17. Express Enlightenment

People ask THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, 'Master give us an easy way for enlightenment.'

There is a simple and practical way. Don't doubt it before we practice it. Usually, it is our habit to doubt anything new instantly. Let us not doubt this method until we practice it.

First understand what the state called Enlightenment is. It means being in eternal bliss. It means our bliss cannot be disturbed by the events of the outer world. It also means that we get the intelligence to leave outside what is in the outer world. An enlightened person doesn't bring anything that happens in the outer world to the inner world. Leave everything that happens in the outside right there.

We all know that the outer world is crazy. It keeps changing not once, not twice, but at the same rate as we blink. The outer world is always changing. Yet all our tasks are based on this outer world. Treat our tasks in the outer world as housekeeping. It is housekeeping in our dream. What happens to a dream when we wake up? It simply disappears.

When THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM says housekeeping in the dream, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM isn't saying don't do housekeeping. Do it. But understand the chore and do it in such a way that it will not perturb us. Simply understand that the whole life is a dream. That idea alone, when followed with depth, is enough to provide us the experience of enlightenment.

Feel and tell yourself, 'I am doing my housekeeping because I enjoy it.' Over.

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM explains it with another example. We play with toys. Let us say that we threw away all the toys when we turned 10. Just because we threw away toys, are we not giving toys to kids now? Do we tell them, 'No! I played with toys and threw them away. Don't play.' No, we don't say that.

We say, let kids play as long as they want, until he matures. This is exactly what THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is saying. The moment we accept and understand, 'Let me play the housekeeping, in the dreams, until I understand,' that very acceptance will lead us to enlightenment.

What if we are unable to accept? If we are unable to accept, accepting that we are unable to accept is enough to get us out of the rut of past and future. We are pulled towards the past or future because we don't understand what IS!

Completely express whatever state we are in. We are experiencing enlightenment!