Are You Responsible For How Others See You?🔗

I will continue on authenticity. I hope all of you have done the home work on mamakara, ahankara and anyakara? The assignment is for you to look in on how you are affected by the anyakara of others, both good and bad, and how you are going to complete it. Understand the gist.

mamakara means what you feel as you. For example, I can very authentically say that I just feel that I am pure empty space. There is something kept in front of the pure empty space, which operates to create this sangha. Otherwise, my mamakara about me is just a pure empty space.

The image you project to the others is called ahankara. Please understand, the image you believe as you, the idea you believe as you, is mamakara. The idea you project to the world is ahankara. What others believe as you, which is independent of both these, is anyakara. You may believe something as you, you may show something else to others as you, but they will believe something else about you!

See, I believe myself as a pure space, I cognize myself as a pure space. I project myself as an incarnation who wants to give this pure space to you. My belief as me, my cognizance of me as a pure space, is my mamakara. My decision to project myself as an incarnation who shares, who wants this space to be experienced by others also, is my ahankara. What you believe as me, is anyakara. What others perceive as me, is anyakara.

For example, somebody sees Shiva in me; it is his anyakara, which is independent of my mamakara and ahankara. In your idea of me, you perceive me as Shiva. But I allow it. Why? Because, through that perception, there is a high chance that you can experience what I am trying to offer you.

Please understand, in my inner space I do not feel myself as Shakti, Shiva, Sri Ramakrishna - whatever you project as me, none of that! In my inner space, I perceive myself as chinmaya, Nithyananda, empty space, which is a quality, not a definition. There is no definition of name and form. It is more like a quality or a qualification. So the anyakara which you feel about me is independent of what I feel as me and what I project as me. I am very clear that I project and I want to protect myself, only as a person who is an embodiment of super-consciousness, who wants to share that with the world. That's it. But because you feeling that I am Shiva helps you to experience that space, I allow it. And because I am allowing, I am indirectly responsible for it.

In the same way, somebody feels. 'He must be fake.' Please understand, maybe he was given too much of understanding, before he is able to digest it! So even for that, I am responsible. For example, if somebody was sleeping all the time, and I tell him that I am an incarnation, then it is too much for him to suddenly digest! If somebody gets the spiritual experience from me, or some glimpse of super-conscious energy in their life, and then if he is introduced to the idea that I am an incarnation, he may not have kutarka, or the feeling that I am fake. But fortunately or unfortunately, I am also in jet speed, and our sangha is also in jet speed. So whoever comes, comes, and whoever drops, drops!

So authenticity means aligning your life to mamakara, ahankara and anyakara, to all three. Please understand, we always feel that we are responsible for mamakara and ahankara, but we very conveniently do not want to take the responsibility of anyakara. No! Authenticity means living by taking the responsibility for all three. When somebody looks at me as Shiva, I need to take the responsibility of Shiva and do for him whatever Shiva will do for him - stretching my ability. He may expect some boons from Shiva. So now, it is my responsibility to stretch my super-consciousness to give him those boons, to give him that healing and make myself available as Shiva. Understand? That is authenticity. Whether I commit or not, people expect that I should teach them yoga, I should teach them spiritual truths. Stretching to others' anyakara is authenticity.

Understand I go on stretching, stretching and stretching. Then people ask, 'What will happen Swamiji? Then you will almost become like a slave to other people! You have to do whatever they say!'

NO! You will be a slave only if you are forced. If you are a master, you will take it on willingly. I decide to fulfill whatever people project on me. Even if it is a negative anyakara, stand up and face it. Take responsibility even for that, not giving up on them, and continuously working, working and working, to make even them understand that their understanding is wrong. Don't give up on people! Only when you take responsibility, you will feel powerful enough to solve the problem. Blaming somebody else will only make you feel more and more powerless!

Authenticity means living to the peak of your capacity. What is my authenticity? I am supposed to deliver this knowledge and experience to people. People have come from all over the world to experience this. So I have to make myself available. Living to your peak and having the alignment of all three – mamakara, ahankara and anyakara

Authenticity is not just you living out what you think as your peak, but also what others think as your peak. Only when you stretch yourself to others' image and expectations about you, you express extraordinary capacities and miracle powers. As per my mamakara and ahankara, I don't need to express miracle powers. I am a pure empty space and I transmit that to others; I don't need to express miracle powers. But because of the anyakara, I express miracle powers. If you see any boon expressing through me, any healing experience through me, any extraordinary powers expressing through me, understand that it is because of my authenticity with others' anyakara. You too are bound to be authentic with others' anyakara. Life happens to you only when you are authentic with others' anyakara. Understand?

Listen - when I speak about integrity, everybody thinks, 'Alright, I will commit only this much, as per my capacity.' No!. You will commit, deliver and live, stretching yourself to what others feel as your capacity, this is authenticity! Stretching yourself to complete others' anyakara and not just your mamakara or ahankara is authenticity. When you stretch yourself to complete your mamakara, you have satori, you are complete with you. When you stretch yourself to complete your ahankara, you become enlightened, you are complete with the identity that you project to others. But only when you complete with others' anyakara, you become an incarnation! You become an incarnation. Understand, every one of you has to become an incarnation!

Success, victory, life and realization - all these are synonymous. All these happen in you only when you become authentic to others' anyakara. Understand, it happens only when you become authentic to others' anyakara! I go on stretching, stretching and stretching. When people project that I should be able to materialize, I say – 'O Consciousness, be authentic to their anyakara and materialize!' And I materialize. When people project that I have to heal them, I say, 'Alright, come on, be authentic to their anyakara!' And the healing power expresses. Life happens to you when you decide to be authentic to others' anyakara and not just your mamakara and ahankara.

You think, ‘Oh God! No! I will be the slave of people!’ No. When you commit, you are not a slave. And even if you don’t commit, people are going to make you do it! Only then, you are a slave. Understand, even if you don’t commit with authenticity, they are going to make you do it.

Vivekananda says very clearly, ‘Either you sacrifice, or maya will snatch it from you!’ Either you work or people will make you work! If you do it, it is dedication, and you are a master. If you are made to do it, you are a slave. When you are authentic, you will not play a cunning, safe game. If I was playing a cunning, safe game, I would have still been sitting under the banyan tree with closed eyes!

When you are authentic, you will commit words which express your maximum peak capacity, as per your understanding of your peak capacity, and as per others’ understanding of your peak capacity. When somebody expects that I should be a nirahari (yogi, living without food), I immediately stretch my super-consciousness and tell my body and mind, ‘Express this quality now; be authentic to others’ anyakara.’ Only then victory happens. Only then authenticity happens!

I know, many people have already closed their heart doors for this teaching! You are saying, ‘No, you stop with ahankara and mamakara. This anyakara is too much! I cannot try this!’ I tell you, only when you are authentic with others’ anyakara, life starts. Even if you close the doors, I am not going to stop! I will continue to knock!

So, commit to the maximum capacity of what you feel as your capacity, and what others feel as your capacity, and do everything to honour it and fulfill it. Only with authentic commitment, life moves further. If you don’t commit that you will wake up at 5 a.m. for morning yoga, then what you will be doing at that time? Just rolling on the bed! You wasted your life, all these years. You built the pattern of self-fear and low self-confidence.

You don't know, how confident I feel with the identity with which I am operating and relating with you all. I myself do not feel that I am that identity, but I am using a certain identity to relate with you all and to run this sangha. I can see that that identity is being blessed by me! The real 'Me' is blessing that identity – so beautiful, you are doing so wonderfully, let you live long, let you do good to the world, 'tathaasthu' - so be it. I can see so much of blessings being showered on that identity!

Continuously, commit with words which express your maximum peak capacity, as per your understanding, and as per other's understanding of your peak capacity. And do anything and everything to honor and fulfill those words. Stretch yourself. Let all the powers inside you be unleashed!

This morning, I asked the Gurukul kids, 'How many days will it take you guys to memorize the Isha Vasya Upanishad. They said, 'Just two days!' You guys don't know how much of joy I felt! It was so much joy when these kids are so authentic

and every one said, ‘Done!’ And I tell you guys, they will do it! They are authentic to the core. Every moment of their life is authentic.

Yesterday we were having a session with Gurukul kids. The first thing I told was, ‘Don’t give up on people, but do not entertain any of the reasons they give you! A brahmana lives with solutions and a chandala (outcast) lives with reasons.

‘A valid reason plus work not done is not equal to work done!’

Understand, authenticity means stretching, stretching and stretching. Go on stretching, that is life! Go on stretching without fear, and without giving up on you. Stretching, stretching and stretching is life! When you authentically commit, so much of energy is sent to your body and mind, and your laziness pattern is broken. Many of you have this sickness pattern. Why? Because you authentically commit with the sickness pattern, ‘I will fall sick again and again, so that I don’t need to go to morning yoga!’ Whatever you commit will become your reality, because that is what is sitting in your ananda gandha, in your inner space. The moment you commit, ‘I am going to do it,’ you will do it. When you commit that you are going to do it, the cosmos immediately sends energy to your body and mind, and you do it!

So today’s assignment is this. Scan your whole life and identify areas where you feel powerless or experience conflict. Understand, whenever you feel powerless or experience conflict in your life, there is surely some inauthenticity in that aspect of your life. First, identify this. Only then, the transformation will happen. It is neither wrong nor right. The moment you identify and bring authenticity, you will see transformation happens.

Do this much today, you can do the next part tomorrow. Clear? I also request you all to watch the morning satsang everyday, so that you are prepared and come there to play with my mystical energies. Understand, when you are prepared with the basic ideas, you can just come, jump and swim in the mystical energies and get this whole thing as part of you.

The very air in our ashram is filled with these tattvas, these satyas. Even the breeze of the banyan tree flows with integrity and authenticity. We wash our brain, heart - everything, with this one thought. Let these truths, let these tattvas of integrity and authenticity be in the air where you are living, with all the people who are living around you!

I bless you all to achieve success in the completion process. I bless you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, ‘Nithyananda’!

Bring authenticity - the ability to stretch yourself to complete all the anyakara. anyakara - what others feel about you, is not a curse! It is the possibility that you can expand. If they feel that you are great, expand and stretch yourself to fulfill that! If they think that you are wrong, be strong enough to stand and withstand.