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The Art of Facing Your Fears

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Everyone Wants a Fear-Free Life!

Fear is the running thread of the lives of most people. Without realizing, most people are only operating from fear or greed in every big and small decision of their lives. Be it the fear of losing their job, their wealth, their reputation, their girlfriend, or the fear of public speaking, most decisions taken by people are taken from fear. Unfortunately, people go on taking decisions based on fear because they do not know how to go beyond fear. No one wants to have fear, but they don’t know how to let go of the fears they are already having.

The “Yes” and “No” Loop

In an effort to let go of the fear, there is a continuous struggle inside. The struggle is the conflict between saying a “Yes” and a “No” to the fear. For example, the fear of losing wealth. When someone faces that fear, they don’t need to start believing that they will lose all their wealth one day, but that is what they do. In an attempt to face the fear, people argue with themselves. They tell themselves, “Alright, now I lost my wealth, now what can be done? Let me face what happens when I lose my wealth.” Then, one part of them feels convinced that they really will lose their wealth, and immediately, they argue back, saying, “No, no! How can I live like this? What is this? Why am I thinking all this?” So now, they are caught between whether they are going to accept that they are going to lose the wealth one day, or to just suppress the fear and tell themselves, “No, I am not going to lose! I am not going to lose! I am not going to lose!” Even when they say that they are not going to lose the wealth, their own hearts do not completely believe it. They are caught in an endless loop of “Yes” and “No”!

Find the Root of the Fear

In actuality, every fear has a root, a beginning. No one is born with their fears. They pick it up during the course of their lives. To go beyond any fear, the root of the fear needs to be found. The fear does not have to be denied or accepted, but rather, its root needs to be dug out. Once the person becomes aware of the root of the fear, he needs to complete with that root incident.

For example, for someone having a fear of public speaking, they need to trace back when was the first time they experienced the fear, or when was the first time they had an unpleasant experience with public speaking. In reality, the fear of public speaking is nothing but the fear of talking to one’s own self. So, when the root incident of when the fear started is found, the person needs to complete with that incident, and with his own self. This will heal and remove the fear from him. No arguments about the fear will arise, because the fear itself will lose its power over the person.

Integrity, the Key

Sometimes, people keep struggling with their fears without being able to find the root of the fears. To be able to go to the root of a fear, integrity in thinking is a must. When someone thinks with integrity, they are able to catch the thoughts that cross their mind, and hence, catch the original incidents of when a fear started. Integrity brings awareness in the entire thinking process. Otherwise, the mind is just a football being tossed around from one thought to the other.

With integrity in thinking, the root of every fear can be found. Once completed, the person not only becomes free of the fear, he can also help others overcome their fears!

Adapted from Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s teachings

The Wisdom of Guru

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Planet Guru (Jupiter) symbolizes and carries the grace and wisdom of all that is auspicious. Guru just entered the sign of Gemini where it will hold its benevolence until June 2014. It will guide all of us to deeper learning experiences where wisdom will flow through the experience of our practice of the four tattvas.

These months ahead are therefore a beautiful period to explore our power to share and enrich others through spiritual activism, communication, knowledge and satsangs as a practice for our spiritual growth. Also, Buddha (Mercury) is transiting its own sign of Gemini from May to early August, along with Guru. Buddha develops our interest for study, travels and communication; it energizes our enriching words as well as our written expression. This is a very auspicious time to practice *svapoornatva kriya with oneself, and delve deep into our consciousness in order to heal it. Retrograde Mercury from June 16 to July 20 allows all of us to internalize the wisdom of the Master and expand our spiritual nature exponentially.

Guru and its position in one birth chart is of great significance. It will indicate how much one is connected to the wisdom spoken by the great enlightened ones, how much of a dharmic life one follows, how much of a deep interest and inspiration one holds towards spirituality, expansion of consciousness, faith and practice of the eternal vedic rituals.

The particularity of Guru’s energy is to captivate the deeper Self that lies covered by ignorance within us, in order to inspire it, infuse it with care and wisdom, to awaken its brilliance and foster it towards enlightenment. Jupiter confers everything you ask for, it is the Guru of the Gods, the great benevolent father who gives all you need to realize your deepest aspirations.

The outer Guru, the Master, is a beautiful incarnation of this divine energy which expresses the whole gamut of knowledge, grace and wisdom that leads disciples to their inner Guru, who is also represented by the astrological planet Ketu, the final bestower of moksha (liberation). Therefore, Jupiter is the planet of intelligence that guides the individual’s consciousness to go back to its pristine truth and glory.

Guru is also creativity in the inner world. It bestows power of expression that comes from the principles of the tattvas, it loves to share and delight in doing so. Mercury represents how we relate to the society on a practical level, whereas Jupiter shows our connection to our inner worlds, our soul’s Mission that leads us towards fulfillment, bliss and self-realization. Guru helps one to overcome all the challenges, pain and sufferings of life and transform it into a learning experience on the path of evolution.

Guru is also indicative of unexpected rewards. In fact, when Jupiter is with you, all of life, all the universe is with you, and gives you the experience that you are Brahmanyam Bahuputratam – the favourite inheritor of the cosmos! Jupiter reveals the expansiveness of the being, just as Saturn indicates our capacity to contract or concentrate. This is the reason why people all over the world have always sought the energy of this planet for inner as well as outer prosperity and success. It is the energy of grace in our horoscope, which can be used to fulfill our wishes in life until our final enlightenment.

To propitiate it, vedic priests have done pujas and homas since time immemorial in intense energy fields that multiply the effect of the ritual exponentially.

Nothing Called “Impossible” !

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Nothing Called “Impossible”!

There is nothing called “Impossible”.

Each individual can take the responsibility to reach the space of possibility. Then, from the space of possibility, take the responsibility to become what you want to be in life.

Decide if you want to have the space of possibility and transformation or if you just want to cherish and enjoy the powerless space filled with conflicts. Often people are content with the idea that they are doing whatever they can and it is the best they can do. Instead, with integrity they need to come to terms with the experiences they have and move to the space of what they want to have.

The Right Knowledge

Your vision and inner space should carry only what you want in life, constantly remember that anything is possible. Avoid using negative words expressing your powerlessness. When you decide you are powerless, the possibility for growth is killed. For example, when a goat eats a sapling, the sapling can never become a tree. Similarly the moment you think that something is impossible, the very possibility is killed.

When you feel powerless and think that something is impossible, you miss the right knowledge. Knowledge makes anything possible when it aligns with responsibility. When you align responsibility and knowledge, anything is possible!

Why You Feel Powerless

Your powerless feelings are created by root thought patterns you set for your life and they bring millions of conflicts and contradictions. You are responsible for the patterns and the conflicts. A very simple and easy method for transformation is to change your root thought patterns and rebuild a new pattern consciously.

When the root patterns are changed, the confidence you carry to handle your life by feeling empowered is drastically increased. You believe that you are being innocent and harmless when you feel powerless. You think that powerful people are harmful and wealthy people are egoistic. You believe that to be harmless you have to be powerless and to be humble you have to be poor. Such wrong associations are the reason for the unconscious patterns you choose. It is possible for you to be powerful and harmless, rich and humble, famous and polite, when you can take the responsibility and align your whole inner being.

Create What You Want!

Create what you want to create by consciously rebuilding the thought pattern which constantly creates the obstacle of making you believe that you can’t create what you want to create. The job of your old pattern is to constantly shrink you and keep you shying away from life. You have to take action, wake up and move. For example when you constantly watch commercials of exercise equipment to get the six-pack muscles, but never move your body and take action, it is not possible to get the six-pack muscles which you want. You have to move and start working for it.

In the same way, when I talk about the transformed space of possibility, it looks like a six-pack model flexing the muscles. But if you don’t move yourself and take action, you will never experience it. You must make yourself alive with the power of Kalabhairava* and you will see many of the so-called big patterns and sufferings disappear. When you wake up, move with a feeling of power and possibility. When you understand that you can take responsibility with the knowledge, you will see that the easiest path opens for you.

Understand and believe that anything is possible for you.
Identify clearly what you want to become and what you are now.
Take the responsibility to become what you want to be.
You only need knowledge, since you are always powerful (already) to create your own reality.

*Kalabhairava is the lord of time who is the ultimate source of cosmic knowledge whose presence can be invoked for a powerful declaration for completion of root patterns.

My Hemoglobin & Fulfillment Shot Up with Nirahara Samyama!

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I did the Nirahara Samyama with the second batch for 21 days in Bangalore, India.

As a challenge to the belief that Nirahari (one who does not intake solid food) can run our life much better than being an ahari (one who takes food normally), I was faced with lot of work at home and on the professional front (three times more than on regular days), which was like eating a piece of cake! I could do a good job of all with such ease and productivity, it was amazing! During the same period, I would sleep for just 4 hours a day and it would be a deep quality sleep without dreams or disturbance of any sort.

I experienced a state of constant bliss, fulfillment, gratitude and devotion thanks to the constant ajapa Japa (internal repetition of a chosen mantra taken as a spiritual practice) we practiced during the samyama. Every evening between 6-8 pm I had a sweetness in my throat, which was accompanied by a state of indescribable bliss.

My hemoglobin which was 11g% prior to the Samyama, which shot up to 13g% after the samyama (after not eating food for 3 weeks) That beats all logic!

I have resumed to eating as and when I want after the samyama as I have not done the “THE Samyama” yet. Just that everyone at home was very upset with me since I was not eating while I continued to cook for them. It is a wonderful way to live, not bound to be eating regular meals all days. At the same time enjoying your meal better than ever before for all the awareness that has been infused into the process of eating.

I pray to the Divine feet of Swamiji, to bless me with THE Samyama, so that I can live the life of a Nirahari in the near future.

Dr Srilekha Karthik (Pediatrician)
Bangalore, India

What is Integrity? How does it relate with enlightenment?

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From Nithyananda’s “Dial The Avatar” program, which is a part of the Nithya Satsang (daily morning talk), on 31st March, 2013 in the Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore, India

Caller: I have been listening to your satsang everyday. What according to you are the main components of integrity?

Nithyananda: Integrity has two components. The first part is – whatever word you give to you, you either have to honor it or complete it by withdrawing it. Secondly – whatever word you give to others, you either have to honor it or complete it by withdrawing it. For example, if you have told somebody that you will give them one lakh rupees, you have to honor your words even if feel you have to give up your life for it! However, if for some reason you realize that even if you give up your life you will not be able to give that person one lakh rupees, at least complete it by telling them, ‘I won’t be able to fulfill my word; I am completing it.’

In the same way, every thought you give to you is a word you give to you. If you have told yourself, ‘I will buy a car for myself, lots of clothes, and a big house’, remember that it is a promise you have given to yourself! You have to honor it even by giving your life. If you think you can’t honor it, then you have to complete with yourself. You have to do completion even with yourself.

So bring straightforwardness into any dealing – with yourself, with others, with the world, with God, with the Guru. Be straight and keep your word with integrity.

Caller: But what if others don’t reciprocate in the same way?

Nithyananda: Even if others don’t reciprocate, it can’t be the reason for you not doing it! Remember, you are not being integrated for the sake of others. You are doing it for your own enlightenment, your own expansion, your own success, your own victory in life! Others may not need to reciprocate because they are not interested in enlightenment, they are not interested in spirituality, they are not interested in success. You are the one who is interested, so you will have to take up the responsibility of establishing yourself in integrity. But you will find that when you establish yourself in integrity, the world also will start reciprocating!

Identity is Confused Reality!

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“yogi yunjita satatam atmanam rahasi sthitah |
ekaki yata-cittatma nirasir aparigrahah ||” – Bhagavad Gita, Dhyana Yoga, 6.10

“The Jeevan mukta having subdued his thoughts and character his identity being free from desires, with an attitude of renunciation, seated within oneself in aloneness should continuously connect with the higher state of consciousness by unclutching.”

Subduing thoughts anybody can do. It is not a big thing. Thoughts can be reduced very easily with very simple techniques. Any simple technique like washing your water pot can bring your thoughts down. That is not a big thing. Subduing your identity. Thoughts are food, identity is the person who eats. Who eats should be subdued, not just the food. The identity grows, expands with thoughts. If the identity is not getting touched it is easy to have less number of thoughts. When the identity is touched, just like how bees come out of the beehive comb, your thoughts will come out like the bees. People who are otherwise calm, if a person they don’t like pokes them, just like bees their thoughts come out. If your identity is not touched, having less thoughts is not a big thing.

The ultimate ability is the ability to renounce the desire to be a hero!   The ability to renounce the identity. The attack on me in 2010 was not defamation, it was literally creating identity crisis. Defamation is different, trying to create identity crisis is different. Trying to confuse people completely about who I am. And they tried to even confuse me! See, constantly for 3 years if someone tells you – “You are a cheat, you are a cheat”, you may start thinking, “Am I really a cheat?” Not once I doubted me. How can I doubt me? Understand it is easy to live when the whole world doubts you. It is impossible to live when you doubt yourself. After all this I have not doubted myself for  a moment because I have experienced myself. I have seen the beautiful side of me, the graceful side of me. When I saw the graceful side of me, I just fell in love with myself.

The ability to drop your identity in front of anyone is the quality of a sadhu and I wanted this to be a Guru vaak to all my ashramites. You think all the abuse I am going through, I am worthy of it? It is excess being done on me. But that is the way life is. That is the way humanity is. That is because you did not become enlightened few thousand years before and serve humanity. I am struggling all alone. See lakhs of people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All the people who are dead are they worthy of that death? The ability to drop the identity is jivanmukti. I tell you one more secret. As long as you have a certain identity, you will always feel the society is adharmic towards you. It is a basic secret. Your logic is filled with pus. It sees only from your side. If I judge whatever is done to me by the society is adharmic, my logic becomes pus.

Society is not a group of people. Society is the other person. It is not collective. It is even one person whom you hate. Whoever you think is the worst person you have seen in your life is society for you. If you have somebody as your enemy and feel that this fellow cannot come out of patterns and he will suffer, understand that now God is sending you the diagnosis! He is giving you the possibility to diagnose you. You have exactly same problems!

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The most fortunate human being is the one who does not suspect himself, does not doubt himself. He is completely able to put his whole faith on him. You putting your faith on you does not happen by you convincing you but it happens by you dropping your identity about you. Go around, whomever you think of as your enemy, again and again sit with them and express the opinions you carry about them and vice versa. One more funny thing you will realize is that who you think of as an important enemy in your life may not think that you are an important enemy in his life. I have seen love is always a triangular and hatred is always triangular too. If you love someone, that person loves somebody else. If you hate someone, that person hates someone else. It is never a straight line, it is a law. You will never have direct enmity for your enemy who is supposed to be your enemy. So whoever you think of as your direct enemy is not your enemy. It is a law. These are all sarvabhoumya – universal – laws.

One thing you need to be very clear about. Your logic has no capacity to find your enemy. So whoever you think as your enemy is not your enemy. When you sit with him and open up you will realize that that person has somebody else as his main enemy.

I am asking you to give up the identity in the worldly life even if you say “I have to see practically”. I am talking to you understanding all the “practicalities”. I am telling everyone clearly that I know all the situations which you have gone through, are going through and will go through. This truth is to be practiced at all times  and not to be compromised at any time on the pretext of a “practical situation”. “What Swamiji said is right. But even if he was here, he would have behaved like this only”. No! I am telling you this for all possible situations. Ability to let go of your identity makes you the hero whose identity can never be destroyed. I want those heroes around me. They are jeevanmuktas.

Your identity costs you only your life, nothing else. It is the identity with which your heart associates yourself – that should become sadhu – chilli-less, anger-less, violence-less. Then you will become the centre of creativity. You will express so much leadership quality and the ability to inspire. The ability to inspire others is nothing but the ability to inspire yourself. That’s all. The ability to inspire can never be a cunning technical truth. If you are able to inspire yourself to sit in the morning satsang everyday and apply these truths, you will have the ability to inspire your subordinates and make them do the work.

The idea of enemy or friend is based on your perception which itself is unstable. You are constantly building the multi-storey towers on the earth which is going through constant earthquakes. You are building skyscrapers on tectonic plates. Your hatred, your love, your friendship, your enmity are all skyscrapers. But you are using it on tectonic plates. Your whole life is wasted on just protecting your identity which is going to ditch you at the end of your life. You go around and fall out with so many fellows for the conspiracy done against you, but you never look in and suspect the conspiracy done against you by your own identity.

Blessed are those who realize the conspiracy done against them by their own identity. Cursed are those who never realize the conspiracy done against them by their own identity. If you are able to beg food and your needs from the people, you grow as a sadhu. If you are able to drop your identity and beg forgiveness from other identities you become jeevan mukta. If you are able to beg others to drop their identity, you become incarnation!

Understand, I am not asking you guys to go around and beg for food. That will be easy for you to do. That will not have much impact. But if you can go around and beg for forgiveness for what others think as hurt by you, that is what I want. What you think of as the hurt that you have caused to others may not be the real hurt. What they think as the hurt you have caused to them is the real hurt. Same way, what you think of as the hurt others have caused you, they may have not done it consciously. So, forgive them. Same way, what others think of as the hurt you have caused to them, you may not even know. Ask them to forgive you. This is the science of forgiving, the science of gracefully moving ahead. In life anybody who thrives will be in renunciation. Thriving happens on renunciation. Renunciation is the ground on which the seed of thriving thrives.

The ability to renounce the identities constantly is thriving. The person who thrives with the ability to renounce identity is Jeevan Mukta. The being who is capable of thriving continuously by renouncing the old identities is living enlightenment. Do not wait for the wounds in you to be healed by others. Do not wait for the wounds in others to be healed in the course of time. Do not wait for others to heal the pain you are carrying inside you. Do not wait for the other’s pain to heal in the course of time. *Instead, you be proactive in healing the wounds and pains in others, you be proactive in healing the wounds and pains inside you by dropping it.

*Healing can happen through the completion process with self and others – the sva poornatva and poornatva kriyas – given by Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Taken from Nithyananda’s  Daily Bhagavad Gita Discourse on 8th September 2012, Kodaikanal, India

Explore Your Past!

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Past lives! There is no one who is not interested in this subject. It is such a mysterious topic that it immediately attracts attention, even if a person’s religion itself does not believe in reincarnation. I talk about past lives so that you can know the facts about your own past life, and use those facts to overcome mental patterns and sufferings in this life. Knowing about your past lives will transform you and is necessary for your spiritual growth sometimes.
Your past has three layers. From the present moment till the moment you took birth in this body is the first layer. From your previous life till the very first time you assumed a body is the second layer. It could be your life as a fish, a tree, or a bird, it doesn’t matter. From the inception of the universe till this very moment is the third layer past. This third layer is where the cosmic archives are found. You cannot access this and you don’t need to. For attaining Jeevan Mukti, the ultimate spiritual consciousness, you only need to work on the first two layers.

 

The first layer past carries thousands of engrams which influence your decisions. Your relationships, your responses, your thinking, everything is guided by the engrams and patterns that you accumulated in the first layer. Engrams are the memories which are engraved in your system, in your inner space and make you repeat the same actions again and again, even if you know that it is not good for you. When you created them, you created laws for your own happiness. When time has passed, you forget the spirit with which you made them, and follow them by letter.

That is why you always break a law that you follow by letter, and not by spirit. These engrams become bondages to you. I will give you an example – when you were young and somebody bullied you to a corner, you screamed. You found that this always solved the problem, and the bullies ran away. However, forty years later, when you have forgotten the origin and reason for this engram, and you get pushed to a corner, you still scream. This no longer helps you, but you follow it anyway. You don’t remember the spirit of the engram, and only follow the letter. These are dead mental patterns. So, when you work on the first layer past, you will figure out when, why and how you created your engrams. The moment I had the experience of my first layer past, I just knew that I am not going to die. That’s all! All the responses created by me may die, but I myself am never going to die. Exploring the first layer past liberates you from many of your psychological problems.

 

Anger under your control is power, greed under your control is energy, fear under your control is cautiousness, desire under your control is creativity. When you know why you created what you created, you will have the tremendous freedom to throw what is not delivering the same result to alter things for the results you need. If you know the spirit of the law, you get the intelligence to alter, correct, manipulate, delete the law as you want for the required results.

Exploring the second layer past liberates you from all your physiological problems. Your mind is the totality of the first layer past and your body is the totality of the second layer past. Maya is the totality of your third layer past. Let me give you some more insights into the second layer past. Sometimes, the habits which have become your bio-memory do not start just in this body. They start from your earlier bodies, from your past births. There are many bio- memories that may be related to your past lives. For example, if someone died due to a snake bite in their past life, they will still carry the mark on their body. So, there are many diseases that you can just walk out of, if you can work on your second layer past.

 

If you work on the first layer past, you walk out of many mental disorders. Your mind-related life will be complete and fulfilled. If you work on the second layer past, you walk out of many physical disorders. I have seen people walk out of cancer when they understood, in which life they had picked up that pattern. Past is not dead till you completely disconnect from it. As long as it is hanging attached to you, it has its own effect on you. Working on your past lives directly transforms your present and makes you enlightened, as well as makes you live enlightenment.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Webinar on Past Lives on 29th August, 2011, Bidadi Ashram, Bangalore

Rahu, the Shadow

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Rahu is one of the navagrahas, one of the nine energy centers (planets) of our solar system. Each graha in the heavens represents a component of our cognition and karma in our inner world. It holds a particular resonance in you as a power of your being.

Surya (the Sun) stands as the radiance of the Self which is pure creativity as per its own intrinsic nature, it manifests your world. Chandra (the Moon) being the fastest moving entity in the sky, represents the fastest element in the body which is the mind. Buddha (Mercury) stands for viveka (discrimination) and intellect. Guru (Jupiter) is the principle of wisdom and knowledge, Shukra (Venus) is love and creativity, Mangal (Mars) is action and Shani (Saturn) is responsibility.

Unlike the above luminaries and planets, Rahu and Ketu are lunar nodes which do not exist in the physical plane, but are in fact shadows that influence the mind. They represent the points of intersection of the paths of the Sun and the Moon as they move in space. The eclipses occur when the Sun and the Moon are traveling through these points. In the Vedic tradition it is believed that eclipses take place when these planets are swallowed by the demon Rahu. This is symbolic of the overwhelming of the mind that occurs in particular periods – during Rahu transits or influence – and which is swallowed by ignorance, unconsciousness and deceit.

According to the puranas, during the samudra manthan (churning of the Milky ocean), Rahu became overwhelmed with the desire for amrit (divine nectar) owned by the gods. He somehow wanted to possess the amrit through inauthentic ways. He stood in the line of the gods, got the nectar and drank it. The Sun and Moon gods realized it and alerted Mohini (the female avatar of Vishnu) about the same. Before the nectar could pass his throat, Mohini cut off his head. The severed head however, remained immortal due to the effect of the amrit and became known as Rahu, whereas its body and tail became Ketu.

This story has a deeper significance. Rahu represents the ego which desires immortality without the transformation. It holds the mind in a strong grip and throws the individual consciousness into suffering. The mind holds on to a pattern-based logic, perceiving it as being the ultimate truth and treading the path of destruction.
Rahu represents one’s root pattern which creates a cause and effect reaction (karma), which is not ready to complete itself and die – but is ever ready to create chaos and contradictions, ultimately causing one to leave the Master believing it as a fair decision! It can swallow spiritual knowledge and destroy the consciousness to prove that the Master is wrong. Rahu stands for inauthenticity, lack of integrity, destruction, anger, arrogance, greed, violence and chaos as well as morbid emotions, illegality, obsession, crimes and addictions. Nithyananda explains, ‘When your inauthenticity overwhelms you, when you give in to your inauthenticity, it causes irreparable damage to you. When Rahu wins, it takes almost 12 years for you to break the pattern. If you have the will to break the pattern, the pattern breaks.”

Rahu also stands for what one could not achieve in his or her past life. It stands for a strong desire and attachment to things for which one took this birth and which eventually become an obsession in this birth. Rahu tells you that you conquered most of things in your past life, but whatever you didn’t conquer, you need to conquer that in this life! It tells you that you want to conquer that particular thing in this life and you won’t be satisfied until you get it. To understand where Rahu functions, Jyotishis (astrologers) usually look into your horoscope and observe the bhava (the houses of your birth chart) where it sits and which other grahas (planets) it aspects. Its location in bhavas will influence a particular area of your life, like your perception of yourself, your speech, money, family, creativity, health, relationships, sexuality, fear of death, career, or even your perception of enlightenment!

Rahu will strive for the objects of its desires and accumulate them with a lack of discernment, taking the person through the ups and downs of greedy attachments and painful renunciations. Rahu declares: “Oh Existence, I want to be one with you, but before being one with you, I also want this and this from you… give it to me first, only then I’ll accept to be one with you and to flow in gratitude.” Rahu is discontentment incarnate.

Understanding one’s root pattern (root patterns are root thought trends people have, that makes them cognize life events and people a certain way) is the first step towards aligning Rahu’s energy. It can be completely tamed through svapoornatva (completion process for completing with yourself) and poornatva (completion process practiced with others) techniques, surrendering to the Master and following the Guru (Jupiter’s principle) in outer life. Guru tells us to live with integrity, authenticity, responsibility, enrich one’s own self and others, not to give up on oneself and others and to practice meditation and yoga and be in satsang (Being with the higher truths).

Nithyananda has given many special meditation techniques and initiations that reveal your root patterns, transform it and heal Rahu’s energy for you to gain control over your life. These techniques are made available, shared and bolted in your inner space through the incomparable Inner Awakening program, recommended to all persons undergoing Rahu dashas (Rahu transits) as well as people wanting to gain mastery over their unruly mind, emotions, lack of clarity, obsessions, failures settings, depression, addictions to become masters of themselves!

Password for Success & Enlightenment

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Life is a constant struggle. Every man, from a grocery store owner to a steel mills owner is struggling in their life and often wondering the same thing – “How much more struggle? When am I going to get where I want to be? Are my dreams even worth fighting for?”

The answer to all these questions comes from a simple understanding of life itself. As said by Buddha, “Life is suffering”. Buddha was not being pessimistic or dooming everyone to suffer by saying this, no! He is merely indicating the path to success and enlightenment. He is telling us a subtle truth that will dissolve our questions which start with “How much longer… ?”. As long as people believe that life is fun and joy, they keep jumping from one thing to another without any determination, without any commitment towards their work. Even the smallest of disappointments is enough to shake them and question their beliefs in their own dreams. They give up easily to move on to pastures which look greener. But the truth is that grass is always green on the other side if you think life is joy. If you accept that life is struggle, and that is the only path to success, the pull towards other things automatically disappears.

To achieve any success in the outer world or in the inner world, great perseverance and preserving of purpose is needed. The understanding that life is suffering liberates people from the fantasies that there is a greener side and makes people stick to their purpose in life. The struggle doesn’t seem as bad, and the longer one sticks to the task, the more he progresses.

It is the same in a pursuit of enlightenment as well. It entails a lot of initial disappointments, failures, but if that makes a seeker think that enlightenment is not for him, or that his life is better without enlightenment, he will simply revert back to his old ways which look more appealing at that moment, but will never be able to experience the ultimate, which can liberate him and go beyond all sufferings in life.

The truth is that life is joy, the fact is that life is suffering. Until one reaches a space where he can experience the truth, only accepting the fact can raise him and show him the way forward. When one starts working with the fact, the truth automatically reveals itself to him. When one starts with the assumption that life is suffering and continues to work towards his goals of success and/or enlightenment with unwavering determination and commitment, he slowly reaches the place where his desires are fulfilled and where the truth can become his own experience.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Discourses on Bhagavad Gita, 2011, Bidadi Ashram

Vishnu’s Darshan

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Once Narada, a great sage and devotee of Lord Vishnu, was going to Vaikuntha (abode of Lord Vishnu). On the way, he saw a yogi sitting and meditating. The yogi asked Narada, ‘O Narada! Please ask Lord Vishnu how long do I have to wait for enlightenment, when will I become enlightened?’ Narada assured him that he will ask Lord Vishnu about his enlightenment and continued his journey.

On the way, there was another ecstatic person who was just jumping and dancing under a tree. He asked Narada, ‘O Narada! Please ask Lord Vishnu, when will I have his darshan.’ It is important to note that he never asked when he will become enlightened. He simply asked Narada when he will have Lord Vishnu’s darshan. He further requested, ‘Please tell Him to grace me, how long shall I wait for His grace?’ Narada said, ‘I will surely ask, don’t worry.’

Narada went to Vaikuntha and came back with the replies. The first yogi asked him about God’s reply. Narada said, ‘Lord Vishnu told me that you will have to wait for four more janmas (lives) to become enlightened.’ Hearing this the first yogi was depressed. He became anxious that he has to wait for four more janmas. The other person who was ecstatic asked Narada ‘What did God say?’ Narada replied, ‘God told me that you have to wait for as many janmas as there are leaves in this tree; only then will you have his darshan, only then will his grace descend upon you.’ The moment the ecstatic man heard this he said, “I don’t care how long I have to wait. Just his assurance that he will grace me is enough’. He started jumping and dancing again. As soon as he uttered these words, lightning happened and the divine descended, he became enlightened!

It may happen in the life a spiritual seeker that because of their urgency and greed for enlightenment which is akin to their impatience for other material objects, they cannot be in surrender and don’t get enlightened. If seekers try to catch the experience, if they try to possess nithya ananda (eternal bliss) the experience may slip away, like a soap. Surrender happens in deep patience and in the decision to wait. In the life of Buddha, he tried various meditation techniques and spiritual practices with utmost sincerity to get enlightened. When nothing worked, he decided to relax and let go of everything, simply trusting existence. That very moment, he got enlightened.

Coconuts – How You Can Benefit from Them

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History

Coconut (Cocus nocifera) has been known and cultivated in India for over three thousand years and has a very special significance in the Hindu tradition. In Sanskrit, it is known as Kalpa Vriksha, which means “the tree which provides all the necessities of life” or “wish-fulfilling tree” due to its many uses in rituals, festivals, medicine and cooking. The coconut is an auspicious symbol representing health and prosperity.

Uses

Every part of the tree from the trunk to the leaves, fruit, husk, etc. is used in innumerable ways. The husk can be used to make ropes, yarn, mulch, brushes and compost. The palm leaves are used to thatch roofs and for mats to sit or sleep on. Its branches are used to make brooms and shore up the structure of houses. The coconut shell is used as material to make cups, spoons and ladles.

The tender, white meat of the fruit can be eaten raw, or used in curries, chutneys and desserts. It is also grated, dried and ground up to make coconut flakes and coconut flour for baking. Coconut milk is extracted from the pulp and is used to thicken sauces and curries.

Coconut oil is then extracted from the milk, which is used in health products for hair and skin care and is also one of the healthiest cooking oils available. It can be used to boost the immune system, treat digestive problems, kill viruses, bacteria and fungi. Coconut water is a very refreshing drink, packed with simple sugar, electrolytes and minerals to replenish hydration levels in the body. It is composed of naturally occurring bio-active enzymes, which aid in digestion and metabolism. It is an excellent source of electrolytes which maintain proper function of your nerves, heart, and other muscles. Its water is also a very good source of B-complex vitamins such as riboflavin and niacin. It contains large amount of fiber, which helps with digestion and the elimination of waste.

Acne Treatment

Acne can be treated with a mixture of 25 grams of paste of turmeric with a glass of coconut water. Leave for the night, then add 3 teaspoons of red sandalwood powder. Stir all these ingredients until smooth, then store again undisturbed for 3 days. Strain this mixture with three layers of gauze. Save this juice in a bottle, and apply to face twice a day until the acne disappears.

Treatment for Infection

Fill a sterilized eyedropper with organic, extra virgin coconut oil and put several drops into your ear canal to help soothe an ear infection. Lie still for several minutes to allow the oil to travel into the canal.

Apply a coconut oil-based moisturizer to the skin following your bath or shower. The fatty acids in coconut oil help to re-establish the skin’s acidic balance and speed the healing of inflammation and infection.

Coconut is an extremely versatile fruit that deserves an addition to one’s daily diet not only for the nutritional benefits but also as a disease preventive and curative.

Time, a Myth!

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TIME IS A LIE

Time is the greatest lie ever told to humanity. There is no such thing as the existence of time. The sun is rising and setting. The moon is rising and setting. Seasons are happening not as you planned. Please understand, we think, only in modern days the seasons are not happening properly. Seasons never happened properly because there is no such thing as the proper existence for a season. Maybe you try to understand with certain averages, between 20 degrees and 30 degrees, between 60 degrees and 70 degrees. With averages you come up with arguments to support some greatest lie called time. Where is time? There is no such thing as ‘time’ exists. Sun rises and falls, moon rises and falls, body rises and falls, that’s all. Where is time? What is the definition of a day? It is not existential reality. A day is not a day as you think. It is the definition you created, which the whole world has accepted non-controversially.

REALITY

Any definition accepted non controversially by the world does not become existential reality. It’s a taught fact. If all of us sit together and pass a certain resolution, “let there not be any more tsunami’s on the planet earth”, you think it is going to become existential reality? At the most it can become a law in all the places where human beings are living but not more than that. Time is the root cause of all sufferings. Realize this one truth and decide not to bend for anything. See, as per your reality, anything which you perceive for a long period you conceive that as a reality.

That is why you think of dreams as illusions because you perceive that for only a few hours. This waking state you perceive as reality, because you perceive this for 70 years. So you perceive this as a reality. Time is the worst myth, greatest lie, the most sadistic concept taught to human beings by the unconscious human beings who are in turn taught that same foolishness by some other unconscious human beings. Do not inherit sadism. When you learn the concept of time, you inherit sadism.

EXPERIENCING HAPPENINGS AS EXTERNAL

Life needs to be lived with the tremendous freedom that time is a lie. Being external to all the happenings internally is what I mean by being liberated from time. Please understand, being external to all the happenings internally – means, whatever you consider as the internal happening, the concept of time, stress created by time, strengths and weaknesses of your body and mind, the ideas and experience you have about consciousness, all are experienced as internal. When it is experienced as external, you are beyond time.

Meditate on this one sacred secret. Live this sutra, live this one sacred secret. Whatever you think of as internal should become external to you. The more and more internal things become external for you, the more you are grown spiritually. Understand, if inside there are a hundred things, for somebody twenty things may become external.

This means initially your body will become external for you. Yes, this is not me. Then, your prana, your air circulation will become external for you. This is not me. Then mental thoughts will become external for you. This is not me. But initially, all this will be internal for you. Then emotions, ‘Oh! This is not me!’

Understand, this is externalizing all the most subtle internal happenings. When you internalize the external things, more and more bondage happens. When you externalize internal things, more and more liberation happens, that’s all. When you externalize, first the body becomes external, then prana becomes external, then the thoughts becomes external. Then emotions become external. Then the pains caused by those emotions become external, then the very experience of consciousness becomes external. Only finally, ultimately, the pure consciousness alone remains as internal. I am revealing one of the important truths.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Patanjali Yoga Sutra Discourses in July, 2011, Bidadi Ashram

Thoughts, DNA, Love, Health & YOU!

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Within the last several decades, the field of science has taken a huge leap forward in its understanding of human consciousness. For many years, this topic was avoided by mainstream scientists who felt that consciousness was a subjective experience and could not be explained using objective experimental inquiry. However, beginning in the 1980’s, scientists, primarily within the fields of psychology and neuroscience, began conducting experimental studies dealing with consciousness and cognition. Moreover, within the realm of physics, the exploration of quantum mechanics has provided a completely different way of looking at the world than previous scientific thought allowed. Now, science has once again taken a huge leap forward through a more balanced assessment of consciousness, thought and emotions and the effects they have on the overall wellness of a human being.

Babies Need Hugs !

In a recent study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, behavioural scientists have proven that giving babies hugs and affection reduces their rates of anxiety, hostility, and general levels of distress. The study was conducted using nearly 500 infants that were followed from infancy into their adult years. The levels of affection were graded using a five-point scale ranging from “negative” levels of affection to “extravagant” levels. As expected, infants who were given “extravagant” or “caressing” levels of affection by mothers displayed less anxiousness, hostility, and overall distress when they were older. In this way, scientists have also proven that positive human emotions can also help shape a healthy immune system since feelings of anxiousness and stress can have a negative impact on health, especially in those already suffering an illness.

Also, thoughts and emotions have the capacity to alter the physical structure of human DNA, as proven by scientists in the Institute of Heart Math in 2001. The scientists placed human placental DNA samples in a container. Twenty-eight vials of DNA were given to researchers and individuals trained in mental and emotional self-management. In other words, how to consciously enhance positive emotional thoughts, such as love and well-being.

The Role of the DNA

The researchers hypothesized that there exists an energy-based information exchange between the human heart and the rest of the body, which they termed heart energy. Moreover, they hypothesized heart energy acts through DNA to produce physiological benefits in human beings, such as health and vitality.

They proved these assumptions by measuring changes in DNA within the vials using ECG monitoring and UV spectra analysis. Volunteers capable of generating feelings of deep love and gratitude were able to physically alter the structure of the DNA in the vials. The results generated showed that DNA conformation was affected differently based on varying intentions. For example, when gratitude, love and appreciation was felt, the DNA unwound, relaxed, and became longer. In contrast, thoughts of anger, fear and frustration caused the DNA to become increasingly wound and shorter.

DNA unwinds and is wound up again for specific processes within the human body, such as transcription. Transcription is important for generating proteins and enzymes, which regulate many of the body’s basic cell functions. Therefore, the researchers were able to prove that the heart energy has a direct correlation on some of the most basic and essential biological functions of a human being.

Live in Gratitude, Live Healthy

A follow-up study was later conducted using HIV-positive patients. They reported a 300,000 times increase in resistance to the HIV virus in participants who displayed feelings of love, gratitude, and appreciation.

Science has displayed enormous growth in terms of its scope within recent years. With more research on the horizon, perhaps science will succeed in explaining more of the world’s greatest spiritual mysteries in quantifiable and measurable ways. With the backing of scientifically corroborated studies and research models, correct spiritual knowledge and practice can bring about a new clarity in mankind that can help people live healthier and longer.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Morning Discourse, 23rd October, 2010, Bidadi Ashram

Unclutch Doesn’t Mean Laziness!

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Unclutching, a word that leads to infinite possibilities. From a student in graduate school, to a doctor working in a busy hospital, to an everyday housewife, unclutching is a process that has the potential to benefit anyone and everyone. It does not lead to a gradual transformation, rather, its effects are like a quantum explosion. A single jump, that’s all it takes.

If that jump is made, will all activity and work stop? No! In fact, when someone unclutches from their identity, they express a creativity and intelligence that is both spontaneous and natural. In other words, unclutching does not mean laziness! On the contrary, an unclutched being is free from the prison of their own identity. The tremendous energy, usually wasted in psychological worrying and irritation, will instead become positive, creative energy. Instead of slaving over work, stressing out over deadlines, and worrying about every little detail, an unclutched person will be able to work freely, without the pressure and irritation that normally accompanies an undertaking.

Normally, we carry a deep irritation, vengeance, and arrogance within us, and we express the same through our body language, our words, our very steps! Unclutching will release the innate intelligence that we have stored within our being so we are free from the negativity we carry with us.

In fact, if it weren’t for our egos, unclutching would be our natural state.

Because we believe and defend our philosophies so strongly, we are scared to use our intelligence to look in. Once we do, we will see how much energy we are wasting in psychological worrying! If we see how worrying has become our natural state we can simply move away from it. However, time and again we are given more things to worry about. It seems almost impossible to move away from worries then! We are told from a very young age that if we work hard we will achieve. There will be no need to worry after that! But is this really the case? How much stock can we put in the idea of hard work itself? We have just come to accept this idea as a natural factor of life, like breathing. However, if we use a little intelligence we can see that the idea of hard work is a pure myth! We take simple tasks, plan them out ten times, worry about whether we will accomplish them or not ten more times, and after completing them, talk and brag out them ten more times, and call this hard work!

An unclutched person will work smart, not hard. This is the main difference. Unclutch from your identity, and allow the natural intelligence of your being to shine forth. The body will simply move and a new, miraculous awakening will continuously express itself, in a stress-free and spontaneous way. Worries will become a thing of the past, and work will no longer be a burden, but an avenue for intense creativity! Pure intelligence will overcome the laziness and restlessness of the body, and life itself will simply transform!

Taken from Nithyananda’s Discourse on Unclutching in the year 2007 

Awareness on Third Eye to be Non- Judgemental

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To truly capture the essence of liberation, it helps to understand the third eye at a deeper level. At present, an individual’s view of the world is only 120 degrees wide. This implies that concentrating on a specific object will require all other objects to be excluded, resulting in a narrower degree of vision. However, turning all awareness to the third eye and focusing on the subject rather than on the object will ultimately expand the degree of vision. Everything will be absorbed with newly found detail and clarity, from an enhanced perspective.

In addition to turning all awareness towards the third eye, Shiva also says that awareness must prevail even before a thought arises. Typically, when a thought rises, it is either suppressed or pursued. In either case, there is no awareness of the thought before it rises. Just as the divine trinity creates, maintains and destroys, the human mind is continuously involved in either creating a thought, keeping it alive or killing it.

It is when an individual moves beyond these three actions that he attains the state of enlightenment, of Para Brahma. Going beyond the actions of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (Hindu trinity of Gods) in creation, maintenance and destruction of a thought will awaken one to the ultimate reality that he IS existence. In essence, being aware of a thought even before it rises is eternal liberation in its greatest form.

Usually, an individual is tied down by his thoughts; he forms an opinion without even looking at the situation with clarity. There are two ways of forming an opinion – either by collecting enough arguments to arrive at the judgement or by passing the verdict and then collecting enough arguments to support it. The average human is bound by the latter, and being aware of a thought even before it rises sets him free from this judgemental attitude. However, it is important to know the difference between being aware of a thought and suppressing the thought as it rises. For example, neither suppressing nor expressing anger will help. However, being in a state of awareness even before the anger arises is the only way to truly break free from the pattern of thought.

Taken from Nithyananda’s Shiva Sutra Talks, November 2007, Los Angeles, USA

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