Choose Your Own Deity

Choose Your Own Deity. (0:49)

I welcome you all with My love and respects. I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsangis; Sitting with us around the world at this moment, in seven hundred and twenty four places through NTV. Twenty three places, two-way Nayana Deeksha. In hundred and ninety four cities in twenty countries.

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Today, I’ll continue on the Bhagavad Gita 4th Chapter Jnana Karma Sanyasa Yoga; Twelfth verse.

Kaankshantas - karmanaam siddhim yajantha iha devataaha kshipram hi maanushe loke siddhir - bhavathi karmajaa//

Kaankshantas - karmanaam siddhim yajantha iha devataaha kshipram hi maanushe loke siddhir - bhavathi karmajaa//

Kaankshantas - karmanaam siddhim yajantha iha devataaha kshipram hi maanushe loke siddhir - bhavathi karmajaa//

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Those who long for the results of an action, worship with rites, the divine energies; for in this mortal world, the success of an action comes immediately...Let Me give you an important truth, the sacred secret: when you just work for money, your conscious - mind and activities are aligned towards money. Along with the work, if you are worshipping Laxmi also, your very unconscious falls in tune with money. Means, your whole being! Your emotion, everything falls in tune with money. Same way,knowledge.

If you are just working for knowledge, your conscious mind, your actions work towards knowledge; along with that, if you are connecting with Laxsmi, sorry, Saraswati the Goddess of knowledge, through prayer, meditation and all that. Your whole being yearns for knowledge. Worshipping these divine energies, all the corporate religions. I’m introducing a new word, ‘corporate religions’; Means, the corporate style, concept got introduced into religion also, unfortunately in the Western countries. That is why there’s an organized headquarters and agents. Each worship centre is the franchise.

The whole corporate structure, globalize it, brand it, market it. Unfortunately, these corporate religions and corporate theologies; because they cannot handle too many products; they will have to generalize. You see, when you want to go for broad marketing , you need to take up only one product. Naturally, you have to go for one God; Not more than that! Because, if the product becomes more, then branding, marketing, advertising, everything becomes very difficult. These corporate religions have planned a strategy of ‘one God’, popularized it so much. Unfortunately, even the greatest religious people, people who belong to this greatest religion, like Hindu tradition also feeling a little shy, guilt about having too many Gods.

Having one product, and branding it properly and selling it globally, is OK. If it comes to the outer world. For a shoe company, see for a shoe company naturally they have one product: shoe; branding it and selling it all over the world, with a wide market, easy! So this wide market based concepts and strategies. See, in the outer world, these are all OK, taking up one product and marketing; so that marketing is easy, standardized. Same thing only, you need to repeat. In US and all shoe companies; if you call their toll free number; from anywhere you call, you will get the same reply, mechanized reply. Same way, these corporate religions, even their sermons are almost mechanized.

They use human beings to memorise and come and repeat, that’s all! Because those days, there was no robot, if the robots were available in those days, those religions would have preferred them. Unfortunately, robots were not available; Men were made into robots. Please understand. That is what is celibacy.

In brahmacharya, you are not made into robots. See the nagas- brahmacharies, what wild energy they expressed. See the celibate monks. In the corporate religion’s monasteries. Here, celibacy is used to make you into ‘Robo’. Here, brahmacharya is used to raise you to the peak. Even if it is same concepts, same action; once the intention becomes different, result becomes different.

Source may be one, but every action becomes independent divine energy. I wanted all the followers of Vedic tradition, Hindu tradition to celebrate the concept of multiple Deity, understand? Your religion is not created for marketing purpose, it is created for practicing purpose.

It is created by honest, intelligent rishis and visionaries, who were not bothered about marketing, who were bothered about practicing. I am telling you! Future is only for the people, religions which accepts many Gods, or all Gods. One God religions have created enough of suffering in the world. All the bloody religious wars; The bloodshed on the planet Earth, is just because of this one - God religions.

Humanity has suffered too much by this one-God religions. The wars, violence, terrorism that created by this one-God religions, have crossed its limits. Now, it is time, humanity needs little break, from these one - God religions.

‘O Humanity’, if you want to save yourself, if you want to keep the planet Earth for your next generation, accept the religions which accepts many Gods or all Gods. Because each expression of the Divine, each expression of the Source, becomes a independent intelligent Divine energy.

Do not have the repenting mood, do not have guilt, do not feel bad; Your religion teaches many Gods. I tell you, in Hindu tradition, there is some unique concept called ‘Ishta Devata’, you can create your own ! Customize it, tailor it. The concept of ‘Ishta Devata’, there are millions and millions of Gods; if you are not satisfied, happy with any of them, create your own!

So the concept of ‘Ishta Devata’, you make your own, because Bhagavan says very clearly, ’Whoever calls Me in whatever form, whoever approaches Me in whatever way, I am there for them’. Western influenced mind! Feels perturbed, little disturbed to see pantheon of Gods! Why do you want to merge all of them into one? Feels safe, you are under control? No! Each Deity is a independent God! Relate with that Deity, connect through the Deity and experience the Source.

Source is one, but I don’t even want to tell about that now! Otherwise, you visualize, ‘O Source is One, so let me worship the Source’. No! You have to only go through the Deities. Anyway you try to worship the Source directly, you will not get any wind of it! Get into only depression. That is why many religions, which tries to catch the formless, Source. They never get into the depths of mystery, and just superficial, or fall into depression. See, one’s concept of only one God is put in your brain. Naturally, if you can’t feel connected, don’t feel connected to it, you choose the other option of atheism. Atheism is the by-product of ‘tea spoon feeding religions’. The religions which does not let you think, feel, experience on your own; pushes the same product down the throat, down the throat, inside you. They created secularism and atheism in the planet Earth.

Bharat is not the country which needs atheism. Here we have millions of options; nothing is pushed down the throat. That is why in Bharat, all atheists are hypocrites. I tell you, in Bharat there’s no atheists. Because all ten goes inside your body through mother’s milk in Bharat.

When mother gives you the milk, she puts all the ten ideas inside your system. In Bharat, just breathe, you are already ‘theist’. And this country does not need atheism, understand? Atheism is the escape from the religions which is pushing some same concept and pushing into your throat, which does not make you feel, think, experience on your own.

Only from those religions you need to escape, you need atheism and pseudo-secularism. We give you so much of options. I invite all the... youngsters from all over the world, all the youth from all over the world, who are interested in knowing the answers experientially about life. Who are interested to know the truth of the Cosmos. Who are really interested to know the truth about the Ultimate, which is not packaged for branding and broad marketing. Straight, honest truth as it is. Whoever is interested, I’m inviting all of you.

Don’t be depressed, I invite all the rebellious youth, revolutionary youth, who think, who want to think, who want to feel, who want to experience truth by themself. Who are not satisfied in going to some worship altars, religious sermons and listening to the same parrot story; plup, plup, plup, plup, plup, plup, plup from the same broken mike and same old man, from same pulpit for years and years and years. Man who is almost reduced to a machine. If you are not interested in listening to them, if you want the truth, if you are a revolutionary, if you are rebellious, don’t fall into the depression of atheism.

Don't go to the pseudo-secularism, I’m here, come on. I invite all of you. Here we have a juiciest spiritual tradition, which gives you the wide variety option for you to think, for you to feel, for you to experience, for you to explore. Ultimately for you to explode. We don’t convert, so I am not interested in conversion.

In Hinduism we have a ritual for everything. The moment you are pregnant there is a ritual. The moment you are carrying seventh month, there is a ritual. The day you give birth there’s a ritual. Thirteenth day day of your birth, there is a ritual. The day you start eating the solid rice, solid food, there is a ritual. The day you start writing the first letter, there is a ritual. The day you stand up and start walking, there is a ritual. Till the day you are dead there is a ritual, even after the thirteenth day of your death, there is a ritual. Our life-style is a long ritual. But we don’t have ritual for conversion, because we never believed it. We never believed in it. So I am not inviting for conversion; I am just inviting you for transformation.

I bless you all who are with us at this moment in thousand and eighty four places through NTV, twenty four places two-way Nayana Deeksha in two hundred and fifty seven cities, in twenty five countries. Let you all experience, achieve, express, radiate, share and explode in Eternal Bliss. Nithyananda.