“Q: This person is asking, ‘can a person enlighten only with idol…”

Q: This person is asking, ‘can a person enlighten only with idol worship?’

Oh, just with idol worship! I can say, ‘you can become enlightened just with idol worship’. But you must be able to develop that depth just through the idol which usually does not happen. After certain level, when the depth has become very deep, automatically the person moves to the higher levels or the deeper levels. So if you are really a kind of person to the depth of Ramakrishna, then of course. Ramakrishna did not have anything else except Kali idol and finally kali herself guided him to have the initiation from Thothapuri. That is a very funny incident. Thothapuri comes. He is a great enlightened master – ‘Avadhootha’, ‘Paramahamsa’. No clothes - a complete naked ‘sanyasi’ who lives with the nature.

He comes to dakshineshwar and sees Ramakrishna and says, ‘I feel you are an intense seeker and I want to initiate you’.

Ramakrishna says, ‘wait for a moment. I will go and ask my mother and come back’. Thothapuri thought, ‘he may be staying with his mother and wants his mother’s permission before the initiation’.

Ramakrishna runs to the devi temple and asks devi, stands in front of the kali moorthy for two minutes and comes back and says, ‘yes, my mother told you have come here just to initiate me’. Initiate me.

Thothapuri was shocked. He said, ‘what are you saying?’ You said ‘you will talk to your mother and come back’. But I saw you went to temple and stood in front of devi moorthy and came back.

This guy said ‘yes she is my mother’. I asked her just now and she told me ‘you can initiate me’. Thothapuri was shocked.

During initiation, Thothapuri said ‘bring your mind to the ultimate consciousness with no form. Centralize your mind on the formless consciousness’.

He gave some technique. Actually he initiated him into a very powerful sanyas technique, the sanyas initiation.

But Ramakrishna says ‘No. I am not able to bring myself into the emptiness because the moment I close my eyes, kali is there in front on me’. Thothapuri says, ‘then go and talk to your mother again’.

Laughter!!

The very interesting thing is, he goes to the kali and asks, ’what is this? He is telling me to bring my inner space to silence and pure consciousness which is beyond the form. But, whenever I close my eyes, I see only you’. Then kali says, ‘go and follow his advice. That is the right thing you have to do. That is the right thing you have to do’. And the story says she gives her own sword which she always carries and says, ‘cut my form and kill me’.

Understand, if you have that depth with the idol, then you don’t need anything. Usually, when you have that depth with the idol, she herself will guide and take care that you become enlightened. The story says, ‘she herself guided him and gave the sword to cut herself’. When Ramakrishna brought himself back to the pure consciousness beyond the form, he saw the ‘form of kali’ and used the sword mentally and cut the form. And the story says, he become enlightened.

Understand if you had that depth, then naturally the deity herself, the devi herself will guide you to the higher levels.

Q: When I stand in front of Krishna of dwarika, I go speechless, thoughtless and tears comes in my eyes. This does not happen in other kind of worship for me.

It is perfectly alright. Even it happens with one moorthy that is okay. There is no problem. It is perfect. Just continue with that. That will take you to the deeper and deeper level. All I tell people, ‘when you have deep feeling of that one moorthy, just go with it’. Have ishta nishta - means completely centered on that deity. Don’t bother about anything else. You don’t have to have the same experience in front of every deity. No need. Same way, don’t say, ‘all other deities are useless. All other things are useless. All other gods are useless or all other techniques are useless’. That is the only thing you need to avoid. If that one you can avoid, you will always be guided to higher and higher levels, deeper and deeper methods. All you need to have is ‘depth’ and the same way ‘openness for further updation’. Openness for further experiences.

One small story about a baktha, a vaishnava (Vishnu baktha). This guy is so devoted to VISHNU. Day and night he will do pooja and he will pray to VISHNU day and night. But somehow, VISHNU knows this guy is not just having pure love. This guy is more like attached or a fanatic. More than the dedication or connection with VISHNU, he has too much of exclusing.

Understand, sometime your devotion may not be a positive attachment. It may be a negative hatred to other deities. The exclusion may be looking like devotion. Anyhow! This guy was continuously praying, but VISHNU never gave darshan and very funny thing always with the attachment the problem is, if the other person does not respond, the whole your ‘so-called’ love will turn as hatred. And this fellow’s love becomes hatred now.

‘Such a long time I prayed to you, you did not give darshan. I think you are useless, I will choose some other god. Who I will choose? Your enemy, SHIVA is your enemy’.

Suppose to be.

Laughter!!

Because these guys will have their own idea. ‘SHIVA must be your enemy. I will choose SHIVA. I will not worship you anymore’. And this guy put the VISHNU moorthy to one corner and caught hold of SHIVA moorthy and started doing worship. And put the incense in front of SHIVA moorthy. When he put the incense, he saw, because of the wind, the incense smell was going towards the VISHNU moorthy. He got so annoyed, so irritated. He just jumped and caught hold of the VISHNU’s nose.

He says, ‘you should not smell my incense anymore. You had your share enough. You should not smell incense anymore and now it is only for SHIVA. Now I am trying with SHIVA, experimenting with SHIVA. I don’t want you to take any of my smell. Half of the smell will go away to you, then, I may not get the full result’.

The moment he was holding the VISHNU’s nose tightly, the story says, ‘suddenly VISHNU appeared to bless him. When VISHNU appeared, all his anger went away. He fell at the feet of VISHNU’ and cried and started asking, ’I prayed to you so many years but you never appeared in front of me. Now, I am working completely against you and not only working against you I am holding your nose so that you will not have smell of my incense, which I am giving for SHIVA’.

Laughter!!

And VISHNU says beautifully, ‘all these years you worshipped me. True. But you never felt that I am really living in this deity. Only when you started hating me and only when you held my nose that I should not have the smell of the incense, you sincerely from the deeper consciousness felt that I am in this deity. I am in this deity. Your hatred was deeper than the devotion. Your hatred could shake your being deeper than devotion. It may be hatred but negatively, at least negatively you had deep faith for those few moments that I am available in that deity. I am there in that form. That faith, I have to honor that faith. So, I am appearing. I am blessing you’.

Understand, in this case, the fanaticism has paid. It has paid. But, it does not pay always. So all you need to do when you melt, go deep and be with it. No need to hate or exclude other things. Be ready for deeper and deeper experiences or deeper and deeper explosions.

Q: Where is the center of decisions? Is it the ‘I’ or the ‘desires and knowing’?

First thing – ‘there is no center for decisions. Understand:You are just a calamity - happened to you, that is all’. There is no center as you think. You are just a ‘chaos’. That is why, wherever you go, you create that.

Understand: Be very clear. It may be hurting you, but the truth is, there is no center in you. You are just ‘chaos’. That is why actually, that is the reason you have such mood swings. Such mood swings. Because, if you have a center at all, you will not have the mood swings. The very existence of mood swings shows you don’t have center. You don’t have center. Just your desires and knowing only makes decision, takes decision. That is why Shankara says

Satsangatve Nissangatvam,

Nissangatve Nirmohatvam,

Nirmohatve Nischala Tattvam,

Nischala tatve, Jeevan muktih

He says ‘Satsangatve Nissangatvam’, when you are sitting with the truth – with the master, the words which are given by him to you takes you to the ‘real center’. See, if you already have a kind of a center, then you don’t need a master. You don’t have ‘chaos’. Now because you don’t have the center, your mood swing, your chaos and anything which comes up inside your system very prominently strongly rules you.

You go and sit in a place where the fear is put inside you like some horror movie. See the horror movie for ten days. Eleventh day, you will see devil or ghost because ten days you were meditating on ghost. ‘Why you will not see him? You will see him’.

You will see that night only, you feel like drinking water and when you go to the kitchen you will see suddenly, you will see the screen moving by itself or a black cat jumping. Something, when you meditate on it you will see.

When you go to the master’s presence or listening to the right words, understand, the ‘satsanga’ leads to ‘nissanga’ - means to the ‘silence’, because for those few moments he sends you back to your center.

He puts you back to your center. And ‘nissanga’ leads to ‘nischala’ - means the ‘non moving or non disturbed center’. ‘Achala’ means that which does not move. ‘Nischala’ means that which is beyond ‘moving and non moving’ – means the pure space. ‘Nischalatatva’ naturally leads to ‘jeevan mukthi’, means the ‘living enlightenment’. Understand, as on now decisions are made only in ‘desires and knowings’ and not in center. You don’t have center. You will have center only when the master puts you back to the center.

Q: Thanks for the revelation that what the ‘I’ identity that is carried by me is worst than cow dung cake as it is even useless for providing warmth for me or others.

Laughter!!

Alright, the very understanding leads you to not as cow dung cake the diamond which is hidden inside. Till you understand it, it is a cow dung cake. When you understand, just break it. Then you will see inside the diamond is there. What you thought as cow dung cake, inside the same cow dung cake, diamond is there. So what you thought as ‘i’, break it, then suddenly you see inside, the ‘real I’ the pure diamond the manipuraka is shining.

Q: What can I do to unblock healing of an injury?

See, if it is related to your ‘mind’, only then through techniques you can help. But anything physical, I think you should go for ‘Allopathy’ – the annamayakosha related, for example, if there is an accident. May be, before accident happens you can arrange, alter your mental set up and create positive incidence in your life. But if something has happened in ‘annamayakosha’, surely you should take the ‘annamaya’ help. And may be for the speedy recovery you can take the help of the mind.

Q: What does enlightenment means? ‘Being aware or doing the right things or surrendering to the almighty’.

Understand, enlightenment means all these three. As long as you think all these three are three different things, you are not enlightened. When you realize all these three are one, you are enlightened. Being aware, doing right things, surrendering to almighty all these three happens at a time spontaneously. When you are aware, you are already surrendered to almighty and you will always be doing the right thing.

And he is repenting about ‘when the normal people is getting around in this mad world, only masters like you get to enjoy the space of enlightenment’.

Understand, it is not monopoly. It is not surely monopoly. You can enjoy. It is available to you. But, if you choose the mad world, then you are responsible, surely not.

You say about taking care of family. You don’t know how many families I am taking care. You have only one family. I have three hundred families. Understand with three hundred families and even one family brings their problem one day to me, it takes one full year for me to settle. So please do not think I don’t have a family. I have too many families around the world and continuously I need to attend.

One more thing - somebody asked me other day, ‘master, after all you left the house to become a ‘sanyasi’ and now around you, such a big city is developed. Why did you take up this responsibility?’, swamiji.

I told them, ‘just to tell the world and to make a clear statement that enlightenment is possible even in the mad world’. When you decide to radiate, not only you will be living in ecstasy, whoever comes around you, you will add that to them. Do not complaint your family is responsible for you not becoming enlightened. No, you are responsible for them not becoming enlightened.

Q: ‘Always be happy’ is the one of the significant sign of enlightenment. But can you please explain what other signs are there for an enlightened soul?

Understand: I can put it in this way. ‘Always, be intense’ is the main sign of enlightened master. So when you see that, you understand that it is a ‘bliss or happiness’. To tell you honestly, I myself do not feel something like I am separately being happy or separately being blissful. All I know is that I am clear something extraordinary is constantly happening intensely in me. Only an outsider feels it is ‘bliss’. It is not even ‘bliss’. It is the quality which cannot be described.

That is why they say in Sanskrit – ‘nirvikalpa’, ‘niranjana’, ‘nirabhasa’ means there is no movement. There is no wave. There is no disturbance. Even the idea of ‘bliss’ according to you may be like a movement. But there is no movement. When the movement happens, it can be called as ‘bliss’. When there is no movement, when there is a pure ‘nirvikalpa’, when you see from outside, it looks like a ‘bliss’. There is a beautiful word in sanskrit, ‘achala vigraha’ and ‘sachala vigraha’.

‘Achala vigraha’ means, the deity which does not move – ‘god statues in the temple’. ‘Sachala vigraha’ means the deity which moves – ‘the enlightened master’s bodies’. Only the person who see from outside feels that the ‘sachala vigraha’ is in ‘bliss’. But actually, I am in the state something can be called ‘beyond bliss’. Even the idea of bliss you will remember as a ‘big wide smile’. No, relax. It is not just a big wide smile. It cannot be described. It is pure nirvikalpa, niranjana, nirabhasa which cannot be conceived by mind.

Tomorrow Mahadeva talks about this. Tomorrow’s technique will be related to this. May be that time, I will deeply explain or we will deeply try to understand. From yesterday, all the techniques are almost ‘Ananda sutras’ means now Mahadeva is coming to end. We have only seven more days. We have only few more sutras. Anyhow, as on now, the remaining sutras which I will be talking, everything is ‘Ananda sutras’. Mahadeva is taking us to deeper and deeper levels.

Breaking new new parts and giving new new clicks. Tomorrow’s technique he says, ‘enlightenment is not even bliss’. He is breaking all the doors. He is not even opening, he is just breaking. Even if he opens, there is every possibility because of your foolishness, you may close it again. So he is not even interested in opening and leaving it. No, he just breaks it. So that once for all, it can never be closed again. You don’t have to bother about, you don’t have to have the fear ‘it may get closed who knows!!’ So, you are asking other significance, other important things. I can say, ‘any significance or any signs’ I explain and which your mind grasps will become a lie, will become a lie. Only one sign I can say, you will have some deeper click and you will have a strong feeling connected. Just try to avoid coming here. After two to three days, you will be not able to avoid. Then you are really experiencing the enlightened master’s presence. That’s all I can say. Anything else will become a lie or duplication.

Q: Like one common mother when child leaves, mother always feel very sad. I don’t want to let go and don’t want to let go. Can you explain? If you can, what was your mother’s reaction when you left the home?

I know you will not leave, that is why I did not take birth to you. That is why; I did not take birth to you. I can say, ‘if mother is too possessive of the child, she will not even give birth’. What to do then. Even giving birth is a form of let go. She is allowing him to leave the body. Only a mother who is ready to allow the next level explosions to happen, who is ready to let go, who is ready to give inspiration or who is ready to allow, can be the real mother.

Understand: if you are that possessive, if you are that much sad, then you should not even give birth. You should continuously feeding through your umbilical cord. The umbilical cord connection should be continuously kept alive. Then carry him continuously. Why you are giving birth? Why are you allowing him to come out? How?

Physically, only when you allow him to come out after nine months, he can grow. Psychologically, after sometime, only if you allow him to break from you, he can grow. Physical disconnection is ‘birth’ and Psychological disconnection is ‘sanyas’. Understand, in that way I am very fortunate. When I went and told my mother, it was late night. Still I remember. Late night around 11 o’ clock. I went to temple and spent sometime. Usually that is the time I will come back. When I come back, I had my own key. I will open and come inside. I use to wear wooden sandals. So, that will create a big noise and wake up the whole house.

The house was stone, granite floor. Those days, Bharatn houses are built with granite and teak wood. My grandmother use to say that the house was 300 years old. 300 years, something like 10, 11 generations they are living in the same house. Of course, a huge house. Whenever I enter with the wooden sandals, it will make such a big sound ‘tatak takak tatak’, then they will wake up. She will wake up and prepare my food if I want to eat. If I have finished eating in the temple itself, then I will say goodnight. That’s all.

She got up and she was about to prepare the food. I called her and said, ‘see, I have decided that I am going to go for sanyas. So, you can give me food tonight. Even though, I finished eating, you can give this food and I will eat because from tomorrow, I am not going to be here. I am going sanyas’. It was very casual announcement to her. Of course, surely she had shock and she did not tell anything and another one thing important thing. All of them know from the beginning, ‘talking or convincing will nothing work with me’.

All they know is before telling them, ‘I will be very clear’. But when I say, it means it is going to be done that’s all. And she just started pouring. The tears were rolling from her eyes. I looked at her and asked ‘what do you mean’? Do you mean to say that I should not go? She just moved her head saying ‘NO’. No, I did not say that. All I am crying because I am not able to control. Accept that’s all. But I can’t say you cannot go. Because, she knows one day it will happen. The beauty is never said ‘NO’. Not only never said I cannot go, she told my father ‘he is telling that’.

My father started thinking that she shouted at me or she created some problem. That is why I am telling this. And my father said why did you shout at him? Why did you create any problem and you know how he is? And my mother said ‘no, I did not shout or anything. He just came and told directly. And then my father understood that situation was not fight and anything. It was straight simple declaration. My father came to me and he sat and asked me ‘one funny thing even in those days they used to call me as swami. Even in those days, the title was swami’. He asked me ‘what swami, what you are telling’? I heard that your mother was telling something.

I said ‘yes’ and I was not worried or I was not emotional, I was not disturbed or anything. It was a simple conversation like a very casually how I used to have very good relationship with the parents. A very deep relationship. And I told him directly, ‘yes I have decided that I wanted to take sanyas and want to become enlightened’. And it was a shock for him. But he saw that I am very clear, balanced, cool, relaxed. Then he made only one statement. If you fall sick, then just tell us. We want to take care of you. That’s all. All he said is, ‘if at all you fall sick, anywhere during your travel, please inform us, we want to take care’.

That is the only thing he wants. Nothing else, you do what you want. Never stood in between. Understand, only any relationship when they are ready to allow the next phase only then, it is a healthy relationship. I have seen, I have seen thousands of youngsters who are really inspired, bold enough, courageous to take up this path – seeking, but did not even had the chance to explore because of the parents. What they have done by marry and they lived all their lives and they want to make their kids also just the same like buffaloes as what they did. No, it is a lesson. Whoever listens let it be in the record. That is why I am talking.

Laughter!!

It is for ever, the future. Understand, very rarely few souls get the inspiration to explore. You see, I am not saying ‘train your kids or force your kids to become swamis’. No, if at all they discover, that click, do not stand in between. You will be blessed, if you don’t stand in between. Stop from all your attachments. Even if he tries, struggles and becomes a failure nothing wrong. I would have been ‘a failure’ for at least 10 times in my 10 births. That is why this time, I am successful. So it is good. Any explorations, any research, any adventure in the conscious field should be encouraged, allowed and supported. Try at least not to do the regular mistake in your life.

Q: I really want to get out of these attachments and expectations but having very hard time.

Then have hard time, what to do? Then, what to do? That was one great thing. Still I always remember them with so much of respect and gratitude just because that they did not disturb, nothing else. Neither they disturbed before enlightenment nor did they disturb after enlightenment. That is the great thing.

Q: You described how ‘we as individuals’ are like ‘the waves on the ocean of consciousness’. The wave is formed by different water particles at each location on its journey. In successive lives are we formed by the same fragments of consciousness?

This is today’s technique.

Q: Do new parts of consciousness take the role of being us?

We will enter into today’s technique. You will see the today’s technique as the answer for this question.

There are few more questions. All of them are related to today’s technique in a different ways. I will answer all of them when I am talking on today’s technique.

Let us enter into today’s sutra.

Toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere; one who is everywhere is joyous.

Again, SHIVA is dropping one more new and clear bomb.

Laughter!!

Yesterday what Mahadeva spoke, today he is speaking the ‘after effect of that initiation’. It is again ananda sutra – ‘neither you need to practice at a particular time nor you need to practice the whole day’. Just need to understand like yesterday’s sutra. Like yesterday’s sutra, need to understand and with that understanding, face the life or when that understanding happens, naturally your ‘desires and everything’ will start getting rearranged. You will loose respect for your fears. Your ‘fears’ cannot frighten you. That is the problem and your desires cannot shake you. When your desires cannot shake you, fears cannot frighten you, a new kind of a ‘rearrangement’ will start happening in your life.

When that ‘rearrangement’ starts happening inside you, cooperating with that rearrangement today is all about that cooperation. He is saying, ‘how we stop the cooperation and how we are expected to cooperate’. That is the whole essence of today’s sutra. Toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere.

Understand: Yesterday’s sutra is like a psychological revolution, the inner revolution. Understanding the mine forms ‘the base of the I’. When you just understand that one thing, automatically you will loose respect for mine. Not only the wealth, even what you think as your fears, your desires whatever you think as ‘you’. Now the whole problem is, ‘what you think as you, you think it is yours’. Then you go on running behind it. Mahadeva taught us it is not ours. It is not ours. That is the first click, first initiation.

Here Mahadeva is giving a very beautiful one more click – ‘initiation’ to continue, to add on, to go deeper. See, when that initiation happens when you come down from the initiation. What will be only problem or disturbance which will take you away from that initiation or living enlightenment is ‘attachment to your body or other bodies’.

Understand: When you need some other body or your body, to express your desire or when you need to be away from some other body or your own body because of your fear, this initiation or living enlightenment you come down from it. You start leaving enlightenment, a very strong subtle thing. You please put your attention and energy. When you have attachment to ‘your body’ or ‘some other body’ this is two things and another two things is fear and desire. Desire for your body and desire for other body. Fear of your own body and fear about other body being around you.

Fear about other bodies being around you, you will try to be away from them. That is fight, that is war, violence or whatever. Fear of your own body is ‘fear of disease’ and ‘fear of being ugly’. These things are fear of your own body. Whether it is ‘attachment’ or ‘fear’ both related to your own body, if you can put it aside for few weeks till this initiation gets settles in you, he says ‘you will realize I am everywhere, one who is everywhere is joyous’. All he is doing today is, adding some more fire. He is just saying, ‘don’t relax from living enlightenment’. The click which you had, the initiations which you had, the clarity which you had, live with that. Continue to have it. Don’t rest from it.

What all the reasons can bring you down from that initiation, he is describing. The attachment –‘straight first attachment to your body’ and ‘attachment to another one body’. See attachment to another one body means whenever you need to throw your engrams, throw your desires out. your desires or anger if you need a body to throw your desires or anger that is relationship. Deciding clearly, ‘I will not throw my desires or anger on other body. I will throw it only in the sky. I will release it to the nature. I will be only releasing them all to the aloneness completely, independently without depending on any person’ is what I call ‘sanyas’. ‘sanyas’ means deciding not to throw the attachment, not to throw the desires or the anger on other person. You may ask how is it possible to release in the air?

Laughter!!

Mahadeva is giving already in the earlier sutras. He has given beautiful techniques even for throwing the anger and lust into the air. He says a ‘simple visualization of that person’ and expressing all those energies, emotions through your body can completely heal you. Understand when you are releasing your anger, your lust into the air; you will not be dependant on the other person you will only be overflowing on the other person. As on now, if you are expecting the other person to be there for releasing your anger or lust not only you will become dependant on that person. Because you are dependant on that person, you will carry more vengeance and violence towards that person. That is why the spouse becomes the ‘intimate enemy’. Intimate but ‘enemy’. Because you feel, everywhere you are able to stand on your own. Here you have to bend. You feel here you have to answer. Here you have to be responsible. Here you have to be little lower than what you are. Or what you show to everybody.

A small story: One guy comes back very late to the house; late night around 4 o’ clock - may be next day early morning. The moment she opens the door, she asks, ‘do you know what is the time?’ This guy says, ‘oh, it is too early, just 10.30 night’. She says, ‘no, see the alarm clock. It is 4 o’ clock practically early morning - too late’. And this guy starts shouting, ‘what, you are trusting the rotten 20 dollar alarm and not the husband who is standing in front of you? Your trust for the 20 dollar alarm is more than your trust for the living person who is in front of you’.

Sometime the trust for the rotten alarm clock is more deeper than the trust for person. He can’t tolerate it .You will say, ‘what? You are believing the clock and not me?’ But logically she has to believe the clock. She has to believe the clock. Life many times brings you back to the reality. But you feel the difficulty to accept the reality. Naturally, the other person becomes intimate enemy. Whoever shows you the reality becomes the center of or target of your anger. That is why from the time immemorial, masters are speaking only to the people who are seeking. Many people ask me, ‘master, whatever you are speaking is such an ultimate truth! You know enlightenment is ultimate’. why don’t you give it to everybody? Tell them, ‘you know, enlightenment means showing the truth as it is to you’ and naturally I have to acquire too many person’s anger. I have to be careful.

I have to show the truth only to the person who really wants, who is really in need. Not to everybody else, because many people are happy with their lives with what they have. Then I have ‘no right’ to disturb and telling them ‘wake up’. No, they will ask ‘why should we? If you are not getting sleep, why are you disturbing our sleep?’ If you are not getting sleep, why are you disturbing our sleep? So, I have to speak only to person who is ‘seeking’. Speaking only to the person who is ‘seeking’. Because showing the truth leads to anger. When the other person shows your own reality naturally you will not be able to tolerate . You will not be able to digest.

Understand: Having another one body just to express your ‘anger’, your ‘lust’, naturally the other person will show you the ‘reality’. It will be hurting. Here Mahadeva says, ‘Stop that. Stop that’. Let you know the method, the technique of releasing everything in the air. Mahadeva has already given the technique to release your anger in the air, to release your lust in the air, to the sky directly. And I have spoken on it. You can try the method. He says not having attachment to other body will slowly take away the attachment to your body also. Now all you need to do realize, remember, just remember and realize only the attachment to the body will bring you out of living enlightenment. Push that aside.

Understand: There are two traditions. One completely living inside the body. The other one completely pushing the attachment of the body away. Both seems ‘contradicting’. But they are not. They are ‘complimenting’. The person who is attached to his body will never live inside his body. He will be always jumping to other bodies which are just like his body.

Understand: Whenever you give life to the projector, always the scenes will be changing. Your attention will go to the scene. Whenever you give life to this body, you will start experiencing this world. The attachment to this body does not stop with this body it gives life to this world. Practically you give life to this whole plane. So when Mahadeva says, ‘remove the attachment from this body, he means come back to your center, stop seeing this whole plane’. When you are attached to the ‘dream body’, you will see the ‘dream’. When you are attached to the waking body, you will see the ‘waking state’. Attachment to the body is not just the attachment to the body; it is the power to ‘see the whole world’. So when you remove the attachment from the body, you will stop seeing this whole world. You will see a different world, different space.

Understand: ‘Love for the body ‘is different. ‘Attachment for the body’ is different. Person who is attached to the body will not be centered on the body. He will be always going around. Body is just an ‘utility’. It is like putting your luggage in the lodge and going around and having sightseeing, doing sightseeing. Your luggage (karmas) will be in this body but you will just be going around and enjoying the other things. But staying inside your body means completely resting inside your system. ‘Being aware’ of whatever is happening. ‘Being aware’ of whatever is happening. There is a ‘big difference’. Don’t think both are contradicting each other. Both are complimenting each other.

Here what Mahadeva says is just ‘toss aside’. Move the attachment to your body aside. One more thing, when you move the attachment to the body aside, you will realize ‘you are everywhere’. You are everywhere. I will tell you, when you move the attachment to the body out, you will not feel the pleasure just in the ‘five points’ of your body. You will feel the same intense pleasure ‘all over the body’. As on now, the tip of the ice when the vision scenes come in contact with the tip you feel the pleasure of seeing. Tip of the nose when the smell comes in contact with that point, you feel the pleasure of smell. Tip of the tongue when it comes in contact with the food, you will feel the pleasure of taste. Tip of the ears when it comes in contact with the music, you feel the pleasure of listening. Tip of the genital organs when it comes in contact with the other touch, you feel the pleasure of touch. You feel the pleasure only in these five points, five tips. When you relax and ‘toss the attachment of the body aside’, suddenly you will feel every point in your body becomes pleasure point. Every point in our body starts ‘radiating pleasure’.

Because as on now, you are ‘conditioned’. Conditioned to use your body only for that five points. When you push this aside, ‘your attachment will die’ and ‘awareness will grow’. Only when attachment dies, awareness will be awakened. Awareness will grow. Suddenly you will see every tip, every point becomes the pleasure point. Mahadeva says, ‘I am realizing, I am everywhere one who is everywhere is joyous’. Actually when you push the attachment to your body aside, you will see you are in ‘every body’. The only disturbance for you ‘not feeling that you are everywhere’ is your too much attachment to this one body.

If you really felt the deep love, in love with master or deity or even your kids, or wife or with anybody, just sit with that person or sit with that deity, put your hand on that person and just be in ‘relaxed awareness’. See you will not be able to find the boundary between this body and that body. When you are in love, you expand that is why you become more joyous. Now you have one more body through which you can enjoy. If you are in love deeply with some many bodies, you will feel with all those bodies, you are connected. You are connected. This technique you can easily practice with moorthys stones. Because the idols will not have any problem of feeling connected to you.

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But with human beings there will be little problem. You need the other person also to be in love with you. With idols, no problem. The moment you are in love, they will be in love. With deities it is easy. With the living person if both of you are in love, just touch and feel, suddenly you will see the boundary has become big. Boundary has expanded. It can never happen by attachment. When it is attachment, you will only be waiting and seeing. Waiting for ‘what can I get out of that person. How can I add little more pleasure by that person being around me? How can I have something more from that person’. You will just be waiting to get something out of that person. But only when you are in love, deeply in love, suddenly you will see, you don’t wait to get anything out of that person. The boundary has expanded. The boundary has become more. You became loving. You became everywhere. That is why I always tell people, the person who is more and more loving, in love, feels he is everywhere and feels joyous.

Understand: Today, one more sutra Mahadeva is speaking the same thing in a deeper way. Today he is actually giving like a things which you need to know after effects of initiation. After the initiation, what you need to know. That’s the exact thing Mahadeva is teaching. So understand the essence of this technique, the essence of this sutra is ‘toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere and one who is everywhere is joyous’. One who is everywhere is joyous means he will not be addicted to any thing else. Even if he drinks, he will not be addicted. Even if he touches, he will not be addicted. Even if he eats, he will not be addicted. Not only being addicted, but able to play all the games is what Mahadeva calls ‘freedom’. I am not saying you can drink. All I am saying is not being addicted is the ‘real liberation’.

Here small story: One guy after drinking comes out of the bar and suddenly meets the pastor -the religious preacher. That guy says, ‘what is this? I thought you are a religious man what are you doing? You are coming out of the bar fully drunk. Don’t you see drinking is devil? Drink is for the devil and drinking is devilish. It is devil inviting you. Next time when the devil invites you ‘don’t go, say no’ and this guy just looks up and says, ‘yes father, I wanted to say no to the devil, but he may feel offended and may stop inviting me again. He may stop inviting me again’.

Laughter!!

Understand, addiction means you continuously wanted the devil to invite you again. Continuously you are waiting the invitation to happen again. The addiction is ‘waiting for invitation’. Here, Mahadeva says the person who feels everywhere will be ‘joyous, will not be waiting for any invitation’. If you are waiting for any invitation, be very clear you are addicted. Even for morning newspaper, if you are waiting, you are addicted. If you are just waiting to listen the news, you are addicted. If you are waiting for any invitation, you are addicted. Relax from it. Mahadeva says a person who feels joyous, persons who feels everywhere he will be joyous. So essence of this technique is ‘toss attachment for body aside, push all the addiction aside, and allow that initiation to sink in you more and more, deeper and deeper and live enlightenment’. Let’s gather for next session. Thank you.

Q: How does a person get out of the effects of horror movie or working with people with serious emotional problems?

One nice thing with your mind is if you give gap, they will forget the old ‘samskaras’. Just give gap and add right things, new things. The old one will be forgotten.

Q: I think that I can connect easily with ‘Nithya dhyaan’. Is that enough to open up chakras and get enlightenment?

Yes. Surely, ‘Nithya dhyaan’ is enough. Only thing, ‘do it with intensity’. Every day when you start do it as if this is the last time you are going to do. With that intensity, when you do all the three steps and come to the fourth step and ‘unclutch’, you will not be aware the ‘guru pooja manthra’ goes on. I always tell people, the fourth step if the unclutching happens properly, fifth step the ‘guru pooja manthra will be chanted’ you will not even be aware to do the pooja. When you are not aware to do the pooja, when you are unclutched, pooja is done for you because you have become ‘guru’.

Understand: The fourth step, if you do it sincerely, it will not end in seven minutes. You will see suddenly, you are settled that after the seven minutes, there is nobody to get up. Sometime it may go up to half an hour or one hour or whatever time it takes. When you don’t move after the 7 minutes of unclutching then ‘Nithya dhyaan’ has happened in you. The right guru pooja is happened in you. Do it intensely, ‘Nithya dhyaan’ is more than enough.

Q: Again, here is question on technique to help spontaneity without impulsiveness?

Any of this technique will put you in ‘spontaneity’.

Q: Somebody is asking what is ‘advaitha’ theory?

Exactly what I spoke in the last sutra, is the ‘advaitha’ theory. When you feel, realize you are everywhere, you experience ‘advaitha’.

Q: Here are some questions, can the married person become enlightened and stay married and enjoy material comforts of the world? Can the single enlightened person marry and enjoy material comforts of the world?

Laughter!!

Marriage has nothing to do with enlightenment. Understand, enlightened person can marry, and married person can become enlightened. Single person can be enlightened and get married and married person can become enlightened and can get divorced and become single.

Loud Laughter!!

It can be anything. Enlightenment has nothing to do with marriage or material world or physical relationship. Understand, when enlightenment happens, whatever you do, the ‘quality changes’. That’s all. It is all about ‘psychological revolution’. From which understanding you are acting, that is all - is the essence of enlightenment. If your action is based on the understanding that ‘you exists’ and the desires and knowledge is your property - I and mine, you are unenlightened.

If your actions are based on the experience that mine, desires and knowings all these things only create ‘I’ , so there is no centre as ‘I’ and if you are functioning with this experience, you are enlightened. That’s all. If you realize you are emptiness and functioning you are enlightened. If you don’t realize you are empty and functioning, you are unenlightened even then you are empty. That is the truth. Even if you don’t realize you are empty.

So, there are some other questions which are simple like

Q: Does as enlightened person have another birth?

No. Enlightenment! Usually no next birth. May be rarely the incarnations enlightenment being land on the planet earth. For them, even this is not a birth forget about next birth. Even this birth is not a birth. It is just their reflection playing the game.

Let us enter into the next sutra.

Sutra: Thinking no thing, will ‘limited self’ be ‘unlimited’.

It’s again…….. I feel every sutra is a bomb. Every sutra is a strong message. I think still many of you are not even come out of yesterday’s sutra. Still many of you are not even come of yesterday’s sutra.

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I feel that more and more if I add of course person who can digest will really digest. Person who feels it is too much may not even 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 is really a 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 asks, ‘Bhagawan you are enlightened. By remembering an enlightened person, thinking an enlightened person, what will I get?’ He said, ‘you will get enlightened’. Then he asks, ‘I think about you continuously but I am not becoming enlightened’. Bhagawan says, ‘who said you are thinking of me. You are thinking about me’. Understand, you are having your own idea about me and thinking about that. The presence of the master can never be thought about. He says, ‘think about something which you can’t think’.

It is very important thing to understand. In Zen, there is a sutra. They will give you a ‘koan’. Koan is nothing but a sutra – ‘Zen koan’. One zen koan 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 you think? You can’t. Even if they say, ‘think of your face after your death’, you will think something – ‘your old face’ or 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 moments, if you can try to think something which you can’t think, means just ‘tearing the mind to pieces’. It is literally like Hiranyakashipu, the great demon. How Narasimha killed him? He just torn the ‘manipuraka’ - he just torn the navel of Hiranyakashipu, a 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 into pieces. It is like ‘a mind will be torn to pieces’. You experience the truth. How to think of nothing? Its very strange. Whatever I say now, ‘how to think of nothing’ again will be ‘one more thinking’. You will start thinking about it. Then how to do? What to do? Try to think of something too big – ‘bigger than this planet, bigger than this stars, bigger than the cosmos’. Just ‘stretch, stretch, stretch’. Suddenly you will see as if ‘your mind is hitting on a wall, it is struck on a wall, it is not able to do anything’. Mahadeva says, ‘continue when you feel the mind is not able to move anywhere, mind is not able to do any thing, think anything further - anything bigger than that, anything’. Just think of that nothing.

It looks very funny. In the initial level, it will really look crazy. How I can 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 will 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 may be wrong hope. It may be from the wrong side. It may be 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. 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 up that cake and went. It just comes, pick ups just the sugar-cake and goes. It is too much. And that lion obeys her command just so obediently. It was just surprising. All the fellows were 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? ‘Yes surely’, when lion can do why not me. Understand he says he can do from the wrong side. ‘When lion can do, why not me?’

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Whenever your mind brings hope – ‘from right side or wrong side’, ‘it continuously brings hope’. Bringing hope is the way your mind possess you and keeps itself alive. Here, Mahadeva says ‘thinking nothing’. Actually, if you do this, if you try this, it is again I can say ananda sutra, it is not nithya sutra. You don’t have to internalize and do something. 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 that 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.

If you are ‘thinking for one second’ you come back to ‘no thinking for one sec’. 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 and then start and come back. Means every time 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 the 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. As on now, you always remember the thought and forget about the gap. Just shift the 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 person who is really evolved. Who has really evolved. Who has really seen sometimes at least ‘few moments of silence in himself’. May be if 100 persons try this technique, only with one or two it will click. I am talking about so that it will be on record. It will be on record and with whoever it clicks, 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 the gap, shifting your attention to the 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 on the thought because thought is so enchanting. Every thought which rises 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’. Worst than the election promises from politicians.

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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 or feel connected with the master, but they are filled so much with these thoughts and they are so mesmerizing, so enchanting, they can’t stay with the master. And mind will create all possible difficulties and problem. Actually, the original fight is ‘not between you and your mind’. It is ‘between me and your mind’. The original fight is between me and your mind. Not between you and your mind. You are not that intelligent 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 don’t 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, ‘dharmically’ we have an ethics. Enlightened master do have ethics. We have code of conduct. We will not interfere into the freedom of somebody who does not got enlightenment. We will not interfere in your freedom the moment you consciously decide to 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 attorney’ to me.

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Not otherwise. Not otherwise. We have our own ethics. People ask me, ‘master, give me the promise. Even when I resist you, you should not leave me’. I tell them, ‘No, that cannot be done’. That is the only thing enlightened person cannot do. That 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 are feeling ‘connected and trying’ 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 brakes, tumors’.

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 to nothingness just makes you unlimited. Makes you unlimited. Many people come and stay around me. Feel connected, click happens, initiation happens. They work. When the initiation happens, when that love is there, they ask me, ‘master, even when I leave, you should take care of me’. I will tell them No, that cannot be. That cannot be. Sometime if 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 have seen unfortunately, poor guys many miss. If 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 the 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 practicing the whole day. ‘Dhyana sutra’ means internalizing and practicing at particular point of time in your day to day routine. ‘Ananda sutra’ means internalizing and just living. This is ananda sutra, internalize. Shift the attention to the nothing, to the silence. Continuously you will see you will unlimit yourself and you will liberate yourself.

Sutra may look 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. May be this technique is created for the generations yet to happen. This is what the 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.