THE TAPAS🔗

Just for the next 15 days, decide you will not bother about the meaning of words, that you will just go to the source of the words. In the beginning you may be a little imbalanced. But suddenly you will see, the very hunger which is created by your body will simply move your body, get the food, eat and digest.

Understand: is the digestion process happening with your command? Or is it happening because you give meaning to the words? No! Actually, somehow God did not give important jobs in our hands! Breathing, digestion, converting bread into blood - He did not give to us! All these things are not happening by you visualizing or giving meaning to any word. They are all happening just by the very praarabdha, very nature. If such a big job of converting bread into blood can happen without your command, why can't the rest happen without you giving meaning to words? Only thing: when you immediately drop giving meaning to your words, for the first few days you will be a little imbalanced. Going through that period is what I call tapas. Your job will be imbalanced, your life will be imbalanced, your house will be imbalanced. This is because you know only how to work based on fear and greed; you have never worked based on your being. So allow that imbalance to happen in your life.

Suddenly, you will come to a harmony which can never be imbalanced. I tell you: I allowed that tapas to happen in my life. And now I am very clear, so many things are now happening around me but nothing imbalances me. People are afraid of going through that tapas period. Allow that period to happen in you. You will see that you are able to function from your very being. Simply things will start happening around you without any words. Are you breathing by giving meaning to your thoughts? No! Such a big thing is happening but you are not giving any meaning to your words.

All you need is a loving ambience and courage to go through this tapas. Trust the person who is proposing this theology, this theory. The place where you can go through this tapas, the loving ambience is what we call ashrams! Ashrams are created for human beings to go through this process. The spiritual centers are created in India for helping human beings to go through this tapas, this renunciation period. Once you go through, once you are ready to act from the being... once your being starts experiencing itself, then you can live life. Actually, the loving ambience in the ashrams is created to help people to go through this process, to go through this tapas. If you have that trust towards the person who is proposing this truth, and courage to go through this tapas, a little loving ambience, if possible an ashram or if not, at least family people who understand that you are doing some higher experiment, suddenly you will see: 15 days is too much. I tell you 15 days is too much. And I know it is getting video recorded. I know it is getting video recorded. When I say this statement, I am responsible for this statement. Just for 15 days, try. Do not give meaning for the words. Just see: how many miracles are happening within and without in your life.

Paramahamsa

Life has no separate benefit. Life itself is a benefit. Do something for no result or benefit: write poetry, paint. Don't think of Nobel prizes or gallery exhibitions. Just do something for no benefit for just thirty minutes and that thirty minutes will lead you to Krishna Consciousness. It will be the most useful time you spend in that day. For thirty minutes you will drop from your head which is constantly calculating and expecting, into your Being. When you work with motivation, you will never be tired. You will be working out of bliss. Let this teaching just sink into you. Don't prepare any speeches about it to share with others.

Paramahamsa Live All Your Dimensions - The Bhagavad Gita 6 Sep 2005, Los Angeles, USA

Outward expressions of inward joy

close to his heart. Dance is the outward expression of the inner joy when you fall into the joyous path. Just like when you clap your hands and the birds fly off from the trees, so also, when you sing and dance in the name of the Divine, your karmas - past unfulfilled actions - fly away from you; you are liberated from them. Children need not be taught to dance, they already are that way! Their inner intelligence knows how to balance their energy on the centre of their Being and that is why they are so joyful all the time. But we are unable to handle them in that state, so we suppress them and make them dull. Society tries to put you either on the path of fear or on the path of greed. When in fear, you walk your way to God; when in greed, you drive or run your way to God; when in joy or bliss, you dance your way to God! The path becomes ecstatic. Every moment and every breath becomes a joyful meditation. Don't forego the path for the goal! Music and dance are the simplest meditation techniques that take you to the state of nithyananda - Eternal Bliss.

Paramahamsa Dance your way to God

Steps leading to Paramahamsa's quarters in Salem ashram, India

Enlightenment is nothing but breaking all our conditioning and getting in touch with the innocence that we have lost in the process of growing up. The path to enlightenment or to the Divine is not difficult like how it is made out to be. First of all, the Divine is not a goal as is understood by most of us. If we look at it as a goal, we are in effect robbing it of its joy. The path itself is Divine! There are several meditation techniques to fall in tune with the Divine. One such technique is Dance. Quantum Physics has proven that the atom is made up of elements that are static and moving at the same time. A picture taken of this phenomenon reveals the resemblance it bears to the dancing deity - Nataraja. The whole of Cosmos is actually dancing with joy! Enjoying and celebrating every moment! Only man is still holding on to his prestige and ego, which are nothing but the labels stuck on him by society. Dance is the ultimate technique to break free of the ego, to break free from the identity that man holds

O Sons of Immortality!

We do not do anything to prevent diseases because for what ever reason, we do not believe that they can be prevented. Medical people - scientists or doctors - either in psychology or physiology, are constantly working only with patients. They finally have come to the conclusion that man as such is illness. There is a poignant letter written by Sigmund Freud - considered by many to be the father of Psychology - after 30 years of research, that in his experience, man as such is sickness, and cannot live happily. The specimens on whom he did his research were all sick people, his patients. He did not have an opportunity to interact with a Buddha - a person who has achieved spiritual bliss in himself! Because he did not have this opportunity, he came to the conclusion that life is misery and that human beings cannot be healed and are nothing but a bundle of suffering.

Eastern mystics, the rishis however, declared man as amrutasya putraaha embodiment of the nectar of immortality, energy and bliss! After so much of research, Psychology has concluded that the nature of human beings is sickness, but the rishis have declared the opposite - that the nature of human beings is bliss. Depending on which point of view you take, your whole life will be changed...!

You always think of health as no-diseaseness, the absence of disease. If you are not going to any hospital, if you are not taking any medicine, if you are able to manage your day-to-day routine, you think you are healthy. But according to me, the definition for health is positive well beingness. It is not merely no-diseaseness. No-diseaseness is only part of health; there is something more than no-diseaseness. A positive well-beingness is what I call health. If you look at life from the point of view of the ancient Masters, the rishis, they say it is just to be lived in a blissful way. They say: anandam paramaha nabhyajaanaath. In Sanskrit, it means ‘Existence is Bliss’. Do not waste it by missing it. The very Existence, the very life and breath are bliss. They say that the body is filled with nectar, and life is bliss; please do not waste it by not enjoying it; by not experiencing it.

Ashramites at the camp in the Ardh Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India - 2007. The event is the largest gathering of humanity on planet Earth in a city that does not even have an airport. It is a confluence of faith and belief; a celebration of clairvoyance.

A way to sell yourself

Kids are so alive. They never get tired by traveling because they never resist or possess the body. The subtle movements which are happening are the natural movements which are happening in us, and kids do not resist those movements. When we start training them to possess the body, by and by they forget to flow with the energy. By and by they forget to flow with the movements of their body. They start creating their bodies as solid rock. They start becoming like stone. They start becoming dull, frozen or dead. The more frozen we become, the more dead we are. If we are completely frozen, we are ready to be burnt.

Even when kids laugh, their whole body laughs. It is not only that the mouth or face laughs. The whole body laughs. They do not calculate and move the body. We start moving our body only after a big calculation, because we start believing that if we work too much, we become tired. The hard work

myth which is taught to us is also an important reason for our body becoming like stone. One of the important things I always tell people is that hard work is a pure myth. The idea of hard work is a pure myth. We are taught to sell ourselves especially in these so called developed countries. We have to frighten our boss that the work which we are doing is too big and very difficult.

That is how we are constantly trained to sell ourselves. One more thing: in the beginning just to sell ourselves, we create the idea of hard work. By and by we start believing that we are really working hard. And this idea gets into our body and we do not move our body for anything else except when we get some solid results.

Why do you think that people never come out and do some voluntary service? It is because they start thinking that instead of moving their body for this half hour, if they did it for some other reason, they would earn some money.

Why do you think voluntary service has become such a rare thing? People have started calculating. In India I can tell you honestly, the country may be poor, but I can say millions of people are spending their time in social service projects or just going to temples. Every temple is visited by millions of people and you will be shocked to learn about the amazing time which they spend in spiritual tourism. This is because they don't have the idea of hard work. The idea of hard work does not exist in their minds. They don't have to sell themselves. Naturally when we don't have to sell ourselves, we don't have to calculate too much about the body movements. Calculating too much about our body movements and analyzing our body movements too logically makes us completely dead and frozen.

The Bangalore group is at a meeting discussing the upcoming 3-day Nithya Dhyaan mega event in Bangalore city, Dec 2007. Paramahamsa gave a 3-day talk in Palace grounds in Bangalore. The Bangalore group worked untiringly to organise the event.

If you live and work in the present moment, absorbed in your work completely with neither fear nor greed, that work is worship. It becomes a technique to bring you to the present moment.

Paramahamsa

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Yoga says: body posture and the mental state are both very closely connected. Let me give you a small example. If you are relaxing in your easy chair, just in a relaxed way, can you become angry? You can never become. If you have to become angry, you should move your body and create a little tension. You can never be angry just lying down in a relaxed way in your easy chair. The body's posture and the mind are closely connected. To become angry, you have to get up and tense your body and create more tension in your face; only then you can become angry. Just keep your face in a relaxed way. You can never become angry. Body postures are closely related to your emotions.

In the same way, whenever you change the body posture, suddenly you will see, in your inner space you are elevated to a different level. You can try in your life. Try to sit in padmasana, the posture of Buddha. Suddenly you will see peace happening in you for no reason. You can try this in your house. Just sit in padmasana, the Buddha posture. Suddenly you will start feeling the same feeling in you, the same peace happening in you, the same silence settling in you.

The body posture is closely connected to the space of your mind or to the experience of your being. By understanding this, you can reach the ultimate inner space. You can experience the space beyond the identity which you are showing to the outer world and the identity which you are showing towards your inner space.

Paramahamsa serves food to devotees who gathered in Los Angeles for a 2-day brainstorming session on the universities of the mission, 2007.

Being in an ecstatic state entails responsibility. The energy of ecstasy and responsibility come in the same package. One of the ashramites, tired of the long hours of work, wanted to know why he should work and serve at all, when he could meditate and be happy! I told him that energy descends on only a person who is ready to take responsibility, to serve the world with compassion for others. The energy, the power, and ultimately enlightenment, descends only on him who is ready to take this responsibility - this feeling for every being.

Early days of the mission. Two ashramites who are now senior Swamis in the mission, are seen in a hotel room in Los Angeles immersed in mission work. This picture was taken prior to setting up of the Los Angeles ashram in 2005.

Ashramites serve food at the weekly free medical camp in Bidadi, Bangalore, India, 2007.