Bliss is Intense Excitement

Let us enter into today’s Sutra. 12th Sutra in the first chapter, first section: Anandamayobhyasaat... See, in the Vedic tradition, every master has to find the source of his philosophical teaching from this Brahma Sutra. If he wants to claim he belongs to Vedic tradition, he has to connect his teachings with Upanishads, he has to connect his teachings with Gita, he has to connect his teachings with Brahma Sutra. Everybody has to come under the classification of these three book. They are called Prasthana Traya in Sanskrit. Three major books. Everybody has to be classified by these three books. You have to fall into the category of these three books means please understand, you should be able to connect yourself with these three books. You have to trace back the source of your teaching to these three books. You will have to find out some Sutra which exactly tells your experience or what you mean to the world. Only then you can be a authentic guru from the Vedic tradition, the Hindu tradition.

I can say among the hundreds of Sutras, this Sutra Anandamayobhyasaat is the essence of Nithyananda Sampradaya. This is the essence of our tradition. So through this sutra, we connect our whole life, philosophy, teaching, living, everything to the Vedic tradition. So this sutra is that important. So we will have debate on this Sutra, en-debate on this sutra for next one week. We will drill this Sutra into our being. Not only that, I declare, from today this sutra we will use it as a caption- the vision statement for our mission in as many places as possible wherever we need to present our vision statement, our essence of our philosophy, our contribution to the world, to the human consciousness. We will use this sutra as a essence.

Anandamayobhyaasaat... I wanted to add the importance of this sutra first with My words. I wanted all of you to understand the importance of this sutra. Then I will translate. That is why I am not translating. I am keeping in suspense because this is going to be now Mahavakya for us. Anandamayobhyasaat. Every tradition from the Hindu tradition has to catch some sutra from Vedas means Upanishads or the Brahma Sutra or Bhagavad Gita. So as I said, through this sutra we can directly connect all My teachings, techniques, principles, philosophies, everything to the Vedic tradition. We can now say very clearly we belong to Vedic tradition because what we teach is directly from the source, from Brahma Sutras.

Anandamayobhyasaat. Let Me translate now. It is a translation of Swami Gambhirananda. The blissful one is the Supreme self on account of repetition.

Swami Veereshwarananda translates as the self consisting of bliss etc. Brahman which is spoken of as the tale is put forward as an independent entity and not as something subordinate to anandamaya, the self consisting of bliss on account of the repetition.

Swami Shivananda translates as anandamaya means parabrahman on account of the repetition of the word bliss as denoting the highest self.

Let us see how Saraswati translates Anandamayobhyasaat. Source is bliss because of repetition. What to make out of this one statement? Hundreds of understandings and clicks can happen from this one sutra. Source is bliss because again and again it is told in Shastra pramana, again and again it is told in Apta pramana, again and again it is told in Atma pramana... Again and again it is told in Shastra pramana, again and again it is told in Apta pramana, again and again it is told in Atma pramana. This can be one understanding. Again I can translate. Bliss is the source or source is the bliss or Parabrahman is bliss or bliss is Parabrahman because again and again and again when you return to source, you experience bliss. Again and again you experience bliss only when you return to source. Returning to source is bliss. Returning to bliss means being in source.

Thousands of clicks can happen just with this one great truth anandamayabhyasaat. I can give you one more way of understanding. Because of our experience, abhyasaat means our experience, our habitual experience, we can say anandamaya is the source. Anandamaya is the cause. Cause is ananda. Source is ananda. As I explained in last few days of sutras, Bhagavan Veda Vyasa, Badarayana Vyasa goes on and on and on in different aspects of Enlightenment, in different aspects of source. Each day in each sutra we are studying different aspects of the source. One day, he said source is truth. Then he says source is intelligence. Today he says in this sutra source is bliss, ananda. The sacred secrets from this sutra, source is bliss. So always come back to the source. Source is bliss. So stay in the source. Parabrahman is bliss. So anything other than bliss don’t let your life to be with that. Don’t settle down for anything which is other than bliss. Anything other than bliss, anything other than source cannot be the ultimate, cannot exist even in the middle time.

Please understand, if something will not exist after your Enlightenment that cannot exist even before Enlightenment. If something is going to disappear after your Enlightenment, that cannot exist even before your Enlightenment because anything exists has to exist forever, anything cannot exist cannot exist forever. Sacred secret from this sutra is, live only in things which is bliss, nothing else. Don’t compromise your life for anything. No need to waste your life on anything other than bliss. I tell you, bliss is worthy of sacrificing anything for it but nothing is worthy of sacrificing bliss for it.

Let us understand bliss. Let Me be honest. Let Me be very honest. I am not able to translate or define bliss. Bliss is the intense excitement for everything, of everything, without anything. Bliss is intense excitement of everything, intense excitement for everything, overflowing for nothing, overflowing without anything. I can go on defining bliss. Just one moment before I said I am not able to define bliss. Now I am saying I can go on defining because till you know how to make thread out of cotton, you will say, “No, I can’t.” Once you know how to make thread out of cotton, you will say, “I can go on making because I have enough cotton.”

Same way, when I said I can’t define bliss, I have bliss but I don’t know how to describe in the words. Now because I described once, I can go on and on and on and describe but I don’t want to describe just because I need to describe, no. I wanted to describe which will make you practical. Please understand, I do feel responsible for taking so many of your time. I do feel responsible for your time. So I am not going to waste talking or giving the useless meanings. I will give the meaning which will be directly a technique or click for you. Intense excitement of everything, for everything, without anything.