’t miss the beginning of the sound. Let you be so aware inside your inner space that sound wave raising like a graph it should go up. Just go with that sound. Reach that peak along with the sound. Just slowly come down with that sound. And reach the valley with that sound. Disappear along with the sound. It is possible. It is possible. Let us try to work on this. Whoever can, let them have the glimpse. Let us work on the technique, then we’ll have the energy darshan. How much time it’ll take I don’t know, maybe 20 or 30 minutes because I need to guide you and take you to that deep awareness, complete concentrated mood. Only then I’ll create the sound. So, it may take 20 minutes or something. If you can’t sit for the next 20 minutes, if you feel for some reason you can’t or you don’t want to, you can leave the hall. If you sit in the backside row, it’ll be easy, you can leave without disturbing others. Maybe it’ll take 20 minutes, not more than 20 minutes it’ll be only 20 minutes. If you want you can sit on the floor or anywhere, that’s not a problem. You can just sit in a completely relaxed way. Don’t be tense. Please close your eyes. Concentrate on your ears. Please close your eyes. Concentrate on your ears. Just exactly the point in which you hear the sound. You’re listening to the sound. Now you can hear the sound of the river. Just feel the point where you hear the sound, you listen to that sound. (31:49-32:18) Concentrate on the spot where you’re experiencing sound. Where you are feeling the sound. (33:36-35:18) Forget all other senses like visualization, taste, smell, touch, forget about all other things. Just be completely centered on the sound, the spot where you hear the sound. Be centered on that spot. (35:49-37:49) Be centered. Completely concentrate on the spot where you are hearing this sound. Inside your head, the point which you are hearing the sound, concentrate on that spot. Be aware to receive the sound now. Now be aware to receive the sound. Don’t miss the beginning. I will create the bell sound, don’t miss the beginning. From the beginning just go with the sound to the peak and slowly go to the valley. When the sound disappears, disappear along with the sound. Be aware. (Clashing metal sound made) (38:59-39:22) (bell sound made) (39:23-39:58) Again be aware step by step in creating the sound. Just start with the sound, go with the sound. When the sound disappears, disappear along with the sound. (bell sound made X 7 slowly then short pause, then made rapidly X 16) (40:40-41:00). Now concentrate on the same space. Go with the flow of this mantras. Raise along with this mantra. Reach the peak along with this mantra. Disappear along with this sound. Swami chants aloud, “Hreem, hreem, hreem” slowly with pauses between. Now, you can create, slowly, some mantra, some sound inside your inner space. Create, flow with it to the peak and disappear when the sound disappears. You may chant, “aum kara”. Slowly take it to the peak and disappear along with the sound. Swami chants aloud, “aum, aum, aum” slowly and others in the group chant along with him. Stop and give gap. (43:25-43:40) Feel, even the absence of sound in the inner space, how you feel the presence of sound. Same way, feel the absence of sound. (43:53-44:56) Now start again. Swami slowly chants aloud with participants, “aum, aum” (45:12-51:45). Swami slowly chants aloud and the group follows, “aum”. (51:56-54:21). Swami slowly chants aloud, “aum, Nithyanandam.” Relax. You can open your eyes. These techniques are very powerful. That needs a little bit of training, like again and again a few times you need to practice. Only then you will grow that sensitivity. With that sense, then the click, the first experience, satori can happen in you. There are a lot of questions. I will answer all the questions tomorrow because I start, I won’t be able to finish everything today. So, I’ll answer all the questions tomorrow. Somebody’s asking, group of devotees from New York, “Will join your meditation class this weekend.” Group of 11 devotees ask, “When will you come to New York City?” “Who put this question? You are from New York? Start the temple, I’ll come. I’ve made the bargain very clear; temple, then call Swamiji. Okay. So, let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, nithyananda. Thank you.