Death, Karma And Mystical Powers🔗

I welcome you all with my love and respects. Today, I will continue to answer your questions in the Nithya satsang, to help you imbibe these tattvas (principles) as satyas (truths).

1) Question: Swamiji, you said that when a person passes away, the being immediately takes another body. But here, we do prayers for the being. The being will be celebrating his or her new birthday! How will it help if we simultaneously do prayers over his death?

It is a science. This is an important question, because this belief - or rather, this ex-perience - makes us real mystics.

Please understand, only when you go beyond dos and don’ts will you become a religion. Until then, you are only a social cult. Only when you go beyond, life and death reveal their mysteries, and it becomes a religion. I feel blessed that I was born into a religion! And I feel double-blessed, even more blessed, that I also discovered my religion!

First understand that all the last rites you do, the celebrations you do, the prayers you do, everything is not for that soul; it is for your own completion with that soul.

Understand that all the last rites you do, the celebrations you do, and the prayers you do, everything is not for that soul; it is for your own completion with that soul. You carry a lot of incompletions with the being who left. So you need to do comple-tion again and again with that being. It is the time for you to sit and do completion with that being. That is the essence! You do completion with that being, for that being! The purpose of shraadha, last rites, pinda tarpana - everything, is for you to complete with that truth, with that being, with that person who left the body.

People ask me, ‘Swamiji, should I do shraadha, pinda tharpana and all that regularly?’ I tell you - do it! More than it helping the person who left the body, it will help you. It will help you! You will be out of incompletions.

The incompletions you carry with your parents or the elders in your family is what is known as pitru dosha. Understand? The incompletions you carry inside you with your parents is pitru dosha. The incompletions you carry about snakes and reptiles is naga dosha. Getting it?

The person who leaves the body immediately takes another body. Whatever you give - like shraadha or pinda tharpana does not reach him. But it completes you! Un-derstand?

2) Question: What is the significance of doing pinda tarpana through an incarnation? How does the Maheshwara pooja help to release pitru doshas, and how does it help me and the departed soul?

There are two things that you need to understand here.

First thing: an incarnation is the space of eternal comple-tion! Physically, mentally, spiritually, he is the space of eternal completion. Offering pinda through him, through the Maheshwara pooja, is literally like completing with your pitrus.

When you offer Maheshwara pooja to an incarnation, and he accepts or receives the Maheshwara pooja given by you, during those moments he is the direct representative of the pitrus!

Even during the completion process that we do here, if the elders with whom you need to complete are no longer alive, you ask somebody to sit with you representing that person, and you talk to him and complete with him. How many of you did that? Maheshwara pooja is exactly the same thing!

In Maheshwara pooja, I myself sit with you and help you complete with your pitrus. I myself sit with you to help with the completion - not just for the completion of emo-tional wounds, but also for any other incompletion. For example, you may have not offered something to them, or you treated them in some wrong way when they were alive, or you didn't give them food or medicines when re-quired, and so on.

You have a duty to complete with everyone who is involved in your life. Each human being has a duty to complete with all these five – your pitrus (elders) and your parents who are alive, the family deity, family Guru, the Nature which is around you, and your sadGuru (spiritual Guru). All of you are expected to com-plete with all of them.

Somebody in this group may have left the body, and you may have some incomple-tions with them. For instance, if you did not give them food properly in their old age, but you swindled their property after they died, or you did not take care of them when they were alive, but you have inherited huge wealth after they left.

So if the incompletions are there with them, as a prayaschitta (process for completing with them and restoring integrity), I myself sit and liberate you from those incom-pletions by accepting the food as their representative. And actually, even though the food does not reach that soul, that soul will be liberated from the incompletion that it carries with you. The food itself does not reach the soul, but the completion reaches that soul! Do all of you understand?

See, it is like this - you will be relieved from the incompletions you are carrying, and you will become complete, and that being also will be relieved from the in-completions it carries because of your incompletion. The being would have already taken the next birth. But suddenly, you will see that for no reason, he feels relieved from his karmas and he starts progressing in his journey to wherever he needs to progress.

So it is like completing the incompletions on both ends. This is the job of an incarna-tion, whenever he accepts the Maheshwara pooja. When you sit and do shraadha and pinda tarpana on your own, the responsibility is with you. When I sit and receive the Maheshwara pooja, the responsibility of completing you and completing them is mine.

So, Maheshwara pooja is a method to complete with you and with that soul who de-parted from your life. And, once you offer Maheshwara pooja, after that you may not even need to do shraadha. Once the Maheshwara pooja is done, the completion hap-pens eternally. After that, you may not need to do shraadha. shraadha is more like you sitting and doing completion with your efforts. Maheshwara pooja is like making the comple-tion happen on both ends. Maheshwara pooja is done more as a prayaschitta (completion). If you have done something really, really wrong, like not caring, not supporting, not taking care, and now you feel that you need to complete with that being, then Maheshwara pooja is done. Otherwise, shraadha itself is enough.

If you had a very good relationship when they were alive, and you feel that you don't carry big incompletions, just small-small emotional blockages, then shraadha itself leads you to completion. But completing with the people in your life, even those who left the body, is very important for complete completion!

3) Question: Swamiji, could you please explain how the law of cause and effect works?

It is a beautiful question. I am so happy today that all the best questions are coming up! I will answer this question layer by layer.

If you don't know the connection between cause and effect, you are confused, you are in incompletion, you are in ut-ter unconsciousness. If you know the connection between cause and effect, you are in completion.

If you don’t know the connection between cause and effect, but you have utter clar-ity, you are in the space of super-consciousness, and then what happens are called miracles!

Listen, I will repeat. If you don’t know the connection between cause and effect, and you are in utter confusion, you are in unconsciousness. What happens then is called an ‘accident’! If you know the connection between cause and effect, you are in completion. It means that you are complete. What happens then is ‘life’. If you don’t know the connection between cause and effect, but you are in utter clarity, then you are in super-consciousness. What happens then are called ‘miracles’!

Listen, at the unconscious level, you will not know the connection between cause and effect. At the conscious level, you will know. Again, at the super-conscious level, you will not know the connection between cause and effect. That is why I say that the law of cause and effect makes no sense either for chandalas (beings living in very low consciousness), or for enlightened beings.

Understand, chandalas will not know the connection between the cause and the ef-fect. Unconscious criminals do not know the cause and effect connection. If some-body has committed two hundred murders, he will not know for which murder he is being hanged! he will not know which action causes which effect.

Neither the chandaala nor the enlightened being is bound by the law of cause and ef-fect. Because the chandala has too much cause and too much effect. The enlightened being has no cause and no effect.

I will now explain the whole science. It is my favorite subject, the reincarnation theory, the law of karma!

Recently there was an article, a very beautiful article that I read on the internet, a deep study. The study declares that eighty seven percent of Americans are Hindus! I was shocked! How is it possible?

The study then narrates the ten major beliefs which are unique to Hinduism, a dharma-based religion. In the world, the religions are broadly categorized into two: Abrahamic religions and dharma-based religions. Chris-tianity, Judaism, Islam and the sects from these religions are called Abrahamic religions. Vedic tradition, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and the cults and sects which came out of these religions are called dharma-based reli-gions.

There are some unique concepts which belong only to Vedic tradition. The ten concepts they studied included the rein-carnation theory and the theory of karma. They performed a survey on seven hundred thousand people. This is not a small number, especially in the US. In India, even for our village functions (like the pournami full-moon celebrations in my hometown, Tiruvannamalai) we have seven hun-dred thousand pilgrims visiting! And we serve food to two hundred thousand people in our Tiruvannamalai ashram on that day. But in the US, seven hundred thousand people is a really big number.

I read the article and the survey they have done. They have thoroughly described how they have done the research and all that. And after this thorough research, they asked people how many of them believe in these ten concepts. Because all these ten concepts are unique to Hinduism and completely contrary to Abrahamic religions! For example, believing in many births is purely from Hinduism, the Ve-

dic tradition, the dharma-based religion.

Of course, Buddhism grew out of the Vedic tradition, so it has the concept of rein-carnation from. Buddhism is nothing but one sampradaya (tradition) of Hinduism. In fact, Buddha is also worshipped as one of the Hindu incarnations. Some uncon-scious people are claiming that Buddhism is a separate religion. This is like a few of my unconscious followers screaming ‘Nithyananda is a separate religion,’ five hundred years after I leave the body! That does not make Nithyananda a separate religion.

I am declaring very clearly, right now, that I will always be a part of Hinduism! I am from, for, in, with and will always be part of Hinduism! So, just because a few unconscious people claim that they are a separate religion, they don’t become a separate religion! They are also part of Hinduism.

Now, you need to understand, the survey report is shocking! Eighty seven percent of Americans believe in the top ten truths of Hindu tradition! And the next shock-ing fact is that one-fourth of Americans do some form of Hindu spiritual practice every day! Please understand, twenty five percent of Americans do some form of Hindu practice every day - like yoga or dhyana or something which they learnt from a Hindu source. I tell you, the countries, the civilizations and societies which have started thinking and seeking can be satisfied only with Vedic tradition. Because only these truths directly satisfy the great seeking of an individual.

Understand, this law of cause and effect is one of the important theories in which eighty seven percent of Americans believe. Let me define cause and effect.

‘Cause’ is an action, word, deed or thought which creates a certain incompletion in you and in others, and pushes you to reap the fruits of incompletion in your life. Listen! A thought or a word or an action that happens in you, which pushes you to incompletion and makes you experience incompletion with others and drives you towards comple- tion is called Cause. Effect' is the incompletion which is multi-plying continuously, instead of moving towards completion.

I am defining cause and effect in the context of completion and incompletion, because you are going through it. I may define it in another way in a different context. Now I have defined cause and effect in the context of completion.

'Completion' is stopping the effect immediately, and re-winding the effect towards the cause and merging the ef-fect into the cause! Stopping the effect immediately and rewinding it back to the cause, and the effect merging into the cause, is Completion.

Understand, I will define cause and effect in another con-text. Anything which has not made its effect completely in you is 'Cause'. Anything cause which has made its comple-tion in you is 'Effect'!

Get it! Get it! Anything which has not caused its complete effect in you is Cause. I'm redefining it from a different context.

Here is one more context! Please listen! Any pattern which you have not completed, as long as it remains as a pattern in you, is called 'cause'. When it is expressing itself in ac-tion, it is called 'effect'.

So I've defined it in three contexts. Now I'm going to the fourth context. I'm defining cause and effect in different-different ways. Whichever clicks for you, take it and start

working with it.

Cause is that which happens in your mamakara - inside you, in your inner image of yourself. Effect is that which happens outside you. You need to know - it is always from inside to outside!

Here are some more definitions of cause and effect.

I do not want to say, ‘Whatever you give comes back to you.’ No! How you cause it, that comes back to you in that same way.

Listen! If you cause something out of completion, what you get back will be a mira-cle! If you cause even a great charitable act out of incompletion, what you get back will be hell. Even the so-called moral, good, right acts caused out of incompletion will only have a bad effect, and not the desired effect!

In the Mahabharata epic, Karna’s famous charity was not out of completion. It came out of a deep incompletion and the feeling that he was not respected. What was Karna’s mamakara? ‘I am a failure; I am not respected anywhere I go.’ This is because he did not know his parents’ names; he did not know his origins because he had been abandoned at birth.

So his mamakara from a young age was ‘I am not respected!’ So he was exploding with the ahankara - ‘I have to be respected, I am respectable!’ And what is the best way to be respected? Do charity! Even his charity was from incompletion. That is why his death itself was because of his charity. The characteristic of giving finally caused death to him!

See, in every level, he is destroyed by his acts of charity. First, Indra comes and takes away his protective shield and earrings. His kavacha and kundala were taken away by Indra. Why did Karna give it? ?He gave it, not out of completion, but out of incompletion, thinking, ‘I’m giving charity to Indra, the king of the gods!’

Then Kunti comes and asks for the boon that Karna will not send the nagastra (a deadly weapon) on her son, the prince Arjuna. Karna says, ‘Alright, I am giving a boon to the Rajamata, the Queen Mother!’ he gives it! Then she asks, ‘You will not fight with any of my sons other than Arjuna.’ Kunti knew that among her sons, only Arjuna was good enough to face Karna.

Karna says, ‘Alright, I am giving this boon to the Rajamata.’ And he gives the boon. Otherwise, he would have killed Bhima at one time, and the whole war would have ended. Because all the five Pandava brothers had taken the vow that if even one of them dies, all the others will walk into the fire. Karna was a fool! Even the sake of charity, a boon given out of incompletion is dangerous!

At the end of Karna’s life, all the good karma that he had ac-cumulated out of his charity comes and stands as a shield and protects him. So Lord Krishna, in order to liberate Kar-na, comes in the disguise of a poor brahmin and asks him to give Him as alms all the good effects of that charity.

You see, Karna might have done the charity out of incom-pletion, but the people who received it were complete. So all their blessings were on him. Those blessings were standing and protecting him; the ‘tathastu’ (‘So be it’) of all the people who received the charity was standing and protecting him.

Again, this fool Karna, knowing that Krishna himself is standing in front of him and asking for alms, thinks, 'I am giving even to Krishna!' Out of that incomple-tion, he gives the boon, and that is also taken away! Even the great acts like charity, when done out of incompletion, only leads to the wrong effect. Finally, because Karna no longer has the protection of his good karma, Arjuna is able to kill him.

In the same way, in the Ramayana epic, even the tapas (spiritual practices) per-formed by the demon-king Ravana are out of just one incompletion. What tapas Ravana did! But with just one incompletion - 'Women don't accept me'.

From a young age, he had the deep pattern that women don't accept him. This is because, when he once tried to force himself on a brahmin girl, and she cursed him

Anything you cause out of incompletion will have very serious wrong effects. Any-thing you cause out of completion will only have the effect of completion! So, the space you are in is most important for understanding the law of cause and effect!

People ask me again and again, 'Why are bad people happy and good people suf-fering?' The so-called good people may not be in completion when they do certain acts!

From outside it may look like it is good, but this is not so. For any receiver of his charity, Karna will look like a great charitable person. But only Karna knows that he does it out of incompletion! Or even he may not know or would have forgotten. Out of incompletion, even if you do good acts, it will only come back as bad effects. From the space of completion, anything you do comes back to you as completion!

So, in the law of cause and effect, the important thing you need to learn about is the space from which the cause is caused. Be-Cause! Because, if you don't BE and then Cause, you will be causing the effects for which you can't answer with BECAUSE! Let your being be in completion and cause anything; the effect will be completion! If your being is not in completion, the effects of whatever it causes will be such that you will not be able to give any answer about it. If somebody asks 'why', you won't be able to say 'because'. No! Be in completion so that you are causing the right ef-fect. BE-CAUSE - Be in completion and then Cause!

4) Question: What is the significance of the tiger statues that you are surrounded by on your throne, Swamiji?

Oh! It is not a tiger, it is a lion! (laughs) It is called a sim- haasana – the traditional lion-throne. Listen! It means that the space you carry inside you is that of a lion, and the outside life that you cause is another lion. The person who has conquered both his inner space and outer space sits on a simhasana.

In Indian tradition, the kings who have mastered their in-ner space and outer space, and the enlightened beings who cause their inner space and outer space, both sit on the simhasana – the seat of lions. It is also called as the Vyasa peetha, the seat from where the knowledge is radiated. That is why, symbolically, the statues of lions are carved on ei-ther side of this seat.

5) Question: Nithyanandam! My question is about the importance of sadhana (spiritual practice). What are the types of sadhana? Can anybody get enlightened without sadhana?

First thing: anything which moves you towards completion is sadhana.

You are asking about the types of sadhana. There are millions of types of sadhana. Anything can become a sadhana if you are doing it to achieve completion.

Even if you take a broom and go on sweeping this hall, saying, ‘Until I become complete, I will continue to sweep,’ that will become a sadhana!

If you sit and start blowing your nose, saying, ‘Until completion, I am going to do this,’ that is sadhana.

If you sit and start talking to yourself and declare, ‘Until completion, I am going to do this,’ that is sadhana.

If you sit and pour water on a stone continuously and say ‘Until completion, I am going to do this,’ that is sadhana.

Anything can become a sadhana! Whatever you do towards completion is sadhana.

Listen! What is the importance of sadhana? Anything that leads you to completion is sadhana, and anything you do with the purpose of completion is sadhana. And without the action to achieve completion, you can neither achieve completion nor enlightenment! Only with completion can you achieve enlightenment.

6) Question: Dear Swamiji, how can integrity, authenticity, re- sponsibility & enriching lead to extraordinary powers like mate- rialization, teleportation and leaving the body in sajeeva sama- dhi?

Yes, it’s a nice question. You are asking how integrity, au-thenticity, responsibility & enriching lead to extraordinary powers, like materialization, teleportation and leaving the body in sajeeva samadhi. No, it is not even sajeeva samadhi, it is nirbeeja samadhi (seedless samadhi), the highest samadhi you can achieve with these four tattvas.

Understand, what are these powers? They are nothing but the cosmos responding to whatever you think, when you are in integrity with the cosmos. Energy responds to mat-ter.

What is authenticity? Please understand, the decision of authenticity has to come from your very soul. Your soul has to awaken. Only then can you start living authenticity. Till then, you may be practicing a little authenticity in your yoga, or a little authenticity in your waking hours, a little nirahara. But that is not completely authentic.

When your soul wakes up, only then do you become a completely authentically authentic soul. When you start practicing authenticity, your soul wakes up. Your being wakes up. Getting it?

When you practice integrity with integrity and authentic-ity with authenticity, you will simply have powers like ma-terialization, teleportation and vak-siddhi (your words turning into reality).

See, when you are so integrated with your words, your words just move the world. Your words can simply move the world. When you are completely authentic, your soul can simply express anything. Because energy and matter both listen to your soul. Matter listens to energy.

sajeeva samadhi can be called living enlightenment.

When you live these four principles even while you are alive, you completely be-come spiritual energy. There is no individual private corner in your inner space for you. It is life of pure integrity, authenticity, responsibility & enriching. There are no personal desires, no personal ideas and no personal moments. Yes, practicing integrity, authenticity, responsibility & enriching lead to extraordinary powers like materialization, teleportation and leaving the body in sajeeva samadhi. Just practice, you will understand how directly - immediately - it leads you to sajeeva samadhi.

Authenticity is nothing but you remembering that all powers are at your disposal. You can just possess and express any power you want.

Today I have a special webinar called 'Experience the peak possibility of your life!' to make people understand how extraordinary powers can be expressed through living in integrity, authenticity, responsibility & enriching. Self-transformation is the ultimate extraordinary power. It can be expressed by experiencing the peak possibility of your life.

So the essence of today's satsang is this: understand the principles of cause and ef-fect. Realize that the four tattvas can create extraordinary powers in you. Enjoy your life by living these four great principles as life.

I bless you all who are sitting with us at this moment, around the world. Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss – ‘Nithyananda’! Thank you!