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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

SUTRA 01 - 05

sHIVA SUTRAS (SUTRA 01 - 05)

Published by KAILASA's Nithyananda Hindu University | Copyright © 2021

Copyright © 2021 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved.

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Volume 1

Sutras 1 to 5

This is a dialogue between lovers, a God and His Goddess. This is the ultimate truth of how life should be lived. This is Shiva's way!

Editor's Note Nithyananda began speaking about the Vignana Bhairava Tantra, which he always refers to as Shiva Sutra, in January 2005. He started speaking on Devi's doubts: What is life, beyond form pervading forms?

Nithyananda then said:

'Frozen into one frame, Mother or Lover, I am easy for you to capture and retain. I am then easier to market. It's good business for me, not good business for you. I want you to be confused so that you become enlightened. I want you to die so that you are awake. Come to me with your ignorance; it's my duty to show you the path. Don't hesitate to fall into my arms with love; you will soar with me into bliss.'

As we heard him we wondered: Who is he? Is he Father, Mother, Son, Brother, Friend, Lover or a Fake? We know he would love to be called a Fake. That would make the confusion more complete. Is he all forms in one? He can be the terror of Shiva. He can also be the nectar of Krishna. Is he better as a bitter nightmare or a sweet fantasy?

There were times when he chided, eyes aglow with anger. One learned to stay quiet. The grimace morphed into a grin; Shiva morphed into Krishna. Tears come to my eyes even as I write; what to speak of being in his presence.

He is all forms and no form. He refuses to be captured in a frame, turned into a stone, worshipped as an image. He is not a master who will be hung on the wall by his devotees, a master at the hands of the fantasies of his devotees. He would rather be the 'simha swapna' (deadly nightmare) awakening us into wisdom. He would rather be the Zen stick that prods us into wakefulness, than the crutch that we are comfortable with. He relates to us on multiple frames and planes, just to keep us off balance and in confusion, than allow to be frozen into one frame that kills the master and ourselves.

The Master is beyond forms; beyond dimensions. He is not uni, bi, tri or multi dimensioned. His dimensions and forms are infinity; infinite dimensional; infiniD.

He calls us to embrace him to soar into bliss. We are so used to falling into mud that we hesitate. Soaring into bliss is not our nature as we understand it. Our anxieties and fears work upon us creating nightmares and fantasies.

We are watching a movie all the time. It's only when the movie stops that we see the screen beyond without which the movie can't be projected. We know not it's a dream till we are awakened. Unless we experience the 'no mind', we have no idea that we have been fantasizing. A child when she plays still knows that she is playing. An adult keeps playing not knowing that all he plays with is unreal.

It's the Master's job to rudely awaken us to show us a glimpse of the reality. He enhances our problems so that our small worries are drowned in much bigger ones; with his grace the troubles fade and the Sun shines into reality.

When we dream, when we fantasize, it is about others and us. The first person attaches the second and the third. 'I' includes 'you' and 'they' as well. When the dream breaks, the movie stops, the circus gets over, you and they merge with the 'I'. Then the 'I' disappears and only the Consciousness remains.

Form and forms disappear once we realize we are watching the movie; even the screen collapses. Nightmares and fantasies cease. We awake.

This is the point of Ananda Gandha, the bliss spot, where the energy centers merge and where the form merges with the formless, and Devi's doubt answers itself: What is life, beyond form pervading forms?

What Nithyananda presents in these discourses is the Consciousness of Shiva as he takes us through the responses of Bhairava (another name for Shiva) to Devi. Each sutra is an understanding of the state of Shiva Consciousness followed by a meditation that takes us into that Consciousness. Nithyananda has said time and again that in these 112 techniques each one of us on this planet can find a technique that suits us to elevate us into our own awareness and enlightenment.

These discourses are quintessential Nithyananda. Profound and never serious, communion and never a lecture, these words resonate long after one has read them. Each word is a 'click' as he calls them, a transformational experience that changes the way we think and act.

Let me give an introduction about this book… just a few words. Then we shall enter into the sutras. We shall then enter into the Shiva Sutras.

Shiva Sutras is a five thousand-year old book. It is the essence of Inner Science technology and the core of the Science of Enlightenment. It is the essence of five thousand years of research and development by more than one million inner scientists and more than one million inner science laboratories. By inner scientists, I mean the great ancient seers and sages who dedicated their whole lives to research of the inner world, of the science of enlightenment. In India, we have more than one million inner science laboratories, meaning temples and ashrams that are alive, which are still maintained. More than a million temples receive everyday worship.

Please understand that I am not talking about the temples that are in the dilapidated condition. I am talking about the temples that receive daily worship, temples that are used by people. More than a million inner science laboratories and more than one million fulltime dedicated inner scientists worked on these concepts. India even today has at least a million swamis who have dedicated their whole life to inner research and development. I am not speaking about the wandering swamis who are living in the streets, in caves, who are not living in the monasteries. If you count them the number increases to something like ten million. I am referring only to the those who are staying in one place and dedicating their life for the research and development of this inner science. That alone is one million. We have a billion people following this technology. This is the strength of this great inner science.

This book is the essence of this inner science, the inner science that was developed over five thousand years by one million inner scientists in one million inner science laboratories and practiced by one billion people. It is the ageless truth and ageless wisdom that we call Sanatana Dharma, the eternal path. This book is the essence of that wisdom, essence of that technology. This book gives hundred and twelve meditation techniques to experience bliss, to experience peace and joy that reside eternally in every one of us. This book gives the ultimate techniques to experience the ultimate bliss that is inside our being, which is in our inner space. This book has so many beautiful meditation techniques.

Not only we will read and understand the sutras, but we will also experience the sutras. These are Shiva’s beautiful techniques to enlightenment. Let’s enter into the sutras, and then we shall study their meaning.

Sometimes, I am shocked, how could this book have been written five thousand years ago. It’s too long a period! We have a solid record of this book existing at least for the last five thousand years. Of course, we don’t know the exact age of this book. At least five thousand years old, that’s what we know.

The story how this book was discovered is this. A great devotee of Shiva had the darshan of Shiva and Shiva guided that devotee to go into a cave in a hill. Inside that cave all these sutras were written on the walls. Shiva told him: Just copy these sutras and give them to the whole world. Still the cave exists. The sutras are still there on the walls of the cave. The devotee brings the sutras and gives them to the world. This incident happened at least five thousand years ago. We have a solid proof that this book existed at least five thousand years ago.

I was shocked how five thousand years ago somebody could have thought so practically and so clearly about all modern day human problems. All our problems such as fantasies, phobias, fears and depression, each one of them is answered in this book. For every problem, Shiva gives solution. That's why I say this book is not just a book. It is the essence of five thousand years of research and development. The Indian Vedic system is at least ten thousand years old. I can't say it is exactly ten thousand years, but at least ten thousand years. We have solid records to prove that the system is at least ten thousand years old. This book was discovered five thousand years ago. So, five thousand years of R & D expressed itself in the form of this book. Otherwise, it is impossible to give so many practical techniques.

It is very easy to hand out philosophy. It is very easy to deliver teachings. It is very easy to say what should be done and what should not be done. That is not a big thing. It is very easy to tell people, 'Do this, don't do that'. It is very easy to create a philosophy.

To create a philosophy, you don't need anything. I can tell you three simple ways by which you can become a philosopher from tomorrow. All you need to do is just criticize anything and everything. Whatever you see in front of your eyes, just start criticizing. Do not bother about what you are criticizing. Second way is that never create a system that people can understand. Third way is that make things as complicated as possible. That's all. Nothing else is necessary! To become a philosopher is very easy. Finally the fourth way that is an important footnote - never give any solution!

Shiva is not creating philosophy. Creating a philosophy is easy. He is not giving you philosophy. He is giving you the techniques, the technology, the 'how to'. He is not telling you what to do and what not to do. He is telling you 'how to do'. Straightaway he is giving you the technology to experience the inner consciousness, to experience the ultimate consciousness, to experience the Shivatvam, which means the consciousness of Shiva, the experience of Shiva. He is straightaway teaching us the techniques, not just giving words. That is why I say, this is the ultimate and amazing book that gives straightaway teachings and techniques to experience the ultimate consciousness.