“Let us enter into the Sutra.”

Let us enter into the Sutra. In the spaces between feel this as lightning, Mahadeva says: “Now you intensely experienced, the energy centres. You visualised yourself as a light and felt concentrated on every energy centre.” Now Mahadeva says: “Feel that same energy as a lightning hitting you. This will happen only when you touch or Enlightened Master touches you or when you are touching an energised deity. When Enlightened Master gives the energy darshan, you can just be aware and you can see a lightning shock. In which Chakra you feel the shock strongly, you need to work on that chakra. Understand?

Whenever you receive energy darshan, today you try, today try it with a deep, relaxed but intense prayerful mood. Don’t think, it’s the everyday ritual. No. Today, come with the intensity and just look deep, don’t try to talk anything. Every day you speak, you ask, talk, many things, just today, try, don’t try to talk, don’t try to look this side and that side, what is there, there, what murthi is that or don’t divert your attention and another big problem is this guys only that few minutes get so close, they don’t want to missing my face but in energy darshan you are supposed to see your face, not just mine. So come and close your eyes and look inside, where the shock is happening, which chakra is receiving the lightning, be sensitive, it’ll always happen every time when Master touches.

Today be sensitive that’s all. If you are sensitive, you can see. You can, see. See, where that touch is happening. Where that lightning is happening. Or when you touch an energised deity, you can have that lightning. Actually, I think Dakshinamurthi can touch and feel, that is the deity energised, but outside. You can go and touch the feet of Dakshinamurthi. The Guru’s embodiment of Guru. You can touch that murthi, the feet and see what happens inside you when the Master touches it, the same thing will happen when you touch the energised deity. That is the power of energised deities. Once the life is added to them, they become independent Intelligence. They do the same work of Master’s body. Whatever is said and done, if you have seen that hall before putting the garba and the deities and after putting the garba and deities you will understand the difference, the energy difference.

When a Master touches you or when you enter into a energy field, intense energy fields like a Thirumala or the Arunachaleswara temples, temple or Madurai Devi temple or there are so many other temples, intense energy fields Vishunata and Badrinath, Kedha (04:01-04:06), this kind of a strong energy fields if you enter there also you will have a shock. You will see the lightning starts happening inside the system. Whether you are touched by the Master or you are touching the Master’s body or you touch an energised idol, the idol or deity installed by an enlightened being or you enter into a strong energy field. This experience what Shiva says can be experienced. Suddenly you will see the lightning happening in your spine. Whenever that happens, close your eyes and rest with it. If it happens in a temple, stop doing all other rituals. Just sit, go to a corner. Just sit and digest that.

Let it happen. Be aware. Be sensitive to it. Allow that to work, cooperate with it. You will see, you will receive thousand times more than what you will receive by prayer. Prayer is like you’re trying to connect, this experience is like He is trying to connect. Whenever He calls you it goes to voicemail. And whenever you call, you blame He is not picking up. He’s not picking up true, but when He calls you back, it again goes to voicemail, that is why never the dialog happens.

Understand, this experience is like He calling you. Allow. Don’t be engaged. Don’t be engaged in something else. Just go to one corner, sit with closed eyes, forget about the pandas, priests, pujaris, worship, these, that, whatever is going on, sit in one corner, internalise. Which Chakra you had the shock or lightning. Just, or if you had the whole all over the body, then internalise, sit with it. Let you encourage, cooperate with it, let that penetrate you, deeper and deeper. You will see, the process which is supposed to happen, will start happening.

Mahadeva says, “Or in the spaces between, feel this as lightning.” This will not happen ordinarily by visualising you cannot do this technique. No. It only happens by the strong energy field. If you’re visualising you’ll be only visualising. That is not experience. That is not experience. You’ll only be visualising but here, this has to happen. This has to happen. So understand, sit with yourself. Whenever this happens, three, during three different times it can happen. One, when you are touched by an enlightened body or you are touching the enlightened body. Second, when you touch energised deity, of course, energised deity can’t come and touch you. At least, ordinary level in ordinary way and whenever you are entering into an intense energy field. In Thirumalai or Arunachala you may not be able to touch the deity but the moment you enter that energy field, you will see it happening. It happens.

Thirumalai is a very powerful energy field, strong energy field. I was going through, all the major donations given to the temple. Had the fortune of sitting with some of the officers who were working on the temple. So many other wonderful things. Everything shows the strong lightning energy which entered into the men when they entered into the energy field. You have to respect the energy field with the deep intense devotion. So many stories. So many stories. The moment they, they say that they enter into the Thirumalai the energy experience starts. And they donate something. That is the way the whole temple was created. The whole temple is a living testimonial of millions of devotees’ experience, millions of devotees’ spiritual experience.

And one small story about this energy field. Ramanuja is a great Enlightened Master. He was going around teaching the Enlightenment and whatever he discovered - the Bhakti, the devotion, to all the people all over the country. He went to Tirupati, had darshan of Venkateshwara and stayed there for quite some time and he was leaving. Those days you have to go only by walk and especially in the energy fields the vehicles are not completely allowed. They were completely prohibited. He comes out from the place walked up to 30 mile, they all became tired, they said: “Let us eat.” and they opened the food which they brought from Thirumalai.

In Thirumalai itself they cooked and started carrying the food and when they opened, sat and opened the food, they saw full of ants, ants in the food. Ramanuja not only did not eat, he completely repacked the whole thing without missing a single ant, leaving a single ant outside, he put them all back and packed it, started walking back to Thiruma. All the disciples started. Of course, those days also, here I think enough of disturbing disciples.

[00:10:32] Somewhere started shouting, “What are you doing?” And “we are tired. Either give us food or if you don’t want to eat the ants, give us we will drive the ants and eat at least the food what is the wrong? If it’s ok we will drive the ants and eat the food.” And he said, “No, I’m going back.”

And, one more thing, in the Ramanuja’s group, Ramanuja was very senior. He became enlightened very late and all his disciples are young guys. Even though they are young they are tired they said, “no we are, we are not interested in walking back. Why are you going back? What is the need? Drive the ants and eat the food.” Ramanuja says: “No. How many Janmas they did a good deeds to take birth in Thirumalai we don’t know. We have no right to remove them from that energy field.”

Understand, very easy to talk, but very difficult to walk 30 miles back. Very easy to tell this idea but very difficult to walk 30 miles back to drop the ants back to the energy field. That is the respect they carried for energy field but even after that he walked, left the ants there, then next day started his journey. You don’t know the respect they showered for the energy field because they experienced it. Same way, Ramana Maharishi will never allow a single tree to be cutted in the whole Arunachala boundary. He’ll say: “Fools, you don’t know. Rishis and Munis and Siddhas are coming here and taking birth as a tree, as animals. They’re all living here just to enjoy this energy field.”

And he’ll always, he always used to tell: “Never disrespect animals or trees inside the ashram.” where he was staying. He always used to say Siddhas, Rishis, Munis have come here to be in the energy field. So that never disturb them. But as usual you know these guys, these disciples: “Ah, what foolishness he is telling.”

And always there used to be a dog, which will come before he starts eating and he’ll give little food and the dog will eat and go. And this was annoying one Brahmin, who was too much that washing mania. No the South Bharat suffered too much by washing mania. The muddy, muddy, muddy, they call it muddy. Washing, washing, washing, washing, washing... and washing. And this guy, washing mania, he had little, uh, irritation, dog coming all the way to his, uh, place where he was sitting and eating and he giving the food and the dog eats and goes, this is too much.

And he shouted at the dog one day, “Don’t come here and disturb uh when Bhagavan eats. Have you no sence?” Something like that he shouted, you will be surprised. The dog went and jumped in the, well and committed suicide. It committed suicide. Dogs can actually swim. This guy did not swim. Jumped into the well and committed suicide. When the news was brought to Bhagavan, he felt so much and he brought the dog, the dog’s body and put in his own lap and applied the vibhuti which he will apply on his body and did the Samadhi, the traditional ceremony of burying, enlightened beings. He buried the dog and put a mark on it and always whenever he used to walk that, that side, he will stand there and spend few minutes with the dog with that Samadhi.

Understand, energy field is a very different phenomena. You can’t logically understand the value of energy field and there was a great saint, Manikavasagal (14:59). He came to Arunachala same way, the moment he enters the area from where he can see the hill, he will remove the shoes and he will not walk with the leg, with the feet. He says: “My feet should not touch the energy field. It’s a disrespect.” He was rolling, just by rolling he went around the whole hill and paid the respect. Of course this is too extreme. At least you can understand the spirit, you can understand the spirit behind the whole concept of energy field. Because it was giving such a strong experience to them, that’s why they were able to show so much of respect.

If it is just a mental understanding or a faith you can’t show so much respect. If it is a faith what you will do, you know on a hard trauma your dog would have done, would have called the end disciple, “ay, take this and leave it in the Thirumalai and come back’. He could have done that. That’s what he would have done intelligent, very intelligent or he would have asked, he would have told: “Alright, it’s ok, dry them out, it’s ok.” or at the most he would have sent somebody to drop. He says: “No, you guys may drop in between and come back. I can’t take that risk.” He himself goes and drops and comes.

Because energy fields are the centers which can awaken the lightning, the truth in your being. So, today’s energy darshan, be ready and be aware and see which chakra receives that lightning, that experience. This technique can’t be practised when you want. You have to practise only when it happens. When it happens, whenever you enter into energy field or touch an energised deity or touched or that you touching or you are touched by an Enlightened Master. Those are the few moments the lightning will start happening in some chakra or all chakras. Be aware, receive and sit with it. Allow it to penetrate and expand and go into your system. That’ll do the work. Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you.