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The Science of Living Enlightenment

AUTHENTICITY IS YOUR VITAMIN A

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THURSDAY, 25TH APRIL, 2013

Today, the subject for the Nithya Satsang is perception, and the ability to go into complete perception, higher perception, and non-tolerance towards incomplete perceptions.

Listen! After the egg happens, if life still continues to happen inside the egg, only then it becomes chicken. Same way, after your body happens, if your life still continues to happen in your body, only then your perception expands. The moment your perception stops expanding, life stops happening in you. That is why I tell you - contemplating authenticity, living authenticity every day, is much more than vitamin supply for your body and mind!

Please listen: the supply of authenticity is much more important to your body and mind than vitamin supply, protein supply, glucose supply and energy supply! Knowing about your inauthenticities and getting rid of them is as important as knowing about your bad cholesterol and getting rid of it.

Listen: always choose places and situations where your inauthenticities will be constantly exposed to you, and you will be pushed to live in authenticity. If you are in an ambience where people don't let you be inauthentic, where those around you force you to be authentic, understand that you are in heaven! You are in heaven! It is unfortunate that people choose the other way. You choose friends who never expose your inauthenticities to you, who never question you, who don't constantly supply you with Vitamin A - authenticity! The vital vitamin for vitality is Vitamin A – authenticity.

Add authenticity to your thinking in every step, every step, every step. Constantly expand, expand, and expand! Go on expanding! Don't settle down with the lower perception. What you know about human beings, what you know about the world, what you know about you – it is all imperfect perception. When you settle down with imperfect perception, it is the most horrible mistake of your life.

How to become the perfect perceiver is the next step. How to achieve that state of perfect perception is the next step. But please understand, the first decision, the major decision you need to make is, 'I will not settle down with imperfect perception!' Any conflict you have, any powerlessness you have in your life, is imperfect perception. Don't settle down with that. Allow life to happen in you.

Please listen! Inside an egg, if life is not happening, the chick won't come out. Inside your body, if authenticity is not happening, the completion, fulfillment, enlightenment, won't come out. Inside the seed, if life is not happening, the tree won't come out. Inside the seed, life has to happen, tree has to come out! Inside your body, authenticity has to happen, enlightenment has to come out! Add authenticity to your thinking in every step.

When you have a certain perception about somebody, don't sleep with it. Don't decide that it is the ultimate. Decide you will be more authentic the next day, and you will try to understand more. Because you fought with your daughter-in-law or mother-in-law yesterday, because you fought with your husband one year ago, don't expect that it is going to be the same tomorrow also. Decide, 'Tomorrow I will expand my responsibility and my possibility, and bring new energy into life!'

When you are in conflict, suffering is naturally going to be there. It is so unfortunate that people constantly say, 'I am in conflict, I am in suffering, because of his inauthenticity, her inauthenticity, their inauthenticity!' Courage is the fragrance of authenticity. Cowardice is the smell of inauthenticity. Wherever you are in conflict, be very clear, you are in conflict, even though you point at others' inauthenticity.

If life is not continuing to happen in the seed, it is not a seed, it is dead! If authenticity is not continuously happening in you, you are not a possibility, you are dead! Constantly make authenticity happen in you, in your work, in your thinking, in your health! Constantly expand your thinking, constantly expand your perception!

circular emblem with deity illustration

Any conflict you
have, any power-
lessness you have
in your life, is
imperfect percep-
tion. Don't settle
down with that.
Allow life to
happen in you!

Neither dvaita nor vishishtaadvaita nor advaita is wrong. All three are right at different levels. It is nothing but the ripening of authenticity; different levels of authenticity. If your authenticity has not evolved, even if you believe in advaita, it is inauthentic. Everything has to be based on your authenticity and experience of life.

I have seen that some people constantly experience conflict. Wherever they go, they will find some reason to be in conflict, and they will try to correct that situation! These kinds of fellows, wherever they go, will be constantly creating conflicts - in their work, in their family, in their marriage, in their relationships, in their team, everywhere - because the lower perception goes on making you believe that others are responsible, and it is they who have to change.

I tell you, decide that you will become authentic. You have such a huge inner space, you can put everyone in that and process them and make them as you want! Your inner space is a huge processing unit. If you don't take responsibility, you will have only a small processing unit. You can't even process yourself and transform yourself. If you take responsibility, it will become a huge processing unit; everyone can be put in that and processed and come out as transformed beings.

If you take the responsibility and people are put in your processing unit and transformed and come out, they will all be embodiments of you, extensions of you. That is what a mystery school is all about. Mystery school is nothing but the master's inner space with his vast responsibility

  • whoever comes inside in whatever form is processed, transformed and released! Integrity, authenticity, responsibility, enriching – these are the huge possibility for transformation. Authenticity goes on expanding you.

If you are the head of a family, don't put the blame of any conflict or suffering on the members of the family. You take the responsibility. Then you will see, even if you put the blame on them, it will only be transforming them; boiling them only to transform them! If you are the head of a team, don't put the blame on the members of the team. The moment you put the blame on others, the responsibility on others, you renounce the power also. When you take the responsibility, you don't renounce the power. Don't settle down into the pattern of conflict and putting the blame on others. Take the responsibility to resolve your conflicts. Take the responsibility to go to the next step.

Every statement you make is very, very important! Understand, every word you utter to yourself and to others defines you to you and to others. How you define you to others can at least be changed after a few days. But how you define you to you is the most scary part, because you have to struggle so much to change that. Define yourself to you as a siddha, mahapurusha, incarnation, sarvajna, all-knowing. When you define you, define yourself now itself as all-knowing, all-powerful! That is why I give spiritual names like that to devotees - Tattvananda, Tattvabodhananda, Tripurananda.

All the gurukul kids should know, the name I have given you is YOU! You should define yourself as that! If you are given the name of Tripurananda,

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Understand,
it is your lower
perception that
makes you believe
that others are
responsible, and
it is they who
have to change!

then you are the Lord of Tripura - all the three Universes! If you are given the name Tattvajananda, then you are the source from which all the spiritual principles are born! If you are given the name Tattvabodhananda, then you are the source where the joy of the tattvas resides! Define yourself now properly, because the definition you give to you is the most important thing! If your name is Satyamayananda, you should have vak-siddhi, the power to manifest your word as reality! You should be very clear, 'Whatever I utter will become reality! So I will be careful with my words! I will utter only those words which I will make into reality!'

Defining yourself to yourself should be done with life, with authenticity. If the seed defines itself to itself, 'I am a seed. I cannot do anything. Ah, my life is over!,' then it is dead! If the seed decides to be authentic, 'No, today I will at least just break my shell. Today I will sprout one small leaf. Come on! After all, now I am able to sprout one leaf. Now let me make my second leaf!' Then life is happening! Tree is happening! Our huge banyan tree's seed also would have had this dilemma when it was breaking! Because it decided to break and become a tree, today it is standing as a kalpavriksha, a wish-fulfilling tree!

I tell you, each one of you goes through that moment: egg or chicken? I am not talking about the question of whether the egg came first or the chicken came first. No, I am talking about whether you want to remain as an egg or become a chicken! Unfortunately, you cannot remain as an egg. There is no status quo in life.

Do not settle down with low-level perceptions. Live with the highest possibility! Go on expanding, expanding, expanding your possibilities. The day you decide that you are not going to settle down with your lower perceptions, your life starts expanding. You become a seeker. The day you decide that you will settle down with your lower perceptions, you are dead. You are dead.

Go on making impossibilities into possibilities. What is life? Continuously making impossibilities into possibilities is life. When you accept that impossibility is impossibility in your life, you are dead! After that, where is life? Life is life as long as you are making all ‘Impossible’ into ‘I-M-Possible’, all ‘Impossible’ into ‘I AM Possible’!

Listen!

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Continuously
making impossi-
bilities into pos-
sibilities is life!

œ Constantly practicing integrity brings you to the space of positivity.

œ Constantly practicing authenticity brings you to the space of possibility.

œ Constantly practicing responsibility brings you to the space of leadership.

œ Constantly bringing the space of enriching into yourself brings you to the space of enlightenment.

This is the essence of what I wanted to share with you all today.

Listen! Constantly expand your possibility.

I tell you, your mind makes you believe that you can't expand. If your memory can work today to hold 200 pieces of information, you don't believe that tomorrow you can hold 300 pieces of information.

I tell you the truth: when you stop believing that expansion is possible, when you always refer to the past, or have an old reference for any future decision of life, you are dead! You are dead and gone! You are dead and gone.

œ I still believe my memory can expand.

œ I still believe my perception can expand.

œ I still believe my energy can expand.

œ I still believe my intuition can expand.

œ I still believe everything auspicious can expand in my life!

This is the essence of what I want to convey in today's satsang: don't settle down with small perceptions, lower-level perceptions. Go on being authentic, authentic, authentic, and expand the possibility of your perception. Expand the possibility of your perception. That is life!

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

Illustration of Ganesha within a mandala

The space you carry inside is not the effect of the happenings of your life, it is the order you are giving to the Cosmos. Anything you decide in your inner space becomes reality in the Cosmos, reality in Existence! Have the right inner space to create your life.