Puranas Are Not Myth

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Today, the sixth day of Nithyanandeshwara Brahmotsava, Mahadeva is gracing with Sundara Pandya crown, the Pandya’s style crown, the crown will rise and open up in the back side, that is the style, Pandya style. So, Sundara Pandya Kreedam, and Devi Meenakshi, Nithyanandeshwari in the pearl crown. And, with this they are gracing. The sixth day is dedicated to all the devotees. Today, all the devotees of Mahadeva are worshipped in Tiruvannamalai Temple. Let us also remember all the great Bhaktas, who kept this Shiva Bhakti tradition, the tradition of Shaivism alive in the planet Earth and handed that over to all of us.

Let me continue on – keep it simple, Shivoham series. I will expand more on this subjective truth; that one word understood, can clear so many of your doubts. Please understand, all the reality you experience in your life, starts in you as subjective truth. If you are experiencing richness now as your reality, this has started in you as a subjective truth at sometime. If you are experiencing poverty in you as a reality now, it has started as a subjective truth in you at sometime. Maybe the poverty would have started as a incompletion. I don’t want to use the word subjective truth for it; because, there is difference between subjective truth and incompletion. Incompletion, by more and more remembrance which makes you weak and expresses itself as reality; subjective truth is by remembering it, it makes you more and more stronger and expresses itself as reality.

Understand, whether incompletion or subjective truth, listen, incompletion or subjective truth, by more remembrance it becomes reality. Anything which weakens you and makes itself reality is incompletion; anything which strengthens you and makes itself as reality is subjective truth. By remembrance which binds you is incompletion, by remembrance which liberates you is subjective truth. Arunachala is a subjective truth; because Smaranat Mukti – by remembrance Liberation; by remembrance Liberation – Smaranan Mukti - just by remembering, anything that grows in you and strengthens itself and strengthens you and becomes reality.

I tell you, all our Puranas, are all subjective truth. When you say, when Puranas say, Krishna just picked up the whole Govardhana hill with his little finger. It is a truth for the people who want to live that. Stupid insensitive minds can never understand that; stupid, insensitive minds can never understand it. When I say Arunagiri Yogishwara appeared and gave Me Kavi and Initiated Me, it is a subjective truth. It is truth for the people who want to live it. When I say, I gave the food and Ganesha ate, it is subjective truth. It is truth for the people who want to live it. Stupids cannot understand and one thing just because blind man can’t see, don’t say world does not exist. Just because stupids can’t see, don’t say this subjective truth does not exist. Puranas are not myths. Actually the so-called western history is myth. The fellow who won the game he wrote the history. Whoever wins the war, they write the history. It is myth. I am changing the game now. If Hitler would have won in the Second World War, the world history would have been different. Because Hitler lost, the history is different. Arey, more number of Hindus were killed in Kashmir and when Pakistan was separated, than number of Jews killed by the Hitler. But, no one talks about it. I tell you, the so-called history you are reading is myth.

All Puranas are subjective truth. All Puranas are subjective truth. Otherwise how do you think the brains which conceived the movements of the Grahas, and even now the world’s best time calculation and astronomical calculation method is our astrological Sutras. Still our Jyoti Sutras, our Panchiga method, the Panchanga method is the most accurate, precise way of calculating Lunar Eclipse, or Solar Eclipse, or any happening in the Universe. Arey, how can the brains which conceived all those things; which are able to comprehend all those things, will believe in something which is a delusion or a myth? Come on, the brain which conceived the Tanjore Brihadeeswara’s Temple architecture; arey, still I am not able to understand the whole thing, consulting with so many Stapathis; we are not able to decode the mystery of the Brihadeeswara Temple. I am thinking that I am going to rebuild one more temple like that, little taller than that; planning. No, but I wanted you guys to know still I am not able to decode the whole thing. The brain which can conceive that, will it believe in any myth or delusion? These stupid fellows go on abusing the Hindu Puranas are myths. What do you guys mean? The brain which can conceive the concept of zero, the brains which has gone to the heights of theology.

I tell you, no poetry can be so sublime than Upanishads. Just by sitting and reading Upanishad, I can be hunger-free, sleep-free in any number of days. Enjoying, tasting, celebrating the sublime poetry expressed. Understand, a sublime poet will never be caught in delusion. Maybe a gross, lusty poet can get into delusion.

A sublime poet –

īśā vāsyamidaṁ sarvaṁ yatkiñca jagatyāṁ jagat | tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā mā gṛdhaḥ kasyasviddhanam ||

What a subtle, sublime truth. See everything exists is energy. Stop identifying as “I” and “Mine” with something separate; renounce this “I" and “Mine” and be liberated and celebrate and enjoy everything exists. Arey, just remembering this verse without food, and water, and sleep, I can spend days together. The sublime truth – these brains can never be caught in myth; listen, listen; these brains can never be caught in myth. And, nobody understood the structure of the society. I want to tell you guys, the brains which has perceived the truths like a IshaVasya Upanishad, Katopanishad, can never get deluded by myth. I give you guys assurance, our Puranas are subjective truth. They are not myth. Our Puranas are subjective truths. They are not myth.

Aryabhatta, what a intellectual brilliance, in Mathematics and Astronomy. When he wrote Aryabhatiyam, he was only twenty-three. He is the first guy to declare the world, Earth is round, it rotates on its axis and orbits the Sun. At least few thousand years before Copernicus published his Heliocentric theory. He is the man who declared the value of pi. See those brains cannot get deluded by some mythological, mythical, fairy tale stories, understand. All Puranas are subjective truth. All the eighteen Puranas by Bhagawan Vyasa are subjective truth, not myth. And I want all of you to know – Anybody who thinks, I have some brain, now or in future; anybody who is going to believe, think, I have some brain to understand things, that I have the level of a brain which will not be deluded by any delusion or myth or confusion. I wanted to put this on record now itself to all of you, who believe in Me already and who are going to believe in Me in future. Be very clear, Puranas are subjective truths, not myth. Myth is the too small word to be translate the word “Purana”. That is why I am saying when our masters declare Tattavamasi – You are the truth; Shivoham – I am Mahadeva. When I say Shivoham, I mean you also; you are Mahadeva. When our Masters declare this truth, it is not myth. It is not myth. It is subjective truth. Subjective truth; listen; not myth, but subjective truth.

One of the biggest attack done on Hindu tradition, Vedic tradition is, saying that all our Puranas are myths. No really, it is… it is one of the biggest attack. Even we started feeling, having self-doubt; I tell you. As, the Dharma, all of us, all the Hindus are feeling the SDHD – Self-doubt, denial, hatred; self-doubt, self-hatred, self-denial. That is why these modern day Gurus, they create their own Gods and Goddesses. Their own brand Gods and Goddesses. Because they don’t want to accept, the traditionally, the worshipped Gods and and Goddesses of Agama are true. They don’t want to say Mahadeva worshipped Agamically, is real; they want to create their own version. They don’t want to say, the Goddess Kali or Durga worshipped by Agamas, our Shastras are true; they want to create their own version. Because deep self-doubt, self-hatred, self-denial, the whole Hindu society is suffering. I tell you, every Purana is true. It is subjective truth. Every Purana is a subjective truth.

Somebody asked me the other day, “Swamiji, some one keyword You bring, with that key suddenly You lock the two thousand, three thousand doors with which we are caught. With one word – Subjective truth – has opened so many doors, cleared so many doors, cleared so many doubts with which our Sanatana Hindu Dharma society is made to suffer. I know, I am opening the door and clearing the sufferings, of SDHD of Sanatana Hindu Dharma. They can’t tolerate a brain actively working and getting these keywords and opening all the major questions posed on Sanatana Hindu Dharma. See this, all the Puranas are myths and lies, stories and fairy tales, this is not just one ordinary abusal dumped on us. At-least last four-five hundred years, even we started believing it.

Ramayana and Mahabharata are the stories more real than the reality you see around you. If you think this hall is real, this throne is real, the people who are sitting next to you are all real, and I am real. Mahabharata and Ramayana and all these eighteen Puranas by Bhagawan Vyasa are far more real; understand. I wanted all our ashrams to have a basic library; means four Vedas, hundred and eight Upanishads, twenty-eight Agamas, sixty-four Tantras, eighteen Puranas, eighteen Upapuranas, Shad Darshana, Upagama. The basic Hindu scriptures, a basic library, which will be just, maybe ten lakh books. I wanted all our ashrams to have this. People should know, the rich heritage. Some may have time to read, some may have time to enjoy, everyone should at least see and celebrate, see and respect. Even if you don’t read all the books in the library, at least let everyone see and bow down, understand there is something beyond your head; have respect. No really, have respect.

Our Puranas are much more truthful, honest, integrated, authentic version of what happened than any other historians, history. Any history written by any historians. After facing tons and tons of false accusations, lies, abuses by the modern day puranic writers. I am telling you authentically, our Puranas are much more truth, truthful, integrated, authentic, responsibility… responsible and enriching than any history by any historian. Puranas, Authentic history; Puranas are the Authentic history, subjective truths. Work little on this concept that great subjective truth Shivoham – you will understand the power of Shivoham, you will understand the power of Shivoham. Understand, subjective truth is the most powerful truth, it will become even objective reality. Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham.

In Tibetian Buddhist tradition, there is a practice which was taken by Bodhi Dharma from Kanchipuram; any truth they want to constantly remember, they will type that… write that truth on a flag and tie it and sit under the flag, that breeze will be constantly going in them. They will sit visualizing the truth working on them. Means, like if they want to realize the Buddha’s teachings, they will write all that in flags and tie all around the house. The air passes through that flag carries the truth and works inside them. It may look like superstition, for the so-called superstitious fellows who believe their body is the only reality. What they push through the mouth and what been pushes… pushed out through the body, that is the only reality. For those fellows, it may look superstitious, but I am telling you, writing this great truth – Shivoham in a flag and hanging around your house or as the Torana – thousands of beautiful decorative flags with Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham and letting that air constantly in you and breathing that very air in which Shivoham is mixed. It's a wonderful spiritual practice. We will demonstrate this first, for this Jayanti. We will have ten thousand decorative flags with Shivoham and Nithyanandoham printed on it. And, breathe that air, celebrate that air. Even in Cambodia we will have flags, Shivoham flags, Nithyanandoham flags.

And, there was one jewel I saw in Madurai Adheenam. I asked our Sannidanam; because in that jewel, it was written, “Namah Shivaya" in the earring. I asked him, “What is this Swamiji, why the Namah Shivaya is written?” He was telling, “When you wear that in your ears, everytime it moves, Namah Shivaya, Namah Shivaya, Namah Shivaya is repeated in your ears”. So, in our Sundara Vadam, we will also carve Nithyanandoham and Shivoham. Every time it moves, it will repeat in your ears – Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham. We will make Shivoham jewelleries; in the neck, in the ears. Every time it moves, it will repeat Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham.

One of the great modern day devotee, in the modern era, one of the greatest devotee I have seen, is Kripananda Variyar Swamigal – a Great personality. I can say, he is my Tamil Guru. I learned Tamil, listening to his speeches. Even in his underarm, he was wearing a Rudraksha by… What do you call? That, piercing – He was wearing a Rudraksha. I asked him, “Why Swamiji?” He said, “Even when I put my hands, I remember, “Muruga”. When that Rudraksha pokes me, I remember, “Muruga”. So, this was all done for a constant Ajapa-Japa.

Once, He was giving a lecture on – how to do Shiva Puja. He was telling that, “The Linga should be worn in the neck and you should open it and keep the Linga on the hand and pour the water and do Puja. In that, he was making a statement, in Tamil –

Angam veru lingam veru aagakoodathu appanane. Angam veru lingam veru aagapidathu. ☺ Angam veru lingam veru anaal Athi Murugan arul kittaathu. Angam veru lingam veru agathavan adisaivan enpathu saiva sasthiram. ☺

He was saying, “The Linga should not become separated from the body”. So, after the lecture, all of us went and took blessings from him, received Vibhooti. I asked him, very casually, “Swamiji, how can the Linga, the being”, means I was meaning that Anma, the soul, which is Mahadeva, “How can that be separated from body? It can never be separated.” I told him in Tamil –

Lingatha eepadi sami angatha vittu eduka mudiyum? Angam veru lingam veru aga mudiyathe!

He was just shocked and he looked up. And he was having a Vibhooti bag in his hand and giving. He just kept the whole thing and folded his hand and said in Tamil –

Sutta pazam venduma sudatha pazam venumanu avvaiyai ketta mathri enna ketka vanthayapa?

There is a story, where Subramanya directly comes down and corrects the… a Great lady Saint Avvai, her understanding and He Himself teaches her and liberates her, gives her Enlightenment by giving a important understanding. She has become little egoistic about her knowledge and Subramanya directly comes down and removes her ego and makes her understand and gives her Enlightenment. So he said, “Just like you did for Avvai, did you come again to give the truth to me?” His humbleness, I don’t know what he saw in Me. I was mere boy of ten year old boy, what he saw in Me or I don’t know. Then he… I didn’t tell anything, I just smiled and walked. Till I left the hall, he was sitting with folded hands. Only after that, he started giving Vibhooti to the next people who came. One of the greatest devotee I have seen in My life. So even when the hand moves, he wants to remember the Lord’s name constantly; whether he want to wear jewelleries or pierce yourself with Rudrakshas. Do whatever you want, but be in the space of Shivoham.

The essence of today’s Satsang. Subjective truth should be cherished, cherished, cherished, cherished and lived. Subjective truth should be cherished, cherished, cherished and lived.

With this, I bless you all. Let’s all radiate with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, Enriching and Causing.

Eternal bliss, Nithyananda.