Cosmic Intelligence

Thirty years ago, if someone had told us that information from around the world would be available with a single click on our computers, we wouldn't have believed it, but today it has become a reality. Not only that, most of us cannot do without the Internet. What would not have been believable and provable a little over three decades ago, is dayto-day reality now.

We have problems in believing what our ancient sages, the Rishis, said many thousands of years ago because we do not have scientific proof that what they said exists. We do not believe it because we have not experienced that reality. However, once we find a way to experience the truth of what has been said, however implausible it may seem, it becomes reality.

I am now proposing a theory similar to what our rishis experienced. Of course, it is not just a theory; it is the truth,

as experienced by many rishis and yogis. If we work on it, not only can we understand it but we can also experience it!

Let us try to understand the term, cosmic intelligence. When I say cosmic intelligence, I don't mean the data or information from or about the universe. You can get that from a website. Cosmic intelligence is all about processing the right data at the right time. It is the capacity, the energy, and the power to deal with information at a very elevated level. Generally, any information is recorded in matter or media and can be passed on easily. Intelligence, on the other hand, is pure consciousness, which humans are unable to create, even at the level of artificial intelligence. Computer intelligence is not human intelligence, no matter how much data the processor can crunch, and however fast it may crunch it.

Let us look further at what I mean by cosmic intelligence, how to access it and how to make it a reality in our lives.

There are many living entities present on Earth, such as plants, animals and even rocks. (Science has determined that these inanimate objects, too, possess some life form and basic intelligence.) According to the yogis, the human body is the most evolved and intelligent system, because consciousness happens only in the human system. Therefore, only humans have the potential to evolve into the next higher dimension. Somebody asked me, 'Why should we meditate? We evolved from monkeys into humans, and, based on the theory of evolution, we should naturally

evolve into super humans. What is then the need for meditation?'

I told him that until we became humans, we did not have consciousness, only instinct, and that was how the natural growth or evolution happened. But humans have one more dimension, called intellect, which controls instinct. Natural growth will not happen anymore just by biological evolution; now it has to be your conscious choice to move towards higher intelligence. A buffalo cannot become a Buddha, no matter how hard it tries. Only human beings can achieve the ultimate consciousness to become a Buddha.

Patanjali, the father of the yoga system, says, 'When you were a tortoise, all your past life memories were stored in that body. When you died and were born again as a higher level animal, all of that past life was then stored in the animal body. As you gradually evolved to the level of a human being, memories from all your past lives were stored in you. If you know the technique, you can actually tap into any of those memories. This may sound like a theory but it is true. In fact, this theory is the basis on which they say humans can fly and swim without any training. The past life memories just need to be tapped to be able to do these things.

In Japan, research was conducted where the moment children were born, they were put in water and they started swimming automatically. As children grow, if adults do not tell them that they can't fly, they will also try to fly. The moment

you condition them by telling them that they can't do it, they simply settle down to that as reality. By nature, we have all the required intelligence in our human body. The difficulty is, we strongly believe we are limited. In addition, we don't know the technique to tap into all the dimensions of our being.

I am going to explain, using a small diagram, how our mind resists opening itself to the innate intelligence available to our being.

This is the Time Shaft diagram. Consider time as a shaft which is continuously moving, moving from the right to the left; the future is constantly flowing and becoming the past. The time shaft represents incidents, memories, or cosmic intelligence.

Usually our mind wanders between the past and future, jumping back and forth. If we decide not to think about either past or future, we cannot have thoughts, because a thought is nothing but a jump from past to future or future to past. Every thought is to do with some past incident or some future idea. If we take 10 jumps in one second in this fashion, we can say that our TPS or Thoughts Per Second is 10. A person who is restless will have a higher TPS, say 50 TPS. These thoughts are so subtle and swift that it is difficult for us to believe that we actually harbour so many thoughts in one second! But it is true! The mind is like a drunken monkey that jumps from one thing to another without any rhyme or reason.

The higher our TPS is, the further away we are from the time shaft, as indicated in this diagram. If we are continuously jumping between the past and the future, we cannot become truly aware of the real past or the real future. To become truly aware of our past, we have to be in the present moment, which means we have to lower our TPS and come nearer to the time shaft that is available to us with the past and future.

Great Masters have access to the entire time shaft because their TPS is almost zero! They can clearly see the past and future. Being able to harness the time shaft is what cosmic intelligence is. When we are able to do this, we are actually in tune with Existence and its play. Once we have access to the time shaft, we can go back in time and get any information. All our past is available before the present moment (left side of the time shaft), and all the future is available after the present moment (right side of the time shaft). The present moment is where the future and past meet.

The lower our frequency of thoughts is, the fewer our TPS are, the closer we are to the time shaft, and the more clearly we can see our past and future. People may ask, 'Even if we are restless, we seem to remember the past. How do you say that only with fewer TPS we can see the past more clearly?'

With our normal TPS, we may see the past but we see it only as we want to, not as it really is. We see only a few incidents in a few moments and only in the way we recorded it in our system through our own perception. Whatever got recorded in our memory, we will be able to recall or access. But this is not what we are talking about. What we are talking about has nothing to do with memory. It has to do with straightaway accessing the time shaft at will, that's all. It is a technique. And the time shaft has all the incidents that have happened or are happening, clearly, as they are.

With our ordinary TPS, whatever we recall are incidents that remain in us because of some connection with our mental setup. For example, if we have a party in our house, when the party is over, we will create a file with what all went wrong at the party, what moments gave us pleasure, etc. We then store these things in our memory. Through this process, we won't repeat our mistakes again and, also, the moments of pleasure that were recorded give us some happiness when we recall them later. So what got recorded is completely our own perception and that, too, is a small subset of what actually happened during the entire party, in front of our eyes and behind it. Now, the time shaft gives access to this second part we are talking about. As the TPS comes down, we will start seeing things as they actually happened, irrespective of whether they happened in front of our eyes or not. We will have a clear idea of all the events that really happened, and of the future too, because the past and future are nothing but two dimensions of time.

When we touch the time shaft, we will learn wonderful lessons. We will start seeing life with a completely new perspective, with no preconceived notion about anything. We will just take every moment as it comes.

One of the great enlightened Masters, Vivekananda, beautifully says, 'If you know a handful of clay completely, you will know about all the clay available on Earth.'

If we have clarity about the past, we will have clarity about the future. If we do not have clarity about the future, be very clear that we only remember fragments of the past, as we want, and not as things happened.

I don't mean the past in this life alone but the past in all the lives that we have lived. Whether we believe in reincarnation or not, we have had many births; that is the truth, and that intelligence is there in us.

Through techniques like meditation, we can lower our TPS drastically. We can be completely in the present moment, and we can touch eternity. Past, present and future put together is eternity. We cannot touch it in the past since it's already gone; we cannot touch it in the future since it is yet to happen. We can touch it only in the present moment. If we can totally relax in the 'here and now', we can touch eternity and become aware of the whole past and the whole future.

Whatever I am saying is from my own living experience. I have no other investment in promoting this concept, except to inspire you to understand that it is possible for you.

It is like this, a tree is waiting for the seed to rupture, and the seed is waiting for the tree to happen before it ruptures. A seed has to rupture first for the tree to happen, or else the tree cannot happen. A Master is one who has become a tree and tells you that you, too, can rupture and become a tree. The Master is proof and he gives you the courage. It is a simple courtesy. If someone is ahead of you on a busy road, and you call them on their cell phone wanting to know

the traffic situation, won't he have the simple courtesy to tell you about traffic conditions? Similarly, it is simple courtesy for me to tell you this honest truth. It can happen in your life, too, with your courage to explore and penetrate the present moment.

Whenever we experience intuition, or have a déjà vu experience, knowingly or unknowingly, it means that our TPS has suddenly dropped; we become very calm and relaxed, and we get a glimpse of the future. When we are in a truly happy mood, our TPS comes down. This is also why, when we are with a good friend or beloved, time seems to fly but, when we are with someone boring, time seems to move very slowly. When the TPS is high and we are restless, we feel time is moving slowly. In those moments also, suddenly our TPS can take a dip, and a glimpse of the future might be revealed to us.

People who are time-conscious are in hell. They may achieve whatever they need to achieve in life but inside they will be in hell. Time-bound awareness is a good discipline socially but it is a bondage. Whenever you are attending a business meeting, you need to be time-bound, since you need to be socially responsible. But whenever you can, when you finish your business, relax from the time-bound awareness.

Just as we relax when we remove our coat and shoes, learn how to relax from time-bound awareness. Do this after you have completed what you have to as a time-bound responsibility. Only when we drop out of time-bound awareness can we see and enjoy a different dimension of life -the low TPS state. Being time-bound is good for business but not for living, because life is more than just business.

I know an enlightened Master who lived in Bharat. He had twenty-five clocks, each set to a different time. When I visited him the first time, I thought he had devotees all over the world and each clock was set to a different time zone because of that!

I asked him why he had so many clocks. He replied, 'If I want the time to be 12:30, I choose the clock showing 12:30 to be the current time. If I want it to be 4:30, I pick the one that shows that time. If I want a special time that none of these 25 clocks show, I set the time on another clock and use it!'

He was not just a Master; he ran his institution like a CEO. I asked him how he managed it. He said when he left his room, he had a watch that showed the chronological time and he would follow all routines as required: administering, returning phone calls, etc. But the moment he entered his room, he would remove the watch and live with the many clocks. He was able to use time as a tool at his will.

If you can live at least for a few days without the awareness of time, you will open yourself to a new dimension of your being. That dimension will be tremendously liberating. And once this happens, when you need to get into time-bound awareness, you will do it perfectly!

I did a study and found that, whenever we are not bound by time, our adrenalin level is very low, and we feel a sense of well-being. Whenever our adrenalin level is high, we are constantly tense. We can live all 24 hours of a day in timebound awareness, but we will naturally always hurry and worry and our adrenalin level will go up, which will lead to heart problems and all kinds of other problems. By the age of fifty, we will be all set to die and have eternity available to us.

One who is time-bound can't have a vacation. When he's worrying at the office, he calls it work; when he's worrying at home, he calls it homework, and when he's worrying on the beach, he calls it vacation, that's all. The place may change, but the time-bound mental setup of worrying will not change.

People ask me how I speak for many hours without any notes. I tell them it's because I'm not confined by timebound awareness. Time-bound awareness is the worst conspiracy that society inflicts on you. Slip out of it at least once in awhile and you will understand what I call intelligence. Read about any great discovery by any scientist. All great discoveries were made only when they were not under time-bound awareness, when they simply allowed themselves to enter into a new dimension of existing. Where did Archimedes discover his principle? Where did Newton discover the theory of gravity? Scientific discoveries are nothing but eruptions from the cosmic intelligence. When we are time-bound, we are good businessmen or engineers

but only when we reach timeless awareness, and our TPS drops, can we become artists or poets or make radical discoveries. All great truths, scientific and mystical, are discovered only when we are beyond time.

The technique to drop from time-bound awareness is what I call meditation. When we drop out of time-bound awareness, even one idea, even one thought that hits our consciousness, can transform our whole life and the life of humanity. Whatever we can achieve with time-bound awareness throughout our life, we can achieve a thousand times more with one moment of timeless awareness!

For example, can you equate all that you have created with your life's earnings with the productivity of the theory of gravity (which resulted from just one moment of timeless awareness)? Apart from personal comforts and material benefits, timeless awareness can give you a sense of tremendous fulfillment that you have lived your life completely.

A single glimpse of zero TPS is enough to give us the deepest possible fulfillment. That's the ultimate vacation! Unless we know how to lower our TPS, even if we are in the world's happiest place, we cannot have a vacation. If we can lower our TPS here and now, our whole life will be a vacation.

When I was in USA, I saw a signboard that said, 'Disneyland, where the party never ends.' Why do we need a separate place and time to be happy or to celebrate? Our

whole life will be nithyotsava (eternal festival) if we can drop our TPS. We will be able to penetrate our whole past as it happened and our whole future as it will happen; we will have tremendous clarity.

The past binds us again and again. Our future is nothing but an updated version of our past. From the past, we don't want some incidents so we remove them; we want some incidents, so we add them or repeat them. We try to create the same past in the future, with some alteration, more conducive to us. If we don't know our past completely, as it really happened, we will repeat the same things in the future. If our TPS can come down and we understand our past as it happened, we won't repeat the same things in the future and we won't be bound to the past, as well.

With our ordinary memory, we carry the burden of our past with a strong attachment to it. But when we have access to the entire time shaft, we will neither feel any attachment to anything in it nor we will be influenced by it. We then become karma mukta, liberated from karma, the burden of our past actions, intentions, desires and memories. As of now, we are all under karma bandha, under the bondage of karma, because we have not lived our past completely.

For example, our childhood always seems golden and many people have the idea of a golden past all the time. We may feel our life in college was great, but when we were actually in college, we would not have really felt that way. Why? Because we feel that our suffering has become too much now, and in comparison, the past seems very nice! Now, we attribute joy to our past, and if given a chance, we want to repeat it, but actually when we lived through it, did we experience joy? No. If we come down to zero TPS, we will understand it wasn't as great as we think.

Unfulfilled desires are what I call samskaras. Samskaras will pull us to travel on the same route, again and again. That's why they say history always repeats itself. Not only the history of humanity, but even yours and mine! Take an oath never to repeat the same mistake again and you will never be able to commit any mistakes, because we don't have the intelligence to commit new mistakes! We only repeat our past mistakes because we don't truly know and remember our past.

All meditation techniques are ways to bring down our TPS. The vision about the entire past and the entire future is what I call cosmic intelligence. If we bring down our TPS to zero, relax in the present moment, what mystics call cosmic intelligence will become a reality in our life. And no one can dispute the concept of timeless awareness. Just because some news is not in the newspaper, you cannot say it didn't happen. Similarly, just because we didn't experience timeless awareness, we can't say there is no such thing.

What we know is different from what is. If we can relax in the present moment, at zero TPS, for at least 11 kshana, we will penetrate the time shaft and alter future incidents.

Kshana is the time gap between one thought and the next. For each person this time gap is different. The higher the TPS is, the lower the kshana will be and vice versa. If we can stay in zero TPS for 21 kshana, (that is based on our regular TPS state) we will penetrate the time shaft and the future is in our hands. These statements are mystical and based on words of great rishis. Even if we disregard these truths, we can experience it directly.

If you sit in front of a person who meditates, or in front of an enlightened man, you feel fresh and attracted to his presence. People often ask me, 'When we sit in your presence, we don't know how time passes; we feel happy. Why is that?'

This is because, in the presence of a Master, your TPS drops. If you ordinarily have 100 TPS, and you come into the presence of someone at zero TPS, your TPS will drop to 50; if you were at 80 TPS initially, it will drop to 40 TPS, because the energy is infectious!

That's why Sankara, the great philosopher says:

satsangatve nissangatvam nitsangatve nirmohatvam nirmohatve nischalatatvam nishchalatatve jeevanmuktihi

It means, when we are in the presence of a man who lives with zero TPS, as in a satsang (satsangs are conducted in the presence of great Masters, living or who have left their body), we become nitsanga. Our restlessness comes down and we are free of attachments. When restlessness reduces, intelligence is active, the mind is clear and we become desireless and delusion-less, nirmohatvam. We then reach nishchalatatva, which is total stillness of mind with no thoughts, and finally, jeevanmukti which is the zero TPS state, or the state of enlightenment.

If we can bring down our TPS, we can penetrate the complete past, future and present. The whole cosmic intelligence will be available to us just like the information from around the world is available on the Internet at a browsing center! I call the third eye or the brow center (ajna chakra) the browsing center! If we can relax in the third eye energy center or the brow center and experience zero TPS, all the past, present and future of our life and others' lives will be available to us. So the brow center is the browsing center.

Q) When we die and the brain stops working, do we have zero TPS? If so, what is the difference between that zero TPS state and achieving the same through meditation?

A) At the time of death you don't achieve zero TPS state. The brain not working does not mean that you are in zero TPS. The brain may not receive information from the senses and process it but it can work on past memories. Even when your eyes are closed, during dreams, no information is

received from the outside but information is processed inside the mind without input from the outside. In the same way, during death, you don't receive information from outside but process information already collected. Death is not zero TPS; only enlightenment is zero TPS. If you browse the website on NDE, (Near Death Experience), you will see that an American doctor researched more than ten thousand people who had a NDE. His conclusions prove the great truths of the yoga shastra, which I just told you.

The whole THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Spurana Program (NSP), that I personally conduct over four days in Bharat and two days outside of Bharat, is about this one question; what is death and how to be aware at the time of death.

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is a profound statement; at the time of leaving the body, if you are aware or conscious, your next birth will be according to your choice, or you won't have a next birth, and you will become enlightened! It is not a mere statement; it is the solid truth.

In these four days, I program your mind so that the moment the pain of death happens in your being, you will become aware of the pain and restlessness and come to zero TPS. It is not that this meditation will help only during death. Even while living, you will be able to reproduce the zero TPS state whenever you wish to.

A scientist creates a formula to reproduce an experience in the outer world, like the theory of gravity, for instance, while a mystic creates a formula to reproduce in others the same experience that happened inside him, in the inner world. A Paramahamsa is a man who is able to put people in the same experience that happened in him spontaneously, without much effort on their part.

All I'm trying to do in these four days is to give you the formula, a meditation technique, through which you can have the same experience that happened in me spontaneously, when I meditated and became enlightened. I try to create the same space in you through a proper technique that works on the seven layers of your body, to give you a glimpse of that experience during NSP.

Q) Sometimes we get caught in unpleasant situations, where we need to speak up, but we don't. I'm always being pushed around and don't know how to deal with it.

-A) A small story:

Two friends, both drunk, are sitting in a pub and talking. One guy, fully drunk, says, 'I am scared to go home. My wife will open the door and start screaming and throwing things. I'll have to run inside and hide. Please tell me what to do; how do I escape from her?'

The other one is surprised and says, 'In my house, it's the opposite! I bang the door open, throw my shoes noisily around, bang the utensils, eat in the kitchen, bang the bedroom door open, shout, and still she acts as if she's sleeping!'

Two different situations: in the first one, the guy is afraid; in the second one the wife is afraid! Any situation depends on how you deal with it. I am not telling you that you should exploit the situation. No! But when the situation calls for intelligent handling to allow certain things to happen and, when people are causing difficulty in making that happen, you can easily make things work your way, that's all. This is a typical example, although the subject used here is not appropriate.

So, it is up to you to choose to create the first or the second situation. Don't always choose to be in the first situation; decide to create the second situation also sometimes. It is just intelligent handling with complete awareness about what you are doing.

Also, there is no need to give in submissively when you are being pushed around. When you give in, two things are happening: one is that you don't know the knack to handle the situation. The second is, your passive ego gets in the way and protects you from getting into an unpleasant situation, so you give in. This needs to be looked into with a deep awareness. The reason why you don't want to deal with the situation is you are afraid your ego might get hurt in the process of confronting the situation. This is the truth. This is what we call passive ego. Passive ego cunningly wriggles out of a situation, so that your ego remains intact.

But outwardly, you will appear to be the helpless victim of the situation. Just come out and bravely confront the situation. Decide not to let the situation suffer because of your passive ego. Let your ego get hurt a little; what is there in it? If you do this a few times, you will not only learn the knack of working around an issue, you will also let go of your defenses and feel free because of it.

A) There is no right or wrong in any path. It all depends on individuals and situations. Instead of focusing your energy on analyzing whether the path is right or wrong, if you focus your energy on doing what you do with totality, with awareness, then automatically your intelligence will grow and you will develop a tremendous conviction about anything that you do. Then, what you do will be right; no other go! That is the way.