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Questions & Answers

1. "How might we rebalance compensation and measurement systems to provide incentives for long-term value creation along with short-term performance?" - Christopher, Atlanta

See, your question says, how to provide incentives for long term value creation along with short term performance. Understand, being is long term value creation, doing is short term performance. That’s all. If there is problem in doing, there is problem in being, and vice versa. These two are not separate things.

What is long term value creation? Understanding and internalizing, spiritually realizing theimportance and the method of short term performance is long term value creation. Please understand: understanding, internalizing, philosophically realizing the importance of short term performance is long term value creation. Why you should perform in short term, why you should be productive? I tell you, again and again human beings suffer with the concept - why should I be productive, responsible, in what way this will add to my spiritual life? You don’t understand, only when you perform, when you create, when you take responsibilities, your own understanding about you raises, your own idea about you raises. There is no other way you can raise your own idea about you. Only when you take responsibility, contribute and make difference in others’ lives, either directly or by doing actions which makes difference in other’s lives, you will have a right understanding about you. What is long term value creation? It is nothing but creating an understanding and internalization.

I can give you hundreds of examples where the delivery will not be there simply because the right understanding, philosophical realization is not there. Even small action like making coffee in the morning for your family - have philosophical understanding. Even for that very small act, think and philosophically internalize – why should I do, what is the need? Then naturally, as a basic evolution process, your mind will start saying, how better can I make this coffee? Understand, by your nature, you are expanding. If you are not expanding, you are not philosophically convinced. There is something seriously wrong inside you. Long term value creation is nothing but understanding, realizing the short term performance.

I tell you, when you philosophically Internalize and realize every action you need to perform, the short term performance will happen and the long term value creation also will also simply happen. Not only that, every day, by your nature, you will ask, how can I better the short term performance? Lack of performance is nothing but non-internalization, and continuing to live with the hypocrisy of non-internalization. When you are not running with philosophical understanding, the whole thing is lost like balloon losing its air. I tell you, if you philosophically understand the necessity for short term performance, and the value of long term value creation, you will go on performing.

The other day, I was teaching Astrology sutras to a group of my Ashramites. See, basically there are 9 navagrahas (nine planets) - 5 planets, 2 gurus, 2 shadows. 2 gurus are deva guru – brihaspati and guru of demons – shukra. 2 shadows are rahu and ketu. 5 planets are sun, moon, angaraka, budha and shani. Among these, Ketu will always lead you to the thought trend of expansion, Rahu will always lead you to thought trend of shrinking. When you are cornered, in a very critical position, if you are questioned, if you feel, how can I expand, how can I be successful here?, you are possessed by Ketu. If you are feeling, kick all this, let us go for some other option, what is there? If not here, somewhere else!, then you are possessed by Rahu. Deva Guru, the master of Gods, will always push you from Rahu to Ketu – means, negative pattern to positive pattern. He will always push you, saying, listen, this is not the right pattern, move. He will always push you from Rahu to Ketu. Asura guru - Shukra - will always push you from Ketu to Rahu – from positive to negative. The 5 planets act based on their association with Demon’s guru or God’s guru, with Brihaspati or Shukra.

Please understand, this whole thing can be nullified by one energy - that is, constant performance. If you are constantly performing, the influence of planets on you gets nullified. You may ask, how? Constant performance raises your frequency more than Ichha shakti and Jnana Shakti; your creative energy expresses more than the desire energy and knowledge energy. Please understand, all these 9 planets impact only your Ichha shakti and Jnana Shakti, your desire energy and knowledge energy. Unclutch your creativity from desire and knowledge, and push it independently, whether you feel like performing or not.

See, planets can interfere in your life only as suggestions to perform or not perform. When you ignore them and start performing anyway, suddenly you will reach a space where planets can no more affect your lifestyle. Internalizing the necessity of short term performance puts you completely in tune with Ketu. Even one small act, like making coffee or tea in the morning, connect it with directly fulfilling your life’s mission of enlightenment – if you make this tea, your body will be awake, you will be in continuous ajapa japa, you will be in awareness and will be moving towards enlightenment. Even a small act philosophically internalized, realized, connected with your life’s mission, liberates you from all the evil effects of the Grahas. That philosophical understanding is what I call realizing the long term value creation.

Take this homework for 5 days. You won’t be able to do it in one day. Take this as a 5-day homework. A typical day - how your day is spent, what are the actions you perform from waking up in the morning till night - understand and internalize how every action is directly connected to your very core. Please understand – to your very core. Integrate all your actions authentically with whatever you believe as your life’s mission, your life’s purpose. Internalize. I tell you, the moment you realize philosophically that you making tea in the morning and drinking it is in alignment with the purpose of your life, the next day you will naturally start thinking how better you can make tea, do that job. Unfortunately, you don’t have time to philosophically internalize. Morning you sit and shout at your subordinates and get beatings from your boss! This is the action for short term performance. But if you internalize how this directly helps and supports fulfilling your life’s mission, what you want to achieve in your life. If you can internalize that, the next day you will automatically start thinking how better you can perform, without shouting at your subordinates or provoking your boss.

Please understand, expansion is your natural tendency. Every time you inhale, you are expanding. If you are still breathing, be very clear you are bound by the law of expansion. Even after you stop breathing, your being takes another body and from there it starts expanding. Constantly expanding. Life is not going to leave you. You cannot hide and escape. If you escape from one boss and run away to another office, life is going to come back to you in the form of another boss! Life is not going to leave you till you realize that you are the boss. You are responsible till you realize, because life is so compassionate - it will not leave you till you actualize and realize yourself. It has given you the boon - I will be there behind you, constantly reminding you, constantly asking you to wake up, awakening you till you achieve the state of Nithyananda. Understand, when you philosophically internalize every action you perform for the short term performance, you will not have any pain or suffering to take up the responsibility, to run. When you do not philosophically internalize, you will have lot of suffering, that’s all. Nothing else.

I can see very clearly, people who can philosophically internalize, understand the necessity for short term performance, build long term values. Long term values means – building a very beautiful mental pattern, right mental pattern to go on living. This is what I call Shiva! Go on living! No death for you, no question of shrinking. Only Guru and Ketu, no Shukra and Rahu. When only Guru and Ketu are there, when you are centered on Guru and Ketu, Saturn (Shani) becomes your servant, sun and the moon becomes your eyes – vision, Mangala (Angaraka )becomes your lifestyle. Budha becomes your body, your very earth on which he was operating!

Understand this idea of short term performance and long term value creation. These two have become 2 different things, because you neither have intelligence nor have patience to internalize every action’s reason. I tell you, integrity is what you need to live. Whether you are going to have joy in life or suffering in life, first you need to live! Life itself will happen to you only with integrity. After that you can start working for having joy and avoiding suffering. But if there is no integrity itself, when integrity is not there, your any action to have joy or any action to avoid suffering will lead to depression! With integrity, you will go through even your sufferings with understandings and knowledge. Even your suffering will add strength to you.

Yesterday somebody tweeted and said, Swamiji, after the way you have been attacked, how can you still say that the Cosmos is not sadistic? But because I went through the whole thing with authenticity and integrity, I know how every attack has added strength to me. I will continue my spiritual activities. What for I am alive? To teach to people. I will do that till I am alive. I will do that even after I leave the body! I am very clear. Understand, honesty and authenticity brings the long term value. It does not disturb your short term performance. It only increases your short term performance. If you feel your short term performance is not allowing you to create long term values, both are contradicting, you are cunning. If you feel both are not contradicting, both go hand in hand, maybe I can call you as little honest. Only when you realize that long term value creation is expanding your short term performance, both are enriching each other, I will call you – you are authentic. When people are not even honest and are playing cunning games, not only they will not perform, they will pull others also down. I teach you what I practice. I practice what I teach. Do not even respect human beings who have not come even to the level of honesty as human beings!

All of you take this up as a homework. Sit and honestly associate every action you perform to the core of your life’s mission. Understand, if you can honestly connect and you are able to believe that every action for the short term performance is directly connected to your long term values, you will not only be blissful inside, your performance will just explode. What is my short term performance? Waking up in the morning and coming for Satsang, every day giving the right understandings to all of you and continuously inspiring everyone. These are my short term performance. All of them are so closely connected to my long term vision. I am very clear, out of the sky I will not get one lakh people who will be enlightened! No. I will have to pick the people who are constantly working hard and working smartly. I know my path, I am very clear. I will continue to work and deliver, deliver, deliver! Because I know my mission, my short term performance is continuously increasing and expanding, because it is directly connected to long term value creation.

When the direct connection of long term value creation is not there, not only is your short term performance not there, you become cunning. You start cheating on life. When you cheat on the teacher you lose knowledge, when you cheat on husband, you lose secured old age, when you cheat with anybody, you lose that part. When you cheat on life, you lose life itself. Cunningness is like cheating life. It is like you stealing things from your own house, selling the items and drinking. When you cheat from your own life, you destroy yourself, you are doomed. Nothing else. Unable to connect the short term performance with the long term values means cheating on life, nothing less. Dishonesty – cheating on life. People who cheat on life are Chandaalaas, because they don’t have respect on their own life.

Aligning short term performance and long term value creation is Inner Awakening. When you align your short term performance – align every action philosophically with your long term values, Inner Awakening happens in you. That is what is Inner Awakening. Because all my short term performance and actions are aligned with my long term values, I can see very clearly that I neither have tiredness nor guilt, nor do I have any other emotions created by any other planets. Because I am philosophically convinced, my short term performance is directly associated with my long term value creation. When your long term value creation is directly and truly connected to your short term performance, you go on performing without tiredness, and you explode, explode, explode. But unfortunately, even a small group of people who live and work without integrity sets an example for others also – that you can move around, live around without being integrated. That becomes your lifestyle.

I tell you, integrity is your life. The word you utter, the commitment you make, is your life. Die to keep up that. Even if you die, nothing wrong. You will live. Cosmos will remember you only as your integrity. Your integrity is the only impact you create on the Cosmos. Nothing else! Life will remember you only based on the strength of your integrity, nothing else. The very frequency of your life is decided only based on the strength of your integrity, nothing else. Whether your physical health, mental, conscious, spiritual - everything is based just on that one truth - integrity. Die to keep your integrity alive. Nothing is wrong. However many bodes you sacrifice to keep your integrity alive, it is worth it. Whatever you sacrifice to keep your integrity alive, you will have integrity and that also. But if you sacrifice your integrity for your laziness, cunningness, non-thinking, whatever you do, you will be destroyed.

I will conclude the Satsang today.

As you are aware, we have the 2012 project meeting and the press meet at 2 pm IST. I invite all the city Satsang centers to be there. Be ready to enjoy and celebrate the press meet.

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