“Today we are going to have a press meet.”

I welcome you all with my love and respects! I welcome all the devotees, disciples, Samajis, Satsangis sitting with around the world at this moment in 814 places through eNtv, 24 places 2 way Nayana Deeksha, in 220 cities, in 23 countries!

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Today we are going to have a press meet. I will announce the timing later on and send an invite to you all - today evening or tomorrow noon. You will all receive an invite. All of you are welcome to attend and join the press meet.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

1. Nithyanandam Swamiji, why is the mind not getting the truth of reality and just coming out of maya, even when the mind knows maya is bad ? What is mind Versus Maya ? How can Maya be broken? - Thank you, G.Saahitya, Nithyananda Gurukul

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Only when you eat the bitter fruit, you will understand eating it is wrong. In Mundaka Upanishad, there is a story. There is a huge tall tree with many high and low branches and fruits. On the tallest branch, one golden bird is sitting, unclutched from everything, in bliss like Dakshinamurthy. On a lower branch, there is a small bird, which jumps here and there eating the fruits. When it eats a bitter fruit, it feels bad, and looks above at the golden bird sitting in samadhi, in ecstasy. Whenever it eats the bitter fruit, it looks at the bird which is looking silently above like Shiva, like Dakshinamurthy, and it feels - why should I also not be like that, out of all this maya? But unfortunately, when this same bird eats tasty fruits, it even forgets that it is in maya!

You are asking, When mind knows maya is bad, why is it not coming out? Whenever it knows maya is bad, it does come out! But after some time, it says, maya is tasty. When you drink neem juice, you know it is bitter, but when you drink apple juice, you think, oh, it is so tasty. Mind does not understand all 24 hours that maya is bad.

Just yesterday, somebody was saying, my mind is in love with you, but at the same time, it has mistrust in your genuinity. It is such a torture. How to handle this? It is really a torture. It is atma shaapa - it is you who gave that curse to you. So I cannot bring you out of it. Only you have to come out of it. End of your life, is your mind going to judge whether you are a success or failure, or is your heart going to judge whether you are a success or failure? Find out that. Understand, only your heart is going to judge. Your mind loses its power on you. When you are doing the final calculation of your life, your heart is going to be the judge, not your mind. If your mind is judge, all the rich fellows should have a complete satisfied death, because as far as the mind is concerned, money, status, enjoyment, beauty, this, that, everything - it is a great life. Good husband, amazing kids, wonderful house, good friends and family – if mind is going to be the judge, then all the fellows who are rich, who asked for all these things, should be having a very fulfilling death, very satisfying end. But that is not happening.

I tell you, it is your heart which is going to be the judge of whether your life is satisfied, complete, or you wasted your life. Whenever you have dilemma between mind and heart, always choose heart, because even if you are a failure as per the mind, heart is the one who is going to make the judgment at the end of life. Heart is the one which is going to tell whether you are fulfilled or not. Mind is just a prostitute. It will just play any side it wants. One small reason is enough for mind to completely tumble you, make you lose your very basis of life. Why do you think millions of people commit suicide? Because when mind tumbles you, just make you imbalanced, you do things momentary, which you can never repair after that. You do things which you can never repair. Suicide is always the decision of the mind, never the heart. People say, Oh, his heart is broken, he committed suicide. No. His mind is broken, so he committed suicide. It is never heart.

Saahitya, your mind does not realize all the time that maya is bad. It realizes only for few seconds, not more than that. Not more than that. The only way to break the maya is, your mind remembering all 24 hours that maya is bad; you remembering all 24 hours that anything heard, any idea inserted into you is delusion and it is bad. Understand, ultimately, even the ideas I am giving you, they are not bad, but they are not ultimate. These ideas are to be used only like how one thorn is used removing another thorn. These ideas I am giving you - like unclutching - is like a finger pointing to the moon. The finger itself is not the moon. The idea itself is not the moon. The ideas are only to counter the ideas you already have, and to remove them. In the initial level, remember 24 hours that maya is bad - naturally you will break it, you will come out of it.

2. Nithyanandam Swamiji, In one satsang you told God is responsible for everything, then why does he create maya for all of us? You also told that only God can remove it, so why do we have to go through this? In gratitude, Krishna, Nithyananda Gurukul

Krishna – first thing, when I said God is responsible for everything, it is more a statement of realization, not the statement of factuality, statement of truth. It is from my experience. That statement is true only when you also experience. So without having that experience, the next statement you make does not have any meaning. It is like you asking, Swamiji created the Gurukul, then why did he create the classrooms where we have to sit and study? You also know that I can remove you from the classroom, and you don’t need to attend the class. You ask, Why do we need to go through this? Because you need to evolve. Maya is classroom created by God!

Understand, unless you go through the classroom, you don’t get matured to know many of the truths. Many of the truths are internalized by you only when you go through the classroom. Only when you spend lot of time in the classroom, you learn to enjoy the garden, you feel, Wow, garden is great! If you are never put in classroom you will take garden for granted. If you are never put in Maya, you take God for granted. Maya teaches the greatness of God, heat teaches the greatness of coolness, fire teaches you the greatness of coolness. Maya teaches you greatness of God. Maya teaches you so strongly that once you come out of Maya, you will never come out of God! You will never take God for granted. I know some fellows who ran away from the ashram and came back, and after that they never go back! Because maya teaches you so strongly, you cannot take God for granted.

I bless you all who are sitting with us at this moment around the world in 1082 places through eNtv, in 25 places through 2 way Video conferencing, in 262 cities, in 28 countries!

Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate and share and explode the eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you!