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Be un-clutched' is the experience, expression and the teaching of the enlightened Master, Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Paramahamsa states emotions and thoughts give birth to our mental set up and attitude. Understanding the play of emotions and thoughts is the first and final step towards moving beyond it. He declares that man by his very nature is an un-clutched and blissful Being.

What do we mean by the term un-clutched?

Every thought that arises in us is like a bubble that forms, rises and dies. Every thought independently rises and dies before the next thought comes up. For example, if you are sitting in a chair and suddenly get up, the moment you have decided to get up, that moment the thought of sitting has left you. If you are working on your computer and decide to shut down the machine, that moment, the thought that you want to work has died. Every thought is unconnected and happens in a series, one after the other. One thought has to die before the next one comes up. This is our true nature.

Like bubbles in a fish tank our thoughts too are separate, distinct and unconnected. When these bubbles slowly rise, one after the other, no connectivity is seen. It is clear that they are all independent bubbles. On the other hand, when the bubbles are rising very fast and are many in number, they project the illusion of being connected to one another. They appear to solidify into a pattern.

This process of allowing thoughts to rise and die without trying to connect them is what we mean by being un-clutched. As long as this natural process is allowed to happen, things are alright.

However, what we do is start connecting our thoughts randomly and forming a shaft. For example, the suffering, pain or depression that we had 10 years ago, 9 years ago, 8 years ago or 7 years ago are all independent and unconnected incidents. These experiences of emotional and physical pain happened for different reasons, in different situations, in different times and spaces. However, mentally, for our own personal reference and convenience we tend to archive all of these experiences of pain in one individual file. Next we start believing that these independent and unconnected experiences are actually connected. Therefore, we naturally come to the conclusion that our life was nothing but pain, suffering and depression. When we start believing that this shaft is a representation of our past, we expect that our future too will be similar. This very conditioning ultimately plays a major role in creating and designing our life.

By doing this, we convert the vertical and un-clutched process into a horizontal one with linear connectivity. Here starts the whole problem. All thoughts with like-energies (similarly associated energies) are collected, clutched and made into a shaft. For example, all painful memories when gathered together create a pain-shaft. Similarly, all pleasurable memories when clutched together create a pleasure-shaft. We must understand that both these shafts are an illusion. They do not exist. They are unconnected incidents that are sewn together. They never existed in that form. They are a creation of the mind, which by itself is a myth, an illusion. Therefore, we are living an illusion within an illusion.

As long as each thought is allowed to rise and die, we can take on any amount of load at the physical and mental planes and our consciousness will remain light and blissful. Once we start connecting the thoughts, our consciousness suffers and we start feeling burdened. It becomes damaging to our Being. The true nature of our mind is nothing but unconnected, illogical, independent and un-clutched thoughts. However, since the mind operates in time, we develop an illusion of the past and the future. We forget that all we actually have is the present moment, which is essentially timeless.

All emotions like worry, lust, discontentment, jealousy, fear, ego and attention-need are purely because we find a connection between independent incidents, between independent thoughts and create a concept for ourselves and start relating with that concept. We create an imaginary shaft with our thoughts and we suffer because of this.

It is these emotions that create all forms of violence be it religious wars, social conflicts or political unrest. The basis or the root of all forms of violence is our emotions and the basis of our emotions is our habit of creating imaginary shafts of our thoughts and empowering them to work on us.

The main thing we do while creating these shafts is, we choose the thoughts depending on whether we want pain or pleasure. We pick pleasant thoughts at random and connect them to form a shaft of pleasure or pick negative thoughts and connect them to form a shaft of pain. We create shafts of pain and pleasure alternately for ourselves and keep oscillating between these two emotions.

To un-clutch from this shaft, whether of

pain or pleasure is the master key to a blissful life.

If we deeply analyze how we connect our thoughts instead of renouncing them, we will understand how we create suffering for ourselves. It is the mind that finds the connection. As such, there is no connection between our thoughts.

We have been trained to feed on words and thoughts. That is why we create these shafts. We feed on words because we operate out of fear or greed all the time. Out of fear or greed, we create connectivity in our thoughts. We are afraid to let go of this process because if we let go, there is nothing else to hold on to. We have never experienced an un-clutched state of mind where there is no shaft; there are only bubble-like thoughts, each independent of the other.

In the un-clutched state, there is no scope for fear or greed. We will simply be, that's all. It is a dimension that we rarely experience because we are so used to clutching onto the familiar shaft of thoughts.

Here is a small story to illustrate this point...

An eye specialist was treating a blind man. He assured him, 'Once I operate on your eye, you will have your vision back and you can throw your stick away.' The blind man became afraid when he heard this. He asked the doctor, 'I understand that I will get my vision, but how I can walk without my stick?'

Be un-clutched

We fail to see how mythical the whole thing is. Our mind is a myth. We have empowered it and become a slave to it. It is nothing but mental slavery.

Connecting thoughts is the original sin. That moment of connecting is the fall from grace. It is at that time when spirit becomes solid matter; God becomes man;

cosmic space is reduced to individual ego.

Living in an un-clutched fashion is the only way to blissful living. Just decide that you will not connect any two thoughts, that you will not pass any judgment on any thought or any incident. The moment you find yourself connecting, simply un-clutch from it. Keep on un-clutching every time

you remember this technique; your mental setup will automatically be transformed.

When we work in an un-clutched fashion, we will find our capacity expanding; we can take on a lot more responsibility without getting stressed; we will not experience mood swings between pain and pleasure; we will be blissful all the time. We are so used to happiness that comes with a reason. This reason is again a shaft that we create with our thoughts. Once we stop creating these shafts, we will be blissful all the time. We will actualize our hidden potential and realize the ultimate truth; we are nothing less than God!

The term un-clutched, does not mean that we should be aloof and cold to people and situations around us. We just shouldn't connect our thoughts and start the process of creating shafts, that's all.

We should remember that we are beautiful and un-clutched Beings by nature; that is enough. We will stop creating misery for ourselves and for others.

When we are dwelling in the past, or focusing on the future we miss out on the present. If we observe our thoughts we can experience the deafening noise of our inner chatter. It becomes obvious that our thoughts are furiously oscillating between the past and the future. The speed at which they move is so fast that we fail to realize that there is a gap, however small, between the end of one thought and the beginning of another. That gap is the present moment. We never seem to pause, let alone remain in the present. What we need is a technique to reach this gap.

THE NITHYANANDA SUTRA: 'BE UN-CLUTCHED'