Your Path to Euphoria!

Whenever you look superficially, it will always be fear, it will always be fear. I have one more story about that:

One guy says, one guy asks his friend, “Hey Bob, remember, when you and I went fishing up north nine months ago and the car broke down in that thunderstorm and we wound up spending the night at that farm owned by that gorgeous widow? You remember?

This guy says, “Yes, yes.”

“You remember the gorgeous widow?”

This guy says, “Yes.”

“And she had that big fabulous house and we slept in the guest wing and she was over in her wing and the next morning we got in our car and headed north, went fishing. Do you remember?”

This guy says, ”Yes, yes.”

“Well, nine months later I get a letter from her attorney.”

The friend was shaken now. “Oh! Did you happen to…”

This guy is asking his friend who got shaken, “Did you happen to get up in the middle of the night and go pay her a visit?”

This guy slowly says, “Yes, I did.”

This guy is now shaken.

“And did you happen to use my name instead of telling her your name?”

This guy puts his head down, “I am sorry, I did. Now what to do? Why do you ask?”

“She just died and left me everything in her will.”

Understand, if you look superficially, it is fear, it is fear. When you look little deep, understand, try to look inside the every scene, even your renunciation is not renunciation, it is vikalpa. Patanjali beautifully says about: Ahimsa, Asteya, Aparigraha, Brahmacharya, Satya. Means non violence, truthfulness, celibacy, living with minimum things and non-covetousness, non-stealing.

These five beautiful, great ideas he gives. I have seen these so-called yogis. The moment they read this idea, they start suppressing, escaping. They do all kinds of things without looking into the matter. Please understand, they escape from their family, fear of maintenance. They escape from their home, fear of maintenance and they call it aparigraha, living with minimum things. No. If you are afraid of maintaining and escape, that is not aparigraha. That is not living with minimum things.

You don't have fear of maintenance, you don't have fear of attachment, you can maintain, you don't have fear that you will get attached. Even then, you live with simple things, minimum things. That is what I call aparigraha, living with minimum things. Many time people practice all these great vows- Patanjali’s teachings, because of fear or fantasy. Then you are not practicing yama, you are not practicing Patanjali’s vows. You are caught in vikalpa, you are caught in vikalpa, imagination. Please understand, vikalpa, imagination is no way going to help you. That is not going to be part of your spiritual growth. It is not going to help you towards the spiritual growth. Imagination as opposed to reality is the result of mere words. This is known as vikalpa or fantasy.

If your imagination touches your Muladhara chakra it is called fantasy. If it touches your Swadhisthana chakra it is called fear. If your imagination touches the Manipuraka chakra, the navel center, it is called worry. If your imagination touches your heart center, it is called continuous attention need, continuous attention need. I have seen many time, the suffering which is created by themselves because of their attention need. Many time you put up with abusive relationships just because of your attention need. Not only in abusive relationships, many things you bear. You go on and on and on, continue to suffer just because of your attention need. You cannot understand, experience, enjoy aloneness. So you think, “At least let me put up with it. Let me put up with it.”

Please understand, the imagination when it touches the heart chakra, you start asking things from everybody. I have seen many time, people come to Me and start straight away commanding, “I heard You are an enlightened master. I have this stomach pain for last twenty years. Can You heal it today?” They don't…no,no, they don’t even ask, “Can You heal it?” “Please heal it today.” I tell them, “Can you do little meditation? Can you do some meditation workshop?” “No, no, I don't have time for all that. I heard you are an enlightened person. I just wanted to check You.” No, people have, people have that feeling. Straightaway demanding, straightaway demanding. They do not bother about what is their position, what is other person's position, nothing.

See, when the attention need starts happening, you are almost like a drunk. You don't see the reality. You don't know the reality. Please understand, when you are filled with attention need, you are also in the same position. Don't know what you are doing. You just take everybody for granted. You just know that they have to do this, they have to do that, they have to be doing this and constantly you are nagging. Constantly we nag people if we are caught with the attention need. If we are filled with the attention need we constantly suffer with vikalpa. Sometime you suffer with attention need not only with others, even with yourself. You need to pep yourself by some words. You can see when you are sitting alone, you need to use many words to praise yourself, “No, no, no. I think I am doing well. I don't have to believe all those guys.” You will be talking to yourself all these words means you are not only suffering with attention need from others, attention need with yourself. That is the worst thing.

I can say, all possible phobias and psychological disorders, psychiatric problems Patanjali has described in this one Sutra. Each chakra, when your imagination touches the problem you have with others and with you is one, one disorder. I do not know the technical names. I can describe the disorders. If you are in the field of psychiatric, psycho-analysis, you can give the names. When the imagination touches your root chakra, fantasy, suffering with others and fantasy about you, suffering with yourself. When it touches the Swadhisthana, fear of others and fear of yourself. When it touches the Manipuraka, worrying about others and worrying about yourself. When it touches Anahata, attention need from others and attention need from yourself. When it touches Vishuddhi, comparing with others and comparing with yourself.

Sometime you start suffering comparing with yourself, “Yesterday I walked half an hour. Today I don't know what happened.” You start comparing with yourself. “Thirty years before, I used to walk three hours.” That time you were young. You conveniently forget the fact. No, you start suffering by comparing with yourself and the same way, when the imagination touches your Ajna Chakra, you start suffering with your ego with others and with you. You may ask, “How can ego, with my ego I can suffer with myself? Many time you think, “I should have treated myself like that. I should have spoken these kind of words. I should have expressed myself like this. I should have presented myself like this but I did not do, what to do?” You repent. Your ego suffering with you, your ego suffering with you. I have so many stories for that.

Many time the people who, especially people who get into the stages and give public discourses. They talk some nonsense which comes in their mind and then later on they repent, “I shouldn't have told that. I should have told this. I shouldn't have behaved that way. I should have behaved this way,” means suffering with your ego with yourself and ultimately when the imagination touches the Crown center, you are suffering, discontentment with others and discontentment with yourself. Imagination when it moves in different energy centers, it creates different kinds of problems with others and with you. This vikalpa is the ultimate suffering. If you can relax from vikalpa, people ask, “I can relax from vikalpa consciously. What about unconscious and subconscious, Swamiji?” I give you one important secret. This is a secret I learnt from My teacher.

When I asked him this same question he told Me, “In eleven days continuously try to remember some idea. It will sink into your subconscious. Twenty one days try to remember that Idea. It will sink into your unconscious.” Please understand, don't even think how will I live this idea. Don't fight with it. Don't ask for a technique. Just remember this idea. Try to analyze this idea. Try to let this idea sink inside you for eleven days. Eleven days constantly remember. Whenever consciously you are imagining, remember imagination will lead to suffering. I should use this to go to joy or bliss. Just remember. Whenever you are consciously imagining, just remember and relax from it. Just do it for eleven days. Suddenly you will see, in the dream also you remember the same Idea.

I have seen people experiencing this. If you are constantly, strongly remembering some idea in the waking state continuously, in the dream also you will remember that same Idea very strongly. For example, if you decide whenever you have a fear that somebody is following you or chasing you or ghost is chasing you, if you decide whenever I get a fear of ghost, I will remember my god or my guru. If you try this for eleven days continuously, after eleven days, even if you remember the fear of ghost in the dream, you will remember the god or the guru. How many of you experienced this? That ideas going into your... the ideas which you carry in the conscious level going into your dream state. It happens if you constantly remember more than eleven days.

So don't even have the fear how will I purify my unconscious or subconscious? Remember it consciously- imagination brings suffering. This one truth, this one Sutra. If you know Sanskrit, remember this Sutra itself:

Shabda Jnana Upadi Vastu Shunyo Vikalpah

Such a precise definition. If you don't know Sanskrit it is okay. At least remember the translation: Imagination as opposed to the reality is the result of mere words. This is known as vikalpa or fantasy. In a short form, I can say, imagination which is opposed to reality, which is created by mere words brings suffering. Remember this one idea. Let it sink inside you, inside you, inside you. It will penetrate your dream state. It will penetrate your deep sleep state. You will be out of vikalpa. If you are out of vikalpa, you are in nirvikalpa, what we call Enlightenment. So understand the vikalpa and achieve the nirvikalpa. Let you all experience nirvikalpa.

I wanted to tell you one more important thing. The Patanjali is the first public lecture I spoke in the planet earth. Patanjali is the first subject I spoke in the planet earth. At the age of eleven, after My master, My teacher taught Me the Yoga sutra thoroughly, first time he called a huge gathering of all his disciples and followers. His name is Yogi Yogananda Puri. They call him Raghupati Yogi, Yogiraj Raghupati Yogi Maharshi. He called all his disciples and friends and devotees and everybody, asked Me to speak the gathering, made Me sit in the throne and got some people to do the regular Pada Puja, traditional Pada Puja. Officially he put Me in the public stage. I can say, the first public lecture and he gave an introduction that in the future thousands of people will listen to Him and thousands of things He will express but I want to take the pride, I want to take the joy of putting Him in the stage first and listening to Him first and he made Me speak on Patanjali on this very Sutra, the Sutra which I spoke to you all today.

The first discourse I delivered in the planet earth, the public lecture is this Sutra on Patanjali. This is the concept. I did not expand as I expanded today but this is the concept, this is the idea I spoke on Patanjali. That is why Patanjali is very dear to Me, very near to Me. He is a.... Patanjali is the knowledge, sutras first I learnt, experimented, experienced and expressed. So I just remember Yogi Yogananda Puri, Raghupati Yogi with a deep respect and reverence and joy for foreseeing and bringing this knowledge to the whole world by sharing his knowledge with Me. I remember him with all My reverence, respect and devotion and offer, dedicate this whole Yoga sutra series and especially this today's discourse and the whole knowledge which I am sharing with you all at his feet with My reverence and respect.

Let you all experience vikalpa by his grace and by Patanjali’s grace and I bless you all. Let you all experience nirvikalpa state, live Enlightenment. Let you all achieve and radiate the Eternal Bliss- Nithyananda.

Thank you.