The Door to Enlightenment
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Contents
Introduction ..................................................... 17
What They Say After The NSP... .................................... 17
What is Ananda? The Energy That Never Reduces... ....... 18
All masters Agree on One Point – That We Are Bliss......... 19
In the Mystery of Death Lies the Answer to Life ............. 20
Neither Doubt nor Believe. Have the Courage to
Experiment!.................................................................... 21
How To Get The Best From This Program............................ 22
Come With an Open Mind............................................ 22
How the Mind Works ........................................................... 23
The Healing Effect of This Program................................... 28
Start Relating with Reality ................................................. 29
The Power of Visualization................................................... 30
The Inspiration for the NSP ................................................ 30
Death in My Presence - Before Enlightenment.................. 31
Death in My Presence - After Enlightenment..................... 35
My Own Death Experience................................................. 36
Life, Death and Inbetween States....................................... 44
What Exactly Happens During Death? ........................ 44
Waking World Vs Dream World ........................................ 48
Four States of Consciousness ............................................... 53
During Death, Everything in This World Becomes
Insignificant .................................................................... 56
Leaving the Body Peacefully - The Greatest
Gift Anyone Can Have ................................................. 59
Going Beyond Samskaras - Engraved Memories ............... 60
Chronological Time Vs Psychological Time ............................. 68
You Choose Your Body, Your Birth......................................... 69
Be in the Present ..................................................................... 71
Falling into a Conscious State with Anesthesia ...................... 72
Diseases Rooted in Mental Setup ............................................ 72
Meditation - The Way to Expose Your Consciousness ....... 73
How You Choose Your Next Birth .......................................... 74
Even Poverty is a Conscious Choice ........................................ 74
Physical Body .................................................... 76
Balancing the Body................................................................... 76
Meditation Technique 1 ........................................................... 80
Meditation Technique 2 ........................................................... 81
Meditation Technique 3 - Death Meditation .......................... 83
Sharing of Experience by NSP Participants... .......................... 84
Pranic Body ....................................................... 87
What is Prana? ........................................................................ 87
Desire is Energy ....................................................................... 88
How Do I Know Which Desire is Mine? ............................... 89
Own Desires Vs Borrowed Desires ......................................... 91
Needs vs Wants ....................................................................... 94
A Technique to Drop Emotional Attachment to Desire .... 96
Three Levels of Desires ........................................................... 99
Do Not Renounce for the Sake of Reward ........................... 100
What is the Purpose of Life? .................................................. 101
The Alchemy: From Desire To Compassion ......................... 108
The Power of Awareness ......................................................... 108
You Create the Reality Around You ......................................... 109
Bliss Attracts Fortune ............................................................. 109
Desire is Never in the Present; Truth is Always in the
Present ................................................................................. 110
From Desire to Clarity ............................................................. 112
Meditation ............................................................................... 113
Sharing of Experience by NSP Participants... .......................... 117
Relationship between Rituals and Karma – An Astounding Revelation ....................... 122
Introduction .......................................................................... 122
Seeing the Divine in the Deities ............................................. 123
Significance of Rituals ............................................................ 125
Puja is a Reinforcement of Clicks... Burn Your Sanchita
With It... .................................................................... 131
Meaning of Maanasa Pooja Mantra ......................................... 134
Mental Body ................................................ 137
Collective Consciousness ......................................................... 137
NSP – A Gateway to Collective Consciousness .................... 145
Gurukul Education – Foundation for Nurturing Collective
Consciousness ............................................................ 148
Our Thoughts Can Affect a Glass of Water .......................... 151
Natural Calamities Are a Result of Our Collective
Negativity .................................................................... 153
Guilt – The Greatest Sin ...................................................... 153
Go Beyond Right and Wrong... ............................................. 155
Sanatana Dharma –The Ultimate Rule Book .......................... 157
Shruti and Smriti ..................................................................... 158
The Natural Instinct to Break Rules ..................................... 159
Dead Rules Vs Live Intelligence ............................................. 160
Any Rule Internalized Will Create Guilt in You ................... 164
Rules Exploit Your Fear and Greed and Lead to Guilt .... 164
Nobody Can Live Life Based on Any Law .......................... 167
Guilt is the Root of the ‘Fear of Death’ .................................... 168
Guilt is the Root of Greed ...................................................... 170
The Stone of Guilt in the River of Your Mind -
The Block in the Flow of Intelligence ............................ 171
Anger – A Way to Come Out of Guilt ..................................... 172
Psychological Illness Due to Guilt .......................................... 174
Three Kinds of Guilt ................................................................ 176
The Useful Guilt ..................................................................... 177
Jumping Between the Past and Future .................................... 178
Acceptance – The Beautiful Way Out .................................... 179
Mangalatva - Everything that Happens is Auspicious ...... 182
Meditation ................................................................................. 186
Etheric Body ................................................ 190
What is Pain? ............................................................................. 191
Pain – Nothing but Resistance to the Present Moment ... 192
The Power of the Mind Over the Senses ............................... 193
You Invite Pain Upon Yourself ............................................... 195
Self-healing - Just the Presence ............................................. 196
Pain and Pleasure - Two Sides of the Same Coin............... 197
Pain Teaches You That You are Beyond the Body ............. 199
Pain - The Catalyst to Start the Quest for Truth ............... 200
Accepting Your Emotions Objectively ................................. 201
Love and Pain .......................................................................... 202
Pain and Suffering – They are Stepping Stones ................ 203
Pain - The Teacher in the Kali Age .................................... 207
Kids Are Through You, Not Of You .................................... 208
Etheric Body Meditation ....................................................... 209
Causal Body ..................................................213
Darkness - The Rejuvenating Energy .................................... 213
Stop Hating Laziness And It Will Disappear ...................... 215
Depression, Deep Sleep and Death ....................................... 217
Integration Vs Schizophrenia ................................................ 218
Integrated Devotion – From My Own Life ......................... 219
Living Enlightenment ............................................................ 222
Meditation ................................................................................. 225
Sharing of Experiences by NSP Participants........................ 228
Cosmic Body ...........................................230
In The Gap Lies The Real Joy!........................................... 230
Touch The Deep Core of Pain - Go Through to
Something New ........................................................... 232
Faith is Your Antidepressant............................................. 234
Meditation ....................................................................... 235
The Initiation: Be Unclutched ..................238
The Identity Game ............................................................ 238
Pain Shaft or Pleasure Shaft ............................................ 240
Your Mind is Nothing but Illogical, Independent,
Unconnected, and Unclutched Thoughts ................... 243
By Nature, You Renounce Your Thoughts Every Moment 245
Intellect Vs Wealth ........................................................... 249
‘Self-Development’ Is Not Possible ................................ 251
Beyond Identities ............................................................ 254
Life Is Not A Utility ......................................................... 258
Painful Memories - How They Get Registered ................. 262
Nirvanic Body ...........................................267
The Quantum Jump Beyond ............................................ 267
Relating With the Master - Just Love ............................. 268
A Second Birth ................................................................ 270
Realize Your True Nature - The True Revolution ........... 270
Bliss Is Choicelessness .................................................... 272
Bliss Is the Path and the Goal ......................................... 273
Restlessness - Why You Become Tired ........................... 276
The Courage to Break Free From the Past ....................... 277
Drop the Emotional Attachment to Your Memories ........ 278
Breaking Free from Your Mental Setup ........................... 279
What You Think As Joy Is Also Not Joy ........................ 281
Bliss Is The Very Meaning of Human Consciousness ...... 282
Life Is A Psychodrama ..................................................... 282
The Story of The Paramahamsa ...................................... 284
The Door To Enlightenment
The Great Enlightened Beings - Paramahamsas ............. 295
Look Inside, Whatever You Think As You Is Not There ... 296
You Are A Happening, Not A Being ............................. 298
You Have Innate Intelligence to Face Your Life ............... 299
Spontaneity - The True Intelligence .............................. 299
You Are Not The Reflection of The Paramahamsa, You ARE
The Paramahamsa! .................................................... 300
You Are Different Every Moment ................................... 302
You Are Not As Solid As You Think You Are .................. 303
Meditation ....................................................................... 304
Sharing of Experiences by NSP Participants...... ............ 313
Significance of The Spiritual Name .......315
Appendix .....................................................319
TABLE OF FIGURES
Figure 1: How the Mind Works 23
Figure 2: Seven Energy Bodies 29
Figure 3: Varanasi 32
Figure 4: Manikarnika Burning Ghat 38
Figure 5: Sitting in Manikarnika ghat, in the very tower where the death experience happened prior to enlightenment 41
Figure 6: Four States of Consciousness 54
Figure 7: A divine farewell to the departed soul of Sri Sri Nithya Arunachalananda Swami 59
Figure 8: The Time Shaft 109
Figure 9: Collecting agamya karma 130
Figure 10: Dissolving prarabdha karma 132
Figure 11: Deeksha by the Master burns sanchita karma 133
Figure 12: Relation between You, God and I in the Seven Energy Bodies 140
Figure 13: Nithyananda Gurukul 149
Figure 14: Water Bubbles 242
Figure 15: Paramahamsa flying over the lake 289 Figure 16: Fish jumping over the Swan's reflection thinking it is a new type of fish 290
Figure 17: Fish try to capture the Swan in various frames 292
Figure 18: Some fish look up! 294
Figure 19: You are also a Paramahamsa! 295
Figure 20: Chaotic Breathing 311
Figure 21: Chakra awareness 311
Figure 22: Gratitude 313