Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP) is the second level meditation program designed by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.

The physical body is just one of the seven bodies you have. The remaining six bodies are subtle but powerful energy bodies, and are responsible for the vital elements of life – desires, thoughts, sleep, deep-rooted emotions like guilt, pleasure and pain, and finally, our very core that is bliss.

The clear understanding of how to control these vital elements of life is closely linked to the clear understanding of the ultimate mystery that is death. Once the understanding of death happens, you get an in-depth realization of the real YOU.

'What is really the meaning of life...and death?' You may be thinking, 'Why worry about death? After all, it is going to happen at the end of life.' Either you are afraid of death or you feel it is not important to know about it.

But, did you know that your whole attitude to life can radically change with the understanding of death?

This program demystifies the ultimate mystery around death, and unleashes guaranteed solutions for life.

This program is to…

• Make your intelligence and heart, flower
• Help you overcome your fear complexes to get self-confidence and a positive outlook in life
• Unravel your early childhood traumas and recreate your destiny
• Enhance your memory, concentration, creativity and intelligence
• Set right your inter-personal relationships and make them fulfilling
• Awaken your emotional intelligence
• Dissolve your inferiority complex and low self-esteem
• Grow your sense of leadership and responsibility
• Get in touch with your own higher Self or higher intelligence
• Learn the art of accessing Divine grace

This book is based on the talks of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM in various sessions of LBP Level 2-NSP.

I welcome you all with my love and respects. Let me first introduce the word Nithyananda Spurana to all of you.

In USA, 115 years ago, Vivekananda was asked by a young lady, 'What is life?' He said, 'Come with me to Bharat. I will teach you.' She asked, 'What will you teach me?' He said, 'I shall teach you how to die.'

The question is about life, but the answer is about death. If you know the secret of death, you also know the secret of life; the quality of your life will then be different. The quality of life, your understanding and attitude, will change.

Death is not just an incident that happens at the end of your life. If you know how to die, you know how to live. Living and leaving are two sides of the same thing. Your life will be totally different once you understand death.

Nithyananda means eternal bliss and Spurana means flowering. Understand: eternal bliss is happening in us all the time, but we stop it in many ways.

NSP makes your inner space pure and clean like keeping your furniture inside and sleeping outside. Live blissfully and leave peacefully. Death is liberation and celebration for one without samskaras.

Ananda means, the feeling or the energy that never subsides. Nanda means that which can leave you, which can be taken away from you. Ananda means, which never leaves out of you, which can never be taken away from you, which will not reduce. Based on the time and space it will not change.

Anything which changes based on time and space is Nanda. Anything that will not change based on time and space is Ananda. Whatever you think as Ananda, of course, it is only joy it is not bliss. Whatever we think as joy or Ananda, they change based on time and space.

In a particular time we are blissful. In a particular space we are blissful. In a particular time, sometimes, we are not in the same mood. That which can change is Nanda. That which cannot change is Ananda.

In each and every one of us, there is an energy, continuously flowing, which never changes. There is an energy that can never be taken away. Of course, again and again, almost all the Masters who appeared on planet earth, again and again they say, in every being Ananda is flowing.

Apart from Masters saying, even if we start searching inside, we will understand that if there is

no Ananda, we can't move even an inch in our life. Even the inhaling and exhaling is happening because of bliss. Either we experience bliss or we hope that we will experience bliss.

Only because of this Ananda even our inhaling and exhaling is happening. Either we experience, or we have an idea that we will experience. Otherwise, even in our life we will not flow. Continuously, in every being, Ananda is flowing. That is why still we are alive. That is why still we are breathing. That is why still our system is functioning. This energy which we call Ananda, is continuously working within all our beings.

There is a beautiful saying in our Upanishad, 'If two rishis agree on some point, be very clear, some one is a fake.' No two rishis can agree on anything or any concept. Always they will have some conflict, because each one expresses in a different way. Whatever they experience, each one expresses in a different way.

If we ask about food, some will say have vegetarian food, some will say, we can have nonvegetarian. Some will say, you don't eat! Some will say, you eat whatever you want, nothing wrong. Each one will have their own idea.

If we ask about marriage, some will say, 'Don't marry, be celibate.' Some will say, 'You can marry, grihastha is ok.' Some will say, 'You can marry even four-five times.' Marrying 4-5 times is straight way to enlightenment! We can't be alive without enlightenment! Enlightenment becomes a basic need. If we marry once, enlightenment is an option. If we marry twice or thrice, enlightenment is a basic need, we can't be alive. Anyhow, some say, marry as many number of times as possible.

Each one has got their own idea, their own opinion. No two Masters agree with each other. But, when it comes to this one concept 'Ananda' there is no Master who contradicts this one concept that each one of us is filled with bliss, that our being radiates bliss.

There is no being in the planet earth, or, there is no person who is not filled with bliss. In every one of us bliss is flowing. In every being continuously bliss is happening. As far as this one concept is concerned, there is no Master who disagrees. If all the Masters are agreeing on this point means, this must be a basic point, a fundamental Truth.

People who don't believe will never allow these words to enter into them. That is one group. And people who believe, they will never have the courage to experiment. That is a big problem.

People who believe and people don't believe both are not going to be helped. Both are going to be in trouble. When we start believing, we don't experiment. I always tell people, hanging on the cross and hanging on the wall is one and the same.

Continuously we classify things. The moment we classify, we start thinking that we have understood everything about it, we know everything about it.

That is why I always tell people, 'Maximum 6 months we live with our husband or wife, that's all!' The moment we get married, 6 months we live together. After that you create an image about her and she creates an image about you. Over! You create an image about her and she creates an image about you. After 6 months, we live only with images. We don't live with the real person. We don't live with the real being. It takes real intelligence to live with the person, instead of living with images. Continuously we classify things. The moment we classify, we stop relating.

Many people tell me after the NSP that they feel they have emerged as new beings, they feel it is like a new birth. Of course, you will realize at the end of the program that it truly is a new birth. That is why you have a choice to take a new name, a spiritual name.

At the end of the NSP, you have a choice to get your spiritual name. The new name which I gave, this spiritual name is like constantly reminding you to mother the psychological revolution which has happened in you. The new life, new understanding which happened in you, you constantly mother that. Constantly you remember it. That is why the new name. When a psychological revolution happen inside you, again and again if you remember the old name you go back to the old identity.

When somebody calls out, 'John' or 'Jill', immediately, unconsciously, the attention of John or Jill is drawn and the person looks for who is calling him or her. This is how deeply our name has been embedded in our unconscious. Your name can be a powerful technique for realizing yourself.

Another important thing is whenever somebody calls out your name, you suddenly become conscious and aware of yourself. You must have experienced a situation like you are sitting in a big classroom and suddenly, the teacher calls out your name for some reason. Whether you were dozing off or listening to the teacher, you will break from that thought pattern and you will be jolted to the present place and time.

A name has a tremendous influence over our state of mind. The spiritual name indicates the spiritual path of the individual according to its innate nature, which will lead to the ultimate flowering of the individual and actualization of its potential.

When we call out the person's name, this name, this path is constantly repeated and it enters into the very core of his or her being.

If you have the right spiritual name given by an enlightened being, that name will take you to the direct conscious depth. It will connect your mind and consciousness. It will be like a bridge for you to enter into enlightenment. It'll tell your path towards enlightenment. It'll tell how your way of life should be, how you can achieve enlightenment, how you should take care of your life.

There are thousands of ways to live. To give you the guidance, masters choose the name. Your name is like a mantra.

Let me give the definition of engram, samskara or mantra. Any word which is inscribed in your inner space which binds you, which suffocates you, which brings you down in your consciousness is samskara, engram.

Any word which is inscribed in your inner space, which liberates you, which takes you to a higher consciousness, which takes you to the more joyful, blissful state is mantra.

Mantra and samskara both are almost the same, but samskara binds you. Mantra liberates you. Mantra is the antidote for samskara. If you are named by an unconscious person, your name is a bondage.

If you are named by an enlightened being, your name is a method to liberate you. Your very name can be used as a technique to enlightenment.

You see, if at all your name can be used, that's the best thing, because the whole day from morning 'til night, either you will be using towards you or somebody will be using that name towards you. Then understand, every moment becomes a spiritual practice. If the right word from a right enlightened master is given to you as a technique, as a name, every time it is repeated you are entering into the higher consciousness. Every time you remember the meaning of it, you are in a different plane.

People come and tell me, 'The spiritual name you gave, the name itself is so beautiful. Whenever I remember that name, I am fulfilled. Whenever I remember that name with the meaning, whenever I meditate on that name, the meaning, I am just overflowing.' The name can take you to the deepest level.

One more thing, any other word is only addition to you, but your name is the center of you. Your name is the center, everything else is addition. That is why in the Vedic tradition we use only some god's name. That is why we have, for every god, 1008 names, sahasranama. Sahasranama is used for two different purposes. One, to address the gods, deities; another one, to pick up names for your kids. Our elders will try to find the name. First thing they will reference sahasranama. They will see your family deity and your nakshatra and the letter and they will reference sahasranama to find out the right name. The names is so powerful, it can take you beyond the mind.

The NSP has a complete healing effect on the physical, mental and spiritual levels. People come and ask me how I do the healing through the meditation. Please understand: I do not heal. It is my presence that heals. When the sun rises, the lotus blooms by itself. The sun need not go and open the petals of the lotus. Similarly, in the presence of the master, healing happens. Be very clear that healing is not done; it happens.

I can heal your body as it is in my presence. In the same way, if you open your mind, it can be healed. In the NSP, that's what we do, opening of minds. You are asked to write for yourself about yourself, about your pains, desires, guilt and pleasures and you are not going to show these to anyone else.

People ask me why I ask people in the NSP program to write all this. Understand that you are not going to show what you write to me or anyone else. People also ask me, 'When I know all this, why I should write it down?' I tell you, by writing it all down you are opening your mind in my presence. You are opening your mind and hence I can heal your mind. If you open it, the sun can heal it. The energy heals all the wounds.

NSP is opening up your energy layers one by one. Your pains, pleasures, guilt and desires are opened up. When these open up, you experience God; not only do you search for God but experience God, since a pure mind is God itself and not something separate.

There are seven layers of bodies. There are seven major elements in the body layers. You need to understand three things. First, thing, because of these body layers you are not relating with the reality, as it is.

All the mystics always say, 'World is god. God is everything. Whatever you see is God. Everything is God.' But we don't think everything we see is God. We always see everything as evil. We always think everyone is trying to exploit us. Everyone is trying to enter into our territory. Everyone is trying to disturb us. So what the mystics say is one thing, what you feel is totally different thing. Why do we feel in this way? Because we are not able to relate with the reality as it is.

First thing you need to understand, because you are not using these layers, they become just cancer. Whenever something is not becoming part of your being, part of your body, it becomes a separate growth. So if it does not become part of you, it naturally becomes a cancer.

Unless otherwise you express, you start living these layers; you will never have the satisfaction that you lived. Because if the major portion of your life is unlived, you will not have the satisfaction in your life - not only the spiritual life, but also the ordinary world.

One more thing, we will be working with so many techniques, related to imagination, you will be asked to visualize some things. We have a very deep disrespect for visualization. We always think, oh my imagination, what can I achieve? By visualization, what can I achieve? Understand, your whole life is nothing but visualization.

The whole life is nothing but the imagination. Its like one thorn is removed by another thorn. If one thorn enters your leg, you take another thorn and remove it, with the help of this thorn. Same way, you have so many imaginations which have entered in you, without your knowledge, without your consciousness. Same way now, the conscious imaginations are going to enter into you, to do the process, to do the work. So whenever meditation instructions are given, just put your total energy into it.

See, the person who creates a formula, to re-create the experience of the outer world is a scientist. For example, Newton created the law of gravity. He had some experience. When he saw the apple falling from the tree, he had some experience. So, he created the formula to reproduce the same understanding in others.

A person who creates a formula to understand the experiences of the outer world or the things of the outer world is a scientist. A man who creates a formula to reproduce the experiences of the inner world is a Master. Person who creates a formula to reproduce the things of the outer world is a scientist. Person who creates a formula to reproduce the inner world experiences is a Master. This whole program is a formula created by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM to reproduce the experiences which happened in the inner world. So, we will see how this experience happened and how this formula happened.

First, we will see how this experience happened in Paramahamsa, and second, how this formula will reproduce the same thing in you. Unless we understand these things clearly we will not be able to work.

The whole motivation for the NSP came out of two incidents in Paramahamsa's life.

The first one happened before enlightenment and He describes it as:

'It was around 1999, I was in Varanasi – Kasi. There was an elderly sannyasi – a very old sannyasi. He was suffering with cancer. He was in the hospital, in the ICU.

I had the great opportunity to take care of him. He was a great sannyasi, but not an enlightened person - a great tapasvi. Everyday I used to bring food for him and take care of his needs and stay in the hospital.

One day, the person in the third bed was slowly passing away, he was dying. I was staying in the ICU, he was dying. Doctors were standing around him, they were trying to help their best, but they were not able to do anything.

Even though I was not enlightened at that time, he had one of the most wonderful spiritual experiences, a beautiful experience, his own death experience. Because of that, he was able to see what was happening to him.

Slowly, the patient started suffering and struggling. First, he started suffering tremendous pain in the body. His face started showing the pain. Next, he became breathless. He started inhaling and exhaling seriously.

Then I was able to see very clearly, the pain and the agony, the suffering. It was like one thousand scorpions biting him. One thousand scorpions biting him at a time, and his whole consciousness was getting torn. For example, if we cut our finger with a blade half an inch, how much of pain do we experience? How much of pain do we suffer? It is like the six-feet body is being cut into pieces.

I was able to experience the pain, the agony, the feeling which he was undergoing. Of course, slowly, slowly, slowly, he started moving away from the physical body.

Even though it is a little difficult to receive logically, even though it is little difficult to understand intellectually, this is what happened. It is like a formula: X x 2 = 4. To understand the formula, to understand how to solve it, first we assume. First we assume that X = 2. Let us replace 2 in the place of X. Then we understand: 2 x 2 is 4. Once the answer is right, now we know X is 2. Till the calculation is done, we have to have a little patience. But when I say, let us assume X = 2, immediately if we start raising the question, 'No, why not 3? Why not 1? Why not 4?' we will not be able to proceed. Just see the result. When the formula is working out, naturally we will know that X = 2.

Even if we understand it as a hypothesis, that is enough. In the end of the calculation we will be able to understand how this whole thing happens.

I was able to see and experience the tremendous pain and agony of that being. It is almost excruciating, such a deep suffering. The being started moving from the physical body, then to the pranic layer, the second layer body. Pranic layer means our breathing energy.

All these 7 bodies are seven energies, energy layers of our being. When the being started moving towards the pranic layer, again a deep suffering! Our prana shareera is filled with all the desires. Our breathing and our desires are very closely related. If we change our breathing, our desires can be changed. If we change our breathing, our desires can change. Our desires and breathing are very closely related. When the energy was moving into the pranic layer all the desires of the being started coming up. The being started suffering with all the unfulfilled desires.

Then when the being started moving towards the next level body, all the guilt started rising- 'Oh! I should have lived in that way, I should have lived in this way.' Anyhow, slowly, the being moved layer by layer and died. I saw the whole death. How the death is happening, the whole process I was able to see. But I was not able to help, of course. I was not an enlightened man at that time; I was not able to help. Just I saw the suffering. But, the pain created in me, just seeing the suffering itself was too much.

I started feeling the pain; if we see an accident on the road, what will happen? Will we be able to eat for the next two days? If we see an accident on the road, will we be able to eat? No! We will not be able to eat for the next two days. It was the same. It is almost the same. And even in an accident we see only one body. Somehow I was able to see all the 7 layers, all the 7 bodies. What will happen to the suffering? It was so deeply engraved. It was recorded in my being so deeply. I was not able to eat or sleep for the next 3-4 days. It was suffering. Anyhow, after a few days, I Ieft Varanasi and went away. After about a year I continued with tapas and became enlightened. Then he came to South. He stayed there for 1-2 years. After that, maybe 2 years ago, again, once more he had the opportunity to see another death.

I saw the second death in another ICU - Intensive Care Unit. This second person did not suffer though when he passed away. I started analyzing, 'Why did the first person suffer and why did the second person not suffer?' After analyzing or meditating on that issue, something came up as a formula it happened to me. That whole formula itself is this whole program of NSP.

I was seeing the first death in Varanasi, that was so painful; there is no other word to explain about it. It was so painful even to see, I was not able to digest the scene for the next 3-4 days. When I saw the second death, at that time I was enlightened. I saw slowly the life moving from that person.

I went to the hospital to heal one of our devotees. At the ICU I was healing our devotee. Again the next bed person was dying. I was able to see what was happening.

This time I saw, neither the person had pain nor he had suffering. Beautifully he was moving, from the first body to the second layer, second layer to third layer, third layer to fourth layer. Like how a ball rolls in the snow, just like that his being was moving. He was surprised. Suddenly his being slowly moved and just disappeared. He became enlightened. He was liberated.

He started thinking, 'Why did the first person suffer so much while the second person did not have anything?' He enquired with his relatives, 'Was he a spiritual person?' First he thought that he must be a great spiritual person. He must have meditated a lot. But the relatives said, 'Meditation? Why? He would not even go to the temple. He was not even religious.' Then I started contemplating, 'Why did the first person suffer so much while the second person had such a beautiful and peaceful death?'

There is a beautiful website on near-death experiences. An American doctor did a research. He did an experiment. He started meeting people who had near death experiences. Near death means who are clinically declared dead and who come back to life after 3-4 hours. There are so many such cases. In our Hindu villages there will always be 4-5 cases. If we go to our native village, always we will hear 3-4 cases like this.

The other day a doctor was telling me, 'There are so many cases who are medically declared dead, who come back to life after 4-5 hours.' In some person's life, it happens 3-4 times; they come back to life. This doctor somehow got interested in this subject and he started going all over the world meeting these types of persons, who are medically declared dead and who came back to life. He met people. He went all over the world. years he did research. people he met and collected all their memories, all their experiences, memories of how they had their death experience.

After analyzing all their experiences, he makes a conclusion. He makes a statement, a beautiful statement. People on the planet earth, only when they live they are Christians, they are Muslims, they are Hindus, they are Jews, they are Buddhists. But when they die, all of them die in the way that is described by Hinduism. We maybe a Hindu, Muslim, Jew or Christian, but when we die we are a Vedanti.

In the Kathopanishad, there is a clear description of death. And he says, in all these people's experiences which he collected, everybody's experience matches exactly with what Kathopanishad describes.

Let us see exactly how death happens. First we move from the physical body. You may be thinking, 'I came to learn how to live but Master is teaching all about death!' But unless we understand the mysteries of death, we will not have a clear idea about life. Our concept about death totally changes our concept about life. Our philosophy about life changes when our philosophy about death changes.

See, in the East, nobody cares for time. Things will happen in their own way, things take their own sweet time. Why? Because all the eastern religions believe in many births. We have eternity in our hands! If not today, tomorrow. If it is not coming today, tomorrow, otherwise, next janma!

All western religions say only about one birth. They say, after death, we don't have any birth. That is why, western people are so time conscious. Whatever has to be enjoyed has to be enjoyed in these 70-80 years. Nothing else can be done. We have to finish it. That is why their life style, everything is catered around this time consciousness.

The idea of death changes the whole idea of life. So, never think learning about death is a waste. That is the basic lesson everyone has to learn. First a person moves from the physical layer, means this body which we are having, to the pranic layer, which involves inhaling and exhaling, the energy or the air movement, the prana movement inside our system.

When we move from first layer to second layer, all our desires, the desires, the unfulfilled desires, the way we wanted to live but did not live, all those things usually come up. It is almost like in a room 10 persons are standing and like a football, all the 10 people are kicking. What will happen? How the football is kicked from this corner to that corner, that corner to that corner and back from that corner to here. Same way, our consciousness is kicked from all the corners. It moves from all the corners because in each corner some desire is standing and kicking. All our desires are forcing us to enter into the body so that we can enjoy them.

Our desires will be forcing us one side to enter into the body so that we can live and enjoy. The other side, the body will say 'No! I am tired. I can't host you anymore; leave!' One side, the

body will tell, 'I am tired; I can't host you.' The other side, the pranic layer, the desires, will force us to live inside the body. That is what is the pulling and pushing. Pulling and pushing is nothing but the fight between the desires and the body.

And somehow if we move from the pranic layer slowly, next we enter into the mental body. In the mental body, another one problem is that all the guilt rises. All the guilt is about the way in which we wanted to live, but we never lived.

See, desire is about the future, guilt is about the past. But both are one and the same. Same thing, when it is about the past it is guilt, when it is about the future it is desire. The way in which we want to live is desire, the way in which we wanted to live but didn't is guilt. I always tell, guilt is nothing but reviewing our past decisions with updated intelligence.

Our intelligence is continuously updated. With this updated intelligence, we review our past decisions. For example, at the age of 7, your mother comes and calls you to take food. She says, 'Enough you played with toys. Throw them, come and eat.' What do you say, 'No, I don't want to eat; I want to play'. If your mother comes and tries to snatch the toys, what do you do? You not only cry and maybe even curse your mother. Now you know that the toys are not so important as your mother. Your mother is more important. Now your intelligence is totally different. At that time, toys were so important for you than your mother. You started cursing your mother.

Now you know, mother is much more important. With this updated intelligence, we can't create a guilt, 'Oh! That time I cursed my mother. That time we had only that much of intelligence. All our decisions are made with the available intelligence.

If we start reviewing our past decisions with updated intelligence, we will always create guilt. All the guilt is nothing but trying to review past decisions with updated intelligence. All the guilt rises in the mental body. Then if we move a little away, a little deeper comes the etheric layer which is related to all our sufferings. Like this, each and every layer has got its own samskara.

Actually, traveling through these layers only is called hell. Really, there is no other place called separately as hell. Hell or heaven are not geographical, they are psychological. Please be very clear, hell or heaven are not geographical. They are psychological.

One more thing, when we enter into the dream layer, if we start dreaming, this whole world will become black and white. We forget this whole world and the dream becomes multi-colour. If we come out of the dream, this whole world is seen in 4 dimensions, like 4D.

Now, when we are in this physical layer, this whole world is seen as 4D. We experience this world as 4D, in multi-colour. When we are in the dream world, we experience that as 4D. When we are here, dream becomes black and white, and this becomes 4D. When we are there, dream becomes 4D and this world becomes black and white.

Same way, when we move away from this physical layer to the pranic layer, this whole world will become black and white. What for did we work? What all did we think as a base for our life? You see, we invest in our personality; we build our personality based on a few pillars. There are a few pillars, foundations on which we build our personality - money, name and fame, relationships and pride that I have a big community support. These are the few pillars on which we create our personality.

If somebody asks you, 'Who are you?' What will you say? 'I am an engineer', 'I am a doctor', 'I am a lawyer'. Or you will tell, 'I am the owner of 4 houses'. Or 'I am such and such a person's husband or wife', or I am her husband, or somebody's son, somebody's daughter, somebody's wife. All these things, all these ideas we create, our personality is built on these few foundations.

When we move from the physical body, all these foundations will be completely shaken. We can't sign in our cheque any more. Our signature is not accepted. We can't sign our cheque. Our bank balance is no more related to us. We can't handle our bank balance. And our car will not be useful to us. At the most only the ambulance will be useful. And our house will not be useful to us. We can't even relate with our relatives, we can't talk to them. If we try, they will run away. Whatever is the foundation for our being, the whole foundation will be shaken. When the foundation is shaken, naturally we don't have anything to hold.

Understand this one thing, if we suddenly hear some loss in our business, we will feel that our whole body is suffering. The suffering will not be in one portion, the whole body will be suffering. It is almost like our being is crushed. We can see in our life, if we just sit in our office and worry about something, we don't have to do any work, just sit and worry and we will have shoulder pain. If we just sit and worry for 10 minutes, what will happen? We will have shoulder pain.

When something moves away from us, our whole body suffers. When we move from the physical body, the same suffering starts happening. Whatever we thought as a foundation for our life, the whole thing is shaken.

As of now, this whole world will appear in 4D. All this spirituality, meditation, growing the inner being, consciousness, all these will appear black and white. That is why, when I call people for meditation, they tell me, 'I don't have time to meditate.' Never say 'I don't have time to meditate.' Be very clear to yourself and say, 'I don't feel that it is that much important.' If we say, 'I don't think meditation is so important' then we are honest. But never say 'I don't have time.' Everybody has got the same 24 hours. It is not that the few who are meditating are jobless. It is just a question of priority, what we want in our life.

As of now, this world will appear in 4 dimensions, in multi-colour. That is the reason all this spirituality or the consciousness, spiritual experience, all these will appear in two colours. But, when we move away from the physical body, whatever we think, whatever we thought as 4D everything will totally disappear, it will be shaken. That time, we will not have any base. Or we will not have any space, where we can rest. That is the reason always death is suffering. At that moment, if we can have a conscious glimpse, or consciousness, we can consciously enter into death.

If we understand this completely, whatever we think as 4D will not be with us. Our personality will not be built on this 4D. When we are living itself we will create at least one foundation or pillar in the other dimension of spirituality. See, now we are in 2 dimensions, this world and the other is spirituality.

Now, if our being has got 10 pillars, all the 10 pillars are based on this world and this 4D. Not a single pillar is based on consciousness or the inner space. Our whole personality is built only based on the outer space - our name, our fame, what society speaks about us.

Our complete personality is structured only based on what society speaks about us. If everybody speaks that we are great, what do we think? We think, 'I am a great person.' If everybody says, 'You are useless', what do we start doing? We start getting depressed.

Not even a single pillar of our building is based on spirituality. The whole thing is based on outer space. Whole thing is based on our wealth, our name and fame, our social setup, our relationships, our family, our friends. That is the reason, when those pillars are shaken, we start suffering terribly. If we have only one pillar in the consciousness, we will not have suffering.

That is what the Gita says, what comes and stands in our mind at the time of leaving the body only will decide about our next birth or enlightenment. If we have only one pillar on the consciousness, naturally, we will not have the suffering when we leave the body. All the 9 pillars will become black and white. Even if the other nine pillars become black and white, the one pillar will be there to guide us. That one pillar will be there in the multi colour – 4D.

As of now, nothing exists. As of now, our whole personality is based on outer space. All our pillars are in this 4D. There is no inner space. That is why, like a ball, people can kick us from outer space. Anybody can just throw one word towards us, that's all, we are depressed. If somebody says we are mad, we shout at them and prove that we are mad! A single word is enough to make us mad. Nothing much is necessary. We see the street dogs - just if we throw one stone at the dog, it is enough to disturb that dog.

We are in no way better than street dogs. Anybody throwing one word on us is enough; we are already out because our whole personality is built on outer space. In the inner space we don't have strength. One more thing, as of now the inner space looks black and white. That is why we never give importance. But when we move from the body, the inner space will become 4D, the outer space will become black and white. Even if there is a single pillar in our inner space, naturally we will not have any suffering at the time of leaving the body. We will leave the body beautifully.

Vivekananda says beautifully, even if we have only one single thoughtless awareness experience, means, single conscious experience in our life, that is enough. At the time of leaving the body it will come up and we will leave our body peacefully. We will just have awareness without thoughts.

The idea 'I' exists in all of us. In deep sleep do you have that? No. Same way almost every one of us has thoughts. In deep sleep do we have thoughts? No. There are two states of mind and two states of being. These two criss-cross each other and create four states of being in which we exist. First is to be with I, be with thoughts; this is what we say is the waking state. In Sanskrit we call it jāgrat state, jāgratāvastha, waking state.

The next, there will be thoughts, but there will not be 'I'. That is what we call dream state. You may ask how? How is it in dream we don't have 'I'?

See, in the dream, the frequency of thoughts is more than the frequency of 'I' consciousness. That is why you are not able to control your dreams. Now, if you want you can control your thoughts. You can suppress them, alter them, create in a different way, you can do whatever you want, because the frequency of 'I' is more than the frequency of thoughts.

In the dream state, the frequency of thoughts is more; that is why they just flow. You can't do anything about it. You can't control your dreams. If at all we have the opportunity to dream what we want, we know what type of dreams we will be having. Dreams are not under our control because the frequency of thoughts is more than the frequency of 'I'. Dream state is when you don't have 'I' but you have only thoughts.

Third, neither you have 'I' nor you have thoughts. That is deep sleep, sound sleep.

There is a fourth state that we never experience. There, we will be having 'I' but not having any thoughts. This is what we call turīya or meditation or samādhi or ātmajñāna, nirvāṇa, self realization, experience, what ever you want you can name it. This is what we call samādhi. This is the state where you have 'I' consciousness but no thoughts. This is what I say 'thoughtless awareness' or 'consciousness'. Even one glimpse of this state is enough, even one experience of this state is enough, when you leave your body you will have your result, you will have your lounge there!

As of now, this turīya state or samādhi state or consciousness, all these things will look like black and white. We will not give that much importance to all these things. It will be very difficult to surrender to this turīya state. It will be very difficult to work for this consciousness as of now, because it appears to us as black and white.

Even if you understand it intellectually it is only a faith. You must be thinking, 'Who knows what the truth is? This Master must be telling something to do his business!' See, these are all usual things. I always tell people, it is not so easy to understand all these things. It is not so easy to surrender. It is very difficult to surrender, as of now.

The moment you hear the words your consciousness or surrender or samādhi or meditation and all those things, immediately what do you think? 'It is all a very difficult thing.' And not only that, we will always have the fear, 'You may now tell me to surrender, tomorrow you may take away my property or you may take away my husband or you may take away my wife. You may take away my kids. Or, I myself may get inspired and go behind him.' There are so many doubts; there are so many troubles, so many problems.

It is very difficult to trust somebody, it is very difficult to enter into this fourth state or very difficult to enter even close to it. It is very difficult because now all these things are only in two colours – black and white. But when you leave the body, what ever you thought as 4 colour – 4D, it will become completely black and white.

Now let us see how the second death happened so peacefully. Now the statement which I am making is a little difficult to understand but again I have no other way, because truth has to be explained. Truth has to be expressed. Only then you will be able to enter into the formula. This is the way the formula has happened to the person. When the second death was happening, the moment the person left the first layer body, because an enlightened being was standing there, because of his presence, somehow he was able to catch a glimpse of that consciousness. He was able to catch my presence.

At this time, I had become enlightened. But at the first death, I was not enlightened, I was doing my tapas. I was wandering all over Bharat. The second death, at that time already I had my enlightenment. Somehow because of that he was able to catch a glimpse of consciousness. The moment he left the first layer body, he was able to feel me or experience me. The moment he started experiencing me simply his whole consciousness was centered on me.

See, usually what are the things that stop you from surrendering to the Master? Your bank balance, your house, your car, your relationship, your wife, your own insecurity about your life. If I surrender what will happen, I may start becoming a servant for him. There are so many other things.

All these things are only stopping you from surrendering or entering into the consciousness. Surrendering and entering into the consciousness, all these are one and the same. But for that person all these things have already become valueless. When he has left the first level body, naturally all these things have become already valueless. So, whatever is catching or pulling, whatever strings are pulling him down are already cut, disconnected.

As long as you think the outer world is worthy, it has got value, you will have the fear that somebody may take it away, somebody may snatch it from you. As long as you think whatever you collected in your life is valuable you will have tremendous fear. That is why I tell people, as long as you think these things are valuable, you will never be able to experience fearlessness. There will be continuous fear. The more you have more the fear. Continuously your being will be shaken. Every moment you will be waiting afraid what will happen. But at that moment, whatever can be taken away from that person has been taken away. Now there is nothing to lose. Trusting the Master is very easy at that moment.

Somehow, fortunately he had my presence there. Simply he could see, when he understood that all the other things are valueless, when the physical body things were taken away from him, his whole consciousness without any doubt, without any difficulty, was centered on me. Naturally, when he was centered on the enlightened being or conscious being, he simply dissolved into the enlightenment without any suffering.

What ever is stopping you now will not stop you at that time. At that time you don't have to practice renunciation, everything will be taken away from you by force. See, as long you have a choice only you have to practice this vairāgya, renunciation, dāna, dharma all these things. That time you don't have to practice all these vairāgya, renunciation because everything will be taken away from you. What is there to practice? You see, even to renounce you don't have anything.

So, there is nothing that can stop you from entering into the enlightenment experience. There is nothing that can stop you from entering into the conscious experience. But only one thing you need, when you leave the body, you need a conscious being around you. Without that, it is not possible. Now what to do? I can't go and stand in all the ICUs and ask people 'Hey, when will you die? When will you die?'

From my experience I tell you – leaving the body peacefully is the greatest gift anybody can have. If you have got that gift, you achieved whatever has to be achieved. You have lived your life; nothing else needs to be achieved. If you have not achieved that, nothing is worth achieving.

After seeing this second death, I started seriously contemplating - how this can be reproduced? Or, how can we help people to leave consciously? And as I was telling you, I cannot go and stand in all the ICUs. That's impossible.

And one more thing, energy is not bound by space or time. Energy is beyond time and space. All we need is a set-top-box, that's all. See, if you have a set-top-box in your house, you can just tune your TV to some channel. If you tune to BBC, you will see BBC. If you tune to CNN, you will see CNN. Whatever channel you tune you can see that program.

Same way, at the time of leaving the body if you can tune yourself to consciousness, if you can tune yourself to thoughtless awareness, conscious experience, simply you will see your life is a conscious experience. You will be able to cross this ocean of saṃsāra or this ocean of saṃskāra, ocean of all these 7 layers, beautifully and peacefully.

We are going to work with that formula in this program. Please understand, if you work with the theory of gravity, you can always understand completely what Newton experienced. Same way, work with this formula, you can simply experience what he experienced. What has happened in my consciousness can happen in your consciousness also. All you need to do is, work with this formula intensely. Just go with this formula as intensely as possible. Nothing else needs to be done.

Another important question, 'Master, leave about dying, what about living?' Now comes the important question, please understand – as of now, all the 7 layers are not so clear as you think. It is like 7 coats that you are having. If you are wearing the 7 coats properly, you can remove them whenever you want and hang it on the wall. As of now, you are not wearing these 7 coats properly. The first coat button is hooked with the seventh coat. And the third coat is put with the first coat. The first coat third button is taken and put with the fourth coat. You see, if you can remove the coat whenever you want, it is a coat. If you can't remove, it is not a coat, it is bondage.

If you have had a single conscious experience, you will not be continuously tortured, pulled and pushed by your saṃskāras or engraved memories. Your whole life if you see, you will be able to understand. See your whole life with a little intelligence, you will be able to understand, really you don't live. Only your engrams are living. Only your saṃskāras are living. For example, suppose you have created a saṃskāra that in the morning at 7 o'clock you need coffee. The moment it becomes 7 o'clock, you don't have to even see the watch, from inside the bell will go, 'Coffee'!

For example, morning 9 o'clock you will start worrying about your office. Evening 6 o'clock you will start worrying about your house. Night 8 o'clock you will start worrying about your kid's education. If this becomes a routine, even on Sunday you will start worrying about your office, at 9 o'clock. Even if you don't have to go to office, you will start worrying about this. Suddenly you will remind yourself – no, no, no today is Sunday don't bother we don't have to go to office. Even then you will have that same low mood. You will have the same low mood. Even your worry, your mind, is nothing but recorded samskara.

Never think you are living. Just your samskara are living. Your samskara are living. Samskara are recorded in all the 7 layers. Only when you cleanse your samskara – your mental habit – you will start living.

Just the saṃskāras are living your life. And if you watch a little deeply, if you observe a little deeply you will understand, even your worries are recorded engrams.

For example, in the morning at 9 o'clock you will start worrying about your office. Evening 6 o'clock you will start worrying about your house. Night 8 o'clock you will start worrying about your kid's education. If this becomes a routine, even on Sunday you will start worrying about your office, at 9 o'clock. How many of you have experienced this?

Even if you don't have to go to office, you will start worrying about this. Suddenly you will remind yourself, 'No; today is Sunday. Don't bother; we don't have to go to office.' Even then you will have that same low mood. You will have the same low mood. Even your worry, your mind, is nothing but recorded saṃskāras. Never think you are living. Just your saṃskāras are living. Your saṃskāras are living. Saṃskāras are recorded in all the 7 layers. Only when you cleanse your saṃskāras, your mental habits, you will start living.

When you can't sit with yourself, you miss a major dimension of your life. Your samskaras are only living, you are not living. Your engrams are only living, you are not living. That is the reason you can't sit with yourself. You can't sit with yourself, continuously you have to do something. When you go and sit in front of the TV, in 15 minutes you will go around in a circle. We can't sit with ourselves because of these engrams.

These 4 days, all we are going to do is only one thing. Work intensely and cleanse the samskaras and have the conscious experience. At least one glimpse of thoughtless awareness. One glimpse of thoughtless awareness. I request all of you, please put your complete effort. Have one glimpse of conscious awareness, nothing else. As of now, whatever you think as 4D will lose its value. Your whole being, the root, will be shaken the moment you move from the physical layer. It is almost like you are building your own resort there, in the inner world.

One more important thing, please understand – it is very shocking information, but truth. Only after seeing the first death I was able to experience this: even your paapa (sin) or punya (merit) doesn't come with you. Please understand, even your sin or merit doesn't come with you. Don't think your sin or merit comes with you. Don't think if you do some charity here, if you give some money to some temple and get a receipt here, there you will be given a VIP pass.

Then the next question comes – 'Then, can I do any sin?' Understand, if somebody commits 100 murders, that attitude of doing murder goes with him. The exact number does not go with him, the attitude goes with him. And one more thing, never think you commit sins and then go to hell. You commit sins because you are in hell. A person who is happy will never be violent. If you are happy, will you torture others? If you are happy, will you be violent? Actually, if your mood is nice even if your staff or employee does a mistake what you will say? Alright, leave it! If your mood is not alright, even if they do a small mistake what do you do? You jump and bite them!

Never think you will do sin and go to hell, you do sin because you are in hell. Same way, never think you will do good things and reach heaven. You do good things because you are in heaven. The mind setup which you have when doing an activity is what is called hell or heaven. When you do a wrong thing, what mental set up you have, that suffering only is hell. When you do a right thing, what mental setup you have, that is only heaven. So, don't think your sins or merit comes with you. Only one thing comes with you – the conscious experience.

The whole humanity can be categorized into just two categories: people who had conscious experience when they were living and people who did not have conscious experience, that's all! All other concepts of hell and heaven are just beautiful stories. Please be very clear – there is no hell or heaven as you understand.

No paapa or punya comes with you. If at all you can carry, you can carry only one thing in your life and that is this conscious experience. Either you can become enlightened or you can come down according to your choice. If you don't have that conscious experience, nothing is going to come with you. Not only the outwardly properties, even your sins and merits are not going to come with you.

Please be very clear – there are many people who are thinking, 'If I give this much money to that temple, that God will be standing there to take care of me.' or 'If I give this to that temple that God will be standing there, waiting there with a special VIP pass. Nothing like that will happen. People are thinking, if I give this much of money to Venkateshwara Swamy, he will send a special flight from Vaikuntha.

There is a beautiful story in the Upanishad, called Jadabharatha story. One rishi called Jadabharatha, somehow he was attached to a deer. From morning till night he was spending his time taking care of that deer. And when he was dying, he was not able to forget that poor animal. He started worrying about that animal. 'Oh! Who will take care of the animal? What will happen to it after my death?' He started worrying about all these things, because he was continuously bothering about that deer. When he died, in the next janma, he became a deer. Beautifully the shloka says, what ever you think in the antima kaala, in the last moment, you become that!

Some people think very cleverly, 'Whole life let me live the way I want, in the last moment I will tell Hare-Rama Hare-Krishna or Govinda-Shiva.' Please be very clear – what you thought in your whole life only will come up when you leave the body. Don't think at that moment you can play the game. Actually, when you leave the body, your whole system will be in such an agony, that 80 or 90 years of your life will run in fast-forward. The whole thing will be seen in fast-forward. Whatever experience you had intensely, or what ever you enjoyed intensely, that only will come up in multi-colour. All the other things will run as black and white.

If you have lived throughout your life only eating, naturally that will come up and stand. What will you decide? After all I am going to eat, let me take pig janma. Why to take some other body? And if you spend your whole life sleeping you will decide, why unnecessarily take human body and go to office and all, let us take 'buffalo birth.'

Actually, based on the way in which you enjoy your whole life only you decide in the last moment. In the last moment, the whole thing will come up in fast-forward. What you enjoyed deeply, what is the experience that happened in your life intensely, that will come up, like a popup. That will come up and appear in multi-colour. All other things will be black and white, it will be in the background. So, naturally, based on what comes up only you will decide what birth to take. If you had a single conscious experience, means, thoughtless awareness in your life, naturally when you leave your body that will come up. That is the strongest experience anybody can have.

Please understand, thoughtless awareness is the strongest experience you can have in your life. All other three are only shallow. All other three are only shallow. Thoughtless awareness is the strongest experience you can have in your life. Even for a single moment if you had that experience, that is enough. Naturally, when you leave the body that will come up. That will come up and simply you will move into the light. That will act as a light and you will be able to move into the consciousness.

Whether it is accident or suicide, if you have not had conscious experience before your death, please be very clear, you have to wait to get next body. For example, when you came down, when you took this body you decided to live in this body for 90 years and suppose you committed suicide in 60 years. Next 30 years you have to struggle, waiting for the next body. They will not have the next body. If it is a natural death, then there is no problem. Of course, disease is natural death. Murder and suicide, these two, they have to wait with a lot of suffering.

Please be very clear – never contemplate suicide. What for do you think we contemplate about suicide? Because this life becomes a torture, a suffering. But if you commit suicide, only then you will understand, it will be a much worse torture. Never ever contemplate suicide. It will be a much worse torture.

One important thing – it is like you will have sweets in front of you but you don't have a tongue to taste or hand to take it and put it into your mouth. How much of suffering it will be! Same way, the whole world will be in front of you but you will not have the body to enjoy it. That is why never contemplate about suicide. Never think of suicide.

Now the latest research, beautiful research – if a mother dies at a very young age that child is prone to paralysis attack. If the mother dies at a very young age, that child is prone to paralysis attack. Because, that part of the energy that is given by the mother is not nourished. It is not nourished by her presence, by her nearness. That is why in our ancient system, till the age of 14 kids were kept always in our nearness. They should sleep in your lap. Till the age of 14 you should hug the kids, they should sleep in your lap they should be always around you. Never put them in boarding school. Please be very clear, if you put the kids in a residential school before the age of 14, get ready to go to old age home. They will put you in old age home. If you put them in boarding school before the age of 14, they will put you in old age home. No other way because there will be no relationship. They will put you in old age home. You need to give your nearness to them.

Actually, if the father or mother dies, the part that is donated to you by them, that part will also face the depression. So, to give energy to that part only you chant the mantra. It is actually not for them, it is for you. Within three kshana of the death, the person takes another body. Please be very clear, within three kshana. And one more important thing you should understand, kshana does not mean 'second'. Kshana does not mean 'a second'. Kshana means, in Vedic mathematics or Vedic time-set-up, the gap between one thought and the other thought.

If you have lived a peaceful life, your kshana can be even two months. If you have lived a restless life, your kshana will be a microsecond. If you have lived a restless life hurrying, worrying, your kshana will be a microsecond. If you have lived a peaceful life, a relaxed, especially a conscious life, if your life was with a conscious experience, your kshana will be even 3-4 months. It can be extended to even one year.

There are two things – chronological time and psychological time. Understand, there are two things, chronological time and psychological time. If you are sitting with somebody whom you really love or who cares for you or your friend, your close friend, even if you sit for 3-4 hours, you will not know how time has passed. And if you are sitting with somebody who is boring, torturing, after every 5 minutes what will you do? You will see the watch. Still time is not moving. You will feel really bored.

If the number of thoughts is too much you will feel time is not moving. Your kshana will be a microsecond. If the number of thoughts is less, you will have, you will feel, 'Oh! Time is running.' And your kshana will be more than 2-3 hours. That is why we always tell, if the number of thoughts is less, the person is in heaven. See, for devatas (heavenly beings), our whole one-year is one day for them. Have you heard this? Our whole one-year is one day, why? Number of thoughts is less. So, they don't even know how the time is running.

That is why Nataraja will have only 6 abhishekams in a year. He is worshipped by devas. See, usually we do 6 poojas per day, for Nataraja only 6 poojas per year. Because, the calendar of devatas is totally different. The number of thoughts for them is less, they are in heaven. So, naturally their kshana is more. This concept of kshana should be understood, this idea of how our one year is only one day for devatas. The people who are stuck in the sixth layer, the spiritual body, they are called devatas. That space only is called heaven.

If you have lived restless, continuously worrying, bothering life, the moment you leave the body you will feel so restless; within 3 kshana you will take the next body. You cannot be without body because you are so dependent on the body.

See, all along your 10 pillars are in the outer space. So, naturally you are dependent on the body. You can't be without body. What will you do? You will run to take another body. You will not even be bothered which train is coming, which side it is going, which platform, nothing, simply you will jump into it and take another body. If you have lived a simple life, peaceful life, if you have had one glimpse of consciousness, single glimpse of this turiya state, when you leave the body you will leave beautifully and you will have a VIP lounge there.

You will not be pushed and pulled by desires, guilt and painful experiences of your life. You will not be pushed and pulled; you will not be kicked this side and that side. You will not be forced to take one more body. You can have a beautiful relaxed way of living. You can wait and decide whether to take another one body or to wait. It will all be under your choice. All you need to do is one conscious glimpse.

After seeing this second death, I started seriously contemplating how this can be reproduced. Or, how can we help people to leave consciously? Energy is not bound by space or time. Energy is beyond time and space. All we need is a set-top-box, that's all. See, if you have a set-top-box in your house, you can just tune your TV to some channel. If you tune to BBC, you will see BBC. If you tune to CNN, you will see CNN. Whatever channel you tune you can see that program. Same way, at the time of leaving the body if you can tune yourself to consciousness, if you can tune yourself to thoughtless awareness, conscious experience, simply you will see your life is a conscious experience.

You will be able to cross this ocean of samsara or this ocean of samskara, ocean of all these 7 layers, beautifully and peacefully.

The moment I got this understanding, like a lump, like a conscious ball something landed in me. A formula happened in my consciousness. This formula only I call the THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Spurana Program. These 4 days we are going to work with that formula. Please understand, if you work with the theory of gravity, you can always understand completely what Newton experienced. Same way, work with this formula, you can simply experience what I experienced.

What has happened in my consciousness can happen in your consciousness also. All you need to do is, work with this formula intensely. Just go with this formula as intensely as possible. Nothing else needs to be done.

As of now, whatever you think as 4D will lose its value. Your whole being, the root, will be shaken the moment you move from the physical layer. Please understand, I am not telling any story, I am telling history which is going to happen in your life. The root itself will be shaken. If you have a single conscious glimpse, thoughtless awareness, you will have some space in which you can rest when all these things are taken away from you. It is almost like you are building your own resort there, in the inner world.

Can you enjoy your bank balance in your dream? No! In the dream state nothing is valuable. When you are here, dream is not valuable. When you move away from the physical body, whatever you think as you will become valueless. So, now itself create wealth that will come with you forever.

Throughout the house, all your relatives will stand and weep when you die. Till the road, your wife will come and stand and weep. Till the burial ground your son will come to do the last rites and rituals. Who will come till the end? Nobody. Nobody can come. Only the conscious glimpse can come with you. This will be if you had a conscious experience of thoughtless awareness when you are living, means, for a moment you learn to live without body and mind.

If you have learnt to live without body and mind for a moment, that is what is thoughtless awareness. You will have the same thoughtless awareness at the time of leaving the body also. So, already you have mastered the art of living with body and mind. So, naturally you will not be suffering. Whatever is taken away from you will not be you. You will have your inner space safe. It will not be with suffering. As of now you don't have inner space. As of now, all we think as 'we' is based on the outer space. That is the reason I request you, work intensely these 4 days. Throw away the outer space. Forget about the outer space for the next 4 days. All your profession, your life, your regular work, your everything.

And all of you have decided to be here for 4 days, am I right? When you have decided to be here for 4 days physically, why not mentally also?

Ramakrishna says beautifully, if you put a little curd into milk and keep it in a corner for 2-3 hours, it will become curd. Then you churn or shake or do whatever you want. You will have only butter, nothing wrong will happen. But immediately after putting curd if you keep on churning, you will never have curd. The curd will never happen. So, now understand: these 4 days you need to keep yourself away so that the curd can happen. Once the curd has happened, you can go into the world. Whatever can be done, nothing will shake you. But in these 4 days when the process is happening, please cooperate. We will be working here intensely, please, if you go out and pick up something.

Even if you get some information, whether it is good or bad from your office, the whole office mental setup will come back. And in just 10 minutes you will come down and become just a normal person, as you are now. For example, even if you see a single hoarding in a street that is enough to create a chain of thoughts. So, please understand, in the next 4 days, even though it is a little difficult, try to avoid cell phone conversations, try to avoid even the mental chatter, the mental thoughts about your office, house.

Whenever you become aware, bring back your mind and consciousness to your present – you can watch your breath or you can feel your whole body. Continuously come back to the present moment, just for these 4 days.

Around the world thousands have worked with this formula and really they are successful. And one more thing I will tell you, it is a truth which I discovered after working with this formula with thousands of people. Not only at the time of leaving the body you become conscious, if you are successful in the NSP, if you have a conscious glimpse, not only at the time of leaving the body, even if you are given anesthesia for some surgery, you will enter into the conscious state.

After NSP, for some reason some people went to hospital for minor surgeries, when they were given anesthesia automatically they fell into the conscious state. Full anesthesia, even with full anesthesia they fell into the conscious state. They say, 'We didn't have pain, but are seeing clearly what is happening. We are aware of the whole thing. And we are able to experience very clearly the whole thing.' Not with one or two persons, hundreds of experiences I am hearing. And even if you feel giddy and fall, you will not enter into the darkness, which you usually enter, the unconsciousness. You will enter into light. You can fall and see by yourself! After the NSP, try to fall and see by yourself.

Understand, this is not the experience of one or two persons. Hundreds of people experienced the same thing. One devotee from Mysore, she had anesthesia, again she says, 'I was completely conscious.' Even a single conscious glimpse, single thoughtless awareness can change you whole way of thinking and living, can change the whole way of your life.

All your major diseases are rooted in the mental set up. Please be very clear, all your major diseases are rooted in mental set up. If you don't change the mental set up and just the healing is done, what will happen? You will get the same disease in 10 days and come back. As long as you have a knee, you will have knee pain. When you have a conscious glimpse no karma can touch you. Your frequency becomes much more than the frequency of karma. See, karma can work on you as long as you have thoughts. In conscious awareness you go beyond thoughts. So, naturally you will start ruling karma.

That is why they say, meditation is like exposing your film directly to sun. For one moment, for one second if the camera shutter opens whatever is in front of the camera will be recorded in the film. If the shutter is completely open what will happen? If the sun's rays directly fall on the film what will happen? Whatever is recorded will be erased.

Now, when you took birth, for one moment the camera shutter opened, the life entered into your body. So, whatever was there in the scene it is recorded. Means, whatever grahas (planets) were there at that moment is recorded. That is why the birth time is very important. Based on that only your consciousness functions.

Now, consciously I am keeping the shutter open for quite a bit of time. So, naturally whatever is recorded, what will happen to that? It will be erased. That is why, when you take birth, for one moment the shutter opens, that is a birth. When you are initiated, the shutter is completely open once more. Naturally the sun rays enter and all your karma are wiped. That is why when you are initiated you are called dvija – you take the second life, a new life. And the man who operates your camera holds the shutter open for one more second is called Guru. He is the person who is called Guru.

Be very clear: Only when the mind is like a fertile land, the seeds of karma will sprout.

If the soil is ploughed and fertile, if you put in a seed, it will sprout.

The unclutched mind is like the hard ground. The seed of any karma you put in it cannot sprout, it will die.

Please understand prarabdha is also nothing but your thought. Even prarabdha, for it to act on you, you need to cooperate. It is like always the TV waves are there, relay is happening. Only when you tune in you will see the program. If you don't tune your TV, you will not see the program. Same way, if you have the conscious glimpse, you will not tune in yourself to the prarabdha. You will never have the experience.

Conscious awareness is the only way to escape from any karma. Consciousness is that which erases the samskara.

Sanjita karma is like a big bank balance, and prarabdha karma is one which you brought. You see, files which are in the archives is the sanjita karma, the files which are on your table is prarabdha. The files which are in the archives is the sanjita karma. The files which are on your table is prarabdha, that's all. But you can escape from both, you can alter both, you can handle both if you have had a conscious experience.

When you leave the body you get all the intelligence, and you decide what type of body you want to take based on your past life. From the past life file you see the whole file, 'What is the best experience that I wanted to have in my life?' And then you refer your past life, what all experiences you have had in your life. Whatever you think as best, to repeat the same type of experience what type of place is good? What type of father and mother are needed? Which country is good? You decide and you go and take birth, that's all.

Even poverty is a conscious choice! Please understand, poverty is a conscious choice. It is very difficult to understand but it is the truth. When you don't want to take the responsibility of having money, you choose to be in poverty. Because having money means lot of responsibility, you need to protect. You are always in a danger, anytime you can be harassed. You can be kidnapped, they can take away from you. There are all these risks. Even this poverty is a conscious choice.

Experience does not mean the number of incidents that happened in your life, the number of lessons you learnt from that incident.

A small example: there are people who touch the gas fire and say 'Oh! Gas fire will burn.' Then they will touch the match stick fire, 'Oh! Match stick fire will burn.' Then they will touch the cigarette fire, 'Oh! Cigarette fire will burn.' Then they will touch the charcoal fire, 'Oh! Charcoal fire will burn.' Then they will touch the fire from wood, 'Oh! Fire from wood will burn.' By the time they touch all the fires and understand that all fires will burn, their body will be ready to be burnt! This is called anubhava - one kind of learning. One by one by one by one they will learn. This is called anubhava. Second thing, this is called anubhooti. The moment you touch the first fire, you will understand the meaning that all fire will burn. This is called anubhooti.

There are two kinds of persons – one who touch every kind of fire and then realize finally that all fire will burn. By the time they realize, they will be ready to go to the burning ghat. They will be ready to be burnt. For the other kind of people, the first fire itself will give them the intelligence that all fire will burn. You see, there are people who think, when they are studying, 'If I am in college, my life will be very joyful.' When they are in college, they think, 'If I get a job I will be independent, I will have enough money, I will be jolly.' When they are having the job, they think, 'If I am married I will have a beautiful life, it will be joyful.' Then they think, 'If I have kids then life will be ecstasy.' Then, after kids, 'Oh! If they grow and become independent I will have no responsibility and life will be happy.'

After every desire, you understand that no desire is going to give you happiness. For some people, when the first desire is fulfilled but has not given joy, immediately they understand, all desires are going to burn. They are only called people who had anubhooti. Some people will touch all fires and understand that all fires will burn.

There is another group. They will see somebody touching the fire and getting burnt, immediately they will understand, 'Oh God! It is going to burn' and they will escape. They are only called 'Paramahamsa'.

It is the individual's devotion. That only makes the person to have the vision, darshan and all those things. This is like the etheric body darshan. If they are intensely devoted, the etheric body can appear wherever it wants. The etheric body has no space or time. It automatically appears and heals people.

First we will work on the physical body. Three things we are going to do: One is balancing the body. Second thing is erasing the body. It means removing the body consciousness, the outer line of your body from your mind. Third thing: just merging the physical body back to energy. The physical body is more like matter, it will be merged, it will be put inside the energy.

Why are we supposed to balance? Unless you balance, your mind will be continuously in the body. There is a beautiful word by Patanjali: sthiram sukham asanam. When the shoe fits, feet are forgotten, am I right? When the belt fits, belly is forgotten. When the chain fits, neck is forgotten. When the ring fits, finger is forgotten. If the ring doesn't fit, you will be continuously remembering the finger. If the chain does not fit, you will continuously be remembering the neck, if the shoe does not fit, if it is either tight or too loose, you will be continuously remembering the feet.

What is the scale whether it fits or not? If you have forgotten the feet, you can be sure the shoes fit. If you have forgotten the belly, you can be sure the belt fits. If you have forgotten the neck, you can be sure the chain fits. If you have forgotten the finger, you can be sure the ring fits. When you can forget the body, then only you can be sure the body is comfortable. Whenever your body is not comfortable, you can never forget about it.

Get ready for the first session for forgetting the body. First if you are a little bit balanced you will be able to forget the body, and you will be able to enter into the second session. First thing, you need to balance your body to forget it, if the body is balanced, you will forget it.

If you can forget about your body, you can understand that you are healthy. You see you can forget your eyes, if you don't have pain in the eyes. You forget your head if you don't have headache. If you have headache, can you forget? That is why the spouses always give headache to others, so that you will not forget them. If some part of the body troubles you, you will never forget that part. If you forget that part, what does that mean? You will have no trouble.

If you are comfortable you are totally healthy. When you are healthy you forget, when you forget you are healthy. It always happens the other way. On the pain to bliss cassette there is a beautiful technique. Whenever you have pain in some place throughout your body if you just remove the word pain from that place, the pain will disappear. Actually the word pain and pain are one and the same. I'm explaining this in a very deep way step by step in the cassette. When you are comfortable, the body is forgotten. When you forget the body it becomes comfortable automatically.

So now we learn a small technique to balance it.

You see, think of your mala as a centre of gravity line of your body. If this line is straight, then it means this mala is in the rest position. If the mala is held to the side, it is not resting. If I leave it, it will come back to the restful position. This down position, this mala is totally resting and comfortable. Same way your centre of gravity line should fall in a straight line. Then if the centre of gravity line in your body falls in a straight line you will be totally comfortable, you will be able to forget the body. Let me teach you how.

Just sit with the right leg on your left thigh. If you really can't sit on the ground then sit on the chair, but try your best to sit on the ground. Do you understand? Sit with the right leg on your left thigh, your legs should be seen. See, if your legs are really under your control, understand, if your legs are really under your control, you must be able to do the ardhapadmasana. Then only your legs are under your control, otherwise your legs are under someone else's control. You see, you don't have to sit like this the whole day, just once, then the whole day, you will be balanced, you will be comfortable.

However often you sit in the balanced posture, whether you sit in your house, in your car, in your office, your whole body will be balanced. You see, your body has its own inbuilt mechanism to balance itself, until the age of 7. Once you have grown into this great society, you have forgotten the original balancing technique. Now I am just giving the original balancing technique to your body back.

Once you learn it, you don't have to sit the whole day like this, you don't even have to sit straight. Even if you sit in the ordinary way, the body will balance itself. It is like when you start training the cycle you need to sit straight and hold properly, once you have mastered the position, you can even put your legs on the handlebars. You can put your legs on the handlebars AND you can ride the cycle. So the knack of balancing needs to be learned.

Actually, only five minutes it is going to take. So sit with the right leg, with the left thigh. First thing, you understand, for one moment put your whole body on front side and feel the weight of the body. Naturally you will feel the whole body is being pulled by the gravity. The gravitational force, slowly slowly slowly, inch by inch, if you raise and make your body straight, at one point you will feel weightless. You see when your body is leaning forward you will feel the weight, the heaviness. Your body is being pulled by the ground. Step by step, very slowly, (leaning backward to mid point) you will see the gravity is becoming less and less. At one point you will feel totally weightless. You are totally weightless. That is the line which the centre of gravity line falls in a straight line. Very slowly lean backward, and bring in back very slowly to the straight position. Just be in a straight line. At one point you feel totally weightless, relaxed.

You will see depending on your body, it will be a little different position. Only one thing should be understood. Your centre of gravity should be in a straight line, and you will feel the weightlessness. At which point you feel you don't have weight, at which point you feel your body is light, that is the point. The hip motion should be totally fixed, it should never be moved. It should be totally fixed. Start balancing your body. Do it very slowly. You need to observe. Only the back bone should bend, front side or back side, never the thighs or the legs. If you are balanced then close your eyes. You will be able to catch the point you are feeling weightless. Or sit on a chair also and you can balance the body. You can open your eyes. We are going to do the mediation in this posture. Once your body learns the language of comfort , whenever you sit, automatically you will sit only in this posture. If you observe me, you will have observed, always whenever I sit, wherever I sit, my body will be very straight. Only with the instruction I have to bend myself. With you, normally you will be bent, only by instruction you will sit up straight. So the taste of the comfort, if it is learned by the body, you will see the total attitude change. The body's attitude will change, and it will make itself comfortable completely. Now we will do the mediation. This is a meditation actually working on the body, making your body layer into energy.

Warming up: The first step is tensing the whole body from toe to head. The second step is to visualize inhaling and exhaling from every part of your body, every pore. Visualize from your head, face, every pore you are inhaling and exhaling. Stand with one and half foot gap between the legs. Remove all sharp objects from below you. Close your eyes and tie the ribbon.

Inhale and exhale slowly and deeply. Concentrate on your feet, forget all other parts. Tense your feet. Visualize your body as a bean bag. Tense your feet as intensely as possible. Now relax the feet completely. Tense your calf muscles as intensely as possible. Relax. Now tense your knees as much as possible to the point of pain. Relax. Tense your thighs, do not allow single nerve to rest. Relax. Tense your hips. Relax. Tense your navel region intensely. Tense your heart region and relax. Tense your arms intensely. Relax. Tense the face intensely. Relax. Tense the crown of your head intensely. Relax. Finally tense the whole body. Relax. Sit wherever you are.

Start inhaling and exhaling through the head. Visualize that the whole head is porous. Inhale and exhale through every pore of the face, ear, nose, eyes, mouth, neck, shoulders, hands, entire body.

Actually, as of now you are solid matter, you are just solid matter, we will be making you totally porous to the energy. You resist the nature. Actually in the skin area where the cold air touches, in this boundary, if you don't resist and just allow the cold air to pass though you, you will never have any problem with energy. In the same dress only I lived in the Himalayas , ice cold, I walked in the Himalayas in the snow. Of course no sandals; this is the way only in the Himalayas, in the snow.

If you have this basic understanding, if you have this basic relationship with the nature you will not fall sick continuously. At least that much you can manage. So this balancing will help you. And moreover becoming energy will make you porous to the nature.

Start humming as deeply as possible, as loudly as possible. Think of yourself as a hollow vessel and start humming. Think of yourself as a hollow vessel, forget your body, forget your mind , just become the humming. Put your whole effort in the humming. Let you have a slight trembling, or coughing, nothing wrong. Continue as deeply as possible, forget everything else, just become the humming. Just become the humming.

Just put your whole effort into the humming, forget that you are an individual person. Drown yourself with the energy. Forget your body and mind in the humming sound, forget your body and mind in the humming sound. Stop. Just witness all your thoughts, don't suppress. Don't condemn, just see whatever happens inside your body and outside your body. Whatever happens, let it happen. See throughout your body, witness whatever happens. Relax. Slowly you can open your eyes.

The Mahamantra helps you to create one more current. This energy circle will create 1000 volts. You need to understand one thing; if 10 people put 10 volts together it becomes 100 volts. If 10 people touch that what kind of shock would you have? In the energy's case everybody in the circle gets the total energy. And when the master is there the 100 volts becomes 1000 volts because his presence is like a transformer. So if you can create 1 volt when you do mahamantra alone, this mandala can create 1000 volts.

Warming up:

First step: Tense the whole body from toe to head. Tense every part of the body, part by part and the whole body.

Second step: Visualize inhaling and exhaling from every part of your body, every pore. Visualize that you are inhaling and exhaling from every pore.

Now, we will begin the meditation.

Stand with one and half foot gap between the legs. Remove all sharp objects from below you. Close your eyes and tie the ribbon.

Inhale and exhale slowly and deeply. Inhale very slowly, very deeply.

Concentrate on your feet; forget all the other parts.

Tense your feet. Visualize your body as a bean bag. Tense your feet as intensely as possible. <After 2 minutes> Now relax the feet completely. Tense your calf muscles as intensely as possible. <After 2 minutes> Relax. Now tense your knees as much possible to the point of pain. <After 2 minutes> Relax. Tense your thighs. Do not allow even a single nerve to rest, even a single energy center to rest. <After 2 minutes> Relax. Tense your hips. <After 2 minutes> Relax. Tense your navel region intensely. <After 2 minutes> Relax. Tense your heart region intensely. <After 2 minutes> Relax. Tense your arms intensely. <After 2 minutes>

Relax. Tense your face intensely.

<After 2 minutes>

Relax. Tense your crown region intensely.

<After 2 minutes>

Finally tense the whole body intensely.

<After 2 minutes>

Relax. Sit wherever you are.

Start inhaling and exhaling through the head. Visualize that the whole head is porous. Inhale and exhale through every pore…your face, ear, nose, eyes, mouth. Every pore of your neck, shoulders, hands, down to your toes.

The pranic layer is filled with all our desires. Desire is energy. How to handle desire energy?

Mahavira says: when we are born in Earth we bring with us all we need. Why do we feel we do not have enough? For instance we take 10000 dollars to buy a car. You meet someone who tells you to buy a television. Then you do not have money to buy the car.

What you bring to fulfill in this life is prarapta karma. After you are born society imposes its desires on you which you try to fulfill. You are fulfilling someone else's desires. You are caught in a trap. You do not have energy, money or time to fulfill all these desires. Do not waste life in fulfilling someone else's desires.

When you infuse energy into the pranic layer only your real desire will stay. Like in a tree, you shake and all old dry leaves will fall. Only young leaves of energy will stay. Other people's desires will all fall away. Your dreams, your desires, this world are all made of same stuff. When you work on energizing the pranic layer all the desires imposed on you by others will drop.

You design your desires when you are born. When other desires are imposed on you, your breathing changes, it becomes shallow. Kids breathe with their whole body. When social conditioning happens, your breathing becomes shallow.

Prarapta karma is your own samskara that you brought with you. Other samskaras society adds and your prana changes. When you readjust your prana all the false desires fall off. The purpose is to strengthen your own desires, not to drop all desires.

If you do not work out desires that you brought with you, your prarapta, you become suicidal, you develop cancer. We bring with us right from birth the plan for major events such as what we want to be in terms of career, marriage, children etc.

The idea that the nature of desire is never to be fulfilled is wrong. Prarapta karma that you bring with you brings its own energy for fulfillment.

Vali in Ramayana has a boon. When someone stands in front of him half that person's strength goes to Vali. Similarly when you face a desire half your power goes to that desire and you always lose.

Now open the Pandora's box ands see what is inside. Do not condemn your desires, do not suppress them, do not judge. Whatever is there let it out. There are four types of desires: sensual pleasures, name and fame, material possessions, spiritual experiences.

Write down all your desires. Do not edit when you write. Write in the language you think. It is for you. Write in a separate paper. When you have finished writing, edit and update. Wherever you have a self contradicting thought or desire, change that to a positive thought. For example, instead of saying 'I should not be poor', you can say, 'I should be wealthy.'

Let go of the negative thoughts. When people you trust and love make limiting, negative thoughts you are harmed. You may talk to yourself especially in the mornings and before going to bed. Do not have any negativity in these thoughts.

A man with an advanced mental age is one who learns through intelligence; he is the one who clearly understands from his first desire, that no desire when fulfilled will give him true happiness. There lies the difference. He will be able to see through the whole and analyze the whole thing. He will know that real fulfillment comes from inside and not from outer world things.

For example, when you are on your own at home, you will think that it is enough if you have a home and car for yourself. You will feel relaxed at this thought. You will feel moments of gratitude and fulfillment. After some time, when you step out of your house in your car, and stop by at a traffic light, what happens? A Mercedes Benz pulls up beside your car and your mind simply switches its thinking. You start thinking that your car is just no good. You start thinking that it is high time that you bought a new car, if not a Mercedes Benz.

Just a few minutes earlier you were happy with your own things, but now what has happened? You are starting to work out a new desire, a borrowed desire. Be very clear that this is not your own desire. It is a borrowed desire belonging to someone else. It is the desire of the owner of the Benz car. This is how you start working out others' desires in your mind.

Of course, you will never own up to borrowed desires. It happens so subtly in your mind, that the exact source of the borrowed desire goes unsaid. It is a cunning and subtle game of the mind. And we will always say that we are not bothered about others.

With clarity, you will be able to clearly identify what your own desires are, what others have imposed on you and what desires you have borrowed from others. The first set of desires alone need to be fulfilled without any harm to any person or property. The other two need to be dropped with the help of clarity.

If you live this way, you will no more be fulfilling others' desires and you will be no more living others' lives. You will live your own life, and experience fulfillment.

If you are able to live out only your desires, you will die a peaceful death, full of satisfaction even if it is on the platform. If you live your whole life with borrowed desires, you will never see real fulfillment and even if you are living in a marble house, you will have a prolonged death, pulling and pushing, unable to get liberated from your unfulfilled borrowed desires.

In Jainism, there is a belief that when you are born, the entire quantity of food and energy that you will need during your lifetime is sent along with you. This is a way of saying that whatever your true requirements in this birth are, Existence equips you with the energy to fulfill them before sending you to planet Earth.

But when you start using this energy to realize borrowed desires, you start feeling that nothing has been given to you; that nothing is enough. You feel tired, exhausted and frustrated that nothing is happening. This is how the problem starts.

There is a difference between needs and wants. Your needs are already taken care of in some way. It is possible to satisfy your needs, but it becomes impossible to satisfy your wants because they are changing and unclear all the time. Every time one want or desire is fulfilled, a hundred more come up.

It is our nature to desire endlessly, because continuously we are seeing what others are having and wanting all that for ourselves. You may not own up to this fact at the outset, but if you deeply analyze yourself, you will see that this is true. Your mind plays so cunningly and passively that you will not own up to this at the first instance.

For example: you go to the shop to buy a fan for your house. But on the way you meet some friends on the road, who tell you that they are going to buy some other things in other shops. Immediately, you are tempted to buy them and so you change your track and go and buy along with them. Then you find that you don't have enough money to buy your fan!

If you start comparing and living out others' desires, you will land yourself in deep trouble because you will not know where you stand. Always measure yourself with your own meter, never with others' meters. It is the most foolish and dangerous thing to do.

Desires are energy for our body, for our being. The word 'desire' itself is associated with suffering and we therefore fear our desires. It is the fuel without which we will not even get up from bed. The moment you wake up, you have the desire to do something, see somebody. To move out of bed you need energy. We have always thought desires are wrong.

Desire itself has no problem. Only when we have self-contradicting desires, we have problems. We want all comforts; we want to take no responsibility. We want to take vacation all the time. We also want to fly to Hawaii and stay in a resort. We need money; for money we have to work; these two desires contradictory. You lie in Hawaii beach thinking about work. When you are doing one thing you are thinking about something else.

For example, if we want to get rid of headache we keep saying, 'Let me not have headache.' But, the word 'headache' gets impressed in your inner space. It is contradictory.

There is a beautiful technique in the Shiva Sutras where Lord Shiva gives a technique to handle one's desires.

Do you see how simple this sutra is? But by its very simplicity it is complicated. To begin with, all simple things need you to be first simple. This is the basic requirement, the pre-requisite to understand or internalize the sutra.

When some desire comes, consider it; then suddenly quit from it, unclutch from it. This is a very strong truth, a very profound statement. He says directly, 'Whenever desire arises in you, consider it'. He means, 'Just see, don't judge'. Simply be an unbiased witness, an observer and not to judge whether something is right or wrong.

If you judge something as wrong you will not be able to drop the idea or desire. The moment you say that something is wrong, you have unconsciously begun to enjoy it because right from a young age you have been trained to derive a certain pleasure in enjoying that which society labels as wrong.

See it and the moment you see it, unclutch from it. He is teaching renunciation, simple and pure. People may have their doubts and ask, 'How can this be possible? How can we renounce?' I tell them, 'Then suffer; nothing wrong; that's all, simple!'

You either learn from an enlightened Master or life will teach you. Life is going to teach you. If you learn from the Master, it will be a lot easier for you because he will talk to you in the same language which you can understand directly. You may not directly understand the language that life speaks; it will give you strong punches. By the time you start realizing them, by the time you start interpreting and understanding the message conveyed by the incidents in your life, it will be too late.

Please understand, you can learn from the Master directly who is talking to you in the same English language that you understand, the language that you communicate in, relate with. If you learn from him, it will be a lot easier for you as you do not have to go through all the painful experiences.

Suddenly unclutch. Even before the mind starts arguing with you, asking, 'Should I unclutch or not?' suddenly unclutch. If you keep arguing with the mind, you will never unclutch.

I always tell people, 'Don't think before you jump. If you think, you will never jump'. Just see in your life: if you keep thinking, you will never jump. You will jump only the moment you stop thinking. So don't think before you jump. There is a saying, 'Think twice before you jump' or 'Look before you leap'. I say 'No! If you think, you will never jump.' Even before your mind becomes aware, unclutch; you are enlightened.

There is a beautiful story:

A lady goes to Ramakrishna, the great master and says, 'Master, my husband threatens me that he will become a swami, that he will leave me and go away; that he will renounce life and go away'. Ramakrishna says, 'Don't bother, it will never happen'. She is surprised to hear this and says, 'No, no master. He is not joking and is very serious about what he is talking'. Ramakrishna then tells her an incident.

There was this man threatening his wife, 'I will go away and become a swami. I will renounce life and go away'. You know this is actually a technique used by frustrated men in Bharat. They threaten their women because in Bharat women are not economically independent. If the wife nags too much, this is the way the man responds, 'I will go away, I will become a monk, a swami'.

This lady goes and complains to the man's elder brother, her brother-in-law, 'Your brother is threatening me that he will become a swami, please advise him'. The elder brother says, 'Don't bother, it will never happen'. The lady asks, 'How do you say it will never happen? My husband is very serious about what he is saying'. He replies, 'I shall show you how a person becomes a swami, just watch'; so saying he removes his clothes and throws them away. He simply takes with him a towel and walks away. He left the house just like that and became a swami. The elder brother shows, 'This is the way to become a swami' and really became one.

The person who talks will never do; the person who thinks and thinks will never do. The person who is thinking will never jump. Ramakrishna relates this story and consoles her, 'Don't bother, the person who threatens will never move'.

When you are filled with some desire and you suddenly disconnect, you will experience a new inner space, an empty space, that inner space which is ready to experience your own reality. However, the big problem is that whenever you are ready to unclutch from some desire, it is for some other desire, that's all.

You are not ready to unclutch completely. You are ready to unclutch from the one if you have the promise that the other will come to you. If you are greedy for some other desire, you are ready to unclutch from this desire.

I have seen people renounce drinking for heaven. Why do they renounce drinking here? Because in heaven they get a different kind of liquor. This is what the so-called religions promise, 'In heaven you will have all pretty girls, you will have different kinds of drinks and music; you will always be jumping and dancing', etc. These people are fantasizing that world and renouncing this world. I always tell them, 'Renouncing for enlightenment is renunciation; renouncing for some other desire is not renunciation; it is a bargain, a business'.

One guy like this thought, 'If I practice austerity here and renounce everything I may get all the best things in heaven'. So he was practicing all kinds of austerities, became a big guru, had many disciples, followers. One day he died and reached heaven.

One of his disciples who was always with him thought, 'How can I live without my guru?' So he also died and reached heaven. While he searched for his guru in heaven he was thinking, 'My guru led such an austere life that he must have got the best rewards; he must really be enjoying with all the beautiful heavenly women and girls and all the drinks in heaven. He must be really singing and dancing and enjoying this eternal pleasure'.

This disciple saw the guru sitting with a pretty girl, probably some famous actress! He was sitting with the girl, drinking and enjoying. The disciple approached the guru and said, 'Master! I am so happy to see your austerity well rewarded. O! What a gift she is for you!' At this, the girl, the actress, immediately interfered and said, 'Stop! I am not the gift for your guru; he is the punishment for me!'

So do not expect some heavenly pleasures in renouncing. See, even in day to day life if you meditate with the thought that you will have more power to enjoy the pleasures, that you will have other benefits, you are again using meditation as a utility.

Whenever a desire arises in you, just see it; do not judge it as right or wrong; just see. Give the desire enough inner space. Once you see it, suddenly, before your mind even begins to argue, unclutch from it. Don't allow any of your mind's arguments; don't allow it to enter through the other door, to come up with any argument.

Don't think your desire is right or wrong. Just see it. Let your eyes be closed. Let them come, let the desires arise, let them happen.

Let all the desires arise in you; don't suppress them; don't judge them; don't say they are right or wrong; just let them happen; consider them and let them happen.

Suddenly, before even your mind recognizes, unclutch from all the desires and relax. Do not argue; do not logically decide; do not decide based on right or wrong. Just unclutch from all the thoughts. Let your eyes be closed, just unclutch from all the thoughts.

We handle desires at three levels. In the first level, we have too many desires that are always self-contradicting. Even if there are only only two desires they will contradict. In the second level, there is only one object; you fulfill that but still feel emptiness; it does not fulfill. In the third level, there is no object, just overflowing energy. Desire without any object is bliss. In kids energy is overflowing as desires.

Pure desire is desire without object; overflowing for no reason. When you purify it comes to this stage of satori, a glimpse of samadhi. You are in a state of pure awareness. This you reach not by suppressing but by being aware, by purifying it.

We think we have to achieve something, some goal in life. We need to fulfill the purpose of life. All desires are to reach towards what we think is the goal of life. That brings us to the important question…

The million-dollar question! The answer to this is:

The whole of Existence, the whole universe, is purposeless.

Of course, it would be very shocking to hear this. From a very young age, we are taught and socially conditioned to believe that life has got some purpose. Always we are made to run towards some goal, towards some purpose.

'What is life without purpose?', you may ask. You may wonder, 'How can it have any meaning?' Any activity, let alone one's entire life, has to have a purpose, a definition, an end point, to make it meaningful. That purpose is what drives us, motivates us and provides spice to 7our day-to-day activities.

'You are making us confused,' you would say. 'All our lives we have been brought up to believe that we are here for a purpose. As children we are expected to do well at school. Once grown up, we are supposed to get married happily and bring up children. At each phase of our life, at each stage of our life, we have specific templates, specific guidelines that society and our families have set up for us. How can we let them down? How can we believe that all these expectations are wrong, and that there is no purpose to life?' You would say, 'You are turning our life upside down. You are driving us crazy!'

The more you run towards a goal, the more you are considered a successful person. More the speed, more you are respected; more the speed, more the rewards. From your birth, again and again, society teaches you that life has got some purpose, life has some goal. Life without purpose seems meaningless to us. We cannot even comprehend such a possibility.

Understand that this is what you have been brought up to believe. This is not the truth of Existence. Nothing needs a defined goal to make living worthwhile, meaningful and happy. The absence of purpose makes our life meaningful. Absence of goals in life makes living worthwhile.

The universe, nature, has no purpose. It just is. It exists. A river runs downhill towards the ocean because it is its nature to run downhill. It is not because it has a purpose to meet the ocean. Our life, too, has no purpose. We were not born for a purpose. We were born to live, to enjoy life and to be happy. Instead, we set ourselves up for unhappiness; we set goals for ourselves, and almost always these goals are based on fantasies and not on realities. In the process, we stop enjoying life.

More you run towards the goal, more you miss life itself!

The man who is continuously bothered about the goal will never be able to enjoy his life. He lives in the future and ignores the present. When we are in the present moment, the here and now, we do not need a goal to guide us.

Just the awareness of the present moment will help us decide what needs to be done at that point in time. When the present moment is taken care of with awareness, the future gets resolved by itself. As long as the path is right, whatever destination we reach will be right. We do not need to define the destination; the right path defines its own destination.

However, we constantly worry about the future. We constantly think of the past, relate it to our future and define our expectations based on what we have missed in the past, or what we believe will provide us happiness in the future.

For example, when you are studying you always think, 'When I have a job, my life will be happy.' When you have your job you think, 'After marriage my life will be happy.' After marriage, you think, 'When I have kids and my own house, my life will be happy.' After you have kids and your own house you think, 'When the kids grow up and all my responsibilities are over, I'll be happy.' By the time your kids are settled, by the time your responsibilities are over, when you want to relax, your being is conditioned so much that you can't relax!

A small story: A very successful investment banker from New York was getting burnt-out. He had been earning millions since a young age by constantly running behind goals and targets. His friends, seeing him getting burnt-out, told him to take a break.

Knowing that the word 'relaxation' was not in his dictionary, they advised him to go to a distant rural spot well-known for fishing. They told him that fishing was very good for his health so he could come back even more energetic.

The man agreed and he went out and bought designer gear; clothes, shoes, hat, and, of course, the most expensive fishing gear including designer bait. He took a flight, flew to the nearby city and then drove from there to the village. He booked himself in the most comfortable place to stay.

Early next morning, he dressed up and with all his gear, went to the fishing spot. He sat under a shady tree, made himself comfortable and put his fishing line into the water and waited. He waited and waited. An hour passed; there was no sign of any fish being caught. He was getting impatient but he could not accept that he was not successful at something as simple as fishing when he could handle such a complex business.

Just then, an old man, a local, dressed in crumpled shorts and a simple shirt came by and sat a few meters downstream from him.

The banker watched this old man with amusement, convinced that this simple man would also not be able to catch any fish. The old man had a fishing rod, which was nothing but a long, sturdy twig and a can of worms for attracting the fish. He settled down and put his fishing rod into the stream.

Within minutes, the old man was catching fish; not just one, but one after another. Without hesitation, the old man was throwing the fish back into the water and laughing. He was thoroughly enjoying himself.

Suddenly, the old man became aware of the young banker staring at him. He turned to him with a broad smile and greeted him, 'Hi', he said, 'Why don't you shift over here? This is a better place to catch them.'

The young banker quickly moved next to the old man who guided him as to where to cast his rod. Soon, the young banker was also catching fish; he was very excited.

The banker was a typical businessman. As soon as he started catching fish, he got the idea about how this could be used to make money. He said to the old man, 'You are so brilliant at what you do. You should come to New York. I can introduce you to rich people who you can teach and you can make a lot of money.'

The old man listened attentively to the banker. He then asked the banker, 'Are you rich?' The banker said, 'Yes, sir. I earn a lot of money.'

The old man asked, 'What do you plan to do now, now that you have a lot of money?' The banker replied, 'I am married to a lovely lady and hope to have a couple of children.'

The old man continued, 'Then?' The banker said, 'Oh, we shall build a lovely house. We shall take vacations. When we need to take a vacation to get relief from my stressful work, I shall come here and fish.'

The old man simply said, 'But that is exactly what I am doing now!'

Most of us need to get stressed out before we can relax. We do not understand what it is to relax. When I tell people to relax during meditation, they ask me, 'Master, please give us detailed guidelines how to relax!'

The tension of running behind something has become part of our being. It has become part of our conditioning. After that, resting will not be rest anymore; it will not be relaxation anymore. Happiness is where we are; it is not where we think we should be.

Be very clear: life has meaning but no purpose. Enjoy the path and the goal is reached! Your very nature, bliss, is the path and the goal.

We may wonder why we exist when there is no goal then to work for or look forward to. But, we have to understand an important thing: when desire disappears, the energy behind the desire still remains.

The first line of the Isa Vasya Upanishad is 'Īśa vāsyam idaṁ sarvam' - All that exists is energy. Desire is also a form of energy. That is why you can turn one desire into another.

The desire energy at one point may be a manifestation of greed; in another the same energy may transform to anger. In another case, it may transform to depression.

Energy cannot be destroyed; it can only be transformed. This is what science also says. So, what happens when we transcend desire? It cannot now be manifested as greed or fear or anger which are all due to external causes. The whole energy manifests itself as pure causeless compassion. You cannot create compassion; it happens because the whole energy is just overflowing.

An important thing to understand: Desire can exist only in unconsciousness. Only when you are unaware can desire exist. Look inside yourself when you have a desire or when you are angry or depressed. Look clearly what is arising in you, what is happening inside you. The moment you look at the desire objectively, with awareness, you will see that the desire simply loses power; it just dissolves.

A fundamental law of Existence you need to understand is: you, your desires create the reality around you. Existence responds to what you desire. For example, if you are afraid, that very desire of having fear will invoke in the other the desire to frighten you. If you are not afraid, the desire in the other simply disappears.

Existence simply responds to what you ask for. Constantly, it is getting to you what you ask. Only we need to have the intelligence to know what to ask for.

Your thoughts and Energy directly affect your body, your cell structure, your decisions, your capacity to fulfill your decisions, the outer world incidents, even accidents. Currently, you are always centered in either greed or fear. Every action that you do is out of either desire or fear. It becomes very easy for others to exploit you because of this; you become very vulnerable. You create a mental setup that creates and attracts similar incidents to you. You also corrupt your Energy flow with this.

If you can change your mental setup from this type, to one of Bliss, or Ānanda, then your Energy flow will start brimming and your thoughts will be much clearer and more in the present. When you do this, you have every power to control the outer world incidents because you and Existence have a very deep connection at the Energy level. This is the thread that you need to catch in order to understand that Bliss attracts fortune. When you are blissful, when your mental setup is not one of worry, fear and greed but one that is in the present, always joyful, you will automatically attract all good things to yourself.

It is not that desire is right or wrong. It is not the object of desire either that is of concern. Desire itself will be dropped when we get the maturity to realize that desire is never in the present and the only Truth is the present moment.

Another thing we need to know about desire: desire is always from the past. We cannot desire something absolutely new. Can we desire something we do not know something about already? So, desire is always from the past. You cannot ask for anything from the past or future because both don't exist. The only thing that exists is the present. And in the present, you cannot desire. You can just be in it and enjoy it.

The Bhagavat Purana has a beautiful story:

Once a crow was flying with a piece of meat in its beak. There were many crows pursuing it trying to grab a share of the meat. It tried flying higher and higher to escape them, became tired and suddenly, it dropped the meat. Immediately, the twenty crows simply followed the falling piece of meat.

Seeing this, the crow realized, 'How nice it is to carry nothing! The whole sky belongs to me.'

The piece of meat he was carrying was creating all the trouble for the crow. The moment he dropped it, all the birds pursuing it simply disappeared.

Similarly, in our life also, once the meat of desire is dropped, the whole sky of enlightenment belongs to you.

Desire means you have moved away from reality, you have moved away from that which is. Desire means you have fallen into the trap of a dream. Desire means you are not here now, you have gone somewhere in the future.

Your desire means you are not satisfied with what you have. If you can accept the present moment, you will drop from the vicious cycle of desires. This is what is surrender. Surrendering is non-desiring.

When you light the candle of understanding, desire disappears. It is not a question of what you desire. If you desire you are in misery. When you are desireless, the ego disappears, so the misery disappears.

All desire must disappear. Only in a desireless moment, what you are asking happens.

When we hear this, the next thing that happens is wanting to be desireless. But this is one more desire. You cannot desire desirelessness. You can simply understand the futility of desire. Understanding it, the desirelessness drops.

Watch every act that you do. Watch every thought, every desire that possesses you. As you watch, your chattering mind chatters less, because the energy that was becoming chattering is being transformed into watchfulness. Clarity arises from this and the confusion dissolves and desires drop.

When you watch your desire, you will be able to see two things: desire by its very nature cannot be fulfilled. When you realize this, the desire disappears. Only when you transcend desire do you reach fulfillment.

When you realize the nature of the desire, you accept desiring is the nature of the mind. Please be very clear: acceptance is not the same as resignation. Resignation is defeat. One becomes resigned when one feels all is hopeless, nothing is possible. But it is not that the desire has dropped. You want to do, you want to become, but seeing that great mountains are on the way, you feel it is not possible. So you console yourself. But the desire is there, lurking behind.

No defeat can ever destroy desire. It will wait for the right season, and whenever you are feeling more energy again, are more positive, the desire will come back and the resignation will be gone.

Acceptance is a totally different thing. Acceptance does not mean that you have accepted defeat. It simply means that there is no defeat and no victory.

Part 2: THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Spurana Program

Sit and tie the head bands.

Inhale as deeply as possible. Hold the breath, just fill your lungs and hold the breath as long as possible, then exhale through the mouth and keep your lungs empty as long as possible.

Inhale through the nose as deeply as possible, as slowly as possible and hold the breath. Keep your lungs filled as long as possible, then exhale through your mouth as slowly as possible and keep your lungs empty as long as possible. This is one cycle.

So start doing slowly but deeply inhale. Very deeply inhale, fill your lungs, little more, just a little more. Hold on to it as long as possible one more second. Just postpone one more second. When you feel you have to breathe out, breathe out through the mouth.

Exhale as deeply as possible, as slowly as possible. Continue this cycle, but very slowly inhale as deeply as possible through the nose. Hold, inhale deeply through the nose, hold the breath for as long as possible, exhale gently through the mouth, keeping the lungs empty for as long as possible. Repeat this cycle.

Stop the breathing and relax. Let your eyes be closed. Relax, come to your normal breathing. Now slowly, very slowly, visualize all your dreams, all your desires. Feel all your desires are fulfilled, all your desires have come true. Imagine as deeply as possible, visualize consciously the life after fulfillment of all your desires. Once you get all the wealth which you wrote, how you will be living.

Never condemn the desires, never condemn the fulfillment, just feel you have fulfilled. Live the ecstasy, live the joy, when you have fulfilled all the desires, how you will feel, how joyful you will be, how your life is going to be.

Fulfill all your desires of wealth, visualize very clearly somehow by the divine grace it has happened. Visualize very clearly once your wealth is achieved, how your life will be.

Once the name and fame and status is achieved, how your life will be, once your sexual fantasies have become true, once your sexual desires are getting fulfilled how you will feel. Once your spiritual desires are blessed, how you will feel.

Visualize all the desires. Feel that everything has come true. Imagine that you can visualize and it will become reality, how you will be living. Consciously, totally put your effort, and you will realize in a detailed way.

Don't avoid, don't again push the desires to unconsciousness, bring them up to consciousness and live. Live totally with all juice and life.

When you start visualizing all your desires, you will start automatically concentrating on the third eye, on the brow chakra, allow that to happen. Encourage your mind to get concentrated on the third eye.

With all your power and consciousness give life to all your desires. Live everything. Let you have life as you want. Let all your sexual fantasies come true. Let all your desires for wealth become reality. Let all your spiritual desires become reality.

Let your eyes be closed and stand up. At least give one feet gap between your feet, let your legs be wide spread. Stop all the movement of thoughts, whatever thoughts come up just see them as the witness, your thoughts, your breath your mind, your body, just leave your body at least for one foot, and just witness your body . Look at your whole body from a distance. Don't associate yourself with the body or the mind, just witness.

Witness the thoughts that you are witnessing. Let your hands be loose and relaxed, witness. Relax. Slowly you can open your eyes and sit. When your mental body becomes empty, when your pranic body opens, your being becomes porous to the alive energy.

When the desires become energy, you become porous to the energy. Many of your unconscious desires disappear. You see many of your wants are just because the other is having. When you bring all those things to consciousness they will all just melt and disappear. And the energy which is invested in those desires will become a support to fulfilling your conscious desires. Those energies will become a support to fulfill your conscious desires.

Not only do the unconscious desires disappear, they become a positive support for your conscious desires. Whenever you don't ask, you will see that your prayers will get fulfilled. The energy is flooded into it. The desires have started melting and have become energy for you. Actually they are energy, they are not cancers as we think. We always think that desires are blood clots. No, they are not blood clots, they are blood. Because you have not brought consciousness to them they become a bloodclot. When you bring consciousness to them they become blood again.

The mental layer is associated with all our thoughts. Thoughts are much more powerful than we think they are. We think our thoughts can affect only us at the most. For example, our negative thoughts can put us in depression. Or when we are happy, we feel positive in our thinking.

But, we don't understand an important thing: our thoughts do not affect just us, they affect everybody around us and even affect the whole world. We may not be able to believe logically but all our collective thoughts are responsible for every single incident happening in this universe.

Nothing is an accident. Nothing happens randomly. We don't understand the science behind them; so we call them incidents or accidents or coincidences.

For this, we need to deeply understand these deep yet fundamental Truths about life that will change the very way we look at life.

First thing, all our minds are not individual separate pieces of the universe. They are all one and the same. All our minds are interlinked. Not only interlinked, they directly affect each other. This is what I call 'collective consciousness'.

Your thoughts are as infectious as your cold. People may escape from one's cold. It is not so infectious but your thoughts are more infectious than your cold. If you catch a cold from someone, you might suffer physically for a few days and then finally get over it. But when you catch thoughts from people, not only you suffer mentally but the suffering is forever. Similarly, anything you think, affects the people staying around. Not only those who are staying around but everyone living on the planet earth is touched by your thoughts.

Please understand, your intellect will definitely resist saying, how this can be true? But the truth is all of us are not different beings, different minds. We are all totally interlinked, closely networked. Any of my thoughts can transform you; any of your thoughts can touch me. We are not separate individuals, we are not an island. There is only one thing called Collective consciousness.

The second Truth:

You are connected not only at the mental level, but even at the deeper conscious levels. The deeper you go, the deeper you are connected.

We are all connected in the levels of all the seven energy bodies.

Now, in the physical layer, you, God and I can be represented as three different points in the concentric circle, quite far from each other, say 120 degrees from one another. In the physical layer, the distance is too much.

If you come down a little bit to the Pranic level, the distance is reduced. If you come down deeper to the mental level, the distance between you and I is further reduced and so is the distance between you, God and I. When you travel deeper and deeper, and finally reach the Nirvanic level, these three entities finally merge into one.

Please be very clear that at the deep end of all these layers, God, you and I are one. There is no distance.

Let us go a little deeper into this truth. We all seem different entities at the physical level. When you love someone intimately, his or her love and suffering affects you. It comes and goes out of your being. At a deeper level, there is no individual entity; and each one of us is a part of the Collective Consciousness. You do not want the suffering; however, you cannot escape from the suffering.

Have you noticed that whether it is a physical pain or mental suffering or spiritual bondage, you get it again and again? This is because you are not aware that you are a part of the Collective Consciousness. Once you become aware and realize that you are a part of the Collective Consciousness, that you don't have an individual identity, you realize that you do not have a separate ego.

All of us think that we own our intellectual identity. However the simple truth is, in existence, no such thing as a separate individual identity exists. Once we know this truth, we go beyond pain, sufferings, depressions and diseases. Understand clearly, that as long as we have this concept of individual identity, whether physically or mentally or at the being level, we shall be continuously suffering.

The moment we start thinking that we are an individual body, which is separate from existence, our whole body becomes our enemy.

Be very clear about this, you are a part and everything is the whole. If you fall in tune with the whole, the whole behaves as your friend. The moment you start thinking, discriminating or behaving with the whole in opposition, it starts acting like an enemy. Remember, the whole isn't here to kill you or destroy you.

The whole, the universe, is a hologram of which we are a part. Just as in a hologram, every single part of the hologram, even if split, reflects the totality of that hologram, we reflect the totality of the whole that is the universe.

The other day I read an interesting interview of this man who survived his jump into the Niagara Falls. This being an unusual event and a very daring one, there were all kinds of journalists questioning him. If you have been to the Niagara Falls, you can imagine the depth of the fact that someone survived jumping down the Niagara Falls. I cannot imagine someone surviving the Niagara Falls!

When asked how he managed this unimaginable feat, the man replied beautifully, 'When I jumped I became a part of the Niagara Falls. I felt like I was a part of it. I never felt that I was different from those Falls.'

When we are in tune with the Collective Consciousness, when we become a part of the collective consciousness, nature is with us, nature is our friend, and nature protects us. Nature will not harm us.

When we start thinking that we are different from nature; that we are individual consciousness, nature will not protect us. Let us be clear that as long as we are in tune with the Collective Consciousness, nature protects us.

Wherever we want to achieve success, either in the social or economic world, when we tune in with the whole group, fall in tune with the Collective Consciousness; we will achieve whatever it is that we want to achieve.

As long as we feel that we are separate individuals, we want to keep that identity distinctly and we wish to have an idea that we are somebody, an identity, be very clear that we will be resisted and we will be resisting. The moment we start resisting, we make a hellish experience out of it.

Whether in the home, office, workplace or industry, this is bound to happen. However, if we disappear into the Collective Consciousness, we will be protected and taken care of again and again. We will attain complete success, not only socially and economically, but we will also experience it. It would be a feeling of fulfillment which is inexplicable.

A man is told that his wife has fallen into the river and he needs to jump and save her. He immediately jumps and starts swimming against the current. Everybody is surprised and asks him, 'Hey, why are you swimming against the current?' He replies, 'You guys don't know my wife. Even if she falls in the river, she will float against the current. She resists everything so much that she will also resist the current.'

As long as we resist the current, whether it is our workplace, our house, our company or any other place for that matter, as long as we do not disappear into the Collective Consciousness, we will be continuously creating hell for ourselves and for others.

Tao, the ancient Chinese philosophy contains the same teaching. Tao is all about flow, it is about flowing with nature. Water is the greatest illustration of such a natural flow. Water simply flows with the landline, around obstacles, smoothly and energetically. Tao talks about the reeds in the water that bend with the flow and straighten up once the flow is less. That can only happen when we do not imagine ourselves to be different from our environment.

Even in the physical layer, if we think we are something separate, be very clear, we shall be inviting diseases. Another point here is that in the mental layer, if we think we are separate as an individual, we shall be sowing the seeds of violence again and again.

Seeds of violence are created whenever we feel we are an individual, unconnected or unrelated to others. We turn selfish, dogmatic, and violent. We turn into terrorists. With individual consciousness, we dissect, we cut things into pieces and such logic always breaks. However, with Collective Consciousness, we unify.

At the soul level, if we think we are separate individuals, spiritually, we cannot even take the first step. There is no possibility of any spiritual growth.

First of all, remember that at the physical level, we are not independent individuals. Our body and the body of the Sun and the Moon are pre-connected. Any small change in the body of the sun can make changes in our body. Any small change in our body can change the body of the Moon and vice versa. Some of us may have noticed that the phases of the Moon affect the state of our mind. We may not be able to logically relate these changes, however it is true.

In the mental layer, also, we are not alone. At any given point of time, any thought rising from anyone else's head comes and touches us and any thought created in someone else's mind goes and touches someone else. This is going on continuously.

Be clear, any thought sowed by someone else can touch us and affect us.

Thoughts are like ripples created on the surface water of a lake. If we are creating a strong wave, we shall be creating an impression with our thought. We shall be leading and inspiring others with our thoughts. However, if our thoughts are not solid enough, other waves will impress us.

Either we live as leaders or as followers. There is no in-between. The mind might think, 'I will not be a leader as I cannot do that much. I will not be a follower either so I shall maintain my own stand.' This is simply impractical. There is no such thing as 'my own stand.' Either we lead or we follow!

At the mental level also, if you continuously think that you are a separate individual, you shall be resisted, again and again. The moment you understand that you are a part of the Collective Consciousness; you will not be resisted; instead you will actually be welcomed and accepted.

The third Truth:

Finally, at the spiritual level, the moment we understand that we are deeply, totally, and intensely connected to the whole group, to the whole universe, not only do we start experiencing the bliss, but we also really start to live. This opening up leads to the opening up of the many different dimensions of our being.

Right now, we are stressed out and disturbed continuously, at the same time we also have to think too much. With this one body, we have to think so much and enjoy so much. Do we have the time or the inclination to go deep into our layers and expand?

We cannot even begin to imagine the many different dimensions and possibilities that will open up to us when we disappear into this collective consciousness. See, now with one body, it is a feeling of joy and you can enjoy so much. Imagine what can you do if you have two bodies? Just imagine what you can do when you have so many bodies!

Imagine that one body is an air conditioner and the other one is a heater; imagine three different bodies in different countries enjoying different cultures. Similarly if the multitudes of bodies increase, so would the joy, the bliss. Whatever we experience as individuals, we will be able to experience far more when we are a part of the Collective Consciousness.

During the entire THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Spurana Program (NSP), you will realize that you are a part of the Collective Consciousness. It will not stop there as you will realize that not only are you a part but you are the Collective Consciousness.

Remember that you are not just an individual consciousness as you think. As you start traveling deeper and deeper, layer by layer, the realization dawns that you are just one with everything. As a result, you start feeling a sense of well being in the mental layer, the pranic layer, the etheric layer, the physical layer and all the other layers and automatically all diseases disappear.

When you really experience that you are the boundary-less consciousness, it is an unbelievable experience that is difficult to imagine.

I have seen people at the end of the program in such ecstasy that they forget their name, their identity, their social status, their education, their qualifications, their wealth, their religion, everything that they are and they have. They basically respect the other person, respect everyone and they fall at each other's feet.

I have seen the father-in-law falling at the feet of his daughter-in-law. In Bharat this never happens. It is too much to ask for as per the traditions followed here! However, this has happened at the end of the program only because he is able to see the divinity in her. The mother-in-law sees the divinity in her son-in-law and falls at his feet. Grand parents touch the feet of grand daughters. Bosses or owners touch the feet of their staff or the persons working under them.

This experience of oneness or collective consciousness makes us forget all differences of name, wealth, social status, and prestige. Whatever we think of ourselves, all of it just disappears and what we truly are is revealed. I have seen that by touching the feet of their worst enemies, they forget the past, they are raised, they experience such a deep level of consciousness, such bliss that literally the ego disappears.

They just go around and see God in everyone and they are in bliss, ecstasy, Collective Consciousness. Mind you, it is not that they are visualizing or hallucinating. When the experience happens, the whole group realizes that they are all one and the same. They are not different entities.

Understand this clearly, only when we experience collective consciousness, we can realize and experience the meaning of the word bliss, eternal bliss, Nithya Ananda.

The unfortunate fact is from our childhood, we are trained to be separate from others. In schools, we are taught to be somebody, prove that we are somebody. As adults, we are then taught to compete with others.

We have to understand one thing: the people who have created the present system of education are not enlightened. The system of education designed and developed by the ancient sages in the East, the gurukul structure (a type of ancient Hindu school that is residential in nature with the shishyas or students studying and imbibing the guru or teacher) is totally out of practice. It is no longer alive today.

Let me highlight a few points about the Gurukul system of education that was initiated by the enlightened masters. In this system, any child who belongs to the country belongs to the master, the guru. The guru takes care of all of them and parents have no rights over them. Let me explain a few rules here to elaborate on this.

Up to the age of seven children in the gurukul were not allowed to wear clothes. You will definitely laugh at this. But this was done so that they do not get the idea that they are individual bodies. They were allowed to relate with existence, with Ether straightaway. They were allowed to relate with flowers, forests, trees, and Earth. This ensured that until the child's seventh year the idea that they are somebody did not form itself in the mind.

This also taught them not to suppress the opposite gender that is alive in them. They were not given the idea that they are male or female. Understand that when we are born, all of us have the characteristics of both the genders within us. A man is only 51% male and 49% female. Similarly a woman is only 51% female and 49% male. It is our upbringing, dictated by societal rules that

classify us into rigid gender differentiation right from birth. Therefore we end up suppressing the opposite gender within us.

In the gurukul system, children were encouraged to keep their gender commonality open. This system made sure that children were not given the idea that they are somebody. They were also not taught to separate their body from the environment.

Try to follow only these few things with your kids. First of all do not separate their upper and lower body with clothes at the waist. Make them wear clothes that cover the whole body. Next, do not continuously keep encouraging them to develop the idea that they are somebody. We believe that this is what builds their identity and self esteem, and this is where we are making disastrous errors.

In the ancient gurukul system, at the age of seven, the children, both boys and girls, were given a meditation technique. Even if they formed such an idea that they are male or female, they used this meditation technique to dilute that imbibed feeling. This meditation technique helped them to flush out the feeling of gender uniqueness out and again and again helped them tune into the collective consciousness. This is what we now call the Gayatri Mantra (a sacred chant or mantra taught before adolescence). From seven to fourteen they practiced the Gayatri through which they continuously connected to the collective consciousness.

By the age of fourteen, by the time they reached adolescence, they would have had a glimpse of the collective consciousness and its blue print. After they have had the glimpse of the blue print, depending on the intensity of their glimpse, they would be given deeper meditation techniques, so that they could go deeper and deeper into these techniques. Thus by the age of 21, they had every opportunity to become enlightened.

I'll tell you honestly, there was a time when 70% of all the people were enlightened. The remaining 30% were working towards it. The social structure created by the enlightened masters consisted of people either already enlightened or others who were working towards it. There was no other category. Just two categories: achieved and working towards it: enlightened and seekers! Unfortunately, we have lost that system.

Now, we have already started a Gurukul system in the Bidadi ashram in Bharat as well as a few other ashrams. We have some devotees whose children are a part of the Gurukul system here in the ashram. We expect to revive the Gurukul system soon, without disturbing modern education and without disturbing their link to the collective consciousness.

Collective Consciousness is what I call God. The whole is what I call God. When you are whole, you are holy!

You must have heard about the raas purnima described in the Bhagavatam (the night of full moon when the raas lila was performed) is a beautiful example of collective consciousness. Most of us have no idea or a wrong idea about the raas lila. It has got nothing to do with the physical plane. It was actually Radha and the gopis (women cowherds) experiencing collective consciousness. Krishna gave the ultimate experience of collective consciousness to the groups of gopis and Radha.

Our thoughts and energy flow have the capacity to create and attract incidents and people of the same nature. There is a beautiful research you should know about:

One Japanese doctor Emoto has done a beautiful research on water, and he has published a book called, 'Messages from water.' Beautiful book, he is a great scientist, not only a scientist, but he is a person who works on different possibilities - working on the power of the mind over matter.

He took ten different cups of water. Chemically all the cups were filled with the same kind of water. Chemically they were the same. He kept them in different rooms. All the conditions like the room temperature were the same. Everything was controlled.

Everyday, he would go to each room which had one bottle of water. In one room, he would create some positive thoughts like peace, bliss, joy for 5 minutes and come out. He would then go to the next room and create some violent thoughts like war, terrorism, violence, anger. He would go to the third room and chant some words from the Dhammapada, Buddha's teachings. Finally he froze the water in all the bottles and took pictures through a microscope.

His results are published in his book 'Messages from Water'. You can see the results of these experiments in the book. The results are simply shocking. The water on which he used positive words was shining like diamond. The water on which he used negative words looked like a ghost, dark and dense. The water on which he used Buddha's teachings look just like a Buddhist temple. Not once or twice, but he did this experiment for more than 300 times. If you find time try to go through that book, 'Messages from Water'.

Understand, if your thoughts can affect the water in the outer world, water in the cup, can't it affect the blood which is flowing in your body? First thing, your thoughts can affect the outer world. Second thing, if you can affect the water in the outer world, why not the water flowing in your body? 80% of your body is filled with water - blood.

If five minutes of one person's negative thoughts can affect one tumbler of water, what will happen when so many of us are having so much of irritation and negative thoughts, ? Why will not nature be disturbed? Natural calamities are just because of our collective negativity. When we release so much of negativity, where do you think all this will be deposited? How will it be expressed?

Today science proves that one glass of water can become negative energy just by one man's five minutes of negative thoughts. Then imagine, billions of people constantly radiating negativity, negative thoughts, negative words, negative energy; why will not the ocean be affected? Why will not tsunamis happen? Naturally, we are abusing nature by our negativity. We are imbalancing nature by our negativity.

A great rishi (sage) was doing penance in a deep forest. Suddenly one night, he had an unexpected guest. One man came and knocked at his door. He requested the rishi, 'Can I stay here tonight? Tomorrow morning I will leave you. I will leave from this place.' The rishi said, 'You are welcome. Please come and stay.'

Next day morning , the rishi casually inquired, 'Who are you? Where are you from?' The man said, 'Please don't be frightened. I am a thief. Last night, I robbed the palace and escaped. I came to your hut straight away. I am really very happy that you took care of me by giving food and shelter. I am leaving. Please bless me.' So saying, the man left.

The rishi felt very disturbed, 'What a big sin I have committed by giving shelter and food to a thief!' He started weeping not knowing how to atone for the sin. He wanted to wash away his sin. He started praying. 'Oh God, please forgive me. I don't know what I should do to remove the sin. I gave shelter and food to a thief for one full night. Please forgive me.' He was weeping and wailing.

Suddenly he heard a voice from heaven. The voice was also weeping. He was surprised. He asked 'Who is weeping?' From above he heard the voice, 'I am God. I am weeping.' Surprised, the rishi asked, 'Why are you weeping?' God replied, 'You have given shelter to the thief for one day. You think that is a big sin. I am giving him food and shelter everyday. Where will I go and wash my sin? That is why I am weeping.'

You need to understand there is a beautiful thing to be understood from the story. The rishi had a concept that he is holier than the thief. He had more ego than the real feeling of compassion. His ego was only corrected by God's message.

All our guilt, all our rules, all our morality, all our idea of right and wrong is created by only this type of rishis. Not all rishis, but this type of people who think they are holier than others, they are purer than others or they are greater than others. They created the rules which created the guilt in you.

According to me, guilt is the greatest sin. At least other sins will punish you after your death. Guilt will punish you when you are alive.

The guilt that retards your growth and puts you into a vicious cycle of misery and suffering is what society feeds on, what religion thrives on. It condemns all the basic emotions all humans have instead of giving the technique to transform the base emotions into the higher emotions.

An important thing we have to notice: all so-called activities of social service are to get rid of the guilt feeling due to having 'too much' money. But you don't realize it is not money that is the problem, but it is your mind that is dilemma by nature.

Look little deep. What is the root cause of guilt? It is our idea about right and wrong. Our understanding about what is right and wrong. Only from that, the guilt starts. What is right? What is wrong? Let us start analyzing.

After all, what is the scale to measure right or wrong? In Hinduism, vegetarianism is right; and in Christianity non-vegetarianism is right. In Hinduism you can marry only once; in Islam you can marry four times. In Hinduism, you can't drink alcohol and liquor; but in Christianity, Jesus himself consumed wine.

There are so many rules, so many regulations in different places, different situations, different societies. In South Bharat, fish is considered as non-vegetarian food. In Bengal, they call it Gangaphal (fruit from the Ganga). Bengali brahmins (priestly class) eat fish. There is no Bengali house which doesn't have a small pond infront of their house. They grow fish. They eat fresh fish. Ramakrishna used to eat fish. Bengali brahmins take fish and fish is considered as vegetarian food. For Bengalis, fish, sweet, and tobacco are the basic things. Ramkrishna used to smoke. Vivekananda used to smoke. So, where is so called morality? It is just local customs! In course of time, they become morality.

If you see the ancient scriptures, epics of Bharat, Mahabharata, Draupadi was married to five men! So many different kind of life systems, so many different kind of customs. Kunti was married to five men! Kunti had five sons from five different men! Draupadi lived with five men! There are so many different kinds of morality. So many different kinds of life structure. So many different kinds of thinking systems.

Different times, different rules were formed by different leaders. In some society, some thing is morality. In some other society, same thing is immorality. In some society, some thing is right and in some other society, the same thing is wrong.

Here, in the US, I saw something that was really funny. In one state, casinos are allowed. In the neighbouring state casions are illegal. A river separates the two states and the border line between the two states passes through the river. So, inside the river itself, there is a big casino!

On one side it is legal, and on the other side it is illegal! Something is law in some place and the same thing is illegal in some other place. So, where is the scale of right or wrong? For somebody a particular food is amruta (nectar), for some other person the same thing is poison! Where is the scale to measure what is right and what is wrong? There is no scale.

Morality should happen out of integrity, not through guilt. Guilt is a wedge inserted into your inner space. It makes you schizophrenic.

People who hide their personal life create rules and regulations to create guilt in you so that they can rule you, exploit you. Once you have guilt you can be cheated and exploited.

They can not make you do things logically, so they create guilt in you by hiding their personal lives and make rules for you.

In Santana Dharma (eternal religion), we have two scriptures. Sanatana Dharma is the only courageous dharma(religion), to have two kinds of scriptures. In all other religions on the planet earth, they have only one scripture, one book, ultimate! That is all. There are many religions, which say their holy book can't be updated. Even software can be updated! There are many religions that say their book can never be updated. But Sanatana Dharma is the only courageous religion, which says their book can be updated.

They divided into two portions; śruti (veda) and smṛti (sacred traditional books). Smṛti means the ultimate laws about enlightenment; Ātman, the concept or realization, about the universe. Smṛti means the social laws, day-to-day rules and regulations. The courageous people declared smṛti can be changed. Time to time enlightened masters can create new smṛti, because we know that no morality can be morality forever. No law can be law forever. Because, morality and law are based on the situation!

For example, if the deer population becomes too much, you are allowed to hunt. Same way, once upon a time in Bharat, cows' population was too much. That is why they started giving cows in the sacrifices. Once the cow population became too low, they started to worship the cows.

The rules are created to maintain equilibrium in the society; to maintain harmony in the society. When we all live together, we need a few basic understandings to live happily. For example, you will not try to kill me so that I will not kill you. That is all. You will not try to kill me so that I will not try to kill you. We both can live happily without fear. Like this, a few basic understandings are

assumed or come into being. Slowly, by and by, they become rules. They become morality.

The problem is, as long as you understand the root of morality, you neither behave immorally nor you get disturbed by this morality. Once you don't understand the rule, once it becomes just a spoon feeding, a sort of forced rule, then not only you try to escape from that rule, but also you create a deep guilt in you. When it is a forced rule, you always try to go beyond it; for example, you always over speed when you don't see the cop!

Actually, there is some taste in doing what you are not supposed to do. Once, a man became addicted to smoking. He came to me. He came to me asking for help, 'Please help me to quit smoking. I don't know how I became addicted. Please help me.' I asked him, 'How did you start?'

He replied, 'I never wanted to smoke. In fact, I hated the smell! One day my friend and I were talking in a street corner. My friend was smoking. My father saw from a distance and thought I that I was also smoking. When I went home he started firing me. He started shouting at me. I tried my best to explain him that I was not smoking. But he was not ready to listen to me. Then I thought, anyhow, he already shouted and is not willing to believe me, why not smoke? That is why I started smoking.'

Most of the time you have a taste if you are asked not to do something and you do it. You feel a kind of a joy, satisfaction by doing it. That is the basic tendency in every human being. When you say 'no' to your parents, you prove you are a man. As long as you say 'yes', you are only a child. You feel you are not mature. When you say no, you think you became mature! It is a basic tendency.

You can see in teenagers: the moment they say no, they think they are grown up and mature. You feel you have become mature and you have become man or woman by saying no to your parents. That is why so many rebellious groups; so many gangs. Because, there is a deep taste in saying no! Saying no is almost like addiction. When you say no, you try to prove you are somebody special; you are somebody different. As long as morality is given to you like a spoon-feeding, not with an understanding, you create two things.

First, you try your best to escape from it. Next, you create a deep guilt inside your being.

A small story about how things became superstition or moral setup:

There was an ashram in Bharat, where everyday the guru(master) used to do regular worship, morning pūjā(worship). He had a pet cat. The cat used to jump and play around on him when he did the pūjā. He felt the cat was a big disturbance. So, before starting the pūjā, he called one of his disciples and told him to cover the cat by a basket. Everyday it became a routine to cover a cat before the pūjā.

Suddenly, one day the guru died and the cat also died. The disciples were wondering how to get a cat to cover before the pūjā! They started searching for a cat. Somehow they could manage to get one cat; and before the pūjā, the cat was kept in the same place and covered with basket. The pūjā started. By and by, after some time, it became very difficult to get a cat. They were not able to get a cat to cover, before the pūjā started.

Slowly, they started thinking, without a cat, you can't do the pūjā, that it was sacrilegious. Slowly, they stopped doing the pūjā because there is no cat! This is what happens if things become superstition.

One great paṇḍit(learned man) wanted to take bath in the Ganga. He had a kamaṇḍalu(water jar) with him. He had to keep it in a safe place. He searched here and there. There was nobody trustworthy to whom he could entrust the kamaṇḍalu and go for Ganga snānam (bath in river Ganga). Because there was nobody, he made a small pit in the Ganga sand, put kamaṇḍalu, covered the pit, and just to remember where he kept kamaṇḍalu, he made a heap. He went to take bath.

There was some farmer who was watching the pundit from distance. He thought, 'Oh, before taking bath in Ganga, I should make a small heap!' He made a heap before he went for a bath. The third person came. He thought, 'Oh, it is tradition to make a heap before taking bath in Ganga.' He made a small heap and went to have bath. By and by, all people started making heaps before taking bath in Ganga. When the paṇḍit came out, he saw hundreds of heaps all over Ganga bed! He had a problem now: where is his kamaṇḍalu? Under which heap is it? He started searching. He started to destroy the heaps. Suddenly the farmer came and shouted, 'Why are you destroying our Śiva liṅgas (symbol of God Shiva)? Why are you destroying our heaps? You are a paṇḍit. You should have sense! Don't you know that you are supposed to make a Shiva linga before bath? And you are disturbing our Shiva lingas. Don't you have sense?'

The heap of sand naturally looks like a Shiva linga. The paṇḍit thought, 'When did this ritual start? It is me who started the ritual. It is for sake of my kamaṇḍalu I started it.' Finally, it became a big trouble for himself. Anyhow, he was not allowed to destroy the heaps. He had to move without his kamaṇḍalu.

If you look into your life, there are so many heaps that entered the same way. There are so many speed breakers; there are so many obstacles that entered your life, without your understanding. In course of time, many regulations which had meaning, became rules without even having any meaning now!

In Bharat, in the olden days they will not stitch clothes after sunset, because the stitching was done with a needle. Naturally, in the nighttime, in the dim light of candle or lantern or some other small lamp, you will not be able to stitch. But, even now, in Bharat you can see after sunset they won't stitch! Not even in the tailor shops! There are so many tailor shops where lights are available. They won't stitch with hand after sunset.

When you don't have understanding, things become dead rules. When you have understanding, any rule can become a technique to live life happily. When you have understanding, you will understand that all rules are created just to have a happy and blissful life for yourself and other people around you. Today these very rules create hell for yourself and others.

I have seen a few people. Before starting their meditation they create so much of noise in the house before the meditation; 'Keep quiet, don't shout, switch off the calling bell…do this, do that,' they will practically turn the whole house just for the sake of ten minutes meditation. Do you think that they will do ten minutes meditation also? The moment they start, they will start dozing; after two to three minutes, they will start squatting the mosquitoes; after two minutes they start scratching. Then, they will think, 'I think I can do my meditation tomorrow. It is enough for today.' For this drama, they will make such a big drama that they will practically turn then whole house without understanding that the very meditation itself is done for the sake of peace and silence. Some people, when they try to silence others, they themselves create so much of noise. Their sound will be much worse than others. Their words, 'Hush, keep quiet' will be louder than the people who are talking. In schools you can see the sound of kids will be less than that of teachers.

Most of the times when you don't understand the root of morality and you start living in a dull and dead way. According to me, any rule, if it is internalized, will create guilt in you. Understand: any rule. When I say any, I mean ANY. Any rule if it is internalized, it will create a deep guilt in you; because, by your nature, you are the person who aspires for freedom. Svabhāva svatantraka(Free by nature). Means your nature itself is freedom. You are a nitya mukta(eternally free). You are eternally free. You never wanted to be caged! You never wanted to be slave of any rule! You can see all the society is struggling, working only towards freedom. Your entire struggle is nothing but struggle for freedom. Even your search for money, is the search for freedom. If you have more money, you have bigger choices; bigger house, bigger car, more comforts. You have more choice; you have more freedom. Your choice or freedom is the real search. Your search for money is nothing but search for freedom.

By very nature you are searching for freedom. You never wanted to be encaged by any rules or any morality. When some morality is given to you as a rule, either you try to go beyond it or if you can't, you take revenge on the people who imposed the rule on you. You always take revenge. May be, you wait for a right time. You wait for a right time; you take revenge on them.

People again and again come and tell me, 'My son is not taking care of me.' Be very clear, your son may be the first enemy for you, you may be the first enemy for him; because you have given him so many rules, so many regulations. You had given him so many laws, so almost you were master for him when he was young. Naturally, one part of his mind will have respect; the other part will always feel against you. The other part will be just waiting to take revenge on you. It is a basic rule; naturally he will be against you because you gave him rules and regulations.

There are few people who try to give you the rules in a very subtle way or in a very cunning way. They exploit your fear and greed by showing you the ideas of hell and the heaven; desire for heaven and fear of hell. There create so many concepts of hell and heaven in you. They say, 'If you practice these type of things you will be rewarded with heaven; if you practice these type of things you will be rewarded with hell.' This concept of heaven and hell is a subtle way of exploiting your being. When you are given some rules based on greed and fear, you start creating a deep guilt in you.

There is a subtle difference between fear and guilt. When you accept the fear, you go beyond it. But, when you suppress the fear, reject it, it transforms into guilt. Anything suppressed, that goes against nature, leads directly to guilt. The feeling of not being true to oneself is the root cause of guilt.

Many times, you justify your guilt as responsibility. How to differentiate between the two? Guilt will make you feel depressed, in low energy. Responsibility on the other hand will show intensity and make you feel integrated.

A guilty person can never be at ease with himself. He never has self-confidence. So, he then looks for a leader to guide him. This is where religion steps in and exploits people. It fills in the deep void inside people with morality, do's and don'ts.

If you live from moment to moment, there is no question of repenting what you have done, guilt has no place. Guilt is not real; it has no existential reality. You can choose to drop your guilt at any time because if is not natural. We carry the load of guilt most of the time because of our nonsensical thinking.

An important thing: This is one of the ultimate laws, which is very difficult to understand but one of the ultimate laws. Nobody can live their life based on any law. When I say nobody, I mean NOBODY. When I say any law, I mean ANY LAW. Because life is something that is far more superior than the laws. All the laws, rules, regulations are based on some understanding of life. But life is beyond all our understanding and beyond our logic.

People ask me, 'Why is this life created at all?' I tell them, this WHY can never be answered. Because this WHY is based on your logic. But life is based on God's logic. Your logic and God's logic can never meet with each other. His logic is so big, so vast, and, so infinite. You can never meet his logic.

Life is created by him. Rules are created by you. Life is created by him. Laws are created by you. Naturally, your laws can never match or fit with God's logic or God-created life. Life is natural. Laws are societal.

Life is physical. Laws are mental.

All your ideas, all your dos and don'ts, all your morality, all your right or wrong is given to you by society. You are called as a saint or as a sinner, only by society. As long as society titles you as a saint, you are a saint. The moment society titles you as a sinner, you are a sinner.

If you kill someone in the society, you will be called murderer, you will be punished. If you kill someone in the war front, you will be called a hero. You will be rewarded with a big award! So, the social structure is societal.

When you start internalizing the laws of society inside your mind, you create a deep wound in your being. You destroy your intelligence. According to me, rules and regulations are only superficial. All your morality- look a little deep! It is only skin deep. It is just skin deep!

Your nature is always struggling to express to go beyond all rules, all regulations, and all morality. Your consciousness is always trying to break through your conscience. Your consciousness continuously fights with conscience.

Conscience is societal. Consciousness is natural. Conscience is a pure substitute for consciousness.

People ask me, 'What is this Swamiji? You are breaking the basic laws. You are pulling the whole social structure. You are pulling the whole rules and regulations. Then, how can we all live morally? How will people live with morality? What are you doing?'

I tell them, be very clear: only for kids, you need forced morality. For them you need to say, 'Keep quiet, I will give you candy.' Of course, nowadays kids say, 'I am happy, I don't need your candy. I am happy by jumping around. Who cares for your candy!' For a kid you can say I will give candy or I will beat you. For kids you can impose morality based on fear or greed. Now, it is time! You are not kids anymore!

It is time to stand up and be moral based on understanding, and not based on fear and greed. As long as your morality is based on fear and greed, be very sure that it is just skin deep. It is just skin deep!

You can never be moral based on fear and greed. If fear and greed is the base for your morality, you will try all possible ways to escape from it. For example, you just go ten miles over the speed limit thinking, 'Even if I see the cop, I can press the brakes.'

As long as your morality is based on fear and greed, be sure you are just a child not physically, but mentally, in terms of maturity. You are not mature. If you are really grown up, your morality should be based on understanding, not based on fear and greed.

According to me, mature person means the person who lives happy, blissful, quiet life without fear and greed. When you drop your fear and greed, a new kind of morality arises in your being; the morality which is not social morality; the morality which is not just skin deep. It arises out of your whole being. Your whole being experiences a different kind of well being.

Once there was a Zen master. For some reason, the king declared, next day morning, he should be killed. This was informed to the master. But the king said, till tomorrow morning he can do whatever he wants. He can live as he likes. He is given full freedom.

The master was seen following the same routine. He was doing the same gardening, fetching water from the well, doing the same cooking, serving the disciples. He was living in exactly the same way as before, doing the same routine.

Some disciples asked the master, 'Tomorrow morning you are going to die. Don't you want to do something else?'

Master replied beautifully, 'My life is from my understanding. This is the best way I can live. I am totally fulfilled. I have nothing else to do whether I am going to live for 24 hours or 2 hours. This is what I want to do. I have nothing else as enjoyment.'

If somebody gives us this deadline, 'You will be alive till tomorrow morning; you can do whatever you want,' just look inside your mind as to what all you will do. If you will do anything other than your daily routine, be very clear that your morality is just skin deep. Your morality is just skin deep. What does it mean? You are controlling yourself for some reason. You are not living your whole life for some reason.

As long as you don't live your whole life, you will always feel that you are missing something. The feeling that you are missing something is the root cause for fear of death. Mostly, we are not even afraid of death. We are afraid that we have not lived our life. Actually, it is not fear of death. It is the fear that I have not lived my life. Guilt is the root of fear of death.

One deep thing you should understand: guilt is the root for greed! As long as you have guilt, you can never enjoy anything.

One of our devotees came and told me, 'The moment I see ice-cream, I start having cold. I don't even have to eat it. If I see the ice-cream, I catch cold.'

Now, this was a very serious thing. For the last twelve years she had been suffering. I started talking to her to trace the root of the problem. Almost like psychoanalysis, but in a little deeper way.

Slowly I traced that her mother had created a deep guilt in her about the ice-cream when she was a child. The mother didn't want the kid to have more ice-cream, so she created a deep guilt; a deep negative attitude towards ice-cream. The negative attitude created allergic reaction just by seeing the ice-cream.

When I was talking to her, she said, 'Sometimes when I see the ice-cream, I hear my mother's voice saying, 'Don't eat!' Even now I am hearing the voice.'

After talking to her, then finally, I analyzed; finally I came to the conclusion, it is her mother's voice which is creating the disturbance. I gave her a simple technique, just get 5 icecreams; don't bother about your mother. If you listen to your mother's voice, just be angry on her and eat the ice-cream. Just in a few days, she was not only out of the reaction, she was able to enjoy eating as many ice-creams as she wanted without any problem.

You don't know in your life also how many times you are hearing voices. We are not so sensitive. That is why we don't hear. Our being is also a crowd of voices. Understand: your being is not only your being. You are a totality of a crowd of voices. All the voices are there: your mother's voice, father's voice, teacher's voice, neighbor's voice, professor's voice, your hero's voice, etc. All these voices are there. You are a totality of crowd of voices. That is why you feel so much of noise inside.

If there is only one voice, you will never have any problem. Your mind will move like a river. This is a beautiful example you should understand. Your mind is almost like a river, like a stream. Guilt is like a rock. It blocks the flow; creates a whirlpool. It creates energy block. Any guilt you carry in your being is a blockage of energy. Just like a blood clot, it is an energy clot.

All the voices, which are inside your mind, are the root for guilt. Any guilt will kill your intelligence. As along as you flow like a river, like a stream, you will be expressing extraordinary intelligence in your life. You will express a different kind of intelligence; a different kind of energy; a different kind of bliss.

The moment you start creating guilt in you, the moment you are stopped in your free flow, you create energy clot inside your being; you create energy clot inside your mind. Especially, the older your culture, more is the guilt. We always think if our culture is old, we are something great. But if you look a little deep, if your culture is old, you start following dead books. The older the roots, the more they are dead.

If you don't remove dead bodies from your house, not only they will be occupying the space, they will start smelling; it is a very dangerous thing. For example, if you use last year's train timetable for this year, where will you end up? You will end up only on the platform. The older the timetable, less is the benefit. If you live based on the past rules, without having the understanding why the rules were created, you will create a deep wound inside your being.

Why do we see that when we get angry, the guilt reduces? The moment you express your anger, your guilt also is released. Actually, anger and guilt are two sides of the same coin. The moment you become angry with the person who created guilt in you, you come out of guilt. If you create guilt based on somebody's opinion, how do you create it? It is based on the respect you have for that person. The moment you become angry naturally the respect is lost. You understand you have been exploited and disturbed.

One more thing, even that person will not know he is exploiting you. One more incident: one American boy was brought to me with a complaint. Mother said, 'My son is not obeying my words. Please advise him.' I felt a little awkward. I myself never obeyed my mother. How can I advise him to obey? The boy looked very intelligent. Somehow, the mother was pestering me. I had no other way.

So, I started talking to him; 'Why don't you obey your mom? She even made me obey her. Why don't you obey her?' Suddenly he asked, 'She herself is not happy. If I follow her words, where will I end up? I will also end up in the same way. Why are you asking me to obey her? Why are you asking me to listen to her?'

I was shocked. Somehow, I managed to convince him. I think the next generation kids are going to sue their mother or father if they fall into depression. They will say, 'These guys didn't give me the correct mental setup. That is why now I am very depressed.'

We have to find out some method by which we will not create guilt in the kids' minds, by which we will create only more intelligence, more understanding, and more bliss in their life. According to me, experience is more solid than morality. Consciousness is more solid than conscience.

Of course, you need little patience to create consciousness. You need to work on them; you need to explain every step to them; you can't just give teaspoons. You can't give consciousness in teaspoons. You can give conscience in teaspoons; just dos and donts. But consciousness, you can't give in teaspoons. You need to work with them. Unless you have so much of patience, you have no right to bring one more life to planet earth.

People come and ask me, 'It is very difficult, you don't know. If you have one kid you will understand. You speak all these things. It is very difficult to manage them, very difficult to give intelligence. Naturally we have to create guilt and give them rules.' If you can't take the responsibility, think twice before you give birth to a kid.

Understand: have you solved your life's problems? Did you find solutions to all your life's problems? If yes, then go ahead; bring the next generation to planet earth. Otherwise, wait. There is every chance the next generation will catch your neck and say, 'What are you doing? Why did you bring me?' Already kids have come to the level of asking, 'She herself is not happy. Why should I follow her?' There is every chance tomorrow kids are not going to listen to our morality.

According to me, Vivekananda is the most courageous master who happened on planet earth. He had nothing to do with the so-called social setup, who broke everything. He gave new light to the whole humanity. According to me, he is the Manu (the sage who coded a book on social laws) of modern day. He is the smriti kara (creator of social laws) of modern day.

He says in one of his discourses, Reason and Religion, 'Let the logic be flooded on the religion. Let your religion be flooded by reason and logic. Whatever can be washed away by reasoning, let it be washed away. The earlier they are washed away, the better it is for humanity.'

He says, flood the religion by reasoning. Allow the reasoning to be the main thing. Let your consciousness be the torch. Flood it. The earlier the superstitions are washed away, better it is for humanity. If they can't stand the flood of reasoning or logic, let them be washed away. It is better for humanity.

A small story:

There was a time when it was thought that the earth is flat. There was a scientist Galileo who discovered that the earth is not flat but it is a globe. He wrote in his book, after the research, that the planet earth is round; it is a globe and it is not flat.

But, in the Bible it is said that the earth is flat. One more thing, Bible says the sun goes around planet earth, not the planet earth around the sun. See, Bible is not wrong. At that time, that was the information available. So, Bible recorded it.

And one more thing; when you experience enlightenment, you will experience that the whole existence is moving around you. When Jesus said that the whole existence is moving around him, he became a center. When you become enlightened, you become the center; you feel, you experience that the whole universe is moving based on you. When Jesus became enlightened, he declared his experience through these statements. That is the reason he declared that sun is going around planet earth. It is a metaphysical statement. But the disciples later recorded it as a physical statement. What Jesus declared is the truth. Disciples took it as a fact.

So, when Galileo declared that the earth is round, the Christian court summoned the scientist. They called him and said, 'No. You can't say planet earth is going around the sun. Bible says sun is going around planet earth. You have to change your statement. Otherwise you will be killed!'

Galileo said, 'Alright, I will change my statement.' He changed his statement, 'No, my statement is wrong. Sun is going around earth.' He made a small footnote in his book; 'See, because I am Christian, I changed my statement. But the sun and planet earth are not Christians. So they go around only as they go around. They are not going to change the direction based on my statements.'

When someone shows you the moon by pointing with their hand, if you catch the hands, naturally you don't look towards the moon and instead you change the direction of the hand. The next generation looks somewhere else. Not only you miss the moon, you take care that the next generation also misses the moon.

As long as they are understandings, they are nectar for your life. They create a tremendous intelligence in your life. The moment they are reduced to a superstitious belief, the moment they are reduced as a morality, they create deep guilt in you.

Guilt is the sure killer of intelligence. According to me, guilt is the worst killer of intelligence.

Guilt will never let you move in your life.

Once, one of our devotees had a tumor at the end of her spinal cord; near the root chakra. For twenty years she suffered. She came to me complaining, ' Please help me, heal me. I am suffering with this tumor for so many years.'

And she said, even after surgery, it came back. I started talking to her slowly to trace the origin of the problem. Finally, she opened up and started weeping.

I asked her, 'Do you have any guilt related to your sex energy?' She slowly opened up and started weeping. She said she was abused when she was very young. When she was a kid, she was sexually abused. One of her close relatives abused her for so many years.

And that guilt stayed with her and she said, 'I started hating that part of my body. I started feeling that part of the body should not exist in my body. I felt that part to be not part of my body. That is not my being. My hatred towards that person turned towards my own body.'

When you start hating some action, you start hating that part of the body also. Her hatred became so deep. I was speaking to her. Slowly, slowly she opened to me. When she brought the guilt out, I started talking to her. She came out of the guilt. She was psychologically healed. I explained to her how this is a usual thing, which is happening.

Now, they say one in four are getting sexually abused, especially in America. I read a report just the other day; one in four! Of course, kids don't open up. Kids don't tell you. Anyhow, she was psychologically healed, when I explained the nature of all these things. And you will be surprised, in just 10 days, simply the tumor disappeared!

I gave her a small meditation technique: to meditate on that area. I told her, 'Express your anger towards him. Weep, shout, cry, hit. Close the doors, take a pillow, imagine that it is him, and weep, cry, shout and hit. After that sit silently, feel that part of your body is also your body. Stop hating that part of the body.'

You will be surprised; in just 10 days the tumor disappeared. It never came back. Difficult to understand but it is the truth.

Same thing happens in our life psychologically. It is not that you always get physical ill health. Psychologically you get disturbed. Most of the time, your energy gets blocked based on your guilt. You have psychological illness because of your guilt. If you look deep, wherever you have fear, wherever you are not able to move, wherever you are not able to take decision, there will be some guilt.

There are three kinds of guilt:

• 1. Guilt created by immediate family
• 2. Guilt created by social laws
• 3. Guilt created by yourself

These are the three major kinds of guilt, which kill your intelligence.

The mental layer which is related to thoughts is specifically associated with the feeling of guilt. Guilt is nothing but your past decision being reviewed with updated intelligence.

For example, as a child maybe you were called by your mother to stop playing and eat you may have cursed her. Now with updated intelligence you feel guilt. But, you are then deciding based on your intelligence at that point in time.

Below the age of 7, guilt is created by the immediate family. Rules are imposed by the family because they cannot logically answer and make you understand. This leads to guilt. The guilt about sex will be created by the immediate family. That is the first guilt. The guilt based on greed will be by the immediate family.

From 7 to 14, society creates guilt through its rules. The guilt based on fear is created by social laws.

The third guilt is the worst, which you create for yourself. When you internalize the greed and fear guilt, you create new types of guilt for yourself. If you analyze whenever you are stuck or wherever you are stuck, these three kinds of guilt will be there.

Break free from the past. The past is dead. Not only is it dead; it is a dead weight on your being. As long as you have guilt, you can never proceed; you can never have a deep blissful life. Be very clear, you can never be moral based on guilt. If you are based on guilt, all your morality is skin deep. It is time to be mature. You are not going to be immoral if you understand that rules are created for our own sake.

For example, you come to know that there is no punishment in this country for murders; do you think you will kill the next person? If yes, then be very clear that you are immature, you are not grown-up. Your life is not worth living because you are much worse than dead people. At least dead people don't disturb others. But living dead people always disturb others. You are living dead.

Throughout my life, I stayed in graveyards. Nine years, I walked the length and breadth of Bharat; from Tapovan to Kanyakumari; Ahmedabad to Gangasagar. Length and breadth of Bharat I walked. I always stayed in graveyards. Because, I don't have to make reservations! People always ask me, 'Were you not afraid? Have you been disturbed by ghosts?' I tell them, dead people don't disturb others. Only living people disturb others.'

If your morality is based on greed and fear, be very clear that your life is not worth living. You are much worse than a dead person. Let your morality be based on your understanding, on consciousness, not on conscience.

As long as you are based on dos and donts you are just a child. These dos and donts are buffer between you and enlightenment. As long as these buffers are there you can never reach enlightenment.

A total freedom, a total bliss, a total ecstasy happens the moment the buffers are removed and naturally enlightenment will reach you. You don't have to reach enlightenment. Simply, enlightenment will reach you.

Understand that guilt is the sure killer of intelligence. May you kill the guilt and experience the ultimate intelligence.

Please understand: whatever you may do in the outer world, it is just housekeeping in the dreams. When you wake up, what will happen to all your housekeeping in dreams? It will simply disappear.

When I say housekeeping in the dreams, I don't say don't do housekeeping. Do it. But understand, so that you will not be perturbed by the housekeeping. Have a simple understanding that your whole life is nothing but housekeeping in dreams. Continue to do the same housekeeping with this clear understanding. It is more than enough to express enlightenment.

You don't need to work to suppress your greed, or to suppress your fear or to suppress anything. You need to work only in this one line or idea. Let this idea totally sink inside you: your whole life is just housekeeping in dreams. Feel, 'I am doing my housekeeping because I am enjoying it.' Over.

You played with toys. When you became 10 you threw away all the toys. Just because you threw away the toys, are you not giving toys to your kids now? Do you tell them, 'No, I always played and threw them away. Don't play.' No, you don't say that. You say, let him play as long as he wants till he matures.

The moment you accept and understand, 'Let me play the housekeeping in the dreams till I understand', the very acceptance will lead you to enlightenment. If you are not able to accept, accepting that I am not able to accept is enough to get you out of the rut of past and future.

You are pulled towards the past or future because you don't understand what is. Just the other day, one of my close inner circle devotee, he was asking, 'You are so casual, so innocent, so much playful. But any word, which you utter simply becomes true. How can so much of intelligence and intuition happen continuously?' He is my inner circle devotee.

Before coming to the class I was playing chess with the host's daughter. I had not finished when I had to come for the discpurse. I told her I would come back and play. The devotee asked me, 'How you can be so playful, so joyful? Your words are so clearly coming to reality!'

One thing you should understand: you are not able to experience that intuition because you are not able to fall into the present moment. You are always pulled by the past or future. Either you work and worry about the past or you work and worry about the future. Something or the other is continuously going on.

Time is like a shaft. Visualize this one thing and understand: time is like a shaft. You are either pulled to this side of the shaft or that side of the shaft. But, eternity penetrates time only in the present moment.

You never feel relaxed; a deep craving exists all the time, either to achieve something in the outer world or inner world. Please understand: the craving to achieve something in the inner world is also craving for future. Your craving for enlightenment is also worry about the future.

You never fall into the present moment. Eternity penetrates only the present moment. First thing: accept the whole thing of the outer world; accept the whole thing of the inner world. Whatever problems you have in the outer world and whatever problems you have in the inner world, accept the whole thing. As long as you don't accept, it is a problem.

Just try this small experiment:

Totally relax just for 3 days. Inside your inner world or outer world, 3 days if you live a satisfied life, will you lose all your wealth in just three days? Surely not! In three days you are not going to lose anything. Why don't you give it a try? Just 3 days, sincerely, utterly, 100%, drop, accept.

If you are not able to accept 100%, accept that I am not able to accept 100%. Even the acceptance that I am not able to accept myself in the inner world and outer world will make you drop from the rut of being pulled between past and future.

The moment you understand, 'I am not able to accept my reality. What can be done?' even the very push and pull will become your reality.

Anything, if you accept, you will simply fall into the present moment. The moment you fall into the present moment, the time shaft will become simply a servant for you. As long as you are below the time shaft, it will rule you. You will be pulled or pushed by the time shaft. The moment your consciousness is raised to the present moment, you will see that you are penetrating the time shaft.

When you penetrate the time shaft, the future is also clearly known to you. The past is also clearly known to you. Tremendous realization comes to you that the time shaft is only your projection! Just for 3 days try it as experiment: if you can fall into the present moment, relaxing the headaches related to the outer world and inner world, in three days you will have a glimpse: what is life? What does it mean to live in the present moment? Such ecstasy, such a different space; such different life.

Just for three days, don't try to alter anybody in the outer world. You lived based on your philosophy for the last 30 years. Give me just three days for a trial. You will see when you experiment with these great techniques how they work miracles in your being, how they start working alchemy in your being.

If you are not able to be sincere, accept that you are not able to be sincere. Even that sincerity is enough. You will start seeing a different space in you. That different space is what I call Nithya(Eternity).

Many women face the guilt of killing a life when they go through an abortion. Please understand: when they decide to get aborted their intelligence was at that level. If their intelligence gets updated it is not their mistake.

A simple understanding: what makes you happy and people around you blissful is moral. What makes you and others suffer is immoral. If something makes you happy and others suffer there is something wrong in your understanding.

What makes others suffer will also make you suffer. Religions cannot define morality; each religion has its own rules.

According to the Vedas, life happens just before birth. Till then it is the mother alone. Only 3 kshanas before birth Abhimanyu was born. The body records the memories; what kind of body you create will attract the right soul. Unless you are mature enough you should not give birth to a child. Why bring another life and make that child suffer? If you do not have a child you have not sinned.

Once, a guy came to me and was complaining, 'I am suffering. I have 14 children.' I asked him why he chose to have so many children. He replied, 'Why? God gave me!' We do all that we want in the name of God and use Him as our 'dustbin' literally. We do all nonsense and place responsibility on him.

So also, the guilt related to extramarital affairs. Be very clear: extramarital affairs show disrespect to another being. You have no right to disrespect. Will you let the other person do it too?

What is the reason for relationship? Man is centered on muladhara, woman on swadishtana. Man promises before agni (fire as the representation of God), 'I shall give you security and release you from insecurity.' She promises to release him from the samskara of lust. Both decide to liberate the other from their samskaras. Now you play on the weakness of the other person. Each tortures the other person. Vedic marriage is sacred. Knowing the other person's weakness should make you compassionate.

A mature person cannot disrespect another person like a commodity. If you see your wife as a being, you will realize that she has contributed so much in your life. You will never think of extra marital affair. It is a disrespect for your own body and inner space. People who sell their body have no respect for themselves. You reduce spirit to matter.

When man has insecurity the woman becomes a mother. When woman is centered on fear the man should play father.

Reliving is relieving. Relive your guilt. Write down. Relive and relieve. Do not console. Sit in a meditative mood. All the wounds that you are carrying relive them. Close your eyes and enter into the guilt. Relive them one by one. Relieve them by writing them out.

How not to get caught in the trap of guilt? Respond with your intelligence to any situation. When a situation presents itself in life, instead of deciding based on what you have learnt as 'should do' and 'should not do', decide to do based on your intelligence but realize you are responsible.

To be in guilt is to live in hell. Drop your guilt and you can see your natural intelligence simply expressing itself. Life becomes a celebration.

We are taught by society that being happy, ecstatic and enjoying life is not our natural state. Just look at yourself: when you feel really happy about something, you start fearing how long this will last. A guilt starts arising inside you that life is not meant to be enjoyed and here you are enjoying it. Instead, when you feel sad and depressed, do you ever feel guilt? No! You feel this is how life is meant to be - a suffering and you start feeling pity for yourself.

When you are enjoying doing something - say dancing or relaxing at the beach, just around the corner of happiness what do you find? Guilt rising inside you about all the work that you have, the responsibilities you have to get back to.

There is also a different type of guilt - if you feel there is something more in life and you are not working hard to get to it. When you feel you are lazy and you are not working to your full potential, you experience guilt.

When you feel you are not actualizing your potential, the guilt that arises in you is actually reminding you of the responsibility that you have to yourself. This is the only real guilt that will remain even after all other guilts are removed.

All guilt is foolishness. Why do we feel guilty? Because we feel we have done something wrong. But, there is nothing called right and wrong. In Existence, the basic law is mangalatva - everything that happens is auspicious.

Understand good or bad cannot be defined, cannot be decided with your logic. Whatever your logic has learnt as good or bad is limited only to the life of you and the people directly around you. But life is not just limited to you and the people who are around you.

If you look little deep, life is beyond your logical comprehension, your logical understanding.

In Sanskrit we have a word Shivam. That word means auspiciousness but the activity of Shiva is destruction. In the Vedic tradition, the word Shiva has the dictionary meaning of auspiciousness – Causeless auspiciousness, energy; that is the exact translation of the word Shiva but his activity is destroying.

In Sanskrit we have beautiful word for destruction; actually it is not destroying, it is creating space for new things to happen. Understand, you can see destruction as destruction or creating space for new things to happen. If you see the destruction from the other dimension, it is like creating space for new things to happen.

If you look at the same destruction, the destruction energy from the other angle, the possibility for rejuvenation keeps the whole thing alive.

Understand: if you look with your logic, with a small vision, you can always complain, blame that whatever is happening cannot be called auspicious. If your vision expands, if you start looking at life with a bigger picture, from bigger perspective, from the greater understanding, you will realize the truth: whatever is happening is auspicious.

Anybody who feels the whole life is auspicious, mangala, is enlightened, liberated. He doesn't have fear. He doesn't have difficulties. He doesn't have problems. He doesn't need any help. That very understanding, whatever happens is auspicious is enough.

There are only two kinds of people on the planet earth. One is the spiritual people who feel whatever is happening is auspicious and nothing needs to be added. The other kind is the materialistic type who feel in whatever is happening something is less and we need to do something.

A small story:

A preacher gave a long and very inspiring talk about charity. Then, he sent his hat for collection. The hat went around all over the group, came back as empty as it was sent. After two hours of talk, the hat came back as empty as it was sent.

The preacher simply took his hat back and said, 'Thank God, my hat came back.' Understand: you can make anything auspicious. When you are really in tune, you will understand whatever is happening is auspicious. The best thing possible is happening. If you trust your logic, you will always be complaining. If you trust the cosmic intelligence, the cosmic logic, you will be always relaxing and appreciating.

You can feel the cosmos as order or as chaos. It is your freedom, your choice. You can feel it as a beautiful order. Just see there is no traffic signal in the cosmos. All the planets are moving so beautifully. You can also say, 'There is so much chaos, so much of fighting in every home, so much of trouble in every house.' You can look at this angle or that angle. It is your freedom.

Whatever is happening is auspicious. In all our life at least once or twice we must have experienced this. Just look back at the moment where you took a major positive decision. In those moments you would have had confidence, courage. At some point you would have surrendered either out of joy or high energy or the decision that nothing better, nothing greater can happen to your life. When you experience that kind of moment in your life, you start thinking whatever is happening is auspicious.

All your fear, all your greed, all your guilt, all these things are just because your energy is taken away by the past memory. Your inner space is occupied by too many high resolution pictures. These high resolution pictures are again and again popping up in your inner space. That is why you are not able to completely relate with the present moment, with the pure consciousness, with the pure energy, with the pure being, in the present moment, in this present experience, with this present truth. Anybody whose inner space is not filled with too many emotional attachments like high resolution pictures will be able to feel connected to anything.

So, understand these few Truths about life and carry these understandings with you: Guilt is baseless. Live out of your understandings of life, not based on rules. Everything happening in life is auspicious. Existence wants you to be your true self every moment, which is eternal, pure bliss - Nithya Ananda.

Reliving is relieving. Relive your guilt. Write down. Relive and relieve. Do not console yourself. Husband and wife, relatives etc please sit separately. Sit in a meditative mood. All wounds that you are carrying relive them. Close your eyes and enter into the guilt, relive them one by one. Relieve them by writing them out.

Let me explain the meditation technique very clearly. First slowly, slowly, consciously, feel that your head is being pressed inside your heart. Then clearly visualize that your head has been totally pressed, your head is in the heart region. Visualize you look through the heart, you are seeing through the heart. You are seeing through the heart and you are breathing through the heart, you are relating through this world through the heart.

Feel that the heart is totally pressed. The head is not there, it is no more just empty space above the neck. Above the neck, it is just empty space. Just trust. Till all of you lose your head you have to go on with the mediation.

First you will lose the head, and you will sit in the sitting posture. Then you will know how to breathe without head. See without the head, how to smell without the head. These are all very simple actions. Then you should learn how to move your hands without head, how to move your body without your head.

Finally you will end up with a peak movement, maybe running or dancing, all your movements will be done without the idea or without the remembrance of the head.

Now, we will start with the meditation.

Sit, tie the headbands. You will need a little space for movement. Take slow deep breaths, just for a few minutes. Feel your head is being pressed into your heart, into the chest region. Totally become headless, you have no head.

Feel that you are breathing from heart. Feel that you are seeing through heart. Feel you are seeing through the heart, you are smelling through the heart. Feel very clearly you are breathing through the heart. Smell through the heart. Listen through the heart, listen to this music through the heart, not through the head. Listen through the heart, see through the heart, feel through the heart.

Stand up. Have the consciousness from the heart, let your movements be as slow as possible. Remember that you are moving from the heart. Your centre is from the heart, not from the head. Again and again, forget the head. Move from the heart. Move as slowly as possible, but from the heart. Move from the heart. Remember you are a headless being. Move only from the heart , you are a headless being. Just moving without head. Move from the heart.

Stand in one place, there is no need to walk, just increase the speed slowly, slowly. Move from the heart. Not from the head, forget your head. You are a headless being moving. Stop. Sit down where you are. Just be, without head. Sit only with your heart. Relax.

Pain: The most frightening thing in the world is pain.

All living beings are afraid of one thing, and that is pain. If you look deeply, you will find that people don't fear even death as much as they fear the pain they will have to undergo at the time of death!

We have different types of fears: fear of poverty, fear of relationships, fear of disease, fear of losing health and so on. But the root cause of all these fears is pain. All the fears of man stem from the fear of pain. And that is why people will endure even a major disease which doesn't cause pain, but they can rarely endure a simple headache!

Pain can be physical, mental or emotional. Physical pain is the least of our worries! It is in a way a basic necessity for the body. Just imagine if we could feel no pain, we might start styling our faces and limbs the way we style our hair today! Pain is the symbol of bodily wisdom. Pain is what makes us integrated human beings.

Contrary to what we believe, most of us are not 'living' with our entire body. We 'live' only in the upper parts, neglecting the lower parts of the body. Just try this: close your eyes and imagine yourself, your being. Call your name. Which part of your body is being called to mind? It would most definitely be your face and upper limbs, certainly not the lower body parts. This shows that we are not fully alive in every cell, in every limb of ours.

Even in our minds, we make this distinction. The upper limbs are the masters, the lower limbs the servants. When you create this separation, unknowingly, your energy or life force is channeled only to those body parts that you focus on. Just touch your cheek. Doesn't it feel sensitive, alive? Now touch your foot. Does it feel the same? Notice that you are not as alive in your foot as in your cheek. Why is that?

Though hard to believe, it is due to your lack of attention to that part.

On the emotional and mental level, pain is usually the result of some form of judgment. Pain is always born of resistance to the present moment. Every time you experience pain, it leaves behind a residue which becomes lodged in the body. By and by, this accumulated pain creates a negative energy field around you, which we call the 'pain body'. The 'pain body' is responsible for and controls most of our pain patterns.

Pain is always born of resistance to the present moment.

Research reveals that emotional imbalance can deeply disturb the physical body. For example, sexual repression can result in back pain, or the sense of shouldering too much responsibility can cause pain in the shoulder.

A real life incident:

In Calcutta there were two small ashrams whose presidents were not on good terms with each other.

One day a person of some authority arrived in one ashram and invited the president to join him in visiting the other ashram. The president was in distress. He could not refuse, but he didn't want to go either.

Suddenly the president developed a high fever which prevented him from leaving the place!

I saw this with my own eyes. As soon as the other person left, the temperature came back to normal again.

Haven't we all experienced 'Monday morning blues'? Even children display bodily symptoms of illness when forced to do what they don't want to do like going to school. This kind of illness is caused simply by un-ease, caused due to the mind and the body pulling you in opposite directions. This is what manifests itself as dis-ease.

The other day, a handsome young man belonging to an orthodox family was brought to our healing center. His complaint was sudden blindness. His parents started weeping and told me that the boy was in excellent health, and had turned blind just a week earlier.

All medical tests revealed perfect vision, but he couldn't see! After scanning his energy, I asked to spend a few moments alone with him. As soon as he was allowed to talk to me in private, the boy poured out his troubles to me. He said that he was deeply in love with a girl, but had been forced by his parents to stop seeing her.

I immediately figured out the root cause of the problem. I asked the boy to procure a photograph of the girl, and spend the next three days meditating upon it continuously. His parents were taken aback at this unconventional solution, that too from a spiritual man!

But you will be amazed: the technique worked a wonder. In 3 days, the boy regained his vision perfectly. Why did this happen?

When the boy was compelled not to see what he most wanted to see, his subconscious mind decided not to see anything at all. His blindness was deeply psychological. What tremendous power the mind has over the senses!

In the Bhagavata Purana, a grand epic of Hindu mythology, it is mentioned that Krishna and Radha took birth within a few moments of each other. Radha was a normal baby in every way except that she wouldn't open her eyes.

A few days later, Radha's mother visited Krishna's house to see the baby Krishna. She took her newborn daughter with her. The moment Radha was brought to Krishna's presence, she opened her eyes and beheld Krishna before her!

Later in life, when questioned by a friend, Radha remarked, 'What else was there to see? It is for Krishna that I have taken birth. So I waited till I was taken to his presence to open my eyes.'

This may be only a tale, but it illustrates the tremendous power of the mind over the body.

Actually, pain is a requisition letter written by the body to the mind saying, 'Please pay me some attention!' Understand: your attention is your energy. Wherever you direct your attention, there your energy is also directed, and in that direction you witness growth.

You invite pain upon yourself. Not many people will believe it if they are told that all they invite pain upon themselves, like honored guests into their household.

A small story:

Once a man entered a restaurant and began ordering various food items. Platefuls of steaming food of various types made their way to his table. He ate with relish.

After a hearty meal, the man finally signaled the waiter to stop bringing in the food. The waiter duly returned with a little white slip.

'What is this?' asked the man, looking at the bill innocently. 'Why have you brought me this? I haven't ordered anything like this!'

Same way, we invite pain and disease upon ourselves with our immoderate habits and stressful lifestyles, and then forget all about it and complain later when disease takes its toll.

And sometimes we do enjoy the disease too, though no one ever admits to that! Just as an organ asking for your attention develops a disease, you yourself fall ill in order to get the attention of others.

This is no wonder, for in the hectic pace of today's life, who has the time to pay attention to anyone else, unless they fall ill? Attention is a basic need. Psychology proves that normally a man can stay alive without food for up to 90 days, but without the attention of others he will lose his sanity in just 14 days. Attention is energy, it is a life-force.

Though we are unaware of it, the craving for attention is so great, that to gain it, we create our own low-energy pool and gladly suffer the disease.

In a relationship, you often notice that both parties are begging for each other's attention, begging bowls outstretched. Do you think two beggars can have a positive and fulfilling relationship? To truly attain freedom from disease, stop begging for attention. This is a subtle, psychological begging, which happens without our complete awareness, and which is ultimately far more damaging than physical begging. Life teaches us a lot of things. Understanding them is our responsibility. But we live in a constant sate of somnambulism, unaware of what we are inviting upon ourselves.

Let me illustrate with a small story:

An engineer working in a large firm would bring the same dish for lunch everyday. Every day he would complain about how much he hated that particular dish, and his sympathetic friends would share their lunch with him.

One day, one of his friends finally asked him, 'Why don't you ask your wife to cook something you like, for a change? How can she not be aware that you hate this dish?' 'What wife?' the man asked in surprise. 'I'm a bachelor. I cook my own lunch!

This may sound funny, but it is true. We live our lives in much the same way. Through our lack of awareness, we first invite pain upon ourselves, and then complain about it and resort to painkillers.

We don't even mind getting afflicted by the same disease again and again, because we don't identify ourselves as the root cause of the problem. We throw the responsibility for the pain on others, never on ourselves.

If pain is perceived as the absence of your attention, then the remedy must be your presence. There is a simple and beautiful self-healing meditation technique that channels your 'presence' into the diseased limb. It is definitely a better option than painkillers, whose sideeffects sometimes prove worse than the original complaint!

A meditation technique:

Let us say that you have limb pain. Lie down in a dark room. Make a conscious effort to forget about your whole body, focusing only on the part which is causing you pain. As you experience your painful limb, deliberately drop the word 'pain' from your mind.

Your mental chatter will continue to tell you that you feel pain. Switch it off. Feel deeply; experience with an open mind. Look into what is happening inside your mind. You will soon see that your mind was just exaggerating the pain. Put all your awareness on the center of the pain, and it will soon shrink to become just a tiny pinpoint of pain. Concentrate completely on this point, and you will discover in a sudden moment that the pain has disappeared, and in its place is pleasure, bliss.

Pleasure is the opposite of pain - and like all opposites, they have no existence without each other. You cannot enjoy pleasure without suffering, without pain. It is significant that ancient Hindu scriptures used the same word, pain, to imply both pleasure and pain - because pain is the ultimate result of both.

The root of pain and pleasure are the same; it is the same sensation with two names. If you have ever received a good massage from a friend or a professional, you will realize that the same massage would seem like sheer physical violence if you received it at the hands of a stranger!

Bliss is that which arises when you drop the ideas of both pleasure and pain. And you have to drop them both together; there is no other way. Bliss is what floods you when both and pain and pleasure have ceased to disturb you. Bliss is beyond pain and pleasure. It is perfect harmony, complete inner silence, total peace.

If you try to understand the truth of your experience, it will be that 'pain' does not exist at all. Pain has only a negative existence. Like darkness, it is only an absence - the absence of awareness. As darkness disappears of its own accord when light is brought into a room, pain dissolves automatically when the energy of your awareness is focused upon it.

You can use your pain as a tool to enter your being. You will find that pain itself can become a door to ananda - bliss.

A small story:

Two men, one a wise man and the other an ordinary person, were traveling through a forest on a dark, moonless night. Suddenly, a shaft of lightning flashed in the sky.

The ordinary man began to tremble in fear. A storm! His mind was immediately caught in confusion: Should he continue to walk? Or should he find a safe place to stop till the storm was gone? He began wishing that he had never decided to undertake the journey. He cursed himself as foolish and unlucky. In other words, he fell headlong into suffering with just a few strokes of lightning!

The wise man, on the other hand, simply used the moments of lightning flashes to take a better look at the road ahead and kept moving. He ensured that he was traveling in the right direction, thanked the lightning for its help, and moved onward.

Pain is just like this flash of lightning. You have no control over its existence. But whether you suffer from it, or learn from it, is entirely up to you! Then, you will realize that you are the cause of your own pain, and only you can be the solution.

When you observe your pain deeply, innocence opens up in you. For the first time, you become aware that you are not the body. No pain can touch the real 'you'. Once you realize

that you are beyond pain, you transcend pain to become a dukkha ateeta (one who has gone beyond suffering).

You experience the rare freedom that arises with non-attachment to the body which you will carry all your life. You transcend your mundane life and enter into a spiritual plane. You then exist in the world as an atman, an enlightened master. The whole material world disappears and another world arises – of incomparable beauty, innocence, joy and compassion.

As the Bhagavad Gita says:

Sama dukkha sukha swastha sama loshtaashma kaanchana Tulya priyaapriyo dheerasthulya nindaatma samstuti

(He who is ever established in the self, takes woe and joy alike, regards a clod of earth, a stone and a piece of gold equal in value, is possessed by wisdom, receives the pleasant and the unpleasant in the same spirit, and views censure and praise alike.)

With awareness and practice, pain can become the magic portal to enter into THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM eternal bliss.

Just to see with intense inner clarity the nature and cause of pain, will cause pain to evaporate of its own accord - because it no longer has a reason to exist in you. And this realization brings with it a state of absolute bliss, which is the state of enlightenment.

Enlightenment allows you to see, for the first time, that what you called happiness and contentment earlier were not true happiness and true contentment. Enlightenment showers upon you real bliss, real ecstasy. It gives you a taste of the real.

If you look little deep, you need to be thankful for the pain and suffering you experience, because they are the catalysts that set you upon your quest for truth and transcendence.

Just look at your life. When you were happy about something, did you ever wonder about the meaning of life? Did you look inwards to see who you are, what life is all about? Did you feel the need to deeply know about the Ultimate Truth? No! When things are going smoothly, you can live from day to day following the same rut, the same routine blindly with minimal consciousness. There is nothing to disturb you from the routine you see.

On the other hand, if you are in pain, if you look at it objectively, what does it show you? It forces you to look deeper into life, what its mystery is all about. It is the key which can opens the door to the world of reality; the choice is yours to open the door. It can simply shake you out from both the dream state and the 'waking dream' state we are in.

Understand, even if you are awake, you are not completely in touch with reality. You live in a world of your desires and fears and hence see things in the same light. Pain can be a great teacher which can simply jolt you out of the dream and put you in touch with reality as is.

With your usual thought patterns shattered, you begin to see things as they actually are. You begin to recognize a subtle distance between you and the pain and that it is not 'your' pain, not something that is a part of you by nature.

In fact, pain is simply the response you have chosen to that particular situation. And once you see that, how can you suffer anymore? In consciously accepting your pain, you truly let go of it.

Many people come and ask me, 'I get easily angry and hurt when someone insults me. How can I avoid this?'

I tell them, 'Why do you try to avoid it? To suppress pain, anger and humiliation will only cause it to stay in your system in a repressed form. Suppressed emotions can be dangerous - a little anger, a small feeling of hurt, can fester over time into a deep and lasting hatred.

Try accepting your emotions without judging yourself.

Are you feeling hurt? Ok, now enter completely into the feeling of hurt.

Don't avoid it, don't reject it.

Don't sympathize with yourself either, and don't direct it against the person who hurt you. Simply watch the emotion as it plays in your system.

This may take a while - maybe a few hours, even a few days. And then you will see a transformation you never imagined. After all, emotion is energy, tremendous energy. Just how long can so much raw energy circulate in your system?

The moment you accept your pain with no rejection, welcoming its role in your life, the whole quality of pain changes. The same energy that was pain, anger or suffering, is transformed into the blessed emotions of love and bliss. This is compassion, the silent force that moves in each of us, the force that transforms the ugly into the beautiful. And compassion brings its own reward. Just give yourself a chance and you can experience what I am saying! I don't speak philosophy; I speak out of experience.

Why do love and pain always seem to go hand in hand?

In the first place, isn't your idea of 'giving freedom' to your beloved a very wrong one? Love itself implies giving the other total freedom, unconditional freedom. To say that you are giving a certain amount of freedom to the other itself shows that you are holding back something in your giving.

It is natural to want to possess your beloved; that is the play of the ego. It is difficult to imagine that your beloved may need space and time away from you, isn't it? You try to do the right thing by 'giving freedom' to your lover. But when she actually uses that freedom, you end up feeling exploited. Actually, you never expected that she would ever use that freedom to do what she wants, be with whom she wants. When you see her giving time and energy to something or somebody else other than you, you start feeling possessive and cheated.

The reason that love usually brings with it so much pain is that lovers unknowingly force each other into the golden cage of their own expectations. But true love can never blossom in captivity. You try and imprison your lover and she does the same, time after time, until you end up feeling that love is so much misery that perhaps it is better not to love at all.

Love can be a door to joy and freedom, or it can become a living hell. To experience love as pain is to miss the whole point of love. There is a saying, 'If you love someone, set him free. If he is yours, he will come back to you. If he doesn't come back, he never was yours anyway.' This is the freedom any relationship deserves.

To start with, we need to understand that suffering is not a state of life, it is a state of mind. It is not an event in your life; it is your response to some event. Whether you suffer or not in a particular situation depends entirely on your reaction to that situation.

When do you undergo suffering? Maybe when you fall ill or when your neighbor gets a new car or when your loved one leaves you or when your boss fires you etc.

Suppose you decided to just accept these situations without anger or resentment just as they are, would you still suffer as much? After all, there is nothing inherently painful about your neighbor getting a new car. Even if there is pain in the moment, as when a loved one leaves, you cannot wish it away.

Try to accept, to welcome the inevitability of the moment without reaction. It is only your negative response to an experience that allows it to hurt you.

No one or nothing can make you suffer without your silent permission.

Make a habit of witnessing experiences minus your personal judgment. Learn to recognize with clarity the causes of your suffering, both the obvious and the subtle.

An important thing you should know: one of the most deeply hidden reasons for suffering is that you could be enjoying it. For example, falling ill can become a source of pleasure if it fetches you the attention and care you have been craving for. Look deeply why it sometimes gives you pleasure to inflict pain on yourself or on others. Is there a better channel through which you can receive the same pleasure without the suffering?

Become aware - this is the first step.

The second is to accept totally the here and now, without question and without reaction.

Acceptance with awareness - this is the only way out of suffering.

In a way suffering is essential because suffering can be a powerful catalyst to growth. Just like a seed first has to rupture before a plant can grow and blossom, intense suffering can break down the defenses of your ego, leaving you open and vulnerable to existence.

In the Mahabharata, there is a beautiful quote by Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas. She says, 'Oh Krishna! Let pain and suffering come from all sides in my life. They will constantly remind me about you, my Lord.'

Suffering is not necessarily the key to bliss. But if you learn your lesson well, suffering can certainly open your eyes to the unreality of suffering. It can teach you how unnecessary it is to suffer at all. This is what I call 'necessary suffering'!

A small story:

Once the pope sent a message to the chief of the African tribe, asking how their missionaries were doing. The chief wrote, 'Oh they are great, so loving, so compassionate, so much of service they offer, and they're very tasty also!'

We are also continuously eaten, we do not know, we are eaten by the pain. Our whole life we are just swallowed by pain. If you have heard of the concept of pralaya, it is the total destruction of the earth. The real pralaya that happens to our life is pain.

Just see, it starts with the pain, the pain of the birth, the excruciating pain that you have to undergo at the time of taking birth. Because you have to cross a very small passage, such a big body has to come out of a small passage. Excruciating pain, you actually enter into a coma when you come out. According to energy, according to the mystics, before entering into the world, you are consciousness. You enter into coma and come out, that is why you forget the past life, the past births. It starts with the excruciating pain and there is excruciating pain in the end, the death.

Almost life is like the bridge between pain and pain. If you see the Golden Gate Bridge, in USA, just as the Golden Gate Bridge connects two places, life is nothing but the pain to the pain.

This body can teach you a lot of things. If you can work on this body this body can teach a lot of things to you in life. The pain is not only the physical pains but more importantly the psychological pains and emotional pains also. Physical injuries can be healed just by a little bit of medicine. But psychological injuries take a long time to get healed. When you fight with each other, you actually get psychological injuries.

If you see the pain from a positive angle it can teach you a lot of things. There is one thing you need to understand, when the Kali age took birth, the age of darkness, when it happened to the world, all the sages and rishis were praying to the Lord, 'Oh Lord! Now the Kali age has entered, the enlightened masters will not be available to the society. Living masters will not be available to the society, only very few will be there, then how can society maintain the equilibrium? How can we save the society? How can humanity be saved? Only with the living master's grace people can learn and people can live according to spirituality or according to the real life. Now that Kali has entered, how can the people be saved? Who will teach them?'

Then Bhagavan said, 'Don't worry, I'll teach the whole world continuously in the form of pain. Whenever the pain happens to you, if you look at it, either physical or psychological or emotional, any pain if you work on it, whenever the pain happens to you, you can see if you approach the pain with the love and the mood to look into it, you will see it is the greatest teacher. It can just teach you and it can transform your life.'

A small story:

There was a big marriage ceremony between two lions. Suddenly in the centre of the stage, one rat came up and started dancing. So much of music was going on, and suddenly one rat jumped up and started dancing. After a few minutes, somebody interfered and said , 'Hey, this is the marriage of lions. How dare you come up here and dance?' The rat raised his head and said, 'Hey, before marriage I was also a lion.'

If you can learn from one pain, you can learn from all the pains. You see existence is continually teaching you.

Whenever pains come, you will see the pain will teach you, will transform your life. Every pain teaches you. If you don't learn the lesson, if you are insensitive, if you simply don't learn, you continue to live in the same pain.

When you feel others' pain, you really expand. When somebody's pain is really felt by you, not in a way of sympathy, in a way of empathy, you expand. That is why when you give consolation to others you feel so consoled. For example, after you console somebody, say a friend who is in depression, you will feel totally relieved. Something in your being is being consoled. When you share others' suffering, you expand to go beyond.

One more thing, never hit the kids. They are Gods from the other worlds. They chose you on their journey; they trusted you to be their guardians. I chose my parents. Last birth when I died, I was totally in a meditative mood. So I had the conscious choice, I chose my parents as people who will help me, who will not disturb me in my growth or progress, who will let me walk in my path.

Same way every kid chooses you, trusts you that you will be their guardians, so never try to hit them. They are Gods from the other world, keep them as flowers. It is their life, just keep them as flowers. Never suppress them, never disturb them. Teach them more by your life, instead of giving regulations. By compassion and love a lot can be healed now itself.

Sit straight and tie the head bands. Bring all the sufferings in, the sufferings of you, the sufferings of others.

Visualize you are just breathing all the pains, all the sufferings of others. When you breathe out, visualize you are just emitting bliss, your heart has got the capacity to transform pain to bliss.

Very deeply visualize you are breathing in darkness, you are breathing out gold light, you are taking the darkness in, you are breathing the gold out.

Visualize not only your pain but the whole world's pain and sufferings in the color black you are taking in. Now continue to immediately start breathing out, when you breath out feel you are breathing out the golden light, the bliss, joy, ecstasy. Put your whole consciousness and visualize .

Om shanti shanti, shantihi! Relax.

The causal body is experienced in deep sleep, the deep darkness. We usually associate darkness with negativity. But, if you look little deep, you can see darkness is a beautiful energy we have been associated with right from our birth.

We originate from the darkness of the mother's womb, get rejuvenated every day in darkness when we fall into deep sleep, and ultimately, we disappear also into darkness. Darkness is energy. In Vedic tradition, Mother Kali is represented as dark energy. Kali in Sanskrit means darkness.

Each and every one of us by our own nature has a layer of darkness around us. This body is called etheric body.

We should understand what exactly happens when we fall into deep sleep.

Whenever your body needs rest automatically the mind is pulled down and inserted into the etheric body. It is like a cell; when it is discharged, that cell is taken out and is inserted into the recharger. There is a particular time for recharging.

Same way, after your excitement, after your enjoyment, the mind will be automatically pulled because it needs a rest, and it will be inserted in the etheric body.

Now, in the etheric body, you are in darkness, but you don't want to rest in the darkness. So what do you want to do? Continuously you want to jump around.

When you fight with the darkness, when you don't want to rest in the darkness until you get recharged for that recharging period of half an hour or one hour, you create side effects which are called depression and worry.

Actually, depression is a natural phenomenon which is supposed to happen, which gives you the rest. Nature gives you rest to get back your energy. If you really get depressed, you can really get excited.

Please understand: A man who can't get depressed can never get excited. If you know how to travel with the low mood, low current, then you will know how to fly with the high mood. If you don't know how to travel with the low current, low mood, you will never be able to go to the peak of the high mood also.

Darkness is the etheric body, darkness is the place where you get rejuvenated. Darkness is the layer actually from which you receive energy. Why sleep so totally refreshes your body is because you are actually inserted into the etheric body, into the darkness.

Two things happen when you cooperate with the darkness, one is you don't resist the depression. You don't create depression at all.

Be very clear: depression can never depress you if you simply depress the depression. As long as you resist it, it is depression. When you allow it, it is rest, it is a deep rest. It is just that you are with yourself. If you don't want to be there, but you are being pulled into it, then you fight with it. Then you name it depression, worry suffering, everything.

You must have seen in your life: when you are in the office, suddenly you get a call to come home immediately. Simply you obey the order, right? Then you don't not have any problem. Same way just know how to travel with the depression, with the darkness.

You see, whenever you have a weekend you just go around and enjoy everything,

When everything is over and you come to the house, or when you get up the next day, your body and mind will have the hangover. It will feel like as if it wants to rest, it doesn't want to move anywhere. It just wants to lie down, your mind doesn't want to work, but what do you do? You forcibly enjoy something more. You forcibly say, let us enjoy something more.

You have a very deep hatred towards the laziness. If you actually stop hating the laziness, the laziness will actually disappear from you.

A small story:

Once a man went to his friend's house. His friend was a very cunning fellow but diplomatic. Diplomacy and cunningness go hand in hand. You can always find the people who are innocent will never be diplomatic, they do not know what diplomacy and all these things are. But the cunning fellows know the diplomacy.

The friend somehow wanted to drive away this man. He suddenly called his wife, 'Bring coffee'.

The wife shouted, 'There is no sugar, no milk; nothing is there in the house.' The man got up and gave a kick to his wife saying, 'Fool! You do not know how to treat the guests. You don't have anything to receive my friend. Is this the way to take care of him? Is this the way to treat a guest?'

He started shouting and screaming. She started weeping and wailing.

The man saw this and said, 'Oh sorry! Because of me all this is happening. Don't worry; it is time for me also to go to another function, let me go.' He just started walking out.

When the man left, the host proudly with a smiling face said, 'See how I did the right drama and sent him out!'

The wife retorted, 'No! Only I did the right drama and sent him out.'

Then the host replied, 'I acted as if I had beaten you and he ran away.'

She said, 'I acted so well as if I am crying and he ran away.'

Now, the man walked back in saying, 'You see, I acted as if I have gone but I have come back.'

Whenever you don't take care of the guest, he simply disappears. The same way when laziness comes, don't pamper him too much, or don't even resist him. Don't bother. Drop the idea that you are lazy. If it is there, let it be there. If it is not there, let it not be there. Then you will see it disappears.

Your body is like a recharger. It is like a cell getting discharged, it will be just removed and put inside for recharging. But the cell is not ready to wait until it gets recharged. It again wants to just jump and play with the toy. So when you don't let the recharging happen, when you just resist the recharging process, then what you create is depression.

If you don't resist and you allow the process to happen for a few moments, then depression will drop you. You see once the batteries are recharged they will be simply thrown out. You will have the total energy to have the ultimate excitement.

The time for recharging differs for every person. But once you know the knack of how to cooperate with the charging process, then the time will reduce and the quality will improve. So it's the knack to cooperate, the method to cooperate with the darkness.

You see this is the darkness, the ultimate darkness.

If you allow yourself to be recharged for a few minutes, you will come out of the depression.

If you allow yourself to be recharged, if you cooperate with this darkness, you will come out of sleep.

If you totally work on the darkness you can come out of death.

Because all these three are the same expression, that of darkness.

Understand, depression, deep sleep and death all these three things are the outcome of the same darkness layer. If you know how to work with the darkness in the ordinary life, the depression will disappear.

The third thing, the fear of death or the death experience as you think will disappear. You will not fall in coma before you die; you can consciously die. As of now 99 % of us die only falling in coma, it is the worst death you can have - falling in coma and dying.

Don't think coma means no pain. You have the pain. From outside you don't feel the pain, inside it will be excruciating. When the pain becomes too much, you have a built-in mechanism of pain killer. To make you forget the pain, coma is the inbuilt coma system.

Physically when you are excited, the other layer energy works. Whenever your body needs rest, but your mind is continuing in the excited mood, your body cannot rest. Your mind itself will be pulled inside the etheric layer, the darkness layer. So your mind itself will not work, your mind itself will not be active. Unless your mind is black your body will not be black. You will not let your body to be black. So your whole body will be pulled and inserted into the black hole.

If you resist that moment, then you think, 'Oh I have depression.' You create depression by thinking you have depression. If you don't resist that moment, you will simply go inside and come out with fully regenerated feeling. So it will be more like a rest than depression.

The causal layer is also called the kaarana sharira. It is the layer which we are stuck in when we want to do something but do do not saying, 'I know it is right but I am struggling. I know but…'

If you are caught in this, you are dead. Over! You will neither achieve this nor that. Nothing can be done by you. What can be done by you? You will be stuck with this one idea for janmas (births) and janmas. This is what we call 'Kaarana Sharira' - giving reason.

If you feel, 'I know what you are talking is right but I am not able to do it' means you are caught in the kaarana sharira. You will never be able to get out of this layer unless you take a strong step and put your foot down. If you are caught in this layer, be very clear – nobody can save you. Nobody can save you. Do not be caught in the causal layer. That is what I call evil.

Anything integrated only is effective. Else you are just schizophrenic. In my own life, I can say how integration, integrated devotion was responsible for everything.

Integrated devotion is the devotion. Schizophrenic devotion is not devotion. If you say, 'I know it is right but I am not able to get that; I'm not able to get there.' Over!

The reason for my first experience is I never had that thought in my inner space. One of my great inspirations was the Master Annamalai Swamigal.

The great masters were my inspiration. I was so much inspired, impressed by those masters. The inner space was so pure also at the young age, there were no other heroes. The masters were the heroes and every step I used to think, 'How he will behave? Let me behave like that. What and how will he do? Let me do like that.'

I used to go for a circumambulation of the Arunachala hill; I used to go round the hill. It is 16 kilometers. I used to go late at night. When I had a little fear I used to say, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal behave? He won't bother about fear. Then let me also be like that.'

Let me tell you about one incident:

One day, maybe around the time when I had my first experience, it was raining heavily. I was going for a circumambulation. I had the fear – heavy rain thunders, lightning. Immediately I thought, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal behave? He won't bother. He'll just walk. Let me also do the same way.'

And I was walking through the traditional crematorium where people are cremated in Bharat. In Bharat both cremation and burial are done in the same place. I was walking in that place because when you go round the hill the path goes through that crematorium of Arunachala, the city's cremation ground.

Suddenly I saw one dog biting something and eating. When I went near, the dog was trying to bark drive me out. At first when the fear came I thought, 'How will Annamalai Swami behave? He won't bother. Let me just go.' I started moving. Anyhow when I started moving the dog got scared and ran away.

When I got near I saw that it was a dead body which was not completely buried came out in the rain and it was lying on the road. Just imagine a 12-13 year old boy, midnight, dead body without head, because head is in the mouth of the dog.

The moment the fear started, it did not even reach my being completely. The shock, fear stroke did not even happen completely. The moment even the first thought started coming, the awareness was so intense I thought, 'How will Annamalai Swami react now? He'll just walk around and go. Just walk around and go.' I went; that's all. That's all.

Just I took a detour and walked. I did not even turn back and see. I just walked. The fear stroke did not even reach my whole body. The fear stroke, which was like a pebble, which was about to start did not even open up, did not even reach my body. The heat or the shivering, the shaking was not even there in the body. Just it died. It was not there.

Just the decision, 'If Annamalai Swamigal does, I will do. Over!' Nothing else, that's all. When any thought came up inside, I would think, 'How will Annamalai Swami respond to this thought? How will he respond?' If I get the response, 'He will not have this thought.' I will just say, 'Then forget about it. It's not mine.' Over!

See, who inspires or impresses you, they become the hero of your inner space, in the young age especially. These great masters, they impressed me so much. In every situation internally I would calculate, 'How would these great masters behave?' and I would do the same.

For example, if I had some fear I would remember, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal face this fear? He won't bother. He's enlightened. Let me also be like that.' The inner space was so inspired and impressed by these great masters, every step in my life I would think, 'How will he behave? Let me also do that.'

For example, if there were some sweets, my brothers would jump, 'Hey, I want this much share.' I would simply think, 'How will Annamalai Swami think? He won't bother. He'll just keep it in one corner. Let me also be like that.'

Intensely, the whole conscious inner space was ready for the spiritual experience. That's the reason, just a punch, just an inspiration was able to put me into the first spiritual experience. This is what I call 'Living Enlightenment'.

Living Enlightenment

When you live the Master's body language you live enlightenment. Whenever any thought comes into my body or into the space, first thing I would think, 'How will he behave?'

Anything, whether it's related to clothes or food, if I feel a little lazy to meditate or to walk I would think, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal think? How will he handle this situation?' Naturally he will not bother about this laziness. He will just get up and meditate, that's all. So just do that. So he became the scale, these masters became the scale from morning until night. Morning till night, constantly they became the life center.

I asked Annamalai Swamigal once about my dream and asked him what he saw in his dreams. He replied, 'No I don't have dream.' I was shocked, 'You don't have dream! Then how can I have dream?'

That night I said 'Now, no dream. Annamalai Swamigal said 'No dream' so I cannot have dream.'

You will be surprised, that night when some dreams started happening I said clearly from inside the dream, 'No! Annamalai Swamigal doesn't have dream so how can I have dream?' That dream disappeared. Just the dream disappeared.

The inner space was so thorough, so innocent, so direct it just happened. It just happened. Even if I feel cold or anything, I would remember, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal behave? He won't bother. Then don't bother. Over.' There were no further questions or arguments inside.

In your life also, to get out of the kaarana shareera, this is the most direct, powerful technique. In any situation, think 'How will Master respond? How will Master face this situation?' Simply you will see, a new door opens. This is what I call 'Living Enlightenment'.

You don't need anything else. This one thing is enough. Even if you are sitting, if thoughts come up, think, 'If Master is sitting what will be coming up? Naturally silence. Then why are you thinking? Silent!' Over. Nothing else. That's all! If your mind says, 'No, no! I know it's true. I know this but it is too much.' Then think, 'If Master's mind says like this how will He behave?' He would have finished the mind that moment! That's all; nothing else. That's all!

Just be very clear. Take this one message and let this message become life in you, the message of Living Enlightenment. Actually this is what I call relationship with Master. Relationship with Master is not just doing some pooja or putting some flowers or worshipping him once in a while.

Relationship with Master is being thoroughly impressed by him. Anything comes up – fear or insecurity or greed or anger, just see, 'How will He behave?' Simply it will disappear. It will just disappear. A simple understanding: Living Enlightenment.

Feeling connected to Master means just living Him. When you live the Master, then you feel connected to Him. Only then you are expanding. Only then something is happening to you. Otherwise, you are a schizophrenic. You have ten different faces. Sometimes you behave nicely. Sometimes you behave rudely, sometimes with lust, sometime with worshipping mood.

Integrate. No kaarana. And just let the whole body and mind imbibe the energy and spirit and inspiration of the Master.

It should go so deep into your inner space while dreams start coming in you you'll say, 'Would Master have dreams? No. Then relax.' It should go so deep into your inner space! And it can go. Many times you can see you will be aware inside your dream itself. You'll be aware inside your dream itself.

One person came to me and told me, 'Master, I had a dream that ghost was trying to catch me. Inside the dream I remembered you and suddenly the ghost left.' Means inside the dream also, the faith that Master will save me has gone inside. When that can go inside, this can go inside! Not that in the dream a ghost will catch you. Dream itself is a ghost which will catch you!

Carry this one message: 'How will Master behave?' Any problem can be solved with this one thought. Anything in the internal world can be solved, because THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is a person who has seen all experiences. He only is called Paramahamsa. If he has not had some experience, Existence makes him goes through that experience so that he becomes Paramahamsa. So whatever you go through, went through, or are yet to go through, I went through already. So there is no space that you can say I have not gone through.

Now let us enter into the layer of darkness.

Sit straight. You need to throw out all the other colors of your mind. You need to chant OOOOOO , you will continually push the air out as much as possible, don't bother about breathing in, continuously push all the air out as deeply as possible. Then again, pushing the air out, the body will breathe by itself. Take a small breath in, then chant oooooooooo. In the small gap which I gave the body took the air by itself. So you put all the effort to just throw out the air, throw out everything with the oooo sound.

Throw the things out totally, I'll just guide you into the meditation. You will be made to meditate in a cave. You will visualize a cave, a dark cave inside which you will be sitting and meditating, you will be made to meditate in meditation. Then you will be able to enter into the layer of darkness. So please sit with your eyes closed. (All lights switched off.) Now you can tie the headbands. Start chanting "OOOOOO"

Put your whole effort, only exhale, just exhale. All your prana, life, everything, throw it out. (After 20 minutes)

Stop.

With all your effort, keep exhaling through the nose.

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(After 5 minutes) Stop.

Visualize a deep forest, a big deep forest, there's a deep dark cave. You are sitting inside the cave, visualize all the 4 walls of the cave, it's a cave in one rock, the ceiling of the cave is also rock. Just a deep darkness soothing, relaxing, joyful darkness, comfortable darkness.

Totally comfortable and secure with the darkness, you are alone, sitting and meditating. Feel the darkness, it is covered by darkness. Just darkness is covered in darkness. Darkness is totally drowned in darkness.

You are just in your mother's womb. The same comfortable darkness. Feeling of utter relaxation , utter rest, no responsibilities, total comfortable peaceful darkness, you are sitting inside the dark cave and meditating on the darkness. Feel the cave, visualize yourself inside the cave, visualize you are comfortably sitting and meditating on the deep darkness. You only know one word, darkness, the darkness, the darkness.

Inside the cave you are sitting and meditating on darkness, you are just connected to the darkness of the universe. The darkness from which the universe was born, the darkness of your mother's womb from which you were born. You are just filled with that alive darkness, comfortable, joyful darkness, peaceful darkness.

No other thought, just darkness. Become the darkness, feel the whole thing is just darkness. Your body has disappeared in darkness. Penetrate into the deeper and deeper layers of darkness. Just become thick dark, pitch dark, except darkness nothing else.

Total dark the whole space is filled with thick darkness. It is much more intense, it is much more dense than earth itself. Just taste the experience of deep, peaceful darkness. Om shanti, shanti, shantihi.

Relax. You can open your eyes.

Please this next half hour only, carry the darkness with you, the soothing peaceful darskness, the darkness of the mother's womb, the darkness of the deep comfort. Rest , relaxa, rest in the darkness of no responsibility, of freedom. Carry this darkness of rest with you, until the next session. Try to avoid speaking, do not look more than 4 feet in front of you, look to the ground. Carry this peaceful darkness with you.

The cosmic body is the sixth layer. The energy itself from this layer expresses itself as pleasure. Whenever the energy leaves from this body, it expresses itself and you feel pleasure, you feel joy. It is a very deep layer, that is why you feel it very subtly.

Because when it comes through the pain layer, always the pleasure layer will have a coating of pain. You will have the feeling of 'When will this disappear?'

That is why our joys and pleasures are so contaminated. Our pleasure has to travel through the pain and the guilt layers, that is why it is so contaminated.

Actually if you see, the moments of happiness or joy happen when the mind stops. This may happen for just a few moments but the impressions and the relaxation from dropping from the mind will be tremendous.

The mind gives gaps sometimes. For example, when you see the nature, you will see it a thousand times, and then one time the mind will give a gap. This is what becomes an unforgettable memory.

An incident from my life:

This was in my wandering days before enlightenment. I was walking from one city to another in Bharat. On the way to Omkareshwar, there is a thick jungle and there is a river flowing between the two marble hillocks. Both hillocks are completely made of marble stone. Between the two hillocks, the Narmada river flows.

On a full moon night, I was just walking with a stick in the hand, rolling the stick and singing and walking. Just near the river I was walking. I was getting down from one small valley and suddenly I saw a big cliff. I raised my head and saw on both sides big hillocks shining in the full moon. Because it is white marble, it was shining in the moonlight.

The river was very beautifully flowing, with a mild sound and I saw both the hillocks were bridged. There was a connection between them. I went a little bit nearer. And I saw that the whole thing is a honeycomb! The honeycomb was at least 400 feet.

When I saw that, in just one moment, my mind gave a gap. Even l now I can see that moment; it was so ecstatic. I can remember that moment as so joyful. Both hillocks are just joined. And just for a moment the mind gave a gap. Whenever you disappear into the nature, this happens.

Next layer is the nirvanic body. Master lives in the nirvanic body only. From Atman to nirvanic body he lives. Nirvanic body and cosmic body only can meet, no other layer can meet. You meet Master in laughter. Laughter is like a bridge between you and the master. It can transmit energy directly from Master to you. When you sit in front of the master and laugh you can immediately feel the energy transfer.

Another incident from my life:

I was on the banks of Narmada in a place called Omkareshwar, in Madhya Pradesh, where Shankara became enlightened.

I had done a long, long tapas and different types of meditation techniques. Actually I killed myself with these techniques, by these meditations, by these tapas and all these things. Finally, suddenly, a very deep depression landed on me. I felt I have left the family, whatever has to be done, according to the scriptures, everything is done, to have the spiritual enlightenment, but still it is not happening, just the days are passing.

One day suddenly, maybe evening at around 4, I felt excruciating pain, and the depression. I felt now nothing more can be done, there is no need to live anymore, because whatever has to be done, is done. Either I have to become enlightened or I have no other way either to live. I never spent any of my life in earning some money or learning how to live. I do not even know how to live, even now I can't count. I can't even count the numbers. I never learned anything towards life, so either I have to become enlightened or I have to die.

So once I was convinced the whole enlightenment is just a concept, I thought it is not going to happen in my life; at least there is no possibility in my life for it to happen. So I decided, 'Let me commit suicide.' It was such an excruciating pain I decided to commit suicide.

I started entering into the Narmada river, a very powerful and very aggressive river. Between the two hillocks it runs, very deep and very powerful. It has very big falls. I thought, 'Anyhow, let me commit suicide, it is not going to be any more than two or three minutes. I will be flooded away.'

I started walking, when I went in till the water was at my hip level, in the terrible fear, I just closed my eyes tightly and started walking. I just continued walking ,walking walking. I could just see the water was continuously going up. At one level, suddenly I felt my breath was just totally painful, I was breathing the pain inside, the suffering inside.

At one moment, suddenly something broke. When I was just breathing the pain inside, so much of pain had gone inside and at one moment something hit me. When the breath came out, it came out just like the bliss. Just as bliss.

But I found I was continuing to go inside the river. I was just moving, I do not know how much distance I walked as I had tightly closed my eyes. When the breath came out with the bliss, I felt so much rejuvenated. As if the whole life had entered in me. I fell and I saw the other shore. I do not know what had happened. I can assure you it is the truth. I can say it's the simple truth.

I do not know what had happened in between, whether I walked through the water, or I walked on the stones. Then I thought maybe the river is shallow in the part that I walked, but I heard from not less than 50 persons that it is not less than 200 feet. I do not know what had happened, whether I walked on the stones, or whether I walked on the rocks or I walked on the water. I do not know swimming even now. When I fell on the ground I saw I was on the other shore.

I could very clearly feel that Narmada was laughing at me. The river Narmada is considered a virgin. She was always considered as a virgin girl. I very clearly felt that she was laughing at me.

So why share this experience? When you touch the deep core of pain and the whole thing becomes painful, then you will see that something new opens in you.

Deepak Chopra says 90% of the people who live with the faith of God live in a more joyful and happy way, the depression is much less. Even thought the concept, the phenomenon cannot be proved by the spiritual people, even if the faith in God is a hypothesis, it helps you to live tremendously, joyfully and happy. So Deepak Chopra says, even if it is a hypothesis, perfectly alright. Because it supports the life, joyful living, it makes your life more happy, more joyful, more worth living on the planet earth.

You drink because you wish to escape from yourself. Man pours to fill; women get filled. Men drink, women eat. Addiction to food is because you feel empty inside. Once you understand the purposelessness of what you do you will lose these addictions.

When you wake up in the morning, just laugh. If you cannot,feel free to laugh in your own home, where else can you laugh! Laugh at how purposeless everything is. Release yourself from the nagging of restlessness. There is no need to sell your inner space to have outer space. You can retain joy inside and still have outer space top enjoy.

What can be the best meditation to work on the layer of happiness? Laughing.

If you laugh continuously for 42 minutes, you will get enlightened. -Zen Buddhism

The laughter here is not just the plastic smile we wear most of the time or social laughter. It is uninhibited, complete laughter with your whole being. Every cell, every nerve fiber, the whole body should be laughing and vibrating with energy.

You must have heard of the Laughing Buddha. He used to go from village to village and all he did was stand up on the village square and start laughing. His laughter was so total, not only his belly but his whole body used to shake with laughter. Just seeing him laugh, all the villagers gathered would start laughing. Within minutes, the whole village would be roaring with laughter and in those moments of stillness of the mind, the consciousness of the village would be simply uplifted.

With not a single word uttered, the entire village would be simply in meditation - the simple but extremely powerful meditation of laughter.

Laughing only works on the bliss, it is the laughing that digs out the energy. It breaks the solidified layers, it only melts and spreads the energy throughout the body.

So, in this meditation, you have to laugh till I say 'Stop!'

| Sit | and | start | breathing. | Breathe | as | deeply | as | possible. | Start | laughing. | |-----|-------|------------|---------|----|-----------|----|-----------|-------|-----------|

Relax.

This is the energetic meditation. The real heartfelt laughter, full belly laughter. Laughing is the language forgotten. Master's laughter is totally different. It is the laughter of a child. Innocent laughter. Actually , in laughter, you and the master, both of you meet. Laughter puts you in touch with the very core of your being - eternal bliss, Nithya Ananda.

This session's subject is to be unclutched, the science of inner bliss. What do I mean by the word, be unclutched?

We have two identities; One which we show to the outer world and the other one which we believe as the inner world. The identity which we project to the outer world, how we want society to recognize us, how we want the society to respect us.

In Sanskrit we use the word ahankar. The identity which we project to the outer world is ahankar. Usually it will always be a little more than what we are. And the society which we believe in the inner world, as we are, is mamakar which will always be less than what we are. Ahankar will always be a little more than what we are. And Mamakar will be always a little less than what we are.

Outside we will always be projecting a little more than what we are. Inside we will always be judging a little less than what we are: the superiority complex and the inferiority complex.

Our life is the fight between these two worlds. Our life is nothing but the fight between these two worlds. If you are spending your whole energy expanding ahankar, the identity which you project to the outer world your life will become materialistic. If you are spending your whole life chiseling and developing the mamakar, identity which you think is you, your whole life becomes moralistic, suppressing.

Working in the outer world with ahankar, working with the inner world with mamakar, both leads to only more and more suffering, both leads to more and more, depression.

Person who works on ahankar, trying to prove, trying to develop the identity which he shows to the outer world, ends up in depression of success, around the age of 40-45. Of course if you have lived your life intelligently, you will face the depression of success, means you will have achieved all you wanted to achieve, but not what for you wanted to achieve, not what for you wanted.

Working on ahankar leads to materialistic life. People who work on mamakar working on what they believe to be them, what they think is their personality, creating some identity to feel satisfied, just go towards more and more suffering. Both ahankar and mamakar will lead to more and more difficulties, more and more depression more and more suffering.

The basic truth is that you are much more than these two identities. You are beyond these two identities, the identity which you project to the outer world, and the identity of which you believe as you. You are beyond these two. This is the basic truth. When you unclutch from these two identities, suddenly you realize you are beyond these two; these two can never bind you.

Let me expand on the word unclutching. What do I mean by the word unclutching? Constantly you are connecting all your thoughts and creating shafts in your mind. For example, the headache which happened 10 years ago, the headache which happened 9 years ago, the headache which happened 8 years ago, the headache which happened yesterday, they are all independent experiences which happened in your life.

For the sake of memory, or for easy reference sake, you put all these headache experiences in your mind; you store all these memories in one area in your mind. It is archived just for utility, for reference sake. By and by you start believing they are really connected.

In the initial level you archive them for easy reference sake. Just like how you file the things in your life. Same way you archive them, you put them in one file and you store. After some time you start believing that all those experiences are connected.

The suffering which happened 10 years ago happened for a different reason, different purpose, and it was a different place and totally different experience. The suffering which happened 9 years ago was for a totally different reason, it was a different experience. The suffering which happened 8 years ago was for a different reason, different purpose, in a different place.

Initially for the sake of ease, you archive them in the same place, for easy reference. By and by you start believing they are connected. When you start believing they are connected you create a shaft. If you connect all the painful memories, you create a pain shaft. You think, my life is suffering, my life is pain. You start believing your whole life is a chain of suffering, a long chain of suffering.

When you start believing your whole life is suffering you have created a pain shaft and you are waiting in your life only for painful incidents, so that you can elongate that shaft. You can develop the shaft.

One more thing you should understand, whatever you believe, you expand it. If you believe something, you will again and again see that in your life. That is why again and again Vedic rishis say, you create what you want, not you see what is. You create what you want. Whatever you believe you will create it, you will expand it.

Once you start believing your life is pain, you are waiting unconsciously for painful incidents to strengthen that belief, that faith, to strengthen your judgment. We don't usually collect arguments to pass judgments; we collect arguments to support our judgments. We never collect arguments to support our judgments. The judgment is ready, we only collect arguments to support it.

When you are clear that your life is a pain shaft, a big chain of pains, you are waiting for some more judgments to support your faith, some more judgments to support your belief. A person who believes life is a pain shaft; unconsciously he is creating and adding to the pain shaft.

Second thing, whenever you are adding the painful incidents unconsciously, constantly, consciously you will be trying to break that shaft.

Sometimes, you believe your whole life is a chain of joyful experiences. Of course, usually we don't. It is very rare you believe your life is a shaft of joyful experiences. If you do, then constantly you are in fear, will it continue? You think, will it continue in the same way?

If you believe life is a shaft of pain, you do two things; unconsciously gather more and more incidents and strengthen your faith. Second is consciously trying to break it, fighting to stop.

If you believe it is a joyful chain, the chain is joyful, unconsciously you will be in fear that it will end, and consciously you will try to prolong it.

Understand these two big dramas we do with ourselves. When you believe it is a pain shaft, you try to break it consciously. When you believe it is a joy shaft, you try to elongate consciously. But the big difficulty, the important thing that we forget is that you can neither break the shaft nor elongate it, because the shaft itself does not exist.

The shaft does not exist. You can neither elongate nor break it. When you started archiving all the incidents from your life for the sake of easy reference, by and by you started believing that they are really existentially connected. You connected all the incidents of your life for the sake of utility, easy reference. But after sometime you start believing they are existentially connected to each other.

When you start believing that they are existentially connected together you believe your life as a pain shaft or a joy shaft. When you start believing as a pain shaft you try to break it. When you believe it as a joy shaft, you try to elongate it. But one important thing you forget, you can neither break nor elongate because the shaft itself does not exist.

It's only your faith, your belief. When you start believing it exists you try to elongate or you try to break.

So many thoughts are flowing in your mind constantly.

Try this: sit for 10 minutes and write down all your thoughts without editing, without judging, just as if the transcribing software is connected to you. Just like that, as if the whole thing is transcribed without editing or judging for just ten minutes. Then read what you have written.

You will understand all your thoughts, whatever is happening in you is illogical, independent, completely unconnected and unclutched. Try to do this in your house when you are relaxed. Just sit, pen down whatever is going on, do not judge or edit.

If you start judging your mind, you will interrupt the natural flow. If you start judging you are teaching your mind to play a hypocritical game with you. Whenever you judge your kids you are teaching them to hide things from you, that's all.

Do not judge, just see what goes on and pen down, and try to read the paper. You will understand your thoughts are illogical, independent, unconnected and unclutched. You will be sitting here and thinking, 'I think tomorrow I should go to my office' The very next moment, 'No, I should just wake up and see what is going on'. Then, the next moment, 'I wish I could attend my kid's annual day celebrations.'…

Your thoughts are just like water bubbles in the fish tank. They are just flowing. If you look a little deep, suddenly you will understand, by your very nature you are unclutched. There is a gap between one thought and another thought, just like the water bubbles in the fish tank; there is a gap between two bubbles. But the gap is too small; you are not able to see with the naked eye, it looks like a continuous stream.

If you look a little deeply you will realize your thoughts, by their very nature are independent. For example, if you see a dog in the street, suddenly you remember your pet you used to play with as a child. Then you will remember your teacher you studied with as a child, then, where your teacher used to stay. If you look at it logically, you will see that the dog in street and the teacher are not connected. There is no logical connection, but simply your mind flows.

If you look a little deep you will understand your thoughts are illogical, independent, unconnected and unclutched. But you can't live in this wilderness. You can't live with this natural flow, you need a clear-cut idea about everything.

So you pick up your thoughts and you connect them in the way in which you wanted. If you believe life is a joy you pick up all the joyful thoughts and you connect them. If you believe that your life is a pain, you pick up all the painful thoughts and you connect them and create a shaft.

Whatever you believe, those thoughts you pick up and create a shaft. If you see as it is what is going on, it will be an illogical mixture of pain, joy and everything. You can't even logically make a percentage of what is related to pain or joy. You can't even make a percentage because the depth of the thoughts that are related to pain or joy will be totally different.

You can't make any logical statements; you can't come to any logical conclusions. As such what is happening is completely illogical, independent, unconnected and unclutched.

For your easy reference you start archiving them: all your painful memories, all the painful experiences you collect them and create a shaft. All the joyful experiences, all the joyful memories, all the joyful thoughts, you connect them and create a joy shaft. Once you start believing the pain shaft or joy shaft, you are in trouble. Naturally you will try to elongate or break the shaft. You can neither elongate nor break because the shaft does not exist. By your very nature you are unclutched.

You need to understand an important thing; you don't need to renounce a thing. People come and ask me, 'Should I renounce to achieve enlightenment?' I tell them, don't renounce what you have, just renounce what you don't have, that's enough. Renounce what you don't have, that's enough.

You have so many things that you don't have actually, so many of your fantasies, so many of your fears. Fear itself is nothing but negative fantasy. Negative fantasy is fear. We are living with so many things which we don't have. Our fantasies, our fears our worry, so many things we are living with which we don't have.

Just renounce what you don't have that's enough. Whatever you have, just live with it.

This shaft with which we are living, we don't have, whether it is joy shaft or pain shaft. Constantly we believe that things are connected, things are completely logical. When you believe that your mind is logical, when you believe that your mind has got its own logic, you have created the first original sin for yourself. That is the original sin.

Understand by your very nature you are unclutched. By your very nature you are unconnected. You don't need to renounce. Actually you can't even hold. People come and tell me, 'I have so much of depression, I don't know how to get rid of it.' I tell them, 'Just try to hold it!' You can't.

For half an hour try and sit and hold the depression, you can't. Try your best and sit and meditate on depression. Suddenly you will come back and tell me that you are not able to meditate on it.

By your very nature you are unclutched. Until the earlier thought is renounced you can't have a new thought. The fact that a new thought is happening in you proves that the other thought has been renounced. Fortunately you can't have two thoughts at a time. Even if you think you are schizophrenic, you can't have two thoughts at the same time.

All these ideas, the unconscious, the split personality, the schizophrenia, all these ideas are the modern day sin. See in those days the priests created the concept of sin to create guilt in you and rule you. The same way the psychologist, psychiatrists created unconscious, split personality, schizophrenia, all those things, understand these are all the modern day terms to exploit you, nothing else.

Maybe it looks very shocking for you because you always believed there is something called the unconscious, there is something called split personality , there is something called schizophrenia, all those things. Of course, it is very difficult for a logical man to believe, to understand, life flows in a totally different dimension.

Just look a little deep inside and you will understand, the very fact that you are having new thoughts means the earlier thoughts have been renounced. The only difficult thing, it's just like emails, you trash all your emails but the difficult thing is your pick up your emails from the trash.

Every moment the thoughts are being renounced by you, by your very nature. New thought appearing means the old thought has been renounced. But even after renouncing you try to pick up the thoughts from the dustbin and try to create a new shaft. It's like you feel that some valuable thoughts have been dropped in the dust bin, so you pick up some thoughts here and there. You pick up these thoughts from the dust bin, and put near your bed and put on a little scent (laughter) and keep it a little nice. You try to decorate it. You try to pick up things from your dustbin and create a shaft.

All you need to do is few things: First, have a clear understanding that you are creating a shaft, shaft of pain, or shaft of joy and trying to fight with it, by either trying to elongate or by trying to break.

Second thing, you don't even have to unclutch yourself, by your very nature if you stop creating a shaft you are unclutched.

You don't need to unclutch. People come and ask me, how long it takes to teach meditation. It takes only two words, be unclutched. To teach what is not meditation takes one or two years for me. To teach what is meditation takes only one minute. You don't need to learn meditation; all you need to do is stop creating the shaft.

Constantly you are creating the shaft. The pain shaft or the joy shaft. And you think your mind is flowing with certain logic. When you stop creating shaft, suddenly you will realize you are unclutched by your very nature.

Immediately the moment people hear this truth they feel shaken, 'Then what will happen to my ahankar if I unclutch? What will happen to my properties, my wealth, my name and fame, what all I created based on the ahankar, based on the outer world?

And what will happen to my mamakar, my holy personality which I created by my penance, discipline, mediation and all those things? What will happen to ahankar and my mamakar if I am unclutched by my very nature? When you have too much of a vested interest, when you have too many things done based on ahankar and mamakar and it is very difficult to understand you are unclutched by your very nature.

Try your best to create something based on ahankar and feel fulfilled, you will never. Try your best to create something on your mamakar and feel fulfilled, you will never. There is a story of Brahma and Vishnu searching on the head and foot of Shiva, it happened according to the stories it happened in my native place, Arunachala hills, spiritual nerve centre. I call that place a spiritual incubator. Just like premature babies need an incubator to supply air and all the basic things so also for an enlightened being to land on the planet earth, you need a spiritual incubator to protect and help the enlightened beings, and allow the whole expansion to happen.

The story says, Brahma had to find the head and Vishnu was asked to find the feet of Shiva. See the story is beautiful, it has a beautiful meaning.

Who is Brahma? The wife of Saraswati.

Who is Vishnu? Husband of Laxshmi, wealth. The story says that Brahma started searching the head, the sahasrara of Shiva. Vishnu started searching for the feet, Vishnu came back after some time and accepted, 'I am not able to find; please forgive me.

And Brahma realized he will not be able to find, so he cut off a flower to give a false witness that he touched the head of Shiva with a flower, so he brought the flower from there.

You need to understand the story: Vishnu is the embodiment of wealth, Brahma of intellectahankar or mamakar. Neither by wealth nor intellect you can achieve enlightenment, that's the truth of the story.

One important thing, if you dig in the line of wealth, ahankar, you will get frustrated, you will understand, you will face the depression of success and really you will become humble, you will fall you will understand. But if you dig in the line of intellect you will never accept you are defeated.

If you travel in the line of ahankar in the outer world at least at one point you will understand, you will experience the depression of success. You will say enough, let me rest. I understand that enlightenment can never be achieved in this line.

But the person who travels in the line of mamakar, the line of intellect, not only does he never achieve, he will not even be able to understand that he cannot achieve. The intellect, the ego becomes so sharp, so subtle; he brings false claims and false techniques that he has achieved it. Those false claims are only those false flowers, the false witness.

The person who travels in ahankar in the outer world, who projects his identity in the outer world as well as the person who travels in mamakar, who projects his identity in the inner world, both will not be able understand the truth.

Almost all those self development techniques are done to give you the feel good feeling, nothing but that feel good feeling. First thing to understand your self can't be developed because it doesn't exist. Try your best; of course I have conducted hundreds of self development programs, with that authority I am telling you. With that clarity I am telling you.

I can give you some simple tips and techniques to develop your own self-development program. All you need to do is, the person who is attending the program should feel good for two or three days, that's all. You are successful, nothing else is necessary.

There is a best seller: How to win friends and influence people and there is another book: How to stop worrying and start living. You should understand one important fact, next to the bible his books are printed. Means? Second prophet practically!

In the book, 'How to stop worrying and start living' constantly he talks about how to stop the suicidal tendencies. That' is the first book. In the second book, 'How to win friends and influence people', he constantly teaches you how to live happily with your wife.

But, you will be shocked to hear, he himself committed suicide because he was not able to live with his wife. No; this is the truth. Understand how easy it is to create self-development programs and self-development books.

It is very easy, just three tips: write what you can't practice; and write it in such a way that you will only talk about the problem and you never give the solution! Just these three tips, you can become the self development guru. Nothing else is necessary. Write what you can't practice, and try to complicate as much as possible, and never give the solution. These three are more than enough.

You see your self can't be developed because it does not exist. If you have done enough of spiritual practices you will understand, if you have done enough of techniques to keep you in one shaft, be it verbalizing or visualizing.

Verbalization means all mantras. Visualization means meditating on various forms. If you have tried you will understand the truth of what I am expressing. If you have not tried, please try.

If you have tried enough, understand this truth, by your very nature you, just because of your very nature you can't create and connect a shaft. I have seen people who chant mantras for 30 or 40 years and they come and ask me how to concentrate on the mantra, how long it will take to make my mind settle down and focus on the mantra.

I tell them, I am not sure how long it will take, but not surely in this life! Understand, it is very difficult to connect and keep on one line. You are fortunate that you can't be clutched. You are fortunate; you should feel fortunate that you are unclutched because you can't be in bondage.

If you worked too much in the outer world creating more and more wealth, that you are unclutched by your very nature comes as a big shock. You think, if I am unclutched then who will pay my bills? Who will take care of my house, who will take care of my life, or my day to day activities?

And the second thing, if I am unclutched then what will happen to all the spiritual practices I did? If I am unclutched then what for did I do all the meditation, so many techniques, why did I do so much of tapas? Why did I control myself? What have I done? What am I doing? Then the whole thing is useless.

We have a big problem. If we understand, and accept the truth that we are unclutched both the work on the ahankar and whatever work you did on the mamakar all become useless. All the work you did to establish mamakar and all the work you did to establish ahankar is useless.

Whether you believe it or not, it is useless. Nothing can be done about it. You can strongly believe again and again, cover yourself, you can do whatever you want, but whether you believe it or not, understand it or not, by your very nature you are unclutched. You are unclutched.

You need to understand only these two things: the identity which you are showing to the outer world and inner world, both are not what you are. You are much more than these two. Second: you don't even need to renounce these two identities, by your very nature you are unclutched from these two identities.

If you constantly believe you are connected to these two, you may start working to identify with them. If you want to disconnect from these two, you may start working to unclutch from them. Both are not necessary, because you neither need to strengthen nor unclutch because by your very nature you are unclutched.

The moment you decide to stand up you renounce the thought of sitting. The moment you decide to walk out, you renounce the thought of sitting and listening. The very fact that new thoughts are appearing in you proves the very fact that old thoughts are being renounced. So you don't even need to renounce your thoughts, you don't even need to renounce your identities, because the identities which you are carrying are not you.

When you understand suddenly there is so much space available to you. The moment you understand you are beyond these two identities the tremendous inner healing starts happening in you. You start accepting yourself. The moment you understand you can't develop yourself, you achieve the ultimate self development.

Someone goes to Ramana maharishi, and says, 'Bhagavan, tell me some spiritual practice to do.'

Bhagavan says, 'Meditate.'

After two years he comes back and he says, 'Bhagavan, I am not able to meditate.' Bhagavan says, 'You have achieved the results of meditation.'

He says, 'I don't understand, I tell you that I am not able to meditate and you tell me that I have achieved the result of meditation.'

Bhagawan says, 'Understanding that you are not able to meditate is the result of meditation.'

Let me tell you an important business secret: techniques are given to people to make them understand that they are not able to practice them. It is very shocking but the truth. Techniques are given to people to make them understand, they are not able to practice.

Of course, I myself have given techniques and meditations to people in my years of teaching classes. Let me be very clear, techniques are given to people so that they understand that they can't practice.

Suddenly you will start realizing there is something deeper. Ramana Maharishi says beautifully, you are asked to meditate to make you understand you can't. You will suddenly realize that the more you try the understanding that you can't, will go much deeper. All you need to do is understand this truth.

For spiritual practice or whatever words you may use, understanding that you are much more than two identities is the aim. Understand that you are not clutched, that's enough.

Just do not create a shaft, that's enough. Then we start asking, 'How will I do my job? How will I take care of my things? Will I not just lie down in my bed?' Understand, the moment I say these things, the first question people ask is, 'If I am unclutched, why should I go to my job?' I ask why should you not go to your job. The moment you say that, it means you have a little hatred or a little vengeance against the job. That is why the moment you get some excuse you want to escape from that.

You are expressing your anger your violence against your routine, nothing else. I always tell people, alright, don't do anything, just be unclutched, don't do anything, how many days will you be lying in your bed? Ten days maybe, until your tamas (laziness) gets exhausted. See you have a certain amount of tamas in you. Until your tamas gets exhausted you will lie there, but after that what will you do? Naturally you will start working, you will start moving.

Do not be afraid; do not be afraid that if you are unclutched you will not do your daily routine. I tell you, what you think as you is not necessary to run your day to day life. This is the basic truth. What you think as you is not necessary to run your day to day life. This hurts. This truth hurts us.

See, if somebody is happy independent of us, we can't tolerate it, it is too much. Constantly we feel we are needed. That is why we project our sufferings, so that we feel important. What you think as you is not necessary to run your day to day life.

Let me just give the gist of these few truths. Maybe we will analyze these few truths and try to internalize them. Whenever we question, we start internalizing these truths. Whenever we question, we start to internalize. Whenever some words are uttered as a lecture, we never allow them inside.

But if we question and then answer then we try to internalize. Let me give the gist. First thing; you are much more than these two identities which you are carrying in your life; the identity which you show to the outer world and the identity which you show to yourself.

Second thing; you don't need to unclutch, you are already unclutched.

Third thing; all you need to do is stop creating the shaft, constantly you are creating shafts. Constantly you are referring your past experiences of the same kind and connecting them and constantly creating an idea. Constantly you are creating an idea about everything by connecting it to some shaft you are already having. You are already having ten, twelve shafts; pain, joy, painful joy, joyful pain, and so many different shafts.

Whenever you see something that goes on you just pick up the right shaft and connect them. All you need to do is stop connecting and creating shafts.

You always think life has to have a utility. Two kinds of societies have been created. One believes that man will work and he can be enslaved only if he is constantly taught that he is not enough. He can be made to work only if he is run by fear and greed.

The other group believes man will express his energy if he is already fulfilled. The eastern rishis believe man will express his energy maximum if he believes he is already full. That is the first truth you are taught in the eastern mysticism, by the eastern mystics: you are full.

When the whole is removed from the whole, the whole remains as the whole. You are asked to express yourself just out of your fullness. You are not made to run based on fear and greed. But the western society, the western social system is made to believe man will work only by fear and greed. That is why you are taught from your colleges, from your universities, that you are not full and that life has got some utility.

Understand, life has got no utility. It has got purpose, but no utility. Utility is you live the life and get that product. Purpose is you enjoy the life and express the purpose. Purpose is totally different. Utility is totally different. In utility constantly you are hypnotized thatyou are not enough unto yourself. Constantly you are taught you are not enough. But with the eastern rishis, constantly you are taught you are enough.

Understand. The Hindu lifestyle, the Vedic lifestyle, years of research and development with many inner scientists. Inner scientists who were full timers who are working on the inner science. years of inner research and development, many inner scientists, people following the technology and strength of the Vedic culture. % depression.

Understand, years of research and development, many inner scientists and inner science laboratories. At least ten million ashrams and places where gatherings happen. Not holiday religion, not weekend religion, not weekend congregation. Everyday congregation. So years of inner science research and development and many inner scientists, and inner science laboratories, the depression rate is %.

You may say the depression rate is more in Bharat, only the medicines are not available. No, the facilities are available. I have traveled all of Bharat, do not think Bharat has still the empty plates and riding on the elephant or swinging from tree to tree, or riding with the snakes, no. % is the depression, registered psychiatric patients. This is one side, the eastern Vedic culture.

The other side, science, just 400 years old. The western lifestyle and I wanted all of you to understand, 66% of Americans are taking some sort of psychiatric drugs and anti depressants. If three are sitting and talking 2 are psychiatric patients. I am talking, 66 %. People believe that only through fear and greed man will express his energy, see the outcome, 66% depression. People who believe he will only express if he is full; % depression.

Even if you see the crime rate of our people, it is barely negligible. The population of 1 billion people living in such a small land, one billion. Of course even the little bit that you see is because of cultural invasion. I strongly believe it is because of cultural invasion.

If you understand that you are full and express your fullness, it will be purely out of compassion. You will attract more and more joyful things experiences in your life. If you believe strongly you are not enough unto yourself and start running based on fear and greed. You will attract only more fear and greed persons, incidents.

One more thing, what you believe you will reproduce, by your very nature. Anything, if it has to survive, it should reproduce itself. If you believe your life is running only on fear and greed, you will reproduce that same thing in everybody. You will reproduce that same fear and greed on everybody.

One more thing, if you have lost self respect, you think you can run only on fear and greed. You forgot you can run gracefully, you can live gracefully. See if you are a child and you say, hey do this and I will give you candy, if you don't do this I will beat you, if you manage a child based on fear and greed, ok. But only after 80, if you should be handled after the fear and greed means you are mentally retarded. You have not grown.

A child can be handled with fear and greed, but you don't need fear and greed. When you ask the question, what is utility, you are asking based on fear and greed.

And I tell you the more I travel outside of Bharat, the more I feel more love and respect for this culture for this tradition. Sometimes people tell me I am too fanatical about this tradition about this Vedic culture. I am not able to help myself, even the simple rules, people ask me why do wear rudraksha, why do you wear this kumkum, why do you wear all these things.

I tell you the simple things like these beads, and this kumkum and all, our masters have developed after 10 000 years of research and development. Nothing is done without proper research and development. They spent their lives, and used their bodies as the inner science laboratories and did this vast research and development.

See currency is beautiful, needed for life. But that is too poor substitute for your conscious explosion. It is a poor substitute for your conscious expansion. Beautiful to maintain your body, maintain your mind. Maintain the lifestyle, food clothing basic things, ok, wonderful, but I tell you, there is something much more, you see this fantasy, this idea of a certain kind of lifestyle is put into your head.

This fantasy is put into your head, this kind of a consumerist lifestyle is put into your head to make you run constantly, that's all. It's a much planned conspiracy; billion dollars is spent every year by the media, to promote the consumerist lifestyle so that their products can be sold all over the world, to promote their market. It's a pure marketing strategy.

You are constantly taught about that consumerist lifestyle so that you will start buying those products, enjoying those things. It is a marketing strategy. Your life is too big to be wasted in somebody's marketing strategy. Your body can't be used as somebody's income source. You are taught all sorts of ideas; see your software is programmed by them, so that your hardware will be spent fulfilling their vested interest, that's all.

Let me clarify one thing, kids should not be handled by fear and greed, only when you don't have the patience to explain you use fear and greed. This is not ok. See, only when you have fear and greed you will naturally create fear and greed in everyone else. Then you should understand. Whom you think as your leader, do you think he has gone beyond fear and greed? No, then he is expressing fear and greed that's all.

Whatever frequency you live you will attract the people of the same frequency so that you will feel very comfortable, so you feel very strengthened. So naturally if you are in the fear and greed frequency than naturally you will create the same type of fear and greed people, that's all.

Painful memories get registered because you need to learn lessons. You need to update yourself, you need to develop yourself. Maybe for that reason you start recording the painful memories. When you refer to them again and again, it becomes a painful memory. Memories that you record in your system is not true. You record only what you need.

Second thing, you don't need to renounce them, whenever you try to renounce them you strengthen the memory. You don't need to create a law I should not refer to my memory, it will simply disappear in the next moment. For example the moment you decide to stand up, you renounce the decision to sit. Am I right?

The moment you decide to stand up you renounce the decision of sitting. You are constantly renouncing. Even your painful memories are strengthened by trying to renounce them. They are strengthened by trying to renounce them. People come and ask me, constantly I repeat the positive affirmations, 'I should stop smoking, I should stop smoking' but it is not working. Why?' All these creative visualizations they all create more and more trouble. Because the very words, 'I should stop smoking', the very word 'smoking' is contradicting.

When you decide I should get rid of the headache, constantly you are remembering the headache. So all you need to do, whenever the memories raise, it will disappear. Have a glass of water. The moment you decide to have a glass of water your greed has disappeared, your fear has disappeared. But you say it comes back thought, what to do? Your faith in it is what brings it back, that is the basic problem.

See you say it comes back, and one more thing, if it comes back it goes also. Why don't you celebrate those moments which it left you? Why do you constantly remember the moments it comes back? A young man came and asked me, 'I am suffering too much because of my lustful thoughts and fantasies, what to do?' I told him, just have a cup of coffee. He was surprised. Unless the thought has left you, you can't have a cup of coffee. You can't have the thought have having a cup of coffee unless the lustful thoughts have left you. Then why again are you bringing it back? It has already left you.

You ask me, how can it be so simple! It is simple. Constantly you are taught that it is not so simple. It is simple. If you really understand that it is so simple. Constantly people are telling it is not so easy. But I am telling you literally it is so easy. Nothing needs to be done. Just a simple understanding.

People come and tell me, I have constant fear of death, what should I do? I tell them to come and sit, have a cup of coffee. When they are having a tea I ask them, what happened to the death fear? For that moment, it was not there. All you need to do is just have tea.

You see, one elderly person, one scholar, one pundit, came to me and said, 'I am constantly searching for enlightenment. For the last 35 years, please teach me meditation and enlightenment.' I sat down and started talking with him, asked him about his family, from where he is from and those types of things. He was with me for four hours; he did not even remember the question again. So just remember the depth of the thoughts.

You see, all your negativity, has only one power, your faith on them that's all. Your faith in them, whether it is your mind or your ego, or whatever all negativity has only one power, your faith in it that's all. Understand it's a simple game, that's all. You do not need to work for unclutching. Just do not clutch and do not create a shaft.

People ask me again and again I fail when I try to unclutch. I tell them, why are you connecting your past failure with your present failure? When you connect all the past failures, you create one more word: failure.

The failure which happened 9 years ago, the failure that happened 8 years ago, the failure that happened yesterday are independent incidents. Why do you connect all of them and create the next experience also? Just relax and stop connecting and suddenly you will see such a deep inner healing happening in you, such a deep peace happening in you.

Suddenly you will see you have dropped out of the war, the constant running. Just relax. I tell you when you become a drop out, when you drop out of this war, when you drop from this whole game, suddenly you realize the whole thing is just a psycho drama happening. Because you are constantly supporting it, constantly you are creating these shafts.

Let's spend a few minutes unclutching. I will give you a few tips on this unclutching and you can just try how this unclutching works on you. If you have done some techniques already, you will see that this technique will straight away bring you to your inner space.

Now we will spend a few minutes unclutching. Just close your eyes. Just do not connect those words. Whatever words are rising in you just let them rise. Just do not connect them with any other thought. Just don't create shaft. Just unclutch. If you feel bored, or if your mind asks what to do, just unclutch from that thought. Do not even connect with that thought. Just sit, be unclutched. If your mind connects with a thought, just unclutch. Unclutch from both the identities. Do not create, maintain, or destroy thoughts.

Om Nithyanandam!

The nirvanic layer is so subtle it almost doesn't exist. Almost its' the Ātman, but it's the last step. What is the way to explore this last step? What is the way to bring out the energy of this last step? Totally cutting yourself from the past.

No evolution, only revolution. It is the moment, when the seed takes the decision to sprout. The seed is sprouting, the last moment, the seed will have agony. The dark night of the soul is what it is called in Christianity. The last moment you take the decision to make the jump, you take the decision to go beyond. You take the decision with all your consciousness, with all your energy to go beyond the body and mind.

When you know that all things are conditioning, just read once more what you've written. Is this life worth living? So many desires, so many sufferings, so much of guilt, so much of pain. Only one layer of joy, that also is through the layers of pain.

Look at the whole past actually, almost for everybody I can say, the past is more like a wound which needs to be operated, or thrown out from the being.

When you decide consciously to drop the past you actually can drop the past. Understand a few things, it is simply conditioning, when you understand it is the conditioning can't you drop it? As long as you think it is you, you can't drop it. Understand and you can simply drop. When you psychologically drop, even physically the whole thing changes.

The nirvanic layer is where the master is always in. So, how do we relate with the master? When you come in front of the Master, just feel a deep love, that is all. Feel a deep love in front of the master, that is enough. Nothing else is needed. Nothing else needs to be done. There is no other code of conduct to be conducted.

Many people come in front of me and do all sorts of these things like showing too much of humility, but I can always see people who show too much of humility are cunning fellows. Really innocent people, they do not even bother, they will just come and sit on the seat on which I am sitting, just next to me.

And I always find, these people are not only good to me, they are good to everybody. People who put up all sorts of show know only how to act, not how to be. So there is no need to know how to act, just be, that's enough.

A small story from Ramana Maharishi's life:

One farmer went to Ramana Maharishi's ashram and tried to sit with him, because he had a knee pain, he tried to sit on a small stool. Some of the ashramites shouted, 'Oh, you cannot sit in front of Bhagavan on a stool; you are to sit only on the ground.' Bhagavan showed his hand up and laughed. On the roof, one monkey was sitting exactly on the thatched roof. He asked, 'What will you do about this monkey? He is sitting right above my head.'

So, all these codes and methods and conducting all these things are just foolishness, I don't see any juice in it. You see when you have the tears of love, tears of gratitude in your eyes, that is the real thing. That is the real way to conduct yourself in the presence of the master, nothing else.

If you really understand whatever is taught, whatever is spoken, will you be the same person when you go back? No, you will never be the same person, you can never be the same person. So naturally when you meet the master, you will be reborn, you will have a second birth.

There are three types of garbha (womb). One is the garbha which is carried in the womb, which gives birth to a child. The next is hridgarbha. If you carry a great ideology in your heart, if you give birth to a book, or a painting or a great scripture, these are all from hridgarbha. If you carry the master's presence or the meditation in the sahasrara, you give birth to yourself, this is gnanagarba. So the master just totally destroys your past. Totally he makes you drop from your past, and totally makes you start living as a new being.

A total disconnection from the past only can help you to grow. There is no question of evolution, it is only revolution. Evolution can never happen, only revolution can happen. So just drop from your past, just decide totally, consciously, drop from your past, and simply start living. Don't think, 'Oh I do not know how to put this whole thing into practice.' No! Simply throw the whole personality out, don't respect the old habits, don't respect the old body, don't respect the old mind, don't respect the old conditionings.

Simply decide, this is how I am going to live from now onwards. This is the way I will live, over.

A small story, which is a very powerful story:

Once there was a rat in the palace of a king. The king wanted to kill the rat. One day he called his soldier to kill it. When the soldier entered the room, suddenly from somewhere the rat jumped on his face, so he lost his balance, got frightened and ran out of the room, shouting, 'No, no,no! Oh king, the rat is too big. I do not think the rat can be killed by anybody.' Seeing the frightened, shivering shape of the soldier, the king got frightened and thought, 'Oh, this rat is something totally different, I do not know what to do.'

He called the palace cat and ordered to go and kill the rat, the soldier told, 'Don't think it is an ordinary rat, I went and was totally shaken, so be careful.' Anyway the palace cat went and got ready with all his paraphernalia. It had two-three days of exercise at the gym and had his special diet. On the day of the fight, he entered the room. Again the rat jumped on the cat's face, and cat totally got frightened and lost its balance and ran away, came out.

Now the rat has become a challenge for the whole country, even the palace cat could not do anything about it. So the king announced, throughout the whole country, 'Anybody who kills the rat will be given a special prize. So every cat was brought, and every cat knew that the palace cat could not do anything. Two or three cats tried and came out unsuccessful.

In a remote village, an old man had one cat. He said, 'Why not? Let me try my cat.' He asked the cat, 'Will you kill the rat in the king's palace?' The cat said, 'Why not? Let us go.'

The man brought the cat, it was looking very thin and lean. He let the cat inside, the cat simply killed the rat, and came out.

The king in utter disbelief asked, 'How did you do it? Even the palace cat could not do. How did you have the courage? How did you do it?' The cat replied, 'What! I am a cat. It is my nature to kill the rat. Simply I can catch the rat, over.'

So simply your bothering about the things only makes the things worse. Don't bother about old experiences. You always think, 'No, last time, I tried. I always tried to stop smoking, nothing worked, I think this time the same thing only is going to happen.'

Don't have all those past things. Even that is past, even the idea 'the last time I failed' is also the past. Cut from the very root, drop from the very root, even the idea I failed, is nothing but the past.

Someone came and told me, 'Swamiji, last year alone, 27 times I stopped smoking.' Of course, it is you who gives energy to it, not the past. The past is just dead, it is you who decides.

By the time you reach the nirvanic layer you will be without samskaras at the doorstep of enlightenment. You have to let go to reach enlightenment. It happens. It can not be made to happen. It is like river water. It stays in your hands as long as your hand is open; once you close your hands there is no water.

Bliss is choicelessness. If you try to make bliss a choice it will be absent. If you can understand the purposelessness of life as a part of the grand plan of Existence you will reach this layer.

Ego believes that there is purpose to life; material, relational and spiritual. More the purposes, the stronger your ego feels. If you drop all other purposes and still hold on to purpose of enlightenment it is futile. Only when you realize that life is totally purposeless and drop your ego will enlightenment happen to you.

Even logically what is the purpose of existence? God who creates everything else including jungles, could he not have created concrete jungle sand cities? Purpose of existence is bliss, that's all.

How can we enjoy without possessing, without making something our own? We are like water bubbles on a wave in the ocean. Each bubble catches hold of a few more bubbles - wife, husband, father, son and collects sand articles thinking they are jewels. The bubble does not understand that it can burst any moment.

When you are ready to digest that everything is purposeless, material, relational, spiritual, only then life acquires meaning. Once you have a goal you miss the path.

Mind waits for something to happen. It waits for salary, weekly, monthly, yearly, 5 yearly. If someone offers you 100 years' salary and asks you to die tomorrow will you die? That's what most of you do. When you measure life by paycheck you reduce your spirit to matter.

Your ego is stuck on what you see as a purpose in life.

An elderly lady came to me with her son; she wanted me to take him into the ashram as a brahmachari. I was surprised since usually no parent would like the child to be a sannyasi. Vivekananda is great, but no one wants his son to be a Vivekananda. They feel how can my son or daughter be so blissful! I asked her why she wanted him to be at the ashram. She said that he is mentally sound. I said I run an ashram not an asylum!

We have many reasons why we cannot do things. By the time you finish one responsibility you will have ten more waiting for you. Running becomes your conditioning, not relaxing.

When you are young you tell yourself that you will relax after you graduate from University; then you shift the goal post to marriage; then to children; then to educating children; then their marriage. Can you relax after you are 60? By then you have missed the path.

The primal sin you can commit is to miss the path of life by following goals. When you live let your being be blissful; when you start hurrying think about what you are hurrying for; do not allow restlessness in you, hoping it will settle; that will never happen. If you are not able to relax into the present moment, even after fulfilling your responsibilities you will still feel unfulfilled. Whenever you run, when you hurry, think why, what for?

You may have a big house, drive a big car, and people around you always praising you. Can you carry anything with you? Can you carry with you even one single cheque book? It is all purposeless.

When you understand this purposelessness healing happens. Even if you have been abused, you will heal, if you allow this understanding to happen; the understanding itself will guide you.

You may be thinking: all my life I have had a purpose, and my life has been fine. Now you say all that is without purpose. Whether you like it or not, that's the truth.

Your seeing me is a dream. Scriptures say: moment you see an enlightened master you become enlightened.

Seeing me is not the same as looking at me, which is what you do. Looking is with eyes, seeing is with the being. The closer you come to the master, the more your understanding of him changes. Your maturity allows you to see me differently.

People get shocked. Now I know life is purposeless, why should I work? That is the wrong understanding. Once you have the understanding of purposelessness you can never be lazy. Tamas (laziness) can not come out of intelligence. Perhaps for two days you will just lie in bed and not get up. Third day you will wake up as a different person, without restlessness; restlessness is a monster that you would have conquered.

Restlessness hides purposelessness from you; it hides the path with the goal. Please understand this and be healed. All your dreams of the future, all your guilt of the past will disappear; all ephemeral joys and suffering will vanish.

In Tiruvannamalai there was this saint Ram Surat Kumar. He was innocent as a child. Whenever people came to him, whatever their problem was, he would say 'alright'. Someone died and the Swami would say, 'Alright'. Someone's son is getting married, 'alright'. I asked him, Swami, why do you say alright to everything? He said: Everything is just purposeless. Whatever you think has a purpose has no meaning.

Whenever you remember the truth of purposelessness healing will happen, suffering will disappear; whether you have or do not have; neither has purpose.

You need courage to pursue truth. Life will take a different path. You will live as a liberated soul. You will never drop your job, relationship or wealth. You will drop only what you do not have. You will drop the mental associations. You will drop of the fantasy of a throne and start enjoying the seat. When purpose is dropped meaning will happen.

You become tired thinking about how much you have done; not by doing it. Mind will make you dull. You constantly struggle; you are restless. You will never think that you are doing anything great once you have this understanding. Without ego you will work 10 times more. Your inner space will be pure. Even when you have achieved great things you will not bother.

We just finished installing the largest Venkateswara in the USA; in fact one of the largest stone statues here. All it took was a phone call. I do not think I did anything big. By the time you finish building words thinking that you have done something big, you will become tired.

If you work towards a purpose, you calculate 10%, 20%. By the time you reach 50% you are tired; you start thinking you are doing something big.

I know that the moment I leave this body this institution may crumble. A few may get enlightened. It is all drama; drama without any purpose. I have neither ego nor tiredness. If I can reproduce what I have experienced in a few others, that itself is great.

Now it is time to enter into the Nirvanic layer – the 7th body. Actually if you travel up to these 7 layers, there will be nothing, there will be no suffering that can hold you back from enlightenment or from relaxing into that existence.

Only one thing will be there: the remaining seeds of karma. Seeds means, just the old memories or a little bit emotional attachment to the old memory, that's all nothing else. If you have the courage to move from your emotional memory or your emotional attachment to your memory, this nirvanic layer also will be cleansed. There is nothing in this Nirvanic layer which can hold you back.

Actually this whole program, if you do it intensely, it is a straight way for enlightenment. But if you do it as much as possible, it will enrich your life, that's all. It will enrich your life, may be physical healing and mental healing. But the aim of this program is not just physical or mental healing but healing your whole being.

I have designed this program to get you out of the bhavaroga. If you are intense, this single technique that you are going to do now, can completely liberate you from the whole past. In the nirvanic body, all you need is the courage to take the jump.

All you need in this nirvanic layer is to break free from the past. One important thing – just take a few minutes and think; now practically you have your complete biography in your hand. Am I right? You have your biography in your hand. If you have written properly from the first day now you have your biography in your hand.

Decide: the way in which you lived, is it perfectly alright or do you feel that there is a need for some improvement. Naturally you think, 'I should improve' or 'I should develop.' If at all you think, if at all you feel there is a need for development, there is a need for transformation, please understand you have to drop the whole mental set-up.

You can't say, 'No, there are some good things I will take, all the other bad things I will drop.' Either you erase the whole program or you live with the whole program, that's all! There is no such thing like you can take a little bit and you can take the remaining. No.

Be very clear, if you think it is garbage, you have to dump the whole thing, or you have to carry the whole thing in your head. You can't say 2-3 garbage I will take and arrange it nicely, put a little scent and live with it. No! Either you can throw the whole thing out or you can

keep the whole thing with you. If you decide you need transformation, then throw the whole thing out.

Immediately the next question is, 'If I throw away everything, will I forget where my house is? Will I forget who my wife is?' Will I forget who my relatives are?' Be very clear, you will not forget where your house is or who your wife is, but you will forget the loaded memories or the loaded emotions associated with the house or wife.

When you forget, when you drop the emotional attachment to your memories, you are free from the past. All these words look like too big words; but I tell you, your visualization has enough power, enough of capacity, enough of energy to achieve this state.

The big problem, we don't believe we have something called as inner space. Just as you have outer space, you have something called as inner space. Consciously you can clean them. Consciously you can clean that space; consciously you can keep that space clean.

All that we are going to do in the 7th layer is to consciously keep that inner space clean. To tell you honestly it is not that you can throw away all the negative engrams. Whether it is desire or guilt or suffering or joy or whatever, it is not that you have worked on all the engrams completely; there is a little bit remaining in some corners. Now it is time to dig deep in all the layers at once and throw them out. Re-live completely all the six layers and relieve them.

In the nirvanic layer, all you are going to do is this one thing only – breaking free from the past.

Always the seed is afraid to break. Seed says, 'No, let the tree happen, only then I will break.' Tree says, 'No, let the seed break, only then I will happen.' Only when you break free from the past mental set up you can create new mental set up. You will be able to create a new mental set up, new engrams. Unless you create a space for a new mental set up it can't happen.

Now, consciously, a little violently, we are going to throw away our negative engrams. Not only consciously, a little violently. Just you are going to push your unconsciousness away from you. Or, just you are going to bring your unconsciousness to your consciousness. The moment you bring it to your consciousness, it will be burnt away. You don't need to do anything special, just bring it to your conscious level and it will just be burnt away.

If Shiva opens his third eye that is just enough, manmatha (lust) will be just burnt away. Now all you are going to do is the same thing.

Actually it is a metaphysical story: Shiva opening the third eye and manmatha is being burnt. There is no real person called Manmatha standing with a big sugarcane bow and arrows of flowers. Don't think there was somebody and Shiva just opened his third eye and threw fire on him and burnt away.

Then, Shiva is a criminal, he has committed murder! We can't say it has not physically happened, it is a metaphysical story. When you open the knowledge, when you open the gnaanaagni, or when you open the fire of intelligence in you, it just burns away all your negative engrams. All your negative engrams are burnt. That is the meaning of the story. Now it is time for you to open your gnaanaagni or throw all your engrams into the gnaanaagni.

Breaking free from the past is the ultimate liberation. Now you are going to open your conscious being to your engrams or you are going to open your engrams to conscious energy. Of course, literally you are going to burn all your engrams. The book in which you have written about all your samskara, you are going to put it in the fire and burn it, so that you are rid once for all from all these engrams.

You may think, 'Why I should put all my joyful moments also in the fire?' What ever you know as joyful moments are not joyful, please understand. They are very superficial joys. Drop them, you will see. you will see a new dimension of intense joys. Just have the courage and drop all the joys, whatever you understood as joys. You will see, you will have a new dimension and a different kind of joy will rise in you.

It is like this: for a small child playing with toys is a joy. Now, the very dimension of your joy is different; the very dimension itself is different. Do you enjoy playing with toys now? No. The whole dimension has changed. Do you feel you are missing all your toys? No.

The depth of joy itself will change; same way drop playing with all these human toys and human dolls. You want to play with human dolls; you call one is mother, one is father, one is sister, one is brother, one is aunt, another one is aunty. You are playing with all these dolls. Relax, just relax and drop these dolls. You will understand your life is something far more valuable, something far more higher.

You are not here as a citizen of some country or belong to some caste or creed or are related to some religion or belong to some community.

You are just a liberated individual being, pure consciousness who is supposed to relax into your bliss, who is supposed to enjoy the intense bliss and peace.

Somebody has given me a letter – 'Master, show me the way to intense and eternal peace.' This is the way. It is time to drop layer after layer after layer of conditionings. You are continuously made to believe you are male you are female, you belong to this religion or you belong to that religion, you belong to this state, you belong to that country, you have this much of wealth or you are poor; all these ideas. Now it is time to relax from these ideas.

When we hear that life is a psychodrama, immediately we think, 'If I drop all these things how will I do my business? Tomorrow I have to go back to my profession.' I am not asking you to drop your profession.

Actually if you drop your conditioning, you will have something called as your inner space where you can rest once in a while. When you are haunted or tortured by these conditionings, you can go inside and rest. If you have a resort or an inner space to rest, you will be able to work much more beautifully. You will be able to play your drama much more beautifully the moment you understand that this whole thing is just psychodrama.

I always tell people, 'You thinking that you are a disciple and you thinking that I am a guru is also a psychodrama.' Don't think that only your life is a psychodrama, you thinking me as a guru is also psychodrama. Because you want, you think of me as a guru and I look like a guru, that's all, nothing else. As you want, so I appear. I am just a mirror, Master is a mirror. The whole thing is just a psychodrama. You are living in a psychodrama. Understanding that the whole thing is a psychodrama and the ability to relax from it only can help you in the nirvanic layer.

In the Nirvanic layer, all you need to understand is this whole thing, whether it is your profession, or your relationships or your spirituality, whole thing is just pure psychodrama. You have an idea about yourself. You have positioned yourself in some spot strongly. You see, you have decided about yourself and set yourself few clear rules. From that point, you are continuously working and measuring and doing things. But you forget that the base itself is not there. Nirbana in Paali means Nirvana. The very meaning of that word Nirbana means 'nothing'.

There is nothing. Please be very clear, all your activities are centered on you, what you think as you. For example, you think that you are Raman. You think Raman, Raman's wife, Raman's daughter, Raman's family, Raman's property, Raman's spiritual growth, Raman's physical body, Raman's mental health, Raman's economic status, whole thing is centered on you, but you don't realize that Raman is not there. You are trying to continuously protect yourself, physically, mentally or emotionally, economically, spiritually or socially. But the very being whom you are trying to protect is not there.

This actually happened to me as a darshan, as a vision, as an experience. From this only I created our emblem. If you see our emblem, Paramahamsa is our emblem. Paramahamsa pakshi is our emblem. Paramahamsa flying in the sky is our emblem.

I had a beautiful vision or experience; from that only I created that emblem. How did the human life happen on planet earth? Paramhamsa is the great swan which never comes down to the planet earth. It just flies in the sky, floating, enjoying and expressing its freedom, expressing its own bliss.

Now, when the swan was flying over a lake, the reflection of the swan fell in the water. The fish in the pond thought, 'Oh! The swan has come down into the pond!' They started playing with it. The fish were jumping on the swan this side and that side, on the shadow of the swan.

Some fish started fencing, 'This is the boundary, this is my swan'. Some other fish started purchasing neighboring land, real estate thinking the swan may come here. Some other fish claimed, 'I am the brother of the swan, I am the son of the swan, I am the wife of the swan.' The whole drama was happening.

Suddenly the swan started flying on the land, suddenly it moved. The reflection or the shadow which was appearing on the water suddenly disappeared.

Immediately all the fish started crying, 'What happened? Our swan has disappeared. What happened to our swan?' But they never understood that the swan had never landed on the planet earth.

The whole thing is just a drama. In the same way, you have started thinking that you have a soul or what you think as 'soul'. You have a soul but that soul is totally different. Whatever you understand as your soul is not your soul. Then you started protecting, you started creating a fence for yourself.

You create a house, create relations, create social security and wealth, create all these things and then decide, 'Oh! I need spiritual growth also.' Then you go to some guru. So, you start searching for spirituality also.

But you forget that the very swan has not happened, there is no swan. You are just playing with the shadow. Suddenly you realize that the swan has disappeared. The swan will not even know what drama the fish are doing. You are just playing with the shadow.

Suddenly you realize that the swan has disappeared. Some times the fish start cursing the swan, 'What is this, believing this swan we built such a beautiful house and we raised all the real estate around this building, now each flat is going for five lakhs.' And suddenly they realize that the swan itself is not there. The swan will not even know all the drama that is done by the fish.

Same thing is happening in your life. Your soul does not even know all the dramas done by your body and mind. The soul doesn't even know how much the body and mind is suffering unnecessarily, because, it never landed on the pond.

Whatever you are seeing is only a pure reflection. If you can meditate on this one story, I tell you, you will be liberated this moment. If you can, keep yourself only this one understanding, just like a Zen koan, you have never happened as you think, what ever you think as you is not you.

The root of you is non-existence – Nirbana. Nirbana means nirvana which is non-existence. But, to protect something which is non-existent, you are torturing yourself so much. The stream is flowing; if the fish are trying to push the stream or if the fish are trying to stop the stream, the stream does not even know. Whether you try to become enlightened or you try to be against enlightenment God doesn't even know.

All the fish on seeing the swan thought, 'Let us stop this stream, let us have a barricade and stop this stream.' If all the fish stand in the stream and try to stop the stream, do you think they will be successful? The stream will not even know that the fish are trying to stop it.

In the same way, you not becoming enlightened, or you not realizing, your Atman doesn't even know that. Even that much you are not connected to your being. So whatever you think as you is just non-existent.

A small story:

One born blind man went to the doctor. The doctor said, 'I will do an operation. You will have your eyes back, then you can walk without your stick.' The blind man said, 'Doctor, I understand that you will do an operation and I will have my eyes back. But how can I walk without a stick?' Unless you have your eyes, you cannot understand how you will walk without a stick. Intellectually you cannot be convinced till you get your eyes that you can walk without a stick.

Understand this one thing, look inside, whatever you thought as you is not there. Just it will not be there. Whatever points are the base for your suffering, where the points are rooted, that very root is non-existent. That is why I tell you, your name itself is non-existent.

That is why in Zen they say, meditate on your face before your birth. Just visualize how your face was before your birth. Can you visualize? Just 50 years ago you were non-existent. What ever you think as you, you were non-existent 50 years ago, am I right? And 50 years later you will be again non-existent. Why are you then suffering so much? Why are you torturing yourself just for these few years of drama? The whole thing is just nirbana.

Meditate on this one sutra. Don't bother about what others are thinking about you, because they are bothering about what you are thinking about them. Don't bother about what others are thinking about you because they are bothering about what you are thinking about them. It is just a drama happening continuously because you don't have time to stop and look.

You don't have time to open your eyes and see. You don't have time to relax for a few minutes and watch. Your TV was never switched off even for two seconds. You never thought that the TV can be switched off or there can be a few moments when scenes will not appear, the scenes will be empty.

Here I am trying to tell you, just because the screen is continuously filled with scenes, don't think what you are seeing is truth. It can be switched off. You can switch off, you can relax. It is time, at least for the next half an hour, relax and meditate on the face which you had before your birth.

One more thing, to understand the whole thing as anakta or nirbana, you don't need much spiritual practice or you don't need to be a great person. All you need is a simple knowledge of English to understand my words.

You are not a noun, you are a verb. You are a happening you are not a being.

Understanding that you are not a being is what I call Nirvana. The moment you understand that you are not a being but you are a happening, tremendous freedom, liberation happens to you. You don't have to protect yourself.

Immediately your mind will say, 'No, I may have physical pain, somebody may hurt me. If I don't protect myself I may fall sick.'

Please be very clear, I am not asking you to go and jump in the river. No. I am not asking you to go or allow yourself to be hurt. You will not allow anybody to hurt you by your own basic intelligence. When I say don't protect yourself, I don't mean, enter into the Ganga.

Your mind is always playing games. When I say don't protect yourself, immediately your mind says, 'Oh! It means, he says I have to jump into the Ganga.' No, the second statement is not made by me. It is made by your mind.

You have to understand your logical mind.

For example, If I tell you, 'There are two doors, one door is open', what do you conclude? The second door is closed. But, this statement is not made by me. Then, who is it made by? Your mind!

When I say now, 'You are floating, you don't have to protect yourself.' immediately the mind jumps to the other extreme and says, 'Then, I may have all diseases, or I may be killed, or I may be destroyed if I don't protect myself.' There is no need for the second statement. When that situation comes, you have enough intelligence to protect yourself, things will happen automatically.

Understand, last 50 years you have lived, have you lived without worries? No. You had enough troubles, enough worries, have you not lived? You have lived. Next 50 years you have the experience of the last 50 years, then why are you bothering? Why do you then bother about the next 50 years? Last 50 years you have lived with all these things, this itself is solid proof that you have enough intelligence to face everything. You have innate intelligence to face your life.

Then why should you bother about the next 50 years? And now you are experienced. More the person is experienced, more he should feel confident. Then why do you continuously bother about protecting your being, about protecting your ego? You have innate intelligence, inborn intelligence – swa-buddhi.

You have innate intelligence swa-gnaana, to take decision in every moment, to handle your personality every moment, to decide spontaneously.

Because you don't trust you have spontaneity, you try to keep all these records in your head, so that you can decide based on these records. But you miss one important thing – situations continuously change. Whenever you decide based on the decisions of the predecessors, you are outdated. If you decide based on the decisions of the predecessors, you are just outdated. In life also, if you decide based on your past decisions you are outdated. You can't be considered as a living being. You are live-dead! You are live-dead! Understand this one thing, there is no need to protect you because you don't exist as you think.

What ever you think as you doesn't exist. The moment you relax, a big load is taken away from you. That is what I call liberation. There is nothing to protect because you are just nirvana. Nirvana.

Whatever you think as you drop it and relax, just a few minutes, try to relax. I am not asking you to relax forever. When you go back tomorrow morning carry it, I don't say no. Tomorrow morning take the whole thing on your head, I don't say no. Just today, as an experiment, relax.

You will understand what is happening with your whole being- how you are creating more and more and more struggles with yourself trying to protect the reflection of the swan. You are just a reflection of the swan.

The moment you understand, you become a swan! You are just the reflection of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, the moment you understand that, you become a Paramahamsa.

Whether you want to be a reflection of the Paramahamsa or a Paramahamsa is up to you. Even if you think that you are a reflection of the Paramahamsa as of now, you are Paramahamsa only. Even if you think you are a reflection, you are not a reflection.

You may try your best, try hard to think you are a reflection and try to protect as much as possible, struggle as deeply as possible but the whole thing is just like the futile efforts of the fish.

Now you may say, 'All these things are good to listen, but let me think of my next routine, tomorrow what I am supposed to do. Let me think of my life's decision, what I am supposed to do.' Then, it is perfectly up to you. Try to protect the shadow, nothing wrong, but one day suddenly you will realize, somebody inside you is waking up and understanding or experiencing that what you were protecting all these days is just a shadow.

We worked these four days continuously on your mind so that you can understand this single truth, this one single truth. If your mind is too much crowded, you can't understand. If too many fish are jumping on the reflection of the swan, you can't understand that it is a reflection. All I did in these four days is just I asked the fish to move a little away, to give a little space so that you can just see and realize that it is not swan, it is just a reflection of the swan.

Whatever you are playing, you are thinking as you, is just a reflection. The moment you understand it, you will even play the game of reflection beautifully. The moment you understand this, realize this, if you are a doctor, you will become a much better doctor; Because you know that it is a game you are playing, you will not suffer with it.

As long as you know that this door can be opened at any time, you are free, you will be comfortably sitting here. The moment you think that it is locked and the key is not there you cannot sit here comfortably. You will go and stand and knock the door. You will first try to escape.

If you don't understand that life is a game, you will hurt yourself and you will hurt others, taking the whole game too seriously. Taking the whole game too seriously is the only mistake you do. The moment you understand you are just Nirbana, simply the physical well-being and mental well-being happens.

There is a beautiful stotra done by Ramana Maharshi towards Arunachala: 'I thought you are my God and you will protect me. I came to you, but suddenly now I see, simply you have destroyed me completely. What ever I thought as 'me' is not there now. I am missing.'

That is what now I am telling you, many of you have come to me for healing thinking that I will protect your body, mind, I will protect your life. Understand, the moment that you understand that there is nothing to be protected, simply everything is protected.

See, was this the same body that was there yesterday? Was this the same mind which was there yesterday? If your mind and body both are not the same which was there yesterday, then who are you? How can you say that you are the same person who was here yesterday? Am I right? How can you say that?

If your body is not the same thing which was yesterday, if your mind is not the same thing which was yesterday, how can you say you are the same person who was here yesterday? What you think as you is not the same yesterday.

Yesterday it was different and today it is different. Then how can you think that there is some continuity in you? When you think that there is some continuity in you, you start protecting it, you want it to be protected you want it to be saved, preserved and the whole thing starts.

The moment you understand that there is no need for any protection, there is no need for any suffering, you understand that just the whole thing is happening like a small bubble in the ocean. Tomorrow the bubble will disappear. And you are nothing but a small bubble in a big ocean.

There is nothing to protect. There is nothing to care, there is nothing to grow. Just understand that you are a liquid. The very understanding that you are a liquid is enough to liberate you. Just a simple understanding that you are not solid as you think is more than enough.

You are just flowing; you are just a live flow. There is no solid being as you think. Contemplate on this one thing and relax from whatever you think as you for the next half an hour, you will come out as a new being. At least you will have a glimpse, one glimpse of who you are. The capital letter Y-O-U. Not small letter 'y-o-u'. The small letter y-o-u you are living, just who you are. Please close your eyes and just sit. Allow these words to merge in you, whatever understanding happens let you understand.

The master is there to awaken this understanding in you. Ramana says: Guru is simha swapna, a nightmare where a lion is chasing you. You will wake up even if you are in a dream.

Just sit. What ever you understand by these words, let it sink in you. See clearly that you are just liquid. See very clearly what makes you stop realizing this, where you are stuck whether it is your social position or it is your fear of health or it is the fear of losing your relationship or fear of losing your wealth. Just see where it goes and gets stuck which stops you from experiencing that you are liquid, you are fluid. At least understand that which stops you from realizing that. If nothing stops you then relax into you.

You are not the same person as you think you are. There is no need to protect you because you don't exist. You are just the greatest illusion created by you supported by other illusions. You are the great illusion created by you and supported by other illusions.

Forget about tomorrow; there is no need to bother about it. Now realize this truth, that is enough. Don't bother about the consequences of this realization. Whether it is positive or negative, relax bothering about the consequences; just see the truth. Don't worry how many times you missed in the past, even if you have missed in the past ten thousand times. Now there is a possibility, you can capture it. Now you can catch it.

Now we entered into the meditation to drop the whole past. Now you know where you are stuck. Whatever thought came into your mind again and again in this gap is where you are stuck. That is what you need to drop.

When you are finished with all these 7 layers, the final touch will be given by the master's grace. Actually that is what happens, when you put your whole effort, finally master gives his grace. When you open and throw everything , the master will be there to heal the things when you undergo all these 7 layers. The final touch is given by the master's grace. Now we are going to have only these two sessions: session of cutting down from the past and the master's grace.

Let us take a few moments and work on our self and drop everything. Now the meditation which we are going to do is called viraja homa means, the meditation done by the people before taking sannyas. Don't worry I am not going to give you sannyas. This is the meditation done by people who are taking sannyas.

Of course, when I brought this meditation to the public, some traditional swamis have criticized me. They said, 'How can you give this to every one? It is specially for us.' I said, 'Just because of this secrecy only we lost ayurveda, we lost siddha, we lost all these surgery methods, we lost so much of our knowledge. So, I believe when something can give results, it should be shared with the whole world. And it is such a highly powerful meditation technique, it can transform the beings, why not give it to the whole world?' I brought it out with all the courage.

Now I am giving it in all our NSPs. After all whose property? Our rishi's property. What for they created? For the whole world only. It is not the monopoly of some small group of people. It belongs to the whole world. Knowledge belongs to the whole world. We can't say it is only for us. That is the reason I brought it out.

I want all of you to understand the importance of this meditation so that you will enter into it.

The first part of the meditation is the Nithya Dhyaan meditation. It cleanses and energises the vital energy centers in your body which are responsible for the swaying emotions and stored negative memories. It brings intense awareness into your system to awaken the inner intelligence; causes to experience a growing explosion in consciousness that can steer you towards a life of totality.

Meditation as such purifies and lays the foundation to experience the true nature of your body, thoughts and emotions. It is the direct way to connect to the land of the beyond, of eternal bliss, free from the clutches of one's own mind.

Nithya Dhyaan is a technique that gives you what you need to balance your self and be in complete harmony with your body, mind and spirit; to harness the inner intelligence as a propelling force to excel in the inner and outer worlds.

It is a guided meditation technique for 35 minutes comprising 5 steps. Please listen to the instructions carefully.

Step 1: Sit in Vajrasana (if not possible cross legged or on a chair) with hands on your hips. Close your eyes and breathe chaotically for 7 minutes.

Step 2: Continue to sit in vajrasana (if not possible sit cross legged or on a chair). Form 'chin mudra' with your fingers (form a circle with thumb and forefinger of both hands, palm upwards), and placing your hands on your knees, hum intensely for 7 minutes.

Step 3: You may now sit cross-legged on the floor if you wish to or continue to sit in vajrasana and for 7 minutes you will take your awareness from the mooladhara chakra to the sahasrara chakra. Dwell on each chakra for a minute with awareness.

a. Take your awareness to the Mooladhara Chakra. Your Mooladhara is pure Your Mooladhara is filled with energy Your Mooladhara is overflowing with bliss Your Mooladhara is radiating THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM <After 1 minute>

b. Take your awareness to the Swadhisthana Chakra which is 2 inches above the mooladhara and 2 inches below the manipuraka chakra. Your Swadhisthana is pure Your Swadhisthana is filled with energy Your Swadhisthana is overflowing with bliss Your Swadhisthana is radiating THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM <After 1 minute>

c. Take your awareness to the Manipuraka Chakra which is located at the navel center.

Your Manipuraka is pure Your Manipuraka is filled with energy Your Manipuraka is overflowing with bliss Your Manipuraka is radiating THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM <After 1 minute>

d. Take your awareness to the Anahata Chakra which is located at the heart center. Your Anahata is pure Your Anahata is filled with energy Your Anahata is overflowing with bliss Your Anahata is radiating THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM <After 1 minute>

• e. Take your awareness to the Vishuddhi Chakra which is located at the throat center. Your Vishuddhi is pure Your Vishuddhi is filled with energy Your Vishuddhi is overflowing with bliss Your Vishuddhi is radiating THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM <After 1 minute>

• f. Take your awareness to the Ajna Chakra which is located in the region between your eyebrows. Your Ajna is pure Your Ajna is filled with energy Your Ajna is overflowing with bliss Your Ajna is radiating THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM <After 1 minute> g. Take your awareness to the Sahasrara Chakra which is located in the crown center. Your Sahasrara is pure Your Sahasrara is filled with energy Your Sahasrara is overflowing with bliss Your Sahasrara is radiating THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Step 4: For 7 minutes just be unclutched in silence.

Step 5: Take your awareness to the Sahasrara chakra. With your awareness only on your crown center just relax. Smile and relax.

With your whole Being, offer your gratitude to your Beloved mother for giving you this body. Remember and give your gratitude to her with all your Being.

Offer your gratitude to your Beloved father for giving you this life and providing for all your needs.

Offer your gratitude to all the doctors and nurses who received you when you came to Planet Earth.

Offer your gratitude to all the people who built the hospital or home where you were born.

Offer your gratitude to all the people who took care of you when you were an infant.

Offer your gratitude to all those who worked for your food, clothes and living when you were young.

Offer your gratitude to all the teachers who gave you primary education.

Offer your gratitude to all your young age friends who made your life happy and blissful, who shared their innocence and joy with you.

Offer your gratitude to your brothers and sisters and other relatives for nurturing you and caring for you. Offer your gratitude to all the people who gave you professional education, who helped you to stand in your profession, who gave you the courage to stand on your own feet.

Offer your gratitude to all the people who helped you financially, whenever you needed it.

Offer your gratitude to all the doctors and nurses who took care of your health, who gave you medical assistance whenever you needed it.

Offer your gratitude to your spouse for giving you love and security in your life.

Offer your gratitude and love to your children for coming into your life.

Offer your gratitude to all the people who encouraged you and gave you inspiration in your spiritual life.

Offer your gratitude to all those who have served you in one way or another all through your life: the milk man who delivers milk, the grocer, the laundry man, the garbage collector, your servants, your driver, all these people who you take for granted.

Offer your gratitude to your enemies and those who have hurt you, for making you strong and forgiving.

Offer your gratitude to all those who helped you physically, mentally, socially, economically and spiritually.

Remember each one of them and offer gratitude taking your own time.

Offer your gratitude to the master who has given you this Ananda Spurana experience.

Offer your gratitude to the Divine, to the Whole, to God, for making all these things possible in your life.

Second step – you will read whatever you have written, the samskara and re-live completely once more all the four layers of your desire, guilt, pain and joys. You will have 15-20 minutes, you can re-live the whole thing. After re-living, just relieve. Now actually you won't even feel connected with those things. You will feel that they are moving away, they are small bubbles happening in your being, it is a big ocean. Re-live everything and just bring them out. Visually you can visualize as if the bulldozers are moving the earth. Just like that see very clearly, the whole thing is just brought out. The whole thing is just moving away. And finally, offer everything into the agni. Here we will have the agni which is energized with the mantras, with the Upanishad mantras.

The master's love is the greatest medicine which can heal the past. The master's grace can really heal the total past and totally cut you from the past and give you the new birth. You are reborn, you become dvija (twice-born). At the time of sanynas, the homa, the fire ritual is done. To cut totally your self from the past, it is actually the ultimate initiation.

Let me explain the whole initiation. First the mantras are chanted, which mean 'I am burning all my past, my ideas of relationship, my ideas about the desires, my ideas about the worries, my ideas about depression, my ideas about aggressiveness.' All my ideas, one by one they narrate, and they just burn the whole thing in the fire.

Once they finish the burning, they feel so refreshed. When you do it consciously it just happens. Totally you are cleansed, you are out of it. Consciously, totally just put it in the fire, you will just see you are cut , the whole past is cut. You totally disconnect yourself from the past. This is the way to come out of all the seven layers. Finally, the final touch, the master's grace, or the master's blessings.

In the viraja homa, the intention is we purify the whole world, the whole universe. Of course when you are purified the whole world is purified. Understand you are going to disconnect yourself from the past consciously, totally.

Don't think, how my imagination will work for me. Imagination can do miracles. Sit for a few minutes and imagine all your wounds, all your suffering, all your guilt all your pain, all your tears, all your joy, all your desires, all your karmas.

If you want now you can sit and read the whole thing you have written once, so it will be easy for you to remember. Just relive the pain, relive the desire, relive the guilt, relive the past. From first line to last line read it all. Relive the whole past, the gist of your whole life from desire, guilt, pain and pleasure, from first step to last step.

First undergo all the desires, then undergo all the pain, then undergo all the pleasures. Relive all the moments deeply, as vividly as possible. Only when you live the karmas, they can leave you. Otherwise it will be just a hangover in you.

When you really live it, reliving is relieving. So take your own time, put all your emotion and imagination, step by step very slowly, as slowly as possible, as deeply as possible, no urgency. Relive it, only then you can relieve it. Live totally all the desires and all the guilt. Bring back and live with full emotion. Relive the whole scene and live the moments of pain, the moments of pleasure.

The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism ("SPH"), Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam ("JGM"), His Divine Holiness ("HDH") Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam, is recognized as the 1008th living incarnation of Paramashiva as per Sanatana Hindu Dharma ("Hinduism") and by His predecessors of enlightened masters and adepts

The SPH THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is reviving Hinduism as the 1008th Acharya Mahamandaleshwar (the head for all spiritual leaders) of Atal Akhada (ancient apex body of Hinduism), coronated as Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada (largest apex monastic order) and the youngest Mahamandaleshwar, ordained as the 233rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Thondai Mandala Aadheenam, ordained as the 293rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Shyamalapeeta Sarvajnapeetam, ordained as the 23rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Dharmamukthi Swargapuram Aadheenam, and coronated as the 203rd Emperor of Suryavamsa Surangi Samrajyam.

The Srimad Karana Agama, Purva bhaga, Patala 71, Sakalotpatti vidhi, Sloka 8 & 9 (Sacred Ancient Hindu scripture) declares:

इत्येवंनि ष्कळं प्रोक्तं परं भावंनिनि स्। सृनिस्थंलोकरंक्षाथंलोकस्येत्पनि कारंण।। सृधका नि#थं$ स्वंच्छये गृह्ण $)।

In this way (Shiva) who is Nishkala - without any body and parts, who is the Ultimate Supreme Being, who is established in the Creation, who is the Cause of the creation of the Universe, assumes a body out of His Free Will for the protection of the Universe, and for the welfare of the Spiritual seekers and Devotees.

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is the reigning spiritual emperor of 17 ancient traditional Hindu kingdoms and the reviver of the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people. Following the coronation to establish KAILASA worldwide at the age of 16, for the past 27 years, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, as the face of the unified Hindus, has been single-handedly, tirelessly inspiring the dispossessed Hindu Diaspora to reclaim their Hindu centric freedom and stand unified for the centuries-old Hindu genocide.

The 1008th living incarnation of Paramaśiva, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM stands as the unifying force for the 2 billion born and practicing Hindu diaspora worldwide and established the Hindu State, KAILASA for the persecuted Hindus in over 100 countries. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM has made resolute efforts towards recognizing and legitimizing the Hindu genocide which has been receiving scant consideration by global leaders and international bodies, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM founded KAILASA Uniting Nations. For the past 27 years, this international body has been responsible in building relations, bridging dialogs, inspiring leaders, uniting nations towards acknowledging the Hindu policies which are universal, life positive as referenced from the ancient text of Hinduism. This is the 'ahimsa' (non-violent) way of bringing acknowledgment to the horrors of the Hindu genocide, the untold facts of the darkest act of mankind on Earth to the most contributing civilization - KAILASA.

KAILASA is an apolitical nation whose vision is enlightened living for all. Towards this goal, KAILASA is the only Hindu nation on planet Earth today bringing legitimacy to the principles of Hinduism. Social principles, economic principles, judicial principles, Hindu medical principles, and Hindu economic principles. KAILASA is THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's response to humanity's global problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease, violence and global warming and the continuing ethnocide and genocide of over 80 million Hindus worldwide since 7 centuries.

Over the last 50 years, the effects of meditation and its significant impact on stress, crime rates, violence, political decision making and even war in local and global consciousness is well established. Unfortunately, in the last two hundred years, forcibly we are made to believe Hinduism is a functional principle only for enlightenment and spirituality. It is absolutely dysfunctional for the political, social, economical system. Making Hindu family structure, Hindu social structure dysfunctional is the greatest crime done against humanity.

Sanatana Hindu Dharma has faced both historical and ongoing religious persecution and systematic violence, in various forms including assassination attempts on living incarnations, targeted elimination of Hindu pontiffs through bio war and lawfare, cyberbullying, Hindu phobia, forced conversions, documented massacres, demolitions, desecration and grabbing of worship temples and monasteries, looting of Hindu temples properties, destruction of Hindu educational institutions, elimination of well known Hindu libraries, the gross violation to the freedom to practice the Hindu school of liberated thinking (Sankhya), Hindu schools of living enlightenment (Jeevan Mukthi), gross violations of the right to freedom of religion that includes violations of the right to life, personal Hindu integrity or personal Hindu liberty, mass execution, looting and enslavement.

Hinduism was once practiced freely in over 56 nations across the continent from Afghanistan, Bharat, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, all the way to Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia and Indonesia, and in 200 states, 1700 samasthanas (provinces) and 10,000 sampradayas (traditions). Over several centuries the combined forces of foreign invasion, political upheaval, colonialism and religious persecution systematically ended millennia of Hindu Swarajya, or self-rule. Today Hindu temples remain in a few countries but the Hindus who worshiped in them have been ethnically cleansed.

The revival of Hinduism through the civilizational nation of KAILASA globally irked vested interests of atheistic terrorist militant elements, caste supremacist terrorists and other anti-Hindu forces who executed a massive persecution and genocide on SPH and His followers on 2 March 2010 that continued for the next whole decade and comprised of over 70 assassination attempts, over 250 sexual assaults on SPH and his monks and disciples, lawfare of 120 false cases over 10 years, massive hate propaganda in electronic media of over 14,000 hours and print media of over 25,000 articles in 5 years, destruction of heritage properties worth over 27 million USD, and the continuing ethnocide and genocide of over 80 million Hindus worldwide since 7 centuries. Specifically, the lawfare involved:

• Delegitimizing SPH by hate propaganda, disenfranchising Him of His civil and human rights, prejudicing Him from fair representation and fair trial
• Repeated illegal imprisonment, with brazen torture, custodial assassination attempts, supported by system justification in various forms, including the common processes of bureaucracy, indifference, self-deception, diffused responsibility and has resulted in continued systemic complicity with torture, murder and genocide
• Well-planned multi-layer false hate propaganda by the 'fourth estate' media sustained by moral disengagement, leaving the broader public in a state of willful ignorance, motivated denial, out-group victim-blaming, dehumanization and bystander apathy to even genocide.

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM stands in solidarity with the untold, multi-level - social, political, intellectual, religious, cultural, linguistic, economic, legal, digital - persecution done to Hinduism and faced by Hindus and Hindu minorities worldwide for the past several thousands of years continues through the modern day. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM has been recently acknowledged by the United Nations for the persecution of The SPH and the KAILASA global community, especially the affected women and children.

The KAILASA with de facto spiritual embassies operating across over 100 countries and having presence across the globe as the largest spiritual knowledge source on Hinduism is spiritually governed with the life positive, all-inclusive, universal policies sourced from Hinduism revived by the THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Having enriched and enreached more than one billion individuals over the past 27 years the KAILASA raises the voice to protect Hindus, defend Hindus and preserve the Hindu narrative for the world.