PROLOGUE — Intensity

A portrait of an enlightened being wearing a turban and rudraksha beads, with a speech bubble text describing intensity as a form of living energy flowing through the seven chakras

INTENSITY - A
FORM OF LIVING
ENERGY THAT
RISES AND
FLOWS
THROUGH THE
SEVEN CHAKRAS
IN THE BODY

In the Shiva sutras, intensity is described as a form of living energy that rises and flows through the seven chakras in the body, which are the main energy centers. This form of energy does not create conflict but flows smoothly and strongly. It can be described as a river which flows intensely and smoothly through various paths and courses to reach the ocean. It is indeed remarkable, that rivers always find their way to the ocean, without any navigators. It is so intense in its purpose, that even when an obstacle presents itself, it flows around, to reach the ocean. The river, unlike the human ego, does not get hurt when an obstacle presents itself. Often times, human beings feel hurt by an obstacle on their path and stop flowing. They then become like a lake that has decided to remain where it is, without achieving its goal.

If like the river, people decide to
continue persistently on their
path, making necessary
modifications or turns on their
life course as and when necessary,
they will achieve their goals. If
obstacles frighten or hurt the
ego, then people may stop
flowing completely. This can lead
to stagnation in growth and
possibly depression and
frustration.

LIVING WITH
INTENSITY IS TO
LIVE WITHOUT
INNER OR OUTER
CONFLICT.

When a person is strongly
connected with an idea or
thought, they feel they can
overcome any obstacle. They can
flow towards the positive
achievement of their goals.
However, people can also
intensely create conflict. This is
not the expression or radiation of
true living energy within the self.
Intense people who constantly
create conflict can be described as
people who are not flowing
smoothly with people and life.
They have the intensity, but it is
used to create blocks and
obstacles. There is no flow or
natural expression of life energy.

There are people who are intense but who lost the ability to flow; similarly, there are people who just flow but are not intense. In Sanskrit there is a word - "Jnanavarishta bhakti", used by the famous Indian enlightened master Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. This means that it is important to have devotion or deep bhakti, but it is also important to have the intensity with knowledge. It is important to have both the qualities of intensity and flow to achieve life's goals.

YOUR INTENSITY
IS THE ONLY
THING THAT
DECIDES WHEN
YOUR OBJECT
OF SEEKING WILL
HAPPEN

Tantra, the mystical science of
meditation techniques, says that to
know the truth one needs only one
condition, intensity. Be total in
what you are, what you do. Live
intensely in the moment and taste
the real life. Otherwise, you are not
living. You are just waiting for
death.

When you eat, intensely eat. Let
your whole attention and energy
be on the food. Do not divert
your attention and thoughts to
what you need to get done at
work tomorrow or where you
want to go for your next
vacation. Enjoy the food with all
your senses. Taste the food in
your mouth, enjoy the feast in
front of your eyes, touch the food
with love, and smell the aroma of
the food.

When you eat this way
totally, you will enjoy every
morsel and you will actually
feed into your system the
living energy the food is
meant to give. If you are
drinking water, drink it
intensely. Become the thirst.
Feel the coolness of the
water going into your
mouth, throat and down
your food pipe. Let each
drop of water that goes into
your mouth give you the
feeling of fulfillment.

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

The Tamil classic, Periya Puranam,
describes the stories of
the Nayanmars, the ardent devotees
of lord Shiva. There are so many
instances of the devotees realizing
the Ultimate by simple activities
like making garlands for the Lord.

An example is Gananaatha
Nayanaar, a devotee of Shiva,
engaged in simple services like
plucking flowers for worship,
making garlands for the Lord,
sweeping and washing the floor of
the temple and keeping the lamps
in the temple burning. Just this
simple life led him to reaching the
Ultimate and brought him his
name 'Gananaatha' meaning the
chief of the ganas (attendants) of
lord Shiva.

REACH THE

DiViNE THROUGH iNTENSiTY

Don’t cheat yourself and be
hypocritical by not admitting
what you feel. You cannot
hide anything from the
Divine. He knows you better
than you know yourself.
Your intensity is the only
thing that decides when your
object of seeking will
happen. If the intensity is
total, it will happen that
moment. If the intensity is
not integrated and total, it
will take more time because
the intensity has to gain
strength in that time.

A beautiful story:

The Sufi mystic Junaid, was taking a walk one morning when a man came up to him asking, ‘I need to reach the capital of this kingdom. How long will it take?’

Junaid just looked at the man and
continued walking. The man was going
in the same direction. He followed
Junaid thinking maybe he did not hear
him properly.

So, he asked Junaid again, ‘Can you please tell me how much time it will take me to reach the capital of the kingdom?’

Portrait of a young man with forehead markings

A beautiful story:

Junaid continued walking. The man gave up trying to ask further. After some distance, Junaid said, ‘You will have to walk at least ten hours.’

The man was surprised and exclaimed, ‘You could have said that before!’ Junaid replied, ‘How can I say before? I needed to watch your speed first. Then only I could tell you how long it will take to reach the capital.’

In the same way, the time it takes to realize also depends on your intensity. If you are intense enough, it does not need time to reach the Ultimate. Where you are, who are you is irrelevant. You can reach here and now.

Painting of a man with holy ash on his forehead

WHEN YOU
LIVE
INTENSELY,
AUTOMATICALLY
YOU WILL
BE LIBERATED

If you don't live any moment intensely, what happens?

Your mind looks for repeating the action in that moment.

Why? Why does your mind pull you to
the same experience again and again?
You may crave for a particular candy or
you may be addicted to something.
Why?

You cannot feel fulfilled by
offering sense pleasures to the
senses. Living intensely does not
mean fulfilling your senses,
pouring pleasures into your
senses, or living as you wanted.
Eat intensely. When you are
eating, only eat.
When you are sleeping, just
sleep.
When you are drinking, only
drink.
When you are making merry, just
be merry.

INTENSITY CAN HELP YOU OVERCOME ADDICTONS!

Actually if you look deep you can see it is because you never eat the candy or cater to the addiction completely with full involvement. You hold back from throwing yourself into the action fully. Maybe you feel guilty about it or you have too many confusing thoughts at that time. So you decide to just do the action ignoring your thoughts and feelings that are coming in the way of your pleasure.

You see, part of you wants to indulge in the action. Another part of you argues why you should not. You are caught in too many thoughts, many of them self-contradictory. You lose energy in fighting with yourself. Finally, you are not integrated whether you do the action or not. You are not intense. So the desire is not completely fulfilled and leaves behind its memory in your inner space.

BURN YOUR

KARMAS
THROUGH
INTENSITY

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Engraved memories of desires that
are not completely fulfilled are
called samskaras. These engraved
memories have the power to make
you return and travel in that same
path. Whether it is coffee or
champagne or smoking, whatever
engram you create will have the
power to make you do the same
action again and again, till you feel
completely fulfilled with that habit
or with that enjoyment or pleasure.

If you enjoy your addiction
intensely even once, only once,
you will be completely
liberated. That engram will never
ask you anymore to travel in that
path. It will liberate you.w of life!
It is a law of life!

Karma is nothing but
unfulfilled engrams and
desires, which are inside your
being, which constantly
make you again and again to
travel in that same path,
trying to give the experience
of fulfillment in your inner
being.

KARMA iS

UNFULFiLLED ENGRAMS

Unfulfilled engrams are what I
call karma. You keep your body
alive, you keep your mind alive,
because still you have hope that the
body can give something to you,
the mind can give something to
you. Still you have the hope you
can enjoy something, or something
needs to be fulfilled through the
body and mind. That is what I call
karma.

FOR ALL THIS,
THERE IS ONLY
ONE THING
NEEDED ON
YOUR PART:
LiVE iNTENSELY

Portrait of Nithyananda Paramashivam surrounded by a floral mandala

KAILASA's NITHYANANDA RAJAVIDYA GURUKUL Presents

WHAT IS INTENSITY?

VOLUME 1

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

INTRODUCTION

Whether we lead or whether we
follow, in order to be fulfilled in
whatever we do, we need to be
intense. Only when the urge
becomes urgent, when the
question becomes a quest, does the
ultimate happen. The deep
dissatisfaction about what is there
in the Inner space is what is called
intensity. Your dissatisfaction
which is now directed towards the
outer world, has to turn towards
the inner world and only then it
will lead to satisfaction. If your
consciousness is constantly moving
towards the outer world, it is called
restlessnes. If it is moving towards
the inner world, it is called
intensity.

Intensity is not an emotion. It is
like heat. The part of intensity
that melts and comes out can be
called emotion. The side effect of
intensity is emotion. Intensity
should become a quality.

If you are talking, let the
intensity be there. In your
relationships, in your decisions,
in your memory, in your
thinking, in your desires, even in
your fear, be intense without
escaping from that moment.

THAT IS WHAT IS
CALLED AS
INTENSITY.

Intensity means radiating the
energy that does not create
any conflict inside and
outside. It flows smoothly
and yet very strongly.
Intensity is like a flood which
is intense and flowing.
Intensity is integration.
Intensity is focus. Intensity is
sincerity. When you are
intense and ready to flow
you will achieve the goal.
Success is nearest to those
whose efforts are intense and
sincere.

When we change gears while driving a
car, whether we change from first to
second, or second to third, or any gear
for that matter, we have to pass
through neutral every time. We have
to completely de-press the clutch, or
‘unclutch’, move through neutral, and
only then we can go to the next gear,
right? In the same way, we experience
a neutral space between any two
thoughts in our mind..

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GOALS

To make the child understand about

what is intensity.

ASSESSMENT

❖ What is intensity? Is intensity an
emotion?
❖ How is intensity connected with
emotion?
❖ Who achieves success? Does
integrity create conflict inside or
outside?
❖ Which is way to be fulfilled in
whatever we do?

❖ Whether sincerity is related to
intensity or not?
❖ When you have to be intense?
❖ Dissatisfaction lead to
satisfaction true or false?
❖ What happens when the urge
becomes urgent

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY:

BITS OF PAPER COLLAGE

MATERIALS:

Color bits of paper
Plain sheet
Glue

PREPARATION:

Give the materials needed to each child. Explain to the child that they can cut bits of colored paper and stick it on the plain sheet in their own design or pattern or figure.

INFERENCE:

Our mind comprises many thoughts like the bits of paper but when we organize our thoughts we can create wonders.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY PLAITING

MATERIALS NEEDED

Three different color woolen threads as little bunches for the children to hold it comfortably.

PROCEDURE

Encourage children to sit around the table. Provide the woolen threads to the children with all three bunches tied at one end. Direct them to place it on the table and ask them to hold one bunch on their right hand one on their left, one will be in the middle. Ask them to the place the bunch of wool that they hold on their right in the middle and keep on alternating all the three strands one after another.

INFERENCE

Connect the
children to the
fact when we
are intense we
can do difficult
things easily.

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KAILASA's NITHYANANDA RAJAVIDYA GURUKUL Presents

BRING INTENSITY & FOCUS IN YOUR LIFE

VOLUME 2

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM