Why 21 days?
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For any idea to become an experience in you,
it takes at least 21 days.
With any truth, the first seven days will be
the understanding period.
The second seven days will be the practicing period.
The third seven days will be the experience
– the miracle period!
[Figure: Group sitting together]
Each truth you will be contacting in this program can trigger powerful processes in you – emotional, mental, sometimes even physiological. We need to give time for these processes to settle in you! It takes time for the complete transformation to happen.
For any idea to become an experience in you, it takes at least 21 days.
Understanding period: With any new idea, the first 7 days will usually be the understanding
period, when your old way of thinking
continuously rises up to resist the new
understanding.
For example, suppose you are introduced to a truth, ‘If I am non-violent towards everybody, the whole world will be non-violent towards me.’ The first 7 days, your typical response will be, ‘No, no, even if I try to behave that way, how can I really forgive everybody? And if I do that, won’t everybody start exploiting me?’ All kinds of doubts! During this period, you will not be
able to really carry that non-violence in you.
You need more technical knowledge, greater
clarity about these great truths.
Practicing period: The second 7 days will be the
practicing period.
You become ready to give the new
understanding a chance. You tell yourself,
‘Alright, if I carry hatred inside, I am the one
who is going to suffer. So let me forgive
them.’ You honestly start the practice, living
it inside and outside. At this point, various
techniques can help you focus and integrate
your practice.
Miracle period: The third 7 days will be the
real experience – the miracle period!
[Figure: Audience in hall]
blessing. Only when you go through all these three stages
and start experiencing the virtuous circle, are you initiated
into jeevan mukti, living enlightenment. After that, there is
no fear of return.
In these 21 days, you will live with this one thought of
jeevan mukti, so that it becomes a direct reality and a real
experience in you.
- Nithyananda