“today’s subject is “Power of Sensitivity”.”

today’s subject is “Power of Sensitivity”. Before entering in to the Sutras, before entering in to today’s aphorism I would like to say a few words. Shiva is entering in to a new consciousness today. Understand, he is entering in to altogether a different space; he is entering totally in to a new space. Shiva was giving us enlightenment techniques, techniques to achieve enlightenment. First for the people who are eyes based, means who are constantly interested in seeing, people like painters and photographers who are oriented on eyes. Then he gave techniques for the people who are oriented on ears i.e. listening, like musicians and poets. Then he gave techniques for the people who are touch oriented, who enjoy touch, who really enjoy the physical pleasure, for them he gave meditation techniques to become enlightened.

Now he is addressing people who can’t find time, means all of us, people who can’t find time for meditation. He is addressing totally a different crowd, different level of people; he is altogether changing his very way of teaching. Till yesterday, 47th Sloka (Verse) he was giving meditation techniques for enlightenment. The technique is supposed to be practiced by you at particular part of your life, say for example morning or evening. Each technique has got its own time. From today, next 10 techniques are for the people who don’t have time to do meditation separately. For them he is giving this technique, I can say meditation for busy people.

See, that’s what I am surprised, 10,000 years ago somebody can create a book, which is directly useful and applicable and which has got practical value today. This means, the depth and the power or the clarity to look in to the future, you just can’t imagine. You can’t grasp it, with your logic or with your intellect, because 50 years ago there were so many things which we had never imagined are today a reality. 50 years ago if you had told somebody, just type few words in your computer and you could know anything on the planet earth and you can get any information from anywhere, nobody would have believed. They would have laughed at you, but today it is possible. Just type few words and the internet opens and it is a totally different world. Internet is practically like an omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient, it can tell everything. It is all powerful and it can do anything. 50 years ago, nobody would have believed this, but now it is reality, it is happening.

Now Shiva is entering in to techniques which are totally different and for a new crowd, actually he is entering in to a space where the whole humanity can be transformed. One more thing, today he is entering in to a ‘no-technique’ zone. Till today he was teaching you some technique, till 47 Sutras, 47 aphorisms , he was giving so many different kind of methods and techniques to enlightenment, today he is giving no-technique, means he is not asking you to do anything but he is leading you to enlightenment. Let us see how he is doing it.

He is trying to change your ‘Being’ instead of ‘Doing’, till 47th sutra, he was trying to change your ‘Doing’, means he was telling you to do this or do that, 48th sutra he is not telling you do anything, No, nothing needs to be done, he is changing your ‘Being’, he is entering in to a different space, different plane, he is coming out with different kind of instruction, let me read the Sutra and we will try to understand.

“O Lotus eye one”, he is addressing Devi (Shiva’s consort), ‘lotus eyed one’ means the person whose eyes are just like lotus, traditionally it is believed that Shiva’s eyes are like sun, so Devi’s eyes are like lotus, it blooms seeing Shiva’s eyes, just like how the lotus blooms seeing the sun, her eyes bloom seeing Shiva’s eyes. Shiva is addressing Devi, “O lotus eyed one, sweet of touch, when singing, seeing, tasting, be aware ‘You are’, and discover the eternal presence”, let me read the sutra once more, “O lotus eyed one, sweet of touch, when singing, seeing , tasting be aware ‘You are’ and discover the eternal presence”.

He is not asking you to do anything, nothing need to be done and that is the first freedom for you. Today I am not going to asking you to do anything, nothing needs to be done, all you need to do is to remember ‘You are’. Understand the difference between eating and remembering you are eating. You can see, without remembering you are seeing or with remembrance you are seeing, you can eat without remembering you are eating or with remembrance you are eating, you can sing , you can taste you can dance you can do anything with remembrance or without remembrance.

Many times you can see in your life, morning you will get up from your bed, go to the bathroom, brush your teeth, take bath, sit in your car, reach the office and only after reaching the office, suddenly you will remember how you came in the whole route, you will not even be remembering. Just tell me, how many of you came to the Self awareness at least once when you drove from your home to here. You won’t even remember yourself even once, only when you park your car and go to the office, suddenly you will remember, ‘Oh god’, I came through all these routes.

So many activities are happening in you without your awareness, without even you remembering your Self. So many things are happening in you without your Self remembrance, it is almost like sleeping, sleep walking. Nowadays they say, people not only walk in sleep, they even cook and eat, next day morning they will not even remember. They will cook and eat, not just picking something from the fridge and drinking but they will completely cook and eat. The other day I was reading an article about sleep walkers. They will come and do all the mess in the home, go back and sleep and next day morning they can’t remember it is they who did it. Only if you fix a camera, next day morning they will be surprised or shocked to see the camera showing them doing all these things.

It became a big problem, it seems in one place, when doctors told a guy, it was him who did it, he was not ready to believe and he wanted to sue the doctors. So next day they fixed camera’s throughout his house and the camera clearly shows how in the sleep he comes properly, goes to the refrigerator, picks up things, cooks, eats and makes the whole thing mess and goes back and sleeps.

I think you are all cooking and eating in sleep, that is why you don’t feel responsible for your actions, you blame god or fate or something or somebody else for the results or things happening in your life. Understand, it is a very important thing, if you are surprised by the incidents happening in your life be very clear you are in deep slumber. If you are surprised by the diseases coming to your body, be very clear you are a sleep walker. If you are surprised by the incidents or the depression happening in your life, be very clear you are doing things in your deep sleep.

Tantra is the great science of enlightenment. Tantra means technique, understand, the word has got lot of negative meaning, especially in the west. Tantra means immediately they associate with the physical pleasure, No, the word Tantra literally translated means technique, technique for enlightenment. This book says very clearly that there is only one morality i.e. living with Self remembrance. If you are living with Self remembrance your morality and your ethics will be so beautiful. It will be like a flower, you will never give up your ethics because it will be from your deep level being. Ethics should be from your deep understanding, only then it will stay with you.

You can see in your life, when you are driving if you don’t see any cop car behind, you always have a temptation to press your accelerator, just 5 miles, why not 5 miles, why not 5 miles, after 5 minutes you will be seeing you are flying 20 miles more than the speed limit. Any rule, any morality if it comes out of your understanding, only then it can be part of your life, it can be part of your being, if the morality is forced on you, you may practice but you will feel suffocated. Whenever you are feeling suffocated you will try to forget those parts of your life, when you try to forget those parts of your life you will reduce your ‘Self remembrance’ and awareness. When you are working, you don’t remember your Self because you don’t like to work, you don’t want to be remembered as a slave by you. Understand, when you are working you don’t remember ‘You’; the Self remembrance will not be happening, because you don’t want to be remembered, you don’t want to remember ‘You’ as a worker.

Whenever Self remembrance is not happening in you, look in to it, it means you are not interested in doing that, if you are forced to do some thing, which you are not interested you will not have Self remembrance. I am working with so many different kinds of people. I am working with the people who are in the society, who are in the lunatic asylum and who are in the prisons. Let me tell you from my experience, the people who are in the prisons, never remember their Self, person who is in the society, who is free, if he remembers himself with awareness 100 times a day, person who is in the prison, he remembers not more than 5 times, Self remembrance does not happen.

Your unconscious behaves like an anesthesia, whenever pain is more, pain is too much, there is an automatic anesthetic system, it just makes you forget things, if you are living with the person whom you don’t like you will never have Self remembrance. If you are doing things which you really don’t like, you will not have Self remembrance, if you are living in a way in which you don’t feel happy, you will not have Self remembrance. If you have Self remembrance you will be free, joyful and intelligent, if you have intelligence, freedom and joy, only then you will be able to remember your Self, both are directly connected. If you want to transform your life, if you want to change your life, only one thing is enough, just remember your Self whenever you are doing something.

Somebody came to me and asked, Swamiji! I wanted to come out of addiction, if I just remember myself will I be able to, I said just try. When you are smoking, try to remember very clearly, when you pick up the cigarette in your hand, remember ‘I am picking up’, when you are putting in the mouth, remember ‘I am putting the cigarette in my mouth’, when you are lighting ‘remember’, when you are smoking ‘remember’, when you are sending the smoke inside, ‘remember’, ‘be conscious’, ‘be aware’, you will be really surprised , the guy came back after a week, he said ‘I am not able to smoke Swamiji’. With Self remembrance, with awareness, you can’t send smoke in to your system, how can you? How can you send smoke in to your system, impossible! Just try anything with Self remembrance, whatever is not good for your system, will simply drop you, whether addictions, relationships, business decisions, life style or anything.

Self remembrance is a Master key because it is the Master of your life. Self is the Master of your life, remembering your Self is the Master key. People ask me, Swamiji! Should I remember you always, I tell them, No, remember ‘You’ that is enough, you don’t have to remember me. Remember ‘You’ that is enough, nothing else is required. Shiva says, “Sweet of touch, when you are singing, seeing, tasting, be aware ‘You are’ and discover the eternal presence”. This technique can transform, develop your awareness every day, every day it can raise your frequency, everyday it can raise you to a different level, it is a very powerful method.

Understand you are not asked to remember ‘You’ with some connection, if you say, ‘I am a male’, it is not Self remembrance, it is a remembrance of your body, it is a body remembrance not Self remembrance. If you say, I am this, I am educated, then again it is a remembrance of your career, profession not Self remembrance. You have too many layers around ‘You’, remembering your layers is not ‘You’, remembering your home address is not Self remembrance, remembering your room is not Self remembrance, remembering your bed is not Self remembrance. Same way, remembering your body is not Self remembrance, remembering your mind is not Self remembrance, Self remembrance means, remembering just your presence, you are alive, ‘You are’, that’s all.

That is what here Shiva says, ‘Be Aware’, ‘You Are’, nothing else, not you as this, you as that, No. If you can remember ‘You are’, you will be like a ripe fruit. In Bharat we have a fruit called tamarind fruit, out of which they make the juice and make the tamarind rice. If the fruit completely ripens the shell and the fruit will become separate, if you shake the shell you can listen the sound of the fruit moving inside. Same way, if you remember your Self, without Upadhis, (Upadhi means the identifications, coats) just as you are alive, you will be become a ripe tamarind fruit, the shell will be separate and the fruit will be separate.

I have seen people, without Self remembrance, without awareness, without ‘You’ remembering yourself, even if you remember me, you will try to bind me. I always tell people, first do the Self remembrance and then try to remember me, otherwise even your surrender is bogus, ugly and dirty and it will be disturbing me. Instead of me liberating you, you will be binding me. Even when you go to the Master, try to be clear, be aware, Self remember. I have seen people, making big big statements in front of me, my life is yours, you are everything, you are god, this and that, but just few days, if I take one decision which they don’t like, that is enough. Whenever people tell me, all these big big words, I don’t feel flattered, I feel only frightened.

People without Self awareness, without Self remembrance, without the spiritual depth or without the truth in their personality when they praise me I will only get frightened never get flattered. People ask me, Swamiji how do you digest so much of name and fame around the world? Actually I know for sure it is not at all name and fame, because these fools are only talking in front of me, they don’t mean what they talk, I know it very clearly, that is why I don’t feel flattered. In the front they will talk so many things, in the back also, they will see, if the majority of people are supporting me then they will support me. If the majority in the party is talking something against, then they will join that club, oh! yes yes yes, I think that is the right thing. In front of me they will talk, “Oh Swamiji!” you look so graceful, so many nice wonderful pictures, so nice, in the behind they will talk, ‘It looks like a cult’, everywhere his photograph, why unnecessarily all over his photograph? What is the need?

I know for sure you don’t mean what you say, understand, anything when you do without Self remembrance it is poison for you and the people who are around you. Anything you do with Self remembrance, it is good for you and the people who are around you. I always tell people, with Self remembrance even if somebody leaves me it will do good for him and for me, without Self remembrance, awareness, even if somebody stays with me, it will disturb him and me, it will be a headache for me and him. Without maturity, with out awareness, without Self remembrance anything you do will bind you, because you will not have clarity.

Sometimes I have seen people come to me for healing and when I put my hand on their hand they just try to hold on to the hand, they will just try to keep my hand on their head continuously. I tell them, Ok I have done, I will now take my hand, they will say No No No, keep the hand for more time, and they think it is like electricity, just by keeping my hand on their head they think that they can get any amount of energy from me. Unless I want to give, I know how much you can receive, how much you can handle, that’s all, over. Same way people try to be in my presence, they just wanted to spend time around me but they don’t know that without maturity, by being around me, they will only disturb themselves and disturb the people who are around me and me, of course they may not be able to disturb me, at least they will try, they will try their best. Self remembrance is the basic truth of life, without Self remembrance nothing will work. Shiva is giving here very clearly, let you remember “You are”, you may ask, then am I not remembering for the whole day “I AM”, you are not, you remember ‘you’ only with your Upadhis, means conditionings. Let me describe, basically these five layers of conditionings. We have 5 layers of conditionings, the first layer, the Annamaya, physical layer conditioning that you are a male or a female, you are fat or thin, you are healthy or sick, these kind of ideas which you have about yourself. Most of us never use our left because you are conditioned not to use the left. Your left will not be so active like the right. This is the conditioning which has happened in your young age. First layer conditionings are related to the body.

Second is the Pranic (Breath energy) layer conditioning. The second layer conditioning is your desires, choice of your desires. You are being forced to choose something. You can see that even your desires are a choice given by the society; these are the set of things from which you can choose. Third layer conditioning is related to your mind, this is the layer where most of the conditionings are there. Conditioning that you belong to this nation, conditioning that you belong to this religion, conditioning that you belong to this group, all these things are third layer conditionings.

Understand when a child takes birth, it doesn’t belong to any religion, it doesn’t belong to any nation, it doesn’t belong to any group. He belongs to planet earth, but when he grows, for utility sake we put so many labels on him, you are Bharatn, you are American, you are this country person, you are that country person, we give a name, we give a rubber stamp. Giving passport to a child is nothing wrong, it is a utility, but making that as part of his conditioning is something seriously wrong, making him to internalize that is something seriously wrong. Every child should be taught before beginning the conditioning, see, all these things are utility, don’t make it as part of your life. If every child is taught, religion is just a utility, he will not die for religion, he will not kill for religion, he is killing for religion because he is made to condition that his religion is ‘He’.

You are not a Mohammedan, you are not a Hindu, you are not a Christian, your religion is Christianity, your religion is Hinduism and your religion is Islam. In the Vedic tradition, first thing they are taught is liberating themselves or protecting themselves from conditioning. In the Vedic tradition there is no baptizing, there is no baptism and no faith is inserted in to your head. First thing you are taught is the Gayatri mantra, which says, “Let your intelligence be awakened, let your awareness ‘you exist’ be in you”, the mantra translates, “Let me meditate to awaken my intelligence, my divine presence and let that higher intelligence help me to meditate on it”, that’s all, no conditioning. The word Hinduism is forced on Hinduism only after westerners came to Bharat, till then we did not even have the word Hinduism, we did not have any word for our tradition, it was just a way of life, over.

Anybody who has done some research and development releases his report and people follow it, that’s all. The word ‘Religion’ was forced up on us after the western religions came to Bharat, till then Vedic tradition did not even have the word Hinduism. You will be surprised to know that in no Vedic literature the word Hinduism appears, No, because we don’t believe in conditioning. The third layer conditioning is a serious conditioning that you belong to a religion or you belong to a country.

The fourth layer conditioning is a deeper layer conditioning, the affection to the language, being conditioned that you are a Tamilian, you are a Gujarati, you are a Telugu person etc., of course in this country (United States) the language conditioning is lot less, because you don’t have other competition, very less competition, English becomes somehow a major language. In Bharat we have 18 major languages, 300 minor languages with script and 1800 dialects without script. In Bharatn rupee if you see there will be 18 languages printed, you will be surprised, in 18 languages Bharatn states are being run, can you imagine, any document translating and moving, impossible, that’s why nothing moves.

There are 18 official languages and now these guys are shouting to add 3 more languages, I don’t know what will happen, then I think we need to print the note in a bigger size. If you see the promissory note, 18 languages will be printed and because of so many languages the conditioning of the language also becomes necessary, now politicians have to condition, Hey! You are Tamilian, love for Tamil, love for this language, love for your mother tongue and that becomes one more necessity. Language is just to convey the idea, over, what is the need to get in to that, what is the need to love that, nonsense, foolishness, just to convey if you use that it is enough. You are supposed to love the space beyond languages, not the language itself, it is just created to convey some ideology, for some purpose, use it when you need it and when you are done with it relax from it.

See, shoe is a shoe when you can remove and keep it if you want, just imagine, you cant remove it at all, what will happen, it is like a prison, jail, things which you cant remove from you is binding you. In the same way if you are conditioned to a particular language or to a particular nation or to a particular religion it starts suffocating you. Somebody goes to Ramana Maharishi, a great enlightened master from Tamil Nadu, he asks him, you are such a great Tamil poet, I am so happy about it and I am here seeing your poetry skill or your power over the Tamil words. He said, Fool! You missed the whole point, you should be here seeing my power over the wordlessness, silence, not my power over the words, then you missed, many times we miss the truth, we just get caught in conditioning.

Ramana Maharishi says, inside my mind I don’t have any word, I don’t have Tamil, I don’t have any language, the moment the disciple, that guy, so called disciple heard that Ramana Maharishi does not have respect for Tamil language, he ran away, it is good that these kind of guys run away as early as possible, the earlier they run away, good for the master and the disciple, good for both. The fourth level conditioning is the language related conditioning.

The fifth layer conditioning is very important, family conditioning, son of this person, the family heritage, the family trend, that conditioning is the fifth layer conditioning, very serious and very dangerous. People can disconnect sometimes from nation, sometimes from language but not from family, that is too much, that’s why in Bharat, if anybody wants to become enlightened, he is asked to leave the hometown. He should not live in home town, he should not stay in any city or village more than a week, he has to travel, only if he travels and sees different kinds of conditionings he will understand that everything is nothing but conditioning.

Whatever you see or whatever you think as part of ‘you’ is nothing but your conditioning. You will never be able to understand that your love for your language is useless unless you see somebody else’s love for their language. When you see his love for his language is useless you will understand that your love for your language is also useless. The person who travels more, stays in different places and mixes with different kinds of people will know how to come out of conditioning, he will understand, how people suffer with conditionings, conditionings related to your body, conditionings related to your desires, conditionings related to your mind means your religion, nationality, conditionings related to your language and fifth layer conditioning of your family, being proud of your family heritage.

One more thing, not only being proud, sometimes even feeling disturbed that I came and took birth in this family, even the hatred is one more conditioning. Many times you will keep only your father as your standard, just because of that you will not be able to achieve better things. I always tell my disciples, do not keep me as your standard, then you are stuck, No, go beyond me, I wanted things to get updated and not ending. I am not writing any scriptures and saying, this is the last word and it can’t be updated, No, even software can be updated. Scripture means book which creates best inner software, when outer software can be updated, why cant the book which creates inner software, it should be updated.

We should encourage the intelligence to update the inner software, I always tell people, I give full freedom for my disciples to go beyond me, they are suppose to do deeper research and development, they are suppose to start where I end, it should be more like a science. Religion should take the dimension of science, similar to the scientific world where the predecessor stops at a point and the next person starts and updates, does something more from there, religion also should become like that, not that Oh! My word is the last word, No. If somebody says my word is last word, what does he mean by it, how can that be! \` Enlightened masters are here to bring the inner science to the planet earth, enlightenment science to the planet earth, if you say, after me there are no more enlightened masters, there are no more prophets, it means that you have swallowed the whole system, then you are a curse, you are not a blessing. If you are not creating a system which can reproduce the same consciousness or better consciousness, ‘you’ happening on the planet earth is a waste, a curse, better you be where you belong to, don’t come to this place. Here we need people who are encouraging the research and development, planet earth needs more people who are encouraging the research and development, no question of ‘I am the last word’, No, in science no body can say ‘I am the last word,’ same way spirituality is an inner science where further research and development should continue.

Here Mahadeva (another name for Lord Shiva) gives you a powerful technique to further the research and development, to take you to deeper and deeper levels. He gives you a beautiful technique, to explore your consciousness, ‘To be’, to remember ‘you are’, beyond the five layers of conditionings. When you remember ‘you’, you will have a mental picture about ‘you’, that’s what usually you will think as a mental image about ‘you’, if you can remember, ‘you are’ without bringing your mental image, then you have done the Self remembrance. When you are sitting, talking, walking, listening, doing things, just have Self remembrance.

Understand, Self remembrance is the most difficult method in a way and easiest method in a way. It is easiest because you don’t need to do anything and it is difficult because you don’t need to do anything. ‘Not doing’ sometimes looks easy, but when you try to be ‘not doing’ then you will understand how difficult it is. Self remembrance is easy because you don’t need to do anything; it is very difficult because you are not supposed to do anything. Self remembrance does not require anything, doesn’t need any prerequisite, no practice, nothing, that is the beginning and that is the end, over. That is the path and that is the goal, there are no two things, you start with Self remembrance and you end in Self remembrance.

Constantly you remember your Self only with some form of Upadhis, means the identities, you cannot have any thought if you remember your Self in a pure way without any of these five layer conditionings. Just see, whenever you are having a thought, you are having it because you remember your Self connected to any of these five conditionings. You connect yourself with any of these one layer conditioning and only then you will have further material for thoughts. Conditioning is the base material out of which thoughts are produced. Self remembrance is the base energy and not base material. Self remembrance is a powerful method to be away from your mind, when you are in Self remembrance you won’t see thoughts, just the thoughts won’t be there.

I have seen many people, struggling and suffering, sometimes they will come and attend one or two programs but because of their own conditioning they will try to put me in their frame, when it does not fit they will try to talk all nonsense and try their best to disturb but after sometime suddenly you will see their vengeance also does not hold strongly on them. So once they know that I am in the city, again they think ‘why not try?’, ‘why not go and sit?’, ‘why not go and see once? Whether they are having hatred or love, they are not very clear; it does not have awareness or Self remembrance in their love or in their hatred. That is why I tell people, when you praise me I don’t get flattered but I get frightened because the praising has no base, the tongue is such next moment the word can change, any thing can be interpreted in to anything and anything can be spoken in any way.

One more thing, when you connect and suffer with your conditioning, you cannot believe that there is somebody else without conditioning, you can’t. If you are caught with anger, you will always see the other person also filled with anger, if he is not angry, you will become angry just for that. ‘Why is this fellow so cool, dead’? , you wont call that as peaceful or cool, you will call him as dead fellow or a person who doesn’t know how to express himself. If you are filled with lust you will always see the other person also be filled with lust, even if he is not, you will try to find some reason. Your anger or lust or your conditioning is so powerful that it will not let you see the reality as it is, it won’t let you see the truth as it is.

When you are in Self remembrance, you unclutch from these different layers of conditionings and you will suddenly see you are entering in to the eternal presence. I always tell people, just do this one technique, whenever you do anything, before putting the car key in to the car, remember, you are doing it, or remember ‘you are’. You don’t even have to remember that you are doing it, just remember ‘You are’ or ‘I am present’. When you are walking remember ‘I am present’, when you are sitting here remember ‘you are sitting’, when you are walking out remember ‘you are walking’. You don’t have to remember any other god, if you remember ‘you’ that is enough because ‘you’ are god. Your ‘Self’ which is beyond this five layer conditioning is god, god plus conditioning is man, man minus conditionings is god, that’s all is the equation.

When you can minus yourself, when you can minus all the conditionings from your Self, if you can remember just your Self, suddenly you will see you are in the eternal presence. This is a very powerful technique, very simple but very powerful technique. Just try to remember that ‘you are’, that ‘you are here’, you don’t even have to think about your body, your mind, your status or your position, nothing is needed. Just be very clear, ‘you are alive’, just be in the Self remembrance, nothing else needs to be done for enlightenment or to achieve the best things on the planet earth. You don’t need to do anything except remembering ‘you are’, looks too simple, that is why very difficult.

You may think, just by remembering ‘me’, how can I achieve? You are thinking like this because all the time you are trying your best to forget yourself. All your entertainments is nothing but forgetting yourself, see, when you connect yourself with these five layers of conditionings you are too much suffocated and you suffer and so you try to forget yourself by some way. First thing, remembering yourself with these five layers is the first disease and second you try to get some medication for this disease which creates more and more side effects.

All your entertainments is nothing but trying to forget ‘you’, do not try to forget ‘you’, trying to forget you will only add more and more difficulty, try to remember ‘you’ without your conditionings, without your five layers of conditionings, may be we can try few minutes this technique and I will answer all your questions before the Darshan. Just sit with your closed eyes, try to remember ‘you are’ without remembering your body or your mind or any other layer of conditionings. Whatever you know about ‘you’ or whatever is taught to you about ‘you’, try to relax from it, just remember ‘you are’.

Swamiji conducts a guided meditation. Question and Answer Session:

If you have any questions on this subject or on this meditation you can write and give me, I will answer them. Today is the last day of discourse; we will have Nithya Dhyan initiation. Initiation means downloading the software, you see, before you start working on any program you need to download the particular software to your computer, same way before working on any meditation if you are initiated it will avoid any problems or wrong doings, you will not miss any instruction, you will not do it in a wrong way, and the initiation is more like downloading the whole software. You are welcome to ask for initiation; today we will have initiation ceremony,

Question: Can you comment on the sense of smell to achieve enlightenment? Swamiji: It is a meditation technique which Shiva has spoken about. I have already spoken about it elaborately, I won’t be able to repeat the whole technique, if you see the Shiva Sutra CD’s, you can find the discourse.

Question: Will I achieve enlightenment soon? Swamiji: You can achieve now, why do you think of ‘soon’, you can achieve now, just remember yourself.

Question: What is cause of physical illness and what is the remedy? Swamiji: See, you thinking you have a body is the first illness and all other illness is illness for illness. You identifying yourself with the body is the first illness, first come out of that illness and then all other illness will disappear

Question: How do we live in this world surrounded by people who are covered in layer of conditioning? Swamiji: Why, I am living, you also live, what can be done, nothing can be done.

Question: The Bible says “Be Still and Know that I am God” Swamiji: Yes that’s is the right thing, that is the right teaching, see when he says “Be Still and know that I am God” it means “Be Still and know that what is in you as “I” is God, Be Still and know that “I am” is god, that is what he means. Understand when you are still, you will know that what exist in you as “I” is god Question: What do you believe as the purpose of conditionings in this life? Swamiji: Conditioning is created by society just to make you as a useful person. You being a utility to the society is nothing wrong, I don’t say No, but you becoming useless to ‘you’ is wrong, by becoming utility to society you become useless to you, that is wrong. Question: Who is going to win the NBA Championship? Swamiji: I don’t even know what NBA championship is; I think these guys are asking like a prediction, they try to get my prediction, so that they can bet on that.

Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda, Thank You