“# BHYASAH MEANS PRACTICE.”
# BHYASAH MEANS PRACTICE. IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT KEY FOR WHOLE OF HUMANITY. THROUGH THIS PATANJALI IS GIVING ONE MORE CHANCE.
Tatra sthitau yatno ‘bhyasah The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness is ‘bhyasah
Patanjali is giving us one more chance. He’s explaining ‘bhyasah in a very deep way. Today I want to say it. ‘Bhyasah, this one word, is the key word for the whole civilization. Please understand that from animals evolving as human beings and in the human being level expressing various things. Whether it is spiritual knowledge or things of the outer world, whatever, expressing all those things.
The whole thing happens with one idea ‘bhyasah. I can say ‘bhyasah is the key for the whole thing. Where it is success in the outer world or success the inner world, research development in the outer world or research development in the inner world, anything. Anything achieved needs ‘bhyasah.
That is why, Patanjali talks about this ‘bhyasah in a very deep way in this sloka. Patanjali uses very minimum words only for very important concept. I can say, each sutra he reduces one full tree to the seed form and that seed he offers. Each sutra is a seed out of which a whole tree can be created. Or I can say, he’s reduces a whole tree into a seed and offers it. So, he never uses extra words or extra concepts or extra words for the same concepts. Doesn’t do all of the three. Neither extra words, nor extra concepts or extra words for the same concepts, he doesn’t do any of these. Minimum concepts and minimum words to express.
Here, for ‘bhyasah, he’s giving one more chance because we don’t catch the truth. See, there are some truth he wants we should never miss it. Even if we skip one or two words, we should not miss it. That’s the reason he’s putting whole effort, more effort in describing ‘bhyasah. Last sutra he describes about ‘bhyasah and vairagya, now he’s giving a deep description, very detailed description, definition of ‘bhyasah.
Tatra sthitau yatno ‘bhyasah. The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness is ‘bhyasah. ‘Bhyasah means if I have to loosely translate I can say practice. That word is too small but no other word. ‘Bhyasah means again and again bring yourself back to that center elevating yourself to that high state of consciousness, centralizing yourself in that truth. He’s giving us one more chance and describing it in a more detailed because he wants us remember this idea. He says, ‘Understand, I’ve giving so much importance to this idea so understand this idea in your day to day life.’ He’s giving us one more chance. I have one story about chance. I’ll read it out because the words are very nice.
A convention to prove that the accountants are not stupid is set up in a massive stadium. Accountants from all over the world watch as the MC calls the first volunteer, one senior accountant, and asked him, ‘What is fifteen plus fifteen?’
After twenty second, that volunteer says, ‘Eighteen.’
Everyone is a little disappointed, but all the accountants started yelling, ‘Give him another chance, give him another chance.’
The MC says, ‘Well, I guess we can give him another chance.’ He asks, ‘What is five plus five?’
After thirty seconds, the volunteer says ’Ninety.’
Everyone is audio time 36.38 but the accountants start yelling, ‘Give him another chance, give him another chance.’
The MC says, ‘OK, one last chance. What is two plus two?’ The accountant closes his eyes.
After a whole minute, he eventually says, ‘Four.’ MC looked relieved but suddenly the accountants started yelling, ‘Give him another chance, give him another chance!’
So, Patanjali is giving us one more chance.
# YOUR MIND IS NOT LOGICAL. SO ANY NEW PROBLEM CAN MAKE ANY OLD PROBLEM DISAPPEAR UNEXPECTEDLY!
‘Bhyasah, just one month before, one of our devotees in Bharat, sometime he used to come and go to the ashram. I’ll describe my experience with him then I’ll describe exactly what is ‘bhyasah. Usually I don’t see or look into the minds of people. Only when they ask me to guide them, only when they request me sincerely, ‘Swamiji look inside and guide.’
I try to look inside their mind otherwise, I don’t look inside because I respect their privacy and who wants to look in all that junk. One, I respect their privacy the other, who wants to look into all that junk.
That day he requested me for some guidance. So I told him, ‘Alright give me a little time, I’ll just see whatever is going on inside your mind then I’ll guide you.’ He was in a big trouble, the trouble is he was in love with somebody, that person is not looking at him, that person not giving attention, not giving care, not bothered about him. So, it was torturing him. Around eight-thirty early morning he came, came out of his room, and was around me. I could see very clearly what was going on inside his inner space, he did not describe but I can relate. He was coming to the temple with me, he was walking with me.
After few minutes, he received a call from his house. He had some difficult, he had some problem in his house. Means the house was going to be taken away by the bank, some serious issue. Suddenly I saw, his mind started fighting with that problem. Till then he was fighting with this problem that, ‘I’m giving so much attention, sending so much signals.’ ‘The other person is not responding, the other person is not understanding. I really care for her, I really love her.’ That was the congregation, means the kind of conflict inside.
Suddenly this conflict took over, I could see very clearly how the whole game of mind is happening. This complication took over, this very serious survival issue, house is a survival issue. So this complication started happening, I saw he completely forgot about her or his love, everything is forgotten. His fully busy with this one idea, one concept that his in trouble that his house is in trouble the basic things need to be attended.
All the complications goings on and (audio 41.23) he asked me, ‘Swamiji, how do you solve this issue? How do you attend this issue?’
I very casually said, ‘Don’t worry, things will be settled.’ Some consolation I gave and maybe after one hour, he received a call that problem got settled.
Suddenly when he came out the problem, he felt so relieved, the morning suffocation which he had, the difficulty he had, constantly he was thinking about, ‘Oh, I’m giving so much attention to her, she’s not caring.’ That nagging feeling, that feeling completely disappeared in him.
I saw he was completely relieved not only from this problem, from that problem also. When he came out of this problem, not only from this problem, it got solved. He came out of that problem also. I was surprised, how come one problem, if he comes out of this problem only this problem should get solved? How come that problem is also solved? He’s completely clear.
Then I saw his mind, I could see his inner space, there was no difficulty he was completely peace and rest. Please understand, I’m describing exactly as it happened inside his inner space. If you look, if you look inside, you can also see what I am saying will true many times in your life.
He got completely relieved from the whole problem. I asked him, ‘How do you feel now?’ He understood I’m seeing the whole thing happening inside him.
Suddenly he said, ‘I also don’t understand, Swamiji. Morning, I felt so much nagging by the one idea. She is not responding to me, she’s not understanding my love. I was suffering. But when I had some survival problem, bigger problem that got disappeared, it was pushed backside. Now when this problem was solved, I thought that problem would come up, now would pick up that problem but its not happening. Once this problem is solved, I’m completely at ease, at peace, I don’t know how.’
Please understand the whole thing. Every moment, your idea about pain, your idea about pleasure, your idea about joy, your idea about love gets changed. If a new wave comes you don’t know what that wave will make, what changes it will make inside you. If some other wave comes you don’t know what changes that wave will make inside you. Your mind in not a logical thing, if it was logical what should have happened after the second problem got solved, you should have started thinking about first problem.
But its not happening. You can see even in your life, sometime when some serious problem comes up and it gets solved, it gets moved. You will see suddenly, you are completely relaxed, you are in restful awareness. You are not bothered about some other problems which you are thinking, which you are contemplating, on which you are working.
The big difficulty is, you always think mind is logical, mind is logical. Please understand, mind is not like a solid ground, it is an ocean. One wave when it comes it can clear some ten problems which was there. Problem can dissolve problems. Wave can move waves. Many times, please understand, I can say this is one of the important truth I want to drill inside your inner space today. This one important thing, truth I want to drill inside, problems can wash away problems.
What do I mean, problems can wash away problems? All your ideas about problems do not have base it is like a floating, it is floating. Your idea about love, your idea about pain, your idea about attention, your idea about fear, your idea about worry, your idea about greed, your ideas. All these ideas are just floating, they are not clearly rooted or root or grounded they are all just floating. One wave is enough, suddenly you will see so many things which you are thinking can never be removed just disappears.
I asked him, ‘Did you imaging the problem which you were thinking morning, early morning contemplating will leave you inner space?’
He said, ‘I can never imagine Swamiji. I never imagined that it would leave my inner space so easily becaust it was haunting my inner space for quite a long time. That was there in my inner space continuously, so I never thought it will disappear, or it will just move out on my inner space.’
Understand, sometimes problems can remove problems from your inner space. The big problem when it come to survival, when his house was in problem, the big wave started to happen in his inner space. Suddenly, all the small wave, all the small problems disappeared. If you look inside, actually if you observe how your mind works. If you understand what I said now, this one big problem raising and suddenly all these small problems disappearing. When the big problem is solved, you are completely in peace even the small problems are not there anymore even though you have not solved it.
See this guy, his only first big problem got sorted out. The small problems did not get sorted out, he did not solve the small problems. The small problems did not disappear, it is not that she started responding to him or he feels that she now ready or she’s responding, nothing. The second problem is there, the small problem is there, suddenly it has no power over him. His inner space is not at all disturbed by it.
# FIRST THING, DON’T RESPECT YOUR PROBLEMS. THEN THEY WILL DISAPPEAR!
I told you understand, this is what is the base, this is what is the basic understanding which you need to know. This understanding, will completely liberate you, your respect for mind will be lost. First thing you need to know, your respect for your problem should disappear.
Someone asked, ‘Swamiji, you mean to say my problems are not big?’
I told him, ‘Sorry to tell the truth, but first of all you are not big.’ Forget about your problems. But it hurts, it really hurts somebody saying you are not big, its too much what to do.
The big problem is when your problems are big you feel you are big. Many time I have seen, many time I have seen, in those days whenever people come, I used to tell them, ‘Hey stay sometime here and live around.’
Then I started seeing, these guys only then they’ll create all problems in the mind.
‘No no no! I have to go to job. I have this. I cannot sit here. I cannot meditate. I am too lazy.’ They have all kinds of problems.
If I tell them, ‘No, no. You can’t stay. There is no time, you have to (audio 50:20), There is no place here. Go back.’
Then they will have all kinds of problems, ‘No no no! I want to be around you. You are not letting us stay. You are not giving us enough attention. You are not loving me.’ They have all problem.
I started creating reverse problems. No really, see if I tell them stay, ‘Just stay, stay around me its amazing chance.’
Then they say, ‘No no no! I have job. I have this. I’m too lazy. I can’t do this. I think I’m alone.’ They have all kinds of reasons.
Then I started doing other way, I tell if they wanted to stay I say, ‘No no no! You can’t stay, just go.’
Then they have this problem, ‘No no no! We want to stay here. You are not letting us stay. You are not attending to us. You are too busy with too many things.
See mind, either this way or this way, it constantly create waves, it constantly create waves. Mind is wavering, it is an action, mind is a verb. Please understand it is a verb, it is an action. Patanjali says very beautifully, ‘It is not a thing, it is an action. Just remember it is an action and stop it nothing else.’
I told him, ‘Now do you understand the value of the mind?’
He says, ‘Sure Swamiji, I can never imagine that I can forget the problem which I was having with the person whom I’m in love with.’
He thought, ‘This problem was haunting me for days, I thought this will continue to haunting me for days, but suddenly how this has disappeared.’
# HUGE FEAR ENERGY WIPES OUT OTHER SMALL FEARS
One more important secret you should know, whenever you go through the basic fears, huge of energy from swadhishtana gets releases. To take you out of the fear there is an automatic mechanism inside you. There is an automatic mechanism, if you go through pain after certain limit you’ll fall unconscious, because it is automatic anesthic (audio 52:52) method it just puts you into unconscious layer, you’ll fall into the unconscious and you won’t feel the pain.
Same way, even fear, if the fear is too much, there will be huge energy rush inside you. That energy rush is intelligent enough to push all other pains, all other suffering, all other thoughts all other problems.
# FIRST OF ALL, YOUR IDEA ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS IS NOT RIGHT. THAT IS WHY SOMETIMES YOU ARE CAUGHT IN SPENDING TIME AND ENERGY ON TRIVIAL PROBLEMS
Understand the key, first key, first Truth you need to understand. Your problems are not as you think. They are neither permanent nor impermanent as you think. If you think they are impermanent, they are not impermanent as you think. If you think they are permanent, they are not permanent as you think.
Your ideas about your problems are not right. This is the first understand I want you to know. The first understanding, because many time any other simple problem, you will forget about this whole thing. You’ll forget about this whole thing. Sometime even a very simple problem can occupy your whole inner space. You’ll forget about the important problems, your are just too busy with the cock and bull stories and the important things are unattended.
It is there lying unattended and you are just caught with this small, small things. You are too busy with this small things. Settling small things without bothering about the big things happening in your life.
# RELAXING FROM WRONG AND RESTING IN THE TRUTH IS BHYASAH
‘Bhyasah, please understand ‘bhyasah means, the first thing, understanding your problems are neither permanent nor impermanent, your understanding about the problems are not right. The next step, second step of ‘bhyasah, is coming back to your center again and again and again. For enlightenment you need only three things, one, ‘bhyasah, second, ‘bhyasah, third ‘bhyasah.
Forget about enlightenment even for living an integrated life, even for living integrated life all you need is ‘bhyasah. I can say the ‘bhyasah can be understood from two angles, two ways. One, by constantly coming back to the center, letting everything else melt. Second, by constantly melting, not letting samskaras gather around you. See, relaxing from wrong ‘bhyasahs, resting in the right truths. Relaxing from the wrong ‘bhyasahs means, your conditioning, your conditioning, actually you can understand ‘bhyasah in two ways.
# WHATEVER YOU REPEAT CONSCIOUSLY BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS. OUT OF THAT IS CREATED YOUR BODY
One thing, not letting any ‘bhyasah means practice happening inside you. Not allowing any practice. See all your sufferings are because of your practices. All you sufferings are because of your practices. That is the reason, you can see in your life everything is because of your practices. Man is not just a conscious being, his conscious level, layer is only one layer. His unconscious layer is nine times bigger that conscious layer and his body is completely unconscious.
Body is created out of non-voluntary habits which has become part of your unconscious. Whatever your conscious does again and again and again and again and again, repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating, that becomes body. Anything repeated by your conscious becomes unconscious and becomes your body. You can see in your life, for example driving. In the beginning you need to put so much of effort, you have to do this that, right turn left turn. For each decision the brain has to give the command it has to pass through the hand and it should be executed. But after sometime, you will sit in your car reach your office, only when you park your car and come out of the car you’ll remember, ‘Oh God, for the last one hour I was driving.’ Sometime (audio 58:28).
Anyhow, so many decisions you took, right turn, left turn, stopping at the signal, so many decisions. You are not even aware, because it has become non voluntary action, part of you unconscious. If you understand ‘bhyasah in this way, if you don’t allow any ‘bhyasah you are liberated, you are enlightened. Means every moment you will be fresh, alive, your muscles will be so strong alive.
# REPEATED RIGHT PRACTICE STRENGTHENS MUSCLES, REPEATED WRONG PRACTICE WEAKENS MUSCLES. SO BHYASAH IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO MUSCLES
One more thing, your ‘bhyasah is directly connected to your muscles. Anything you do, again and again and again if it is negative it weakens your muscles. Anything you do again and again and again with consciousness it strengthens your muscles. That is why our chiefs are saying the more you age, more strong you should become. Of course, it feels paradoxical. They say, more you’re aging the more experience in the planet earth, more experience in your body, more experience with your mind so naturally we should become more strong and intelligent.
But something goes wrong in the whole cycle. Something wrong happens, we start encouraging negative ‘bhyasahs. Negative ideas getting stronger and stronger and stronger. See, when I say negative ideas, the unconscious things, they become stronger and stronger and stronger. And conscious things do not become that strong inside our inner space.
# MODERN EDUCATION TEACHES YOU TO BE RESTLESS, WHILE BEING RESTFUL IS YOUT TRUE NATURE
Somehow, basically your being by its nature wants to be in a restful awareness mode. Being conscious and restful awareness needs training which is not provided to you by the civilization or the society or the schools or colleges. But being unconscious and relaxing in the restful awareness, is taught to you by your colleges and universities and schools. Please understand this is an important key. By your nature you want to be in restful awareness.
People come and tell me, ‘I’m too lazy to meditation, Swamiji.’
I tell them, ‘Just be too lazy too think that all. That is meditation.’
‘No no no! I’m too lazy to go through programs.’
I tell them, ‘You don’t have to do program, just be too lazy to think that’s all, you are in meditation.’ The problem is two ways of restful awareness. One, being in the restful awareness consciously. Second, being in the restful awareness unconsciously.
This second process is taught to you by your schools, colleges and universities. In Bharat I have seen, by the time these guys have finished his school and comes out, he has mastered the art of sleeping with open eyes. Teacher goes on talking, talking, talking. Somewhere I was never able to do that. That’s why I never sat in classes. I can’t do.
See, for example, these poor guys they are made to sit, windows are locked, room is locked and the teacher at least that guy should be very entertaining. And that poor guy what he will do he’s talking about the same subject twenty-five years. Same subject, same math or same science. He’s talking for last twenty-five years, what will he do. He’ll turn towards the board, and talk to board, blackboard, and these kids will be talking among. He’ll shout back, ‘Aye, keep quiet, sit straight!’ And they will sit. But somehow the consciousness never gets involved with the life.
# IF THERE IS NO INTEREST IN WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOU WILL START SLEEPING WITH OPEN EYES. STORY OF ONE BRAHMACHARI FAKING FEVER AND FINALLY DEVELOPING FEVER JUST BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT TO GO TO A CERTAIN PLACE
Please understand if there is no interest created, no enthusiasm created about the things you are attending, if its compulsion, naturally by and by you will master the art of disconnecting even with your eyes and senses are open.
I’ve seen one guy, I had told on of our brahamacharya’s to go to a new center and work. Somehow is not happy with the head of the center. He said, ‘I don’t want to go.’ He didn’t not have courage to tell me so he told another one brahamacharyas. ‘I don’t want to go, I think I’m feeing a little feverish.’ Two, three times he was telling this.
Next morning I went to his room and asked, ‘What happened you did not go to the center, that center?’
He said, ‘No, I’m feeling feverish.’
I touched him and I saw really he was having fever. I told him, ‘Alright, you do not need to go to that center, just relax here itself.’ In two hours he was alright! No really.
# YOU ARE DISINTERESTED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT TAUGHT TO YOU BECAUSE THEY THEMSELVES DON’T KNOW. THEY TEACH OUTDATED AND USELESS STUFF. SO TRANSMISSION OF INTENSITY AND ENTHUSIASM IS DISTURBED. SO UNCONSCIOUS SAMSKARAS GET STRENGTHENED
When you need to sit and attend, if you are not interested. See, why you do not feel interested is because you do not know the direct result. You see in your schools and colleges, the do not take so much of patience to convince you about what you need to know. Because first of all, they are not convinced, they themselves don’t know by learning this is, it going to help you. See, it is generalized.
First problem is generalization. Second problem, they themselves don’t know what they are teaching is whether it is going to be helpful for you in the life or not. No really. One of my teacher told me directly. ‘We are twenty-five years behind the,’ I was doing diploma in mechanic engineering. He told me, ‘We are twenty-five years behind industry. If you go for a job in an industry today, maybe in their old shed or in their old (audio 1:05:46) or archives you can see the machines which you are seeing in the schools and colleges now. The machines with which we were working, you may not, you may see in museum, you may only see in archives.’
So, first of all the teaches are not convinced about what they are teaching and naturally that expresses in their method of teaching. And the students also are not convinced about the utility value. There is so much of gap between the person who is designing the system and the person who is put inside the system, so much of gap. So the transmission of intensity and enthusiasm is disturbed.
Its like in Zen they have and example, they say, ‘If you wash a cup in which the tea was there and pour the water in another one cup and wash that cup and pour that water in another one cup, the last cup will it know any taste or smell of the tea?’ No!
Same way many time, many time in many traditional (audio 1:07:04), I have seen, they boast, ‘My master’s, master’s master is a great enlightened master.’ What is the use? I am the tea cup in which the water washed the tea cup, then the water washed that tea cup, then water washed that tea cup is kept. No taste. No smell. This cup will no way know the taste or smell of the original tea. Means the enthusiasm, the intelligence, the understanding never gets transmitted if the gap is too much.
Same way the designing, the designer of the education system and the person going through the system the gap becomes too much. And for so many other reasons because of so many other reasons you are never taught how to be in the restful awareness consciously. You were always taught restful awareness means unconscious. Switch off! Only then you can be in restful awareness. Then what happens all your unconscious samskaras get strengthened.
# BECAUSE OF UNCONSCIOUS PRACTICES, YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO BE WITH YOURSELF, SO YOU NEED ENTERTAINMENT. BUT YOUR VEDIC CIVILIZATION’S ENTERTAINMENT ITSELF WAS CONSCIOUSNESS BASED
The ‘bhyasah, ‘bhyasah happens in you also but in unconscious level. Things which are not needed because ‘bhyasah in you. Things which are not going to be directly helpful for you consciousness because ‘bhyasah in you. See in your life, anything in which make you unconscious you make that a habit very quickly. Very quickly it becomes your habit, drinking, smoking, drugs, anything which makes you unconscious, T.V. When you are watching T.V you do not have to think about you. You can constantly go on laughing at others, making fun of others.
See you need so much of entertainment. Why? Because you can’t be with yourself. You can’t be with yourself.
Bharat the other day, near our ashram the inaugurated a theme park. They requested me to come and inaugurate the theme park, I said, ‘No!’
They asked me, ‘What is this Swamiji? There is nothing wrong with theme park.’
I said, ‘I’m feeling so bad this country needs theme park to entertain people.’ Means what? The depression rate is going high. Depression level is going high.
Now we need to invent more and more and more, different and different and different entertainments. The great civilizations, the vedic civilizations even their entertainment was conscious base. Pray, meditation, different techniques, going to different places of worship, different energy centers, different energy fields. Even entertainment was conscious based in our civilization in the vedic civilization.
But now I’m seeing even entertainments need to be adrenaline based. Adrenaline based means moving your body fast. Giving you kind of a surprise, kind of shock. All that roller coaster everything is, the entertainments which put you unconscious. See when the adrenaline happens you feel like a hero. It is literally like a dog eating its own leg. Please understand, it feeds the blood, it enjoys the blood but it does not know the after effect. It does not know its eating itself, it is killing itself. You do not know the adrenaline release, it really entertains you for five minutes you feel high but you are entering into the unconscious enjoyments, unconscious entertainments, unconscious ‘bhyasahs.
That is why so much of (audio 1:11:17) about these horror movies. You know after see that movie for two days you can’t relax. In the room, bedroom even if small cat movement or dog movement or even screen movement. But somehow, even then, you again sit in front of the same movie. It is a kind of unconscious ‘bhyasah entertainment. Means putting yourself in the unconscious layer again and again and again.
So the whole civilization its very easy, see, unconsciously falling in tune, is very easy. Consciously falling into that restful awareness means you’ll need to practice little, you need to meditate. You need to practice and you were never taught from the young age it is easy. You were always taught this is (audio 1:12:20). You were never taught meditation is easy. That is a big problem. Sometime when I look back I feel so blessed I was born and brought up in a place where meditation is a lifestyle. Where from the young age I know it is easy.
# BIOGRAPHY RELATED… HOW HE USED TO SIT ENDLESS HOURS IN MEDITATION
During my teenage, I just used to sit six, seven hours especially in my college. Morning around three o’clock I would get up and just sit till nine o’clock five, six hours. My roommates are not ready to believe that I’m meditating. But anyhow, they got frightened seeing day in and day out, everyday me sitting without moving the body continuously for so many hours. That itself is too much for them.
They asked me once, ‘What happened, how come you sit so many hours just like that?’ Actually, they were not able to relate with what I’m doing, how I’m able to do. Same way, I was not able to relate with them.
When they asked me how are you able to do this, I told them, ‘What is there, my body, my mind, I want to sit, I’m sitting, that’s all.’
I can understand none of you are able to relate with what I am saying. Maybe in your mind you are saying, ‘Give him one another chance!’
# RECLAIM YOUR INNER SPACE! RECLAIM YOUR FREEDOM, WHICH IS PRATYAHARA
Negative ‘bhyasah, understand your body, your mind, if you can’t sit with it what is going on? What is happening? Reclaim! It is time, reclaim your freedom. Reclaim your body. Reclaim your mind. Your inner space is yours. As I was telling you yesterday, pratyahara is the ultimate freedom. Please understand all other freedom is just idea. It is a idea taught to you.
One lion had a huge flock of sheep and everyday he would kill one sheep and eat.
Another one lion asked, ‘How come you manage all these guys in one place, don’t they run away when they see you?’ This lion said, ‘No no no. I hypnotized them and told them all they were lions and they don’t run away when they see me. They are all there, I just go pick up one and eat. Next day, I go there they are all there I pick up one and eat.’
Just like the lion has hypnotized the goats and told them you are all lions. And all those lions, all those goats are believing and saying, ‘Yes yes yes, we are lion, we are lion,’ and sitting.
Understand all the freedom you have, whatever you think you have. All the idea about freedom, economical freedom. Whatever freedom you think you have, is only idea given to you, it is only idea given to you. The one and only freedom is pratayhara. Means ability to be in your center. Except that there is no other freedom, there is nothing else which can be called as freedom.
# WHAT PEOPLE THINK AS FREEDOM IS NOT FREEDOM
You can see in your life people think, ‘Oh if I work for these five days, I have freedom to go for vacation for two days.’ But try to go for vacation you’ll be carring all your files inside. You’ll be lying down in the Hawaii beach and be thinking about work only, what else. Only if you know how to get back to your center, you have freedom. As long as you live in the negative ‘bhyasah cycle means wrong things becomes your practice. Unconscious things become your practice unconscious things are drawing you more, unconscious things are centering you more. Please understand, it is not that society has anger towards you and teaches, takes revenge on you, it punishes you. No. They themselves are unconscious, your parents are hating you, they don’t have hatred towards you. They themselves are unconscious that is where the problem starts. They themselves don’t know the conscious ‘bhyasah can be taught.
# HOW NEGATIVE THINGS GET SETTLED IN YOUR SYSTEM. DON’T ALLOW IT
I can clearly describe how the negative gets settled inside your system. First thing, the unconscious thing you can see, you see when you start meditating how difficult you feel. You’ll feel the same difficulty when you start drinking or when you start smoking also. Your system will go through the same resistance. When you start meditating what resistance it goes through, the same resistance it will go through when start using drugs or smoking or drinking. Only thing, with this smoking, drinking or drug you have companion.
Many people tell you, ‘No no no, it will become alright in two days. See I’m example.’ You have so many living enlightened masters. You are surrounded by so, sorry, not enlightened, unenlightened. There so many people encouraging, enthusiastic company. The civilization.
Actually I can not imagine, sending smoke inside my system. Oh God! How could these guys do? I don’t understand, simply I can’t relate with it. How can you put something inside you system which will make you dull? Which will make you dumb? Which will paralyze you? Which will just make you just forget things? Which will not even let you remember what you are and who you are? I can’t understand. Your system will naturally resist. But what happens, you have many people you are already in tune with that bio memory. Who have lived, who are living, their presence influences you.
So the initial struggles, initial difficulties, actually, when I started practicing yoga, when I started practicing meditation, the initial resistance which I had, the same resistance you will also have when you start negative ‘bhyasah. Fortunately, I had some guys who have done this positive work and became enlightened around me continuously encouraging me giving enthusiasm, ‘Eh, come on, come on come on, it’s nothing, it’s nothing, it’s nothing.’ So I fell in tune with that. Unfortunately, when people have these wrong people around, then they feel connected, fell in tune and start living this.
The negative ‘bhyasah I can say is the ultimate conspiracy done to you. Whether it is anger, greed or fear or drug, whatever, negative ‘bhyasah. Please understand negative ‘bhyasah is the ultimate conspiracy. Ultimate crime done against you, done against your consciousness, against your being. I can see very clearly, sometimes I sit and wonder, when I see especially my brahmacharyas trying to train them, when I take the classes.
When I go around and take the classes, people find difficulty even to close eyes, forget even about meditation. Just to close eyes they feel frightened.
‘No no no! Half an hour I have to close eyes and sit. I can not sit for half an hour with closed eyes and sit, who know what will go on outside.’
One person told me wrote me a letter, just few days before meditation camp, ‘First time in my life, two days have gone without watching CNN, Swamiji.’
I said, ‘Oh, God.’
See the negative ‘bhyasahs, negative ‘bhyasahs in every step whatever you do becomes ‘bhyasah. One more thing if you understand the secret, if you understand the secret and not let that ‘bhyasah happen to you, it will start melting down. It will just start melting down. When it comes to negative things do not allow ‘bhyasah to happen. Be aware! More and more be aware! Whenever the suffering comes do not allow the suffering to stay inside you. Just decide to entertain yourself with something else, not with T.V, not with other suffering. I’m not saying you to change suffering, No. I’m saying to change the very energy, the very thing change.
That is why in Bharat we have so many wonderful positive entertainments things. In my native village you know, a man can be entertained through out the year just based on the temple. Everyday something or another will be going on in the temple. Everyday, you can be positively entertained constantly remembering some positive ideas.
# BARS ARE NEGATIVE VHYASAS, TEMPLES ARE POSITIVE BHYASAS
One guy asked me, ‘Swamiji in your temple I saw everyday some festival goes on.’ In Bharat, in our temple, we call our temple Nithyotsav which means Eternal festival. Everyday you will see the temple flag will be flying. Some otsav will be going on, something will be happening. Means constantly reminding them some positive ideas and engraving positive ‘bhyasah. Positive ‘bhyasah.
I asked him, ‘When bars can be opened everyday why not temples? Why should temples be weakened? No!’ When bars can be opened everyday where negative ‘bhyasah is dne. See number of bars and number of temples should at least be equal. Because the negative ‘bhyasah. All the units, places where negative ’bhyasah is happening are open twenty-four hours available to the market, whole civilization is encouraged, why not the place where positive ‘bhyasah is happening.
Sometimes people ask me, ‘Swamiji, what is this? In our temples and ashrams those people are dancing like a bar or pub?’
I tell them, ‘If you drink and dance is negative ‘bhyasah, if you just sing and dance is positive ‘bhyasah. I have to equate.’
The big problem is, if you drink and dance it is a culture and if you sing and dance you are old, outdated. See the mind, if you drink and dance you are updated, you are updated, fashioned, modern. If you just sing the divine name or the guru’s name or the God’s name and jump in that ecstasy and joy, ‘Ah, immature fellows, immature fellows.’
I’ve seen in Bharat, these old guys, they can’t tolerate these swamis dancing and spiritual religious crowd so happy. They always complain, especially in Bharat, the orthodox, traditional people, they can’t imagine a swami jumping so freely and dance so freely and joyfully. They can’t tolerate they ask, I tell them, ‘Are you able to stop the negative ‘bhyasahs? No! Then at least create some place where positive ‘bhyasah is happening. So that people will start feeling connected.’
Actually, all the juicy, joyful things being removed from the positive energy field, when the celebration is removed from the spiritual tradition, be very clear, the positive ‘bhyasah will never happen. Will never happen. Many people will start drinking because they can see many companions, many friends they can start dancing, make movements and expand their identity. Many incentives, many other things are associated with drinking. I tell them, ‘Bring all those things, benefits into spirituality, into mediation, into the bliss, into the joy. Create positive ‘bhyasah, create positive ‘bhyasah.’
I’ve seen many people in Bharat, many people drink and dance, nobody questions, even those so call orthodox, elder people, they say it’s the culture. When people are singing and dancing with awareness with consciousness. I tell you without drinking, if just sing and dance, if you are aware and just sing and dance alive remembering some great concepts like a master, God or truth with these great ideas, understand those great truths will get engraved inside you system.
Yesterday I told you an important secret. Any idea you strongly remember, and move your body that idea will get engrave into your bio memory. If you think by bending up and down, up and down ten times your stomach will become healthy. You don’t have to do anything, nothing else is need. Just the idea I should become healthy, up and down, up and down, up and down you’ll become healthy. You don’t have to learn formal yoga, this session, that session, this kundalini, this yoga, that yoga, nothing.
That is the whole science. I’m giving the whole science the whole secret to you. Understand, otherwise so many hundreds varieties of yoga, body postures, exercise are there. Everything is helping how can it be?
If you go to one system they say, ‘For stomach problems bend this way.’
If you to other system they say, ‘No no no! You should never bend that way, bend this way.’
You go to some other system, ‘No, for stomach problem you neither bend nor stand just lie down.’
The big problem all three system works. How can that be? So with any strong idea inside, any way you move the body, that idea becomes part of your bio memory and brings result, that’s all. This is the secret, this is the secret. That is the same thing I’m applying, when you remember the divine. That is why the whole day Mira was singing and dancing, Ramakrishna, if you read his biography. If you read the recordings of gospels of Sri Ramakrishna, Every page you’ll see he was singing and dancing. Means when that idea, when that high concept, with that high concept which you move the body it gets engraved. The positive ‘bhyasah starts happening.
Mira says, ‘When I’m singing his name, and moving my body I can see he himself is moving inside my body. His very presence moving inside my body.’ Positive ‘bhyasah. The positive ‘bhyasah is happening, the engraving of the positive ideas is happening.
Understand two way, one, not letting negative ‘bhyasah, negative memories gathering, negative practices happening. Second, letting positive memories happen continuously, positive ‘bhyasah continuously happening. Basically, you are liquid, you are liquid in which vessel you are kept you take shape of that vessel, that’s all. In which vessel you are kept, you take form of that vessel. That is why I insist create a positive, blissful community around you, only then you can continue to be blissful and positive forever. Never, just by you being positive. No.
# PROBLEM IS, PEOPLE CANT TOLERATE IF YOU ARE HAPPY WITHOUT THE NEED FOR THEM. THAT IS WHY YOU NEED TO CREATE AN ENTIRE POSITIVE COMMUNITY
In Bharat there’s a story, even if you go up, there will be just people just to pull you down. They’ll just be waiting to pull you down. Just go with a smiling joyful face, ecstatically to your house and see how many minutes. Fortunately, if your spouse is also here, then you are safe. No, otherwise just understand, you are in ecstasy independent of him that is the big problem. See, if you are in ecstasy without depending on him or her it is too much. And now naturally it will express in your body language, you will say you don’t need him or her. That is another one big problem and it hurts his ego. Be like me, at the most you can be happy with my support, other than that nothing else should happen.
And I’ve seen people can’t tolerate another person’s happiness, especially independent of me that is too much. Understand, unless you create a community, where the whole thing is positive, positive ‘bhyasah is happening. Put little energy, put little time, to create a beautiful community around you or spend little time where the positive ‘bhyasah is happening. You will see so many wonderful things express inside of you, expressing inside you.
# SOCIETY SUPPORTS UNCONSCIOUS BHYASAH, NOT POSITIVE BHYASAH. THAT IS WHY YOU NEED A SANGA, COMMUNITY
All your good or bad habits are because of ‘bhyasah. Please understand how much one person has to struggle for meditation or yoga, that much equally has to struggle to learn the habit of drinking or smoking or drugs. I can say little more he has to struggle. But unconsciously, society supports his unconscious ‘bhyasah.
With this you don’t have community supporting you, society supporting you. One day if you meditate and you have a little knee pain if you tell your spouse, ‘Who asked you to do all these things? You sit there for half an hour and you come and tell me you have this pain and that pain. Get lost!’ There is no support. So naturally what you will do? You’ll decided, ‘Why all these unnecessary risks? forget about it and who knows what will be the outcome. Who knows what will be the product? who knows what can be the side effect.’
That is the reason, Buddha says, ‘The sangha is equally important, like a Buddha or dharma.’ See Buddha can initiate you, dharma and inspire you. Only sangha can bring ‘bhyasah to you.
Please understand, sometimes people ask me, ‘Swamiji, now in all spiritual organizations so much of politics is there, why are you getting one more organization?’
I tell them, ‘It is necessary (audio 1:35:29). To create politics you do not need two persons, one person is enough.
See morning you mind will say something, and night it will be saying something. Means what? Politics between you and you. So to do politics you don’t need two persons. One is enough. So its basic quality, even if there’s little politics, its okay spiriual organizations, sangha is worthy to have. Because sangha creates so many times positive ‘bhyasah to you. Positive ‘bhyasah.
Many times you can see, the moment you remember the people whom you meet in the bar, the moment you remember their smile, the moment you remember their dress, the moment you remember their body language you are already in the track headed towards bar. You don’t even think and decide, their very company gives you the courage.
All your doctors advice, ‘No no no! Your life will be reduced, risk of cancer, risk of this, risk of that.’
‘I know a guy who was drinking and smoking for ninety-five years and he was alright.’
You don’t understand that he’s an exemption not a rule. He would have lived for so many years, he’s an exemption. But somehow, just two, three companies you have all negative examples in front of you and somehow you don’t even logically think that much, you are already in the car and you are done.
# ONLY SANGA CAN FEED YOU AND KEEP YOU IN POSITIVE BHAYSA
Sangha, a spiritual sangha can create positive ‘bhyasah. That is why these deities so much of decoration.
The other day someone was asking, ‘Why do you put so much of silk and jewels, so much of decoration is done for the deities, even the seat in which you are seating?’
The moment you remember all these things you will be here and positive ‘bhyasah can go on, positive ‘bhyasah can happen. Many time if you are feeling depressed, low, suddenly you’ll remember the temple, and the all people you will meet or the deities, you are already in the car towards the temple. The positive ‘bhyasah can happen that is why, so much of energy, intelligence, time, money is put in the sangha. All these things are put in the sangha.
People ask me, ‘Swamiji, after all you teaching the ultimate enlightenment, why don’t you keep your temple empty, formless?’
‘What do you mean? you’ll be guessing at the empty wall?’ And in the bar people want all the decoration to create negative ‘bhyasah, negative practice. In the temple, they want everything to be empty. What kind of mental set up? Understand what kind of mental setup?
Negative ‘bhyasah, the whole civilization is based on negative ‘bhyasah. Buddha can initiate you into the Truth, he can initiate you. He can give you the fire, can just give you the experience. And dharma, the spiritual scriptures can constantly inspire you to live in that high state. Only sangha can create the ‘bhyasah, coming back to the same state. Establishing yourself into that same state again and again and again.
Please understand, ‘bhyasah only makes you even as a man, forget even spiritual man, integrating you need ‘bhyasah. Without ‘bhyasah you are just a liquid. Any thought can come and suddenly morning you’ll see, this is your joy, this is your pain and you’ll start walking towards it. By evening, some other thought, some other situation will come, all your idea of pain and joy disappears you are entangled in something else.
Just like the incident I was telling you, before that, when I was beginning the discourse. First, when he came to me to walk with me, the big problem was he was filled with the one idea that, ‘I’m such in love with her, and she’s not responding to me. She’s not feeling connected to me. She’s not loving to me, She’s not attending me.’ I can say this is the worst pain, big pain, the pain of rejection. That is the reason many of us start shrinking, many of us start shrinking, the pain of rejection. Oh God! Yes! I’m really ready to open up, but if I’m rejected, suddenly you loose respect for yourself, you loose respect for yourself.
So, he was in the pain, was filled in that pain, filled with that idea. But in ten minutes, he’s whole idea of suffering was different. Now, he’s whole life energy has moved to something else, about his house and his filled with the house. And in one hour, he’s out of the problem. Now logically he’s supposed to go towards the old problem. He’s supposed to think about her, think about how to solve the problem. But he’s not there, it means what?
What you think as problem, sometime it comes, sometime its not there. So your ideas about pain, love, problem, everything constantly is changing. Constantly is moving, constantly is disappearing, impermanent, not there. But one thing is there, you fear about whether the problem will come back or not. That constantly keeps you in suffering, constantly keeps you in suffering.
I always tell people this is just because of negative ‘bhyasah. Never miss a chance to be around the Buddha, to be around the sangha. To be around the Buddha, to be around the sangha. Never miss a chance! I can say, that is the ultimate thing that can happen in you. So many negative ‘bhyasahs which you though, which you may not ever know inside you will disappear.
People come and tell me, ‘Swamiji, I just come and stay here few days and did volunteer work, I don’t know how my life is transformed, nobody told me, nobody spoke to me or anything. Suddenly, I’m out of many problems, many struggles, many disturbances. The same situation, if it had happen earlier, few years in my life I would have been shaken. Now I’m so strong. How come? How is it happening?’
Understand, the sangha gives you positive ‘bhyasah and it drills the ‘bhyasah into your deeper layers. See, your conscious mind is one layer, your unconscious mind is nine layer, below is your body, complete unconscious. Anything done continuously by the conscious gets entailed inside your unconscious. Anything continuously repeated unconsciously gets inside your body, becomes physical habit.
The word habit you need to understand. H-A-B-I-T. If you remove H, abit will be there. If you remove A, bit will be there. If you remove B, IT will be there. Only when you remove the I, it will die. Understand, only when you remove the I, it will die.
Positive things also, consciously if you understand, and practice it will go into unconscious. If you live around the people who practiced, who are living this truth, suddenly you will see your bio memory will pick up the truth, your bio memory will pick up the truth. You are not that intelligent to question every idea. First two, three ideas in a question, after few days you’ll pick up roots from them directly. That is why I tell people in the initial level, even though you need to convince one or two people, with one or two ideas have patience.
I always tell my ashramites, in the initial level when people come, you may need to spend ten minutes with them. You may need to tell them, ‘No, relax, just be, feel comfortable, be here for one or two days.’ You may need to tell them one or two times, don’t worry take little time tell. You will see, surly they will thank you after few days, just for your request. Because these great Truths, you see, this is the place where constantly Truth is spoken. Truth is lived. Truth is radiating in various ways, again and again and again. These ideas are again and again the ideas will resonate in your being. Even if you don’t want you have to listen.
Somebody will be sitting and talking sun charka. Somebody will be sitting and talking about yoga. Somebody will be sitting and talking about some miracle, some incidents they had with Swamiji. Sometime even if you will feel, ‘Oh God, what is this? Everybody is telling all these stories, it looks too much.’ But in few days, you will see the tremendous transformation, the positive ‘bhyasah happening inside you. Ramakrishna says very beautifully, ‘If you drank one liter, (audio1:46:26) liter, at least quarter liter, the rice water you need to drink to get out of the addiction or to get out of the sober mood.’ Same way if you have spent time in negative ‘bhyasah, at least spend few hours in positive ‘bhyasah, the sangha, importance of sangha.
That is why Buddha says, ‘I’ve created these sangha so that these Truths will be kept alive continuously and transmitted to next generation.’
Many people come and tell me, ‘Swamiji, just tell me what meditation I should do? I’ll do it in the house.’
I tell then, ‘You’ll never start, you’ll never start.’ Attend a meditation workshop, in the whole group you are forced to do, naturally what will you do. Close your eyes, tie the ribbon. You can’t do anything, you may be feel lazy but you can’t do anything.
I’ve seen the fitness instructors they don’t care, they don’t even look at your face that you are expressing your tiredness. ‘No, this hand is paining, that hand is paining.’ They don’t even look at you.
They just say, ‘Do one, two, three, thirty second, thirty second, thirty second.’ (audio 1:47:49)
You are here saying , ‘No.’
They don’t bother they just turn their face that side, ‘Up down, up down, up down.’
Only behind they look and ask, ‘Are you alright?’
Here you are crying, ‘You are asking this in the end!’
Same thing I also do. Only in the end I ask, ‘Did you enjoy?’ The whole day I know, I have to create the positive ‘bhyasah. Never miss a chance to live in the sangha.
Understand, ‘bhyasah means creating positive habits, positive things inside you so that it can go from conscious to unconscious, from unconscious to your body. Making all the good things as part of your life is what I call ‘bhyasah.
Patanjali very beautifully says, I just want to repeat that word, ‘Tatra sthitau yatno ‘bhyasah.’ The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness is ‘bhyasah.
Understand, many time when you listen all this words you get completely inspired. ‘I’ve decided from tomorrow, I’m not going to miss Nithya Dhyaan. I’m gonna buy Nithya Dhyaan CD, DVD, ACD, audio CD, book.’ Sometime I have seen husband and wife, husband will buy one set, wife will buy one set. Wife says, ‘No no no. If you are reading that book, and that page I don’t want to interfere, I want my own set.’ And all kinds of things. Everything is ready except you. Except you.
In the initial level you need to go to a spiritual place. I can say this is a positive pub where you see the body language of the people who drink divine, who drank divine, who are enjoying, who are radiating it, who are dancing with it, who are living it. You need to see their body language, you yourself to be in that space, you need to be encouraged, you need that positive ‘bhyasah.
He says, ‘The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness.’ The big problem is, your body is unconscious, it has learnt many habits earlier, so many years. So when you suddenly experience some rare Truths, glimpse, one strong experience. But your brain grooves are not habituate to hold on to that experience or to hold on to that high state of consciousness. Your brain grooves are created only in usual unconscious way. So what happens you come down, I came down.
# BIOGRAPHY RELATED… HOW AFTER THE AGE 12 EXPERIENCE, THE EXPERIENCE DISAPPEARED…
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When I had my enlightenment at the age of twelve, it did not stay with me, I was not in that same state, in the three days it disappeared. It was such a big missing, unimaginable missing. Understand unimaginable missing. Till yesterday, you know you are God and suddenly now you are back. How? See, if you don’t know you are God, you are Consciousness, you are an enlightened soul you know at least just put up with it, live with it, okay. But when you know it and suddenly your body is not ready to leave that, that is the worst missing can happen.
When I went back, I was pouring, because it was like two and half days bliss fever, two and half days I had bliss fever. At the age of twelve, I had the strong experience feeling everything was me. Understand, you feeling that you are alive inside one body gives you some much of joy. I started feeling I am alive in everything, the tree, the plant, the stone, the hill, in the temple, everything, in the air, in the sky. How strongly you feel you are alive inside this skin, your skin, I started feeling alive the same strength, I’m alive inside this pillow, inside this seat everything. It was such a joy, ecstasy, liberation, no fear nothing to loose, nothing to gain nothing to loose.
# BECAUSE I FEEL ALIVE INSIDE EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE, I HAVE NO FAVOURITES. I ONLY GIVE SOME ATTENTION WHEN I KNOW SPIRITUALGROWTH IS POSSIBLE IN THEM, FOR NO OTHER REASON I GIVE ATTENTION
That is why nobody’s my favorite, just because I am inside that body. Just as I am inside this body, I’m inside that body. There is no favorite.
Just before coming to USA one of my new brahmacharya, new guy who came to the ashram, I was giving him a little attention to him and teaching him and everyday just at least I would spent just ten minutes with him asking him How are you are? Are you feeling comfortable? you are settled and all those things.
When I was coming to the USA, he asked me, ‘Swamiji, will you forget me?’
I just laughed and said, ‘I never remembered you, relax about forgetting.’
There is no favorite, there is no favorite. If I’m giving attention to somebody, if I’m standing, talking at the most, the possibility for the spiritual growth is there, that’s all. The possibility for the spiritual explosion is there. Sometimes people are stuck in some places. You see, they have very strong spiritual pull, they will not even know it’s a spiritual pull, just suddenly they know inside heart just keep myself and enjoy. And inside the heart when they remember me and there is a twinkle in the eyes. And they see there’s the twinkle in the eyes, in the corner of the eyes. Just it is such a pleasant feeling and there inside maybe in the waking state or in the dream state or in the deep sleep state (audio 1:55:03)
Same way, in the other part of the mind the negative ‘bhyasah it will create all kinds of fear and questions and apprehensions. Either judging about me or the community around or some situation. See the negative ‘bhyasah is so powerful it can show anything into negative, it can show anything into negative. I’ve see people suffering with the negative ‘bhyasah, negative conditioning. And the negative conditioning is such, it can create any problem out of any problem and just a simple thing, just simple thing.
I’ve see people when somebody comes if you give attention and tell them, ‘How are you doing well? Please have food and rest.’
Then they think, ‘No no no. I’m not doing anything, how can I be here?’
Then if you tell them, ‘Don’t do this work, do that work.’
‘No, no, you are taking too much work out of me. Maybe for the work is the only reason you are asking me to be here.’
Mind can play any game, the negative ‘bhyasah. One side the beautiful feeling connection is also there, the other side the negative ‘bhyasah. The negative apprehensions that is also there. That is creating some questions, some constant. You see, negative ‘bhyasah will constantly make you think, ‘What is this? What is that? What is this? What is that? Constantly think. Sometimes when people are stuck in that level, that place, I just out of compassion give them little attention. ‘How do you feel? Are you okay?’ Because with little attention they can come out of the negative apprehension, negative ‘bhyasah, it can be broken.
The master’s love is such an amazing energy, nothing needs to be done. One smile, one word, ‘Are you comfortable? Are you settled?’ That is enough, it can just work inside. The negative ‘bhyasah can just, will just loose its power over you. I’ve seen, that is the only purpose or only reason sometimes hardly I give attention. Otherwise, there is no, because I know completely I’m feeling everything.
This fight between the negative ‘bhyasah and feeling that connection with the master is the worst thing, I can say in a way it is the best thing. Because you have to go through. Sometimes the negative ‘bhyasah wins and you escape. What to do? Maybe few years will be wasted or sometime a few lives will be wasted. When they come again after few years, after few lives, either I may not be there or they may not be in the situation to be around me. Or I maybe there, they maybe there, that click may not happen. Or both maybe there click may happen but the place may not be proper, so many things.
So I always tell people, don’t miss! I have seen, people missing in the initial level many time. Just if I say simple reason.
‘No, I don’t have hot water here, I can’t stay.’ In the ashram, I’ve seen, in the Bidadi ashram, just because they don’t have hot water.
They’ll say, ‘No after you buy one here, you’ll have hot water and all that here, we’ll come back and stay at that time.’ And they’ll go. It will never happen again over! Just because there is no hot water, they escape their hell. What to do? Nothing can be done.
The Negative ‘bhyasah, is so powerful it is such a strong thing any positive glimpse, it will shake. Let me give you an experience on my own negative ‘bhyasah. I think that will give you an opening.
# BIOGRAPHY RELATED… ABOUT NEGATIVE BHYASA IN MY LIFE… ATERMATH OF AGE 12 EXPERIENCE
When I had this enlightenment experience, it completely shook me shook me , all my ideas about enlightenment disappeared. Just like when you meet me all you ideas about enlightened master will disappear. (audio 1:59:33) mind boggling you can’t comprehend. If you are fortunate, you see me in a class and go away. No really, if you spend little time around me, all your ideas about enlightened master will disappear. So alive, so spontaneous, unimaginable, unable to put inside your frame. You’ll feel shaken.
All my ideas about enlightenment disappeared. And I was there in that field, in that field, maybe it took two and half years, two and half hours, sorry, two and half days. It was neither two and half hours nor two and half years. It looked liked two and half hours or two and half years. It chronologically don’t have days. When I started settling, first thing that happened to me I thought some ghost has possessed me. Because I never knew about enlightenment, enlightenment would be like this.
Some ghost, because negative ‘bhyasah starts taking over, negative ‘bhyasah is taking over. The mental groove is not able to hold that experience, so negative ‘bhyasah is taking over. The other side, my mind has started telling, ‘Don’t go to that place again.’ I started thinking that place has some ghost because I went and sat there and a ghost caught a hold of me and I should never go to that place again. And that is the way I’m supposed to go to my school again. I’ll never go that way.
After that it took six months to go near that place from me. Start the negative ‘bhyasah taking over. Not only that, I started feeling all kinds of things. There was some swami teaching yoga, another swami was teaching Vedanta. I thought who know what is these guys are teaching me and I’m (audio 2:01:37) What will happen to me? All kinds of apprehension, all kinds of fear and its not staying. When I went back and asked that Mataji. One Mataji was there she was teaching little tantra and Vedanta.
I asked her, ‘This what happened, am I possessed by ghost?’
She laughed and said, ‘You are possessed by God.’
All she told me, ‘Just be around me for few days nothing else.’
And she said, ‘I’ll cook and give you the food, eat and be around me.’
I asked her, ‘How can that help?’
‘Just be there nothing else.’
But just eating that food and being around her, suddenly, I saw my body is picking up the courage to live that enlightenment. My brain its creating new grooves to live that enlightenment. My system is falling in tune to live that enlightenment, to live that joy, to radiate that joy.
# ONLY SANGHA CAN GIVE YOU THE COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE, THE POSITIVE BHYASA
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I suddenly started feeling I have company, I had company. There are many people who lived what I’m living, who went through what I am going through. You feel comfortable, you are not alone. That statement can only be given by sangha, never by, not even by Buddha. Even I can not give you that courage, only sangha can give you the courage. If I say then you’ll say, ‘No no no! You are enlightened, you are in a different plane, don’t compare you and us.’
You have all kinds of ideas. No. Sangha can give you that courage, sangha can give you that courage, that confidence. Sangha can create the new brain grooves where positive ‘bhyasah can happen. You can be again and again and again in that elevated consciousness, joy, ecstasy, bliss. You can raise yourself. Not only for spiritual enlightenment, even to live an integrated happy life you need ‘bhyasah. You need ‘bhyasah. Even to live a happy life, I’m not talking about enlightened life, even to live a happy life, you need ‘bhyasah. Because constantly, so many cyclones are happening inside of you.
Actually, just like a CNN weather channel, you need an internal weather channel. ‘Today, there maybe three tornados, two tsunamis, ten earthquakes.’ That is what is happening inside you. Look, how many tsunamis, how many earthquakes? How many Katrinas? How many tornados happening? Constantly, you need positive ‘bhyasah to handle even this weather, even these tornados. Positive ‘bhyasahs is a safe shelter, where you are neither touched nor affected by these tornados, by these tsunamis, by these earthquakes, by these floods, by these disturbances, by these difficulties.
You need to know, the ‘bhyasah is the ultimate shelter and resort you can create for yourself. The positive ‘bhyasah is the ultimate shelter, ultimate resort you can create for yourself. That’s the ultimate Truth can happen to you.
# BIOGRAPHY RELATED… AFTERMATH OF AGE 12 EXPERIENCE CONTINUED…
Please understand, when I went back to master all he said, I asked him, First thing I had the fear, I thought I was possessed by ghost this Mataji told me, no you are not possessed by ghost, you are possessed by God she gave me the courage after few days that fear went away. What happened was wrong. The fear went away now the greed started, ‘Oh God, it went away, How can I have it back?’
I rushed to this one great swami, Annamalai Swamigal, his an elightened disciple of Ramana Maharishi. He told me only one word this sutra, essence of this sutra, ‘ ‘Bhyasah, bring yourself back to the same mood, same space again and again and again, let your body be soaked, let your body be processed by the consciousness.’ He told me, ‘Let you be cooked by the consciousness.’
# FOLLOW ALL WAYS AND MEANS TO GO BACK TO THE SAME BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE, WHICH IS WHAT IS CALLED BHYASA
Bring yourself back again and again and again, to that same state either by studying or by listening or by remembering or by meditating. Whatever it takes sometimes remembering works. Suddenly, nothing needs to be done just the photograph of the master is enough. You are in tears, you don’t know why, you are just completely relaxed, you are in ecstasy.
Sometime talking to brother disciple, talking to somebody who had the experience, who is in the sangha who is experienced or a little more senior. Sometime reading the books. Sometime listening to the words, or using all, any one or more that one or all. Use any of these and raise yourself again and again and again to that same state.
Please understand after that enlightenment, I did not need, He told me very clearly, ‘You don’t need any other practice, all you need is just this ‘bhyasah.’ All you need bring yourself back again and again. You’ll fall, you’ll slip, its okay, come back again. If you fall come back again. Let you not be tired of falling, if you are tired of falling then negative ‘bhyasahs has over you. Negative practices won. If you are not tired of falling, then positive practice is winning. So either you become tired of falling, means your negativity as won over you or you’ll have the courage to stand up or positive energy has won over you. That’s all there is no other compromising.
People come and ask me, ‘Please give us some technique?’
‘There is no technique only intensity.’ All technique means what, indirectly I’ll be telling the same thing ‘bhyasah.
People come ask me, ‘How to keep the intensity Swamiji? Give us some technique?’
If I give them some technique, ‘Swamiji how to do this technique? Please give us some intensity.’
Then I have to do some more technique then they’ll say, ‘No no no. Swamiji, please teach us how to do the technique properly, give us some technique?’
Understand intensity and ‘bhyasah is the one and only technique. All techniques are different versions of this ‘bhyasah word that’s all. Many time when people are asking me the questions, see, any answer will create only more questions. So I never answer them I just divert at their attention. They feel, ‘See, intelligent answer Swami gave.’ Only I knew I diverted them from the question that’s all.
People ask me, ‘Swamiji, what is worry?’
I tell them, ‘Constant inner chattering.’
‘What is inner chattering?’
I tell them, ‘Worry!’
They think they have the answer now. Nothing but adding few more words to their questions. They feel they are attended that’s all. And honestly, nobody is bothered about the question sand answer and all. They want to know that when they put a question, two reasons, one, they want to tell you that they know something or they want your attention or they want to check whether you know or not. And when you attend them things are over, that’s all.
The other day, one guy came to me and ask, ‘Swamiji I want to achieve God give me some technique?’
I told him, I did not answer him directly, I asked You are from where? How many kids you have? What is your profession? After that, four hours he was with me chatting and talking so many things he did not remember once to ask this question second time. No, he did not remember. Means understand the intensity of the question. Many times our questions are like this only, many time our questions are like this only.
All the answers, all the techniques are different, different versions of this one Truth, ‘bhyasah. What makes you to get established in the higher state of consciousness and that conflict free mood, joy and ecstasy. Do that again and again come back to the state of consciousness through all possible ways and methods again and again and again. That’s all is the sense of ‘bhyasah.
Here Patanjali says, ‘Tatra sthitau yatno ‘bhyasah. The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness is ‘bhyasah.
Again and again and again, elevate yourself, elevate yourself, raise yourself, bring yourself back to that center. Many times you can see, when you read spiritual literatures, very strong books, you feel I should live this. I’ve decided that elevated mood, the strength, the courage. I’ll listen to these kind of discourses for the next two days I should live, I should live that strength.
Again and again bring yourself back to that strength, by doing the actions which brings you, which helps you come back to this state. If listening to the discourses does that job, do it. If reading books does that job, do it. If mixing with the sangha does that job, do it. Or meditating does that job, do it. That is what Patanjali calls ‘bhyasah.
Till it gets deep drilled inside your body, until all the negative ‘bhyasahs are broken, let it be drilled inside your body. As I was telling you yesterday, if you are seeing the world, you are not seeing the God. If your seeing the God, you are not seeing the world. As long as you see the world, which creates fear and greed inside you, you need ‘bhyasah. Come back, come back, come back. Unclutch, unclutch, unclutch, again and again and again and again. Till you can’t unclutch, unclutch.
There will be one point where the unclutcher will disappear in unclutching. Till then unclutch. Unclutcher will disappear into unclutching. Till then unclutch. That is the only way, that is the only Truth. Nothing else, there is no other word, no other compromising. This is the Truth, this is the way, this is the life. Whatever makes you to live in the elevated state of consciousness come back. Get back by doing it, live that, radiate that, there is no other way, there is no other solution, there’s no other life.
You may feel I maybe repeating the same Truth again and again and again, because Truth has to be repeated till you listen. It is challenge between you and me. No, not you and me, your unconsciousness and me. It is not fight between your conscious and me, it is fight between your unconscious and me. Your conscious actually wants to be around me, it feels connected. But your unconscious, your negative ‘bhyasah creates all kinds of apprehensions.
# I PLAY THE GAME TILL YOUR NEGATIVE BHYASA STOPS CHALLENGING ME. ALSO BECAUSE YOU WOULD HAVE BEGGED ME IN SOME EARLIER JANMA TO PULL YOU UP EVEN IF YOU PROTEST
Now I’ll play with the negative apprehension, sometimes I should behave as if I’m not caring for you. Sometimes I should behave I’m not attending you. Because the problem is if attend you, you may think, ‘I think this guy has some (audio 2:16:01) motive. He’s trying to make me swami, sannyasis. Or he’s trying to do something out of me.’
If I don’t give attention, ‘This fellow behaves too big, he doesn’t give attention to me. What to do he’s a big guy. Too many people are there around him like me. I am only one among his disciples.’
Something, the negative ‘bhyasah is playing with me. It is a big game between me and your negative ‘bhyasah. Till it gets drilled into your body, I have to play this game, I have to play this game.
The idea spiritual seeking, spiritual intensity, living conflict free life. Living as jeevan muktha. Till this idea gets into your body. See, gets into your body means, if you don’t eat how you feel hungry. Same way, if you move out of the jeevan mukthi state, living enlightenment state, your body will feel ‘I’ll come back.’ It should become that physical, till then you need ‘bhyasah. Till then, I’ll continue to be with you. I’ll have to continue to be with you. Playing the game through my presence or my absence. Through my presence or my absence.
People come tell me, ‘Swamiji bless me, that you will not leave me, even if I leave you?’
All kinds of things they ask me, really. Understand at sometime in your (audio 2:18:00), sometimes even if people want to go out, I send message maybe directly or indirectly. ‘Have little patience, try to be around, it will do so many good things around you.’ Means that person would have prayed at some part of the life, maybe this genma or some earlier genma. ‘Even if I wanted to leave you, please don’t leave me hold on to me.’
That intensity, that prayer, is what I answer when I extend my hand. When I (audio 2:18:34) relax, be around sangha it will do big job inside you, it will do big job. Just, I can say it’s a conscious cyclone, whatever you think as a big problem it will just disappear. You will see you are fresh, alive your whole life is new in front of you. You have the guts, courage, energy, completely fresh being to live. You are ready for jeevan muktha life. This state it should be, it should get inside your unconscious and should become part of your very body. Till then you need ‘bhyasah, till the you need ‘bhyasah. ‘Bhyasah means again and again and again bring yourself to the unclutching state. Unclutch and be in that jeevan mukthi state. If you have fallen again unclutch, be in that jeevan mukthi state.
# MALA, BRACELET ETC ARE FOR REMINDIGN YOU ABOUT BHYASAH AND JEEVAN MUKTI
I always tell people, this bangle, all these things are just for ‘bhyasah. This mala, this bangle, all these things are for ‘bhyasah only. So constantly you are reminded, whenever you see that bangle. Wherever you see that (audio 2:20:06) you’ll be reminded come back, come back. Understand this is for ‘bhyasah, this is for ‘bhyasah.
If you are wearing that mala remember this body is supposed to live jeevan mukthi. If you are wearing that bracelet remember. Constantly you have to come back to the unclutched state. If you are wearing that bracelet with Nithyanandam means you’ve taken a vow you will live in Nithyananda, in Eternal Bliss.
It is not for fashion, one more ornament. Really, in Bharat, I’ve become a household name, for wearing bracelet and mala has become fashion. There is a big problem, no its become fashion, sometime. Earlier, nobody was wearing because everybody would ask, ‘What is this? You have become swami You are running with Nithyananda Swami now. What happened to you?’
Now running with me is a prestige. Earlier the game was in the other side, now the critical mass has gathered. So what to do, now running with me is a prestige, now everyone starts wearing because of prestige. Earlier, people were caught in fear, now caught in greed. Don’t wear because of greed or fear. Wear with understanding, that is useful, that is useful.
Constantly reminding you, all these things will constantly remind you to be in ‘bhyasah, to be in ‘bhyasah. Understand, ‘bhyasah is the practice, ‘bhyasah is the Truth you need to carry even after enlightenment. Even after enlightenment, because after enlightenment ‘bhyasah will be your breathing, your very inhaling and exhaling will be ‘bhyasah. It will be practiced, it will be practiced. After enlightenment you don’t need to do, the ‘bhyasah will happen by itself. Till ‘bhyasah happens by itself do it. Do it till it happens.
I’ve taken too much time to explain this one concept. Then understand the importance of this one Truth. The importance of this one Truth. Whatever maybe your problem, this is the one solution, master key, ‘bhyasah.
‘Tatra sthitau yatno ‘bhyasah. The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness is ‘bhyasah.
# WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO COME BACK TO YOUR CENTER, YOU JUST CREATE CHAOS
So be in that intelligence, be in that awareness, see many time, when you slip out of awareness you don’t even know what you are doing. You are completely confused, you are completely confused. You don’t know what you’re doing. So come back to that ‘bhyasah. Otherwise you just create chaos and you don’t even know you are creating chaos. One story for you.
It is a news about an accident. Alabama’s worst air disaster occurred early this morning when a small two-seater (audio 2:23:46) plane crashed into a cemetery. Search and rescue workers have recovered 1826 bodies so far and we expect the number to climb as the evening continues.
Understand the accident and results are no way connected.
When you don’t know how to come back to your center the accident happening inside you, the result of the accident will no way be connected. You’ll just be creating chaos.
# AWAKEN TO THE TRUTH OF YOUR EXISTENCE, THEN THE COMOS WILL LIVE THROUGH YOU
See your life is nothing but chaos. Sometimes I sincerely feel the whole world is running based on madness. Please understand I am not talking philosophy. I very sincerely feel what for is happening, we are not awakened to the truth of your existence, and the truth of the existence of the world and the truth of the connection between your existence and existence of the world.
You are not awakened to these three truths. What for you exist, what for this cosmos exists and what is the connection between you existence and the cosmos existence. Please understand, if you understand these three things suddenly you’ll be aligned and cosmos will express its truths through you. Cosmos will live through you.
People ask many time, ‘How did you create such a big sangha, such a big organization all in six years?’ I tell them, I did not do it, I just got awakened to my existence and cosmos existence and the connection between these two existence. And what cosmos wants to do is doing through me that’s all. It is happening through this body because I am awakened to the truth on my existence, cosmos’s existence and the connection between these two existence. Just it is happening.
Till you are awakened to these three truths, whatever you maybe doing is nothing but (audio 2:26:17) in the darkness. Just moving in the darkness. Don’t be depressed, don’t think, ‘Oh, that is not for me, I think this is not for me, this Swami is putting big ideals.’ No! It is for you now. That is what I call ‘bhyasah. Bring yourself back again and again.
# MY ONLY AGENDA IS HONESTLY GUIDING YOU TO THE TRUTH
I went through what you are going through. So I know I’m not just encouraging you. Please understand I’m telling you the Truth. In the village, when you are walking through the forest if ask a villager how many kilometer to cross the forest. Always all the villagers will say, ‘No you are almost crossed, you are almost crossed.’ The (2:27:09) You are almost there, you are almost there. No, I’m not talking in that language, understand, I don’t bother whether you cross or not who cares. I don’t have to bother. All I bother is whether I’m talking the honest truth or not.
Understand I’m telling you the truth, I’m not encouraging you. I went through the same situation which you are going through. Paramahamsa means, a man who has went through all possible situations, only can he can teach.
I went through everything so I can tell you, understand the ‘bhyasah is a basic need, a simple need and nothing else is required. You don’t even have to think how long we should do ‘bhyasah. Relax from all those ideas. Do ‘bhyasah now, you will see you are in the Truth now. You are in the Truth now. And if you feel you have slipped again come back to the ‘bhyasah. Be in the Truth now. The more time you come back to the Truth, your negative ‘bhyasah, loses its power. Your negative bio memory loses its power you’re are awakened. Strong positive ‘bhyasah explodes inside you and you start residing in the same state. You start living that experience that is what I call jeevan mukthi, that is what I call jeevan mukthi.
What happened to me when I was twelve was enlightenment; I needed a little positive ‘bhyasah to remove the negative ‘bhyasah.
People ask me, ‘You are and incarnation, how can negative ‘bhyasah happen to you?’
Please understand out of pure gold you can’t make jewels. So you need to add a little copper, make jewel and you should again put it into the acid and again take away that copper and make it as a pure gold again. Now, you have a jewelry which is pure gold.
Same way out of pure consciousness you can’t create a body, so little negative ‘bhyasah means tamas and rajas, out of pure (audio 2:29:42) create body. So little tamas and rajas is added and body is created. After the body is created then again starts the burning, put in acid, do tapas, burning that negative ‘bhyasah. Now you have a body which is pure consciousness. Like jewelry which is pure twenty-four carat gold. Same way you have a body which is pure consciousness. ‘Bhyasah is the basic thing again and again and again, come back. After some time you will see you will forget the moment when you are not in ‘bhyasah. You’ll remember only the moment when you are in ‘bhyasah.
# THE BIG ENEMY FOR BHYASAH IS GUILT, SELF CONDEMPTION, DON’T ALLOW THAT.
The big enemy for ‘bhyasah is guilt, self condemption, don’t allow that. If you miss, if you slip three, four times and say, ‘No no no. I’m slipping again and again.’ Instead of using the word I’m slipping again remember, I unclutch again and again. I stand again and again. The same time it takes, many times I’ve seen, same energy it takes to feel guilty, repent how much energy it takes., that same time only you need to unclutch and come back to that higher state. Because you have negative ‘bhyasah you create guilt. Now break! Come back to that higher state instead of creating guilt, let it become positive ‘bhyasah. Let you be centered and positive ‘bhyasah instead of creating guilt, you’ll create enlightenment. What do you what to do in the life, whether guilt or enlightenment. If you waste your energy by saying, ‘I’m slipping, I’m slipping, I’m slipping.’ You’ll create guilt. If you bring yourself back again and again to the center you’ll create enlightenment. So I bless you all
Let you achieve and radiate the eternal bliss. Nithyananda. Thank You.
Nithyananda Deepika Forget about enlightenment even for living an integrated life, even for living integrated life all you need is ‘bhyasah. I can say the ‘bhyasah can be understood from two angles, two ways. One, by constantly coming back to the center, letting everything else melt. Second, by constantly melting, not letting samskaras gather around you. See, relaxing from wrong ‘bhyasahs, resting in the right truths. Relaxing from the wrong ‘bhyasahs means, your conditioning, your conditioning, actually you can understand ‘bhyasah in two ways.
this is the place where constantly Truth is spoken. Truth is lived. Truth is radiating in various ways, again and again and again. These ideas are again and again the ideas will resonate in your being. Even if you don’t want you have to listen.
‘bhyasah means creating positive habits, positive things inside you so that it can go from conscious to unconscious, from unconscious to your body. Making all the good things as part of your life is what I call ‘bhyasah.
The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness is ‘bhyasah. He says, ‘The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness.’ The big problem is, your body is unconscious, it has learnt many habits earlier, so many years. So when you suddenly experience some rare Truths, glimpse, one strong experience. But your brain grooves are not habituate to hold on to that experience or to hold on to that high state of consciousness. Your brain grooves are created only in usual unconscious way. So what happens you come down,
Paramahamsa means, a man who has went through all possible situations, only can he can teach.
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