1. The Koshas Single Volume

• 1.1 Work towards experience
• 1.2 Let go of that identity; have a real vacation!
• 1.3 Revel in the revelation

• 2.1 Meaning of atman story from mahabharata
• 2.2 The goal of this program
• 2.3 Sitting with the master
• 2.4 Beyond techniques…do not miss!
• 2.5 The alchemy
• 2.6 Don"t judge, just relax
  • 3. Dive in!
• 3.1 Mistake your identity!
• 3.2 Completely open … listen…
• 4. Practicing the upanishad
• 4.1 Be with sincerity
• 5. Owner's manual for the mind
• 6. The master's effect on your TPS
• 6.1 TPS and Koshas the Relationship
• 7. Question and Answers

To learn about Atma Spurana To prepare for Atma spurana To know about 5 koshas

First, I wish to tell you a few basic things before we enter into the program:

Whatever knowledge you have with you already, all the intellectual stuff that you have collected till now, from previous programs and from any reading, please keep it aside while you are here. Just sit as an open being. Then, it will be easy for me to help you. It would be a waste of your money if you sat here with all the old knowledge that you have in you already. Any knowledge that you have within you that has not become a solid experience for you as yet, should be sent out of your system.

Even if the knowledge was from my earlier programs, if whatever you have heard has not become an experience in you, do not carry it with you. Especially now, do not keep it in your head. Whatever has become a solid experience would have left your head long ago. It will be in your being. So whatever is still in the head has not become an experience. So, send it out. Sit in a completely relaxed way. You can be very free and relaxed. When you sit, don"t sit with an attitude of "I know this", "I know that", "I have heard this earlier", etc. A small story:

A young man worked hard and prepared for a presentation, and then delivered it to the target audience. The whole group enjoyed it except one professor – a highly intellectual person. At the end of the presentation, the young man asked that professor, 'Did you enjoy the presentation? What is your opinion of it?'

The professor replied, 'I know every word that you uttered in the presentation. I know the book from which it is taken. Then, how will I enjoy it? Every word which you used is there in that book.' The young man was shocked and said, 'No, I can't believe this, Professor.' The professor said, 'I will send you that book tomorrow.' The next day, the professor sent the book to him. The book was a dictionary!

Understand! You might think that this is amusing, but your mind also plays the same cunning role. It keeps concluding every minute, "I know everything that he is talking. I read it in that book, I read it in this book, I heard it spoken in that discourse," and what not. Your mind will always be taking things for granted.

Maybe this story is a little exaggerated, but your mind is not far from it. If you watch your mind closely, you will understand what I am saying. You will understand that the basic thread is the same, whether it is your mind or the professor"s; just the degree is different, that"s all.

I always tell people: spending years and years in just acquiring knowledge is a mere waste. If you can work towards one solid experience, it is the best thing that can happen to you. What do I mean by experience? Experience means being convinced beyond your logic that ultimate truths are livable, that ultimate truths are reality. That is what I call experience.

Some people who are a little innocent, who don"t have a large amount of knowledge stored in them, will have the "click" or "experience" easily. Only those who don"t want to get rid of their knowledge, those who have vested interests in their knowledge, take ages to experience.

Understand: it is very rare to get the presence of an enlightened master in your life. I am telling you in very clear words not to miss it. When you are near a master, you are near such a great possibility, so do not waste it, merely because of your mind and the stored information. When I tell this to people, they don"t listen, and when I leave the country, they sit and repent for not having fully utilized the time and space around me.

One more important thing: be a little more flowing than your usual self during the time you are here. You are in a safe and blissful zone, so just let go. Don"t be frozen and serious. Nobody is here to exploit you; you are in a completely safe and secure zone. So be relaxed and open.

People are constantly holding onto their identity because they feel insecure and threatened that their identity might disappear if they let go. Deep down, all of you have a desire to actually be in a place where you don"t need to hold onto your identity; where no one will recognize you, and you can just let go and do what you wish to do. So, when I create such a situation, people see the possibility for it to happen, but feel insecure because of that. Just see the self-contradiction!

When you see a beach, or a resort, or a snow covered mountain in a website or on television or in photographs, you always feel that you should be there at that spot, is it not? You visualize and

fantasize that you are traveling by boat and enjoying that ambience! But when you actually go to that spot, you don"t feel that same joy or ecstasy which you felt when you fantasized.

When you think of Miami, it is amazing, but when you live there, it is not so amazing. Why is this so? Because the desire swelling in you, is actually to be in a place where you don"t need to hold onto your identity. While this is your real desire, you think that the place is the real desire! You know that there is nobody in Miami who knows you and so you don"t have to hold onto your identity for survival. This is the actual thought under all the layers of thoughts. This thought does not even surface consciously; it is there subconsciously. This thought is an expression of your yearning for freedom from identity. This is what you are really searching for, not any fantasy place. Understand this truth very deeply and it will help you to have a real vacation here and now! Your desire for vacation is nothing but the desire to be away from your identity. But when you go there, without knowing the truth that you started out with, you try to establish your identity there also. In two days, you establish your same old identity firmly, and experience the same hell. You settle down comfortably with your old hell.

Now, for these two days, try to have a real vacation. Move away from your identity. First, move away from your friends and family; do not sit next to them. If you sit next to them, you will constantly feel obliged to react the way they would want you to. You will be having some identity or image of yourself with that relative. You will be forced to maintain that identity all the time, if you sit next to them; your words, your laughter, your body language, even the way you sit, etc. You will be unconsciously maintaining it all for their sake. And every time you do that, you will be establishing your old identity again. I have seen husbands who do not laugh completely when they are sitting with their wives. Every time they feel like laughing, they look for some kind of concurrence.

If the wife laughs, they will also laugh. So much of bonding is not required! At least, for these two days, you can be a little away from it and relax. It is for your own good that I am saying this, not for anything else.

Our meditation programs are never designed; they are just revealed. There is a big difference between designing and revelation. Let us understand this first. This is the first thing which you need to understand. "Designed" means having prior information as to:

What does the customer want? What is supposed to be supplied? How best to package it? What is the purpose of the product? "Design" is an analysis of what you want to give, and how you want to market it. With all this information, with all this data, the product is created and marketed. "Revelation" needs just one thing: the need of the customer, that"s all, nothing else. What does the person in front of you need? Then, the Truth, as it should be expressed, simply comes out on its own! That is revelation.

Let us understand the word Atma Spurana before entering into the program. Literally when translated, Atma Spurana means "Flowering of the Self". The word "Self" needs to be understood. In the Western dictionary, the word "self" is always understood as "ego" or "individual identity". But in the vedic tradition, "Self" is not considered as the individual identity. It is the eternally existing consciousness. Atma Spurana is the flowering of this consciousness.

What are koshas? Koshas literally means sheaths or coverings.

For example, we say biologically our physical body comprises of various systems like nervous system, circulatory system, muscul-skeletal system, respiratory system etc. This does not mean that there are so many separate systems each of which has its own body part. The same physical body has a number of organs, a group of which can be classified into performing a certain function. For example, the respiratory system has all the organs like the heart, lungs, throat etc which are involved with the functions of inhalation, exhalation and sending the oxygen to each and every part of the body and collecting the carbon dioxide from every cell of the body.

So also, we can classify our body-mind-spirit system in different ways. One such classification is the koshas. The annamaya kosha is related to the physical body which is the body we can see, touch and feel. The pranamaya kosha is related to the breath, which is directly and deeply related to our desires. The manomaya kosha is related to our mental thoughts. The vijnanamaya kosha is related to all our feelings and emotions. The anandamaya kosha is related to the bliss in us - our true nature.

We don"t need to work on the Self itself in order to make this flowering happen. We need to work on something which is between that us and that Self. Your body, your mind, your emotions, these few things which are between you and your Self is what we need to work on. These are called koshas; they are energy sheaths, in and around us. Only these koshas, which are five in number, need to flower, need to open, need to radiate, need to fall in tune. Understand: the ultimate Self does not need anything, only the instruments with which you experience the Self need to flower; they need to open up for you to experience the Self or Truth. All five layers need to be purified so that they constantly radiate enlightenment.

The Pancadasi says that the sheeths (Koshas) are like a cave in which Truth is hidden. It says, it is possible to know Brahman or Truth, which is hidden in this cave.

One more thing: in the NSP, we work on the samskaras or engraved memories that are printed on the koshas, on the layers. Now we are going to work on the koshas themselves*,* on the very canvas itself.

See, in each one of you, there is something which gives you the confidence. Even though you die again and again, there is something that gives you a deep confidence that you will not die in the real sense. That is what the

Atman or the Self is. There is a beautiful story in the great Hindu epic Mahabharata. It is called Yakshaprashna:

There was a demigod named Yaksha who had a quiz program with Yudhishtira – one of the five Pandava Princes, known for treading the path of dharma, or righteousness.

The demigod was asking all his questions and one of the questions was, 'What is the most surprising thing on planet Earth?'

Yudhishtira says, 'Every moment, every day, we see so many people going to a mass abode – the abode of death. Even then, every soul, every person who lives here, thinks that he is not going to die! He thinks that he is going to be here forever; that only others are going to die. That is the most surprising thing on planet Earth!'

There is something which gives you the confidence; there is some energy that constantly gives you the idea that you are going to be here forever. That is what we call Atman! If we understand this truth and catch on to the energy, or Self, behind this thinking, we will celebrate death as a mere passage in the existence of the Self. Instead, if we understand this truth in the context of the physical body, we will end up believing that death can never take our body away from us, and we suffer when it actually happens.

Every one of you, every one of us, experiences the Self, but unfortunately, not all the time. Every one of us has got some experience or at least a vague idea about that Self. Without this hidden belief, there would be no logic for you to hold on to this body. You holding on to the body, is only a disguise of the truth that your Self is eternal. Holding on to this body is possible only because you have some idea, in some corner of your mind, that you won"t perish, that you won"t die. Consciously you think that it is your body that can"t perish, but the deep truth is that it is your Self.

Atma Spurana means flowering of the Self, that Self, that consciousness which is in you; making it alive; making this as a solid experience for you throughout your life. The goal, or the purpose of the whole program is making that Self alive, making that as a living experience, which will hold good for your entire life.

Making the Self alive was the very goal of the Master/disciple relationship in the Vedic tradition. And to achieve this, you should know the significance of these koshas. Then, you can achieve inner bliss in a much easier and quicker way. During the Vedic times, knowledge of these koshas was passed down from the Master to the disciple through learning of the Vedic scriptures such as the Upanishad. The Upanishad speaks extensively about these koshas. Knowledge about them was imparted in Vedic schools called Gurukul. In the olden days, the disciples went to Gurukuls and learned about life engineering, that is, Spirituality. Once they undertook training in such profound truths, the rest of the academics became child"s play. The reason is, through Upanishadic training, the very learning stemmed from deep consciousness, not from mere intellect.

In Gurukuls, whatever be the area of learning for the child, the deep seeking in them for the ultimate truth was continuously nurtured. That was the thread in which everything else was strung. They were continuously prodded to inquire what man"s search in life was about. Every human being has this question and the answer for it, deeply embedded in him. It is the responsibility of the enlightened Masters to bring this out of them, and help them achieve fulfilment through it. It is only because this question is not brought out, that we really do not know what we are searching for. The aim of education in the Gurukuls was to bring out this question, and to identify the answer.

This whole program is based on Taitreya Upanishad. The basic techniques, or the ideas which we are going to practice, are from Taitreya Upanishad. The word Upanishad is a very powerful word. The

translation of that word is just … "sitting"… nothing else. Just sitting can do so much in you. Sitting

in the presence of the Master, just sitting with the Master, can do so much in you. That is why the essence of all the Vedic scriptures is called Upanishad or "just sitting". It is the ultimate technique.

When you sit with the Master, the Upanishad … the sitting … happens; some strange process starts happening in you, which can neither be called as a technique, nor as a no-technique. It is literally like cooking, or boiling! By tomorrow evening, you are expected to be completely boiled. In Sanskrit we have a word Siddha. Siddha has two meanings: 1.) enlightened 2.) cooked, boiled. So, by tomorrow evening you are expected to be completely boiled or cooked. It is just like adding something to you and taking something away from you, both simultaneously. Whatever can be taken away, will be taken away, and whatever needs to be added will be added. The Master"s presence is like the cooking fire. Just like how in cooking, you add some ingredients, remove some ingredients and in the presence of fire, when you do this, cooking happens, when you just sit in the presence of the Master, cooking happens. It is more of a process.

If you have done our first level programs like the Ananda Spurana Program (ASP), Life Bliss Program (LBP), or the THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Spurana Program (NSP), you would know that all these programs are technique based. Technique-based means you will be taught some technique in the camp which you can practice here, or you can go back home and practice it. How much effort you put in, that much you will grow. That much will become an experience. It happens.

There are next level programs like the Dhyana Spurana Program (DSP) or THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. These are not technique-based. There won"t be any technique to do. Just understanding will be imparted there. The understanding itself will add so much to you. Just the simple, yet deep understanding is enough. It will change your ideas about yourself, the world and the cosmic energy, that is Jeeva, Ishwara and Jagat. If your ideas about these three change, you will be transformed. This is the second level.

Now, this program is neither technique-based nor no-technique-based. Technique-based is when

you will learn something to be done here and which you can go back home and practice. You will not receive anything like that now. You will not receive anything which you can practice at home.

No-technique-based is that which is based on just understanding, nothing else. You will not be doing anything. But now, it is not that you are going to keep quiet either. That is why I say that it is neither technique-based, nor no-technique-based. It is called a "process", or "alchemy". Alchemy is a process where a lower base metal is transformed to a higher metal by adding something to it and removing something from it.

There is a reason why I want to give this detailed introduction to you. The reason is, I don"t want any of you to miss the whole aim of this program. Please do not miss a single session. With technique based programs, if you miss one or two techniques, there"s no problem. You will have 80% of the result. With the no-technique based program, you don"t even need to come for the program, just the DVD is enough! Your physical presence is not needed. But now, not only your physical presence, my physical presence is also needed. Both of us need to sit with each other. That is why this Upanishad starts with a beautiful mantra. Let us enter into that mantra next.

For the next few days, please decide very clearly: you are going to be here for the whole program without missing a single session. People will come and ask, "Swamiji, I have to go and pick up my kids. Can I go and come back?" In Bharat we do the Atma Spurana program for four days. But you know that in this country that even if God comes, he has to come in the weekend! If he comes in the weekdays, you ask him for his email ID saying you will get back to him! So for at least this weekend, let us be here completely doing the Upanishad. Please do not miss even a single session. Just be with the entire flow.

You can be relaxed; there is no need to be serious. Of course, if you are checking me out, then you will be serious, too serious, trying to constantly judge me and what I am doing. But I tell you: don"t bother too much, just relax. I am already judged by people around the world. If you are sitting here, waiting and judging, you are going to miss the whole thing. That is the problem. If you are judging, you will be wasting your time.

Judging is not wrong. The preliminary programs like LBP, NSP, Dhyana Spurana Program…all those programs I have created for the people who are first timers, who are judging. But this program, the Atma Spurana Program, I have designed more for the people who are really interested in diving deep. The other programs aim at breadth. This program aims at depth. So unfortunately, if you have not done any of the checking out programs, decide not to waste your time any further. If you have already checked out a bit, then you won"t have a problem. You will be completely ready to dive in. So now, don"t bother much about judging. Just dive deep into your being.

One more thing: you will not be able to understand about me unless you dive into the technology that I have created. And unless you have dived and had one experience, you can"t judge either. Unless you yourself have one experience, you can"t understand whether I had it or not. Only when you have some experience, you can understand. So even if you want to judge me, jump completely inside. Only then you will be able to judge properly. If you are standing outside and judging, then you are a critic, not a seeker.

There are two ways of looking at things. Understand: a positive doubt such as maybe what he is saying is right - if you just have that "maybe", that"s enough. It is a scientist"s mind, a beginner"s mind. How a

scientist approaches a theory, in the same way, but in the beginner"s stage. Then there is scope for so much to happen; so much of work can be done. Otherwise, you will be just sitting and wasting your time and my time.

Even if you are not able to completely throw away your doubts, decide for these two days that you will strongly believe, you will strongly trust, you will strongly work with the Master, that"s all. Doubt will completely disappear only when you become enlightened. But now, you can decide that you will put the maximum possible energy in the direction of working with the Master.

You have two paths: you can put your energy on working, or on doubting and wasting time. Now, I am asking you to put your energy more towards working. If you doubt, I need to waste a lot of time in convincing you and proving to you. I have already convinced people around the world. And for sure, there are at least a few "more intelligent" people than you in that number. So just relax from the head.

Why do you think I have to tell you so many things? Why do I have to take so much time in doing this? Because people waste so much time in intellectual jugglery, that"s why.

The other day, I went to one of our devotee"s house. I was telling his daughter to do an LBP program. She told me, "I will do whatever my mom says, but I should be convinced about it." I wanted to ask her, "Does that mean that whatever you are doing, you are totally convinced about?" No! The problem is, in other things in life, we are not bothered about logical conviction, but when it comes to spirituality, we are too cautious. I wanted to ask that girl, "You must be smoking or drinking. Are you logically convinced that it is good for you?" There are so many things that people are not logically convinced about, but they go ahead and do it. But when it comes to spirituality, they get too cautious. They spend a lot of time and energy in just intellectual jugglery. The real reason is, they do not want to enter into reality, that"s all! It is a cunning way of postponing reality.

See, you want to claim yourself as spiritual, but you are not ready to transform in order to claim that! So, you just play with the knowledge. Playing with knowledge is a nice way of postponing reality.

I am telling you very clearly: you are spoiled, corrupted with so many unnecessary words and ideas. It is time now to dump all the words and go in for the experience, for the truth. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says beautifully, "People go into the mango garden and do a big survey, a big research. They analyse: how many types of mango are there? What is the production cost? What is the sales cost? What is the income? How many trees are there? How many branches and how many leaves are there? All the statistics are put down. There are some other people who simply go in, pluck a few mangoes, eat them and come out!

We waste too much time in analysis! The whole time is spent on project planning. No work gets done!

Actually, you don"t need so much time with me. Only because you are loaded with words, with too much analysis, do you have to sit together with me for two days for anything to happen. I have seen

so many people having the experience without going through any technique or program with me.

Just the other day, I visited an ailing devotee. She has not done any of our programs, but she has achieved a far deeper state than anyone else. Actually, I went to heal her, actually, to bless her before she would pass away. After healing, I turned towards her feet and did namaskar. When I came out, one of my close disciples who had caught my action asked me, 'What is this Swamiji? You did namaskar to her, towards her feet, why? She has not even done any of our programs!' I told him, 'She has not done any of our programs. All she had done was heard about me, and she felt connected! That's all. She has seen me only once.'

I explained further why I did namaskar to her feet.

In Bhagavata Purana (ancient Hindu epic), there is a beautiful story where Krishna is painting the feet of Radha with mehandi (Hindu concoction for decorative coloring of hands and feet). The rishis got jealous seeing this. They asked Krishna, 'What is this? How can you do this to a girl? You may be in love with her, but you are God, so how can you touch the feet of somebody, and that too a girl? This is too much. We can't digest this.'

Actually their ego was hurt, that's all. They fall at Krishna's feet and touch them. Now, Krishna is touching Radha's feet! It means to them that they are indirectly touching Radha's feet, which they do not want! That is their real problem.

Krishna answers beautifully, 'Understand: purely by her devotion, she is more connected to me than this body is connected to me, so this body is feeling shy and of ering its respect to that body, to that person.'

If you understand this one thing, the Ātma Spurana is done, nothing else is needed!

Krishna says, "She is more connected to me than this body is connected to me. I feel she is more close to me than this body. That is why this body is touching her feet and offering its devotion and respect!"

This one sentence has got so many truths. The first thing is, it clearly implies that Krishna is beyond his body. That is why he is able to talk of the body in that fashion. The second thing: the feeling of connectedness happens only through deep trust or surrendering or relaxing, as in the case of Radha. Third: when devotion happens in you, you become much more than God! Understand: when devotion happens in you, you become much more than God! That is what you need to understand by this one sentence, by this one statement.

So, I told the same thing to the disciple who questioned me. I felt that the ailing devotee was more connected to me than this body itself because of her simple faith and devotion. A few days later, she left the body so beautifully and gracefully. She never trained with the ways of intellect or logic in her life.

People sometimes think that if you are from the West, you will be stuck in logic and if you are from the East, you will be more towards the being. This is not true. I know so many Hindus who are so strong in the head and so many Westerners who simply melt when they see me for the first time! It is to do with the quality of your being, not with where you took birth.

Anyhow, for these two days, drop from your identity. If you are a doctor, think of yourself as an engineer. If you are a lawyer, think of yourself as a doctor. If you are male, think of yourself as female. Just change your identity; relax from your identity for these two days. You don"t know the freedom you will experience if you are able to do this! Just for these two days decide, "There is no need for me to prove my identity to anyone. I am not going to prove my identity to anyone. I am not going to hold on to my identity." Just for these two days, be a Paramahamsa! The word Paramahamsa literally means: instead of society calling me mad, I myself say I am mad, so that I am free!

Just look at me! I don"t have to follow any one idea. I don"t have to follow any one mould. I give you only one guarantee: that I will not hurt you; that"s all. After that, I don"t have to prove anything to you. I am not even interested in proving any identity to you. That is why I don"t even use the word swami in my title. This swami word is associated with too much identity, too many problems. That is why I never use the word swami in my title*. Paramahamsa* means liberated. You can also live the life of liberation for these few days.

As long as you are here, try to even avoid talking. If you start talking, you will have to bring back your old identity; you have to talk in the same way; you will be in the same track. So for two days, just relax; do not carry the identity; do not carry your same ideas; just be like a vagabond.

Actually, hippies are the people who are very close to enlightenment; all they need is a little meditation, that"s all. They have all the other qualifications for enlightenment. I lived a hippie for nine years, but of course, not with drugs, with only meditation! If you simply remove drugs, and add meditation to hippies, they are enlightened … over! Nothing else needs to be done. Just remove their drugs and add some meditation. For these two days, let you be enlightened hippies! Paramahamsa is just an enlightened hippie, nothing else! Hippie minus drug plus meditation equals enlightenment, that"s all!

For these two days, just relax from all identities; relax from feeling compelled to prove your identity; just be completely relaxed. Don"t bother about the results. At the end, you will see that so much can happen in you. So much of transformation can happen in you; you will be a new being, a new person when you leave the hall.

This is such a great opportunity to sit, to experience Upanishad. Now, you are going to experience Upanishad. It is such a great opportunity to experience Upanishad from the very source of the Vedic tradition; from the very root! So, all you need to do is only one thing: relaxing from your identity. If you don"t have one, you are saved; half the job is done. If you have one, then relax from it for the next two days.

Now, we will start the first thing - the initiation. Sit with a completely open being. You can even visualize and feel that you are open. Visualize that you are completely open; that you are a flower fully opened, fully blossomed, fully available; that you are totally relaxed. Just listen to these few mantras that I am going to chant. I am going to chant mantras from the Upanishad on which we are going to work.

Close your eyes. Just sit completely open and in silence. The silence always exists … inside you and outside you. Sit with a completely open being. Make your inner space available and open, for the downloading of this new software that is going to happen now.

Just visualize very clearly that you are opening your body, that you are opening your prana - that is the air circulation; that you are opening your mind - that is, your inner chattering; that you are opening all your emotions; that you are opening your very inner space.

These words are powerful words coming to you directly from enlightened beings, now recited again by an enlightened being, towards enlightened beings that is you all…

… from an enlightened being through an enlightened being to enlightened beings… Let your eyes be closed. Be completely open and relaxed.

Let these words vibrate in you and penetrate your core. Be completely open. The whole process is now getting inscribed into your inner space, so that it can open by itself. It can take care of the process by itself. It is literally like downloading a software. Just allow it. Put your whole energy to open up. Allow whatever happens to happen.

Relax. You may now open your eyes.

Now, you will see that this very downloading itself will do the process. You don"t have to worry that you don"t understand the meaning of what I have just chanted. In fact, even if you understand the meaning, try to avoid going into what you think the meaning is. In reality, you don"t know the meaning. Sanskrit is not just a linguistic language; it is a phonetic language also. You may know the meaning of the words as written in the dictionary – that is the linguistic meaning. But, you will not know the phonetic experience of it, the other layer of it. So just relax, and allow the downloaded software to work on you.

You have the great fortune of sitting with an enlightened being. Enlightened beings are the only

living Gods on planet Earth. If I declare this openly, sometimes, people get irritated. Their ego gets hurt. They ask: how can he claim that? Understand one thing very clearly: don"t bother whether I am God or not; but just you trusting this statement, just by you believing this statement, you are going to be helped these few days. I have finished solving all my problems. By saying that I am God or I am not, I am not going to have any problem. Also, by you accepting that I am God, I am not going to gain something out of it. No! If you don"t accept also, I am not going to bother about it. By you not accepting it, my personality is not going to be affected in anyway! I am not going to lose confidence on myself. Do you understand what I am saying? Whether you accept it, or not accept it, my confidence in myself is not going to be affected in any way. I have solved my life already! Only thing: if you accept, it will help you; that is the only reason. For the next two days, it will be a big help for you. In making such a statement, I am proposing it more as a technique, as a method, than as a fact. You may take it more as a method, to lift you or to transform your consciousness, than as a fact. So, just take it as a method, and work.

Fortunately, enlightened beings are not selected by voting! They just declare themselves, that"s all! Whether people vote or not, they don"t care. That is the greatness of enlightenment!

As I told you, this program has nothing to do with any technique or no-technique. It is a clear process. After this program, you are not expected to practice anything at home. You will not carry back any technique from here and practice it. No! It is a process that we are doing now, and you will carry back only the experience. That will itself do its work. So, just carry the experience that will become part of you.

Before entering into the Upanishad - that is the process, let us learn the Upanishad. What do I mean by Upanishad? "Just sitting', that"s all. Upanishad means 'sit'. You may think, "I am sitting already!" No. You are not sitting. You are only trying to sit. You are not "just sitting". Now, you will "just sit". Please do not ask questions like, "How long, why, what are we going to gain and what not…" I am not going to answer even if you ask these questions. Just sit, that"s all. Let us see what happens if we just sit. Many things might surface: maybe boredom or the thought that you came all this way just to do this…" Whatever your mind may tell … just sit. Don"t listen to your mind. It may tell you anything, but you just sit. No technique, no visualization, no mantra, no meditation, not even un-clutching from the mind, no technique needs to be done…do not do anything. Just sit. You can tie your eye bands.

Remember only one thing: you are sitting in the presence of a Master. Upanishad is happening. Just sit.

• (A few minutes pass) Om Nithyanandam….Relax. You can open your eyes.

You might wonder why I am giving you such an extensive preparation. In this Atma Spurana program, the preparation is very important. If you internalize the preparation, you are done with the purpose of the program! That is why I am stressing these points so much. These points are the real truth of this program.

Upanishad…it is a very powerful process. I request you not to miss even a single session. Next thing, for Upanishad to happen, you need to be "here and now". It means two things: 1.) You can"t sleep as you do normally 2.) You need to be inside your boundary. What do I mean by being inside your boundary? Currently, your bodies are not like your homes; they are more like hotels, your lodges. You put your luggage in it and start roaming around. That is the way you use your body. If you are physically at home, your mind will be in the office. If you are physically in the office, your mind might be planning a vacation. If you are eating, your mind will be watching television. You are never inside your boundary! But for these two days, you are expected to be at home inside your body … and no sleeping!

There is a small story. I always love to tell this story because I really enjoy this story! A great preacher, a man who was preaching in the name of God all over the world, along with a wild taxi driver, maybe from Chennai, or New York or Calcutta...Calcutta is number 1, maybe Chennai gets number 2, then New York…Anyhow, a taxi driver died at the same time as the preacher, and reached Lord Yama's court. Yama is the Lord of death. Yama does the regular enquiry.

First the taxi driver came, as usual – fast! Yama asked, 'What were you doing for a living?' 'I was driving a taxi,' he replied. Then Yama saw the list of sins and merits. Now of course, they must have computerized these lists! He saw the whole list and said, 'Alright, have the golden key and go to heaven.'

Next, the preacher came. Yama asked, 'What were you doing? What's your name?' The preacher replied, 'I was spreading the Lord's name all over planet Earth.' He started giving his regular sermon, as usual - his fully well memorized speech. Yama said, 'Stop, stop, stop. Relax.' Then he saw the list of sins and merits and said, 'I think you need to go to hell.'

The moment the preacher heard this, he started shouting, 'What? Just for a taxi driver, you gave heaven. How dare you send me to hell? I will sue you.' Preachers are professional shouters.

Yama said, 'Relax. Let me explain to you. Here, up in heaven, we are not bothered about what you do. We bother only about the result.' This taxi driver, even though he was driving the taxi rashly, was so wild in his driving, that the people sitting inside the taxi and those who were outside on the road, were all the time praying to God for their lives because of him! He made so many people theists. He made them all believers in God. What he did is secondary. But, by the ef ect of his actions, he converted many of them into believers of God! But even though you were preaching about God, you were preaching in such a way that you put people to sleep!'

So understand the problem is: if you sleep now, when I go up, I will have a problem! So at least, maybe not for your sake, but for my sake, don"t sleep!

One more thing: if I am telling Ramayana or Mahabharata or Bhagavatam, then you can sleep, because you might have heard these stories earlier, and you may wonder how many times you will listen to the same story. You know the whole story of Ramayana: Rama is the one who will go to the forest, Sita is the one who will be kidnapped, and Hanuman is the only one who will go to Lanka. Then Rama will go and kill Ravana. Sita will be brought back, and then the coronation ceremony of Rama will happen. You know the whole story. And how many times will you listen to the same story? Naturally, you will think: for one session, I can take a nap. You can catch up, even if you miss a session. Not much is lost.

I have seen very funny things happening when these stories are staged. In January, we went to the Kumbha mela in Allahabad, where I saw these stories being enacted. Not only were the people who were listening sleeping, even the person who was singing on stage was sleeping sometimes!

Anyhow, now I am not going to tell you how Rama lived, or how Krishna lived, or how Christ lived. We are going to directly deal with how you are living. So now we can"t afford to sleep. Neither can you afford to sleep, nor can I. So both of us have to remain awake. What you will do to keep yourself awake, I don"t know.

First thing: no sleeping. Second thing: sitting inside your boundary. This sitting inside your boundary is a very important thing to be understood. Just observe your life. Early morning, when you wake up, when you get out of your bed and start brushing your teeth, your mind is already sitting in the office, thinking about your boss, thinking about the answers that you are supposed to give, thinking about work. By the time you reach your office, your mind is already on the beach, thinking about the beach, or the weekend vacation. If you are on the beach in the evening, your

mind is already thinking about when to go back home. The mind will be saying, "It is cold…and this…and that…" The funny part of your mind is that when you see beautiful scenery in the television, or an advertisement, like a beautiful beach, or a beautiful forest, or a snow covered mountain, you always feel you should be there, and that if you are there, you will be in ecstasy. That is the idea you get, especially with the resort advertisements. And you almost feel that if you are lying in that chair near the swimming pool or on the beach, you will experience heaven! But when you go there, you don"t feel the experience the way you had imagined it to be. You don"t feel that it is so heavenly. Why? What is happening? Why is it that when we see visually, it feels that we will be in ecstasy, but when we go there, it is not such an experience?

The reason is: the moment you are on the beach, your mind has already started thinking about home. When you are back at home, you have already started thinking about the next day"s routine. If your body is here, one thing is sure: you are not here! Your mind is not here. That is what I mean by not being inside your boundary.

Now, for these next two days, you will not use your body as a lodge or a hotel. You will use your body as a home. Come back. Just be inside your boundary. Only then I can work with you. You and me, both of us need to sit with each other. You need to be here, only then I can work with you. You need to be inside your boundary. Your skin is supposed to be your boundary at least until you become enlightened. After you get enlightened, how much life you feel within your skin, the same life you will feel inside every other skin; inside this pillow, inside this seat, inside everything, you will feel the same life. But, for now, your skin is your boundary.

So come back. Be inside your boundary. Only then the Upanishad can happen. Both of us need to sit with each other. That is why this Upanishad starts with a beautiful mantra, which says: let both of us not hate each other; let both of us grow together.

The beauty of education in the Vedic tradition is that it is not egocentric. The Master says, "Let both of us grow." He is not saying, "Let you grow, I will teach you." No! He is saying, "Let both of us grow." That is the truth. So, let both of us work with each other. Let both of us not hate each other till we end the process. Let both of us feel connected, at least till tomorrow evening.

Understand: you may sit here like you are attending a weekend workshop or a management course. Any attitude is alright; no problem. But decide that for these two days, you will sit sincerely with the whole process. I am not asking you to accept me as your Guru. Actually, people ask me, "Swamiji, should I accept you as a Guru?" I say no. If I am your Guru, this question will not arise. As long as

this question is there, I am not your Guru; forget about it. Search again. Seek again.

Someone asked me, "When I accept you as my spiritual Guru, does that mean I have to give up praying to Shirdi Sai Baba, whom I have been worshipping for over fifty years now? I don"t feel he is my Guru, but I remember him and pay my respects to him."

I always tell people, even if you accept me as your Guru, there is nothing wrong in learning from some other source, or Master, or place. Pluck flowers from all gardens and make a beautiful bouquet for yourself. Nothing is wrong in that. After all, I am here to enrich your life. If somebody else is also enriching, just absorb whatever comes from them. It"s not like a shop where if you come to my shop, I would prefer you not to go to the other shops! Just enrich yourself, wherever you can, or in whatever way you can.

Just for these two days, don"t bother about all your internal struggles or unnecessary and useless questions. Just sit with a deeply receptive and prayerful mood inside your boundary. The whole process will happen. The Upanishad will start happening. Till tomorrow evening, let us not hate each other. Because I am going to make you do all sorts of things, like for example, your food will be a little delayed, your sleep will be a little delayed etc. You may face a few discomforts. Do not grumble or grudge. Even if you grumble, I am not going to leave you...! See, the program is fixed. Either you go through with complete acceptance, or you go through with struggle. It is up to you. But you have decided to go through it. If you go through it without struggle, it will be a lot easier for you. So let us not hate each other. Let us feel connected to each other. Let us grow together.

That is the beauty of enlightened Masters. Enlightenment is the ultimate experience, but not final. Understand: the ultimate happening every moment is "enlightenment". So every moment, the enlightened being is exploding and growing … expanding. You may think, "How can enlightened persons grow?" Maybe "growing" is not the right word. It is the Ultimate Experience happening every moment. Enlightenment is the ultimate. But it is not that it happens once and it stops. It happens continuously. The right word is "enlightening" not even "enlightenment". It is not a noun. It is a verb! That is the truth. Continuously, the experience is happening. That is why the Master says, "Let us grow together." For that, we need simple and honest friendliness. Feeling connected, feeling respect for each other, and taking a conscious decision to work together are all needed. All this is needed at least until tomorrow evening. I am not asking you for your whole life! No! And the important thing is, don"t forget to be inside your skin, that"s enough. Everything else will start happening.

The Master"s presence is very powerful, even if you don"t understand it. Whether you understand or not, when you sit around fire, you will have its effect; you will feel the heat. Similarly, whether you understand it or not, when you sit next to the Master, you will see that things start happening inside. Enlightened consciousness is much more powerful than your doubting logic. It can penetrate you. People ask me, "Should I trust you? Should I believe you?" I say, "No. There is no need. Your doubt and trust, both are shallow." Neither is your doubt strong, nor is your trust strong. Both are depending on your mind. But enlightened consciousness is beyond the mind. It can straightaway work on you. Do not bother about whether you have doubt, or trust, or faith, or anything. Sit with a deeply receptive mood and "the beginner"s mind", with a willingness to go through the process. Be inside your skin. That"s enough. You will see that the process happens. The Upanishad will simply start happening.

I will just give a simple understanding about how the mind works and how exactly the Upanishad is going to help us. Let me once more explain the word Upanishad. It means: just sitting. If you want a commentary for that word, I could say: sitting with an enlightened being.

Let us first understand how our mind works with the help of a simple drawing. Your mind is nothing but "making your future into past". Understand: what you call as life is nothing but swallowing your future and making it into past. Am I right? The future becoming past is what you call your mind, or whatever you know as life; nothing else. This diagram is just a time shaft. The space where the future and the past meet is what we call the present moment. The future is just disappearing into the past. Every step of what I am describing, you need to understand completely; only then you will be able to go with it.

A little bit of introduction about the mind is good. It is like an owner"s manual. Owner"s manual for mind! We use the mind without reading the owner"s manual even once. Even in the car, there is information about the airbag, and it says: for further details, see the owner"s manual. How many of us have referred to the owner"s manual about the airbag? With airbags, it is alright to ignore the owner"s manual, because you may feel it is useful only when you have an accident. But if you don"t read the owner"s manual for your mind, you will create accidents! And you will not even know that you are going through accidents every day. That is the problem. So it"s better to have the owner"s manual for the mind.

(points to the board) This is the present moment where the future is disappearing into the past.

Your mind is nothing but a jumping back and forth between past and future. If you just observe your mind for a few minutes, you will understand what exactly I am saying. Thought is nothing but jumping from past to future or future to past. Only when you are shunting between the past and future, you can think. In the present moment, you can"t think. Try to create a single thought in the present moment. You can"t! Either you create a thought or be in the present moment. The two are mutually exclusive. The moment you come to the present moment, thoughts will disappear! Thought, and the present moment are mutually exclusive. If thinking is happening, it means that you are jumping from past to future or future to past. If you are jumping a 100 times from past to future or

future to past in one second, you have 100 thoughts per second or 100 TPS for short. Are you able to grasp what I am saying?

If any of you have any doubt, put it down in writing. At the end of the session, I will answer, because this needs to be completely internalized by you. Understand, only if the internalization happens, you will involve yourself in the whole process.

The problem is, you will do all sorts of illogical and nonsensical things for any pleasure, but even to move one finger for spirituality, you will ask one thousand questions. And you think you are very

intelligent in doing so. You keep justifying your foolishness by thinking that you are intelligent. That is the problem. Many people come and tell me, "I know that smoking is bad, but I am not able to drop it. What do I do?"

What do I do? I give them honey. I give them a drop of energized honey specially energized for de addiction. Even when your logic says that something is not good, you will do the same thing when it comes to pleasure. But when it comes to meditation or spiritual things, even for a small thing, you will ask so many logical questions. And you think that because your questions are very logical, you are very intelligent. Sometimes, you have the pride, "I don"t believe in superstitious things." You are dangerously unaware of actually how many thousands of nonsensical and superstitious things are there within you. You are the body, is the first superstition that you are carrying! You are not even aware of this! Anyhow, at least now, internalize this, so that you will be ready for the process.

When you are having 100 thoughts per second (TPS), you will be away from the present moment by that proportionate distance. The present moment is where the future and past meet. If you are jumping too many times, which is what is going on now, naturally you will be away from the present. You will never be in the present moment, because in the present moment, you can"t think. There is no space for thoughts in the present moment. If you come back to the present moment, there will only be a beautiful silence. The more number of times you are jumping between the past and the future, the more number of thoughts you will have. 100 TPS means you are completely away from the present moment. You are just not concerned about what is happening in the present. Even if I am standing and talking here, you just pick up one thought, and compare it with all that you have heard in past lectures, discourses, classes, and books, and you remain judgmental about what you hearing now. You will be sitting and having big comparison notes and missing all my statements. That is the problem. See, I am not saying that whatever you heard is wrong, but sitting and analyzing at this time is wrong, because you are missing my continuous flow of statements.

And the problem with so called spiritual seekers is that they are well read, and completely confused! For any statement that I make, they will be sitting and having 10 dictionaries and 10 references and compare my statement with the statements there. They will be doing two things: either they will refer to all those books, and if they find some relationship with what I am saying, they will say, "What he is saying is right," or if they do not find the right quotation or match for my references, they will say, "This is not the right thing. I don"t think he knows the subject fully. He is too young." This is the problem!

See: whether you say "yes" or "no" to my statements, by comparing notes, you are not going to grasp. Even if you say yes, you are going to miss the other statements which I am making. By the time you finish your analysis and come back I would have gone 10 steps ahead.

So for now, just keep all the things which you have read, or studied or heard, in one corner, for two days. When you go back from here, you can pick it up. I am not asking you to completely throw it away. I am only saying, just for two days, go into my words completely, and understand and internalize. If you are jumping between this and that, you will be away from the present.

Sometimes, because of some meditation that you do, because of some technique that you sincerely practice, you might manage to bring down your TPS to say, 80. This means that instead of moving 100 times between the past and future in one second, you move 80 times between the past and the future in one second. You come down a little towards the present moment. If you do work further and reduce the TPS further down to 60, you move a little more to the present moment. Sometimes,

very rarely, by powerful techniques or by the blessings of an enlightened Guru, you can bring it down to 20. See, these are just example values. It is not that you are currently in 100 TPS. You are probably in 1000 or 2000 TPS. Or it may even be a million.

One more important thing…please do not sleep! Sleep does not mean zero TPS! Sometimes…in the silence… people wake up. See, my talking sometimes feels like a lullaby, so you feel relaxed and taken care of. When I give a break, suddenly you understand that something is wrong, and you wake up. And the fun part is, when these guys wake up, the first thing that they do is: look at others! If you are looking at others, understand that you are the person who slept, not the others! These people who doze off, they will start with, "Let me listen with closed eyes." They will have the justification, "I am meditating and listening". Soon, the person next to them will see them sitting with closed eyes, and they will nudge them. But these people will not even open their mouth to say, "I am listening", because then, their sleep will be disturbed! They will say, "You attend, you listen, I am ok. I am listening." What to do? I always tell people that "meditative listeners" are the ones who are thinking about something else, or lost somewhere else.

Anyhow, coming back to the subject, rarely, in the presence of a Master, or through some process or some initiation, you come down to 20 TPS. When you come to the present moment, suddenly you will have the intelligence of seeing the future and the past clearly! From a higher TPS point, you can"t see the past or the future clearly. When you come down, you may be able to see a little better. The lower your TPS, the better your vision of the past and future will be. One important thing: now it feels like I am giving you a big promise, but let me tell you: if you come to the present moment, you can see your future so clearly!

Let us analyze one important thing. Sometimes, when you are at a party, suddenly you think that some person is going to appear in the next few minutes… some old friend or some one… and you will see that the person is suddenly there! Or sometimes, when the telephone rings, suddenly you will remember someone who was not there in your memory for the past few years. When you pick up the phone, that person will be on the telephone line! Or when the door bell rings, suddenly you remember a relative who has not come to your home for the past five years or whom you have forgotten for the past five years. When you open the door, you will see him standing there. How many of you have had these kinds of experiences, at least once or twice in your life? So many of you are raising your hands! But when it happens to you, what do you say? You usually call it a coincidence. If it happens in one person"s life once, it can be called coincidence. Am I right? Practically, 98% of you, say that you have had this experience. When 98% of you have had this experience, how can it be called coincidence? You can"t brush this aside in the name of coincidence. Then you will have to change the meaning of the word "coincidence"! Coincidence means rarely, it may or may not happen in one or two person"s lives. But now, the evidence says 98% of the people

are experiencing it. There is something more than coincidence in this. This is actually what we call "intuition". It means, when that door bell was ringing, or when that cell phone was ringing, maybe due to a sudden jerk or due to some other reason, your TPS suddenly dropped. TPS can be made to drop even by force sometimes. When the TPS dropped, you were able to see the future, may be the next five minutes of the future clearly. You had a glimpse of the time shaft! That is how you were able to see the person on the other side of the door or phone.

When the TPS drops, you see the future. I think you are able to connect with what I am saying. This is the reason why you will be able to see what is going to come or what is going to happen. See, suddenly, due to the door bell ringing or the cell phone ringing, or probably because you were really relaxed and happy, maybe because in a party, where you don"t have your direct relatives or your in-

laws, you were very relaxed…for whatever reason, your TPS suddenly drops. Then, you will have a glimpse of the next five minutes of the future. Just imagine, if your TPS falls down, just accidentally, if you can glimpse the future, if your TPS can be consciously brought down, then understand the value, understand the clarity which can be added to you!

Now, the next few statements which I am going to make, are very mystical. Until now, whatever I said looked very logical, and they are logical, but the next few statements are going to be mystical.

An enlightened person is the person who is established in the present moment, whose energy is in 0 TPS. He is neither lost in the future nor lost in the past. Understand this. The first statement which I am making is: an enlightened person is the person who is established in the present. It means that if you can bring down your TPS and establish yourself in the present, you are enlightened. Second thing: the future, past and present - all these three put together are called 'eternal.' Eternal means 'nithya'. You can touch eternity only in the present moment!

See… eternity can be touched only through the present moment. You can't touch eternity through the future or past, because both of them do not exist directly under your control, as you think you know it. The past you cannot touch, because it is not there. You can't catch the future also, because it is not there! You can only touch the present moment. You are in the present moment. If you want to enter into eternal bliss, or the present moment, or enlightenment, or whatever you want to call it, the only way is to bring down your TPS.

One thing: an enlightened person is a person who is established in the present moment. The next few statements which you need to understand are: if you are in 100 TPS, and you are in the presence of a being who is in 0 TPS, something happens in you. Your time shaft also starts slowing down. This is what I meant when I said that I will be making a few mystical statements. Understand: the person who is in 100 TPS, if he sits with a being who is in 0 TPS, suddenly the TPS drops drastically. Fortunately, enlightened persons cannot be raised by you! Only you can be dropped by them.

Now you need to understand a little deeply. How does the TPS drop?

Let us now understand these koshas. Koshas are energy sheaths in our system.

The outermost sheath is called the annamaya kosha and refers to the physical body that you have. The

annamaya kosha is very closely related to the next layer that is the pranic layer or pranamaya kosha. Pranic layer refers to the movement of air, the air circulation that is happening in you all the time. Air circulation is not just inhaling and exhaling. When we come to that layer, I will explain more about it. The third layer is the mental layer or manomaya kosha. Your visualization is your fourth layer - vignanamaya kosha. Finally, the fifth layer is your silence or peace or bliss that is within you, which you rarely experience. It is called the anandamaya kosha.

The outermost layer, the annamaya kosha, you can think of as the physical layer. You can visualize it as the physical layer. The second layer, the pranamaya kosha, visualize it as air. Prana is not actually air. It is the air energy that is carried by air. Air is simply the medium to carry the energy, that"s all. It is the air energy that is required for us to sustain life. The third layer is the manomaya kosha – the mental layer. Visualize it as the constant inner chatter that goes on inside you. Inner chatter is your

inner or mental layer. The fourth is the vignanamaya kosha or the visualization layer. The fifth layer is the anandamaya kosha or the bliss layer – the bliss or joy which you rarely experience. Most of the time, you experience only blisters not bliss! Causeless bliss has become a rare thing in our life.

Understand: we are not disconnected and separate islands as we think. Even though civilization constantly teaches us that we are separate entities, we are not disconnected and individual islands. Maybe in the physical layer, we are all individual islands. For example, if the food is poisoned, only the person who eats it will suffer, not everyone. In this sense, you can think of yourself as an individual. But if the air is poisoned, whoever is breathing will suffer. This means that in the pranic layer, in the second layer of our energy bodies, which is to do with our breath, the distance between us is reduced. Going further, if the mind is polluted, a much bigger group will suffer. For example, if one person who is disturbed in the manomaya kosha, that is, if one person who is disturbed in the brain, sits as a leader, you know what will result in that entire city. Now, going still further, if one corrupted visualization leads to any action, for example take the visualization of the atomic theory corrupted visualization – what happens? It can destroy the entire planet Earth!

Albert Einstein, the famous scientist says, "I am successful because I did whatever I did by my visualization. I am successful because I can imagine well." He did not discover atomic theory, E=mc 2 through his logic. He says the formula came first, and after, the truth of the formula came out, he developed the logical steps behind it! This means that it was done through visualization. But corrupted visualization can disturb the whole planet Earth. We are all now threatened by this one theory, by this one invention. Today, planet Earth has got atomic weapons enough to burn itself 700 times over and over again. Just imagine: burning once is enough, but there are enough weapons to burn planet Earth 700 times! Fortunately, the bliss layer cannot be corrupted since it is in the control of enlightened beings! Otherwise, planet Earth would have perished long ago. Fortunately, the bliss layer key is kept with us. It is not available to the public. That is why planet Earth exists today.

One more thing… this is a mystical prophecy: don"t bother much about these things, you will never perish. Global warming, and such things will come and go, but it will affect only those people who have created collective negativity. Nothing will happen to planet Earth because this layer is still under the control of enlightened beings. They manage the whole situation!

All you need to understand is that you are not islands as you think. When you come under a corrupted mental layer, whether you want it or not, you suffer with it, am I right? In the same way, when you come under a person with a pure mental layer, you will see that he is a great leader. Whether you want it or not, you will be touched by all the pleasures and joys created by that person. In the same way, whether you want it or not, when you come in the presence of a bliss layer person,

your TPS will come down. That is what is meant by Upanishad. Sitting with an enlightened person, brings your TPS down.

Because the person has gone beyond the mind, he has entered the bliss layer. As long as you have the mind, you will be disturbed. When you enter the bliss layer, the person has no mind to get disturbed. Rivers can dry up, but the ocean cannot dry up. An enlightened being has become the ocean. In his case, the river has entered the ocean. That is why, instead of others affecting him, he affects everybody! He influences everybody. The person who affects everybody (positively of course) is an enlightened being. Anyone who comes into his presence gets affected in a positive way, but he remains the same. He is not affected by anyone. As the Bhagavad Gita says, this person is established in the Self.

The TPS coming down happens when you sit with the Master. You might ask, "Then let us sit for half an hour and go back. Why 2 days, unnecessarily?"

The problem is, you have forgotten to just sit. I have to teach you for 2 days how to just sit! If I tell you to just sit, you will do some sacred syllable repetition or you will sleep or you start praying or you will just become restless. You don"t know how to sit with no mantra repetition, no technique, nothing… just sitting… You have forgotten the art of just sitting. In Zen they call it Zazen - just sitting. You forgot that. Just sitting is no longer part of your being. To teach the "just sitting", it takes 2 days for me, because you know everything except just sitting, except just being. That is why I have to work 2 days to bring your TPS as far down as possible. For example, when you have 100 TPS, you are in the physical layer. When you have 80 TPS, you are in the pranic layer. When you have 60 TPS, you are in the mental layer. As your TPS comes down, you go deeper and deeper into the inner layers. When the TPS is completely down, you enter the anandamaya kosha – the bliss layer.

Now you are going to sit with the Master in every layer. We are trying to reduce the TPS to bring the frequency of thoughts down. The whole process which we are going to do for the next 2 days is sitting with a "0 TPS being" so that our TPS can drop drastically. One more step you can do is, balance yourself to come down to a low TPS in order to sit with him, since you have forgotten to just sit. You will be consciously balancing yourself so that your TPS falls. We are going to do something just to stop you from doing something else. This doing is what I call "process".

You can write questions about this subject alone.

The moment I tell you to ask questions, you will ask about vaastu shastra, astrology and what not. Please do not ask questions such as whether vaastu shastra is true, astrology is true, will this stone work for me etc. If a stone can change your life, then you are nothing more than a stone. So ask questions only on the science that I have spoken now. All other FAQs, I will answer in the evening or tomorrow.

Understand, when I say figures such as 100 TPS and 80 TPS, I am saying them only for you to understand the concept. Don't start thinking: I think I am between 61-80 TPS and so I am probably stuck in such and such a layer…no! These kinds of analysis are for professional seekers who seek all their lives without getting even one glimpse of the truth. Some people make seeking as their part time, if not, full time profession. The whole day they will go around and find some stone, some pendulum or some crystal and experiment with it. They will say, "Oh! This is radiating energy, I could feel the energy," etc. Sometimes, even I will not be able to feel the energy, but just to keep them happy, I say, "Alright, take it and go."

Energy is the experience that happens inside you, not anything that happens through a stone or a pendulum. So many books and theories are being sold today on energy play. One thing I have understood: anything highly impractical that you write, sells! I can give you three tips to become a big philosopher and author of bestsellers. First: write what you yourself cannot practice! Second: just keep on talking only about the problem in different ways. Third and most important thing: never give a solution! If you follow these three things, you can become a great philosopher and author in just 30 days. The problem is, you don't need enlightenment to teach professional seekers; if you are a philosopher, it is enough. For the fortunate ones who have been brought up in a spiritual environment, truths are engraved in their inner space.

Understand: unless you have walked the path, do not talk. Unless you know it completely, its side effect, after effect, everything… do not talk. Unless the person is enlightened, it is considered as the worst conspiracy against humanity to teach. In Bharat, if you are still a seeker, a wanderer, there is a beautiful tradition where you are taken care of by the public. You are not forced to take care of your own survival. You are given food, shelter and respect anywhere you travel within Bharat. But remember, the seeking should not be just an outward profession. It should stem from a deep thirst, an urgency to know the truth.

(Questions to do with TPS have been grouped together for convenience)

A: No, it is not because of 0 TPS. In the dream, you pass through the vignanamaya kosha to anandamaya, that is, from the 4 th to the 5 th layer. The space between the 4 th and the 5 th layer is where you fall asleep - deep sleep. When you pass through, you pick up one or two rare truths from vignanamaya kosha. Vignanamaya kosha is where you dream. You pick up one or two things from here. That is all. It has nothing to do with 0 TPS. What happens during the waking state is 0 TPS. If you see your future in the waking state, it is 0 TPS. In the dream state, it is not 0 TPS. It is just an accident.

A: Nithya Dhyaan is a meditation technique that will create the Master's presence for you. That is the meditation I prescribe to bring your TPS down. It is an everyday meditation technique. All our ashramites do it everyday in the ashram as the first thing in the morning.

A: Getting established is a thing achieved by practice / sadhana.

A: They have low TPS; maybe 20 or 40 TPS.

A: In the Master"s presence, 0 TPS will start happening. When you get enlightened, it will still be there. I can give you a glimpse of 0 TPS. If you choose to stay there, you will get enlightened. When you become enlightened, you will stay in the same state forever.

A: In the real 0 TPS state, you will be the most productive! That is the truth. You will be highly productive because you are not wasting energy in unnecessary jumping between past and future. Your decisions will be very sharp. 0 TPS is the high energy zone; you will never become mentally fatigued. You will never say, "I am done." You will be so joyful. You will become more productive in whatever you are doing.

Productivity is never disturbed by the 0 TPS state. To tell you the truth, you guys do not spend time on showing productivity. You spend time only on selling yourself. What do I mean by "selling yourself"? You sit and spend all your time on project plans, deadlines, projections and fooling the bosses. When you are in the 0 TPS state, you will excel just out of your "quality", not out of your "marketing ability". When you excel out of "quality", you will feel so fulfilled. Dharma or righteousness always gives fulfillment. The person who can sell himself can get into politics or a high posting in an organization, but he will never have fulfillment. The person who is dharmic, is the one who will be productive and fulfilled. He will attain levels out of his own quality, not out of his marketing. Excelling without selling yourself always gives fulfillment. Put your energy more on being; you will see that you become more productive. Apart from just becoming more productive, you will feel deeply fulfilled in your personal life. You will start living a beautiful life. A real 0 TPS person will be dharmic and productive.

A: Group meditation will always cause low TPS. And especially in our satsangs… I have given a promise that wherever our people gather to meditate, I will be there. If people gather and dance, I will be dancing in their midst, in spirit. When they gather to talk about my teachings, I will be there. So group meditation will always bring down your TPS.

A: This is a nice question! Understand: when an enlightened Master or rishi says, 'Let both of us grow together," it does not really mean, "I am going to grow by you." It just shows their humbleness, their openness. It does not mean: I am going to learn from you. It just shows the humbleness. So, just be relaxed. You see: when I do namaskar to you, I am not coming down to your level. Instead I am bringing you up to my level! Understand this clearly every time you see me doing namaskar.

One day, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was doing Kali puja to Sharada Devi whom he later married. The puja was the same that he generally performed to the Goddess Kali. Sharada Devi was a young girl at that time, and was living just like any other girl of her age. She had not yet attained enlightenment.

One of the disciples asked her, 'Mother, Gurudeva did puja to you. Don't you think that he has come down one step by doing so?'

Sharadha Devi's reply to this question made people become aware of the level of her maturity and understanding, and why Ramakrishna did puja to her.

She replied, 'He did not come down one step, but instead, he helped me step up by one plane in spirituality. From this moment onwards, my responsibilities have increased.'

If someone accords you a similar respect, what will you do? You will not stand on your feet. You will start flying in the air!

Once in Bharat, when I was entering the meditation hall with my palms joined in namaskar, an elderly man was standing there, and instead of doing namaskar, he simply blessed me! The person who was standing next to him asked him, "Why are you blessing, when Swamiji is doing namaskar?" He said, "After all he is a young person, younger than me; I can bless him." I told him, "When I do namaskar, I do not come down to your level. Instead, I bring you up to my level." When Masters say that, they show their humbleness, their openness and respect for you. If I have to learn from you, you will reproduce yourself on me! That can never happen, don"t worry!

A: Firstly, I do not have a mind to feel anything! In the way you enjoy seeing my form, I also enjoy seeing my own form. Now, I am sitting on the throne. I can get down any time from this throne, as and when I feel like, is it not? Similarly, I may also go out of his body any time I feel like, and then come back to it!

Look at this handkerchief in my hand. There is a small thread hanging from one of the sides. Although the thread is a part of the handkerchief, it cannot be the handkerchief itself. The Master"s body is like the thread whereas he himself is the all-pervading energy. Once a person becomes enlightened, the body is only the thread.

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As soon as enlightenment happens, there is no separate thought, action or decision of one"s own. The annamaya kosha is transformed completely during enlightenment. It becomes completely blissful like the anandamaya kosha! Ramakrishna says, "For the modern day man, just looking at the Guru"s image itself is a great meditation technique." Just looking at the blissful image of the Guru can lead you to enlightenment.

A: You are living in the present. Bliss can never be felt based on past. Bliss is always to do with the moment.

A: Psychologically, preparation has no significance in enlightenment. Enlightenment is actually blasting you every moment. Whether you have one candle in the house or not, it will not make any difference to the whole thing. Your psychological preparation is nothing but like having one candle. It will help only till I blast you! After that it won"t matter whether you had the candle or not. The psychological preparation is not going to make a big difference. Don't bother about it.

A: Yes, your own fear is the only problem. Don't bother. Just relax and sit here. If you relax with trust, everything will be taken care of.

A: Normally, these kinds of problems are more prominent in the Hindu society! Of course, in the Western world also, it is there mildly these days.

Just don't talk to them that"s all. What is there in it? What are relatives, really? Each one is an individual. "Relatives" is nothing but a badge that you give them. Each one is an individual, traveling the path alone. You need not disrespect anybody, but you are also not answerable to them in such matters. It is your own personal matter. No one but the Master can help you in this matter. When it comes to spiritual life, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says that anything can be sacrificed. He goes to the extent of saying that even your wife or husband can be sacrificed; even father or mother can be disobeyed.

In the journey of enlightenment, let me tell you one incident that happened in Ramakrishna's life: One of his young and very close disciples called Rakhal or Swami Brahmananda, was married at the age of 14 before meeting Ramakrishna. He had a kid too. There was a custom in Bengal to marry at a very young age. Of course, after meeting Ramakrishna, he felt that his parents had made a big mistake by getting him married at the age of 14. He felt very bad that he could not tread the path of sannyas.

He went to Ramakrishna and said, 'I want to get initiated into sannyas very badly. My wife is not allowing me to. She is forcing me to live the worldly life. There is constant argument and grief happening. Somehow, I am not able to digest the whole thing.

Ramakrishna said, 'Go and pray to Mother Kali.' The man prayed. There is a small ritual of of ering beetal leaves and beetal nuts to Mother Kali and then throwing it into the sacred Ganges river. The man did this ritual.

Eight days after that, the wife died! Please do not think anything negative about this story at this point. Let me continue…

When the disciple came and told this to Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna says, 'You are born for sannyas. She came just to finish some of her karma. Her karma is over, so she has left the body. I did not kill her.' He did not kill her. You have to understand this very deeply. You can very easily think that Ramakrishna used some supernatural powers and planned her death. Just understand: things happened according to the laws of Existence.

Ramakrishna finally told the man, 'You take sannyas,' and he initiated him into sannyas. One more very surprising thing: after sometime the son also died! The son probably died after 10 to 20 years, but the wife died just 8 days after the ritual!

Don"t bother. It is just an initial level feeling. It will go away. When you start meditating, you will feel yourself dissolving. You will feel as though your identity is dissolving. So, you start to feel afraid. Just allow the dissolving to happen. That is the whole idea. The very idea of meditation is to lose your solid identity and merge with the Whole.

A: Don"t bother about whether I am an avatar or not. You have to realize that you are an avatar! That is my mission. My mission is not to prove my divinity. My mission is to prove your divinity.

A: No, there is no correspondence. Let us keep the discussion on koshas, only.

A: Whatever they discovered, they did in the present moment, without any thought. It was a sudden revelation. The revelation itself happened in one moment, in the present moment, not based on the past or the future. The rest is logical analysis.

A: Yes.

A: Yes, if you are in the present moment, you are in eternity.

A: I do not work with past and future. When you actually establish yourself in the present moment, you can just stop and see the past and future as you wish to. Time shaft is like a video game. You can rewind or fast-forward!

A: I think you are talking about in-laws or grand parents! Somehow, when the present is not enjoyable for them, they are caught in the past, in the good and bad of the past. So they will catch you, and start telling you stories: in 1963, when I was in the army….etc! And sometimes, they will tell the same stories everyday. They forget that children have a good memory! Not only that,sometimes people listen to them because they will get candy from them at the end of it. What do I mean by candy? Money… wealth! With me, just because I don"t shout at them, they tell me, also these stories! Even if I tell them that I know the story, they will insist on finishing the same old stories again and again. They will not even be creative and tell new stories.

You have to know how to handle it. They will not handle it. Nothing much can be done about it. Just be ready to sacrifice the candy that you get in the end, that"s all. As long as you want the candy, you have vested interest in their stories, so you have to suffer. If you are ready to renounce the candy, you will not even ask this question. You will simply handle it yourself, and be relieved. In most cases in Bharat, the older people will hold property. Unless you listen to their stories and keep them in a good mood, you can"t get the property at the end of the game! So until they die, you will be putting up with them. Sometimes, relatives even pray for their death! If you are a girl, when you get married and leave, you will get a portion of the wealth, like jewels etc. If you are a boy, you have to please them in some way or the other all the time, so that you are assured of your share of the property.

A: I should ask you this question! When you can have a glimpse, why can't you stay there? It is because you want to come back, that you are coming back! Maybe your samskaras, that is, your engraved memories, are bringing you back again and again.

• 1. Give the meaning of Atma spurana.
• 2. What is Upanishad?
• 3. State the relationship between TPS and Koshas
• 4. What do you understand by the word 'The alchemy'?
• 5. Brief on 'Let go of that identity; have a real vacation!'

Unit II

• 1. Revisiting Koshas from a Healing Perspective
• 2. The Physical Layer How You Create It
• 3. Evolution of Man Western Versus Vedic Theories
• 4. A Small Prayer before We Start
• 5. Glimpse of an Enlightened Being What It Can Do
• 6. Choosing an Enlightened Physiology
• 7. Start Now Clean and Reprogram Yourself!
• 8. You Are Not Just a Bio-Mechanism; You Are Consciousness
• 9. Meditation
• 9.1 Expel the Animal Engrams
• 9.2 Vedic Tradition Here and Now
• 9.3 Relive and Relieve!
• 9.4 How You Will Emerge
• 10. Questions and Answers

• To understand deeply about Annamaya Kosha
• To learn how the Annamaya Kosha is created
• To expel the animal engrams from Annamaya Kosha
• To reprogram the Annamaya kosha for a healthy, stress free and blissful life

The allopathic system of medicine is related to the annamaya kosha, the physical layer created by memories. For all problems related to annamaya kosha, allopathic medicine is the best curative. Allopathic treatment plays an amazing role in all sorts of problems related to annamaya kosha. Injuries caused in accidents occur in the annamaya kosha. Intensive care, emergency care, etc are

available in the treatment of annamaya kosha. It is only allopathic remedies, which are useful for treating fractures and other injuries related to accidents.

The trouble starts when the layers beneath the annamaya kosha need to be treated. After trials and errors with various medicines, people realised that close to 90% of illnesses were psychosomatic in nature and it came to be accepted that allopathic medicine was not very effective for it.

Today, research on mind-body medicine is happening at a very fast pace in the world of medicine. People have begun to explore the deeper, subtle layers that are inside the physical body. Research is being conducted on the manomaya kosha, looking deep inside the physical body, the annamaya kosha.

The physical body, which we think as solid, is not solid at all. It is like this: The Cosmic energy is all-pervading. The various living forms, such as trees, animals and the human body, are actually different forms of the same energy.

How is it that this cosmic energy is available in various forms, yet remains

one? Let us understand this with an example.

Suppose you have a picture of a wave that is six to twelve feet high. Is this wave a truth? No! It had just risen, when the picture was taken. The next second, it would have fallen. But how huge it looked when it was at its peak! But the very next second, the same wave ceased to exist. Only in the picture, the wave seems like an independent object. Apart from the photograph, the wave would be part of a continuous motion.

Similarly, we see various objects only through the mind. We are able to see objects independently only due to the presence of our mind. If we did not have the mind, we would not be able to realise the boundary between our own body and that of a chair that is present in front of us. Everything would be seen as a whole.

People who have slipped into deep meditation say that suddenly they feel they have totally lost their self. This is because the mind becomes still. This is the case of man going beyond the mind. This is the experience when you go beyond the manonmaya kosha.

One more thing: Allopathy can cure the problems that affect the outer most layer of the human body. A person has to go for allopathic remedy to fix a broken bone. However, after it has been plastered, for the actual healing to happen, the energy play has to be addressed, nurtured.

There is a popular quote amongst the doctors: "Doctor Stitches, God Heals!"

God is the all pervading, pure form of energy. God is neither an individual nor a character as we think. If we are able to connect to this pure form of energy, then we can maintain eternal

youth. The energy called God is available aplenty in every single layer of our body. However, it gets filtered as it passes through each of the layers.

The divine energy is over flowing in the deepest kosha, which is the anandamaya kosha. It is reduced in the vignanamaya kosha and gets lesser and lesser as it comes towards the outer layer.

The medical system suitable for Annamaya Kosha is Allopathy. The medical system suitable for Pranamaya Kosha is Yogasana and Pranayama. The medical system suitable for Manonmaya Kosha is Homoeopathy.

The medical system suitable for Vignanyamaya Kosha is nature cure and Ayurveda. The medical system suitable for Anandamaya Kosha is Energy Healing like our THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Spiritual Healing.

Only the healing touch of the Master or the healing energy passed through divine meditation, can heal the problems related to anandamaya kosha.

So, please sit up with your spine straight in line with your neck and head. We will start the process on the first layer. Let us now work on the first layer that is the annamaya kosha. The layer that is the physical layer - the body which you are carrying now, the body made of flesh and bones and blood.

Adi Sankara discusses about annamaya kosha in his book Tattvabodha

Annamayah Kah? Anna-rasena-eva bhutva anna-rasena-eva Vrddhim prapya annarupa-prthivyam yad viliyate tad Annamayah kosah sthula-sariram

Meaning:-

What is the food sheath? That which comes into being owing to the essence of food, that which is sustained by the essence of food, and that which decays or goes back to the earth which also is of the nature of food, is called the food sheath, the physical body.

The Vivekacudamani (87-91) says: "Skin, flesh, blood, nerves and tendons, fat, marrow, bones and waste – this is what the physical sheath is made up of. What we did in the past has made this body in this manner.

Annamaya kosha is the material part of Creation. Whether it is a tree or a rock or man, all these have the annamaya kosha in addition to having different degrees of consciousness. This kosha is the gross manifestation of energy as matter, in different proportions and strengths. It is the first layer of skin, muscle tissue, bones, and organs. It is called the gross body, the tangible part of yourself that you can mostly see, touch, and feel.

You have actually created this body of yours out of so many engrams, or samskaras, or engraved memories, belonging to past lives. The base material out of which you created this body is your engraved memories or samskaras. Engraved memory means the memory out of which you do all the actions, including your thinking. The engraved memories or samskaras are the base material

out of which you have created this body. If you ask me whether I believe in a person having many births, I don"t just believe, I know it is the truth. You go through many births. The samskaras which you collect in the many different births - out of that you create your body for this birth.

Two things you need to understand: all samskaras or engrams will have a certain power, certain energy in them. There will be energy and a certain love or hatred attached to it. Let me describe this engram concept very clearly so that you will understand what I am trying to convey. Let us take some engram: for example the engram to have a cup of coffee as soon as you get up in the morning. When you get up in the morning, you will have that energy to get up, go to the kitchen, pick up the coffee and drink. The picture of coffee and the experience of coffee - both these put together is what is called samskara. Now, we are trying to remove the picture and give the energy alone to you. If you remove the engraved memory completely, you will loose both the energy and the picture. But when you work on the annamaya kosha, the memory"s energy

will be there, but the pictures will disappear! The vasanas will be removed but the shakti or the power of the samskara will stay with you. Vasana refers to the object that created the samskara in the first place. It is like the seed. Shakti is the power of the samskara. Removing vasana but not the power of the samskara, is called Self-actualization. Understand: Self-realization can be achieved in two ways: by completely removing the samskara and the energy. This is the path of renunciation; or, by having the energy but not the vasana. This is the path of self-actualization.

Now, by working on the anandamaya kosha, you will be having the power but not the pictures.

The Vedic way of putting the theory of evolution is the most beautiful way. Understand: Charles Darwin missed an important point in the theory of evolution. If Darwin had caught a little bit of the energy of enlightenment, the whole history of the West might have been different! He took the monkey as the father figure; there lies the problem! The Vedic tradition says, man came down from God! Darwin says, man came down from the monkey! The throne is given to God in one tradition and to the monkey in another tradition. Whoever you put on the throne - you will

remember and live like. That is why Darwin missed the game. He did not catch the exact thread.

Again, Sigmund Freud, after 40 years of research, concluded that human beings, as such, can't be helped or healed! After 40 years of research, he said this. The problem is, he did not get a single enlightened specimen to work with! He worked only with patients, with sick people, who had not experienced the flowering of enlightenment and hence the totality of being a human. So, he was led to conclude that that was the normal state. He concluded that man, as such, was sick, and hence can never be helped or healed!

A follower of Sigmund Freud went to Tiruvannamalai, a spiritual nerve center in South Bharat, and my native place. He was afraid to meet Ramana Maharishi and so came away without meeting him. He writes, "I was afraid I would be lost in His presence. I have done too much

research, and I have too much investment in my beliefs. All my beliefs might disappear if I meet Him and sit in His presence." Just see his mind game! It clearly shows that he was not a true scientist! He was just a marketing person; one who sells himself, not one who works for the truth. Understand: if you are a scientist, and you sign an agreement with a company, you are completely bound. The moment you sign an agreement, you give up your freedom to research the real truth. Then, you are no more a scientist. You are not a true seeker. In the same way, this man had lost the truth. In olden days in Bharat, there was a taxi which you had to push half the distance and the other half, it would go by itself! This man writes in his reminiscences, "Such a taxi came to take me to Ramana Maharishi's place. That morning, some fear gripped me and I simply took the taxi and ran away to Chennai. From there, I came back." He went all the way and was just half an hour"s distance away from Ramana. If he had met Bhagwan, the whole Western analysis of human psychology might have been different. They would have enjoyed the science of enlightenment!

You see: these people have done enough research in the waking state, dream state and deep sleep state, but they missed the samadhi state! If they would have had one enlightened specimen, they would have been flabbergasted by the results! They would have had real fun with the science, defying results recorded!

In the Vedic tradition, evolution is linked to the different avatars of Vishnu. The first is considered to be the fish body. You are born as a fish. You accumulate some samskaras through a few incidents when you are a fish. Then, you see a tortoise going around. You see a better possibility in the body of the tortoise. You decide: next time I create, I will create a body like that. A tortoise can live in water and on land. Then, when you are in the tortoise body, you see a better and bigger body, like that of a pig or some other animal. Then you decide, "The next time I create a body, I will create that kind of a body." So when you die, you create the next level - that is the pig body. As this cycle happens, you evolve, and also collect different engrams or samskaras every time you take birth anew. You raise the frequency of the system, or the body, every time you are given a chance to create or design. This same sequence, you can see in the incarnations of Lord Vishnu as well! First, it is the macha avatar – the fish incarnation, then the tortoise, then the pig, then half man half animal, then the pigmy man, then the primitive man, then the civilized man like Rama, who is dharmic. Lastly, even beyond civilization, there is the civilized poorna avatar – the completely enlightened being, who is not bound by any rules and regulations, who is just radiating joy, energy and enlightenment. It is this evolution that happens in man also. Step by step, different kinds of beings happen. At every stage, you collect samskaras and design a body, when you are given an option, in a better way. This is the process of the evolution of the physical body, and the intelligence of evolution.

Anyhow, let us both work together. Let us not hate each other until the process is over. This is a very important thing, so understand and remember this statement deeply. Let us not hate each other till the end of the program. I say this because, when the Master starts doing his work on you, burning all your cancerous points, the points where you have invested your ego, you will experience hatred towards him. Right now, this may seem impossible to you, but when the work starts, you will be surprised!

During these few days, your food will be a little delayed; your sleep will also be a little delayed.

Please bear with it. This is required, because if you are caught in your regular routine for these few days, your second and third layer energies can't be awakened. You cannot be brought back to life from your deep sleep. So understand the whole truth, only then you will be able to enter into the process.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says of himself, "Even seeing me is like a glimpse of enlightenment for a person!" He used to go to Calcutta in a horse carriage. He lived a very joyful life picnicking, going out, jumping, dancing etc. He did not undertake the responsibility of a mission during his lifetime. Ramakrishna Mission was not created by Ramakrishna. He initiated around 60 disciples. When he died, only they gathered. He says, "Even if someone sees me accidentally, they don't even have to understand that I am enlightened etc…even if they just see me casually, they are blessed!" You might think: how can that be? It sounds too egoistic. It is like me saying that if my car is standing in the signal and another car comes next to my car, if the person in the other car just happens to turn and look at me, he is blessed! He doesn't have to understand that I am enlightened. He does not even have to think that I am a holy man. Just a casual glimpse is enough! Ramakrishna says he is blessed! How can that be? When you understand how to design your body after death, you will understand this statement.

A small incident from Ramakrishna"s life:

One day, suddenly, he permitted his photograph to be taken. He selected one of the three photographs and said, 'Please make prints of this photo. This is going to be worshipped by thousands of people.' Ramakrishna kept the print in the prayer room, and worshipped the photograph. The people who saw this were confused at the act of Ramakrishna and asked him the reason.

Ramakrishna explained that he was in the samadhi state when that picture was taken, and hence it had become the very form of Parashakthi (cosmic energy), which could be worshipped.

Another interesting story from the life of Krishna:

Once, Krishna and Arjuna were walking in the forest, after the Mahabharata war was over. Suddenly, Arjuna said, 'Krishna! You told me so much in the Bhagavad Gita during the war. You delivered such beautiful aphorisms. But because I was feeling deeply troubled at that time, I am unable to remember them all clearly. Can you please repeat it to me now? I will grasp it deeply in my mind.'

Krishna replied casually, 'What? You do not remember! Even I do not remember anything now!'

Arjuna was perplexed. He asked, 'What are you saying Krishna? How is it that you yourself, don't remember what you said?'

Krishna replied, 'Yes Arjuna, I would have remembered if I had told you all the sutras myself.'

Now Arjuna was even more perplexed and said, 'Krishna, do not confuse me. It is you who told me the seven hundred verses during the war. If you say that you did not tell me, then who did?'

Krishna replied calmly, 'All that was said, was not spoken by me, but by the Parabrahma Krishna – the cosmic Krishna! The Krishna who is talking to you now is Vasudeva Krishna – Vasudeva's son!'

Through these stories, understand that the physical body of enlightened Masters is not their own. Whatever they do from their physical body is only through divinity. They are a pure channel for Existence to flow. That is why getting even a glimpse of them is enough in a lifetime.

Understand: whatever samskaras you collect when you are alive, everything gets recorded in you, even if you have not paid conscious attention while collecting them. For example, let us say that you are driving your car, and on the way, some accident or some loud expression of grief is going on in the road. You did not really observe much; you just drove past quickly. Consciously, you may not have even registered the car number, the color of the clothing of the person, or the face of the person who was involved in the accident. But, if you are hypnotized, you will tell the exact car number, the color of the clothing, the person's face etc! What does this mean? It means that, even if you don't pay attention to the scenes in your life, there is a system inside you which records anything and everything happening around you! Anything happening around you is getting recorded inside.

When you leave the body, all the things which got recorded in your entire life will replay in front of you. Like an option, your mind will ask what you want to pick up. See, by natural intelligence, you know that the body of an enlightened being which is there in your memory is the best body to choose. But you choose only out of whatever is available in front of you. When you are living as a fish, if you have seen a tortoise even once, you will choose only a tortoise! From the fish stage, you can only take one jump at a time - like the zoning system in USA! Only one jump at a time. There is nothing else you can do. But the next jump you will always take, is based on the best information available, the best data available.

One important thing: the onlooker, the man who got a glimpse of an enlightened being during his previous birth, may not recognize that he is enlightened, but after death, the memory will show him very clearly that he had the darshan - glimpse - of an enlightened person. This happens because that memory alone will shine! At the time of death, that will be in 4-colours, while everything else will be in black and white!

Yes…any questions till now?

A: Yes. They consciously chose. I was once healing an autistic child in America. The child was born and brought up in a Telugu speaking family. When I put my hand on the child to heal, the child started talking to me in singular Tamil, a child who is 4 years old! He spoke to me, "Remove your hand." I slowly asked him, "Why are you telling me not to heal you? Don't you know that I am here only to heal you?" He replied, "Yes, but I don't want to get healed. I am the owner of this body. I have consciously decided to take such a body." I asked him why? He replied, "I am not interested in taking the responsibility of going to school, going for a job etc. I hate this civilization. I just want to rest and relax. I don't want any so called civilized life. That is why I chose autism." I told him, "But your parents are suffering. They are such nice people. They are suffering because of you. Why did you decide to take birth with them?" He replied, "Only because they are nice people, I took birth with them! They will take good care of me." Remember: he is answering all these things logically in Tamil! The whole family is looking baffled and troubled because this boy is talking in Tamil so fluently! Not a single person among them knows Tamil. I don't want to reveal the identity for privacy reasons, but this incident actually happened.

Your birth is your conscious decision, your conscious choice, the reason for which only you know. Sometimes, a particular part of the body might have been involved in some activity which you did not like, so you will renounce that part of the body when you take birth the next time. Just because of hatred towards that activity, you renounce that part of the body itself! It is true!

A: If that one instance created a strong memory, then yes, you will renounce it. You see: when you leave the body, and you are about to chose the next body, all the cards will be in front of you. Naturally, you will pick up only the Master Card. You will say, "I have played with all other cards like Visa Card etc....now I want to play only with the Master Card. You would have gotten tired with all the other types of cards. So you decide, it is time to pick up the Master Card. That is why Ramakrishna says that even seeing an enlightened Master casually is a blessing! It is a blessing.

Never take an enlightened Master's darshan for granted. Working with him or knowing that he is enlightened is secondary. Just understand that getting a glimpse is a blessing. The entire planet Earth does not have more than 2000 enlightened Masters. When I say 2000, I am also including all those persons who are claiming that they are enlightened also. If there are 2000 enlightened beings on Earth, what are your chances of meeting one in a single lifetime? Half a million is the maximum number of people you might see in your lifetime. In 6.5 billion population of the world, half a million is about 10%! So understand: you are clearly blessed to be a part of that 10%. Don"t take yourself for granted. Don't think that having darshan of a Master is a casual thing. Further, in that 10%, probably only 0.1% will work with him – like going to his mediation camps, sitting around him etc. Even setting your eyes on him for a brief moment, puts you in the 10% category! Just imagine! So don"t take yourself for granted. It is a very dangerous attitude. Be very clear: you are blessed.

When you choose the next body, you will sit and try to recall the best physiological structure that you have seen in your entire life. You will analyze the best physiological structure possible and naturally, the enlightened physiology is the best! Human beings are the best physiological structures as of now. And naturally, out of whatever human structures you collected in your lifetime, the best will be the enlightened physiology. It is the physiology that does not bother

much about food, eating, outer world; that which is established in bliss and ecstasy. You see all this, and naturally you say, "O God! This seems to be a very strong and beautiful physiological structure. Let me choose to work for this."

Either you may choose the enlightened physiology for yourself, or you may choose to live around that kind of an enlightened being, to be in the same space as that being. But your next decision, the decision of your next birth, will be very strongly towards enlightened physiology. So Ramakrishna's words are true. Even casually seeing an enlightened Master is a blessing. At face value, it may sound egoistic. Only if you look inside logically and understand, you will know, that it is a blessing. When I read this before enlightenment, it looked egoistic. When I got enlightened, I clearly understood what it was! Either you are on this side of the game, or on that side of the game. But blessed are those who understand the real inside view of this game, who understand the ideas or truths underlying the game.

You don"t even have to wait till death to create an enlightened physiology. If you are seeing me now, now itself you can pick up the Master Card! You see: every night you sleep is actually death for you. Every day you get up is a new birth for you. If you look a little deeply, every ingoing breath is birth and every outgoing breath is death. Every moment, you are actually dying and taking birth. If you understand this, you don"t have to wait till death to create an enlightened physiology. You can start right away!

You can create the enlightened physiology NOW. How to do it?

Two steps to create an enlightened physiology: the difference between your physiological structure and enlightened physiology is that he does not carry the samskaras from so many births; he has burned everything. So, you, also, can renounce all the samskaras brought from animal body to human body. Basically, the samskaras that you bring from the animal bodies are violence and greed – that gives rise to sex and fear. Because animals don't have a mind, they don"t have intelligence, they have only instinct. But they have true instinct. They can save themselves from any survival threat. Also, they can reproduce themselves through physical relationship - sex. They don"t do anything else. Your body, the base material for your body, is basically made up of these two engrams – fear and greed. If you can enter into the animal body again, and release these two engrams, your body will be ready, purified, to be programmed for enlightened physiology.

Understand: there are two steps. One is throwing away the engrams you brought from the animal body and other births. The second is, programming your body to have an enlightened physiology - a more positive and energetic physiology. The first part is cleaning, and the second part is programming. Cleaning, you will do. Programming is my part. I will do it. I always do my job in the best way, so don't bother! I will do my job. Programming is my job. You just do the cleaning part.

Now we will do both the parts.

In the first part, become the same animal that you were. How will you know from which animal you took birth, from which animal you took this jump? In Bharat, they have a technique based on your time of birth. They will predict the animal from which you took birth! It is part of the science of astrology. How many of you have studied your own horoscope. If you have, you will know your animal. There are 27 nakshatras or planets. For each planet, there will be an associated animal. Usually, only from the 5-sense animal, you will take a jump to the 6-sense human form. So among the 5-sense animals, they very clearly categorize and classify the animals. But now, how do you to tell from which animal you took birth? Just close your eyes, and start visualizing; whichever animal comes spontaneously is the animal.

Yes…I think someone wants to ask a question in the back row?

Q: You said that you disagree with Darwin when he said we came from animals. Now you are asking us to believe that we took birth from an animal.

A: I am not disagreeing with Darwin in the theory that man came from the monkey. I am disagreeing with the part where he says where we will proceed. He spoke of only the physical body level. He did not say that there is a part of the human being that has come from the Divine! Understand now: your whole being has not come from the monkey. If that was the case, there is no way of saving yourself. There is some part of you that has come from the Divine. He forgot to touch that part. He forgot to look into that part. He decided straightaway and put the monkey on the throne! From the monkey body, you brought only your engrams, not your consciousness! Your consciousness, you brought from the Divine. This has to be clearly understood. The whole game is about your consciousness. The body is just the vehicle.

According to Darwin, all the systems developed in the West, say that you are just the body. They say you are just a bio-mechanism. No, you are not! You are not just a bio-mechanism. The basic mistake Allopathy did, was to declare that you are a bio-mechanism. If we are just a bio mechanism, then the person who is dead, and whose body parts are not touched and removed, the medicine put into his body and the medicine put into a living body, should cause the same reaction, is it not? Why is it not so in reality?

There are so many ways in which I can explain why we are not just a bio-mechanism. We are something more than a bio-mechanism. We are not just monkeys. There is an ingredient in us which is taken from the ultimate Divine Energy. You are not just monkeys put together or animals put together. No!

One more thing: today"s medication looks at the human body as a combination of several independent parts such as hands, legs, head etc. If we take the field of dentistry, I am told that there are seven areas in that field! Just imagine: one mouth and seven areas! These seven areas have been further split and have become nine now, I am told. As they specialize deeper, the nine might become eleven. This is the status now, in Bharat. In the West, the specialisation is even more.

An American devotee, a dentist, shared with me this information about the high specialisation happening in the medicine world. If we look at things in such high detail, how can we understand anything holistically? Studying the simple tooth itself may take 32 years! Then, imagine how long it will take to study the rest of the body. A specialist will be able to take care of only that part he has specialized in. Then, who will cure the rest?

Whenever any cure approaches a disease from the outside, the cure can never be total, because the body is not made up of independent parts; it is a whole and holy system. Meditation is what looks at the outside from within. Meditation approaches the body in its totality. There is nothing like meditation separately for the head, hand or stomach. Any meditation technique energises the whole body; the whole body benefits from it. Medical science has grown vastly, with specialisations, but medication, along with meditation, is what will restore a positive well being-ness in the person as such.

We must first understand that the disease is not caused by disorder in any particular organ. Disease is related to the whole body. When only the diseased part is treated, the cause for the disease still remains inside the body; it will not be eliminated. Since medical science looks at curing only affected body parts, the simple approach of eliminating the root cause of the disease is missed.

Why did this approach of dividing the body into parts come into practice? The reason is that there are many mysteries about the body, which science still does not understand. Many functions of the body remain unexplained.

Whether we understand the body parts or not, it is important to understand these five vital layers in our bodies, which are called koshas. It is difficult to understand these five koshas as they are of a subtle nature, and based on spirituality. Since we are used to analysing every thing through scientific methods, let us try to understand these five koshas scientifically.

Let us take the example of an electric cable:

What is inside the electric cable? Copper wire. What is inside the copper wire? Electricity. What is electricity made of? Electricity is made of electrons. What are electrons made of? Electrons are made of vibrations and information. What constitutes the information and the vibrations? It is all energy!

Will people not laugh if you say there are five invisible layers inside a cable? Only people who know the science behind it will agree to this.

You can use this example to visualise the five koshas.

Now, we are going to work on the physical and outermost layer in which the animal engrams are engraved; that part, we are going to work and clean. But that does not mean you are only that. You are a mixture of these two. When you clean and release the animal part, the conscious parts start shining or flowering inside you. That is the whole purpose. Now, I hope you understand what I am saying. I think you are clear.

Let us start the work now. You don't even have to know which animal you came from. The animal from which you took birth will automatically come out. Greed and fear are almost the same for all animals. It will be more intense than your human greed and fear, that's all. You can see whenever you are caught in fear and greed that all your civilization suddenly disappears! You feel like an animal! When you are filled with fear or lust, immediately the animal in you comes out. You become just like an animal. All your civilization, your title, your name etc, disappear. If you tell someone to video record you when you are expressing your fear or greed, and watch it later, you may even have a fear stroke watching it! Or you may get into an inferiority complex just watching it.

So, instead of unconsciously falling everyday into the animal body, let us fall consciously into it now, and release everything. Let us get rid of it. It is a very powerful process. Taking any one animal's body, just become that. No one is going to watch you. No video recording is happening here. No photography is happening here. No one will look at you. Everyone"s eyes will be closed. Just become that animal and bring yourself to the peak of fear and greed. Just feel the lust and survival fear. React in the way you feel that the animal will react. Let your whole body shiver. Be filled with violence. Be filled with greed. Let your whole body boil with those engrams. Let them all come out. Only then, programming you is possible for me. Understand that. Unless the strong animal engrams in you leave your system, unless the pashu (animal nature) leaves you, you cannot become Pashupati! (Pashupati is a form of Lord Shiva associated with animals and nature).

Understand: you have got so many samskaras from the animal layer, because you never allowed them to become reality. These samskaras express in your everyday life. You can see it surfacing even when you are eating sometimes. You can see it, when you are angry. When you are really angry, the animal engrams express through you. Sometimes, it may even frighten you. You might wonder, "What am I doing? What is going on? Why am I so aggressive?" Understand: till you allow the animal inside you to be completely fulfilled and relaxed, you can"t escape from it. It should be allowed to come out completely. It should be allowed to actualize itself.

These animal engrams are so powerful. They are called prarabdha karma. This prarabdha karma is so powerful. If you allow them to work through you, they will empower you. If you suppress them, they will constantly depress you. You will be fighting with them all the time. Whatever quality you are fighting with, in whatever way you are fighting with yourself, these animal engrams are responsible for it. If you are fighting to control your anger, if you are fighting to stop smoking, if you are fighting to stop drinking, everything is directly connected to this annamaya kosha, the animal memories; the samskaras which you brought from the animal layer. Even for any addiction, if you are fighting with yourself, the responsibility is this annamaya kosha's. Whatever may be the reason for the fight with yourself, the responsibility is the samskaras which you bring from the animal body.

Now, we are going to give the opportunity for all those samskaras to leave you; all those personalities, the animal layers which you brought with you, to leave you.

The animal in you has to leave you; only then you can become God; only then, the consciousness can shine in you. As long as you are having the physical layer of animal engrams, any small disturbance is enough to awaken that in you; you are there, ready like an animal. See for yourself, how many times in your house, animal like fight goes on when the tempers rise! Look back in your life to see how many times the violent animal nature in you expresses itself. Even though you do not want it, it simply expresses, and later, you regret. Sometimes, during this meditation, people tell me, "I don"t feel like becoming any animal. I don"t feel I was any animal. I don"t feel anything is coming out." I tell them, "Then you must have been a buffalo!" At least become a buffalo and act like one. Use your hand as its tail and drive the flies away! At least become that buffalo.

In the ancient traditional Vedic system, before the Gayatri initiation – the initiation into the prayer for awakening the innate intelligence in the child – he will be made to live in this mriga shareera or animal body. That is why they study as a part in studying the horoscope. They will be made to live like that animal for six months. In today"s modern world, the whole system has disappeared. It has been simply washed away. We can forgive all the injustice done to Bharat in the name of war and plundering; we can forgive even the damage done to our wonderful ancient temples, because they can be rebuilt. But we cannot forgive the destruction of our Vedic education system, the Vedic tradition that got destroyed during foreign rule. Nearly two hundred thousand Vedic Gurukul centers or universities were there in South Bharat alone. Two lakh Gurukuls were there in South Bharat alone. Now there are hardly six thousand.

In the Vedic tradition, when a child takes birth, they will clearly predict, from which animal the child took birth, and what samskaras he is carrying. They will help the child release those samskaras in his young age itself. Yoga is also one of the ways to release these engrams. That is why each asana or posture is related to one particular animal in a certain way. The posture is a technique to release the associated engrams. Then, when the body becomes graceful and pure, they will program it with the Gayatri initiation, with the mantra, with the energy.

The whole system was lost because the Gurukul system was lost. Now, even the so-called Brahmins, who wear the yagnobhavita (sacred white thread), do not know anything of these long lost traditions. They don"t even know why they wear that thread. The science is largely lost. Earlier, by age ten, you are expected to finish all these things. Now, I am giving you a half hour opportunity to live like the Vedic times. If you do this meditation intensely, understand, not a single engram will remain in you.

In those times, an enlightened Master would guide the whole thing and tell the children individually, which animal engram he took birth from. They will ask him to eat in the same way as that animal; live in the same way; create sounds in the same way. The child will become almost that! There is a beautiful story of a boy Satyakama japa in the Shwetaswara Upanishad. His spiritual name is Shwetaketu. I have spoken on this story in the discourse entitled "The Happening". He took birth from a cow"s engrams. Following the Master"s single line instruction, he went away and lived with cows for a few years, until they multiplied into 1000 cows, and then came back. As soon as he came back, with just a single word from the Master, he became enlightened!

So understand: this is a very powerful process. Of course, unfortunately in today"s rat race, we don"t have six months to live like animals, but at least this next thirty minutes, we can live intensely to release our animal engrams. Even if you bring out most part of the lust and greed in you, it is enough. The other smaller samskaras, I can take care of. From your side, just work towards removing strong and heavy samskaras like lust, anger and fear. When you get fear out, your whole body will be shivering. Just visualize how an animal shivers and shiver in the same way. In the tips of your nails and teeth, you will feel violence. Even now, sometimes you can feel this when you look at your in-laws, mother-in-law especially! And this is the case mostly in Bharat. In USA, the relationship between the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law is much better because when they meet, they have time only for utility - like baby sitting etc. When the mother in-law baby sits, some responsibility is temporarily taken away from the daughter-in-law for those few hours, so she is very happy. Also, they meet only occasionally, so it is not a problem.

Bring out the whole animal emotion in a live way. Relive and relieve. Re-living is relieving. Choose any one animal. Suddenly you will see two to three animals coming out. Let all of them come out. Just become each animal and live it out completely, that"s all. To start with, just feel your head. From your head to your toe, think that you have become the animal. I will guide you step by step. Only one thing, you can't disturb the person next to you.

You might experience a lot of pain and discomfort discarding your identity as a human while doing the meditation. Your pain is nothing but the fight between your animal samskaras and the

higher civilization samskaras. When the higher civilization happens to you, when you become civilized, a big layer of conditioning and engrams are kept on you. The fight between the civilization engrams and the animal engrams becomes pain and discomfort in your body. If you are just animal, you will not have pain. If you are just human, you will not have pain. When these two start fighting inside you, you start feeling the suffocation.

For example, you will never find a buffalo having knee pain. Fortunately, they are not educated by television. They don"t see the advertisements that say: if you have knee pain, call now! They don"t see the headache tablet advertisements that keep calling your attention to an imaginary headache and offer relief from it. If you watch this commercial four times, you will have a headache. You don"t have to do anything else. You just need to see the commercial three times, that"s all.

Anyhow, the fight between the engrams of civilization and engrams of animals is the pain and suffocation inside your body. If you have asthma problem, just breathe like that particular animal; your asthma will simply disappear! When the engrams of civilization and the engrams of the animal fight with each other, the breathing system starts suffering. Understand one thing: when I make such statements, I am responsible for it. I don't make any indefinite statements. In the last four and half years of the mission, I have worked with almost disciples; at least patients I have worked with. I don't think any doctor can claim he has worked with till now! When I say I worked with these numbers, I mean I have healed them! At least persons have had spiritual initiation or healing. At least persons have gotten healed. With that experience, I am telling you, just altering the way of breathing, will heal your asthma. When I make all these statements, I am responsible for them and I mean what I say. Out of the persons, at least have been cancer patients.

Let me give you an example for samskara. Every morning at 7"o clock, if you have the habit of having coffee, as soon as it is seven, the bell inside you will ring for coffee even if you are not looking at the clock. The memory, which makes you do the same activity again and again, is called samskara or engram. Your walking, talking, standing - everything is based on samskara. If you notice, you do all these things in pretty much the same way. There is no variation.

So just visualize the animal first. With the visualization itself so many things will start happening in you. Just become arrogant and violent and express it. Make enough space around you. When you hit another body, just move away, that"s all. Moreover, I am going to be here; so I will manage the process.

Start with one animal; you will see that two or three animals come out slowly. Live out all the

possible emotions. Just become that particular animal and you will see that all the samskaras come out. Every animal has survival instinct. There is no animal that does not have fear or greed. There is only one animal, or you can say only one being, that has no fear and greed, and that is an enlightened being!

Only from an animal you have taken the jump to a human being. In your previous birth, you may have been a human being, but those samskaras we are not going to bother about now. We want to touch the root from where you took the jump to the human form - and that is the

animal form. That is the base material. We are trying to cut that thread so that everything gets dispersed. Just like all pearls are strung on one piece of thread, this base material that is fear and greed, from where you took the jump, is the thread on which all samskaras are strung. If you just cut that thread, everything will get dispersed!

Understand one thing: it is the samskaras which you bought from the animal life that are haunting you; the animal itself is not haunting you. The same animals might be your pets, but the animalistic engrams are harmful for you. It is a disturbance on the path to enlightenment. In enlightenment, you cannot have any engrams - whether animal or human.

One more thing: you can pick any animal; the instinct of that animal will simply start opening up. That's enough. All we need is the instinct that is lust, greed or fear to open up in you. Literally, the shivering, or the survival threat, or the intense energy flow of lust, should happen in you, just like animals. If that happens, it is enough. The next process, I will take care of.

Understand: express the emotions intensely through action; don"t just visualize and leave them.

Whether you are battling with anger, or lust, or greed, any emotion which makes you fight with yourself, anything which you think you are not able to handle, are only from those animals. For example, if you are not able to control your anger, now enter into any animal body. For example, you may feel connected with a lion. Just become a lion and be angry like a lion, literally! Nobody is going to see you; no photography and no videography will be done here. Just become that animal.

You don"t know how powerful this process will be; how it will liberate you from so many problems that you are literally dying with. You may be suffering with a particular emotion for the past ten to twelve years. This one session is enough to liberate you from it! I tell you: this one session will simply heal you. I have seen people coming out of not just physical diseases, but years of addiction and mental problems, like lack of self-confidence etc. You see: you don"t have self confidence, only because you are not able to win yourself; you are not able to do what you want to do within you. All those difficulties are because you have not completely expelled the animal engrams. Now, all these will simply disappear. They will just melt away when this animal is given the satisfaction, when this animal feels completely total and leaves your system.

Understand: right now, your human existence, the human body, is not completely owned by you. The body which you are having, you are not the complete owner of. That is why you are not able to completely control it. There are so many entities who are sitting inside your body without paying rent! Each one is saying, "This is my portion, get out!" These entities start fighting with each other, and you are unable to do anything about it. You are like a man who is

married to four or five women! Sometimes, you talk on behalf of the first wife, sometimes on behalf of the second! Whoever is in front of you at that moment, demanding your attention, you talk on their behalf! That is what is happening.

We are working on the major portion of the prarabdha karma which you brought with you when you created this body. That is what working with the annamaya kosha means. We are working with the base metal, the base material with which you created the first layer. Then, we will

work one by one on the next layers.

So assume any one animal form. You don"t have to wonder which is the right animal for you. All you need to do is break from the idea that you are a human being, that"s all. Once you break from it, the whole thing will come out. These are all very esoteric and mystical processes, done only when a disciple is really interested and intensely wants to experience the higher consciousness or enlightenment. That is why these methods are not available, in common, for the masses. You may think that you have never read about this in your scriptures. Understand: in religion, you will never learn this. Only in spirituality, you will learn this. These are methods from the esoteric traditions where the enlightenment science is kept alive, where the living stream is maintained. Fortunately, it is still available and you are fortunate to drink that divine nectar from the very source!

You may wonder: what will I gain out of this process? Once you experience, you will know. I have seen so many people coming out of arthritis; so many disorders related to the body, they get relief from. They go through this process just once, and they come out of the disease! People come out of so many sexual disorders after one session of this meditation. The problem is really nothing. You have not allowed the animal which is in you to live and leave you, that"s all. You have not liberated the animal from your system. You might have taken the human body, but you never liberated the animal! You never allowed those engrams to completely come out of your being, out of your system. So, they sit inside and rule you the whole day and night. When they are sitting inside you, they don"t keep quiet. They will simply rule your whole life. They directly or indirectly guide your whole life and all your activities.

Just enter into the process; you will see the relief, or the new space, or the new energy which happens in you. Unless you enter into it, you will not have confidence to do it. You might have so many questions such as how can I do this kind of meditation etc. All this is because you have never imagined yourself becoming some animal! Even when kids play animal games, when they imagine they have become an elephant and walk on all fours, you just laugh at them.

Sometimes, people remain frozen during this meditation. They don"t want to get out of their frozen identity. They will just sit, and make some humming sound. They must have been buffalos in their previous births! Understand: this is not even a technique. It is a process which needs your 100% commitment.

Even in techniques, I have seen: when I say hum as intensely as possible, people don"t hum with intensity at all. So be very clear: if you do that here, we will conclude that you were a buffalo. Actually, I should not say not "you were", you are! Then, at least sit in that buffalo body which usually sits silently with legs crossed and chewing something all the time.

Sometimes, you may feel like an animal which you have never heard of, or seen before. Let everything come out. Just live as that, that"s all. Move your body, or do any activity just like that animal. Don"t just keep quiet. No animal will keep quiet. Only human beings will keep quiet. No animal will usually keep quiet. It will be doing something all the time. It will at least be moving its body all the time except during the time it sleeps.

All the emotions which give you the peak experience - like anger, lust etc, should be lived inside

that animal body, because all your peak experiences are driven only by those animal samskaras.

Only one thing: don"t disturb the person next to you. You can"t touch the person next to you. Otherwise, you are free to do anything; you will see that it is an intense catharsis of samskaras. Don"t think that this is just a psychological catharsis. In techniques for psychological catharsis, they ask you to shout and scream and punch the bag. That catharsis is just for emotions. This is catharsis for the samskaras, for the kosha itself. We are working with the very base. This will be a thousand times more effective than any psychological catharsis. Psychological catharsis is like cosmetic surgery. But with this, your complete personality will be transformed!

Those who have heart problems, or have had recent surgery, or any major health problem, or women who are pregnant, please refrain from doing this technique. You can come and sit on the side here, and I will guide you all, through separate instructions.

Just express the whole thing. Let the whole body act out and release those engrams from the system. Once it comes out, it will leave your system forever. When it is brought to consciousness, it will leave you. So make enough space for a zoo! And do not be near your husband or wife!

(Meditation starts…and ends)

'Om Nithyanandam"

Relax. You can open your eyes.

Please remain silent for the next half an hour, so that the silence can work on you. Do not talk. Please be silent. If you use any words, the process will be disturbed. Do not use any words. We will gather here for the next session after one hour. I want all of you to be back here, in one hour"s time.

Thank you.

A: That is not a problem. If your body is alive, that is enough. Fish don"t make any audible sound, do they? They might be making sounds, but we don"t normally hear them.

Part 2: The Koshas

A: Yes surely. If it was a clear vision, a clear picture, then surely it is a samskara. It means that those engrams are coming out. You see: your prarabdha is like a Pandora box; when you open each layer, the next will emerge. It is good that you really opened one layer. Good job. If you had at least one violent experience for a few seconds, if you lost the idea that you were a man for even one second, then you have been successful; you have done it!

See, I have an idealistic goal, as well an actual goal, for this workshop. The idealistic goal is: you getting enlightened. The actual goal is like this: I know to what extent you will do the meditations and open up. The technology itself is powerful enough to make you enlightened, but your capability to experience that technology, your capability to put yourself into it, I am aware of…so with that, I have a practical goal also for you. At least, you will have good rejuvenation and release the engrams which you use in your day to day life.

The engrams with which you suffer day to day are the simple and basic diseases like insomnia, tiredness or chronic fatigue, addictions etc. Also, you will experience intense joy or excitement. Physical and mental healing is the practical goal. The ideological goal is enlightenment. This is the idea behind the whole program.

This opening that you feel, for even one second, this feeling of being disconnected from your identity that you are a man, itself will release these basic engrams which are constantly bothering your life now. You see, the moment you lose your imbalance, the first things, like anger or lust, will surface. Those engrams will come out first. Those layers will be healed first.

Even that will give you so much benefit. That itself will take care of you so much. That is the purpose. So even for a few moments, if you completely forgot that you had a human body, you have done it!

A: It means that in one of your previous births, when you took the jump from animal to human form, you must have been a monkey. You might have taken three or four human births previous to this time. But just before taking the first human form, the animal, from which you took that jump, would have been the monkey!

A: Beautiful! You will see from now on, that when you become angry, or when you are possessed by lust, you will not have violence; you will not have the animal nature in you. You will have beautiful grace! When you start expelling all the animal engrams in the path of enlightenment, your body will start acquiring such grace.

Actually in our ashrams, the big problem is that the ashramites don"t take me seriously even if I become angry. Even if I shout at them, they will go behind my back and discuss amongst themselves, "He looks so beautiful even when he shouts!" The problem is, the enlightened body language, because it is devoid of any samskaras, is packed with so much grace, that it is difficult to show violence in it. Even when we try to show violence, it will not come through as real violence! That is the problem.

Anyhow, you will see that you will not be able to have violence anymore. Even when you become angry, you will not have the monkey violence which was sitting in you for all these days. One more thing: even if you fall into anger, you will be able to quickly come back from it also. See … when the monkey was sitting inside you, you might have taken two days to settle down in your anger. But now, when the animal is not there in you, you might become angry, but the next moment it will just disappear! That is the tremendous transformation that this meditation does in you.

Your annamaya kosha, your physical body, is not just your body. It is a collection of so many prints together. Now, we are working to make the physical body as your own body, that"s all. We are working to bring the whole thing under your control so that you will live completely inside the body. It will be a very pleasant feeling if the body is owned completely by you.

A: You see: the suffering recorded in the animal"s body when it was killed, that suffering will be there in your body if you eat the animal. But the animal"s samskara itself will not be there. The animal"s quality will not be there.

Whenever an animal is killed, it leaves tremendous suffering. You see: you are not eating the animal that died naturally. You are eating it after killing it. It is a premature death for the animal. Because it is killed prematurely, it harbors a lack of fulfillment in its flesh. When you swallow that flesh, those feelings will naturally be recorded in you. But the quality of that animal will not get recorded in you.

I have seen that vegetarian people are less prone to depression. Understand: No vegetarian company is sponsoring me to say these things. I am not sponsored by any vegetarian food producers or companies. From my own experience, I am telling you. I have done enough of research in the human consciousness. I have worked with millions of disciples. So, I can tell you for sure, that vegetarian food helps you, even if you are not a spiritual seeker. Even if you are not a person who is interested in spirituality, even to live a normal life, vegetarian food helps a lot.

A: I have consciously scanned and seen the case with plants. Plants do not have so much of

consciousness as to suffer, to experience pain. But animals experience a lot of pain; that"s the thing.

A: In eggs also, there is a possibility of life if allowed to continue. With milk, there is no possibility. People ask me, "Swamiji, like milk comes from the cow, egg comes from the hen; then why is it that milk is vegetarian and egg is not vegetarian? If you sit on milk and incubate it, you won"t get a calf! But if you sit on an egg, you will get a chicken. That is the reason. Somebody may ask if it is alright to eat poultry eggs. Poultry eggs may not have the male part, but the feminine part of life is there. The moment the possibility for life is there, it becomes non vegetarian food.

A: My part… to open you up! You see: there are many strong and hard nuts in every meditation program. To crack them is my first job. Second thing: those karmas which are released, have to disappear. That job too, I do. Moreover, the vacuum spaces which you create within you by releasing the animal engrams will be filled by my presence! Understand: it is a very esoteric process.

Usually when I explain these esoteric processes, it seems like I am claiming too many things. So I generally don"t answer these in a detailed fashion. Even this morning, when I claimed that I am enlightened, I saw that a few people were hurt.

But what can be done? Krishna says very clearly in the Bhagavad Gita, "Unless I tell about myself, you can"t know. You will not know." In the same way, whatever you know about me is not enough. If you attend two or three programs, your understanding about me will start developing and expanding.

Just try to attend two or three programs; then you will understand. Your understanding about me will also expand.

See, before the meditation, you had the animal parts inside you. After the meditation, most of those engrams have come out. Now, the possibility of having an enlightened body will be recorded inside you. So, during the moments that you decide your next body, there is a possibility that you will design it to be an enlightened Master! You will ask for the best model. You will rewind and view all the models that you saw. You will see that the enlightened model is the best model, and you will say, "Okay, let"s go ahead!"

A: No, you are not doing anything wrong. If you are unable to open up, it means that you are not able to get rid of the strong human identity that you are holding now. Alright, at least in the next few meditations, decide that you are going to break. Even if it is like acting, in the initial level, it is alright. For a few minutes, it will seem like acting; then you will see, that suddenly things open up.

Again, I am seeing families sitting together. Please sit away from each other, for at least these few days. (Pointing to a particular person) I think you did a program in Canada, am I right? Yes! I can even tell you where you sat during the program. You were sitting and leaning on the wall; am I right?

You are shocked! You see … because I don"t have any emotional memories, I have access to everything that happened in the past! Emotional memories are like high resolution pictures; they will take away too much of your hard disk space. If you don"t have emotional memories, which are actually like high resolution pictures, you can store millions of Word documents in your memory!

In my case, everything is only a Word document, because there is no emotional attachment to any memory. So, I can store, recall, process and handle millions of documents. When I tell some of the ashramites to pick up particular books from the library, I will tell them the exact location where to find it! I will tell them: go to the second cupboard and look in the seventh row. Pick up the tenth book, go to the forty second page, pick up the verse in that page and bring it! That is the way the instruction will be given! This is because I have no emotional attachment to any memory. There is no emotional attachment to any one form or any one thing.

Another big problem with me (enlightened beings) is, the moment I am away from a particular country or ashram, I won"t even remember the names of the close disciples in that country or ashram. This is a big problem for the disciples! They will start saying, "Swamiji never remembers us, he never asks about us." It is not that! I just access different portions of the memory, as and when required, that"s all. If you are in front of me again, I will attend to everything concerning you, from the last time we left off, perfectly!

There is no emotional attachment for me with anything or anyone. But I have so much space, that I make everyone feel special. But everyone wants to be specially special, there starts the problem!

This problem is not just with women. It is everybody"s problem. At least women are simple, and innocent enough to tell me that they need my attention. These men are very cunning; they don"t have the courage to tell, but when they get the attention, they will be so happy and beaming!

A: Actually, enlightened people need not take up any form. They have nothing to achieve by taking up any form because they can always operate without assuming any form. When there is something to be achieved with the help of a body and mind, you choose a body and take birth. Enlightenment is like an overflowing fulfillment. When you become enlightened, you feel your enlightenment not just within your own skin, but you feel it alive in every other creature"s skin, in every tree and rock. I tell you … I feel alive inside every skin! How much I feel alive inside this skin, with the same depth and same energy, I feel alive in every other skin. That is the reason why enlightened beings do not need a separate body or form to operate. Of course, when they take up a form, the form is used as a center from which the operations can be performed. Other than that, there is nothing to be enjoyed through this form for them.

A: You can become a little more intelligent human being, or an artist, or something like that. Whatever option you saw in your life, from that you will choose the best option.

A: There is no maximum number. Till you achieve enlightenment, you continue to take life forms.

A: If you do the Shakti Dharana meditation before going to bed, it will lead to dreamless sleep. Of course, if you want to have permanently dreamless sleep, even without doing Shakti Dharana, you have to get enlightened. After enlightenment, you won"t have dreams, because day dreaming stops, and because of that, you will not have night dreams either.

A: It is an unavoidable principle of rebirth. It is not just your ego. Your ego can accumulate the social conditioning of this civilization. But the animal engrams that you bring, are a natural thing. Not working to clear those engrams, can be the play of your ego.

A: I don"t think of anyone or anything, because I don"t have a mind. Understand: I don"t have inner chatter like you have. What I say to you is what you may call my chatter. It is the only chatter, and it happens spontaneously as I am talking to you. It doesn't take any time to even form inside of me. It just comes out, that's all. In the gap that I give between my words, there is no inner chatter going on, like for you. It is difficult for you to understand unless you experience it yourself. Alright, let you have some experience of this, only then you can relate with what I am saying! For now, understand that I don't have any inner chatter. That is enough. Also, any anger that I show, is only a thread that I bring in to deal with an issue or a person. As such, the anger that I show is not the same as the anger that you display.

A: No. It is not already decided, but the course of the future is decided based on your attachment to the past. What happens is, because you are not so intelligent to create a new future, you will reproduce only your past, altered in some way, as the future. Understand: by constantly jumping from past to future, you will corrupt and pollute your future also, just like your past. You will reproduce the same past in the future; maybe with a little alteration, nothing more. If you scratched with one hand, you might scratch with two hands…a little alteration… nothing much. You will reproduce your same nonsensical past into the future. If you don"t take the conscious decision of penetrating the present, if you don"t bring down your TPS and settle with the present, you will only reproduce the past in the future. But if you consciously take these steps, you will become intelligent enough to let the future open, and be free for you to create it.

The more your TPS, the more unconsciously you will reproduce the same past into the future. It is like this: when you decide to accept a 2 million dollar home, you accept that the next ten years you will reproduce the past into the future. When you accept the mortgage, what do you actually mean? You consciously decide to reproduce the same past into the future, am I right? In the same way, you will reproduce your past into the future in living also.

Unconsciously, you make so many decisions because of your high TPS, and so you feel that

moment, your future will be open and available to you for your creativity, for you to design.

One more important thing: when you go through these steps one by one, you will understand how many decisions you made, just because of an unconsciously high TPS going on inside you. Not only that, you will see that you also complained that your future is not under your control! Actually, it is under your control. If you come down to the present moment, you can simply break the time shaft. You can simply break the cycle of your future becoming past. That is what I mean by living in eternity, living in eternal bliss. Not allowing your future becoming your past, is what I call "eternal bliss". You will wonder: how can it be done Swamiji? I tell you: when you don"t allow something called past or future in your inner space, when you are just settled in the present moment, the past will not create its footprint in your future, that"s all!

As of now, your future has become completely dirty because of your past. Because you are constantly jumping from past to future and back to past, the future is continuously getting corrupted. It is like this: in one bowl, there is cow dung, the other bowl has food. If a fly keeps flying from one bowl to the other, from the cow dung to the food and back to the cow dung, what will happen to the food? Little by little, it will start getting the flavor of the cow dung, that"s all. The very same thing you are doing to your future also. Your future is like good food waiting to be consumed. Your past, because of your past mental conditioning, is like cow dung. What do you do? You keep jumping between the two, carrying the cow dung to the fresh food.

The reason why you constantly jump is, your past is familiar to you. You feel secure when you think of the past, even if it has not been joyful. It is a familiar pattern to you. You wish your future to also be clear and familiar, without any unknown areas, and so you keep referring to your past and bringing it to your future, with a little change… here and there… that"s all. The fear of the unknown in the future, drives you to reproduce the past in the future. But just think: how much can you alter and create your future if your past is the base material out of which you are going to create your future? You might do a little tailoring here and there, that's all, nothing much. You will reproduce the same cow dung, that's all. Actually, cow dung is a decent word that I am using. In fact cow dung is sacred in Bharat. I should be using some other word!

Anyhow, just completely understand the time shaft. So many questions can be answered if you can understand the kaal chakra. The time shaft is called the kaal chakra. If you see Nataraja, the Dancing form of Shiva, you will see a big circle behind Him. This is the kaal chakra. You will see two big animals symbolically swallowing the past and the future. In the center, He will be dancing. It implies that He is dancing the grand cosmic dance in the "present moment" between the past and future.

A: Yes, you can consciously decide to be born as an animal.

A: It is more than just a mystical representation. In those days, human beings used only animals

as their vehicles. There are many philosophical explanations that can be given here. I am giving

you a simple one. In those days, human beings used animals as vehicles, and so they designed or visualized Gods also in the same way. Also, these vahanas represent the individual soul and the Gods represent the cosmic soul. So, it is a symbolic representation of the jiva - individual soul - being at the feet of the paramatma - the cosmic soul.

A: Oh that's nice. Spiritual seeking can be something personal. In that case, there is no need to take a name. It is not necessary. And I don't say that taking a name is compulsory. It is optional. The problem is, unless it is made legal, people don"t take it sincerely and go by it. They take it lightly. It is a name given by an enlightened Master; it cannot be taken for granted. It represents your very path to enlightenment, if you take it sincerely.

A: Out of the causes for cancer, the first reason is, you not feeling completely comfortable inside your body. That is the first thing, the first reason. There are so many other reasons. For example, if your inner space is crowded with too much furniture, and you don't have place for your self, for you to be with yourself, it could lead to cancer. Or, if you are constantly haunted by your past, then your whole inner space is constantly irritated. This could also be a reason. I have spoken on cancer in detailed ways in earlier discourses. Maybe you can try to see those discourses. Even in day before yesterday's discourse, I spoke on cancer. Meditation can help you a lot, along with your medication, if you are afflicted with cancer.

Understand; if you feed the lust unconsciously, rather if the lust gets fed by itself; only then it grows and grows and grows. It gets inflamed. But … when you feed the lust, it will never get inflamed. You feeding the lust means; now you know when to say "No," and you are saying "Yes". Then, it will never get inflamed. Same holds good for tamas. When you are saying yes to sleep, say for one month, it will never get inflamed, it will never grow. But … if tamas takes revenge on you, it is depression. You did not allow the tamas to have its role in your life. Then it puts you in depression and takes revenge on your body and mind. And lust, taking revenge on you, is restlessness. You did not give enough place for it; it just gives you so many other greeds. You see, all greed which you experience in your life, is revenge by lust. When you don't give enough place for lust, it gives you all sorts of greed, like eating, or having more and more new items; more number of cars, big house, and so many other items that drive you crazy.

If you consciously don't give enough place for tamas, it will completely depress you, and swallow your whole body and mind. You consciously giving place to lust or tamas, will never inflame them, will never increase them. But when you don't, you are not ready to give place for them, they will take revenge on you, that's all. It is all about you allowing.

That is why I tell people to, once in a while, retire from life. We should have a system; where once in three years, a person should be able to take off for one year. That should be the life, say maximum for three years only and not more than that. Then, one year off. No routine, no identity, just go somewhere and do whatever you feel like or don't do whatever you feel like, something like this. See, after all, you can waste one third of your life … nothing wrong. It"s not something so serious. After all, you have so many lives!

See, all the western religions are teaching that there is only one life. That is why the West is suffering so much. So much of suffering in the West is because these guys are teaching there is only one life. And it is not true, also. That"s a problem. I think you guys can understand. There is so much of time; eternity is there. Don't bother … just enjoy. Just enjoy! Do this once in a while if you feel like it. Otherwise, there won"t be any fun, will there?

I tell only one thing: just do not abuse your body, or waste it negatively by using it for drugs and those things. Otherwise there is nothing like, you should do this, you should do that, you have to finish all these things in this life; there is nothing like that. Just live happily, enjoy, and I can give even some methods to keep the property properly, and secure for you to come back and enjoy. If you consciously build, meaning, if you feel connected consciously, clearly make a map, and meditate on it, and put it in your mind with a clear suggestion. When you come back, all those property owners will be just waiting to hand it over to you.

That"s what happened in our ashram. You guys can be shocked if you all know that we have ashrams all created in four years. You will be shocked as to how it can be! When I came back to Bangalore; simply the owner had the vision of a young Swami named THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM will come, and that he has to hand over this land. He was searching. He came and handed over. Now, I don't know how many crores (millions) that property is worth. Simply he came and handed over.

All you need to do is consciously make a sankalpa, "this is my property, I am leaving now, I'll come back and enjoy". You see, you may all think, "O! I am telling some stories. But this is what happened in my life. Simply I came back and these guys were waiting like trustees. The moment I came back, they handed over and went away. And don't even for a moment think that, only in an enlightened Master's case, these things will happen, and in your case it won't happen. No … not at all. To keep the property and all, you don't need enlightenment. No, I am really telling you, for that and all, you don't need enlightenment. Simply a little bit of your mind and clarity is more than enough. A clear sankalpa is more than enough. For that, you don't need enlightenment. Enlightenment is far more worthy.

So, just create a strong sankalpa, "these are all mine. I'm leaving now, and going, and when I come back, it has to be handed over to me". And you might think, "what is this Master, it all looks very funny". It may look funny, but this is what we call attracting the abundance, the shree or the lakshmi. Shree means the energy which flows towards the bliss. In Sanskrit, shree is the energy which flows towards bliss or the truth, or consciousness. So actually, you can create some property and tell, "now, I"m leaving all these things and going. But, I'll come back and

enjoy". You will see that when you come back, properly and sincerely, the people hand over the property to you and go away.

People who are sitting on it will be like trustees! And you should also respect them, because they are taking care of it in your absence. All this may look too mystical. But, when you see in life, you will see all these things happening. That"s the way I told at a couple of places; "we will have land in Chennai near the airport only". We were about to land; the aircraft was landing in Chennai, and I got up and said, "we are going to have an ashram. Just now I saw. The land is here. We will have an ashram". Within a few months, one devotee came and offered this land which was just near the airport. Maybe, when I said, we were flying exactly over that property. I saw below that the ashram is there, and that we are going to have to get ready.

I told one of our brahmachari, "You should be the spiritual head, so start your training". See … don't think it is some magic, or a miracle. It is simple intelligence, which is not very difficult. You see, when you are honest with your thoughts or honest with your sankalpa, you will have a clear memory of your past life and everything else.

When I say honest: don't bow down unless you feel the respect. Don't smile unless you feel the love. Take all these things as honest things. Don't smile at somebody having some calculation in mind. Only if you feel that you have some love for that person, maybe for some reason … any reason it may be. Sometimes, when you see a person beautiful or handsome, you feel like having a little love. If you have some reason, any reason to smile; smile. If you have some love, smile. If you feel you don't have love, don't smile for mere social reasons. That'll be ugly. A plastered smile is always ugly.

The same way with anger also. When you have anger … show. Don't show it keeping in mind, that this guy can be exploited easily, or, "Oh! This guy can't do anything. Let me shout". I have seen these guys here. If small accidents happen on the roadside, if some old person is sitting in that car, these guys, these young fellows come out and shout. And if they see a big guy, they just keep quiet!

A small story:

One guy came out of a restaurant. He saw his car, which he had parked outside and went inside, angered since so much of paint was poured on it. He came inside the restaurant and shouted, 'Who is the fellow who poured paint on my car?'

One big, strong guy got up, and said, 'Yes, I did it. What do you want now?'

'No, no, the first coat is over. You can come and do the second coat. First coat has dried. I just want to inform you now, that you can do the second coat.'

See … that is what we do with our anger also. When we see, we see the guy, and play accordingly with our anger. Just be honest with your ideas.

See, one more thing, the Yoga Sutras clearly say; if you are honest with your thought flow, you will have a very clear memory of your past life and everything. The reason you are not able to

remember your past is because of this simple reason. You see in your own life; if you are very clear in your thought trend, you'll be able to remember the incidents that happened when you were five or six years of age. If your thought trend is too confused, you will not be able to remember, even what you ate yesterday. That"s the truth. Just keeping the thought trend clearly, means the honesty. Do only what you feel, and nothing else. Then, so much can be done.

The problem is; in society, you have to do only what pays you. Just with this one idea of currency, these politicians have destroyed humanity. By just this one concept of currency, much destruction has happened. Otherwise, we have plenty; we have enough.

The other day, I was reading a nice article. Actually, in one of the states of the USA, Texas, you can accommodate the whole population. There was a nice article and the whole world can be kept for free; the whole world can come, and we can accommodate the whole population in Texas, in just this one state. I was reading further that if you build homes and develop that one state perfectly, completely; you can accommodate the whole world. So much is there. If one country's one state can accommodate, then so much of land is there. You can use it for many purposes.

So much can be done in fact. One of the main problems is these politicians" ego. And just by this currency concept, the whole thing is gone. The whole thing has gone. Another reason is this; so to say, this concept of "legal heritage", legally inheriting the property. That's another one concept which was responsible for this whole nonsense, this whole thing. Otherwise, see … hardly we have six billion people. We can easily feed and give clothes, give medical care, and literally everything. But we are so influenced, and we have so many of ideas in our head; nonsensically spending all our money in war and army... What to do?!!

I feel that if all these things are taught to youngsters; and if they fight with themselves and throw all the violence out, they will not throw it on other countries. Anyhow, that's why Bharat never invaded any other country. They went out only once to one country, Indonesia. That also, they did not invade, they created a city, and lived with the people who lived on that island. They never killed anybody, never invaded any country; never went out to conquer any country. They went only to one country, Indonesia, and to another country, that is, to Cambodia, also, they went. To Cambodia they went, and built a huge temple, which occupies ninety square miles; the world's biggest spiritual structure, the world's biggest religious structure. Even when they went, they did not kill people; they did not fight. They went and built temples.

I was wondering as to whether these guys didn"t have enough place in Bharat, and went all the way there to stay. And not just that, the fun part is, the island doesn't have a single stone. They don't have a single piece of stone. The whole thing was carved in Bharat, shipped and assembled. Even if they go to some place, they only build temples and contribute, because they have nothing else to do. They know only that one thing, so that's what they do, that's all. A huge Shiva temple is built. I was shocked when I saw it. See, with that one temple, Angkor Vat temple, is all Hindu temples. God, I was always proud that my native place is the biggest temple. But when I saw this Angkor Vat, my temple is like one of these American homes, small.

These homes are very small when we compare to some of the houses in Bharat. If you go to the Hindu … South Hindu villages, especially the Chettinad area, each home will be up to 2 lakh square feet. I know a home which has got 1000 windows; it is called "the 1000 window house".

People feel very happy if I sit and tell some stories, and say to me, that we can continue doing just this. And that is why these guys put so many questions, also. They start feeling, "let him talk and tell some stories; we shall just sit and listen. Nothing else is required. Why unnecessarily doing meditation and all". Actually if you sit and listen to the stories and jokes, you'll enjoy me now. But if you do the meditation also, you'll enjoy me forever! You'll enjoy the presence, or this feeling forever.

• 1. Brief on the relationship between koshas and various system of medicine
• 2. Choosing an Enlightened Physiology Explain
• 3. 'Bio-Mechanism' or 'consciousness ' who are you?
• 4. Explain the meditation 'Expel the Animal Engrams'
• 5. Give short note on 'Relive and Relieve'

• 1. Prana and the Five Vital Processes
• 2. Bring In Awareness
• 3. Meditation
• 4. Auxiliary Simple Humming Meditation
• 5. "Just Sitting" again…
• 6. Questions and Answers

To understand deeply about Pranamaya kosha To learn how prana shakthi imparts health To add awareness to breath to unload more prana shakthi The pranamaya kosha, the breath layer, which is the next layer Annamaya Kosha (Physical layer) On a physiological level, the layer of prana refers to your circulatory and respiratory systems, the streams of life flowing in you. Prana refers to the life giving energy that you inhale through air, every time you breathe. You don"t actually need air to be alive; you need only prana.

Adi Sankara discusses about Pranamaya kosha in his book Tattvabodha

Pranamayah kah? Pranadi panca vayavah vagadi indriya pancakam Pranamayah

Meaning:-

What is this Pranic (life-force) sheath? The five airs and the life-force, the organ of speech, and the other sense organs of action are called the Pranic sheath

Five processes of prana happen inside you:

• 1. Inhalation

2. The air or prana that has gone inside stays in you. It is called kumbhka. 3. The prana spreads all over the body. The prana shakti – life giving energy - is separated from the air and the energy spreads all over the body.

• 4. The prana leaves.
• 5. The cleaning process happens.

So, the five prana processes that happen in you are: inhaling, staying, spreading, exhaling, and cleaning. Prana, vyana, udana, samana, apana - these are the five actions of prana. Going in, staying, spreading all over, leaving the system, and cleaning. All these five processes put

together is called the pranic layer. One important thing you need to understand here: the air which goes inside through your nose is not prana. Understand the difference between the words prana and air. Air is like a lorry or the vehicle. It is just the medium to carry. Prana is the energy which is carried through this vehicle. For example, you see many times, a vehicle comes here unloads something and goes out, is it not? In the same way, air goes inside, unloads the prana shakti and comes out. The problem is, because of your restless, unconscious and shallow way of breathing, separation of prana shakti from air, that is the unloading time, is not much. Your mind and your pranic cycle, that is the way in which you breathe, are both very closely connected. Because your breathing is so unconscious, the unloading time is very less. With less unloading time, only half of the prana gets unloaded and spreads through the body and the air comes out.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa saw Vivekananda"s breathing and said, "This boy will not live long." Ramakrishna said very clearly that he will not see 40. Vivekananda passed away at 39. His breathing was very shallow. May be, he consciously designed it that way. After all, he was an enlightened Master. Of course, if he had wanted, he could have altered the way of breathing.

But, he decided to leave the body early. Anyhow, you have not decided to leave the body, so you can change your breathing consciously! You can make it sharp.

As of now, our breathing is unconscious and that is why the unloading time is very less. If you bring awareness to all five prana movements, much more prana can be unloaded from the air that goes inside and spread throughout your system.

Civilization has taught us to completely control the activity of "cleaning". That is why you end up with stomach problems. In civilization, the natural cleaning process is not allowed. It is considered ill manners, so you constantly have to control yourself. One important thing: you constantly harbor so much tightness in your swadhishtana chakra when you try to control the cleaning process. The swadhishtana chakra is the energy center below the navel which is associated with fear and it is not good to keep this area tense.

Being too tense takes you away from the cleaning process. Either you should have full control so that you don"t need the cleaning process, or you should be in an unconditioned and relaxed mood. Due to social conditioning, you create so much tension in the navel center. This is nothing to laugh about. It is a serious problem. This conditioning is actually killing you. Especially if the breathing is shallow, then the complete unloading and loading of the prana does not happen. If the kumbhka, staying of air, happens for a few seconds more, then the prana will be completely unloaded, and whatever needs to be sent out, will be sent out. Also, if whatever is to be sent out stays inside your body longer than required, you will be struggling with it.

Bad breath, constant sweating, all these things are just because your breath does not have your awareness. You don"t breathe with awareness. All the five steps of the breathing process do not have your awareness. That is why there is so much of suffocation. One more thing: because the routine for the entire day is fixed, you have practically lost the spontaneity. Many times you must have seen: you will come down from your bedroom through the same path, sit in the same

chair, have breakfast, walk in the same way, get into the car, and only after reaching the office you will realize that you drove for half an hour on the road! Your entire morning routine goes unnoticed by even you!

Recently, I read an article that a guy died in an office in Bharat, and for three days they did not realize that he was dead! They thought he was working sincerely. Only on the third day, they realized he was dead. Your routine is so fixed! So your breathing pattern is also almost fixed. But that is not the way life should be. It should be spontaneous, and so should the breathing pattern. It should be alive and deep, with awareness. Bringing a little awareness to the breathing pattern, bringing a little awareness to the prana, will create more of a gap between the inhaling and exhaling. It means that the unloading of the prana and the loading of the air energy, which is no longer necessary, will be done completely.

If there is enough gap between inhaling and exhaling, then the cleaning process, that is apana,

will also be done by its own nature. You don"t need any other process for apana to happen. You don"t even need to do exercise. Generally, working out until you sweat is considered as a big thing. If you create a gap between inhaling and exhaling consciously, you don"t even have to do any physical exercise, or make yourself sweat. What can be achieved through a workout can very well be achieved through just this. These are the basic secrets of pranayama. That is why pranayama is considered to bring good health, energy and healing to the body. How does it do so much of cleaning? It is a very simple technique which you are going to do now. It is just bringing awareness to all the five processes, that"s all.

You have become completely unaware, especially of the process in which prana is spreading all over your body. Every second, the pranic energy is spreading from your head to your toe. That is why you are still alive. But you are not aware of it. Not only that, the impulses in our own bodies which travel from the body to the brain, and back from the brain to the body, are the physical manifestations of prana. It is prana that coordinates the activities of the body and mind, and things such as rationality, emotions and other aspects of our personality.

In the Yoga system, they say that when you add awareness to your prana process, you will experience the immortal nectar throughout the body. When you become aware of this pranic energy flowing throughout your body, only then do you experience the nectar, the joy, and bliss, and automatically, this leads to longevity.

Your breathing should be very deep with deep awareness. I don"t mean that you should change your breathing forcibly. Forcibly, you can change only for two to three minutes. But if you change the pattern consciously, through deep awareness, you can change it once and for all. Throughout the day and night, the pattern of breathing will be changed. Now we are not going to change it by force. Changing it by force is called pranayama. That will help only for 10 minutes. Changing it consciously, by bringing awareness to it, will completely change the breathing pattern, throughout the day and night.

As the duration for which the prana stays inside increases, you will become aware of the nectar. Naturally, having awareness and unloading more prana shakti, will increase your longevity. That is why we call it amruta, which means nectar. In many Upanishads, they say, when the prana reaches the sahasrara chakra, or the crown center on top of your head, it flows all over the body like amrit dhara meaning nectar. When you bring awareness to the five processes - inhaling, staying, spreading, exhaling and cleaning, all the five processes happen beautifully. The sensitivity towards the experience of these five processes, can add more prana and more energy to your system. You will be able to experience the life energy flowing throughout the body.

One difficulty with this meditation is that when we do it after food, we tend to sleep. Now, just imagine if I ask you to close your eyes and sit! What will you do? You will simply go to sleep, so just get up now, and stretch your bodies, and then we can sit in meditation. Please loosen your belts because, for the meditation which you are going to do, nothing should be tightly gripping your body.

Let us start. First, we will take a few moments and become aware of all these five activities, so that we can work on them. Working on this pranamaya kosha is more like a bridge to connect yourself to the manomaya kosha – mental layer which is the next layer.

First thing: for the next half hour, do not be civilized. Don"t bother about social conditioning. It means, you may have the cleaning process happening here. So, if you feel shy, just sit at a distance from everyone! See, you have been civilized all these years, and what you have lost because of that, you don"t know. Now for the next half hour, don"t hold on to your civilization. See … when the pancha prana, the five prana processes happen with awareness, consciously, your whole body will get cleaned, automatically. Not only your nose, even your fingertips will start breathing. Your whole body will become alive. It will start cleaning itself. I have seen a yogi who can breathe through his eyes. He would tie a thread in front of the eyes and blow it through his eyes. He could clean the eyes just with the prana. If you can clean your eyes through the prana, they will look sharp and shiny!

First, understand at least how the natural ways of prana can be cleaned and healed. Your pranic layer can be healed and cleaned. Now you are going to inhale, hold and exhale with deep awareness. You will be doing all the five processes with deep awareness. You don"t have to put any pressure or force. Don"t change the breathing pattern by force. Let it happen as it is happening. Only bring your awareness to it acutely. I"ll guide you step by step.

First, be aware, only during the inhaling part. Even if you miss other parts, it is alright. But don"t miss the inhaling part. Just be aware of what is going on. What is happening? When the process happens, what is happening inside your system? Next, we will shift the awareness to the gap between inhaling and exhaling. If you are unaware of inhaling and exhaling, it is alright. But don"t miss the gap. Just see what is happening in the gap completely, to what distance you are able to feel the flow of prana inside your body at that time. Next, bring your awareness to the exhaling... After that, bring your awareness to the cleaning process. Observe what is happening inside your stomach; what is happening when the prana comes in and goes out. Just watch and feel the whole thing.

In this fashion, bring your awareness to every step. The last meditation technique was very wild and strong. This one is a very mild and subtle technique. You need strong awareness to work with this method. First thing, catch the right place for you. Be completely relaxed. Don"t be tensed, but you can"t sleep either. You can"t lie down! If you wish, you may sit on a chair, otherwise, you can sit on the ground.

Please close your eyes and tie the eye bands.

Sit in a very relaxed way. Release all tension. There should be no tension around the navel area. Let your navel region be completely relaxed. Do not change the pattern of the breathing by force or by will. Just bring in awareness, that"s all. By being aware, if it changes by itself, it is alright, but don"t change it by will or by force.

• 1. Bring your awareness to the inhaling. Do not lie down. Just sit. Bring your awareness to the inhaling. Don"t change the breathing pattern by force or by will. Just be aware of what is happening. By being aware, if the breathing changes by itself, then it is ok. You just be aware. (A few minutes pass)
• 2. Next, be aware of the gap between the inhaling and the exhaling. Don"t sleep, sit straight. (A few minutes pass)
• 3. Now, bring your awareness to the exhaling. (A few minutes pass)
• 4. Now, slowly, bring your awareness to the space between inhaling and exhaling and feel the spreading of prana all over your body. Bring awareness to the part where the spreading of prana occurs. Prana spreads all over your body and makes you alive. (A few minutes pass)
• 5. Now, bring your awareness to all the four processes: inhaling, staying, spreading all over the body and exhaling. Don"t sleep. Sit comfortably and bring your awareness to all the four states.
• 6. Now bring your awareness to the navel center. (A few minutes pass)
• 7. Bring your awareness to all the five movements: inhaling, staying, spreading, exhaling and cleaning. (A few minutes pass)

Slowly, very slowly, you can open your eyes...

Just go with this very feeling that you are connected to this entire space. Wherever prana exists, you are there. In reality, you are connected. That is why air pollution affects you, or pure air gives you the fresh feeling. So, just feel connected to the air, to the prana.

You can have a small break, and get back within half an hour for the next session. Feel connected to the prana throughout the next half an hour. Just remember and carry this one feeling - that you are connected; that your whole being is only prana.

Thank you.

(Questions to do with the pranamaya kosha meditation have been grouped together for convenience.)

There are some questions here. Let us go through them now.

A: How else do you want it to be? You are expecting great things to happen in just half an hour! You are still in the meditation state and you don"t want to talk to anyone. Compared to the state you came in, don"t you think this is good progress? Is that not growth?

A: If you have any idea about what is supposed to happen, then you are in trouble. Whatever is happening, just be with it. If you have a goal, you are in trouble.

A: Only the nose is created for inhaling and exhaling for breathing.

A: See, I told you clearly that you are not supposed to change the breathing pattern. Your breath has become shallow because you don"t need too much of air inside. If the separation or the download of the pranic energy happens completely, you don"t need too much of air. Just a little air is enough, and you will get enough prana shakti, life energy.

A: Don't bother about all that. That is my job. I am doing it.

A: That is what I am saying. You become aware of the prana flowing throughout your body. That is the flow of the gentle and delicate light that you are talking about. That is what is so beautiful.

A: It is neither imagination nor the truth. Just go with the experience, that"s all. There is no need to dissect it with logic.

A: Because you are afraid of yourself! Because you are afraid of yourself, you have to be afraid of everything else.

A: You can go around and learn from many of them. It is a nice thing to do. But I feel that when it comes to working, you should do only with one person, because otherwise, you will end up with a lot of confusion. You see: going around and learning is not wrong. Adding more flowers to yourself, or adding more understanding to you, is beautiful. But when you want to seriously work, it is better to choose one Master and work with him, because after a certain extent, it will be a very intense journey. I don"t think you will be able to travel in two boats when you enter that zone.

On the initial level, going around and seeing many Masters, and learning from them is alright. Even after you choose to travel with one Master, going around and learning is alright. There is no problem. But when it comes to working, I think it is better to do it with one Master. See: what we are doing now is an alchemy process. What I am doing to you now is just tiring you; just making your logic tired. That is why, from morning till now, I am just making you sit and sit. Actually, I can entertain you in a much better way! In the first level programs like the ASP or NSP, there is a lot of entertainment. But for this program, I have decided, I will attract only seekers who are really sincere about the process, who don"t just come for entertainment.

A: Why do you want to get rid of fear? As long as you are alive, you will have fear. Fear is a part of life. You feel insecure; you feel the fear of losing something because you have it! So, the very quality of life is fear. So, you should be thankful that you have something to lose. The fear shows that you have something to lose! Otherwise, why will you be afraid? The very fear shows that you have something that you can lose, which can be lost. So you should be grateful that you have something to lose!

Fear can"t be lost. You see: fearlessness does not mean absence of fear. Fear, and the courage to live with it, is what I call fearlessness. Absence of fear will happen only in the graveyard. Fear cannot be completely absent in you.

A: Constantly living in the Ananda Gandha - that is living in an un-clutched way, is the first step. If you are not able to be un-clutched, then listen to the words of the Master through audio or video; or read his books. If you are not even able to do that, then listen to the Master"s music – his name. These are the three steps that I can give you for this. So, stay in the pure sat – that is with the Self, un-clutched, with pure awareness. If you can"t, then, listen to the words where the Master is constantly telling you to be un-clutched. If this is also not possible, then by listening to his music, at least remind yourself of the responsibility to be un-clutched. These three methods can help you to be connected to the Master always.

A: First thing: this statement: Once we connect to you, and make a commitment, is it that all the experiences that we go through be interpreted as coming from you...

No! When you connect to me, you are connecting to the emptiness. So, you take on the responsibility of all the experiences and happenings in your life. Your connecting to me is like you connecting to the higher Self – your own higher Self. So, you don"t have to use such big words like commitment etc. Will peace of mind and heart be felt all the time we go through the experiences? Yes. When you go through the experience, there will be peace and harmony. But you don"t have to think that committing to me is like marriage. It is more like a commitment to your higher Self.

A: Yes, you can! But traditionally, we believe that when water, especially warm water touches the rudraksh and then touches your body, it has got an ayurvedic effect on your body; it heals. It heals the skin. So, maybe you can wear it while bathing.

A: When you are in a blissful mood, you are in heaven – higher lokas. When you are in your home, you know where you are…! You are in manushya loka.

A: Understand: I don"t feel even the shanta. No mood is felt in the enlightenment state. But, I play with all the nine moods as I wish to! If I want to show somebody some mood, I show that particular mood; but there is no mood in the personality itself, in the being itself.

A: You say that there is energy in everything… even in the stones…even in the dead body... Stones do have energy, but the level of energy in them is totally different. Dead bodies also have energy. There is no doubt in that. That is why, it can go through some changes. You should all know an important fact: even after you are dead, for three months, your nails will grow. Is Life Force different from the energy you are talking about? No. It is one and the same. What is the difference between the Supreme Consciousness and the Life Force? It is one and the same.

A: That is what we are doing now!

A: The Nithya Dhyaan meditation should be done everyday. You can give the CD to people who have not met me or who have not done our Life Bliss programs, but it is good to have it taught by a teacher first. In the ashram, we have Nithya Dhyaan classes going on everyday. They can attend it. It is just a three hour session. They can learn and then do it. That is the best way.

A: One who lives blissfully and keeps others also blissful…that"s all!

A: Surely, you will. I recommend that you leave your job and put your whole energy in working towards enlightenment. Somebody asked me, "If I leave my family and spend all my

time for enlightenment, will I be liberated quicker?" I told him, "Surely! Before you, your family will be liberated!" Anyhow, jokes apart, I sincerely recommend you to leave everything and do meditation. Spend all your energy and time for enlightenment. You will surely achieve it faster.

A: Don"t be bothered about all such words. Just take up any one meditation and do it, that"s all. Do something; that is more important.

A: Yes. You say this while offering food, because from any food, you receive these five pranic energies. When we offer food to God, we don"t offer physical food. The energy part of it is what you offer, so we say it.

A: Your consciousness. There is something in you which cannot die. That chooses.

In a high school campus, a teacher was walking down the corridor. All the students were wishing her: good morning. The teacher was replying, 'same to you'. Her friend who was walking with her asked her, 'Why are you not saying good morning, and instead saying 'same to you?' The teacher replied, 'I was also once a high school student. Only I know what they are thinking in the mind when they wish me!'

A: This is a wonderful question. The time taken is three kshanas. Understand: not three seconds but three kshanas. In the Vedic system, time is not calculated chronologically. It is calculated psychologically. Three kshanas is the time gap between one death and the following birth. Kshana refers to the gap between one thought and the next thought. For example, if you are living with 1000 TPS (thoughts per second), your one kshana will be one microsecond! If you are living with 0 TPS, your one kshana could even be hundreds of years. So, if your TPS is less when you are alive, after death, you will have enough time to choose the next birth. You can wait for the right time, the right parent, the right place, the right situation, and take birth slowly. But if throughout your life, you lived with a high TPS, intense restlessness, then, within microseconds, you will have to move into the next body! Understand the whole concept.

What is the meaning of restlessness and high TPS? It means that you can"t live without your body and mind. That is why you have so many thoughts, so much possessiveness over your

body and mind. You are caught so much with the body and mind. That is why you harbor so many thoughts. So naturally, you will experience great suffering without a body after death. You will miss your body and mind a lot. So you choose anything that is available first. You say, "OK, let me just take a jump. Whatever is available is OK." That is why you choose the body immediately.

Understand this concept of kshana. In the Vedic tradition, we don"t calculate the time chronologically, it is psychological. For example, if you are sitting with somebody with whom you love, even if you are there for five to six hours, you will not know how the time passed by. Suddenly you will see the watch and say, "O my God! So much time has passed." Whereas, when you are sitting with someone whose company you do not enjoy, you will feel that time is not passing at all. Every minute will seem like an hour. This is because, when you are with a person whom you love, your TPS drops, your restlessness reduces. Because of this, your kshana increases. So even if you are there for four hours, it will seem like only a few kshanas have passed by. Whereas, with the person whom you don"t like, you become highly restless, and your TPS increases. Your kshana becomes very less and you feel a lot of kshanas are passing by, whereas you would have been there only for a few minutes! So, time is psychological, not chronological in the Vedic system.

A. Yes. Your kshana is not the same as another person"s kshana. So the time duration between one birth and the next birth is subject to the individual. We sometimes stay without taking the body for even three hundred to four hundred years. And it is possible to even prepare the body properly before taking birth, like Bhakta Prahlad from Hindu mythology. He was taught, when he was in his mother"s womb itself! But we said that we take the next body in three kshanas. Then how come, Bhakta Prahlad remained like that for so long? For nine months he was in his mother"s womb, learning from Sage Narada. It means that his kshana was so long! That is why even now in Vedic tradition, we believe that our one year is one day for the devatas (heavenly beings), because they stay in such low TPS! They stay with 20 to 30 TPS. So our one year is one day for them! The aging process does not happen when your TPS is low. This is the best technique to be graceful and beautiful always. The aging process will not be fast if your TPS is low. That is why our one year is one day for the devatas.

Even today there is a temple which belongs to the devatas. It is in South Bharat. It is called Chidambaram temple. It does not belong to human beings. It belongs to the devatas! So, in a year, the puja (offering) is done only six times! In all other temples, every day, the puja is done six times! But here, in the Chidambaram temple, the puja is offered according to the devatas' calendar, not according to human beings" calendar, and hence the long gap in the offering. The TPS is different. When the TPS changes, your kshana changes. We are trying to replicate the Chidambaram temple in Seattle, USA. The first golden temple in the USA will be in Seattle!

A: No. That has nothing to do with this. You offer once a year because of your own laziness. You can"t be sure whether the elders had a low TPS or not. Devatas are at low TPS. We can be sure of that. It is not sure that the elders had a low TPS, because it depends on the way in which they lived. Understand the basic thread: if you live without possessing your body and mind too much, your TPS will be low. So after leaving the body also, you will not suffer, because you are

already trained not to possess your mind and body too much. If you are possessing your body and mind too much, it means that you can"t be without them. So, the TPS is more, the need is more, and the urgency to get into another body and mind is also more. This is the essence of the whole of Spirituality.

Anything which reduces your TPS is spiritual practice. Anything which increases your TPS is material life. Sometimes, when two persons are in tune, even a beautiful relationship between them can bring their TPS down. In Tantra, two persons who are completely in tune with each other, without any fantasies about each other, accepting the other as they are, are equal to Shiva and Parvati – the Divine couple. They will help each other enter into samadhi.

With deep sincerity, even an ordinary relationship can lead to low TPS. Without understanding or sincerity, even the puja that you offer to God can lead you to restlessness and a high TPS. I have seen so many people getting restless and finishing the puja quickly. They will run out from the puja room and not even think about the puja room until the next morning! Even the next morning, they will get into the puja room just out of fear that if they don"t offer puja, things might go wrong that day. Even the so called lowest activity can lead to low TPS if done with sincerity. Anything leading to low TPS is spiritual practice, and anything leading to high TPS is materialistic practice.

A: No. I said: 13 days is the time taken to completely ascertain that all parts belong to him, that all parts are his body parts. Do you understand what I am saying? Understand this one example: sometimes in early morning, you will neither be completely sleeping, nor be completely able to take control of your body. You will be awake, but you will feel that you are not able to move your body completely. Suddenly, you will see that you are trying your best to possess your body! It is that same moment that will be extended to 13 days in the context of what I am saying. You are neither out of shushupti - deep sleep state - nor are you fully awake jagrat. So, it takes a little time to possess your body. It takes normally 13 days for any being to possess the whole body. During those 13 days, you need to keep that person in a healing and loving space. It will be almost as if somebody is sitting on your chest. You will be just waiting to enter into your body with all your power. In the same way you will be struggling for 13 days. But if the right enlightened being creates a beautiful space for you, the struggle will not be there. It is because of this that we have the 13 day ritual, after death or after birth. The ritual is done because whether the person has left the body, or the person is born, their baggage needs to be handled, and they need an open place and a conducive ambience for it.

A: When you are alive, a low TPS will keep you more in the present moment and blissful. The lowest TPS that you have experienced during your entire life will automatically pop up at the time of death. The lowest TPS you experience will be the strongest experience in your entire life. When death approaches, when you start feeling the suffocation that you are no more going to be alive, automatically the lowest TPS experienced in your life will open up. That is why, at

least once in your life, you should experience 0 TPS. Then you can be sure that you can leave your body with high consciousness. There is a beautiful verse by Krishna which says: whatever you remember at the moment of your death, that will decide your next birth.

A: If you have experienced 0 TPS at least once in your life, you will be conscious when you die, otherwise, you will not be; you will be only unconscious; you will just fall into coma and leave your body. That is the worst thing that can happen to a human being. Your whole life is a waste if that happens. If you die in coma, it means that the entire time that you have lived has been wasted. That is why I emphasize: do not miss meditation in your life. The half hour, which you spend everyday in the initial level, may appear to be a waste, but in the end, only that will be the useful moments for you. Only those moments will pop up and save you. So don"t miss.

A: No. The normal soul enters just before birth, because normal souls don"t wait for more than three kshanas as I told you earlier. One kshana will be usually less than a second. Only highly conscious souls have enough gap - like Bhakta Prahlad.

A: Yes. It happens only for the highly enlightened souls, not for the ordinary souls. Enlightened beings choose the right parents, the right place and the right date to take birth.

A: It is like a part of life. There is nothing right or wrong about it. There is neither something positive nor negative about it. Coma is like falling between the fourth and the fifth layers and coming out of it, that"s all.

A: No. No soul is wandering or trying to connect and talk to you. They have all already taken a body. Some souls who die prematurely in an accident may be in this state. You can contact souls

if you wish to. For example, you would have been somebody"s father in the past birth. Now, they can contact your unconscious memory and dig out information. But it will create suffering in you. So, never try to contact your near and dear dead ones. It will disturb your flow of life, as well as their flow of life. Suddenly, you will see that you are drained; you feel tired. These kinds of things can happen, when you try to contact your dead near and dear ones. This is like

forcibly entering into others" archives. Don"t do it.

A: I think you missed the morning session in which I gave a detailed description on TPS. You see, when your TPS is too high, your desires will be too physical. You will only experience the joy from the tip of the five senses - tip of the eye, tip of the nose, tip of the tip of the ear, tips of the sense organs. Your desires or pleasures will be too gross, and you will be rested in the annamaya kosha or physical layer. When your TPS drops a little, your desires will be a little more subtle. You will enjoy fantasies but you may not ask for much of physical pleasure. If the TPS is further lowered, your desires may be even a little more subtle, like they might have to do with name and fame, recognition etc. - the mental layer desires. As the TPS comes down further, again, your desires also get more and more subtle. At the lowest TPS, everything disappears… Pure energy, without desire, is enlightenment. A pure and intense excitement without desire is enlightenment. That happens at zero TPS.

A: I think it is because you are sitting on the floor. Sit on the chair.

A: Because you are the same. You have not transformed. Humanity is the same. That is why you ask the same questions.

A: No. They don"t have fully developed koshas. They may have the annamaya kosha and pranamaya kosha. Actually, they don"t have even the full pranamaya kosha. All the five pranic movements do not happen in all the animals.

A: In all five layers, the samskaras are stored; not just in the manomaya kosha.

A: Leading a life of meditation and prayer are not the right words to use in this context. If he

has experienced 0 TPS even once, he will not fall into coma. That is the way to say it. There are thousands of people who claim to be leading a life of meditation and prayer, but who have never achieved a state of zero TPS even once. And there are many people who have not led a life of meditation and prayer but who have achieved zero TPS, at least once!

The 0 TPS experience depends on your courage and decision to experience yourself. It is not even dependent on your regular puja, prayer, or meditation. I have seen these fools: morning until night they will be sitting and ringing bells in front of their Gods, or reading some Sahasranama. Understand: with a deep feeling of connection or devotion, if you recite the Lord"s name even once, it is more than enough. Without that feeling of connection, these people, the moment they start reading the Sahasranama, the first thing they do is, check the line number!

Anything that you make as a daily ritual will become an unconscious act. I am not debunking tradition. I am a big supporter of tradition. But your mind is such, that it will just take it for granted. I know the basic trend. After five minutes, automatically, you will look into the line number. That is the problem. The moment you do that, the whole thing is wasted. Just the regular meditation or regular prayer does not mean you had the zero TPS experience. Zero TPS experience has something to do with a conscious decision and strength to experience it. It has nothing to do with the outwardly experiences and meditations which you are doing.

I always tell people: even Nithya Dhyaan, the everyday meditation that I prescribe for everyone, you could make as a ritual. You can sit and do it without even being aware about what you are doing, and at the end of the meditation, nothing would have happened.

A: No. Prayers don"t need any degree of repetition. Prayers are supposed to be giving you the experience of feeling connected with the Divine. That is why I have designed Nithya Dhyaan in such a way that you will not be just sitting all the time. Every six to seven minutes, I will change your position and activity… just to awaken you. Of course not just that… the chaotic breathing and humming in the Nithya Dhyaan meditation, will simply shake the annamaya and pranamaya koshas to awaken a higher-level consciousness. Earlier, there have been meditations which were constant for 30 minutes, and I have always found people falling asleep.

This really happened in my life. When I was wandering before enlightenment, I reached a place called Omkareshwar. It is the place where the great Shankaracharya became enlightened. It is a beautiful place. I was staying there in the monastery. Early morning, all the monks are supposed to sit and meditate from 5:30 to 7:30. At 7:30, the sun will rise, and then there will be a gong from their bell. All the monks will roll up their mats and go for the next activity.

One day, a young bramhachari (aspirant on the path of sannyas) who was sitting in front of the gong, slept and fell on the gong. All the other monks got up, rolled up their mats and went away! Everybody thought that they might have gone to sleep, and hence lost track of time! All the monks were so confident

of this, while getting up to leave. Not a single one suspected that something had gone wrong, and that the bell had rung much earlier than the usual time!

The same thing started happening with the Maha Mantra meditation. That is why I decided, no more silent techniques. The problem why you fall asleep is, unless the catharsis happens, you can"t just sit. Everything has to leave you, only then the silence can happen in you. The insanity has to come out, only then the sanity will happen in you.

A: Understand, the Sahasranama was given for Bhishmas, for the people of those days. At that time, people were simple and innocent. They were not so complicated. They didn"t have all these cerebral layers. They didn"t have the television, and did not stress out looking at computers. Your entire constitution is different today. Not only the constitution of the country, the constitution of the whole system is different. That is why Patanjali"s techniques cannot directly help now.

Enlightened Masters have visited planet Earth from time to time and updated the techniques, as and when man came out, in an updated fashion. That is why there are so many techniques that are not directly useful today. It is not that I have not learned from Patanjali. At the age of three, I started learning from Patanjali"s teachings. I had a master by the name of Raghupati Yogi. If you read his biography, you will know: he was a direct disciple of Maha Avtar Babaji. He lived with him. He was in Tibet and he was in Gaurikund where Baba gives darshan to people. He lived there, and learned all these things. But straightaway, they are not going to help you now. Your system needs to be prepared, even to go through the Yoga system. Your system is not so pure and innocent. See, Patanjali says: just sit and remember the Om, Pranava – the primordial sound - and your mind will enter into samadhi. Now you tell me what will happen. If you just sit and remember pranava, where will you enter? You know which samadhi you will enter! You will be fast asleep in no time! Your mind and your whole setup are totally different. Too many things have been put inside your being, and that is the reason why you are still struggling.

A: Some part of you, you don"t want to remember again and again. Let me give you this example: Let us say you are sitting near a swimming pool and sipping a cup of coffee. Suddenly, some memory or person whom you don"t want to remember or think about will come into the mind. Immediately, you turn your face and attention away from it. Sometimes, you even say it verbally, "Why am I thinking about this guy?" Now, when you don"t want to

remember a thing or a person, you push it into the subconscious. These things get settled and become like a frozen rock. That is the subconscious.

A: This is a good question. When you bring down your TPS, suddenly a new intelligence will happen in you, which causes you to perform without setting goals. That is what I call Intuitive Management - managing through intuition. It needs patience and practice. That is why people are not able to trust, that something like Intuitive Management is possible. People who live around me can see it happening. I am running an organization with centers in thirty countries, and we are continuously expanding as well. Just three days ago we started an ashram in Malaysia. So much is happening, but we never plan like the corporate world. Spontaneous decisions are just made. Intuitive Management works continuously. Living around the Master can give you the courage to see that it is possible. For you to run your day to day life, to pay your bills, to pursue your profession successfully, and to create wealth, your mind is not needed. It may be a little shocking to hear this, but just try it out. You will see that it works.

A. This is a dangerous thing that has happened to humanity. Somebody asked me, "Swamiji, when did the age of kali (the fourth quarter of time, believed to be the degradation era) start?" Kaliyuga is supposed to be the Dark Age. I tell them: the day the television entered your home, the Dark Age started.

See, let me explain. Your eyes can tolerate only 16 frames per second while watching anything. Understand: if you are driving at 60 miles per hour, may be 10 to 12 frames per second will change in front of you. If you are driving at 100 miles, then may be 20 to 30 frames will change every second. Through the television, computer or cinema, you experience at least 35 frames per second. It means, there is twice the regular stress.

When so much of stress is put on your eyes …

You have a certain intelligence, a certain logic, which analyzes whether what you are seeing is right, or it is just an illusion. There is an intelligence in you that does this. We call it chakshu, which is the energy which sees through the eyes. You are not seeing just by the physical eyes, you are seeing through the eyes. That indriya, that chakshu which sees through the eyes, usually calculates whether what it is seeing is real, or it is just an illusion, a hallucination. It enables you to differentiate between the castle in the air, and the real castle. It gives you the clarity of whether it is reality, or an illusion. This chakshu is put to sleep when the frames per second is 30 or more. So, whatever happens during that high rate of frames per second, your logic swallows, without analyzing whether it is the truth or not. That is why, any advertisement which is put inside your head through the television, will cause you to unconsciously go to the shop, and ask for the same product that was in that advertisement!

When the frames per second is high, you will be unable to differentiate between reality and illusion. That is why you can see that even your BP (blood pressure) changes along with the

program. Am I right? You cry, you laugh, you do everything along with what you see on the screen. You know very clearly that the actor who is dead in the screen is actually alive otherwise. But when the television is on, you don"t remember all this. Your logic does not come into play at all, and you even start shedding tears. It means, beyond your logic, your whole intelligence is put to sleep, and you respond to what you see directly. That is the worst thing that can happen to you. That is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a human being*. Beware of the television*. That is why you are drained of energy, and sometimes fall asleep watching. You are raised to a high TPS. There is so much of restlessness when you are watching the television.

A: Watching my DVD discourses cannot be compared with watching the television. When you are watching me, an enlightened form is getting into your inner space. That makes all the difference. It can never damage your consciousness. In fact, it will nurture your consciousness.

A: Yes, because the whole thing is to do with super conscious energy. That is why you feel more energetic.

A: No. Your TPS is not low when you are watching television. It shoots up. When you connect with an enlightened Master, your TPS drops.

A: You felt that the time was short means that your TPS was low. If you feel that the time is more, it means that the TPS is high.

A: Even if it is sacred, you can wear it; there is nothing wrong in that. In fact, because it is sacred you should wear it! If the rudraksh is sacred, you are also sacred. You are also divine. Why do you think that you are not divine? So, the divine can be on the divine. You are not shava, you are Shiva. So wear the rudraksh.

Alright, should we finish one more meditation? It is a simple technique. It is not even a technique; it is just a process. Let us finish that and then, I will answer the remaining questions. Then, you can go for dinner.

It is a very simple process. Just intone the sound of hmmm along with your inhaling and smmm along with the exhaling. It is a very simple process. We are just trying to separate your inner chattering and the pranic layer. If you intone this mantra, you will not have any other word or any other thought during your inhaling or exhaling. When you inhale, slowly make the sound hmmm along with it. It is not chanting, it is just intoning. When you exhale, intone the sound smmmm. Intoning means: just mentally going with the mantra. Do not miss even a single breath. Just intone this mantra for the next few minutes. This will separate your prāṇamaya kośa and manomaya kośa. When this happens, it will be easy for us to do the process, the programming of the prāṇamaya kośa.

Please sit in a relaxed way. Tie the eye band over your eyes. Just sit. Do not alter the way in which you breathe. Just intone hmmm along with your inhalation and smmm with your exhalation. Do not chant. Just intone…meaning internalize.

(The meditation is done while THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM sits looking at the question slips. He ends the meditation shortly.)

Somebody is asking questions about ghosts! There are so many questions. Alright, it is time to end the session. It is quite late in the night. You can go to sleep now. Tomorrow morning, we will see the rest.

If you go to sleep now with this same mood, you will be tired tomorrow morning. Just stretch your body, be a little fresh, then go and sleep. If you jump a little now, the second layer energy will be awakened! Actually, if you want to get up fresh in the morning, jump for ten minutes before falling asleep. Or, sing or dance; do something very active before going to sleep. Then, lie down and fall asleep. You will get up in the same lively mood! Actually, how you fall asleep, with what consciousness you fall asleep, with that same consciousness, you will come out of sleep also. After you have finished eating and feeling full in the stomach, don"t go and sleep. Just get up and stretch your body a little, and then go to sleep.

Please be here tomorrow morning at 7 o"clock for the Nithya Dhyaan meditation. Now, please get up. Stretch your body fully. Up! Up! More! Alright, enough. We will meet tomorrow morning.

Before entering into the next session, let us enjoy this beautiful morning. Let us just sit. Let us allow the Upaniṣad to happen. Upaniṣad means, just sitting (at the feet of the Master). When I say just sit, I mean - no mantra, no meditation, no technique, no concentration, no awareness method. Just sitting, that"s all. Even if you are restless, even if your mind is asking how to just sit, don"t bother. Just sit as you are. Let your eyes be closed. Just sit. Close your eyes.

Just sitting for no reason, without any technique, can do so much in you. The process can happen so beautifully by just sitting. In Zen, they call it Zazen.

The "just sitting" is a thousand times more effective than any other technique, because in any technique, in any method, you will be busy. I can"t catch you as you are, but in "just sitting", I can catch you as you are. Even if it is a little difficult, just struggle with that difficulty and sit. Only then, I will know exactly in which space you are. Then, it will be easy for the Master"s presence to work. The Master's presence is like an intense energy that will start working on you if you are as you are.

When you are sitting as you are, the process happening will be really deep. I can see from the morning until now, there is an increasing silence happening in each of you! When you just sit the presence of the Master works so much on you. If you are already working with something, it becomes a little difficult for me to work on you. With you just sitting, I can do a lot more on you.

There are so many questions this time! I think there are three bunches of papers. If I answer all the questions, I think we will end the session only the day after tomorrow! Anyhow, I will try to answer as many of them as possible.

(Questions related to the humming meditation and TPS have been grouped together for convenience.)

A: That"s nice. In Bharat, we allow people just to be in that state for some time. Not only that, the ambience there is totally different. Also, we have four days time for this same program. You see, you need at least four to five days to sit with the Master. Here, the life culture does not permit that. You have to leave tonight. That is the reason why you can have only a glimpse. No sooner than you have that glimpse, I have to say, "Come down from the experience and relax."

A: That is the beauty of enlightenment or meditation! When you experience even a mild satori, you feel like you are fulfilled.

A: No, you should not have done that. You are not expected to bring in your mind. You are expected to go through the process – whatever it is.

A: First fear, now greed! Because of fear, you stopped it. Now because of greed, you want more! Anyway, you should not have stopped the experience. But neither should you have greed to be in that experience always. The process should happen, and it should happen in whatever way it happens. Then the experience itself may not stay, but the juice or the essence of the experience will stay inside you.

A: No. Hum sum is the original mantra from the Paramahamsa Upaniṣad. Soham is the version that was developed later. The original Upaniṣad mantra is hum sum only. A person who is established in That, is Paramahamsa. Later on, versions like soham, da sohum, were developed.

A: It is fear.

A: There is nothing called a worldly life or a sannyās life. If you are comfortable like this, just leave it, that"s all. It will pass. Don"t hurt people and don"t think that the whole world is waiting to hurt you. It is mere foolishness to think that people are waiting to hurt you. It is the enmity in you that you project on others, and attract it towards yourself again. It is a play of the mind.

A: No. Popup blocker is a forced phenomenon. Here it is not forced, it just settles, that"s all.

A: No. There is a correlation between the frequency and TPS. If you and your husband are at almost 100 TPS, both of you will have a beautiful life. Both of your desires will be almost the same. See … when both of you are just enjoying a physical level relationship, your desires will be only physical; you will have just physical fulfillment, that"s all. Both of you will meet and relate for maximum half an hour, not more than that. Then the fight will start. Both of you will be bored with each other. Only for that much time, you can entertain each other. After that, both of you will take the whole thing for granted. How much can you entertain in the physical layer? Maximum, for half an hour, not more than that.

Let us take the next higher level where both of you have the same taste in art. Let us say, both of you are singers, or both of you are dancers, or both of you are painters…some art, some similar passion. Then the relationship can be a little deeper. You will start relating with the manomaya kośa – the mental layer. And there is a possibility that you may entertain each other or feel fulfilled by each other for at least 20 to 30 years.

Next, if both of you are seekers, if both of you are on the seeking path, then life and relationship will be eternal. You will feel that the other is fulfilling or enriching you so deeply. You will feel that the relationship is just fabulous.

A: You have the full freedom to change, but you will not be encouraged to change it at that point in time! When you are in that state, you will experience so much freedom and truth, that you won"t even bother to change it! Just by your will or presence, it will automatically change whatever needs to be changed. You won"t even bother to forcibly do anything about it. That is the beauty of the truth! Now you feel that you want to change it, but when the truth actually happens to you, you will not be affected by this thought at all, and so you won"t bother to change your future.

It is like this: if you know that these rooms are locked, and that you can"t go out, then, you will just be dying to go out and get some tea or do something else, is it not? But, if you know for sure that the door is open, then you will just sit here in a relaxed way with no thought if escaping! It happens in the same way.

A: No, not zero, maybe 50 or 40. In zero TPS, you won"t even feel that you and I are separate. Only if you feel that you and I are separate, will you think of wanting me. In zero TPS, you and I will not be separate.

A: Yes. We have the name Paraśakti. That is the name.

A: You are learning here, right now. What else do you think you are doing here? (laughs) Do you think you are learning to cut vegetables?! I am not teaching you how to cut vegetables for this long! You are learning only about the divine cosmic energy.

A: Just understand: you don"t have to wonder about the purpose of life. Just constantly being in the mood of wondering is the purpose of life! Nothing else. So you are on the right track. You are saying that you have always been wondering about the purpose of life. Instead, just be wondered about life, that"s enough! Then you automatically achieve the purpose of life. See, if you wonder about the purpose of life, you will never achieve it. Just wonder about life itself. Then you will achieve.

A: It is not wondering that you are doing; it is worrying (laughs). Wondering is different, worrying is different. You are not wondering; you are worrying. You may use the word wondering, but you are actually worrying. Relax from it.

A: Hmmm…I am just thinking what a good question to ask me...is, I think silence is the right question. And silence will be the right answer! That is the good question or the best question you can ask, or the best answer that I can give you.

A: Don"t be greedy to be in the blissful state always. Then it will stay forever. Only your greed stops it.