You Are No Sinner🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

O Parantapa (conqueror of foes), the sacrifice of wisdom is superior to the sacrifice of material wealth. After all, all activities totally end in wisdom.

The Master knows the best way in which you can grow. He creates the moulds for each of you according to your needs and abilities. Trust him, drop your solid ego and become fluid so you can fill in the spaces he creates for you.

A Master is one who has experienced the truth and who can simply transfer his experience of truth to you.

4.35

POWERFUL COGNITION

When you realize the truth that you too are one with the Universe, there is nothing more to desire; nothing to be attached to.

When you have the true knowledge, it will propel you to do actions that are a means to reach the Ultimate.

We spoke about the history of Brahma and Viṣṇu trying to reach Śiva's crown. Viṣṇu was able to accept that he failed and completed with Śiva, whereas Brahma could not. A person of knowledge becomes arrogant and refuses to acknowledge the limitations of knowledge.

Sacrificing knowledge is far more difficult than sacrificing wealth. For a scholar to admit that he does not know is to commit suicide. He is losing his identity. Kṛṣṇa advises the seeker to sacrifice one's knowledge and one's intellect at His feet, at the feet of the Master, to experience the ultimate Truth.

Beautifully He says, 'tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā (4.34).' A Master is one who has experienced the truth and who can simply transfer his experience of truth to you. He communes with you. A teacher, on the other hand, is one who imparts knowledge through communication.

It is easy to do the first step, which is to follow the Master in his physical form because Masters are so attractive by nature and they do not expect anything in return. The next level is to follow the dharma, teachings of the Master. This is slightly more difficult because you have to not only listen to his teachings but you also have to do something; you have to live his teachings, practice them.

Though it is only for your own growth, your laziness (tamas) causes you to not do this. The final level is where you infuse your life with the truth that life is for others.

When you surrender to the Master, you surrender to his mission, sanga and to his teachings, dharma as well. When you surrender at the physical level, you surrender your comforts to the Master like desires for luxury, wealth, food or sleep to imbibe and spread his teachings and mission. I cannot call it sacrifice because you will feel from your very being that this is what you really want to do. When you take up the responsibility of the mission, you will realize that what seemed to you as a load is actually a blissful experience.

The Master knows the best way in which you can grow. He creates the moulds for each of you according to your needs and abilities. Trust him, drop your solid ego and become fluid so you can fill in the spaces he creates for you.

At the being level, when your very being surrenders to the Master, your being clearly recognizes the call of the Master. You become a part of the Master. You no longer carry any separate identity. This process of transformation automatically happens when you surrender to the Master, his teachings and his mission. The water is converted into formless steam. Like steam, you now explode in all directions. There are no limitations because all limitations exist only in the mind. You now transcend the mind and express your peak potential.

OF THE MASTER

For example, yoga as it is taught now has been reduced to just a form of physical exercise. But physical health is just one of its benefits. Yoga as taught by Patañjali is a means to enlightenment. But the body language of Patañjali no longer exists; only his words exist. You need a living Master who is in the same consciousness as Patañjali, to transmit the essence and experience of the words.

It is very difficult to relate with a living Master. You see, it is very easy to relate with dead masters. You can project all your imaginations about God on him. When Kṛṣṇa promises that He descends again and again—sambhavāmi yuge yuge— what He means is the Kṛṣṇa energy will descend. People think Kṛṣṇa will come down in the same form with the yellow clothes, the flute and the two peacock feathers.

Again and again, Kṛṣṇa happens on planet Earth, but our incompletions are so cunning, they manage in making us miss Him in any form. We miss all the living Masters. It is easy to fool yourself, escaping from a living Master and just worshipping a Master who has left the body. You escape all the possibilities of transformation.

You can just say, ‘Amayaṁ anahaṁkāraṁ arāgaṁ amadaṁ tathā...’ ‘I offer my non-attachment to you’, ‘I offer my ego to you.’ You can say that to an idol and that idol will be just standing. But, if you tell me that, I will simply catch your neck and say,

‘Hey! Where is your non-attachment? Give it. Where is your ego? Surrender it!’

With the living Master, he will be constantly working on you, to cut your ego and to show you your true Self. But the ego is afraid to die at the Master’s hands, so you try to escape. Just being open to his energy can get rid of the biggest cancer in you, your ego.

Māyā, the illusion of that separation, disappears. That is why the Master is called Guru, one who leads you from ‘gu’, which is darkness, to ‘ru’, that is light; one who leads you from ignorance to bliss. A Master does not differentiate between good and bad. He doesn't care if what you do is considered meritorious by society or sinful.

KNOWLWDGE

At the spiritual level, the concept of sin does not exist. It is a creation of man-made institutions, of societal and political organizations to control others through fear. When you have the true knowledge, the intelligence of why you are doing what you are doing, the very knowledge will make the action divine, the act will no longer be just a ritual but a means to reach the Ultimate. Automatically, you will cross the ocean of miseries because misery itself is a result of ignorance of your true self. When 'spirit' is added to a 'ritual', it becomes 'spi-rituality'.

❖ What is more difficult to give up: ego or wealth? And Why?

❖ Why is a living master needed?

❖ What is the literal meaning of the word "Guru"?

❖ What is sin?

❖ What is the ultimate knowledge?

❖ How does true knowledge liberate from miseries?

YOU AND YOUR GURU

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE

Draw a rectangular frame on the paper. Take a photo cut-out of you and your Guru and paste it within the rectangular frame. Colour the background to your liking.

INFERENCE

Follow the Master in his physical form. When you surrender to the Master at the physical level, you surrender your comforts to the Master, to imbibe and spread his teachings and mission.

INTELLECTUAL

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE:

INFERENCE:

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

Today's topic of discussion is "There are no limitations on human potential, because all limitations exist only in the mind."

Conclusion: Nithyananda is nitya-dhyāna-ānanda, consists of Nithya, the Master in the body, dhyāna, his teaching and message of meditation and ānanda, his mission of bringing forth the fountain of bliss that is lying latent in you. The Master creates growth opportunities for each of you according to your needs and abilities. Trust him, drop your solid ego and become fluid so you can fill in the spaces he creates for you.