CHAPTER 2 - SAPTANGA YOGA🔗

Saptanga Yoga plays a major role and is the underlying thread in Nithya Yoga practice. What is Saptanga yoga? Saptanga yoga is a seven part system for enlightenment revealed by Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Saptanga Yoga is to be practised continuously, becoming the lifestyle. It is the basis for your thinking, logic, actions, interactions and methodology in teaching. Nithya Yoga acharyas teach from the space of awareness and consciousness, the space of completion, to enrich and cause the realities of the people around them.

All these seven parts are to be practised simultaneously. These seven are:

• Right listening to self and others

• Completion with self and others

• Integrity in one’s words, thoughts and actions to self and others

• Practice of authenticity

• Live with responsibility

• Enrich (constantly expanding) self and others

• Be the catalyst for people to manifest their reality

There are four powers or energies in life which are continuously available to you, and when unlocked are the keys to wealth, success and happiness. Unfortunately, you do not use them properly. When used consciously and with clear intention, they will shower you with everything you want as they are great energies. The four powers are:

• Power of Words (vak-shakti)

• Power of Thinking (mano-shakti)

• Power of Feeling (prema-shakti)

• Power of Living (atma-shakti)

These powers are related to the four major dimensions of life - words, thinking, feeling and living. The key to unlocking and enjoying these powers is to know more about you and to create the right inner space. These powers are described in the sections below.

Each of the four powers is guided by a spiritual principle called tattva. Each tattva is the key to unlock the corresponding power. The power of words will be unlocked when you practice integrity. The power of thoughts will be available when you practice authenticity. The power of feeling will be possible when you practice responsibility, and the power of living will be unlocked when you decide to enrich others.

Listening is an independent, intelligent technique which can directly lead you to the higher space and higher reality. Hearing and listening are different. In hearing, sound enters the ears, gets processed and creates different emotions. Right listening means that when sound enters your system, it gets absorbed into your system and leads you from sound to silence. The possibility for right listening happens greater in the presence of an enlightened master.

Listening is always connected to the ability to handle reality as it is, without creating your own unconscious ideas and conclusions. When there is no listening, you always come to a conclusion even before the information is fully cognized; this is commonly known as jumping to conclusions. That is why the very first step in Hindu spiritual practice is integrated listening – Shravana.

You never really listen either to yourself or others. When was the last time you really listened to yourself? When you start listening to yourself, there will be a growing awareness of the words you continually say to yourself and others. The right words start with YOU. You are the first person to hear the words you utter. Practice listening to yourself and you will be able to listen to others' words in their totality, without forming conclusions and judgements as you are listening.

In the beginning when you listen to yourself, do not believe everything that mind tells you; listen authentically. The first thing the mind does is to throw tantrums. It will cry, and then it will make you feel bored and then tired. Listen to all three. Only after that, you will know what the incompletions are that you are carrying. Listen authentically to everything that your mind says. Don’t pass any judgement as to whether it is right or wrong. Don’t believe and don’t disbelieve. Just listen! Listen even when you are talking, driving or sitting.

The science of completion is the essence of Yoga, Sankhya philosophy and Vedanta. Human beings reach their highest possibility only through completion. The science of completion will not only help you to experience life, it will teach you how to remain eternally blissful and in love with life!

Completion directly leads to liberation. It directly liberates you from karmas to experience the truth, the reality of life. All spiritual practices will have the component of completion. For example, completion is present in the Catholic confession, Hinduism's atma vichara and the self-introspection of Buddhism. The component of completion is present in every successful spiritual practice, regardless of the technique or religion.

A thought pattern is a pre-defined way of thinking and responding to any situation based on powerful past experiences like failure, rejection, being punished or being subjected to abuse. During these moments, you create an idea about yourself and life. For example speak these words internally, “I am weak. I am a failure. I am poor. Life is cruel and uncaring.” Thought patterns are many, but root thought patterns are few; they are the defining thought patterns which continuously run your life without your knowledge. Your bio-memory carries a heavy load of root thought patterns.

When faced with situations in life, you continue to respond to life based on these past thought patterns although they are based on inadequate beliefs or cognitions about yourself, others and life. Incompletions are anything from the past that hinders you from responding to life as it happens. They are the result of cognitions which you adopted in the past but which are inadequately controlling you even now.

When incompletions are relived again and again, they get strengthened and become your bio-memory and then become your Life. They resurface without your awareness when similar thoughts and situations arise. Incompletions will make you feel powerless, tired and bored. When you are driven by incompletions, you may have one dimension of success in life, but you will fail in life itself! Success in one dimension of life is not success!

Completion is a powerful process to awaken the inner most intelligence in you. Living in the space of completion means living and acting without carrying either your own, or others’ hangovers of past incidents, words, actions or emotions. It does not mean ignoring or forgetting your past. It means that the past incident or action does not have the power to cause pain, anger or guilt in you anymore. It will not put you in the space of feeling powerless. You will be in the space where you feel positive, powerful, energized and that everything is possible in life.

Here is a small story of how completion will give you the feeling that it is enough for you to live your whole life. There were two lovers who felt their love for each other was enough to live on and they did not care for anything else. They felt the space of completion with their love for each other. It is that space, and not the lover, which gives the feeling of completion. The lover's love is never enough as it will go away, disappear. If you are in love with someone, and also feel complete with that someone, be very clear, it is not the person who is causing your completion experience. Your space of completion is actually the reason why that person looks more colorful than color itself, and more beautiful than beauty itself.

If the space of completion is the driving force of your life, you will find solutions to your problems very easily; the solutions will simply happen! The space you create, and the ability to create the right space, is the true wealth. You are the embodiment of consciousness, and that consciousness is the universal energy that you use to create your own reality. The time you spend in completion makes your consciousness grow. That is the time you make new decisions to have breakthroughs in your life.

When you look at yourself in the mirror, how do you feel about yourself? Many times, you will feel that you are the number one enemy to yourself; you don't want to see yourself. When you can see yourself, you will feel connected to you, and you will feel completely settled in you. Start listening to yourself. Completion starts to happen when you are listening authentically. Listening becomes a part of your life when you start the completion process. One is connected to the other. Discover and intranalyze your incompletions, your patterns.

So, first, complete with yourself, then, complete with the other person as this is also required. When you complete with other people, you become matured. You will understand that other people cannot be changed. Only when you are complete with yourself, will the world around you change.

You can complete with your mental thought patterns, with your life and even with your body. You can complete with anything and everything. You can complete with your poverty consciousness patterns, you can complete with your ill-health patterns and you can complete with your addiction patterns. Completion is like a powerful key you can use to transform your life, and make it into what you want.

All the incompletions in you and in the world start with hatred and violence towards yourself and others. It is imperative to start completing with everything you hate or dislike outside of you. Only then, can you discover and overcome the self-hatred you carry inside. Hatred has zero justification, and needs to be completely eliminated from life. That will cause peace within the self, and ultimately, in the world. All completions on planet earth start with love for self and others.

Technique for continuous completion

Sit comfortably in front of the mirror. The mirror should be large enough to show the entire body or at least the entire face.

Maintain a deep eye to eye contact with your reflection. The moment you have this, the first thing you will have is tears. Allow it.

Sit in front of the mirror and say whatever you want to tell yourself. Spend time with you. Talk, talk, talk.

Now, try to identify the earliest memory that created this cognitive incompletion in you that formed the root pattern of your suffering.

Go back to the first few situations in life where you experienced conflict. This situation would have typically happened between the third and fifth year of your life. Relive that situation and the emotion that came with it.

If tears or anger comes, allow it and relive it.

When you stand face to face with your past and relive it with awareness, the pain and the anger disappears. When the anger disappears, you will only feel love.

Completion will not come if you just work on that root pattern. Every incident which stems from that root pattern must also be completed.

Technique for spontaneous completion

Completion does not mean blindly accepting everything that happens in your life. It simply means not resisting life as it happens.

The root of all incompletions is this idea we carry - “Life should not be this way”.

We spend our whole life asking, “Why, Why, Why? Why is life so bad? Why did this happen to me? Why do bad things happen to good people?”

Spontaneous completion or instant completion means simply dropping the wrong understanding that is creating conflict for you in a particular situation.

It is possible! Don’t ask, “Why is life this way?” Instead, decide that this is life. So, what next? Do I want to accept it and move on? Do I want to reject it and move on? Or, do I change it to the way I want? The solution from completion is - accept, reject or change.

Whatever decision you make from this cognition will be right for you. When you act out of completion, you are empowered to resolve any conflict that happens inside or outside you.

When you relive past memories again and again during the process of completion, they will lose their power over you. You regain the ability to live spontaneously and stress free. You start living in integrity, harnessing the power of words. You become a single, unified being - your inner space, body and mind come under your control.

Once you complete with the root pattern, you will truly experience the state of yoga described by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras: yogaha citta vritti nirodhah. Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains it as: "Yoga is the spontaneous disappearance of mind patterns - the space of completion".

Whether you realize it or not, your life is built on your words and commitments. The strength of your life is based on the words you give to yourself and to others. If your words are conscious, your life will be conscious. If your words are unconscious, your life will be unconscious. That is why integrity forms the basis of your life. It is part of your very life energy.

Integrity is a spiritual truth, a tattva. It is not an ethic or moral value. Integrity has two dimensions – honoring the word you give yourself and honoring the word you give to others. Integrity is you fulfilling the words and thoughts you give to yourself and others. Integrity is not just about the big commitments we make in life. It is also something as simple as making the commitment to you to do yoga every morning at 5 o'clock.

Many times, you forget the commitments you make to yourself or to others because of the unconscious use of words; saying without thinking. When you do not keep commitments, they will create a “hangover” in you or in the other person that can destroy your self-confidence and the other person’s confidence in you.

When you honor the words you give to yourself, your self-confidence grows. Your self-doubts start to melt away. When you honor the words you give to others, their confidence in you grows. Your relationship with that person becomes strengthened and powerful.

Always use words consciously, with awareness, as it will help you understand the impact of the words on yourself and others. The right words can immediately change the way you think about yourself and others. The right words can also keep your inner space conflict free and peaceful. By creating and expressing the right words, you can actually shape the reality as you choose. You can make or break your life with your words. The words you utter are YOU.

Do your very best to keep your commitments to yourself and others. If you find that you still cannot keep it, complete with yourself and inform the other person that you cannot keep the commitment. Either fulfil or complete! Completion is also integrity.

Taking responsibility for your words is practicing right dharma, right living. “Do not do unto others, that which would cause pain if done unto you (from Hindu epic Mahabharata)”. This is dharma. Remember dharma and ask yourself, will these words cause pain to me or the other person? Always be aware of the power and impact of the words you utter to yourself and to others.

Patanjali says, “The first step of yoga is reduction of speech”. Swami Nithyananda explains - to achieve the reduction of speech, reduction of thoughts needs to happen. For reduction of thoughts to happen, integrity must be lived. This will naturally lead to a reduction in thoughts, not just to oneself, but in speech to others. For integrity to become part of you, you must go on sharing this truth with others. You will find yourself practising and living what you share and teach to others.

To strengthen your decision to be integrated and complete, declare the decision to do so. Whenever you declare, it helps gather your scattered energies and focus them towards making your declaration a reality through responsible actions.

When you continuously, and consciously align your words and actions, your words become powerful. You will have the spontaneous intelligence to use the right words and the most effective words in life. You unlock the Power of Words. You achieve Vak Shakti or Vak Siddhi, the power to make anything you say into a reality. This is the ultimate experience of the Power of Words.

Authenticity is fine tuning your thinking and actions and living them to your peak capability in these four dimensions of you - the image you hold about yourself, the image you want to portray to others, the image you have about others, and the image others have about you.

You can control your mind in the same way you can control your body movements. Your thinking makes or breaks you. Thinking is not accidental. It happens with your voluntary involvement. Your thinking process is encouraged, entertained and enriched by you. Unfortunately, you believe that thinking is accidental and you cannot control the mind.

You don’t have just one identity as you imagine. You have four dimensions, four identities. All these four dimensions put together is your personality. You carry them inside you at all times and you are responsible for all these identities.

The first identity is mamakara or inner image. It is the inner image and experience you carry about yourself, for example, I am healthy, I am ugly, I am intelligent, I cannot tolerate hard work, I love people, etc. You carry many such inner ideas about yourself. Unfortunately, the idea you carry about you is always less than what you project yourself to be.

The second identity is ahamkara or outer image. This is how you project yourself to others. You try to project yourself as powerful, talented, honest, helpful, or whatever. Unfortunately, what you project is always far more than what you believe yourself to be.

The third identity you carry is the image or expectations that others have about you. This is called anyakara or others image about you. How others perceive you may be different from how you project yourself to them, because people create their opinion about you from the subtle signals you give them, rather than what you openly project. Human beings are intelligent enough to catch even what you don’t say, or especially what you don’t say.

The fourth identity is very subtle, because you will feel it is not directly related to you. It is called swa- anyakara or Life Image. Life image is what you experience and perceive about Life. You may feel Life is lonely, Life is complicated, Life is sacred, Life is scary, or Life is always showering me with everything I need. This is also your identity because it defines the exact experience you will be receiving from the people and situations in your life.

Authenticity means living at your peak in each of these dimensions.

A thought pattern is a pre-defined way of responding to any situation based on a powerful past experience like failure, rejection, being punished, being subjected to abuse or witnessing the death of a loved one. During these moments of crisis, you create an idea about yourself and life – like, I am weak, or I am a failure, or nobody loves me, or life is dangerous, so I have to be very careful. Almost all root thought patterns are negative, even the ones which may lead to success in your life, because they are born out of your feeling of powerlessness.

Some common root thought patterns are –

• I am a failure

• Nobody loves me

• I am alone

• I am ugly

• Life is out there to cheat me

• I am weak and unhealthy

• I am powerless so I have to please everybody

• Life is hard, so I have to be extra smart

• Life is too big for me to understand.

All these thought patterns are based on inadequate cognitions, because life is different every moment, and you need to respond to it spontaneously. Right now, you are nothing but a bunch of programmed actions and patterns that never let you contact life and respond to it as it happens. Rather, you respond based on your past thought patterns.

You may have many thought patterns, but a root thought pattern is one of the few defining thought patterns that continuously run your life without your knowledge.

Even the conflicts among your identities are nothing but the result of your root thought patterns. If you have a certain idea about yourself inside, but you project a different personality outside, that is inauthenticity.

All your impossibilities are the projections of your past into the future. You keep saying, 'Nothing new is possible! It is all going to be the repetition of the old.' What does this mean? You just denied yourself the possibility of life! For every decision you make for your future from the past pattern, you deny that component of life for yourself once for all. If you think creating wealth is difficult based on some of your past failures, you have denied the possibility of wealth for you. If you think health is not possible for you in the future due to your past diseases, you have denied the greatest possibility of health in your life.

If you look deep inside, you will see that all your problems arise from conflicts among your four identities. When any of your dimensions is out of alignment with the others, it causes disease, suffering and incompletion in your life.

All these identities you carry are actually thought patterns that you carry about you. Even, others image about you is an idea that you have created in them. So, you are the creator of all your identities!

When one identity is fighting with another, how can your thinking be focussed? All your energy is going to be used in reconciling with your fighting identities. When all your identities or images are in tune, all your thinking will be aligned in one direction. Your thinking becomes clear and sharp like a laser beam. You will awaken the power of thinking. There will be no more space for unconscious living, thinking and living, because you will always be aware of the causes and effects that are playing in your life.

Your thinking goes hand-in-hand with the way you want to build yourself. These four dimensions of your thinking need to be completely purified and aligned. Look inside and identify the images that you carry about yourself. You can then re-write what you feel will be the peak possibility, the best qualities you can possess, in each of these four images. Let your thinking be aligned to your peak inner image, peak outer image, peak others image and peak Life image.

Usually your inner image will be lower than the image you project to others. It means that the higher identity is already there in your visualization space, in your thinking space. You already have the capacity to make that into reality.

Take a piece of paper and make 3 columns – inner image, outer image and chosen image. Make a list of your top ten inner and outer images in the appropriate column.

Then, compare what you have noted down. If the belief in both inner and outer image is the same, ignore that point and move on to the next. If there is a conflict, start tuning your inner image and outer image by always choosing the higher idea. If you perceive yourself as weak, friendly in your inner image but strong and friendly in outer image, choose and write strong and friendly under the chosen column. Don’t reduce what you project to others but increase what you perceive yourself to be.

Repeat for each of the 10 points and then compare both identities. Whatever qualities are best in both, choose those. If there are some great qualities in your inner image, you need to raise your outer image to match that. If there are some great qualities in your outer image, you need to raise your inner image to match what you project. Use this exercise continuously to tune yourself to your peak possibility.

Authenticity in thinking has two steps. First, find out what you REALLY want in your life by sincerely contemplating on what you want your four dimensions to be. Make a list of your best inner image, outer image, others image, and life image and place it by your bedside, office desk or any place where you can see it as soon as you wake up and all day. Then, find out what are the obstacles that stop you or distract you from achieving what you want to be, who you want to be, how you want to be.

One of the biggest obstacles for most people is self-doubt, which is a negative thought pattern that happens because of the memory of past failures. Drop your fantasies about failure. Write down all the self-doubts and consciously and decisively, complete with the self-doubts. The other two obstacles are self-hatred and self-denial. All three are known as SDHD for short. Complete with them.

Whatever the thought trend is in alignment with your peak possibility, encourage it, enrich it and entertain it. Whatever the thought trend is that is not in alignment, complete with it. Consciously, decisively, complete with that pattern. Go on completing every day with those patterns which are stopping you from achieving your peak possibility.

When you start living in authenticity, you know the right way of thinking and will use the right way of thinking to achieve what you want in Life. In Hindu spiritual practice, this is called manana, authentic thinking. When you have a powerful clarity in your thoughts that makes whatever you think into a success, you have unlocked the Power of Thinking. Let your thinking be established in authenticity, continuously expanding you towards your peak possibility.

Responsibility means living and responding to life from the truth that you are the source of, and therefore, responsible for all happenings in and around you. The Power of Feeling is nothing but your ability to realize yourself as the source of all the happenings in your life. This understanding gives you tremendous control over your own life and gives you the power to be a positive influence in the life of others.

A person who does not feel responsible for even his own actions lives like an animal – he lives a very low level of consciousness. A person who feels responsible only for his own actions, is a human being – he lives in middle–level consciousness. A person who takes responsibility for others’ actions is divine – he lives in leadership consciousness.

So, how can I be responsible for everything happening around me? How can I be held responsible for what is happening outside me? If an accident happens in my life, how can I be responsible? Everybody asks this question.

There is an important difference between being the cause of something and being responsible for it! Sometimes, you may not be the reason for a certain happening, but if it is affecting your life, you ARE responsible for that happening. For example, you may not be the cause of political corruption in your country, but as a citizen of the country, you ARE responsible for it. You may not be the reason, as per your logic, but that doesn’t mean that you are not responsible in truth.

You need to know that unless you take responsibility, you are neither going to improve the situation, nor are you going to expand your inner space. “I am responsible for myself, other people, the world, Life”.

You always believe that you are suffocated by your smallness. It is the opposite. You are suffocated by your bigness. Whenever bigness is demanded of you, whenever you feel you are being forced to expand, you shrink even further into your comfort zone. Your tiredness, weakness, powerlessness is nothing but the resistance you have to seeing your own bigness.

That is why, when someone tells you that you are weak, poor and a sinner, it is so easy to accept it. But, when someone tells you that you are divine, powerful, and complete, your whole identity starts trembling with fear!

Life always demands expansion, because expansion is the natural law of life. That is why you carry such a deep fear of life, especially life in the form of other people – because people are the living expressions of Life. The more you engage with Life, the greater the expansion that will be demanded of you.

Whenever you are feeling weak, tired, or powerlessness, the first thing you should do is, immediately taken on ten responsibilities and commit to fulfil them within a certain time. Shake your inner space so powerfully with that commitment that there will be no way for weakness and tiredness to grow inside you.

The moment you hear that you are responsible for everything happening around you, you think, “If I feel responsible for all the garbage in the streets, I will be stuck cleaning it up the whole day! I will not be able to do anything else”. That is a wrong understanding of responsibility. It does not mean that you will need to clean them yourself, nor does it mean you will not clean them yourself. Anything can happen. What is of important here is you not being afraid to dive into the feeling of responsibility just because of your imaginary complications. Don’t stop yourself from feeling it at all. Complete with those imaginary complications. Take a little time to let this feeling sink inside you and sync with your actions. Then, responsibility will become energy.

We always feel responsibility is a burden. No, that is wrong! It is a power. Responsibility directly leads you into leadership consciousness. As long as you feel responsible only for your family, you are head of just your family. When you feel responsible for the community, you become leader of the community. As your feeling of responsibility expands, your leadership quality also expands. The decision to feel responsible for the whole Cosmos is enlightenment.

Feeling responsible for the Whole, and declaring to live by your feeling is a declaration of being responsible, known in Hindu spiritual practice as nidhidhyasana. The declaration of being responsible unlocks the Power of Feeling in you.

You can feel anything as joy or as pain – it is your freedom of choice. Even the greatest achievements can bring pain to you and even the worst of experiences can be a joyful experience. You have the ability to decide how you want to feel.

Whenever you feel empowered, you are joyful. Whenever you feel powerless, you experience suffering. All your sufferings – pain, anger, guilt, fear, jealousy, and frustration, is nothing but powerlessness expressing in different ways. When you feel responsible for everything that happens in your life, you will feel that everything is joyful because nothing can make you powerless. Empower yourself with responsibility and your will unlock the Power of Feeling.

• Always act from a space of power and completion. • Start focusing on the solution and not the problem. • Expand your inner space and open up new possibilities. • Gain a high degree of control over your life and raise yourself to the next level of success. • Evolve into a new being.

Every day you are walking, talking, thinking, and feeling and so on. All these put together is living. Living itself is a power. You can harness the power of living in you when you adopt the lifestyle of enriching.

Enriching is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity, committing to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and life in and around you.

When you are committed to enriching yourself and others around you, Life showers you with the best of everything. You not only experience Life within you, but also with others. The power of Living is awakened in you when you enrich yourself and others,

All your struggles in life begins the moment you start thinking that others are separate from you. There is no one called “other” in life. The “other” is only the forgotten and disowned parts of you. Your struggles with others are nothing but your struggle with the forgotten side of you. When you enrich others, you are naturally enriching the neglected side of your own being. The more you enrich others, the more you enrich yourself. Above all, you wake up to the truth that everyone and everything is part of you.

With integrity, you experience the space of positivity; with authenticity, you experience the space of possibility; and with responsibility, you experience the space of leadership. With enriching, you experience the space of enlightenment itself. Enlightened living is nothing but harnessing all your inner powers and using them to enrich yourself and others. So the power of Living includes all the other powers in itself.

If you have integrated listening (shravana), authentic thinking (manana), and made a declaration of responsibility (nididhyasana), you are living an enriching lifestyle. Enriching alone can burn any lack of integrity, inauthenticity or irresponsibility in you. It is taking responsibility for everyone and everything, including others inauthenticity and lack of integrity, because they are a part of you.

You do not live in a desolate cave or forest. You live with people. For any transformation that you want in your life, you have to work and transform others’ lives as well. Otherwise, you may raise yourself to a very high level of joy and bliss, but the moment you come back to your house, your spouse can bring you down in less than ten minutes. Only when you enrich others, can your life go through any transformation.

Taking responsibility for others does not mean that you will accept everyone’s non-integrity or inauthenticity, and take the blame for it. It means that you will commit to inspire and empower everyone to experience the four inner powers of life.

Having makes you naturally responsible for sharing. A person with power is responsible for making powerless people become powerful. If you are wealthy, you become responsible for making the poor wealthy. It is not distributing your wealth to these poor people but taking responsibility for educating them and making them wealthy. You become responsible for sharing anything you own and making it grow.

Enriching is your very nature. Whatever you do is enriching others. Even your very breath is enriching the plants on planet Earth.

Enriching others enriches you as everyone is part of you.

The moment you convince your heart that life is for others, all the suffering in your heart leaves you.

Enriching others to live at their peak possibility is the ultimate way you can enrich them.

Do not give up on yourself and people. If you turn our back on people, you are not living dharma because when you give up on others, you have also given up on yourself. When you are frustrated with others' failure, it is nothing but your frustration towards your own failures. If you turn your back on people, you are not living dharma because you have also given up on yourself.

Write down the first time you felt that you were exploited by life and had only you to take care of yourself.

Complete powerfully with that root thought pattern which is making you feel separate from others.

For the next 48 hours, see everything and everybody you meet as extensions of yourself and serve them joyfully out of a space of completion

Become the kalpataru tree, the boon giving tree when you create and cause your reality as well as be the cause for other's reality. When you become a catalyst for others to create their reality, you will experience expanded energy, intelligence, and others actually will cause your reality. The Cosmos will shower you with so many blessings! There are many ways you can be the cause for other's reality, for example sharing a meal, donating money or time, teaching others the spiritual truths, or building a temple. Be a sincere catalyst and experience the Cosmic energy and joy flowing in your life.

Many times, whenever you want to cause your reality, manifest your desires, you will hear self-sabotaging thoughts like - this is too good, it will not happen to me, it is too much for me, I will not have the energy for it. These thoughts will prevent you from causing your reality - they are incompletions. These thoughts are called SDHD - self-doubt, self-denial and self-hatred; they are cognitions from your past. Complete with them; drop these inadequate cognitions.

When you realize the gap between your inner and outer image (how you see yourself and how you project yourself), you create self-doubt. After that, because you still continue to play this drama, you start hating yourself. Soon after your desire to retire, your desire to withdraw from people is born, that is the self-denial pattern in you. This is how SDHD is born.

When you have self-doubt, you will constantly doubt your spouse. When you have self-hatred, you will constantly hate others. Whatever is inside you, that only is outside you, and whatever is outside you, the same only is inside. All relationships are just extensions of you. Relationships, not only mean people, but also money, wealth, health, everything.

Acharya means the one who practices and lives what he or she teaches.

Yoga is not simply information that the teacher carries and disseminates, information that is left in the classroom or studio at the end of the workday. What is being taught in Nithya Yoga is a state of being, a way of living. A teacher can lead the student only as far as he himself has gone. He can point a light only into places that he himself has been willing to go. He can empathize with the student's personal quest, and the issues that may arise during that quest, only because he himself has embarked on such a journey. For this reason, it is difficult to separate the professional life from the personal life of the yoga teacher. So, first and foremost, a great yoga acharya should be an example of how life should be lived, regardless of the style, school, or tradition from which the yoga practice originated.

In the field of yoga and inner sciences, your integrity and authenticity to be an empty channel for cosmic energy makes you an acharya. It is not how many books you have read, or how many hours of training you have taken.

A Nithya Yoga acharya is one who practices the science of completion and Saptanga Yoga. Only then will he radiate the space of high consciousness and awareness, be able to enrich people around him and be the cause for people to cause their reality.

A small story:

Once, a lady went to the doctor's office with her son who ate too many sweets. She asked the doctor,

"Please tell my son to stop eating all these candies!"

The doctor replied: "Come back in a week."

One week later, the mother came back, and this time, the doctor sat with the son and told him: "Stop eating candies, it will ruin your health."

The mom was surprised. She asked the doctor: "Why didn't you tell him that a week ago?"

The doctor said: "A week ago, I was also struggling with my habit. Now that I quit, I'm able to tell him to stop!"

An acharya shares his experience. That is why, when an acharya leads a class, his words come spontaneously from his inner experience. When an acharya tells you to inhale bliss and exhale bliss, he is also experiencing that space, and takes you to the same experience. At the beginning of a class, when the acharya tells you to drop any incompletion and be complete, he is also doing the same. When the acharya takes you into the deeper space of meditation, and tells you "be-unclutched", he is also experiencing and radiating it.