THE GREATNESS OF THE GREAT TRUTHS🔗

Nothing else matters

(While commenting on the greatness of the Shiva Sutras...)

Sometimes, without even knowing the source of a book, you get the idea that it is great because, the greatness of the Truth in it is such that, even if the author's name is not kept alive, the Truth still goes on living. The knowledge which can be alive even after the author is no more alive; if it can help humanity, only then, it can be called as Truth. Only then, it can be called as Technology.

Many times, Truth has traveled all over the world without the name of the author. That is why in the East, the great book of Truth - the Vedas, is called apourusha; means 'authorless'. There is no individual author. The book is not attributed to any single individual being as an author. Many people question, 'How can a book exist without an author?' Actually it is not that there was no author. They know there is no need to mention about the author, because the Truth is independent of the person who expressed it. He has not invented it. Truth cannot be invented. It can only be expressed. He has experienced it and expressed it for everyone, for the world. So the author has no role after the Truth is expressed. There is no need for his name. There is no need for his biography. There is no need to know when he took birth, what he did, when he got married and when he died...immaterial.

We do not believe in the personality. We believe in the philosophy. We believe in the Truth and experience, not the personality. That is why, whoever becomes enlightened, we call them as Buddha. Buddha is not the name of an individual. It is the name of the status. Whoever achieves that status receives that name.

Vedic Temple, Los Angeles, USA - 2007.

Lift that stick

You are much more than what you believe as you. That is the first thing. There is a beautiful story by a great Eastern Mystic. He used to give a beautiful example: a big river is flowing. If a bamboo is floating on the river, based on that bamboo, you can say, 'Left side of the river and right side of the river.' If the bamboo is lifted, removed, now you can't say left side of the river or right side of the river, only river. You can't say anything. It is there. In the same way, as long as you have your identity, your ego, you can say, 'you and me', 'you and the world', 'you and the universe'. You and the universe can be separated only as long as you have that identity, that 'I', what you believe as 'I'. The moment that single stick is lifted, what you believe as 'I', the moment it is lifted, there are no more two. There is no difference. There is no right and left. There is no you and me. There is no you and universe. Only one exists. That is the universe.

Paramahamsa Be Total and Realize - The Shiva Sutras 21 Apr 2006, Vancouver, Canada

Nobody loses the divinity. They only lose the ability to recognize the divinity.

Paramahamsa

Sanatana Dharma

(While commenting on the greatness of the Shiva Sutras...the book of enlightenment techniques, delivered by Lord Shiva to Devi, His Consort.)

A technology which does not inspire people by its own strength cannot survive. As long as the technology needs somebody to promote it, it cannot be called Sanatana Dharma, Eternal Technology or Eternal Method. Sanatana means eternal. I can say that this book is real Sanatana Dharma - the eternal method, the eternal law, eternal technology of the inner science.

Paramahamsa Sensitivity and Consciousness - Shiva Sutras 5 Apr 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA

A brahmacharini fans Sri Anandeshwar with peacock feathers as part of the sandhya arati (evening time of offering lit camphor) in the Bangalore ashram, Navarati festival - 2007.

When I use the word 'inner science' I mean giving you the glimpse, giving you the experience that you are something more than what you project as you to others, and what you believe as you for yourself.

Paramahamsa

He is your center

Understand: our business with God is not belief; our business with God is not faith. The word belief has got a totally different meaning. God is not just a utility. He is an experience. We always remember him only as a utility. Remembering God as a utility is disrespect to Existence. Your centre cannot be a utility for your boundary. God is your center. You are your boundary, that is, your five senses. Your senses are your boundary, God is your center. The boundary is trying its best, doing all possible calculations on how to utilize the center. The center can never be a utility, it is an experience. Of course, if you experience your center, the quality of the boundary will be totally different. The quality of the boundary improves. Who you think as you, undergoes a tremendous transformation that is true.

Inside the Arunachala temple, Tiruvannamalai. Spiritual nerve center and hometown of Paramahamsa. Picture taken in 2006.

At the Ardh Kumbh Mela, Allahabad - Jan 2007.