How to get the best out of attending the NSP🔗

Many people tell me after the NSP that they feel they have emerged as new beings, they feel it is like a new birth. Of course, you will realize at the end of the program that it truly is a new birth. That is why you have a choice to take a new name, a spiritual name.

At the end of the NSP, you have a choice to get your spiritual name. The new name which I gave, this spiritual name is like constantly reminding you to mother the psychological revolution which has happened in you. The new life, new understanding which happened in you, you constantly mother that. Constantly you remember it. That is why the new name. When a psychological revolution happen inside you, again and again if you remember the old name you go back to the old identity.

When somebody calls out, ‘John’ or ‘Jill’, immediately, unconsciously, the attention of John or Jill is drawn and the person looks for who is calling him or her. This is how deeply our name has been embedded in our unconscious. Your name can be a powerful technique for realizing yourself.

Another important thing is whenever somebody calls out your name, you suddenly become conscious and aware of yourself. You must have experienced a situation like you are sitting in a big classroom and suddenly, the teacher calls out your name for some reason. Whether you were dozing off or listening to the teacher, you will break from that thought pattern and you will be jolted to the present place and time.

A name has a tremendous influence over our state of mind. The spiritual name indicates the spiritual path of the individual according to its innate nature, which will lead to the ultimate flowering of the individual and actualization of its potential.

When we call out the person’s name, this name, this path is constantly repeated and it enters into the very core of his or her being.

If you have the right spiritual name given by an enlightened being, that name will take you to the direct conscious depth. It will connect your mind and consciousness. It will be like a bridge for you to enter into enlightenment. It’ll tell your path towards enlightenment. It’ll tell how your way of life should be, how you can achieve enlightenment, how you should take care of your life.

There are thousands of ways to live. To give you the guidance, masters choose the name. Your name is like a mantra.

Let me give the definition of engram, samskara or mantra. Any word which is inscribed in your inner space which binds you, which suffocates you, which brings you down in your consciousness is samskara, engram.

Any word which is inscribed in your inner space, which liberates you, which takes you to a higher consciousness, which takes you to the more joyful, blissful state is mantra.

Mantra and samskara both are almost the same, but samskara binds you. Mantra liberates you. Mantra is the antidote for samskara. If you are named by an unconscious person, your name is a bondage.

If you are named by an enlightened being, your name is a method to liberate you. Your very name can be used as a technique to enlightenment.

You see, if at all your name can be used, that's the best thing, because the whole day from morning 'til night, either you will be using towards you or somebody will be using that name towards you. Then understand, every moment becomes a spiritual practice. If the right word from a right enlightened master is given to you as a technique, as a name, every time it is repeated you are entering into the higher consciousness. Every time you remember the meaning of it, you are in a different plane.

People come and tell me, 'The spiritual name you gave, the name itself is so beautiful. Whenever I remember that name, I am fulfilled. Whenever I remember that name with the meaning, whenever I meditate on that name, the meaning, I am just overflowing.' The name can take you to the deepest level.

One more thing, any other word is only addition to you, but your name is the center of you. Your name is the center, everything else is addition. That is why in the Vedic tradition we use only some god's name. That is why we have, for every god, 1008 names, sahasranama. Sahasranama is used for two different purposes. One, to address the gods, deities; another one, to pick up names for your kids. Our elders will try to find the name. First thing they will reference sahasranama. They will see your family deity and your nakshatra and the letter and they will reference sahasranama to find out the right name. The names is so powerful, it can take you beyond the mind.

The NSP has a complete healing effect on the physical, mental and spiritual levels. People come and ask me how I do the healing through the meditation. Please understand: I do not heal. It is my presence that heals. When the sun rises, the lotus blooms by itself. The sun need not go and open the petals of the lotus. Similarly, in the presence of the master, healing happens. Be very clear that healing is not done; it happens.

I can heal your body as it is in my presence. In the same way, if you open your mind, it can be healed. In the NSP, that's what we do, opening of minds. You are asked to write for yourself about yourself, about your pains, desires, guilt and pleasures and you are not going to show these to anyone else.

People ask me why I ask people in the NSP program to write all this. Understand that you are not going to show what you write to me or anyone else. People also ask me, 'When I know all this, why I should write it down?' I tell you, by writing it all down you are opening your mind in my presence. You are opening your mind and hence I can heal your mind. If you open it, the sun can heal it. The energy heals all the wounds.

NSP is opening up your energy layers one by one. Your pains, pleasures, guilt and desires are opened up. When these open up, you experience God; not only do you search for God but experience God, since a pure mind is God itself and not something separate.

There are seven layers of bodies. There are seven major elements in the body layers. You need to understand three things. First, thing, because of these body layers you are not relating with the reality, as it is.

All the mystics always say, 'World is god. God is everything. Whatever you see is God. Everything is God.' But we don't think everything we see is God. We always see everything as evil. We always think everyone is trying to exploit us. Everyone is trying to enter into our territory. Everyone is trying to disturb us. So what the mystics say is one thing, what you feel is totally different thing. Why do we feel in this way? Because we are not able to relate with the reality as it is.

First thing you need to understand, because you are not using these layers, they become just cancer. Whenever something is not becoming part of your being, part of your body, it becomes a separate growth. So if it does not become part of you, it naturally becomes a cancer.

Unless otherwise you express, you start living these layers; you will never have the satisfaction that you lived. Because if the major portion of your life is unlived, you will not have the satisfaction in your life - not only the spiritual life, but also the ordinary world.

One more thing, we will be working with so many techniques, related to imagination, you will be asked to visualize some things. We have a very deep disrespect for visualization. We always think, oh my imagination, what can I achieve? By visualization, what can I achieve? Understand, your whole life is nothing but visualization.

The whole life is nothing but the imagination. Its like one thorn is removed by another thorn. If one thorn enters your leg, you take another thorn and remove it, with the help of this thorn. Same way, you have so many imaginations which have entered in you, without your knowledge, without your consciousness. Same way now, the conscious imaginations are going to enter into you, to do the process, to do the work. So whenever meditation instructions are given, just put your total energy into it.

See, the person who creates a formula, to re-create the experience of the outer world is a scientist. For example, Newton created the law of gravity. He had some experience. When he saw the apple falling from the tree, he had some experience. So, he created the formula to reproduce the same understanding in others.

A person who creates a formula to understand the experiences of the outer world or the things of the outer world is a scientist. A man who creates a formula to reproduce the experiences of the inner world is a Master. Person who creates a formula to reproduce the things of the outer world is a scientist. Person who creates a formula to reproduce the inner world experiences is a Master. This whole program is a formula created by Nithyananda to reproduce the experiences which happened in the inner world. So, we will see how this experience happened and how this formula happened.

First, we will see how this experience happened in Paramahamsa, and second, how this formula will reproduce the same thing in you. Unless we understand these things clearly we will not be able to work.

The whole motivation for the NSP came out of two incidents in Paramahamsa's life.

The first one happened before enlightenment and He describes it as: ‘It was around 1999, I was in Varanasi – Kasi. There was an elderly sannyasi – a very old sannyasi. He was suffering with cancer. He was in the hospital, in the ICU.

I had the great opportunity to take care of him. He was a great sannyasi, but not an enlightened person - a great tapasvi. Everyday I used to bring food for him and take care of his needs and stay in the hospital.

One day, the person in the third bed was slowly passing away, he was dying. I was staying in the ICU, he was dying. Doctors were standing around him, they were trying to help their best, but they were not able to do anything.

Even though I was not enlightened at that time, he had one of the most wonderful spiritual experiences, a beautiful experience, his own death experience. Because of that, he was able to see what was happening to him.

Slowly, the patient started suffering and struggling. First, he started suffering tremendous pain in the body. His face started showing the pain. Next, he became breathless. He started inhaling and exhaling seriously.

Then I was able to see very clearly, the pain and the agony, the suffering. It was like one thousand scorpions biting him. One thousand scorpions biting him at a time, and his whole consciousness was getting torn. For example, if we cut our finger with a blade half an inch, how much of pain do we experience? How much of pain do we suffer? It is like the six-feet body is being cut into pieces.

I was able to experience the pain, the agony, the feeling which he was undergoing. Of course, slowly, slowly, slowly, he started moving away from the physical body.

Even though it is a little difficult to receive logically, even though it is little difficult to understand intellectually, this is what happened. It is like a formula: X x 2 = 4. To understand the formula, to understand how to solve it, first we assume. First we assume that X = 2. Let us replace 2 in the place of X. Then we understand: 2 x 2 is 4. Once the answer is right, now we know X is 2. Till the calculation is done, we have to have a little patience. But when I say, let us assume X = 2, immediately if we start raising the question, ‘No, why not 3? Why not 1? Why not 4?’ we will not be able to proceed. Just see the result. When the formula is working out, naturally we will know that X = 2.

Even if we understand it as a hypothesis, that is enough. In the end of the calculation we will be able to understand how this whole thing happens.

I was able to see and experience the tremendous pain and agony of that being. It is almost excruciating, such a deep suffering. The being started moving from the physical body, then to the pranic layer, the second layer body. Pranic layer means our breathing energy.

All these 7 bodies are seven energies, energy layers of our being. When the being started moving towards the pranic layer, again a deep suffering! Our prana shareera is filled with all the desires. Our breathing and our desires are very closely related. If we change our breathing, our desires can be changed. If we change our breathing, our desires can change. Our desires and breathing are very closely related. When the energy was moving into the pranic layer all the desires of the being started coming up. The being started suffering with all the unfulfilled desires.

Then when the being started moving towards the next level body, all the guilt started rising- ‘Oh! I should have lived in that way, I should have lived in this way.’ Anyhow, slowly, the being moved layer by layer and died. I saw the whole death. How the death is happening, the whole process I was able to see. But I was not able to help, of course. I was not an enlightened man at that time; I was not able to help. Just I saw the suffering. But, the pain created in me, just seeing the suffering itself was too much. I started feeling the pain; if we see an accident on the road, what will happen? Will we be able to eat for the next two days? If we see an accident on the road, will we be able to eat? No! We will not be able to eat for the next two days. It was the same. It is almost the same. And even in an accident we see only one body. Somehow I was able to see all the 7 layers, all the 7 bodies. What will happen to the suffering? It was so deeply engraved. It was recorded in my being so deeply. I was not able to eat or sleep for the next 3-4 days. It was suffering. Anyhow, after a few days, I Ieft Varanasi and went away. After about a year I continued with tapas and became enlightened. Then he came to South. He stayed there for 1-2 years. After that, maybe 2 years ago, again, once more he had the opportunity to see another death.

I saw the second death in another ICU - Intensive Care Unit. This second person did not suffer though when he passed away. I started analyzing, ‘Why did the first person suffer and why did the second person not suffer?’ After analyzing or meditating on that issue, something came up - as a formula it happened to me. That whole formula itself is this whole program of NSP.

I was seeing the first death in Varanasi, that was so painful; there is no other word to explain about it. It was so painful even to see, I was not able to digest the scene for the next 3-4 days. When I saw the second death, at that time I was enlightened. I saw slowly the life moving from that person.

I went to the hospital to heal one of our devotees. At the ICU I was healing our devotee. Again the next bed person was dying. I was able to see what was happening.

This time I saw, neither the person had pain nor he had suffering. Beautifully he was moving, from the first body to the second layer, second layer to third layer, third layer to fourth layer. Like how a ball rolls in the snow, just like that his being was moving. He was surprised. Suddenly his being slowly moved and just disappeared. He became enlightened. He was liberated.

He started thinking, ‘Why did the first person suffer so much while the second person did not have anything?’ He enquired with his relatives, ‘Was he a spiritual person?’ First he thought that he must be a great spiritual person. He must have meditated a lot. But the relatives said, ‘Meditation? Why? He would not even go to the temple. He was not even religious.’ Then I started contemplating, ‘Why did the first person suffer so much while the second person had such a beautiful and peaceful death?’

There is a beautiful website on near-death experiences. An American doctor did a research. He did an experiment. He started meeting people who had near death experiences. Near death means who are clinically declared dead and who come back to life after 3-4 hours. There are so many such cases. In our Indian villages there will always be 4-5 cases. If we go to our native village, always we will hear 3-4 cases like this.

The other day a doctor was telling me, ‘There are so many cases who are medically declared dead, who come back to life after 4-5 hours.’ In some person’s life, it happens 3-4 times; they come back to life. This doctor somehow got interested in this subject and he started going all over the world meeting these types of persons, who are medically declared dead and who came back to life. He met 10,000 people. He went all over the world. 30 years he did research. 10,000 people he met and collected all their memories, all their experiences, memories of how they had their death experience.

After analyzing all their experiences, he makes a conclusion. He makes a statement, a beautiful statement. People on the planet earth, only when they live they are Christians, they are Muslims, they are Hindus, they are Jews, they are Buddhists. But when they die, all of them die in the way that is described by Hinduism. We maybe a Hindu, Muslim, Jew or Christian, but when we die we are a Vedanti.

In the Kathopanishad, there is a clear description of death. And he says, in all these 10,000 people’s experiences which he collected, everybody’s experience matches exactly with what Kathopanishad describes.

Let us see exactly how death happens. First we move from the physical body. You may be thinking, ‘I came to learn how to live but Master is teaching all about death!’ But unless we understand the mysteries of death, we will not have a clear idea about life. Our concept about death totally changes our concept about life. Our philosophy about life changes when our philosophy about death changes.

See, in the East, nobody cares for time. Things will happen in their own way, things take their own sweet time. Why? Because all the eastern religions believe in many births. We have eternity in our hands! If not today, tomorrow. If it is not coming today, tomorrow, otherwise, next janma!

All western religions say only about one birth. They say, after death, we don’t have any birth. That is why, western people are so time conscious. Whatever has to be enjoyed has to be enjoyed in these 70-80 years. Nothing else can be done. We have to finish it. That is why their life style, everything is catered around this time consciousness.

The idea of death changes the whole idea of life. So, never think learning about death is a waste. That is the basic lesson everyone has to learn. First a person moves from the physical layer, means this body which we are having, to the pranic layer, which involves inhaling and exhaling, the energy or the air movement, the prana movement inside our system.

When we move from first layer to second layer, all our desires, the desires, the unfulfilled desires, the way we wanted to live but did not live, all those things usually come up. It is almost like in a room 10 persons are standing and like a football, all the 10 people are kicking. What will happen? How the football is kicked from this corner to that corner, that corner to that corner and back from that corner to here. Same way, our consciousness is kicked from all the corners. It moves from all the corners because in each corner some desire is standing and kicking. All our desires are forcing us to enter into the body so that we can enjoy them.

Our desires will be forcing us one side to enter into the body so that we can live and enjoy. The other side, the body will say ‘No! I am tired. I can’t host you anymore; leave!’ One side, the body will tell, ‘I am tired; I can’t host you.’ The other side, the pranic layer, the desires, will force us to live inside the body. That is what is the pulling and pushing. Pulling and pushing is nothing but the fight between the desires and the body.

And somehow if we move from the pranic layer slowly, next we enter into the mental body. In the mental body, another one problem is that all the guilt rises. All the guilt is about the way in which we wanted to live, but we never lived.

See, desire is about the future, guilt is about the past. But both are one and the same. Same thing, when it is about the past it is guilt, when it is about the future it is desire. The way in which we want to live is desire, the way in which we wanted to live but didn’t is guilt. I always tell, guilt is nothing but reviewing our past decisions with updated intelligence.

Our intelligence is continuously updated. With this updated intelligence, we review our past decisions. For example, at the age of 7, your mother comes and calls you to take food. She says, ‘Enough you played with toys. Throw them, come and eat.’ What do you say, ‘No, I don’t want to eat; I want to play’. If your mother comes and tries to snatch the toys, what do you do? You not only cry and maybe even curse your mother. Now you know that the toys are not so important as your mother. Your mother is more important. Now your intelligence is totally different. At that time, toys were so important for you than your mother. You started cursing your mother.

Now you know, mother is much more important. With this updated intelligence, we can’t create a guilt, ‘Oh! That time I cursed my mother. That time we had only that much of intelligence. All our decisions are made with the available intelligence.

If we start reviewing our past decisions with updated intelligence, we will always create guilt. All the guilt is nothing but trying to review past decisions with updated intelligence. All the guilt rises in the mental body. Then if we move a little away, a little deeper comes the etheric layer which is related to all our sufferings. Like this, each and every layer has got its own samskara.

Actually, traveling through these layers only is called hell. Really, there is no other place called separately as hell. Hell or heaven are not geographical, they are psychological. Please be very clear, hell or heaven are not geographical. They are psychological.

One more thing, when we enter into the dream layer, if we start dreaming, this whole world will become black and white. We forget this whole world and the dream becomes multi-colour. If we come out of the dream, this whole world is seen in 4 dimensions, like 4D.