“Minute4peace has crossed 1 million minutes – God!”

Friday, April 20th, 2012

“Sadashiva samarambam, Shankaracharya madhyamam asmadacharya paryantam vande Guru paramparam!”

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 672 places through Nithyananda TV, 25 places 2 way Nayana Deeksha, in 188 cities, 18 countries!

Cities sitting with us in 2 way Nayana Deeksha - Los Angeles Arunachala, San Jose Madhurai, Seattle Chidambaram, Toronto Kailasam, Singapore Singapuram, Malyasia Palani, Ohio Prayag, Calgary Amarnath, Anna Nagar Chennai, Austin, Victoria Australia, Abu Halifa Kuwait, Sri Satcit Bangalore, Oman Siva Gangai, Vancouver Puri, Charlotte Srisailam, Atlanta Ujjayini, Guadeloupe Rameshwaram, Oklahoma Somatham, Arunachala Tiruvannamalai, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Madhurai Adeenam, Houston Kalahasti, J.J.Nagar Chennai, Washington DC Sripuram.

Minute4peace has crossed 1 million minutes – God! And saving USD 200,000 in crime costs! Just in last few days we already saved USD 200,000. Wow!

Let us start the questions.

1. Swamiji, would you please say something about our duties to our parents, teachers, priests and master according to Vedic culture? This kind of knowledge is almost lost in the West. Especially I’d like to know about disciple’s duty to the master, again according to Vedic culture. Thank you again. - Darja Divya, IA No.85

First thing you are asking, would you please say something about our duties to our parents, teachers, priests and master according to Vedic culture? Please understand, your duty to your parents is giving them emotional and moral support when they need. I wanted to make it very clear, you are not bound by your parents to live the life they wanted. It is not your duty or responsibility. Many times you mistake your attachment and weakness as a duty and responsibility. No. See, if you are completely bound by your parents way of living, if that becomes a responsibility, then there is no possibility for growing. Then nobody is going to take the courage and break through and upgrade themselves. That is not your duty, not your responsibility. Responsibility to your parents is giving them moral support. Very beautifully one of my Brahmacharini said, the best thing I can do for them is to bringing them to you. After this, it is between you and them! I tell you, your highest responsibility to your parents is helping them to become enlightened.

Next. Teachers. Your highest responsibility to your teachers is to keep the knowledge they gave you alive and make it grow, flourish. And responsibility for the priests is, using the knowledge they gave for the ultimate. Responsibility for the master, duty for the master - you becoming enlightened. Nothing else. Giving your emotional and moral support to your parents, growing the knowledge given by your teacher, using the knowledge given by your priests to achieve the highest consciousness, and finally achieving the highest consciousness with help of the master. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else! Be very clear, you are not bound by anything else.

2. When one has already had past glimpses of enlightenment – eg. characteristics of sthithaprajna, lamp not affected by blowing wind, tortoise-like senses, verses like in Ashtavakra Gita flowing inside the heart on its own, glorifying ‘I’ consciousness, feeling the depth of Time, etc., will IA take to the same space and beyond, clearing all obstructive bio-memories so as to sustain the enlightenment in tune with this world? - Rajesh, IA ID No. 72

Please understand, Inner Awakening is a program that will help whether you are in beginning state, initial stage or you need a last push towards enlightenment. You are asking, will this program help to push to the ultimate? Yes. Especially, this will become permanent in you. I tell you, in this mood the space you are in, nothing other than master’s presence can mature your biomemory and sustain the enlightenment. Nothing else can push you to that experience, to that falling in tune with enlightenment. Especially after having certain spiritual experiences and glimpses of enlightenment, not getting that experience eternally, ultimately, strongly, is almost like a torture, suffering, suffocation. This is the moment you should have the physical presence of the master. You should be in the physical presence of the master. I tell you, IA will take you beyond all the obstructive bio-memories and sustain you into enlightenment. And I can tell you, only IA can take you beyond all obstructive bio-memories and establish you into enlightenment. No other process is available in planet earth to establish you in enlightenment.

3. Pranam to Guruji, This is regarding minimum hours of sleep required. I work in Mumbai and go to sleep at around 11 pm. Last month I tried for few days waking up at 4 am so that I can do puja / Meditation between 5-7 am. But I felt sleepy in office. Later I changed it to 5 am. Is it advisable to get up at 4 am when we sleep at 11 pm? At your feet with gratitude. - Gyan Raipuria, IA No. 20

First thing Gyan - sleep is nothing but your own boredom and laziness getting solidified and withdrawing you from your actions. Please understand, reduce the boredom and laziness in your life, the quantity of sleep will reduce and the quality of sleep will increase. Unfortunately, your whole life is filled with laziness and boredom. I tell you, laziness is the cement and boredom is the steel. When you allow both together, it becomes the concrete of depression. If you sleep more than 5-6 hours, you need to be admitted in the sleep lab! In the west they do this if you sleep more than 8 hours. I tell you – you need this if you are sleeping more than 6 hours! Laziness is cement, boredom is steel rod. When laziness and boredom gets solidified in your life, be very clear, you are moving very fast towards depression. Laziness sis cement, boredom is the steel when both stay together in your inner space it will simply become concrete of depression. After that nobody can save you. In 10-20 years you will take medication just to maintain your life.

I tell you, never allow boredom and laziness to settle inside you. Boredom means what? Not being inspired to wake up to your reality. Boredom is the steel rod, laziness is cement. When you keep both together, it becomes concrete of depression. After that you can never break it. You may do unclutching, ajapa japa, anything. But all that is like putting nails one by one on the concrete. When are you going to break the concrete? I tell you, boredom is the curse you bring on yourself. Any component will become useless if you don’t use again and again, and same way you will become dull, numb. For example, you discover that you can think authentically, plan authentically and execute authentically. Suddenly, if you get into boredom and don’t use that capacity again and again, you will see the capacity will be lost once for all. Same way, when boredom and laziness settles in you - now for survival, naturally you will have to develop cunningness. Without cunningness, you cannot survive. When you have grown boredom and laziness in you, when you have created the concrete of depression, you need to survive by cunningness. You have created the pool of poison. Whenever I see that grow, I feel, Oh God! This fellow is cursing himself, he or she is destroying himself or herself.

Around the age of 30-40, you start growing this cunningness. Because now boredom and laziness is settled in your system. Not only that you don’t want to break; you cannot break. It becomes RCC concrete in you. Just yesterday I told Ma Achala, I am becoming lazy! Morning I am coming to Paada puja only by 7:10 am. Today I aligned and came out of my room at 6:50 am. Understand, even an incarnation’s body has to kept away from laziness! This body which did not have pain even for a complicated fracture, this body which withstood Arunagiri Yogishwara’s presence for 9 months, withstood many tapas, this body which is personification of 60,000 years of Vedic tradition and has done everything possible and impossible by the siddhas - even this body, as long as it is under the Prakriti (nature) has to kept away from laziness! Just yesterday I told her, and today I was out by 6:50 am, and by sharp 7 am I was here. Of course, the people arranging pada puja were not here! They ran and came.

So Gyan, laziness and boredom is a crime. If the laziness and boredom settles in your life, it will destroy your life. I have seen 2 doctors from the same batch passing out of their medical college. One has started a chain of hospitals, and the other sitting in a village waiting for patients to come and pay 10 rupees. I have seen both extremes. One guy will become CEO of chain of hospitals, the other guy will be sitting in one small room – with a board, ‘Shanta clinic’, with on old newspaper, and one old compounder who will himself send the patients away, saying, if you go to the doctor you have to pay Rs.10, just pay me Rs.5 and I’ll give you the medicine.

What is the difference between this guy and that guy? The guy sitting in village for 10 rupees has laziness and boredom settled in the system. I tell you, laziness and boredom eats away your whole life, destroys your whole life. Even now I have to be careful about laziness and boredom. Of course, I do not have boredom. But I have to be careful of this laziness. As long as your body is under nature, you have to be afraid of laziness. If I am saying I am afraid of laziness, then what are you guys supposed to feel?!

Non-planning leads to dishonesty. You see, dishonesty then becomes survival mode. I tell you, dishonesty destroys your life. Dishonesty takes away your life from you. Dishonesty is just committing suicide. Not just physically. Destroying your lives after lives. Dishonesty and cunningness destroys your lives after lives. Once you start creating the pattern of dishonesty and cunningness, even I cannot save you. Nobody can save you. Because even the relationship between me and you will have the dishonesty and inauthenticity, then even if I stretch my hand I will not be able to lift you. Sleeping more than 4-5 hours means, you are allowing laziness and boredom to settle down in your life. Increase the long breath in your day time. Whole day, whenever you remember, take at least 11 long breaths. The moment you start taking long breath, you will see your palms, your fingertips are feeling the tingling sensation. It means the prana circulation, samaana circulation is increasing. Just do this for 21 days - you will see your sleeping quantity will reduce and quality will increase. Reduce the quantity, increase the quality of sleep. Reduce the boredom and laziness pattern in your life. Increase the authenticity and honesty in your life.

Today I am going to have one more extra session with IA participants. So with next question I will end.

4. Swamiji, you spoke about the mountain Kailash being home to many enlightened beings. Were they from all different cultures? And if so, why Kailash? The energy darshan you gave in the valley at the foot of Kailash produced many miracles. What was so special about that place?

First thing - once somebody becomes enlightened, then there is no more difference in cultures. Whether it is Buddhism, Jainism, Islam or Christianity, once enlightened, there is no difference. If you ask, why Kailash? Kailash happens to be the energy center, ananda gandha of planet earth. If you ask me why I settled in Bidadi, I can say I don’t know the answer. That is the way it is. I can say Shiva settled in physical body and settled in Kailash and created an energy field. Maybe he liked the place! Shiva likes solitude, being in Samadhi. Or maybe so that inauthentic fellows don’t reach near him, because it is difficult to reach the place! Of course, he is available everywhere, he makes himself available everywhere. Even then, Kailash is totally different. See, now I am available in VC in so many places. But sitting physically in front of me in Bidadi is different. See, in VC, you can see only what camera shows. But here in Bidadi you can see something more. All temples and centers, you can see only how much is shown by the camera. Same way, Kailash has something more to be seen.

That place is called Ashtapath, where Shiva administers the cosmos. From south side of Kailash, Shiva shared enlightenment, from east side he does administration, from west side, his presence is available as Jyotirlinga. You can do whatever you want! So, each side expressed unique energy. The place where I gave darshan is the side from which he administers the cosmos. So naturally administrative energy is the unique energy. Even now, so many people give me the continuity of the Kailash experience. The experience which started there, even now it is continuing. I get many experiences. Nothing like Kailash. Even now, if I remember or talk about it, I feel like going there. That is why I wanted to take up the project of having our ashram there. So that whenever I want, I can go there in helicopter and come back! If at all I wanted helicopter, I want it to go to Kailash and come back regularly. That is the place to be in.

Today I will end the Satsang now. I will take the Dial the Avatar calls tomorrow. Today I will share one more session with IA participants.

I wanted to remind you to enter the minutes for peace today’s satsang times – 76 minutes is your minutes if you have been in satsang from pada puja.

I bless you all who are sitting with us at this moment around the world in places through 1016 Nithyananda TV, in 25 places through 2 way Video conferencing, in 248 cities, 25 countries!

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