“Today’s shiva sutra is tune in to bliss.”

Today’s shiva sutra is tune in to bliss.

At the point of sleep when the sleep has not yet come and external wakefulness vanishes at this point being is revealed let you be centered and be enlightened }

Before entering in to the sutra just a few words: In the first part of the book Shiva was teaching meditation techniques related to different senses, like how to get enlightened through listening, if you are music oriented person, if you are a musician, poet, how to take the jump.

How to become enlightened if you are visualization oriented painter, photographer, for this kind of people He was giving techniques. He was also teaching how to take a jump if you are taste oriented, tongue based. Understand: taste oriented does not mean people who eat too much. No. you eat too much because you are not able to taste, insensitive to food and the body. If you are eating too much you become insensitive. You have started abusing your body. That’s the truth.

People who can be very sensitive with the taste, for them He gave the technique. Then He gave meditation techniques for people who are more touch oriented, who experience the pleasure by touch, people who are lust based. For all kinds of human beings He was giving techniques.

One beauty with Shiva’s teachings is, He is not rejecting any human being. He doesn’t say no to anybody. That is the beauty. Patanjali will straight away cut half of the humanity. Some people are moral based and there are some people who are energy based. Energy based people will not fit with social morality and moral based people will not directly experience the energy.

For each kind of human beings different paths, different ways is necessary. Patanjali addresses only moral based people, dos and don’ts. Patanjali can’t work with artists, who are energy based. Usually the artists, spontaneous people, the energy based people will not fit with so called social morals and standards. They will be little crazy. They will not fit with the standards. They won’t bother about the regular so called social things. Pathanjali can’t work with them.

But Shiva can work with everybody. That is why Shiva is considered as jagath guru. He is the Master of all human beings. He knows what are all the moments you change gear, you shift gear what are all the moments the unclutching happens inside you, and how to use all possible moments to push you to your center.

Whether you believe it or not, inside your center you are enlightened. All of you are enlightened. All you need to do is, to be completely centered in all your actions. That’s all. Somebody asked me the other day in one program, the same photograph that is here, was there in that program too, one person asked me, ‘what is this? You are blessing in that photograph but usually when you walk in to the room, you do namaskar, bow down. In photograph it shows as if you are blessing, in reality you are doing namaskar’.

I said,’ in both the activity I do the same’. Whether I bow down or bless, for me it is one and the same. I don’t feel I am big when I bless, I don’t feel I am small when I bow down. I neither feel I am superior when I bless nor feel inferior when I bow down. In both moments I am completely centered on me’. Just by being centered even if you bow down, you will awaken a sense of respect and feeling connected in the other person. If you bless, again you will invoke the same presence or energy in the other being.

If you are not centered then blessing will look very egoistic. I always tell people, if you are not centered inside, never allow people to touch your feet. If people start touching your feet continuously it will become an addiction. It feels so good. Ego is so cunning, I have seen these half gurus, they do not need any other punishment because they will create their own hell. All they need is little time. That’s all. They don’t need any other punishment. They can’t be without their hell. They will feel they are missing something if they don’t create their own hell. Half gurus are the most dangerous people for themselves and for others.

If you are not danger for yourself you will not be danger for others. If you are not danger for others you will not be danger for yourself. Being danger whether it is for you or for others is one and the same. All masochists will be sadists and all sadists will be masochists. If you are torturing yourself you will be torture for others and if you are torturing others you will be a torture for yourself. Torturing is a quality, with you or others, you will be the same.

Accepting is a quality, with you or others, it will be the same. I always tell people, accept others without judging. Its not morality, it’s a spiritual technique for peace, for bliss. Person, who can accept others without judgment, will have the same compassionate beautiful words and inner chattering towards himself, towards themselves also, because you don’t use two kinds of inner chattering.

Even though inside your mind you believe, ‘for others I will show different face, for myself I will be different. I will forgive all my mistakes, I will judge only others mistakes’. No. you can’t. You are not that intelligent. You are not that intelligent, intellectually may be you will be thinking for others you will have a different rule, torture, rule, judge and put them in a track, for myself , I will be different. No.

Judge will be the prisoner. All judges will be in the internal prison. Inside they will be constantly judging themselves also. They will be constantly judging themselves. You may think, no, no, no, I can do, I am very intelligent. I can judge others but when it comes to me I have my own games. No. may be superficially you are believing.

If you have the attitude of judging others you will be doing that unconsciously continuously towards you also. It’s a basic mental set up, a quality. It’s not just with somebody you will be different and for yourself, you will be different. No.

These half gurus are dangerous people. When they raise their hand they feel that they are superior that they are blessing others. When they bow down they feel that they are inferior, they are lower than others. It means they are not balanced in all their actions. If you are centered, your very bowing down will be so graceful, it will create so much respect in others mind.

Being centered is the base of spirituality. Mahadeva knows all the moments in our life when we unclutch, when we go through the shift, all those precious moments can be used, all those precious moments can be used to jump into the center. You will fall in tune with the bliss consciousness. He knows how to use all those moments, precious moments. That is why He had created hundred and twelve meditation techniques.

In your life whenever you jump from one chakra to other chakra, you unclutch, you shift gear. Whether you want to change from first gear to second gear or second gear to third gear or third gear to fourth or fourth to first you have to come to neutral, completely unclutch. Unclutching has to happen. Only then you can shift. You can’t jump straight away from one to two. No. unclutching has to happen.

Same way, Shiva knows all the moments we unclutch in our inner space. If you have to jump from lust to fear, greed to fear, you have to completely unclutch. That small precious moments you will experience you are Shiva, you are Vishnu. Shiva means the most auspiciousness. Vishnu means all pervading consciousness. That one moment you experience, you fall in your center. You get centered. He knows what all the moments you go through the shift. How you can use those moments to take a jump or to center yourself.

There is a beautiful story:

Let me tell the story, so that you will understand the meaning before entering into today’s sutra. Brahma, Brahma is the representation of intellectual understanding. Vishnu is the representation of devotion. People who are centered on intellect, for them Brahma is the ideal. That is why Veda, intellectual knowledge, Brahma is the God for that. People who are heart oriented, emotional, sensitive, for them Vishnu is the ideal, filled with love, always in bliss, great joy radiating love. Basically followers of Vishnu will be bhaktas (devotees)

And if you are being oriented, strong, energetic, introvert, centered, you will be Shiva’s follower. Even the ideals are created that way only. Shiva’s followers will be people who will be working towards enlightenment, meditating yogis. Vishnu’s followers will be devotees who will be flowing with devotion, ecstatic, joyful. Brahma’s followers, people who feel connected to Brahma, will be more intellectual, analyzing, analyzing and analyzing.

Brahma is described as a God with five heads. It seems initially he had five heads but slowly he started becoming arrogant. Shiva is also described with five heads. Brahma started thinking, Shiva is also having five heads and I am also having five heads, so I think I am equal to Shiva and he started thinking he is Shiva. Even thinking is ok but he stated behaving like Shiva. That is where the problem started. He started expressing everything as though he is Shiva. Shiva is cosmic energy, cosmic consciousness. Brahma started behaving and expressing himself as Shiva.

The story says from Shiva’s being Kalabairava, kalabairava means the lord of time , that energy came out and cut one head of Brahma to teach him that he is not equal to Shiva. This is a story, mythological story. If you approach this story in an ordinary way, you will think ‘oh! Then Shiva is also jealous of Brahma like any other ordinary person. You might wonder as to why he sent somebody to cut Brahma’s head. It’s not supposed to be taken as a fact, it is truth.

Understand: there is a difference between fact and truth. Fact is what you understand with your logic, with your intellect, with your understanding of time and space. Truth is a great ideology expressed in metaphysical terms. This story is not directly a fact but expresses a great truth. The meaning of the story is anybody who gets a deep intellectual understanding but still not yet experienced, they also start behaving like Brahma. They start thinking,’ I think I have got it, I think I got it’.

I have seen many people; they will come and spend some time around me for six months or one year by which time their intellect gets fully convinced. Actually if you are constantly listening to these ideas even if you don’t meditate, at one point your intellect will be completely satisfied and convinced. That is the beautiful point if you continue to work with the Master, but that is the dangerous point if you stop connecting with the Master. That’s the most dangerous point because you will start thinking that you have everything.

I have seen these people after a year or something, once they know all the ways of intellect; they think they know the business secret now. They think they are an insider now. They think they know the entire business secret and they also start thinking that they got it, that they have become enlightened. They start thinking they have become Shiva. Still being in the state of Brahma, they start thinking they have become Shiva.

Being in the state of that intellectual understanding, they start thinking that they have become Shiva. It is the problem of having five heads, Brahma’s five heads and Shiva’s five heads, both may have five heads but it is not that both heads are working in the same way. Just because Shiva is also having five heads and Brahma is also having five heads, you can’t say they are same. It is how things happen inside the head, matters. Not just the head.

I have seen these people: by the time they spend one year and learn some basic ways of teaching, expressing, telling, giving little guidance and counseling, if they can give some counseling to few people and help them to get healed; they think, now they have become Shiva. They don’t need anything else now except one throne. Now, all they need is one throne to sit. This is the most dangerous moment in their life.

Then naturally kalabairava, the lord of time will appear and remove, at one point, out of the five heads which you think you have, one head will be removed. Then you suddenly realize that you have not yet become Shiva. You have only four heads, and that you are missing something. But learning from kalabairava will be too strong. If life teaches, if time teaches, kalabairava means time: kal means time, lord of time, if time teaches it is very dangerous.

Leaning form the Master will be a very sweet experience, a very joyful experience because He first puts you in His lap and His love acts as anesthesia. before He starts His operation, He showers His love. That is anesthesia. See: you will not even know the pain of going through the transformation, the operation. You will not even be aware that you went through chemotherapy and surgery.

But when life teaches, life does not have the anesthesia, called love. That is the difference between learning from the Master and life. If time teaches you, if life teaches you, it will be too strong because it doesn’t have the great anesthesia, the love. It can’t make you forget the pain. It has to teach only through pain. Master can teach with great energy and love. When kalabairava teaches, it will be very powerful and strong. I always tell people, better learn from the Master otherwise life will teach.

Vivekananda says learning from the Master will be graceful; leaning from life will be very painful. Master is intense life, not only you can feel, you can go through the operation most beautifully and joyfully. If you want, if you are adamant that you will learn only from life, time, then it is up to you. Anybody, those who decides to learn from kalabairava, from the life, time, naturally has to go through this way and process.

When you are caught just with an intellectual understanding, and start thinking that you know it, now you got it all, you are also in the same position of Brahma; you are also in the same space of Brahma. Intellectual understanding should become an inspiration to enlightenment. Intellectual understanding should become an inspiration towards depth.

In your life, during many precious moments, when you take a jump, the unclutching happens which you can use to center yourself. . From intellectual understanding you can take a jump to an experience. So many moments, very precious moments when you take a jump from Muladhara chakra to Swadhishtana chakra ( Muladhara is greed: lust , Swadhishtana is fear), or from Swadhishtana to Manipuraka (that is from fear to worry), or from Manipuraka to Anahata ( that is form worry to low energy asking for attention , love form others) or from Anahata to Vishuddhi ( from asking for love from others toradiating enmity, jealous towards others), from Vishuddhi jump to Ajna, the next chakra (from jealousy comes ego )and from Ajna to Sahasrara ( from ego comes discontentment).

In every jump, from every jump from one chakra to the other chakra, in every shift, you unclutch. Every shift, every moment can be used to get centered in your center. It can be used for enlightenment. Mahadeva is giving you so many techniques, so many methods to center yourself. During every shift you go through high energy, intense highest frequency of your being, only then you settle down. It will be like a big peak before you touch the valley.

From lust to fear, even that experience will be peak. You will reach the peak of lust, ecstasy, the peak, only then you will fall in to the valley of fear or guilt. And from that valley again you will reach the peak of fear, only then you will fall into worry, worrying, bothering about the future. It will always be a peak experience before you shift to the other emotion, to the other chakra.

Here Mahadeva is giving you a beautiful technique to use all those moments, all those unclutching moments, all those shifting moments to take a quantum jump in to the center, in to the atman.

See: when you change from first gear to second gear you unclutch. Unclutching means you have to pass through the neutral zone. The neutral zone is your consciousness, your spiritual center, your enlightenment. Here you can use the opportunity of shifting to center yourself. It will be for a micro million second. You can say micro second or whatever word you want to use: a very short moment in which you can take the jump.

Let us enter in to the sutra and see how Shiva is sharpening our awareness and helping us to take that jump. Actually enlightenment itself happens only in a fraction of a second. Training you to take that jump only takes years. Training you to catch that moment, be aware of that moment only takes years. The very jump happens only in a fraction of a second.

There is a beautiful Zen story:

One Zen nun was fetching water from the monastery well to her room in pots tied to a bamboo stick. Two pots have been put on both sides and she was carrying it from the well and walking. It was night time. She saw the reflection of the moon in the pot water. In the front side of the pot the reflection of the moon was seen in the water. She was just in tune and feeling connected with that reflection, with that beautiful nature; she was completely connected to the beautiful scene and walking.

She was gazing at the moon’s reflection in the water and walking. Suddenly the bamboo broke, the pot fell and broke. The story says that she became enlightened. She says I was so completely connected to the nature, to the beautiful reflection of the moon; there was nothing else in my mind. When the bamboo broke, the pot fell and broke. When the reflection disappeared, something in me broke and I disappeared.

See: you can also pick up the pot, you can also fetch water from the well, carry the bamboo and if you want you also can break the pot. Nothing else will happen except wasting a bamboo and two pots: Its not that everybody will have the same experience. How did it happen for her! Because she was ready, consciousness was in such high intense frequency. She was able to catch that shift. When the shift happened she was able to be aware and catch that precious moment and center herself.

She was able to catch that neutral space when that unclutching happened. All our tapas (Penance) or training are nothing but preparing ourselves to catch when the shift, unclutching happens. Because of that unclutching, the consciousness shift happens in our life many times again and again. If you are not aware you will miss it.

For example, if the same scene happens in your life, if you are carrying two pots with a bamboo, if it breaks, our first reaction will be, ‘oh! God, two pots are gone!’ You either worry or fear or suffer: that will be the first thing you will experience. But if you are aware, if you are conscious enough you can catch yourself before the suffering starts in your inner space.

Before any suffering starts in your inner space, you are centered in your consciousness. You are centered in your atman. Before every thought rises in you, you come back to your center. Do not think in your inner space thoughts are connected in a leaner way. No! You can’t take jump from one thought to other thought. No! From one thought you go back to your center and next thought starts. So, no two thoughts in you is directly connected. Connection is only to your center. Each thought is directly connected to your center. Because there are too many thoughts you think thoughts are directly connected to each other. No!

Thought is matter, dead. Dead things can not connect with each other. I always tell people: two disciples connecting with each other, will only create more nuisances. As long as you are directly connected to the Master you are safe. If you are connected to each other, you will vomit your unconscious poison upon each other and both of you will go down.

I have seen disciples, when they talk to each other and they try to develop some relationship, gone, both of them have lost. Because with your unconscious what you judge about you, Master and other things will be naturally unconscious, will be poisonous. Because you are putting your unconscious on him and the other person is also in tune with you.

See: disciple falling in tune with the Master will only be very difficult because I am in a totally different space, talk in a different language. But you falling in tune with other disciple is easy because both are in the same space. Both of you are talking in the same language. So you feel connecting with your brother disciple is lot more easy than connecting with the Master. You always chose easy path. You always choose easy path. I have seen people connecting with brother disciples. When you connect with disciples, with other disciples you are gone.

I always tell people, if your connection enriches your devotion to the Master, then it is connection with the Master, through the Master. Without that if you directly connect with each other you are in trouble. You will create trouble for yourself and for the other person. All failures, when I say all I mean capital ALL, all failures are because of disciples relating with disciples without having direct connection with the Master.

When you directly relate with the Master, the relationship will be strong and with every connection you will create an opportunity for you to take quantum jump to enlightenment. But connection between disciple and disciple will be like connection between dead matter and the dead matter. When two dead things connect with each other, it will create only more poison. It will vomit only more poison, more poison means more trouble.

Let’s enter in to the sutra and see Shiva’s method, technique to achieve the consciousness, the inner space when you shift from one space to the other space, from one mood to the other mood, when you make the jump, .when the shift happens, how to use those precious moments to center yourself, to enter into enlightenment.

Let me read the sutra, the translation:

At the point of sleep when the sleep has not yet come and external wakefulness (means jagrat state: the waking state) vanishes at this point be centered let your being is revealed

When I read every sutra, this great book, these great teachings, I feel you can’t even call Shiva as the jagath guru. It is too small a word. Each technique He gives is complete enough to liberate the whole humanity, is complete to liberate the complete humanity. Not only to liberate, but to solve all the questions. Just one sutra from Shiva’s book can create one religion.

According to me all major religions happened on the planet earth. When I say religion, I mean the systems which leads to enlightenment, not just social norms and codes, how many times you should marry, how many times you should bow down and bend down, up and down, all these are just social norms. There are some religions which has not done any research and development in the consciousness, which has not worked even one inch towards enlightenment.

Those systems can’t be called as religions. They can be called as social or political codes. Social or political codes like communism, they have not done any research and development in the inner field. All they did is, they created an ideology only in the outer world, what should be done and what should not be done, dos and don’ts, over.

But any religion which has done research and development in the inner science is one branch of this one sutra. This is like a complete unabridged dictionary of inner science, the world philosophies, and inner science. Let me read the sutra once more

At the point of sleep when the sleep has not yet come and external wakefulness vanishes at this point being is revealed let you be centered and be enlightened.

You have four states of consciousness. Understand: first, the state in which you are there now, wakeful state, we call that as jagrat state. I think most of you are in jagrat state, hope. Whoever has smiled, you are all in jagrat state. if you are still waiting to smile then don’t bother yourself too much. Relax. Please be in the state in which you are.

Waking state, the wakeful state, is called as jagrat. In jagrat state, in wakeful state you will have the feeling ‘I’, means the identity and flowing thoughts. You will have thoughts also. You will have ‘I’ and thoughts. Second state is dream state. Understand, in dream state your thoughts frequency will be much more stronger than the identity ‘I’, which is why in the dream state you can’t control your thoughts. That is why you can’t have your own dreams.

If you have the freedom to choose your own dreams, you know what kind of dreams you will always chose. It is not under your control because the identity ‘I’, the ‘I’s frequency will be lesser than the thoughts frequency. That’s the dream state.

I will show you a small chart and explain.

Third state is deep sleep. In the deep sleep state you will neither have the identity ‘I’ nor have thoughts. The fourth state is turiavasta, samadhi, enlightenment. That is the state you never experienced. In that state you will have a strong clear feeling that ‘you’ exist but there wont be any thought. It is very difficult to comprehend. ‘You’ existing without any thoughts, it is very difficult for you to comprehend or understand because you never experienced that moment. You never experienced ‘you’ without any thoughts or ubadhi, identities, any associations.

You always experienced ‘you’ only with some thoughts. The moment you say I am, already your mind has stated thinking that you are a male or female or doctor or engineer or lawyer, whether you are intelligent or fool. Usually we don’t believe we are intelligent. We may tell others. But we ourselves don’t believe. What we tell others, we never think, we don’t believe that. You may tell others something about you but what you believe about yourself will be totally different.

Already you have associated yourself with some ubadhii, with some identity, with some idea. You never experience that ‘you’ exist without having any thoughts. If you experience that precious moment, ‘you’ existing without any thought you are enlightened. You don’t need body and mind. Then suddenly you realize ‘you’ exist even when you don’t have body and mind. When you experience that ‘you’ exist even when you don’t have body and mind, the death fear disappears.

See: fear of death is nothing but ‘what will I do without this body and mind, where will I be, how will I be’. The fear of unknown is the fear of death. When you are clear that ‘you’ exist even while you don’t have body and mind, you become enlightened.

That is what happened to Bhagavan Ramanamaharishi. Bhagavan says that intense fear of death happened to Him. He had the death experience at the age of sixteen in Madurai in one of his uncle’s house. When He had that intense experience, fear of death came. He just centered himself and he witnessed. He was not shaken by that fear. And He says ‘suddenly I realized even while I don’t have body and mind as part of me, associated with me, I realized I exist, consciousness, pure me without any attachment or conditioning or association, exist. When I realized that, the fear of death disappeared, I became enlightened’.

You can also experience that during your jump between one state to other state. When you jump from waking to dream state, that is from jagrat to swapna or when you jump from swapna to susupthi, from dream to deep sleep, same way from deep sleep to waking state, in all jumps, during all these jumps, a small, a microsecond, one moment, the door for enlightenment, the door for turiavastha is available to you. Whenever you unclutch, possibility to get centered exist.

Now Shiva is giving you the technique to center yourself, to take the quantum jump into enlightenment during the shift of this consciousness. Let me explain how you move from one space to other space. This understanding is called traditionally, avasthathraya. Avastha means states of consciousness or spaces which you experience in your day to day life. If you analyze and understand avasthathraya, the very understanding can lead to experience, to enlightenment, to the center of consciousness.

See: you have two states of mind and two states of consciousness, one with thoughts and the other without thoughts. All of you know with thoughts, with thoughts means now: present state, all of you have thoughts now, you know. In deep sleep do you have thoughts? No! So with thoughts is one state and with no thoughts is the second state. And same way you go through two different spaces, with ‘I’ idea and without ‘I’ idea. Now all of you have that feeling I.

(Chart is being projected. Swamiji gives instructions for better view of the chart

Swamiji’s biography poster was blocking the view. He instructs volunteers to remove the posters. Swamiji said, ‘While you are teaching, biography should not come in between. .Person can be removed for philosophies sake. That’s what it means. Ideology is much more important than the person’)

Understand: now with ‘I’, you all are with the idea ‘I’, you all know ‘I’ exist, but in deep sleep you don’t know or you don’t have that idea ‘I’. So now you have two levels of mind, with thoughts and without thoughts and two spaces of inner space, two levels of inner space, with ‘I’ and without ‘I’. In all these four, in all these two crisscrosses with each other, you experience four states.

Please understand very clearly: with thought and with the idea ‘I’, is called waking state, now the state in which you are now. You have thoughts and ‘I’ consciousness. Next, in dream state you will have thoughts but you will not have ‘I’ because thoughts frequency will be more powerful. Understand: the frequency of thoughts will be more powerful than the ‘I’. that is why you can’t choose your own dreams. If you can choose your own dreams then you know what kind of dreams you will choose.

In dream state you can’t do that. You will have thoughts but you wont have that controlling ‘I’, a clear identity. That is why each day you will have different identities in your dreams. Some days you will be like a college student, some day you will be like a married person. Sometimes both these identities will mix and you will be confused. You see: sometimes you will have dreams where you will be going to college and writing exams with your wife in USA. You would have gone to college in Bharat. You would have got married in USA and working here. Whatever it may be, you will suddenly see all mixing and appearing, which means no ‘I’, only thoughts. That is dream state.

The third state, deep sleep state, there is neither thoughts nor ‘I’. this is called sushupthi. The three states are Jagrat, swapna and sushupth, deep sleep state. . In sushupthi, the deep sleep state, neither thoughts exist nor the idea ‘I’ exist. In the fourth state, there will be no thoughts but the idea ‘I’ will exist; only ‘I’ will be there. That is what is called samadhi state.

Understand: you live your day to day life in all theses three states but you don’t experience this samadhi state in your life everyday. Whenever you take the jump from one state to another state you will only come through this samadhi state. This is the gate. This is the gate. That is why Jesus says I am the way. When He says I am the way He does not mean the person who took birth in Jerusalem and was hung in the cross, is the way. When He says I am the way, He means pure ‘I’ is the way.

You have to understand the truth. You have to understand the truth when He says I am the way, He means the pure ‘I’ without thought is the way. Whenever you move from waking state to dream state, don’t think you can take direct jump. No! You have to go only through this way, means coming to samadhi, super conscious state. Same way from dream to deep sleep you have to again come through this samadhi way.

Same way when you jump to deep sleep to waking state, there is no direct road, you have to go through only samadhi state. Every time you take a jump from one state to other state, one space to other space, you go through only samadh , super consciousness.

Western Psychology would have done great service to humanity if these western psychologists understood little bit of this concept of samadhi or super conscious. These fools have stopped with these three steps and they were afraid to work on the fourth step, literally afraid. This Jung fellow, Fraud’s disciple went all the way to my native place,Thiruvannamalai, but got frightened to see Bhagavan Ramanamaharishi and came back. He writes in his reminiscence ‘I was afraid that if I see him I may be completely taken away by his presence. All my vested interests, my business, research and development, everything would be proved as lie’. A Simple fool, not scientific.

If he was a scientific person, a person for knowledge, for research and development, he would have had the courage, but he became a politician with vested interest. Really, if you stop doing research and development for your vested interest, then you are a politician or a business man. Person who is courageous enough to go behind research and development, wherever it leads, if he decides to go behind, he is a seeker.

This Jung, if he had taken one step of going and meeting Ramanamaharishi and touching the fourth step of super conscious, samadhi , the whole western psychology would have been totally different. And the west would have been helped immensely. Actually with this infrastructure, if fourth state, truth about the fourth state had been told to the west, such an immense benefit or such immense things would have happened to whole humanity.

These guys have stopped with conscious, subconscious and unconscious states only. That’s why Sigmund Fraud was telling that ‘human being as such is sick. They can’t be helped’. It’s because he had never experienced a person who had touched the fourth state. He never had an enlightened specimen. He had only patients. All normal people or whom he says as scale, are all abnormal people.

See: all specimens with whom he was working were people who were caught in either subconscious or unconscious state, never in super conscious. They were all either in subway or in unconscious way never in the super high way. They had never experienced the super conscious state. That is why so much of suffering, that is why neither Psychology nor Psychiatry or anything related to mind created in the west is not able to solve problems of humanity. Problems of humanity can be solved only by the knowledge and science of super consciousness.

The fourth state is turia. In Bharat Masters have not only achieved this state, they also created techniques and methods to reproduce the same state in every being. They have created methods, techniques to reproduce the same experience in every being. Little bit of research on this fourth state would have really illumined or enlightened the whole west. Because there are many amazing things the western psychology has discovered and presented it to the world, many beautiful things.

Sometimes I used to wonder how these people could know so much about mind, being inside the mind. Usually if you want to know about anything you have to be a witness, you have to be away from it. If you are caught in it, you can’t know the complete secret. Only if you are away from it you will be able to know the truth of the whole thing. But these guys somehow have caught so much about mind without being away from the mind.

I was really surprised. But they missed the essential points, essential truths about this fourth state, about this state of enlightened ones, the state of samadhi. That is why they could not accept, they could not relate with the experiences of the mystics, saints, enlightened Masters. They have brushed the whole thing aside as some mental disorder. That is what they say. Many of the psychological studies and books say that they are all some illusions. Actually we are in illusion, not them. They are in much stronger and clearer state.

Vivekananda asked Ramakrishna, ‘have you seen God?’ Ramakrishna says ‘yes’ and He adds one important line, ‘I am seeing God much more clearly, deeply than I am seeing you’. Understand, that is a very important line. That is a very important truth. Experience of the mystics or the sages are much more clear, deep and detailed than you experiencing me or me experiencing you, than the ordinary wakeful state experiences. Samadhi state experiences, fourth state turia anubavas, turia experiences are very very strong than jagrat experiences, waking state experiences.

Here Shiva is giving us technique to experience the fourth state. One more thing: whenever you shift from one state to the other, you go through the fourth state, Turia, Samadhi. But you don’t stay in it, you don’t experience it, you are not aware of it. It is just for a microsecond. You are too busy jumping into other states.

One more thing: without thoughts you feel you are missing something. Without worrying you feel you are lonely. That is the problem. If you lived with migraine for quite a long time, if you don’t have migraine for one day you will feel lonely, you feel you are missing something. You can see in your life, if you don’t have anything to worry early in the morning, you will feel ‘what is this! I think I should take up some work, I am wasting my life’.

Actually if you don’t have worries you will have guilt that you are wasting your life. You can see in your life, especially in the west you are taught constantly that you should be productive, you should be constantly be useful to the society. Being productive is nothing wrong. I am not saying don’t be productive. But constantly worrying about being productive is something completely wrong: completely wrong. That is like walking inside the boat.

One guy wanted to cross the river in a boat. The boatman started rowing. This guy started walking back and forth inside the boat. The boatman said, ‘please be seated. Why are you walking back and forth?’ The man said,’ I don’t have time to sit. I am in a hurry’. Whether you walk inside back and forth or sit, you are going to reach only at the same time. Walking back and forth inside the boat is what is worrying too much about being productive, worrying too much about being productive.

It may only reduce your speed. if you walk back and forth, you will be shaking the boat and disturbing the boatman. When you are worrying too much about being productive, you are doing the same nonsense, disturbing your body and mind and reducing the productivity. I always tell people, once in awhile you should come and live in Bharat where people don’t bother about productivity. No, I am not talking about Bharatn cities, they have gone to dogs. I am talking about people in villages, till morning ten ‘o’ clock, they will be sitting and sipping chai (tea) happily. Once in a while you should experience that consciousness to get purified from this nonsense of running, running and running.

Ramakrishna says, if you are staying inside a charcoal godown, however much you protect yourself some darkness or dust will settle on you. Same way if you are surrounded by people who are constantly running, running and running, something will settle on you and your inner space. You should once in a while come to stay in a place where people don’t bother much about things; they relax and enjoy their chai in the morning. They won’t even have money to pay for that chai.

Once in a while staying for a few days in that kind of space, not too much organized and living with little more spontaneity, down to earth will do lot, will teach you a lot. Every year I go to Himalayas, take a big group also with me. People ask me, why every year you take the hard journey swamiji. It is just to tell that whole life is not under your control. It should not be under your logical control.

Living in cities, living in the same clear planned diagram, you know from your bedroom which way you will come down to your sofa. If you look, you will not even sit in the other sofas. No, in your living room you will sit in the same sofa. And you know you will walk in the same way to your kitchen, sit in the same place and eat, will come out through the same way to your garage and take the car to your office. You living in the same planned way, by and by unconsciously you start believing that your whole life is under your logic. Even if there is a small accident you know there is insurance. Nothing much needs to be done. So by and by you start believing that your whole life is under your logic.

That is why if something beyond your logic happens you are completely shaken, devastated. You are devastated. And the possibility for spontaneity is lost. Any small thing could completely imbalance you. Let me be very honest. Really! I had been to many places where natural calamity has happened for relief work. I had been for relief work in developed countries and under developed countries like Bharat. People in under developed countries like Bharat come back and catch up, get balanced, get to normal state within twenty or thirty hours, within one or two days they are done. They just come back, emotionally, conscious way, just out of the whole thing so quickly.

But in developed countries they are completely devastated. They can’t miss even their cup or the table or the taste. Even if they get the house, people in the developed countries want the same tea cup. They need the same table. They need it in the same distance. Otherwise they are completely disturbed, imbalanced.

But in under developed countries where people are more spontaneous, where people are living with more simple things, they just come back to their state, get back to their balanced state more quickly, very easily. If your life is clearly sketched the instinct or intelligence which connects spontaneity is lost. It is not used at all. When you don’t use, it loses its power or ability to be alive or to help you. It’s like a fire station which is not used. It can’t be immediately put to use. Just like that, the army which is never used will be dead. Same way there are some energies in you like spontaneity, if not used will be dead.

Going to Himalayas once in a while and living in that ambiance where life is not under your control will teach you the truth that life is not under your control. Life is not under your control. That is the truth. In cities you are living in illusion. Maya, that life is under your logic’s control. No! That’s what. Maya means, that which is not there but gives you the feeling as if it is there. Life is not under your logic’s control but gives you the feeling, by and by living in the same routine or rut that life is under your logic’s control. You start thinking that by now you know everything, from morning till night what will happen to you.

But actually you don’t know. Having the clarity that you don’t know will happen to you if you live in places like Himalayas or places where things are not logically under your control. You will be reminded about it. It will be real fun to learn the truth once in a while so that you will not be imbalanced, you will not be devastated and you will not be disturbed if something beyond logic happens in your life.

Here, Mahadeva is giving us the technique. To be in the state of samadhi , to catch the glimpse of the state of samadhi when you go through the shift from waking to dream, or from dream to deep sleep or from deep sleep to waking state or to other states, Jagrat, swapna, sushupthi, turiya. Turiya means fourth state. We don’t have name for that state. ‘Turia’ word means fourth. That’s all, means beyond all these three states. We don’t have name. There is no name for that state.

Let me read the sutra once more:

At the point of sleep when the sleep has not yet come and external wakefulness vanishes at this point being is revealed

A beautiful sutra: just look back and try to see in your memory. Have you experienced the early morning , any day , a kind of a mood , you will not be completely sleeping, sleep would have left you, you will be aware that ‘you’ are , ‘you’ exist, but you will not be able to completely take possession of your body? You will try to move your right hand or left hand or right leg or left leg but you can’t. Neither you are completely aware of the body nor are you completely asleep. You will be aware but you can’t move your body or do what you want. How many of you have experienced this state?

That is the mood: that is the state Shiva is speaking about now. From that state you can take a jump to pure awareness without body consciousness. Without being associated with ubadhis, you can experience sidda, enlightened state. Sidda means completely enlightened.

Understand: at the state where you are aware that ‘you’ exist but you are not caught by body or mind, at that pure consciousness you can easily realize that the world which you are seeing now is made out of the same stuff by which your dreams are made. Understand, as of now whenever you go through the moment of feeling awake but no body consciousness you will feel only frightened. You will only try to come back to body quickly.

What happens when you usually go through that mood? First thing what will you do? You will somehow want to get rid of that moment. You feel only frightened. You understand what I am saying? As of now how many of you experienced this state, raise your hands. Let me guide you from that step. What exactly happens to you when you feel that mood?

First thing you do is you try to come back to body. You try to take complete passion of your whole body: means you want to come back to only waking state. You don’t want to fall into samadhi state, where ‘you’ will exist but you will not feel associated with your body. You are afraid to fall into that state.

If you fall into that state where ‘you’ exist but you are not connected to your body, you will realize the world which you are seeing now is made of the same stuff in which your dreams are made. That is why the enlightened ones will have two things. One, they will have power to change, power to make their dreams in to reality. Second, they will have intelligence that reality itself is nothing but one more dream. Siddi and buddi. Siddi means power to realize , power to make dreams into reality. Because they know the stuff in which your dreams are made, the same stuff only this waking state is also made of. The matter just obeys them.

There is a beautiful story:

A great sidda, an enlightened Master from south Bharat lived in Madurai. Beautiful story: Somebody challenges him whether a stone elephant will obey His orders. He goes to the stone elephant and gives sugarcane. The stone elephant obeys him. The stone elephant becomes a living elephant and picks up the sugarcane and eats it. Matter can obey you.

He knows the same stuff out of which dreams are made, with the same stuff only this waking state is also made. You can make anything possible in the waking state. It is called siddi. Next is buddi. The same stuff in which reality is made is the same stuff dreams too are made, means why to change, forget about it.

Understand: it is a very subtle science. When you realize that fourth state , Samadhi state where you have pure awareness but not the body consciousness , you will realize that waking state, dream state and deep sleep state are all made out of same stuff. You can do anything which you can do in dream state, in other states also.

So you will have two things: one, power to make your dreams into reality. Second, intelligence to realize that reality itself is one more dream, siddi and buddi, siddi and gyana. That is what we call enlightenment, experiencing the fourth state, realizing the forth state. Having the power to bend the matter as you want and having intelligence to realize that matter is nothing but one more dream.

When you realize that whatever you are seeing is nothing but one more dream, you will just relax completely. You will feel so relaxed. All your sufferings inside will be healed. I will call that as the best inner healing. Tomorrow Mahadeva talks about that technique only. Tomorrow Mahadeva is giving a very powerful technique on inner healing. Anybody who carries so many wounds inside, don’t miss tomorrow’s discourse. He is giving you the techniques to heal.

All problems which you carry from childhood: people come and complain to me that they had a very abusive childhood, disturbed childhood, disturbed past. Here Mahadeva is giving you techniques to heal the disturbed past. Let us see how he is helping us to fall into the fourth state samadhi from these three states. When you want to do this technique, actually every night you can do this technique. It does not need a separate time. All of you are going to fall asleep every day. Everyday you are going to fall asleep means everyday you are going to jump from waking state to dream state or dream state to deep sleep state. That jumping moment itself you can use it for enlightenment.

If you try just for one month I can promise you will at least have the click. It doesn’t take more than twenty or thirty days, maximum twenty thirty days only. There is every possibility that you can have the glimpse within twenty days.

First thing, switch off the light and get ready . Lie down completely. Rest in a complete relaxed way; wait in a very passive way. Don’t try to sleep; you can’t actually try to sleep. Any way if you try to sleep you will only postpone sleeping. People come and tell me, ‘Master, I have sleeping disorder, I can’t sleep’.

See: in this country so much of exploitation goes on in the name of sleeping disorder. No! Really! Understand, first thing, if you are not falling asleep, your body does not need it. That is why you are not falling asleep. You being taught that you need eight hours of sleep as compulsory, at least six hours of sleep is the first crime. Your body is much more intelligent than your doctors.

Understand: No! Really! If your body does not fall asleep at particular time, it does not need. Then you may ask, no, no, during working hours it tries to fall asleep. Just take vacation for few months, nothing wrong. Your body is much more important than your job. No! Really I tell you: The best way, to come out of sleeping disorder is, don’t decide to continuously go on pills. No. Sleep pills won’t help you. Take one week or one month vacation, sleep whenever you feel like and wake up whenever you feel like. Within twenty, thirty days your body will fall in rhythm.

That is the best way. I have healed thousands of people. Understand, when I say all these things I mean it and I am responsible. Understand: Your body is not an income source for me. I have no vested interest. That is why I am telling the truth as it is. You can’t expect truth from people for whom your body is an income source. Your body or mind is the income source for them. How can you expect truth from them? Forget about it. Let me be very clear: when I make these statements I am responsible.

In last four years of my public life I have touched personally 1.2 million seekers who had been initiated. If you look at the people who are wearing the mala (necklace), if you are wearing the mala, you are among the 1.2 million. 1.2 million people around the world have been initiated. At least 100 thousand I have personally healed.

With my experience let me tell you, just decide if you have a sleeping disorder, decide to have one month vacation, don’t even bother to cook. Get your food from somewhere, eat when you feel like eating, and sleep completely when you feel like sleeping. Your body will come back to its natural rhythm. You have disturbed your body’s rhythm. That is why you are suffering with sleeping disorders. Sleeping pills won’t cure you. It will only create one more addiction.

If you don’t feel like falling asleep, then don’t sleep, over. When you feel like sleeping, just sleep, over. If you are sleeping only four hours per day, be happy. Be happy, nothing wrong. But you are made to believe that if you don’t sleep this many hours, you will have this problem, that problem, this and that. It is a lie taught to you. Your unconscious is programmed.

Let me tell you some basic business secrets. I am really giving you some basic business secrets. Religion, before making you a disciple, the so called religious system first makes you feel guilty for something. Only if you feel guilty you will obey. That is the basic truth. You will be made to feel guilty for something for which you are not responsible.

That poor Adam ate apple. How can I be responsible? If he ate the apple why should I be responsible? And I don’t even know why he ate. You are made to feel responsible for his apple eating. Once you feel the guilt you can be exploited. All systems which exploit you, teaches you something which is not natural to you.

First thing, they will put that thought or belief into your head. Once you believe that logically, now you are ready to be exploited. Basic thing, that you need this many hours of sleep is a lie taught to you. Your body is intelligent enough to decide how many hours sleep it needs and when it wants to sleep.

In traditional Vedic system we have two things called Chandramana and sowramana, Chandramana means people who feel alive even late at night and who can’t remain awake in the early morning. All modern day young kids are chandramanis. The other category is sowramana. Sowramanis will sleep early. After 8 o clock in the night, they can’t stay awake but early morning three o clock they will be up. These fools always force their kids also to do the same thing. They put little guilt also saying don’t remain awake late and don’t sleep early in the morning, nothing wrong.

I tell you chandramanis, that is people who remain awake late in the night, jumping, singing and dancing and sleep early morning, will all be very intelligent. They will be very intelligent. Chandramanis will be very sharp. Shiva is basically chandramani. Be very clear: don’t have guilt about your sleeping time and all those things. You having a guilt about sleeping time is the first problem. Then you start believing that you have a sleeping disorder and you are ready to be exploited by sleep bed number, sleep number!

I was shocked. What all nonsense goes on! Really, some sleep number, this bed, that bed, this bill and that bill, so many nonsense. In my whole life I never had a problem, when I stretch my hands, eating and when I stretch my legs, sleeping, over. That is what I know as life, when you stretch your hands, eating, when you stretch your legs sleeping, over.

Instead of making the whole thing simple, you are taught to believe that you have some disorder. Only then you will be ready to be exploited. Understand: if you don’t fall asleep, it’s perfectly alright. Just remain awake, lie down. Don’t try to sleep. You trying to sleep will never help you. That’s the first mistake. Never believe you have some disorder. Let you save yourself. These are all few basic important truths for you to protect yourself.

No! Really! How to protect yourself! Consciously so much of damage is done to people by teaching lies, by teaching wrong things, by telling, by forcing the idea that you are abnormal. That is the first sin. When you start believing unconsciously you have a sleeping disorder, then you will connect all your problems with that. Anything that happens, you will start connecting with that.

See, once you believe that you have ragu dosha, kedhu dosha or sani graha even your small accident, even if someone coming and hitting your car, you will blame that sani, poor fellow. He did not pay to the other person to go and hit your car. Even if some small accident happens; you will blame that poor guy who is sitting somewhere who is not even aware of what is happening with you. God becomes a dustbin for you. Anything which you don’t want, you dump it on his head. That is the problem.

Anyhow, use this technique. This is a very powerful technique not only to heal your sleeping disorders; it can take you beyond sleep. Let me tell you from my experience hardly I sleep for two or three hours. If you come and live around me you will understand. I rest my body for two or three hours, not only just I, hundred and fifty of my swamis don’t sleep for more than four hours per day. I have hundred and fifty of my swamis who are in the age range of fourteen to eighty eight. They don’t sleep for more than four hours.

It is because I give them a clear understanding whether they are either chandramani or sowramani, whether they are sun oriented or moon oriented. All you need to understand is which one makes you feel comfortable sun oriented or moon oriented; just adjust your routine, over. After all in this country you have so much freedom. You can work from home, so much freedom is there. You are only supposed to take responsibility. You have so much of freedom. Just adjust your routine. Understand whether you are chandramani or sowramani and just enjoy. Do not carry guilt. You will be healthy.

Let’s come to the technique:

When you are ready to fall asleep, when you feel ready, not when you are supposed to sleep, not the time prescribed to you, when your body says ready, switch off the lights. No music, no sound, just rest and wait passively: wait passively. Don’t try to sleep. Don’t try to do some method to sleep. Don’t repent if sleep is not happening to you. No. just wait: while waiting you will always be more aware. When you are passive, waiting, you will be more aware. If you are aggressive you will not have awareness. In passive state you will be aware: You will be aware.

Understand one important thing: the more you are passive and receptive your awareness will increase. That is why prayer increases and develops your awareness. During prayer you are very passive, deep, waiting for the grace. A prayerful mood or a passive mood will bring you to awareness. Just be in a passive mood. You can even think sleep as goddess or devi. In Upanishad we have, we consider sleep as nidradevi. ratri suktham, we have a suktham also, a mantra to respect or worship the deity of sleep, the deity of sushupthi. You can think sushupthi, the deep sleep state as devi or deity. Just wait with a passive mood for her to land on you and bless you. Just be in a deep waiting mood.

Suddenly you will see slowly you are losing the awareness about your body but you are aware. Be aware of that moment. The door for the fourth state will open. One important thing: I can’t tell you verbally, exactly how you will feel when the door opens. In that space your verbalization will not be active. In any space where your verbalization is not active, you can’t articulate that state.

In some emotional state you say, ‘I can’t tell you how I feel’, because at that moment your verbalization stops. You can’t articulate. I can tell you only this much. Be passive waiting for nidra devi to enter into you. Wait for that ratri devi to enter into you, in a very passive way, lying down in a very prayerful way, in a relaxed way. You will lose your body awareness but you will not lose the idea ‘I’. Suddenly, the door for the fourth state, samadhi will open. You will not have thoughts but you will have consciousness.

Try for few days. You can’t say you don’t have time because every one of you is going to fall asleep everyday. You can escape from other techniques saying ‘no I don’t have time’. Shiva says, ‘At the point of sleep when the sleep has not yet come when external wakefulness vanishes , at this point be centered, be aware’.

Oh! I am not aware of my body but I am aware that ‘I’ exist; at this point suddenly you will see that you are completely relaxed, you are aware, but idea of body doesn’t exist. Next morning you will see that you are fresh, alive .but you will feel you were aware through out the night. You never lost your awareness but you feel completely rested. You are relaxed. You won’t feel the tiredness. That is what will be the experience if you had the glimpse of the samadhi state, turia state.

For a few days experience turia and you will see that you experience the state beyond jagrat, swapna and sushupthi. Understand, by the grace of Mahadeva , Shiva, with his teachings and techniques try. Surely you will experience because I have seen people experiencing this touch, this truth of fourth state.

Let you achieve and radiate the eternal bliss. Nithyananda. Thank You.