“Let us understand and internalize the few ideas that we have to…”

Let us understand and internalize the few ideas that we have to understand today from the patanjali yoga sutras

Vitarka vichara anandha aswitha Roopanagamath sampragynanathaha !

Patanjali is explaining to achieve the first state of enlightenment. See, the ultimate enlightenment is what he calls as Kaivalya. Till you achieve that enlightenment, you go through different experiences, which he calls as different styles of Samadhi’s, different levels of Samadhi’s. Here he is giving us the technique to achieve the first level of Samadhi.

We need to first know why we need Samadhi. It’s not that food, clothes and bedroom are enough for life. Why do we need Samadhi at all ? What is the necessity to know about this Samadhi? Please understand clearly. I can say that this is the ultimate luxury a man can have is the opening of a connection with the cosmic consciousness. Sometimes, these great ideas, words will happen in your life once in a while like a breeze and after a few days you forget about them and you are caught in your regular routine and regular life. Again when you get a chance to see somebody like this, you listen to some ideas and again they touch you and again you forget about them and you carry on in your life. So once in a while you come in contact with these kinds of great ideas. That is the reason we don’t understand the importance and necessity of this Samadhi experience.

Please understand that a man who is blind from birth can never understand what he is missing. In the same way, a person who has never experienced Samadhi can never understand what he is missing. It is whole another dimension of life. The other day, one of my disciples was driving me from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Suddenly, I turned towards him and said “ I wish you have a body like mine”. He started laughing and said “ What do you mean ? Swamiji”. Nothing, I just put some snacks in my mouth and the moment I put the snacks in my mouth, my body was in Samadhi, in ecstasy. Nothing more is needed to please you. Just understand about these few qualities, and then you will understand the power of Samadhi, the utility value of Samadhi. Today, I want you to understand the utility value of Samadhi, and only then you will understand, why you should sit for hours together and listen about Samadhi.

It has a direct utility value in your life. With just a little snacks and nothing else, the body was already in Samadhi, in ecstasy, overflowing with joy. You feel that nothing more is needed. See, when the feeling that nothing more is needed is there, you feel like blessing the whole universe. You feel like life is too good. Whenever, you feel that life is too good, you are living. Having this feeling for twenty four hours, for all the seven days of the week and 366 days of the year is what I call as Anandha or living in Samadhi. Continuously keep feeling that life is good.

If the feeling that life is good is not there, then what is the worth of having everything else ? Nothing ! It is not worthy of anything. Living in Samadhi has great utility value. Apart from that, when you keep feeling that life is good, suddenly you realize that there is no hangover on people. See, I am travelling all over the world continuously. Before coming to USA, one of my brahmachari, my kid, who used to take care of me when I was in Bharat. When I travelled, he will travel with me and whatever I do, he will assist me. When I was leaving for USA, he started weeping and crying. Because for two and a half months, he was continuously with me. From January, I was walking. If you had seen the website, you would have known that I walked for more than a thousand kilometers in a big padayatra. Some days, I won’t walk but most of the days, I would walk with them. Practically, he was in my breathing space for two months. It was a wonderful experience, of walking through the villages, sleeping in the huts, eating with the villagers and sleeping under the trees.

So when I was leaving for USA, he started crying and he asked me “ Swamiji, will you forget me ?” Suddenly I thought, I have to answer and if I tell him the truth, he may be hurt. I cannot tell a lie because I have to prepare him. He is going to be around me for a long time and he has to understand the truth. So I turned around and asked him ‘do you want an actual answer or you want some consolation?’ He asked for the actual answer. I told him ‘I don’t even remember you, leave alone forgetting you’. He was shocked.

When I look inside my inner space that is the truth. I remembered the whole thing now, just because I have to tell you. There is no hangover about objects or people. Understand what a great freedom it is. You need to understand the utility value of Samadhi. Only then you will even start looking towards that direction and start putting little energy in that direction. Each one of you looks inside you. How much of a hangover do you have with people with whom you are working in the office, or the people with whom you are living or people whom you meet here and there. The hangover is the worst punishment.

Constantly you have a hangover with people. The problem is that when you are physically present with them you don’t know how to be completely open. That is why you always have the hangover. I have seen many people, when they are around me, they are very sad that the next day I am going to leave. They tell me ‘ Swamiji, in two days you will go back and then we will be alone’. If this is how they feel when they are around me, imagine what they will feel after I leave. Naturally, they will have a hangover.

See, when you are in the physical presence also, you are not complete and you are waiting that you will be depressed. So naturally, when I am not there, you will be depressed. When you are physically present with somebody, you do not have the courage to be completely open. Fear of rejection is the worst thing. You are afraid that you will be rejected and once you are rejected, you cannot respect yourself. That is the problem. See, it is not just the fear that the other person will reject you, but the fear that the rejection will make you create so much of disrespect for you, inside you by yourself. That disrespect; that fear of rejection is the big problem that you cannot handle. So naturally you don’t know how to be open, how to be alive, how to be connecting. When you are not open in the physical presence, then in the absence you will have that hangover. In the presence also you are not fully present and in the absence also you are not fully absent. That is the big problem. And you go on collecting hangovers about people in your life and then too many hangovers are there in your inner space. That is why you are not complete with the person with whom you are living. So it is like a vicious circle.

Samadhi liberates you from all these hangovers. There is no hangover and no remembrance of the people. There is no feeling that I want them again or want to see them again. You are like a breeze, untouched and unpolluted. You are just flowing ceaselessly. So many wonderful things starts expressing by itself in Samadhi. Actually Patanjali explains in the next few sutra’s what extraordinary powers are expressed by a person who has developed this mind, based on this science. It is a pure science. If you study in the field of law and get higher level degrees, then you will be able to practice in all the courts and certain powers will be with you. Just like that this is also a science. If you study this and do the practice, then you will be able to have some extraordinary powers and energies and live. The big problem is that in the young age, we are not taught and we don’t have the time to spend on this nor did we have the passion to practice, and so finally we dumped the whole science itself as useless.

It is not. It is a living science. There is no expiry date for Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali Sutra. They are truth till today. They are relevant till today. They are more relevant the day they are uttered. Especially the Patanjali Yoga Sutra is more relevant in the modern civilization with high stress levels. The modern civilization is facing an important problem, All the things needed in the outer world is fulfilled and overflowing. The luxury, comforts , infrastructure etc are all full. And suddenly human beings have realized that there is no hope just in the outer world. They have seen the extreme. It’s all done. Whether it is in the medical field, or technology or in the communication or in the lifestyle, there is no left. The amount of research done is very high. Nowadays we have separate doctors for upper jaw and lower jaw. Even among dentists, there are so many specialists. Human expectancy also has increased. We have seen the outer world to its extreme. Humanity is facing a big danger. The other day I was reading an article in the newspaper that people are feeling loaded about taking care of the elders in many countries, because the human life is more now. The load is not in terms of comforts or infrastructure like home etc, but the load is in ensuring that the elder’s life is kept exciting and entertaining. The other day I was reading an article that in Swiss the suicide rate amongst people above the age of sixty is so high that the government is trying all possible ways to stop it. They are saying that the elders can have a person to assist and entertain them and the government will pay for that. This is the big problem in many countries now.

We learnt how to add years to the life, but we have not learnt the science of how to add life to the years. Understand clearly that we should prepare our body to live long only after we prepare our mid for that. Otherwise it is better to die early. Really. It will be hell if you have just prepared your body to live long, but not your mind. You will not have the right mental set up to live long. What will you do after the age of sixty. It will be like hell. It is better to leave early in that case, because even if you want to die, you cannot die. It’s a big problem.

So first prepare the mind to live long; living without the load of the past; ability to live with the present and the ability to live without the load, the memory and the constant nagging about the past, ability to connect with the present directly and ability to handle loneliness. The ability to transform loneliness to aloneness, and being in tune and peace with that aloneness and respecting yourself, without internalizing the idea given by society that you are now useless and not needed anymore and thus retaining your self respect. First, prepare your system and mind to live long and then prepare the body. I can say surely that Samadhi is the best way to prepare your mind and body for your old age.

If you are above sixty years of age, take one year and spend time on working on this Samadhi, by understanding, internalizing and meditating. It will be worthy and well spent. Please understand that I am sharing this truth with you as if I am talking to myself. In some of the advertisements on television, for medicines, we sometimes find them saying that this is the medicine most of the heart surgeons prescribe for their family. This kind of a statement is made to communicate the authenticity of the medicine. If you are marketing something to the outer world, then you do 80% marketing and 20% truth, but when you give it to your own family, then you do 20% marketing and 80% truth and if you are telling something to yourself, then it will be 100% truth and 0% marketing. So I am telling this to you as if I am talking to myself.

This is what I am doing, I have done and this is my life. So I am talking to me, to all of you as you are all my own extensions. So if you are above sixty, spend this one year to learn Samadhi and don’t bother about anything else. It is worth it. Just contemplate continuously on this one idea. Read these spiritual literatures and internalize these ideas. Live these ideas and contemplate. Don’t give up saying that I tried for three days, but I am not able to do meditation. For sixty years, you accumulated so much of nonsense in your head and how can you expect it to disappear in just three days ? Take one year off and practice this. I tell you, this will really work wonders in your life.

In the same way, if you are below thirty also, take one year off and work on this Samadhi. Your whole life will be new. One more thing you should remember is that when I say something I am responsible for what I say. I have seen the benefit of this in my life. Wherever you are staying, put this as a priority and work on Samadhi. If you are below thirty years or above sixty years, spend one year working on this truth and practice Samadhi concept. It will really work wonders. If you are between thirty and sixty, have a little bit of suffering and then you can do this. You may not listen even if I say, because the young blood is hot. Below the age of thirty, the people have some openness and they are willing to try new things. People above the age of sixty know that there is no other way. But there is a problem between the age of thirty and sixty. In fact all problems are between the age of thirty and sixty. No matter how much I try to tell them, they will always say ‘No, its ok. Life is going on’. So what to do ?

Working on Samadhi is really bliss. So many things, which you never even imagined as possible will be happening through you. Just yesterday I was talking to a devotee in Dallas. She told me ‘ Swamiji, nowadays, whoever comes around me say that I am different. Everybody feels that I am radiating something. I have never expected this to happen in my life and I never even imagined that I will have his space of life and experience’. I am talking about one devotee’s experience. There are thousands and thousands of devotees who are going through, living and radiating bliss. When you start itself, just decide firmly that you will take this one year or six months to work on Samadhi. Only then will you be able to see the transformation.

Usually, what people do is to start by saying that they will try from tomorrow onwards to exercise and slim down and then after three days, you will see the TV ads which scream Buy Now, Call Now top lose weight or to exercise easily etc. I have seen that my devotees in Bharat do not spend, while in US my devotes spend a lot. I was analyzing this and then found out that in Bharat, when you buy and pay by cash, you count the money and pay. When you count the money, and see the big bunch of notes leaving you, it stops you and makes you think twice before spending. But in US, people don’t count at all. They just swipe the card. Whether it is twenty dollars, or two hundred dollars, or even two hundred thousand dollars, they just swipe and they don’t feel the difficulty. The whole system is beautifully designed in such a way that you don’t feel the difficulty and keep spending. So, the ads show very beautifully the before and after comparisons. Then the ad promises express delivery. You don’t want to wait for twenty days for the regular delivery and so you order express delivery. In your whole life, you didn’t even move your body and now suddenly you don’t want to wait for twenty days and want to order express delivery. Now, everything has arrived in express delivery and it is lying your garage for the last two months. You do not have the time to open the delivery even. And if at all you open and try the exercise for two times, and then again it is left in the garage. During the garage sale, you then sell it for about twenty or thirty percent discount. That’s all.

Let your spiritual pursuit not become like that. Understand and decide now itself that for the next one year, you will work on these truths. Only then will you be able to see a substantial, strong and clear transformation. I tell you clearly that one year of effort is worth it. It is like replacing your inner software. If a human being can get a yogic body and a Vedic mind.

A yogic body does not have any conditioning recorded in bio memory. It just moves and lives. I still travel and move in these clothes and this lifestyle. Only when people remind me that it is cold and that I should wear a coat for protection, I say alright and wear them. See, feeling cold is nothing but a conscious resistance which happens in your skin towards the weather. If there is no conscious resistance in your skin, the weather will just pass through your system. See, you are an embodiment of nature. The energy or the prana which is there in the cold air is the same prana which is inside you. Day before yesterday, I saw in The History channel, a program about a person who was put along with ice cubes and he was able to maintain his body temperature. When he came out of the box, his temperature was normal and his heart rate had not gone up. Because of the yogic practice, he was able to do that. But the doctor in the show said that the person was super human. This person is seen as a super human here, because the science is not known. If the science is known, then it is just science and anybody can practice. It is possible by anyone. Just try this simple thing. Whenever you feel the cold or the heat, just see how you are resisting and how you are using your skin as a shield, instead of using it as a window. Your skin is supposed to be a window to the cosmos and a door to the whole existence. But instead, you think the skin is a shield, and when you feel your skin is a shield, you will feel so much of stress in every dimension. You will feel that the skin is a shield and that you are inside with a protection of the skin.

If your skin is really a shield, then you are in prison, but if your skin is a door or a window, then you are living. So you have to decide whether you are going to be in prison or whether you are going to live and accordingly treat your skin as a shield or a window. The prana which is there is the air is the same as the prana in your body. The idea of resisting cold happens at the young age and you start believing that you have to resist the cold or else you will catch a cold. These kind of ideas or conditionings are the worst things that can happen to human beings and these conditionings get into the bio memory. I am not asking you to break the conditioning overnight. It is not possible. But you can start preparing to remove it and you can reclaim your natural state and your yogic body. It is definitely possible.

When I ask the people below the age of thirty to take one year off, I want them to develop the yogic body and a Vedic mind, like a yogic hardware and Vedic software. When you take one year off after the age of sixty, you may not be able to develop a yogic body, but at least you can get a Vedic software or mind. This can be done and this is what I mean by understanding the utility value of Samadhi. Once you understand the utility value of Samadhi, then you will start working towards it.

Patanjali is defining the first level of Samadhi, the Sampragnyana Samadhi. He is defining it as follows

Vitarka vichara anandha asmitha Roopanagamath sampragynanathaha !

Reasoning, contemplation, blissful flowering and the state of pure awareness are the characteristics of Sampragnyana Samadhi. We internalized yesterday about reasoning and contemplation and understood the few truths I said about reasoning and contemplation. Today lets work on blissful flowering and state of pure awareness.

Anandha --- My favorite subject. In fact I can even call it as our brand. Whatever subject I touch, I will see it from the anandha angle only. The angle of bliss is what I call it. I may be speaking on intelligence or yoga or tantra or silence or peace; I will definitely connect it with bliss. I can say that bliss is the essence of life.

Here, Patanjali describes anandha as one of the important qualities which you experience and express in Sampragnyana Samadhi, the first level Samadhi, which you experience through these four states. It is first level Samadhi. After this he goes on to describe the second level of Samadhi called Asampragnyana Samadhi and then different levels of Samadhi like Savikalpa Samadhi and Nirvikalpa Samadhi. These are different kinds of spiritual experiences.

Anandha, is the subject that was described and taught repeatedly by almost all the Masters. There is so much to tell about anandha. I am just thinking what to tell and what to not tell. First lets start with a few understandings. The first thing required for anandha is the feeling that life is good. Just look inside. Whenever you felt that life is good, what was your mood? how did it happen? how did you feel? and how did you experience it ? Why sometimes you feel life is good and how it is not feeling so on some other occasion? What are the components, or elements or ideas responsible for making you feel that life is good ?

Suddenly sometimes, you feel that your whole body is overflowing, your mind is overflowing, the whole thing is too much, the energy is too much, and life is too much. Continuously, there are problems which are sitting in front of your mental eye. Just like your physical eye, which can see within 120 degrees, there is a physical eye(I), in front of which, there will be a few fears and greed’s sitting constantly. These will always be sitting in front of the mental eye. They will be replaced by new fears and greed’s. But some fears or greed’s will be constantly sitting in front of the mental eye. And you will constantly be seeing them and addressing them, irrespective of what you are doing in life. Internally there will be a struggle with them which will be going on and they will be simply sitting on you. The whole day, from morning to night, you will be thinking about those fears, greed’s and those problems.

Sometimes, for some reason, one greed will be completely fulfilled or one fear will completely disappear and suddenly your mind will start believing that all the fears have no hold on you; all the greed’s have no power on me. When this faith, this confidence happens, then for those few hours only you feel that life is good. Please understand that I am describing exactly as it happens inside you. I am video graphing and describing to you. When you keep thinking constantly or keep brooding constantly on the fears inside you, then due to some incident ( like wining a few million dollars in a lottery) in the outer world or due to some understanding( like you got a response from the person to whom your proposed and whom you love) in the internal world or the energy of a Master, something explodes and one of your strong fear or greed gives way and when it loses its power over you, suddenly you have the confidence that all greed’s and fears have no power over me and you feel free. These few hours or few days, you feel that life is good, life is overflowing; and then as Patanjali says, Anandha is experienced by you.

Sometimes, rarely there are different ways to experience the anandha. The other day I was walking with one of my devotee from my quarters to the temple in the Ashram in Bangalore. This fellow was walking with me and he is a close disciple. He said ‘Swamiji, please solve my problem, I myself do not know my problem. You please read my problem and answer me’. Usually I do not read minds for two reasons. One is that I do not want to interfere in their privacy and second, I do not want to read all junk. But he plead to me that he wanted guidance. I said all right and I was just seeing what’s going on inside. I will describe everything exactly as it happened and then you will understand the logic of anandha. If the logic of anandha is understood, then you can bring it back again repeatedly. I will describe as it happened and then you will understand what Patanjali means by the word Sampragnyana Samadhi and Anandha.

I was walking with him holding his hand and the guy was enjoying. I saw the complication which was there in front of his mental eye. He was in love with some girl and the girl was not giving the green signal. And this guy is really in love. He is feeling that she is not understanding him in spite of him sending so many signals. This hangover, is really a terrible pain and suffering. When I look at his mind, I felt ‘Oh God! How blessed am I to have an enlightened consciousness’. According to society, people fall in love before marriage and get married. The truth is that people are continuously falling in love once in fifteen days, but you are just balancing and managing justifying with reasons of risk and expense. But your inner space is not civilized and is not ready to believe your conditioning. You create so many ideas of honesty, integrity, faithfulness and gentlemanness. All these conditionings, walls, tendencies are created by you, but your inner space is pure and when it sees somebody it just falls in love. What can you do ? Nothing.

This poor guy is in love and one nice thing is that he is unmarried and so he has a chance. So he tried expressing and he has not got the response. But the problem was occupying his entire mental eye. This girl’s picture was occupying his entire mental eye and he was filled with that one idea. We went to the temple and usually I spend some time under the banyan tree. I stand there, bow down and prostrate before the tree. The banyan tree is my romance and I always spend time under the tree and whoever comes when I am standing under the banyan tree know that I will never say NO for anything and whatever they ask will be given; whether they want to prostrate before me or whether they want my blessing or any boon, I will never say no. These people know my weak points. So I will spend some time under the banyan tree and give some counseling or one hug for the people.

Anyhow, after some time, I came back and this fellow was walking with me. After some ten minutes, he got a call that there was a problem regarding his house. He had bought a house on loan and that house was now in some trouble. I was just studying what goes on inside him. The moment he got the call, he got completely shaken that his house is going to be taken away and that he is going to be homeless. Within these few seconds I saw that the girl whose picture was in his mental eye was now completely replaced by his house and his entire mental eye was now filled with a picture of his house. I was just looking at what was going on in his mind. The insecurity and fear of losing his house was in front of his mental eye and he came and told me that this problem had come up and it was going on in him. I comforted him by giving him some reference of people who are our devotees and who have an influence in this issue and asked him to speak to them, saying that everything will be all right. He called them on phone and I also spoke to them asking them to help out with his case. With just a few phone calls, the whole problem got solved in two hours.

I thought that once the house problem got solved, the girl’s picture will come back to his mental eye. I am sure you also thought that way because that seems logical. But please understand that was not what happened. The problem of the house was akin to his survival problem and when that got solved, instead of the girls picture coming up, this fellow was actually enjoying the peace, the security and the joy for such a long time, that the earlier fear or greed did not come up in his inner space for a long time. I was shocked because I thought that once this problem is solved, that old problem will land in his inner space and that he would start brooding over it again. I studied his inner space to know why the old problem did not come back. Please understand, that when a big wave comes and hits a small wave, then the things on the small wave are carried to the extreme corners of the small wave and the small wave’s energy cannot come back till the big wave’s energy settles down. The love affair of the person was a luxury while his home problem was his survival. The survival problem, upon surfacing, released a tremendous energy within the system, and when that got solved, he was just relaxed and that anandha was happening inside his inner space. It became an inner space with no pictures or billboards of issues. It became the pure inner space which is felt when one settles down without any fear or greed. When one gets free from one fear or greed, then that joy, that bliss is very good. He was in that joy for around two and a half days.

And after two and a half days, the girl’s picture is back in his mental eye. Now he could afford luxurious things as his survival issue was solved and settled. When I saw the whole thing, I understood the whole science and an important truth. This is the click that you should understand. If a strong energy wave happens inside you, releasing you from one insecurity or one fear or one greed or one desire, then that gives sudden courage and energy to your inner space and you can constantly reside in that space for at least the next few days. As long as that courage and energy is maintained, you are in Anandha ! Please understand that this is the logic of anandha.

So all you need to do in your life is to bring the courage, bring the memory and remember that you can handle your fear and greed. Your fear and greed can be handled by you. It is inside your space and being. Please understand, if you have lived for last so many years, then you naturally have the experience of so many years. It’s not that all these years you lived without fear and greed. You just lived with them and now you have the experience of those fifty or sixty years. So naturally you can live with that experience further. If you can bring this confidence and clarity to yourself, you can see that anandha happening inside you. I have described exactly as it happened in the devotee. You can internalize, compare and see how it happens in you. Actually the moment the house problem is solved, you start contemplating that the girl’s picture should have come back into your inner space and you expect the girl’s picture to come back into the inner space. Your expectation is that the picture should come back and only after it comes back, you feel settled. Till this happens, you don’t feel comfortable.

When a wave happens, when a clarity happens, when you are relaxed from a fear or a greed that continues to stay inside you for quiet and few days. Please understand that when this happens inside you and stays inside you, for a few hours or days just enjoy, rejoice ,celebrate and encourage that mood. Cooperate with that mood. It starts staying more and more inside you. I am giving you very strong, intense and important clues for feeling anandha, for living in bliss.

See this is happening repeatedly inside you many times and on many days. Please do not think that this is not happening. You may be strongly believing that you have not experienced so much joy. No, that is wrong. You are experiencing it, but because of your strong decision, you may not allow it to come up. Constantly the anandha is happening inside you. Many times, when a new wave comes and when the overflowing happens, suddenly you see Anandha is there. Allow it, live it, experience it. Allow it to flow on your being. Cooperate with it. Rejoice and feel good that you have anandha. Maybe you can have a write up in your bedroom ‘ Today I have anandha and it may stay till tomorrow evening’. Just stay with it with full cooperation and be firm that it is going to stay for at least two days. Then you will see that after a few experiences like this, Anandha will stay for a few more days, and then with still more experience, it will stay for a few weeks. Celebrate and see for the first time how long it stays. Then decide that next time it is going to stay for at least few more hours. Instead of this, if you think that usually the problem comes back in half hour and I don’t know why it has not come, then you don’t rejoice and cooperate with the bliss mood.

Feel that life is good. Feel that the whole life is auspicious. Feel that life is not cheating us. Feel that existence is not cheating us. Feel that we are in the hands of a loving, compassionate and caring energy. This feeling is what I call as Anandha.

Please understand there is a very beautiful click. I have told this story in one of my books, LIVING ENLIGHTENMENT.

There was a Master, a great enlightened being, living in Arunachala, my native place. Many people used to come to him for counseling, with questions. Once when I was sitting with him, a middle aged person came to him and asked, ‘ Master, I can understand clearly the concept of relaxation and surrender, but even after I surrender, the lust is there. I feel that existence is disturbing me by giving me lust and I am unable to find the right partner. So I am suffering and this torture is there in me. What to do ?’ The Master replied ‘ the energy that goes inside you through your breath and food and creates lust and craving in you for another person is intelligent enough to enter into the other person and create the same kind of lust and craving towards you if needed and required’. The moment he said this reply, I found that the person who had asked the question was now settled completely.

This remembrance is very good. If needed, this lust will happen, otherwise it will not happen. If needed, the lust will happen in two beings and wherever the two beings, somewhere they will meet and the relationship will happen. If not needed, suddenly you will realize that with this one understanding, the fir will not rise at all. If it rises, it will rise in two ways. This is like the concept of the parallel universe. If a big bang is happening somewhere, a black hole is also happening somewhere. If a need is felt somewhere, the supply is also made somewhere. This understanding is very important and if understood, then complications will not arise. Complications like, you need, while the other person does not need or the other person needs, while you do not need, will not arise. These complications happen because you are not trusting that the energy that is running in your body is intelligent enough to flow in other bodies also. Just this one understanding and surrender will relax you.

If you are feeling threatened by somebody, be very clear that in some way, either knowingly or unknowingly, directly or indirectly, you are threatening the other person and the other person is feeling threatened by you. It is always threatening at both ends. Whenever you feel threatened by somebody, before taking protection, take all necessary actions to send a message to the other person, that you are not a threat to them. If you do this, then you will not have any problems.

In Upanishads, there is a very beautiful mantra ‘ Abhayamum Sarvabhoodebyo’. This is the mantra to be out of all insecurity. The meaning of this mantra is that ‘I give refuge to all three worlds’. I was thinking about this mantra. How this meaning or ideas is going to help me come out of the fear. When I myself am in fear, how can I give refuge to all three worlds? The mantra says that I give refuge to all the animate and inanimate beings --- Sarvabhoodebya. How can I give refuge to the animate and inanimate beings if I am in fear ? Please understand, this is a very powerful truth. You are in fear when you are threatened by something or someone. You feel threatened by someone or somebody, only when that person or thing feels threatened by you. Send indirect message to that person that you are not a threat to them and tell them to be relaxed. Somehow, communicate that you are going to be a threat to the other person. The moment you communicate this to the other person, suddenly you will see that your insecurity or fear disappears. Insecurity is always at both the ends. I tell you that whenever you feel threatened or insecure, use this technique. This is a very powerful technique. I have practiced this technique and I have lived. I have come across wild animals face to face; wild human beings face to face. I have faced all kinds of human beings and animals. I tell you that even with animals this technique works. I am not telling you to go and jump in front of an animal and do this technique, but when you come across a situation, this will definitely work.

I once faced a bear in a forest during my wandering ( parivarajaka) days. All I did was to send a message that I am not a threat to the bear. I sent a message that in no way am I going to harm you. Through my body language, my eyes and my being, I conveyed the message that I am in no way going to be a threat to you. I felt in my being the feeling of not being a threat to the bear. I could see with my eyes that the feeling travelled like telephone waves and filled the bear with that feeling. Immediately, the bear relaxed and decided that it also would not be a threat to me and walked away. After the bear incident, I tried this a few more times in different occasions and it worked. Just have this idea of not being a threat to the other person and this works very well. Just understand and remember the mantra – ‘ Abhayamum Sarvabhoodebyo’- I give refuge to all animate and inanimate things within me. I am not going to be a competition for you anymore. I drop from this mad race. I drop from this rat race. I will not be a threat to you all. Constantly, keep sending this idea to the world. Feel your whole being breathe this one truth and feel constantly that you will not be a threat to anybody in this planet earth. You will see that nobody will be a threat to you. Just internalize this single idea, truth and understanding will suddenly make you filled with continuous Anandha ! You will start feeling that life is good.

One more basic understanding that you need for continuous anandha is about your expectation about JOY. You feel that only if you get a few things as per your list, you will feel anandha. The chance is that you may not be able to get all your wants in this life. So I always tell people, to either bring down the height of their fantasy or raise the level of your energy. Your real life and imaginary life has to meet for joy to be possible. If you bring down the level of your imaginary life, then naturally the time that you spend in anandha will start expanding.

Understand that practicing being in bliss is the highest form of spiritual technique. This is not to be seen as a moral teaching. I am not teaching you the foolishness of positive thinking. When thinking itself is negative, how can there be positive thinking ? The very process of thinking starts happening if you feel the lack of something internally or if you feel lonely or if you feel emptiness. How can the grass be positive when the ground itself is negative ? The expansion of anandha starts happening with the reduction in the level of fantasy. I am not talking to you to be blissful for the reason of positive thinking. I am asking you to be blissful because it is the highest form of spiritual practice.

Understand that whenever you feel that life is good, you are in the highest meditative state; you are in Sampragnyana Samadhi. You are in a much higher state than doing chanting of God’s name and singing bhajans. I have seen some old people who claim that they are doing bhajans and start singing sleepily. ( The crowd breaks into laughter). In the North Bharatn villages, I have seen some old people, who will take an old harmonium and start the bhajans. The harmonium will be so old that the moment they open the box, cockroaches and rats will jump out of it and run and when they start pressing the buttons, a cat also may jump out. ( the crowd roars in laughter).

One thing that enticed me completely is that these fellows have mastered the technique of chanting the names and sleeping at the same time. Understand clearly that the highest state of consciousness and the ultimate spiritual practice is the feeling that life is good. This feeling that life is good is much better than any other technique of spirituality using the mind and the body.

If you cannot do anything, then at least chant the name of God for inspiration. But whenever possible if you are able to bring yourself back to the experience that life is good, then that is the highest spiritual technique. Many times I have seen people do the Satyanarayan katha for peace at home. They will tell the priest to finish the katha in fifteen minutes. They will fix the time slot for the priest. Now, sathya and narayana will not be there, but only katha will be there. ( the crowd laughs ). Here it becomes a ritual; that’s all. You also do not want to listen genuinely and he also does not tell it.

If you feel that life is good, and are able to bring yourself back to this feeling and experience, then that is the highest spiritual experience. I want all of you to internalize this one truth today.

There is another truth that Patanjali speaks about called asmitha. I will talk about this in the next sutra; maybe not in Oklahoma. But you all can see it on the website either on live streaming or on youtube.com. I think that every day the speeches are being uploaded. You may see and hear the entire PYS collections on the YouTube.

I leave you all with this one truth to internalize.

I bless you all that you may achieve and radiate Jeevan Mukthi, Living Enlightenment.

I bless you all to achieve and radiate the internal anandha, Nithyananda !

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