“subject: Non-violence - door to global peace.”

subject: Non-violence - door to global peace. I’ll be expanding on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, 86th sutra, in 2nd chapter, 35th verse. Let’s see the sutra.

Akimsa Pratishtayaamam tat sanidhou vairatyagaha.

Vivekananda translates this sutra as: “When the yogi is established in non-killing, in all enmities, cease in his presence.” Prabhavananda translates as: ”When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention, from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence.”

In the presence of one firmly established in non-violence, all hostilities cease. Ahimsa Pratishtayaam tat sanidhou vairatyagaha.

If somebody is established in Ahimsa, non-violence, in his very presence, all the negativity, hostility will completely disappear. Please understand. Not only non-violence, any idea, if you are established in it, means even your bio memory has become that one truth. Your bio memory has right into the truth. Then in your presence, whoever is there will be experiencing that truth intensely.

Please understand, I am not doing anything to radiate bliss. I am just living it. My bio memory is intensely established in it. So naturally whoever comes around, they feel it. In anything you are established, all the people who are in your presence are bound to feel that.

Please understand. We are not islands as we think. No. Truth has its own tremendous strength over your bio-memory and the people who are around you. You need to understand, your unconscious is so powerful. It exactly grasps what he means by his words and how much those words mean in his life, how much they will be useful for your life. Please understand. Your unconscious is hundred times more powerful than your conscious. That will simply know, whatever you are hearing and listening from somebody, is it really true for him, is it really going to be true for you and is it really going to elevate your consciousness.

See the fun! Look into your own mind I can give you this simple analysis. Here I am sitting, only verbally saying something. I am just using only words, nothing else. But suddenly your whole being feels, pulsates, vibrates with the truth. And the truths which I am expressing are not even like a things related to day-to-day affairs, like ordinary facts, 1+1=2. Is the fact which you handle everyday. So to prove those facts, maybe a simple words are enough. But what I am talking is beyond your comprehension. Suddenly I am saying that, this whole world which you experience, is made out of the same material, in which your dreams are made.

This is not a day-to-day fact for you. It is not the fact you experience everyday life, no. Truth, beyond the facts which you experience. But, somewhere it clicks. “I think he is telling the truth.” Somewhere it starts sinking. And, even if you are not able to believe consciously and your unconscious gets connected to it. And when you find time, automatically you Google and go to the Youtube. “Maybe I should spend little more time in what he is talking.”

I have seen people do this very secretly. No really, especially if you are forced and brought here by your husband or wife. No sometime, to fulfill the family obligation or the friend’s obligation. Your friend will be nagging, “Please come, come, come, come.” And you go and sit, the words I utter may not be a day-to-day fact for you. For example, this one truth I am saying. This whole world is made out of the same stuff out of which your dreams are made. Means, if you can make your dreams, you can make your world also as you want.

This is not the fact, which you experience everyday. It’s a truth beyond your fact. But, even if your consciousness does not catch it, your unconscious will feel some click, connection. “Oh, feels, this guy knows what he is talking. And he is very clear, what he is telling.” So later on, automatically you will have that temptation in the corner. “What he really means by that word, this world is made out of the same stuff in which your dreams are made. I came here just for healing. But these words, looks, true.” You will start digging out.

It is not the words. Please understand, the words I am uttering has become my experience. When I utter these words, this whole world is made out of the same stuff, in which the dreams are made. Not even one inch of my bio-memory, one bit of my bio-memory is resisting the truth. The whole bio-memory is in tune with the truth. I am just completely expressing the experience, the honest in-depth experience. So naturally what happens. That honest bio-memory, has to touch you, has to be transmitted in your bio memory. No other way!

Let me give you one story happened in my life, then you will understand the power of being established in any truth. After my experience of my life’s mission, in 2000 it happened. At the end of the 2000, maybe last part, November or December, I don’t remember. I was staying in a small village near Kanchipuram, in a hill, a hill in a small village.

I was sitting under a banyan tree and I was in a deep Samadhi, but eyes are open. My eyes were open, with a stretched leg. I was stretching my leg and sitting casually, leaning on the banyan tree. I was in a deep Samadhi. Maybe, for one hour. Throughout that one hour a big, at least 7 to 8 feet cobra, poisonous cobra was lying just almost touching my body. It was just lying next to me, completely in peace, completely in rest! Not exactly on my body, but touching my body.

Slowly, very slowly, after an hour, I was settling in the body. Please understand, you need to understand this important point. The moment I was settling in my body, I had a thought – I am, a man, means, I am a body, this body. The moment I had the thought, I am this body, the cobra had the thought he is cobra. Till then, he did not even have the thought he is cobra. Please understand, I could see very clearly. As long as I am not feeling I am a man, that guy was not feeling he was cobra. Neither I am a threat for him, nor he is a threat for me. Complete, Advaita. Non-dualistic experience. I was there in Samadhi and he was there in Samadhi. He did not feel threatened by me. He did not feel, this is some other body.

Please understand, if you are threatened by feeling threatened by somebody, be very clear, that person also feels threatened by you. It is a basic nature. If you want to be rid off your enemy, somehow send him a message: “Abhayam, I won’t hurt you, don’t worry.” Because everybody is here to protect themself, not to hurt others. Understand, it’s a basic law. I am established in Ahimsa. Abhayam SarvaBhuteshu \<sanskrit at 13:22\>. Any moment anybody want to correct and continue with their life, I’ll be the first person to say: “Tathastu. So it be. Be blissful.” I am established in Ahimsa.

Please understand, I am telling you exactly, the moment I felt I am the body, the snake felt, he is snake. I could see very clearly. My body slowly moved out, means I am trying to move my body. And the snake just raised his hood and looked at me, put his head down and just moved out. Only when I had, I had an idea I am body, the snake had an idea, he is snake. So when I felt, I should moved my body out, he felt he should move his body out.

Anyhow, afterall I was in Samadhi, so he did not feel I am a threat and I did not feel he is a threat. So there was no fight. But, even this separation, maybe a threat or may not be threat, but it is separate. The moment I felt the separation, he felt the separation. When there is a separation, there can’t be friendliness. I don’t want to hurt him, because I don’t want to hurt him, he doesn’t want to hurt me. But, let me go on my, when I decided, let me go with my life, he decided it, let me go with my life.

Please understand, this whole world is mirror. Context. How, you respond to any context. Same way the context responds to you. I am telling you, context is not a dead word. It is a living, independent, intelligence. You always think egoistically you are the only living mechanism, the context around you is a dead matter. No. Feeling you are more powerful, than the context is ego.

Understanding the context is an independent intelligence like you, is understanding about life. If you understand the context, means things around you are independently intelligent like you. They do strategic planning, they do react, they do respond, after intense contemplation like you. If you have this understanding, you will not blame the world is taking revenge on you. World is torturing you, world is giving suffering to you, the context is harassing you. No. Context does not harass you. If you have the idea context is harassing you, you are harassing the context.

Idea that context is harassing you is the source and justification of your non-violence. Sorry, violence. When you think the surrounding harassing is harassing you, then you’ll justify your violence: “Then now I have to be violent, come on”. The moment you justify your violence, automatically the violence done to you is justified. Context is independent intelligence. If I think, I am more powerful, more intelligent than the snake, it is ego. When I understand the context, the situation, the snake is equally independent intelligent like me, that does strategic planning, that does thinking, that does intense contemplation, before responding, just like me. Then it is an understanding.

Context is independent intelligence. When you don’t realise, understand, please understand when I say context, I’m not only saying that snake. I mean everything. the same thing. I can tell you another one incident. In the same village, just few days ahead of this incident. I was sitting under a tree. That tree has the long flowers. In Tamil we call, Saramali \<18:50 Tamil\> that flower is called. That flower, you can make a garland of that flower without any thread. I don’t know the English name. It is a very strong, fragrant flower. I was sitting under the tree. I am telling you one more incident, on this same truth of context, being independently intelligent.

At least this snake you can say, maybe my body heat has changed because I settled into Samadhi and that guy left. You can say any story. But that, I’m talking, I am telling you another one story. It’s not a story, it’s a history. Under a tree I was sitting, which has this long flowers, which can just, if you just connect flower one flower with other one flower with other itself you can make a garland. That’s the way villagers make garland out of that flower without using any thread or any connecting material.

I was sitting under that tree. There was no breeze, nothing. Maybe, evening. Just complete stillness. Such deep blissful awareness. I was completely ... what to say, that what ... uh, Jay Krishnmurthy calls as ‘freedom from the known’. When you are in deep restful awareness, whatever you know, your mind and body will be free from it. Freedom from the known. Such deep restful awareness. Actually, the moon was rising and sun was setting. Maybe, the time around Purnima, Purnima around Purnima. I don’t remember. But, I could tell you that describe the scene now. Moon was raising, sun was setting.

Such restful awareness. There was a small stone, on which my hand was, resting. I don’t know what was the reason or purpose. Suddenly very casually I just lifted my hand and felt a strong life with that tree. The same intense life I was feeling inside my body, I felt with that tree. It is alive, just like me. Another one person is sitting next to me. When I felt that intense life in that tree, with the deep love and care I touched the tree. I don’t know how you will trust, but I am telling the exact truth as it is. The tree just literally shook itself without any breeze or air. It just shook. I don’t know how many thousands of flowers. It just showered the whole flowers. And I looked up. Not a single flower was left in the tree.

Please understand. It just showered. When it finished, I looked up. Not a single flower was left in the tree. I am telling the honest truth. Of course, if I am talking the truth, your unconscious will simply catch it. You can’t deny it. If you are able to deny it, forget about it then I am not talking the truth. If I am talking the truth, this is the scale. You just can’t deny it. You just know, maybe I am not understanding but I don’t think he is telling a lie. You know. I may not grasp it, but I don’t think he is telling a lie. Simply the whole tree showered.

Please understand, context is intelligent. Whether it is a tree or snake. See because of the intense friendliness and love, even the tree showered. Because of that one line of separation the snake went away. Context, whether it is a tree or a snake or even a stone. I tell you, even a stone. Context is intelligent. So, there cannot be any harassment. If you handle the context with intelligence, with the clarity it is intelligence. Even if from the other side, the violence is initiated, when you understand, the context is intelligent and handle, that’s the way Krishna handled. So much violence was invoked on Krishna. He was never violent. In a very non-violent way he knows how to send it back to him.

Non-violence is the ultimate shield and strategy, understand. Play with non-violence. It is like cutting the jackfruit after applying the oil in your hands. Bharatn villages they will apply this oil before cutting the jackfruit so that the jackfruit milk will not stick in the hand. Same way, completely apply non-violence, Ahimsa to your inner space. And then play even with war situations. You will see, simply you will know how to turn and send it back to them. Whatever weapons they send.

Understand, context is independent intelligent. If you understand this truth, you yourself will not create violence and any violence invoked on you, you will have a simple intelligence to play the whole game. I tell you, greatest thing which you can learn from my life. If somebody asks me: “Swamiji, can you give one gift from your life?” This is the gift. With so much persecution happening on me, still I am able to retain my restful awareness, which goes on radiating the highest subtle truths everyday.

Please understand, when you are being persecuted all, in all directions, retaining your health may not be that big job. Even retaining little bit of cheerfulness, may be that big job. But retaining the subtle intelligence, which goes on churning out and responding and radiating highest, deepest, subtle spiritual truths, impossible. If any of you are lecturers, professors, teachers you know. If you had one fight with your spouse, ten minutes, that whole day your classes are spoiled. How many lecturers, teachers, professors we have, raise your hand. Then you know what I am talking. If you had one fight, five minute, with your spouse, forget about fight. When you are driving your car, you miss the signal, got a ticket. You can’t do your class that day, you can’t talk what you prepared.

[00:28:13] If you are a lawyer or a professor or a lecturer, teacher whose profession, professionally required to remember subtle points and respond. Even if you are taking the same class 20th time, you can’t. Retaining the intellectual subtlety, stability of intellectual subtlety, means only if your intellect is in complete restful awareness, it can go on churning out, churning out, churning out and come up with the new new new expression of the subtle truths.

What I am talking is not like a day-to-day facts. A for apple, B for brinjal. For that your intellect does not need to be stable. I know many of the Bharatn village schools, the teachers will be actually literally sleeping and taking class. Because they taught the same subject so many times. He will not even remember what he taught for the last one hour. And neither the student will remember that is different. It is like you be here because I will be asking you. I will be here, because my superior will be asking me, that’s all… You do what you want. I do what I want. Nothing more.

So what I am talking is not that kind of subjects. It is subtlelest truth. Had to be churned, churned, churned and made so light and alive so that it can become directly an experience in you. Just yesterday I was telling, you don’t need any other proof that I am completely unclutched, except my morning satsangs. With this harassment and abusal going around. Nothing else is required. Eve, one hundredth of this harassment and abusal anyone of you go through, forget about giving discourses on this subtle, deep subjects. Even ordinary simple balanced conversations will be impossible. Simple dialogue will be impossible. If you understand context is intelligent, you will not create violence and you will have a deep restful awareness to play with violence which was invoked on you. You will just know ... Ah, come on next. All you need is just movement of hand. This is what I called airbenders. They bend the air and take care, no weapons touch us.

Non-violence is a powerful energy which can bend air. Because, when you are established in the understanding, you are one with the whole and the whole is one with you. When you are part of the whole and the whole is part of you, please understand. The extraordinary ecstasy and the joy and the truth, not only fills you, it fills the whole context. When you make context joyful, context makes you joyful!

I said: “I know when I make the context blissful, context strongly stands and tries to do whatever it can.” So understand the life. Even if the context tries to throw violence on you, you be established in non-violence. You will have the right strategic planning. You will be able to play with it. You will be able to just bend the weapons, and send them back.

Ahimsa Pratishtayaam... tat sanidhou vaira tyagaha

If you are established in non-violence, harmlessness in your very presence, the enmity disappears. Many people come and tell me again and again, it is a big problem. “I wanted to ask you so many things I came here, you and in your presence, all questions disappeared. All the thoughts disappeared. All the doubts disappeared. What to do Swamiji?” I tell them, if it disappears in my presence understand, it is not worthy of asking, forget about it. Then you are relieved from it.

If you are established in zero TPS, in your presence…(34:14) AUDIO BROKEN

In your presence, for others also, the suffering disappears, they become joyful.

My own Yoga master Raghupati Yogi, I have seen how he will play with bio-memory. If somebody is not able to do yoga, all fat double dribble size people will come to him. He will straightaway tell: “Hey, do Sirsasana, upside down! Stand upside down.” He will not give any procedure and all. He will straightaway tell: “Ah. Mhh, I think if you stand upside down, everything will become all right.” And that fellow cannot stand even with his legs. He is so heavy. Even standing with his legs is so difficult. On his legs. And he will just tell: “Ah, stand on your head.” And naturally they will, he will be shaken. All he will do is he will call them and give one hug that’s all. I have seen with my eyes. In two second that fellow will stand upside down, stand on head. The power of his bio-memory. Because he is established in yoga, that bio-memory just gets transmitted!

Same way, sometime he will ask me to pluck some flowers from trees. There are some trees which you can’t climb, very difficult. So I’ll go and tell him: “Oh I am not able to climb, can I use stick to cut those flowers and bring.” He will be making continuously lot of medicines so he’ll ask me to get some flower, fruit, leaf and all that. I asked him: “Can I use the stick?” He will say: “No, no no.” He will give little water in a small cup and he will tell me, go and pour this water under the tree and tell me that, I want that flower. And you will be shocked, really I am telling you I am not telling you stories. I’ll just go and pour that water and tell, I will tell the exact word. I will tell that: “Tatta wants the flower.” And the tree will drop the flower. Tatta is the word, grandfather, we call him. Usually we call him “Tatta”, means the grandfather. “He wants your flower.” That’s all.

The tree will drop the flower. I’ll just bring and give it to him. Established in non-violence. He will say. And another one thing, he will not pluck one leaf or flower extra. How much is necessary for that making the medicine. He will have that small stone Kaluva. It is called Kaluva in Tamil. Like a stone piece in which he will rub and make those medicines, like a grinding thing. The village grinding thing, way of grinding. He will add the whatever needed, sandalwood paste and this leaf and rose water and sometime the co .. the cow’s urine. Cow’s urine is considered as a medicine in Bharatn tradition. And he will add the cow’s urine and start grinding. How much is required, only that much he will collect. Established in non-violence.

Many time I tried this same technique, when I used to wander. Usually the tamarind rice is the only food I will make. Because the tamarind trees are there, in the highways. I will go and stand under the tamarind tree and pour little water and touch the tamarind tree: “Please drop few fruits”. And it will really drop. I don’t know how you will believe. It will really drop.

Still two tamarind trees which are in my quarters. They don’t sleep at night, if I am there in the quarters. They don’t sleep. The tree will close in its leaves, usually in the night, especially tamarind trees. At least, ten times they video-recorded and we have video proof. If I am there, it will not sleep. If I am not there, it will open up. If I am staying there, it will not sleep in the night time. It will be open. If I am not staying there, it will be closed and it will rest. Today no work.

Understand.

Establish yourself in the non-violence, Ahimsa. You will simply see and radiate the joy and bliss in your very presence, all the violence will disappear. Let you all achieve, experience, live, express and radiate the eternal bliss. Nithyananda. Thank you.