“Q & A: Selflessness, Meditation, Spirituality”

MORNING SATSANG 18 APRIL 12

Q & A: Selflessness, Meditation, Spirituality

The morning satsang, 1st question.

Question: The 1st question is from Umesh, IA Identity Card No.:87. He is asking,”Nithyanandam! My dearest Swamiji, ‘Bliss is cosmos’ is becoming profound reality within just 4 days of the IA program completion. How can we connect Swamiji to everyone so that they can taste the nectar especially our near and dear ones or friends who have language limitations or mind-set fixed due to their religious beliefs? – Umesh, IA No:87.

Swamiji: This is question from Umesh 87. May I know who? Yes..

The question, “My dearest Swamiji, ‘Bliss is cosmos’ is becoming profound reality within just 4 days of the IA program completion. How can we connect Swamiji to everyone so that they can taste the nectar specially our near and dear ones-- especially our near and dear ones or friends who have language limitations or mind-set fixed due to their religious beliefs? Umesh, two thing. First, you imbibe this concept / this truths as a experience so deeply, when you go and start living, constantly approach your near and dear ones, every human being with this one attitude of ‘how can I contribute to his life and make a difference?’ Please understand, recently I have taken a vow. Whoever comes in my breathing space I will give something to them. May be a healing or a boon, atleast a candy. I can see so clearly, please understand, this has opened a new dimension even in me. I have the habit of always—whoever asks something, prays for something, blessing or giving them the boon. That is one thing. Now, I made it like a rule. Anybody who comes in my breathing space I will give them something; atleast a blessing from the heart, ‘let you be blissful’. My presence is always blessing, all those things are one side-it is a mystical side. Even in the practical side, when I decided, I’ll keep this as a vow, I tell you—you also keep this as a vow—so much opens up inside you. When you approach your near and dear ones or your family, friends, people, anybody, you don’t even need your near and dear ones to practise your love and compassion. Go and stand outside the mall- every human being is your near and dear one only. Every human being walks in, walks out. Stand with the tremendous meditative mood,’ how can I contribute to his life and make a difference?’. What is the best thing which made difference in my life? – feeling connection with my Master or meditation, Inner Awakening. You may have different words. But all these different words are like different doors of this Chit Sabha. Whichever door you enter, you will reach me only. One door is Inner Awakening, one door is Nithya Yoga, one door is Nithya Kriya, one door is feeling connection. So many different doors. One door is energy dharshan, one door is initiation. So many different doors. Whichever door you.. door has contributed most to your life, share that. Do not ever bother whether the other person is going to be convinced by you or not. Don’t be egoistic and greedy that you should convince all the 100% of the people to whom you talk. Don’t be greedy. Your job is to stand there with tremendous love and compassion feeling- ‘what can I contribute and make a difference?’ I tell you,if you are too much bothered about how many people are inspired or listening to your words, you become egocentric. But if you stand there- ‘how can I contribute and make a difference?’ you become spiritual centric. Most of the time your near and dear ones, your husband, your wife or family resists me because you talk to them egocentrically. It is more like a you convincing them about your rightness—I went to Swamiji, I did IA, I am right – that is not going to work. That is not going to work. Something has contributed in my life and made difference. How can I share that with him?. Can I contribute some way to his life and make a difference in his life? The attitude from which words are coming out, the attitude from which the body language is expressing, attitude from which the feeling is coming out, is going to make a difference. Understand, when you stand with the attitude, ‘how can I contribute and make a difference’, you have all the tools ready. You don’t even need anything. Just tell, “watch the you tube satsangs.” Over. Nothing more is required. That is more than enough. You know, our you tube satsangs are the longest number of minutes people stay in discourses in whole you tube. Because both side the amount of material presented is mind-boggling. But still, people spend maximum number of hours / minutes / time in the you tube satsang. Please understand, I have created enough tool, material. All you need to do is, have real concern for the other person. Sincerely, authentically, if your concern is not authentic, if your feeling, ‘how can I contribute to this person and make a difference in his life’ if that is not authentic, you are not going to help the other person. Then, you are not going to help. Even if you make that person see my satsang, your contribution will not be there. You are not going to expand. Understand, I know how to expand my sangha, don’t bother about that. But by serving, by being part, you expand your inner space. With authentic feeling, standing outside a mall or a shopping complex or a temple or a theatre, first establish yourself for 3 mins in that feeling through meditating. How can I contribute to this person’s life and make a difference. People who are coming in front of me, going, how can I contribute and make a difference? With the clear, honest attitude, I tell you, this process – standing in a public place and seeing the public, unknown people, with this one tremendous feeling, ‘how can I contribute and make a difference to this person’s life’ is more than the Vajrahrudaya technique; Buddha’s technique that inhaling all the negativities, and converting that into positive energy and releasing to the cosmos. It is a beautiful, powerful technique. Diamond-heart sutra. Buddha talks about it. Very powerful technique. I tell you, this is equivalent to that technique. This is equivalent to the technique. It is the attitude with which you stand. If you stand there with right attitude, you inspire the other person, above all, you expand which is the main effect of your tapas. Umesh, approach your near and dear ones or friends or the common public with this one attitude, ‘how can I contribute and make a difference?’. That’s it. Nothing else. Next question—

Question: Next question is from Parameshwari, IA Id no.82. She is asking, “Swamiji. Please explain the following: What is inner space? What is silence? When will I experience silence? How do I know if I am meditating rightly? Thank you Swamiji. –Parameshwari, IA Id No.82.

Swamiji: Parameshwari, who?.. Yes.. Her question is, “Swamiji. Explain the following: What is inner space? What is silence? When will I experience silence? How do I know if I am meditating rightly? Inner space means when you close your eyes and look inside, how you feel, what you feel as you, that is inner space. Second, what is silence? If that inner space—if you suddenly feel as if you have taken bath in the cold water and the whole thing inside is in the eternal peace, there is no agitation, it is all completely in peace, in restful awareness, that is what I call ‘inner silence’- means less number of thoughts. Third question—when will I experience silence? Whenever you want, that’s all. It is actually you need to feel tired of wandering around. Unless you feel tired of wandering around, if I have to use very strong term—fooling around, your mind goes on fooling around. Instead of real source of joy, you just go round, go round, go round, go round, try to taste everything; other than your food you try to taste everything. When I say everything, I mean everything. Your mind also does the same thing, going around constantly, fooling around, trying this, this, this, this, this, this,this, this, this, this, this..What is the essence? It just goes on. Goes on trying. I tell you, Your mind needs to be little tired, tired of roaming around, wandering, only then it will experience silence. It will decide to experience silence. You are asking, ‘how do I know if I am meditating rightly?’ when you meditate rightly, peace will start growing in you like a tree growing, the experience of peace will start growing in you. Nothing can agitate you. No one can disturb you. Growing peace in you. When peace grows in you rightly, you are meditating rightly. Next question—

Question: The next question is, “Swamiji, can we get greedy in our spiritual path also? How can we identify if this is happening? How do we know if we are greedy regarding our spiritual desires or they are our genuine quest? Please clarify.” With gratitude, Divya, IA Id No.:85.

Swamiji: Divya.. 85, ok. The questions is, “can we get greedy in our spiritual path also. How can we identify if that is happening? How do we know if we are greedy regarding our spiritual desires or they are our genuine quest? Please clarify”. Please understand, your greed, if it inspires you to do tapas, means work for it, then it is a genuine quest. If it is there just as a greed, it is not inspiring you to do tapas, for example, if you—I am giving you one example, if you want to be free from hunger and thirst, like how my sanyasis are now having, if you want to do that, feeling that can be considered as greed. Now, if that greed inspires you to do all the tapas necessary or the spiritual practices necessary then you are on the right track. This is sincere quest. But if your greed is not inspiring you to go through the tapas required then it is just empty greed like one more greed for 100 Rolls-Royce, private jet, that kind of thing only. Nothing else. And I also wanted you to know one more thing. When your quest is genuine you just attract a living Master around you. You just feel so strongly connected, He becomes your first priority in the life. You can see, around me I can see very clearly—many people come inside the organisation for many reason. Only if their quest is genuine I become first priority for them and they stand up. They transform, they become authentic and honest. Today I am going to move all those people who are in that hunger-free samyama to the next level. Actually they have successfully completed more than 8 days. As I said, from 10th to 17th night, full 8 days this guys did not eat any food. Many of them, there are 1 or 2 whose body started having more heat; I myself gave them instruction to have one meal. Like that there are 1 or 2 who have had 1 meal. Full 1 week, only one meal. Don’t think whole day they are drinking litres and litres of milk and juice and all other thing. No! Even otherwise, a little bit of, maybe 100 ml juice morning and 100 ml juice in the night, little water in between. That’s all. Without missing anything in their routine, including yoga and weight-lifting. They have finished the tapas. Now I am taking them to the next level. From today, it was actually the first samyama, I expected will work for 4 days. As I said they even proved my idea about them is wrong. They were successful upto 8 days. So now, today I am putting them into the next level of the samyama which will be moving them to atleast next 40 days. When you have genuine quest, you automatically feel connected and move in the right track. You may think,what is the need of being without food? It is not going to save us anything. No. it is not about being hunger-free. It is all about the ability to raise yourselves from the external needs. The next step will be ‘raising them beyond sleep’. And the third step will be ‘raising them beyond the physical needs like a pleasures. You will see, within 1 year I will have atleast 100 sadhus-my brahmacharis and brahmacharinis-- having the same bio-memory and the purity standard of the body. See, just like how my body, the very male harmone level itself has dropped to 6-year old child. Means, the very male harmone production has stopped. Only for the basic supplies like to keep the body; only that much is getting produced. Not more than that. How the very physiology has changed in me, exactly you will see the same way their very physiology will change. If they are sanyasinis, complete- that periods- menstrual cycle will stop. The production of the egg itself will stop. If they are sanyasis, the very male harmone level, harmone production will stop. Suddenly, in Sanskrit we have a word called ‘Ojas’ means ‘the whole energy turns up, not down,turns up; becomes the Kundalini energy (Urdhvaretas). This is actually part of the process, that ultimate process. Please understand, many people were greedy of this state, but whoever has inspiration to do tapas also, I have put them into this process. Its a ability to do tapas ,decides whether you have genuine quest or just pseudo ideas. It is a capacity to do tapas. That is where everything boils down. In the inner world, tapas. In the outer world, being a high achiever. That’s all is the essence of my teaching. Essence of my teaching is that much only. This is what I call ‘upgrading human beings to God’. You upgraded yourself from monkey to human being. Now it is time, ‘Oh humanity! Upgrade yourself from human being to divine being. Otherwise life is waste’. Next question..

Question: The next question is from Mugdha, IA Id No.:23, who is asking, “Dear Swamiji, if we are working with you now and we break our patterns, does that mean that they will never come back again or can they get created again? Is it possible to live life.. is it possible to live without patterns?” – Mugdha, IA Id No.:23.

Swamiji : Mugdha, Id No.:23? Yes..

The question is, “Dear Swamiji, if we are working with you now and we break our patterns, does that mean they will never come back again?” Mugdha, be very clear, it never comes back to you again in your inner space because I clean to the depths of your being. The level in which I clean is not superficial, not skin. I clean your very bone marrow, your very bio memory, very DNA pattern. That is why your DNA layers get awakened. Cleansing is deep and thorough, that is first thing. Second, you are asking, “can they get created again?” There is a possibility you can create a new pattern. Old pattern itself will not come back. They are cleaned once for all. But you need to have little bit of awareness and atleast little bit of spiritual practice. When I say little bit of spiritual practice, atleast only one quality – everyday satsang, wherever you are; now I am reaching out to you. Just have a iphone. That’s all. I am there. Nothing else. I have reduced the whole spiritual practice to just one small thing—morning satsang. Maximum I speak 1 to .. one and half hours. That one hour or one and half hours, it is not even boring, everybody only enjoys it. Atleast have that one habit so that you are constantly reminded not to create new patterns. That s all. See, new patterns, creating new patterns is not a joke. It is very difficult job. It is like building the building. But if you are never in touch you may just unconsciously build that building / new patterns. Even if you are in touch with the Master -- you don’t need to practise much, many things; even if you are just reminded, “hey! You are building the building newly!” . You will immediately demolish it. Just satsang alone is enough that you will never create new patterns again. You are asking, “Is it possible to live without patterns?” Mugdha, I tell you, it is verily possible. Not only me, thousands of my disciples around the world are living without patterns. Living with a spontaneous freedom, living with spontaneous inspiration, living with spontaneous joy and bliss. It is possible, I have made it possible, Mugdha, I will make it possible for you also.