“Let’s enter into the next sutra”

Let’s enter into the next sutra

Be the un-same, same to friend as to stranger in honor and dishonor.

Understand Shiva is not giving this as a morality. No. He is giving it as a technique. He's saying be same to friend as to stranger, in honor and dishonor. Feels like a lesson which you learnt in the 1st. standard or when you start your life. No! If he is giving this as a teaching then, lesson learnt at the first level. But he is giving this as a technique for enlightenment. We have to look little deep inside. Understand the earlier sutra,

The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us, in reality knows nothing as pure or impure.

This is vacating your inner space, making your inner space simple and pure. Second line, actually he is taking us little deeper. In this first sutra, he is telling us to create the peace inside; in the second sutra he is telling us to carry the same peace when you are creating relationships also, in day-to-day activities also. That is the difference, understand. He is giving this as a technique not as a teaching. Same word uttered in two different places, for two different purposes has two different meaning. Because he is telling, giving this as a technique for enlightenment, we need to look little deep. Otherwise it is a regular morality which is taught everywhere, impractical. Anything which is taught everywhere will be always impractical, because people want to learn only impractical things, impractical things will only have kind of a juice. Actually, you can comment only on impractical things and practical things you can't comment you can only expand. So this sutra, if it is a teaching you can comment, it's a technique, we can only expand means helps you to adopt, imbibe, internalize and practice. It is not a teaching, it is a technique, he says Be the un-same to same to friend as to stranger in honor and dishonor.

He is reminding us, he's telling us to bring the inner silence. Actually, when you vacate all the teachings you will remove all the ideas about people also, you'll have the silence, having that silence is no problem; it's very easy thing but an important thing is, when you are, when you start relating with the society, when you start facing people and incidents, even during that time carrying the same silence in action, carrying the same intelligence in action - that is what Shiva is emphasizing through the second technique. It’s a very powerful thing; Shiva does not leave even one part of things unattended. I have seen many people who have had really that silence inside, but they have not brought that silence in their action, in their expression, in their life. Because of that they live two lives – schizophrenic life, constantly they are struggling. Their inner understanding is something and their lifestyle is something else.

Be the un-same, same to friend as to stranger, means you are supposed to drop the whole idea, teaching which you have about that person in your head. Teaching means concepts. Anything you have about that person has to disappear. It’s like a, there’s a very beautiful method. Whoever are your enemies, able to respect or give the love or friendliness, bring their image to the mind. The moment you bring, you’ll have that hatred and so many words which you wanted to tell them but which you never had a chance or you were never able to tell them. Even when you have the chance, you have so many words you want to tell, you’ll forget half, and you’ll forget half. All those words will be lining up, just breathe, just settle down, and relax. Continue to hold the image in your inner space, let the mind shout what all it wants to tell. After a few minutes you’ll see not only the number of words which you want to tell comes down, you’ll start seeing your problems, you’ll start seeing your problems, you’ll start looking into your problems too. Holding the images of the person in your inner space in silence, for which you have so much hatred will bring the enmity down, that violence, vengeance down. You will see suddenly, there’s no violence. Even when you see the person directly, that fear stroke or the fire is not happening. You are very relaxed, you are able to handle, you are able to face, and you are able to live. There’s a beautiful shloka in Gita:

Seeda ushma, sama dukhaa

During the cold, during the heat, during the joy, during the dukkha, being equal. Understand, that does not mean being non-responsive – cold, idiotic. Traditionally, it is understood as being dull with a long face as the sama dukhaa or samas chitta, no! Samas chitta means not carrying the impression of those incidents in the inner space. When a man walks on the ground, he lives a footprint. When bird flies in the sky, it does not leave a footprint. You are supposed to be like a ‘paramahamsa’, who does not leave a footprint in the inner space. If you are a paramahamsa, you will not leave your footprint in your inner space. This sutra: Be the same to friend as to stranger, means the inner space response is expected to be same. Your action will be expressing in a different way, but the inner space response should be same. In honor, and dishonor. Whenever people try to honor me, I always see that I protect myself. Because the moment you expect the honor by that person, you have authorized him to dishonor also.

One guy, he was a politician, very cunning politician, he came to me like, as a devotee and after that he was promoting he’s a writer and speaker. He’s promoting himself to me and then he said that Swamiji, I’ll write your biography and make you popular all over Bharat. And that guy was, actually he had that ability – no doubt about it. And he was trying his best and he even started writing. The first day he brought the script, I said relax, I’ll tell you after meditating. If I tell you I’ll tell you after meditating means I’m trying to postpone, that’s all. And I told him, I’ll meditate and tell you and many of our close devotees they said, Swamiji it’s an honor if this guy writes your biography. He’s such an orator and he’s really capable and this guy has written more than 100 books – 100 titles, surely it’ll be a very big thing, please accept it. I told him, fool, don’t you understand, the moment you allow him to write my biography I give the authority to him to talk about me as he wants. Tomorrow it self he can say whatever he wrote was by dictation, by force from me, it was not actual thing happened. Understand, whenever you accept honor, you give the key to that person to dishonor you. Always be very clear about this and decide, always be very clear about this and decide. And as we expected, it turned out, he was actually paid by some of the missionaries, and later on we came to know. We came to know and it was like an implanting process or something. We were not completely sure of the whole thing but we understood it was not going to be doing any good. It was not with a good intention. It was such a revelation to all the disciples, I told them, understand, and accept only the honor from the person who has experienced you, who has experienced you. He can never dishonor, even if he dishonors, he will only be suffering, and you will not be suffering.

Living on the dharmic line, understand, living on the dharmic line, having a clear understanding about you, and allowing the people who experience you to honor you, you will see even if that same person dishonors you, you will not be touched in any way, because dharma is so powerful, it stands even inside your inner space and protects you. If you follow the law you are protected in the outer world, if you follow the dharma you are protected in the inner world, you will never fall in depression. We bother so much about following the law to have the protection from the outer world, understand, follow the dharma too; you will never come into the difficulties and disturbances which come from the inner world. I tell you the inner world problems are much stronger and difficult and dangerous than the outer world problems. Because if the inner world problem happens, immediately you are shaken and you will invite outer world problems, you’ll invite outer world problems.

Being dharmic – that is what Mahadeva means here. In all your relationships, let you be dharmic, let you be clear. You will see when dharmically somebody who experienced you, even if he dishonors you, you will not feel affected. That person will only fall into the depression. Understand, just like a law which is clear, logic enforced properly, dharma too is enforced. Dharma is also properly enforced and it is still alive. Please understand, we are all happening, enlightened beings are happening again and again in the Planet Earth just to remind you one line, dharma is still alive. The cosmic law is still alive. The dharma, there’s a beautiful one liner:

Dharmo rakshayte, rakshayteha

When you protect it, it will protect you. The dharma is so powerful, many people ask me, no, no, Swamiji I have seen good people suffering, bad people, good people like me are suffering, bad people like my enemies are enjoying. Understand, please understand the truth, first thing, good people never suffer- it may appear like suffering and if there is suffering, understand somewhere the dharma was lost, dharma was lost. The altered understanding, I always tell:

Vipaareya gynana, perverted understanding. Perverted understanding is not dharma. Dharma means clear, honest to your center, to your understanding. One more important thing, you don’t even have to be honest to higher understandings which have not become a part of your experience, no, be honest and true to your understanding, that is more than enough. If you are in the level of dharma, just completely be in that dharma. They call it Swa-dharma. Being in tune, honest with the dharma which is your core, you’ll see there will not be any unnecessary movement. Their will not be any falling into the low mood, there will not be any falling this way and that way.

Dharmo rakshayte, rakshayteha

Dharma when you protect it, it protects you. And I tell you, when you protect the dharma, it gives such a strength, so much of courage. Traditionally, brahamana is supposed to derive his strength from the enlightenment, kshatriya and vaisheyas are supposed to derive strength from the dharma and the person who is working is supposed to derive strength from his Master’s dharma. Understand, it’s a very beautiful description. How you are supposed to derive strength. Dharma will give the strength, otherwise in the war, in the battlefield how will he know, who is right and who is wrong, in the world of Kshatriya? And one more thing, we never had the problem the one who wins will write the history, no. The civilization which is built on brutality, which is built on physical power, in this kind of civilizations always the person who won – he wrote the history. But in our Bharatn tradition, unbiased even the kings who lost have been remembered as heroes in many places. Kings who lost the kingdom have been remembered as heroes. They have been highlighted in the history, means history is not written by the person who won the war. It was written based on the line of dharma. It was centered based on dharma. As I was telling you the other day, ordinary historians wrote the history seeing the length, breadth, depth whatever happened in the length, breadth, depth. Like 200 people were sitting in front of Nithyananda and he was speaking. This is history. Purana means not only what has happened in the length, breadth, depth what has happened in space and time also. So when a puranic, a Rishi writes the purana, he’ll say 200 people have been taken to a different state of consciousness by the strong teachings. When he writes, he’ll record what has happened in space and time also. So naturally a so called normal historian who has got only two eyes and who can see only the length, breadth and depth will not be able to understand the puranas. Just because he is not able to understand the purana, it does not mean it is a myth, No! It is not a myth, it is beyond the myth, it is the truth, and it is truth.

As it happened they have recorded. One more thing our Rishis had a strong, deep, intellectual clarity. To tell you honestly, stories like Mahabharata and all can never be imagined and written because such an intrinsic, detailed turn and logically following, so logically it is following, and falling in place; it can never be imagined. At the most they can blame only little bit of addition or deletion. They can never, any logical person cannot say the whole thing is created, No, Understand, it is not that people who were in Bharat in those days were complete fools, ready to listen to whatever you are saying, no, we had enough of atheism. We had enough of people who questioned; we had enough of people who fought. If the Rama’s lifestyle, story were not completely true, how will you find temples all over Bharat visited by Rama or created and installed by Rama. Person who is building Rameshwaram temple will naturally verify, whether Rama’s story was right or story, whether Rama lived or not because I am wasting my whole life in building a monument. At least the person in whose name I am creating a monument should have existed. Understand, as long as I’m not asking you to do any seva, whatever I talk will feel like truth. If I just ask you to do some seva for 10 days, physical work or little money, then you will start analyzing every word which I am uttering, whether it is truth or not because it is going to bring little pain to you. People ask why should I take up the pain, before taking up let me verify, cross-check whether it is right or wrong. Understand the Rameshwaram temple was built by hundreds of stapathis, architects and thousands of workers, at least for 200 years. And it is not that all the fellows were just following, whatever was told to them, no. They would have had enough of questions, answers, argument, discussion, dialogue, fight, conflict, everything. After the thorough analysis at least the base story is truth for which sake they are building the monument. They should have verified. Not only should they have I know for sure, they have verified. That is the reason they are able to create so much of energy. They are able to generate so much of intelligence. Time, talent, treasury, all three being directed towards those monuments. Those monuments are living proof for the authenticity of the puranas, authenticity of those great stories. They are not mythological stories, they are authentic truths. They had a great special power to look into things, to look into the things which are beyond logic, like a past life or different lives. They were able to look just because. We are not able to look into them. You see anything unique, special thing which other culture has got just discard it by saying foolishness. Before killing the dog, call it as a mad dog, then you can justify always, what is your action. So it’s like verifying or nailing before doing what you want to do, enquiring before itself or abusing before itself so that it’ll be easy for you later on.

There’s a beautiful statement in Nicholas’ autobiography, he says,’ Any lie told hundred times is a truth, any truth told first time is a lie’. So constantly it is told, puranas the word is translated into mythological stories no, it is the history. It is a clear record of history with a clear date, with a clear presentation. When we, only thing there are something’s which you can’t understand, see through the two eyes, which is the experience happened in space and time. When you understand, when you are able to look into space and time also, you’ll see the authenticity of the puranas. Dharma is also like a strong law of the inner space. It is the cosmic law. Whenever you follow the dharma, you will see it continuously protects, it continuously stands, it continuously supports in so many different ways. Masters again and again happening is nothing but a strong statement to the Planet Earth, dharma is still alive.

Constitutions of the countries cannot replace the constitution of the cosmos. It can complement the constitution of countries. If it compliments the constitution of the cosmos, you will see the conscious growth of the citizens is continuous and the expansion and growth in the civilization is again and again and again going towards the higher direction. It never comes down. Even by mistake if it starts coming down, again you’ll see one living Master happening and bringing it back to the cosmic constitution. That is why when the Masters wrote the Bharatn constitution, Manusmriti in those days, Bharat, constitution of Bharat in those days, thousands of years ago – they say the person who has experienced the cosmic constitution should update these. Possibility for updating was kept open. In the Puranic tradition, they were able to see beautifully the life past, present and future. So their record was much deeper and authentic. Tomorrow, I think we are going to have a movie, The Myth, wonderful movie. In my whole life after the age of ten, this is the only movie which I went and sat in the theatre and watched. This is the only movie. Because the concept presented was such a wonderful concept. And many things, actually one of our devotee brought the DVD, and is distributing it and I saw some of the scenes are exact visualization of spiritual experience, how the past life and the present life overlaps. If at all you have a past life memory, how it overlaps. It was so beautifully presented, I was really surprised, I was even asking him did the writer or person who prepared the script a very strong spiritual person? Either he must have been already enlightened or highly evolved. Because the connection, there are many subtle truths about this past life which cannot be explained by a logical person who is analyzing past lives. Only a person who has contemplated on it can analyze. It was presented so beautifully in that movie. That is the reason when they asked for an interview, I was very happy to offer and not only that I again and again mentioned to many of our ashramites. Whenever they have some doubt about this past life, I tell them, see that movie how it is presented, the same way only the memory happens to you. The memory link, how it overlaps, actually it will not be as clear as you expect. Past life memory and all when it starts, it’ll start like a dream only; suddenly you will see things with this authenticity. How you see this chair, this wall with this authenticity you’ll see and then the authenticity will slowly start melting down, and enter into this present world. How the transition happens is very beautifully presented, because these disciples ask me many questions, they say that past life memory will be like a fast forward and rewinding, Swamiji. No! It’ll not be like that. It’ll be almost like overlapping. It’ll be almost like overlapping. You have to look into that record and open it, then pick out the incidents, because…. One year before our Bangalore ashram started, I told my disciples we’ll have land with a big banyan tree donated to us that is where the ashram will be there, in Bangalore. They said Swamiji you are giving so much of detail, I told them go around and search for that land. They said when you can give so much detail, why don’t you give the address, I tell them, no, honestly I do not know; see honestly I do not know. I can tell you only the details I know. Means the file will not be completely clear or readable as this book in front of you. It’ll have something like a overlapping. When you move into that, that’ll be completely authentic. You’ll see the information. When you slip into this state only the main data you’ll be able to download and bring. Not the detailed information. The detailed information’s you’ll not be able to bring. Maximum like the city name and all getting downloaded is the maximum possibility. It’s like a Google earth map; you can see only to a certain level, you will not be able to see to the level of the individual address. You can see only the breadth, when you go to the depth, in that level downloading information it’ll be little difficult. In that movie they have presented it beautifully how the overlapping of the memory happens and moving from the authenticity of the past to the authenticity of the present, to authenticity of the future. The visualization was very beautifully described. Actually, there’s a movie, another one movie “Tibetan Book of Dead” After seeing that I was thinking to create a visual presentation like that about Kato-Upanishad, about the Kato-Upanishad which is the science of death. And in this movie they were very successful in presenting some of the concepts of Kato-Upanishad visually, visually even though they may not mention the name of Kato-Upanishad. But the concepts of Kato-Upanishad very visually they presented, in a very beautiful way. If somebody makes a movie out of Kato Upanishad, how they will make the concepts, it was beautifully presented. Anyhow, our puranas are the visual explanation of the truth which is beyond length, breadth, depth. Which is happening in space and time too. That is why again and again, the dharma which is described in the puranas was questioned. Understand if at all our Masters were really up to creating heroes, there is no need for them to record. Sita was being put in the fire by Rama – no, they could have perfectly created a 100% perfect hero, no. People come and tell me no, no, we don’t want to read this Ramayana and promote Ramayana because Sita has been abused, Sita has been put in fire by Rama, I tell them I also had the same idea. Understand, just this one incident shows the authenticity, honesty our Masters had. They are not interested in promoting Rama as a perfect hero, they are interested in recording the incident as it happened and they are ready to allow you to interpret, or accept or reject whatever you want to do. This shows the honesty and authenticity of our Masters, not the negative side. You need to look the things in a different way. If at all they wanted to present a very honest, a very perfect picture, they could have just edited, who is going to know, surely we did not exist at that time and saw the whole thing. It is Valmiki who presented, but Valmiki was honest. He was interested in presenting the truth and facts as it is. History is just fact, purana is fact plus truth. A deeper level fact, the cause and effect both side of the fact is truth. The history is more only a fact, mainly distorted, by just the effect. Based on the effect, the cause was distorted. But in the Vedic tradition, cause and effect was presented as it is, as it was completely, not distorting the cause based on the effect is the honesty. Not distorting the events based on the later developments, but usually the historians seeing the later developments and the success of the person, the initial history is re-organized or re-written and corrected. Here our purana stands for dharma, supports dharma and again and again Masters happen and give the statement still our dharma is alive. Understand this line is a technique not teaching. If it is teaching, oh! We read enough, we no, no, it is a technique for enlightenment means it is expected to be practiced with sincerity. It is not expected to be interpreted for the sake of your practicality. Whenever something is given as a teaching, you say o.k. it is right but for my practical purpose we can adjust and come up with my own masala, no. With a technique, you can’t make masala, with teachings you can make masala, with techniques you can’t make. Here Mahadeva is giving this as a technique, try. Try just for 10 days, try just for few days. Whoever you see whether it is your friend or enemy, try to retain your body heat in the same way. Try to retain your body heat in the same way, the number of thoughts inside you in the same way. Try to relax without getting agitated, try to relax by coming back to the center. You’ll see so many new dimensions open in you and you’re able to carry the silence which you experienced in the meditation throughout the day. The first technique, the first teaching, the first line:

The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us; in reality know nothing as pure or impure. This will lead you to Samadhi. Second line, be the same, un-same to friends as to strangers in honor and in dishonor will lead you to sahajasamadhi. First line will give you the glimpse of the mukta, the mukti state; second line will give you the glimpse of the jeevan mukti state – living enlightenment. Having enlightenment is the first step; living enlightenment is the last step. Living enlightenment is the ultimate step. The second sutra will make you live enlightenment. Let you understand this technique; you cannot follow by closing the eyes. First technique you can do by closing the eyes, second technique you have to do by opening the eyes in everyday life. Let you achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda, thank you.