Know Me and Be in Bliss!🔗

One who is always in this state is certainly liberated.

5.29 One who knowing Me as the purpose of sacrifice and penance,

As the lord of all the worlds and the benefactor of all the living beings, achieves peace.

Here, the ‘Me’ refers to the Supreme witnessing Consciousness, the Krishna Consciousness; it is not the six foot Krishna frame.

A real incident that happened:

Some ardent Krishna devotees, more fanatics I should say rather than devotees, once asked me ‘Master, do you believe in the Gita?’ I replied ‘Of course; Gita is the ultimate expression of spirituality; it is the unabridged dictionary of all the world philosophies. There can be no other book better than the Gita.’

Hearing this, they said, ‘If you think so, then Krishna is everything. Why are you then worshipping other gods? Worshipping Krishna will suffice.’ I then explained to them that when Krishna said ‘I am Everything’, He was in the inspired Consciousness mood. It was not Vasudeva Krishna, the son of Devaki and Vasudeva who was speaking. It was not Krishna the man, but the Energy called Krishna, Parabrahma Krishna who was speaking. It was the Divine Energy. He was in the ecstasy of the enlightenment state. It had nothing to do with the form.

When you are enlightened, you feel the whole world is you and you are the whole world. The energy that moves the sun, the moon and the earth, moves your body too. When you experience the Ultimate Experience, you will understand this Truth.

When I said that Krishna was in an enlightened state when He spoke those words, they immediately asked me to give proof that He was speaking from that state and not as an ordinary man.

I had to substantiate this theory with an incident from the Mahabharata. Two to three months after the Kurukshetra war, when Arjuna was with Krishna, Arjuna said to Krishna, 'Oh Krishna, I was so involved in the war when you delivered those beautiful truths and understandings to me in the Gita. I have not been able to retain most of them. Can you please repeat them again to me? If it could be recorded, it would be of immense value to future generations.'

To this request, Krishna just smiled and said, 'Oh Arjuna, not only you but I also have forgotten. When I gave you the Gita, I was in the inspired Super Consciousness state. The enlightened Energy was working through me. I was Parabrahma Krishna and not Vasudeva Krishna.'

Of course, Krishna promised to remember and recollect whatever He could. Whatever He recollected was compiled as the Anu Gita. This is a much smaller book and does not have all the teachings that are in the original Bhagavad Gita.

I always tell people, the outer guru, the Master is needed only to kindle the inner spirit, to awaken the inner guru. Once the inner guru, your Consciousness is awakened, the outer guru needs to be dropped. Just like after burning the dead body, the very stick that is used to stoke the wood to burn the body is dropped into the same pyre, so also the outer guru needs to be dropped.

Let us now enter into the technique. For the first time, Krishna gives a beautiful technique to move your energy from fear and greed to Divine Consciousness, eternal Consciousness.

Your fear is rooted in the Swadishthana chakra; this is the energy center that is situated two inches below the navel. Your greed is rooted in the Muladhara chakra, the chakra that is in the root of your spinal cord.

Krishna gives us the technique of how to elevate ourselves from these two chakras to the eternal Consciousness, the ajna chakra at the brow center, where the eternal Consciousness resides, where our very being resides. When we have elevated our self to ajna, we go beyond our ego or mind. We are in tune with the eternal Consciousness.

We are all caught in the muladhara and swadishthana, fear and greed. That is why, continuously, we can watch and see that we have sort of a tensed feeling. We will be continuously holding our muladhara and swadishthana. Here, now, just look into your being. You see, relax. You can feel near the muladhara area, you will be tightly holding yourself. You always hold yourself. You are always in tension.

You are always tensed in the muladhara and swadishthana chakras. Krishna explains how to relax that area, how to stop the fuel coming from greed and fear,and get the amrita-dhara (flow of nectar) from eternal Consciousness.

Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendental who is aiming at liberation, becomes free from desire, fear and the by-product of desire and fear, anger - all three. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated, sada mukta eva saha.

First, He gives the technique to enter into that state. Then He says, if you can stay in that same state, you are liberated.

Now, at least let us try to have a glimpse of this state that Krishna explains in this verse. I will try to guide you step by step through this meditation.

Please try to enter into that state.

Please sit straight and close your eyes. Let your head, neck and backbone be in a straight line. Intensely pray to that ultimate Energy, Parabrahma Krishna, to give the experience of this meditation to us.

First thing, visualize that all your senses are completely shut. Visualize that your eyes are completely closed; your eyes are shut. Don't allow any visualization to happen inside your being. Not only close the eyelids; close the eyes. Visualize that your eyeballs have become completely dark. You are seeing only darkness in front of you.

Visualize your ears are shut. Visualize your sense of touch is shut. Visualize your smelling capacity is shut. Visualize your face to be shut. Feel deeply that all the five senses have been shut down.

Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible. Slowly, let your nostrils blow the air. Let your Consciousness reside between the two eyebrows. In a very relaxed way, let you be aware of the space between your two eyebrows. Don't concentrate; don't tense yourself. Just be very relaxed, have a deeply relaxed awareness.

Let your muladhara be relaxed. Let the root of your spine be relaxed. Let your swadishthana be relaxed. Let your whole consciousness come up to the ajna chakra which is between the eyebrows. Let you concentrate on the space between the eyebrows. Let you relax in ajna chakra, between the eyebrows.

Visualize cool, soothing light in the ajna chakra, in the space between the eyebrows. Relax in the ajna chakra between your two eyebrows.

Just forget about the world. Forget all other parts of your body. Forget about your mind. Forget about the body, mind and the world; remember only the ajna chakra, the space between the two eyebrows. Relax in the same state in your ajna chakra.

Go deeply into the ajna chakra, in the space between the two eyebrows. Visualize a beautiful, cooling, soothing light in the ajna chakra. Let you experience beautiful, blissful light in the ajna chakra. Don't tense yourself; let your awareness be in the ajna chakra in a very relaxed way; let your consciousness rest in the space between the two eyebrows. Let you rest in the space between the two eyebrows in a relaxed way.

Let you relax in the same space of Eternal Consciousness. Let you be beyond the body, mind. Let your intelligence be awakened; let you work from your Eternal Consciousness.

Let you have the pleasant awareness of ajna chakra.

Let you all have the grace of the Divine Consciousness. Let you be established in the Eternal Consciousness. Let you all be in, with and radiate eternal bliss, Nithyananda.

Om shanti, shanti, shantihi...

Om tat sat

Relax; slowly, very slowly, you can open your eyes.

Let you start staying in this same mood at least for next ten days.

Understand: don't concentrate by force. Have a pleasant awareness. When you keep the pleasant awareness around your ajna chakra, your whole energy will be directed towards the Eternal Consciousness. You will receive energy from Eternal Consciousness, from immortality, amrutatva.

You will not be driven by fear or greed. You will be driven from Eternal Consciousness from above. From below, if you are driven, you are man. From above, if you are driven, you are an incarnation. You are divine. You are God.

Let you learn the science of how to connect yourself with the Divine Energy, how to be driven by the Divine Consciousness. Let you function through the Eternal Consciousness.

Let you be in and become one with and radiate eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you!

Q: Master, how do we know whether a master is enlightened or not?

This is what is known as information on a 'need to know' basis!

The real question is why do you need to know? Your enlightenment does not have to depend on the enlightened state of your Master. You can be enlightened by your own self, as it happened to me. You can be enlightened by an idol, a mere stone, metal or wooden idol, as it has happened to countless others throughout the history of mankind. You can be enlightened by a thief, a sinner, an idiot and by any one who you believe can enlighten you. You can be enlightened by one for whom you have the devotion; to whom you surrender.

Your state is what matters, not the state of the Master. If you follow with deep faith and commitment and surrender totally, anything can help you realize the truth

of your own Self, which is what enlightenment is all about. You are already enlightened. You don't need to be enlightened. All you need to do is to wake up to the truth.

You cannot know if some one is enlightened or not unless you are in the same state yourself. At your level of awareness, you can only make guesses and the guesses may be quite wrong. Enlightened Masters do not follow any standards. There is no international standard laid down, nor will there ever be. All enlightened beings have the same experience but their expressions may be completely different. So you will have no comparison.

Let me tell you one thing though. The sheer bliss of that state should reflect in that person. No enlightened Master can be unhappy; nor can he suffer. He may get angry, may seem to get angry, but you can never see him depressed. How can anyone be depressed when one is in a state of bliss all the time?

I tell my disciples to watch me when I sleep. This cannot happen often. First of all, I sleep little and secondly, no one is allowed into my quarters without permission these days! But there are occasions such as Teachers' Training and some such courses when I spend all my time, day and night, with my disciples.

I tell them that an enlightened Master sleeps like a flower in bloom, totally free, totally blissful with no stress or tension. That is what you will see when you get close to such a Master. In the presence of such a Master your own mind drops and your ego drops. You move into nithyanandam, eternal bliss.

Thus ends the fifth chapter named "Path of Renunciation" of the Upanishad of the Bhagavad Gita, the scripture of Yoga, dealing with the science of the Absolute in the form of the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna.

Bhagavad Gita

Several institutions have conducted experiments using scientific and statistically supported techniques to verify the truth behind the Bhagavad Gita. Notable amongst them is the work carried out by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose findings are published through Maharishi Ved Vigyan Vishwa Vidyapeetam.

Studies conducted using meditation techniques related to truths expressed in the verses of the Bhagavad Gita have shown that the quality of life is significantly improved through meditation. These studies have found that meditators experience a greater sense of peace resulting in a reduced tendency towards conflict.

Meditators gain greater respect for and appreciation of others. Their own inner fulfilment increases resulting in improved self-respect and self-reliance, leading to Self Actualization.

One’s ability to focus along with brain function integration is enhanced. These have resulted in greater comprehension, creativity, faster response time in decision-making and superior psychomotor coordination.

Stress levels have been shown to decrease with enhanced sensory perception and overall health. The tendency towards depression has been clearly shown to decrease.

There is enough evidence to show that as a result of meditation, individuals gain a better ethical lifestyle that in turn improves their interaction with others in the community, resulting in less conflict and crime. Group meditation of 7000 people (square root of 1% of world population at the time of the study) was significantly correlated to a reduction in conflict worldwide.

Meditation leads to higher levels of consciousness. Through the research tools of Applied Kinesiology, Dr. David Hawkins (author of the book Power vs. Force) and others have shown that human consciousness has risen in the last few decades, crossing a critical milestone for the first time in human history. Dr. Hawkins’ research also documents that the Bhagavad Gita is at the very highest level of Truth conveyed to humanity.

We acknowledge with gratitude the work done by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi institutions and Dr. David Hawkins in establishing the truth of this great scripture.