Oh Sons of Immortality!🔗

The one and only sin that you commit is clutching to the old thoughts and creating a shaft. Be very clear, you may commit an act which society labels as sin. But you are not a sinner.

This is why the Vedic rishis are beautifully addressing you as amrutsya putraha – Sons of Immortality! You are, by your very nature, immortal. There is no need to achieve that state separately.

The rishis do not address you as sinners. They say, ‘Oh, sons of immortality.’ For practical purposes we have started translating the word putra as son. But the literal translation for the word putra is ‘outcome’.

You are the outcome of the intense enlightened experience.

Again and again, the rishis declare this one truth: you are much more than the two identities which you carry.

If one says that you are a sinner, then you can conclude that they have a vested interest in you believing that you are a sinner. When you make all the people around you believe that they are lower level people, then you have the confidence that you are a higher person, you are somebody important or ‘holier than

thou’. But the Vedic rishis are not speaking in that language. If they say, ‘you are sinners’, then you can say they are talking out of vested interest. But the rishis are saying that you are much more than your identity; they are saying that you are God.

Only a man who has experienced this truth, who has the courage to tell this truth to others, who trusts his disciples with the thought that, ‘Even if I give him this courage and confidence, he will respect me, he will not disrespect me’, only when you have that much courage, this truth can be reproduced.

The rishis were not only experienced, they had tremendous trust as well. They were only concerned about reproducing that solid experience. They did not give importance to anything else. They did not give importance to their name or their identities because they realized that they were much more than these two identities.

The person who realizes that he is much more than these two identities will never be shaken by the confusions, problems and dilemmas of these two identities. All your problems, including physical health - please understand when I say including your physical health, I mean all the diseases that you suffer in the body - are only because of these two identity problems.

You have neither a subconscious nor an unconscious mind. You have neither sin nor guilt. Be liberated from this sin and guilt, which is the mamakar, the identity that you carry in the inner world; and the unconscious and the subconscious which is the ahankar, the identity that you project to the outer world. Be liberated from these two from today. Both these identities are lies.

Look very clearly: you can have only one thought at a time, am I right? Is there any special being, anybody who is here, who can have two or three thoughts at a time? No, you cannot. You can have only one thought at a time. Then where is the question of subconscious or unconscious?

Be very clear, we can have only one thought at a time and each thought replaces the thought that precedes it. Each thought that comes up replaces the thought that precedes it.

People come to me and ask me, 'My whole life is filled with the fear of death. I don't know what to do. How can I get rid of this fear?'

I tell them, 'Just have a glass of water or a cup of tea.'

They say, 'What is this Master? How can a cup of tea or having a glass of water help me get out of my fear of death?'

I tell them, 'Come and sit, have a cup of coffee now.' When they are having coffee, I ask them, 'What happened to the fear of death?'

They say, 'For that moment, it was not there Master.'

All you need to do is just have a cup of coffee!

The moment you have the thought that you want to have a cup of coffee, the thought of fearing death has been replaced. It has disappeared!

It is simple logic: the moment you decide to stand up, you renounce the thought of sitting. The moment you decide to walk out of a place, you renounce the thought of staying inside. The moment you decide to come in, you renounce the thought of standing outside. Every thought is replacing the earlier thought. At every moment you are renouncing your thoughts.

Understand, every moment you are renouncing your thoughts according to your very nature. The moment you decided to have a cup of coffee, you have already renounced the thought of fearing death. The fear of death is replaced by the thought of having a cup of coffee.

A big problem would be if you would say, ‘Master, when the fear comes back, what is one to do?’ Be very clear, the moment you decide that the fear will come back again, you are bringing back the fear. It is not coming back. Your strong faith that it will come back brings the fear back.

Why are you bringing it back again? It has already left you.

You will ask me, ‘How can it be so simple?’ You have always been taught and been made to believe that it is not so simple. It IS that simple. If you really understand this, it is so simple.

People are constantly telling me that it is not so easy. But I am telling you literally it is so easy. Nothing needs to be done. A simple understanding is all that is needed.

For example, guests do not come to your home unless you invite them. Not only do you invite them, you send them e-mails, written invitations, leave voice messages, and fax them. After that, you even send someone to personally pick them up and transport them to your home. Once they enter your house you say, ‘Oh, I didn’t think you would come.’

In the same way you send messages to your mind that produces the thought that you have a strong faith that the fear of death is going to come back. When you have a strong fear, when you have a strong idea, when you have a strong desire that the fear is going to come back, you fulfill your desire and the fear comes back.

Understand, every moment by your very nature, you are replacing your thoughts.

People ask me, ‘Master, I am suffering with too many sexual thoughts. How can I escape from them? How can I get rid of them?’

I tell them, ‘Sit here. For one hour, meditate on sex.’

After that they open their eyes and say, ‘Master, the mind is not able to stay on the same subject; it is going everywhere!’

The person who came to me and said that he was consumed by these sexual thoughts was complaining that he was not able to get rid of them. When I told him to concentrate on that thought, he said he was not able to do so. What does that mean? By your very nature, you are unconnected, independent, illogical, unconnected thoughts.

You neither have to worry about your fears, nor do you have to worry about your greed. Your worry about your worries, your worry about your fears, your worry about your greed is the only problem. Your fear is not the problem; your fear about the fears is the problem.

Similarly, you are not afraid of your failure. You are afraid of your fear of failure, not failure itself.

For example, you know for certain that by the end of this year, you are not going to be a billionaire. Are you worrying about it or are you suffering saying, ‘I am not going to be a billionaire. What will happen to me?’ No, you do not suffer because of that! But you will always suffer with the thought, ‘Will I have one hundred thousand dollars or not?’

Suffering is because of that uncertainty.

Fear is because of the possibility of not achieving your goal. Fear is not connected to your failure. Fear is connected to your fear of failure.

If you are haunted by greed or fear, it is just because of your clutching and connecting.

If you understand this one truth, that constantly you renounce, constantly you replace your own thoughts, just a glass of water is enough to get rid of your fear of death! Because the moment you decide to have a glass of water, the thought of the fear will have already disappeared. If the thought of death was so strong, it would still be there. Instead it can easily be replaced by just a single cup of tea. A cup of tea is more than enough. A glass of water is more than enough to get rid of the fear of death, to get rid of great grief, to get rid of any problem in your life.

Whatever problem you may have, you can have only one thought at a time. Can you have two or three thoughts at a time? No. So be very clear that your enemy is only one thought. When you start believing in unconscious and subconscious, you make your enemy too powerful. You clutch all the thoughts. The problem is not a single thought of fear. The problem is that you connect all the thoughts of fear that you have had since your birth, create a shaft and start to believe, ‘I am filled with fear.’

The fear of death which happened in you ten years ago, the fear of death which happened in you nine years ago, the fear of death which happened in you eight years ago, the fear of death which happened in you yesterday, are all unconnected, independent, illogical, un-clutched fears, un-clutched thoughts. When you connect all of them and create a shaft, you conclude, ‘My life is filled with fear.’ The moment that you create that shaft, you create hell for yourself. And you start suffering with it.

Be very clear, do not empower your enemy before fighting with him. What you are doing is empowering the enemy, your mind, and then trying to kill it.

First, you need to understand that you cannot kill him because he does not exist. If he exists, you can fight with him. But you are fighting with a shadow, you are fighting with darkness, you are fighting with someone who does not exist.

Mind is a myth. Your ideas about pain or pleasure are a pure myth. In Sanskrit we call it maya. Maya means ya ma iti maya. Literal translation of the word maya in Sanskrit is that which does not exist, but which gives an experience as if it exists.

Understand that your mind, your fear, your greed, do not exist. Just because you clutch all your thoughts and see, it gives you a feeling as if they do exist.

If you are un-clutched, you will understand the simple truth that the mind is a myth. Whatever you think of as you is a lie. When you stop connecting and creating a shaft, suddenly you open up to the truth that by your very nature you are an unconnected, illogical, un-clutched being.

I have only one message from Ashtavakra: You are an un-clutched being. By your very nature you are unattached. All you need is the courage to let go.

We are like the bird that is holding on to the hunter's trap, afraid to let go without realizing that it can just fly and be liberated if only it would let go. In the same way, we are holding on to our mind and ego, which are nothing but non-existent shafts. We cling to things that do not even exist. We are bound by the mind which itself is a myth. The bird, which is trying to hold on thinks that if he lets go he may fall and die. If we let go we will only fly; we will never fall and die.

Similar to the bird trap, hunters have a trap to catch monkeys also. They catch monkeys using a small box for a trap. They place some sweets inside a box. The monkey puts its hand inside the box and grabs the sweet. As long as

the monkey is holding onto the sweet, it will not be able to take its hand out because its fist is larger than the hole. If the monkey lets go of the sweet, it could remove or slide its hand out immediately. But the monkey is not intelligent enough to realize that. It holds on to the sweet and just because it is holding it, it is not able to take the hand out. If it just lets go of the sweet, it can take its hand out and be free.

In the same way, the bird holds on to the stick because of its fear that it may fall and die. But even by hanging on to the stick, it is not going to live long. It just waits for the hunter to come and grab it. If it just lets go, it can simply fly.

You are also clutching on to the mind and the ego and waiting for Yama - the Lord of Death. If you just let go, you also can simply be free and fly.

If you imbibe and understand these truths, the enlightenment experience can be yours, you can simply have it. Liberate yourself!

May you radiate the eternal bliss, nithyananda.