Introduction🔗

Bowing down to the great soul, mahapurusha - Vyasa, giving our humble respects, devotion and salutations to Bhagavan Veda Vyasa. We will enter into his great gift to the world. The book is called ‘Brahma Sutras’.

This great work ‘Brahma Sutra’ can never be introduced. In your brain, at least a trillion cells are there, connecting with trillions of planets, stars and in existence. When all the trillion cells are awakened, the whole Cosmos is experienced inside the body. The Brahmanda is experienced in Pindanda. Methods for awakening those trillions of cells vary. Yogis try to awaken the trillions of cells by kundalini awakening via the breathing process, visualization methods, verbalization and sounds. Devotees who practice devotion try to awaken those trillions of cells by deep surrender and feeling connection to the highest consciousness in the form of chosen Deity or God. Karma yogis try to awaken the trillions of cells through continuous creativity. There were thousands of methods, systems, techniques, technology to awaken the trillions of cells.

On the banks of Saraswati, a unique experiment was done by some of the great inner scientists. They tried and succeeded, awakening the trillion brain cells and leading a human being to the enlightenment experience, just by imparting an understanding. You can awaken your kundalini shakti, non-mechanical parts of your brain, trillions of cells by pranayama, yoga, dharana, dhyana, samadhi kind of techniques or through deep devotion, feeling connection, surrender to the chosen deity as God through bhakti or intense constant creativity without reason. It is an extraordinary self sacrifice - constantly being creative without bothering why you are being so creative. A man who works all the time, never even thinks he is working.

Real Karma Yoga means continuously working, being creative, not only without asking why you should be creative while working for so many hours, but even without thinking. When you are creative, all the non-mechanical parts of your brain awaken. The moment you think, “Why should I be creative?” you are back to being a human being. The moment you ask, “Why should I work? Why should I be creative?”, you ask for a salary, you are a worker. You are no longer God. You fall from the state of God to the state of human being. One of the great things or I can say the greatest thing in the world is being creative not only without asking, “Why should I be active?” but also without thinking “Why should I be creative?” Then your very breathing becomes creative. When you don’t even think about why you should be creative, you expose yourself to hundreds of methods to awaken the human consciousness to its peak.

Hundreds of methods for inner awakening were experimented, researched, developed and experienced by the great rishis, the inner scientists, in various parts of the Vedic civilization. This unique experimentation was being done on the banks of Saraswati, where Saraswati lands on the Earth. If I have to give you the geographical place, it is near Mana, little North of Badrinath, in the Himalayas, almost near the border of India. Still there is a cave where Vyasa lived and compiled all his works, where he wrote Mahabharata, where his unique transcriber Mahaganapati stayed. That is also the place where Bhagavan Veda Vyasa compiled this great work - Brahma Sutras.

It is one of the greatest experiments and greatest successful experiments - awakening the non-mechanical parts of the brain, awakening the kundalini shakti, just by giving you an understanding. I can say, it is one of the most difficult paths, if you have to do it by yourself, but also one of the simplest paths if an incarnation is there to do it for you - opening the non-mechanical parts of your brain, awakening trillions of cells in your brain, awakening your kundalini shakti, just by deeper and deeper and deeper understandings about existence. If you have to do it by yourself, it is almost like having a matchstick and trying to measure the whole world with the matchstick. The moment you awaken one cell and go to another cell, this first cell is already sleeping. Let me exactly define what awakening is. The experience which you carry about you, that existing ‘I’, should function and connect with the reality. So what you think as you, the individual self, should function through all trillion cells and directly relate with reality. This is the exact definition of ‘awakening’. Now, if that pratyakatma chaitanya, the individual consciousness is functioning through the eyes and relating with the reality, already the tongue is sleeping or slipped into falsehood. If that ‘I’ is related with reality through the skin, the ears are sleeping or slipped into falsehood. Understand, any part in you or any cell in you which is not connecting with the self and the reality is not being bridged with it, is either sleeping or slipping. All sleeping is slipping into falsehood.

For example, your ears are functioning, your eyes are functioning, but if you are not completely aware about the changes you are experiencing in your skin, the skin part is not in reality. Those cells are in falsehood, slipping into falsehood. So you are not completely enlightened. All trillions of cells, connecting with the self and the reality means all three are in tune. This experience is what I call ‘inner awakening’. If you have to do this by yourself it is almost impossible. Only a person whose all trillions of cells are awakened can be a person established in satya, truth. Till then, everything is mithyā - falsehood.

A man who can lie through the teeth knowing he is talking about something other than what he knows, what objectively is, or what he believes as his, will never be able to even realize the depth of falsehood in which he is slipping into.

The most unfortunate thing that can happen to a human being is landing in a profession where you need to lie constantly. I can tell you, I am not making this statement as per law, I am making this statement as per the Cosmic law. Even the worst professions, like prostitution and all, does not damage your consciousness so much. It damages your body. You get all kinds of STDs, suffer, and damage your body, but even those professions do not damage your consciousness as much as an eternally lying profession. I can say, there are some professions where lying and success is equal. I always tell people, “If you are a seeker, pick up the practices which do not damage your consciousness.” Pick up such a lifestyle. There are millions of ways to make money. There are millions of ways like say real estate. In real estate you don’t need to lie. You can say, “This is the value of the land. I will give now, otherwise I don’t want to give.” Because land has no value basically. It is a value you fix, so there is no lying in that. “What rate I bought, you don’t need to bother. If you give this much money, I’ll give you this land, otherwise no.” So there is no lying involved. It is outright straightforward. So take up professions where you don’t need to constantly lie. I tell you, if the part which goes on creating lies awakens in you, all other parts will be dead, not only sleeping - dead. Because this lying part gives tremendous confidence to your brain, “You are not needed. I will run life, I can keep the whole thing alive, because for every moment, I will cook up a story and keep things alive.” It acts almost like a security agency, army telling civilians to sleep and slip off. Army is good in some situations, but sleeping because the army is there, is not the right thing. Sleeping away from responsibilities because the army is there, is not the right thing.

This great experimentation of keeping the whole brain alive just through deeper understandings was experimented successfully by Vyasa. Understand. If you don’t have a master, this can never be done. Without a master, you can succeed in yoga, through the yogic techniques you can create kundalini awakening, you can have inner awakening. Without master, you can be successful in bhakti yoga, you can feel connected to some God or deity, achieve enlightenment. Without a master you can go on being creative. However, the awakening of all trillion cells through deep understandings without a master, just by yourself, is impossible. When you have a master, this is the easiest path. In yoga, even if you have a master, you need to do it. In bhakti path, even if you have a master, you need to have that feeling connection. You need to connect with him. You need to be in physical presence. In karma yoga again, you need to work, be creative. But in this path of understanding, Jnāna Yogā, you just sit in His presence, listen; listen through every understanding. He opens various parts of your brain, non-mechanical parts of your brain and the inner awakening happens. And He awakens your kundalini just by giving you deeper and deeper understandings, nothing else. This was the greatest experimentation done in the Saraswati civilization.

I bow down to the great Saraswati, in whose lap this amazing experimentation was done. I can see the perfection and how that great successful experiment is now getting repeated. It is repeating itself. Understand, the moment any experiment in any field becomes successful, it becomes an independent intelligence. It goes on repeating itself in

history. For some reason, even if all the aircrafts in the science of making aircrafts disappear from Planet Earth, after 10,000 years, a new man exists, he will try, discover, rediscover the whole science of flying. Because once something is experimented and succeeded, it becomes an independent intelligence in the Cosmos. It becomes an energy center. It repeats itself in the flow of time again and again, including the experiments like Hitler. Please understand, Hitler is an experiment. Unfortunately successful. So these experiments also repeat in time again and again, because it becomes an independent intelligence once it becomes successful. That is why in the Vedic tradition, we say - Hiranya, Hiranyaksha, Hiranyakashipu, then Ravana, Kumbhakarana, then Kamsa and Shishupala

You can open up for politics and become part of the repetition of the successful experiments of politics; you can open up your life for wealth and become the successful repetition of wealth; you can open up just living in a low-minded way, running around irresponsibly and being part of the mass unconsciousness which is another independent intelligence; or you can open up and be part of the great repetition of the greatest conscious experimentation that has happened in the Cosmos regarding Inner Awakening.

If you are feeling connected and connecting with the group, working with the inner awakening and being part of that repetition, you are a Brahmana. If you are opening up to the group which is doing the political revolutions, you are a Kshatriya. If you are opening up to the groups doing the accumulation of the wealth, you are a Vaishya. If you are going around irresponsibly with the group, creating these fan clubs, irresponsible life, you are a worker class, fourth class. If you are going around connecting with the groups which destroy others, and you are being part of those experimentations repeating, you are a chandālā.

I can see honestly, the great successful experiment done by Bhagavan Veda Vyāsa, with group of seekers, awakening the kundalini shakti and non-mechanical parts of the brain, just through understanding without anything being done by the disciples as a great successful process, unfolding and repeating itself here, now. That great successful experiment, which awakens the non-mechanical parts of the brain, the kundalini, just by widening the understanding again and again and again. That process became successful maybe 10,000 years ago when for the first time Bhagavan Veda Vyasa did it, and it became an independent intelligence. That happening has become independent intelligence much like a conscious star rolling around in the Cosmos. Whenever a right muhurta hits that star, that star opens itself, then that happening repeats itself. I can see, from today, that happening is repeating itself.

When Vyasa did this greatest successful experiment, he left a few code words in the Cosmos for the next generation of incarnations to pull out and make that successful happening repeat itself. Those code words are only called Brahma Sutras - Aphorisms on Existence. I can say, “Aphorisms of Existence”. Honestly, I know in My heart now Bhagavan Veda Vyāsā, Saraswati and that great happening that has become a successful experiment, the Brahma Sutras, the whole thing is going to repeat itself again from today.

Let Vyasa and Saraswati flow in this tongue and liberate all of us, enlighten all of us. Let the great successful experiment Brahma Sutra repeat itself.

One great thing about this Brahma Sutra is you don’t need to practice anything. It’s completely My responsibility. All you need to do is to sit and understand the words I utter as per your dictionary, that’s all. Nothing else. You don’t need to bother about My dictionary. You understand as per your dictionary. It’s My responsibility to create the right words, which will lead you to inner awakening as per your dictionary.

First choice will be physical presence. If it is really not possible, at least sit as groups. Third choice only, sitting in your bedroom all alone and watching. Gather as groups, because with a group of seekers around you, you are more attentive, awakening is more possible, especially when you are initiated into levitation or kundalini awakening and

experiencing it already. You will create My presence there. I tell you, in your satsang group, if there is one levitator whose kundalini is awakened, at least 7 people will have the effect of it. So look around, see the proportion in your satsang center. Try to sit as groups.

I tell you, nothing else is required. In other systems, like yoga, bhakti, karma yoga, you need to do some sādhanā. For Brahma Sutrā, no sādhanā is required, so the only sādhanā you need to do is assemble as a group, connect through video conferencing and sit in front of the Master. That's all. Take up this as sādhanā. Don't try to do it from your bedroom. So take up this as sādhanā, assembling as a group and sitting for this great repetition, one of the greatest, successful conscious experiments of enlightening beings just through understanding.

Throughout this book, there is no technique. The only techniqueless spiritual book in the world is Brahma Sutrās. Nothing needs to be done. Nothing, nothing at all. I promise, I will not give you any homework from Brahma Sutrās. There will not be any technique, there will not be any method, there will not be any homework. Vyāsa does not believe in homework. He just believes in being homeless. Not only does he take away the homework, he takes away the very idea of home. He leads you beyond home, the ultimate homeliness. He can make you feel homely with the whole Cosmos. He can make the Cosmos as home for you. I have somehow introduced what is going to happen, that happening which is going to repeat itself, now I'll have to introduce Vyāsa, the first inner scientist who successfully experimented and made this happen. I want to tell you, in this happening you are not even asked to sit in padmāsanā to awaken kundalini.

This is the most successful and powerful happenings. I tell you, if you still think you have not experienced levitation or kundalini awakening and you are a strong intellectual, you are going to experience now with this happening. This is specially for you. If you are a type where the Yoga Sutrās, Shiva Sutrās, Nāradā Bhakti Sutrās did not create that inner awakening or happening in you, it's time for you. You will not miss it now. Nobody will miss it now, because just by understanding Vyāsa can make it happen.

I can say, Vyāsā is the modern man's Guru. Because modern man does not want to do anything, except sitting in front of a computer. I can say, Vyāsā is the only practical guru, the oldest yet most modern, because he does not ask you to even sit straight. You can just relax on a couch, only thing you should not sleep; you should try to have the cognition of what I am talking, that's it. Just like how you sit and listen to the news in the TV channel or sit and watch cricket on TV, or something on the computer, same way sit and watch. Understand. That's enough. The inner awakening simply happens, because Vyāsā does surgery on trillions of cells of your brain, by using the right words. When certain cognition happens in you, certain part of your brain is awakened and acts as the bridge between the self and reality. Vyāsā is such a great inner scientist, he uses powerful right words constantly and makes that awakening happen and keeps the bridge alive and goes on awakening all the parts and keeps the bridges alive and makes the ultimate inner awakening.

To show the power of this Brahma Sutrās, I can throw at least three challenges. One, anybody who sits and listens, continuously, allowing this to happen in them, understanding this - first thing, in a measurable way, your brain will show intense high quality activity, mitochondria cell energy increasing and deeper strands of DNA awakening.

Next, in a visible way, your skin color will change and a shine will come in your eyes and skin color. Please understand, visible change in your eyes and skin color will happen, just by understanding Brahma Sutrās. These are all side effects of the Brahma Sutrā happening in you.

First thing, a visible quantifiable, measurable, high positive activity in your brain, non-mechanical parts of your brain and intense increase in mitochondria cell energy and awakening of deeper strands of DNA. All these three I classify as 'one'. Second, visible differences in the shine in your eyes and skin.

Third, it may look too much, but I have to mention, you will have the ability to understand and live with anything in life. Anything in life. Nothing will give the surprise of ignorance. See, when you are ignorant about something, a certain surprise or certain unknown feeling you experience.

I tell you, after age twelve, not even once I have had that 'unknown surprise' feeling about anything. Even now, I do not even remember how that feeling will look or will feel. For example - you do not know who is on the other side of the curtain, you are ignorant and you have something unknown. After moving the screen, it becomes known. So you

know the difference between the known and unknown. I wanted you all to know, after the age 12, I do not know the difference between the known and the unknown. I just know what is there. Not only beyond the screen, inside the screen and the person who is inside, beyond the screen, what is inside him. The idea of having something unknown will disappear from your brain center.

The idea of the unknown is in your brain center, not in reality. In reality, everything constantly reveals itself to you. It just goes on revealing itself to you. You will not have that tiredness of living. If you are having too much unknown in your brain centers, you will be tired of living. Brahma Sutrā will take away that tiredness to live.

The modern day youngsters have so much tiredness to live. They plan about their retirement by 35. By 35, they have started calculating the property they have, the money they can accumulate, when they can retire. The idea of retirement enters into modern youth's mind too early, because of the ignorance centers being intensely active in the brain. Brahma Sutrā will remove that. So Brahma Sutrā is a happening. I know, it is going to be an auspicious happening. Saraswati energy flowing through Vyāsā as Brahma Sutrās is one of the greatest conscious happening and by Their grace and compassion, They are repeating it again for modern humanity now through Me. It is a happening. First, let this happen, let's enter into the happening.

First Sutrā - 'athāto brahma jiñyāsā'. Bhagavan Veda Vyāsā straightaway starts the subject - deliberation on reality. He is not starting with a shānti mantrā, he is not starting with some prayers, he is not starting with even an introduction, he is straight to the subject - 'athāto brahma jiñyāsā.'

Let us see some existing translations. Swami Gambhīrānandā translates as 'hence thereafter a deliberation on Brahman'. Swami Vireswarānandā translates as 'now after attainment of requisite spiritual qualities therefore as the result obtained by sacrifices etc, whereas the result of knowledge of Brahman is eternal, the enquiry into real nature of Brahman'.

Let's listen to what Saraswati translates - 'athāto brahma jiñyāsā'. Of course, as you all know, I neither studied Sanskrit nor studied English. So I am also listening as It reveals 'athāto brahma jiñyāsā'. Now enquiry into the reality. Enquiry into existence. Cognition into existence. I can say, this Sūtrā means, now let us understand existence. It means you need to understand all the understandings you had till this moment is not existence, is not the truth. The ability to let go is what you need to know, you need to understand from this Sūtrā. The sacred secret you need to catch from this Sūtrā is now let us enter into existence. All the understandings you had about your body, mind, life, death, about life, is not reality. You need to move into reality.

I was explaining the three major visible changes I can challenge, I told only about two, third I did not tell. Now I am telling you. I said, first, you will have the visible awakening and activity in the brain and mitochondria cell energy and deeper strands of DNA awakening. Second, the skin color and shining in the eyes will drastically improve. Third, this happening, this understanding which I am sharing with you, will directly become part of even your dream and deep sleep states of consciousness.

If you leave your college and take up a job, it takes at least 2 years for your dream state to realize, you left your college and you are in a job now. To stop creating dreams related to college, it takes at least 2 years for your brain. Sometimes even after 20 years, you will be having some dreams about college. Now, this understanding will be so deep and so sharp, from tonight this understanding will be part of your dreams. Even in dream states, this will be part of your understanding, your dreams. Even in dreams, you will be hearing and understanding Brahma Sūtrās.

'Athāto brahma jiñyāsā'. Let us enquire into the nature of reality, into existence. Saraswati does two jobs. One, She lands on the Earth, flows over the Earth as a river. Second, She lands on the Earth, goes into the Earth as an understream and spreads all over the Earth and stays as underground water. Understand. All underground water is Saraswati. That is why, all the underground streams are called Saraswati in Vedic tradition.

So I'll do two things. One, after uttering the Sūtrā, I'll expand like Ganges, flowing river. Then, I'll utter the Sūtrā and add more and more words to make you understand. That is the outer flowing part of Saraswati. Second, I'll remove words one by one and drill the Saraswati into your inner being. If it is Yoga Sūtrā, if the Sūtrā is uttered and added, expanded with more words, it is done. It is like Ganges, created in Ganges civilization. I can say, Yoga Sūtrā is created in Kaveri civilization in Chidambaram - Kaveri Delta. Upanishads are created in Ganges civilization. If I am

commenting on Yoga Sūtrās, if I just add more words to the Sūtrās and expand like a flowing river, it is done. If I am working on Upanishads or Yoga Sūtrās, this method is enough, because they all happened in Ganges civilization or Kaveri civilization.

But Brahma Sūtrās happened in Saraswati civilization. Saraswati has two jobs, two ways. One, She flows as a river on the Earth and another one, she gets into the Earth and stays as underground water all over. So whoever wants water wherever and drills, She comes out. All underground borewell water is Saraswati. So now, Saraswati will flow into you. One, more and more words I add and give you the understanding that will stay in you like an open river, transforming your life, the way in which you live. The second part of Saraswati, which is drilled into your unconscious, gets into your system, stays there as underground water, will come out whenever you need, whenever you ask, wherever you drill. Wherever you drill, whenever you ask, means whenever need arises in your life, it just comes up. So I'll do the process. One, when I repeat a Sutra, I'll go on adding more words and give you an understanding, then again I'll repeat the Sutra and remove each word and give you a different understanding.

“Athāto brahma jiñyāsā”. Let us now enquire into the nature of reality and existence. This is the overflowing river, commentary, open. Then the second part is, why so many words? Let’s remove the words “Let us”. Why existence, reality, nature? One word ‘reality’ is enough. Then, how can you enquire into reality, it is there. So remove the word ‘enquire’. Finally what word is there - ‘reality’. Why do you even need a word ‘reality’, when what is, is reality? Relax!

The sacred secret in this sūtrā is, let us enter into reality, so be ready to discard, let go, all the ideas you had about everything including reality and what you call life. That readiness makes you ready for Brahma Sūtrās, the greatest happening, repeating itself. I bow down to that great Saraswati flowing on Neelakanteshwara. On Neelakanteshwara hills only Saraswati is flowing and Vishnu is in Yoga Samādhi sitting there. That place is called Badrināth. Near Badrināth only Vyāsa stayed and that is the space where Saraswati is landing on the Earth, Vishnu is meditating and in Yoga Samādhi. Let that energy repeat itself on all of us. Let us all enquire into reality - “athāto brahma jiñyāsā”.

Saraswati flows in modern day, not only underground, above ground also, in the sky also! Now she is flowing in three ways. One, as a river: those who are directly sitting and experiencing in My physical presence. The other, as the underground energy: even if people remember and meditate on Me, they can start getting these understandings inside them. And the third, above ground energy, through the satellite waves and wherever you drill up, through the internet connection you receive Saraswati in your house!

Before entering into today’s sutrās, I wanted to remember with deep respect the whole tradition of Brahma Vidyā. In the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, the Guru transmits understandings that are irrevocable. In the path of devotion, God, your chosen deity, plays a major role. In the path of Yogā, the technique plays a major role. In the path of meditation, the technology plays a major role. When I use the word ‘technology’, I mean all the things around meditation, around the technique. With Yoga, you may not need music. In the path of Yogā, you may not need other accessories for the technique. But in the path of meditation, it is not just technique, it is the technology also; you need some more accessories. In each path, you need some things for the ultimate to happen in you. But in the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, the one and only requirement you need is Guru, that’s all. You and Guru, both of them are lost in some forest, where nothing else is available, that’s enough for you to get enlightened. If both of you are lost in some forest where nothing else is available, the enlightenment will be very easy and quick, because you will not have anything else to do. No other entertainment is possible. That is the reason, always the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, the Guru and Disciples, get lost in the forest.

Before entering into today’s sutrās, I wanted to share some more truths related to Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya. As I was expanding yesterday, awakening your complete understanding, awakening your complete life, awakening your complete existence, fulfillment in awakening. This fulfillment happens through so many ways. I was describing only a few examples yesterday, like yoga, meditation, dhyāna, tantrā or karmā. But the uniqueness of this Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, means the tradition of Vedānta Vidyā, is the tradition of sitting and listening to these great truths. It is

somehow unique, because just by the proper understanding, the deepest possibilities of your inner space are awakened, the deepest possibilities are your inner space are brought to life.

And you are fortunate, you have somebody or some energy, that is the right word I will use, which chooses perfect words, which is master in choosing words. Because in Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, the words play a major role. It can bring tremendous understanding. It can move mountains literally. It can put you in the restful awareness very casually. Nothing is required, nothing at all. That is why, the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya is always misunderstood and many times lost. Because in this Sampradāya, the one and only thing you need is an awakened Guru. When the awakened Guru is there, no tool is required, because no tools are used, nothing is left. Birds do not leave footprint in the air, but buffaloes always leave a deep footprint in the sludge. If you are travelling in the path of buffaloes, it is very easy because there will be a deep footprint in the sludge. Techniques, methods, methodology, path, the path travelled will be there. You can easily catch it, leave it, and travel that direction again.

But the unique thing in the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, in Vedānta Sampradāya, is no footprints left. No techniques are left, no methodology. If you analyze, analyze, analyze exhaustively all the Vedānta literatures, you will see only 3 advice - Shravaṇa, Manana, Nidhidhyāsana - listen, imbibe, express. What to listen to? There is no answer. Whom to listen to? There is no answer. What to imbibe? There is no answer. What to express? There is no answer. Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya does not leave footprints. It is an ecstasy. Birds do not leave footprints in the sky. Paramahamsas do not leave technique trails in the conscious inner space. This is one of the great advantages in the Brahma Sutrā in the Vedic tradition, Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya. Same way, the big disadvantage is it is completely Master centric.

I wanted to tell you all, all Hindu Sampradāyās are either cult or culture. How you look at it is the only difference. All Hindu Sampradāyās, all Vedānta Sampradāyās, can be considered a cult or culture. If you say, some sampradāyās are a cult, then you should understand, all sampradāyās are cult. If you think some sampradāyās are culture, then all sampradāyās are culture. Because in Vedānta sampradāyās, there is nothing else left, no technique, no chosen deity, no karmā, nothing needs to be done. All you need is a Master in front, who goes on giving understanding - deeper and deeper and deeper layers of understanding, who goes on peeling you. So in this whole Vedānta Sampradāyā, the only requirement is a proper Guru.

Beautifully Vedānta Sampradāya describes how to catch the right Guru. Peel all the things which are common. For example, if I have an organization, somebody else is also having organization. There are so many spiritual organizations. Remove that part from My glory. If I have a body, then many of you also have a body. Remove that part from My glory. If I have amazing orating power, many of them are also having. Remove that part from My glory. So go on peeling, peeling, peeling. Finally, at some point your logic will not be able to peel further, but still you will feel, "He is something more than all these things." When your logic feels, "I cannot peel any further, I have peeled everything. Even after all these things are removed, He has something more than all these things put together." When you feel this understanding with somebody, He is your Guru. If that does not happen, if you feel, "No, no, no, after I peel 3-4 things, He is not worthy," then forget about Him. He is not worthy of being your Guru. You are not worthy of being His disciple.

The Guru-Disciple relationship is sacred, it should be started after thorough study and research and should never be ended. I tell you, ending the Guru-Disciple relationship in your life is the worst crime you will do to yourself, the worst punishment you can impose upon yourself, and the worst conspiracy against yourself. One more thing I want to tell you, change of Guru is perfectly alright, nothing wrong. For example, you go to one Guru. After some time, you grow out of him or you get more matured, you feel connected to some other Guru, that is perfect, nothing wrong. At some point if you feel you have grown out of Me, please carry on with your life if you are feeling connected to somebody. But dropping from the Guru and not having some other Guru is the crime. It means, you did not drop from this earlier Guru because you are advancing, you dropped because you have fallen. Your arrogance, ego, hatred, has come in between. In the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, a disciple is sent to another Guru by Gurus. It is traditional and accepted, or the disciple himself goes to another Guru, it is accepted and traditional. No problem, but when you drop from a Guru, for some other reason - useless, foolish, dumb reasons - then something is seriously wrong. Unless you are ready to jump out of the junk logic, stupid logic and have certain maturity, you are not for Brahma Vidyā.

In Brahma Vidya, you are not even asked to surrender. In Brahma Vidyā, there is no sharanāgati. There is no surrender. The funny thing in the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya is, once you are initiated, the Guru has to do pujā to you. He has to worship you. If you see in all the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāyās, once a disciple is initiated, he will be made to sit in

the seat and Guru will do aarti. Because here, the knowledge, the vidyā, holds the center. Nothing else matters. Brahma Sutraās does not start with yāma, niyamā, āsanā, prānāyāma. The original Vedānta sampradāya tradition does not talk about any prerequisite. The one and pre-post all requisites is an enlightened Master for you to sit and understand his words. That's all. Nothing else. Very beautifully Shankarā puts it, manuṣyatva - human body, mumukshatva - seeking, and the nearness of Mahāpurusha - enlightened being. That's it. Nothing else is needed.

The Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, Vedānta sampradāya, I can say, is the easiest path, because you don't need to do anything except listen. In all other traditions, you need to do something after listening. For example, in bhakti tradition, you need to listen about the bhakti, then you need to practice it. In the yogā tradition, you need to listen about yogā, then you need to practice it. But in Vedānta sampradāya, just listen, that's all. No need for any practicing, that's why I said, I will not give you any homework. No homework. The listening becomes so powerful, the listening is so intense, when an incarnation expresses these great truths, it is said that even devās (gods) come and listen. And not only that, even the deities shake their head and listen. There are thousands and thousands of stories how when a Master expresses the great truths, Gods and Goddesses come and sit and listen. And deities will stay there with their intense presence. All you need is to listen, listen, listen. That is why J Krishnamurthi, whom we consider from Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya although he denies all sampradāyās, says he does not need to accept he belongs to Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, but we accept him because we know from where he is coming. He goes on repeating, 'Listening is God. Listening is God. Listening is God.' Because nothing else is required for you to experience God. And I tell you, even Gods listen.

As I said yesterday, when a Master expands on the truth, it is not just words. See, in the Cosmos there are so many great happenings, floating like a bubble, balloon, they are all floating. I can say, the happening of Jesus, because it has become a successful experiment, it is an independent intelligence. Happening of Krishna, happening of Rama. So all these things have become an independent intelligence and they are floating around in the Cosmos, in the Space. To whatever bubble you tune yourself, that opens in your life and happens in your life. You become part of that happening, that happening becomes part of your life. So Bhagavan Veda Vyāsa sitting and transmitting that extraordinary understanding of Cosmos and Brahman and reality and enlightening disciples has become a huge successful experiment and thus, an independent intelligence. It is floating around. When somebody raises themselves to that frequency without any gap between time and space, that experience again expresses. It just opens up and expresses.

In the first chapter, second sutra - "janmadyasya yatah". I'll give you the translations by various Swamis. Swami Gambhirānanda translates as - "that is Brahman from which are derived the birth, etc of this Universe. Swami Vireswara translates as - "Brahman is the omniscient, omnipotent, form which proceed the origin of this world." Let's see how Saraswati translates. I dedicate this whole translation and commentary of Brahma Sutras to Saraswati, mother Saraswati. 'Janmadyasya yatah'. This whole Universe, came from the Existence. Now, you need to understand, the sacred secret in this sutra. The sacred secret in this sutra is, nothing can come out of anything. Yesterday I was telling you, when I expanded on yesterday's sutra Athāto brahma jiñyāsā - let us enquire into the reality of existence. It means, you are ready to drop all the ideas you have about reality. Only then you will be able to enter into reality. You should be ready to drop the ideas you have about reality.

Now I am taking you into the reality. 'Janmadyasya yatah', means from the Cosmos, from Brahman, this Universe originated. I wanted all of you to know, if something can come out of something, the thing which came out, how can this be something other than something from which it came out. If this world has come out of the Brahman, then how can this world be something other than Brahman, the existence? No! It cannot be something other than Brahman. Then, Brahman cannot be causing you illusion or delusion or suffering or pain. Then how am I having illusion, delusion, suffering, pain, pleasure? So somewhere the logic is hitting. It is not matching, the equation is not working out. So before understanding this sutra, you need a certain understanding about the impossibility of logic. There are some things impossible for logic, to grasp or express. I'll give you one simple example. A normal simple

understanding. A rope can be used only for pulling, not for pushing. A bar can be used only for pushing, not for pulling. There is no arithmetic logical calculation to come to this conclusion in any robots. Understand. It is such a simple understanding. Still the scientific community is struggling, how to make this understanding to a robot. Because there is no logical calculation, arithmetic calculation, which can be fed into the robot where the robot can come to the conclusion - "rope can be used only for pulling, not for pushing. Bar can be used for pushing, not for pulling. When a robot sees, it only sees the lines and circles. It cannot come to that comprehension. Understanding the logic and arithmetic calculations, which you believe as the base of life, does not have a solution for the cognition of this simple fact. Just this simple fact. Yesterday I was looking into a very wonderful book - Physics of the Impossible. It is such a simple understanding - ‘rope can be used only for pulling, not for pushing. Bar can be used only for pushing, not for pulling.’ No robot can come to this conclusion. Because there is no logical formula to feed this information or come to this conclusion. The whole Greek civilization is built on arithmetic logic. The whole modern civilization is standing on such a loose shallow one dimension of existence. That is why I am telling you, building life on just logical arithmetic calculation is the most dangerous thing. Any fort can stand only on a few thousands of pillars. These guys are trying to make a huge palace on one pillar. Your life is a huge palace. Humanity is a huge palace. But this Greek civilization is trying to make that huge palace stand on only one part of life, the arithmetic logical calculations. The Saraswati civilization, the Vedic civilization, is trying to build the civilization on reality. When you start your education, reality is taught to you - Athāto brahma jiñyāsā - let us enquire into reality. Not, ‘let us enquire into arithmetic mathematical logic.’ No! But unfortunately, the whole thinking, the fuel of the Greek civilization, the driving force of Greek civilization, and the driving force of the Western civilization is very primitive. That’s the right word I’ll use - ‘very primitive’. Very, very primitive. Even this idea of ‘one God’ is nothing but the arithmetic logic and insecurity. In arithmetic logic, two is always against one. Zero is always against one. The insecurity of the arithmetic logic is responsible for monistic religions. All Ganges civilizations are based on reality. Religions evolved from the realizations that do not talk about one God. I want all the Hindus who are feeling shy about their roots and trying to project Hinduism by saying, “God is one”. No! Hinduism actually says Gods are many. These guys go on saying, “No, no, Hinduism also says - ‘ultimately God is one and many forms are there’. I tell you, Hinduism does not say God is one. God is beyond duality. That’s all - advaita, that’s it. Never ekatva. Come on, this is the reality. We are not arithmetic logic based religion. We do not have insecurity based on arithmetic logic. Our tradition is based on arihantas, which means enlightened ones, not arithmetic. How many trillions of cells are there in your system, that many trillions of Gods are there. Each cell in your brain is a God. We have an understanding on how to awaken each cell. The understanding which awakens each cell is mantra. So you need to look within. The deepest truths should be heard from a person who has travelled to the depths. So the arithmetic logic cannot explain all the questions on reality. You need to use that logic in the initial level and then hit the reality as it is. Janmadyasya yatah. This whole Cosmos comes out of this reality. Whatever is - is reality! Then if you are having fear, pain, pleasure, greed, suffering, through any of this, look into the pleasure, look into the pain, look into the suffering, look into the fear, for solution not into the reality. Reality is from reality, in reality, to reality. Creation - sustenance - dissolving - destruction - all three happens in reality, by reality, for reality. If you touch and see the wall of the room in which you are sitting, it is reality. But if the wall gives you the problem of - it is yours or not yours - and all problems come because of you owning it or not owning it, then analyze that problem not based on the wall, but based on your mind which creates all those problems. The person who is sitting next to you is reality. Then if you have the problem of friendliness or enmity, analyze the problem in the friendliness or enmity, not on that person. Arithmetic logic goes on inspiring you, impressing you, to find out the problem in terms of reality. But the first sutra of the Brahma Sutra makes you understand that problems should be analyzed, understood, solved not in reality but where it is felt. A complete shift in the understanding of life. Janmadyasya yatah. Reality - Cosmos is the origin of the world. I think these two words - Cosmos, world - looks like too many words. I can say, these are attributions. For example, the man who is wearing a yellow dress is an attribute. The man who has seen the ocean is an attribution. If

I say bring that man who has seen the ocean, only the man can be brought, the attribution cannot be brought. Same way, 'the world came out of Cosmos', these words are all attributes and the whole problem boils down to your dictionary and My dictionary. I make a statement - 'World comes out of Cosmos' and you ask, "What is world and what is Cosmos?" Then Cosmos comes out of the world. Both are one and the same. So 'janmadyasya yatah'. Origin happening, ending is - is. There is no change. Anywhere you feel change, find out the problem where you feel the change. Not in what is. What is - is. Where the problem is, should be looked upon. So the solution comes, when you analyze the feeling. The healing happens when you analyze the feeling of pain or pleasure or fear or sorrow or suffering. Healing does not happen if you try to peel the wall. Peel the feeling, not the reality. But you go on trying to peel the reality. Janmadyasya yatah. It means, reality comes out of reality. The Origin of reality is reality. Naturally, reality cannot be giving any suffering. Reality cannot be giving any fear for you. You cannot be greedy in reality. Because in reality, how can you be greedy of you? How can you be afraid of you? How can reality be greedy of reality? How can reality be afraid of reality? Then if you feel, "No, I am having greed. I am having fear." Then look into where you are having it. Not what is. When you look into where you are having it, only you will understand the idea 'having it' is only having it. Not, you are having it. If there are a few moments in your life without fear, then how can fear happen in you? You see, anything that happens should be eternal. If something is not eternal, it has not only not happened once, it never happened! If illusion cannot be eternal, not only it cannot be ephemeral, it cannot even exist. If there is a feeling of, "Till yesterday, it was there," forget about it. A brahmachari asked me, "How can maya be destroyed?" I told him this understanding which will really help all of you. Maya never gets destroyed. We were all sitting on the banks of the Vaidya Sarovar, where there was a flower floating. I said, "Does that flower in any way affect us?" No! Because that does not affect us, we have grown beyond it, it is not only not affecting us, it does not practically exist for us. But a small ant, floating in the water, trying to survive, for that ant that flower can either be a boat or a hindrance to cross. For that ant, that flower is a maya. But for us, not only it is not maya, it does not exist for us. Then he asked, "Oh, we overgrow, we outgrow maya. Then does it mean, when I outgrow my maya, maya does not exist for me?" I said, "No. When you outgrow even the people around you, your friends, your family, your circle, your relationships, everything will be in such frequency, even for them maya does not exist. So, you don't even feel, not only for you maya does not exist, you will understand that even for the whole world that maya does not exist." The frequency in which you exist, even for all of them, maya does not exist. I was giving him the same example. Now we are all sitting. Not only is the flower insignificant and non-existent for Me, for all of us also who are in the same frequency, it is insignificant - the same way, the reality I know. I lost 10 kg by reading a book. I tell you, Brahma Sutra is the sure technique for weight loss. Your whole logic has to grind it, grind it, grind it. It is like Navapashana, chewing the stone. See, before this Shivaratri, we did some cleaning work in that Shiva Linga. We did a traditional repair to perform Kumbhabhishekam again on this Shivaratri day. So at that time, I told them to drill one part and see, because we added some stones inside the Navapashana, we saw those stones had become powder. They are no more stones. Just they have become powder. The power of Navapashana, the medicine, the herb, the stones have dissolved and it has now become one single piece. That is supposed to happen within a year. It has happened. So now this Shiva Linga, does not need any repair for next 1000 years. Because it has now become a single piece. And not only that, anything you apply on it, because that Shiva Linga continuously inhales and exhales, breathes - no paint will stick on it. How many times these guys tried to put some color or coat, nothing stands on it. Immediately the bubbles will be formed. By the time they apply, in 2 minutes bubbles will be formed. They came and asked Me, "What is this Swamiji, how many times we try to color or clean, we are not able to do?" I said, "Go and keep a thread near that Shiva Linga, you will feel that Shiva Linga inhaling and exhaling very beautifully." The thread will go in and come out, very rhythmically. Because it is an independent intelligence. The stone loses its existence into Navapashana. Same way, your ordinary arithmetic logic will lose its power into reality when you deeply understand this Brahma Sutra. So the sacred secret from this sutra is - reality is reality is reality.

It comes from, stays and merges back into it. Then why this suffering, bondage, liberation? These are all just the foolish words taught to you. Just junk those words, and be liberated now. “Wow, that is true. Then what about my day to day problems, food, shelter, name and fame, prestige, society, money?” Come on! Look into those problems where they exist. They don’t exist in reality. When you understand ‘the reality comes out of reality and goes back to reality’, all these problems become a small flower floating on the water. They become insignificant to you. Go on increasing your understanding again and again, establishing yourself into reality - Brahma Vidya. I’ll go on everyday with different dimensions of reality. Today one dimension of reality: reality comes from, stays in, goes back to reality; which can never cause any fear, greed, or suffering to you. If you are having fear, greed, suffering or anything, then be very clear, you are supposed to work on the feeling, not on reality. The arithmetic logical civilization is trying to build the whole palace on one pillar, that is why it is constantly tumbling and falling. Tumbling down and falling is what is the depression of the great civilizations. I wanted the Western civilization to understand, with My deep love, please understand that unfortunately, you build your civilization on a wrong, single-pillar arithmetic logic. That is why you go on suffering in deep depression and emptiness. Here is a solution. Come on! Build and re-strategize. Fortunately, the Western mind is open, curious, inquisitive and ready to imbibe great truths. I am telling you, catch it. Build, re-strategize, replan, review, rethink your basic understandings based on reality, not on arithmetic logic. The understandings of intelligent ones taught as a faith for the ordinary ones later gets developed as a religion in course of time. So the understandings of the intelligent ones need to be reviewed, revised, replanned - and when those understandings are reviewed and replanned, reviewing will change the religion. Whatever is handed over to the common ones as religion, like science, is a religion. Each department is a religion. It is a religion. So, each religion needs to review, relook, replan, re-strategize all the understandings they have about reality, based on this one great revelation - life cannot be built on logical arithmetic. It has to be built on reality, which comes from, stays in, and goes back in reality, which cannot cause fear, greed, suffering. So anywhere fear, greed, or suffering is felt, you need to attend and look into that part - not the reality. These understandings will change the very way we look and perceive living, life. I know for sure, these words will ring in your ears, even in your dream. I am going to be a nightmare for millions of people. I can say, not in a bad way, but more so a nightmare which awakens you from dreams. Listen, listen, listen. I wanted to warn all the people, the ex-disciples. If you are ex-disciples and do not want to connect with Me again while secretly watching this Brahma Sutras on NTV, I want you to know, you're entering into the non-return zone. You cannot be, you will not be able to separate Me and these words. Do not think that you can just see these discourses and steal the ideas and live. You will not be able to stop. I will be entering into your inner space again, and you will be in big trouble. You’ll neither have the capacity and intelligence to drop your ego, and come back, nor you will be able to forget Me because I’ll be haunting you in your dreams. So I wanted to remind all the ex-disciples who are secretly watching these sessions on the NTV. Either have the guts to come to reality by dropping your arithmetic logic or switch off the video and save yourself. Because the words I am coining and designing and it is expressing, I am seeing very clearly, when I utter those words, I see very clearly those parts of My brain are just opening up and I can see very clearly - all the people who are listening, even in their brain, those parts are popping up, opening up. So the great transmission is happening here. If you are sitting with the mood of restful awareness, you are Gods standing in the queue to receive the amrita from Narayana. If you are sitting there secretly saying, “let me steal some words and use for my great books or for my classes or for some other purpose, let me see what he is saying,” you are a Rahu and Ketu standing in the line for amruta. Not only you will not get the amruta, I want you to know you are entering into the non-return zone. I bless you all, to imbibe this great reality. Just sit now for a few minutes. You don’t need to meditate, you don't need to contemplate, you don’t need to do any technique. Techniques are for ordinary people. Just sit. These understandings which I gave you now, will go on in your system by itself. Let the Upanishad happen. Just sit. No technique, no meditation, no process - just sit, you will see the kundalini awakening happening. You don’t even need to close your eyes. Just sit.

I respectfully remember the Brahma Vidya Sampradaya. Today we are entering into the third sutra, in the first chapter third sutra - “Shāstrayonitvāt.” The sutra is just this much - “Shāstrayonitvāt.” That’s all.

Translation says - “Brahman is omniscient because of its being the source of the scriptures. Swami Vireswara translates as “the omniscient and omnipotent of the Brahman being the source of scriptures.” The meaning, the translation of this sutra is - “Brahman is omniscient because of its being the source of scriptures.” “Shāstrayonitvāt.” Just two words. Source of the Shāstras. This is the source of the Shastras. Understand. First let us understand the word ‘Shāstra’. Shāstra means truth about reality. In the commentary, each explains differently. The Vedicas are saying, “Brahman is great because it is a source of Rigveda, Yajurveda, all Vedas.” Naturally the Vaishnavites say, “No, because it is the source of Bhagavata and all the Vaishnavites scriptures.” Each one debates on the word ‘Shāstra’. Shāstra means the truth about reality. Truth about reality. Only the omnipotent, omniscient intelligence will have guts to reveal its quality. Please understand. Only the ultimate will have the strength, to reveal its qualities to you, to reveal truths about itself to you. I wanted all of you to understand the word ‘Shāstra’, does not mean just some book. Shāstra means truth about reality. Only truth has the capacity to reveal its truth. Nothing else can reveal about its truth. Please understand. Leading somebody in the path of truth is very dangerous unless you are established in it. If you are not established and you are leading, a disciple will find out your falsehood. That’s one of the very important truths you need to understand. What is enlightenment? If you ask Me now, I will tell you, “Fan is moving. TVs are functioning. People are sitting. I am talking.” This is enlightenment. That’s all. If you ask Me, “Swamiji, please teach Brahma Sutra for this moment”, I will say, “I am sitting on a gold plated throne. Brahmachari is using a camera and clicking Me. Time is 6:55 as per this clock. People are sitting in front of Me, with a lot of anticipation. Many have gathered around the world to watch what I am talking about.” This is Brahma Sutra, that’s all. Only truth has innate intelligence to reveal itself. Shāstra means truth about reality. Existence is great because it reveals all the truths about its reality. All the psycho drama you add on the things and persons and situations, if they are deducted, truth is revealed. The moment you start the psycho drama of Me being Guru, I start the psycho drama of you being a disciple. The moment you start the psycho drama of friendliness towards somebody, that person starts the psycho drama of friendliness to you. The moment you start the psycho drama of enmity with somebody, the person starts the psycho drama of enmity towards you. Psychodrama of pain, pleasure, love, anger, towards persons, objects or reality, is corruption. Otherwise in truth, in reality, shastrayonitvāt. If I have to translate this sutra - shastrayonitvāt-reality is the origins of the truths about reality, because it is origin about the truths, about the reality, because it has the capacity to reveal the truths about itself, it is great. I tell you, anybody who has the capacity to reveal the truths about himself, will go to the deeper and deeper truths about himself. Today, learn this lesson. Don’t miss it. People whose breathing space you enjoy, who enjoy your breathing space. Just completely reveal yourself to them, even if the relationships are breaking, it’s okay. What you are, what you feel as you are, the truths about you, reveal it to them. I can tell you, even if your relationships are breaking in your life, you will roll in life so beautifully, you will attract the deeper and deeper personalities who are ready to radiate your reality. People who are ready to radiate your reality are eternal companions. You will attract eternal companions in your life. Not only that, you, yourself will experience deeper and deeper realities about you. In West Bengal, there is a great spiritual tradition called ‘Bauls’. The word ‘Bauls’ means in Bengali - Pagal - mad. They stay usually as couples. Couples are not necessarily to be one male, another one female. No! They stay as pairs. Sometimes both will be female or both will be male, sometimes one will be male, another one will be female. The Bauls take a vow - “We will share the deepest truths about ourselves to each other.” And they take a vow - “We will not allow anybody else to be in their breathing space and they also will not enter anybody else’s breathing space.” It’s a very beautiful tradition in West Bengal. They will have a long stick on which they will have a begging bowl. Even while they beg, they will stretch and tell that person not to enter the breathing space, “Put the food from there.” Try this, it actually works. Anybody who enters your breathing space, with whom you share your breathing space, means your friend, family, first circle - the warm circle, show utter naked truth about you to them - what is your feeling about life, about you, about them. You are afraid, I know. So many people come back to the ashram to stay permanently if you do this I know! But sometimes, as I said, Vyasa doesn’t give any technique, he doesn’t give any homework. He just takes away the home from you. So that there is no homework. Vyasa is a dynamic, dynamite diamond. That is why Vedantis have to always move out of the society, because it is a high measure of truth. The other day, I was reading a slogan on a T-shirt - “Truth is a disease that happens to you because of alcohol deficiency.” Reality is the illusion created by alcohol deficiency. Reality is too much for society, but I tell you, fruit is too much for the root. But the foolish root does not understand, fruit is the life for the root. Enlightened master is too much for society but they don’t understand, it is for My sake they are still alive. It is the fruit which justifies the existence of the root. It is for fruit the root exists. Reality is too powerful for society, but the groups, small groups which hold this reality as a stream in their life, or the juice of the Earth, they are the salt of the Earth. It is these kinds of groups for which humanity is still kept alive without being destroyed. I tell you, decide strongly, “Anybody with whom I share my breathing space or who shares my breathing space, I will be completely open and naked and truthful to them, in all possible ways, even if it brings dire consequences in my life.” I can tell you one important thing. It can surely bring only auspicious consequences. Either you will, and if the other person is understanding, you will become so intimate. If the other person is arrogant, unconscious, at least you will not have that person in your life. You are free, liberated. Liberation from illusory relationships is liberation from illusion itself. Liberation from illusory relationships is liberation from illusion itself! At least the people who stay in the monastery should practice this. I should make this law for all the people who reside in My ashrams and temples, who dedicate their life for enlightenment at My feet. Whoever dedicates their life should take this risk. After all, all the people who stay in the ashram as couples, rishis, both have dedicated their life to Me, so they should have patience to see the reality of the other person and show the reality of yourself. If you are a Brahmachari or a single, naturally all your friends have also dedicated their life to Me. Unfortunately, if you still have some friendship outside secretly, then it’s dangerous. It is good, while revealing that friendship will drop by itself. So anything, any truth, you feel about you and the person should be revealed. And another one important thing, within a few days, the truth you feel about the other person and you will change. Again reveal that change. What you feel at this moment honestly about you, about that person, about your relationship - reveal. After 10 days, you may suddenly have a different understanding - reveal that, have guts! Have guts to face the reality of you in front of you. Have the guts to reveal the reality knowing whatever you reveal as reality now is going to change in a few days, few hours or few minutes. This will make your relationship deeper, honest, truthful. If it breaks your relationships, good for you. You will grow. Only truth has the capacity to reveal itself. So decide to reveal yourself completely open to everything. Know very clearly, the chair on which you are sitting and telling a lie to somebody, that chair will be a witness. When somebody else comes and sits in front of the chair and if you tell another lie, that chair will actually tell that person unconsciously, "Don't believe this idiot", it will send the message very clearly inside his bio-memory. When he goes out, he will not believe you. Everything around you, records what you are talking, records what you are. Reality is ease-ness. What you think as reality - reveal, reveal, reveal. Your thinking about reality will deepen and deepen and deepen.

Shāstra means truth about reality. Only the truth has the capacity, intelligence, courage, to reveal the reality about itself. Only the reality has guts to reveal the truths about itself. Only Brahman reveals the truth of its existence. In Sanskrit, we have a very beautiful word, "Svayam Prakāsha" - self-shining, self-effulgent. By its existence, it reveals its nature, its presence. Only the chaitanya reveals its presence by its own existence. You cannot hide chaitanya. How can you hide? Self-effulgent cannot be hidden. Decide this as a first step - "I will live like Brahman, reality. All the truth about me will be completely open and anybody comes will be able to read it. My life will be an open book." When your life is an open book, you become a shāstra for others and you. When you reveal the truths about you to others, completely and honestly, understand you will learn more than others about you. Start talking, start opening up, you will see. Suddenly, you will start radiating so many wonderful, amazing auspicious energies and characteristics. And not only that, when a stone gets rotated in the flow of Ganges, it gets beautifully moulded as Shiva Linga. When your Being gets beaten and rotated, by telling the truth honestly and living the truth, it becomes a Shiva Linga, existence. In the beginning, it is a courageous job. "No, no, I will tell 4 truths about me to her, not the fifth one - that is dangerous." "Ah, as if he tells everything to me or what?!" But he is not asking for enlightenment - you are asking! Come on, you be honest. If he is asking for enlightenment and he is not revealing, then he is not going to have and that is different. You are asking for it. You wanted it, then it became your responsibility. So anybody whom you feel as a friend or relative, completely be open to them. I tell you, you will imbibe the qualities of existence in you - Brahman. The delusion and illusory layers will be peeled off. "Shāstrayonitvāt". Truth has the capacity to be the origin of revelations about itself. Sun shines and radiates because it does not have any dark patches inside. Moon is afraid to shine and radiate because its own dark patches will be shown. Shine like a Sun. Don't be afraid of dark patches which you carry.

When you shine like the Sun, the dark patches will also be burnt. Only consciousness will have the ability to reveal its nature. Matter does not reveal about its nature. The fan cannot reveal about its nature, but electricity will reveal about its nature. Touch it and see. Because electricity is life inside this fan. Same way, the matter does not reveal its truths to you. Consciousness reveals its truths to you. Be conscious. Reveal your own truths about you to you and to everybody - radiate. Whatever you have as truth about you, don't hide - be that. Share. If the other person is capable or matured enough to be associated with you, let the relationship grow. Let it be make or break. "No, no, no, what will happen?" Being stuck in a relationship for any other reason than growing together - is prostitution. I am defining it. Being in any relationship other than the reason for growing together is prostitution. I am defining not only as per Me, as per Vedic tradition. Courageously I am taking the name of Vedic tradition, because when you are getting married you take this vow, "Let's help each other to reach fulfillment." I am giving one example of a husband-wife relationship. But in every relationship, radiate this truth. What you know about you - radiate it. Ordinary stone is a matter. It is not shāstrayonitvāt, means it is not self-effulgent, self-revealing about its existence and truth. But diamond is self-effulgent. It reveals about its own truth and existence. In all of you, there is a part of diamond, covered by ordinary stone. Polish that part, let that ordinary part disappear till the diamond part is revealed completely. The whole ordinary part let it disappear. Use the diamond which is already shining to polish the diamond which is in you. That is what happens when in Upanishad with the master. The master is a dynamic dynamite diamond. All the stone part of you is blasted out. Only the self-effulgent part, shāstrayonitvāt, the parts in you which reveal about its own existence are only left to be. Don't be stuck in any friendship, any relationship, other than the reason for growing together. It's a very courageous truth, a very strong truth, but I need to tell. Another one important thing, when you courageously take this step of revealing all your truths to the people with whom you are living, I can say, it will only lead to more and more auspiciousness because if the other person is understanding, the relationship will become deeper and greater. It will grow together. If not at least you will be rid of it. A reality is great, because it reveals all the truths about its existence. Anything which reveals all the truths about itself, by its existence, is reality. It is great! Have this scale in your life. Anything which reveals all the truth about itself by its existence is reality - great. An enlightened being by his very presence and existence reveals all the realities about Himself. In you there is a part of you, which reveals all the truths about itself to you. That part is reality, consciousness, enlightenment. Shāstrayonitvāt - that part is God, Brahman, existence. In you there is some part, which hides the truths about its reality, that is matter. This Brahma Sutra is almost like a fruit juicer. How the fruit is put on the juicer and you press it to take the essence out of the fruit. Same way, you have to put this Brahma Sutra and press, press, press, on your system. I’ll sincerely recommend taking this dry fruits and nuts, like badam, cashew, ghee, all these things because your brain needs an intense energy and cooling lubrication, to grasp this. When I am putting these ideas, anything which reveals its existence and truth to you, is God and you have this part in you, many parts of your brain will catch fire. “Wow, yes, right!” It will just click, open up. “Yes, many times, many moments, some parts of me, reveals its existence to me and others. Right, those moments, I am always in restful awareness. Other times where I am not revealing myself to me and to others, I am suffering.” If you are not revealing your existence to all the people in your breathing space, slowly slowly you will hide it from you also. That is what we call self-ignorance - ātma ajnāna. The failure of life is when the self-ignorance becomes too much and you give up. That is what we call ‘breaking down’. That is what I call ‘breaking down’. Break down in front of your reality. So that you will stand up. When you reveal all the truths, which you know about you, to all the people around you, suddenly you will be revealed deeper and deeper layers of truth about you to you by you. Those deeper and deeper realities revealed to you by you to you, will take you to higher and higher spaces. You become shāstrayonitvāt. You become the origin of the shāstra. Shāstra means truth about reality. When you become shāstrayonitvāt, the origin of the truths of the reality, you are enlightened, that’s it. What am I doing everyday? I just come and sit and go on revealing truths about Me. I want all of you to know, I am not talking about Brahma Sutras. I am using that as one tool, that’s all. I am just talking about Me. I go on revealing truths about Me. Whatever I feel about Me, I go on talking, go on revealing. That’s all. So I became a shāstrayonitvāt. I become the origin of the truths about reality. That is why everyday I go on talking, still you feel I am talking something new. Because I have become the origin of the truths about reality, everyday all I do is just come and sit and open one window for you to see the inner space where I am living. The next day I come and open another one window. That’s all. That is why, it has just become like breathing for Me. I am not really doing any big thing in morning satsang or evening satsang. I just come and sit and open a window, that’s it. For you to have the glimpse of Cosmos. Existence reveals its truth about its existence continuously in reality. Go on grinding this truth in you today. It will not be even simple like fruit juicer. No! That is a simple example I gave. It will be more like a diamond cutting. Go round and reveal all the truth about you to all the people with whom you are living. Boldly, courageously, revealing the truths about you, you become shāstrayonitvāt. You become the source of truths about reality, origins of truths about reality. You will have a kind of a tremendous restful awareness and freedom. Let the Upanishad happen in all of us. Let the truth shāstrayonitvāt be drilled into all of us. Just sit in Upanishad. No technique, no meditation, no process, no mantra, no japa, no visualization, no need even to close your eyes. If you feel like it - close or just sit with open eyes. Let the Upanishad happen. Drill this truth into you - shāstrayonitvāt. Be the origin of the truth about the reality of our existence. Be the truth to everything and everything will be truthful to you. What you understand as truth, be honest to it. Deeper and deeper layers of truths will be revealed to you. One important thing in the Brahma Vidyā Sampradāya, the path of Vedānta is

“Tat tu samanvayāt”. Just two words. The world is reduced to these two words - ‘tat tu samanvayāt’. The English translation by Gambhirananda - “But that Brahman is known from the Upanishad, it being the object of their fullest import.” Swami Vireswarananda translates as - “But that Brahman is to be known only from scriptures and not independently by other means is established, because it is the main purport.” I’ll translate this sutra as “That should be known only by personal experience, through Upanishad with the Master.” Please understand. I am revealing a sacred secret in this sutra. It can be realized not by any written Upanishad - Isha, Kena, Katha, Prasna, Mundaka, Mandukya.... No!

Through those Isha, Kena, Katha, Prasna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Aitareya,Taittirîya, Narayana, 108 Upanishads, you can grasp a kind of an intellectual understanding. Only by sitting in Upanishad, the Brahman can be experienced, as it is the main object of the fullest import. Please understand. The purpose of Upanishad is experiencing existence and the most important thing to be realized through the Upanishad is existence. In Zen, they have a process called Zazen. Just they sit, sit, sit. Not just hours, not just days, not just weeks, not just months, but not even just years - but decades. The Zen Master’s story says, “Sometimes these masters sit in Zazen for

40 years.” Zazen means just sitting. When you sit, so many years, naturally the mind has become a useless unnecessary part of you. It withers away, will withers away. Just to eat and do your basic activities and sit, you don’t need Will, you don’t need mind. Will withers away. Mind withers away. I can say, in My Parivrajaka time, that is what exactly happened. Nothing much to be done. If you can break insecurity, Parivrajaka is the best life to live. All embodied Beings, means not just human beings, all the Beings who assumed the body, should experience the homelessness at least one year in their life. Just homelessness. Not having a particular address, a particular safe place or security. Living like somewhere you sleep, somewhere you walk, somewhere you eat, somewhere you are living. I can say, Parivrajaka teaches thousands of things, thousands and thousands of things. Will withers away, whether it is the complete Zazen or complete insecurity. See, any security will remind and poke you to go back to security only for 3-4 days. If you can manage Parivrajaka for one week, after that insecurity will not hit you. Insecurity happens only for the first one week, not more than that. Then Vedanta vijñānam starts happening in you. What do I mean by the word ‘Vedanta vijñānam? Withering of the Will and ability to do everyday action without bringing your Will for supporting, justifying, analyzing, adding, commenting. These are activities your Will goes on doing and destroys the whole juice of your life. And the modern day youngsters are again and again brainwashed about the need or the importance of the Will. Again if you are intensely creative without asking the question - why should you be creative? the Will withers away. Will can wither away in so many ways. Some of the beautiful Zen koans and stories are of this, withering away of the Will. A monk was sitting under a tree and meditating. He saw the breeze due to a leaf falling from the tree. He was just floating with that falling leaf. The leaf did a zig-zag

tells, “We have become 1000 now, let’s go back to the master. It is time.” Then he comes. When he enters the ashram, the master says, “Oh, 1001 cows have come.” You should know that in India cows are considered holy. Very symbol of sacrifice, love and compassion. So he says, “The disciple has also become love, compassion, sacrifice, and sincerity. The symbol of sincerity.” Upanishad, Upanishad, Upanishad. I can say, that is the essence of life. That is the essence of all teachings. That is the essence of all techniques. That is the essence of all processes. That is the essence of everything. Again and again, day in and day out, I am talking, talking, talking, just leading you to Upanishad, nothing else. If you see My words, from the day I started talking and till the last word, everything will be directing you to Upanishad, that’s all. I talk so that you stop talking. Nothing else. I go on adding words just to enrich the silence, not to break the silence.

Sometimes, music can enrich the power of silence, experience of silence. I go on talking, to enrich the power of Upanishad. In Zen, there is a beautiful saying - “Grass grows by itself.” When you sit in Upanishad, consciousness grows by itself, Will withers away by itself. Just close your eyes, don’t move the body. The moment you move the body, you are preparing, your to be Will awakened. Over! You missed it! Just close your eyes. Just sit, no meditation, no mantra, no technique, no japa, no process - just sit. Let the Upanishad happen.

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Today's Sutra: 1ˢᵗ chapter, 5ᵗʰ Sutra.

As I said, just two words, not more than two words. Just two words and now we will have to break our heads! Just these two words. Actually, when you are in such a deep Samadhi, you utter as minimum as possible. Sometimes you can’t even utter. Yesterday, after the Brahma Sutras, I was just sitting in Samadhi. All the Ashramites were around me. One of our devotees had a fit in the hall. I said, “I’ll take care,” and I told them to bring her. Then I said, “I’ll take care, don’t worry. Give the medical care.” I was in a very strong Samadhi, especially after the strong Brahma Sutras. But suddenly, late in the night I remembered, I did not even tell them why I did not come out; why I did not run towards them.

Later on I thought, of course they are devotees, they won’t mistake why. I only used the words, “I’ll take care, don’t worry. Take them to medical care.” I should have told them why I did not come out; why I did not get up from the seat and go there. Sometimes in deep Samadhi, the words become so minimal, it doesn’t come out when it is not required. Actually, it is my deep trust that they are devotees, they will not mistake why I don’t personally come down and go there. They trust my word. That trust, that trust that they have in me took care of the extra words that were not uttered. But if I did not have that trust that they are devotees, they may mistake why I did not even come out to heal and only then, immediately, maybe I would have explained the reason, or even if the body is in Samadhi, I would have run maybe to physically touch, to give them the confidence that I am really healing them, healing that person. So when there is a deep trust, words do not come out.

But one of the world’s biggest problems is analyzed just in this Sutra. Usually when I am going to speak on some Sutras, I will see those great Masters’ energy landing, and preparing the disciples to receive the expression. And they themselves start expressing themselves through my tongue, through my being, through my presence and all that. Now the last 2-3 days, I am seeing all the big big philosophers are landing here. See, some enlightened philosophers are landing just to enjoy the Brahma Sutra happening and some unenlightened philosophers but evolved beings, Ganas, Munis - evolved philosophers but not enlightened are coming and sitting here to catch the glimpse and get the click so that they can become enlightened.

Understand, whenever you get one valid click, one big engram is relieved. You are free from one big engram. So for the last few days I am seeing all kinds of philosophers are moving around. Some enlightened philosophers, some unenlightened - Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Purva Mimamsa, Uttara Mimamsa; all philosophers. The whole Ashram is now filled with the philosophers’ energy for this great happening of Brahma Sutras. Bhaktas are very auspicious people, devotees are very auspicious, whether they are enlightened or unenlightened.

One young lady of little loose character goes to Vivekananda. Vivekananda with such a deep love and care receives her and initiates her into Sannyas. Not only does he initiate her, he completely gives her the promise that “I’ll liberate you.” And as usual this orthodox Nedantic Sannyasis sitting around him, looking at him with lots of suspicious eyes said, “What kind of a Sadhu you are? Not only you accepted her as a disciple, initiating her into Sannyas and promising that you will liberate her. What do you mean?” Then he gives his own explanation and finally he says, “Even all the things you guys say are accepted and true, who else can save these people except me? If I say no, who is going to say yes for them?” So if I say no to philosophers, then who will say yes to them!

Swami Gambhirananda’s translation goes as “the Pradhāna of the Samkhyas is not the cause of the Universe, because it is not mentioned in the Upanishads, which fact is clear from the fact of seeing”.“So Swami Vireswarananda translates as “on account of thinking, being attributed to the first cause by scriptures of Pradhāna, is not the first cause referred to by them; Pradhāna is based on the scriptures. God!”

I don’t know how many of you understood. It’s one of the important analyses. One of the great things in the Brahma Sutras is in analyzing the greatest problems like, what is the distance between sun and the moon; moon and the earth; and earth and the sun. All these kinds of high level things are discussed in the same equal importance. Please understand, Brahma Sutra is a very paradoxical book where in the same Sutra it analyzes why the distance between sun and the moon is this much, and why the rice price is rising, both are discussed. An extraordinary philosophical discussion which is directly affecting the way you think about you, life, and your very existence. Here the important problem which is being discussed is, whether origin is Consciousness or matter. Sānkhyas: I can say, the first human beings who started thinking are Sānkhyas. First man who started thinking is Kapila, who is the Master of Sankhya philosophy. But unfortunately in course of time the Sānkhya took the original spirit of Kapila, and created a deviated system. So here, Vyāsa is supposed to reveal the original truth to the Sānkhyas. See always, when Shankara comes, he teaches the right Buddhism to Buddhists. When Nagarjuna comes, he teaches the right Vedanta to Shankara's followers. In course of time, Buddhists had started moving out of Buddha’s teachings. So Shankara comes and teaches the right Buddhism, to Buddhists. Here, the Sānkhyas have moved out of Kapila, I want all of you to know. We, the Nithyānanda Sampradāya, originally belong to Kapila’s Sampradāya, Nirvāni Akhāda. We are older than Vedic tradition. Understand, the Vedānta Sampradāya is Uttara Mimāmsa. These Brahma Sutras are called Uttara Mimāmsa Sutras. Before this, there is a Purva Mimāmsa. Sankhya is an earlier philosophical system. I can say philosophy is not the right word. Philosia. Because, the word “Darshanā” cannot be translated into philosophy. It can only be translated to Philosia. Darshanā means what is seen. In your inner awakening, what you experience becomes Darshanā. So when each Master has become enlightened, what He experienced, He pens it down, transmits as a Darshanā. So the first Darshanā is Sānkhya - the senior most Darshanā, the oldest Darshanā - oldest thinking system, oldest cognition system, where the understanding about life, death, beyond life, after life or personal existence. Jīva means individual Self. Īshvara, the ultimate Self or God. Jagat, the world, is two parts: nature and manmade society. All these understandings and better ways to relate with all these and coexist in a very friendly way - this is the purpose of all Darshanās. All Darshanās are created to know the deeper truths about these major subjects, with this understanding - flow with life. First Darshanā is Sānkhya. Unfortunately, followers of Sānkhya philosophy have started moving out of Kapila. Whenever the followers move out of the founder, again the founder happens in another one form and teaches the truth. Followers go and prosecute the founder who is in another form. It is eternal foolishness! I am working very sincerely so that should not happen to My commune and the followers. Of course, one fortunate thing is, whatever I am talking about is getting video recorded. So losing the spirit can never happen. And not only that, because I am going to be sitting in the body for a long time, the reproduction of the completely spiritually mature people is possible. Unfortunately the followers of Kapila started moving out of Kapila. So, Vyāsa has to give clarity. You need to know the background, only then you will understand why these Sutras, because this Sutra is directly hitting Sankhya philosophy. It is directly attacking Sankhya philosophy. Then you may be surprised, what is this? And, Vyasa is attacking Kapila. Now what to do? Both of them are Incarnations of Vishnu. Very beautifully Krishna says in Gita, “Among the Munis, I am Kapila!” And in the Stotra, Padmapada sings about Vyāsa.

Shankarācharya who is the Incarnation of Shankarā, both are one and the same. Shankarācharya who is Incarnation of Shankara, Vyāsa who is incarnation of Nārāyaṇa, if both of you are fighting, who is going to win? There was a debate. Vyasa Himself comes down to test the strength of Shankara. The debate starts on Brahma Sutra. Author and

commentator are fighting. Vyasa is the author, Shankara is the commentator; both of them are arguing. Of course, nobody can judge. But if I can take the liberty, I'll vote for Shankara, because he has given a real meaning to the whole Sutras. All the one or two uncut parts which Vyasa left Shankara has polished it. I can say, He made it pure gold. He made it more user-friendly. So both of them are arguing. It goes on and on for three days. The poor disciples are sitting without food. So Padmapāda suddenly realizes, what is going on? And the old man who is arguing is Vyāsa. But Vyāsa did not reveal His identity, and this young man who is not ready to give up is Shankarā, who has Lakshmi in His hand and Saraswati in the tongue, and Devi in His body language. How could Shankara lose? No way! Padmapada sings:

Shankara Himself auditioned, Shiva Himself has come down as Shankaracharya. Vishnu Himself, Keshava Himself has come down as Bādarāyaṇa. Vyāsa, You are a Sutrakāra and He is a Bhāshyakāra. The origin, the man who wrote the Sutra and man who is writing the commentary, both of them are fighting. Where is it going to end? So, Padmapāda falls at the feet of both and says, "I bow down to both of You." Then immediately Shankarā realizes, the person who is sitting in front of Him is Sutrakāra Himself, Vyāsa, Bādarāyaṇa Himself. Then He withdraws from the debate. Vyāsa blesses Him and says, "My son, I have come to test You, Your capacity to establish the truth. I see You are a qualified person. I give You sixteen more years from My life." See the beauty when an honest teacher comes to test his successor, when He sees the strength, immediately He says, "From My life, I give You sixteen more years. You live for sixteen more years and establish the philosophy, Your teaching." This is the way our Hinduism was spreading. It was completely based on a friendly, convincing debate. No fight. No sword. No bread, butter, just killing through kindness. Very cunning way of destroying, killing through kindness. Nothing was used. Simple, straightforward understanding and analysis. So Kapila is also Incarnation of Vishnu; as Krishṇa says, "Among the Munis, I am Kapila" And Vyāsa is also Vishnu's Incarnation. So Krishṇa is Vishnu's Incarnation, and Krishṇa says, "I am Kapila among the Munis." And here, Vyāsa is Vishnu's Incarnation. Naturally then, Vyāsa is attacking Kapila! It's almost like 2 Incarnations attacking each other. It cannot be. You need to understand, our Sanyās Sampradāya belongs to Nirvāni Akhāḍa, Kapila's tradition, and all our practices belong to Vedānta Sampradāya, Shankara's tradition. There cannot be any fight between these two. How can there be any fight between Kapila and Vyāsa, because both of them are Incarnations of Vishnu. Surely Vyāsa is not against Kapila, but Vyāsa is against the misunderstanding of Kapila's followers. One of the important questions: whether the origin of the Existence is Consciousness or matter? Sānkhya takes the stand. See Kapila took the stand: origin of the Universe is matter, because, once you are made to understand whatever you call as Universe is from matter, you will renounce that you will not be attracted too much towards it and go towards Consciousness. That idea was given more as a technique than as a fact. So when Kapila says, "The origin of the Universe is matter," He wants you to lose interest over the Universe. He does not want you to bother about it too much. But, when Vyāsa says, "The origin of the Universe is Brahman, Existence, Consciousness," He means there is no Universe, relax in Existence. Because out of Existence, nothing can come, and become something else. If you are seeing something else, then relax from seeing. Final purpose of both: Vyāsa and Kapila are relaxed from being distracted. That's it. Nothing else. So to serve that purpose, how to put the words? I can tell you from my experience, the Universe is neither from matter nor from Consciousness because it is, it does not come out. It never comes out. It does not exist. If you think you are seeing, something is wrong with your seeing. If you think something is going on in front of you now, something is wrong inside you. If you think something other than you exists, something is wrong inside you. Sānkhya: Kapila says, "Universe comes out of matter, don't bother about it - Pradhāna. Forget about it." Vyāsa says, "Origin of the Universe is Existence, so the Universe cannot be as you think other than Existence. So stop seeing it as other than Existence. Come back." I am telling you, neither the origin of the Universe is matter nor it is Consciousness, it is just your illusion. I don't even want to coin the word "illusion," then you will think there is something illusion; I need to attack it. No. The Universe does not exist! “Oh God, then what are we seeing?” You are not seeing anything! “No, no, no, I am seeing.” No! You are not! See in many places I proved my words are more real, more truthful than your words. With that clarity, authority; I am telling you, “You are not seeing. It is not there.” Now our mind starts spinning theories, “Yes, yes. What He says is true; I am, it is not there but I am seeing. What practice should I do not to see? What practice should I do to achieve Enlightenment?” Come on, stop this nonsense of practice! The moment you start planning for practice, you accept the illusion and delusion. Now it is never going to be successful! Don’t think, “No, no, no, we can take care later on.” No! The very acceptance of illusion, or the cause creates so many complications which you will never be able to get out. You go on believing so strongly you are seeing while you are dreaming, what happens to the whole scene? It just melts down! Like as if the whole thing was painted in the canvas, and the canvas is rolled, and you wake up! Where does the rolled canvas go? You also don’t know. When you can accept that transition, that illusion; why can’t you understand this is also an illusion! “No, no, here we make money and put it in a bank balance. There, it is not there. Here, ninety years we can have. There, it is not there.” Years is a delusion. Time is delusion. Time is illusion. The origin of Existence is Existence. Pradhāna: origin of Universe is Universe. Some commentators on this Sutra are saying, “Origin of the Universe cannot be matter, because Upanishad declared it to be a Consciousness,” because many Upanishads say in the beginning, it was conscious Existence and all that. I wanted you to know, it is not only the Upanishads written; we don’t need to think only because Upanishad says, even if you sit in Upanishad with the Master, you are not falling into matter. You are falling into life, Existence! So that itself proves the base or the origin is not matter. Of course, if you sit in Upanishad with the Master, and you fall asleep, then you can say your origin is matter. You sit in Upanishad with the Master, and that Upanishad leads to the conscious space, then origin is Consciousness. So sit and decide for yourself whether your origin is matter or Consciousness?

Now we ask one more thing, “Alright whether the Source of the Universe is Consciousness or matter, what way is it for me? What is the direct utility for me? If you understand the origin is Consciousness, there will be a huge correlative shift in you which actually improves your day to day balance sheet. The other day I was reading a book: Can God improve my balance sheet? He can. That is why He is conducting wealth programs. Understanding, relaxing into the truth that the origin is intelligence gives you tremendous freedom from the feeling you always carry: “you are not given justice”. Please understand in the whole world, every person who has a mind feels he is not given justice. Don’t think, How can you say statements like this? Every person?” I tell you every person, I mean it. I am not exaggerating. I am making it very clear. I am not saying, whether you are feeling you are not given justice can be justified by your logic or not. That is dependent on your logic which can support that argument. But anybody who has a mind feels he is not given justice. If you think origin is matter, you will never be able to heal that feeling “you are not given justice,” “you are not given all the chances you are worthy of,” “you are not shown all the possibilities you needed to be.” You always grudge, grumble, and suffer! I tell you, if you understand it is independent intelligence which is Source. Suddenly the healing effect, “Eh, whatever is happening is justice. Don’t worry.” I am telling this especially at this moment after being persecuted so much. After this whole persecution, I am telling you, in My inner space, I am completely relaxed, because I know the Source is intelligence, not matter! It is not dead matter, which is running based on some arithmetic automated computer or arithmetic logic. No! It is intelligence. So when you know it is intelligence, which is Source of the Universe, origin of your Existence; that tremendous healing in your feeling, that tremendous trust to live, that tremendous trust to exist, tremendous joy to be; I tell you, that is the greatest thing which can happen to any human being. Joy to be, joy to exist, feeling you are given the worthy justice! Your Source is an intelligence. It is not a dead matter or a chaotic happening. Understand, what I am talking about is not a belief or a fate. Again and again, when you hear, it becomes almost like a hypnotized theory. No! Source is matter is hypnotizing theory, not source is Consciousness. Source is Consciousness is experiential theory. That

existential theory, that existential truth is, Source is Consciousness, independent intelligence. Intelligence which is alive, which is sacred, which is not understood by all ordinary arithmetic, logical mind. Because of that, it is a secret. A living, sacred secret that a logical arithmetic mind is not able to grasp. It is like you have a small net with which you catch fish, you are trying to catch a huge shark with that net. When an Incarnation lands on the planet earth for the ultimate happenings, you can’t catch a huge shark with a small fishing net. It is not even a fishing net, fishing rod. Not only can you not catch the shark, the shark will just catch that pin and pull it. That fellow who is holding the fishing rod, the whole thing has to go into the ocean. Just because your logic cannot capture, you can’t call it nonexistent. Because your logic can’t capture, it is considered a secret. Origin is intelligence. There is no injustice done to you in body, mind, relationships, wealth, or spiritual Enlightenment. Understand this truth. Don’t try to understand this truth thinking that you’ll get Enlightenment afterwards. No! Understand now, or get lost! There is no reward Enlightenment waiting for you later on. Understand now, and live. You may think why should I believe this? Why should I understand? You don’t need to believe, get lost! I am sharing the straight truth. Sometimes these fellows get into a mood, “Yes, yes. If I believe all these things, one day I’ll become enlightened.” No! There is no salary of Enlightenment; I am not giving you any practice. As I said in Brahmavidyā Sampradāya, there is no Enlightenment! I am telling you very clearly, anybody who listens to My Brahma Sutra will not get enlightened. Because Brahma Sutra has nothing to do with Enlightenment. It is something to do with enlightening. Every moment it enlightens you. There is no promise that one day, you will receive the whole paycheck. No. If you think one day you will be receiving the paycheck, no. It will be a check that will bounce. Nothing else. So Brahma Sutra is enlightening, not towards Enlightenment. Now I am telling you clearly: open your ears, open your brain, stretch your brain, receive the truth now. Don’t keep your head as an inverted pot; where anything poured, goes down. Make it as a begging bowl to receive. In the Nirvāṇi Sampradāya, they use the skull as a begging bowl. To remind themself continuously they use their skull also to receive knowledge from the Master. Use your skull to receive while you are alive. Otherwise it will be used by somebody else after your death to receive food. Let it receive when it is alive. Basic truth of origin is Consciousness. In every moment, right justice is given to you physically, mentally, economically, socially, and spiritually you are rewarded for your worth. In every step you are rewarded for what you are asking. You are showered with compassion. When you listen to this truth, Source is Consciousness, the tremendous healing in understanding you are given justice lands on you. That understanding directly makes you live Enlightenment. The enlightening sacred secret from this Sutra is two. One, you are not handled by the dead and lost. You are handled by a compassionate, independent, intelligent judge who is not even interested in judging you, who is interested only in making you grow. That’s the first sacred secret. Second, the origin or the Source is not matter and law, it is Existence which is intelligent. Naturally this sacred secret when it sinks inside you, gives tremendous restful awareness. Now, rest in that restful awareness. Sit in Upanishad and see for yourself whether the origin of you is matter, or life - Consciousness. Let you sit and see.

Again, just two words. Translation of Gambhirananda says, "If it can be argued that the seeing is in a secondary sense, we say not so, owing to the use of the word 'Self'." Translation of Swami Vireswarananda says, "If it be said that thinking is used in a secondary sense, we say not so, because of the word "Self" by which the first cause is referred to in scriptures."

This is one of the deepest philosophical problems responsible for our very way of thinking. There can be arguments. See, this is actually a continuation of yesterday's Sutra. Yesterday, the Brahma Sutras' essence is: Source of you, Source of the Universe is an independent intelligence, not a dead matter or a dead law. You need to understand, the Source of existence is not a dead matter. It is you! The Source of the Universe which is you, it is life! It is an independent intelligence, a living mechanism. This truth is established through logic, because all experiences are happening in you, which is a living Self, the Source is a living Self. Please understand, only when you know the Source is living intelligence, you will be honest. In every step you take in your life, you will be honest.

One of the biggest problems I find in so-called spiritual seekers is, when they lose trust over the law of the land and law of society, they lose integrity. Understand, losing integrity is not spirituality. Just because you have lost respect, usually these seekers tend to lose respect for the law of the land or law of the society. Because when you are a seeker, you would evolve to a certain level; your hypocrisy goes away. When your hypocrisy goes away, hypocritical laws of the society and the law of the land loses its power over you. You just realize, social laws are nothing but social hypocrisy. Usually the law of land is exploited by the people who are in power. When somebody realizes this truth, they tend to lose respect for the social laws and social rules and country laws - law of the land. But unfortunately when you lose respect for the law of land, you become hypocritical. The integrity is lost. The honesty is lost.

Understand, for an ultimate Enlightened being and for a terrorist; for both, the social law and country law do not bind. But an Enlightened being retains his integrity; a terrorist does not have integrity. I can say many seekers who lose their integrity almost become terrorists.

The other day, I was watching the CNN channel biography of Bin Laden. The amount of austerity in his life; 14 years he slept in a desert, just on an ordinary mat without any mattress, praying to Allah. It's not the information from me, it's information from CNN. CNN channel said so and they presented his whole biography. I was shocked! The tapas, austerity in his life! Being a wealthy, rich person, he is not a wandering Sadhu of India who doesn't have wealth, no! Being a very rich, wealthy man creating so much wealth all over the world; I don't know how many billions of dollars of wealth he has in the US, or he had in the US before the attack. Anyhow, when I saw his whole life, I was shocked! The amount of austerity, I can say, if I have to classify based on austerity, I'll classify him much more than any Hindu Sadhu living in the body. Then what happened? Where did things go wrong? Why did he become a terrorist instead of becoming an Enlightened being? Why did the tapas he practiced not invoke compassion in him? How did he get the feeling to kill people?

It's almost the last philosophical miss, when you lose respect for social law and country law. You are supposed to have that deep respect and that true experience, at least an unshakeable cognitive factual clarity that existence is intelligence and everything goes as per the justice of the intelligence. If you have that one clarity, you will not become a terrorist. You will not become a terrorist if you have that clarity.

Understand, an ordinary man is a man who is bound by social law and the law of the land. An Enlightened being is a person who is not bound by these 2 laws but he has a clarity of the Cosmic law; it is intelligence which is doing everything, so he rests in peace. He will be deeply compassionate and non-violent. He will have that complete restful awareness and peace. He is an Enlightened being. Then there is another classification. A person who does not have respect for social law or the law of the land and does not have the cognitive factual clarification that the Whole is independent and intelligent. He thinks the Whole is just a dead matter, so anybody can do injustice to himself or his group. Then naturally what he thinks is, "Come on, let me take a weapon in my hand, and take revenge by myself." That is where that deviation happens. That is a road where an Enlightened Master takes one path and a terrorist takes a different path. Otherwise till that point, both travel together. Whether you are going to become an Enlightened being or a terrorist will be defined just on this one Sutra.

I am afraid for the seekers who do not have integrity because they are not bothering about doing anything. Sometimes you will see the people who come here and pose as seekers. I'll try to get rid of them as quickly as possible, because these fellows have lost respect for the law of the land and the law of society. They do not have integrity. The Cosmos is intelligence, the existence is from intelligence. That is why again and again, the Masters insist on receiving the truths completely. If you just miss this one point, think the Cosmos is matter - you'll become a violent terrorist. That is what I am seeing is happening by the people who have power. Now I am seeing the whole infrastructure established by people who have so much power and how they misuse and abuse it. How each one who is vested with the power is abusing and misusing it because they think the Cosmos is not intelligent. Cosmos is intelligence. Violent terrorists all have a complete underground belief, the basis of life is dead matter and anybody who can bully is a successful man. No, that basis is completely wrong!.

There is an argument by the materialists and different groups saying, "No, no, just because we are seeing, we are thinking, we cannot say our Source is consciousness. It may be secondary sense." Brahma Sutra breaks that argument saying, "No; if it is secondary, then the first person should not be able to perceive it. The perception itself is done in

consciousness.” I wanted all of you to understand, the seeing, the thinking and all cannot be done by the arithmetic logic or mathematical logics; still no robot is able to take cognisance of even simple happenings.

Two days before I was saying a rope can be used only for pulling and not for pushing. A bar can be used only for pushing and not for pulling. Just this cognisance cannot be taken by any mechanical robot available on planet earth till now. Just this much of cognisance. There is no arithmetic, logical, mathematical Sutra or formula to take cognisance of this information, this simple conclusion. To come to this conclusion, we still do not have a logical, mathematical, arithmetic formula which can be fed to a robot and that robot comes to a cognisance, “Yes, this is a rope, it can be used only for pulling, not for pushing and this is a bar which can be used only for pushing, not for pulling.” No, it means, seeing or thinking cannot be a secondary sense. The screen on each seeing and thinking is happening is where the cognisance is taken which is the conscious shaft. It is on the conscious shaft this cognisance is taken. Seeing and thinking happens on cognition on the conscious shaft. Cognition cannot be taken by the secondary sense, because all secondary sense is reproducible.

I can use a thousand forms of logic but just the actions cannot show whether the Source is matter or intelligence. Because the Source where the cognition is taken about the action - seeing or thinking - is conscious shaft and is an independent intelligence. Without independent intelligence, without the presence of independent intelligence, without the presence of Pratyakātma Chaitanya - the individual self-reflection, cognition cannot be taken. So the Source is life!

Through all the logic which hides your knowledge, through all the arguments which hide your knowledge and highlights your ignorance, you need to analyze and imbibe this truth. Please understand, when you listen; Shravaṇa, the ultimate truth is done by you, few things happen. A sincere seeker analyses the truth because it is truth and receives it. A profit oriented seeker thinks, “If I believe these truths, I may get spiritual experience or Enlightenment, so let me believe this truth.” The moment you have an idea, “I will get something if I accept this truth” and start accepting, you miss it. Then there is another set of people, “Maybe because this man says, it must be true. It goes above my head. It’s okay; I think it is true.” Again, you miss it.

You may have it by the grace of the Master in course of time when he repeats the same truth at some other later time because you have trust in the man, you have little possibility but you miss now! There is another one set of people, “No, no, what he says is true but I need to practice and then it should become experience, then I’ll become Enlightened.” Better you disappear into wherever you can. Truth has to be analysed and imbibed just for the sake of truth. When you analyse and imbibe just for the sake of truth, only then Enlightening happens in you. I am changing my brand, it is no more Enlightenment, but Enlightening! The eN-Effect happens on you, if you sit and listen to the truth and analyse, imbibe just for the sake of truth.

Now I am saying, Source is intelligence. Means the Source of the Universe, Source of your individual self, Source of God, Source of human society, Source of nature, everything is intelligence. It is not dead matter or dead laws. I am telling you the honest truth, there is no such thing as injustice. I know for sure that Source is intelligent. It will not allow any injustice. Now when it is happening, superficially when you look in a very hurried way, you want to come to the conclusion, it will look like injustice. Relax and wait a few days, wait and see how the Cosmos unfolds and rolls. All you need is a little bit of restful awareness during the time when you are made to believe injustice is being done to you.

For that restful awareness, you need to have a clear cognisance of factual reality that Source is intelligence. If you think Source is law, dead law, or matter, you will become a terrorist. Naturally I can see very clearly a mental setup of an Enlightened being, a mental setup of a common citizen. I can see the whole thing. That is why I am telling you, the truth is, Source is intelligence; there is no injustice on planet Earth, in the Cosmos anywhere. Now, it should be analysed for the sake of truth, not for the sake of any other reason.

You should have a solid debate which does not raise the heat of your body. Each Satsang Centre, I request you to form two groups. The groups should be Shankara and Vyāsa in all of our Temples and Satsang Centres from today, who are attending Brahma Sutras. These two groups - Shankara and Vyāsa where you should analyse all the truth I am revealing for the sake of truth, not even to justify what I am revealing. No!

Analyse with all the logical doubts you have because the logical doubts you have are responsible for not awakening the non-mechanical parts of your brain. So, no Sadhana for the Brahma Sutra participants, but Vādaprativāda should be done. Shankara and Vyāsa - two teams should be created. It is not necessary that two teams should have equal numbers. But both teams should be honest about the truth. It is not necessary that you need to come to the same conclusion which I am giving to you. At the end of the debate, the level you are able to reach, stop with it. The condition should be that your body heat should not increase. If your body heat is increasing, you are not basing your debate on truth, it is being based on violence so you are not becoming Enlightened. These few points will really help you.

Maybe we can get some high quality monitors that show even a slight increase in the body temperature. It should be tied to your body, in your hand and the debate should start. I wanted at least all our major Temples to do this practice. Then you will experience authentic truths in a very clear way, as a cognisance of factual reality. When the cognisance of factual reality does not happen in you, the non-mechanical parts of the brain remain closed even if you do any kind of practice. Because the place where you begin is wrong.

Understand, if you start travelling towards Bangalore in the opposite direction, you will never reach Bangalore. Same way, if you start going towards Brahman thinking you are matter, all your efforts will be wasted and you will never reach Brahman. A basic mistake has happened, the basic cognisance of factual reality where the truth is missed. Honesty cannot be acquired by practice, it can be acquired only by understanding. Any number of years you play with any toys, any techniques, any Kriya - unless the understanding is happening, Enlightening is impossible, the eN-Effect is impossible. So the truth should be analysed, debated, imbibed, incorporated just for this sake of truth!

Create 2 groups: Shankara and Vyāsa. The first, basic guideline is, body temperature should not increase during the debate. Anger, violence, logically trying to rape others should not happen during the debate. Third, you will talk only about things which you are able to understand logically. You will convince others about the facts only which you are convinced as a strategy for your day-to-day life.

For example, if you convince others that Source is intelligence; you should be convinced about it and you should not have stored, or retained violence in the corner of your space about some relationship you are having in your life. If you have stored violence in your inner space about some relationship, you are not truly believing Source is intelligence.

If you feel Source is brutal power, if you believe the rule is survival of the fittest, might is right, if you are functioning only on that law, then don’t convince others as you stand for that law. Stand for the law with which the cognition is taken. Cognisance into the factual reality is taken in you because you do not need to reach the conclusion which I am giving, though you need to dig for the truth. You see, if you are honest and integrated about the truth then you can grasp the cognisant fact, cognisant factual reality. The factual reality which you are able to take cognisance of, if you are honest about it as that very honesty and integrity will help you to click with the next Sutra I may be teaching. However, if you patched up or overlooked, compromised on the cognisance; the factual reality which takes cognisance in you and says, “No, no, no, because Swamiji says Source is intelligence, I also say Source is intelligence.” No. That is good for faith, not for Enlightenment.

Brahma Sutras has nothing to do with faith and I am not asking you to have faith. I am asking you to dig! Same way, I am not asking you to have violent disbelief. No, I am asking you to consciously debate because when you debate consciously, every logic which does not allow the non-mechanical parts of your brain to function, gets broken. The non-mechanical parts of the brain start to work and function.

Here Bādarayana, Mahapurusha Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa, starts the debate in this 6th Sutra. He throws an argument, the Source is intelligence just because seeing and thinking is a secondary action, don’t think the Source is matter. The secondary action can happen only on the predominant primordial conscious independent intelligent presence. The presence of the matter cannot be Pradhāna, origin or the alchemical agent for seeing and thinking and cognisance to happen.

Cognition does not happen in the presence of matter. Then the next point starts; alright, we agree cognition happens. Cognisance is taken in the presence of consciousness but how do we know consciousness is an independent intelligence? And it is all about compassion and equal justice? It is not unjust, how can we know that? Have this question or this debate; nothing wrong!

Shankara, Bādarayana comes next. In next Sutras, He comes up with these arguments. Actually, I am taking out the essence of Bādarayana Sutra, Shankara’s Bhāshya, Rāmānuja’s Bhāshya, Sureshwarāchārya’s Vārtika, Atmānanda Saraswati’s Tikā and Bhāmatī’s Bhāshya. Almost 50 different commentaries of Brahma Sutrā of which I am culling out the essence and of course finally burning the whole thing with My inner experience and giving you the Vibhuti Prasāda of that.

So now, a further argument starts. We can understand because the cognition cannot be taken, the cognisance cannot be taken; the cognition cannot happen without the conscious presence. The Pradhāna cannot be matter. The Source cannot be matter. We accept but how do we know the Source is intelligence? Source is compassionate. Source is just and does not do injustice. How can we know those truths? You can start the argument. The argument analysis and the understanding for these doubts Bādarayana continues in the next Sūtrās. But first, let us analyse and have a complete debate on this Sūtrā.

Very beautifully, Ramana Maharshi sings, “Ulladhu Alladhu ulla porul ulladhal ullathe.” It’s 40 verses on reality by Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. He starts with a beautiful introduction: because you exist, you can think about existence and non-existence. Because you have the capacity to think about existence and non-existence, you exist. Only the consciousness has a capacity to think or take cognisance on matter. Matter cannot take cognisance of the presence of consciousness, about the qualities of consciousness; but consciousness can take cognisance about the quality of matter. Because you can take cognisance on the presence and practicalities, factualities, qualities and realities of matter - you are consciousness.

The non-mechanical parts of the brain should be boiled by this truth again and again and again, so that not a single logic which loves to retain your ignorance is left to live in your brain. Any logic which is not convinced by the power of truth uttered by the rishi, that logic should be destroyed by the debate with the disciples. When a rishi repeats the Sūtrā, just by the power of the sound - one part of your non-mechanical part of the brain awakens whereas the other part argues and finally awakens after he finishes his argument. The third part remains unawakened, that should be awakened by the Vādaprativāda - debate among the disciples. And the fourth part will be awakened only when you start teaching.

So if you are interested in having the complete Enlightening Nithyananda Effect, eN-Effect of Brahma Sūtrā - do all these four. First, listening to the truth and the arguments about the truth by the Master. These 2 parts I Myself do. Nothing is to be done by you for these 2 parts. But, the third part, the debate, you need to do. It is not homework, understand. It’s a work of people who are homeless. I am not giving you homework, I’m giving you homeless work. Debate the truth to the level your cognisance believes as factual reality, to the level your cognisance believes as factual reality. After the debate, whatever conclusion you came to, go out and teach at least 5 people. I tell you, when you teach, your understanding suddenly develops. The fallacy of your logic is understood when you teach. For example, you have a hundred reasons for saying, “You are matter, Source is matter; It is not consciousness.” When I utter the truth, 25 of the logic will die. When I give the arguments supporting the truth, 25 more logic will die. When you do the debate, 25 more will die. When you go out and inspire 5 people, the last 25% will die. Only when you do all these four, the fallacy of your logic will be realized by you.

Understand, only when you go out and talk, start teaching and suddenly you will understand some parts of your brain which were not completely imbibing this truth, are now imbibing. “Yes! I had this doubt, only when I was teaching him, that doubt cleared. Yes, that logic was wrong, which is why I was stuck. Now I understand.”

So now I did 50% of the job and I have given you the truth, your Source is intelligence and consciousness. I have given the truth and logical arguments where 50% of the job is done. You start the next job of having Vyāsa and Shankara batch and debating. Then, before you come back for tomorrow's session, go and talk to 5 people, teach this truth to 5 people. Source is consciousness, so it is not dead law or dead matter. Teach based on the logic you understood. Now, I gave you many logical arguments. When you do the debate, you will get many arguments and logic. Go out and teach and even if you fail, don't worry, come back. I'll give you more arguments. Failing is not wrong, but not trying is something seriously wrong.

Things you are stuck with are happenings. A high achiever is a person who is not bothered about any happening and is centered on life. Enthusiasm means not being bothered about happening but centered on excitement. Being bothered about happenings is Rajas. Being not bothered about happenings but being centered on dumbness is Tamas. Not being bothered about happenings but being centered on enthusiasm is Sattva. Happening brings you down to its frequency when you put awareness on it; any happening.

If you are bothered about the happenings in the field of business, whose share value has gone up, whose name is appearing on Fortune Magazine, whose name is appearing on Forbes Magazine; it may be successful or failure but you will be stuck in the frequency of business. A man who looks beyond the happenings will be the achiever. Actually, if you see the achievers even in that field, they will not be bothered about the happenings. They will just look beyond the happenings. Achiever’s life is an intense happening where he is never bothered, while others are bothered about it.

A man who creates history will not be bothered about his history because he lived it. His very frequency will not be bothering about those happenings. Even now, I tell you, when people read My life, “Wow!” They say, “What an achievement! What He has done! How much has happened!” But, not even once was I bothered that there is so much that has happened in My life. I am not concerned about what is happening, that is why My life is celebrated by so many people. Achiever is a man who is not bothered about happenings but established in enthusiasm.

When you are not bothered about happenings and established on the factual reality that Source is intelligence and all your cognisance are taken based on the factual reality - Source is intelligence, you are a high achiever. You are Ishvara. You are a leader. Leadership is nothing but not being bothered about the happenings, but being centered on the high enthusiasm. The Source is high enthusiasm, intelligence, consciousness, excitement, bliss, Suddha Svayamprakāsha, Jyoti ātma, Chaitanya, Nirlipta, Nirālamba, Nirāmaya, Nirvikalpa, Niranjana, Nishchala, Nijānanda, Tattvabodha, Sukha, Sakāra, Ananta Guṇa Kalyāna, Shānta Sarvasvarūpa, Sahajānanda Māya.

The experience of the Source in the very Source is an intense excitement not bothered about the happenings. A villager who is bothered so much about the happening in his village will never rise to the level of town. A man who is living in the town who is bothered too much about the happenings in his town, will never raise himself to the level of a city.

A man who is bothered too much about the happenings in his city, will never leave or raise himself to the level of the cosmopolitan city. A man who is too much bothered about the level of the cosmopolitan city will never raise himself to a capital. A man who has raised himself to a capital will not be bothered too much about the happenings in the village. Not being bothered about the happenings but being centered on the high enthusiasm is being a leader.

Realizing the Source is intelligence makes you a leader. It takes away the unnecessary botherations you are having about the mediocre happenings. Seekers are interested in Yoga Sutras because you will come to know you can predict your death. But here Vyāsa does not bother about your death; He says you are not living. When you are going to die who cares! He just says, “Realize you have no death, no life, or just at least die quickly.” Vyasa is not bothered about how to predict your death. That is why people are not much interested in Brahma Sūtrās. It is more for the trendsetters.

I tell you, Brahma Sūtrās is a book to create leaders. Leaders, that is the main thing. It is for the leaders, not for followers. Aphorisms on existence are for the people who are going to create the history of existence. If you just look at 3,000 years of recorded history of humanity; the whole 3,000 years of recorded human history of humanity is created by a handful of people - Jesus, Buddha, Hitler. Good or bad but a handful of people created the history of 3,000 years of humanity. So the history is not created by followers, but by leaders. Good or bad, but leaders. Anyone who catches the truth of Brahma Sūtrās will become great leaders. If you miss it, you become a bad leader. Brahma Sūtrās is for good leaders, it is for the great leaders and not for common man. A common man neither accepts, nor denies Brahma Sūtrās; he just dumps it and does not even look into it. A good leader accepts and realizes Brahma Sūtrās. A bad leader looks at it and rejects it, but he looks in and rejects it.

No leadership seminar can be successful until he makes you understand the Source is intelligence; until it gives you the cognisance of factual reality that Source is intelligence; Source is intelligence. Don’t bother about the happenings. Be centered on the intense excitement. Unless these three have become a factual reality in your cognizing mechanism, the leadership qualities can never happen in you as quality. It can be added to you as a quantity like makeup. It can be like a fairness cream and can never be like a permanent tan.

Source is intelligence; start the debate on this truth.

7ᵗʰ Sūtra in chapter 1, section 1:

The translation by Gambhirananda says: Pradhāna is not the meaning of the word “Self,” because Liberation is promised for one who holds on to That. Swami Vireswarananda translates as the Pradhāna, that Pradhāna cannot be designated by the word “Self,” as it is established because Liberation is declared to one who is devoted to that Sat.

So today, we are entering into the next level of argument - vādaprativāda, khaṇḍana maṇḍana. That’s the right word. Khaṇḍana maṇḍana means breaking the ignorant, narrow logic through understanding, and adding the Amrita which happens in your brain when you have a complete understanding. When the cognition of the factual reality happens in you, the Amrita Nādi flows; Amrita means the ecstasy, joy, flows like a liquid inside your brain, awakening non-mechanical parts of the brain. Actually, logic functions like a tube in your brain. If it is shrinking to narrow and narrower understandings, it starts experiencing depression. And if it expands more and more to the broader and broadest understanding, the Amrita - nectar, flows from the brain which leads to Enlightenment.

When I explain certain truths, for a moment you may feel, “Wow, that is true,” your ignorance and logic gives way with the logic tube just expanding through the Amrita Bindu. The nectar drop flows through that logic tube. If more and more Amrita Bindu, nectar drops, flow through the logic tube - it becomes permanently opened and established in Enlightenment. All your cognition happens in factual reality based on existence. That is what I call Enlightening Nithyananda Effect - eN-Effect. If you are experiencing levitation or Kundalini awakening, Yoga Sūtra is great for you. For some reason if the physical levitation is not happening, don’t worry at all. Brahma Sūtrās is for you. Because Brahma Sūtrās is a blessing given to all human beings; all human beings are basically logical. Only rarely are few beings centered - emotion-centered, heart-centered or being-centered.

Basically, humans by nature are logically centered. Because upbringing makes them logically-centered. So Brahma Sūtrās is for people who are logically centered. Brahma Sūtrās is for the mass but unfortunately, this was never told to the world. The only thing is, you need to spend a little time to grasp this. I don’t know why unfortunately the intellectual community did not recognize the greatness of Brahma Sūtrās internationally. Perhaps it is because of the religious connotation given to it. There are thousands and thousands of interpretations completely contradicting it, to each other. A logical mind always wants a clear set of irrefutable, non-misrepresented aphorisms or formulas but the greatness of Brahma Sūtrās is anybody can interpret and misinterpret as they want.

If the logic is pure diamond, I can say Brahma Sūtrās is a jewel made out of a pure diamond stone without adding any metal. It is not jewels studded with diamond stones, it is made out of diamond stone. A huge diamond stone that has just been drilled, carved and made into a jewel. That’s a description of Brahma Sūtrās.

I am just downloading the Sūtrā. Because this Sūtrā is established on twelve logics, I am releasing each logic, one by one, on which this Sūtrā is built. Let me read out the Sūtrā to you. Now I am going to show you how this one Sūtrā needs to be understood in the twelve-logic way.

Pradhāna is not the meaning of the word “Self,” because Liberation is promised for the one who holds on to That.

See in the earlier Sūtras, there was an argument presented: Source, Pradhāna, origin, is not made up of matter. But the opponents in the vādaprativāda, one group says: “Why? Why should it not be made up of matter? Why Pradhāna is

not Self?" Because Pradhāna itself does not get liberated. It is eternally liberated. Liberation is for the Self; I can say it is identity which is trying to hang on to the Pradhāna.

Understand, this whole thing is a psycho drama. If you feel you are poor, you will feel the rich man is greater than you. If you feel you are powerless, you will feel the powerful man is greater than you. So when you become rich, who is liberated from poverty? The person who feels himself as poor, that identity is liberated from poverty. When you become powerful, the identity which feels you are powerless is liberated from powerlessness. If you feel you are ignorant, during Enlightenment, the identity which feels it is ignorant is liberated from ignorance. But the Pradhāna itself is neither bound nor liberated. That is why when you are enlightened, you don't feel something new has happened in you. I tell you, I never felt something new has happened in me. I only felt I had something which was lost.

I'll tell you exactly what happens and what you feel. When you become twenty five, suddenly one day if you see all the toys which you had played with, you feel, "Oh God, these toys meant so much to me at that young age. It was almost my life, but now they don't mean anything to me. They neither bind me nor liberate me." Do you think at age twenty five that toys are giving you liberation? You are beyond the liberation granted by toys. Same way I suddenly felt, I am beyond the liberation granted by ignorance. I just felt: "Eh, you are not even qualified to give liberation to me. Get lost!" If you have some mud toys with which you played at a young age, for which you are even ready to kick your mother, ready to give up anything else except those toys; at the age of twenty five, do you look at those toys and say, "No, no, no, I was bound by you at some time, please give me liberation. No, I don't want to get caught with you again at all. No, no, no, I am afraid I may get interested in you after three or four years. Please liberate me. I should go and sit and listen to some Sūtrā which says: "Toy Brahma Sūtrā" which teaches me how to disconnect from toys so I do not remember the toys, do not see the toys and do not hear about them, keep them away from the country where you are living or move them out of the country"? No!

Even if the toy suddenly becomes alive and says: "Oh my son, don't worry; I give you the liberation. You are liberated from me." What are you going to say? "Eh, get lost! Who cares for the liberation you give." That's what exactly I felt. At the age of twenty two, in 2000, suddenly I felt that even if the Maya ignorance appears in front of me and says: "Oh my son, I liberate you." "Ah, get lost, who cares." I felt the ignorance and the bondage which can be added by the illusion and delusion has not only disappeared from my inner space, it just does not make sense anymore. Suddenly you feel you have grown out of it. I wanted to let you know that when you grow out of something, you will not experience hatred. Do you hate those toys? "How dare these toys bound me once upon a time! I'll break all of them!" No, unless you are psychologically sick. You won't break them and you won't make them. Just you are beyond the liberation granted by the toys. Now they can't even say, "I liberate you." No!

It's like a Ramakrishna story, a beautiful story in the Puffed Rice Festival. In West Bengal, there used to be a very great village festival - Panihati Puffed Rice Festival - where devotees buy the puffed rice and offer it to the deity. So one man was selling puffed rice to merchants and even when the Deity is taken in the procession in front of this man, he will not offer one handful of puffed rice to the Deity. He's such a miserly man. One day, there was a heavy breeze and all the puffed rice was blown in the air causing them to fly everywhere. Then suddenly the man got a great devotion and said: "Narayana paramastu, Narayana paramastu, Narayana paramastu, let all these be offered to Narayana!" Now he knows he can't hold. But who wants his offering! Narayana will be standing and laughing somewhere.

Same way, when the toys give you liberation, you will be standing and laughing somewhere. Liberation offered by toys is no way useful for you. That is the moment you are liberated from toys. That is what I call Māyātītā. That was one of the names I used during my wandering. It's my favourite name - Māyātīta. I used fifty four names. The fifty fourth name is Paramahamsa Nithyananda. I used fifty four names during my wandering as it's a rule of wandering so as not to use the same name when you go to different places. Because, in one place if you get a good name, devotees identify your greatness and they should not inform the other cities to receive you and take care of you. You should go as a beginner and be able to inspire people by your very radiance and presence and body language.

I have seen in many villages and usually in all villages in North India that there is a huge banyan tree in the center of the village or a neem tree, under which there will be small deities or elderly people will be sitting and talking. But one good thing in North India is, I have always seen the elders sitting and talking about philosophy or Bhāgavatam or all those things.

So usually, this is the way I’ll typically start in any village when I enter. I will find out about that solitary temple or the tree to go and sit under and this is usually on the first day when people will look up and down at me and walk away. On the second day, they will see that without having changed in posture, I am just sitting and they will look curiously. By the second evening, they'll ask [sign language - have you eaten?]. They will not know whether I speak their language or not, so they will ask through action. “Baba, khana?” I’ll say showing hand action. If I say, then they’ll walk. By the third day, usually morning, I’ll see that they will not even ask. They will be there with a little food or fruit or usually only uncooked items they will bring because there is an apprehension that sadhus may not eat the cooked food which is cooked by somebody else, hence uncooked food they’ll bring. But when I eat the fruits, they’ll know, “Oh, he will accept cooked food.” Then by the third day, it’ll be a feast.

If I stay there for a week and leave, I’ll see at least some twenty people will be walking with me till I go to the next place. They’ll walk with me for at least three to four hours. This is the usual drama. This is the usual drama even when I was travelling in the US to teach. When I land, nobody will be there to welcome me. Then after a three day public satsang and one Ananda Spurana Program, when I leave, some forty people will be standing at the airport with tears to bid me farewell. It’s the usual drama! If you're an old devotee, you can remember the good old days. It’s the usual drama.

Māyātītā, means even if Māyā appears in front of you and says, “I liberate you.” You’ll say: “Who are you? Ah, relax. Go and take care of your job.” So Enlightenment is not for your original existence. It is for the identity in you which feels it is bound. See, a man who is working for wealth, feeling consciously poverty is the first important problem in his life as he does not feel the necessity for Enlightenment. He does not suffer so much with his ignorance because he is suffering with his poverty. His whole inner space is occupied by poverty. So for him, the rich man is a liberated man; he is God. That is why, he worships the rich man, runs behind the rich man and tries to become like him but always underground, there is a strong jealousy and vengeance towards the rich man.

Same way, with an intelligent man; when an ignorant man looks at the intelligent man, he worships him. He feels he should become like that intelligent man and runs behind him literally ready to do anything to become intelligent. In the same way, a powerless man sees powerful people who can do anything. He runs behind them. It's a very important truth to know what all parts of you feel you are lacking something. Does a part of you feel poverty? Does some part of you feel powerless? Does some part of you feel ignorant? Does some part of you feel the emptiness of not having Enlightenment? Dig out. Actually, liberation means all these things not only do not touch you, even the liberation from all these things do not matter anymore for you.

Ashtāvakra very beautifully says, “Who is bound? Who is liberated?” There is a beautiful Zen koan. One man goes to the Master and says, “When can I become enlightened?” Zen Masters are known for strong sudden reactions and he just slaps the fellow who is then completely shaken. It’s like you go to a Master and say, “When can I get enlightened?” and he slaps you. You cannot expect this from an enlightened being as especially Zen people are supposed to be such beautiful people. Zen people are rich in vitality. Tibetian Buddhism is more systematic but Zen is very vibrant and rich in vitality and the people are joyful. Zen people have the kind of, “Ah!” That sound belongs to only Zen, to nobody else. Even in Brahma Sūtrā, nowhere you will find that “Ah!” It’s all like a cookie cutting - straight, straight, straight. But Zen people have that undercurrent: “Ah!” in anything they do.

You see, if you observe deeply, anything I do, you will see that Indian temple lifestyle. In the morning, the first thing I do when I get up is to go and fall in front of Anandeshwara. Last thing I’ll do is go and have darśan of Anandeshwara. Anything I do if you see, somehow I will not compromise on that one thing, that temple. Whether the buildings I tried to build, or the books I tried to write, or anything, even the paint I tried to paint, that underline of the temple will be running. Same way in Zen, anything they do whether their garden, or their books, or the way they teach, or their techniques, in anything - you will find that underlying tone of “Ah!” That’s one great thing.

So the disciple is shaken, “Wah! What is this?” And when Zen Master slaps, they really slap. It’s not like a pseudo. Fortunately, they are in the country where you can’t sue them as they really slap because they are very strong people. They are also well built and when you have that “Ah!” in your mood and lifestyle, you will never have arthritis or osteoporosis as your bones will be very strong. That “Ah!” gives you a kind of tremendous strength and nothing touches you. That is why the Zen and martial arts are connected so much. Their core never gets affected by any depression. The core is established on “Ah!” The disciple is shaken after being slapped. He stares, looks into the eyes of the Master and you can’t even ask, “Why did you slap me?”

With the Zen Master, that is another big problem. You can’t question them or you can’t say, “Eh, why did you slap me?” No. He’ll slap you once more and he will beat you with a stick! Not even slapping because at least slapping is okay but he will beat you with a stick. The disciple just stares. In his eyes the question is being carried, “Why did you beat me? Can you use a few words and explain to me, so that I can understand, and develop myself?” Master himself says, “If a horse comes and asks me, ‘How can I become horse? What to do?’ I have to beat it, to tell it is already a horse.” You can’t even question, “Can’t it be done in a loving way?” You can ask all those things to gurus like me who are silent and a little polite but not with Zen Masters!

The materialistic people give liberation to people who feel poverty in their consciousness. Powerful people give liberation to people who feel powerlessness in their consciousness. So each darśana, each way of life, philosophy, each philosia, liberates a certain group of people. Brahma Sūtrā takes you beyond all those liberations. Understand, Brahma Sūtrā takes you beyond all those liberations.

The origin is not your identity. Origin is always liberated. Only your identity needs liberation now. How can identity be liberated? Now I’ll give you twelve logical trends. You need to do that homeless work. Homework means work you do while sitting in the home. Homeless work means work you are supposed to do not by going home, but by not going home or being home. And I am very happy, today I received so many emails. Many countries have participated and many of our satsang centers have started creating their own groups, eN-debate on Skype. Each one of them had by analysing and having the vādaprativāda of yesterday’s subject. Yesterday I said one subject: Source is intelligence. Source is consciousness; not dead matter or dead law, not dead arithmetical logical rhythmic calculation.

Very beautifully Ramana Maharshi sings in a song called Upadesa Undiyar:

The actions give results because the ultimate Source orders it. The actions by themselves cannot bring results because they are not independent intelligence.

Imagine signing a cheque to receive your own money from the bank, the manager being the decision-making authority has to pass it. So even if you send the karma cheque to God, the decision making authority has to pass it and usually it passes it. That does not mean just because you send the cheque, you will always get the result. It does not become eternal when you send money, the cheque you will receive at some time may say it has bounced, get lost! Or they may say the bank itself is closed. But of course here, banks cannot get closed, they are eternal. But the cheque can be bounced. Usually, you think the identity can be Master eternally. That is the mistake.

Today’s logic trend is supposed to be this only. Who is getting liberated? Who is bound? What ignorance and bondage do you feel; how is liberation felt? How does ignorance and bondage feel, liberation and Enlightenment? Who feels ignorance? Who feels enlightened? Who feels bound? Who feels liberated? It is the dust which is in one corner of your body that feels bondage and feels liberation. But you are neither feeling bondage nor feeling liberation.

Somebody goes and asks a Zen Master, “How can I be liberated?” Master looks in and says, “Who has bound you?” It is the psycho drama which you create that is bondage. I tell you, when suffering starts in you and when the feeling of bondage starts in you and the feeling of ignorance starts in you; if you can just destroy it and say, “Ah! What is going on? What is this? Is this true?” and get out of it, you don’t need methods, techniques or technology for liberation, Enlightenment.

Now drill, “Who is feeling bound? What is bondage?” Define bondage as per your understanding. Define liberation as per your understanding. Analyse bondage and liberation in all dimensions like a wealth line, health line, power line, in the line of relationships, in the line of not having love; any line you feel deficiency or feel bound. Define that bondage and liberation. So today’s vādaprativāda should be on this line. Please understand the truth is neither you are bound nor liberated. One part of the dust settled on you feels bound and other feels liberated.

When you don’t even care about the liberation given by the dust to you, you are liberated. That’s what exactly happened in me. Don’t think at the age of twenty two, in 2000, somebody appeared in front of me and said, “Oh my son, you are liberated from that date, from today.” No. I just felt so high and above, even if this whole Universe binds me, it cannot bind me. Even if the whole Universe blesses me with the liberation, it cannot liberate me. Neither the bondage from the Māyā and the liberation from the Māyā makes any sense to me. I even lost the idea it has some existence. I can’t even say disrespect. Respect and disrespect both disappeared. “Ah, okay. Oh, you are Māyā. Emm, what do you do? Your professions? Please have food in the kitchen and go. Have darśan in the temple and go.”

For example, if somebody comes to the hall and says: “Oh Nithyananda, I have come here to give you liberation.” Forget about what I will do, you know what you will do! Same way only, suddenly one morning, I saw that I had become so distant. It’s like when you are on a flight, two hands are fighting on the ground. One says, “I will bind this fellow.” Another says: “No, no, I will liberate that fellow.” What will you do about both the hands? In the same way only the bondage and ignorance do not have any meaning for Pradhāna.

I tell you, parivrājaka helps you to understand this because when you do parivrājaka, in different situations, with different people and everything, you should do it with high awareness, not with a beggar consciousness. I have seen people start parivrājaka in a spirit. By the time they end, they have some twenty lakh rupees in their bank balance, two cellphones and few passbooks. And they will know thoroughly which Ashram gives what kind of food. No, I have seen in Haridwar and Rishikesh, the Sadhus will talk early morning about which Ashram is serving which menu on that day. Then they will choose where to go for bhandāra. I have seen annadātās getting beaten in Haridwar-Rishikesh Akhadas for not giving proper food for begging. When sādhus come for begging, if you don’t give them proper food, annadātās will be beaten. I am not telling you to do this kind of parivrājaka.

Parivrājaka with awareness brings a very powerful transformation where the utility of that concept of bondage and liberation is no more useful for you. Any utility you get by the concept of bondage or liberation is no more useful to you. Because all bondage has utility for you, feeling poverty has a utility for you to become rich; that needs to constantly poke at you, only then you will become rich. You’ll plan, plan, plan and finally become rich, and get into a bigger mess. Feeling powerless has a utility value for you so that you will plan to become powerful. Feeling ignorant has a utility value for you, so that you’ll work for Enlightenment. So the feeling of ignorance and Enlightenment should lose its utility value for you. That’s what has happened in me.

I suddenly felt the utility value of me feeling ignorant or me feeling enlightened is no more useful for me. Sometimes you try to feel you are enlightened so that you can influence and inspire people and have the by-products of Enlightenment. It doesn’t work because by-products of Enlightenment have to always be a by-product and can never be a main product or can never be induced or infused. It can only happen by enthuse, by your presence some enthusiasm will happen; in that the by-products of Enlightenment can happen. It can never be induced, infused, intenduced. It can only be enthused. I am coining a new word “enthuse” which means by your presence if you create an enthusiasm in people and something happens, it is a by-product which does not bind you. See this whole sangha I built by the enthusiasm, as a by-product of Enlightenment. That’s why it’s not binding me if it’s there or not, I am not bound and if it’s there, great, so many people are enjoying these great truths and values. That’s all! So today, vādaprativāda should be: who is bound? Who is liberated? Where is bondage? And where is liberation?

Śaṅkara Bhāṣya very beautifully describes that the person who is feeling bound can never be liberated. The only way is that identity which feels bound should be destroyed or outgrown. It should disappear. Disappearance of the part of the identity which feels bound, is liberation. That disappearance of the part of you which feels poverty is richness. Disappearance of part of you which feels powerless is power. Disappearance of the part which feels you are ignorant is Enlightenment. Otherwise, there is no powerfulness, richness, Enlightenment for your Pradhāna or for you as you are.

I can see very clearly, Bādarāyaṇa - Vyāsa, Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa is drilling all your brains. Because for the last one hour, I am not giving any second statement. If you watch this discourse again on YouTube, you will understand, or if you download this discourse, you will understand. I have not made a second statement. If you think I made a second statement, you are in ignorance. Download this and watch and you will understand I have not made a second statement. I am going on drilling the same thing in different angles. I am drilling based on different darśanas.

The darśana of Pūrva Mīmāṃsā; you see, Pūrva Mīmāṃsā darśanas is all based on power: “I am powerless, let me do the rituals and have power.” That’s all. Uttara Mīmāṃsā is all about Enlightenment: “I am ignorant. I don’t have Enlightenment. I need to practice some things and get knowledge and get enlightened.” Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika is all about intelligence: “I am not having enough logic to express my beliefs, faiths, the way of life and understanding to others; I am only being influenced and I need to influence others, catch and find out all those methods and become the intelligent man.” Sāṅkhya and Yogā is all about the different mystical powers which you feel you don’t have and which can be grabbed, grasped by the the saṃyama. So through different darśanā, I am making you understand the bondage and liberation.

Ultimately, if you ask me as per my darśanā, as per my experience, I am telling you that suddenly at one time in my life, I realized the bondage, any bondage created, can be created by this Universe; any liberation can be granted by this Universe - both of them have become useless in my life, useless for me. I am not interested in it. I’ll call this Mokṣa, Ultimate, Nithyananda state.

Catch the satya, the sacred secret in this aphorism of existence is: who feels bound? Who feels liberated? Look into you what part of you feels bound in all ways and which parts of you have felt bondage in which fields and when you

felt liberated in those fields. How do you feel bound now? How do you feel liberation should be? Dig out. Let the vādaprativāda start and you will have the prasāda.

I bless you all to achieve, experience, live, express, radiate and share the eternal bliss - Nithyananda.

We'll enter into the Sūtrā.

Just 2 words. This is the greatness of these Masters. They uttered two to three words and we have to break our heads for years to understand; sometimes a lifetime to understand.

Swami Gambhirananda translates as “Pradhāna has not been spoken of even indirectly because there is no subsequent mention of its rejection; because that militates against the assertion of at the beginning.” And Swami Vireswarananda translates as “And because it is not stated by the scriptures that it has to be abandoned, Pradhāna cannot be denoted by the word “Sat.”

Before entering into the Sūtrā, I wanted to tell you an interesting incident; I received a message from a senior Swami of one of the Hindu Mission Orders. Some of those Swamis in the monastery were talking that Nithyananda is talking on Brahma Sūtrās and in their discussion, one group of Swamis said, “How dare He talk about Brahma Sutras?! What does He know about Brahma Sutras?” And the other group said, “No, no, no, you should see at least one of His discourses. He is really making sense.” Some intellectual group said, “We don’t even understand, what will He understand?” The other group said, “No, no, no, listen at least just to one discourse. He makes sense.” You can understand this went on and on. Finally the Head of that Monastery secretly logged into the Brahma Sūtrās discourse, heard one discourse and openly sent Me a message, congratulating and giving His complete support saying that first time He understands Brahma Sūtrās. First time even He understands Brahma Sūtrās. I wanted to thank Him for secretly logging in and finally sending His support.

I tell you really, if you try to study Brahma Sūtrās by yourself, there are only three options. One - you should just stop reading because of the sheer tiredness it brings on your physical body. Anybody who tries to study Brahma Sūtrās lands having a physical disease, I have seen, because your head will suck the whole energy, even after that, you will not be able to grasp. Second, there is every possibility you will fall into depression because when the head sucks the energy completely, the only next step the head knows is depression. Understand, any step you take based on the head, the only step the head knows is depression. Nothing other than that. The third important truth is there is every possibility you can go mad.

It’s the most difficult Shāstrā. Thousands of ways this Sūtrā can be translated and thousands of ways it can be interpreted. Every time it takes at least twenty-one full seconds, a full twenty-one seconds for Me, for My brain itself to grasp each Sutra. I am telling you very clearly: to grasp the flow of each Sūtrā, it takes at least twenty-one seconds. It means it’ll take at least twenty-one hours for you, if not years.

But I tell you, if you want to exist, you need to know the formulas for Existence; aphorisms on Existence. If some way, when the kids start growing, if we can teach this aphorisms on Existence saying, “Eh, your Source is consciousness. The whole thing is based on the flow of compassion and the deep conscious, deep engrams and sufferings are created in you because currency is not practical, or factual or real life.”

I wanted all of you to know, I am using the word “practical.” One of the worst things that can happen to human beings is thinking that wealth alone is a practical part of life. Whether it is relationships, wealth, infrastructure, or power; these are not just practical parts of life. The practical part of life itself is aphorisms on Existence - Brahma Sūtrās. It is a basic need to exist. Just to exist, nothing else. If these aphorisms on Existence are imbibed as a basic decision-making mechanism in your system, the highest breakthrough in the human consciousness can happen. Life can radiate itself in its peak possible form on planet earth.

I'll repeat the Sutra:

Pradhāna has not been spoken of even indirectly because there is no subsequent mention of its rejection; because that militates against the assertion at the beginning.

About the Source or consciousness: the Pradhāna, Self - even in the beginning, there is no mention. Because bondage and liberation are both the identity you carry; not for the Pradhāna. Bādarāyana, Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa is very clear in these Sūtrās: We need to talk about only what we have - the individual identity we carry. There is no way talking about Self is going to help. All the talks about Self, consciousness, intelligence, compassion only misguide you.

That is why Buddha completely stops talking about Self, and He goes on creating a new term called Shūnya. Talking about the Self is only understood by the identity you carry which anyway, cannot give any proper complete view about any subject. I think if you do the Vādaprativāda on this Sūtrā, it means the debate in almost all the problems your mind and all human minds are facing about the ultimate state of consciousness, religion and spirituality will be sorted out. The Vādaprativāda is a very juicy way of internalising these great truths. I tell you, I am really, really, really happy I started this subject - Brahma Sūtrās because now only I feel I am talking about something which I wanted to speak of from my level. I always used to feel the PhD Professor is made to take LKG, UKG content classes, nursery classes.

Only now I feel I am talking about something worthy. No, I am not disrespecting Shiva Sūtrās or Patanjali Yoga Sūtrās or Bhagavad Gītā for which I have tremendous respect; they are taking you to Enlightenment through different paths. Yoga Sūtrās need not necessarily be strong intellectual because it is just a manual. Yoga Sūtrās is a technique manual for you to read, practice and get enlightened because you need to practice; it needs to be a very simple, clear manual language. The purpose is, you are expected to practice because it's like an owner's manual for a particular car or a computer. That does not necessarily need to talk about the whole mechanism with which the car is functioning. It needs to tell you which button to operate and what to do to use that machinery completely. So you have certain powers in your body, mind, consciousness. You need a manual. Yoga Sūtrās is more like an owner's manual for body and mind.

Shiva Sūtrās is more like an owner's manual for enlightenment, consciousness. Your own enlightenment has a manual and knows how to radiate it. Bhagavad Gītā is more like an owner's manual for a successful social leader. Brahma Sūtrās is not just an owner's manual, it is the pure science, the basic technology, the basic understanding, aphorisms on Existence. I can say, talking about the other Sūtrās I don't need to use My whole system to talk about the other Sūtrās but for the Brahma Sūtrās I have to use almost whatever is available to Me. All the intellect, intelligence, logic, the power of Vāk, Saraswati, and the highest possible consciousness and language power, I have to use practically everything to speak on Brahma Sūtrās. That is why I am feeling so fulfilled.

And if you observe, I never rest My body during the discourses. You will see in the last few days, I will be leaning and resting because every word I am uttering from that pure Existence plane. I am not even keeping a little bit of mind even to keep My body straight; I am just resting it. Let the words flow like Saraswati. I am programming the whole thing to radiate the Existence intensely.

So all talk about Self is useless. All talks about intelligence are useless. It only leads to more and more disturbance, disruption, misunderstanding, manipulation, morphing, and misrepresentation. Because bondage and liberation, both

are experienced by the identity you carry, not by the Pradhāna or the original Source. There is no mention about Pradhāna.

You can never experience a breakthrough with the same old identity. For example, a follower type of personality, a slave type of personality can never experience leadership consciousness, with the same identity he is carrying. When the identity has no possibility for a strong breakthrough, quantum leap does not happen. Same way here also, unless you decide to be a high achiever, Existence is not for you; please understand. Aphorisms of Existence are not for you, if you are not interested in being a high achiever. Understand, now itself I am telling you, this book is only for high achievers. If you are a failure then it's really better to log out, I am telling you. Aphorisms on Existence is only for high achievers where the complete transformation is required which challenges your very Existence. As I said yesterday, there was a moment in My life where all the bondages which can be created by the Universe and all the liberation which can be given by the Universe have become meaningless for My Existence.

Brahma Sūtrās says, "Pradhāna, Source and origin cannot be spoken. Any speaking you do, any understanding you try to achieve, any word you try to bring in, any concept you try to adopt, any belief you try to establish only creates more lines and layers of dust on the possibility of experiencing Pradhāna." That is why I am saying in Brahmavidyā Sampradāya, we don't have Enlightenment. We make you Enlightened but we don't have a concept of Enlightenment. We emphasise a cognitive shift.

The identity which feels ignorance should stop taking decisions based on its ignorance or feeling it is intelligence. The factual reality becomes a base for taking cognisance of any idea, understanding and decisions. It is almost like pure Existence in its purest form becomes a basis or basic ground on which you stand. I am really feeling happy for the kids who are sitting and listening all over the world.

Brahma Sūtrās should be heard, debated before the age of 42. After 42, certain parts of the brain due to the length of time unused can never be retrieved or used. These are some of the hard disks which have not worked and can never be retrieved. Sometimes if the hard disk is repaired, there is a possibility you can retrieve it. If it is not functioning for a long time and you did not bother to look into it, to awaken it, then it can never be retrieved. If you send it to the forensic laboratory means the Master's monastery, there is a possibility that he may be able to retrieve and make it active.

Buddha goes on saying, "Pradhāna, origin is Shūnya - nothingness, no thoughts." Actually, I agree with Buddha's nothingness because that stops the whole confusion which can be created by the jugglery of the words about the Self and Pradhāna. See, small subjects which do not mean much to you and to your life can be confused. You can afford to get confused in those lines but the major important truths like Self, Pradhāna, origin, you can't afford to get confused. It has to be a clear authentic drilling without leaving any room for confusion, contradiction, commotion and chaos. That is why Buddha has taken a great step of not talking about the Pradhāna, origin of God. I can say that this is one of the main reasons why Buddhā is able to make thousands Enlightened.

So Bādarāyana, Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa is very clear: any discussion about the Pradhāna can only be destructive. Then what is the use of talking? Talking is constantly removing the identity with which you are working, the identity which feels the bondage, which feels the liberation.

I'm saying, if you don't create concepts and ideas about Existence and origin, it is easy for you to take the jump into the experience when it happens. When you go on having certain concepts about Existence, when it happens in front of you, you miss it. When you have a strong concept about Krishna and when He comes back in front of you, you will miss Him. If you have a strong concept about Jesus, if He comes back in front of you, you will miss Him. Because how do you know Jesus had a long beard and Krishna was clean shaved? But you go on carrying this image. There is every possibility, Krishna could have had at least a short beard, just to experience, who knows! He was very vibrant

and colourful. Maybe a few months He could have tried maybe a french beard or all other possible beards, who knows! There is every possibility at some time Jesus would have been clean shaven, who knows? But when you go on carrying some idea, you miss the Existence of it because of the idea about that Existence.

In the same way, when you carry too many ideas about the Brahman, Existence, you miss the experience of Existence when it hits your base of cognisance. That is what I’m actually doing now. I am hitting on the base of your cognisance. That is why you are feeling so much of silence and bliss even though you don’t understand a single word I am uttering. No, I challenge you! Come on, try to recall all that I’ve spoken. Immediately after the Brahma Sutra Satsang, try to have a debate and recall what I have spoken. You can’t recall everything. I can't even recall anything! I only know that I allowed Saraswati to express Herself honestly as it is, to hit the basis on which you are making cognisance. Let Me tell you about the whole drama exactly.

You see, basically one line of your logic due to some reason suddenly strongly believes that you are in bondage, you are not worthy of life, you are not worthy of anything great, you are not worthy of you. So that logic goes on interfering in all aspects of your life as in health, wealth, relationships, satisfaction, fulfillment, fear, greed, pleasure and pain in all dimensions and aspects of your life. This logic jumps in and makes the whole thing hell. When again and again, the basis on which you take cognisance, the basis on which this logic which goes on reminding you that you are unfulfilled or telling you that you are unfulfilled, is shaken.

The mud on which this root of imperfect logic - I can call this as an imperfect logic because it goes on reminding you that you are imperfect and repeating you are imperfect. I am removing that very sand or the ground on which this logic is rooted. I am removing that very sand, the very ground so that the logic which goes on saying about the imperfection, takes a different cognisance; stops taking cognisance based on imperfection, or the idea of imperfection.

The first thing you need to know is there is no Enlightenment for you so you do not need to worry or work for it. All the ideas you carry are psychodrama. Understand, for example, only when you look at that idol as higher than you, it looks like a deity. If you look at the idol as a statue, it is just a stone. It is your own psychodrama which adds sacredness to the idol and makes it a deity. It is just a kind of training. Understand, looking at anything as unholy is very easy but looking at anything as alive or sacred is the most difficult job. Looking at anything, experiencing anything without sacredness is very easy. To throw a stone at something, to throw a slipper at something is not a difficult thing. Only to offer flowers at something with a deep overflowing love and gratitude, you need to evolve. It is not a joke to melt a man’s consciousness and raise him to a level where he can see sacredness in a stone or a statue or a living person. A stone and statue is a little difficult; on living person, most difficult.

Psychodrama of adding sacredness to a deity or an idol is used to shake your logic which goes on reminding you that you are imperfect. If you feel the sacredness on any one thing, immediately that sacredness hits the very root of the imperfect logic. That is why we say:

brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati

By knowing Brahman, you become Brahman. By having the sacred experience to a deity or Guru, you experience that very sacredness in the root where the psychodrama starts in your life. I can equate the Sanskrit word “Māyā” for psychodrama.

Everything in your life is a psychodrama. You feeling Me as Guru, you feeling yourself as a man, you feeling you are a disciple, you feeling your neighbour is spiritually grown or he is spiritually less, all wives feel husbands are spiritually less, all husbands feel wives are spiritually more rich, etc. All husbands have a problem, “My wife is

spiritually grown, I am not up to her.” All wives feel, “My husband is not spiritual enough, he’s a headache for me.” And I wanted all of you to know this is a psychodrama. And I wanted all of you to know it is an important factual reality. If you start taking cognisance of this factual reality, you will be helped. If you think I am spiritually more grown than you, it is a lie. It is a psychodrama. I am equal to you in spirituality. You may think then why am I sitting on the highest pedestal? Because I need to tell you this, you need to see Me when I am telling you. If I sit on the ground, on the same level, you may not be able to see Me. So just for the sake of utility, I am sitting on the stage.

You looking at Me with love or gratitude or respect is just the psychodrama which will shake your imperfect logic or logic which goes on telling you that you are imperfect. Because when you see sacredness in something, the jolt happens in the root of the logic which goes on disgracing everything including you. And I wanted all of you to know, this is one of the important aphorisms in reality. There is no difference between love and lust.

Your cognition about you is very sacred. So remove the thorn by needle. If you project sacredness on your deity, it is like removing a thorn by another thorn. If you project sacredness on your Guru, a living person, it is removing the thorn by needle. It’ll never get stuck. It is a psychodrama. Psychodrama where you learn the habit of looking at the things sacredly so that you can experience that sacredness in the root, in the Source where cognisance is taken in your life about everything. The Source where the cognisance is taken in you about everything is Hiranyagarbha. That is what is the Source of the Existence.

However, I wanted all of you to know: in existence, in factual reality, Rama, Krishna, Shankara, Buddha, Ramakrishna, Ramana, you, Me - none of us have any basic difference. The possibility of basic difference cannot even be conceived. It is the identity you carry which creates a psychodrama with which you feel the bondage, by disappearance of which you feel the liberation. So end of the show, it is like you are liberated from created suffering. There are some meditation programs, education programs which create suffering for you and then liberate you from that and people go and pay for it. They create the suffering which is not there and then make people feel liberated from that suffering. Because that is what you are doing for yourself and you are happy about that game. You feel your life is useful.

The other day, I was reading a one-liner. Woman says, “Husband is a man who will stand by you during all the problems, struggles, chaos you will go through in your life which may not happen if he is not there in your life to begin with.” I tell you, courage is the quality which makes you stand in your life throughout the problems, low curves, and disturbances which may not be there, if that is not there in the initial level. You feel your life is useful if you create a lot of problems in the end. If you relieve yourself from all those problems; you say, “Wah, see what I have achieved in the last 70 years?” What have you achieved? Nothing but creating some foolish problems and sorting it out. At the end of the day, neither the problem nor the solution is worthy.

You need to lose respect for all the problems you have. That is the essence, the sacred secret from this Sūtrā. You need to lose respect for anything you consider as the identity. Pradhāna cannot be understood as Existence; He’s beyond anything you understand as Existence. Anything which can be understood by your logic is not Pradhāna. Pradhāna can never be understood by your logic.

So all we are talking about is, stopping the yellow journalist who is sitting inside you and goes on writing disgracing articles about you, to you and to others. He writes, disgracing you to you, and sends the same articles to others also through your own mouth. And then writes about others to you and makes you believe and makes you tell that same idea to others from your own mouth. These are the great four activities of the amazing logic which you carry in one corner of your brain. First, he writes disgracing articles about you and makes you believe them. Then, he makes those ideas come out through your mouth to others and makes them believe. Then he writes about others’ disgracing articles to you, making you believe and makes you tell these same ideas to others also creating irritation and anger and fight from others to you.

All we need to do is bring that logic to factual reality, meaning transforming. That is what we call in the Hindu tradition, Kāma Dahana - burning of Manmathā which you do on MahaShivaratri. We burn the Māyā, Manmathā, delusion. It’s a Hindu tradition, Hindu practice in all temples, usually on Mahashivaratri or Panguni Uthiram and the Chitrā Pūrnimā, they burn this effigy of collective delusion.

So the essence of this Sutra is, discussion about Pradhāna: not only is it useless, but dangerous, so avoid it. All discussions are supposed to be the identity you are carrying and all liberation is for the identity you are carrying. The ability to look at the sacredness of the deity or the Guru is a psychodrama which helps shut the yellow journalist who is sitting inside you; the logic which goes on imposing imperfection on you, even though you are perfect.

So today, I wanted the Vādaprativāda to continue in the eN-Debate, on these 3 aspects. Only the identity you feel as bondage and liberation; not the original Source, Self you have. Second, original Source or Self cannot be understood by words so it is good not to talk about it. Third is very important and amazing: the ability to project the sacredness on a deity or Guru. This psychodrama helps you remove the logic which goes on saying, you are imperfect and disgracing, even though you are perfect and how that psychodrama can be used to experience sacredness in you and so put an end to this yellow journalist who is sitting in you. These are the 3 major subjects I want Vādaprativāda to happen in eN-Debate. I wanted the whole social media and the internet, Twitter, Facebook, Orkut, YouTube; everything to be flooded with Brahma Sutras on this great Vādaprativāda. The Internet is being used too much for low level usages, like shopping, games, or entertainment. Make the whole internet sacred by using it for sacred sentiments and sacred secrets - Brahma Sūtrās. Let everywhere the eN-Debate happen with Vādaprativāda. Like in those days they say, if you enter Varanasi, even the bulls, buffalos, birds, and parrots living in the Varanasi can give you any answer about anyダウンVedantic question. Because so many pandits are sitting and arguing continuously, they know everything about Vedanta thoroughly.

Shankara goes to find Mandana Mishra’s house. It’s a nice scene. There are pedestrians on the road and the traveller says, “Go to a village where the poor women, low caste women will be taking water from the village well, the common well. They will be talking about the highest Vedānta, highest truths and giving clarity to you. Go to that village. That is the village of Mandana Mishrā and ask anybody in that village about Mandana Mishrā’s house, they will show you.” Shankara goes village by village where he saw many villagers where people talk about Vedanta but not beyond this level. In one village, he finds the women who are taking the water from the well during their debate, Vādaprativāda; they gave some clarity and click even to Shankara. He got some clicks, sacred secrets. Then he decides, “Wow, this is the village of Mandana Mishrā.” He asked those ladies, “May you tell me the house of Mandana Mishra, where is it?” They say, “Go straight. Outside one house, parrots will be sitting and discussing all the great truths and philosophies. That is Mandana Mishra’s house.” Shankara goes; there is a great discussion on whether the Uttara Mīmāmsā is complete or Purva Mīmāmsā is complete. Between two parrots, the Vādaprativāda is going on. Shankara was shocked - parrots sitting, discussing, and debating, then what will be the knowledge of the person from whom these parrots have learned! So today continue the Vādaprativāda on these three sacred secrets. Let you all achieve, experience, live, express and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda.

Today is the 1ˢᵗ chapter, 1ˢᵗ section. 9ᵗʰ Sūtra :

स्वाप्ययात् ॥ ९ ॥ svāpyayāt

Just one word.

स्वाप्ययात् ॥ ९ ॥ svāpyayāt

Swami Gambhirananda translates this Sūtrā as: because of the merger of the individual into his own Self. Swami Vireswarananda translates as: on account of individual Soul merging in his own Self, or the universal Self referred to as the Sat. In the deep sleep the Pradhāna cannot be denoted by the word “Self.”

The uniqueness of Bādarāyaṇa, Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa is through each Sūtrā, he creates a complete new thought trend. Unimaginable, incomprehensible, unimaginable and incomprehensible. Those are the two words I can say.

स्वाप्ययात् ॥ ९ ॥ svāpyayāt

Because of the merger of the individual into his own Self.

The last Sūtrā which we saw yesterday, he is talking about the different aspects of ignorance, the possibilities of ignorance. In this Sūtrā, suddenly he takes a complete turn because the identity which you carry merges into the ultimate Existence by its own Self, by itself; you can’t speak even about the individual identity. See yesterday's Sūtra, he was saying: “You can’t speak about the Self, Pradhāna, the Existence, because bondage and liberation are only for the dust, only for the small identity you have.” The Pradhāna neither experiences bondage nor experiences liberation. It is only the identity you carry, the dust you have which experiences bondage or liberation.

However, in this Sūtrā, Bhagavān Veda Vyāsa takes us to a space completely different; he says one step further: “Even the individual identity cannot be defined because it merges on its own internal Pradhāna.” Pradhāna means the origin, the main subject, the Brahman, Cosmic experience. That is what is meant by the word “Pradhāna.”

Here’s a question, “Can you offer a definition on critical terminology like Pradhāna?” Pradhāna means Brahman, Existence, the Soul, Cosmic Self. Today Vyāsa goes one step further: “Even about the identity you cannot talk. Even about the identity you cannot make any understanding. Because, the identity merges onto Self on its own.” It merges onto Self on its own. He is taking us step by step to the deeper and deeper silence.

Vyāsa, I can say is a very practical philosopher. Being practical and being philosophical, both have happened in Vyāsa. Vyāsa is a high achiever. The high achiever mentality always makes you highly practical. High achiever mentality is such that it makes you highly practical. A philosophical mind which does not achieve is the most cunning and crooked mind. Most cunning and crooked mind. Impractical philosophers will always be losers in life. Impractical philosophers will be worse losers because they have not touched the reality. Still they are stuck in one layer.

A small story: One man and a great philosopher having three doctorates go on a camping trip. After finishing their dinner, they retire for the night and go to sleep. Some hours later, the man wakes up and nudges his philosopher friend, “Look up at the sky and tell me what you see.” “I see millions and millions of stars, my friend,” exclaims the philosopher. “And astronomically, what do you deduce from that?” asked the man. Immediately the philosopher

ponders for a minute and says, "Well, astronomically it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the Universe." "What does it tell you?" the philosopher asked the man. The man says, "You idiot! Someone has stolen our tent!"

Philosophers are great losers. That is why in India, we never had philosophy. Philosia means Darshana. In India, all philosophers are supposed to be seers. Seeing, not thinking. In the Indian tradition, we insist on experiencing. It is philosia, not just philosophy. Philosophers suffer. Rishis are not philosophers; they are philosias, seers. Vyāsa is not adding more and more words to us. He is taking more and more words away from us. He is making us more empty.

Yesterday itself I was thinking, "What can I comment on this Sūtrā because he says nothing can be spoken about the Pradhāna, Source?" Suddenly now he is telling, "Even about the identity you can't speak anything." Nothing can be spoken about the identity. Even about the identity, you can't say anything. He uses a very beautiful word "on its own." Please understand, your identity by its very nature, winds up all the drama of seeing the forms and names, retires itself into its inner space once in every twenty one hours. See, the individual Self creates this whole drama; creates this life, world, society, whatever you see, touch, experience, smell, think. But the greatness of the Pradhāna, Source, is just it sucks the identity. How much ever you try, your identity cannot be separated from the Source. Once in twenty one hours, it feels tired of all this drama, dumps everything, retires and just goes back to its Source.

The automatic resting mechanism, automatic retiring mechanism: every day by its nature, Self settles into the Source. It rests into the Source. Nothing much needs to be done. Even if you do anything or don't do anything, every night your individual Self retires into the Pradhāna, the Ātman, Self, Consciousness, Sat, Existence. Because by itself, the Self rests into the Pradhāna, even that quality of the identity you carry is not consistent or consistently based on certain factual realities, you need to understand that.

I am just seeing clearly, whatever I am uttering is just going over. I am saying something, by the time I utter the second statement, all the fellows have gone somewhere and are coming back. Almost between every gap, you all go to the Existence, Source and come back. It's like awakening the non-mechanical parts of your brain which is almost like keeping a hundred dogs' tails straight. So first, I make one dog's tail straight and hold it in two hands. Then I catch a second dog's back and hold the second tail front in one hand, the second in the other hand. Now I have two dogs in my hand. Then I slowly run around and catch the third one by the tail and front and then the fourth. By the time I caught the fifth one, the first dog ran away!

Somehow I made you understand one full day on Pradhāna. Pradhāna means the Source. Pradhāna is the primal Source, origin. Somehow yesterday I logically made you understand, you can't speak about the origin because the liberation and bondage is only for the identity you feel, not for the origin. So origin cannot be expressed by any word because it is beyond your intelligence. It is beyond comprehension.

Now Vyāsa is taking us a step further saying, "Even about the identity you cannot grasp anything, because the identity also is not disconnected. It basically gets sucked into the Source every day without even your intention." Even if you tried to keep your identity away, seeing these names and forms, at one point it just renounces this whole thing, retires into the Self, every day in deep sleep. He just takes away all the words. As identity does not have its own existence and gets sucked into the Source again and again and again. Even your identity is not a consistent individual independent entity. But by force and pressure, because you needed something to hold on to make your life meaningful, you love to give meaning to things. When you walk, there is a beautiful garden with roses growing and birds are there; why should you even give the meaning "beautiful?" It is there, that's all. The moment you give the idea of "beautiful," the neighbour also tries to create a garden the same way. The original sin is trying to add meaning to what is happening in front of you, that's all. If you stop that one thing, this nonsensical habit of trying to give meaning to everything,

trying to add juice to everything; if you can retire just from that one thing, you stop adding meaning, then suddenly you will understand your identity which you think as very consistent every day is not consistent. That will be one of the major realizations to achieve the source of Existence. Buddhā gives a powerful example. If you light a torch and rotate it at a high speed, you will see a fire circle. There is no fire circle. Every inch the torch is moving looks like a fire circle. Same way in your identity, you see a solid existence; it is not. The high speed movement makes you feel like it has an individual existence. The high speed movement is responsible.

One year before the identity with which you woke up in the morning, today with which you woke up are not consistent though you force yourself to believe it is consistent. Because if it is not consistent, suddenly the base on which you are building your life loses value, meaning. Knowing that nothing has value, you want to hold on to something, like a consolation. You know at the end of the day, money has no value, relationships have no value, your body has no value. If you peel, peel, peel, finally nothing has value. But it makes you feel like an orphan, “No, no, no, no, no…” We can’t directly face that reality. So we need to add value to something to keep ourselves alive. But I tell you, when you understand there is no value in anything, you will become a high achiever, creator and leader. However, a normal mind tends to superimpose value. A normal mind tends to impose value. Trying to impose value is the reason why you feel the identity is a consistent, comprehensible individual character. Actually you do not have an individual quality or a character or identity. But this truth seems to be too much. You need to project yourself with some consistency. So what to do? You try to give meaning to it. When you try to give meaning to something to make it look consistent, the ignorance becomes alive.

The sacred secret in this Sūtrā is to stop giving meaning to things. Understanding the identity you are getting every morning when you wake up is not consistent with yesterday's. Just new, new comes; meaningless. If there is meaning in anything, there will not be excitement in that. Excitement to exist happens only if it is meaningless. If there is a clear meaning, definition, you will be completely bored. Because you know everything, what to do? If you are bored of unclutching, understand you are not doing it. You are not, you made a meaning out of unclutching. If you are every moment practicing, it’ll be intensely exciting, never boring. Understand, life is meaningless. That is the only way to live in an exciting way. If you try to find a consistent meaning, the excitement from life is taken away; you are a poor philosopher!.

I am trying my best to catch some ten-twelve dogs’ tails in two hands. By the time I catch ten, already three to four have run away. Just to understand my situation: first, catch one dog and catch one edge of the tail and you know where it will be and the other edge of the tail and hold it straight. Run behind another one dog. Then catch that dog and include his tail front and end in two hands - keep it tight. Then run around and catch the third. Each Sūtrā is almost this for me. Teaching each Sūtrā is adding one, one dog’s tail and keeping it straight. By the time I add the fifth to sixth dog, the first three dogs have run away!

The sacred secret from this Sūtrā is: because the identity merges on its own into the Self, origin, you can’t even grasp or understand the identity. Second, because the identity is not consistent, do not try to give meaning to it or build buildings on it to keep itself meaningful or consistent. Identity being meaningless is okay. That will keep the excitement of life in life. Don’t try to know everything. So now neither can you speak about the Pradhāna which is Source, nor can you speak about the individual identity which feels the bondage or liberation because that doesn't exist. Understand, see the individual identity which you think you have, if it exists, it should be able to retain its presence; it does not. Even if you try not to get enlightened, within twenty four hours you are sucked into it. You get into that space and you try to jump out but within a few hours, you are called back.

Even the identity you carry is not as solid as you think. Then why do we feel it is solid? It is because we want to give meaning to it. Without meaning, it will naturally lose its solid feeling. When you understand your identity is not solid, you will be more aware, alive and ready to live. Because you are more alive, aware and ready to live spontaneously, you will naturally become a high achiever. High achiever is a man who is ready to go through any complication in life's ups and downs. That ability will happen in you only when you are clear about not giving a consistent identity or meaning to the identity you are carrying. If you have enough guts to live the identity which is changing every day, knowing this whole thing is meaningless, you develop a powerful energy which makes you a high achiever.

Anybody who is lying down on the couch and says he is enlightened, never believe it. Ramana Maharshi was never lying down on the couch. All his photographs are taken when he was lying down on the couch. That does not mean his whole life he was lying down on the couch. No. He used to cook and grind flour using the old traditional stone grinding machine. In those days Indian villages used to have grinding machines. Women used to grind rice and everything. Ramana Maharshi used to grind rice every day. Once Tapasyananda Swami, a Mahāpuruṣa from Ramakrishna Mission; he was Vice President of Ramakrishna Mission; he translated Bhāgavatam, an amazing English translation. Mahāpuruṣa, he goes to see Ramana Maharshi. He asked somebody, "Where is Bhagavān?" They said: "Go to the kitchen, he will be there." He entered the kitchen, he saw some ten men were working washing the vessels, cooking, one was grinding, another one was cutting vegetables. He couldn't understand or catch the identity of Ramana Maharshi. He went to the man who was grinding and asked, "Who is Ramana Maharshi?" Bhagavān looked at this side and that side and showed one big brass vessel and said, "Ramana." He pointed a finger and said, "Ramana." Tapasyanandaji could not understand. He looked and said, "This is Ramana?" Bhagavān said, "At least on that, the name Ramana is written, so that it can be considered as more, it'll be more Ramana than this body!" Because in that vessel, the name Ramanashram is written, He said, "If you give that title 'Ramana' to that vessel, that will be more apt than giving the title 'Ramana' to this body because it is not written on this body." Then immediately Tapasyanandaji understood He is Ramana Maharshi and fell at His feet.

Ramana Maharshi was never a couch potato. Understand, a man who has merged into ecstacy, Existence, experienced Existence can never be a couch potato; he will be naturally a high achiever, maybe in different dimensions. High being, high achiever is one of the important irrecoverable qualities of an enlightened being. If you are not a high achiever, forget about Enlightenment. Bhagavān is a high achiever. His ability to inspire a few thousands to the core and transmit that highest Vedantic cognition, cognitive shift is unimaginable.

I bless you all, to achieve, experience, live, express, radiate and share the eternal bliss, Nithyananda.

Tenth Sutra - in the first Chapter, first section. Tenth Sutra - “Gatisāmānyat”. Again just one word. “Because the knowledge gathered from various Upanishads is the same as regards consciousness being the cause” Swami Gambhirananda translates this sutra as this. And Swami Vireswarananda translates as: “Because of all the Vedanta connected to uniformly referring to an intelligent principle as the first cause, Brahman is to be taken as that cause.” Each sutra in Brahma Sūtrās is a source of an independent philosophical system, thought trend. By its capacity, each single sūtrā can lead to a complete understanding about existence. For example, this sūtrā is a very interesting sūtrā. It says as, “All the Upanishads declare the cause to be the intelligent source, Brahman is intelligence and That is source.” Without any difference, everybody declares this. The words with which this sūtrā is created, needs to be understood very deeply.

Earlier in the beginning, in the first two to three sūtrās, a thought trend of supreme intelligence where the pradhāna was established. Now, the other aspects of pradhāna are being expressed. It’s like a deeper dimension of the same principle. If you remember, when I was talking about those sūtrās which I was talking about pradhāna is intelligence, meaning the source is intelligence. I made a few points and questions, “Alright, how do we know it is the cause? How do we know it is compassion? How we do know it is running the whole thing in a balanced way?” I said, “All those

sūtrās are all those questions that are being answered in the coming sūtrās." Today, Vyāsa is analysing one part, a very beautiful part. He is establishing pradhāna as the causal material for existence, for the happening. Pradhāna as the cause - "Gatisāmānyāt". Actually, even a single sūtrā can lead you to liberation if you can sit and debate on the sūtrā and transmit the understanding about that sūtrā to others.

If cause is intelligence, the effect also has to be intelligence. Please understand, the cause is nirmala, niranjana, which means pure and cannot be contaminated or adulterated with anything. So, the cause is pure unadulterated content. If the cause cannot be adulterated, then the effect also has to be the exact version of the cause. For example, if you can add some material like copper into the gold, then the effect can be less quality gold. But the copper cannot be added at all into the gold, nothing can be added to the gold, it is pure. That is cause. If nothing can be added to the gold, then anything made out of gold also will be pure. The effect also will be pure. In this angle, cause is pure intelligence. So anything which you think is not intelligence, does not exist. How can the effect be different from the cause? It's impossible!

Our mind continuously denies, "No!" The effect has some impurity. But Bādarāyaṇā says, "No, cause is intelligence." The big problem is, if you hear these truths from Me and after half an hour go for your dinner and your routine, it cannot lead you to enlightenment. It cannot lead you to the awakening of the non-mechanical parts of the brain. It cannot lead you to the higher existence, higher quality of consciousness, higher way to exist, higher possibility. No, it cannot! Why will it, how will it? But instead, if you form two teams - Shankara and Vyāsā, honestly start debating to understand, it can lead you to the realization. Debating does not necessarily lead to non-acceptance of each other's idea or acceptance of each other's idea. Debate does not mean you have to fight and debate does not mean you have to accept others' ideas. It is about analyzing. Now I am introducing a thought trend to you all. The essence of the thought trend is - The sacred secret from this sūtrā, the essence of the thought trend is: cause is intelligence. He gives one example, as all the Upanishadic texts declare.

I can say, the translation should not be Upanishadic text, it should be the effect of all Upanishad. Whenever you sit with the Master, the experience always leads to more and more intelligence. So naturally, if the experience is intelligence, the intelligence only has to be caused. You need to understand the meaning and how I give meaning to these words. Sometimes the same word itself can create confusion. If you are not catching it or reading it properly, like this morning I said, 'the blind change'. If the same word is not read or understood properly, it can create a big mess and confusion. If you understand the words of the Upanishads only as a text and say, "Because the text says", you can end up getting confused because there are some Upanishads that can say, "No, cause can be matter." You could misinterpret or you could twist some Upanishad texts. So the right understanding is required, I am translating these Upanishad parts as sitting with the Master; whenever you sit with the Master, it leads only to an intelligent space in you. So naturally, cause is intelligence.

If the word is not properly understood then you could be in big soup. Cause is intelligence. You can think, "We know this, why should you repeat it again and again?" No! You don't know and that is why I am repeating it. You are adamant not to get enlightened and Vyāsā is adamant to make you enlightened. It is like any concept shared, your brain opens to that idea for ten minutes and it closes again. By the time you go to the dinner, it is over. You miss the bank of the name or name of the bank. You miss the name of the bank, then again Vyāsā starts. And not only that, source may be intelligent, may not be cause, maybe something else also can be added to the cause. So the effect may not be as pure as the cause or it can be little adulterated. There can be thousands of questions, thousands of doubts. Somehow Vyāsā wants to handle all the questions, all the doubts and insist that you understand it thoroughly, completely. You are guiding yourself, guiding the people around you with a clear understanding. That's why Bādarāyaṇā insists on understanding this in a different, different, different dimension, in a deeper, deeper and deeper dimension.

Cause is ultimate intelligence. Cause is Brahman. Cause is truth. Cause is source. Cause is compassion. I am making so many statements so that without doing any technique or method, this thought trend is established in you. You see, if you strongly understand, cause is intelligence, then you will not have boredom to fall into enlightenment. You will not feel bored to fall into a meditative mood. You will not feel bored to unclutch. If you are feeling bored, you need to be told again. That is what Vyāsā is doing. We are neither interested in listening nor interested in meditating. See, if you are not interested in meditating, then what is the only way? Again and again, tell it, till the truth becomes part of your life, till that becomes the essence of your life, till that becomes understanding from which decisions are made in you, even while in the dream. See, the understanding with which you make decisions in the dream, I can say, is the essence, that is the basis on which you take cognisance of your daily life. Life by its very nature and flow, upgrades the understandings on which you take your next decisions.

Every night, even the incidents in your dream, make you upgrade your understanding, make you develop the consciousness from which you make decisions and make you feel more than what you were. So now, hit all the difficulties and pain points of your life with this understanding. Ask: “If source is intelligence then how are these politicians made? If cause is intelligence, why are these third rate sadist officials created? If cause is intelligence, how are these terrorists created? If cause is intelligence, how are what we call, ‘bad people’ made? If the cause is intelligence, how is your spouse made! If the cause is intelligence, how are your enemies made?” Because everybody thinks your enemy is a dull, dumb guy, not intelligent. “If cause is intelligence, how is the other party made?” Question! My answers will not be answers for you. I am telling you honestly. All My answers you will label, “Eh! Swamiji’s answers.” Put it in the dustbin. No! You have a doveholing system in your brain. You may not have a dustbin for Me, but you will have something called a ‘respected dustbin’, which means, it will neither be emptied nor be used.

That's what we call ‘respected dustbin’. “Eh! He says, but that is not for me, it is all impractical. He says all this but it’s okay, next.” This is what I call ‘respected dustbin’. So each one of you has a respected dustbin for My ideas, for the ideas I expressed. Your ego will grasp or grab any idea, only when you debate. When you shout ideas at others, suddenly your ego gets associated with them and that foolish ego does not understand whenever you associate with these big ideas, they become nectar to them. Nectar to you and poison to your ego. Understand, whenever you get associated with some great spiritual idea, debate for some great spiritual idea, without your knowledge, you will imbibe that idea into your life. Suddenly, your ego would have been eaten by that idea. If I tell you to follow it, it will never happen, because you have a great respected dustbin. “Swamiji’s ideas, great, great. We can’t use them, you know. Let us be practical.” You have some method, a very intelligent method. To dump them but you can’t put them directly in the dustbin. That is too disrespectful. No, no, no, your mind won’t agree for that. So you have a very technical dustbin. Understand. Now, the technical dustbin, just like yesterday, I introduce the yellow journalist’s problem, today I am introducing the technical dustbin problem, respected dustbin. Sometimes you put a beautiful garland into that dustbin and put a little sandalwood and even do aarti but never pick up the ideas and use them. In your doveholing system, you have that. You see, any idea you know how to dovehole it. The respected dustbin. Now, if you start debating, your ego gets associated with that idea and if others are not convinced, you are going to fight for the idea. If others are convinced because you are able to convince others, you will also be convinced. It is like having a clay ball that’s your ego and the diamond that is the sacred truth I am giving you. The diamond is just kept on the clay ball. Now I am asking you to start the debate. Debate is like hitting with another stone. Naturally what will happen? The diamond will nicely get embedded in the clay ball and stick to it.

If I tell you directly to imbibe that diamond, you will say,” No, no, no, it’s difficult, very difficult.” But now, slowly the diamond is getting embedded into that clay ball. Not only that, the diamond is such, when it goes inside, inside, inside and all the clay in your hands starts going away. Finally in the hand, only the diamond is standing because you

are hitting continuously. When you continuously hit a stone wall, with a clay ball and diamond, what will happen? The diamond will be in your hand and the clay will leave your hand. This is the exact process of debate. Your ego will imbibe any spiritual idea only when you debate on it and when you take that side. You see actually our whole life is nothing but taking a certain side and going on justifying that side, that’s all. Now in the debate, very beautifully you will take the side of spiritual truth and without your knowledge the spiritual truth will swallow you. That is why I am encouraging the debate. Debate is a highly ego fulfilling activity. I am using that very ego fulfilling activity to remove the root of the ego.

Shiva’s words will have the nectar of making you enlightened and will have the poison for ego, because in His throat there is a big stock of poison. That gets added into His words and comes to you so that when you imbibe that, that poison works on the ego and destroys it. Now all My words have the component of nectar and poison. The nectar component is for you, the poison component is for your ego. All My words, because the throat has the stock of poison to release along with the words, whenever required. So, when you start debating these truths, My answer will not work for you. I’m saying, you will put My answer in the dustbin, respectful dustbin or respected dustbin. You start debating and creating deeper and deeper thought currents.

What is the format of debate? Your body temperature should not increase, meaning no anger or violence. Second, talk only based on the ideas which you make decisions. See and talk about ideas only based on which you make decisions everyday or you are going to make decisions from today on. You have full freedom to declare you are enlightened from today but you have to live like that. Define that and start living like that, then you have the freedom to declare. Actually, nobody else can declare your enlightenment, only you can declare your enlightenment.

I was staying in a monastery where I was in the habit of doing puja to Devi everyday. In that monastery, even though they show themselves outside as Hindus, there is a strict ban, you can’t worship any Hindu deities except their Founder. So, that manager one day called Me and said, “I heard you are worshipping Devi!” I said, “What is wrong? I am not doing any crime. After all, I am doing puja to Devi.” He said, “No! Then you will not be given Brahmacharya.”

I said, “What do you mean? Whether I am Brahmachari or not, I am supposed to declare, not you. You cannot declare whether I am Brahmachari or not. Even if you declare, I cannot be Brahmachari and whether I am Brahmachari or not, I should declare. So Brahmacharya cannot be given.” He was shocked! He said, “What do you mean?” I said, “What do you mean? Even if you declare me as Brahmachari, if I decide not to be, then you can’t do anything. If I declare and even if you don’t say, I am Brahmachari, I am Brahmachari that’s it. As I said, whether I am Brahmachari or not, others cannot declare, only I can declare.” Same way, whether I am enlightened or not, others cannot certify, only I can certify, I can declare. You have the full freedom to declare, “I am enlightened,” perfectly alright, I encourage it, but live up to it. Declare and live up to it. No problem, but all these fellows who want to be enlightened, they are waiting for Me to declare. Why? Then all their faults and problems, they can put the responsibility on Me and I have to go on justifying their enlightenment. I am not interested in that. No, that is the basic problem.

Everybody expects that I will suddenly call them and make them sit next to My throne, “Here it is, please be seated - you are enlightened!” So all the nonsense this fellow does, I have to justify. All their idiocy, I have to make it a legacy. I am not interested in that. Come on, you declare your enlightenment and stand up to it. So you have the freedom to talk based on which you make decisions or you are going to make decisions. So that is the second rule of debate.

Third, a very important thing. You neither need to agree nor disagree. If you don’t agree, you can say, “No, I am not interested in agreeing. Get lost.” If you are agreeing, you can say, “Yes, I am interested in agreeing.” If you are not interested in both, you can say, “No, I am neither interested in agreeing nor interested in disagreeing, we need to dig

deeper." You can take all three stands. No problem, but I highly recommend and inspire you to create this debate because these sūtrās are such, it is like a key. You need to use this key to open some two thousand doors.

I will not be able to customize this master key for all two thousand doors. You need to go and open all the doors, all the problems of your life, through this key, this debate. Create it, very strongly create this debate, then you will understand each and every idea which gets into your system deeper and deeper, forming the base for your higher consciousness. Every action out of higher understanding, every thought out of higher understanding and every feeling out of higher cognition is a wealth you are accumulating. Understand. I am using a new word, higher cognition which means the cognisance is taken in you based on the higher understanding like a sacred sentiment. You suddenly develop a strong love for your Guru because of the higher understanding, "Wow, all the ideas He gives me are raising me so much, then what state He must be in!" With this higher understanding, the cognisance you take is what I define as 'higher cognition'. Same way, the more and more higher cognitions you take, the more and more time you start staying in higher space.

I can say, that is the real wealth you are accumulating. How much time in a day do you spend in a higher cognitive state; that debate will help you to keep yourself in a higher cognitive state continuously. Especially on Facebook, recently I have started looking into Facebook, because of this debate. I am just going around and seeing, who is commenting on Facebook and this N-debate. It's a very innovative way of debating on this thought trend - Today's thought trend, the sacred secret. You see, actually everyday I wanted to only introduce these thought trends based on every sūtrā. Because it is such a strong philosophical truth, you will imbibe only when you debate it. When you debate, one thing you will have is a better understanding from others' view. The second thing is many of your smaller understandings can be cleaned. And third thing, when you stand for some idea, you start assuming that idea as life and even unconsciously you see life is nothing but taking certain stands and justifying those stands till death.

Just today when I was washing My face, I suddenly remembered the stand I took for the sake of this organization in

2001. It was a very simple casual stand, whether to have organization or not to have organization.

When you take up one side of any idea, not only you take it up, you decide to justify it, that's it. So now you have two sides. Cause is intelligence, this means you are declaring your enlightenment, "Eh! If my cause is enlightenment, the effect also has to be enlightenment because the cause cannot be polluted." Cause is niranjanā, nirāmayā, nirālambā, nirvikalpā.

If the cause is intelligence, then come on, effect is also intelligence. If cause is enlightenment, effect is also enlightenment. That's it. Or you can take the other side, "No, no, no, no. There are so many things in front, how can this be true?" You can take any side. Start the debate. If you take a side, talk only about the honest truth with which you make decisions or you are going to make decisions. You have the freedom to declare, "Aye, I declare cause is intelligence, so I am enlightened." You can declare, then start living up to it. That's it!. Even if you stand on the side of idiocy, you have the intelligence to make it a legacy because there is no such thing as idiocy. All the source is, the cause is legacy, everything has to be legacy. There is no follower because everybody's source is the leader. Then who is a follower? Till he who has not realized his source is a leader, is a follower. If you have not realized your cause is intelligence then your cause is dumbness. It is just your choice now on which side you want to debate, which side you want to take. Unfortunately, you are afraid to debate with Me. That's a big problem.

Also, any idea I finally convince you of, you will also dump in the respectful dustbin or respected dustbin. That is the reason, I am asking you to debate. Cause is intelligence so effect has to be intelligence. You are surrounded by intelligence, filled by intelligence, preceded by intelligence, succeeded by intelligence, run by intelligence, running into intelligence, running towards intelligence, running in intelligence. The cause is intelligence. Source is intelligence. Not only as per the Vedantic text, āpta pramāṇā even as per the ātma pramāṇā. Not only My own ātma pramāṇā, you see for Vedantic texts are āpta pramāṇā for Me and My experience is ātma pramāṇā. When I transmit that to you, My experience becomes āpta pramāṇā for you. When you have the debate, it will become ātma pramāṇā for you, when you take the stand, when you take the side. It's like now you have a chance. You can take a stand - you are not enlightened and go on justifying it for your whole life and be very tightly attached and very loving and cosy with that idea, or you can take a stand as I am enlightened and go on shining, burning with that idea. Take that stand, justify it and live for it as you have a choice but both are simple debates that's all, nothing else. Today you can have a debate.

How many wanted to say, I am enlightened? How many wanted to say, I am not enlightened? It should be honest. If you say, "I am enlightened", you should already be taking all the decisions based on that concept of enlightenment. Define enlightenment very clearly. Don't give vague ideas. Define it and give your own definition, not My definition. Define it. "This is what enlightenment is, so I am enlightened." Either you should be taking all the decisions based on that enlightenment or from this moment you declare, "I will take all decisions based on this." Debate, declare, then live up to it or say that, "No, I am not enlightened", and live up to it. No problem. It is a simple debate, that's all nothing else. There is no such thing as a big difference.

Now you have the possibility of taking a certain stand. Now we can say whether cause is intelligence or cause is dullness. Take a stand. If the cause is intelligence, then effect also has to be intelligence. Understand. If you declare 'you are enlightened', you have to digest the hard truth 'your spouse is also enlightened'. Because both come in the same package. You cannot say, "Your cause is Brahman and his or her's cause is somebody else." No! For both causes are one. I have to be very clear. Me and all the people who tried to destroy Me are both from the same cause. If I am enlightened, they are equally enlightened. Both of them from the same cause, then the effect has to be the same. Now comes so much confusion, "Oh God, what is this? Then how is it possible?" Vedanta should become Vyavahārikā. Vyavahārikā means practical day to day. These truths should become practical day to day applied science. That will happen only by debate. The debate will have a deep clarity.

With the deep clarity, the functionality will arise. Understand. First, listening to the truth - Shravanā. Imbibing and arriving to clarity is Mananā. Then expressing from the imbibed clarity the functionality will evolve, that is Nididhyāsanā. Listening, imbibing clarity, evolving functionality, that's the essence. So now, I have already planted the seed. I am declaring the basic thing, the listening. Cause is intelligence. Cause is intelligence. This is the base, but now, you have to arrive at the clarity. You can start the debate on this truth. Get to clarity, then the functionality will evolve. So today, whoever wants to declare their enlightenment, define, declare and start living up to it. We can celebrate the mass enlightenment day. Whoever wants to declare; can declare. Post on Facebook - "This is enlightenment and as per this rule, I am enlightened." Don't put it in a vague way, define it so you take decisions exactly on that understanding. "I am enlightened. I am That. Aham Brahmāsmi." Maybe you can have this as a caption. Create a huge wave - Aham Brahmāsmi group. Define your understanding of Aham Brahmāsmi, that's it. Based on that "I am enlightened." Nobody else needs to give a certificate. You declare, you live. The functionality will evolve based on these great truths. You can just sit with this one truth: 'you are not enlightened'. That is also okay, anything is okay though you have to be very honest to what you declare in your debate. Sit, you can have your eyes open, just relax - define and plan - what am I going to define? How am I going to define? It has to be put on Facebook and you have to live it. And if you are not living it, people are going to laugh at you. If you decide one day, "No, no, I don't want to be enlightened anymore", you can withdraw it, then you have to live it. You have the freedom to upgrade or downgrade your enlightenment but you have to define it. So define with clear words, How do you want your enlightenment to be? How do you want to be enlightened? There should not be any grey area.

Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate and share the eternal bliss - Nithyananda.

Before entering into today’s Sūtra, I thought I’ll just share one or two of this eN-Debate sharing. It’s from the France group. They have started the eN-Debate in Guadeloupe and France. Through Skype, they started the debate. Every

individual declared: “I am enlightened. The Source is intelligence; the Cause is intelligence. Therefore the effect is a manifestation of intelligence. And, their writing: first we discussed this philosophically. Then we emphasized about how we are living this truth in our day-to-day life. So the devotees had a long debate and they have sent the essence. I wanted to read out the essence to all of you, because it’ll give you all a wonderful idea, an example.

“Our meeting with Bhagavan is a crucial point in our realization of this truth. This truth was already there before. Since it is eternal, but till then it was a concept, not an experiential truth. Bhagavan taught us the technique to unclutch and initiated it in our day-to-day life. The unclutch state happens every moment, and deepens more and more since we know Him. Chronologically we evolved from an intellectual understanding of unclutching a few years back to a living experience of it. Manifesting itself by itself and through itself every moment. Mind gets absorbed in the now due to Bhagavan’s grace alone. When we say Bhagavan’s grace alone, we really mean it. This very acknowledgement of our Enlightenment comes from Bhagavan’s initiation, teachings, our deepening relationship with Him through the years and His blessings towards us. Through the Master the experience which declares “I am perfect,” Existence is perfect, all is perfect, is a reality every moment. And this very fact brings the highest contentment to us. Having Bhagavan in our life is indeed Enlightenment. All devotees here are sending their eternal gratitude and love.” Blessings to the Guadeloupe group.

So this is another one wonderful sharing, “Dear Bhagavan, this morning I woke and my mind was on its own going through all the reasons why I had declared myself as enlightened in yesterday’s debate. The yellow journalist was giving reasons as to why it was not true and each step, I saw the mind counteract him. And slowly the journalist in the mind could find fewer and fewer reasons. And the me who was watching all this suddenly felt “Wow, damn it! I am really enlightened.” This is it. It’s the real thing. It’s not just the mind game or playful exercise. I really cannot think of a reason as to why I am not enlightened. Sweet! Here is the thesis I had yesterday as to why I am enlightened. I am enlightened because anything I can see is outside of me including pain, sorrow and all mental thoughts and moods they will change. So my Enlightenment does not have to tie up with any particular way I feel inside my body or mind. So I don’t need to wait for any particular experience or deny Enlightenment because the body or mind is not in some imagined pleasurable state.”

“I have found that whatever I want comes true. The only reason it may not is because it is harmful to me, and in time I always realize the reason why it could have been harmful. So eventually in one way or another, all my desires become fulfilled. I am eternal and have no death. Across different bodies, I am still there. And I have infinite time to get fulfillment of any desire, including the imagined sensations of how Enlightenment would feel, Siddhis, etcetera. And however long that takes, it’s a blip in the infinite time. I am going to be in a state of bliss whatever experience people are, talk about. Given the certainty of the fact that I and everyone else will eventually experience whatever they want, and this will happen in almost an instant in Cosmic time. And in reality, all experiences are transient and don’t matter. I conclude that I am enlightened.”

See, I wanted all of you to learn an important lesson from this. Through this debate when you come to some conclusion and create like this some writings, it’ll become “My Book.” I used to have 10 bound volume notebooks called “My Book.” Unfortunately we lost many of them. We could get only one small diary where 3 pages I have written. Even the 3 pages show such a valuable treasure. In my biography, it shows very clearly the path I travelled. See actually I used to do this: whatever I am giving you as a process now - eN-Debate, I used to do this. We used to have a big book called Ātma Purāṇam. That is the Tamil translation of 4 major Upaniṣads - Isha, Aitareya, Kena, Katha; 4 Upaniṣads. Still we have it. It was owned by Bhagavan Isakki Swamigal. He was a great Siddha. He was an old man, but so graceful he used to be. He was such a graceful person with the long jata and a big belly; he would stretch his leg in a very nice way. And he will put his hand on the cheek, to support his cheek, still I remember. And, one side I’ll sit with his wooden pad with the big book. And the other side Kuppammal will sit fanning him. And, I’ll read the original Sūtrā, and the translation from that book. And he will always take the opposite side. He will not talk, talk for Sūtrā; he will talk opposite. Then Kuppammal will have to take the side of a Sūtrā. Both of them will do the debate. Then,

they'll drag me in. Sometimes I'll have to side with Kuppammal; sometimes I'll have to side with Isakki Swami. But whichever side I side, end of the session, end of the day - I will have my own understanding and clarity. Especially at that age around 13-14 and all, it is such a strong experience. When I remember now, I feel like all the kids below 14, I should just gather them, force them to stay in one campus and go on teaching them Brahma Sūtrā. It can create such amazing human beings, graceful, powerful, eternally clear, intelligent.

Then, I would go back to the house, start writing, penning down. The habit of penning down has started in me because of them. And I remember very clearly every day what I used to sit and discuss with Arunagiri Yogishwara also I pen down. And not only that, I read one incident in Ramana Maharshi's life. He had a disciple - Muruganar. Whenever Ramana Maharshi speaks something when Muruganar will pen down, and take it back to Ramana Maharshi; he will purposely make some mistakes, so that Ramana Maharshi will correct it in his own pen - handwriting. So two things; one, Ramana Maharshi's handwriting will be recorded. Second thing, all other words are authenticated now. When you correct one mistake, then all other words have been authenticated as without any mistake.

I tell you, I can say the notebook is at least some 192 pages: I had the recording of Arunagiri Yogishwara's teachings at least in 10 places, I have His own handwriting. Unfortunately, we are not able to retrieve them. I am trying to trace. I am sending people to all the friends' houses, relatives' houses in my native place, and all the devotees' houses where I stayed. Still we are not able to track the 10 bound volume notebooks, bound by me personally. The 192 pages is a regular notebook I bought. Then I made a hardcover with satin cloth. I bound it. I called it "My Book." That's the title. I can say the first book I wrote in my life - My Book, at least 10 volumes. Everything in that My Book is my Ātma Pramāṇā to the level in which those truths have penetrated me. That's it.

Whenever I want to read, I'll just brush and go through. I'll know how I evolved to certain understanding. You see, one of the biggest problems a seeker faces in his life is forgetfulness. We go on reinventing the solution for the same problem every day twelve times. You may say: "Not twelve times; maybe 2-3 times." No, you forget. Same problem you will be reinventing the solution 12 times a day. And then again the next morning when you have that problem, you will have the same problem and you will not find a solution. Half an hour your mind will struggle then you will find the solution. Simple problem: worry. Tell me how many thousands of times you found a solution and decided not to worry anymore. And all it takes is, only five more minutes of a betel nut chewing time, again you are in worry. Forgetfulness.

Sometimes when you hit the right click, you are very clear: "Even if death comes I will not worry." In the next half an hour you don't need death, just the shadow of your spouse or just one small word, one small practical problem - you are there back again in worry. You need to understand, not having Smaraṇa - remembrance, is one of the biggest problems. Biggest problem. All of you should have that habit of a My Book. You should have your own book. Once in a while pen down, so that you will stop wasting the time in reinventing the same solution. You see for example: you have a worry. You catch a certain thought trend: "No, how can this, how can this, how can this?" Then you say: "Eh foolishness, this worry is useless." You come out of it. But the next morning again you are in the same worry. But you forget that thought trend which you came out of. Because you forgot the thought trend, now you will waste your time worrying for at least two hours. And after two hours, you will catch the thought trend, "Oh God! I should have remembered this half an hour before." Not having Smaraṇa - remembrance, not hitting the right click when required is one of the major problems seekers face in their life on the path of Enlightenment. That problem can be sorted out with this great solution - My Book. Have this attitude and habit of My Book. After a debate, create My Book. You can do it even on your Facebook, so the whole world can read it, not just by yourself, whole world can read it.

I had such amazing Masters in my life. My Masters and my mentors and my teachers, every day is exciting to live around them. Of course, when Mahadeva, Shiva comes down in the physical body, and lives around you, naturally it would be. Especially Arunagiri Yogishwara, I still remember, once He was teaching about this Samānā, sharing a few

words. And He was telling Samānā is sweetness. If your Samānā is active, your body will have sweat with a sweet taste, not salty. It will be very sweet. I said: "How can that be?" Then He was very playfully showing that if you remove a hair from the root, there will be a small wax in that edge of that hair. He removed one hair from my body, and asked me to taste that wax. It was very salty. Then He removed one hair from His body, and asked me to taste that wax. It was very sweet.

And not only that, He was showing me another method to see the power of your lungs. If your Samānā is active, if you remove one hair and just stick that hair in that, when that wax on your hand or on any object and blow - if you are not able to blow it away, your Samānā is not active. You can experiment actually. Just remove that one hair from the root along with the root, you should just stick that with that wax. That wax you have to stick it on a paper, or on your hand. Try to blow with your full force. You can keep it any closer. If you are not able to blow that hair away, if that hair is not flying - your Samānā is not active. If that hair is flying, your Samānā is active. I tried my best, I was not able to blow the hair. You can experiment. At least 80% of you will not be able to blow.

It was so exciting that My Book is filled with all these things which directly helped my life. You all should start the habit of maintaining My Book. It'll really awaken your whole life, transform your whole life, help you for higher consciousness.

Let me enter into today's sūtrā. The My Book can be a very powerful method to kill your ego. See, we read in the newspapers, terrorists used to have cyanide in their body continuously. So whenever they are caught by police and when they need to lose their life, if they feel that living any longer is going to be dangerous and torturous, they will just swallow the cyanide poison and die. Same way, this My Book can be the poison for your ego. So whenever you have the dangers of life, read this My Book - ego will die, you will be in peace and you can live life joyfully. Of course, it's a wrong equation. You cannot equate the My Book and cyanide. My Book is a nectar. I can say, the ultimate nectar.

I have a story about cyanide for you. A lady walks into a drug store and tells the pharmacist: "Sir, I need some cyanide." The pharmacist said, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?" The lady then explained very coolly, she needed it to poison her husband. The pharmacist's eyes got big, and said, "Lord have mercy." And he said, "I cannot give you cyanide to kill your husband. That is against the law. They will throw both of us in jail and I will lose my license." Then the lady reaches into her purse, pulls out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife, and hands it to the pharmacist. The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, "Oh well, you did not tell me you had a prescription!"

Sometimes, the right prescription. Let's enter into the Sūtrā.

Again in 1 word.

Swami Gambhirananda translates as "And because Brahman is revealed as such in the Upaniṣads." Swami Vireswarananda translates as "That all knowing Brahman alone is the first cause of this world, because it is so known directly from the Vedas also." And Swami Sivananda translates as "And because it is directly stated in the Śruti, therefore the all-knowing of Brahma alone is the cause of the Universe."

Yesterday we were discussing about the Cause. Today, one step deeper. The Sūtrā if you translate, you can translate in two ways: one, you can say, because the Vedas also declare Cause is the intelligence. The other way because hearing. Śruti means hearing from the Master. Hearing also declares: "Cause is the intelligence." And the other way it can also be translated: in the Upaniṣad means sitting with the Master. This is what the realization we experience from inside. So in all three ways, you can look in.

Let me give you the sacred secret: the thought trend I want you to catch from this Sūtrā. Cause is intelligence. Not only the Upaniṣads says - Śāstra Pramāṇa; not only the Āpta Pramāṇa - the Master's experience, and when we sit in Upaniṣad with the Master - that is Ātma Pramāṇa also. So I am drilling the same truth.

Sometimes we do not know the reason why they repeat. There may be subtle blockages inside our system, which may not be grasping the truth. For example: the same truth if you debate second day, third day - the deeper doubts and blockages will be removed, deeper problems will be removed, deeper understandings will be revealed. That is why sometimes it feels like a Master is nagging you with the same truth but there is a big difference.

Today's thought trend: go to thoughtlessness. Today's eN-Debate for realization is three trends.

Because of Upaniṣad, Cause is intelligence. So I am translating this into three ways, 3 sacred secrets in this Sūtrā. Because Śāstra Pramāṇa says, "Cause is intelligence." Because Āpta Pramāṇa - Guru's words, says, "Cause is intelligence." Because when we sit in Upaniṣad with the Master, our own Ātma Pramāṇa says, "Cause is intelligence." So have these three as sacred secrets for your eN-Debate.

Sometimes, nagging ourselves with the great truths is good. I have a story for you about nagging. A man comes from home after an exhausting day at work, plops down on the couch in front of the television and tells his wife, "Get me a beer before it starts." The wife sighs and gets him a beer. Fifteen minutes later he says, "Get me another beer before it starts." She looks cross but fetches another beer, and slams it down next to him. He finishes that beer, and a few minutes later says, "Quick, get me another beer. It's going to start any moment, minute." The wife is furious. She yells at him, "It's that all you are going to do tonight, drink beer and sit in front of the TV? You are nothing but a lazy drunken fly... fat slob and furthermore." The man sighs and says, "It has started." So I tell you, start the eN-Debate before it starts.

Because the same word 'Pradhānā' has been translated as 'intelligence' by one Swami; it has been translated as 'insentient' by another one Swami; but both make sense if you fit in the same Sūtrā. That is the beauty of Sanskrit. I was shocked. How can both make meaning? When I studied, both made meaning. It's like the same line, you give a complete opposite translation. The final conclusion is the same. That's the beauty of Sanskrit poetry.

So let us enter into these three thought trends. Cause is intelligence because of Śāstra Pramāṇā. I'll give you the reference of one or two Śāstra Pramāṇās. Like, Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad says in the 6ᵗʰ chapter, 9ᵗʰ Sūtrā: "He is the cause, the Lord of the lord of the organs. He is, He has neither parent nor Lord. He refers to the all-knowing Lord described in the chapter. Therefore it is finally established." So, Vyāsa Bādarāyaṇa, Bādarāyaṇa Vyāsa refers to this Sūtrā. And, again the Taittirīya Upaniṣad: "The wise one, who having produced all forms and made all names, sits

calling the things by their names.” Taittirīya Āraṇyaka in the 3ʳᵈ Khaṇḍa, the 12ᵗʰ Chapter, 7ᵗʰ Sūtra. Again Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad goes on: “It is neither coarse nor fine, neither short nor long; defective in one place, perfect in the other” in the 3ʳᵈ Khaṇḍa, 1ˢᵗ Chapter, 8ᵗʰ Sūtra. “Who is without then again,” this is from Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad.

I just wanted to put all these things on record for the future. I am not asking you to remember all these; don’t worry. I am not going to nag you by asking you to remember. I am just doing my own homework. I wanted to speak on Brahma Sūtrās for three purposes. One: I wanted this science of these aphorisms on Existence to be established with the complete technical background, means the spiritual Śāstrā knowledge. Second, to make this as a living life solution, to make you as a leader, to make you as Īśvara, to make you experience. Third, do all possible scientific studies and record it for posterity. So this part I am doing, giving all the references of all the Upaniṣads and everything, so that it will be on record forever. So later on when the pandit philosophers want to do some research, they can study and find more and more, deeper and deeper truths.

So this Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad, 6ᵗʰ Chapter, 19ᵗʰ Sūtra: “Who is without parts, without actions; tranquil without false, without taint; the highest bridge of immortality, like a fire that has consumed its fuel.” And, Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, 4ᵗʰ Chapter, 4ᵗʰ Canto, 5ᵗʰ Chapter in 15ᵗʰ Sūtrā declares: “For where there is duality as it were, then one sees the other. But when the Self only is all this, how should he see another, where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else. That is the greatest.” And again Chāndogya Upaniṣad, 7ᵗʰ Canto, 24ᵗʰ Chapter, 1ˢᵗ Sūtra: “Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else, there is a greatest infinite bhauma where one see something else, hear something else, understands something else. That is the little finite. The greatest is immortal and the little is mortal.” So see these are the some of the Śāstra Pramāṇas.

You may not be able to do debate on these Śāstra Pramāṇās, because most of you are not well versed in the Śāstrās. But if you can, any of you are well versed then do the debate on Śāstra Pramāṇā, nothing wrong. The rules to do Śāstra Pramāṇā debate is you should not twist or torture the rules, torture the text. Otherwise you can question the authority of it; no problem. You have the right to question. In Hindu tradition and Vedic tradition, we have the right to question the authority of even the Śrutis, even the Vedas. You have the right to question the authority. In Vedic tradition, we don’t believe in the religion by birth. No. We believe in the religion you discover. We always insist we have so much, you please discover your own religion.

The book which I wrote for myself - My Book, is my religion. That is my Bhagavad Gītā, my Bible, my Quran, my Brahma Sūtrā. So Hinduism insists, Vedic tradition insists on you discovering your own religion, you finding out your own religion. Discovered religion only will be life for you, not the religion in which you are just born or brought up. Of course, if you discovered the same religion, okay. But whatever is said and done, only when you discover religion, you will live it; not before, not otherwise. So, if you have the ability or the introduction to the Śāstrās, do debate. You have all the right to question the authority. You have the possibility of discovering the religion.

On the second, Āpta Pramāṇā, the Master’s words, I have already declared, “Source is intelligence. Cause is intelligence. Cause cannot be adulterated. Because it cannot be adulterated, effect is also intelligence. Because the Cause and effect is intelligence, you are intelligence. Because you are intelligence, you are enlightened. Because you are enlightened, you are compassionate. Because you are compassionate, you are all-powerful. Because you are all-powerful, you are all-knowing. Because you are all-knowing, you are all-pervasive. Because you are all-pervasive, you are all-powerful. Because you are all-powerful, you are you.

Śuddha Svayamprakāśa Jyoti, Nirlipta, Nirālamba, Nirvikalpa, Nirañjana, Sat-Chit-Ananda, Akhaṇḍa Paripūrṇa, Anādyanta: these are some of the thought trends which you are supposed to debate. So now I declared the Āpta Pramāṇa for you. Now, you start the debate and make it as a Ātma Pramāṇa. Maybe you need to see this discourse once more. For all the lines now I declared, pick up each line and start the debate. And one more thing: when you debate on My ideas, you don't need to associate any sacredness to it because it is from Me. No! When any idea is debated, it can be hit from any corner. The Vedic tradition gives you complete freedom to hit even the Vedas and Upaniṣads. So you have all the right to hit all the statements I made from any direction.

You do not need to associate sacredness to My words just because it is My word. The sacredness is attributed to that word when you click with it. When "My Book" becomes "Your Book," it is sacred. Somebody else's book has become "My Book," and "My Book" has to become "Your Book," only then it is sacred; till then, it is not sacred. Please understand, in Vedic tradition, we encourage you to discover your own sacred book, your own sacred secrets, your own sacred truth. So I give you only the rough idea where to churn, and you start churning. Only when you churn, it becomes yours. Only when you start churning, it becomes yours. So understand the truth as it is, and the experience as it is.

Actually I can tell you one simple straight fact with a straight turned out, ironed out brain: if you just see around, you are enlightened, nothing else. If you just see all these things with an ironed out brain, whatever knowledge you receive and pen down, that is Brahma Sūtrā - aphorisms on Existence. With a straightened brain if you see this: wall is wall is a wall. It is named as a wall because it needs some name now. There is no other purpose for why the name "wall" is given to it. Now whatever I said is aphorisms on Existence on wall. So many thousands of people are sitting in front of me: some are listening, some are debating, some are not listening, some are resisting, some are in depression. Why? Neither I know nor they know. This is the aphorism on Existence on the people who are sitting in front of me. That's all.

Understand, I am revealing Brahma Sūtrās and everything. One TV in front of me is working, the other TV is not working. Why? Neither I know nor the people who are working know. They may know, may not know, may not even know why they don't know, may know why it is not working; and may not want to repair and may want to repair and may not be able to repair. This is the aphorisms on Existence on the TV in front of me. That's all. See, Brahma Sūtrā is nothing but looking at the reality with simple eyes. Whatever happens in your inner space as an understanding is Brahma Sūtrā, that's all. What is Brahma Sūtrās? Existed aphorisms of Existence. Certain work does not happen even if you tell a person a hundred times. It is an aphorism on Existence. Nothing can be done about it, is the next aphorism on Existence. That's it.

"No, I will try to do," is an aphorism on anxiety. "Why he is not doing?" Aphorism on frustration. That's all. It is your choice. "Alright, nothing can be done. Leave it." Aphorism on restful awareness. "Let us divert our energy in some other direction." Aphorism on Vairāgya. That's it. That's all is the whole Brahma Sūtrā. Brahma Sūtrā is nothing but simple reality straight away from the ironed out brain. You need to learn the simple art of how to keep a hundred dogs' tails straight. Actually, whenever your brain says one idea: "Yes, Cause is intelligence." One dog's tail in your brain is straight. The next line when we jump: "Cause is compassionate." The other old tail, what happened? It has become round. And you say: "No, no, no, Cause is intelligence. Cause is compassionate. Source is just. Source is living." Then by the time you come to the fourth-fifth, the dog ran away. You run behind that dog.

Aphorisms on Existence means looking at the Existence with a completely awakened brain, whatever knowledge reality reveals to you is Brahma Sūtrā. The Zen saying: "That mountain is a mountain is a mountain. Tree is a tree is a tree. River is a river is a river, " is a Brahma Sūtrā, that's all. The awakening intelligence. So go on drilling, debating, analyzing various dimensions of truth, various aspects of truth, various expressions of truth - you will see, you are awakened.

So today's sacred secret, the thought trend:

Three sacred secrets: because Śāstra - ancient Masters' experience, Śāstra declares: "Cause is intelligence," because the Āpta Pramāṇa - your own Guru who is talking to you, He also declares from His own experience: "Cause is intelligence." Now third, because even your experience when you sit in Upaniṣad with the Master, says: "The Cause is intelligence." The Cause from which you are happening is intelligence. Start the debate on these three. Go on, go on, go on, you will experience the greatest truth "Cause is intelligence" from all different dimensions and all different angles.

The 1st chapter, 1st section, 13th Sūtrā:

Gambhirananda translates as, "If it be argued that the blissful One is not going to the use of a word, suffix denoting modifix say no; for the word is used in the sense of abundance."

I am speaking on these Sūtrās for various reasons. One, to make this whole Brahma Sūtrās a life science. Second, to make this whole Brahma Sūtrās as a scientifically proven life system. I'll do thorough study on all these truths, concepts, techniques, methods expressed in Brahma Sūtrās; scientifically record them, validate them through scientific research. Of course, we are nobody to validate. Let us study and record it.

Who can validate Bādarāyana! Who can validate Vyāsa! No one. I can say study and record the scientifically researchable parts. For example, when you go through a certain understanding of a certain Sūtrā, certain non-mechanical parts of your brain get awakened. This we can record and present it to the world in a very proper way. This way we can do a lot of work, a lot of good things.

Swami Vireswarananda’s translation goes, “If it be said that Brahman is not spoken of as an independent entity in the passage on account of a word - tail, denoting part; we replied not so on account of abundance of terms denoting parts.” Swami Sivananda translates as, “If it be objected that the term Anandamaya consisting of bliss cannot denote the supreme Self because of its being a word denoting a modification or transformation or product; we said that the objection is not valid on account of abundance which is denoted by suffix Maya.” As I said, I am putting it all in record, so that later on when people see these discourses, it’ll be used as a research material also. That’s the reason I am presenting them, some two-three persons’ views.

Another one important thing you need to know, the latest Incarnation always has the benefit of upgrading all the old ways of translating, interpreting, arguing. Now I have that big benefit, I can upgrade. I can take you a little further. I will be able to take you a little further if I translate and present to you how the orthodox commentators, the earlier commentators, My predecessors have presented this to you. That’s it, nothing else. So if you know how our predecessors have presented it, I can upgrade.

Please understand, I wanted to tell you all: I offer My humble respects to all these great Sadhus. I am not anyway disrespecting them. I am only doing My work. I am expected to upgrade. Any Incarnation in Hindu tradition, He is expected to take you deeper steps than the earlier Masters, than the earlier spiritual interpretations. So I am doing My profession with all My humbleness and respects to the earlier Masters. No way I am disrespecting them. It’s like research. You see, for their period and time, how people in front of them will understand, they expressed that much.

And I am fortunate for the first time, youngsters are listening to Brahma Sūtrās. Not only young Guru is talking, young disciples are listening. “Gurur yuvāha shishya yuvāha.” That is happening for the first time. It was always “Vriddhā shishya guru yuvāha,” or “Guru vriddhā shishya yuvāha.” Sometimes the Guru is old and disciples are young. Sometimes disciples are old and Guru is young. For the first time we are making a unique combination. We are making a unique combination where an able young intelligent Guru and able young receptive disciples are sitting together. So we are creating unique combination. So naturally we can upgrade ourselves; go up next level, next level, next level. I can say, only when a right team sits, right things are also expressed. I was trying to express Brahma Sūtrās for the last three years. But I don’t know why it never happened. Now suddenly with the small team of disciples, it is flowing! It is just happening! I think, right people, right time; things are really ripe and right.

One of the greatest powers of the Brahma Sūtrās is, it just fits into the context of the Master. See I wanted all of you to understand 2-3 important, very important truths. Whenever a Master leaves a footprint, it’ll be a half truth. Half truth will always be much worse than a lie. Whenever a Master doesn’t leave a footprint, like birds don’t leave footprints in the air, in the sky, there is the big problem, you can’t use the path it travelled. There is no guidance from Him. There are no tips from Him. There is no way He can help you.

Buffaloes leave footprints but it only leads to more and more muddy areas, because buffaloes go and land in mud only. Birds don’t leave footprints even though they fly in high zones; they don’t leave footprints. Now what to do? If you want to follow the bird, there is no way. If you want to follow the buffalo, it’ll only lead to mud. It's a big conflict. People who leave footprints are always buffaloes. It’s a basic rule. Please understand, it’s a basic rule. Because all

footprints get muddy. In course of time, it gets muddy. It'll be used based on opportunist opportunities. An opportunist will torture all the spiritual text. They will twist, turn, disturb, misinterpret, manipulate, misrepresent, morph all the sacred scriptures. What to do? It's impossible for a common man to follow the path of birds which don't leave footprints, and it is useless to follow the footprints of buffalo. So somewhere a bird needs to leave a footprint. Of course, birds can't leave footprints. It just leaves a smell streak, a strong smell in the air; the line through which it flew.

I can say, Brahma Sūtrās is a smell line left by Bādarāyana Vyāsa. Words can't describe. Here Bādarāyana brings a unique context. In some of the Upanishads, the description about the Source and the bliss is done by the abundance of words. Because of that, bliss and Brahman are one and the same. There can be another one understanding and translation, a sacred secret you can dig out from this Sutrā. Brahman is abundance. Brahman is life. Existence is life. By very nature, it goes on expanding, expanding, expanding. Understand, I will present the interpretation of this Sutra. I will present this Sutra, maybe in this angle. Existence is bliss. Existence is constant expansion.

Please understand, bliss constantly expands in all dimensions. If you are experiencing levitation, automatically you will see, you are expanding in the dimension of health, wealth, and relationships in every dimension. Please understand, if you are levitating and your wealth is not expanding, your health is not expanding means something is seriously wrong. It's not levitation, you are jumping around. Brahma Sutrās are aphorisms of Existence, Cosmic law. Existence is abundance, constant expansion. Whether it is in the level of understanding, in the level of love, in the level of life, in the level of health, in the level of wealth; whatever it may be, the truth of Existence is expansion. Very essence of Existence is expansion.

Essence of Existence is bliss. Essence of Existence is expansion. I wanted all of you to know these two-three sacred secrets as today's flow for vādaprativāda, debate. Today's flow for eN-Debate should be: Existence is constant expansion. So if you are living life, existing, you should be expanding. Let me give you some understandings. When you die, even though you think you are losing something, you don't understand now you have the experience of the next death. You are richer than the last moment. Till the last moment, you know only say eight deaths. Now, you are Master of 9th death. Then the next birth happens. Then you are Master of one more birth. Then life happens. You are now rich with more and more experience. Now, you master the next life.

I wanted to reveal an important sacred secret to all of you from my personal experience. I think, even though it is too mystical, I can reveal it. Whoever is My disciple and able to connect with what I am saying, you connect. Others it's okay. When I assumed this body, I collected biomemory from Arunagiri Yogishwara, Meenakshi, and little bit from Swami Vivekananda. When I collected the bio memory and made this body, and assumed the body, took birth; I saw suddenly, I have updated even My Meenakshi bio memory. Understand, bio memory of Meenakshi continues to grow. You may think, "Are they not perfect?" They are perfect but not an end, understand. Enlightenment is ultimate but not final. Meenakshi is ultimate, no doubt; but not final. The ultimate goes on exploding into ultimate. It is a constant expansion, constant expansion, constant expansion.

Constant expansion of a certain flow is what I call abundance. Life is abundance. Existence is abundance. You go on creating. Understand, you are a creator. If you want to spend time on wealth creation, you will do that. If you want to spend time on peace creation, you will do that. If you want to spend time on creating spiritual bliss, you will do that.

Life is expansion. We'll go on expanding, expanding, expanding. Life is abundance. By its very nature, Existence goes on expanding; even scientists are saying the whole Cosmos is continuously expanding. The very quality of Existence is expansion. Be consoled, life is not for death. Be consoled, Existence is not sadist. There is no negativity. It is a causeless, reasonless expansion in understanding, in wealth, in life, in bliss. It is expansion, expansion, expansion. This should be today's thought current - continuous expansion. Source, Cause, Existence is bliss. Source, Cause, Existence is expansion, abundance. Yesterday's Sūtrā is: Source is bliss. What I said yesterday, "When you realize

Source is bliss; bliss attracts fortune.” Today’s Sūtrā, the essence is, Source is expansion. Source is not just bliss. Source is bliss and expansion.

So today, have your debate, vādaprativāda, in these lines: how is Source expansion? How by being in Source or being in Existence, you can go on creating. Understand, every thought which happens in you, itself is abundance. Thinking is abundance. Thinking is wealth. I tell you, if you are having poverty by thinking, you want poverty as your wealth! Whether it is poverty or wealth, it is your abundance.

Understand, poverty is your choiceful negative abundance. You go on planning. And I have seen people feeling very proud about their poverty. And they spend so much time making it sacred, like slowly the garbage can become a deity. Sometimes in the Hindu villages, you will be shocked, even if the garbage can look like a Shiva Linga, they put that upside down. If you put it upside down, it’ll look exactly like Shiva Linga, and start putting a cloth and start the pūjā. Sometimes it happens. But anyhow, that is another one dimension: we can worship anything.

If we were not in the space of worshipping all the milestones installed by British, we would have been in the space of British which was destroying everybody. They don’t even bother to destroy human beings. How many millions of people they killed to colonize the whole world! You need to be cultured to see God in the small roadside milestone. You don’t need to be cultured to use the bullets and birangi to kill innocent people in Jallianwala Bagh. For that you don’t need to be cultured. But you need to be cultured to worship the roadside milestones as God. Still we are carrying the intellectual wound they inflicted on us. I have come to heal that wound, the intellectual wounds they inflicted on Hindu tradition.

We are not bothered about all the gold they swindled from here and took. We are not bothered about all the wealth they grabbed and sucked from our country and took to their country. I am not bothered about that. Because, consciously we are rich; we will go on creating richness. I have studied: I tell you, the most stable economy on the planet earth is Indian economy. During the worst global crisis, eight out of ten Indians did not even know that a big global crisis was going on. Eight out of ten Indians did not stop buying or purchasing anything because we have a second, third economy! See, we had a gold-based economy. Go to every middle class house, you will see at least 100 gm gold. If it's an upper middle class, you will see at least 1 kg gold. We had a gold-based economy, saving-based economy.

By our religion and faith, we believe you need to make wealth for your kids, grandkids, only then they will give you Shrādha and Pinda tarpana. So just for that, you have to save. We are saving-based civilization. The idea that my last check should bounce will not sell in India. In the West, ask any middle class man, he will say, “My last check should bounce.” If that much is said then enough. But in India, it’s not like that. Save, save, save; we are a saving-based civilization. Only in India, the maximum percentage of the people own their house, own their car; it is a very stable economy.

I went through all the statistics. It is a wrong idea of economy which the Western countries are using, or the wrong scale to show themselves in a higher place and India in a lower place. Otherwise I tell you, we are rich. That is why I am telling you, I am not bothered at all about the wealth they sucked from India and took. We give it for many beggars, but they cannot be forgiven for the intellectual wounds they inflicted on My Vedamātā. I’ll heal the wound, and make them understand so that they don’t repeat these kinds of things on any other civilizations.

Constantly in you every moment, thoughts are happening; it is life. Understand, thoughtless space is your inner wealth; thoughts are your outer world wealth. So both are your abundance, don’t abandon thinking. I am giving you new clarity. Resting in no mind state does not mean, you will hate thinking. I wanted all of you to know, don’t think I don’t have thinking; I am beyond thinking and thinking is also happening in Me like a blood circulation. Are you worried about the blood circulation happening in your body? No. Then why should you be worried about thinking happening in your system? How the blood circulation happening in you is not disturbing you; same way, thinking happening in

Me is not disturbing Me. This is one of the important sacred secrets. It was always misunderstood that the Enlightened person will not have thinking.

I am telling you very clearly, I have at least forty-two times more independent thinking files happening than any one of you. For example, if you can remember about particular department work, and follow it up, think further about it, update that file and maintain it; I can maintain forty-two files - two cycles than any normal man. I can say, the most intelligent normal man. Only thing is, like blood circulation is not disturbing you; My thinking circulation is not disturbing Me, that’s all. People who live around Me are shocked by My memory power, or the remembrance, the maintenance of the old files. I am telling you, forty-two independent logic are functioning in My system. I am not disturbed by that thinking, that’s all.

So, thinking is abundance. Don’t hate it. If you are thinking about poverty, you will create the abundance of poverty. If you are thinking about wealth, you will create the abundance of wealth. You will create the abundance what you want, that’s it. For example, now you decided to sit with Me, go on listening and expanding about your understanding of Brahma Sūtrās. So naturally, this is the abundance you are accumulating. So everyday, you are becoming richer in your inner space. The abundance is happening. If you decide to accumulate wealth, then spend time to find out the ways of creating wealth, you will accumulate that.

Zero one, zero one, zero one, zero one is your inner space. The zero is restful awareness, one is start. Just because I am using the word - zero one, zero one, zero one, don’t think it is against each other. No! Both are happening in you. The restful awareness is the inner wealth and the thoughts are the outer wealth. Thoughts are abundance, restful awareness is bliss. It’s like the inner bone in an elephant is called teeth, the extended teeth is a tusk. Same way, inner peace is bliss and extended bliss is thought. Stop hating thought. By hating thought or trying to stop a thought, you will only suffer more and more. It is life destructive. You will never be successful.

So understand, be not disturbed by thinking. That happens by practice of unclutching; nothing else, or even decision. Just the conscious decision also can make you realize. Understand and look, live life's abundance. Life is abundance. Life is rich. Life is Enlightenment. Life is life. Life is abundance means Existence is abundance. And thinking is not opposite to restful awareness or Enlightenment. Real Enlightenment is not being disturbed by thinking. Blood circulation, heart beating, breathing; all these things are happening in you, you are not disturbed by it. And why should you be disturbed by thinking? Being beyond thinking is Enlightenment. So use thinking for abundance. Don’t disrespect thinking or misuse thinking, or abuse thinking. Think and create abundance, wealth. Existence is expansion. Yesterday, the sacred secret is, Existence is bliss. Today’s sacred secret is, Existence is abundance!

We’ll spend a few minutes with this truth: thinking is not against Enlightenment. Just sit now, as Enlightened being without being bothered about thinking, by thinking - just like blood circulation, breathing, air circulation. Thinking is happening in you. See in your system - one side digestion is going on in the stomach; in the lungs their system is going on; in the heart blood pumping is going on; in the whole body blood is getting circulated; Samānā Vāyu is getting circulated. Just the same way, thinking is going on. Why should you be disturbed by it? Just sit, like breathing, blood circulation, digestion is thinking. Sit and relax in this truth. Let the inner awakening, being beyond thinking happen in you all.

Today, the Sūtrā which we are going to discuss is a very important concept, very subtle concept, almost impossible to grasp. And I wanted to tell you honestly: today at noon when I was resting, before entering into Samādhi, I just saw the Sūtrā and put it under My head and literally the downloading happened the whole night. In that Samādhi, the revelation about the Sūtrā happens.

I read this Sūtrā, today's Sūtrā and I was resting. It is mystical but truth. Suddenly I saw two intense thought flows, argument flows for this Sūtrā and it just hit My inner space. Two thought flows about this same Sūtrā: how this Sūtrā can be understood and debated in two thought flows. Just both of them hit My inner space and became almost the juice of My inner space. I just looked up and saw how these two thought flows are happening in Me. I saw an Akashic record of Shankara and Vyāsā's arguments.

Today I am going to tell you exactly what Shankara and Vyāsā argued on this Sūtrā. I can actually repeat the whole thing in Sanskrit. But because you would not be able to understand, I'll repeat in English, exactly the arguments, style and structure which Vyāsā and Shankara had when they argued. I do not know whether any book exists on it. As of now, I have not read any book. But, I'll express today whatever got downloaded in Me. If there is any book, you can find out and verify. I challenge it'll be verbatim. It will be verbatim because I saw very clearly the argument flow of Vyāsā and argument flow of Shankara, both landing.

All of you should be aware that Vyāsā Himself came down to check Shankara's strength on this philosophy, and to bless Shankara. The argument went on and on, how can it end? And who can win between Shankara and Vyāsā? That's why Padmapāda sings the great song, a great verse saying, "Shiva is sitting here as Shankara and Vishnu is sitting here as Vyāsā. How can this argument end? I bow down to both of You." Suddenly Shankara realizes, "Oh, it's Vyāsā who is sitting in front." And Vyāsā realizes it is Shankara who is sitting in front. Then both of Them end the argument. Vyāsā blesses Shankara saying, "I'll give you 16 more years of life." Then He blesses Shankara and leaves.

Let Me enter into the Sūtrā. Shankara adds some deeper understanding and Vyāsā adds deeper understanding. Then Shankara goes to the next level of understanding and Vyāsā goes to the next level of understanding. It goes on and on and on; there is no argument and nobody is agreeing with each other. That is the most funny thing. I'll present to you, you will be shocked. How can this kind of argument go on? Neither of Them are disagreeing with each other nor They are agreeing with each other.

I'll directly give you the Akashic records, the Cosmic reading - Akashic record of Shankara and Vyāsā. I cannot find a single translation which even connects with Shankara and Bādarāyana's thought flow.

In the first chapter, first section, Sutra no.14.

Shankara starts saying, "As the bliss is the cause, abundance is effect. The abundance can be considered as Māyā." Vyāsā replies, "If something can be an effect of the bliss, how can it have some other quality than bliss? But by the word "Maya," a common perception can be something other than Brahman - cause." Shankara continues, "The attribution of something other than Brahman is Maya, itself is not complete factual cognition. As the bliss and the abundance cannot be separated by its existence and action." Vyasa starts, "The action and inaction; both penetrate certain personality existent, you cannot attribute the personality change during action or inaction." Then Shankara continues, "The action naturally expresses the intensity of the personality, so you cannot say the inaction or the action can represent the same personality." Then Vyasa continues, "As Dharma and Moksha in inaction - same personality is in Moksha. In action, He shows the Dharma, so action and inaction - both exist in the same space." Then Shankara continues, "Even though action and inaction exhibits itself in the same space, Dharma is surely one step different.

Other than Moksha's very existence, it is a line moving in love, in the love, in the flow. The very essence of the Source, even though it is love, the flow of the love is Dharma. So the Dharma and Moksha cannot be, may not be equated for common understanding."

I have clearly, just clearly repeated the flow as it landed in Me. Now I'll comment on it. It's an exact flow. Now, what will we make out of it? I have not changed a single word. I just repeated the flow as it is. I think still the thought flow is not completed, it's just oozing out. I'll do one thing, I'll completely record it. Whatever comes out, let it be recorded. Then I'll come comment on it.

Shankara's flow: as the being and doing expresses and intensifies the flow of the original existence, being and doing consists of the original Source. Vyāsā's flow: even though being and doing consists of the original flow; original flow is not just being and doing, something more than the being and doing. Shankara's flow: as the Mokṣā when moves is considered as Dharma; the Source - Dharma and Mokshā, may not become equivalent, so we have to look into the subtle possible difference between Māyā and Brahman. Vyāsā flows: words like Dharma, Arthā, Kāmā, Mokṣā can be different but the original flow - the Mokṣā when it vibrates in the being by the doing in a majority space, it is called Arthā - the wealth. But, when the doing is reduced by the push of the being, it is called Kāmā - pleasure. When being and doing completely overtakes the other, it is called Dharma or Mokṣā. So because all the four flows with the very Source, on the very Source; even though all the four are considered to be different, it cannot be different as the Source and the flow is one and the same - like water and the river.

Shankara flows: whether water and the river flows or stays as the Source and flow, it can be different, it can change by its very quality, by the flow or by being stagnant. As the Dharma which does not constantly upgrade itself, does not lead to Mokṣā. So the Mokṣā which is not directly useful to the common man can never become Dharma. The words go on denoting the same but the very flow differs based on the time and space and requirement which is the influence of Māyā. So, you cannot say the Māyā and Brahman do not have any gap.

Vyāsa starts: if you accept the gap between the Māyā and Brahman which creates too many complications and questions which cannot be solved, sorted out by any argument - the flow of the Māyā into Brahman, and Brahman into Māyā has no boundary which can be experienced by the Upaniṣads, or the inner space of your very experience as per the ātmā, āptā, ṣāstrā pramānā. The differences are never felt except by the different usages of the word. You cannot grasp Brahman-Māyā's independent existence or even a slight difference.

Then comes Shankarā's flow, Shankarā's argument: if there is no difference between the Brahman and the Māyā's flow; if there is no addition or deletion between these two, then the Dharma and Mokṣā is supposed to be one and the same. How can Dharma and Mokṣā be one and the same as they have to be dropped for the sake of other at a particular point? Dharma has to be dropped for Mokṣā. If you are interested too much in Dharma, Mokṣā cannot be achieved. This is the revelation not only of ṣāstrās but also of the ātma pramāṇā - the personal experience.

Then comes Vyāsā: there is a space where the Dharma and Mokṣā cannot be dropped for the sake of another. As enlightenment or the ātmānubhavā is always transmitted only by a personality where the Mokṣā and Dharma has met one another - merged into that completely. So that transmission happens only by a being in which both have merged. You don't need to drop one another when you have the direct Master who is transmitting that experience. After all, it never gets transmitted without a personality where the Mokṣā and Dharma has never become one. So, that necessity to drop the Dharma for Mokṣā or for the necessity to drop the Mokṣā for Dharma does not exist when the real transmission is happening.

Now I'll have to translate. I can promise the whole thought flow is not Mine. At least, the close disciples can find out My thought flow. My thought flow can be easily found, you can find out.

I saw very clearly when the last argument was put because it touched the Guru’s sentiment, Shankarā fell into the reminiscence mood of Govindapāda, and did not present any argument. That’s where it ended. Just He fell into that loving mood of being cared for by Govindapāda. So He did not continue the further arguments on this sūtrā. The further exploration did not happen. It just stopped with it as it landed on the Guru’s sentiment, where the Dharma and Mokṣā merge into one personality. The requirement for renouncing one for the other does not exist, when the transmission is happening through the Master.

When you are living and following, flowing with the Master, you don’t need to renounce Dharma for the sake of Mokṣā; Mokṣā for the sake of Dharma because the idea you carry about Dharma is not the ultimate Dharma. It is not Dharma at all. Forget about ultimate, it’s not Dharma at all. When there is Mokṣā alive sitting in front of you, to describe Dharma every moment to you - just go with it. You don’t need to even renounce what you may think. If you are just flowing with the Master’s experience and flow and by His words and by Himself, along with Him - you are not renouncing Dharma. Even if you renounce all the ideas of Dharma, whatever you think as Dharma; even those ideas are taken away from you. You are asked to do something opposite; even then, the very renunciation of Dharma does not happen in you as the Dharma itself is expressing itself directly in your life through a person who is established in the ultimate Dharma and Mokṣā.

So with this word, Shankara just somehow relaxes into the deep love - Bhakti, the Guru Bhakti. So he stopped or relaxed from presenting further argument, because any argument Shankara will present for this thought trend will be disrespectful to the Guru Bhakti, His own Guru. So, He just rested.

Shankara - Shiva, who came down as Shankarāchārya. Keshava - Vishnu, who came down as Vyāsā. I bow. Shankarā starts saying, “As the bliss is the cause, abundance is effect. The abundance can be considered as Māyā. Vyāsā replies,. “If something can be effect of the bliss, how can it have some other quality than bliss? But by the word ‘Māyā,’ a common perception can be something other than Brahman - cause.” Shankara continues, “The attribution for something other than Brahman is Māyā, itself is not complete factual cognition. As the bliss and the abundance cannot be separated by its existence and action.” Vyāsā starts, “The action and inaction, both penetrate certain personality existent, you cannot attribute the personality change during action or inaction.” Then Shankarā continues, “The action naturally expresses the intensity of the personality so you cannot say the inaction or the action can represent the same personality.” Then Vyāsā continues, “As Dharma and Mokṣā in inaction, same personality is in Mokṣā. In action, he shows the dharma, so action and inaction - both exist in same space.” Then Shankarā continues, “Even though action, inaction exhibits itself in the same space, Dharma is surely one step different. Other than Mokṣā’s very existence, it is a line moving in the flow.” The very essence of the Source, even though it is love, the flow of the love is Dharma. So the Dharma and Mokṣā cannot be, may not be equated for common understanding. I have clearly, just clearly repeated the flow as it landed in Me. Now I’ll comment on it. It’s an exact flow. Now, what will make out of it? I have not changed a single word. I just repeated the flow as it is.

Shankarā’s flow: as the being and doing expresses and intensifies the flow of the original existence, being and doing consists of the original Source. Vyāsā’s flow: even though being and doing consists of the original flow; original flow is not just being and doing, something more than the being and doing. As Shankarā’s flow: as the Mokṣā when moves is considered as Dharma; the Source - Dharma and Mokṣā, may not become equivalent, so we have to look into the subtle possible difference between Māyā and Brahman. Vyāsā flows: words like Dharma, Arthā, Kāmā, Mokṣā can be different but the original flow - the Mokṣā when it vibrates in the being by the doing in a majority space, it is called Arthā - the wealth. But, when the doing is reduced by the push of the being, it is called Kāmā - pleasure. When being and doing completely overtakes the other, it is called Dharma or Mokṣā. So because all the four flows with the very Source, on the very Source; even though all the four are considered to be different, it cannot be different as the Source and the flow is one and the same - like water and the river.

Shankara flows: whether water and the river flows and moves or stays as the Source and flow, it can be different, it can change by its very quality, by the flow or by being stagnant. As the Dharma which does not constantly upgrade itself, does not lead to Mokṣā. So the Mokṣā which is not directly useful to the common man can never become Dharma. The words go on denoting the same but the very flow differs based on the time and space and requirement which is the influence of Māyā. So, you cannot say the Māyā and Brahman does not have any gap.

Vyāsā starts: if you accept the gap between the Māyā and Brahman which creates too many complications and questions which cannot be solved, sorted out by any argument - the flow of the Māyā into Brahman, and Brahman into Māyā has no boundary which can be experienced by the Upanishads, or the inner space of your very experience as per the ātmā, āptā, ṣhāstra pramāṇā. Those differences are never felt except by the different usages of the word. You cannot grasp the Brahman-Māyā's independent existence or even a slight difference.

Then comes Shankarā's flow, Shankaraās argument: if there is no difference between the Brahman and the Māyā's flow; if there is no addition or deletion between these two, then the Dharma and Mokṣā is supposed to be one and the same. How can Dharma and Mokṣā be one and the same as they have to be dropped for the sake of other at particular point? Dharma has to be dropped for Mokṣā. If you are interested too much in Dharma, Mokṣā cannot be achieved. This is the revelation not only of ṣāstrās and ātma pramāṇā - the personal experience.

Then comes Vyāsā: there is a space where the Dharma and Mokṣā that cannot be dropped for the sake of another. As enlightenment or the ātmanubhāvā is always transmitted only by a personality where the Mokṣā and Dharma has met one another - merged into that completely. So that transmission happens only by a being in which both have merged. You don't need to drop one another when you have the direct Master who is transmitting that experience. After all, it never gets transmitted without a personality where the Mokṣā and Dharma has never become one, never merged. So, that necessity to drop the Dharma for Mokṣā or for the necessity to drop the Mokṣā for Dharma does not exist when the real transmission is happening.

Now I have to translate. You should be in a space where you can never be praised. That is such a wonderful space. You can never be defamed. See, how will you praise Me for this? Will you call Me a Sarvajna or will you call Me as Smritikārā? You cannot be praised. Being in the space where people cannot praise you at all, is the safest space - you cannot be defamed at all.

Let Me start one by one. When Mokṣā and Dharma overlaps on each other or pushes each other, the being and doing

The aphorisms of existence. This is what is Brahma sūtrās. Understand, aphorisms of existence: how do you exist? I never realized in my life sitting and talking can be so tasty. I used to hear when people say, "People sit and talk for hours together. Sitting and talking is so tasty - some stories, rumours, gossiping." Gossiping can be so tasty I never felt. Now I am feeling the gossiping can be so tasty, because this is more than a gospel, it's more like gossiping. It's more like gossiping only. I can say, it's not debate between Shankarā and Vyāsā; gossip between Shankarā and Vyāsā.

I'll dig out the sacred secrets from this sūtrā. You see as the cause is bliss, effect is abundance. Maybe abundance can be considered as Māyā - illusion. No! It is not! As the cause creates effect without any gap, without any reason; it can never be separated and has an innate experience and tendency. The cause is inbuilt with effect. Bliss is inbuilt with abundance. Abundance cannot be Māyā. Then finally whole thing boils down to whether Dharma is important or Mokṣā is important. Naturally everybody will say Mokṣā only is important. Then why are Dharma and Mokṣā different? Then it boils down to Mokṣā can never be tasted, unless a person in whom Mokṣā and Dharma has merged in his life, transmits it to you. Dharma can never be lived unless a person in whom the Mokṣā and Dharma has become as one, teaches you. Mokṣā can never be tasted unless He transmits. The

being who experienced both together in Him, both have merged in Him. Same way, you can’t live Dharma unless He teaches.

When I use words, it can be considered as Dharma. When I push energy, it can be considered as Mokṣā. If you are sitting and grasping words, you are grasping Dharma. If you are sitting and grasping energy, you are grasping Mokṣā. But both are from same Source where both have become one and the same. In some body, both have become one - only that body can transmit even one to you. Because it can be transmitted only from a body, where both have become one - you don’t need to renounce one for the sake of other. If you catch this energy, naturally you will go off with these words. If you go off with these words, naturally will catch the energy. That’s all.

I can give you these three sacred secrets: Is abundance and bliss different? Is Dharma and Mokṣā different? Is the Master the Source of both? You can honestly debate. Sometimes you can have a different view. You can say, “I can understand Master is Mokṣā but I don’t think He is Dharma.” You can present your own arguments. You can say, “No, no, I think Master is Dharma. He may not be Mokṣā.” Or you can say, “I think He is not both, neither Dharma nor Mokṣā.” Or you can say, “He is both but He transmits only one - Dharma or Mokṣā.” Or you can say, “No. He is both and He transmits both.” You can take any flow. The sacred secret can be easily Source of Dharma and Mokṣā. Does He transmit both? Who gets which? Or who receives which? Who receives what? You can explore.

Let Vyāsā and Shankarā bless all of us to understand their very thought flow. Let them bless us to experience their very energy flow, the ultimate Brahma sūtrās - the ultimate aphorisms of existence, the ultimate existence itself.

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Q: Bhagavan, in the thought flow of Sage Vyāsā and Shankarā, at one point you mentioned that only when Dharma is given up, can Mokṣā be attained. You had in an earlier discourse mentioned that Karnā, the character in Mahabharata was stuck in Dharma. And only when Krishna in the guise of Brahmin took away his Dharma as a charity, Karna could be Enlightened. Is the understanding of the thought flow appropriate? How do You explain next statement - that Dharma and Mokṣā get integrated in a being? Please clarify.

This a huge subject. You should know the ultimate truth. Ego can destroy itself 99.9% but not 100%. The last 0.1% will not be able to commit suicide. For example, if you take up a technique, for example mantra. With that one thought, you will be able to destroy all ten million thoughts you have. But finally that one thought, you will not be able to destroy. So the thought on which you built your whole life on mind is called Dharma.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, if you see his life: he built his whole life on that one concept - Kali. He was able to give up everything. Finally, Kali he’s not able to give up. Totapuri had to come and break and push him beyond Kali. Karna built his whole personality on charity - giving. That was the base for which he is ready to compromise to everything. So with that one thing, he almost killed 99.9% of his thoughts. But that last moment, he was unable to take the jump from that thought, from that mental setup. It is a very sensitive and very subtle subject.

If you have found your Master, be very clear - don’t bother about Dharma. His words are Dharma. When He asked you to step out of Dharma, do it gladly. You will be falling directly into Mokṣā. But you need a tremendous trust. I have seen people can easily give up their money, family all other things for the sake of Master. But giving up what they think as Dharma is the most difficult thing. They will be caught there. They will die in the 13th day of the war. All the people who died under the army of Karna were the people who could not jump out beyond Dharma and get into Mokṣā.

Karna was stuck on that one Dharma, one concept. And another one important thing you should know, if you like him, the King is called as a God and saviour. If you don’t like, the same guy is called as dictator. That’s the mind. Same way, this truth which I am going to express now: if you like, you can take this as a compassionate revelation or you can say rule for exploiting. It’s your mind. But, as a factual reality, it is a compassionate revelation.

Enlightenment or any spiritual growth is discretionary gift by Master. There is no law with which you can earn it. To a certain level, that feeling good can be earned by some laws, rules, Sādhanās and all. But that solid experience itself is a clear discretionary gift from the Master. When you stand by Me, or do what I am saying based on some of your understandings or your own concepts all these time - you lived based on your concepts. You did not do because I said. You did it because it matched with your ideas. Only when you do something which I am saying, which does not match your idea - you take the jump into the surrender - Bhakti, and Enlightenment happens in you. You put your feet directly into Enlightenment. Always the guidance from the Master will be Dharma in the large picture. Unfortunately, you don’t get to see that large picture before you enter into that Enlightened state, space.

So this is a fight that goes on for ages. And again and again it repeats: few people not even standing by Dharma, few people getting caught in what they call as Dharma, few people jumping beyond that and entering into Mokṣā. These are the three groups. Few people who are not bothered at all even about basic Dharma, they are destroyed - demons. Few people who are bothered about something called Dharma which was expressed in the earlier versions; it is like last year’s train time table, if you try to use this year - it is called Dharma. For last year, it was Mokṣā. For this year, it is Dharma. That’s all.

You go and stand on the railway station saying that this time table says very clearly at 7.30 this train is supposed to come. But you forget the train time table is last year’s time table. So if you are standing with last year’s time table, that is what we called - stuck with the old rules. That kind of people will neither be punished nor be rewarded. They will be just wasting their time, stuck. But the people who are ready to update their time table with their open eyes, when the Master happens, ready to enter into the next space are given Mokṣā. They experience Mokṣā.

Karna's story is the right example. Krishna goes and lifts him out of that mental setup in which he is caught, on which he built his whole life, which is his very being. Shankara gets lifted out of his Dharma by Vishwanatha. He is caught too much with the "jāti Brāhmana" identity. He was able to give up everything just on that one pride - upper caste.

Then Sadāshivā, Viṣwanātha appears in Varanasi, initiates him. He comes as a Panchama, Chandāla who eats dog or pig, carries the pig flesh and Devi Annapurni, Mahadevi walks as an assistant carrying the dead pig's body and four dogs. Chaturveda - all the four Vedas come down as four dogs, having the piece of flesh and bones in the mouth. The worst, dirtiest scene. And Shankara is taking bath in the Ganges. After the bath, he comes out from that sacred water body in a deep sacred joyful mood.

Taking bath in a sacred water body is a great experience, a powerful spiritual practice. I'll sincerely recommend all of you, as much as possible, take bath in the sacred water body. The spiritual vibrations can be transmitted, infused into your body through water much more than through air. For example, now I am sending the vibrations through air to all of you. But if all of us are sitting in the sacred water body, the levitation effect will be 10 times more. Only Enlightenment gets transmitted through the space. But the levitation experience, all these energies get transmitted only through air. Now whatever I am transmitting to you, if this same thing, if we sit in the water body it will be 10 times more powerful. That is why always initiations are supposed to be held in water body. All initiations in Vedic tradition, whether it is Gayatri Initiation or sanyas initiation, you are supposed to be standing in neck level water, and the Master will put His foot on the water and initiate you. In sanyas initiation you are supposed to completely drown yourself in the water, just raise your neck, that's all. Because the whole, whole dress has to be left as it is. You should be standing naked inside the water, only your neck should be seen. Master will put that Kavi on your shoulder. Then you should take that cloth and tie it around your hip, come out of the water.

Siddha tradition says, if you take bath in a water body that is 100 times more than the volume of blood in your body, the pressure of that water which works on your body will take care that the whole blood circulation is purified, intensified, properly happens. You will not have any disease related to blood circulation or hypertension. I have used this concept to heal many people. This is from Siddha tradition and I verified this. If the volume of your blood is 1 unit, 100 unit water should be there, means a river or a huge tank. The pressure created on your body will intensely make the blood flow happen.

This is just the physical level. But in the sacred level, a spiritual level if it is energized water body, sacred water body

Shankara after completing his bath comes out with all the sacred feeling and mood. Poor Shankara was able to give up everything. But that orthodoxy, the upper crust - that did not leave him. So when Mahādevā Viṣwanātha comes down, Shankara sees, and, immediately all his sacred feeling went away. He gets so irritated, he looks at the disciples. They just immediately acted like an arrow came out of the bow, jumped on Viṣwanāthā and said, "Get out! Get out! Move out! Move out of the way! Master is coming!" Then the Chandālā, Viṣwanāthā who came down in the form of Chandālā, very gracefully looks, and stares at the disciples first, and then looks into the eyes of Shankara, "Who should move? Body or consciousness? Body does not have anything great. This body and that body, both are same. Consciousness cannot move. It is always pure. Body is always impure. Consciousness is always pure. Because body

is always impure, this body does not move for the sake of that body. Because consciousness is always pure, there is no question of moving. Should consciousness move or body move?" Very beautifully He questions.

Shankara is an intelligent person. Immediately he jumps out of his Dharma in which he was caught, falls flat at the feet of Chandālā. If you can take me one step further than my understanding; if you can give one strong click, we don't care which community you are, who you are; we are ready to surrender. That is the intensity, attitude of Shankara. Because of that intensity, he just jumped out of that Dharma, that samskārā. He fell flat and got out of that engram, expressed the ultimate, received the ultimate. Then Chandālā disappears and appears as Viṣwanāthā, blesses Shankarā.

All people who hold on to some Dharma, some integrity, will grow very fast. They will drop everything else. But, going beyond that, jumping that, is the real strength or the spiritual courage, guts. Blessed are those who are directly asked to do the things which are not Dharma, as per your understanding by Guru. I am telling you, if your Guru says, "Do something which is not Dharma as per you," and you do it, you are blessed! I still repent for not smoking when Yogi Ramsuratkumar gave me that beedi. I still repent but I missed it. I missed the chance. Now how many times I smoke, nothing can happen. That won't liberate Me. Anyhow I struggled myself; I can say, if I would have picked up that beedi from his hand that day and smoked, I can say at least I would have reduced 2 years of my struggle in my journey." 2 year struggle could have been sorted out in 2 seconds. I am very clear, I still repent for not picking up the beedi from Ramsuratkumar when he gave.

Maybe many of you may not know that incident, let Me describe. I am brought up from a very orthodox family. My grandfather was a great inspiration for me but highly orthodox. You can't even talk about non-vegetarian food or alcohol or cigarette, beedi in the house. Forget about having, you can't even talk. Even in the television, if some scenes come as if smoking, he will switch off the TV. I was brought up by him.

One day I was sitting in the Tiruvannamalai cremation ground with Yogi Ramsuratkumar. Usually he would sit there in the night time. Whenever I asked him, "Why do you sit here?" He would say, "This is a calm place. Only dead people will not disturb us!" He will be happily sitting. I went and sat with him. I used to enjoy his company. He was a chain smoker. One day, suddenly He picked up the beedi from His mouth and stretched to me. My love for him and my parental conditioning, both were having war literally. It is like Krishna got down from the chariot and picked up the wheel as a Sudarshana Chakra to kill Bhishma. Krishna is Guru, Bhishma is parental conditioning. Krishna picked up the Sudarshana Chakra, "Come on, it is time. Unless I get down, the parental conditioning will not die." Krishna has promised though He will not take any weapon and fight in the war. Guru always promises He will not directly kill parental conditioning. That is why I always tell, "Get your parent's letter of consent and come." I cannot directly kill, It's a rule parental conditioning cannot be killed directly by Master.

I'll have to only play around. I can inspire you to come out of parental conditioning, but I cannot directly instigate. See the whole scene. Krishna could have just taken the Sudarshana and sent, it would have killed Bhishma. No, He cannot. He has taken the vow. So He is taking the wheel of a chariot and goes. In my case also, I can see exactly Krishna standing there; only difference was instead of the chariot wheel He was with beedi! And my Bhishma was struggling and I neither moved my body to the front nor said no. Saying no was too much but moving the body and picking up was also too much. I was just frozen. But the beedi was burning, time was running.

Not deciding is deciding not to decide. I was not deciding but naturally it means deciding not to decide. Then the fire went and touched Ramsuratkumar's finger. He just dropped the beedi when the fire came near His finger. He dropped the beedi, He just caught both ears. But fortunately, I had such a deep surrender to Him, and He was able to force me and I am blessed He forced me. But still I missed for not taking the decision voluntarily. He just caught my ears and blew the smoke from His mouth on My face. I don't know what happened. For three days whatever was happening around me was like a soundless movie. In those days the movies used to come with no sound, no volume, just the scenes would go. Same way, soundless movie. Everything happening around me was without background noise. I can see temple Aarti is happening but no bell sound. Everything was such peace.Of course after that, never I smoked, not even once. But I repent for not picking up when He gave, when He stretched His hand.

Gladly jump beyond Dharma when Master asks you. That is the best thing you will do for yourself and for your Enlightenment. I can say only to ask you to do something which is not Dharma as per you, Master happens in your life. Because that is the only thing which you can't do by yourself. See, what you think as Dharma, may not be Dharma. Master is needed just for that. You see for Ramakrishna till the Savikalpa Samādhi, he did not need Totapuri. But without Totapuri, Ramakrishna would have never become Enlightened.

I tell you if you go as per some rule, you will reach all the benefits from that rule. But the last push is always a discretionary power gift. Gift by the Master as His simple discretionary power - will. So Totapuri was needed to take Ramakrishna beyond Dharma. What Totapuri says, he tells, "Cut Kali!" Sacrilegious, the most sacrilegious act, especially a person like Ramakrishna who built his whole personality and life on Kali! He eats Kali, breathes Kali, sleeps Kali! He wakes up, He wakes up Kali! I am not saying wakes up with Kali, no! He wakes up Kali! He breathes Kali! He eats Kali! He lives Kali! Totapuri is telling, "Cut Kali!". But, Ramakrishna had the guts!

I tell you, Master happens in your life just to tell you to do something which you think is not Dharma. For other things, you don't need Master. All Totapuri did in Ramakrishna's life is making Him do the most sacrilegious act, that's all. Only for that, Totapuri was needed. For anything else, you don't need Totapuri. When Ramakrishna did, He just became Enlightened. If Master happens in your life and asks you to do something which you think as not Dharma, understand He is helping you exactly. He is now doing His Avataric mission. Now it is your choice whether to take the jump and get enlightened or not. If Ramakrishna says, "No, I am not interested, leave me," no problem, Totapuri would have just left. But Ramakrisha would have missed it, like I missed once when Ramsuratkumar gave. Of course I worked on myself and then broke the parental conditioning. When I left the house, it broke. That is different.

I still remember, when I was sitting with the Naga Baba in Uttarkashi, who used to smoke marijuana continuously, he would put the copper coin in his chillum pipe. After smoking marijuana, he would empty that. That would have become a gold coin. I used to feel, "Will he not stretch his chillum to me?" I missed already once with Ramsuratkumar. This time I should not miss. I'll be just waiting. Once he stretched his hand, I just thought he is stretching towards me only; I stretched my hand to receive. He said, "No. You already missed once." I was shocked, something which had happened in Tiruvannamalai cremation ground so many years before, which nobody else knows except me and Ramsuratkumar he knew. Don't miss when Master stretches His hand. Don't miss when He asks you to do something which you think is not right or Dharma. Catch it! You will just jump into Enlightenment and higher consciousness, higher experience.

Let Me enter into today's sūtrā. First chapter, first section, 15th sūtrā.

Swami Gambhirananda translates as: "And the very Brahman spoken of in the Mantra is declared in the Brahmana." Swami Vireswarananda translates as: "Moreover that very Brahman which has been referred to, in the Mantra portion is sung in this Brahmana passage as the tale." Swami Sivananda says, "Moreover that very Brahman which has been re-referred to, in the Mantra portion is sung, proclaimed in the Brahmana passage as Anandamaya." This is actually a discussion on Shāstra Pramānā.

Sometimes the word "Self" itself is used to deny the Cosmic Self and individual self. Same way, the verbal confusion, same word is used in a different place should not make you think that Brahman is not Source. Here Vyāsā is clarifying wherever the words denoting the existence is spoken - you should look as per the context and understand Source is Brahman, Cause is existence. For example, even in my own discourse you will see, when I say Self, Self is Cosmic Self. When I say self, it is individual self. Without video, it is very difficult to find out which "self" I am referring. Nowadays, we started using with capital letter "S" means Cosmic Self, small letter "s" means individual self.

So don't create or get into these kind of doubts. Look at the context and understand Source is existence. This sūtrā is more like clarifying the Shāstra doubts - how it is presented in scriptures.

Whether in Upanishads or Vedas or Brahmanas, the different words might have been used due to different reasons, but, understand everything should be understood as per the context and final scale in which you need to measure. The final truth is Source is existence. That is the truth. So anywhere you have the disturbance or discrepancy you are not able to make the meaning, understand this is the meaning you are supposed to arrive at. This is the conclusion.

So Bādarāyanā Vyāsā puts an end to the verbal dictionary confusion. He ends the confusion once for all. He says, "Come on, stop all this nonsense. Whether it is a Veda, Aranyaka or Brahmana, wherever it is, this is the truth. Source is existence. Cause is bliss. Cause is intelligence. You have to come to this conclusion only. For that only, everything is used, expressed. If you are misinterpreting, you "miss interpreting," you are missing it. The truth is, Source is bliss. Cause is bliss. Cause is intelligence."

So now, that today's thought trend for vādaprativāda, sacred secret for vādaprativāda is, create sentences where the self means individual self and the Self means higher Self, and you yourself create the confusing statements and clarifying statements. And understand, the final conclusion is, however it might have been expressed - the essence is, cause is intelligence. Source is intelligence. Source is bliss. Source is existence.

In the 1ˢᵗ chapter, 1ˢᵗ section, 16ᵗʰ sūtrā.

Very simple sūtrā. Swami Vireswarananda translates as: Brahman and not the other - the individual soul is meant here, on account of the impossibility of that assumption. Swami Gambhirananda translates as: the other is not the supreme Self because that is illogical. Swami Sivananda translates as: Brahman and not the other individual soul is meant here, on account of the impossibility of the latter assumption.

First, the positive affirmation: Cause is Existence. Source is Existence. And, negative clarity: the individual soul is not, not only Source of Existence. It is not filled with bliss. See the khandana mandana: expressing the truth in an affirming way and discarding the non-truth in a strong way.

Vyāsā very beautifully puts it: Source is intelligence, and the individual soul is not intelligence. Cause is intelligence. Individual soul is not the Cause. He goes to the extreme of saying, do not assume the individual soul is source of happiness because it is illogical. It says the assumption cannot be maintained. Even in one step, the assumption cannot be maintained. It is utterly illogical. The basic truth experienced by the individual and the Cosmic truth experienced by Cosmos continuously - these two have a big gap. Most of the time, you are a casual visitor when it comes to facing the reality. We don’t give much attention to it. We don’t give much interest.

Reality reveals its reality to you when you are interested in it. Please understand, reality reveals its reality to you when you are interested in it. Just for the sake of reality, not any benefit it may bring. Please understand, many people go behind reality expecting it may bring bliss. It brings bliss not as you ask but as it wants. Sometimes people go behind reality thinking they will be more spiritual. It makes you spiritual but not as you think but as it thinks. Some people go behind reality, thinking that they will become more moral. It makes you moral not as you think but as it thinks. The time you spend for reality matters. When I say quality - asking for reality just for the sake of reality. Not for the sake of if I get reality, I’ll become enlightened; I’ll have a golden throne. No! You lost it.If I get reality, I’ll become more blissful. No! You lost it. Reality is supposed to be, has to be just for just reality.

See, having certain image gives you always a kind of a cozy feeling, that you are not orphan; you can always think Krishna will come and stand in front of you and protect during your death. And Shiva will appear and say: “Oh my son, please come to my lokā.” No, I am not saying they won’t come. They may come, but you will not be able to be eternally with them. Because any form, any name, including my form, I, my name cannot be eternal. There is a space where almost eternal but not eternal. It’s like a door. Almost you are out if you are on the door but not out. So all name, all form, should be used as a door to jump from what you call as Dharma to Mokṣā.

The basic understanding, which we want to bring in is Source is Existence. Individual soul which you experience is not Existence. Even by mistake, you cannot assume individual soul as the source of Existence, or as the source of any bliss, or any eternal, auspicious expression.

I can say there are so many eternal auspicious expressions. Guṇā is not right word, so that is why I am using the word “expression.” Nirantaratva, Nityatva, ānandatva, Sattva, Cittva, Svayamprakāṣatva, Tejomayānandatva - these are all the eternal expressions, eternal auspicious expressions of the Source. These expressions cannot be part of the individual soul. Only when the individual soul turns back and merges into the Source, this can be the experience, not otherwise.

I can say, Vyāsā is hitting us again and again and again, in so many different angles. He’s preparing us. He’s making a strong solid foundation. He is not making foundation in exactly on the spot where He is going to build the wall. He is making a huge concrete pad. Because how the building is going to come up even He doesn’t know. That is why, you see for example: if he is going to make you only blissful, then if he makes you understand Source is bliss, individual soul is not the source of bliss; if He makes only that one line foundation and builds the whole sūtrā, that’s enough. He says Source is intelligence. Your individual soul is not intelligence. So merge the individual soul into the Source which is intelligence. If he puts only that foundation and builds the building, that’s enough. Understand, He is not making foundation only where He is going to build the wall, where the main weight is going to sit. He is just making a huge concrete pad, because He doesn't know where the wall is going to sit. He doesn’t know where the weight is going to sit. So He is making the whole thing out of stone. He is going to hit us in so many hundreds of expressions.

Just today, I was doing a scientific study. When you put weight on certain muscles, how the prānā moves and Kundalini awakens. Today two hours research I was doing. We had one doctor and another one sports medicine doctor, and with the whole video crew. I started lifting each and every weight. I started doing different movements as per the Western methods and Indian Yoga methods. And, scientifically, spiritually scanned each exercise’s ability to awaken Kundalini, or what happens during those exercises as far as the Kundalini energy is concerned. I saw very clearly, when you work on the shoulder muscle and hand muscle both together, Kundalini awakens. If it is only one part, nothing happens. When you are lifting weight with both hands, working on the shoulder - any word you hear becomes your bio memory. When you are working out, any scene you see never gets into your system. When you workout, you can see anything but don’t hear anything. If you are working out on your thigh muscles, Kundalini doesn’t awaken. It’s useless. If you are working out on your abdomen muscles, straight away Kundalini gets awakened. Immediately the Kundalini is awakening. If you are doing some weight lifting by standing, Kundalini not only goes to the higher chakras, it hits the lower chakras also. Means, even the lower chakras get cleansed. Lower chakra means below Muladhara also, where there are 7 chakras. Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Pātāla, Talātala - below Mulādhāra, 7 chakras. Below Mulādhāra, there are 7 chakrās, 7 lokās. Energy flows even into those lower areas.

When I was doing all these research on Kundalini, I was able to scan different things. How the Kundalini awakens and the non-mechanical parts of the brain get hit, and intelligence opens up. I wanted all of you to know, what happens by the intense weight lifting, and Yogā in your brain, exactly same thing happens just if you contemplate on one Brahma Sūtrā. I can say lazy man’s guide to become enlightened is Brahma Sūtrā. The non-mechanical parts of the brain can be awakened, you can become enlightened just by contemplating on Brahma Sūtrās.

One, intense physical working out like Yogā and heavy weight lifting. Second, contemplating on the most subtle truths, and awakening the non-mechanical parts of the brain. If you do both only complete Enlightenment happens. If you are just body building, then you are just weightlifter, the bodybuilders. They don’t get enlightened. If you are just sitting on the ideas without doing anything, you may have big pot belly. Even actually just sitting on the ideas also doesn’t happen in practical way. I saw people don’t do. Half an hour they sit and after half an hour, they will be sitting but sleeping. And not only non-mechanical parts of the brain are not awakened, even the mechanical parts fall asleep.

These two sacred secrets: Brahman is Source. The individual soul is not the Source. Brahman is ultimate. The individual soul is not the ultimate. Understand, He is making the foundation very clear. Bādarāyaṇā is making the foundation very clear, because He doesn’t know where all He is going to put His foot, put His weight, in future when He is going to awaken your non-mechanical parts of the brain. That is why now itself He confirms everything. You see for example: in the basic foundation statements, if He says Source is bliss, but if He forgets to say Source is compassion, later on He says bliss is compassion; you may ask: “No, no, no, you did not tell at that time.” So in the initial level itself, He is very clearly putting the foundation by teaching all the basic truths. Source is bliss.

So today's thought trend for the vādaprativāda, logic, argument: individual soul is not Source. Existence is Source. So this you have to prove in positive and negative - both senses. The vādaprativāda should happen in both senses, not just in one sense. Vādaprativāda is a powerful meditation process by itself. It can awaken so many of your non-mechanical parts of the brain. Contemplating, analyzing, logically digesting the great truths of Brahma Sūtrās directly awakens your Kundalini.

So now, I am giving you the sacred secret for vādaprativāda: Source is not individual self. Source is Cosmic existence. Don't say: "Ah, I know this already. Why should I argue?" No! You don't know. If you know, by now then you should know. It has not become your experience. Then, come on start doing vādaprativāda, so that it can become your experience. Remove all the doubts one by one. Drill yourself. Why is Source not individual self? Why is Source the Cosmic intelligence? Drill!

One more thing, when the Kundalini is awakened, naturally you will levitate. The levitation melts all the bad cholesterol; your belly will come down. You will not have belly. In the last Inner Awakening, we proved all participants who participated in the Inner Awakening lost two and a half kg bad cholesterol because of Kundalini awakening, levitation. So I tell you, even if you are sincerely reading and contemplating Brahma Sūtrās, you will lose weight. Lazy man's technique for Enlightenment and losing the pot belly!

So now, start the vādaprativāda. You can sit within you. I think each one of you should do vādaprativāda between your own buddhi and dhi. Buddhi means the power of cognisance. Dhi means after you take cognisance, the reaction you do, the response you do. So your buddhi and dhi, that is what is Vyāsā and Shankara. Vyāsā is buddhi; Shankara is dhi. Inside you this argument, vādaprativāda should start. See, the vādaprativāda between Atman and mind is Shankara and Mandana Mishra. The vādaprativāda between buddhi and dhi is Vyāsā and Shankara. You should have your own arguments. You should be courageous enough to argue inside your mind. No! Source is not Cosmic existence. Source is me only. How do I know beyond me something exists? You should have the guts to drill yourself, ready to take both stands, and then finally boil down to what you feel as a factual reality as per your cognisance. Sit for a few minutes with this one sacred secret. Source is Existence. Source is not individual self.