“Subject for satsang is ‘Devotion - Dance your way to divinity’.”

Subject for satsang is ‘Devotion - Dance your way to divinity’. As you are all aware I am continuing my series on the sacred sentiments; devotion and bhakti. Today is karthika deepa brahmotsava dwajarohana. The first day of the karthika deepam bhrahmotsavam starts in Dhyanapeetam and in Arunachala.

Dance your way to divinity. If you are walking you are not going towards divinity; be very clear. If you are walking you are just dragging your body. If you are walking it is always towards graveyard. If you are dancing it is always towards divinity. Any reason if you are dancing, you are moving towards divinity understand; of course not with the drugs or alcohol. Without drugs or alcohol any reason you have joy or ecstasy and you are dancing, you are moving towards divinity. Even if it is ordinary simple worldly reason you are fulfilled with joy and dancing, understand you are moving with divinity, towards divinity; no doubt you are moving towards divinity.

Ramakrishna says very beautifully if there are lot of birds on a tree if you clap your hands standing below the tree, all the birds will fly away. Same way if you are clapping your hands and dancing, all the karmas in your heart will fly away. It’s a very colloquial village example; but I tell you its truth. Not just Ramakrishna says, thousands of, I don’t know how many hundreds and thousands. Long, long ago at least few centuries ago when Gnanasambandar sings aadippadi annamalai kaithoda opippom namada ullavinaigale. The load you carry in the heart, he says, the exact translation is, if you sing and dance and worship Arunachala, all the load and suffering in the heart, the karmas in the heart, will just run away.

Even Bhagavatam describes keerthanam as one of the important way towards enlightenment. At one step Bhagavatam goes to the extreme of keerthanam is the only way for kali yuga. In kali only the keerthanam, singing and dancing is named is the only way to achieve liberation. Narada very beautifully describes the different expressions of devotion. Shravanam keerthanam chasysa smaranam ahatam gate savejyavanati darshyam sarabyam atma samarpanam. Hearing about him, singing his praise, remembering him always, attending on him taking care of him, worshipping him, saluting him, practicing the attitude of servitude towards him, developing loving intimacy with him, and surrendering oneself to him. O god! I think Narada is giving a complete comprehensive description of devotion. I can say trying to he can’t still; you can’t touch devotion. Devotion is the subject uncorrupted by any words.

How many how many how many people tried ; actually there are hundreds of sutras written on yoga after Patanjali’s Yoga sutra, hundreds of books on vedanta after the Brahmasutra bashya, after the Brahma sutras. So many people go on write if any one book becomes a hit; superhit. It’s like a once the book Power of Now became a super hit, then Practicing Power of Now, one edition comes out. Like that in the modern day how a best sellers if they become best seller, then the same author comes up with a different books under the same title with the same theme. Chicken soup for soul; if that book when that book has become super hit now there are hundreds of volume for the chicken soup for the soul; chicken soup for the grandmothers soul, chicken soup for the teenagers soul, chicken soup for mother in laws soul, chicken soup for daughter in laws soul, really just like this Tamil TV serials once the sitti becomes super hit then anni orpadi mamiyar marumagal. Same way when a book became super hit naturally hundreds of book will be written in the same theme, and the title and the look and feel of the same trend.

But you will be shocked there is no book after Naradas Bhakti Sutras on bhakti; because everybody understood the failure of Narada. It’s a great attempt, but never he is able to, not only he, nobody can catch bhakti. Nobody can catch bhakti in words. It is just an ecstasy; breeze comes and makes your whole life romantic, and gives you a kind of a extraordinary over flowing churning and experience and if your nervous system is not strong enough to hold, it just settles down; that’s all. But even if it settles down, it settles down as a tremendous wisdom and energy. Nobody was able to capture bhakti; even the greatest devotee Narada tried.

I can say here also he is trying to only describe the expressions of bhakti; the very experience itself I don’t think anybody can catch. Shravanam keerthanam chasysa smaranam ahatam gate savejyavanati darshyam sarabyam atma samarpanam. Hearing about him, singing his praise, remembering him always, attending on him, worshipping him, saluting him, practicing the attitude of servitude towards him, developing loving intimacy with him and surrendering oneself to him; nine different process different expressions to experience bhakti. In this nine, keerthanam is also one; singing and dancing is also one. The second is keerthanam, first shravanam remembering, then second singing his praise, singing and dancing together is called keerthanam. In this nine, other than keerthanam all eight what I said attending on him, worshipping him, saluting him, all the other eight is like a breeze; comes gives you the extraordinary romance experience and it will settle down. All other eightare not techniques but the keerthanam is a technique; means you can practice it. You can practice it to experience bhakti, because it makes your nervous system strong to hold the bhakti experience forever and ever and ever.

Just today morning one of my disciple, she was asking sarva darshan what is the way and how much we should do this weight lifting and hatha yoga; the physical activity and what we should think during that activity? I was telling her, try to retain the witnessing awareness, the maximum awareness when you do this physical activity like weight lifting or hatha yoga or pranayama; any physical activity. Because whatever idea you retain in your inner space becomes part of you; during the physical activity. It becomes your bio memory. In keerthanam you are already remembering Him, singing and dancing. So He becomes your bio memory; He becomes your bio memory. When I say He, God or consciousness or pure awareness, anything you can use, Guru, whatever, whatever you feel as higher than you, highest; that’s what I mean by the word He.

Keerthanam, dancing your way to the divine, to the divinity, can be a very powerful technique. It just makes you a light being. Ramakrishna again and again says, he had some, some of the educated disciples. When there is a keerthanam, singing and dancing, they will not dance because of the prestige and the social thing. He will tease them he will tease them. Keerthanam makes you a light being. I tell you carry a light being; nothing can touch you, nothing can touch you. Just a light being always carry a light being.

Understand I am defining character. Character means carrying a light being; that’s all. Nothing else is character; understand nothing else is character. Each fellow who want to exploit you gives his own idea about character. I am telling you all ideas about character is lies. Carrying a light being is character. Character can never be defined by whether you smoke or drink or womanize or use alcohol; all those things are habits. Habit is different character is different; understand. Habit is different. Here I am not talking about habit. I am not saying drinking, smoking and all is right; please understand no. I am not encouraging drinking, smoking, womanizing! No I am not encouraging! I am not saying all those things are right or wrong. No. I am only saying they have nothing to do with your character. They are habits. Character means carrying a light being very light being; simple being.

The moment I say this I can remember only one person my father. Today is his Maha Samadhi day. As we all know that we celebrate in our sangha today as Maha Parinirvana day; the day of liberating all the disciples who left the body after taking initiation and after attending NSP. So today we remember and liberate and celebrate all the disciples who left the body after attending NSP, after having that nirvikalpa initiation, nirvikalpa samadhi deeksha. He is such a light being, liberating him was not a big job at all for me. In his whole inner space nothing was there inside. There is no obstacle. There was nothing holding.

I tell you carrying a light being is liberation. Only a person who carries a light being will be able to sing and dance. And whenever you can, just have some divine music which inspires you. Go on spending time, at least half an hour a day you can make time or at least three four times a week. I don’t want you to make it as a rigid routine. Then again it will become a routine; no. whenever you find time, just sing and dance wildly. Your whole being will become such a light being. Carry light being, you will not be a soil where the negativity breeds.

Brooding mind is a breeding soil for negativity. Keertanam will destroy brooding over. I have seen, only reason for the disciples falling from the path is brooding over. If this happens what will happen……if that happens what will happen……..if think more than three steps be very clear already brooding over has happened; you need keerthanam. You need singing and dancing.

Shravanam keerthanam chasya such an extraordinary description; remembering and dancing Smaranam ahatam gate hearing, singing, remembering, attending on him. It’s really difficult a male can write such a detailed description of a bhakti. I really suspect Narada may not have been male; at least in the inner space; such, because the attending and male consciousness is completely two opposite extremes. All this other methods are more like expressions; you can’t do anything to have it. But keerthanam you can do it. It can not only create the experience of bhakti in you, it can help you to hold the bhakti experience on your bio memory; on your nervous system.

I think I have to end my discourses on the sacred sentiments today because it is, again and again I am stuck for words. I am not able to talk not because I don’t have anything to tell. I have too much to tell. When it comes to bhakti I have too much to tell. Today especially the day of Arunachala the Brahmotsavam starts. Just on that one line adippadi annamalai kaithoda opippom namada ullavinaigale I can go on expanding, expanding, expanding. But I don’t know where to start and I that happens what will happen…….if that happens what will happen; die. If you don’t know when I will end. So more than giving expressions and descriptions I will end with a technique. This whole series of sacred sentiments I will end with giving you a solid technique. Experience of Nataraja Keerthanam Chaitanya, experience of Chaitanya and Nataraja, Meera and Manikyavasagar, can happen in you just by singing and dancing in the name of the divine. Sing God or Guru’s name and glory, dance. Use this as a technique. I tell you whatever sacred sentiments described will be awakened in you.

I remember when I was doing my parivrajaka, in the road I will be just singing and dancing and walking for hours and the ecstasy level, the joy and the bhakti gets created and the stability, days or months that experience stays inside the system; is just unimaginable. You don’t need anything from outer world to create pleasure in you. If you got the ecstasy, if you just got the taste, if you click with this shravanam and keerthanam, singing and dancing, shravanam means listening, hearing, keerthanam means singing and dancing. Singing and dancing not only creates the wave of devotion in you, your nervous system, becomes so strong that wave of devotion settles in you, you retain the bio memory of devotion.

So from tomorrow I will start the new important dimension of my avataric mission; siddha. I am going to start speaking on siddha tradition; not only the medicinal aspects of siddha; kriya, siddhis, all other aspects and dimensions of siddha tradition. I myself learnt siddha very traditionally and formally; the dimension of siddha medicine and dimension of creating different siddhis in the human body and in the outer world. And another one important thing no other tradition in the world can claim, this is the unique thing, unique contribution of the siddha tradition - awakening the non mechanical parts of the brain through herbs and medicines. Understand only siddha tradition was able to give spiritual experience through medicines and herbs. You may be shocked how can a spiritual experience be given by something outside, a chemical, a herb. Siddhas were able to do. They will give you a set of ideas, means the great truths and ask you to contemplate and add this some of the herbs; these ideas will become reality in you and get settled in your bio memory because of the effect of that medicine. And same way siddhas are able to create, able to give extraordinary powers to disciples, just through the herbs.

Patanjali describes mani mantra aushada. Mani means great truths; realizing the great truths will give you extraordinary power and mantra means techniques; practicing techniques will give you extraordinary powers. And the third important thing Patanjali says aushada; through proper medicines you can achieve and experience extraordinary powers. Ayurveda can only cure your body through herbs; bring you back to health. But the siddha tradition can give extraordinary powers to your body and mind just through herbs medicines.

From tomorrow I will start revealing the great secrets of siddha tradition to the world. I think this is going to be one of the greatest contribution and one of the major dimension of my avataric mission. I will revive siddha tradition. Today I end the series of sacred sentiments giving one of the powerful technique; listen to the music, sounds, glory and praise of God or Guru, who creates devotion, who stimulates devotion in your heart and dance wildly using the whole body. Enjoy that music using the whole body. That’s what I call dancing, keerthanam; at least 21 minutes. Let this become part of your lifestyle. You will carry a light being which is soaked in devotion always. All the sacred sentiments will constantly be experienced and expressed in your system.

So I bless you all to experience keerthanam and experience and radiate enlightenment. Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, the eternal bliss, Nithyananda.

Thank you.