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One guy was talking to his wife on his deathbed. He says, oh my dear you have been with me through all the bad times. When I got fired, you were there to support me, when my business failed, you were there to support me, when I got shot, you were there by my side, when we lost the house you gave me support, when my health started failing you were still by my side. You know what dear….

Wife asked, what, what is it that you want to tell me.

I think you brought me bad luck!

You can give your own meaning to everything, because thoughts are there before awareness. You are ready with your judgment. See this same thing can be interpreted in two ways: one way you can say she is such a nice person, she was always with him, and other way you can say she is a bad luck.

Please be clear, your mind is in front of your awareness.

According to me there are only two kinds of people, one whose mind is there before their awareness, second whose awareness is there before their mind.

If your mind is there before their awareness, mind your mind, you need treatment. You need meditation. No medication will help. Especially no physiatrist medication will help.

One more small story.

A patient was asked by his friend, ‘Didn’t the Physiatrist help you, why did you stop going to him? You didn’t get any help from him?’

He says, ‘What is the use? He is asking the same questions and charges me. My wife asks me the same questions without charging me’.

So be very clear, analyzing is not going to help you in any way. Anyhow, you can see the same thing, in a different way if you have already prepared your judgment; you will not be able to see the truth.

I read this beautiful definition of a husband. Husband is a person who stands by you in all the problems that you face in your life which you would not have had if you didn’t have him in your life in the first place.

If you ready with your judgment, nothing can be done. If your third eye is not awakened, if you are not aware enough, your mind will be before your awareness.

Here Shiva says let you be centered on your Ajna and let your awareness be before your thoughts. Let you be aware even before your thoughts rise in your inner space. It's a beautiful meditation technique. He is now explaining.

Before entering into the technique let me explain what exactly this technique is supposed to do for us and how exactly to practice this. Do we really need this technique?

As I was telling you, we are constantly suffering with 120 degree vision, not only in the outer world, even in our inner space you are not clear about things, because before you see them thoughts are there. The moment thoughts arise vision is distorted, completely distorted. You don't see things as they are. You don't experience things as they are.

Let you be very clear, your mind is so powerful. Your thoughts are so powerful that anything can be distorted into anything. You can see in your own life. The moment you lose faith on somebody, the moment the trust is lost, anything can be twisted into anything. Even simple things can be twisted into different ways. When you don't have that trust, that faith, even good things will start judging a bad way. Your inner space will not be able to experience straight. You will not be able to relate with anything directly.

Now by creating awareness on the third eye, if you can have the vision, when I say vision of 360 degree, not only you will be able to see everything, you will be able to see things clearly without judgmental attitude, without passing any judgments, without giving some idea before you study about it. That's a big problem, you see judging something before analyzing, and you don't know how many things you lost in your life when you judge something before you analyze.

I have seen so many people, let me tell you a small incident. It really happened in my life.

Once in our Bidadi ashram, I was sitting on a rock without any paraphernalia, no secretary, no assistants. I was sitting alone and enjoying the cool breeze. One old scholar, a Pundit, came near me. He had not seen my photo, he only had heard about me. He came to me and asked me where is Swamiji, I want to see him.

I understood. I told him please go to the meditation hall, he will come there at 4 pm. I got ready, went in and I was about to sit in the chair. He said, 'No, I want to see the big Swamiji'.

I said what can I do? In this ashram I am the big Swamiji. Please understand.

He said I want to meet Nithyananda Swamiji who healed my cousin.

I told him the name of the person who got healed and told him that I am the person who healed him.

To tell you the truth, he was not able to relate with me. He knows somebody is being healed and he knows everything logically, but he is not able to relate because he is a great intellectual.

Somehow in the pundits' mind, the knowledge is always associated with age, especially in my field, the spiritual field. The basic two three things are the trademarks: big belly, long face, big beard. These are all the trademarks of spirituality. So somehow he was not able to relate with me.

Again he insisted that he wants to meet the big Swamiji, Nithyananda Swamiji. Then I had to take the ultimate step, I showed him a poster in the meditation hall and asked him to match the name and the face. I told him see the Paramahamsa Nithyananda in the poster and said, look at me, I am that face. I can't say anything more. We don't have a habit of carrying a calling card. I don't have any ID.

You will be surprised. He did not talk to me and went away. He really went away. He said, ‘I am not interested in talking to you, I had some questions, I wanted to clarify some doubts, I wanted to have answers’.

He did not talk to me. When you have judgment, some idea, you will miss the whole life itself. Not only this one incidence, there are thousands of incidences, you can see in your life because of your judgment you will miss so many things in your life.

Once this third eye is awakened, you will start living life of freedom. You will be liberated from your inner chattering. You will be able to relate with what is. You will not just be with what you think. You will live with what is and this third eye is the energy center for intuition. This can give you clear view about the past and the future.

Let you be very clear, if the third eye is not awakened, you will neither be clear about your past nor the future. People ask me, ‘Swamiji, we understand that we will not be clear about the future. That is ok, but how do you say we will not be clear about our past? We know our past; how do you say we will not be clear about our past if the third eye is not awakened?’

Please be very clear, if your third eye is not awakened, you will not remember the past as it happened, you will remember only as you want it. You will remember only the sufferings or you will remember only joyful moments, you will not remember as it happened. You will not remember completely. You will remember only what you want to remember. You can see in your life, you don’t remember the people who helped you, but you will remember the people who abused you, whoever disturbed you, because you are just waiting to be disturbed. What can be done? You are just begging people saying please disturb me. Please give me some trouble.

Let me tell you one incident, one of a local politician who came to the ashram, who is a close disciple. I told him please make get the approach road to the ashram repaired so that the villagers would be able to use this road. In India you know roads are the gateway to hell, straightaway they will take you to hell. I told him, please repair this road, villagers are suffering.

He is a nice person, really sincere person. He replied, Swamiji, tell me anything else and I will do. I will make roads for the ashram, but please I can’t make this road, at least for next one year.

I asked why. He said, Swamiji, when elections come and I make this road, people will remember me. If now itself I make this road, people will not remember me.

He was right. You remember people only who create problem for you and you don’t remember people who serve you. He said if I serve now, people won’t remember at that time. Only at the last moment they will remember. If I have an assurance that they will remember me at the last moment, now itself I can make. They have to suffer, and in the end if I solve the problem they will think I am a great person.

It is true. We remember only the people who give us suffering. We never remember people who give us solution. That is why people give you only sufferings. Please remember one thing, a simple thing, if somebody gives you small present, you will remember that person for a month or at most 2 months or so. But if somebody snatches your purse you will remember that person for your whole life.

So if you want to remember somebody what he should do? He should disturb you. If he does something bad to you, you will remember. You are waiting to be disrespected. That’s the reason you are constantly abused. Please be very clear you don’t even remember your past as it happened unless your third eye is awakened. It will not be clear to you as you think.

Be it your past or future, you will remember clearly only when you are aware before thoughts rise in your inner space. Awakening the third eye, you will become God. That is why all Hindu Gods have a third eye. You see any Hindu God, Shiva, Ganapati, Surya, Skanda, all of them have third eye. Only if your third eye is awakened you are God. You see, man plus third eye is God, God minus third eye is man.

If your third eye is awakened, you are a spiritual being with human experience and if your third eye is not awakened; you are a human being looking for a spiritual experience. Third eye makes a big difference in your inner space. All the visions, darshan and the extra ordinary things happen in people's life only because of the third eye energy.

I have heard of a great mathematician, Ramanujam. He was from Tamil Nadu in South India and was a great mathematician. An Oxford University mathematician was not able to solve the problems that Ramanujam can solve. Ramanujam was called to London and many studies were done on him. They say that Ramanujam gave the answer in a few seconds to some of the problems that the great mathematicians at Oxford took hours to solve.

In his autobiography he has written about some of his reminiscences with people in his life. It is a beautiful book. In that they ask him, how are you able to answer? He says, the moment a problem is given to me, something happens within my eyebrows, within my third eye. Both my eyes are just sucked in by the third eye. My attention becomes alive on the third eye and I have the answer. That's all.

Let you be very clear, all the great things happen only when your third eye is awakened. Man plus third eye is God, God minus third eye is man.

There is a beautiful story in Shiva's life.

Shiva opened his third eye and burned the manmata. Manmata means maya, or the illusion that you are seeing or which you are thinking as life. Your vision disturbed by your past memories is maya. Your vision disturbed by your samskaras is what I call maya. If your third eye is awakened, your vision will be clear; you can also burn manmata. You will be liberated from manmata. You will live like Shiva. You will live like Maha Deva.

We shall enter into a meditation technique to awaken the third eye. One more thing: I assure this technique will work today itself. Be very clear, as far eye third eye is concerned, the path and the goal are not two difference things. From today itself you will start experiencing the third eye.

I am not speaking like the American TV. In American TV what all advertisements they have, free trial, risk free trials, only shipping charge, and so many things. Be very clear, I am not talking like American TV. I am telling you the truth, the honest truth, nothing but the truth. You can see the power of the third eye and you can start experiencing the intuition from today. This technique you don't need to practice everyday. It is just awareness, even when you drive the car, when you are seeing the TV, when you are relaxing, when you are talking to others, you can just bring your awareness to your third eye. Simply it will be awakened. If your third eye is awakened, you will know with whom you are relating. What for he is sitting in front of you, what is the right step in everything you do. Your intuition will be sharp and alive.

It is time to start the meditation. It is a very simple but yet very powerful technique. There are two steps in working on the third eye, working on ajna chakra. First, you will bring your awareness on your third eye. Compose yourself completely. Center yourself on the third eye. This is the first step. Second, you will look through third eye.

You will feel as if that energy is showering all over your body and see through third eye. The second step is the real thing that you need to learn.

Please understand: the first step: you will close your eyes. Put your awareness on the third eye. One important thing, do not concentrate. Do not put pressure on third eye. Do not concentrate on third eye. Put your awareness in a very relaxed way. If you are gazing at rose flower, how relaxed way you will do, same way gaze at your third eye in a very relaxed way. Let you be completely relaxed. Let your awareness be on the third eye.

Second step: visualize as if you are looking through the third eye. There is a hole in this area and you are seeing through that hole.

Third step: I will guide you. In the third step, you will feel as if that energy is showering all over your body. I will guide you in the third step.

Let me repeat the instruction once more. First step: close over eyes and let you be centered on the third eye. Let you be aware of third eye. Do not concentrate. Do not force yourself. Just be aware of the third eye. No need to tie the ribbon. Just be aware of the third eye.

Second step: Feel as if you are looking through third eye. One more thing, first few moments only you will feel as if you are looking through the third eye. Suddenly you will see you are really looking through the third eye. Once your energy is centered, you are really seeing through the third eye. There will be a candle in front of you on the table. Just gaze at that candle in the second step.

First step: you will close your eyes and put your awareness on your third eye. Second step: you will look through the third eye to the candle. Third step: you will close your eyes and visualize the whole energy showering from your third eye all over your body.

Third step, I will guide you. Now we will start the first step.

Meditation

Please close your eyes. Sit straight.

5 minutes: Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible, as deeply as possible.

2 min: Feel the inhaling and exhaling breaths touching the third eye. Your incoming breath is taking turn as outgoing breath in your third eye between the eyebrows.

Let your attention be centered on the third eye.

15 min: Inhale and exhale through the third eye. Feel your third eye is inhaling and exhaling.

Put your awareness on the third eye. Let you be centered on the third eye.

Do not concentrate. Just relax. Be aware of the third eye.

Just be aware of the third eye. Do not concentrate. Just be aware. Let your attention be centered on the third eye.

Let you be centered on the third eye. Let your third eye be filled with bliss and energy. Let your third eye be alive. Let your third eye be awakened. Let you be spiritually awakened.

Let your third eye be filled with awareness. Let your awareness be centered on your third eye.

Let your third eye be filled with awareness. Let your awareness be centered on your third eye.

Slowly, very slowly, you can open your eyes and look through the third eye.

5 min: Visualize as if you are seeing through the third eye and gaze at the candle.

Let your awareness be centered on the third eye and look through the third eye.

Let your awareness be completely centered on the third eye.

Let your awareness be centered on your third eye. Look through your third eye.

Let you be completely centered on your third eye. Look through third eye. Don't look through ordinary eyes. Look through third eye.

10 min: Close your eyes. Visualize and feel that energy is showering from your third eye to all over your body.

Shakti is showering like a light all over the body.

Feel you are being showered with energy like a light. Feel at the top of your head, energy is showering as light spreading all over body.

Feel you are showered with light and energy, you are showered with bliss.

Om shanti, shanti, shantihi.

Relax. You can open your eyes.

This is a beautiful meditation technique for all the eye problems and I problems. You can heal eye problem and I problem, both. Both these problems can be solved by this meditation technique.

Let these teachings and techniques of Shiva lead you and give you, let you be in, become one with eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you.

Q: I understand from some people here who have done your Life Bliss Programs that awakening the third eye is a key technique in these courses. What is the significance of the third eye as a chakra?

In our first level Life Bliss Program, that is also called the Ananda Spurana Program, we cover all the seven chakras, seven energy centers, of the body mind system. Actually the chakras are six, the last being the Ajna or third eye center. What we refer to as the seventh chakra, sahasrara, is really a gateway beyond the centers.

Chakras govern one's energy state, through the energy state one's emotional state, and through that the mind body system and one's health and wellness. When your chakras are energized or awakened or unblocked they are in a healthy state and so are you. When they are blocked, you too become blocked and unwell. So, it is important to keep your chakras unblocked and energized. In the first level LBP courses, you are taken through a series of meditative techniques and the understanding of your chakras to energize the chakras and help you control your emotional state and thereby your wellness.

The ajna is the control center of chakras. It is energy wise linked to the Pituitary gland, the master gland which controls all other hormonal glands. From the chakra perspective ajna is the seat of intelligence and intuition. When the ajna is awakened you have the power to make your dreams come true. What you wish happens. The word ajna in Sanskrit means will or command. When the Brihadaranya Upanishad says, 'as your will is, so you become', the reference is to the state of the awakened ajna chakra.

Normally, the ajna is blocked by the development of one's identity, or one's ego. This happens as a result of our conditioning from a very young age as to what we should be, based on guidance from elders and experiences. We build an outer identity or exterior ego, called ahankara in Sanskrit that projects who we are to the outer world. Always, but always, this is an exaggerated version of who we are that we want others to believe. At the same time we have an inner voice, an internal ego, mamakara, that constantly reminds us of how insignificant we are. The gap between these two egos causes us all the sufferings we experience.

You may say that you do not consider yourself insignificant. In fact you think very highly of yourself, especially if you are an American. Let me then ask you, how many of you think you are God. Not even one, oh, my God! If you said you were God, you would be worried that you would be certified and rushed to an asylum. But, in fact, you are God. Your inner nature is Divine. Anything less you think of yourself is a diminished inner ego, mamakara.

When the ajna awakens one expands in consciousness to the understanding that we are not individual islands but connected consciousness. We realize that we are not merely the waves in the ocean, each pretending to be linked to another wave close by, but that we are in fact the ocean. That realization brings in a focus upon one's own Self, which in turn moves one away from the 'I', the self identity. For the first time you awaken to the realization of who you are.

In the tantric representation, ajna is shown as a twin petal lotus flower. One petal is buddhi or intelligence and the other is shakti or energized power. When ajna is awakened both petals are activated. We gain intelligence with energy. We gain the energy to turn all our dreams into reality. At the same time, we gain the intelligence to realize that all we think as reality is a dream!

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