“Sadaashiva Samaarambaam Shankaraacharya Madhyamaam | Asmadaacharya…”

Sadaashiva Samaarambaam Shankaraacharya Madhyamaam | Asmadaacharya parayantam Vande Guru paramparaam ||

I welcome you all with my love and respects.

Let us enter into today’s sutra

Vitarka Vichara ananda asmita rupa anugamat samprajnata.

This is the original sutra. Let me give you the translation:

reasoning, contemplation, blissful flowering, state of pure awareness

are the characteristics of samprajnata samadhi.

In the earlier sutras Patanjali was describing; how to stop the mind and he was describing the methods, techniques to connect yourself with the cosmos. Now he is directly describing the quality character of particular state of enlightenment. Please understand, whatever enlightened masters are living, expressing, if you invite those characters, those ideas as part of your being, if you internalize, you will also start radiating the same experience.

Very beautifully, one rishi speaks about one enlightened seer. He speaks about inviting enlightenment. He says, every human being is divine and already enlightened. All you need to do is picking up the body language of an enlightened one. See all you need to do is to have the body and mind of an enlightened one. The soul is already enlightened.

Patanjali say’s, you don’t need to acquire enlightenment you don’t need to achieve enlightenment it is there but there are some obstacles. Your body and mind may not radiate the truth in its pure form. May not express the truth in its pure essence; may not live, it may not be qualified, intelligent enough to live. So all you need is clean your body and mind so it starts radiating, so that it starts expressing.

Actually, day in and day out, every day I am speaking somewhere. If you see the essence; the essence is same. Not only what I am speaking for the last few years; in the last six years of my public life; almost 5000 hours I have spoken. Speaking, speaking, speaking, speaking, speaking; practically nothing else. In Buddha’s life, forty years he was speaking, forty years he was continuously speaking. Even the great enlightened master, Ramanamaharishi who is from my native place, people always speaking; it is considered, he is remembered as a silent profit, but if I see the books which describes his discourses and his teachings, for they, almost seven hours he was speaking. Understand, that if you see all the books which speaks about his teachings, whatever his teachings transcribed. You see all the books, volumes and volumes, but the essence is same, message is same.

Every time when I come to this country, people ask me, Swamiji, this time what program are you going to do. Whatever you name it, I am going to do the same thing. You name different different names, no other way. People need different names some new excitement, some new thing so you can name it different ways, but the truth is going to be same the thing which I am going to express is same.

What I expressed when I first came to Oklahoma; first program, and now what I am talking is going to be same essence. The truth is going to be the same. Maybe at least different stories, different jokes, different examples, that’s all, but the essence is going to be the same. I am constantly reminding you. I am constantly reminding you. My job is not to give you more and more knowledge. My job is to constantly to remind you that the whole thing is inside of you. Awakening your body and mind to radiate the truth which is already in you. People ask what do you want from me. Understand, if I just sit you also can just sit in my presence it will be very beautiful I will you . but If I don’t talk you can’t just sit, you will start talking inside of you. So naturally I need to use some words. So talking is more like trying to entertain you so that you will catch the body language of the master. The life, the energy, the presence of the living master. Here, Patanjali is trying to teach one of the ultimate truth to us.

The best thing which can happen to a man is the concept; right concept about your body and mind. Just yesterday I was talking about this subject. What you believe as you that is all that needs to be corrected, nothing else needs to be corrected: your lifestyle doesn’t need to be changed, your habits doesn’t need to be changed, nothing else needs to be corrected. What you believe as you only that needs to be altered.

See the essence of the whole spirituality or the work of all the spiritual leaders, masters, teachers, the essence is giving you the right idea about your being. What you think as you, as your body or as your mind or as you giving you the right idea about what you are, that’s all is the essence. Here, Patanjali is trying to give you the right idea about what you are. What you think as you. If the right idea is created that’s all suddenly you see constantly you are radiating energy.

I have seen because of my experience travelling all over the world. People who continuously believe in ghosts, only they experience ghost. No really! People who don’t believe; they don’t experience. Ghosts don’t touch the people who don’t believe in them. They are very nice to people. They don’t go to people who don’t believe in them. Whatever it may be you think as your life you start expressing it. Whether it is a disease: physical disease or mental disease, idea about you, whatever idea you carry about you, you constantly make it reality because your being is such it constantly supports what you believe and experiences what you believe and authenticates what you believe. This is in a way you create self confidence. Creating self confidence is almost like a survival need just how you need food to survive. You need confidence on your self to survive. You need constantly, you need to support yourself, I am right I am right I am right. Only then you can survive. That is why you can see all your actions, all your actions you go on justifying that I am right I am right I am right whatever you do you go on justifying that is the basic way your unconscious functions that is the basic way your inner space functions. That is the basic way of survival. That is the basic instinct of a human being, so it cannot be another way it has to be the same if you don’t support me who else is going to support me so naturally you take energy you put all your energies and go on supporting what you believe as true what you think as true what you trust as true. I always tell people for healing or transformation of your being the basic needs you changing the idea of what you are or what you think as you that is the basic need because whatever you think as you. you are going to project all your energies projiect all your energies and make it reality. I have seen sometime people start believing particular psychic,or particular astrologister in Bharat astrologers in the west psychics they start believing particular psychic or particular astrologer. The big problem is, once they start believing after that if one or two incidents clicks as per their prediction after that whatever they predict these guys make it as reality. These guys go on making it as reality. I always tell people, if you put that same trust in enlightened master he will be constantly altering your ideas about you, till you achieve the perfect idea perfect being perfect settledness, but it is a normal astrologer or psychic whatever level he is in he will go on predicting only at the same level. I have seen, sometimes astrologers can put ideas very difficult for you they put that idea some of these guys these guys constantly drag drag drag and see that that incident becomes difficult and see even small incidents they pick up and connect with it and see that that idea becomes very difficult for them.

There is a beautiful saying in Sanskrit, all the has only one power over you that is your faith on it your faith on it that’s all. If you have faith you can see anything in anything. If you start believing anything can be seen into anything. A simple you can see your life I have seen if you are continuously watching the horror movies for ten days the eleventh day even if a simple screen moving in your bedroom in the night or one cat jumping or a little water sound in the bathroom. Enough. You start imagining all kinds of things it is, because what you continuously believe you project and seek you make it outside and see, because you have so much of energy.

Understand whether you believe it or not accept it or not understand it or not you have so much of energy your life just see the air is going inside and getting purified becoming part of your body and the remaining air is going out such a big process is happening inside the breathe is getting converted into blood means what, you are an energy center you are an energy center. So much is happening. If there is no proper positive work energy means you will start doing your own work. If there is no proper positive work that is what patanjali says beautifully use your mind otherwise somebody else will start using it before somebody else starts using it better you start using it, better you start living it.

I have a story for you, how to project this and see. I will read it out yes so that you won’t miss a line. at the art gallery were perplexed by what appeared to be nothing more than a blank canvas. As chance would have it the artist responsiible was standing next to him. The artist also was standing next to him. His sister Asked I don’t wish to appear offensive but what exactly is it suppose to be. What is this drawing this painting. the artist replied proudly; sir that is a cow grazing, this guy asked; where is the grass, sir the cow has eaten it, this guy asked alright so where is the cow. You don’t think she would be standing there after eating all the grass. Understand empty paper or empty canvas you can project what you want you can see what you want you can experience what you want. The whole life is empty canvas. The blank canvas. You go on projecting what you believe and making this reality. Start believing this reality here patanjali gives the right mental set-up. Right mental set-up with which you can start projecting needs. With which you can start seeing the needs with which you can start living.

The patanjali system, patanjali is the father of all the yoga systems. Now we have thousands of yoga systems the other day I was reading a book, which was taking about super deluxe kundalini yoga, I didn’t understand the name. all kinds of names we have power yoga hot yoga super deluxe yoga deluxe yoga and what not ex nine yoga I was surprised to know. Whatever brand it is, patanjali is the father he is the father who created the system. From which all the other established systems got created other traditions came to be alive. His system is the best thing, simpliest system. All he says, just change the inner software. The way in which you think the way in which you internalize the way in which you look at the world. He says, just all you need to do is inner software nothing much is needed. You don’t need to work and change every pore. See sometime we start cutting the branches, we start cutting the branches. Cutting the branches is not going to work. Changing your habits is like cutting the branches. That is not going to work directly. That will take for years, that will take years, sometime when you cut the branches it grows more. That’s another one big problem, so changing the habits is not going to do if you have to remove the tree touch the roots and shake it. If you want transformation let the inner software be touched, let the inner software be touched. That is what patanjali say’s, first thing you need to do is, reasoning, reasoning.

He gives four characteristics; I can say all the four are different understandings: reasoning; vidarka contemplation vichara, ananda, asmita. These are the four things; reasoning, contemplation, blissful flowering and state of pure awareness. These four leads you to a Samadhi as a suprabrama Samadhi. That is a leve of a Samadhi. understand there are different levels of Samadhi experience. Means the experience of the superconsciousness, there are different levels, till that ultimate flowering happens there are different levels of experience. Here patanjali is speaking about different levels, it’s like when you achieve the ultimate enlightenment it’s called cavalier, or complete enlightenment or jeevan mukthi. But when you start living the characters expressed by an enlightened being that is called the subramana Samadhi. These are the Samadhi states. These are the experienced states. Patanjali describes you will experience when you start living what the great masters have expressed in their life. What great masters are radiating in their life the qualities the characters which they radiate in their life if you start living you will express you will achieve these kinds of samadhis these kinds of experiences so that you can go to the next next next levels. it is like, he is constantly inspiring us just to change the inner software. Just to change the inner software. Nothing else in needed. Nothing much is needed. Only you need one thing actually at the young age, I was brought up by a great yogi, one enlightened yogi. I asked him, what is the essence of everything. He use to make me do so many different things. He will make me do this that and sometime for three four months, he will make me do the same kind of practices. And sometimes suddenly he will not see me for two three years and he will not even give me a reason. Once it happened for two years he did not give me instruction, whatever instruction he gave me did not work out. He just disappeared and I could not see him. I had to wait for a long time. Then when I met him again I asked, at least now you tell me the essence so that I can carry in my life. He say’s very beautifully, just pick up the idea bout your body and mind of what I have about my body and mind that’s all. What I think as my body what I think about my mind what I think about me this idea you can just pick up and if you have that same idea about your body and your mind and you you are done. Here that is what Patanjali describes as subramasamadhi. He describes this as a kind of a Samadhi state the enlightened state, very beautifully he describes if I have reached the enlightenment state the yogi that brought me here is surely enlightened no doubt it is just like switching the inner software, swithcig the inner software. I have a story for you, about switching, minutes before her husbands funeral, the widow took one last look at his body. To her horror she saw that he was wearing a brown suit, whereas she had strict instruction to the undertaker that she wanted him buried in a blue suit.. she the undertaker and demanded that the suit be changed. At first, undertaker tried to tell her that it was too late, but he could see she would not back down he ordered the mortisian to wheel the coffin away. Few minutes later Just as the funeral was about to start the coffin was wheeled back in and incredibly the corpse was now wearing the blue suit. The widow was delighted, and after the service praised the undertaker for his swift work. He said, oh it was nothing it so happened there was another body in the back room, and he was already dressed in blue suit all we had to do was switch heads. I think switching heads is a lot easier than changing dress. Swithching the inner software, changing the inner software is all patanjali is prescribing, first thing he says reasoning spend a little time in reasoning. Take little time to look into your body and mind. The idea you carry about your body the idea you carry about your mind. Many times the devotees and ashramites come to me for healings especially for allergies. Allergies healing. In Bharat I am popular for healing, well known for this, especially allergies. Allergy specialist. All I do, usually if someone is allergic to banana, I give same banana to them if someone is allergic to sweets I give the same sweet to them, if someone is allergic to nuts I give the same nuts to them. At first they get frightened, they ask me how to take swamiji, I tell them don’t bother. But the moment they take it inside once that’s all the allergy disappears. Even here bhaktananda is here he is living proof, he was allergic to banana. One day he said for years I can’t eat bananas swamiji, I am allergic to banana i just picked up one banana and gave it eat now and I will take care and he ate. Last 4 years no allergic it just disappeared day before yesterday he was asking me how it happen swamiji how the same thing works. Understand allergy is nothing but an idea you carry about your body if that samskara is removed that enngram is removed under safe secure control conditions the conditions where u feel safe and protected in that condition in that secure atmosphere if that enngram is removed and it never works again on your system, that’s all. It looks very simple just like switching the heads. It is very simple. See the idea which you carry about your body and about your mind plays a major vital role in your life.

First thing, reason; the idea which you carry about your body; where is it going to lead you, where is it going to lead you. Sometime these people are so protected or in a cycle they don’t relax they don’t even allow you to remove that samskara they don’t allow you to remove that enngram. They constantly hold on how much ever you try how much ever you help they will not begin to relax then you can’t help. You can’t help only when you are beginning to relax and allow that samskara to be removed. It is possible it is like a the faith cannot be faith belief can not be faith it has to be very completely guidance innocent open connecting only then that samskara can be removed that enngram can be removed. I have seen you just hold on hold on hold on and when you hold on to those ideas, those beliefs it doesn’t get you anywhere.

First thing you need to do see the ideas which you carry about your body and mind, where is it going to lead you, reasoning; where am I going to land, where am I going to end, is it going to lead me to my peak, is it going to lead me to my ultimate, reasoning; analyzing, it is a beautiful word. Vitarka; means trying to analyse the inside. Trying to reason. It is almost like receiving the spiritual ideas and reasoning with yourself. The ideas which I am carrying, the spiritual ideas I am receiving from the master which one is going to lead me to my peak. That reasoning the problem is sometime people because of their ego, they go on believing no I know what he talks I know what he says I know what he says I know what he says, constantly you are stuck with that one idea I know what he says I know what he says I know what he says, one guy came to me and ask, if I read some atheists books I see they have their logic, I feel what they are saying is true. If I read some book written by enlightened master, believers again I feel what they say is right. Again I feel they have their logic. How can I decide what is true swamiji. I tell them see who can lead you to your peak pick up that person pick up that logic, that’s all. An atheist who says there is nothing else beyond my logic beyond our intelligence beyond our intellect is naturally constantly has to be in depression, because the moment you see the end of your logic, the end of your intellect nothing else to do. No where else to go and humanity has reached that extreme now they have reached the extent they have used their intellect to it’s maximum to it’s limit. I can see when your intellect has been used to it’s limit and nothing else to do naturally what to do you will be in depression but this opens a new sky for them. A spiritual person opens a new sky for them the spiritual ideas open a new dimension for them. You have constantly something to explore. Progress further grow further grow further expand further the possibility of expansion is limitless that is why the spiritual people never pick up the depression they are constantly doing something they have something to achieve they have something to express they have something to work. But if you are caught in these ideas, if you are caught in just in your intellect then naturally nothing else to do nowhere else to go depression is inevitable, depression is inevitable. So see, look into your mental set-up, reason which mental set-up is going to give me the more expanded joy, more expanded bliss, more expanded feeling fulfillment more expanded being

Some time people come and ask; swamiji when I see you and listen to your discourse I know you are right, you are for me, but when I listen to some people who talk negative about you, who talk ill of you, again I feel they are right. They have their own logic. Same problem the atheists problem, what can I do, what to do. Understand, whoever can lead you to a better state of consciousness follow them that’s all. If the person who finds fault with me who talks ill about me to you if he can lead you to a higher state then where i can lead, then follow him I have no problem. Tell me about him I will also follow him.

The reasoning patanjali gives, very beautiful reasoning, he starts with the first instruction. Who is going to open the new sky. Who is opening new ideas, new sky for you. Who is giving you the new life the new expansion the opening about your body and mind. who is helping you to reach your peak. Just be behind them, just be behind their ideas just be with those ideas just be with the truth. All you need to do is basic reasoning.

Please understand, if we can give this science to kids especially when they grow. I can say 100% of the planet earth will be peaceful, safe, blissfull heaven because the basic reasoning is given. They know what is truth what we should follow. Sometime the person who leads you to the higher consciousness, may look like doing some things which you think is not right. The problem is your logic cannot be sure of his actions that is the big problem, but the person who is not going to help you in any way can find fault with the master can constantly remind you see what is he doing, see what is he doing what is he doing. because they have nothing else to do, what to do, they have nothing else to do, all they have is only go on judging judging judging judging judging I have seen many people here in Bharat. They go on complaining but I ask them just do one hundredth of what I am doing then you will understand. When you put yourself in the position and see and assume the position.

One journalists, he came to one of our programs. He saw me hugging everybody. In Bharat the hugging is not common practice. So he told me how come you are a younge man and you hug everybody whoever comes. Sometime I hug thirty, forty thousand people, nineteen, twenty hours I sit and hug thirty forty thousand people. I told him you please just sit next to me, I put a chair for you. You please just sit next to me, just half an hour you hug that’s all I wanted, nothing else. Half an hour do the same which I am doing, in ten minutes that fellow got completely shaken. He just ran away, I brought him back. I said no no no I can’t believe that is it, come on. I told him sit and he said swamiji two things; first thing; this pain you handle daily, constantly doing this, second thing I cannot be without any depression listening to so many peoples problems and sufferings and pains. I told him now do you understand. You don’ t need to give a boon or you don’t need to put energy, give energy do physically, mentally just if you listen to their pains and problems and do not get depressed that is enough. That fella, he said I can’t believe it, if I listen to peoples problems for ten minutes continuously their sufferings I am done I am depressed now, now I need somebody to listen.

Then I asked him now you understand what I am doing, he said only when I did what you do I understood. Understand it is very easy to judge, very easy to judge but living inside turn be an insider then you will understand the real reasoning behind everything.

First thing Patanjali says, bring the right real reasoning to you. Right real reasoning. what is going to lead you. What is going to expand you. what is going to be giving you fulfillment, what gave you the glimpse of fulfillment in your life, pick up that.

The first thing reasoning, Vichara, a very beautiful word. Vichara. The Sanskrit words, some of the words you cannot translate even the reasoning word is a small word for vichara. Let me translate exact idea of vichara. Income passing an idea through all your moods is what is called vichara. Please understand for example, here is an idea, here is an idea the truth for example lets have the word truth.

Analyzing reasoning with that idea through all your moods. What is truth for you when you are joyful what is truth for you when you are in pain what is truth for you when you are young what is truth for you when you are old what is truth for you when you are about to die what is truth for you before your birth what is truth for you after your birth.

Income passing that one idea through all the situations of your mind. Is what is called vichara. So patanjali say’s, reason in your mind what is your life what is you. Spend a little time in reasoning find out what you think as you, what you think of you before your birth after your birth in your youth in your middle age in your old age before your death and after death. Just see. Just see what you think as you. It is not only the body changes even the idea about you changes. Middle age is the age when your age shows in the middle.

The idea about you also changes the body changes the mind changes the idea about you changes. Look inside what is you start reasoning. The reasoning is a very powerful method, you see. We have a big problem we have two kinds of reasoning. For others we have one kind of reasoning for us we have one kind of reasoning.

Just as I was telling this journalist story, this journalist guy who comes and tells me, why are you hugging everybody I think you are enjoying. I told him just sit next to me and you also hug, I tell people today only if you have hug from him also only then will you have full benefit, full healing. I will have half healing power and he will have half healing power so have hug from me and him. For a half hour he couldn’t handle it he disappeared. He has reasoning for him he has different reasoning for me he has different reasoning for each one. We have different reasoning for other’s and for us. If you look inside your reasoning will start getting straightened.

I have one more story, for different reasoning. A man walks in to a dentist and asks; how much does it cost to extract two wisdom teeth. Dentist replies eighty dollars. This guy said eighty dollars, too much, that’s a bit steep is not there any way that you can do it cheaper. This guy says, well I suppose if you don’t have anasthetic I can knock it down to sixty. No, that is still too expensive. The dentist scratched his head, okay, if I save on some more medicines, simply rip out the teeth with a pair of pliers I could get away with charging you twenty dollars. This guy says, no no no, that is still too much. The dentist says. as a last result, if I could let one of my students do it for the experience that way I could charge you just ten dollars. This guy just his eyes lit up, he says that is better, book my wife in for tomorrow.

Understand we have two different logic. We have two different logic for two different things, two different things. One guy goes to the psychiatrist and ask’s what is the meaning of life. The psychiatrist says well I have fifty dollar answer hundred dollar answer but the ultimate answer may cost five hundred dollars. Which answer you want. So we have different logic, different things, different level.

Vichara, reasoning, bringing your reasoning to life inside your being. Please understand, I am not saying, use your reasoning to the outer world. All I am saying, here bring your reasoning to life in the inner world for what is going to lead you to the ultimate. You see in the outer world the reasoning is used for different purpose. What is going to be the best benefit; the money, or comforts, or relationship or luxury, whatever. All I am saying is in the inner world, in the inner world, what you think as the best thing the best experience about your body and your mind.

One of my teachers, this yogi. This guy had such solid clear idea about my mind and body. See during my pilgrimage. Nine years I spent in pilgrimage. Many days I use to just beg in the streets, and lived under the tree and sleep under the tree. Now when I travel around only then I understand, that’a a unique mental set up I had. I never felt right about that mental set up. I never felt that mental set up was something unique or great. Only when I travel around only when I see.

The other day I was seeing an add in TV. It say’s love the air, cause the people who are filled with the allergies, some allergies, even to go outside in the air they need to take some medicines. Then I realized, oh God, what wonderful body and mind this yogi has given me. The idea about my body and mind from the young age somehow he taught me, you can take bath in any water, any river, you can sleep anywhere, you can eat anything you want he created the stomach inside me which will digest anything, anything put inside will become energy,digested. He created a mind in me any idea brought in front of me it will just chew and digest and through it out. It was such an amazing gift. Now I understand what he contributed to me what he added to my life.

Patanjali say’s, reasoning. What kind of body and mind is worthy to be carried, reason with you and bring that kind of idea in to you. The second idea, very beautiful idea, patanjali’s idea; vichara, contemplation. First idea reasoning, second idea contemplation means internalizing. See after you finish reasoning, whenever you finish reasoning then you will come up with the statement yes I know this is what has to be done, but how to do. That is where the contemplation starts, what to do, reasoning starts, how to do, contemplation starts.

Many time you finish reasoning you know what to do, you know what to do, you ask the next question, how to do. That is where the contemplation, internalizating starts. Understand, here in the contemplation the first thing you need to do, an important thing you need to do, contemplating on the ideas got from the right person. Please understand, whoever you think as your hero you invite his ideas. Many times I have seen, this yogi, my teacher, many ideas which he never taught me verbally, I started living it, I started internalizing just by being around him. Just by being around him I started contemplating and it become part of me.

Just, I have seen whenever people come to me, many times big people will come to me. He will tell them stand topsy turvy, stand upside down, do shavasana, they will get frightened. How can we stand upside down and this guy will just give them one tight hug, this yogi, he will tell them now do it. I have seen people will just stand upside down. I ask him how is it possible. He will say, I transfermed my bio memory to them by hugging, that bio memory to them by hugging. Understand, if you strongly feel connected the bio memory can be transmitted. So in contemplation first thing you need to do; receive ideas from right person who is living it, if you receive from wrong person be very clear it is always dangerous.

I have one more story for you. A speaker was about to address public meeting, when he realized that he had left his false teeth at home. He shuffled around anxiously for a few moments and informed the lady, who was chairing the meeting that he would be unable to give his speech because he had forgotten his false teeth. One guy was sitting in the front row over heard and he immediately produced a pair of false teeth from his packet and said, why don’t you try this. The speaker put the set of false teeth in his mouth but they were too tight. The guy says who is sitting in the front line by chance I have another pair, please try these. The speaker put the second set of teeth in his mouth but they were too loose, he said it is no good I will have to pull it out Wait said the man, it so happens that I have one more pair of false teeth in my packet. Try these, he gave the third set, the speaker did and they fit perfectly. The speaker said well thank you I have been looking for a good dentist. You are a great dentist, the guy said no no I am not a dentist I am an undertaker.

Don’t pick up false teeth from undertaker. Understand even if you need one don’t try to pick up from undertaker. So pick up your ideas from right person, pick up your ideas from right person. See I feel so fortunate I had some good examples in front of me. I had the fortune to see those guys I have seen how to this body. So when I think of those ideas I saw very clearly without needing to believe them or practicing I started living those ideas. When you receive from the right person the contemplation itself directly leads to enlightenment. You don’t need to do anything else just the contemplation, just internalizing directly leads to enlightenment. I can give you many examples, many examples, when I have seen the way in which he was having his body, the yogi was having his body, he use to have his body. I have seen many different yogis. Suddenly I just know I can also do the same thing, I can also do the same thing, my body is also same. When the right ideas are picked up from the right person the very contemplation leads you to enlightenment.

So that is why patanjali says; first reason who’s ideas are going to bring you to your peak, who’s ideas are going to put you at your high energy, reasoning. The next; contemplation, living it, means internalizing when you ask how to do, that starts contemplation you see contemplation needs to be understood. The word, let me tell you the science of it first, vichara; vichara means; in all your mood swings how you are able to perceive that idea and practice, live it.

Sometime I have seen people, if they are high god is right, spiritual things are right, the spiritual books are right, the spiritual ideas are right, spiritual techniques are right, spiritual teachers are right, everybody is right. If they are in low mood; god is wrong, spiritual ideas are wrong, spiritual books are wrong, spiritual techniques are wrong, spiritual teachers are wrong, everybody is wrong. If their mood is right all thing is right if their mood is wrong all thing is wrong. So the mood swing just see what level you can go down if your mood is down. That limit you need to find out. Only then you can start the contemplation. Sometime even with the low mood, the lowest mood, you will be thinking I am wrong, not this book or this idea or this technique somewhere I am wrong. if you understand it is you something is wrong, then contemplation is possible, then second step is possible. If you think with the low mood something is wrong only in the outer world, something is wrong only with the person, the spiritual teacher, or a technique, or a master or god. Then contemplation is impossible. You can’t have contemplation, contemplation cannot happen if something is wrong in the if you think only things outside is wrong contemplation is possible only when you realize you need to look in you need to work in. vichara, a very beautiful idea, patanjali gives very beautiful idea. Vitarka and vichara, reasoning what is going to lead you to ultimate and internalizing the ideas from that person and developing you. Please understand, only when you look inside turn the things inside, alter the things inside, there is a possibility for any growth, there is a possibility for any achievement, there is a possibility for any higher consciousness, higher experience, if you are constantly blaming something outside then naturally you will see your whole attention and energy will be there only changing the outside, which can never happen, which can never happen. People think only if they change their whole world they will be able to relax, which will never happen. It was like one guy was waiting at the beach, the other guy ask what happen, why are you waiting, no I am going to take bath, why don’t you take bath why are you waiting, no no no I want all the waves to settle down, then I will take bath when the waves are going to settle down in the ocean and when are you going to take bath, it will never happen.

So it is like waiting for the waves to settle in the ocean. Waiting for the whole world to settle down for you to relax. It should never be possible. Understand the vichara, the contemplation the first step for contemplation is looking in and trying to find where the problem is. Where the problem is that is the first step for contemplation, the internalizing these ideas, look deeper allowing these ideas to sink inside you. Constantly comparing your outer world situation the problems you are facing, the situations you are facing and matching these ideas with that situation. Trying to work these ideas with that situation trying to fit these concepts these truths into your life, into your body into your mind, that is what I call contemplation.

And Patanjali has two more ideas; ananda asmita, means blissful flowering and state of pure awareness. Today I don’t want to give you too many ideas. If I give too many ideas people don’t remember anything. When they go out they say swamiji spoke well but what he spoke, it’s okay don’t ask about that. So I just wanted to share these two ideas with you. The other two ideas will see tomorrow. Just these two ideas, so that constantly you are sitting on it, those ideas are sitting on you, both of you mix with each other the truth gets internalized in you and you get internalized into the truth.

Just these two ideas reasoning understand, what kind of ideas and teachings who’s teachings and whose words whose nearness whose presence is going to raise you physically, mentally and spiritually, first thing. Second thing,contemplation, pick up ideas from that person and start working with your practical life. Put those ideas in your life, for all your physical problems, mental problems, social problems. all your problems live those ideas, apply those ideas. Internalize them, that is what I call contemplation. Internalize the success which you achieve thrpugh those ideas or the failures which you go through by unable to apply those ideas, both are going to be helping you, both are contemplation. Understand the success and failure both are going to be contemplation, because both are going to lead you to the higher experience.

So just carry these two ideas, reasoning and contemplation and contemplate on these two til tomorrow evening tomorrow evening we will work on blissful flowering and state of pure awareness: ananda an asmita. Please understand, these first two ideas if it is internalized, tomorrow you will be able to go into the next level truth. So I bless you all let you all internalize these great truths and achieve and radiate jeevan mukti; living enlightenment. Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, nithyananda. Thank you

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Anything the moment you perceive it, the moment you are able to think about it, it becomes past. Even you sitting and thinking about enlightenment is past. You sitting and thinking about me is past. You sitting and thinking about some God or deity is past. Understand, here he is revealing a important secret. Anything you sit and think and if you are able to perceive it is a past, even you sitting and thinking about me is about past. The real “me” is present but that you cannot think.

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

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