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Patanjali is a great spiritual scientist from a place called Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. He is father of all the Yoga systems. Whatever name you may have, you may hear, whatever brand you may hear, Of course in this west we have so many brands, Hot Yoga, Cold Yoga, Power Yoga, Super deluxe Kundalini Yoga, whatever name you may hear he is father of all the Yoga traditions. Unfortunately, people who practiced Yoga for years, even they do not know who Patanjali is and what really he wanted to teach as Yoga. In his Two hundred Sutras, Only few sutras which is related to physical postures are promoted as Yoga in the West, Only those few Sutras are practiced as Yoga in the west, But Yoga is far more deeper than just physical postures, Yoga is not just replacing your Anacin, Metacin. It is far more deeper than just physical postures. Beautifully Patanjali describes: ‘Yogaah chitha vritti nirodhaha’ - Yoga is Cessation of the Mind.

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# EACH SUTRA IS FOR ENLIGHTENMENT

In two hundred sutras, Patanjali describes Yoga very beautifully. I can say each sutra, each sutra is independently intelligent to lead human beings to enlightenment, each sutra can create an individual religion. This Yoga sutra is a book of religions, It is book of religions. From this book hundreds of religions can be created, Very powerful sutras.

# MASTER’S PUBLIC TALK VERSUS SITTING WITH THE DISCIPLES

Just today I was sitting with one of my disciple and chatting. She asked me, ‘Swamiji, what is the necessity of directly sitting and talking to the master?’ That was the, what’s the necessity? Actually in public discourses only the generalized truth can be shared, generalized truths only can be shared. Like a Universal truths, Life solutions, It’s more or less like a science of making car, But how many can go back to the home and make a car in the house. So, just by listening to the science of making cars, you won’t be able to making, you won’t make your own car and live. So usually we listen to the things in public discourses, Very few people live the truths in the life. But, when you sit with the Master and directly listen, it’s like directly handing over the car to you. The personalized, the personalized truths are delivered to you.

# YOGA SUTRAS ARE PERSONALIZED TRUTHS FROM PATANJALI THAT CAN GIVE INSTANT LIBERATION

These Yoga Sutras are the personalized truths delivered to just few disciples. Please understand, this is such a powerful truth, this is not a public discourse. Yoga sutra is not a public discourse, Patanjali gave it to a few disciples who were with him, so it is in its purest form, The Essence, Distilled Science. If you can internalize these truths you can liberate you this moment. Patanjali is a scientist, He doesn’t say do this, do this, do this for twenty years then it may happen, NO. He says do this, do this, now it will happen, Over! That is why Patanjali is popular in the west, because west is based on instant technologies, everything instant. That is why Patanjali has so much of appeal in the west. Neither Krishna Nor Shiva or Buddha can be appealing to a western mind so much like Patanjali.

# POPULARITY OF YOGA IN THE WEST

The other day I was reading the Times magazine, It says, Twenty Five percent, One among the Four Americans learn some form of Yoga at least once in their life and more than Ten percent, Ten percent is not a joke, Practice some form of Yoga or teachings of Yoga in their life, Surprised!. Then, see the strength of Patanjali and one important thing, He doesn’t have marketing organization, He doesn’t have an organization which is promoting the brand, getting the franchising money and keeping the brand alive by constant promoting, no. Just by the strength of the truth he is Practiced, Preached and Lived by millions of people all over the world. Every single sutra is a complete solution. Fortunately, it was never book for Mass, so there is no Interpolations, It is there in its purest form. Today I will be speaking on twenty first sutra, Today I wanted to continue, Today I am supposed to speak on twenty first sutra, But I want to continue from twentieth sutra because It’s a, the concepts Patanjali is trying to express are interconnected.

# INTENSITY IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE MASTERS. INTENSITY MEANS BEING INSIDE YOUR BODY WHATEVER YOU MAY BE DOING.

Today’s subject is ‘Intensity is the Key- Make it your very DNA’. The only difference between You and Patanjali, You and Buddha, You and Krishna, You and Shiva is whatever they do they are intense. The difference is not in lifestyle. Please understand, the difference is not in life style, Krishna ate just like you all, Krishna was singing just like you all, He was dancing just like you all. Bagavatham may not record, But surely he would have did one, two, three Just like you all. Then what is the difference between You and Krishna? People ask, then what is the difference between me and Krishna? Intensity. He was Total, He was Intense whatever he was doing, He is complete whatever he is doing. So Patanjali is trying to teach Intensity, I can say just this one sutra is enough. Decide from today whatever you do you will be intense. It means, whatever you do you will be inside your body.

# WHEN YOU SAY ‘NO TIME’ FOR MEDITATION, YOU BUY FICTIONS SOLD AS FRACTIONS AND END UP IN DEPRESSION

Many time people will come and tell me, ‘No Swamiji, I don’t have time for meditation’. What it means? As if people who are meditating have no other work or what? It is just arrogance. In a way I tell them, Say that you don’t feel that meditation is that important, then I can understand, don’t say you don’t have time. What for you don’t have time for meditation, because making money, because in this country money, Time is Money. I have seen people many time, People jump, People escape, they don’t meditate, they don’t do what they enjoy. They don’t do some voluntary service, they don’t do some spiritual work, they don’t do anything and make money, make money, make money, make money, make money, make money and accumulate, they compromise with their values, with their relationships , with their health, with their meditation, with whatever they believe they compromised everything made money, Now suddenly recession that also disappeared. Where everything went nobody knows. Tak tak tak tak tak the numbers gone, disappeared! At least people, who enjoyed their life, Meditated, did some spiritual service and lived happily at least they have the satisfaction they lived their life. People who tried to convert everything into money now suddenly that is also gone. Nobody knows where it has gone, that’s another one funny thing. Fictions being sold in Fractions, Fictions are being sold in fractions continuously and people have all of them have put their money in that field where the fictions are being sold in fractions, Suddenly it’s not there!. At least people who lived their life, who lived what they wanted, who lived the values which they wanted, now they have the satisfaction they lived their life. People who compromised, they don’t even have that satisfaction.

# START LIVING INSIDE YOUR BODY

Anyhow, whenever people come and tell me ‘Swamiji, I don’t have time for meditation’, I tell them just do only one thing, Only one thing, Everyday one hour you spend with your body, Brushing, Cleaning, Taking Bath, Dressing, At least one hour minimum. That one hour decide, you will be with your body. When you are brushing just be with your teeth, When you are taking shower just be with your skin, when you are dressing just be with your body. Just that one hour spend with you, that’s all nothing else, that is enough. You will see so much of transformation will happen in your system. You may think it’s too simple, But if you look inside your life, When you start brushing only you will be sitting in your office and doing all your work, When you are taking bath you will be cursing everybody in the life, you can see those are the moments you don’t live with you, you don’t live with you. Just this one hour, that is what Patanjali means when he says Intensity is the Key. Just be intense in whatever you are doing, suddenly so much of transformation will happen. Living intensely is what I call Living Enlightenment. If you are sitting in the chair be clear you are sitting, the chair is holding your weight. But, you don’t relax on the chair, even now you can see constantly you are holding yourself, Even though physically chair is holding your weight you think you are holding yourself. You do not relax even on the chair, you do not relax, you are not at ease with what is happening. Be Intense with whatever is happening. When you are intense with whatever is happening all your postures are Yoga. Please understand, if you are intensely sitting that sitting is a posture, Asana. If you are intensely standing the standing is Asana. Whatever you do with intensity is Asana. Asana is not adding movements to your Life, It is adding Life to your movements.

# RAGHUPATI YOGI YOGA CLASSES - BIOGRAPHY

When I was young I leant Yoga from a great Yogi, Yogi Yoganandapuri, Very great Yogi. He used to teach me Yoga in the temple, In the Arunachaleshwara Temple, My native place. It’s a largest Shiva temple, Twenty five acre granite construction, Twenty five acre built-up area in granite. Still in Bharat there are thousands of cities, the temple will be the centre of the city and that will be the largest structure of the city. When he used to teach Yoga to me, He will make me climb all the pillars from morning till evening, all the temple stone pillars I will have to climb, Up and down, Up and down, Up and down. After I grew up, when I started reading the Yoga literatures suddenly I found out this is not Yoga. I asked him, ‘Why did you make me do that?’, because when I was doing I was really thinking this was Yoga, and now I don’t see in any book any reference that it is Yoga. He just laughed and said, ‘What needs to be achieved through Yoga did you achieve through that practice?’ I said, ‘Yes, that I achieved, No doubt’, ‘Then it is Yoga, Relax!’. He gave me one important Key, Click that is the key based on which I have designed the whole Nithya Yoga. They key is, With any Intention you move your body that intention will become part of your bio memory and it will express itself in your life. With any intention you move your body that intention will become part of your bio memory and that will become reality in your life. He showed me just by the intensity we can play with any energy, any energy. I have seen, He will take a stone keep it in the hand create a sound intensely through the tongue as if he is hitting the stone with a hammer, Just the sound, The stone will go to pieces!. The power of intensity. Intensity. He will create a sound as if he is throwing a stone the fruits will fall from the tree, Intensity. With any intention you move your body, that intention will get recorded in your system and it will become reality in your life. So be very clear when you are working running your life if you have the intention it is going to bring only suffering and disturbance and dissatisfaction, You will be attracting that in your life. So having positive intentions and moving your body is Yoga, any movement is ok, any movement is ok. If the intensity becomes your bio memory suddenly you know you are in heaven, you are living enlightenment, you are radiating Jeevan Mukthi. Patanjali says very beautifully, Intensity is the essence. Please understand, Intensity is the difference between religion and spirituality. Without intensity even meditation will be a ritual, I have seen many people meditating, all over the world, Now I know by conducting classes all over the world, How different culture different country people sit and sleep. Everywhere I am seeing, everywhere I am seeing how people sit and sleep, How they miss the words, How they sit and sleep. Without intensity even your meditation will be a ritual, With Intensity even your ordinary activity like a Walking, Talking, Eating, Sitting will be meditation, it will radiate.

# INTENSITY ATTRACTS SIMILAR PEOPLE AND LIFE SITUATIONS TO YOU. WITHOUT INTENSITY YOU WILL MISS ME EVEN IF YOU ARE WITH ME.

With Intensity you will attract that same kind of people around you, the same kind of people you will attract around you, You will feel connected to them. You can see many time people come and tell me, ‘Swamiji four years before I started my spiritual journey, I feel off late the whole world everywhere spiritual awakening is happening’, No, Actually when you start journey suddenly you will see in your life you will start attracting spiritual people, Spiritual ideas, Spiritual magazines, Spiritual websites all those things will automatically start coming in your life. You will see people giving that kind of gifts, That kind of books, You will start feeling connected to those things. World is not becoming spiritual, Your world is becoming spiritual. So with intensity you will attract right people around you and you will feel connected to right people. Without intensity even if right people happen around you, You will miss. I know thousands missed me, I know thousands lost me. Without intensity event if I happen in your life, I will just become memory, I will only be vacation happened in your life, not life itself. With intensity even if you have not had me physically in your life you will be living with me, you will be living with me. Without intensity even if I happened in you life physically, you miss, you will miss, It will just be lost. Intensity is the ultimate truth. Today morning in the press meet, One journalist asked me, ‘what’s the difference between Religion and Spirituality Swamiji?’ If it taught to you by somebody, anything it might be, it’s Religion. If you discovered the truth of it by applying it in your life, it is Spirituality, It is spirituality. Till you discover it is religion, only when you discovered it, it is spirituality. Intensity is the key for discovering it, that is the key for discovering it. Let’s enter into the sutra, Patanjali’s sutra, the twentieth sutra, the sutra which I was commenting in the last discourse, I want to continue and then today’s sutra I will expound. ‘Sraddha veerya smrithi samadhi pragnya poorvaka ithareshaam’ Patanjali explains the science of Samadhi, Science of enlightenment. Let me give you the translation, Sraddha veerya smrithi samadhi pragnya poorvaka ithareshaam – The path of highest Samadhi is attained by people by faith in the path, Energy directed on the path, Repeatedly bringing to awareness, Concentration and Discrimination. In the last discourse I have spoken on Sraddha and Veerya, means the faith in the path, the energy directed on the path. Now, I will speak on the other three things. Five Qualities – Sraddha, Veerya, Smrithi, Samadhi, Pragnya. Sraddha means faith, Feeling connected to the spiritual ideas. Second, Veerya means, Intensity, energy directed on the path.

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# **WHAT IS SMRITI? DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS…**

Third, Smrithi, Bringing your awareness again and again back to the spiritual path. The third idea, the smrithi, this is what I wanted you to understand first. Please understand, brining the truth again and again back to your life. Bringing the remembrance again and again back to your life. See when you are in depression if somebody comes and talks to you and gives you the right idea, right click to come out of the depression, what great service that person is doing to you OR you yourself are able to do that service to you, how great your life will be. The ability to do that service to yourself is what I call smrithi. Remembering the great truths, remembering the great truths in the life again and again and elevating yourself to live the intense spiritual life, To experience the truth, Is what I call smrithi. See in our life at some time all of us experience some strong truths as a click, as an experience suddenly some truth will click with you. Either when you are fighting with your spouse or fighting with your boss or sitting depressed or sometime in your life when you lose money or when you are some parts of your life, These great truths will click, you will have those great truths as experience. The big problem is you don’t remember the same truths with that same clarity if the same problem comes back again, that is where the problem starts. If you can bring those same truths back to your being when those same problems come again you will be Living Enlightenment. I always tell people everyday spend at least half an hour with some spiritual literature. People ask me, Why, What is it doing to do swamiji, I have read all these books already. No, Relax! You might have read, that does not mean you remember. Read, Reread, Reread, Reread assimilate these ideas again and again, you will see, Whenever you go through a low mood, You remember these great ideas you will start living that. smrithi means remembering your true self again and again. I can say remembering to Un-Clutch again and again, is what Patanjali calls smrithi. Whatever maybe the complication remember to un-clutch, remember to Un-Clutch, Remember to Un-Clutch. Maybe after two three days you will forget, you will be caught and you will be suffering, Suddenly you remember, NO, Let me Un-Clutch!. Whenever you remember come back, Come back to the centre, Come back to the peace, Un-Clutch.

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# **ALL TEMPLES AND SPIRITUAL LITERATURE ARE BUILT FOR SMRITI SAKE ONLY – TO BRING YOU BACK TO CONSTANT REMEMBRANCE OF THE TRUTH**

You will see, the constant remembrance is so powerful so strong, That is the ultimate technique. All the Rituals, Spiritual literature, Temples everything is created, everything is created just for this one idea Smrithi – Remembrance. All over the world so much of wealth is put, Invested in spiritual books, In Spiritual infrastructures, So many spiritual things just one reason, You need to be reminded, You need to remember that’s all, You need to remember the truth that’s all, Nothing else. I am building temples all around the world, Just today morning one journalist asked me, Swamiji, All over the world you are building Temples, Organizations, Ashrams, Monasteries, Why? I told , One Word, Just to remind people about these great truths, that’s all, Nothing else. Soon in few days in San Jose you may have a temple, Its just for reminding you the truth, reminding you the truth Smrithi. When temples don’t remind you the spiritual truths they are not useful, when books don’t remind us of the spiritual truths to you they are not useful, When your life don’t remind the spiritual truths to you it is not worth living. Remind the remembering the spiritual truths again and again and again is the essence.

# **JUST SMRITI CAN LEAD TO *SAMADHI!***

Please understand, Patanjali Says, Just by remembering you can fall into Samadhi. He is not giving this as a morality or inspiration, No; he says this is the science of samadhi. Ramakrishna says the moment I see some villager from Chaitanya’s village I fall into Samadhi, Just remembering that person his village is Chaitanya’s place and his village reminds of chaitanya and chaitanya reminds Krishna and Krishna reminds the enlightened consciousness and he is already in samadhi. The right remembrance can straight away transport you to samadhi, the wrong remembrance can immediately put you in depression. This word all of you can understand, because it’s your experience. Wrong word can put you into samadhi immediately (34:16), The right remembrance. Wrong words can put you into depression immediately, The right remembrance can put you into samadhi immediately. For right remembrance only smrithi only this satsangs, temples, rituals everything is created. See rituals are nothing but everyday reminding your godliness. Before doing any ritual the first mantra is called Manasa puja, remembering your soul as god and doing worshipping that, only then you worship that same consciousness in the deity, Means what? The puja is nothing but remembering the great truths, smrithi. If you have remembrance you don’t need anything from outer world. If all this outer world things do not remind you then they are no use, Then they are no use, smrithi. The Mala, Bracelet everything is just for remembrance, smrithi, Nothing else. It’s not for any other reason just reminding you, whenever you see them you remember this great truths. This mala bracelet and all is to help you not to forget the truth, But sometime forget that itself, Reminding the truth smrithi.

# SAMADHI IS THE GAP BETWEEN TWO THOUGHTS IN YOU

The next truth Patanjali says Pragnya. Samadhi and Pragnya. Samadhi means constantly trying to be in the deep silence, The gap between the two thoughts in your inner space. See the gap between the two thoughts of your Being, You again and again experience samadhi every moment in your life, the problem is you don’t have patience for that gap you are running, running, running, running, running, running, running without even knowing why you are running.

# STOP RUNNING AND FIND THE GAPS OF SAMADHI…(EXAMPLE OF GAPS IN WATER BUBBLES)

Running without I have a story for you: An overweight man went to the doctor who advised him to lose ten pounds. The doctor recommended that the man should run five miles every day for the next hundred days. The patient phoned the doctor exactly hundred days later, doctor asked, ‘Have you lost the weight?’ The patient said, ‘I have, But, I am not at all happy with the situation’. Doctor asked, ‘Why?’ This guy says, ‘Because I am five hundred miles away from home’ (Laughter) The fool is running, running, running not turning back, Sometimes you are also just running, running, running, running, running not looking in the gap not coming back. If you are continuously running you might have achieved five hundred mile goal, but you will not be in home. Same way, if you are continuously running behind your mind, you may achieve what want in the outer world, But you will not be in the home, you will be far away from the home. So come back to the gap, coming back to the gap is what Patanjali calls Samadhi. Make time, make time to come back to the gap, Don’t say I am not able to, every moment the gap is happening inside you. Because of the gap only the next thought is able to come, Understand it’s like the fish tank water bubbles coming, it may look all the bubbles are interconnected, but they are not. There is a gap, same way you may feel thoughts are continuously connected, NO, there is a gap, relaxing in that gap is what Patanjali calls samadhi.

# PRAJNA - DISCRIMINATION BASED ON PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. ACITON HAPPENS OUT OF INTIMATE EXPERIENCE OF TRUTH NOT OUT OF SAMSKARAS.

The fifth idea Patanjali is sharing is pragnya, Means Discrimination. I can say, the pure consciousness which awakens discrimination, that’s what, is pragnya, Because discrimination word is too poor word for pragnya, it’s too poor word for pragnya. The big problem is Sanskrit can never be translated as it is, I have to use man words only to give you the concept which is expressed through that sutra. Discrimination, Please understand, consciousness which awakens the discrimination. When you are aware , When you are conscious you can never make a mistake, You can never make a mistake. When you are conscious constantly you respond to the situation in the present moment. See, If you are not conscious you act based on your engrams, Not based on the truth, your own intimate experience. If the pragnya is there you act based upon your own personal intimate experience, If the pragnya is missing you act based on the samskaras. Here’s say(40:54), what they will say, what he will say, what the other will say, from the samskaras. The person who is operating from pragnya will have a deep discrimination, he will have very deep discrimination.

I have a story for you: Two gas company servicemen, One old One young were calling on houses in a neighborhood checking the meters. At the final house in their round a lady watched through the window as they checked the meter. Their truck was parked at the end of the street, suddenly, these two guys thought of having a small game. They decided between them to prove their fitness who will reach the truck first. The older man challenged the youngster to a race. As they ran to the truck, they were surprised to find the woman from the last house huffing and puffing right behind them, ‘What is wrong?; They asked that lady, she gasped and said, ‘When I saw two gasmen running as hard as you can I figured I better run too’ (Laughter) Sometime, you are also running behind gasmen, not knowing why they are running. When pragnya is not there you run based on samskaras, Fear, Not based on the real experience. With pragnya, With consciousness you will be very clear, What I mean by the word consciousness, Please understand, Just when I started the discourse what I said, Just being inside your skin, just be inside your skin, deal the persons, situations, places everything directly, everything straight. Be inside your skin and deal the things directly, Then you will be very clear. You will be very clear, what you can, What you can’t, what is your life, what is your goal everything you will be very clear. You will be very clear what you can and what you can’t. What you want and what you don’t want. There won’t be any confusion, there won’t be any confusion, you will just be straight. I have a story for you: A woman went with his husband for a routine medical check-up, But afterwards the doctor took her to one side and said, I am afraid I have some bad news, Unless you adhere to strict routine you husband will die. Every morning you must give him good healthy breakfast, You must cook him a nutritional meal at night, Furthermore you must not burden him with household chores and you must keep the house spotless and germ free. I know it places a great deal of work on your shoulders, but it really is the only way to keep him alive. On their way home, the husband asks his wife what the doctor had said to her, Oh! She replied, He said you are going to die. (Laughter) You will be very clear what you can and what you can’t. What you want and what you don’t with consciousness there is no confusion. There is no confusion whether you can do or can’t do. The dilemma between Can and Can’t will not be there, the dilemma between want or don’t will not be there. The power of consciousness, pragnya will remove agnya, Agnya means ignorance, Pragnya means beyond ignorance. As long as you have ignorance be very clear you do not have pragnya.

# BUDDHA TEACHES A KING TO LOOK IN AND FIND THE SOLUTION

Somebody goes to Buddha and asks, Buddha I have a huge problem in my country, he is a king. Almost all the kings who were alive in Buddha’s period in Bharat were either Sanyasis of Buddha or disciples of Buddha. Because he showed, He showed in his life that kingdom is nothing, Kingdom is nothing. He showed in his life kingdom is nothing and the great truths of spirituality is the strength. Almost all the kings were his disciples, Either they have taken sanyas and left the kingdom, if they are sitting in the kingdom they are ruling as Buddha’s representatives, that’s all. Goes and asks there is so much of confusion in my kingdom, Please give me some advise how can I sort it out. Buddha say’s, Sit and bring your awareness to your breathing. He says if I am sitting like this they will not only take away the kingdom they will kill me and everything will disappear. Buddha says just listen, Listen to what I am saying and beautifully the king expresses, he says when I listened, I sat with myself consciously, suddenly I could see the root of the problems. When you see root of the problems you will have solution. Please understand when you see root of the problem, You will have solution. The big problem is, sometime, we don’t look into the problem and try to find out the solution. We don’t have patience to look into the problem, But try to find out the solution. That is where the whole problem starts. If you can just look in, you will see not only you have a solution, suddenly problem dissolves. Problem dissolves, The problem itself do not have its root, The root in which it is rooted the very root disappears.

# **SO START SEEING THE GAPS AND FALL INTO *SAMADHI***

So as Patanjali says, ‘Sraddha veerya smrithi samadhi pragnya poorvaka ithareshaam’, The highest samadhi is attained by the people by faith in the path, Energy directed in the path, Repeatedly bringing to the awareness the path, centering yourself in the silence between the thoughts and discrimination. Please understand these truths are straight and can bring results NOW. When I say bring yourself to samadhi, bring yourself to the gap between the thought, You don’t need anything to do for that. Just sit now, Look inside just see your thoughts you will start seeing the gaps, Just relax. There is one song in Tamil, the traditional song. ‘Oh very difficult, O Shiva, to be your devotee’. When somebody sang that to Ramana Maharshi, He said, ‘No, Oh so easy the enlightenment science’, He says very easy. The disciple asks, ‘How can it be easy?’ Ramana Maharshi says, ‘If you want to achieve something which is in the outside you need to work for it, but if you want to achieve something which is inside, Just Keep Quiet!‘

# TECHNIQUE TO FIND THE GAP IN YOUR BREATH AND WIDEN IT

I tell you the samadhi is neither difficult nor easy, IT IS! Even with the word easy there is little bit of difficulty. Even that difficulty is not there, IT IS. It instantly can work on you. Just instantly it can work. Just now you can sit and see the gap between one thought and the other thought, One thought will raise another one thought will come, another one thought will come just see the gap. Suddenly, you will see you will be able to see the gap for a longer period. The gaps will become more louder than the thoughts, instantly you can experience. I am not saying start this for twelve years after twelve years when you have a long beard, the long hair it may work, NO, Instant! Just NOW. It can happen now, look inside and see the gap between one thought and the other thought you will see the gap is becoming bigger and bigger, Deeper and deeper, Wider and wider Just in few minutes. I have a story for you: A man died and went up to heaven; there he was greeted by St. Peter. He asked, who are you? This guy says, my name is Steven. What did you do for living? I was unemployed Unemployed? Have you ever done anything good in your life? That guy said, As a matter of fact I have. I was walking along the street once when I saw a group of bikers who were threatening to beat up a defenseless girl. So I rushed to her rescue, Pulled the ring leader off by his hair, Kicked him hard where it hurts and told him and his gang to clear off. St.Peter said, O, That’s highly commendable! And he was flipping through that mans file, He says, But, I cannot see any report of that incident? When did it happen? The guy replied, Just Five minutes ago ( Laughter) If you have missed the joke ask the people who are laughing. Even if you miss the joke don’t miss the laughter. When you mess up with bikers naturally in five minutes you will be in heaven. Instant! You don’t need to wait for years. Understand, When you sit and watch the gap between the thoughts, Instant, you will have samadhi. Even before the incident gets recorded up there, even before the file goes up there, you will be in here. Understand, this sutra of Patanjali is straight can be experienced Now!

# 21ST SUTRA

Now I will enter into today’s sutra, the Twenty first sutra. Once again, a very powerful sutra: ‘Teevra samveghaanaam asannaha’

# PATANJALI EXPRESSES CONCISELY, POETICALLY.

Very beautiful sutra, Patanjali must have been a great poet also, Not just a scientist, because, using minimum words and expressing the truth, You need intelligence for that. Once Bernard Shaw wrote two hundred page book, One of his fan goes to him and says, Just two hundred page book? Why don’t you write lot, why did you write just two hundred page. He says No, No, No I dint have time that’s why I wrote two hundred page book, If I had time I would have written only fifty page. I dint have time that is why I wrote two hundred page, If I had time I would have written only fifty page. Understand, It means what to say in a short crisp straight way you need more intelligence. Here Patanjali is putting it in a straight way, Teevra samveghaanaam asannaha, I wanted to give you two three translations. Just to tell you how difficult it is to translate. Swami Vivekananda translation says – “Success is speedy for the extremely energetic” And Sachidananda swami’s translation that says – **“To the keen and intense practitioners this samadhi comes very quickly” Same sutra two different translation, This two translation does not even have a single word common, that’s the greatness of Sanskrit. Many different people see different dimensions of the same sutra. See the same sutra if you break it in a different ways it gives different meaning, that is why when I translate I try, I try to use maximum number of words to translate the concept. The concept itself, Not just the word, I am not using one English word for one Sanskrit word. I am using many English words to translate one Sanskrit word. This is my own translation, “The state of cosmic consciousness is quickly attainable to those who pursue with intensity and sincerity”**

# LIFE IS A MASTER. IF YOU ARE INTENSE, YOU WILL LEARN EVERY MOMENT. ELSE YOU WILL FIGHT WITH LIFE.

The urge should become urgent, the quest, the question should become Quest. Very beautifully Buddha says the only gap between you and enlightenment, you and fulfillment is not being intense, that’s all. Not being intense, there is no other gap, there is no other gap. Not being intense you miss the truth, you don’t, you see if you are not intense there are so many thousands of lessons life is teaching us, Please understand, Life is the ultimate master, Life is the ultimate master. Life is teaching but we don’t listen from life, because we are not intense, if you are intense and open constantly you will learn from life. But whenever life is teaching we miss and mess because of our own ideas, Life is continuously teaching. Every time you are made to retreat, Step back, Life is teaching you something, whether physically or mentally, whenever you are made to retreat life is teaching you something, Please understand. But, we are so filled with our own ideas we don’t learn the lesson we constantly try to bring more energy more muscle to fight with the life. Life is not here to fight with you, He is just very simple and direct, but we continuously prepare our self to fight. I have a story for you: A puny bus driver pulled up at the stop and giant of a man climbed onboard and he said, “Big John does not pay”, said the man and marched straight to the seat. Given the difference in build between two men the driver was not about to argue. He just kept quiet. Next day the same thing happened, the man mountain got on the bus glared at the driver and said “Big John does not pay”, then he went to the seat. This went on for several days, by the end of which the driver starting to resent, feel bad about big Johns attitude. Why should he not pay when everyone else had to pay? So the driver went to the gym and began an intensive course on bodybuilding, So that he could stand-up face big john like a man. So ninety days went, with strong body, rippling muscles the driver looked forward to his daily encounter. At his usual stop the colossal passenger got on and announced, “Big John does not pay”, but this time driver was not going to take it lying down, He rose to his feet and said, ‘Oh Yeah, Why does not big john pay?’, The man reached into his inside packet, the driver momentarily feared the worst, he was shaken and the man pulled out something and said, “Because Big John got bus pass (Laughter)

Do not constantly fight with life, Don’t build muscles to fight with life, Look into the life, when you are constantly trying to build muscles to fight with the life you miss the whole thing, you miss the whole thing. Life is teaching you, Be intense. Be intense, every moment life is teaching you, Life is opening new things to you. Please understand, with just this intensity suddenly you will realize whole life is auspiciousness, even the worst things which you think in your life, what we usually do you think as worst things, maybe losing money or losing the loved ones or their love or the life itself, these are the things you think is the worst thing. When you intensely approach the life, you will realize even these things add some understandings and experience to you. Even these things adds something to you. Suddenly you will see even these things are adding to you, enriching you, That intensity will make whole life as auspicious. You will with intensity you will start feeling the whole ………[1:02:31…AUDIO SLIP]

# (BIOGRAPHY. ANNAMALAI SWAMIGAL – THIGH CUTTING INCIDENT)

Let me give you an incident from my own experience. When I was young boy somehow I got this idea that Enlightenment is the ultimate and life should be lived only for that, Strong idea. Wherever I see a sadhu, a monk with this clothe simply I will start following him, I will start following him, I will be behind them, I will be running behind them, Swamiji please teach me something, tell me something, I will try to experiment whatever they say. Once I went to a great swami Annamalai Swamigal, He is an enlightened person, Ramana Maharshi’s disciple. I went and sat at his feet, I asked him to tell something, He was telling me, He was talking to some of his disciples he continued the conversation then I thought what he is talking is to me. He was telling very beautifully, “We are beyond suffering, Beyond pain, We are consciousness”. When I heard these truths somehow it clicked with me, very strongly clicked with me, I went back to the house started thinking continuously, how come, How come he says we are beyond pain, beyond suffering and I also feel what he says is right, But, When my mother beats me I have pain, especially in Bharat young age kids do something wrong parents will beat and no 911 in Bharat, you cant call 911 and all and you have to just keep quiet or cry for ten minutes, that’s all, nothing can be done. I felt, anyhow when she beats, when they beat the kids they have pain and even when I have I fall here there something there is pain, How can he say we are beyond pain beyond suffering? Then it was such a strong intense research for me, I could not keep quiet I took a knife and cut my thigh to see whether I have pain or not. See Arjuna is very intelligent when Krishna said, ‘Nainan chindanthi shastraani nainan dahathi paavakaha’, Means Krishna said, ‘The consciousness the soul cannot be cut by sword and burnt by fire and killed by any weapons’, he went and tried that science on others, But unfortunately I was not that fortunate that intelligent, I tried that on me. Soul cannot be bound by pain and suffering– I tried that on me. Of course, naturally there was pain and my family rushed me to the nearest dispensary, that guy put a stitch and everything still, the mark is still there, big cut. I did not even cut in a small way, I just tried my best. Anyhow, thirteen stitches, thirteen stitches, small boy you see, so soft skin. I was using all the bad words which I learnt from my young age on that swami, All possible words. In Bharat there is a training centre every street, See every street, in the end of the corner of the street there is a water common water tap, In every village the common water tap will be there, the ladies will go and fetch from that common water tap or common well. Even if there is no crowd because of the habit those ladies only after uttering those twenty thirty bad words they will take the water. There will be continuous fight for the water, so its like a stotra, Morning go to the well or the water tap and use all those words and bring water. So I learnt all the words, what ever words I learnt I started using on him. After two three days when I was able to walk first thing I did I ran to him, See what you did? You said we don’t have pain, we don’t have suffering, I went and tested it on me, not only I had pain and suffering, Now I have to rest for so many days. So much of pain. He just smiled and pulled me near, hugged me, Said “My son, just look inside where the pain is raising, rising, the idea of pain is raising, Do this”. I just started looking, after few minutes I saw that idea pain disappearing. Not completely disappeared, reducing. I opened my eyes and said, Alright these things are all ok, These meditation all these things are ok, You could have taught all these meditations before I cut myself? Without giving these ideas that we are beyond pain and suffering and all that. He told me very beautifully I can say, this is the turning point in my life, this is the word it just clicked!. He said, ‘My son don’t worry that you cut yourself to experiment, don’t worry, the Intensity to experiment which you have is really worthy, just keep that intensity alive, you will go beyond all pains, You will never have pains anymore in your life’ . Please understand, those were very strong words, He said, The intensity to experiment, to live, to live, many of you might have heard all these great ideas when you were young, Many of you would have heard. He said very beautifully the intensity to experiment, you will see you will achieve the goal, Don’t worry of it, this small pain is worthy. He said, “even if you had cut your leg or hand, it’s worthy, Don’t worry” because people give life’s after life’s for enlightenment, this one pain is nothing. But the intensity to experiment is worthy to have, to have that quality, that quality of intensity is worthy to have this small pain. Please understand that one strong click, that is responsible for my enlightenment or whatever experience I had, with that one click started contemplating, started meditating, started living these great truths, I saw the ultimate happening in the life just like that. So, ‘Teevra samveghaanaam’ a very beautiful word, I can speak for hours on this one truth, Teevra, Please understand, anything in the life can be lost except intensity.

# BE INTENSE IN ANTHING YOU DO. YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY TRAVEL TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT

If somebody asks me, ‘Swamiji whatever you want to share with the world please tell in one word?’, If I have to describe my life or if I have share my message to all of you in one word, I will use only this word, INTENSITY, Intensity, Anything you do, here Patanjali talks about the intensity for Enlightenment, I tell you just be Intense anything you do you will be traveling towards Enlightenment, Anything you do if you are intense you will be traveling towards Enlightenment, Without intensity, Without intensity anything you do even for Enlightenment you will be traveling somewhere, you will be traveling somewhere. With intensity anything you do for any purpose you will be traveling towards Enlightenment, you will be traveling towards enlightenment. Understand, Intensity changes the whole quality of your very consciousness. The whole quality of your consciousness will be different with intensity. With intensity whatever you do you will learn the lessons, you will update yourself, you will expand yourself, you will grow. Without intensity whatever you do you will forget to update yourself, Its like a, Without intensity living is correcting all the files in your computer forget to save, Just forget to save. From morning till night you are working and you just forgot to save that’s all. With intensity every moment you update yourself, you are updating yourself. With intensity even your breathing can lead you to Enlightenment, because between every breath inhaling and exhaling you are experiencing samadhi, If you are intensely inhaling in that gap you will be intensely in samadhi and you will be intensely exhaling, you will be radiating Enlightenment. With intensity your very breathing will become a technique for Enlightenment.

# EXAMPLE OF NAYANMARS GETTING ENLIGHTENED WITH JUST INTENSITY

You just look into the great masters lives, In South Bharat there are a set of Enlightened masters, Nayanmars from Shaiva tradition. If you see their life, the only thread is Intensity, they were not doing something great. Many of them were village garland makers, they just pluck flowers from tree, plants make garlands and put it in the temple that’s all, they became Enlightened, they lived Jeevan Mukthi. They did not do Tapas, They did not blow their nose hundred times per day, They did not bend their body two thousand times, They did not stretch this way that way, they did not do all the techniques, Fortunately they did not even cut themselves, they just became Enlightened, Intensity, Intensity.

# HOW THE BUDDHIST MONK GOT ENLIGHTENED JUST THROWING STONES AT SHIVA

There is one funny story, One Buddhist monk he strongly felt connected to Shiva but by force he was converted to Buddhism. Every day morning he will go to a remote village and take a stone and throw it on a Shiva linga visualizing that stone as a flower. If somebody sees and asks, ‘aey, you are a Buddhist what are you doing? He will say no I am only throwing a stone on a Shiva linga, He just want to only worship, He can’t do openly, So he used throw stone on a Shiva linga, Understand, The story says, just because of his intensity Shiva appeared and gave him Enlightenment. Intensity, what you do is not considered, How you do? Why you do? Only that is considered. Please understand, Intensity is the essence of spiritual life.

# INTENSITY IS THE ESSENCE OF MY TEACHINGS

When I started teaching meditation, I put whatever I want to express in seven day, as a seven day course, then after that people felt one week is too much, So I selected selected, selected by working working working with the disciples I also know what exactly they want, how to make instant food and selected all the important ideas and reduced it to four day session. When I came to this country, of course in this country even God has to come only in the weekend, So, Then I again I filtered, filtered, filtered and reduced it to two days. Now, The Kalpataru Darshan, many cities people said, Swamiji if you can give one day program it will be really nice we can’t take off the whole weekend you see we have to wash the clothes, clean the house so many things are there. Taking off the whole weekend, as if the whole weekend is something like a week, one week, the whole weekend is after all two days. Can you do one day program? I said alright I have collected, I have reduced even that and made it into one day and after that I saw in many cities I have to take that one day program, So I have selected some more truths and reduced it into one session, In that one day program also I one session only I conduct, the second session I come is for Energy Darshan. That one session, Means, Understand, The seven day being reduced to four day, four day being reduced to two day, two day being reduced to one day, one day being reduced to one session means the unavoidable truth only that can be told in that one session. It’s like a big pot of milk, once the milk is reduced to curd and the curd is reduced to butter and butter is reduced to ghee, The essence, The essence. Same way , When I reduced that seven day to four day, four day to two day, Two day to one day, One day to one session, In that one session in the Kalpataru the subject which I express, the truth which I express is Intensity, Then understand the important of this one truth. Just intensity, the whole body and mind will become different. Please understand, Your whole life will become different just if you internalize just this one truth, Intensity.

# RAMAKRISHNA’S CHILD, MISER, BELOVED ANALOGY TO DDESCRIBE INTENSITY OF SEEKING

Ramakrishna says very beautifully about the intense seeking, He says, If your head is on fire will you say, I never miss this TV serial let me watch and then I will go and put it off, no no no no no afterall I am cooking I will finish rice let me finish sambhar also and then I will go put off the fire. NO, That becomes first priority you run. Same way if the intensity is the first priority you will become Enlightened, You will achieve fulfillment this moment and he says a very beautiful example, How a child feels for the mother, how a miser feels for money, How you feel for your beloved when you are in love that intensity even if you direct one percent towards fulfillment you will be awakened. See how a miser feels for money, You can see, he will keep the whole thing in a trunk, Iron safe and keep it under his bed, He will not allow anybody inside his room, even then every night he will be sitting and counting it alone. Maybe No no no who knows I might have counted two note as one note who knows. How a child feels connected to mother, Yearns for the mother, strong yearning for the mother and third how you feel connected to your beloved when you are in love, when you are in love whatever you may be doing the undercurrent you will just feel the constant feeling memory of him or her filling you, when you are in love. I am not saying when after you are married, when you are in love. The constant undercurrent will be there filling you, overflowing in you that intensity, If it can be directed towards the fulfillment or Enlightenment suddenly you will see you are awakened. So intensity is the ultimate truth.

# BE INTENSE IN THE MOMENT, YOU WILL SEE THE GAP IN YOUR BREATH

See you don’t need to do anything just be intense in whatever you are doing. If you are driving just drive, If you are sitting just sit, If you are eating just eat. Just be intense in this moment inside your skin, You will be awakened to the truth, You will be awakened to the truth, You will be awakened to the fulfillment. Teevra Samveghaanaam Asannaha. when Patanjali says, ‘Teevra samveghaanaam asannaha’, the state of cosmic consciousness is quickly attainable to those who pursue with intensity and sincerity, With intensity when you are in NOW you will automatically see the gap between one thought and other thought, Because of no intensity only you are not able to see the gap between one thought and other thought, You think it as a chain. If you are intense you will see the gap, The moment you see the gap, you relax into the gap, The moment you relax into the gap you are Enlightened that all. If you are aware of the gap continuously you will be living the truth, you will not be taken away by those words. So I do not want to add more and more ideas then you will lose intensity from intensity.

If I add more and more ideas people will forget everything conveniently. So I want you to carry this one idea intensity and internalize in your life. Please understand and internalize this one great truth. Intensity in whatever you are doing you will see you will become Enlightened. Understand the only gap between you and Enlightenment is not having intensity, If the intensity happens this moment you can be awakened. When you go out of the hall you have thousand enlightened people in San Jose, Thousand and one including me. You may have thousand and one Enlightened beings in San jose. I am not telling you stories, I am not giving you false promise, when I say I mean, When I say I mean. Understand intensity is a straight simple technique, Intensity is independently intelligent to lead you to Enlightenment without the use of technique or guru. Please understand, I am out dating the necessity of the guru, I am outdating my own business. I want you to know the truth, that is the real business, that’s what my real business. Understand, Intensity is independently intelligent enough to lead you to Enlightenment without the help of any technique, book or master himself. So let you all express intensity and Live Enlightenment, Let you all achieve and radiate Jeevan Mukthi- Living Enlightenment. Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda, Thank you.

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Nithyananda Deepika

Intensity means, whatever you do, you will be inside your body. Just be intense in whatever you are doing, suddenly so much of transformation will happen. Living intensely is what I call Living Enlightenment. Intensity is the difference between religion and spirituality.

Asana: Whatever you do with intensity is Asana. Please understand, if you are intensely sitting that sitting is a posture, Asana. If you are intensely standing the standing is Asana. Asana is not adding movements to your Life, It is adding Life to your movements.

Yoga: Having positive intentions and moving your body is Yoga, any movement is ok, any movement is ok. If the intensity becomes your bio memory suddenly you know you are in heaven, you are living enlightenment, you are radiating Jeevan Mukti.

Sraddha means faith, Feeling connected to the spiritual ideas. Veerya means, Intensity, energy directed on the path.

Smrithi: Bringing your awareness again and again back to the spiritual path. Bringing the truth again and again back to your life. See when you are in depression if somebody comes and talks to you and gives you the right idea, right click to come out of the depression, what great service that person is doing to you OR you yourself are able to do that service to you, how great your life will be. The ability to do that service to yourself is what I call smrithi. Remembering the great truths, remembering the great truths in the life again and again and elevating yourself to live the intense spiritual life, To experience the truth, Is what I call smrithi. If you can bring those same truths back to your being when those same problems come again you will be Living Enlightenment.

Smrithi: means remembering your true self again and again. All the Rituals, Spiritual literature, Temples everything is created, everything is created just for this one idea Smrithi – Remembrance.

Smrithi: remembering to Un-Clutch again and again, is what Patanjali calls smrithi.

Smriti: Just by remembering (smriti), you can fall into Samadhi. That is the science of Samadhi. The right remembrance can straight away transport you to samadhi, the wrong remembrance can immediately put you in depression.

Rituals: Techniques to remind you of your godliness.They are smriti.

Samadhi: means constantly trying to be in the deep silence, The gap between the two thoughts in your inner space. Coming back to the gap is what Patanjali calls Samadhi

Prajna: pragnya, Means Discrimination. I can say, the pure consciousness which awakens discrimination, that’s what, is pragnya, Because discrimination word is too poor word for pragnya, it’s too poor word for pragnya. The big problem is Sanskrit can never be translated as it is, I have to use man words only to give you the concept which is expressed through that sutra. Discrimination, Please understand, consciousness which awakens the discrimination. When you are aware , When you are conscious you can never make a mistake, You can never make a mistake. When you are conscious constantly you respond to the situation in the present moment. See, If you are not conscious you act based on your engrams, Not based on the truth, your own intimate experience. If the pragnya is there you act based upon your own personal intimate experience, If the pragnya is missing you act based on the samskaras.

Agnya means ignorance, Pragnya means beyond ignorance.

Intensity: Intensity is the essence of spiritual life. Intensity changes the whole quality of your very consciousness. Life is teaching but we don’t listen from life, because we are not intense, if you are intense and open constantly you will learn from life. And it will make the whole life auspicious. Anything in the life can be lost except intensity. With intensity whatever you do you will learn the lessons, you will update yourself, you will expand yourself, you will grow. Without intensity whatever you do you will forget to update yourself

Ananda Sutra

With any Intention you move your body that intention will become part of your bio memory and it will express itself in your life.

Having positive intentions and moving your body is Yoga, any movement is ok, any movement is ok. If the intensity becomes your bio memory suddenly you know you are in heaven, you are living enlightenment, you are radiating Jeevan Mukti.

Intensity is the difference between religion and spirituality.

Without intensity even meditation will be a ritual

With Intensity you will attract that same kind of people around you, the same kind of people you will attract around you

The path of highest Samadhi is attained by people by faith in the path, Energy directed on the path, Repeatedly bringing to awareness, Concentration and Discrimination.

Patanjali Says, Just by remembering (smriti) you can fall into Samadhi. He is not giving this as a morality or inspiration, No; he says this is the science of samadhi.

The right remembrance can straight away transport you to samadhi, the wrong remembrance can immediately put you in depression.

Nothing in the outer world that doesn’t cause smriti to happen in you is worthy.

samadhi is neither difficult nor easy, IT IS! samadhi is neither difficult nor easy, IT IS!

Life is the ultimate master.

The state of cosmic consciousness is quickly attainable to those who pursue with intensity and sincerity,