“Q: How can we change the attitude of the West to understand what the…”
Q: How can we change the attitude of the West to understand what the Universe has to offer?
Understand there is nothing like a East or West. It is just a word used, for some utility. There is nothing like East or West. It is just attitude and the mental setup. All the people who are born in the East are not Easterners. Be very clear. And the West people always think that in Bharat everybody is meditating. No. Be very clear. No. Not even 1% meditates in Bharat. Not even 1%. Strongest atheist or anti-Vedic movements have been given birth only in Bharat. Strongest atheist movements, not with one or two percent followers, even twenty percent followers. Twenty percent of the country follows atheism. Such big atheist movements have taken birth in Bharat. And still there are three states which is ruled by a parties which preaches, ’No God’, ‘No Spirituality’ which is atheist parties, means atheism is followed by twenty percent of the population even today. Understand and don’t think all the people from East are always meditating. No.
Vivekananda says, ‘Meditation is the greatest contribution, greatest thing which is given to the planet Earth by Bharat. Oh, the big problem is we have given it away. We have not used it. And there is no East or West. Sometime, when I have to explain some concept we use the word, East or West. If you are here, even if you are born and brought up in West, you are an Easterner. Understand, consciously, you are seeking the higher self. You are working to go beyond the body. The East was identified with the inner science because the exploration, the research and development about the inner science has happened in the East more. That’s all. And do not think, all the people who have taken birth in the East are spiritual people. No. No. And same way, do not think all the people who have took birth in the West are materialistic. No. It has nothing to do with boundary. It has nothing to do with geography.
East or West has nothing to do with geography. One more thing, whether you are materialistic or spiritualist, that is the thing you have to find. Not whether you are Easterner or Westerner. Let me give you a clear understanding. A few line definition to find out whether you are a spiritualist or a materialist. Just few line definition. See whatever is happening in your life, there is no scale to measure whether you are successful or not. There is no scale. You can be President of some country and have enough problems. And you may not be feeling that you are successful. And you may be the number one billionaire or a rich man on the planet earth. You may not be feeling the fulfillment. There is no scale, there is no scale, about for the success. The definition whether you are spiritual or materialist, understand, if you feel whatever is happening in your life is auspicious, Mangala, the best thing which can happen to me has happened, you are a spiritualist. If you are feeling, no, best things are not happening in my life. This could have been this way, this could have been that way. This could have been much better. This could have been in this way, you are a materialist. That’s all. This is the definition. Understand, person who feels, anything happening in his life is the most auspicious thing, beautiful Buddhist story.
Buddha is calling one of his enlightened disciple. Buddha is the great Master who produced enlightened disciples just like anything. He is like an enlightenment industry. He had a mold. He had a technology. He just put anybody into this mold and pull this side, enlightened ! And practically enlightenment machine he had. And just he will put the person in this side and pull him this side, ‘Ay, enlightened, take it!’ So many enlightened people. Ten thousand. The record says ten thousand. I had the fortune of seeing some of the caves, where they lived and the way in which they travelled. Because I am, I followed the footsteps of Buddha, spending some, six – seven months. Just felt curious and took a book. There is a beautiful book which describes the Buddha’s travelling. I just decided, let me also follow. Went around and saw some caves and where they stayed and all those things. Still that energy is there. You can’t imagine ten thousand kavi, this cloth, people going and settling into one city for two weeks or three weeks.
The whole city has to be converted. Just the very power, presence of such a charismatic leader, such a charismatic being and the disciples. Ten thousand guys are coming into your streets, begging. You will naturally become curious. Actually that begging was used as a technique for publicity. It was a technique for publicity. That is why traditionally all enlightened Masters were asked to live in poverty. Unless you live in poverty, you will not reach out to society. You are so satisfied, you will not reach out to society. You are supposed to go around. Even if you don’t want to eat, you should go around, beg and feed your disciples. No, really. That’s why, nowadays, we are doing a little sophisticated way, credit card begging. That’s all. The website, we have everything in the website, we go around and take classes and teach classes and they pay it through credit card. That’s all. Little sophisticated, but same method. Same method. An enlightened Master is not supposed to own and He has to go out for begging either for himself. If he does not want, he has to go out for begging for disciples’ sake. It is just to remind these guys that he has to go out and see the society, reach out and connect with the society.
Ten thousand enlightened beings going out for begging. Just see, it will be such a amazing scene and Buddha himself leading. And Buddha doesn’t have to go out for begging. The story says, when Buddha goes out for begging, kings will be offering. But the scene will look like a king is standing and begging and the beggar is offering. Because the Buddha was so satisfied, so graceful, radiating. The other day, one top level political leader came to our program. Some of our disciples were urging, ‘Swamiji, tell him, tell him, to give something, to donate, to do something to the ashram.’ I said, ‘Array, when he came to me and when he sat near me, I felt he is a beggar. How can I ask anything? I felt I have so much to give it to him. I felt, actually, after he went away, these guys were asking, ’Swamiji, you did not ask. You should have told him one word. He would have done so much to the ashram. We would have had this. We would have had that.’
Array, when he came near me, I felt I have so much to give it to him. And he needs. I don’t even remember. I can’t even remember, that I can ask something to him. Buddha feels so fulfilled. The whole scene will look, a beggar is giving and the king is receiving. Anyhow, he calls one of his enlightened disciple, before sending him to a particular new place, to teach the science of enlightenment. He calls, ‘I am sending you there, will you be happy there? Will you be able to do your work? ‘
He says, ‘Yes, sure I am confident, we will do it.’
Buddha says, ‘If they don’t give food, what will you think?’
‘What is there, I will be so happy, they did not beat me. They only refused food. They did not beat me.’
‘If they beat you, what will you think?’
‘I will be so happy, they did not kill me, they only have, they’ve only beaten me.’
‘No, if they kill you what will you think?’
‘What is there after that to think? This is the life. One day it is going to end. They helped me to be liberated from my body, over.’
See, even death can’t be amangala, inauspicious. What you think as the worst thing in the life, even that can’t be inauspicious. Person, for whom anything which can happen in his life is mangala, shivatwa. Shiva means mangala. Understand, the word Shiva. The word Shiva, dictionary meaning, if you see the dictionary meaning, auspiciousness. Anybody who feels, whatever is happening in this cosmos, the whole thing is auspicious. Whether you getting up in the morning from the bed, or you going back to the bed.
Buddha says, even your so-called spiritual struggles, everything is pure mangalatwa, pure auspiciousness. Even you being in the bondage is chosen by you. It is out of your freedom, you are in bondage. Person who understands, even his suffering, or even him being in bondage is just out of his pure freedom, pure free will. If you are able to feel connected to this one idea, you are spiritual, over. Anybody, who understands, who is clear, whatever is happening on the planet earth, whatever is happening inside and outside, is auspicious. People ask me, ‘how can it be? So much of terrorism, so much of violence, so much of famine, so much of poverty.’
Then you are not a spiritualist. Forget about it. I can’t logically explain to you. I can’t logically prove, whatever is happening is auspiciousness. Suddenly, something will click in you. Suddenly, you will realize, let me be very honest. I can’t believe, something inauspicious is happening on the planet earth. Let me be very honest. People ask me, ‘what is this? Are you not closing your eyes? Are you not selfish? So much poverty is going on. So much of terrorism is going on. So much of violence is going on. Here I am sitting on the chair and saying that I can’t believe anything wrong or inauspicious is happening on the planet earth. I can’t help it. I don’t know, how you will be able to relate with what I am saying. I don’t know, what you are thinking. What you think or understand, I don’t know. But, I am opening up, what is my inner experience. And I don’t know how to even logically convey this to you. I don’t know how to logically convince you. I can’t convince also.
Maybe, if you live around the Master and catch his body language. Catching his body language means seeing, that he is joyful the moment he comes out of the bed. I always tell sincere seekers. If some people come and ask me, ‘Swamiji, I really need enlightenment. I really wanted to grow spiritually.’
I ask them, ‘Are you very clear, it is the top priority thing in your laundry list.’
They say, ‘Yes, Swamiji.’
I ask them, ‘Are you ready to work for it?’
They say, ‘Yes, Swamiji.’
I tell them, ‘just come and live around me for two three months. Nothing else is required.’ I tell them, ‘just come and live around me for two three months. I have a one year program. Just for this I created one year program. One year, we give them complete free food, stay, shelter, cloth and books. Don’t think there will be like a University program. Morning till night, they will attend the class, there will be work, nothing like that. It will be pure chaos. Suddenly, morning, early morning 2 O’clock, I will come out of the room, ‘Ay, call all the people.’ They will all come and sit with me and just sitting and chatting. No useful work will be there. No useful talking, neither spiritual, nor some ashram work. Just sitting and making fun of somebody, or teasing somebody, and telling that, ‘Oh, I was sitting there, I felt like going to the bathroom. When I came out after going to the bathroom, I felt like, why should I go to sleep. And, I thought, I will sit with you all’. It will be really funny. These guys will be coming, they, these guys will be thinking, ‘Oh, God, because he can’t sleep, he is not allowing us to sleep. ‘
‘Early morning, 2 O’clock, and this guy is calling and we all have to come and sit’. And sometime, you will be surprised, sometime I will not move out of the room for even six, seven days. I will be just sitting, people will be coming and sitting, spending some time, going out and coming and sitting, spending some time and going out. Just I may use that attached bathroom. That’s all. Nothing else. It will not be like a regular program or course or anything. It is just catching the body language of the Master. When you live around, an enlightened Master, morning till night, you will see, him radiating auspiciousness . Morning when he comes out of the bed, he is filled with bliss. And when he is facing some problem, filled with bliss. Only when you live around him, you will understand, even the most difficult things, can be handled so beautifully. Even such a dangerous things, to the personality or to the body. See, when I say personality, I mean the identity which is respected by people like a name and fame or an idea which they carry about him, character, all those things. Even the most dangerous things, to the body and to the personality is handled so casually.
When you see that around him, suddenly that click will happen, ‘Gosh, whatever is happening, is auspicious. I am too serious. That is why I missed the whole point.’ Understand, whether you believe it or not, only two thing can be done. Either you realize, whatever is happening is auspicious and become insider, or you are an outsider and struggle and suffer. The whole thing is psychodrama. Understand, understand this one truth, whole thing is psychodrama. Nothing but psychodrama. It is like a, you take birth. In South Bharatn villages, these small kids will play with toys called ‘marappacchi’. The small wooden toy made out of wood. Small toys made out of wood. They will have four, five toys. It will look almost same. If they put white cloth on that, dhoti, it is called father. If they put red cloth like a sari, it is mother. If they put small trousers, it is brother. If they put a gown or a female, female child dress, it is called sister.
Like this, these small kids will have four five toys. They will start playing. Father is going to the office. They will take that father and they will have a small car, and put that father statue in the car and ‘trrrrr…’ , they will be taking around. On the way, they will honk also, ’pamm, pam, give way.’ They will take the father to the office. And they will take the mother. ‘Mother is cooking.’ They will make that mother stand near the kitchen and they will create all sound, and they will cut vegetable, and do everything. And they will take that sister, ‘sister is going to the school.’ They will take the toy to the school. They will take brother, ‘brother is going to the school’. And then they will cry also, brother is crying, he doesn’t want to go to school. They will take the toy. These kids will be playing with these small toys.
Understand, your life is just like that, nothing more than that. You also take birth, catch, only one difference, you catch living toys. Mother, father, brother, sister. And you have a set of structures. They are supposed to play according to that. If they don’t play, you say, ‘Oh, bad toy, throw it away. This is not the toy I wanted. Throw it away.’ And if they play according to your program, according to your idea, ‘Ah, good toy, let us play with this.‘ And you are playing, you catch some place as your boundary, this is my fence, this is my friend, this is my neighbor, and you catch everything. By the time you catch everything and settle down and try to play, life is over. You are dead. Next, again, then catch few more toys. Ay father, Ay mother, Ay brother, sister, and try to clone, try to have the same game. And by the time you die, once more. Just psychodrama. When you understand, whatever is happening around is psychodrama, you realize, the whole thing is mangala, auspicious energy.
Energy is playing with energy. That’s why we call life as lila. Anybody who has become enlightened, for him life is lila. For you only, for your life, see for you all, when we write your life, it is called history. But for enlightened Masters, we call lila. Ramalila, Krishnalila. It is not history for them. For them, lila. Just energy is playing with energy. Life is playing with life. The whole thing is just auspicious. When you understand, the whole thing, what is happening, whatever is happening around you is auspicious. The Buddhist enlightened Master, the Buddha’s disciple, enlightened being, how he thought, ‘Oh, if that happens, oh, better they have not killed me. They could have killed. If they would have killed, then ok, that’s all. They have now liberated from me. Liberated me from the body.’ I always tell people, array, death is a big liberation. Now you have to do so much to liberate the body. Why are you bothered about that?
See now, when you are in the body, you have so much of suffering. You have to do this. You have to do that. You have to be like this, like that. You are liberated from the body means, you are liberated from so many responsibilities. So many commitments. It is such a big liberation. When you are living in the body also, you are not happy, when you are leaving the body also you are not happy. Then what else you want. Then, what do you want? A person who understands, leaving the body is liberation. A person who understands, death is liberation, for him life is celebration. If you understand death is liberation, life is celebration. Nothing else. The worst thing which can happen to you is also a mangala, auspicious. When traditionally, we say, whatever happens is by the grace of the God, it is not fact, it is technique.
Understand, when an enlightened Master says, whatever is happening, is by the grace of the God, it is a technique. Not fact. These guys, misunderstand and misinterpret, technique into fact and they use this word to justify their actions. One guy came to me, ‘Swamiji, I am in poverty, please guide me.’ I said, ‘First tell me the reason. Let me analyze your life, then we will come for, come to a solution.’
‘I have 14 kids, Swami.’
‘Gosh, 14 kids? And in this age, 14 kids?’
I asked him, ‘Ay, what is going on?’
He said, ‘God, gave me Swamiji.’
I did not tell anything, I just gave a look. God did everything? He understood. I told him, first buy a TV. Let you have some other entertainment. First buy a TV in your home, so that you will have some other entertainment. That’s the first way. See, these guys, use these words, ‘everything is happening by the grace of God’, to justify their actions. No. It is not fact. Everything is happening by grace of God, (disturbance in microphone…… ) I think everything is happening by the grace of God.
Everything is happening by the grace of God, is not a statement to be used by you to justify your actions. No. It is a technique to be experienced by you to go beyond the actions. When you experience everything is happening by the grace of the God, by the grace of the divine, suddenly you realize, whatever is happening is auspicious, mangalatwa. Nothing to suffer, nothing to worry. Anybody who has realized, whatever is happening is mangalatwa, always think, ‘much worse could have happened, this way it could have happened.’ But you always think, this way I could have done it. Mangalatwa, auspiciousness, that is what we call Shiva. If you realize whatever is happening in your life is mangalatwa, you have become Shiva. Understand, you have become Shiva. Tell your wife to worship your photograph. Tell her, ‘from today, I have become Shiva, put my photograph.’
If your wife accepts you have become God, whole world will accept. If your spouse accepts, because they live with you. You can’t cheat them. You can’t cheat them. If your husband or wife, if they accept that you have become Shiva, then you have really become Shiva. See experiencing Shiva consciousness, means, nothing, you don’t need to do anything. Just only one thing, whatever is happening, is mangalatwa, Inside me, outside me. I am not telling you to start believing it. No. If you start believing, then at one point of time, ‘No, no, no. I think that Swami told at something and I started believing. That Swami has hypnotized me I think.’
And these guys go out and tell, actually I am de-hypnotizing. You are already hypnotized, you are body and mind. I am de-hypnotizing. I always tell people, what is the scale between getting hypnotized and de-hypnotized. After the session, if you are feeling more energetic, intelligent. Intelligent, Sat. Aware, chit. Ananda, bliss. Satchitananda. If you feel more sat, chit, ananda, intelligence, awareness and bliss, you are de-hypnotized. You are not hypnotized. After the session, if you feel, more dull, morose and less awareness and sort of a sober mood, you are hypnotized. You can find out with this scale, whether you went for meditation workshop or hypnotism class, you have been hypnotized. This is the scale. If you are meditating, you will grow in Satchitananda. Sat, chit, ananda. Intelligence, awareness, bliss. If all three are added to you after the program, you have been de-hypnotized, not hypnotized. A big problem, in the presence of a charismatic enlightened being, you experience such a cyclonic transformation, when you go back, your family people really feel you have been hypnotized. I have seen.
After these two days, three days, workshop, being around me, these guys when they go back to the home, except having a small flag staff in the ears, they have everything as Nithyanandites. Two three mala and a big bracelet, and a new spiritual name, and a small bit of kavi cloth and except having a small flag, near the ears, one flag pole and a ear, they have everything. And poor husband, what he will do? And you take a big picture, not a small pictures also, some big picture and of a young guy. And what to do. And you put that in the center of the house and you go on talk about him from morning till night. No, really, I have seen, if wife comes and does my program, I know for sure husband will never come. No, he will never come. Because she will just go and jump on him. Literally she will tell, ‘Come today!’ And that poor guy, he can’t even relate. And if I am at least little old, then he can think, ‘oh, some, she is keeping this guy’s picture, just because he is a Swami.’ And some young guy’s photograph you put and you go on talking about this guy from morning till night to that poor husband. What will happen to him?
I have always seen, and one more thing, basically he also will come, if you give little time, if he himself slowly comes around. Actually, he will not have hatred towards me. But, according to him, anything done by wife can’t be right. No, that is the standard policy. If it is done by husband, no. If it is done by wife, no. Swamiji can be right, that I can accept. But, wife can be right is too much. So it is too much. Too much to accept. I have seen, these guys will go out, be all out, except standing in the street and shouting, they will do everything. I will receive a mail, ‘I don’t know what happened to my wife, she came to your program.’ Every Monday and Tuesday, this is my job. ‘I don’t know what happened to my husband, he is thinking of going back, going and coming and, going to the ashram and coming and settling with you. ‘ Actually I have made a rule, I don’t allow singles means, the, in married couple, if one person wants to come to the ashram, I don’t allow. I made it as a rule, just to avoid this problem. Just to avoid this problem, I made this as a rule. Then he starts typing, ‘I think you have hypnotized.’ She starts typing, ‘I think you have hypnotized.’ And after sometime, they tell this person also, ‘I think you are hypnotized, hypnotized, hypnotized. ‘ When you are again and again telling, naturally that person is hypnotized. Actually, I did not hypnotize, they by telling that ‘you are hypnotized’, they hypnotized her. Understand, this is the scale to find out whether you are hypnotized or not.
After the session, after the program, if you feel, intelligent, you have more clarity. If you feel awareness, confident, conscious about you and the world which you are going to handle and bliss, ananda, excitement to live inside your body and to face the world. That’s what I call auspiciousness, Shivatwa. Then you are dehypnotized. You are not hypnotized. You are not mesmerized. You have meditated. This is the only scale to find out whether you are a Easterner or a Westerner. There is no Easterner and Westerner. If you are feeling whatever is happening in your life is mangalatwa, auspicious, you are spiritualist. You are a spiritual person. If you feel whatever is happening in your life, you have your own manual, ‘I think God did not read the manual properly.’ See you can see the whole Universe and say ‘it is a big chaos’, or you can see this whole Universe and say, ‘such wonderful order. ‘
If you think and wonder, such wonderful order, you are spiritual person. If you think and feel, what chaos he has created, then you are a materialistic. That’s all. No other difference. Understand, to be a spiritualist person, to be a spiritual person, nothing needs to be done, nothing else is required. This mala, bracelet, name, everything is just remembering, reminding you. Just all these things are technique, method. Nothing is required. Only one thing, feeling whatever is happening is auspicious. Most auspicious thing is happening inside and outside me. That’s all. Ramakrishna was having throat cancer. I can’t use the word, suffering. He was having throat cancer. He used to cough and bleed. One disciple goes to him and asks, ‘Master, you know, you have healed so many people.’ He is a great healer, very great healer. People when they go to him, for some addiction, some big, big, karma or some big big problems, also he will tell, ‘Ay, bring a beetle leaf.’ Beetle leaf is traditionally paan in Bharat. They chew the beetle leaf, and he will tell them, when they bring the beetle leaf, he will just chew and spit and say, ‘I have swallowed your karma, go. Forget about it’. Just one beetle leaf, he will swallow and spit cancers. Swallow and spit addictions, he will just transform the people. Nothing, no spiritual technique, no touching, no healing, no mantra, no meditation. All he will tell, ‘Ay, bring a beetle leaf. I think he enjoys paan. Bengali guy after all.’ Just one paan, he will just swallow and ‘thuut’’ and wipe the mouth with that dhoti, over. He will tell, ‘Ah, it’s over, go chalo.‘ Great healer.
One disciple asked, ‘You have healed so many people, just concentrate on your body little bit. You will be healed. Why are you suffering with it’, and Ramakrishna just laughs and says, ‘Fool, who is telling I am suffering, the body is managing the disease and the disease is managing the body. I am enjoying’. He is not even able to feel what is happening in him is inauspicious. Something inauspicious. People ask me, in the meditation programs I tell, ‘if this kind of mental setup you have, this kind of diseases are possible. Please change your mental setup. Then they ask me, Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharishi, Ramsurat Kumar, J Krishnamurthy, big list. All of them had cancer. Then were they not spiritual? I can say big list of enlightened Masters who had cancer. Were they not spiritual? I tell them do not compare their disease with your disease.
In their case, they decided, ‘now enough, body is used’. They just take their hands away. When they take, you see, you have a cup in your hand. You take your hands away and the cup drops and breaks. Same way, they decide to leave the body. They take their hands off and the body falls and breaks. From outside when you see, you see that as a cancer or some disease. For them, it is just they decided to relax and when they relax, body just disintegrates. Over. It is a part of the process. It’s a part of the process and they know very clearly, they are entering into a much better, auspicious space. The fear of death is not about the death. It is about the uncertainity after death. You do not know where you will end up after death. That is the fear. If all of you are very clear, if you have a clear visa, passport for heaven and clear DVD presentation, no DVD presentation about their whole thing. If you have everything, will you be afraid? No. You will try to expedite. You will try to pre-pone the ticket. The uncertainty after the death is what creates trouble.
If you understand, whatever is happening, everyday your life rolling, is rolling into more and more and more auspiciousness, more and more and more mangalatwa, you will realize if from today to tomorrow, if I am entering into more mangalatwa, auspiciousness, then from tomorrow to day after tomorrow, I will be entering into bigger auspiciousness. So leaving the body, I will be entering into a much better space. I will be entering into much better possibility. Just that clarity, over. You are spiritual person. Nothing else. Nothing else, a simple thing. Just contemplate on this one truth. You can’t believe this. Don’t start believing. If you believe, your mind will start creating more and more doubts and problems. No. Just sit. This guy is talking, I think he doesn’t have to tell a lie and I have no vested interest. I am not being paid by somebody to teach all these things. This guy is talking, must be some truth. Just sit and just let this idea be chewed by you. How these cows, they’ll eat the grass and when they are relaxed, they will just sit and chew, they will bring it back to their mouth and chew. Just like that when you are relaxed, just sit and chew this idea. He says everything happening in the life is auspiciousness. How can that be? So much of terrorism, so much of negativity, so much is going on. How can that be auspicious? Just sit and contemplate.
Suddenly something will click. Every possibility. I always tell people, if you live around the Master, you will see and catch the body language. You will catch the body language. You can’t learn these great truths just by words. If it is just by words, you will doubt, ‘I think this fellow is teaching us and I don’t know whether he himself is realized. If you live around him, you will see all kinds of situations happening around him. Life around a Master is intense. Intense. He is such a power, energy, it will be intense. It’s like a miniature of the cosmos. He is like a miniature of the cosmos. Only thing, just if you observe his body language, being around, your body also will catch that body language. Your body also will catch that body language. Your body also will catch that truth. All you need to do, just with a little openness. I have seen how the body language of the Master transforms people.
When I was small boy, I used to go to a yogi, Raghupathi Yogi to learn yoga. When people, all kinds of people used to come to him, very elderly guys, big belly, who can’t even bend. Even that type of people will come to him. He will tell them, ‘Ay, bend and touch your toes, touch your feet by, with your hand’. Naturally they can’t do it. Such big belly. They can only touch the belly, not even the knees, where to touch the feet, and you will be surprised, I have seen. He will tell them, ‘Ay, come here.’ He will just give one hug. Just give one hug and give them a pat in the back and ‘now do’. Please understand, I promise, I have seen, simply people will be able to bend. You can’t believe, just a hug, yoga is taught. It will be such a simple thing, nah. So easy. But, I have seen. He will just give one hug and ‘ah, shall I start now.’ They will be able to do. The power, in the body language of the Master. Just the power. Sometime, he will just bend and show, ‘do that.’ Just by seeing, people will simply bend. Very difficult postures, like a shirasasana, standing upside down, all those things, he will just do, and ‘now do.’
The power of the body language of the Master is such, if you are listening to his verbal language, there is every possibility your mind will be arguing, ‘No, no, no, no, no what he is talking. Ok. Anyhow, I have come all the way what to do. Let me listen. Nothing can be done.’ The verbal language of the Master, your mind can always cheat. You can always escape. But the body language of the Master, your mind can’t cheat, you can’t escape because your body is very authentic. Your body is connected to nature. Your body is natural. Mind is societal. Mind is given to you by society. Body is given to you by nature. Nature directly connects with the truth. When you see, experience the body language of the Master, simply you can’t doubt. The doubt can’t come. The very body language of the Master, nothing else is required. When you see him radiating such joy, such energy, such bliss, simply you will catch it. You will catch it. Actually, you will catch too much.
In the story of Krishna, Sri Krishna, the story says, once Sri Krishna opened the mouth and showed the whole cosmos to the Yashodha. Bhagavatam says, when he closed the mouth, he closed that experience also to Yashodha. People ask, ‘Why, he took away that experience also from Yashodha?’ Krishna says, ‘If she feels I am God continuously, how will she serve me? So I keep little ignorance. When they live around me, they will catch my body language too much’. So little ignorance is kept to the people who serve him. So that they will not remember all the time, ‘He is God.’ Little ignorance is good. They catch too much from His body language. Little ignorance is good. If you are living around the Master, you need little ignorance, because too much enlightenment will be happening around you, in you. I always tell people, ‘live around me, catch the body language. All your doubts will disappear. You will not have any intellect, you will not have any doubt. If you are working only with these words, verbal language you will have doubts. If you live around his being, from morning till night, just see his life. The way in which he handles the whole thing. You can see the play of playfulness. Power of playfulness. That’s the right word. Power of playfulness, lila. Power of that Shivatwa, auspiciousness. So much will be happening, with no project planning.
Especially, in this country, gosh. People are so much stuck with that project planning, project planning, deadline. For anything, they will bring that laptop. Have that projector, ‘tuck, tuck, tuck’. Do that slide show, by the time, these guys finish the slide show, our guys will finish the work. See it is like this, you have to sell yourself here. First thing, you have to convince your boss, this work can’t be done, over. Second thing, if at all it can be, only by me. Third thing, that also if I give my whole life. Only if you convince these three things, you can charge. So, by and by, you are trained to sell yourself to others, you will learn how to make things look more complicated. See, if you just cheat your boss, making things more complicated, you are an intelligent guy. But you are not that intelligent, after some time, you yourself start believing that it is really complicated. That is where the problem starts. No, that is where the problem starts. God saved me, I have not trained in corporate culture. No, really.
People ask me, ‘Swamiji, how you have so much of memory, you are able to remember so many things, and how you are able to work so much.’ I tell them two things. I did not go to school properly. That’s why I have memory. No, really, that is why I have memory. I was not forced to memorize something. If you have been forced to memorize something, you will start hating memorizing. I was never forced. Still I can remember the stanzas, words and stotras, which I heard only once. Very difficult, very complicated words. I can remember, which I have heard only once, because I have never been forced. I have seen my Gurukul kids. We never force them to memorize. Just they are let to enjoy, jump around and the power, the energy and the memory they radiate, ‘Oh, God.’ Some of my kids, actually, they study in the ashram, but they compete with the regular students, by writing exams with the regular students, and they come out with a 95, 90. Not a single kid comes out less than 90%. I tell them, it is just because their Swadishtana is not activated, their Swadishtana does not have pressure. If your fear is activated, if your Swadishtana is pressurized, you can’t do anything fully. You can’t do anything fully. When you understand everything is managalatwa, auspiciousness, best thing which can happen is happening. Suddenly you will see, so much of intelligence is radiating through you. In front of your eyes, so many possibilities open. Intelligence means so many possibilities, that’s what intelligence.
If you are pressured with Swadishtana, you will have only 120 degree vision. Understand, you will have only 120 degree vision. If your Swadishtana is released. If you don’t have the pressure of fear, you will have 360 degree vision of you and your life. Not having pressure of life, not having fear of life, relaxing into the truth, that whatever is happening, is the best thing happening to me. Best thing which can happen to me. Having this understanding is a technique for management. Understand, technique. I am not even telling you to believe. It’s a technique. Just try for a month. Just try for a month, whatever is happening, is auspicious, mangalatwa. Suddenly, you may be afraid, I will become careless, I will not bother about my life, I will not bother about my property, I will not bother about this, I will not bother about that, what will happen. Alright, now you are bothering about everything, what has happened? What has happened? Nothing. What is there? Somebody who understands whatever is happening is mangalatwa, auspicious, is a spiritual person. So it is nothing to do with you taking birth in the East or in the West.
Next question.
Q: I took Atma Spurana in California three weeks ago I want to repeat it here. Would a repeat help to clear more things?
Naturally, sitting with the Master, Upanishad. The Atma Spurana is based on Upanishad, Taitreya Upanishad.
Taitreya Upanisha is a great Upanishad, which describes about the science of enlightenment, working on the five layers of your being. I think, yesterday I described about the five layers. First layer is the physical body, second layer is pranic flow, air flow. Third layer is inner chattering. Fourth layer is emotions. Fifth layer is silence. In these five layer, working on this five layer and integrating yourself, connecting yourself with yourself. That is the Atma Spurana. Sitting with the Master, surely it will help you.
Q: I was told by an enlightened being, that I am taking on my sister’s karma.
Oh, person who tells you take somebody’s karma can’t be enlightened. Be very clear. Actually you can’t take anybody’s karma. Only an enlightened being can take somebody’s karma, and that also he doesn’t take. He just burns it, that’s all. I don’t take it, when people come and tell me, ‘Swamiji, when you heal people, do you get affected?’
No, I just burn it away. Who is interested in their karma. I don’t want to take it. I just burn it that’s all. Or my presence finishes it off. That’s all. I am not interested in collecting more karmas. Or I am not interested in their karmas. When they themselves are not interested, why should I be interested, in their karmas. It just disappears. You can’t take anybody’s karma. So, be very clear. You are not that great to take somebody else’s karma. No, realize, to take somebody else’s karma, you need to be a great energetic enlightened being. It’s not small joke. In the West, lot of non-sensical ideas are in the market, in the air. Like ‘some negative people came and that negative influence was there on my head for two days.’ As if you are fully in positive energy. And that person only came and radiated some negativity. What kind of foolishness. If somebody can create negativity in you, then how can you say you are positive? Nobody can give any negativity to you. Relax.
All negativity has got only one power, your faith on it. That’s all. Whether it is karma, black magic, negative energy, jyotisha, shani, rahu, ketu, anything. Anything, any dosha. It has got only one power. Your faith on it. That’s all. When you believe it, it will have power over you. Over. When you don’t, it wont. There’s a sutra in jyotishya. Jyotishya means, the science, astrological science. There is a verse, which says, Shani can’t have it’s ill-effects on you, unless you know you have a Shani period. There is a sutra. If you don’t know, you have the period, there is a Shani period going on, he can’t have his ill-effects on you. Don’t take your horoscope and go to the house to house and astrologer to astrologer, to get shani. Shani is not in shani, shani is in you knowing that you have Shani, that’s all.
In Ravana’s life, there is an incident. It’s a very beautiful incident which conveys a big truth, very big truth. See all our stories, like a Ramayana, Mahabharata and all, they carry so much truth. Still, Mahabharata, is the longest poem written on the planet earth. One lakh slokas. These so called Western Historians are going on abusing, saying that it is not written by one person and all those things. If you see the grammar, it is very clear, it came out of one person’s mind, because the way in which the words have been used. They can’t imagine one person writing 100 thousand slokas, 100 thousand verses. These guys are saying, ‘no, no, no, it is written by group of people in course of time.’ Anyhow, I don’t want. Let us leave them. So many great things are expressed in those stories.
The story says, Ravana had all the nine planets as the footsteps for his throne. They were all lying facing the ground. Belly on the ground, showing the back. He will walk on the back, he will walk on their back to reach the, to reach his throne. And the time has come for his disintegration, for his end. So, Narada goes and tells Ravana, ‘Ravana, you are such a great guy, how can you walk on the back of the planets, of the Navagrahas. Why don’t you walk on their chest. Turn them. Turn them’. See, when the time to end comes, your head also won’t work. And this guy says, ‘yes, what you said is right. Ay, grahas turn.’ When they turned, the Shani’s eyes fell on him. Over. Gone. Over, gone. Shani’s eyes falling on you means, you knowing that you have a Shani, that’s all. Understand, your eyes meeting him, his eyes meeting you. Only then Shani can work on you. When he turned all the grahas, he looked at the Shani and Shani looked at him. Over. Work has started. You looking at Shani and Shani looking at you means, you knowing that you have a Shani. Till you know, you will not have a problem of Shani. You will be walking on his back. Do you want to walk, step on their back or on their chest, decide. That is the only thing. These guys, they take the horoscope book and go around, from astrologer to astrologer. And still in Bharat, I am surprised, these guys do the match making with these two paper only. These two horoscopes only they will take to do match making. Oh, God. Just with the two paper, if somebody can decide about your life, your life is nothing more than two paper. How bad. What to do. Anyhow. So nobody takes away, nobody can take somebody’s karma. Do not bother you are not taking any karmas, don’t bother about it. Just relax. Let’s enter into the today’s sutra, today’s subject.
Transcend the Mind, that’s today’s subject.
Let me read the sutra. 42nd sutra of Mahadeva, Shiva’s teachings.
Pindamaatrasya Sarvasyah Sthoolahvarna kramenatu
Ardendubindu Nadaantha Shoonyoh Chaarathbhavethchivaha
Pindamantrasya Sarvasyah Sthoolahvarna kramenatu
Ardendubindu Nadaantha Shoonyoh Chaarathbhavethchivaha
Beautiful sloka. Intone a sound audibly from bindu to achaantranadanta. Less and less audibly as feeling deepens into this silent, achieve the state of Bhairava, samaana.
Shiva is taking us to a deeper plane. See day before yesterday, we started, two days ago we started. This is the fourth sutra. Three days ago we started. The techniques related to hearing, sound. Step by step he is taking us to the deeper and deeper level. First day he gave techniques for the people who are caught in the ears, but who are more intellectual, thinking, thinking, thinking. Second day, he gave technique to the people who are caught in the ear, but who are more physical. They will feel happy only if they touch and talk. They don’t feel connected unless they touch you. Physical. Maybe at the age of 14-21, all of you will be physical. Any connection, if you feel friendliness, you will feel only if you touch the other person, if you touch the other person. So much need to touch will be there.
Second day technique was for the people who are hearing, music oriented but who are more physical. Yesterday he gave technique for the people who are musical, but who have got some sensitivity. Sensitivity means who are very emotional, who can cry for anything. There are some people, anything can make them cry. All they need is some reason or thinking that they don’t have any reason. Anything will do. Anything will do. Either you give them some reason, or don’t give them any reason, they are ready to cry. For that kind of people who are more sensitive.
Now, Shiva is giving technique for the people who are music oriented, but who are more being oriented, who are centered on being. Music, being. He creates, he offers technique for all kinds of human beings. All kinds of human beings. If you can work with this book, with the blessing or the grace of an enlightened Master, it is a complete comprehensive manual for enlightenment. I can say, complete idiot’s guide to enlightenment. Complete idiot’s guide to enlightenment. He has not left single kind of a personality. In the West, there is a series of books, complete idiot’s guide. This is a complete idiot’s guide for enlightenment. All possible human beings. All you need to do, Master has to see your energy and tell you, number 42, 47, 31, 14. The technique number, over. You are initiated, enlightenment guaranteed or money back guarantee. Three months time, risk free trial. Risk free trial offer. See, it is so clear, it can be straightaway marketed. Such a fool-proof system. Such fool-proof system.
Understand, this book is a product without marketing department, which was not marketed. The big problem, things which were marketed, never had the product. They were so busy in marketing, they did not create the product. And people who were creating products, never had time for marketing, never had time for marketing. Ramakrishna creates product. Vivekananda markets. It will always be like this only. Very rarely, both energies meet and merge in one body and express. Very rare. Otherwise, it will always be two. I think in the modern day, no other way. Both has to express in one place. Sometimes, rarely that happens. About this marketing department, a small story.
One guy dies, goes to the Yama’s court for judgement.
Yama asks, ‘see you have done some good things, you have done some bad things. You have a choice, first you want to enjoy the hell or heaven, decide.’
That guy says, ‘can I have a look, will you have a DVD presentation’.
Yamadharma said, ‘alright, we will provide you, you can have a look.’
This guy goes to hell first, there he sees all people singing and dancing. All the famous actors and actresses are all there. So much of singing and dancing and fun is going on. And he sees, ‘oh God, what happened, now the hell has changed or what.’ Anyhow, he says, ‘let me have a look of heaven also.’ He went to the heaven, there he saw old saints with a long beard, sitting on their clouds and singing, ‘Govinda, Rama, Krishna, Halleluyah.’ Same old tune. ‘Baaahhhhaaahh..’
If you go to the North Bharatn temples you listen, from morning till night they will be chanting with that old tambura, ‘raaam, raaam, raaaam, jai, jai, jai ram, raam, raam, raam, raam, jai, jai, ram.’ That guy will be half asleep, and he is trained actually. Even though, he is asleep, that tune will be going on, ‘raam, raam, raam, jai, jai, ram, sree ram, jai ram, jai, jai, ram.’ And that saliva will be flowing and having the abhishekam. Suddenly he will getup and ’sree ram, jai ram, jai, jai ram, sree ram, jai ram, jai, jai ram’
It will be almost like a, it has become like a unconscious act. And he is just tuned for that. This guy will be singing, singing, singing. Just like that all that old saints, with long beard, with a serious face, not even looking this side and that side. Having some tambura, some music, Govinda,Rrama, Krishna, Halleluaayah, something is going on. Each one has got their cloud. That’s all. Sitting on that. What to do and no news, nothing much is happening. There, no news. This guy comes back to Yama and Yama asks, ‘Ay, what do you want to do?’
He said, ‘I’ll go to hell.’
Yamadharama says, ‘Ay, be very clear, you have one important news to be told. If you go to heaven, you have choice to come back to hell. But if you go to hell, you don’t have a choice to go back to heaven. That’s the way we have structured. You can go to heaven and live there, then you can change. No problem. But not going to hell and then asking for option. No.’
This guy said, ‘who wants to go to heaven, I want only hell.’ Yama asks, ‘Are you sure?’
‘Yes, I am sure.’
He said, ’alright go.’
The moment he opened the door, suddenly one more door opened and he simply fell. And he saw the traditional hell described in the scriptures. Same way, ten twelve bhootas are standing, boiling people, frying, toasting. A big furnace. Hot, like Mumbai. Everything is going on. So much of shouting and screaming like Calcutta, and it is there, traditional hell. And this guy shouted, ‘array, what happened, what happened, what happened.’
The chief said, ‘No, what you saw is our marketing department.’
Understand, do not believe marketing departments. Do not believe marketing departments. This book is a product without marketing department. It was never marketed. That is why, this did not become popular like Bhagavad Gita or Patanjali’s Yogasutra. Gita is for more social, more for a common mass. What you are supposed to do and what you are not supposed to do. Vidhi, Nishedha. Dos and Don’ts. More clear cut, like a law. But this is more intimate, personal, transformation. This, no politician will like to promote this book, because it does not have vested interests of politicians. It does not fulfill what they want. Nobody else will promote this book.
Only a few sincere seekers who want enlightenment will work on this book. That is why for ages, this was hidden inside the monasteries and temples, never came to public. I am not blaming Gita. I am not, what to say that, correcting or putting marks, less marks for Gita, no. I am saying Gita is for a different purpose. It’s for a social people. More, you see instead of having a law and law enforcement agencies, you can have moral enforcement agencies. It’s more easy. See law enforcement agencies are the regular police, judge, court and these things. Moral enforcement agencies are religious leaders and these things. See moral enforcement is little more easy than law enforcement. But both are doing the same work. Here it is enlightenment offering. There is no enforcement. It is here the flowering, no enforcing. But the problem is for this, you need little patience. You need to work with human beings. It is not like ‘do this, do that, no.’ Here freedom is respected. You are allowed to flower.
That is why, people who are creating revolutions can base Gita, can have their philosophy based on Gita, but can’t have their philosophy based on Shiva Sutras. It is not for revolution, it is for evolution. Revolution is for mass. Evolution is for individual. All revolution end in one more tradition. All revolution will end up as one more tradition. Revolution is more for talking to others. Evolution is for more to work with yourself. All these revolution, all those things are just to talk to others. A small story, somebody in one country, a big communist revolution is going on. A leader is talking about communism, and he is convincing the people about the communism. And the guy who is convinced, one of the follower who is convinced, he says, ‘I’ll become communist.’
Another one friend came, a journalist, he is enquiring, he is interviewing. He is asking that follower, who is convinced, ‘If you have two house, will you give away one to your brother? Comrade?’ That’s the word they use.
This guy says, ‘Yes, I will give it away.’
‘If you have two cars, will you give one to your comrade?’
‘Yes, I will give it away.’
‘If you have two cows, will you give one cow to your comrade?’
‘No, I won’t give.’
The journalist asked, ‘Why, you said you will give your house, you will give your car, but not cow, why?’
‘Because, I have cows.’
Understand, all revolution is for talking, to others. Not for practicing. But evolution is practicing for you. This book is for more practicing manual. This book is more for practicing. Not for teaching. That is why this did not become too popular. This has not become too popular. Pure enlightenment science. Here Shiva is not bothered, who you are, your community, your background, your race, your country, anything. He is only bothered, ‘are you alive?’
‘Yes.’
Then let you become enlightened, that’s all.
Nothing else. Straightaway working on enlightenment. This is the only book which does not have phalashruti. Phalashruti means the benefits you will receive. All literatures, will have phalashruti, benefits, testimonials. This is the book which doesn’t waste words in testimonials. No. He is straight giving techniques. Here, he is giving us the deeper level techniques. Let me read the translation.
Intone a sound audibly. Nadaanta, achaantra, etc. Less and less audibly as feeling deepens into this silent harmony, experience the shamaana, enlightenment.
He is giving the great technique to move from sound to feeling. Sound to experiencing. Sound is mind, being or feeling is your experience. Your pure consciousness. Even feeling is not a right word. Experiencing, is a right word. There are so many technical terms, we don’t have in English. I have to translate the word, a Sanskrit word with too many words, because we don’t have a technical term in English. So many scientific terms, we don’t have exact technical term in Sanskrit. Same way, so many spiritual terms we don’t have in English. It is very difficult to speak about spirituality in English. Because this language is created for a different purpose. The purpose of the language is different. And the people who created the language, the reason and purpose was totally different.
Translating Sanskrit into English, big job. He is helping us to move from sound to experience. Actually, based on this sutra only, the energizing ceremony what we do, the consecration, kumbhabhishekam. Energizing the idols, this ritual or the ceremony, this process is based on this sutras only. Understand some subtle things about the science of sound and light. Sound and light are not two different things as you think. Any sound will create a visualization in you. Understand, any sound will create a visualization in you. Example, if I say the word cow. The moment this sound reaches your ears, already the four leg, two horn, one tail, that animal picture is there on your mind. If you are a child who don’t know, the cow means a animal, just the sound will create a like a light shaft. Just, if you close your eyes and utter some sound which does not have meaning in your language. For example, if you know, if you don’t know Chinese just create some Chinese sound. You don’t know, there is no logical meaning, logical visualization connected to that verbalization. You don’t know. But there will be some color change in your inner space. Am I right? Some color change. If you just utter some ‘ah, om, umm’, some word in your visualization there is some change. There is a line, there is a graph.
All verbalization has got some connection with some visualization. Padah and padaartha. Word and the meaning of the word. If you know the word and the meaning of the word, the meaning of the word will be awakened in your inner space by that word. If you don’t know the meaning, if you are not conditioned or taught that this word means this object, it will create some light shaft. Some line, some change in your inner space. Understand, if you know the linguistic meaning of a word, that concept or the idea will be created in your inner space. If you don’t know the linguistic connection or the meaning of the word, there will be phonetic change, vibration, some color change will be there in your mind.
Now Shiva is giving us the technique to move from this sound to that visualization change so that you will drop into your inner space where the visualization is happening. The canvas is your consciousness, paints is the visualization, brush is the verbalization. Understand, brush, painting brush or painter is verbalization. Paint is visualization, canvas is consciousness. Now, Shiva is giving us the technique to jump from being a painter to the paint so that you can experience the canvas. You don’t need to do anything. Just jump from doing to being. Verbalization to visualization. You are already in the consciousness. You are already in the consciousness. Very subtle. Very subtle. Very deeper level truths. That is why, this book never became popular. It needs little intelligence. To understand this book, you need little patience. Mass can never connect with this kind of a things. Only the chosen few. Only the people who are really serious, or sincere. I can’t use the word serious. It is corrupted word. Sincere, who are sincere. Only those few sincere people can feel connected to this book.
If you are feeling connected to the Gita, you are a devotee. If you are feeling connected to Shiva Sutra, you are a disciple. This is the essence. In this no morality is taught. Do you know this whole book, does not say even once, do this, don’t do that. No. Vidhi, nishedha does not exist. No preconditioning. No restriction. He is not even saying don’t eat non-veg. He is not saying eat non-veg, same way he is not saying don’t eat non-veg. I think nice Master. Easy. Easy to follow, no doubt. But he is technically touching you to that level. Straight transformation will happen. You see, in front of a projector light, you keep a slide and that whatever is in the slide is projected on that wall. It is appearing in the screen. Other scriptures which are teaching morality is more like a trying to fight with that light, with that screen to change the scene. ‘Ay, it should be like this.’ Trying to hold that light beam and trying to change. But this Shiva sutra is just scratching that slide and correcting it. He just, he does not fight with the beam. He does not fight with the light. He goes to the slide and just scratches it and does small correction. He goes to the root. He goes to the core. He changes your idea about you.
Your idea, the idea which you are having about you. If that has changed, everything has changed. Over. The moment you understand, whatever is happening around you is auspicious, mangala, simply you will change the whole thing. People ask me, ‘if I understand whatever is happening around me is auspicious, mangala, then how will I maintain my morality. I will do everything and I will think, oh, auspicious.’
I tell you, when you understand, whatever is happening around you, inside and outside is auspicious, suddenly you feel big freedom, liberation. You will not even bother to disturb somebody, or to abuse somebody or to interfere in somebody’s freedom. Your morality will be a new kind. You will have a new kind of a morality which can’t be taken away from you. Understand, ordinary so called morality will be only skin deep. How much skin is deep, you know that. It will be skin deep. But the morality comes out of this understanding, suddenly you will see, you will not disturb anybody. You will be just radiating morality. You will have your own ethics, you will have your own clear cut understandings, not forced on you. Just enjoying. Just enjoying. You will have your own ideas, clearly. It is not that you will be following it. People ask me so many questions about my life. I tell them I am not following any rule, No. I am not following any rule.
Everything is happening just out of freedom. Just out of freedom. If you are seeing some morality in my life, it is just happening out of my freedom. When people come to me and say, ‘you are such a great person, you are so moral, you are this, you are that.’ I tell them, please do not come to me, because I fulfill your understandings, your moral frame. Because tomorrow itself, your mind will tell I am not fitting into your frame. No. I don’t want to be in this game. Leave me. These guys are so cunning, one day they will tell, if they get some benefit, they will tell, ‘oh, You are God, they will put me in the throne of the God.’ And if I don’t do my homework, or their homework, whatever work they give me, I am supposed to do this, do that, do that, and fulfill whatever they ask. And if I don’t do their homework, next day, not next day, next minute they will de-throne me. ‘Oh, I don’t think he is God. I think somehow by mistake. I don’t know what happened. Leave it, leave it.’
And if you ask, ‘no, no, no, you were only worshipping his photograph and running around too much?’
‘No, no, no, I think he had enlightenment, now he lost, I think.’
It will be funny, I have seen people, when you are having benefits. Seeing photographs of the Master they will go, ‘Oh, God, what graceful being and see his whole life is recorded from the day one. I think we should have some more photographs, some more here and some more there’. And if they don’t feel connected, ‘what is this like a cult.’ Everywhere his photograph, too much. Too much publicity. Too much heroism. Too much like a cult. These guys will put me in the throne and the next day, next moment they will de-throne.
I tell them, I am not interested in your game, please leave me baba. Let me be as I am. One day, if they feel connected they will tell one thing, next day they will tell another one thing. If their homework is getting done properly, if I do all their homework properly, whatever they ask, and they will be asking, they will be having a big list from benz car to worker to wash the benz car. And they won’t even realize that many things which they are asking is going to create hell for them. I always tell people, you trust God has got power to give you, he has got shakti to give what you want, but you don’t trust he has got Buddhi also when to give, what you want. We don’t believe he has got Buddhi, when to give what we want. We believe he has got shakti to give. But, we don’t believe he has got Buddhi to give. I have seen these people, they will have a big homework list.
As long as all those things are happening, ‘Oh, Such a nice music. These Ashram Brahmacharis have done such a nice music. In so many songs, so many tunes, Nithyananda, Nithyananda, so beautiful.’
And if their homework is not getting done, ‘Why everytime, Nithyananda, Nithyananda, Nithyananda?’ I have seen all these funny things. ‘What is this he himself is dancing for his own name? and they are playing his own song and he is so happy.’ I tell them, there is a beautiful story. Actually, it is directly related to this sutra. This sutra, how you can use the Master’s name to achieve enlightenment. How you can use the sound of a Master’s name to achieve enlightenment. Ramana Maharishi used to, he will just play and enjoy when they sing his own name. There is a beautiful song, ‘Ramana Sadguru, Ramana Sadguru, Ramana Sadguru Rayanay.’ They will sing in front of him every saturday. He will just nicely play a talam and enjoy that song. Somebody asks him, ‘what is this you are an enlightened being, you are enjoying your own name.’ Bhagwan says, ‘fool, why are you restricting Ramana just to this 6ft body. Understand, why are you restricting Ramana just to this 6ft body?’
Just like that Nithyananda is somebody else’s name for you, same way for me also somebody else’s name. Just like you enjoy that name objectively, I also enjoy. Still now, I don’t sign my name as Nithyananda. After enlightenment, after two years, first time I have been asked to sign when they took my passport. I was shocked, what to sign, because I don’t feel connected to any name now. I don’t feel connected to any name. The name which was given by parents is gone by enlightenment. When you become enlightened, the old personality is dead, dead. That name has completely disconnected, and, the name Nithyananda is given by Mahavtar Babaji. That is the name used by all others to call. But I don’t feel connected to some name. I just feel. Whatever name you want you call me, I have no problem. All I should know is, I should know before itself, you are calling me, that’s all. I should be informed, these are the names I am going to use for you. You can use any name, no problem. That’s all. What to do.
When they ask me to sign, I said I will sign it wait. I am waiting, waiting, waiting, that paper is sitting in my room for more than ten days. The devotee is asking, ‘Swamiji, sign, why are you taking so much time to sign.’ I told him, I am in a big problem. I don’t know what to sign. And he said, ‘we can’t say, that you don’t know what to sign. Do something, do something.’ Then I decided if at all I feel connected to sound, maybe the mantra which I used before enlightenment, to achieve enlightenment, to grow in the spiritual life. I think maybe that mantra, I feel happy. When I remember that word, I feel happy. I feel, ‘oh that word has helped me a lot.’ If at all I feel connected to some sound, only to that mantra. I said, alright I will sign that mantra. The lawyer said, ‘anything you use is ok. But, you should not change that. Just use that forever.’ I said, ‘ok’. Still now I sign only that mantra. Still now I sign only that mantra. Because I don’t feel connected to that name Nithyananda, I give it to everybody and I also enjoy. Not only, I also enjoy, I give it to everybody. Let you also enjoy. That’s all. I don’t feel that is my name. Just like it is objective for you all, same way it is objective for me.
Same way, when our Brahmacharys take photographs, when they bring it to me, I will be sitting there for two three hours and enjoying, ‘I think, eh, this looks nice.’ People ask me, ‘what is this Swamiji. You are enjoying your own photograph.’ I tell them, because I don’t take my body for granted. I don’t think it is me. If you think it is you, you can’t enjoy. You will have guilt. I don’t think this body is me. Just like you all look objectively, I am also sitting and looking at this objectively. When you are completely relaxed, the whole thing will be joyful. Whole thing will be joyful. Same way, even the discourses, just like people ask me before starting the session, ‘what are you going to speak, Swamiji.’ I tell them, who knows, I am also going to listen, come let us listen together. Let both of us listen, come. That’s all is the truth. Understand, I am also sitting and listening, like you all. That is why I am enjoying, I am not tired.
I am just enjoying, day in and day out, in last four years of my public life, 4700 hours I have spoken. 4700 hours, average, 1000 hours per year. And we have a DVD tapes, 4700 hours. I am not tired. Still I am not tired. I am speaking, speaking, speaking, because I am also enjoying. I am also sitting and listening. I am not bothered. Only a person who does not have ego, that the body or the mind or the name is his, he can enjoy that. If you think it is yours, you can’t enjoy. Anything you think it is yours, you have lost the freedom to enjoy. If you have learnt some dance with the steps and procedures, you lose the joy of the dance. This is a rule. You will be too busy with the rules. You will be too busy with the rules.
There is a beautiful story with Ramana Maharishi. One of the Bhagwan’s disciples Muruganar, he writes Ramana puranam, the stotra, the space of Ramana Maharishi. He writes some 100 line and he is stuck, writer’s block. That’s what we call in the West, nah? Writer’s block. Writer’s block, he is stuck. He brings the paper and puts at the feet of Bhagwan, ‘please bless me, I should complete this.’ Bhagwan says, ‘come tomorrow.’ When Muruganar, when the devotee came next day, he was surprised, 300 lines were composed by Bhagwan and written in his own hands. He has beautifully composed his own stotra, praising himself, 300 lines and completed it with his own handwriting, and the disciple was so pleased. He was jumping in ecstasy and when the book was printed, Muruganar, puts a mark, page mark and the point, from this line to this line, these 300 lines were composed by Bhagwan himself. He puts a footnote. From this line to this line, all these 300 lines are written by Bhagwan himself, directly. Bhagwan himself wrote these lines. He puts a foot note. And the book is taken to Bhagwan, he looks at the book and sees. Just looks at the Muruganar and says, ’Oh, other lines are all written by you?’ That’s all. Story says, Muruganar became enlightened and he just dropped and he became enlightened.
Understand, only when you don’t have ego, you can enjoy You. If you have ego, you can’t enjoy you. You can’t enjoy you. When you are standing in front of the mirror, you may be painting or decorating yourself so that others can enjoy you. Only if you feel disconnected, with you, you will enjoy you without even standing in front of the mirror. You don’t need mirror. You will be just enjoying you. If you are egoistic, you will stand in front of mirror, you will decorate so that others will enjoy you, not you will enjoy you. Understand the difference. People tell, why, how can we enjoy? Especially in the West, enjoying yourself is psychologically some disease. See, I am not telling you to, in that way. Actually when you are standing in front of the mirror and enjoying yourself, you are not enjoying you. You are decorating so that others can enjoy you. Enjoying you means just totally into you.
Atmoramyaha. Atmorahitaha
Just completely filled by the enlightened self. This technique is a powerful technique to use Master’s name, to jump into the Master’s consciousness. Understand, here he says, intone a sound audibly. Less and less as feeling deepens. Means you have to choose a sound with which your feeling is connected. Your feeling is connected, not just you will catch hold of that old harmonium and start singing, ‘sriram, jai ram, jai, jai, ram.’ No. Where you feel completely connected. You can use even your friend or beloved’s name. Nothing wrong. I don’t think people will use usually spouse’s name. If you have that much connection with your spouse you must be enlightened. No doubt about that. Even you can use your close friend. See, when you remember that name, if you feel pleasant, beautiful feeling, you can use that name, you can use that sound. It can be even some place’s name. If you are so joyful by remembering Hawaii, use that name, nothing wrong. Anything. Anything which creates a feeling in you, use that sound. Use, it can be object, it can be sound, it can be name, it can be anything. But, which creates feeling in you, which makes you feel connected, to you in some way, which has got meaning.
People ask me, the same question, why should so much ‘Nithyananda, Nithyananda, Nithyananda, name should be sung?’ I ask them, ‘then you want your name to be sung, please give us.’
What can I do? That is the name they all feel connected. The disciples and they use that name that’s all. I don’t even use that name. Today only I told you all. Still my legal signature is not the name which I am using, which all of you are using, not I am. I don’t use any name. Which all of you are using. Still it is not the, when you ask for autograph, I won’t sign Nithyananda, no. Just the mantra which I use before enlightenment and which language that mantra is neither you know nor I know. I will just create that sound in my mind, allow whatever way my hand moves, leave it. That’s all. Any verbalization is created, your hand will have a small movement. See any verbalization your hand will have a small shake. If the verbalization becomes too much, without, uncontrollable, you will have Parkinsons. Parkinsons is closely connected to verbalization. Understand, that is why meditation is the only science which heals Parkinsons. I have seen so many people coming out of Parkinsons.
Our Guadalope organizer, one of our close devotee. She is an Acharya. She came out of Parkinsons, just by meditation. And doctors can’t imagine. Doctors were shocked, ‘what did you do?’ Because coming out of Parkinsons is unheard. She came out. Parkinsons is directly connected to verbalization. Whenever words are created, you will have a small, mild shaking in your body. I just allow that mantra to happen and transcribe that mantra, that shaking in the hand through pen. That is signature, that’s all. It belongs to which language, still I don’t know. Still, I don’t know. When you don’t feel connected to, when you don’t feel egoistic about your name, you can enjoy that. Anything which gives you joy, you can use that name. You can use that name, use that sound. Anything which gives you the feeling connected, use that sound. Let me describe the technique. Just create that sound, with little loud and see that feeling. Again and again, just create that sound, see that feeling, slowly move towards that feeling. Move towards that feeling, reduce the sound, less and less. The volume of the sound, less and less. Move more closer to the feeling, feeling, feeling. Suddenly you will see the absence of the sound is creating that feeling.
In the beginning, presence of the feeling creates that joy, in the end even the absence of the sound creates that joy. If the absence of some sound creates some joy on you, you are joyful always. Over. Understand if the absence of some sound can create joy in you, you are in eternal bliss. You are in eternal bliss. From the presence of the sound, the joy being created by the presence of the sound, you slowly, slowly, slowly move and you become so centered on the joy, the feeling, even the absence of the sound, just remembering the sound can create joy. After that you don’t even have to remember the sound, the joy is there as it is. Bliss. Understand the logic, you will be able to realize. You will be able to experience. It is a very powerful technique. Very subtle. The big problem is we have lost so much of sensitivity.
Especially, in the so called modern day civilization, whether it is East or West, you are so much taught, dollar is your life. Currency is your life. Currency is your life, and if you are relaxing, you are wasting your life. What do you mean by the, you are wasting your life? I feel you should have freedom to waste your life. Who is somebody to say that you are wasting your life? Array, it is your life. If you want to waste, it is ok. You should have a freedom, without guilt to waste little bit of your life. Nothing wrong, what is there? Alright, even if you create billion dollars, what will happen? You will leave everything and die. I always ask people, alright, because here, time is always calculated, equation with the money. One month, maybe million dollar for example. Twelve month, twelve million dollar. Hundred into twelve. What is hundred into twelve? Twelve hundred. Means 1.2 billion. If that is the maximum you can make. If somebody gives 1.2 billion, will you die? Will you give up your life? No. Then? Then why are you calculating your whole life just with currency? Just with money. It’s like a, you are too hypnotized.
Deep guilt is created in you. If you relax or sit with yourself, you are wasting your life. I always tell people, spiritual seekers especially. Please come to Bharat and stay there for a month. You will understand, till morning 9 O’clock, people will be sitting, enjoying the cup of chai. In the villages, till evening 2 O’clock, they will be sitting with a magazine and that is also borrowed and they will be enjoying. No, I am not telling you to become lazy. But I want to tell you being lazy is not a crime. A little bit of positive attitude towards laziness will help you to meditate. You become little sensitive to yourself. Your whole life doesn’t have to be completely currency based. We have a ten days Nithyanandam program. First five days I tell them, eat and sleep. No, that’s all. Nothing else. Because, you see your body and mind is asking for vacation so much, you don’t give, it takes revenge on you as a chronic fatigue. If you have chronic fatigue, boredom, tiredness, it is your unconscious taking revenge on you, because you don’t allow vacation. Understand, any boredom, any chronic fatigue is just because you don’t allow vacation in your life.
I tell them, once in a while, nothing wrong. Your life doesn’t have to be completely equated with dollars. No. I tell them, just take a vacation for a month, come to Bharat. You will understand in body language, how to be free. And you should go to villages not cities, cities have gone to dogs. They are completely corrupted. You should go to villages. Till 10 O’clock they will be sitting and enjoying, sipping the chai for which they don’t even have money. For which they don’t have money, ‘ay, write accounts.’ What accounts, who will give when, nobody knows. And they are quite happy. I am not telling you completely to go to that extreme. But at least a little relaxing. Especially these NRIs. These guys need little bit of vacation. Non Reliable Bharatns. Too much logic oriented. Too much equating the life with money, and especially the greed becomes so much when they see that conversion rate. Gosh, if I work for 1 hour, so many thousands of rupees in Bharat. So much. It’s like a, they got the gold jar by the Yaksha. There is a beautiful story. I will end the session with that story.
Very beautiful story. There was a barber who used to shave for the king. He is a very happy guy. Morning he will come, and shave for the king, go. He will receive two gold coin as a salary. King used to wait to be shaved by him, just because he enjoys the joy radiated by that barber. He is so happy to see somebody so joyful early morning. Early morning, somebody so joyful, naturally you will be happy to see. You will be happy to see somebody so joyful in the early morning. And this guy used to have that barber, just for seeing his joyful face. Suddenly one day, that barber when he was walking near a tree, one Yaksha, Yaksha means a demi-god, called that barber, ’Ay do you want golden jar.’
Barber said, ‘no, no, I am quite happy. I get everyday two gold coin and sell that in the market, and eat and sleep. Forget about it.’
Yaksha says, ‘no, no, you ask your wife and come back and tell me.’ He knows the point.
Barber says, ‘alright, after all you are telling me, I will ask my wife.’ He went and asked the wife, ‘hey, like this Yaksha told me. I said, I don’t need golden jar, After all we get coin salary. Only we are two. We will sell that in the market. We will get food, clothing and everything, why should we bother.’
Wife said, ‘no, no, no, neighbors are having so many things. You should get that gold jar and you are a fool. Go now itself.’
He said, ‘no, no, Yaksha told me, only tomorrow I can see him again.’
‘Then I will also come with you.’
‘No, no, no, you don’t need to come. I will tell and bring.’
‘No, no, you may give away some gold coins on the way to people. You are not that intelligent. You are fool.’
He said, ‘no, no, no, I am now trained by you, I will do as you say.’
Next day, this guy goes to the king and shaves the king and gets the two gold coin. On the way he comes to that tree. He comes fast, walking. Now the Yaksha knows, ‘God, this fellow is now trapped, over.’ Because the speed in which he is coming. Trapped.
Yaksha said, ‘Do you want that jar.’
‘Yes, yes, I want my wife told me to bring.’
Yaksha gave that jar, ‘please take it and go.’
That guy took the jar to the house, kept that jar in the house and called the wife and said. Wife opened the jar and said, ‘oh God, filled with gold coins. But only two three coins are less. I think we should fill this.’
Barber said, ‘alright today I have two coins, let us put it. It will be filled.’ They put that two coins, but it is not full. And next day, again, the barber came back from the king’s palace with two coin.
She said, ‘no, no, no, I don’t want to spend these two coin. I want to fill that jar. I want full jar gold.’
He said, ‘array, how will we get the food?’
‘No, it’s ok, Two days we can manage. Let’s fill the jar first, then we will start spending.’ She put that coin in the jar.
Same thing started happening one week, till now, even after putting two, two coins everyday, the jar is not overflowing. Still two three coins are less. Still two, three coins are less. Only one difference, the barber lost that joy in his face, his clothes are torn, old and he became little lean, because now no right food. First day the discount and after a week, no discount also. Both coins go to the jar.
One day, king understood, that this barber is not happy. King said, ‘ay, did you get the golden jar from Yaksha?’ He asked.
Barber was shocked, ‘How do you know, how do you know?’
‘The moment I saw sadness, discontentment in your eyes, I know. You got the golden jar from Yaksha, which will never be filled, which will never be filled. I am kicked. I know everyday when you come with so much joy, I know, you live with a deep contentment. Now you are receiving the same salary, but the contentment is lost. You are sad, the joy is lost. Now, you received the Yaksha’s jar’.
The barber asked, ‘How do you know, so clearly?’
King says, ‘Fool, I also received once upon a time and gave it back. Gave it back.’
Understand, your head is Yaksha’s jar. All of us are having Yaksha’s jar on our head, which can never be filled and which will not even tell you, it can’t be filled. The Yaksha’s jar will be almost on the brim. Almost around the corner. It won’t be half. No. If it is half, you know it can’t be filled. It will be 99%. 99%, never 100%.
All of us have Yaksha’s jar. That day itself barber ran to the home, took the Yaksha’s jar, wife was shouting. He said, ‘whether you want to live with me or not, that is upto you. I am returning it.’ He ran and threw that Yaksha’s jar at the tree and said, ‘get lost, you and your jar.’
Yaksha laughed and said, ‘you learnt the lesson, now you are liberated, go’. Understand, Yaksha is a person. Yaksha is a, that Sanskrit name means, who possesses, who will not enjoy. Lakshmi means, who enjoys, does not possess. Understand these two words. Yaksha and Lakshmi are opposite words. Lakshmi means who is showering, enjoying, does not possess. Yaksha means who is possessing, does not enjoy. If you are showering, you will be enjoying, you are Lakshmi. If you are possessing, you are Yaksha.
Yaksha means, the right example for Yaksha is these old people in Bharat, they will have all wealth, completely under their control. They will not give even a penny to their kids. Still I have seen 70, 80 years, son will be married, they will have grand kids. But the whole wealth will be under the control of the father. He will not do the partition. No. He will only be giving salary every month to the sons. He will be sitting on the whole thing. And people will be waiting and praying when he will die. He is Yaksha. He is Yaksha. Dog, sitting in front of a straw bundle. Neither that will eat, nor it will allow the cows to come and eat. He is Yaksha. Understand, all of us have Yaksha energy in our head. Yaksha energy is anti-Lakshmi. If you are having Yaksha, you will not have Lakshmi. If you are having Lakshmi, you will not have Yaksha. If you want Lakshmi, the right technique is drop Yaksha. Listen, learn to enjoy life.
Possessor is not enjoyer. Enjoyer is not possessor. Let you be very clear, person who lives, radiates, enjoys, he will be so grateful to the whole life. Life is not just utility. If life is utility, you can’t move to a feeling, you will be stuck with a sound. Here, you are supposed to move to the feeling. If you have to move to the feeling from word, you should know how to be little lazy. How to bliss out in your life. Just get blissed out. Either you will be blissful or blister-full. No that is the truth. Either you will be blissful or blister-full. You can choose, whether to be blister-full or blissful. Let us enter into the technique. The great Shiva Sutra. You can use any sound. Any sound. Understand, do not use some sound just because others are using. No. You choose, with which sound you feel connected. If you feel connected to the Master’s name, use that. If you feel connected to some God’s name, use that, which you gives you the feeling. Sometimes, you may feel connected to your father’s name, if you don’t know about his secret life.
Sometime, you may feel connected to somebody, maybe your friend. No I am not saying, I am not criticizing. Sometime, you may feel connected to somebody, use those names, nothing wrong. Anything with which you feel connected, use that name. Use that sound. It can be even a place, it can be even the name of an object. It can be even your pet’s name. You may feel joyful. Just scan for a few minutes, which word gives you the more joy. If you argue, ‘I think, this is more, that is more, then choose one.’ Don’t waste your whole time in argument.
I have seen people wasting two, three years just arguing that which meditation technique will suit them. If they would have chosen some one thing, by now they would have become enlightened. No, they know, sometime I am surprised. These guys have done PhD in creating problems. And such a technical way, you can’t expect these kind of problems can be created. They are so masters in creating problems. Either you are master of giving solution, or you are master in giving problems. Either you are part of the solution or you are the problem. Use any sound. Now, you can use to the level, you are able to hear, because each one will be now using your own sound. Don’t bother about, don’t do it too loudly, because others will start getting disturbed. You just create the sound, you should be able to hear. But bother more about that feeling. Concentrate more about that feeling. Relate more with that feeling. Then slowly, slowly go to that feeling, by reducing the sound. By reducing the sound. First few minutes sit in a relaxed way, close your eyes and decide the sound with which you are going to work.
Please close your eyes, sit in a relaxed way, we will start the meditation.
Please close your eyes. Sit in a relaxed way.
First choose the sound with which you are going to work. It can be anything. Decide, which sound gives you more excitement, feeling, joy. Just choose that sound.
Now, just create that sound. Only you, should be able to hear, not too loud. You should be able to hear. Create that sound and enjoy that feeling. Enjoy that feeling created by that sound. Just create that sound, that you should be able to hear. That much you can chant. In a mild way, you should be able to listen. Chant that sound and enjoy the feeling.
Just utter those words. Create that sound and enjoy that feeling.
Let you be more centered on that feeling.
Create, continuously just, create that sound and enjoy that feeling.
Just create that sound continuously and enjoy that feeling.
Be centered on that feeling. You can create that sound little loudly so that you are able to hear. You should be able to hear. Let it be audible to yourself.
Now slowly reduce the sound. Repeat just with your tongue movement. Repeat the same sound just with your tongue movement internally and experience the feeling. Be centered more on the feeling created by that word.
Be centered on the excitement created by that word.
Go into that feeling by reducing the sound.
Om, Nithyanandam !
Relax. You can open your eyes.
Understand, now I have just spent few minutes with this idea, to give you the glimpse of the idea. Try, try whenever you are free, whenever you are relaxed when you find time, try this. Just play with this technique for a week or ten days, you will catch the truth. You will enter into the feeling without creating the word, just remembering those word, you will enter into the feeling. By and by you will be in that feeling without even the word. Being in feeling, without a word is what I call bliss. You can be in that consciousness. Let you all enjoy.
Today is the last day of this discourse, we will have initiation. Anyone who wants to be initiated into Nithya Dhyan. As I was telling you yesterday, Nithya Dhyan is the essence of my research and development. Sixteen years of research and development. Nithya Dhyan is essence. Initiation means, nothing but downloading the software. Initiation means downloading that software, so that when you give the command, your system responds to it properly. This software gets downloaded, so that when you give the command, sit, meditate. Do the inhale and exhaling process. Do the un-clutching, your system will completely do that properly. That’s what we call initiation. What is the exact process of initiation. You may decide to wear the bracelet or the mala. It is upto you. It is, understand, just to remind you every day, that did you meditate. Before food you will remember. Just to remind you.
One more thing, no other commitment. No other commitment. People ask me, if I am initiated by somebody else already, can I get initiation. Nothing wrong. It is only adding something to you. People ask me, can I go to some other Masters to learn. You are full free. Not only full free, I encourage you to go to all gardens and pluck best flowers and enrich your life. Understand, go to all gardens and pluck flowers and enrich your life. So I encourage you. Initiation has got only one commitment. At least once a day, you will do meditation. That’s all. That’s all is the commitment, nothing else. Anybody interested in initiation can come with your mala or bracelet. Today, you will have initiation, then energy darshan.
So let you all achieve this Shivatwah. This sutra says beautiful, Bhavethshivaha. Achieving Shivatwah. Let you all achieve and radiate eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank You.
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