Experience The Touch Of Living Enlightenment
Ananda Darshan
(Ananda darshan is the time when you are in the presence of the master's surging energy. You go near him and he touches you on your ajna chakra, thus transmitting the energy and experience of enlightenment to you.)
Darshan means 'to see something divine'. Ananda darshan means 'blissfully seeing'. When the Existential energy flowers into a form that your eyes can see and consciousness can perceive, and when it causes a transformation in you, it is called ananda darshan! The form that you see is the form of the enlightened master who happens from time to time on planet earth.
Some people ask, 'Is there something called Existential energy?' Yes there is, but it is beyond our intellect. When we reach the peak of our intellect, we will understand there is something beyond, which cannot be perceived with our intellect. Many scientists who reached the peak of their intellect saw the next step as infinite Existential energy that lay beyond them. With sensitivity, one can feel the presence of this energy.
There is always a group of people who say that the entire universe is nothing but a divine play of Existential energy. But there is another group who say that the entire universe is an accident and there is no energy or intelligence behind it. The second group can very conveniently exploit their philosophy to manufacture 'Is there something called Existential energy?' Yes there is, but it is beyond our intellect.
any number of weapons and cause destruction in the world. They do not develop any sensitivity towards anything in the universe because of this very idea that the universe and its happenings are an accident. They continue to exist and perceive at the gross level.
If you belong to the first group, you automatically enter into a subtle level and develop a deep respect for everything in this universe, every stone, tree, and plant. A deep devotion surges within you. Your very life automatically moves with a beautiful flow, like a surfer riding the rising wave of Existence.
It is only because man got the clarity that a profound and deep intelligence is running the whole show that he was able to create a way of life that allows him to merge beautifully and sweetly with the play of Existence.
The whole of Existence is a living being that responds to your every word, feeling, and prayer. Each moment it responds with responsibility to your very consciousness. In order to respond to you in a way that you can hear, see, and understand, it takes the form of enlightened masters from time
A master's darshan is like a huge wave rising in the ocean of Existence.
to time. The seeking and praying of millions of people
around the world creates a tremendous pull that causes enlightened masters to appear on planet earth, like how a low-pressure area or a depression naturally creates a storm.
A master's darshan is like a huge wave rising in the ocean of Existence. The wave never gets disconnected from the ocean, but at the same time expresses itself as tremendous dynamic energy! Understand: a river is also connected to the ocean, but it does not have the dynamic energy of the wave. It just flows passively, that's all. But Ananda Darshan is the dynamic wave that rises in the blissful ocean of Existence. It creates a churning that can completely transform you.
Now imagine a sand particle inside the wave. Can it have any impurity in it? No! It will be completely pure because it is inside the energy of the dynamic wave. In the same way, when you come for darshan, you will be completely cleansed inside out by the dynamic energy that is expressed. During darshan, you are within the very source of the Existential energy. In the presence of the sun, the lotus blooms. In the same way, in the presence of the master, your consciousness flowers.
All you need to do is co-operate. Actually, even if you don't co-operate, the energy will penetrate you. It is like this: whether the shell in the wave co-operates or not, the wave takes it along. In the same way, whether you co-operate or not, the energy will envelop you and do what is needed. But the shell that co-operates with the wave playfully dances along with the blissful movements of the wave. It gets purified and finally merges with it! On the other hand, the shell that tells the wave, 'I can't trust you so easily', and collects a few pebbles and builds a wall around itself for protection, suffers resistance. But the sheer compassion of the energy wave ultimately pulls it along into bliss.
For the person who surrenders joyfully to the wave, his very life becomes ananda darshan, not just a moment of darshan. Understand: during any moment that your consciousness is turned towards the blissful expression of Existence that is the master, ananda darshan happens for you! You don't even need to be physically near the master. If you continuously rest your consciousness on that energy expression, your very life becomes ananda darshan. On the other hand the person who resists, misses the celebration of merging with the energy, but also merges ultimately.
During darshan, tremendous energy radiates from the master. How do you receive this overflowing energy? Just come like a small child, with intense enthusiasm, with a deep prayerful mood, with a melting heart, that is enough. Society has destroyed the power of prayer. Prayer has the power to completely transform you into what you want to become.
What is prayer? When you want to achieve something, you focus your intention and intensity on it with your will. This is called 'your vow'. Soon you realize, however, that to fulfill it, you need the help of some higher energy as well. When this understanding happens, your vow becomes a prayer! You start praying to the energy. 'I can do it' is a vow, 'I need the grace of the energy that is beyond me' is prayer. So come with a deep prayerful mood.
When you open up your feelings in the presence of an enlightened master, it is like putting a slide in front of a projector. What is on the slide gets projected on the screen as reality. In the same way, your desires that need to be fulfilled for your own good and the good of others will materialize. The desires that don't need to be fulfilled will get burnt away along with the unfulfilled feeling that created them. Either the desire is fulfilled or your mind forgets about the desire. Either the seed of the desire sprouts or it is burnt away. Both ways you experience fulfillment.
You carry many desires that need not be fulfilled. The energy of the master works as sheer intelligence to handle this.
A small story:
Once, a tired traveler decided to rest under a tree. The tree happened to be a wish fulfilling tree. While he was resting, he had a passing thought, 'How nice it would be if I got some good food now!' The moment the thought came, a plate of delicious food appeared in front of him. He was delighted and ate to his heart's content.
After the satisfying meal, he thought, 'It would be good if I could get a comfortable bed to lie on.' No sooner did the thought come than a luxurious king-size bed appeared in front of him. He was amazed! He lay down on the bed.
As his head touched the pillow, he thought it would be really good if somebody fanned him while he slept. In an instant, a young girl appeared with a fan in her hand and started fanning him.
Suddenly, a thought came to the man, 'I am in the middle of a forest! What if a tiger suddenly appears?' The moment the thought came, a tiger appeared in front of him, pounced on him and ate him up!
Before fulfilling your desires, you need to bring clarity to them. When you verbalize your desires in front of the master, they will automatically acquire clarity. That is The whole scene of the darshan becomes a deep imprint in your consciousness.
why during the program Kalpataru* , I ask you to verbalize your
desires to me. As you verbalize, you yourself will know which desires really need to be fulfilled and which need not be fulfilled. Such is the intelligence of the expressed energy.
The kalpataru darshan* sows within you the seeds of:
Shakti - Energy to change the things that need to change,
Buddhi - Intelligence to accept the things that cannot change,
Yukti - Understanding that whatever may change, Existence itself is an eternally
changing dream!
Mukti - Liberation to experience the above three and live blissfully!
Put your energy into changing whatever you can, just simple things that you can change. Don't think, 'Oh, I can change two habits, what about the other ten?' Just change what you can change. Then accept what you can't change. When you have expressed your energy, intelligence will start flowering.
Intelligence is accepting what you cannot change. But until you express the energy to change whatever you can, you won't be able to have the intelligence to accept what you can't change. First try changing what you can. Then you will see a tremendous ability to accept whatever you can't change.
The third seed is clarity. However much you change things, whatever you may change, still the whole world itself is a changing reality, a changing dream. It is a dream that is continuously changing for no reason. It is causeless for no reason. Understand that it is causeless. Because it is causeless, you can call it either a causeless auspicious energy or a causeless chaos. Anybody who thinks this is a causeless auspicious energy is a theist, a seeker. Anybody who thinks it is a causeless chaos is a materialist.
The whole of Existence can appear as either a miracle or a curse. If you think it is causeless auspiciousness, it is a miracle, a continuous miracle. Otherwise, it is a curse.
During darshan, many people have visions, healing experiences, intense spiritual experiences, and the direct experience of causeless bliss. Not only that, the energy
Kalpataru - Boon-giving tree.
Kalpataru darshan - A meditation darshan program of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.
wave that rises also causes many unconscious fears, guilt, and desires to surface. Some people just go into intense silence. Others feel overwhelmed with tears. You may not even know the reasons for all these because they come from deep unconscious layers that erupt by the energy of the wave. Darshan time is a rare opportunity to liberate yourself from these deeply engraved memories. These emotions can be simply wiped out at the root level by the overflowing energy.
During darshan time, your being comes alive and celebrates with the energy wave of Existence. The mind disappears for some time. The whole scene of the darshan becomes a deep imprint in your consciousness.
I would like to say just one thing. The energy of Existence is like your father's wealth. Don't miss enjoying it! Just say 'YES' to Existence and enter into it like a child.
To draw money, even from your own bank account, you need to sign a check. In the same way, to receive the energy of Existence, you need to be open. That's all.
Remember, only the oyster that opened and caught a drop of rainwater made the pearl! When you are open to the master, just one word from him is enough. It is like rainwater that enters an oyster to become a pearl.
For the master's presence to work on you, allow whatever happens to happen. Don't be tense, irritated, or resisting. Don't expect anything. Whatever happens, allow it to happen. Just be like the surfer who dances on the energy wave, enjoying its bliss!