“Just a two word!”

-Sunday, March 6, 2011

Prayer. Welcome. Today’s subject is

Tathu samanvayaath!

Just a two word! The whole world is reduced to this 2 word tathu samanvayat

The English translation

Swamy Gambhirananda – but that Brahman is know from the Upanishad it being the object of their fullest import

Swamy Veereshwarananda - But that Brahman is to be known only from scriptures and not independently by other means is established because it is the main purport

I will translate this sutra as “that should be known only by personal experience through Upanishad with the master.” Please understand, I am revealing a sacred secret in this sutra. It can be realized not by any written Upanishad – Isha, Kena, Kata, Prasna. No. Through Isha, Kena, Kata, Prasna , Munda, Mandukya, Narayana - the 108 Upanishads you can grasp a kind of an intellectual understanding. Only by sitting in Upanishad the Brahman can be experienced as it is the main object of the fullest import. Please understand, the purpose of Upanishad is experiencing existence! The most important thing to be realized through the Upanishad is existence! In Zen, they have a process called Zaizen – Just they sit. Sit, sit, sit, sit! Not just hours, not just days, not just weeks, not just months, but, not even just years, but decades! The Zen master story says sometimes these masters sit in Zaizen for 40 years! When you sit, sit, sit – Zaizen means just sitting, just sitting, just sitting. When you sit, so many years, naturally the mind has become a useless unnecessary part of you. It withers away. Will withers away. Just to eat and do your basic activities and sit you don’t need will, you don’t need mind. Will withers away. Mind withers away. I can say in my parivraajaka time that is what exactly happened. Nothing much to be done. If you can break insecurity, parivraajaka is the best life to live. All embodied beings means not just human beings, all the beings who assumed the body should experience the homelessness at least one year in their life! Just homelessness. Not having a particular address, a particular safe place or security. Living like somewhere you walk, somewhere you eat, somewhere you sleep, somewhere you are living. I can say that parivraajaka teaches 1000s of things. 1000s and 1000s of things. Will withers away! Whether it is a complete zaizen or complete insecurity. See any insecurity will remind and poke you to go back to security only for 3, 4 days. If you can manage parivraajaka for one week after that insecurity will not hit you. Insecurity will be there only for first one week. Not after that. That is the fun. Not after that. Then that Vedanta Vijnaanam starts happening in you. what do I mean by the word Vedanta Vijnaanam – withering of the will and ability to do everyday action without bringing your will for supporting, justifying, analyzing, adding, commenting. These are the activities your will goes on doing and destroys the whole juice of your life. And the modern day youngsters are again & again & again brain washed about the need or importance of the will. Again if you are continuously creative without even asking the question why should you be creative, the will withers away. Will can wither away in so many ways.

Some of the beautiful Zen Koans and stories of this withering away of the will are there. A monk was sitting under a tree and meditating. He saw due to breeze a leaf falling from the tree. He was just floating with that falling leaf. The leaf did a zig zag - moved, moved, moved…slowly landed on the ground and the monk became enlightened! How will you logically describe? He was in such a extreme restful awareness that moment has beautifully moved his inner space! He rested in withering away of the will. Modern day youngsters are again & again brain & again brain washed about the importance of the will for the everyday action which is not required. I tell you put yourself in a highly challenging situation where your will cannot solve the issues. Where your will is let to boil. That is also a powerful process to wither away your will. Because the modern day youngsters cannot sit for 40 years. Forget about 40 years, 40 minutes you cannot sit. So the other thing to do is just put yourself in situations which cannot be solved by your will. Will will wither away!

First time not only the youngest master is talking about Brahma Sutras, the youth is listening about Brahma Sutras! I don’t think anywhere in the world, anytime in the world so many youth are sitting and listening. I am seeing the average age of not only the teacher even the students is 33 years. Even when Shankara describes scene of Brahma sutra he says master is young, but he does not say disciples are young. See Guru if he is an incarnation he can be young and he can teach. Even in the history of Dakshinamurthy, Adi Shankara, Ramana Maharshi – even in all their histories, the master was young but disciples were always old people. First time the young master is talking to average age of 30-33 disciples crowd. Now first time the disciples are also young. That is why I say we are heading towards a great evolution and revolution! Just yesterday one couple from Dubai wanted to pack up & come back and settle in the Ashram in the Rishi order. I was telling them we should set a trend of enlightenment to be a trend in the modern day. Working for career growth and achieving enlightenment should be a modern day career. So we have to make a mold in a way where people contribute to the society because we use the road, airport, electricity, all the country’s infrastructure we should contribute something to them. so we should evolve a system where we add something to them – not just suck like a parasite. We should add something to them. awakening our intelligence and radiating enlightenment should become a new way of living!

First time in the world the youngest master is talking about the oldest scripture again to the youngest disciples. I am seeing in the screen, the average age will be surely around 30 only! In 30 if we can inspire people for withering away of the will, even if they contemplate on that idea and just casually practice, by 40 we can expect at least 80% of people would have achieved the result. The withering away of the will will happen and the raising of their frequency in their inner space will happen!

The today’s sutra gives the importance of personal experience through the Upanishad. I want you to know here the Upanishad does not mean some written works in those days. Understand, because I am running a huge publication department I can understand – the very words I utter by the time it become a book are completely twisted. My own biography people write in their own way and finally blame comes to me! I can understand sitting in the body my words and biography get twisted so much, how can you rely on words written sometime by somebody – who knows who edited, who interpreted, who knows the language used then is the same language used now? Because the words and meaning attributed to words go on evolving every 2 generations. No 2 generations use the same words. Just see pre-independence – Bharat’s English – words we used, the meanings we gave to those words. Now the words we using and meanings we are giving to those words. Two sacred secret - One – the existence - reality can be realized only by sitting in Upanishad with the master not by any written book – Upanishad in those days. No. Second – 2nd is a very important thing - sitting with the master in Upanishad should happen only for realizing the existence not for anything else. The Upanishad should happen only for enlightenment. Because the Upanishad can bring so many extraordinary powers, energies, experiences. Upanishad can add so many qualities to you. Upanishad means sitting with the master. But that is not the purpose of Upanishad. Sometime people come to see, check out – let me see what he is talking. Now a days people even come to see the models of ear rings or energy beads! Those things cannot be the purpose of Upanishad. How these ex-disciples come and log in to steal ideas to add in their classes.

Upanishad, the purpose of Upanishad should be only experiencing existence, experiencing reality, experiencing life. 1000s and 1000s of spiritual experiences may and can happen during Upanishad but that is not the purpose or import of Upanishads. It is experiencing the existential reality. Experiencing the reality of the existence is purpose of Upanishad!

Tathu samanvayaath

That Brahman being the object of the Upanishad’s fullest import, it should be known from the Upanishad, through the Upanishad, in the Upanishad!

I can tell you sitting in Zaizen – Zaizen means just sitting. Sitting for 40 years will make your will wither away. The same sitting with the master in his presence – he knows how to boil your engrams and get them out. I can say if you are in the ashram listening to what I am saying and falling in tune your whole day is Upanishad. Because the whole day I am continuously focusing you. See whenever focusing happens, it is like churning of your inner space. When the churning happens, the resistance gathers as poison and the acceptance gathers as a butter, nectar. The resistance poisons will be constantly taken out by the other people who are resisting. That is what I do. Two resisting fellow I let them fight. I don’t need to do anything. I just sit. They hit each other, they vomit out on each other. Only then I will let them come to me. By the time the problem comes to me, they settle down.

Extraordinary experience of Upanishad is imbibed, incorporated by the muscle memory while all the negativities are churned out and removed from the system! Whole thing I can say whole thing boils down to Upanishad! If you do Yoga, your body will be ready for Upanishad. If you have the devotion, feeling connection - bhakti the Upanishad will be very juicy so you can sit for a long time. If you do karma, all your negativity will be taken out, your body will be completely open the withering away of the will happens and when you sit in Upanishad the deep restful awareness happens in you. So everything boils down to Upanishad! It is Upanishad which is the essence of life!

Tathu samanvayaath

Brahmasutras is not the place where too big words are used or long sessions of discourses are given. This whole Brahmasutras if you write them you can finish it in 3 A4 sheets. It is maximum 500,000 words. That’s all. All the 500 plus sutras put together is that much only. This book is the essence, quintessence, abridged dictionary for the world’s spiritual philosophy. It is not of world philosophies or atheist philosophies or religious philosophies, it is quintessence of very human thinking!

Upanishad sitting with the master is for experiencing Brahman. Experiencing the reality should happen by Upanishad. Experiencing reality can happen only by Upanishad. The only purpose of the Upanishad should be experiencing the reality and existence. Because experiencing the existence is the real purpose of Upanishad and your very existence and Master’s very existence. Master exists to transmit the experience of existence. You exist to experience the existence. Upanishad happens to transmit the experience of experience. Don’t sit in master’s presence for your physical disorders. Don’t use him as anacin, metacin. Don’t use him as a replacement for anti depressants. Don’t use him for ordinary simple things. Use his presence to experience the very existential things! Upanishad! I can go on expanding the stories. All Upanishadic stories talk about this power of Upanishad – sitting with the master.

In one of the Upanishadic story one disciple was asked by master - Master gives few cows and says go to forest and come back when the cows become 1000. This guy goes, and continuously multiplies the cows. Whole day he just sits in silence because with cows you cannot talk. You cannot do anything. So he was just sitting. That sitting, that sweet silent sitting naturally his will withered away. And after the cows became 1000, the funny thing is he even forgot how to count. So he did not even realize it is time to go back. One cow comes and tells – “sir we became 1000. Let’s go back to the master. It is time” because his will withered away, he forgot even how to count. So the cow tells him. Then he comes and when he enters the ashram, master says – Oh, 1001 cows have come! You should know in In Bharatn tradition cow stands for love, sacrifice, compassion and a symbol of sincerity. So master says the disciple also has become a cow. He has become sacrifice, compassion and sincerity, a symbol of sincerity.

Upanishad, Upanishad, Upanishad – I can say that is the essence of life, that is the essence of all teachings, that is the essence of all techniques, that is the essence of all processes, that is the essence of everything. Again & again & again day in day out I am talking, talking, talking just leading you to Upanishad. Nothing else! If you see my words from the day I started talking and till the last word, everything will be just directing you to Upanishad. That’s all. I talk so that you stop talking! Nothing else! I go on adding words just to enrich the silence not to break the silence. Sometime the music can enrich the power of silence, experience of silence. I go on talking to enrich the power of Upanishad! In Zen there is a beautiful saying – Grass grows by itself! When you sit in Upanishad consciousness grows by itself. Will withers away by itself!

Just close your eyes. Don’t move the body. The moment you move the body, you are preparing. Your will has awakened - over, you missed it. Just close your eyes. Just sit. No meditation, no mantra, no technique, no japa, no process. Just sit. Let the Upanishad happen.

We will enter into the next sutras in tomorrow’s sessions. Morning we will work on Yoga, evening on Vedanta! I remind all of you Satsangis, devotees, this 21 days we are working mainly on creating global peace and creating peace & conscious energy to stop the religious persecution. Blessings!