THE WEIGHT OF NEGATIVITY🔗

Strange but true!

Once I went on a safari - elephant ride - in a forest in Tamil Nadu. There you are taken on one particular path into the forest and brought back on another path. I noticed that where the mahout had walked, the grass had died but where the elephant had walked, the grass was alive. It is strange but true! The elephant is so much heavier than man. Yet, where the elephant had walked, the grass is green and where man had walked, the grass is dead and a patch has been created. This is not because of physical weight but because of the weight of the negativity carried by man.

Paramahamsa

The wilderness of the Bangalore ashram - 2007. Behind these rocks can be seen the top of the Sacred Arts structures where traditional sacred arts such as casting of metal deities and other Vedic temple works are carried on.

REMEMBER YOURSELF

Be conscious

Whatever you do, you should do with remembrance. Many times you can see in your life: you will get up from your bed, go to the bathroom, brush your teeth, have your bath, sit in your car and reach the office, but only after reaching the office, suddenly you will remember that you came through the whole route to the office! So many activities happen without your awareness, without even you remembering your SELF. It is almost like sleep walking. That is why you don't feel responsible for your actions. You blame God or fate or somebody else for the results or things happening in your life. Understand a very important thing: if you are surprised by the incidents happening in your life, be very clear you are in deep slumber. If you are surprised by the diseases coming to your body, be very clear you are a sleep walker. If you are surprised by the incidents or the depression in your life, be very clear you are doing things in your deep sleep, not with remembrance.

If you have self remembrance you will be free, joyful and intelligent. If you want to transform your life, if you want to change your life, only one thing is enough - just remember yourself whenever you are doing something.

Somebody came to me and asked, 'Swamiji I want to come out of addiction. If I just remember myself, will I be able to?' I said, 'Just try. When you are smoking, try to remember very clearly. When you pick up the cigarette in your hand, remember: I am picking up. When you are putting it in the mouth, remember: I am putting the cigarette in my mouth. When you are lighting it, remember. When you are smoking, remember. When you are sending the smoke inside, remember. Be conscious, be aware. You will be surprised. The guy came back after a week. He said, 'I am not able to smoke Swamiji! With self remembrance, I can't send smoke into my system.'

Paramahamsa The Power of Sensitivity - Shiva Sutras 4 May 2007, Oklahoma, USA

The key to opening your Being

In ancient years, when a child took birth, the naming will be done as a big ceremony. An enlightened Master has to come to name. In the story of Krishna it says that when Krishna was born, an enlightened Master was brought and he predicted during the naming ceremony that the enlightened Vishnu energy has descended on planet Earth, and he named him Krishna. Understand: even the naming has to be done only by an enlightened being. He will see your energy, he will see the purpose for which you took birth and according to the purpose he will give you the name. If you hold onto that name and go inside, you will achieve that purpose, that's all. Naming was more like a key to opening your inner being.

SHIVA SUTRAS

Techniques for enlightenment

In the Shiva Sutras, Shiva is giving meditation techniques for all kinds of human beings. Usually man is more connected to any one sense. It is not that all of you are caught in all five senses, no. If you are caught in all five senses, you cannot even move one step in your life. One sense is enough to create problems. Most of us are caught more in one sense. Only twenty percent will be distributed among the other four senses. Somebody will be caught too much with the tongue, taste. Somebody will be caught with the eyes, seeing. Somebody will be much caught in just listening, hearing. Somebody may be caught with the sense of touch, pleasure of touch. But usually eighty percent of your energy will be caught in one sense. Here Shiva is giving techniques for each sense.

Paramahamsa Sound, the Way to Awareness - Shiva Sutras 18 Apr 2007, Ohio, USA

When you want complete soundless silence, you are in trouble. Here Shiva says, enter into the soundfulness, the intensity of sound. Then no sound can disturb you. He says, go into that sound, source of the sound. That is what we call the anahata dhvani, uncreated sound, the sound which is not created by two things hitting. Ahata means created or hitting, anahata means uncreated, primordial sound. When you go to that soundfulness, you will experience a sound which is silence, the silence which can't be disturbed by any sound.

Silence which can't be disturbed by any sound is true silence. Silence is not the absence of sound; silence means intense living silence. Understand: I am giving a new meaning to the word silence, intense living silence, not the dead graveyard silence. These guys who are working for the dead silence, the soundlessness, even in the graveyard they will not be relaxed. They will say, 'Oh, the sound of air is coming' or 'some bird is chirping'. They will be disturbed by some sound or the other. If you are excluding, you will be disturbed. If you are including, nothing will disturb you.

Paramahamsa sports a head band, while being taken in a horse carriage by devotees and disciples on Youth Day, celebrated as part of the 11-day Brahmotsav festival on the occasion of his 31st Jayanti. Bangalore ashram - 2007