Enlightenment

PROLOGUE

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ENLIGHTENMENT IS A

STATE NOT A STATUS

For thousands of years, millions of seekers have been struggling. Very few have achieved. The reason is, again, you have some idea about enlightenment and you choose what you think is the right work for that. Unfortunately, the side-effect of enlightenment is not enlightenment. You always see only the side-effect of enlightenment or the by-product of enlightenment when you see the living masters. Your idea and greed about enlightenment is built upon seeing the quality and energy of the enlightened masters' lifestyle. You do not understand the secret.

This is the same mistake
Vishwamitra made.
Vishwamitra saw
Vashista being respected
everywhere. He thought
enlightenment would
bring that quality and he
wanted to have it. He
started working for it.
He missed it. He should
have decided to have the
exact state which
Vashista had, not the
status.

A digitally rendered illustration of a young sadhu with rudraksha beads, sitting in front of a golden background

WHAT IS THE
TRUE PURPOSE
OF YOUR LIFE?

Purpose of life is Enlightenment.
Enlightenment means having
the ultimate truth, the most
powerful, ultimate truth as your
operating inner software. Living
Enlightenment means vibrating
in the frequency of the Cosmic
constitution, Cosmic truths,
Universal truths; reverberating
with the principles of Universal
truths.

WHAT IS

ENLIGHTENMENT ?

Enlightenment is not something like an end, of course surely there is an explosion, that is a very strong experience, but the important truth is that it is not that after that, everything has stopped. It's not that things have become dead. Every moment explosion is happening, enlightenment is ultimate experience, but not final. It is a ultimate experience but not final, it is not final experience.

When you are enlightened Ultimate is happening every moment. Ultimate is being experienced continuously. Maybe the word explosion can be defined as non-return zone; you experience a space after which you will never have the same problems. You will never have the same problems, you will never have the same disturbances, you will never repeat the same mistakes.

You will not be committing the same
mistakes, you will not be having the
same sufferings, you will not be
having the same disturbances. It will
be totally different. The experiences,
the expressions will be totally
different. That breakthrough mind
can be called as yoga or
enlightenment or awakened;
whatever word you may like to use.
But it is not ending there. It does not
end. It is a continuous happening

A portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

GURU'S GRACE iS

THE ULTiMATE

Guru Bhakti is independently intelligent

enough technique to lead you to, from

step one, to ultimate enlightenment. And

even after enlightenment, result for your

life is Guru Bhakti, that is the ultimate Satya,

ultimate prasad, Guru Bhakti is

independently intelligent enough to reach

you to Enlightenment.

A digital rendering of a young deity with tilak on forehead, making a mudra with hands, seated on an ornate throne

WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT AS PER AGAMAS (HINDU SOURCE SCRIPTURES) ?

Manifesting your consciousnesses' fullness. For example: if you

own this body, manifesting its fullness, if you own this mind,

manifesting its fullness. Everything you own, manifesting its

fullness - is enlightenment as per Agama.

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT LIKE?

When the Universal truths become the source cognitions

for you, you will start reverberating with the Universal

truths, Cosmic constitution, the ultimate cognitions,

Parama Satyas, Paramashiva’s Satyas, (The Eternal Truths

From Bhagavān Paramaśiva).

It is literally like a elephant entering into a hut.

Paramashiva enters into your ignorance and shatters it.

DEEPER UNDERSTANDING ON ENLIGHTENMENT

Anything in the outer world can be achieved when you work FOR it. For example: Wealth – if you work for it, you will get it. Relationships – if you work for it, you will get it.

But, in the inner world, anything you
want, you have to work FROM it. For
example: If you want to have Advaithic
experience, you have to work FROM the
Advaithic space. If you want bhakthi
experience, you have to work FROM the
Advaithic bhakthi space.

If you want Living Advaitha (oneness) in
your inner-space, you have to
continuously be active, alive, work from
the space of Advaitha (oneness) . Drive
yourself from the space of Advaitha. Let
the self-driving happen from the self.
Self-driving happening from the self is
what Is called “Enlightenment”.

OPERATING FROM
POWERFUL
COGNITIONS IS CALLED
LIVING ENLIGHTENMENT

In Tiruvannamalai there are beings
who are completely enlightened and
intensely operating only from powerful
cognitions, Many of you operate from
powerful cognitions in some moments
of your life. But there are at least
hundred people operating absolutely
only from hundred percent powerful
cognitions. This is what is called full
enlightenment. If you are operating
more than fifty one percent in
powerful cognitions You are living
enlightenment.

GURU BURNS EVERYTHING EXCEPT ENLIGHTENMENT IN YOU

Living with the guru is just living with a dynamic dynamite diamond. When a dynamic diamond is made to work on any stone, other than the diamond part in the stone, will be completely removed. See the quality of diamond is, when it is dynamic and made to work on any object, all other particles in that object, except its very strength - diamond, it will all be removed. That's the way the diamonds are polished. Only the diamonds are used to polish the diamond. It's like, any stone has some component of diamond in it and some component of ordinary carbon in it. When the moving dynamic diamond is made to work on that object, all other particles except the diamond component, carbon or anything, is burnt away.

Same way, when you live
with the guru, everything
other than the guru
component in you,
everything other than the
cosmos in you, everything
other than the
enlightenment in you is
burnt away. This is the
greatest fortunate thing and
unfortunate thing.

READING GURU'S WORDS CAN

GUARANTEE YOU ENLIGHTENMENT EXPERIENCE

There is a beautiful book called - Kathamrita, it's a Ramakrishna Kathamrita. We call in English 'Gospel of Ramakrishna'. One of Ramakrishna's disciples - his name is Brahmananda, He says if you read the book every day for one year, I will assure, you will have the darshan of the ultimate. You will experience enlightenment.

You will be shocked, how can a person assure, how can a person say that enlightenment in one year guaranteed!

HOW READING GURU'S

WORDS CAN MAKE YOU
EXPERIENCE
ENLIGHTENMENT?

when you read these masters words again and again, when you listen to these great gurus words again and again, you create a new software, you create a new mental setup which reminds you the ultimate truth again and again. Which inspires you towards a higher ideal again and again. Everyday you are again put on the track. You are again inspired to run. You are again given the enthusiasm to take up the journey. It is like an everyday inspiration and it creates a new mental setup. It is true when you read or listen to the master's words for one year - one year is too much time. One year is enough to create a mental set up which will radiate enlightenment.

ENLIGHTENED PERSON'S WORDS WILL
CREATE A POSITIVE SOFTWARE IN YOU
WHICH IS CONSTANTLY INSPIRING YOU
TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT. SO, IN THE
END, ALL ENLIGHTENED GURUS WILL BE
PUSHING YOU TOWARDS 'SADHANA',
TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT.

Whenever you pick up and throw out of the window, you always throw the wrong person out of the window. Choosing is suffering. Do not think you are choosing suffering. Choosing is suffering. Whenever you prioritize, you are choosing suffering. For Example: people who choose something and put their life towards it, They envelope it, always invariably suffering. Even if you choose enlightenment and make that your priority, pushing everything else away, you will end up suffering. Life, as such, is continuously flowing in all dimensions. Enlightenment means allowing that natural flow through your body without creating conflicts. The moment you start prioritizing, you have already created conflict. Enlightenment never happens to a person who chooses enlightenment. It happens to a person who chooses choicelessness.

WHY CHOOSE

ENLIGHTENMENT?

You think that you are not courageous enough or intelligent enough to spontaneously respond to every situation which comes up, so you sit, plan, prioritize, and procrastinate. Enlightenment is exactly the opposite. Enlightenment is preparing all the tools and all the weapons for a wonderful life. Keeping these tools ready and waiting for any situation to come, and inviting more and more situations to come so that you can express your courage and face it. Having shastra shastras, knowledge weapons, ready to face life spontaneously is enlightenment. When you go the other way, dropping many situations which bring challenges to you, and try to think you are working for enlightenment, you are cheating yourself and others. Do not prioritize. Do not try to avoid situations.

MAKE ENLIGHTENMENT

YOU FIRST PRIORITY

In Swamiji’s Own Words:

Sometimes I also tell you that you should let enlightenment be your first priority. I am giving you the absolute meaning. You must allow all the energy expression which is happening in you without blocking or disturbing it. I have seen people who chose enlightenment, or their concept of enlightenment, and renounce their wealth or something else. Forever they will be missing that. For enlightenment, all you need to do is renounce what you don’t have. You are living with so many illusory things, visualizations, fantasies, greed, fear, worry, many things which are not part of your life. They are hurting you. They are being inside your mental plane and hurting you. Taking those things out or renouncing them is enlightenment.

ENLIGHTENMENT

IS THE ULTIMATE

EXPERIENCE