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Sleep Your Way to Enlightenment!

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Buddha once slapped a fly to death on his face. When he came into awareness, he repeated the same action, but slowly and with awareness. A disciple asked, “What are you doing? The fly has already died.” Buddha replied, “Yes, but I killed it unconsciously, so I am now doing prayashchitta or repentance. I am doing the same act consciously.” This story speaks volumes about the importance of awareness in every action.

Infuse awareness into every action – walking, talking, sitting, and even breathing. By slowing down, one becomes more conscious of one’s actions and will act with awareness. This is called Zen living or meditative living. When every act is done consciously and with awareness during the whole day, the person also becomes aware and conscious the whole night. Being aware the whole night is called sleeping one’s way to health and enlightenment!

What is sleep?

By its very nature consciousness is nameless, formless and timeless. Mental patterns, which are nothing but our automated response mechanisms to situations, keep pulling at the nervous system, creating the world of name, form and time. This is the world as it is experienced by all. The intelligent innate consciousness in everyone always wants to get back to this original state where there is neither name, nor form, nor the experience of time. When one falls asleep, the consciousness floods the body and the nervous system, it packs up all the patterns, almost like packing up a tent. This is what is the experience of deep and dreamless sleep. In the sleep state, however, the patterns do not die. They just remain in their seed state.

When the effect of patterns and consciousness on the body is evenly balanced, one has the right experience of the world, dreams and sleep. If the consciousness becomes less, and the effect of patterns is more then natural, sleep disorders are the result. Too much of attachment to what is seen or heard, which is nothing but the effect of patterns, is responsible for insomnia and other sleep disorders. If the effect of consciousness is more on the nervous system as compared to the patterns, that is what leads to the meditative state and super-consciousness. Increased consciousness during the day will naturally lead to awareness in the dream state, and then to awareness during the deep sleep state. When one becomes aware in all the three states – waking, dream and sleep, it is called turiya, the fourth state. Finally, when the effect of consciousness is too much on the nervous system, all the patterns get destroyed permanently. This gives the direct experience of enlightenment.

So it is very important to flood consciousness into every action during the day, and sleep in the night. This technique is a direct method to bring awareness into the deep sleep state. It needs to be practiced at night in a darkened room, for one full night. The unique thing about this meditation is that it is sufficient to do it just once to heal all sleep related problems.

Instructions

Sit in a comfortable posture. You can sit cross-legged on the floor or in a chair. Sit in an upright posture with the head, neck and spine in a straight line. You can support the lower back, but do not allow the head or upper back to rest against any surface, otherwise there will be a likelihood of falling asleep. For this reason it is better not to sit on the bed while doing this meditation.

Close your eyes. You can also tie a cloth around the eyes. This will give a deeper experience of darkness, and avoid the temptation to open the eyes.

Now meditate deeply on darkness. Darkness is the nature of deep sleep. So meditate on darkness. Visualize that you are inhaling and exhaling darkness. Visualize darkness flooding you and everything around you. Visualize it entering into each and every cell of your body, until all that exists is darkness.
Repeat the word darkness mentally like chanting a mantra. If your mind starts wandering, bring it back to the experience of darkness.

When this meditation is done successfully for one full night, one will have the experience of conscious sleep and it will completely heal disorders like insomnia or chronic fatigue. There will be no tiredness from meditating all night, in fact one will feel fresh, alive and full of energy. However, the benefits do not stop with just better sleep and health. The process given here can be a direct way to experience enlightenment itself.

Adapted from the teachings from Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Are You Really Listening?

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Be Desperate to Listen!

Listen!

Why are you always desperate to speak? Be desperate to listen! Listening – what a powerful tool for transformation! Listening is the only way to receive life. Listening is the only way you can truly relate with yourself and others.

When you listen to yourself, all the unconsciousness in you drops away. Please understand: the hidden, unresolved, incomplete parts of you are crying for your listening. Just listen. When you listen to yourself, your awareness reaches such a peak that there is no space for conflict, no space for non-integrity and inauthenticity to live in you.

People Want Your Listening

When you listen to others, you will transform them just by your listening. Remember, when people come to you, they almost always don’t want solutions. They just want your listening. In the space of your deep listening, they will find the answers they need. And out of that deep listening, even if you speak, it will always be what the other person needs to hear.

I always speak what you need to hear, because I listen when you speak. I know what you need, and I speak exactly that. When I listen, I listen to everything – what you speak and what you don’t speak and what you want to speak! I can transform you because I listen to you.

Empty Your Cup

A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor’s cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s full! No more will go in!”, the professor blurted. “This is you,” the master replied, “How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup.”

Listening Means not Having an Answer Ready!

We really never ever listen at all in our lives. See. When your spouse, your boss or your friend is talking to you, see exactly what you are doing. You are not listening. You are preparing your answer to them! Even before they start talking, you are preparing your answer. That is why your answer never matches their question – because you never heard the question!

Listening needs three things from you: One, a passive inner space that invites the other person to pour themselves into your listening. Two, a deep patience that can wait for a solution to emerge on its own. Three, the courage to respond spontaneously, without a prepared answer or a ready made solution.

Listening means just dropping your mind and being available for the other.

Adapted from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s teachings

Teleportation, a Reality

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E = mc2

What most of people think of as teleportation involves the physical relocation of an object. The object disappears from one place and pops up in another. Scientifically, this means that the molecular structure of the object is disassembled, the particles of matter are converted into energy, the energy particles are sent to a designated location, and then are re-converted into matter and arranged back into the shape they previously had.

Contemporary physicists agree that this process is possible. In quantum physics, entanglement allows sub-atomic units, called quanta, to exchange information over vast distances once they have been energetically connected. Energetic connections can include, but are not limited to, sharing an electric pulse or being exposed to the same chemical while they are close to each other.

Vedic Rishis were Scientists!

In the Vedic tradition of pre-historic India, technology was developed to a degree far surpassing that of the present day. Much of it remains in the hands of sacred literature, in oral teachings and in the akashic record available to enlightened beings. Some details of the science on which it was based have been forgotten through lack of practice, but the foundations have been preserved and handed down from generation to generation.

The rishis, or researchers, of the Vedic civilization, who were both mystics and scientists, discovered that matter and energy can be interchanged into each other. They are not fixed in any permanent forms. The rishis took this natural occurrence several steps further and discovered how to dismantle matter (solid or liquid objects) completely into the energy particles it was composed from. The particles were then sent to the location where the object was needed and reassembled there into their previous shape, just the way our present-day physicists have theorized.

Making from “Nothing”

The rishis were also able to perform materialization, a process in which objects are formed seemingly from “nothing”. Scientifically, energy is transformed into matter without having already had a solid shape. The imagination of the materializer provides the shape, color and design. For example, a yogi might want to give a talisman to a student, but none is available. He can “make” one from “nothing” by gathering energy and mentally forming it into the shape of the amulet he wants, then directing his energy to condense the molecules around him into solid substance. Materialization is another ability demonstrated by modern-day yogic masters.

Teleportation, a Siddhi

In the Vedic age, teleportation was a common practice. It continues to exist today among the spiritual practitioners of India, Nepal and other traditions which descended from the Vedas: namely, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs. Teleportation is a siddhi – a power and a natural extension of human capacity. Siddhis are the birthright of each person; capabilities that lie hidden in one’s bio-memory and can be developed through spiritual practice. Teleportation is one of many such abilities.

Kundalini – The Access Door to Higher Powers

Siddhis draw upon a specialized energy which lies dormant in the body. The human energy field, like an electrical field, surrounds and permeates the body. Just as electricity needs a conduit to concentrate and direct it before it can be used, human energy must be accessed to harness it. The key to the access is stored within each person from birth, but cannot be activated until one reaches a certain level of consciousness. That level is enhanced by meditation, and supplemented by other forms of practice. In their experiments with energy the rishis evolved a name for this access, the door to human potential. They called it kundalini, meaning “the coiled one”. It lies curled up like a snake at the base of the spine. Once uncoiled during activation, it flows up the spine to flood and nourish the brain, producing heightened awareness, clarity of thought, and often spontaneous healing of pre-existing illness.

The rishis evolved a reliable set of practices which awakened the kundalini. They are still in use today and are as effective as they were historically.

Scientific Research & Revival of Vedic Science

Paramahamsa Nithyananda, has established an experiential renaissance of the Vedic tradition at his retreat center in modern-day India. Working actively with scientists and researchers worldwide to decode the mystical yogic sciences of the East, he has conducted research with numerous control populations, testing the conditions under which these processes operate and the mechanisms by which they can be duplicated in people without many arduous years of spiritual practice. He has found that awakening the kundalini facilitates the flowering of siddhis even in “ordinary” human beings – those who have not spent a lifetime in yogic pursuits. He already has the knowledge of awakening kundalini in others. He has learned that the first siddhis to manifest in his experiments have been levitation, materialization and teleportation.

Much of this ancient science has been lost during the course of time, yet a lot still remains available. Reclaiming this knowledge can create a large short-cut for the step-by-step process of laboratory physics. Paramahamsa Nithyananda, through his experiments, has found a way to offer this short-cut to the world. He is inviting scientists to collaborate with him to make Vedic technology available for universal use. The age of teleportation is no longer a dream of science fiction. It has already arrived.

Adapted from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s teachings

Unclutch to be Complete!

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The Bone Structure of Your Life

Everything starts with words. Everything starts with a declaration. Everything starts with commitment. Honouring the words you give to you and to others as your life, is integrity. Integrity is neither morality, nor ethics. It is beyond both. Inside you, you are constantly giving words to yourself. To bring integrity to you, you need to fulfill every word given to you as your life. Every time you give a word to yourself, or create a desire for yourself, and don’t fulfill it, you will be in incompletion.

When you give a commitment to yourself or to others, that is the bone structure of your life. That is the bone structure of life itself. If you continuously break the bones of your life, how will your life will be? We know it would be full of pain, distorted, and perverted. The words that you give to you are the bone structure of your inner personality. The words you give to others are the inner structure of your success in life. If you are constantly breaking your bones and breaking the bones of your life, life will be painful, suffering, torture.

Your Life is Made up of Words

You function based on the words and commitments you utter to yourself and to others. Am I right? Everything in your life starts with these two things. So the words you give to you and to others is life, literally Life. They are the basis of your actions, inaction and reactions. In order to be a success with yourself and with your life you must keep your word. It is your very life!

You need to understand that not only the words and commitments given to others but even the commitments made to your own self need to be fulfilled to remain in integrity. Integrity starts with completion. When you are incomplete with all the commitments, promises, desires, ideas you expressed to your self, you will struggle to fulfill any more words, promises, ideas you create inside you.

Unclutching is the process which constantly brings you back to the space of completion with yourself and reduces your inner chatter. Even a few minutes of unclutching can bring a new awareness in you about the words you are constantly uttering to yourself.

Just Unclutch!

When a thought raises in you without supporting it, encouraging it, entertaining it or being entertained by it, just relax from it. Please understand, when a thought raises in you, without entertaining it, and without being entertained by it, without encouraging it, without being excited by it, just relaxing! If you start relaxing from the thoughts which are raising, you will experience freedom from the identity which you created. Constantly you create a shaft of thoughts with thoughts of pain, joy, pleasure etc. Now you can see the flash image of how you create a shaft of thoughts in your inner space.

Fewer Words

When you unclutch with sincerity, you will see, you will have fewer thoughts, fewer words inside you. You will feel more complete. Unclutching is a process of completion because it again and again brings you back to the space of completion. It restores the inner silence in you, which reduces the words you utter inside, and infuses an awareness in you about the words and thoughts that do come up. With this new awareness, you will immediately drop any ideas, desires or wants that you know you will not be able to fulfill. This keeps you in completion with yourself. Also, you will be reminded of your incompletions as new thoughts come up, and now you can complete with those incomplete acts and thoughts.

Unclutching is the mahavakya (the ultimate teaching of an enlightened master) which restores a clean inner space of completion in your being.

Adapted from the teachings of Paramahamsa Nithyananda

“It’s Okay” is Not Okay

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‘It’s okay’ are the words which can ruin your life! “It’s okay if I miss my tennis practice just today, it’s okay if I have one more chocolate, it’s okay if I cheat on her just this once, it’s okay if I miss only one spiritual vow.” Then finally, one day, anything and everything is okay.

For example, you have made a commitment to yourself that you will wake up at 5 am and practice yoga and meditation every day, as a commitment to improve your health and well-being. You do this sincerely for ten days. This is great – you are heading towards being established in integrity. On the eleventh day, you switch off your alarm clock and think, “It’s okay! I’ve done this properly for 10 days.” You might further justify by saying- “Anyway today is Sunday, I too deserve a holiday. Let me take this day off and start again tomorrow!” Understand, this is not like an agreement you made with your job, for which you’re paid, and which allows you a Sunday off! This is a commitment you gave to yourself, to improve and better you. Your commitment to your health should not be swayed or compromised with ‘it’s okay’.

Understand – when you are in integrity, there are two doors that will open. One is the entrance to authenticity. The other is the entrance to ‘it’s okay’. Be very clear -’it’s okay’ is the door that leads to inauthenticity!

Remember this – when you fall into ‘it’s okay’, you fall into inauthenticity! ‘It’s okay’ is the trapdoor to inauthenticity! Again and again and again you will be tempted to fall into the trap of ‘it’s okay’. Each time decide instead to be a possibility of ‘it is not okay’! When you feel the pattern of ‘it’s okay’ rising in you, simply respond with “It is not okay!”. Every time you choose ‘it is not okay’, you become more and more authentic. Authenticity stabilizes your being!

How many times have you stopped yourself from achieving your highest potential, just out of the attitude of ‘it’s okay’? Don’t think that you will directly start with big crimes! Loss of integrity always starts with a small ‘it’s okay’. Unconsciousness enters into your system only through small actions. Even if you feel as if you are having your own way when you say ‘it’s okay’, be aware, it is just a state of powerlessness. Not performing to your maximum is certainly not power! Never trust the decisions you make when you are feeling powerless. While you are feeling powerless, you can cause irreparable damage to you, which takes years to repair, and even the will to repair can disappear.

‘It’s okay’ is the white ant which will eat away your integrity and destroy you without even you knowing about it. After some time, this attitude will settle in you and you will even forget that you are living in non-integrity. The power of inauthenticity is such after two days it makes you forget that you are inauthentic. Remembering it is very painful, that is why you forget so easily.

Never think that a little inauthenticity is okay! You usually keep a little inauthenticity in reserve, justifying to yourself that you will use it only in any extreme situations when you have no other choice. That is like storing a little poison in a corner of your house, because you may need it after two years or five years!

No! Declare clearly now that you will not allow ‘it’s okay’ to destroy your possibilities. Post mortem is of no use to your life! Do future-mortem – throw out the ‘it’s okay’ attitude from your inner space before it destroys you.

Adapted from the teachings of Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Nachiketa, the Fire of Authenticity!

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The Katopanishad graphically describes the power of authenticity and how it can impact life. Nachiketa, the wonder child, is the hero personifying the power of authenticity. Nachiketa, with an innocent curiosity, took part in all the activities performed by his father, King Vajasravas. His father was performing a sacrifice to please the gods, in which the person had to give away all his wealth. Nachiketa saw that the king started donating cows that had given milk and yielded many calves for years, which were old. They were of no more use, but were considered as the objects of donation by the king.

Though a child, Nachiketa could understand that his father was behaving inauthentically. He decided to take responsibility for his father’s inauthenticity. Since the king was supposed to be giving away the best things in his life, Nachiketa asked him where he would be giving him. The king’s ego was unable to handle his own inauthenticity being exposed, and in a fit of anger, he declared that he would be giving Nachiketa unto death. Yet, the boy was unperturbed. He was weighing his own significance in his father’s life, but not out of conceit. He was weighing his merit as a son and a pupil. Would he be a worthy gift to Yama, the lord of death? What would his going to Yama accomplish for his father?

Although he realized that his father’s harsh reply was only the expression of a momentary outburst of anger, he believed that a greater harm might befall his father if his word was not kept. Therefore, he sought to strengthen his father’s resolution by reminding him of the transitory condition of life. Nachiketa said, “Look back to those who have lived before you and look to those who live now. Look at grain; the mortal remains perish and new grain springs up. All things perish, truth alone remains. Why then, do you fear to sacrifice me?” Thus, Nachiketa convinced his father that he should remain true to his word and send him to Yama, the Lord of Death. Nachiketa proceeded to the abode of Yama, but when he reached there he found that Yama was absent. The boy waited without food or drink for three days. Just by his authentic declaration, Nachiketa broke the very pattern of eating, and even breathing. Just telling his body alone would not have been sufficient to accomplish this. It was the authenticity of his declaration which made it possible.

When Yama returned three days later, his assistant told him that a Brahmana had walked into their home with intensity like that of fire and if he was not offered something, it would harm them all greatly. This statement comes from the ancient Vedic ideal that a guest is the representative of God and should be received with due reverence and honor. On hearing this, Yama proceeded to greet Nachiketa. Because Nachiketa waited for three days without food at his doorstep, the lord of death showered him with three boons.

Nachiketa at Yamaa Dwara_ED_S

The first boon that Nachiketa asked for is that his father should be free of all anxieties and anger, and that he should welcome Nachiketa home with joy. This shows how Nachiketa was not giving up on his father, even though he sent him to death. His authenticity made him take up the responsibility to make his father also authentic. Yama agreed to grant this, healing Vajasravas’s anger, so much so that he could have a dreamless sleep. Only when one is completely free from inner conflicts, can one have a dreamless sleep.

For his second boon, Nachiketa asked, “Thou knowest, oh Death, the fire sacrifice that leads to heaven. Tell this to me, I am full of shraddha (authenticity). This I beg as my second boon.”

To this, Yama replied, “I know well the fire that leads to heaven. Listen to me, oh Nachiketa! This is the means of attaining endless worlds and their support it is hidden in the heart of all beings.”

By this, Yama was telling Nachiketa that there is a part of everyone that is non-perishable. He told him to become that part, and time will no longer have an effect on him. Time only has an effect on the gross parts of a person. So, the more subtle a person is, the lesser time affects them. Yama revealing this to Nachiketa is as good as a policeman teaching someone how to escape the law. Thus, Yama explained the process of the fire sacrifice that Nachiketa asked for. He said that this fire is the beginning of all worlds. Until Nachiketa understood the beginning, he would not understand the end, nor could he live an endless life. The fire altered a being to their next frequency of consciousness, through the mantras (chants) and offerings. Being pleased with his ability to learn well, Yama declared that the first fire sacrifice shall be named after Nachiketa.

Yama continued, “He who performs this Nachiketa fire sacrifice three times, being united with the three, that is mother, father and teacher, and who fulfills the threefold duty to study the Vedas, sacrifice and give alms, will cross over birth and death. Knowing this worshipful, shining fire, which is born of Brahman, the supreme soul, he attains eternal peace.” With this, Nachiketa’s boon was granted.

For his final boon, Nachiketa was intent on knowing the inner secret of life after death. Through this knowledge, he would help the world.

This was also granted, which Death as a Guru bestowed on him after testing his worth. Nachiketa with his shraddha became the enlightened ruler of humanity, leading the people on a path of aligning with the higher truths. He became a hero because of his powerful authenticity and quality of extreme sacrifice.

Adapted from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s spiritual discourses on the Katopanishad

Asana

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Asana

Tune Yourself to the Cosmos !

In the yoga world nowadays, the word asana generally means body postures: holding a specific pose while bending the body. Asanas may be popular practice for a number of reasons, including their great physical and mental benefits, and of course for aesthetics. On one level, it is, but asanas have a much deeper meaning and purpose.

In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali states:

“sthira-sukham asanam” -Chapter II, v. 46

Paramahamsa Nithyananda translates:

“Asanas are steady and comfortable body postures to tune oneself with the Cosmos.”

If you look deeply, any body posture is associated with a state of being, with a particular state of consciousness. For example, can you sleep standing up? And how about lying down in a relaxed way and try to shout angrily at someone. You can’t! The body language changes according to your moods and attitudes. Subtle changes in your body posture will cause a major change in the way you feel.

A small exercise:

Sit straight with eyes closed and the hands in front of you, palms facing up. Just notice how your body feels. Notice the breath.

Slowly turn the palms down. Bring awareness to how you feel now.

Can you feel a subtle difference? This subtle difference is due to the change of body posture.

Sthiram-Sukham Asanam

So, asanas are specific body postures designed in a way so as to reflect the highest possible coherence with the Cosmos. The perfect asana for you depends on you. You will see, in some asanas you will suddenly feel natural, steady (sthira) and comfortable (sukham).

Actually, in a deeper way, sthira does not only mean steady, it means, “which cannot be lost, which has become part of your bio-memory”. It should be natural to be in that posture. If after a few weeks without practice you suddenly realize you cannot perform the posture anymore, then the true quality of sthira has not been achieved.

Sukham, which is commonly translated as comfortable, is not about cushion luxury! You should be able to be in a posture and feel its effect in your body throughout the day. Every joint should be oozing with nectar, like a sweet feeling of lightness. You can achieve sukham by constant practice, and increasing your ability to stay in that asana.

Respect Your Body

But understand, the practice of asanas does not mean abusing or disrespecting your body. Our bodies are victims of our self-destructive lifestyle. We often overeat and over-stimulate our bodies. Asanas are conscious practices to make you fall in tune with the deepest you, so it can never be against your body. Asanas are about aligning yourself with the highest possible coherence, with the highest qualities of the cosmos. Aligning yourself is levitation, maligning yourself is gravitation!

There are two ways of finding which asanas are best for you:
1) By your own practice, until you find your own sequence, or
2) By the Master’s instruction

In these particular asanas you will align your body perfectly with the super-consciousness, just like a mirror aligned directly with the source of light. This will allow you to tune yourself to the ultimate state of consciousness, and be established in Yoga.

Adapted from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s Teachings

Do You Feel Healthy?

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Health is not the Absence of Disease!

Health is thought of as some vague concept that is usually translated to an individual having a disease free body. Such misconceptions are the root cause for the very lack of health in modern day man. The modern day man thinks that if he does not have any major health problems he is “healthy”. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Another modern day myth is that working hard leads to stress and diseases and is the root cause of people being unhealthy. “Hard work” as understood by people today is – working in their office from morning to late evening without any trace of enthusiasm or intensity, but rather, working only for the sake of the monthly salary. This kind of work cannot be called intense action. This so called ‘hard work’ is simply actions aimed at a goal of a salary that is deposited in the person’s bank account every month.

The Myth of Hard Work

The very myth of hard work can break the root cause of lack of health.
The root cause of lack of health is the absence of intense action. Intense action is any action performed with great enthusiasm and responsibility. When an action is performed just for the sake of finishing it, it cannot bring any good to the person performing the action. When the same action is performed after taking into account how the action can make a difference to mankind, to the employer and to the person performing the action, a sense of responsibility takes birth. This responsibility is the sweetness which makes every action enjoyable. When every action from morning till night is performed with great intensity, involvement and responsibility, the very space in the human body that attracts diseases is destroyed!

Take Responsibility for your Health

Responsibly thinking, talking, acting and concentrating all one’s energy in one direction is constant performance. Constantly performing intense actions creates a certain level of prana to be awakened in the person. Constantly when a person aligns himself to responsible performance of intense actions, by the very nature he will not build any mental patterns or samskaras. Deep rooted samskaras are the reason for the lack of health and overall well-being. Any cognition, that is, any understanding, interpretation or perception of a situation that does not leave a person feeling complete leads to the creation of samskaras or patterns. This creation of samskaras does not happen when an individual is constantly acting out of responsibility and is in intense action.

Don’t Entertain Powerlessness

A healthy body is the result of feeling responsibility for the different dimensions of one’s life. Whenever someone entertains powerlessness in the level of the body, they will be in the space of attracting diseases and a lack of ease with their own body. Responsibility removes the feeling of being powerless. Bringing more and more responsibility in every action and thought in one’s life heals all the existing samskaras and does not allow the creation of any more samskaras, leading to a healthy body and mind.

Adapted from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s teachings

Create Your Reality!

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Srishti-Drishti or Drishti-Srishti ?

In Sanskrit there are two beautiful phrases – “srishti-drishti” and “drishti-srishti”– either you cognize that you are ‘seeing what exists’ or you cognize that you are ‘creating what you want to see’.

Most of us feel that the reality or the world is as it is, and we are just seeing it, this is called srishti-drishti. Because of this we feel powerless to do anything. We put all the blame on what is. Please understand, when you cognize, ‘It is there! I am seeing it!’, you have already lost the game. You are starting a losing battle! The moment you cognize what ‘is’ is perceived by me, the possibility for transformation is closed. The possibility for enlightenment is closed.

The truth is, the space we carry inside directly affects the reality which we and the people around us experience. This is drishti-srishti. In your mind how you feel things are going to be, the words you give to yourself about the future, that is what I mean by the words ‘the space you create inside’. If you already believe that no matter what you do, it is not going to work out, it is not going to be successful, then you have already dictated the plan to the cosmos! You have told the cosmos, ‘I want my life like this only – as a big failure. Please give it to me!’ The cosmos will stitch it and give it to you.

 

Your Inner Space is an Order to the Cosmos!

Please understand, the space you carry inside is not the result of your life’s happenings – it is the order you are giving to the cosmos. You may blame the external situations for your low mood, you may say ‘So many continuous failures happened in my life. You don’t know! Only if you are in my shoes you will understand why I am like this!’ You may give any number of reasons for the space you are in, but you need to understand the seriousness it carries. The space you are in is the direct order you are giving to the cosmos to prepare your future!

Whatever you carry in your inner space is a possibility. If you are carrying sadness, you are ordering the cosmos for a bigger sadness to come in your life. If you are carrying joy, you are waiting for a bigger joy to come in your life. If you are carrying fulfillment inside you, a feeling of completion in you, you are ordering the cosmos to bring bigger completions in your life. So understand, anything you carry inside is replicated outside. If you feel powerless and don’t know how to change the inner space you are carrying, even then, you are ordering the cosmos to give you more powerlessness.

 

Transform Now!

You are a human being. You can’t afford to say, ‘Yes, I have problems. But I don’t know how to transform!’ No! You have to transform. You can’t afford to say, ‘I am hungry but I don’t know how to get food!’ You can’t afford to give up on you. You can’t afford to be powerless. You have to stand up. You have to find the method. You have to transform. That is the only way in which life is possible!

The space you carry inside you has to be changed. One good news is that you can change it this moment, because space is not something gross. Gross things takes time to clean. Subtle things can be cleaned immediately. Your inner space is such a subtle thing, just one right declaration and you are free! One completion is enough to bring you out of that low mood you are carrying! One right declaration is enough to get out of that deep negative cognition you are carrying!

 

Just Declare your Completion

Only one thought of fear can make you unsettled.
Only one thought of lust can make you excited.
Only one thought of your enemy can aggravate anger in you. If this is the case, only one thought of completion can purify your inner space!

Somehow, you don’t believe that last statement. You think ‘Everything else looks logical, I have experienced it. But the last statement – is it really true?’ Then you say, ‘You are an enlightened being. May be for you it is possible; not for us normal people.’ Whenever you feel you are now cornered to transform, you immediately push me aside with the statement. But you need to know that the inner space can be transformed with just one right declaration.

 

You are Responsible for Everything!

Now please understand, can somebody else can be responsible for what you feel inside you? No! It is your boundary! Your inner space is your boundary! Nobody else can be responsible for it. It is only you who can be responsible for it. Even if you feel that somebody else is the reason for your suffering – that person is not suffering! Suffering is to whom? To you! So when something is affecting you, whether you are the reason or not, you are only responsible. The person who is the reason for the mess will not always take the responsibility. So many times when you are the reason for the mess in others’ life, you don’t take the responsibility. Now it is time to take the responsibility for whatever is happening in your inner space, whether you are reason or not.

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Take Control of your Inner Space

The moment you decide you are responsible for the inner space you are carrying, you know you have to change it. Your inner space is nothing but the words you repeat, again and again, within you. Am I right? Is there anything else? So, now decide consciously you will repeat the right words. You say, ‘No, no! I tried this, but I failed!’, you forget and go back to the same old wrong words. How many times have you tried? Ten thousand times you have repeated negative words. So, now try at least ten times to repeat the right words. You may fail ten times. Nothing wrong! Because of the pattern built by you, you are failing. Now try ten times. Bring awareness. Decide, you are the reason, you are responsible, and you have to change it because it is affecting you. Your wrong inner space is directly affecting you. So, naturally you only have to change it. You are responsible.

The inner space you carry has to be transformed, because based on the inner space only you take your decisions. If you are in a peaceful and relaxed mood, even in the big risks, dangers, difficulties of life you will take the right decision with so much of patience, that even those situations will expand you. If you are in an agitated, frustrated mood you won’t be able to handle even small problems and will throw a tantrum. Just because of the wrong inner space, you often miss business deals, mess up relationships, and stop your expansion in so many dimensions.

 

You are God!

Now I want you to understand, whether you believe it or not, whether you accept it or not, understand it or not, you are God! Your inner space is all-powerful! It carries the DNA of ‘Aham Brahmasmi’! No matter how many arguments you give, the constitution cannot be changed. In the same way, no matter how many arguments you give that you are not God and you are not divine and you are not all-powerful, this is the truth. You may say “How can I be all-knowing, all-powerful? I don’t even know what is happening in the next person’s mind, in my spouse’s mind”. You have very silly reasons to deny the possibility of your inner space. You have never tried to explore your inner space. How can you deny it before even trying?

 

What you Resist, Persists!

It is just your decision to stand up in your inner space! But the fears you carry look so real that you don’t want to transform. You are ready to anything else, except what needs to be done. Actually, what you don’t want to do is exactly what you have to do! You should be made to do that! Forcibly! Because that is where your inauthenticity is hiding! Please understand, what you resist only persists in your life! It is just pattern! You need to look in, what is the pattern you resist strongly in your life? What is it that you feel you can’t do, you can’t manage? If you look deeper, that will be the exact thing which stops you, binds you and keeps you in life imprisonment! If you look inside, the reason for your powerless inner space will be some root-pattern. Break that pattern! Reclaim your freedom! Declare your freedom!

Please understand, when Shwethakethu, an Upanishadic character, was initiated by his Guru, his Guru said only nine times “Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi!”. Shwethakethu became enlightened! Then why, even if you listen 9,000 times “Tat Tvam Asi”, you don’t become enlightened? It is just because of the inner space.

 

Even your Failures are Success!

On a rock, seed cannot sprout as a tree. The seed can become a tree only in the right fertile ground. Only, in the right inner space teachings can become a reality. Decide to start playing with your inner space to gather courage. Tell yourself, ‘Yes, with the inner space of completion, I am declaring, I am in the space for my spouse listening to me!’ You will see miracles will happen! He or she will simply listen to you! When you approach your boss, declare “I am in the space for my boss granting me vacation!” Actually, only when you play with this truth and see miracles happening you will understand the power of your inner space. Don’t go with the idea “I will be a failure!” Then naturally you will be a failure. That itself is the miracle! The failure itself is a success of your inner space!

Understand, the inner space you carry is such powerful inner space! It is the Hiranya Garbha! It is where worlds get created! Your inner space is so powerful that worlds can be created or destroyed by your inner space! You may be an individual, but your inner space is not individual; it is well-connected with the whole Universe! So, anything you decide in your inner space becomes a reality in the Cosmos, a reality in life, a reality in Existence!

Taken from Nithyananda’s Daily Discourses on the subject of reality delivered in April, 2013 in Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore, India

Kailash, the Ultimate Fulfillment

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Mount Kailash, Tibet
Mount Kailash, Tibet

– By Arti Agarwal, Bangalore

 

An eternal revelation, a mystery, a conscious fire, a happening, an immeasurable energy, an ocean of mysticism, a congregation of enlightened beings, a place beyond space and time – and, a completion of lifetimes. Kailash, the abode of Shiva. The place where the entire cosmos is centered, as explained by Swamiji. The headquarters of the cosmos.

All these, and many more ideas cross my mind when I have to recount my Kailash yatra to anyone. Yet, I am not able to say much because I know that no matter what I say, I cannot do justice to Mahadev, the One who planted the desire in me to see Kailash, and who made my Kailash yatra not only possible, but also the ultimate fulfilment life can offer me.

The Kailash yatra was only the beginning of the actual yatra – life after Kailash! Even though words are to the real experience as puppets are to living beings, having no other way to put my Kailash experience on record, I will throw a flashback on one of my most intense experiences of the yatra.

The Kailash parikrama in Tibet starts from Darchhen and after an 8 km stretch of mountains and valleys comes the first halt at Dhirapuk. At Darchhen, where the parikrama starts, the Kailash looks the way I was expecting to see it – a holy mountain, at a great distance, high up in the sky, standing out majestically from the surrounding huge rocks. As the parikarma progressed, I soon lost sight of Kailash. Almost half way through the journey, as I was gazing happily at the hills and the rivers and the yaks, I suddenly got the shock of my life. I almost fell from my horse.

Kailash was at my eye level, almost as if just a few hundred feet away! It was definitely pretty far away still, I figured that out much later, but it was so huge that it felt like right next to me. Larger than life, in every sense. I felt it a huge disrespect to Kailash to be sitting on my horse, so I got down and started walking for the rest of the journey, unable to take my eyes off Kailash.

On reaching the Dhirapuk Guest House, I dumped my bags in the room assigned to me, and went out to gaze at Kailash. I sat there, at a little distance away from people, leaned against a rock, with the horses neighing in the background and the chilly wind reddening my nose, unwilling to close my eyes even to blink. I sat for several hours. How many, I don’t know. Though I had uncountable mystical experiences throughout the yatra, in the time stretch when I sat lost in Kailash, I had no such experiences. And yet, it was the most fulfilling experience from the entire yatra. It was almost as if I wanted to absorb the very air, the very breath of Kailash and take it away with me.

After coming back from the yatra, I still feel as if that experience of being lost in Kailash has become a very part of me, my life, my very thinking. I feel like I have nothing more to ask of life, and yet, there is an immense excitement to do so many things in life, out of gratitude to Swamiji and Mahadev. That, to me, is the ultimate completion with life.

Bharat Meets Sri Ram

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The Ramayana

Ramayana is one of the most told and celebrated epics in the Vedic tradition. Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya, had three wives and four sons. Lord Ram (an Incarnation of Lord Vishnu) was the eldest and the son of Kaushalya. Bharat was the son of his second and favorite wife, Kaikeyi. The other two sons were Lakshman and Shatrughna, sons of Sumithra. While Ram was all set for coronation, his step-mother Kaikeyi wanted her son Bharat to become the king. Kaikeyi reminded King Dashratha about the two boons he had granted her once and was yet to fulfill. Consequently, because Kaikeyi desired so, instead of being crowned as king of Ayodhya, Ram was sent to exile in the forest for fourteen years.

Lord Ram went to the forest, accompanied by his wife Sita and brother Lakshman, and they lived as renunciates. One day Lord Ram, Lakshman and Sita were sitting on a huge rock and enjoying the beautiful scenery, when they saw Bharat approaching their hut with the entire army of his kingdom.

As soon as Bharat saw Lord Ram, he embraced him and said: “Ram, our father died soon after your departure. On his deathbed he had only your name on his lips. Please forgive me. It is only because of my cruel mother that you have come to the forest in exile and we have lost our father.”

Lord Ram, Lakshman and Sita were lost in grief when Bharat conveyed the news of King Dasharatha’s death to them. Lord Ram said to Bharat: “We will carry out the remaining rituals here. You must return to Ayodhya and rule over the kingdom. It is the only way of satisfying our father’s soul.” Lord Ram wished to continue to live in exile to fulfil the promise made by him to his late father. But Bharat was firm to his resolve as well. He insisted that he will instead fast to death, and won’t go back to Ayodhya without taking Lord Ram back with him.

Enter King Janaka

King Janaka, whose four daughters were married to the four sons of King Dashratha, arrived at the scene to resolve the deadlock. King Janaka said: “Ram, your resolute adherence to dharma (the principle of cosmic order) is such that even Gods bow before you. But love is the only divine ethic that no dharma can ever compel. Steadfast unselfish love is above dharma. When that love reaches its pinnacle in the form of true devotion then God himself needs to break his own laws. That is why now scales are heavy in Bharat’s favour. But remember Bharat, love has its own rules, it makes its own laws. Love’s true power lies in its being selfless. And when love is selfless it asks for nothing. It just wants to give to the beloved for the sake of their happiness and pleasure. And so you now decide what you can give to your Ram. It is easy to give up life, but it is often hard to live for your loved one. If you are a true devotee, sit at Ram’s feet and ask him what he desires”.

Bharat’s Realization

Bharat realized that his judgement was overshadowed by a veil of subtle selfishness. He was only thinking about his love and his glory and misinterpreted it as selfless love. He thanked King Janaka for enlightening him on the essence of true love. Ram, feeling vanquished by the power of Bharat’s love, accepted being the king of Ayodhya but only after fulfilling the promise made by him to his father.

With his newly gained clarity Bharat said “Dear Ram, at least do this for me. Let me have your paadukas (sandals). I shall place them on the throne and administer the kingdom on your behalf and that too only till your return after fourteen years and not a day more.” Bharat took Ram’s paadukas. With great devotion he placed them on his head and returned to Ayodhya. The divine paadukas were kept on the throne of Ayodhya while Bharat ruled as Ram’s representative from Nandigram. Ram lived a life of exile for fourteen years with Sita and brother Lakshman.

So much is said about unconditional love, yet often one tends to miss the essence of selflessness. It is important to understand the other person’s needs and happiness instead of only thinking about one’s own wants – to be aware whether one is actually contributing to other person’s life or just burdening them with some ideas of love. Approaching others with an attitude of contributing to their life makes true love flower in one’s inner space and liberates one from his own attention need as well. n

Emotions are Just Body Fluids!

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EMOTIONS & BODY FLUIDS

If there is one concept that is truly universal in every sense, it is emotions. Young or old, male or female, working or studying, rich or poor – emotions exist in each and every human being. ‘To err is human’, is an often quoted line, and emotions are often the cause of these errors. There are often moments in a person’s life when the power of his own emotions threaten to overwhelm and sometimes even break him. Traumatic events are aplenty in one’s life and it is essential to learn how to handle such emotions without suppressing them.

A common mistake people make, when trying to curb their fears and anxieties after facing traumatic situations, is suppressing their emotions. It is common to procrastinate thinking about them or facing them, thus pushing them back to the recesses of one’s mind. However, this is not an ideal solution at all. The real solution is exactly the opposite – to face it.

Before a person can think about how to overcome this problem, it is important to get to the very root of it. What are emotions? This is an answer out of the ordinary, but emotions are, in fact, nothing but body fluids! Physical symptoms such as one’s body shaking, or crying, releases the emotions from the body. Whenever a body fluid is released from the body, the emotion associated with it is also released. For example, fear, shock and suffering are associated with tears from the eyes and rheum from the nose. Self torturing emotions such as guilt are associated with sweat. Attention need is associated with estrogen. So, when someone consciously goes through those emotions, the respective body fluids leave the system, taking those emotions along with them.

DECISION MAKING

That is why, after a traumatic event, the best way to deal with the rush of emotions is to relive the entire experience. This may not be pleasant at all, it may even be a horrible affair. You may sweat, you may shake, but there is no other way. The person must go completely into every detail, every emotion and every feeling to relive it properly and get rid of it once and for all. This must be done with complete awareness, consciously. It will be evident after just two or three days of doing this, that the incident will no longer bear the same weight as it did before. It will be forgotten. All the shock, fear, insecurity and anxiety associated with it will simply disappear.

This does not apply to traumatic incidents alone, but also to everyday life. It is a daily occurrence in some people’s lives, to lose their tempers and make rash decisions that they irrevocably end up regretting. Not just anger, but also due to guilt, fear or sometimes even intense happiness. For example, if somebody’s superior at the office has yelled at them, they either get very angry, very scared or very guilty. It is impossible to think clearly with such a state of mind, and they end up taking the wrong decision. Does this improve the situation with their superior? No, it only makes it worse. A person’s potential is limitless, if not for their emotions inhibiting them from doing what they can.

CONQUER YOUR EMOTIONS!

So many decisions are made everyday based on mere emotions, because of a few hormones running high in the body. Without these hormones, one’s entire perception, entire strategy towards a situation changes. This is pratyahara, that is, not being forced to take decisions through body fluids.

Anger, lust, fear, greed, attention need – all of these are strong emotions and all of these belong to a different body fluid. So, understanding this one concept is enough to liberate anyone that is bound by their emotions. Emotions are nothing but body fluids, a little liquid added to the body. All emotional sufferings and emotional clots are nothing but liquids. When one understands his biochemistry he ceases to be enslaved by his emotional reactions. Conquering a person’s emotions and taking decisions based solely on their judgement can change the very tune of a person’s life and bring harmony back into it.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Discourse on the Bhagavad Gita on 4th May, 2012, Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore, India

Hamsa Mantra

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There is a very beautiful Upanishad called the “Paramahamsa Upanishad”. It says that anybody who repeats a mantra is a fool. According to this Upanishad, a psychological revolution should happen in a person in such a way that their very breathing should start repeating the mantra. This can only happen when they are in a deep peace. This mantra which is repeated constantly by the breath, is called Hamsa mantra. The person who is able to hear the ‘ham’ and the ‘sam’, which is the sound of inhaling and exhaling, is said to be established in the Hamsa mantra. Buddha has always spoken of taking the middle path, or Madhyapantha. A person who is on the middle path and is in complete acceptance of the present moment, as well as the infinite possibilities of the future, will be able to hear the ‘ham’ and ‘sam’ sounds of their breathing. The person who carries this understanding in their heart for all twenty four hours, including in the dream state, is a Paramahamsa.

Instructions

Sit straight, and very consciously, with a very strong decision. Intensely create an intention that you are accepting yourself as you are, in the outer world and in the inner world. Tell yourself that you have enough in the outer world, and enough in the inner world, and accept yourself completely. Decide that there is no need to develop yourself in the outer or inner worlds. Even if you feel you have ego, fear, guilt or greed, accept yourself as you are.

Do this in a very relaxed way, without moving your body. Body movements will create thoughts. If your body is stable it can take you into a deeper silence. Whatever objection your mind raises about not accepting yourself, accept that also. Accept the present moment and all the future moments. Accept everything your mind brings up, even the worst scenarios. Accept all your fears and worries about the future. If it happens, it is inevitable, so accept even that.

You do not have to chant any mantra, just sit with this acceptance. The moment you accept yourself, there will not be any thoughts. Automatically you will see that your breath is flowing with a deep ‘Ham-sam’ sound. Just become silent and you will be able hear this mantra repeating constantly. Do not try to consciously create this sound, it will happen by itself.
This meditation is not supposed to be done at any particular time, it is supposed to be practised constantly. Continuously, whenever you feel that rajas or restlessness is happening in you, you should come back to this state. Initially start doing it with some simple tasks, like talking to your close friend, discussing a simple business deal, playing with a child or moving your body in a simple way. Try all these small actions with the balance of Hamsa mantra and you will see that within a few days, you will be constantly centered on Hamsa mantra while performing all your activities.

Human beings are constantly talking, either to each other or themselves, and this is why the Hamsa mantra is never heard. As one practices this, they will see that their thoughts will slowly begin to reduce. From a hundred, they will come down to ten, and then gradually there will be none. Yet, they will be able to perform all their daily activities smoothly, whether professional or personal. They will be constantly centered on sattva, with the right understanding of the self as well as the world, and will fall into the divine. This is called living enlightenment – to be liberated while living.

Is Your Love Really Love?

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Key to Love
(c) Allen Skyy

Love is one of the most beautiful experiences which can happen to a human being. It makes one feel alive, open, new. It can reveal some of the unknown dimensions of one’s personality and make one’s consciousness expand. However, the very openness which is necessary to experience love, can also make one feel extremely vulnerable. This gives rise to the fear of being exploited or cheated by the other person. This wrong conditioning about love becomes a big obstacle to experiencing love. If someone strongly believes that his or her love will end in pain, they will see that it will end in pain. They will be waiting for it to end in pain. Their own cognition of people and their own selves will cause them to attract situations which will go on strengthening their wrong beliefs about love. This is because it is human nature to want to make one’s beliefs become a reality, otherwise one would not feel comfortable. That is the reason why conditionings about love, about life, need to be removed before one can experience pure love directly. The right understanding about love will help to go with the flow of love and experience real love.

The way to look at it is, when love happens, there is an intense super-consciousness waiting to break through the body and express itself. However, the secure, low mood logic, goes on saying ‘You will be exploited. If you are so open, so alive, anyone can exploit you – physically, mentally, emotionally and economically.’ Men have the fear that women will exploit them economically if they are too loving. Women feel if they are too loving, men will exploit them physically. Both of them feel, if they are too loving, the other will exploit them emotionally. So always the fear exists that if they are loving, they will be exploited. There is a certain logic in them which completely bans them from flowing.

One needs to understand that life is flowing like a river. Only two ways of living exist; one – the river which is embanked; second – the river which is dammed. Embankment does not stop the river completely, it only tells the river where it should not go. It gently guides the flow so that it keeps happening continuously and is useful, not destructive. This is one way of living life, with minimum rules imposed on the flow of consciousness. The other way of life is – completely blocking the river. It means dictating everything that one should or should not do, coming from a fear-based logic.

Love is like an embankment, guiding the flow of consciousness. The insecure logic which is against love is like a dam. All the people who are afraid of love are actually afraid of the embankment, but they don’t realize that they are caught in the dam! They are just afraid of the embankment happening around them. The fear of love and the insecure logic which denies love, and goes on creating wrong ideas against love, is a dam. Once the dam is built, it just completely stops the life force. There is no further growth, no further transformation possible. Not just the shine in the eyes, even the shine in the skin disappears when one stops the flow of love in them. Saying no to love is saying no to life itself. It is far more dangerous to deny oneself the experience of love, than any setbacks or restrictions one may (or may not) go through in love!

So when love happens, one should simply be in love without worrying about where it will lead, or whether one will be exploited or betrayed by the other person. Only then will one be able to experience love as the transcendental and transformational experience it really is.

Rudraksha, the Power Bead

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Rudraksha is a beautiful power-packed bead which is full of energy. This sacred bead is a symbol of spirituality, fearlessness and a source of power, health, peace and prosperity. The benefits of Rudraksha can be felt at the level of both body and mind. Physically it exhibits amazing curative properties for many diseases as well as anti-aging properties. For ages it has been observed and reported that people suffering from hypertension, diabetes, cardiac problems, stomach disorders, stress, arthritis and phobias get beneficial results by wearing Rudraksha consistently. It has been proven that wearing Rudraksha has positive effects on a person’s blood pressure and controls stress, anxiety, depression and palpitations. Mentally, it gives a tremendous amount of tranquillity, concentration power and helps in attaining calmness of mind with ease.

These beads are the seeds of the Rudraksha fruit obtained from Rudraksha trees which have mystical properties. Every Rudraksha has dividing lines running from top of the seed unto its bottom with equally spaced clefts called Mukhi (face) on the surface of the beads. According to the number of mukhis (faces) the Rudraksha bead type ranges from single face to a several faced bead (up to 21 faces). Rudrakshas can be worn by anyone as a single bead necklace, as a string of beads called mala or as bracelets. Rudraksha mala is a spiritual tool used in the practice of chanting mantras (a meditative practice).

In the Sanskrit language ‘Rudra‘ means Lord Shiva and ‘aksh‘ means eyes. The mere utterance of this sacred word Rudraksha is said to create emotions and vibrations touching the soul and bringing a person closer to God. Empower yourself with Rudraksha, the true bio-jewellery which is one of the most potent manifestations of the cosmic force!

To buy authentic Rudrakshas which are personally energized and blessed by Paramahamsa Nithyananda, please visit: www.nithyanandagalleria.com

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