Are You Preparing For Failure?🔗

Saturday, 23rd February, 2012

You need to understand an important truth about your inner and outer identities, your mamakara and ahankara. When your ahankara and mamakara merge with each other, you will be able to fulfill others’ anyakara also.

When the mamakara is separate, the ahankara is wrong. But when the mamakara supports it, it is no more ahankara, it is your very being! You can’t call ahankara as ahankara if mamakara is supporting it. As long as mamakara and ahankara are separate, you can use the word ahankara – ego - which is wrong. But the moment the mamakara supports the ahankara, they become one with each other. It is no more ego, it is e-Go! And it is enlightening, it is eN-Go! Strengthen your mamakara again and again with the qualities you project as ahankara. Strengthen your ahankara by using all the thinking power that mamakara has.

Listen! Ahankara has expression-power and mamakara has experience-power. When there is lack of integrity, both of them are separate. When you integrate them, both of them are one and the same! Your

mamakara has experience-power, experiencing what you think and feel as you. Your ahankara has expression-power, declaring yourself, asserting yourself. Integrate both of them. Whatever you project or declare as you, you will become that!

Infuse all the qualities of ahankara - what you project as you - into your mamakara – what you feel as you. If you are declaring to the world that you are strong and intelligent, make that as your mamakara. If some part of you is not accepting that, read it out with integrity. That is practicing integrity! Aligning your mamakara to ahankara is practicing integrity. Aligning your ahankara to anyakara is taking responsibility. Aligning your mamakara (what you feel as you) to your ahankara (what you project as you) is integrity. Because what you project as you will always be stronger and much more than what you think as you!

What is the only obstruction for this alignment, for this communion? Your negative patterns! For example, you always project yourself as strong, but you don't believe it inside because of your lack of integrity. Now, complete with all the negative commitments you have given to yourself, like 'I am weak', or 'I am a failure'. Complete with all that. Tell yourself, ‘No! I am not going to honor the negative commitments I have given to myself, that I am a failure or that I am wrong. I am declaring and committing to myself that I am

a winner. I am a success. I am Shiva - mangalatva (auspiciousness).’

It is very unfortunate, but vedantis carry a strong pattern that they should be ready to accept failure, because failure is a part of life. No! Then you are constantly giving a commitment to you that there is going to be failure. Expectation of failure! Listen! You always internally prepare yourself for facing any failure. Am I right? That does not need to strengthen, to believe that you are a failure. It does not need to strengthen! Listen! How many of you have the habit of preparing yourself for the eventualities of failure? When you prepare, you usually remind yourself of the worst situations, the worst possibilities, and then prepare tools and weapons to handle it. But unfortunately, whenever you remember the worst possibilities, you give that as a commitment to you!

Now have awareness inside. Listen. You have never handled the worst possibilities because of preparation. You always handled the worst possibilities, because of your completion! If you are in the space of completion, you face the worst possibilities in completion and win!

You have never handled the worst possibilities because of your preparation. However much you prepare, when the eventuality comes up, you collapse. Even with all the preparation, you collapse when the eventuality comes up. How many of you cognize this? You prepare for the worst fire accident, but an earthquake happens instead! Then you start preparing for the earthquake, and a flood happens. You get ready with all the insurance papers for the flood, and the insurance agency goes bankrupt!

Listen: it is the power of completion that empowers you to face the worst eventualities. How many of you cognize what I am saying?

Preparation for the worst eventualities mentally strengthens your belief in failure; it is the negative commitment you gave to yourself that the worst eventualities are going to happen. How many of you cognize this now?

Are you successful in handling any eventualities by preparation? How many of feel that you are not successful? So, from today, you will not mentally prepare yourself for the worst eventualities. You will spend all your energy removing the weed of the worst eventuality from your inner space. Remove the belief that the worst eventuality will happen. Getting it?

Understand, if there is going to be any worst eventuality at all, it will always be in a way that you can never imagine. Clear? So completion is your shield, not preparation. The fort you build will not save you from death, but enlightenment will! But you go on building the fort, and Yama (god of Death) just comes, picks you up and takes you away!

There is a beautiful story about King Parikshit from the holy epic called 'Mahabharata'. Parikshit is like our grandfather, because he was the grandfather of King Bharata, after whom our country is named. King Parikshit was given a curse that he will be bitten by a snake and would die within seven days. He started making all the

preparations to face this worst eventuality. He even built a huge fort in the center of the ocean overnight! But fortunately, he had wise people around him, and he had the patience to listen to these wise people.

Parikshit’s rajaguru (royal sage and advisor) Shukabrahma told him, ‘Preparing for the worst eventuality is not the foolproof way to escape from it! Instead, be ready with completion.’

Parikshit listened to his master. Finally, all his preparations for the worst eventuality failed. The snake Takshaka came and bit him. But, because of his intelligence, Parikshit was prepared with completion, by listening to the story of Bhagavata (the story of Lord Krishna). This saved him and he became enlightened. He was liberated.

I tell you, even if he had done only completion, without preparing for the worst eventuality, he would have been saved. Even death would not have happened. He could have even avoided death. But he was doing both preparation and completion, so his inner space was not completely with completion. I tell you, whenever you prepare for the worst eventualities, you give negative commitments to you which weaken you and make you powerless.

So from today, let all of us commit that there will no more be a question of constant mental preparation for the worst eventualities, thereby strengthening the negative prophecies. There will only be completion, completion, completion and power - feeling powerful to face anything, without imagining what may come or what may not come. How many of you are ready to commit? Great! This is an important click.

Q&A

1. A devotee has a question: ‘Is Swamiji saying that we only plan for successful outcomes, rather than also being ready for any unknown eventuality?’

Yes. I am very clear. Just plan for successful outcomes, nothing else! With your whole ahankara and mamakara, with integrity, you will have only successful outcomes. Just stand by it, just stand by it. Just stand by it. There are no ifs or buts! Life has no ifs or buts. But our fear does not even allow us to think that there is a space where there are no ifs or buts! This space of no ifs or buts is enlightenment!

œ All IFs are out of Swadishtana chakra.

œ All BUTs are from Muladhara chakra.

œ All NOs are from Manipuraka chakra.

œ All MAYs are also from Manipuraka.

Do not prepare for the worst eventualities. You will only strengthen the negative commitment you give to yourself that the worst eventuality is going to happen. Even if you need to prepare, tell yourself, ‘I am NOT giving the negative commitment to me that the worst eventuality is going to happen’.

Consciously complete every time, again and again. Listen. Understand. Listen. Consciously complete with yourself, 'Even if I am preparing for it, even in the deepest unconscious part of me, subconscious part of me, indirectly or directly, I am not committing with me. I am not going to believe, I am not committing that this negativity is going to happen to me, that this negativity will be made to happen in my life. I am not committing. I am committing with me authentically and integrity - I am a winner. I am successful person. I win. I succeed.' Today, sit with this one pattern and complete it, take this as homework. Because this is one of the important pattern that everyone suffers with!

2. An ashramite is sending a question - 'Can you explain and clarify the difference between complete cognition and the so-called positive thinking?'

The so-called positive thinking is always positive-negative thinking! Listen, your thinking is usually negative-positive thinking. In positive thinking, it is positive-negative thinking. Only in the complete cognition, you have the true positive experience. The deep wound where you start believing that negativity is going to be a lifestyle for you can be healed only in complete cognition. Positive thinking cannot heal the strong belief that failure is part of your life. Understand, positive thinking can be fighting with negativity, but it can never heal the negativity. Only complete cognition will heal the negativity.

Listen: your ordinary thinking is negative-positive, negative-positive

3. I have one more question from Singapore. 'Is positive thinking a deliberate conscious ahankara-building?'

I tell you, it is a deliberate conscious building, but built without foundation. So when it collapses, the damage will be too much. A small earthquake is sufficient to collapse the whole thing, and the damage will be too much!

Unite the ahankara and mamakara. What are the major obstacles for uniting the ahankara and mamakara? One of the important wedges between ahankara and mamakara is - constantly preparing for the negative eventuality.

Yesterday, one of my devotees was crying, 'Swamiji, so much of negativity is coming out of me that I feel like running away somewhere!'

I said, 'You don't have to run away anywhere. If there is any place you can go where the suffering will not chase you, I myself will send you there by a chartered plane! Just show me a single place where this suffering will not chase you.'

Just by completion alone can life be faced, never by any preparation for the worst eventuality! Please listen: until the chicken is able to come out of the egg and find its own food, the hen is responsible for hatching it. Until the cub is capable of hunting on its own and finding food, and has learnt all the

survival techniques, the lion or lioness is responsible for it.

Until you learn responsibility, I am responsible. Understand, only when you learn responsibility do you become human being. Until you become a human being, I am responsible for making you human being. A hen cannot say, 'I will not make this egg into a chicken and the chicken into a hen!' Each one of you is only an egg - a possibility. Until you become a chicken, I am responsible!

The lioness is responsible till the cub learns to hunt on its own and is able to survive. If the lion and lioness disown the cub, what will happen? I tell you, by the very nature of the lioness, she cannot disown her cub. In the same way, by my very nature, I cannot disown you. Don't worry. I can only wait. I cannot give up on you. Maybe you will waste a few janmas (lifetimes), but I will not be able to give up on you. I will wait, I will wait, and I will continue to wait!

The ultimate sacrifice is when, sometimes, the lioness forces the cub to fight with her, by acting as if she is angry and attacking the cub - just to teach the cub how to fight, how to hunt. She may give her own tail for you to learn to bite! But even this is not the ultimate sacrifice. Do you know what the ultimate sacrifice is? When the lioness turns and roars in anger at the cub! When the cub is trying to bite her tail, tolerating is not the ultimate sacrifice. When the lioness turns and shows an angry face and roars - and out of that fear, survival mode is awakened in the cub, and the cub jumps on the lioness! And the lioness will be laughing in her heart. That is the ultimate sacrifice.

The cub does not even know the plan of the lioness. The cub thinks - the lioness is attacking me, and I have to win, I have to attack. The cub can never win against the lioness. But just by making the cub attack, the lioness feels she has won. She has won the ultimate winning. She is successful in making the cub attack her back, and now she knows he will survive. He has become me.

Even when we see utter inauthenticity in others, when we take responsibility for it, we become leaders; life oozes through us. Completion is the only solution. Only completion gives you the courage to handle even others' inauthenticities.

Every time you are split, you are asking for one more person to fight with you! Listen, when you are split and constantly fighting with yourself, sometimes you feel it is too much, it is easier to fight when there is one more person!

I tell you, the demon who is sitting inside you and enjoying your body and mind for a long time will not even allow you to do completion. How many of you feel you don't even want to do completion? Do you know why? Because this demon has lived in you for a long time! Why will he get out? He will say, 'Let Swamiji move out! He is a new tenant; I am the old tenant. I have been living here for ages, he is a newcomer. Just because somebody new has come, you are asking me to get out!'

Unfortunately, every time somebody opens up with completion, they only feel the load. How many of you feel, 'Oh God, I have tons and tons

to complete!’ I tell you, if you complete just a few kgs, suddenly the whole load will disappear! Do you know why? The incompletion is not in mass volume; it is just a sheet covering! See, this lion statue here is not solid inside. It is only a sheet covering. When you look at it from outside, it looks so huge, but when you look at it closely, you will see that it is only a sheet, it is not solid statue.

Your incompletions are also like this. They are just sheets, not solid material. When you start doing completion, you will experience this. From outside you will feel, ‘Oh my god, it is so heavy, how will I lift it?’ But the heap of your incompletion is actually just a thin sheet of incompletion! Start and you will understand. You may think, ‘No, it may be so for others; you don’t know my incompletions!’ I know what you know and what you don’t know, both. It is like the mother asking the child, ‘Hey, are you eating chocolate?’ The child says, ‘No, I don’t have any chocolate with me.’ He doesn’t know that the mother is so tall that she can see what you are holding in your hand behind you!

You can do viraja homa only after atma shraaddha, swashraaddha, only after doing last rites for yourself. Only if you have destroyed the root thought patterns in yourself, you have done shraaddha for yourself. So you have to complete by destroying all the root patterns. This is the real sannyas. Completing with root thought patterns and doing atma shraaddha is the real sannyas. If you destroy root thought patterns, you can do atma shraaddha and you are ready for sannyas. If you destroy yourself, you have done atma hatya and you are ready for hell!

I have a question from a devotee, ‘Swamiji, you asked us to do completion as a technique. Can you explain the technique in a few lines?’

Listen: I have never asked you to do completion as a technique! I have asked you to do it as a process. Technique means, you go in and come out as you are. In a process, you go in and come out as a new person. There is a big difference between technique and process. Technique has no conscious involvement; process has a conscious involvement. It evolves while you do it.

Let me define the process of completion. If somebody else is involved in your process, sit with the other person; if they are not available for some reason, sit with a mirror, invoking that person in the mirror. If no other person is involved, if you only need to sit with you, sit with yourself on the other side of the mirror, First complete with yourself, and then invoke the other person in the mirror and do completion with the other person.

Now I am giving you the method or process of swapoornatva, the process of completion with yourself. First, identify the incompletion in you which is the source of the repetitive pattern. Invoke that person in the mirror, literally call your name, invoke your own incomplete part in the mirror, invoke your presence by doing prana pratishtha. Talk to that incomplete person, heal that person, make him as part of you by befriending that person. Talk, talk, talk it out till he understands and accepts his inauthenticities and declares that he will become part of you, supporting you, enriching you do the process.

If you have to do completion with someone who is not available, sit with the mirror again. Don’t do it in the same mirror, move to another mirror. If you have invoked yourself in the mirror, don’t invoke the other person in the same mirror. Invoke the other person with prana pratishtha. ‘With integrity and authenticity, I invoke your presence here.’ You will see, he is there! You may even suddenly receive a phone call from that person, saying that he wants to talk to you and complete with you. You do not know the power of completion!

Even if you have something to complete with me, just try this one process of invoking me in the mirror. When you see me next time, my eyes, my behavior, my attitude, everything will be different. I will prove it to you. Then you will know the power of completion. And you know how to invoke me: just do the prana prathishtha, and I am there.

Completion alone is the shield to protect yourself in future from everything. Completion alone is the sword to win in every situation of your life. Completion is the sword and shield. Even if you resist completion, you don’t want to do completion, you fight with completion, you suffer with completion, you know that after the process you are going to be liberated, you are going to be free and you are going to be better person. Then do it!

When you are carrying the space of completion, you are in the lap of Mahadeva. Nothing can touch you. You will always be successful. Even Vishnu’s eagle, Garuda, cannot touch the snake which is playing on Mahadeva’s neck. The space of completion is a shield and sword for your life. Do it, do it, do it!

Space of completion is the brahmakapaala that Shiva carries. Any incompletion that you have, just drop it in that; it will swallow it, it will destroy it, it will eat it away! Space of completion is the brahmakapaala that Mahakala carries. Just drop any incompletion in that, it will swallow it. Carry the space of completion. That is the ananda gandha, that is pratyagaatma chaitanya! Only if you are carrying the space of completion, you can heal others, and your ananda gandha is open, alive, active, available to you and to others.

Completion is a sword and a shield. Shield and sword are not two. Completion is the sword and the shield. Offer anything incomplete into it, it will swallow the incompletion. Let us bring Authenticity and Integrity, Responsibility and Enriching!

In the Inner Awakening program, we help each person live these four tattvas, and teach and help others live these four tattvas. By the time he completes Inner Awakening, the person has to become a jeevan mukta, he has to be living enlightenment! When he goes back, his family, his friends, whoever comes in his breathing space, should live these four tattvas. Each Inner Awakening graduate should be radiating these four tattvas so powerfully in your life, everybody around you should just start living

these four tattvas. Only then you have had Inner Awakening - or else you have just wasted your time!

I declare the next few months as the season of completion, - poornatva ritu, so that constantly everybody is reminded that to keep doing completion. It is the season of completion. Clear?

Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you!

Listen! When you created your past record, you did not have the intelligence of looking into the possibility of the possibility. Now that is one of the biggest openings! That gives you the breakthrough in life.