“Subject: The Ultimate Secret To Enlightenment.”

Subject: The Ultimate Secret To Enlightenment. I am really going to reveal. 78th Sutra in Patanjali Yoga Sutras, in 2nd chapter – 27th verse.. Tashya saptadaa praanta bhoomi pragna.

Swami Vivekananda translates this Sutra as: “This knowledge is attained in seven supreme steps.” … Prabhavananda translates as: “The experiencer gains this knowledge in seven stages, advancing towards the highest.” […] Swami Satchidananda translates as: “One’s wisdom in the final stage is seven fold. One experiences the end of desire to know anything more, desire to stay away from anything, desire to gain anything new, desire to do anything, sorrow, fear, delusion – when all this seven ends, one's wisdom is awakened.” This is what is Swamis Satchitanadas translation.

Let me give my experience. Tasya saptadaa praanta bhoomi pragna.

This knowledge is attained in seven supreme steps. Ultimate secret to enlightenment. I wanted to give you first the secret, then step by step the deeper truths of this Yoga Sutra, this Sutra.

The first secret you need to know about enlightenment is - the moment you become interested in enlightenment, Cosmos is such, it showers you with so many ideas about enlightenment. Truths about enlightenment. Please understand. For example, compassion leads to enlightenment. Immediately your mind starts processing. You take that idea to its logical end. You feel, if I'm completely compassionate, what can happen? “People can take advantage of me. I can be exploited, finally I can even be killed.” Your mind may object at one step: “No, to this, beyond this I can not tolerate. No, this is enough! I can't go further with the compassion.”

Or your mind may say: “ What is there, even if I die, let me die in compassion mood and that is enlightenment.” Your mind may accept or reject. When a truth is taken to its logical conclusion. Please understand, I'm exactly giving you the deepest secret for enlightenment. This is the way your mind functions, whenever any truth is given. Please understand. Don’t think the truths about enlightenment is given only in this program in me by me directly. No, the moment you wanted, already the ideas will start flowing towards you. It is apaurusheya. ( 5:41). Veda is apaurusheya – the knowledge for enlightenment is not based on one person. It is available in the air all over the world. These are Sarvabhouma Vraatas.

Patanjali says the five great ideas towards enlightenment – aparigraha, asteya, satya, ahimsa, brahmacharya. Non stealing, non violence, truthfulness, living like God and non-covetousness. These five are Sarvabhauma Vratas, means the paths or vows which is available in the air all over the world. Every human being catches these five, the truths about these five, by the time he realizes he has an individual awareness. So you don't need to wait for some program or class or session to catch these five things. These are in the air everywhere.

The moment you start talking, your mother says - tell the truth. The moment you start accumulating, your mother says - live with minimal things. The moment you are physically matured and trying to jump, live with the centredness. So these are Sarvabhauma Vratas. The vows or the paths, methods which are available in the air all over the world. So then why are we not getting enlightened? Understand this secret. Whenever you catch a seed, a truth towards enlightenment, you try to take that to its logical conclusion.

Either you may be stuck saying: “Oh, compassion to the level of losing my wealth. I’ll be able to manage, but not to the the level of losing my body and life.” So your engram stops you there, or you may feel: “ What is the wrong? Even if I lose the body, let me live in compassion and leave the body.” It will go to the extreme. Extreme restful awareness will happen. Now, if you look inside, you will have like this at least twenty ideas which leads to the extreme restful awareness. You would, you should, you would have taken it in imagination and visualization. That idea to its logical conclusion. You would have had extreme restful awareness by that idea.

And ten ideas, maybe you are stuck. For example; in non violence you may be stuck, but in Satya you would have taken yourself to the extreme logical conclusion. In Asteya you might have been stuck, but in Brahmacharya you would have taken yourself to extreme logical conclusion and in witnessing you might have taken yourself to extreme logical conclusion, but unclutching you might have been stuck.

Unclutching, you may not be able to unclutch from everything but witnessing you may be able to do everything. So in some techniques and some truths you will be able to take yourself to its extreme logical conclusion, but in some techniques you will be stuck in the half. Understand? I'm giving you some of the deeper secrets.

And same way, the, some of the ideas in which you are able to take yourself visually to its extreme. This like a, one idea I can say – Valmiki (10:10); sitting and meditating – he decides he will unclutch to the extreme till he becomes enlightened... First visually he has taken himself to the extreme. He's clear about it, then physically he's sitting. You know if you sit for two, three hours what happens. This pain, that pain, that pain, that pain. And that is the time you become aware of the whole body and muscles. All the seventy two thousand nervous, nerves, nadi’s.

But this guy his visualization about the truth has become so strong in his muscle memory, he just sits and an ant hill grows around him! But he has taken himself to the extreme. Not only in visualization, in a physical way. In physical way so he became enlightened! When he has became enlightened, came out of that ant hill. In Sanskrit ant hill is called vaalmika. Because he became enlightened and came out of the ant hill, he became vaalmiki. ( 11:40)

Understand now. I'm giving you the secret now only. There will be some truths, maybe, if you catch the hundred truths, in twenty - thirty, you may be stuck even intellectually. You will not be able to take itself, take it to, take it, take it to its logical conclusion. For example; truth – “Oh, I can be truthful to certain extent, till my name or wealth is lost but not to the extent of losing my life.”So you are stuck, but when it comes to some other idea - witnessing. Maybe intellectually you are clear: “I will witness till the death. I'll establish myself in witnessing till the death.” Means logically through visualisation. You have taken yourself to the end of the truth, logical conclusion means intellectually you achieved restful awareness through that technique, through that truth.

The next thing is the truths through which intellectually you have seen the restful awareness. This may be, you maybe having 100 truths. In that 100 when you start really working, for example intellectually you may feel: Hey, till the death, I can be witnessing. Till the death, I can be unclutching.” When you start making it physical in that 100, maybe only 20 or 30 will be able to become physical. You may be stuck with some 30, 40 truths in between. When you planned you really thought, I can witness till the end of everything. Whole game, but when the real fear started, when the real problem started, some 30, 40 weapons are saying. Ah we can only travel up to this level. We are, we can ... we are the weapons, we can travel only two hundred kilometer.

We can't go more than that. They just fall and you're stuck, understand. Some ideas intellectually itself you're stuck. Some ideas intellectually you reach its logical conclusion, but when you start physically you are stuck. There is a next level, even physically you are able to take it to its experiential conclusion... In this program all I am trying to do is, at least 50% of ideas which you have got in your life, I am taking it to its physical conclusion. Understand...If you have hundred ideas about spirituality, at least 30% should go to the logical conclusion, intellectual restful awareness and 50% should go to its physical, experiential conclusion. Then the remaining 20% whether it's there or not no problem. 50% should reach at least physical conclusion, 30% should reach at least intellectual restful awareness conclusion and the remaining 20% you don’t need to bother. Leave it to the future so that that 20 % gives you the joy of insecurity.

Understand. There is something called joy of insecurity. The juice of excitement gets added into your life, only when there is a joy of insecurity. You may not want to be doing that. That is why for Ashramites I have 1000s of things. Of course ashram is a alive place. There can never be a second day same way. If I have to put the whole ashram life in one nutshell, no second day in same way. That is the caption. Not only for some people, I can say for every individual who stays in the ashram. No second day in same way.

Because continuously in some way ...I am such a living mechanism, naturally around me anything will be a living organism. Please understand. Dhyanapeetam is not an organization, it's an organisam. It is a living organism. You do not know next day, which country you are going to be, which state your are going to be, which city you are going to be and what class you are going to be conducting and what department you are going to be in.

Let me come to the secret… Whatever ideas you are intellectually stuck, intellectually itself is not able to take it to its logical conclusion, should not bring your courage and confidence with ideas which you are able to take to it to its logical conclusion, visually and physically. Please understand, as on now your mind is stuck in a rut because in one or two truths you are not able to conclusively take yourself intellectually. You start doubting all your intelectual conclusions. You think: “ Eh, I can not practise truthfulness. How can I practise compassion? I can not practise asteya, how can I practise aparigraha. I can not practise non stealing. How can I practise non couvertiesness? I can not practise integrity, how can I practise honesty.” No. Understand.

The secret is: catch the threads where you are successful. There is a huge port you need to climb and get inside. Only one iron chain is hanging. Don't look at that steep stone,“ Oh, there is two hundred square feet.. stone which I can not put my leg on and climb. ”No. Look at one chain hanging! You can catch that and climb and jump. You might have heard hundred truths but only ten you may be intellectually take it to its end and only one you may be able to physically take it to its end, but that one is enough. To climb a forth you don't need hundred chains hanging. One chain hanging is enough. Hold that and start walking.You’ll be able to reach the other side. The secret is: all the ideas the mind is able to click with and reach its intellectual conclusion, keep them as your strength and work more and more ideas to become physically reality. Physical reality - I think you're able to understand that three difference.

The secret is not continuously looking at the ideas in which you failed or stuck but continuously looking at the ideas which you are able to make physically real. Please understand. Even you are the, if you think, you are the worst seeker, you will have at least ten ideas which has become physical reality. Even in being bad, you are not that big. Don't think you are the number one in the lost or among the worse people. Even among the worst people you are not number one, don't be egoistic. Don't be egoistic. Even in the worst people, you are not number one, you are in the middle. You are mediocre even in the worstness, so you don't need to be proud,“ Oh, among the worst people, I'm the worst… No, relax, so even if you think you are the worst person, you have at least ten ideas - able to make it into physical reality. Hold them! That is the secret to enlightenment for you.

People ask me; “Am I intellectual type, emotional type, spiritual type, or being type – which type?” This is the way to find the scale. See, there are some ideas intellectually does not click, there are are some ideas intellectually clicks, there are some, physically clicks. You make it! That is how you guys are intellectually feel; I will witness and unclutch, but after two hours only … [Swamiji stretching] .. : ”Hm, hm, hm… I don't know when he is going to say relax ... Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.. “

I want you to know, why usually people clap you know? If a speaker is speaking exactly what you feel. “Oh God, I can never say, he said it. What I am exactly thinking, he is, he is reading it from my mind.”

Now you understand the difference between intellectually stuck, intellectually cleared, physically cleared. Intellectually stuck and intellectually cleared and physically itself cleared. Three categories. There are some truths even physically you made it into reality. Secret is looking those few and celebrating the those few which has become physical reality, will bring tremendous energy flow into the intellectually stuck ideas. Those brackages will drop, break. Then that will spread to intellectually stuck ideas and break that also. The secret is shifting your vision. Understand? Shifting your vision.

If you have come and sat at the master’s feet, that one chain hanging is enough. Hold and tuck, tuck, tuck climb… you're inside the forth. You don’t need to look at the huge wall that you cannot climb. If you look at the huge wall, you will be tired: “Ha.. eh forget about it ... enlightenment.”... And the mind is such a cunning fellow. He will remind you only you are silly failures: “ I tried two times to stop smoking, nothing. How can I even stop thinking? Smoking is such a superficial habit. Even that I'm not able to stop. How can I stop thinking?”

No! I can tell you maybe in smoking you are stuck but in stopping thinking you may be successful. You don't know. There is no scale! If you think: “ No, I can't even climb five feet in this wall. It's a hundred feet wall, too hundred feet long. How I am going to cross this fort?” No, sometimes your mind foolishly thinks: “Oh, I will have to remove all these stones one by one completly and only then I can go into the fort.” You don’t need to. You think one by one every engram you have to clean and then you will become enlightenment. No! Just hold that hanging chain and walk, go up, jump that side, over. The secret is knowing the truth, ideas in which you are intellectually stuck does not need to be completed or fulfilled. Don't worry about them first – leave it.

The ideas in which you are intellectually successful, able to take itself to its logical conclusion, hold them! And some already you would have even physically made reality. Catch tham. For example, I'm giving an example of an Ashramite. You have made living around me as physical reality, so catch that one. All other things, all other things will lose its power over you. Hey, such a big Himalayan task, after so much of obstructions and disturbances I made it into reality. I made it. Then I am worthy, I can! When that shift happens, all other things which you are midway or not even started, will lose its power over you, will start losing its power over you.

So understand, it is a most difficult shift but a very important shift. Just like a man standing outside a fort wall. He is, because he is stuck and confused, he has so many ideas how to cross this wall. “I think first I will have to remove one by one, every stone. So let me go and gather lot of workers.” Will he be ever able to do? No. Or if he thinks: ”This huge wall. Forget about it. I'll get a shortcut, I don't need to break this wall. I'll get 200 people and make them all stand one by one, by one, by one, one on the one and on one. I will climb on one and I will jump.” Again waste. Chain which is hanging, just hold and jump.

Chain is hanging in your neck. Hold that and jump... It's like trying to remove the stone from the wall. Just hold the chain which is hanging in your neck, climb and jump, cross, you will cross the fort. The secret is turning your attention to the truths which you made it into physical reality! Then naturally that will penetrate into other truths.

Tasya saptadaa praanta bhoomi pragna.

When this knowledge is attained, when the experiencer gains this knowledge in seven stages advancing towards the highest... In further satsangs I will explain these stages step by step.

Let you all achieve, experience, live, express and radiate enlightenment. Let you all achieve, experience, live, express and radiate the eternal bliss - Nithyananda. Thank you.

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