“Let's enter into the next Sutra: Thinking no thing will limit itself be…”
Let's enter into the next Sutra: Thinking no thing will limit itself be unlimited. It’s again….I feel every Sutra is a bomb! Every Sutra is a strong message. I think, still many of you have not even come out of yesterday Sutra. Still many of you have not come out of yesterday Sutra. I feel, that more and more if I add, ofcourse, person who can digest will really digest. Person who feels it is too much, may not imbibe even one sutra, that is why I am taking little time. Last Sutra was also very strong Sutra, but I have to slowly dilute it, so that you will have more time. Till you settle down, from that Sutra, till you internalize that Sutra. But anyhow, here I can’t avoid, because it’s really strong Sutra. Thinking no thing, thinking nothing will limited, self be unlimited. Understand.
Constantly you are thinking something which can be grasped by you, including enlightenment. Somebody goes to Ramana Maharishi and ask, “Bhagavan you are enlightened. By remembering an enlightened person, thinking an enlightened person what will I get?” He said: “You will get enlighten.” Then he asked: “I thinking... I think about you continuously, but I'm not becoming enlightened.” Bhagavan says, “Who says you are thinking about, thinking of me you are thinking about me! Understand. You are having your own idea about me and thinking about that”. The master, the presence of the master can never be thought about. He says, “Think about something which you can't think. It’s very, important thing to understand. In Zen, there is a Sutra - they will give you a cone.
Cone is nothing but Sutra. Zen cone. One Zen cone is there. Think of your face which was there before your birth. Understand. Think of your face which was there before your birth. What will you think? Sit and try to think, “What will I think?” You can't. Even if they said think of your face after your death, you will think something. Your old face and something like ghost No! Think of your face before your birth. Actually, anything which you can think about, will enrich your mind, will engage your mind, will add more entertainment. At least few moment, if you can try to think something which you can't think, means just tearing the mind to pieces. It is literally like Hiranyakashyapu, a great demon. How Narasimha killed him. He just torn the Manipura. He just torn the navel of Hiranyakashipu, the demon and killed him. Exactly the same process, that - Hiranyakashipu being killed by Narasimha is nothing but this Sutra. If you try to think of something which can’t be thought, the nothing, suddenly, you will see Narasimha will appear inside you and tear you to pieces. It’s like a mind will be torn to pieces. You experience that truth.
How to think of nothing? It’s very strange. Whatever I say now - how to think of nothing - again will be one more thinking. We will start thinking about it. Then how to do? What to do? Try to think of something too big, bigger than this Planet, bigger this stars, bigger then this Cosmos. Just stretch, stretch, stretch. Suddenly you will see as if your mind is hitting on a wall. Is stuck on a wall. It’s not able to do anything. Mahadeva says: “Continue”. When you feel the mind is not able to move anywhere, mind is not able to anything, think anything further. Anything bigger than that. Anything. Just think of that nothing. It looks very funny, the initial level. It will really look crazy, how can I think of nothing? Whatever you think is useless. Only when you understand that, you will really start thinking of nothing.
Now again and again you have some hope. One corner, one corner of you, you have some hope, some idea. Anything which you think gives you some hope, gives you some idea. It maybe wrong hope, it maybe from the wrong side, it maybe from the wrong understanding. Many people say,” I can do it from wrong understanding.” A small story. “One lady, she is working in the circus, she is a lion tamer, tamer. She just plays with the lion, whatever she says - the lion does. The whole audience, group was shouting, applauding, what she was doing. Actually she kept a small sugar cake on her tongue, lion came and just picked that cake and went. It just comes pick up that sugar cake and goes. It is too much and that lion obeys that command just so obediently, it was just surprising. All the fellows are applauding in the audience. One guy was sitting very straight, very silent, ‘Okay’ kind of a look. She looks at him and says, “What do you think? You think you can do this?” He says, “ Surely, when lion can do why not me.” Understand. He says - He can do - but from the wrong side! - “When lion can do, why not me!”
Whenever your mind brings hope, from right side or wrong side. It continuously brings hope. Bringing hope, is the way your mind possesses you and keeps itself alive. Here Mahadeva says,“Thinking nothing”. Actually, if you do this, if you try this…. Is again I can say Ananda Sutra, it is not Nithya Sutra. You don’t have to internalize and do it every morning, do something, No! You have to only remember. Means, allow it. Continuously every time, between every two thought, you come back to that nothing. Just see every thought happening in you, in the gap you come back to the nothing. Then again something, then come back to nothing. Again something, then come back to nothing. Again something. It goes on and on and on. All you need to do is, now you mother the thinking so much, that gap, that nothing become too short. Understand. If you are thinking for one second, you come back to no thinking for one second. If you are again thinking for one second, you come back to no thinking for one second. Between every thought, you come back to your center. Thoughts are not moving horizontally, they are happening vertically. Means here is your base, every time you come back to your center.
From here only you start and come back, then start, come back. Means, everytime you come back to nothing, come back to nothing. Understand. Be very clear, between every thinking you are coming back to nothing. This clarity is enough. Now you will start giving importance to that nothing. All you need to do is, shift the importance to nothing. As on now, your importance is always to the thinking. Now shift the importance to nothing. Just see,” Yes there was a gap, yes there was a gap, yes there was a gap.” Be aware, remember that nothingness, that gap which happens between every thought, now as and now, you always remember the thought and forget about the gap. Just shift that attention, shift the attention to the gap and forget about the thought. Then naturally you will not allow the further and further of expansion of thinking. You will be centered on that nothing.
Understand. When Mahadeva says “Think of nothing”, do not think it is impossible. If it was impossible, Mahadeva doesn’t have to tell. If it is impractical, He will never talk. One thing, this technique is for a person who is really evolved, who is really evolved. Who has really seen, sometimes at least, at least few moments of silence in himself? Maybe if hundred persons, try this technique only one or two, only one or two it will click. I am talking about it so that it will be on record, it will be on record and with whoever it click let it click. Thinking of nothing is what I call choiceless awareness. A pure, choiceless, simple awareness. Neither thinking of past, or future or even the present. Just changing, shifting your attention to that gap, shifting your attention to that nothing. That is the essence of this Sutra. Mahadeva says “Shift your attention to nothing”. Suddenly you will see, you will become unlimited self. You will become unlimited Being.
Shifting the gap to the nothing. You do not have to do anything, except a simple attention shift. Simple attention shift. Usually, your attention will be always on the thought, because thought is so enchanting. Every though which raises in you, is so promising, it is giving you so many different kinds of promises. It says,” I will do this, I will give you this, I will give you that, come on, chalo, do this. Let us have that, have this.” Worse than the election promises from politicians! Even that one or two by mistake it may get fulfilled. But this, never ever can get fulfilled. Think of nothing. I have seen, poor guys sometime, they will get connected and feel connected with the master, but they are filled so much with this thoughts and they are so mesmerizing, so enchanting, they can’t stay with the master and mind will create all possible difficulties and problems. Actually, the original fight is not between you and your mind, it’s between Me and your mind. The original fight is between Me and your mind, not between you and your mind.
You are not that intelligened or powerful to fight with your mind. Your mind only takes your support once in a while. It asks for your support “Please stand for me” and as long as you dont stand for your mind, that is enough else I will take care. Only when you stand for your mind I can't do anything, because dharmicaly we have an ethics. Enlightened masters do have ethics and we have a code of conducts. We will not interfere, into the freedom of somebody who does not want enlightenment. We will not interfere in your freedom the moment you try to, you consciously decide you will support your mind. Actually the fight is between Me and your mind. Which side you want to stand that side will win, that’s all. As long as you stand for My side, I can continue the fight on behalf of you. Only when you give the power of authority to Me. Not otherwise. Not otherwise. We have our own ethics.
People ask Me, “Swamiji give me the promise, even when I resist you, you should not leave Me.” I tell them “No, that can not be done.” That is the only thing enlightened person can not do. The individual freedom is respected so much, the individual decision is respected so much, I cannot do anything when you don’t want. No! That is the only reason, why so many people was feeling connected and try, but missing, not able to catch. Not able to become enlightened. If you are able to maintain that one thing - giving GPA to the master, the power of attorney or standing for his side, nothing else is needed. I have come with enough of tools and weapon to remove your mind, the brain’s tumor. All you need is allowing Me to work, which side you stand. The nothingness is the constant gap. If you stand for that side, suddenly you will see, the shift of attention towards the nothingness, just makes you unlimited. Makes you unlimited.
Many people come and stay around Me, feel connected, the click happens, initiation happens, they work. When the initiation happens, when that love is there they ask Me “Swamiji even when I leave, you should take care of Me”. I tell them “No, that cannot be, that cannot be.” Sometime if they leave, some one or two persons leave, I remember them, I remind them. Not only I remember them, I tell them “You see, you asked Me that time, I told you it cannot be done. Now I have one responsibility to remind you that, you can decide.” I was seeing, unfortunately poor guys many miss. If it’s their decision is to miss, I cannot do anything. You have freedom to be in bondage. That is the greatness, that is the freedom God has given you. You have freedom to be in bondage.
Understand. Shifting the attention to the gap, to the nothing will suddenly liberate you, will suddenly unlimit you. This technique cannot be done at particular time, should not be done at particular time, constantly shifting the attention, constantly living it. That is why I say,” It is Ananda Sutra. It is Ananda Sutra.” Nithya Sutra means internalizing and practising whole day. Dhyana Sutra means internalising and practicing a particular point of time in your life, day to day routine. Ananda Sutra means internalizing and just living. This is Ananda Sutra. Internalise, shift attention to the nothing, to the silence. Continuously, you will see you will unlimit yourself and you will liberate yourself.
Sutra male very simple, very simple. Try, live, you will see the power of it. Key looks very simple, only when you open, you will understand how big doors it can open. What size doors it can open. Before using do not decide. If you decide before trying, before using, you will miss it. Maybe this technique, is created for the generations yet to happen. This is for meditation, for future humanity. Understand. Try, there is every possibility it can click. You may be the future humanity. If you are ahead of your time, all of us think, always we think - we are ahead of our time. If you are ahead of your time, this may click with you, this may show you the truth.
Let you achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you.
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