Maha Shivaratri 2011 Message: Story Of Dakshinamurthi - Nithyananda 2 Mar 2011

I welcome you all with My love and respects. I welcome all the devotees and disciples who are sitting with us at this moment around the world. Before entering into the satsang I wanted to remind all of you to sit in padmasana or vajrasana and have your hands in samana mudra. Let us create the intense eN-effect on the cosmos, eN-experience in the individuals. Let the individuals experience eN-experience, let the cosmos go through eN-effect.

Forty six cities are sitting with us two way, I am able to see and more than eight hundred and thirty eight places in three hundred and seven cities in forty five countries people are sitting with us. I am able to see Los-Angeles, San Jose, Seattle, Columbus, Phoenix, Houston, Queens New York, New York separately, one center in Queens New York another one in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Oklahoma city, North Carolina, Miami, Honolulu, Western Florida, Pullman Washington, Madison Texas, Maryland Atlanta, Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico, Brazil, Gueoderlupe, Australia, New Zealand, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Salem, KUla -Lumpur, George town, Kulim, Dubai, Singapore, in europe Slovakia, Pobrat and Koshite, England, London, Birmingham, Islesberry, and Spain, Croatia, France, Germany, Turkey, Africa Morocco. I am able to see all these countries in front of Me. I welcome all of you for this greatest intense spiritual effect we are going to create on individual and on the cosmos.

Today I will share only one story from Shiva purana; Story of Dakshinamurthy. Shiva appearing as ultimate Master on the planet earth. Long, long ago, once upon a time, when humanity was soaked in ignorance as it is still now 😃 there were group of people who were very successful in whatever they want to do through different powers. They had almost all powers, anything they want they can make it happen. These group of great intellectuals lived in a place called Darukavana. It is the area between the Madurai and Chennai. The place Darukavana, huge forest filled with so many intellectuals. They are called Darukavana Rishis. Amazing intellectuals and know the techniques and technology to do whatever they want to do in the outer world; powerful beings. They had lot of mental powers, they can create anything they want just through the power of mind and just by doing some rituals; certain rituals, yagnas, karmas. One of the biggest problem happens when you get these extraordinary powers, when things go smoothly in your life, you start thinking you are everything or there is nothing higher than you.

These Darukavana Rishis, some of the great intellectuals, because they felt they can do anything they want through the power of yagnas, yagas, they started experiencing or feeling the subtlest problem of life - pseudo ego aserting itself as ultimate. Pseudo ego asserting itself as ultimate is what we call atheism. Pseudo ego when it asserts itself as the ultimate, it is atheism. So, these intellectuals who lived from Chennai to Madurai because they can achieve anything they want, they can do anything they want in the outer world, they thought there is nothing superior or higher than them. They became atheists. The foolishness of the intellect or arrogance of this atheism has gone to the extreme and they started becoming arrogant and a threat to the society. Usually when atheism settles in you, when you are not ready to respect anything higher than you, your intellect, you are a threat to society.

Mahadeva, Sadashiva has to do His job of protecting humanity. He has to teach a lesson to these intellectuals and protect the humanity from them, and protect them also from themselves. He need to save them also from themself and the humanity from them. He need to teach lesson to them and transform them, make them understand and He need to save the humanity from them. When an atheistic intellect settles on you, it is not only threat for others, it is threat for you also. So, silently Shiva lands in the Darukavana as a handsome young man and the extraordinary glow and the energy which is beyond skin, the extraordinary radiance, tejas beyond the skin color, extraordinary attraction beyond the size of the body; He manifested as this young man filled the whole Darukavana. And He went around in the Darukavana in the name of begging to collect food, His parivrajaka yatra.

All the wifes of the Rishis saw this extraordinary, charismatic energy expression; fortunately they were not bitten by the snake intellect, they were not caught in the arrogance, they were not caught in the pseudo ego of their arrogance. One important thing you need to know, if your husband is caught in pseudo ego, just to oppose him you will be saved from it. You know he is caught. So, that awareness will save you from it. See, ‘anything he does is wrong’ is a basic law with which women live. Same way men - ‘anything she does is wrong’ is the basic law with which he or she lives. Sometime this basic law helps if he is really doing something wrong. So, with this Darukavana intellectuals, rishis, they are really doing something wrong. So the understanding the woman carried helped them, saved them from that pseudo ego.

They saw this young man, ascetic, a sadhu walking in the streets asking for alms. Not only they gave food, they just lost themself in His presence and glory. All of them have started spending time around Him, started listening to His teachings, imbibing those ideas. Just within few days, problem started in the house. When these guys imbibe His teachings and ideas and come back to the house, they naturally bring the photograph and mala. 😃

When they started living these ideas in the house, the ego of these intellectuals was really hurt. ‘What? We are leaders of the society, everybody respects us.’ They don’t understand, everybody fears them, not respects them. These intellectuals when they see people fearing them, they think they are being respected. No. There is a difference. They think, ‘What… we are being respected in the society but these women are going behind some young man and following those teachings, His teachings and His practices. What is going on?’ The problem started in the house. so, it is too much. Within two days there was a meeting of all the intellectuals, big discussion, ‘how to stop this young sadhu, going around and begging and giving lessons and teachings and taking classes. Something immediately need to be done. Otherwise we will not have anybody in our house. We will be left all by oursef, everybody has started following them.’ Atheism is deeply insecured because it is built on insecurity. The very root of atheism grows on insecurity. So, the insecured feeling has started. Now they all gathered, plan for conspiracy. ‘How to stop this young man, young sadhu teaching?’ There were so many ideas but nothing worked out because He is fearless. Nothing can be taken away from Him. How to stop Him teaching? They discussed, discussed, discussed; finally got disgusted because they could not come up with any creative idea.

When the insecurity and disgusted group gathers, there comes the great poison of violence. If you are insecured but have some hope, immediately violence won’t start. But when the feeling of disgusted and insecurity, when both gathers, the violence starts. They created a violent plan. We need to destroy Him, finish Him off. So, they gathered, started spreading waves. Those days yagna. Those days, yagna means what? Creating certain kind of waves and sending all over the world. They organized a huge yagna and started chanting different, different mantras, started creating negativity and sending it towards Him.

The young boy after going around and taking classes was just relaxing in samadhi under Banyan tree. First those intellectuals created a damaru which was creating an intense sound; just through sound it was destroying anything which comes in its presence. Those intellectuals commanded the damaru, ‘go and kill that man and come, kill that sadhu.’ Damaru came with all its speed. The young sadhu was sitting under the Banyan tree, with a light smile opened His eyes and saw what is coming. The damaru with all the vigor and power was trying to come near to destroy. All this young sadhu did, He just caught it and kept in His hand to play whenever He wants. 😃

These atheist intellectuals got completely shaken, ‘God! What is this? Such a big weapon we sent, nothing has happened. Everything is going properly. He is there.’ Then they thought, ‘We should do something more.’ They created a deer and said, ‘Go and destroy this young sadhu.’ The deer came, again Mahadeva just smiled at the deer and caught the deer in the left hand and said, “You just be with Me to play whenever I want.” Still He is having it in His left hand. He is playing with it.

Then they created another one huge weapon. It’s called malu. They sent that weapon, “Alright, at least you go and destroy Him and come back. Neither damaru nor deer did the job. You go.” When that came, again, He did not even move; just picked up that malu and kept it in His right hand, “Be with Me. You may be useful whenever I want.” It’s too much. Then they created a tiger out of that fire and sent. Mahadeva not only killed the tiger, took out that skin, started wearing it as dress. So, He started wearing it as dress. Then they created an elephant; again different energies. Finally created a asura - dark, cunning, cruel, dumb Muyalaga. They said, “You go and do some conspiracy, create some problem, destroy this young sadhu.” Shiva did not even bother. He just picked him up and put him at the feet, he was dead. But these auras are dangerous. Even if they are dead you have to always keep one feet on them so that they don’t come back. He puts His feet. Realizing their utter failure they try to do all possible things sending different, different weapons in a different, different way and different, different negative energies. But nothing could hurt Mahadeva, nothing could hurt that young sadhu. Everything goes and just surrenders itself at His feet. They were shocked, surprised, unable to understand what is going on; confused, completely disturbed.

Mahadeva feels the deep compassion it is time to teach lesson to these fellows to complete the avataric mission - what for He assumed the human body. He feels it is time to teach lesson. All He does is - sits in His intense silence. Just by His intense silence and presence those Rishis forgot all the extraordinary techniques and powers they had, the technology to create new, new weapons and new, new negative energies. They completely forgot the whole thing. The moment they started forgetting they are shaken. They thought, ‘Oh god what is going on.’ So, they decided, ‘Before we lose everything let us do our final try.’ The very fire - agni, in which they do the homa and create anything they want, that very fire they commanded, “Come on, it is time you go and destroy Him or we will be destroyed.” The fire comes in full speed. That is the last weapon they had. Shiva did not even move His body, just opened His eyes, picked up that fire in the left hand, still He is holding in the left hand. You can see, as Dakshinamurthy, He will be holding it in the left hand. That’s the fire. Now these Rishis lost practically everything, nothing is left. It is too much, too strong lesson for them.

But even though they were thinking about this young sadhu to destroy Him, but continuous thinking about Him has brought some good things to them. 😄 Those Rishis are fortunate; maybe the layer of negativity they carried was very less. Just because they were constantly thinking about Him, they finally decided, ‘If there is somebody who can stand all the negative things we can do and still be calm, composed and continue what He wants to do, then He must be extraordinary power.’ They had little intelligence also along with their intellect, fortunately. They went and surrendered at the feet of Mahadeva. Because they surrendered, Shiva gave knowledge to them also. Not only He saved humanity from these atheistic intellectuals, because they also surrendered, He saved them also from themself. By His presence intense silence, He liberated them, enlightened them, made them to understand just the karma or the extraordinary powers are not ultimate. There is something more than that. Just because you can do anything you want, don’t think you are ultimate. There is something more than you. He gave them the real sense; the truth took them beyond that atheistic intellect or pseudo ego.

Understand this story. When Guru assumes the human body, when He comes down to the human frequency to save humanity from atheistic intellectuals and save themself from themselves, save them also from themselves. The extraordinary silence He radiates itself is power. In this whole story Shiva did not fight even once. He never fought back. He was in silence. All He did is whatever weapons were sent towards Him, He used them nicely for Himself. That’s all. Kept the fire as a heater 😃, had the damaru for playing, had the tiger skin as a dress, had the elephant skin as a blanket. Whatever negative energy was sent towards Him, He beautifully used for His life. He knows how to use any negativity, turn it into positive and use it for His life.

Because of His extraordinary energy and silence and the spiritual presence, any negativity comes just dies down and starts supporting Him in positive way. After all that, after all this attack, still He is sitting silently in the Banyan tree, radiating His presence. The inner space continues to radiate the extraordinary silence and intense presence goes on inspiring everybody to transform themselves. First He destroys all the negativity thrown towards Him and turns them into positive energy, then He transforms the very people who are trying to throw negativity towards Him.

Remember in each one of you there is an inner space which is Dakshinamurthy. Shiva happening in human body, atma guru who goes on transforming any negativity thrown at you as positive. Any incident, happening, life throws at you, understand, bring it to that space, it will turn that into positive. If life is throwing fire at you, bring it to the Dakshinamurthy. He will turn that into positive. Anything brought to Him turns positive. I will initiate you all into the process of keeping the Dakshinamurthy alive in you, keeping the guru alive in you. In everyone of you Shiva has taken human body. He is there inside you as Dakshinamurty sitting in the eternal silence under the Banyan tree of ananda gandha radiating the intense silence and energy. Whenever life throws things at you, any negativity is thrown at you, all you need to do is relax into His space. Bring that negativity to his space, you will see it disappears. It just disappears. The whole, thing will be turned from negativity to positivity. All the problems thrown at you will become glory for you.

The way you handle them, it will all become glory for you. Understand, all the negative energy can be just turned into positive energy and you will continue to sit and radiate the intense silence and the energy under the Banyan tree.