Discover Your Peak Capacity!🔗

Let us start today's subject. I will continue to expand on authenticity, which we were working on yesterday.

I was explaining the tattvas of mamakara, ahankara and anyakara, and taking responsibility even for others' anyakara. Please understand, whether it is the ordinary level of the world, the metaphysical level of using the powers of the mind, or the spiritual level of using conscious powers - in all of the three levels, only when you take the responsibility for anyakara, you express and radiate.

There is a very beautiful story. It is a Buddhist story which has a deep meaning. A very powerful metaphysical science is expressed through this story. Somebody goes and asks Buddha, 'You talk so much about nibbana!' nibbana means the ultimate state of enlightenment – nirvana. In Sanskrit we call it as nirvana, in Buddhism it is called nibbana. The word is borrowed from Shaiva siddhantha. We have records that this word was first used around eight thousand years ago by the great Shaiva siddhantha saint, Tirumoolar. He used this word - nirvana deeksha.

So somebody asks Buddha, ‘Bhagavan, you speak so much about nibbaana, nirvana. When are you going to get into that state? Are you already in that state, or will you get into that state after leaving the body?’ Jeevan mukti means living enlightenment, videha mukti means radiating enlightenment, after you leave the body. This person was asking about videha mukti. Buddha laughed, ‘I naturally cannot say that I am in that state, because I am in the body.’ And his next statement was shocking. He said, ‘I am not going to achieve nirvana, even if I leave the body. Only after the last person on the planet achieves it, I will achieve it. I will be waiting!’

That is why I tell you, Buddha is still waiting. ‘Until the last person achieves enlightenment, I am not going to have nirvana; I will be waiting.’

The masters who commit with their disciples do make themselves continuously available. This is extreme patience! Buddha works as if you are going to get enlightened today, but he is ready to wait until the last person gets enlightenment. The power of passion and the power of patience, both express in their extreme, only when you are authentic! Please understand, when a disciple feels, ‘My master is responsible for my enlightenment,’ the master fulfils your anyakara. That is why I say, ‘I commit with you. Until you become enlightened, the energy which works through this body will do its job, and help you reach enlightenment!’ Because, I am authentic about it!

Just a few days ago, one brahmachari was asking me, ‘Swamiji, how do you have so much of patience, to go on repeating the same message? We are doing the same mistakes, and you repeat the same words! How do you have the patience?’

I was telling him, ‘You are all taking about one janma (lifetime). I am repeating this to you guys for the last so many janmas. And, I know for sure that I am going to repeat this for at least a few more janmas. And I am going to repeat it!’

There is a beautiful story by Sri Ramakrishna. He says that only if it rains when the svaati nakshatra (star) is in its peak, and the mother-of-pearl comes and opens her mouth above the ocean, and the svaati nakshatra goes inside the mother-of-pearl, and the mother-of-pearl goes into the ocean, only then will it create a pearl! See, how many things have to come together for a pearl to happen!

In the same way, for enlightenment to happen in you, you have to listen, internalize, have strong trust, and not be distracted in-between. There are so many things that need to be aligned! The rain knows that all the water it showers may not become a pearl. And it has to wait for the svaati star to rise, and then the mother-of-pearl to come up and open her mouth. It knows, but it still continues to shower. In the same way, I know that so many things have to align, but I continue to do my work! I continue to shower; I stretch, stretch and stretch! Peak capacity expresses with peak authenticity. I will not give up on you!

I tell you, unless you have tremendous patience

You need to have tremendous love and patience. I tell you, in any field, life happens to you, completion happens to you, only when there is tremendous love for people and a decision not to give up on people.

I was talking to some of the disciples yesterday. I was asking one lady about why her son never comes to our programs. She was giving some reasons. From the way she was giving reasons, I could see that she has given up on him! I told her, 'No, you cannot give up on people! The first thing is to be authentic. Do you really, honestly trusting what you are living? If you think that this is the best life that can happen to human beings, then you cannot give up on human beings. If you give up on human beings, then you are a hypocrite!' No! Whether you give up on me or not, I don't care. I will not give up on you!

Bring authenticity, the ability to stretch yourself to complete all the anyakaras. anyakara - what others feel about you, is not a curse! It is a 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 it. I am doing my job. In the same way, it is now your turn to do your job. Raise yourself to the anyakara of others. Raise yourself, especially to my anyakara of you. I have a certain image about you. When I rise to the image you carry about me, it is now your turn to raise yourself to my image of you. Only then does the Guru-disciple relationship start.

Shiva has to raise the expectations for Uma and Uma has to rise up to the expectations of Shiva. Only then, Meenakshi's wedding happens. Meenakshi's wedding is the symbolic scene of the individual soul merging with the cosmic soul, the individual becoming enlightened. The independent soul always starts the journey fighting with the cosmic soul! Understand? The journey starts with a fight. The individual soul says, ‘Come on, what do you mean by not letting what I want, happen?’

When you want to buy two candies for fifty paise (cents), and the shop-keeper says that he will only give you one candy for that much money, that fight is nothing but your fight with the cosmic soul! Even that is an expression of the individual soul rebelling. Do not think that your individual soul rebels only when you start knowing the science of enlightenment. No! Your fight starts from age three, with the candyman, to have more candy for the same money. The journey, the ultimate journey, always starts with a fight. That is why the union of Meenakshi and Sundareshwara also starts with a fight. She goes all the way to Kailash, to fight! And poor Shiva is meditating!

Almost all of your sadhana (spiritual practice) is nothing but a fight! Each time you expand to fulfill the responsibility of others’ image about you, the cosmic union happens in you. Meenakshi kalyana (wedding, union) happens in you. Meenakshi kalyana is the typical story of how an individual soul expressed authenticity with ahankara, mamakara and anyakara. Just by authenticity, she is a successful queen and goddess, an incarnation.

In all our temples I only keep incarnations. Venkateshwara is an incarnation, Arunagiri Yogishwara is an incarnation, Meenakshi is an

incarnation. Because, their lives have a meaning! They are not myth, they are perfect math! When you do not understand the math of the mystery, you become mythological. When you understand the mystery, you will understand it is a simple math, not myth. If you don’t know the mystery, the math becomes myth. Meenakshi is the perfect example of authenticity with mamakara, ahankara and anyakara. Each time you raise yourself to my anyakara (my image of you), you express being one with the cosmos! You cease to be the individual soul and you become the cosmic soul!

I will brief explain Meenakshi’s story. Meenakshi is a Pandya princess, an incarnation of the Divine Mother herself, who incarnated in the eighth century. She goes on a digvijaya (conquering all the directions). She goes and conquers literally everybody, and then goes to Kailash (the abode of Lord Shiva). There, she conquers Subramanya and Ganesha (the sons of Shiva). Finally, there is only Nandi (the aide of Shiva) who is left. She fights with him and wins over Nandi. Finally, she stands in front of Mahadeva, Shiva himself!

When your individual soul raises itself and stands face-to-face with the cosmic soul, the anger disappears, the sadhana disappears! Please understand, when the energy expresses as anger, if the anger is removed from the energy, it turns completely into love. So, she just fell in love, because the anger - the chili component of the energy, was removed. The story very sweetly says that for the first time in her life, Meenakshi understood what shyness was.

Understand, she was brought up to be a king, not just a queen! That is why she has so much power and aggression. She was like a powerful king, really powerful. So the story says that the moment she felt shyness, the masculine components which she was carrying in her body all disappeared. She just fell into the deep depth of feminine consciousness. I can say that she became enlightened! The physiological and psychological mutation happened, the union of the masculine and feminine energy happened inside her.

Then Mahadeva says, ‘Alright, what do you want, do you want to fight?’ She says, ‘No, I want to marry you.’ Then he says, ‘Alright; you are in a human body. So I too have to assume a human body to marry you. You go back to Madurai (city of Meenakshi). I will come there as Sundareshwara and marry you.’ Then he comes down as Sundareswhara (avatar of Shiva) and marries her.

The whole story is the story of authenticity. Every time you raise yourself to others’ anyakara, every time you stretch yourself to fulfill others’ anyakara, you achieve completion. You achieve fulfillment. You achieve union. Liberation from your individual identity happens to you, only when you raise yourself to others’ anyakara. When you stretch yourself to others’ anyakara, liberation from ahankara and mamakara happens!

I will give you the next level of assignment. Please understand today’s assignment. It is an extension of yesterday’s assignment.

Today’s assignment is this: Look deeply within and identify the inauthenticity, in all the conflicting

aspects of your life. What are the words that you gave and did not fulfill? Also, identify if you have given words that are not according to the peak of your capacity. And that is not just what you think as the peak of your capacity, but also what others consider as the peak of your capacity. For example, you may think your capacity is to get eighty percent in an examination, but your mother thinks that your capacity is to get one hundred percent. Only when you stretch, you will be able to liberate yourself from the identity that you are carry about you. The cover-up happens only by mamakara, but liberation from mamakara happens only when you fulfill others' anyakara.

So identify the words you gave but did not fulfill. Also, identify if you have given words that are not according to the peak of your capacity. And that is not just what you think as the peak of your capacity, but also what others consider as the peak of your capacity. Please pen down the assignment.

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

sangha is a place where the tattvas are taught to you, and you are supported until they becomes satya. A successful sangha should be such that it continues to support with tremendous patience, with the tattva of not giving up on ourselves and people, and helping every individual to restore their integrity and authenticity. Then the sangha becomes an independent living mechanism.