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IV. BECOME A SEEKER

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When you feel you are hitting a wall
or you have a sense of suffocation,
increase seeking
with intensity and passion.

MAKE SEEKING YOUR LIFESTYLE

Seeking should continue for forever and ever. It should become your breathing style, your lifestyle.

It should just become part of you, your very core. Seeking should be one of the first, foremost and last quality a man should develop. Constantly seeking the ultimate truth.

Whether you pick up a job or build a career, or get married, in every decision, in every action, in every step of your life, seeking should be the first priority.

When you get married, seek the truth of the relationship. How does this relationship complete the other person and complete me? What is the nitty-gritty, bolts and nuts of fulfillment or completion the other person is seeking in me, and I am seeking in the other person? Explore. That is marriage.

In a career, in a job, you have to explore what is it that my employer tries to complete through me? What is it I try to complete through my employer? In your career, try to see what is it my customer tries to complete through me? How can I become complete through this customer? How can he enrich me and I can enrich him? You will see tremendous integrity and authenticity in all your dealings of life.

SEEKING: THE GOD IN YOU AWAKENS

Seeking is the way the God in you wakes up. Early morning when you remember the person ‘you’ who is in the waking state, that is the way you get out of the person who is in the dream state. There is one you - the dreamer you and the waking you. When you remember the waking you, the dreaming you merges into the waking you. You wake up and move to that waking you.

In the waking state, you exist as somebody. In the dream state, you exist as somebody. The moment you remember you, who is in the waking state, the person who is dreaming, wakes up. Remembrance of the waking state is the way, the waking state person moves away from the dream person.

It is actually the waking state person who enters into the dreaming person and removes you from the dream and you wake up!

In the same way God, supremely awakened being, which is YOU, who enters into the waking state person and moves you to that state – that is called seeking.

A waking personality of you enters into the dream personality, and reminds your waking state to the dream personality, and waking you up to your waking state. This is your everyday experience.

You have four states – deep sleep, dream state, waking state, and awakened state. The waking state ‘you’ enters into the dream state and wakes you up. The awakened state of ‘you’ enters into the waking state, and awakens you. That is Seeking.

If you have started seeking, God has graced you. He has showered His grace on you. Now, the train is going to stop only when you have achieved your goal, not before that.

Shankara, the saint, says: awakening of seeking in a human being is one of the greatest and rarest thing that can happen. Seeking fulfills everything you seek and beyond. It awakens the truth in you. It awakens the possibility in you.

Seeking is the finest expression of God in human being. When God expresses, you may express many qualities. Every power is God expressing through you.

The finest, subtlest, and greatest power and experience that God can express through you is seeking. Because He reminds His nature to you and makes you into He.

FALL IN LOVE WITH SEEKING

Seeking is your innermost core’s pain
by understanding it has not yet expressed its full potential.
Your innermost core’s suffocation
by understanding it needs to expand.

Your inner most being’s decision to expand.
Decision to be free.
I am defining seeking as your inner most
core’s decision to be free,
your inner most core’s decision to be awakened.
Your inner most core’s decision not to continue with the status-quo.

Continuing with the status quo, with the fantasy,
someday something will happen from heaven
or from somewhere. From the sky something will drop
and everything in my life will be aligned and proper.
Fallible vision is fantasy.
Infallible fantasy is vision.

When you take the responsibility for your visualization,
it is vision.
When you don’t take responsibility for your thinking,
it is fantasy.

Much of your inner happening is the game of fantasy,
and unfortunately you make that into a religion.
Fantasy should be entertained to the level of entertainment,
not more than that.
Don’t make a religion out of it.
That is not the stuff out of which we can make religion.

A pillar made of fiberglass can be used as a decoration piece, but you can't make a building stand on it. The fiberglass pillar cannot hold the building, it can only be a decoration piece. If you try to make the building stand on it, you are in danger. You are wrong. It is so unfortunate we go on cherishing fantasy.

We also have one more fantasy to support our fantasy – someday, from somewhere, something will fall and everything will become alright. That is what I call the status-quo living.

The status-quo living is postponing with the fantasy, thinking someday, something will collapse, something will fall and everything will become alright. The worst thing of living this status-quo is that after sometime you even forget you can take decisions.

I have seen people, for their entire life they are activists, meaning they get on the stage and give big lectures on cleaning the country. They even join the army which cleans the streets, schools, and colleges. Finally after sometime, they learn only the art of mobilizing the huge gathering and huge volunteers, and doing something. Slowly, slowly they forget they themselves can do something.

And I have seen that these types of people, the street in which they go for a walk everyday is full of trash and dirt. It may take ten minutes for them to clean that area, but they won't, because they forget they can do something. They always think they can only mobilize the crowd, and that crowd only can do something. They forget they themselves can do something.

This example is very important. If you look into your life, many times you walk three kilometers to go and give a lecture about cleanliness, but the house where you are staying or the street where you are walking, if you just bent down and spend ten minutes minutes it will become clean.

You forget that it is possible, and you don't even keep that in your cognition. That is not there as part of you. Always the status-quo life will be a stinking life where a simple reality which can be seen even by a child will be forgotten by you.

In a status-quo life, you read, see, and understand more from your brain than from the Reality. Most of the time the spelling mistakes you make while you read a newspaper, or magazine, or your Ipod will be very funny, because you don't read from there, you read from your brain.

When you read something for the second time and third time you will realize, 'Oh, this is what is there! But I thought this is what is there!' Even while you are seeing, you don't see the object you are reading from, you see from the brain. In the status-quo life,

you are almost caught in the cobweb of thinking, which is a very suffocating karma pattern. A mental pattern which does not let you relate with reality.

Seeking is the decision to melt you and reinvent you. To melt you and mould you as you want. I tell you, the greatest blessing in life is not even God's grace, but seeking for God's grace. It is not even enlightenment, seeking the enlightenment.

Seeking is the time you can enjoy the glory of Enlightenment, because after you become enlightened, You are that, what is there separately to enjoy.

Seeking is the real honeymoon. Seeking is the real time and space where you can reinvent yourself, where you can melt, go on melting, melting, and melting.

An ordinary human being from the birth to the death, he goes on freezing, freezing, and freezing himself. He life is just hijacked by his hormones. By the time he wakes up, he has already landed in death. In the birth he takes off, in a few minutes hormones put the knife on your throat and says, 'fly the plane as I say, where I want.' You are hijacked. When the hormones say, 'come on land here.' When you land, the land is death.

It is just hormones hijacking you. The so called normal life is hormonal hijack. Rarely when you fall in love with something or some person, you develop the ability to reinvent yourself, reorganize yourself, awaken yourself, and look into something fresh.

It is only during the seeking when you fall in love with the highest possibility. When you raise in love, not fall in love. Raise in love with the highest possibility. Only when the seeking starts, your bio-memory starts reinventing itself.

If you fall in love with something physical, you will just alter all your physique. You may start going to the gym, changing your hairstyle, and changing your dress.

When you fall in love with something physical, you decide to change your physical appearance and your hairstyle. If you are from a lower middle class family, you change your hairstyle and dress. If you are from a middle class family, you change your hairstyle, dress and skin color. If you are from a upper class family, you change even the shape of your body through some surgery.

When you fall in love with physical, you adjust and alter your physique. When you fall in love with something super-conscious, you get the ability to change your very consciousness. Falling in love with the super consciousness, and awakening your ability to reinvent and reorganize your very bio-memory, your very core consciousness, is what I call seeking.

In whichever way you feel connected, you try to adjust yourself to that. When you fall in love with something physical, you try to alter your physical appearance. Whether you buy or grab, or steal, or hook or crook, you get the ability to change.

When you are in love with something physical, you change your physical appearance. When you fall in love with something super-conscious, you awaken your bio-memory and intelligence to alter your very core consciousness: your very bio-memory and your very being. The ability to reinvent, re-organize, and rediscover your very bio-memory, is what I call seeking.

When you start seeking the higher possibilities, your body gets rearranged, your mind gets reorganized, your intellect gets reinvented, your bio-memory gets rejuvenated, and your consciousness gets re-cognized.

When you re-cognize yourself, naturally you will recognized. When you re-cognize yourself, the world will also re-cognize you – that is recognizing you.

Seeking the higher possibilities,
physically or mentally or consciously,
is the key truth.

Seeking, however much, I mould the words and decorate, seeking can never be beautified by any of the words I utter. It can never be glorified by any of the words I am trying to express. Only when you taste it, you know the power of it. I will give you an example. When you are a teenager, when your Mom asks you to buy vegetables and milk or some groceries from the store, you won't walk even up to the corner of your street.

But when you fall in love, especially that puppy love, to have a glimpse of your girlfriend or boyfriend. You will be ready to walk five kilometers, to have a glimpse of your boyfriend or girlfriend. When your Mom says, just buy some vegetables, milk or grocery you can't walk five houses. But when you fall in love, the five kilometers distance looks like nothing.

When you fall in love, your capacity to reinvent yourself is awakened in you. In the same way, when you fall in seeking, the capacity to reinvent your very core Consciousness gets awakened in you.

If your teacher says, 'wake up in the early morning and start studying for exams,' you won't do. But when you fall into seeking, you will wake up early in the morning, and you will be up and alive, reading Upanishads, doing Yoga, and meditating.

What puppy love can do to you, seeking can do the same thing to your Consciousness. In puppy love, the energy you radiate in your body and mind, you will radiate tons of it in your core Consciousness in seeking.

When the seeking is awakened in you,
even you will be surprised about you.
When the seeking was awakened in Me,

even I was surprised about My capacities, about what I am doing.

Your very understanding about you will become different when the seeking is awakened in you. You become so serene, so graceful, so alive, so light, and ready to take-off. You are no more a hard stone. You become one with the thin air, ready to go higher, higher, and higher. Seeking makes you LITE and LIGHT.

If you taste seeking, that’s enough. You got it. You really got it. In seeking, you just see and you can do anything. It is like you can take out your kidney and wash it and put it back. Take out the intestine and clean it and put it back. Take out the heart and pump a little energy into it and put it back.

If you can do that, how easy it will be for you to maintain your health. You will exactly get that same capacity related to your consciousness in seeking. You just know which part needs to corrected, completed, cleansed, altered, and awaken it. Seeking awakens that potential in you.

Not just cleansing your liver or kidney or intestine, but the source energy of your liver, kidney, intestine. Seeking just intoxicates you with the ultimate truth. Then nothing else is needed. When you are intoxicated with the ultimate truth, nothing else is needed. Life in its fullest form is experienced.

The moment seeking starts, you wake up to the Cosmos. How everyday in the morning you wake up to this world, in the same way when the seeking starts, you wake up to the Cosmos, the higher energy.

It is the spirit of seeking that keeps the highest possibility available to human beings. The spirit of seeking is much more than Enlightenment itself. It is much more than anything which can be said and which can't be said.

BE A SEEKER IN EVERYTHING

Without the context of seeking, even renunciation can lead you into laziness. A lot of people talk as if they are renouncing just to justify their laziness.

Renunciation is not renouncing the action. You grow grass, feed the cow, milk, then make it as curd, churn, get the butter, boil it, make ghee, and offer the ghee to the Deity, Divine, God, or Guru. That is renunciation, sacrifice.

If you don't grow the grass that is not sacrifice. That is boredom and tiredness. Many people don't even take the effort of growing the grass and they say, 'Oh, everything is Maya.'

Without understanding the context, even the greatest truth can be missed and misused.

Seeking, honest seeking, authentic seeking, being integrated to your seeking, is one of the most important alignment you need to do in your life, every day. Because it is only by seeking your Being is kept in the most possible, highest peak of awareness.

Keep the seeking alive. Let the seeking become your first response to life. Let the seeking be the source of inspiration for you to live. Let the seeking be the energy to live. Let the seeking be the intensity to live.

Without the context of seeking, the most subtle truths are never cognized. Cognizing the most subtle truths, in the right context happens only by you keeping your seeking alive.

Everything from deity worship, attending satsang, reading the scriptures, doing voluntary service, pranayama, yoga, spiritual practice, whatever you are doing, should strengthen your seeking, should make you more and more strong seeker.

The depth of your seeking should be increased! Don't ever think without seeking any higher thing can be achieved. No. Everything, every higher thing, is achieved only by seeking.

MAKE SEEKING PART OF YOUR COGNITION

One of the biggest mental disorder
is being unable to sit with yourself.
Understand, just learning the concept,
not making it as part of your cognition,
is the most dangerous.

Just hearing these words, not making it as part of your cognition, will give you pseudo satisfaction as if you know it is truth. That is the most dangerous. That is why I tell you, before initiation, the disciple need to be prepared. The moment you are initiated, you should just follow the truth.

Pain is such self destructive mechanism that will not allow you to reinvent yourself with any new concepts and strategies. Knowing all the spiritual truths, but not living them makes you feel as if you are already living them, that is what is incomplete knowledge.

How ever much you may know about yoga, unless you DO, you won't have the result. How ever much you may know about swimming, unless you start swimming, you will not have the result. How ever much you may know about surgery, unless you do it, you don't know what it is.

Knowing but not doing, the non-practice, that's the most difficult mental setup. Once you acquire that, your whole life is gone. Listening to the concept but not living them, listening to the truths but not living them, that is the most dangerous.

Once that mental setup comes to you, anything you know you will know how to brush it aside. It is like watching an advertisement on the TV, 'Call now, call now, call now.' How you don't even care and change the channel, you will develop the same attitude even towards the spiritual truths.

When the truth says, 'You are Consciousness, You are Consciousness, You are Consciousness. Start living,' you will switch to another channel. If you develop the attitude of inaction in the face of spiritual truths, then nothing can help you reinvent yourself.

If you think, 'I'll attend all the sessions, classes and learn the strategies, but I don't need to do anything, because I know I am Consciousness, and Swamiji has been saying the same thing since 2003,' then you are worshipping the ignorance.

Pain in life makes part of you stagnant constantly. Stagnation is the residue of pain. Being stagnant, feeling stuck is the hang over of pains in life, which happens constantly till you become enlightened. So the one and only solution is: reinventing yourself and re-strategizing yourself constantly.

When you are driven by your greed or fear, constantly you will reinvent yourself. If you are in love with a girl, how constantly you will reinvent yourself to demonstrate your love to her or impress her.

If you are afraid of your wife, how constantly you will reinvent yourself to save yourself or to escape from her. When the fear and greed is there, how you constantly reinvent yourself, re-strategize yourself, do that same out of inspiration or the great truths.

Any spiritual truth, the moment you hear it or listen it from the Master, it has to be implicated, if not it will never be implicated. If you don't make it as your cognition by today's sunset, it is not useful for you, forget it. Otherwise you will develop a wrong pattern of listening, but not living. Don't do that; that is Atmahana, saying no to life.

Fools are those who listen to the great truths, but do not make them as part of their cognition. If you have postponed the spiritual truths in your life without letting them become your cognition, parts of you have already frozen. It has become dead.

Melt all those parts which have become dead, frozen, and re-strategize your whole life with that truth, 'I am Consciousness.'

Don't be pushed by fear and greed, be pushed only by tremendous joy, inspiration, happiness, bliss, fulfillment, and completion!

If your fuel is only completion and inspiration, you are blessed!

Reinventing yourself, re-strategizing your life, discovering through you, making you flow more and more, making you alive more and more, breaking the parts of you which are frozen, and making the parts of you (tiredness, boredom), which are frozen into alive again, seeking is the enlightenment dosa (South Indian food).

I thought if nobody is listening to the spiritual teachings I am giving, at least I will start a dosa shop and sell Enlightenment through dosas. That is my new strategy. The Enlightenment dosas! Seeking should be the frying pan for pouring your being and re-strategizing and reinventing you!

Photograph of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

Copyright © 2021 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved.

TECHNIQUE: RE-STRATEGIZE YOUR LIFE

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

All the incomplete knowledge which you have learned, but never made as experience makes you fall into hell.

DURATION

As much time as needed.

INSTRUCTIONS

Sit and start scanning sincerely what concepts you have heard and never made them into experience. Start scanning, don't say, 'ah, I am consciousness, I heard in 2004 from Swamiji when he first came to Paris.'

But so many times you denied living that Truth: I am consciousness. But denying and living has become a lifestyle in you now.

See I didn't live I am consciousness, because at that time my divorce was going on, I decided after my divorce, I will rest, relax in peace, live and radiate I am consciousness, until then I need a certain amount of vengeance and anger to fight with my husband.

So at that time I could not practice any spirituality, I have postponed it.

The second time when you look in, you will find the postponing has become a pattern in you.

Today again sit, and contemplate on all the decisions and strategies you can do and make based on the truth: 'I am Consciousness.' Re-strategize your life and reinvent yourself.

Reinventing means re-strategizing your life, re-strategizing your life means reinventing you. So understand, not re-strategizing is not only not good, but dangerous.

AWAKEN THE SEEKING IN YOU

Awaken your seeking, that is enough.

Seeking is intelligent enough, efficient enough, and powerful enough for you to experience the space you are seeking. Rekindle seeking in your life; awaken it into your life.

Decide whatever truths your Master says, whatever truth clicks with you, decide to start living them, and aligning your thinking and lifestyle to that truth. Then your seeking will become intense.

For example, you are thinking about death, you can think about it on your own and try to find out what will happen, or you can listen to what the Master says, ‘don’t worry once you die, you will only be with Me, you will be with Me in the Kailasa, don’t worry.’

If suddenly that answer clicks with you, and you start aligning yourself to that answer, thinking about that answer, cherishing that answer, enjoying that answer, and planning for that space in your inner space, your seeking will intensify.

Either seek on your own or listen to the answers your Master gives. Cherishing His words, entertaining them, enjoying them, enriching them, and encourage them in your system. Then naturally you will start thinking: How will Kailasa look, will I have a western toilet or a eastern toilet there? Will I have food there? Will I have pain and pleasure there? Will I have only pleasure and no pain there? Or will I have only pain and no pleasure? Even these questions will invoke seeking in you.

Then what is the best way I can prepare to go there, should I be lean so that I can fly there immediately, or should I be overweight so that I can be carried on Nandi (Shiva's bull vehicle)? What will be the transport?

Even if these questions look very playful, when you sit and talk it out inside you, within you, they will start provoking many of the corners of you which you have not attended.

Many of the corners of you, which you have not attended, will be provoked, that is what I call seeking. That just melts you. That will bring intensity in you. You will no more be inauthentic in any of your actions. Before doing any action, you will ask yourself: is this going to intensify my seeking and help me to reach where I want to go? Authenticity means all your actions are aligned to seeking.

ESSENCE AND ONLY PRIORITY OF LIFE

Intense decision to have seeking. The ferociousness of seeking is powerful enough light the fire in you to burn everything which needs to be burnt and destroyed in you: laziness, tiredness, boredom, everything which needs to be burnt inside you.

Deciding to seek your home, deciding to seek where you can have eternal rest, deciding to seek where you can have eternal peace, deciding to seek where you can have eternal bliss, that decision itself, that seeking itself is powerful enough to give you the freedom to reorganize yourself.

If there are ten rods made out of copper and you have to make the deity of Shiva, keeping all the ten rods together and tying it, and start carving here and there on that, you will never be able to make the deity of Shiva on it. Just melt it and pour in the mould, you will have a Shiva deity.

In the same way, as on now what you are, by self-development you will never achieve the ‘Self’. The self can never be developed, it should only be discarded. Whatever can be developed is just the mind. Developing your mind can only be called as self-development.

The greatest ability you need to develop, the first priority for you to develop is the ability to reorganize yourself.

The whole seeking and living enlightenment is nothing but reorganizing yourself, not developing yourself. Developing means that today you have the compassion to give ten rupee charity, tomorrow you put twenty rupee charity, the day after tomorrow you put thirty rupee for charity. First you learn little compassion, then you learn little love, that is development.

Reorganizing means changing the very cognition you have! ‘Till today, even my charity was done with the purpose of self ‘me’ ‘me’ ‘me’. This is the wrong cognition. From today even my work is going to be done with the cognition of enriching.’ That is all! The cognitive shift is what I call Seeking.

Intense seeking gives you the energy to melt you and mould you as you want. Seeking means changing your cognition about you, the world, God, and everything, to align to the reality. You do not need anything as the first priority. Seeking is the first priority.

From morning until night, the ideas which drive you: the idea of pleasure, the idea of pain, the idea of right and wrong, the idea of self-respect or self-denial, all of this, see if it is aligned to the reality? Align them to reality, that is all.

That is all is seeking! Nothing else is needed in life.

TECHNIQUE: ALIGN TO REALITY

DURATION

As much time as needed.

INSTRUCTIONS

From morning to night, whatever you do,
the moment you wake up and until the moment
you fall asleep, fall into bed,
everything, see to it,
it is ALL aligned to the reality.
Everything is aligned to the reality of eternal bliss,
to the reality of oneness,
to the purpose of eternal bliss.

LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THE MASTER

The first time when you hear a Guru’s words, with so much of seeking, interest, and excitement, you enjoy it and start picking up many things, and internalizing it as part of your life. Then after some time, your seeking comes down, you listen, but take it for granted, ‘Okay. Ah, like this only He talks. It’s okay. I have heard enough.’ Slowly, slowly, you take Guru’s words for granted.

For how many years you may listen to satsang, you create a huge iron wall around you, the Guru’s words never penetrates and becomes part of you. The is because with each word you created a pain pattern: how not to allow that to get internalized into you. How to keep that away from you.

Your earlier failures or thinking that I tried, but it is not working out, He is great but it is not going to work out for me, develops these kinds of patterns, thought trends, and seeking becomes lost. Even if you live around the Master for years listening to satsang for years and nothing happens to you, you have become a dangerously un-trainable and non-transformable.

Taking the Master’s words for granted, not taking them into your heart and making your life align to it, reinventing your life and re-strategizing is the worst thing that can happen to you. Because other than the Master's words, there is no anchor available on planet earth.

Anybody who has drowned in the ocean of samsara, the ocean of delusion and bondage, the only anchor available to raise yourself to the next level is the Master's words. From the other plane of existence, the only bridge available to this plane, this universe, is an Enlightened Master's words.

If you don't catch that and raise yourself, nothing else: no puja, no meditation, and no spiritual practice can help you. The highest spiritual practice is catching the Master's words, constantly reinventing yourself and re-strategizing yourself.

Reinventing and re-strategizing yourself is the only way. Re-strategizing yourself, with the Master's words, reinventing yourself, with every word of the Master, is seeking.

If your seeking is alive, you will go on reinventing yourself. You will raise yourself by yourself! You will be so alive! So active! You will be so brilliant, so energetic, because seeking is the most powerful way you can exist, you can experience you.

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PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

Constantly seek in your life and explore the possibilities in every field. Keep the practice alive. If you don't explore, you will end up in boredom.

If you are doing a job, if you don't explore the deeper and deeper dimensions of that job, even if that job is paying you billions of dollars, you will be bored. You will donate everything to charity and start doing charitable work.

In any field, whether it is your relationships, business, and even living with your body, if you are bored of the same routine, you bring sickness to your body, so that you have a change of routine.

Many times, just for a change, you bring disease to your body! It is the truth. Anything you don't explore will bore you.

If your so called exciting things like money, profession, and business, can lead to boredom, then what about spiritual practice? If you don't explore, this will also lead you to boredom! That is why, millions of unguided seekers, in the name of meditation, everyday, sleep well!

Even sleep has become boring! That is why sleeplessness!

Anything which you don't explore will bring boredom. That is why, sometimes people are terrorized about meditation. As if they have been asked to take poison! Meditation terrorizes them! 'No, no! I will die by boredom!'

'Practice' means 'exploring the deeper dimensions'. Don't go to a person who is not exploring the deeper dimension for any purpose.

If you want to invest your money, go to a person only who is exploring the deeper dimensions in the field of investment. If you want health, go to doctors or institutions which are constantly exploring the deeper dimensions of health.

If you want legal services, go to a person exploring the deeper dimensions of law, the different aspects of law. If you want to know spirituality, go to a person continuously exploring the deeper dimensions of spirituality.

Practice has died! Even in the big and established companies, they will suddenly sit and try to follow, and get ideas from start-up companies. Because start-up companies have new blood!

As long as you continue to explore,
you continue to practice,
and you continue to raise yourself,
you will be alive.
Life will be oozing out in you.

In any field, continuous exploration keeps you alive.

There is no such thing as a ‘top person.’ Who is the top person? Who is still exploring is top person! In any field, people who explore remain alive. Even in spirituality and yoga!

There is only two ways of life: either you go on expanding you and exploring or you will be practicing slow suicide.

First, your mind will say, ‘oh, every morning I have to come for yoga, what is going on?’ Then you will come and sit and do yoga. I have seen people doing yoga. Yoga should be done as bhoga, not as roga! Yoga should be done as an enjoyment, and excitement, not as a roga, disease.

The excitement you radiate in your body, the whole bio-memory should be alive! Your whole intelligence should be alive, up! Practice constantly exploring! If you are doing yoga, explore the different possibilities of your body: the ability to bend, to make your body strong and flexible.

Constantly exploring in every field is ‘Practice’! If you are spending one hour with your family, get to know each other! Not that you will be staring at the television and facebook! Sit with others! Get to know each other! Explore the possibilities of each other! How can one another support the other's fulfillment! Explore the other person! He may be your son, brother, sister, spouse, daughter, mother, or father.

If you are a Doctor while you attending your patient, look at the whole patient. Don't say, 'I am a lung specialist! I am going to look at only your lungs! Let him have diarrhea and die! I don't care!'

When you are attending a patient,
look at him as a whole!
Expand your possibility.

In every step of life, explore. Whether in your profession, or relationships, spiritual practice, or knowledge accumulation.

If you are reading only your syllabus, you are never going to be successful! You may pass the exam, but you will not be successful! The kid who is educated only in the school, is uneducated! This means, he has not explored the possibilities of life.

Everything you do, even eating, if you don't explore the different possibilities, it will be boring! Even sleeping, if you don't explore the depths of sleep, you will be so bored, you will start having insomnia, sleeplessness!

As long as you continue to explore, you will be practicing life. As long as you practice life, life practices you. This means, it keeps you alive!

When you stop practicing life,
life also feels you are useless:
no need to keep your body alive anymore!

Unfortunately, you have been taught you can't explore the field of emotion, it has to come by itself, you cannot explore it. You can create anything, including your own consciousness, then why not your emotions?

It is you who create it! I am not born with devotion; I created it! Devotion is one of the best ways to be eternally excited in life. Devotion keeps you in eternal excitement. Devotion makes you explore deeper and deeper dimensions of life. Devotion helps you to explore the different possibilities of life.

Practice the different possibilities! Practice every inch! Try to explore the different ways of dressing. Try to explore the different ways of brushing your teeth.

Every small thing in your life, like brushing your teeth, to great things like sitting and meditating for enlightenment, in everything, explore, explore, explore. Exploring keeps the practice alive!

When the practice is alive, you are enlightened! Enlightenment is not end of the practice. When you learn to keep the practice alive forever, you are enlightened! Keep the practice alive is enlightenment.

Photograph of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

POSSIBILITY FOR ANY POSSIBILITY

Whatever you experience as reality is only possibility. If you are experiencing your reality as rich, and everything is good, that is also only a possibility for something greater which is supposed to come. If you are experiencing your reality as bad, poor, suffering, and suffocation, that is also is a possibility for the worst which is going to come.

Whatever you experience as reality is only possibility. If you are experiencing good, there is a great possibility for better. If you are experiencing bad, there is a possibility for worst. But do not ever think the reality you are experiencing is reality. No it is just a possibility.

If you are experiencing fear, it is only a possibility for greater fear which is going to come. If you are experiencing courage, it is only the possibility for the greater courage which is going to come. Everything you experience as reality is just possibility.

You are only a possibility that has
not yet become a reality.
You realize your reality,
anything you experience is not reality.

If you live authenticity, you will strengthen the right possibilities to happen. If not, you will allow your unconscious possibilities to open. That is all is life.

Understand the essence of life.
You are only a possibility.
Your experience is also a possibility.

One of the biggest mistake you do in your life is you think you are still a possibility, but your life is a reality. That is why you feel weak. Your life is not a stone wall already built. It is a wax model getting ready.

The reality you experience is not a stone wall already built. It is only a wax model getting ready.

TAKE ONE YEAR OFF

The moment seeking opens in you, the moment inspiration happens in you, that first one year is a very important year.

It is like the first one year of your marriage. This is a very important time because you set a trend of how your life is going to be, how your patterns are going to be, how you are going to respond to each other, what is your boundary, what is his boundary, everything will be defined in that one year. The first year is very important in marriage, in any relationship.

In the same way, the first year is very important when you are born, because that first year is going to decide whether you are going to live or not. Even for the house, the first year is very important. That first year only is going to decide whether the house is going to stand or not, because it is going to face the seasons, all four seasons only in the first year.

If seeking opens in you, you are feeling something new is happening in your life, if you are excited about spiritual seeking, take that one year off.

How you are going to create relationship with your seeking is going to be decided in that one year. Whether you are going to ripe and get enlightened or your seeking is going to be killed will be decided in the first one year.

The first one year the actions you perform based on the seeking, and the amount of seeking you allow to penetrate into your actions, that is going to decide whether you are going to evolve and get enlightened, or your seeking is just going to die down and it is just going to be one more breeze you experienced for few months.

That one year - if you reach that depth of spiritual experience, even by struggle, it is okay. This spiritual experience I will call it a new word - spiritual cultural shock.

Every individual who comes inside the ashram and stays for more than a week goes through that - spiritual cultural shock. Because it is completely a new culture.

What you call as love will not be love. This is the place where the pure love of Kailash flows, where everybody loves your possibility, your being. A fight between two beings, two people happens when the possibility is not loved.

When the possibility is loved, there will never be a fight. There will be a lot of screaming, there will be a lot of shouting, but there will not be fighting. Screaming and shouting does not constitute fighting.

Understand, fighting constitutes ideological difference to the core. Ideological difference to the core is a basic ingredient for fight. So, what you call as fight outside you will see as if it is happening, but it will not be happening. Same way, what you call as love outside will not be love here, what you call as fight will not be fight here, what you call as fear will not be fear here, and what you call as greed will not be a greed here. It is Kailash.

Only thing you need is somehow hang on! Don't get down from the train, that's all. Whether you are in first class or air conditioning compartment, second class or third class or third class bathroom, don't get off the train!

And I even have a fourth class - just hanging in the train bar. I have all four classes. But somehow hang on, that's all. You will reach. And all four of you will reach the goal.

The fellow who was in the air conditioning coach, for him the travel itself was little tasty, that's all. Otherwise, the goal is the same for all of you.

All four of you will reach the goal. No doubt. Nothing else. Whether you are in the air conditioning coach, first class, second class or third class or third class bathroom or fourth class hanging, hang on! That's all!

CELIBACY THE ONLY WAY FOR SEEKERS

Brahmacharya - living like a God. Just because in the ashram I have the Rishi sampradaya also, it does not mean that I accept this concept of marriage in the life of a seeker.

I am making it very clear. The worst thing that can happen to a seeker, in the spiritual life is marriage. I know, I am going to break thousands of peoples' ignorance.

Understand, as a compassionate being I have to give a place for everybody. Tolerated is different, accepted is different, realized is different.

Marriage in the seekers' life is tolerated. Rishi order is accepted. But only brahmacharya is promoted. Whenever you go to the peak based on body you get back to your animal bio-memory and again it takes at least a few years of spiritual practice for you to raise to the level of Divine.

It is very rare that I speak about the importance of brahmacharya, because sometime it puts the householders into depression. But just because they fall into depression, I cannot be hiding the sacred truths for quite a long time.

Understand, already one-third of your life is gone in search of food, one-third has gone in sleep, and in the remaining one-third, until twenty-five years old you are too busy with education, after sixty-five your body and mind won't be useful to do anything. Then between twenty-five and sixty-five, that forty years, if you get married also, gone.

Seeking is building the new consciousness for you to take a jump. It is like building an airport. How an airport runway is necessary for an aircraft to take off, a brahmacharya body is necessary for you to take off into enlightenment, into the planes of consciousness, into the space of consciousness.

In the modern day, marriage has become a failure system. You don't need a separate hell other than marriage. If you are a seeker, a sincere seeker there is no other way, other than sanyasa and brahmacharya.

In Vedic tradition, even marriage is used to reach the brahmacharya. If you are married, one year is more than enough to experience the smell of sweating and move out.

If you are a seeker, no other way, no other method, no other lifestyle exists other than brahmacharya for achieving enlightenment. If you do not have the goal of enlightenment in your life, then you do what you want, but don't promote that as the right lifestyle.

Untouched beings are the best flowers to be offered at the feet of God. I tell you if you are completely devoted, how will you feel comfortable. I know I am throwing a bomb into many families, but I have to tell some of the spiritual truths.

This necessity for brahmacharya, celibacy for a seeker to get enlightened, is the most practical spiritual instruction I can give. It takes away millions of sufferings, and not only that even your consciousness will be free.

The more and more you feel you are married, you are committed to somebody, it is like continuously cutting the wings of a bird. The more the bird grows every three months, you cut the wings. You just clip the feathers. Will the bird be able to ever fly?

Clipping the feathers is the most unfortunate thing that can happen to a bird. Marriage is the most unfortunate thing that can happen to a seeker.

A seeker does not belong to the human species. Human beings are only potential of seekers. Seeker is the reality that started happening from the potentiality called human beings. And master is the realized of the potentiality of human beings.

The best life a human being can have is brahmacharya. If the fruit has to happen, the flower should not fall from the tree. Fallen flower never becomes fruit. A person who has fallen from brahmacharya, never becomes a Master.

One living sannyasi can create and help thousands of spiritual seekers. Sanyasis are fruits of India's spiritual aspiration.

Sanyas and brahmacharya, the one and the most important spiritual path for achieving the ultimate enlightenment, and achieving the highest reality.