Living Enlightenment🔗

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Preface ............................................................................................................ xv
Introduction ................................................................................................... xvii

■ Flow in love 1
What is Love? ............................................................................................... 1
Love cannot be created ................................................................................. 2
Love heals five types of restlessness ............................................................. 3
Love brings great courage ............................................................................. 6
Be open - not philosophizing ......................................................................... 7
Ego disconnects - Love connects .................................................................. 9
Be a lover every moment ............................................................................. 11
Love yourself first ....................................................................................... 12
Love Existence and feel It loving you .......................................................... 13
Love is different from respect ..................................................................... 14
Love is the root of all religion ..................................................................... 15
Three types of Love and their integration ................................................... 17
Enter into causeless Love ............................................................................ 18
Love, hatred and attention-need .................................................................. 20
The unity of Love ........................................................................................ 22
Love and liberate, don't possess ................................................................... 24
Love in relationships ................................................................................... 28
Meditation – feel the Love overflowing in you ............................................ 30

■ There is nothing to worry 31
What is Worry? ........................................................................................... 31
How does Worry take root? ......................................................................... 31
See what is as it IS – and move on .............................................................. 33

Worry – a legacy passed down ............................................................................ 36
Worry and dilemma – our inner software ............................................................ 39
Awareness – the benign virus! ............................................................................ 42
Don't Worry about others' opinions ................................................................... 43
Work out of inspiration – not out of Worry ......................................................... 44
Leave no space for Worry to fill ......................................................................... 45
Worry is only an illusion ..................................................................................... 47
Surrender and relax ........................................................................................... 48
The ego in disguise ............................................................................................. 49
Get out of your comfort zone ............................................................................. 51
Stop Worrying about your wealth ....................................................................... 53
Drop Worry, pick up health ................................................................................ 54
How meditation helps ........................................................................................ 55
Meditation .......................................................................................................... 55

What is Stress? ................................................................................................... 57
Mind is not a machine ........................................................................................ 58
Connecting the unconnected .............................................................................. 59
Mind is a process ............................................................................................... 60
Mind is also an illusion ...................................................................................... 61
How do we decide? ............................................................................................ 63
Transcend time - be in the present ...................................................................... 64
Inner chatter ....................................................................................................... 66
Words cause Stress ............................................................................................. 66
Physiological effects of Stress ............................................................................. 67
Is Stress work related? ........................................................................................ 68
Beyond Stress .................................................................................................... 71
Meditation technique .......................................................................................... 72

Big Bang and black hole inside you ................................................................ 73
How to overcome Fear ..................................................................................... 82
Meditation techniques ..................................................................................... 84

What is Pain .................................................................................................... 89
The cognitive shift .......................................................................................... 100
Meditation techniques ................................................................................... 102

Recognize your true desires ............................................................................. 107
The true Desire for fulfillment ........................................................................ 108
Desire, knowledge and action .......................................................................... 108
Turning the awareness from the object to the subject ...................................... 110
Experience life every moment ........................................................................ 110
The power of love ........................................................................................... 111
Lust to love ..................................................................................................... 113
Meditation techniques ................................................................................... 118

What is Guilt? ................................................................................................. 121
Three kinds of Guilt ....................................................................................... 121
Guilt created by immediate family ................................................................. 122
Guilt created by society ................................................................................... 123
Guilt created by you ........................................................................................ 126
Lift yourself by your self ................................................................................. 127
Guilt – a manifestation of ego ......................................................................... 128
Morality ......................................................................................................... 130
Rules ............................................................................................................... 133
Guilt and responsibility .................................................................................. 138
The useful Guilt .............................................................................................. 140
Guilt can result in physical disease ................................................................. 140

Acceptance – the beautiful way out ..................................................................... 141
Guilt can at the most change the symptoms ......................................................... 142
Vedic social system Vs Politics based system ...................................................... 142
You are complete as you are ................................................................................ 143
Guilt of following another master ....................................................................... 147
Meditation techniques .......................................................................................... 148

Comparison and Jealousy ..................................................................................... 151
Why comparison? ................................................................................................. 151
Wants Vs Needs ................................................................................................... 154
Doing, having and being ....................................................................................... 155
You are unique ...................................................................................................... 156
Jealousy has no solid existence ............................................................................ 156
How to overcome Jealousy ................................................................................... 159

Seriousness Vs Sincerity ...................................................................................... 163
Perfectionism ........................................................................................................ 164
Life is beyond your logic ...................................................................................... 166
What is Ego? ......................................................................................................... 167
Dual identities ...................................................................................................... 171
Types of Ego ......................................................................................................... 174
‘I’ and ‘Mine’ ........................................................................................................ 176
Ego Vs Master ...................................................................................................... 176
Meditation Techniques ......................................................................................... 178

Gratitude – what and why .................................................................................... 181
Be grateful for just being ...................................................................................... 183
Everything is a gift ................................................................................................ 184
Revere the other with Gratitude ........................................................................... 185

Thank your body ................................................................................................... 188
Everything is auspicious, just celebrate it! ................................................................ 189
Gratitude can burn your karmas .............................................................................. 196
Gratitude - the ultimate prayer and religion .............................................................. 197
Expectation is the culprit, let go! .............................................................................. 199
Your very body language can change with Gratitude ................................................. 200
Meditation ................................................................................................................ 201

■ You can unclutch from the mind maze 203
The ten-minute experiment ....................................................................................... 203
The nature of the mind ............................................................................................ 204
Awareness ................................................................................................................ 205
The shaft that does not exist .................................................................................... 207
From fear to freedom ................................................................................................ 212
Unconscious or subconscious mind, a pure myth ...................................................... 216
Unclutch! Radiate awareness, energy and intelligence .............................................. 216
Myth of body-mind .................................................................................................. 217
Living intensely in the present ................................................................................. 221
Witnessing ............................................................................................................... 232
False identities ......................................................................................................... 234
Meditation techniques .............................................................................................. 240

■ The karmic cycle can be broken 243
What is karma? ........................................................................................................ 243
The present is the totality of all past decisions .......................................................... 244
Karma and TPS ....................................................................................................... 246
Karma – totality of conscious choices ........................................................................ 247
Everything in life is a choice you make .................................................................... 248
Samskaras in the seven layers of the body ................................................................ 251
Three types of karma ............................................................................................... 254

The way out of the daily irritation - living your prarabdha karma ..................... 255
The way out of the cycle of karma ..................................................................... 257
Cosmic cause-and-effect principle ..................................................................... 259
The vibrant living cosmos ................................................................................. 259
Reaction or response ......................................................................................... 260
Masters have no karma ...................................................................................... 261
Only intention matters ...................................................................................... 262
Mission or machine? ......................................................................................... 266
What is the karma of this birth? A miniature of your total karma ....................... 266
How to dissolve this birth karma? Simply by your breathing ............................. 267
Responsibility ................................................................................................... 270
Karma and the next body ................................................................................... 271
Enlightenment – back to home ........................................................................... 275
Techniques to overcome karma ......................................................................... 276
Deities and enlightened masters – your paths to exhausting karma .................... 276
Myths on karma ................................................................................................ 282

Story of Yayati ............................................................................................... 287
Common perception of death ........................................................................ 288
Why are we afraid of death? .......................................................................... 289
In the mystery of death lies the answer to life ............................................... 290
Entering into Death ....................................................................................... 291
The ultimate let-go ......................................................................................... 292
A fresh start .................................................................................................... 293
Mystery of mysteries ..................................................................................... 294
Death in my presence - before enlightenment ............................................... 296
Death in my presence - after enligtenment ..................................................... 300
What you remember in the last moment counts ............................................. 304
My own death experience ............................................................................... 305
What happens at the time of death ................................................................. 310

Death happens everyday ............................................................................ 313
Waking world Vs Dream world .................................................................. 313
The art of dying ......................................................................................... 316
Space for the new ....................................................................................... 317
Conquer death – be in the present ............................................................ 318
Complete 'yes' ............................................................................................ 319
Auspicious Death ........................................................................................ 319
Reality is a dream ...................................................................................... 320
Life and Death Vs Waking and Sleep ......................................................... 321
Awareness - control dreams and deep sleep, life and death ........................ 323
Control life, health… and death ............................................................... 329
Death is dissolving into the cosmic space ................................................. 330
Meditation techniques ............................................................................... 331
Meditation technique 2 ............................................................................... 332

■ You are intelligence
335
Natural Intelligence .................................................................................... 335
Children are born intelligent ...................................................................... 336
The driving forces of fear and greed ........................................................... 337
What is the measure of Intelligence? .......................................................... 338
Spontaneity - straightforward Intelligence ................................................ 339
The key to awareness ................................................................................. 340
Beyond rules to responsibility .................................................................... 341
Now and here ............................................................................................. 342
Welcome people, situations, life ................................................................. 343
Beyond the head is the gate to loving Intelligence .................................... 344
Understanding, not thinking ...................................................................... 345
Into the depths of the mind ........................................................................ 347
Body Intelligence ....................................................................................... 347
The intelligent self-healing energy ............................................................. 352
Compassion, Intelligence, Bliss ................................................................. 354

'You' are not needed to run your life ................................................................ 354
Acceptance of the inevitability of life ................................................................ 354
Universal intelligence – macrocosm and microcosm ........................................ 356
Cosmic Intelligence responds to us ................................................................... 357
Intelligence is not the experience but the lessons learned from experience ..... 361
Emotional attachment – the roadblock on the highway of Intelligence ............ 362
Guaranteed Intelligence to handle life ............................................................. 362
Intellect Vs Intelligence ..................................................................................... 363
Intelligence from mistakes ................................................................................ 364
Intelligence to realize life is a dream ................................................................. 365
Intelligence and Visualization .......................................................................... 366
Meditation technique – drop the intellect .......................................................... 367

Compassion is responsibility and energy .......................................................... 370
A cognitive shift ................................................................................................ 371
A commitment to serve people ......................................................................... 373
Ego Vs Responsibility ...................................................................................... 373
Responsibility is not seriousness - the world is just a dream ........................... 373
Trust and patience ............................................................................................. 374
Responsibility for others .................................................................................... 375
Responsibility of enlightenment ....................................................................... 376
State, not status ................................................................................................. 376
Background ........................................................................................................ 379
Leader consciousness ........................................................................................ 383
State of a leader Vs Status of a leader .............................................................. 384
Decision making and stress ............................................................................... 387
Productivity ....................................................................................................... 389
Understanding from Eastern mysticism - impact of engrams on productivity .. 389
Freudian representation of the unconscious mind ............................................ 390
Impact of samskaras on intuition and innovation ............................................ 392

■ Intensity is the unfailing way 401
What is Intensity ........................................................................................ 401
The burning Intensity ................................................................................. 404
Becoming Vs Being .................................................................................. 405
‘Being’ is Intensity ..................................................................................... 406
Living intensely ......................................................................................... 407
Intensity is independent of the nature of the work .................................... 410
Interest Vs Intensity ................................................................................... 410
Be intense in whatever you do .................................................................... 412
Intensity and the four states of consciousness ............................................. 414
How to get enlightened? I want to…real bad and urgently .......................... 419
Living intensely ......................................................................................... 420
Intensity decides age ................................................................................. 422
Intensity prepares you for the ultimate ....................................................... 422
The deep spiritual experience .................................................................... 423
Ramana Maharishi’s death experience ........................................................ 425
The power of Intensity - Ramakrishna Paramahamsa ................................. 428
The Intensity of Buddha ............................................................................ 429
Intensity for my first spiritual experience ................................................... 430
Driven by Intensity .................................................................................... 433
Ask and you shall be given ........................................................................ 434
Intensity - the ultimate technique .............................................................. 434
Meditation technique to get Intensity ......................................................... 435
Meditation techniques to be intense .......................................................... 436

■ Innocence regained opens many doors to life 439
What is Innocence? .................................................................................... 439
Remain empty ........................................................................................... 444
Silence is the space of unlearning and learning ........................................... 450
Grasp with Innocence ................................................................................ 451

Be vulnerable ............................................................................................ 460
Surrender with trust ................................................................................... 464
Spirituality – the way to innocent obeisance ............................................... 470
Drop cunning-ness and become spontaneous ............................................... 473
Innocence, totality, maturity ...................................................................... 478

Matter, energy and beyond ........................................................................... 487
Quantum world ........................................................................................... 488
Matter is vibrating energy ............................................................................ 489
The world of infinite possibilities ................................................................. 489
The real nature ............................................................................................ 490
Perception of space-time ............................................................................. 494
Reality consists of eleven dimensions ........................................................... 498
Chaos is order - order is chaos ..................................................................... 499
Seer-seen-seeing ......................................................................................... 502
Collective Consciousness ............................................................................. 505

Global Peace – a byproduct of individual bliss ............................................ 517
Looking in ................................................................................................... 519
How to handle the suffering in the world ................................................... 520
How to get rid of suffering in the world ...................................................... 521
Increasing collective positivity to reduce chaos ............................................ 523
Studies of the effects of meditation on peace ................................................ 523
Global Peace meditation ............................................................................. 523
The unavoidable loving touch of enlightened beings ................................... 524
The Nithyananda Mission ............................................................................ 526
Meditation technique for Global Peace ........................................................ 526

Flow like a river ............................................................................................ 529
Sannyas is not renunciation .......................................................................... 531
Live in reality! ............................................................................................... 535
Samsar and Sannyas ..................................................................................... 539
Awaken to the freedom ................................................................................. 549
Namo Arihanta! .......................................................................................... 558
Integrity – the trait of a sannyasi! .................................................................... 560
Life is for enlightenment! ............................................................................. 565
Conditi-oning is the culprit ............................................................................ 567
Enjoy the transience! ..................................................................................... 572
Surrender, love, compassion, Sannyas ........................................................... 576
When Sannyas happens, the moment is right .................................................. 582
Recollections of a childhood friend of Nithyananda ...................................... 584
Real love doesn’t stand in the way ................................................................. 586

Why enlightened beings happen on planet earth .......................................... 589
Enlightenment is… ....................................................................................... 592
Living Enlightenment .................................................................................. 602
Ego Vs Enlightenment ................................................................................. 604
Before and after ............................................................................................ 605
Deep want, no qualifications ......................................................................... 605
Gradual Vs sudden techniques for Enlightenment ......................................... 608
Expression leads to experience ..................................................................... 609
A healthy body gives confidence for Enlightenment ...................................... 610
Enlightened society ...................................................................................... 611
The ultimate energy that can stand the test of time ......................................... 611
The greatest service to mankind - keeping the science of enlightenment alive
.................................................................................................................... 612
Top 10 Reasons to Get Enlightened ............................................................... 613