2: Master disciple – the eternal relationship🔗

A relationship is that which can reveal to you those dimensions in you that you don't even know exist inside you.

It gives you the experience and proves to you that you are also capable of loving someone or something. It shows that you can also love and you can also sacrifice to an amazing extent for the sake of someone.

Relationships have the power to awaken your unknown dimensions.

Your different relationships bring out the various dimensions in you. Your beloved brings out the power of love in you. Your friends bring out the feeling of friendship in you. Your children unleash the motherliness dimension in you. Your parents bring out the child dimension in you. Master is the person who awakens the unknown enlightenment dimension in you. Only the Master can bring out all the dimensions in you.

A relationship with anyone or anything, no matter who or what, will lead you to the ultimate relationship with the Master. When you fall in love, whether it is with a man, woman or child, deity or Master, you will see dimensions of you that you never knew existed inside you. With the flowering of love, you become more responsible. You experience the very juice of life.

The relationship with the Master, who is one with Existence, is deeper than any other relationship. It is a being-level connection.

All other relationships will create bondage, but the relationship with the Master has the power to free you of all bondage. Bondage can never happen in this relationship.

The Master is all forms and no form. He refuses to be captured in a frame, to be turned into a stone or worshipped as an image. The Master is beyond forms, beyond dimensions.

You cannot calculate the transformation the Master-disciple relationship creates in you. The Master reveals himself in various dimensions and makes you transcend those and helps you experience the feeling connection beyond all dimensions and forms.

Listen: all scriptures, all literature, and all methods of teachings can only inspire you and cannot give you the experience. Understand, this is the first law.

All books, all videos – when I say all, I mean capital letter ALL, including my books and videos – everything can only create inspiration in you; it cannot give you the experience. Experience is like a lamp. Only from an already burning lamp can you ‘catch’ the flame. Only from an already lit lamp can you light another lamp. It has to be transmitted directly.

In the same way, jeevanmukti can be transmitted only from a living body to a living body. If a body has to catch jeevanmukti, it has to catch it from the same material source that is already living enlightenment. bone to flesh and bone. That is why the need of a living Master. Again and again and again He comes back.

This is the reason even a huge organization is not able to own spirituality more than a living Master. Today, seekers are around me, because it has to be it can be transmitted only from flesh to flesh, from muscle memory to muscle memory.

Even in my case, after I leave the body, I will be living jeevanmukti. But because there is no physical body, I will not be able to transmit jeevamukti to the person who is living with a physical body.

Only if I initiate you now and give you the assurance, I can handle you even if I leave the body. So if you had the assurance from Sri Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharishi or Osho, or any Master, when they were in the flesh, then you don't need to go to a new Master; it may not be needed.

But even then, they usually guide you to a living Master, because living around the Master is not only living enlightenment; it is a joy. It is an ecstasy. It is a way of life.

That is the reason a living Master is necessary, and cannot be replaced. Even today the necessity for a living Master is there, just as when Shiva started the whole thing millions of years ago.

The only thing which is not yet outdated, which can never be outdated, is the necessity of a living Master. Thousands of things in the world are constantly getting outdated and replaced, but the need for a living Master can never be outdated or replaced.

When people ask me, ‘Are you God?’ I tell them, ‘It depends on you!’

It depends on you. I am constantly available, open. If you want to connect with me as a teacher, you can connect with me and carry the knowledge. If you want to connect with me as a Master, you can have initiation from me. Only the Master can initiate; the teacher can’t initiate. The teacher can teach, but only the Master can initiate.

If you connect with me as God or Divine, the Ultimate energy, you will carry the experience itself, not just the initiation. It depends on how much your inner space is made available for me, that’s all.

Let me tell you one thing clearly, I am not here to prove that I am God.

I am here to prove that you are God. I am not here to prove my divinity.

I am here to prove your divinity.

If you relate just intellectually, you will carry the knowledge. If you relate with a little bit of emotion, a little bit of love, you will carry the initiation; it means that whatever I can’t express through words also will go into you - the software will be transmitted. If you are able to connect with the Being, deeply, you don’t need initiation; the very experience will be transmitted. It depends on each person and to what level he connects, to what level he experiences.

about. You can relate with the Master in any one of these five attitudes or bhavas, or all the five put together.

The Master is like a forest fire that is happening on one side of the river. The disciple is on the other side of the river. The river is the 'samsara', the river of births and rebirths.

Between the Master and disciple, if there can be a bridge made of any material, the fire can move, cross over the bridge and reach the disciple. The material of which the bridge is made is immaterial. It can be made of wood or with cement, but the forest fire has the capacity to move over the bridge and reach the disciple.

In the same way, irrespective of whatever connection you may have with the Master, just get totally dissolved into that. If you dissolve into that, it will simply fulfill your feelings and lead you to the ultimate state of eternal bliss. If you understand this truth deeply and try to practice this with the determination, 'I will focus on my feeling and get dissolved into the Master-disciple connection', it will lead you to that state.

Don't think that you don't know how to dissolve in that. The sheer determination is enough, it will happen automatically in you. Any hurdle between the Master and disciple will dissolve just by focusing on the dissolution that happens between the Master and disciple.

The five attitudes that I mentioned are actually five levels or stages of feeling-connection between Master and disciple.

This really depends on the kind of personality that the seeker has. you are helped every moment beyond your expectations, the feeling within you toward him becomes more of emotion. He fills you, he fills your heart. You have a problem forgetting him. That is the moment you feel like bowing down to him like a servant, not with shame, but with reverence and humility, because you have found someone to surrender all your problems to. This was how Hanuman felt towards Rama. He was completely devoted to Rama. A deep connection of high emotion happens with this kind of relationship. This attitude is much more emotional than the earlier one. It is a mix of 60% emotion and 40% intelligence.

Then, by and by, you move deeper emotionally and you become protective of the Master. Instead of asking attention from him and taking help from him, you want to support him, love him and attend to him. Your attitude becomes that of a nurturing mother. This is a state of pure emotion.

In these four states of intelligence, intelligence-emotion, emotion-intelligence and pure emotion, your life is separate and independent from the Master's life. You just take help from him to help your life, to enrich your life, that's all.

When the emotional attitude ripens, you start feeling that your life is no longer separate from his. You then move from the emotional level to the being level. You feel like sacrificing yourself to take care of him and dedicating your life to him. There is a merger at the being level, even stronger than the emotional connection of a mother and child. It is a connection of deep love, without any gender consciousness. This is what is called madhura bhava, an intense mix of emotional and being-level attitude.

When the madhura bhava becomes intense, suddenly you experience that there is no ‘he’ and ‘you’. There are no two different beings. You and he are one and the same. You start experiencing the maha bhava

This is how, step-by-step, you start experiencing and growing in the feeling connection with the Master. Each disciple’s relationship with the Master is unique. That is the beauty of it! Each disciple progresses with the Master in search of his reality, in the path that is best for him to progress.

Below is a powerful meditation technique to live and feel connected with the Master continuously.

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

The mind takes the form of that on which it contemplates continuously.

The most effortless way to experience the space of enlightenment is to meditate on a being who lives and moves in that space.

Bhakti is nothing but holding on to that which never changes – the formless consciousness.

But it is not easy for us to directly feel connected with the formless Existential energy. The Master is the form that reminds us again and again of the formless.

This is an extremely effective technique for changing your very bio-memory. As you keep practicing it, your body and mind will simply pick

Live the Master; you will live like a Master!

His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda