6. Be an Enlightening Lighthouse
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Dec 15 & 16, 2010
The purpose of whatever I am doing is creating coherence in more and more number of bodies. Not only that, but creating bodies which can create coherence in other bodies. All you need to do is, get into the mood of coherence and touch the other person; initiate them and look into them. Nothing else is required.
I am going to radiate enlightenment through all of you! We need strong enlightening lighthouses all over the world, and the strongest, highest possible coherence created in different places all over the world.
In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali gives a very powerful technique called ‘Niyama’ to create highest possible coherence in you, in the community you are living, in the society you are living, and ultimately, in the whole civilization you are living in. The specific verse is:
Soucha santosha tapah swadhyaya ishwara pranidhanani niyamaha
Soucha is internal and external purity. If you are pure internally and externally, you will create coherence in your own body.
Santosha is happiness, bliss. If you are carrying that blissful body language continuously, you will create the highest possible coherence in the community you are living, in your work place, in your house, and wherever you are.
Tapah is ability to stand any persecution. Understand, a persecuted man has a strength and juice which no ordinary man can have. Only if you are creating something new, will people even try to persecute you! In the political field, your power is based on how many people you destroy and how much you can charge. In the spiritual field, how much you can withstand - that is your power. If you have the tremendous ability to stand persecution from the very civilization in which you are living, and you can transform them by putting the whole society into the highest possible coherence, you are in tapah.
Understand, through my tapah, through my tapas of accepting but not causing pain, millions of seekers around the world are raising and connecting with me. So I am transforming the very community in which I am living by this tapas of bearing, accepting, and not causing pain. If you have tapas, accepting all the suffering without questioning, suddenly you will transform the whole community in which you are living.
Swadhyaya means reading, understanding and raising your intellectual capability to grasp the truth, to be in the highest possibility. If this is done, the whole civilization will be put into the highest possible coherence. That is what I am doing every day through the morning satsang. I am creating shaastra- shastra-dhaaris. Understand, shaastra-shastra-dhaaris are not just warriors who have the regular weapons, but those who carry the shaastra-shastra: knowledge weapon; who embody the great spiritual understanding, and who are constantly raising the spiritual understanding of themselves and society.
Ultimately, if you have ishwara pranidhana, surrender to the Ultimate, you will put the whole universe into the highest possible coherence. Even if one person relaxes into the Cosmos, the whole cosmic consciousness raises to the next level.
Niyama means raising yourself to the highest possible coherence through these five techniques of soucha, santosha, tapas, swadyaya, and ishwara pranidhana. Through these five, you can put your body, the community in which you are living, the society in which you are living, the civilization in which you are living, and the whole universe in which you are living to the highest possible coherence.
So understand, I have given a complete new understanding of niyama: the true understanding of niyama.