ALONENESS IS YOUR NATURE
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The inherent bliss within you
Aloneness is the nature of man, of the Being, from, and even before birth. It is reality. In the womb, the Being is alone, blissful, peaceful. Scientists say that even the quest for enlightenment is the imprint of the life in the mother's womb. That was the happiest moment of a Being's existence. Throughout your life - even when you live, grow and die in society, you are alone.
I am the thread among the beads says Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. The beads are the incidents in your life. Aloneness is the thread.
Your mind cannot be alive when you are lonely; it can flourish only in relationships. Mind, ego and personality are societal and are alive only in relationship with society. Your individuality is aloneness, your nature; but your personality is societal. When you think of yourself as a personality, you feel lonely. Personality is the title given by society. Individuality is what you are, it is natural. What others think about you, what you have earned, what comforts you have, are all part of your personality. We nurture our personality ignoring our individuality. Personality is external. Individuality is internal. The cry of individuality heard above the clamor of your personality is expressed as the pain of your loneliness.
To reach that core of individuality - moksha, kaivalya, nirvana - you need to contemplate: sit alone and think: who you are; not mentally but within your Being. Ask: what am I? What am I if all my labels are taken off me? Express even if it is painful that you are alone: try to experience that pain again and again; you will give birth to yourself as you were once born. The seed has to suffer the pain for the tree to grow.
Guru Puja at the Ananda Sabha
(meditation hall) in Bangalore
ashram - 2006.
Aloneness is your nature. Ask: who am I? When you feel the pain, you grow and you realize. You grow from ego to Self, from personality to individuality, from depression to expression, from loneliness to aloneness, from pain to bliss. When you welcome and enter loneliness without resisting, you achieve nithya ananda - Eternal Bliss.
A rare sight -
Paramahamsa walks
unaccompanied, inside the
Bangalore ashram. Picture
taken in 2006.
Paramahamsa
From Loneliness to Aloneness
USA
The beauty of Sanatana
Dharma is that not only they
accept you as you are, they
give you the jumping pad so
that from wherever you are,
you can just take a quantum
jump into the Experience.
Paramahamsa
Paramahamsa prepares the flag for
hoisting, to mark the celebration of
the Kumbabhisheka (Holy bath to
temple tower and deities) of the
Hyderabad temple - 2006.
PEAKS AND
VALLEYS
Only energy play
Why do enlightened beings
constantly feel that whatever is
happening is auspicious? It is
because of the kundalini shakti -
extraordinary potential energy
hidden in every human body. Once
this kundalini energy awakens in you,
you will feel so much of energy in
your body. You will not be able to
complain about anybody.
Understand: you will complain about
anything or any person only when
you are in a low mood - means your
usual mood. You will not be able to
complain, criticize or feel
disappointed about any person if
your body is overflowing with
energy. Your feeling that whatever is
happening is auspicious or
inauspicious, is directly connected to
your energy level. At some time you
get a glimpse of that high energy by
some method, sometimes people get
into that high energy without even
knowing it, maybe if they go to some
high energy places or if they are
really relaxed they get into that high
mood. Suddenly, those few moments
or few hours, when you feel so
fulfilled, you feel there is nothing
wrong on planet Earth! You will feel
everything is going the best way. If
you have this glimpse, this moment
in your life even once, you can be
called a spiritual seeker.
Paramahamsa
The Sound Technique - Shiva Sutras
USA
