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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

We must continuously try to enrich ourselves and others with spiritual thoughts and ideas. When our sensory inputs are pure, our consciousness will automatically get established in the divine.

Please understand that love is not a mood. It is not a mere emotion. It is our very Existence. As long as it is our mood, it will come and go. There are two kinds of love, horizontal love and vertical love. Let me explain. Horizontal love is like a horizontal line, flat. It is related to time: it starts and ends. Anything that starts must end. If it takes more time to end, don't think it is permanent. Anything that starts must end. It may take a few years or a few months, but it ends. It is impermanent and time bound. This is horizontal love. Horizontal love is related to time.

Vertical love is related to consciousness. Vertical love neither starts nor ends. It does not discriminate. It is our very quality. It flows.

suddenly, at some point we realize, we are living inside everybody just as we live inside our own body.

There is a beautiful example given in the Upaniṣads. A master asked a disciple, ‘Do you enjoy all your five senses?’ The disciple said, ‘Yes.’ The master enquired, ‘What if one of your senses was missing, would you have the same amount of joy?’

The disciple replied, ‘No, it would be twenty percent less, and if two of my senses were missing, it would be forty percent less.’ The master suddenly said, ‘What if you had five more senses?’ The disciple answered, ‘Naturally my enjoyment would be a hundred percent extra. If I am given one more body, naturally I will enjoy everything twice as much. Or if I am given five bodies, naturally I will enjoy things five times as much.’

How should we establish our intelligence in Him? Continuously try to enrich yourself and others with these thoughts and ideas that Kṛṣṇa teaches. Rāmakṛṣṇa says that what we belch depends upon what we eat. For instance, if we eat some kind of vegetable or fruit, the smell of that comes out when we belch. In the same way, if we add these ideas continuously to our mind and consciousness, we naturally radiate them. They start shining through our being. When He tells you to let your intelligence be established in Him, it means that when we are in trouble, the solution should automatically come to us based upon these ideas.

As of now we run and refer to a book, which means we have a Guru only in the outer world. If we digest and enrich ourselves with these ideas, even when we don't have problems, they will lodge themselves in us and take us to higher and higher levels of completion.

When we have problems, they will guide and enrich us. If you read books only when you are in trouble or when you are seeking a solution, you will not digest the ideas because your mind will be confused. How will you receive them? How can you digest them when you are troubled and confused? It can't happen this way. When you protect dharma, it protects you. When you excite dharma, it excites you. When you enrich dharma, it enriches you. When you are integrated to it, it is integrated into you. When you are authentic with it, it is authentic with you. When you take responsibility for it, it takes responsibility for you. Only when you enrich it, will it enrich you. Dharma means the natural law of the Cosmos. It is an independent intelligence.

When your mind is in the normal state, receive these ideas and enrich yourself and others constantly as a regular habit. Let it become your normal life style. Just as you eat and bathe everyday, in the same way, absorb these ideas regularly. Understand, from my daily morning satsangs to Inner Awakening program, and even after that, I continue to speak on the four tattvas to enrich people with this dharma. Then, is it all the same? No! It is neither the same nor is it different! It means that you are being guided deeper and deeper, layer by layer, into the same tattvas!

So, all that we take in through the five senses should be pure. Only then can we radiate purity, can we radiate bliss, can we radiate divine intelligence. Unless we purify the āhāras that is ingested through the other senses as well, we cannot expect purification of our memories.

Each one of us have mechanical parts and non mechanical parts of the brain. Mechanical parts of the brain are responsible for the functioning of your body— like the heart, lungs, liver, kidney, intestine, the functioning of your nervous system, experiencing touch, taste, seeing etc. The non-mechanical parts of your brain are responsible for the extraordinary powers—like telepathy, teleporting, vāk siddhi (the power of words, wherein any blessing given becomes a reality).

The thoughts that you take in, play a major role in the expression of your consciousness. Just take in this one truth that Kṛṣṇa speaks of, ‘Establishing your intelligence in Me.’ Please understand that whatever you take in as your inputs, you establish your mind only on that. So let your inputs be purified. Let purification of your sensory inputs happen to you. Your consciousness will automatically be established in the Divine. Again and again, try to absorb these ideas. Let these ideas penetrate you.

Don’t go behind ideas that make you feel low and that put you into depression. The truth will begin to enrich you from within yourself. I tell people that when the source of the words is enlightened consciousness, the words simply penetrate you and automatically come into your mind whenever you need their help. People ask me, ‘Swamiji, how can we remember these ideas and practice them?’ I tell them, ‘Never bother remembering them.

Just listen, that's enough. These words are from my experience. So naturally they will penetrate your being.' Whenever it is necessary, you won't need to remember these words. The words will remember you. Without effort, these words will stay in you and surface.

Automatically they will come up when needed.

They will erupt into your consciousness, like a pop-up. Similar to the pop-up on your computer monitor, they come up in your consciousness and guide you. You don't need to do anything. All you need to do is authentically listen, as a means to put them into your being. Naturally your consciousness will be established in the Divine. Kṛṣṇa says, 'Immerse your mind completely in Me. Focus your entire attention upon Me. Without a doubt you will reach the blissful state.

COULOURED FLOWERS

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE Let's make a quirky flower arrangement display. Fill each jar with half cup water. Add 10 drops of different food colouring to each of the jars. Take the leaves out and cut the stem of the flowers so that they can stand comfortably in the jars. Place the jars at your window sill so that they get indirect sunlight. Slight colouration of the petals starts showing within an hour. The petals acquire a prominent colour by the end of the week.

INFERENCE Whatever you take in as your input through your senses, your mind gets coloured in that.

PROCEDURE:

The Sanskrit Shloka “āhāra śuddho satva śiddho dhruvā smṛtiḥ” translates to “When our food, is purified, our memory is purified.” List out three steps you will take to ensure that your intake from each of the five senses is purified. Few examples are given below to help you get started: Sight: I will not watch movies or soap operas; Sound: I will listen to soft instrumental music or vedic chants daily; Smell: I will take bath with sandalwood soap; Taste: I will reduce my sugar intake; and Touch: I will practice celibacy for the first 21 years of my life.

INFERENCE:

Topic of discussion is Activation of the non-mechanical parts of our brain for acquiring superpowers is a myth unconfirmed by scientific experiments.

Extraordinary powers—like telepathy, teleporting, vāk siddhi, ability to live food free, are lying dormant within the non mechanical parts of our brain.