Q) Can You Grant Enlightenment To Someone If He Wants It?

A) Surely. Anybody who really wants it, without an iota of doubt, can surely have it. Not only can I grant it but, also, when you intensely want it, simply without even my giving, Existence can grant it to you. The very Existence can grant you enlightenment. There is no need for even me to be

between you and Existence. When somebody wants intensely, Existence simply grants.

Somebody asked Buddha, 'Buddha, you know enlightenment is the greatest experience and bliss. Why don't you grant it for everybody on this planet Earth?' Buddha asked, 'Please find out how many really want it. Please go around and find out how many really want it.' The man went around and was surprised to see that no one was really interested in enlightenment. They were so caught up in their own things that no one was bothered about getting enlightened.

Even if we want it, we want enlightenment as one more showpiece in our house. We are not ready to work for it. We are not ready to undergo the transformation which enlightenment will bring. I have seen many people when they come and live around me, when they see my joy and ecstasy and the way in which I am living and radiating bliss, they start asking me, 'Swamiji, why don't you give us enlightenment?'

We need to understand one thing here. Along with enlightenment comes a tremendous responsibility of compassion. Don't think a person who is enlightened will be the authority of the world. He can't even think of doing anything by himself. He will be just an instrument in the hands of God, of Existence. Whatever Existence wills happens through him, that's all.

People ask me, 'Swamiji, whatever you think comes true. How is it?' I tell them, 'No! Never think that whatever I think comes true. I can't even think. I have no freedom. The Divine simply thinks through me, that's all. I don't even have the freedom to raise my little finger. If the Divine wills it, it can be raised, that's all. Even that much freedom I don't have!

We always think that enlightenment is one more possession. No! Please be very clear, you can't possess enlightenment. Enlightenment will possess you. And anybody who is really intense about the desire for enlightenment, can surely have it. Paramahamsa means one who is liberated, who can liberate.

A person who creates a formula to reproduce the experience of the outer world is a scientist. Newton created a formula to reproduce the experience of gravity, that he experienced. When he was sitting and relaxing, he saw an apple falling and he understood something. He had a certain glimpse, so he created a formula to reproduce the same experience, so that many people could understand it. He was a scientist.

A person who creates a formula to reproduce the same experience that happens in the inner world is called a rishi, a sage; he is a seer, saint. A saint is a person who creates a formula to reproduce the experience that happens in the inner world. That formula is what we call meditation.

Meditation is the formula that is created by an enlightened person, sage or a saint, to reproduce the same experience that happens in his being. Paramahamsa is a person who not only creates a formula but also liberates. He can guide people to follow the formula and experience it.

That is what the THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Spurana Program (NSP) is about; it means the flowering of eternal bliss. It is a formula that I have created to give the same experience that happened in me, to those who want it. The NSP was created to reproduce the same experience that happened in me, in all of you. The same experience that happened in me will be created in your being.

Again, anybody who is intensely asking for it can surely have enlightenment. Sometimes, even I am not necessary. If your intensity is deep, Existence can directly grant you the ultimate experience.