30. Learn to Be in Bliss🔗

We are filled with negative thoughts and emotions most part of our lives. Negativity leads to suffering. We then wonder why we are suffering.

We can control anger and depression by meditation. Just by analyzing the seven chakras that are in our body, and the individual consciousness, we can remove negativity and control the mind. The seven chakras are major energy centers in our body that influence our wellbeing at the physical and emotional levels.

We are like an onion. A human body is made of many energy layers. Just like we peel an onion layer by layer, we need to explore the layers of our body. Let us peel away all the layers of the onion. What do we find inside? Emptiness. The onion, which looks solid, feels solid, when opened layer by layer, reveals its emptiness finally.

Similarly, each of us thinks that we are individuals. We think that we are individual consciousness. But when we begin to peel the layers of individual identity, we find nothing inside. What we will find therein is the collective consciousness. Remember this always. This will help us prevent anger or depression. It reminds us that there is no room for anything - thought or feeling, sneaking into us from others, through others, by others.

The collective consciousness is an experience. This science is no longer taught. Unfortunately, enlightened masters did not create the modern education system. The education system designed and developed by the ancient sages of the East, the gurukul structure, is 'now' extinct. It is no longer practiced. The tradition has long since died.

That is why we suffer despite being educated. We suffer throughout our life. In childhood, we are always taught that we are separate from others. In school, we are taught that we are somebody unique. Then, as adults, we are taught to compete with others. All this education goes in destroying the feeling of collective consciousness in us.

The truth is that we are all one. We are bliss. We each mirror the collective consciousness. We have lost touch with this truth. That is why I conduct meditation programs every week all over the world. I am doing this continuously. We are doing this continuously as there is no gurukul system alive today. The ancient system of education does not exist any longer.

If we can change the way we educate our children, different from the way we have educated ourselves, without judgment, without comparison, without competition, with our focus only on learning about the truth, and experiencing the truth, we can teach them to live without suffering. We can be in eternal bliss, Nithyananda!