Discover Your Peak Performance🔗

Saturday, 27ᵀᴴ April 2013.

Today's subject for the Nithya satsang is about living these principles as a natural flow of life.

Please understand, these four principles of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching exist in our very DNA. A seed becomes a tree or man realizes his potential only when these four principles are lived. As of now, man is only a possibility. Only when these four principles become reality do you experience your actuality. A human being has everything needed in him to become the ultimate reality, the divine reality. These four spiritual principles continuously inspire, exert and make you experience your ultimate possibility. As I said yesterday, the DNA - the very structure with which the human consciousness is built, the natural law of human life – in Sanskrit we use the word dharma – are these four principles!

œ With integrity, the innate intelligence to expand is straightened; the space of positivity is awakened.

You establishing your existence into everything is what I call ‘serving’. In any form of serving or enriching, you expand and become part of it.

Perception is the process happening with the facts and your patterns.

‘How you want to see the facts’ and ‘the facts’ - perception is achieved by putting both these together.

When you bring integrity into you, when you bring complete integrity into your thinking, the words you utter to you and to others will be experienced as your very life.

The word which comes out of your life source does not leave or get disconnected from your life source. So, what happens to those words affects the source of your life. Please understand, it is not like you give a word, and then you and the word are not connected, whether the word is fulfilled or unfulfilled, as if it is no way related to your life source. No! The word continues to be connected with you, because it is delivered from you.

Even though your child is out of your body after you deliver it, it is not as if you are disconnected from your child. His good or bad experiences continue to affect you, until you exist. In the same way, the words which come out of you continue to have power over you, whether they are fulfilled or unfulfilled, respected or not respected, listened to or not listened to. Even though the words you give leave your body, it does not get disconnected from you. It is just like your relationship with your children. With any word you utter, the relationship continues to exist. Understanding that the word you utter continues to have power over you even years after it is uttered, makes you utter the words with responsibility.

When you experience the words you utter to you and to others as the extension of your life, they directly affect you. When the words uttered by you are not listened to, the completion is disturbed. I tell you, if you are talking, and a few people in front of you are completely restless and not listening to you, you will never be able to express the complete ideas which you are about to express. You will not be able to have completion in your delivery. Even in your house, if the person to whom you are talking to is not listening, if the person is not in the space of listening, the ideas you are going to express will never be delivered. It may lead to an argument, but it may never lead to intelligence transfer. Information transfer is argument. Intelligence transfer is listening. In arguments, information can be transferred, but never intelligence. Only in listening can intelligence can be transferred.

So understand, I am not proposing this theory of integrity as ethics or morality. No! Ethics or morality is very superficial, skin deep. I am proposing integrity as an Inner Awakening process, where your possibility is awakened and your rights are reclaimed.

Integrity is not your responsibility. It is your right!

For example, there is a treasury in a room. I give you the key and force you to go and open it and see it, saying 'Go and open and see! Go and open and see!' You may think, 'What is this? This Swami is forcing me! He is making me do something which is a responsibility, which is work for me!' But until you open and see the treasury for yourself, whatever I say is a responsibility or a work for you. Only when you open and reclaim it, will you understand that it is your right! When you start living integrity, amazing powers express through you. Then you will realize that integrity is not just your responsibility, it is your right! It is simply your birthright!

Understand, every word uttered by you is an extension of you, and continues to be an extension of you until it is completed either by fulfillment or by completion. Your words continue to exist. They do not die. The words you utter do not die down. In the same way, the words you utter to yourself also do not die down. They continue to exist and disturb and alter your perception!

I can give you an example. Just go on telling yourself for the next ten days, 'I am healthy and energetic! See how young I have become! Suddenly I have become alright! Suddenly I am healthy! Suddenly I am feeling so energetic!'I It will look like a lie for the first two or three days. And for the next two or three days, it will look like hypocrisy. After a week, you will see that it becomes your way of expressing you. And after ten days, your perception about you will change!

Please understand, your perception about you will change, because the words uttered are not dead! They don't disappear in the air. They continue to exist and influence you. The words uttered continue to exist and influence you - the space of perception.

In the same way, you can try the other way round. If you go on telling everybody, for the next ten days, 'I am sick! I am sick! I am sick! I have become old! I don't think I can move my leg! I don't think I can move my hand! I have joint pains! I have this! I have that!' Go on repeating this for ten days. You will not only feel sick but you will feel like you can't move out of your bed! You can either make yourself sick or healthy, just by the words you utter! Making you fall sick by the words you utter is very easy. How many of you cognize what I am saying? In your life you can see it very clearly.

So understand, the words you utter are not disconnected from you. They are not dead in the air. In the same way, the words you utter to yourself are also not dead in your inner space. Just go on repeating the word, 'Wow! What a life! What excitement! So many new-new things are

happening every day! I am really excited! I am going to live it! I am going to make it!’ Go on repeating these words. I tell you, even your loans, debts, problems will look new and exciting to you! Even your sufferings will look new every day and will look like challenges and will be exciting for you!

There is the other way round, try repeating inside you, ‘It is boring! I don’t think I can make it! I think suicide is the only way! Life is not going to happen!’ Try to repeat this for ten days! You will see thateverything will be boring! When you wake up early in the morning, you don’t even want to open your eyes. You will say, ‘No, let me lie down for one more hour...’ When you can’t lie down any more, you will be irritated about the coffee not being hot enough or sweet enough. The agitation will start. Boredom leads to intense agitation towards reality. The constant irritation or agitation is a direct result of boredom, and the wrong words being repeated inside you, by yourself to yourself!

The words you utter to you and and to others continue to influence your perception. The space of perception, the space where you perceive things, can be purified into the ultimate positivity, by integrity. When you continuously live integrity, you will become aware of the thoughts and processes happening in your inner space. So, with this one concept, integrity purifies your perception and creates tremendous positivity.

Sometimes people ask me, ‘Will my cancer be healed if I repeat again and again, “I am healthy! I am healthy! I am healthy!”? It looks too much!’

I am talking with clarity and responsibility. By repeatedly practicing integrity, cancer can be cured! I have done it for thousands of my disciples. Please understand, complete practice of integrity within you and outside you can cure even diseases like cancer! I am responsible for what I am saying. Please understand, I am responsible for what I am saying.

I am not insensitive to your suffering. Don't think, 'He is a Guru sitting in a deep cave in a forest, not having any problems around him, having the beautiful Ganga water and fruits, and resting his whole life. And that is why he can say, ‘Life is beautiful, smooth, glorious! Don't have suffering!’ No! I am a Guru having enough problems! I have faced enough of persecution! With this, I am telling you - suffering is an option! Your perception is an option! The space of perception can be purified to the space of ultimate positivity, by integrity.

I will move to the next truth - how authenticity can lead you to the space of possibility!

Let me describe authenticity once more - raising yourself constantly to your peak possibility to yourself, and your peak possibility to others. What you are for you, and what you are for others

We usually don't have a problem raising ourselves to the peak of what we are for us. Just look in and see what you are for you. Many times, you are just a nagging fighter for you, from whom you can't even have divorce! No, look in! Then you will understand what Krishna says - uddhared atmanatmanam natmanam avasaadayet - raise yourself by yourself!

Sometimes people ask, ‘Why do we need an incarnation like Krishna to tell us this?’ If you practice it, you will understand that so much needs to be done in the field of raising you, to you!

Listen! If you cognize restlessness in you, an inability to be at peace with you, be very clear that you have a constantly nagging, fighting self, which does not allow you to be in tune with you. I will give you one example. Many times people tell me that when they go to a temple and stand in front of the deity, or when they go to a Guru with some request, their inner space will come up with so many options, ‘Ask this! Ask this! Ask this!’ Finally, they will be so confused about what to ask that they just come back silently! Or, sometimes, even when you go to talk to your boss to ask for a day off, or to ask for something, you are so messed up in your inner space that you will not be able to handle the conversation. You collapse and come back! Why consider your boss, sometimes you will not be able to handle the conversation even with your friends, you collapse and come back!

Understand, how many of you experienced this in your life - not being able to handle the conversation, collapsing and coming back? All of you have a deep restlessness within you! Not being able to handle a conversation is the direct side-effect of being unable to handle your perception about you. You may ask how these two are connected. I will expand. There is a deep dissatisfaction about your perception of who you are and your expectation about who you should be. Why is it so? Because you do not feel that you are responsible to create who you want to be. You think that suddenly one morning you will wake up, and by some boon or a blessing or miracle, you will be who you want to be! If the gap between who you are and who you want to be is without responsibility, it is greed. If it is with responsibility, it is possibility! When there is no responsibility-bridge, it is greed. When you are building the responsibility-bridge to achieve that who you want to be, then it becomes a possibility; it is no more greed!

The bridge is the responsibility. Even Rama has to build a bridge to reach Sita! When you add responsibility to your greed, the gap suddenly reduces. The gap reduces drastically! Responsibility infused into thinking removes the agitation and disconnection with you. Please understand, the disconnection existing between you and your possibility is the reason for non-communication. How many of you feel that you have stage-fear, you cannot communicate on the stage and you cannot speak in front of a crowd? Raise your hand.

I tell you, you cannot even speak with you! Speaking with you and speaking with a crowd is one and the same!

Sometimes you can see, even if you want to achieve something, after three or four arguments with yourself you say, 'Ah, why think of all these things? Leave it! Anyhow, all this will not enter my head! I can't do all this!' You just drop the conversation with you. It means that you are not able to handle your own doubts! If you say, 'I'll be

successful in this! I'll achieve this,' one part of your mind immediately creates doubts! 'How can this be? See your past performance! See your qualification! How do you say that you are going to achieve it? How is it possible for you?' Then you don't have an answer, and you just dump it by saying 'No, No! I will do it somehow..!' You escape from that conversation!

How many of you cognize that you have these kind of conversations in you?

So, you are not able to even handle yourself! There is a communication gap between you and you! The communication is not happening even between you and you. You are not able to convince even you! Then how are you going to get onto the stage and convince the people in front of you? When you are not even able to convince you, you develop a feeling that you are a fool, that you are stupid.

Please understand, however much you try to push the incomplete conversations with you under the carpet, they do not die. They run around under the carpet like Tom and Jerry! See, in the Tom and Jerry cartoon, the Tom or Jerry who has gone under the carpet does not keep quiet or sleep! He keeps running around! You can see the carpet going up and down!

In the same way, the incompletions pushed under your inner space, say, 'No, no, no, no, no! Why are you asking too many questions? Somehow I will win! Keep quiet!' Without completing, if you push your own questions under the carpet, they will not die! They will not keep quiet. Now or tomorrow, today or tomorrow, you have to face those questions. You have to face those incompletions. You have to face that part of you. When you can't face that part of you, when you can't communicate with that part of you, non-communication becomes your lifestyle.

I tell you, if you are not able to get onto a stage and speak, and if you are not able to communicate to a group of people, I will call that as a sickness! I will not call that as inability, I will call that as a sickness! You should be given handicap allowance! Unfortunately you do not understand the root of the reason, the root of the problem. You unable to communicate to a group of people is a serious illness! From my experience, I will term that as ‘unable to live life; being handicapped!’ Understand, a person who is not in communication with himself will not be able to communicate with a group.

The other secret you need to know is this - you are not an individual, you are a group living in one body! When I ask somebody their name, and if they say, ‘I am Ramachandran’, I say, ‘No! You should say Ramachandran & Co living in one body!’ Each one of us are a group living in one body! If you can handle your questions and have communication with you, I tell you, you can communicate with any number of people! You can speak on any stage, with any group!

The ability to speak to a group of people or communicate to a group of people is not something extraordinary. It is your basic survival need. Only with that capacity does your life start. Because for any achievement, you need to share your ideas with people, you need to enroll others into it. If you do not have that capacity, you will be working all alone. If your vision has not become the mission of many people, it can never be realized as a reality! Only when your mission becomes the mission of many people, it can it become reality, in any field, in any field!

So, the essence of today's satsang is this. Practicing integrity creates the space of positivity in you, and practicing authenticity creates the space of possibility in you.

The clear decision that you will continuously expand your possibility for you, and you will not be satisfied with what you are now, is more than enough! You do not need any other separate practice. That is the good news I have for you! You do not need to do any other sadhana, practice, blowing the nose or standing upside down. No! Nothing is required. A conscious decision is enough!

Why do you think Zen Buddhism has become so popular all over the world, But Advaita vedanta hasn't? Originally, Zen is from Advaita vedanta. It has evolved from the Advaita philosophy. But Zen has become popular, but not Advaita. The reason is that Zen emphasizes on the truth of declaration. The decision is enough. The cognitive shift is enough! Unfortunately, we advaitis are somehow stuck with some form of practice, without making people understand the importance of cognitive shift. The cognitive shift itself will make you live the principles. It is unfortunate that we do not understand the importance of cognitive shift. We think that some form of practice is required. I do promote spiritual practices like kriyas, yoga and pranayama, for the purpose of purifying your bio-memory, purifying your body and to cure some diseases. But I tell you, that is not the first priority in spiritual life. It may be like a pickle, but it is not the main meal! The main meal is cognitive shift! Shift in your cognition, shift in your perception, shift in your decision!

I will move to the next principle, the third principle. I will remind you by giving you the gist.

With integrity, the inner space is raised to positivity. There is so much of miscommunication with you, by you. Many times, you are not able to handle your own doubts and your own questions. Do not suppress your questions about you. Face them with responsibility. Come to reality. Your questions about you are nothing but reminding you to be in reality. Reminding you to be in, with and for reality, reminding you to be in reality, with reality and for reality!

If you dig deep, you will see that the corner of your mind which is questioning you is the totality of all the people in your life - your teacher, your uncle, your critics, your mother-in-law! All of them put together will be sitting as a part of you, inside you. Learn to handle that part. You will expand your possibility!

When part of you is not in communication with you, you will also not be in communication with others. You will also not be able to convince others about anything that you yourself are not convinced

about. Please understand - you yourself will not be able to convince others about anything for which you yourself are not convinced about. S, answer that part of you that continuously questions you, without suppressing it. Now are you getting it? Answer that part of you which is criticizing you, without suppressing it or brushing it aside, taking that part also into confidence with you in your flow of life.

See, for example, you declare, ‘I will make a hundred crores worth of money!’ One part of you immediately starts questioning you. ‘You fool! You can’t even work for eight hours a day! you try to cheat, escape and run away at the office itself! What kind of a fellow are you? You neither work nor encourage others to work! So how are you going to make a hundred crore rupees?’ Then another part of you says ‘Don’t ask me too many questions. I will have it!’ ‘How’? ‘Don’t ask all that! I will have it!’

So, naturally, what is it? It is only suppressing the questioning part of you. If you take responsibility for that part, you can have a breakthrough. When you start taking responsibility, you will melt down that part which constantly criticizes you, and that part will become part of you!!

Any part, which is not a part of the solution, IS the problem! Even in your workplace, in your team, in your company or in your house, if you are not a part of the solution, you are the problem! Any part which is not a part of the solution is the problem! When you take responsibility, the hundred crore may finally be fifty crores or two hundred crores, but you will be in tune and aligned with your solution, with your life’s flow. That is what I call authenticity!

Authenticity means you being in the peak of what you mean to you. How many of you are able to cognize what I am saying? Raising you to be what you mean for you, is authenticity. Authenticity is not just transparency. No! That is one dimension of authenticity.

The Sanskrit word shraddha is the all-encompassing translation of the word authenticity. But authenticity is not the all-encompassing translation of the word shraddha. See, our language Sanskrit originated for the purpose of enlightenment. So the depth of the ideas these words convey can't be translated in English, because English originated for the purpose of expressing love; the ordinary human emotions like sex, fear, love, jealousy, war

I translate the word shraddha as authenticity, with the definition of 'being in the peak what you mean to you and what you mean to others'. That's all! What are you supposed to mean to you? Why do you have YOU in your life? You need to have you in your life for the fulfillment of whatever you understand as a goal of your life. Am I right? The fulfillment of your goal is the reason why you have you in your life. You have so many people in your

life as part of you – your son, your father, your mother, your daughter, your wife, your daughter-in-law, your mother-in-law, your boss, your employee. So many people are involved in your life. So many people are there as part of your life. Each one of them plays a role, brings something and adds something to your life.

Why do you need YOU to be part of your life? To fulfill what you understand as the goal of your life - always being in the peak of what you mean for you! Remember the best moments of your life. Sometimes, it will be moments of great pleasure. Sometimes, it will be moments of the highest sacrifice. Sometimes, it will be moments of great achievement. And sometimes, it will be moments of having the right knowledge in your life, when you had spiritual experience in your life. Continuously keeping to that peak as a lifestyle is what I call authenticity.

You would have had that peak when you saw big money happening in your life, or a big social success happening in your life, or a sense pleasure happening in your life, or some big knowledge or a spiritual experience happening in your life. It varies from person to person. If you look back, what is the peak moment of your life?

œ If you feel that knowledge is the peak moment of your life - some knowledge or some click happening in your brain about life, some clarity or some enlightenment moment as the peak moment of your life, you are a brahmana.

Community is not by birth, but by quality of your being!

When you remember you, what do feel about you? When you sit with you, do you remember you as a peaceful, joyful friend, or as an enemy who will imbalance you at any time? Do you remember you as a bunch of patterns which you are not able to control, and which make you continue to lose things in your life because of your self-made mental set-up and patterns?

Sometimes, I have seen that people are not able to give up that one pattern of constant agitation and irritation. They lose thousands of people in their life, but they will not give up that one pattern! Just for one pattern that they do not give up, they give up thousands of people in their lives!

I have a question here: 'Swamiji, how do we drop our

patterns?’

The question ‘how’ cannot be answered in a few minutes. It needs a long answer. Actually, I don’t directly answer all the ‘how’ questions. I create the ambience and ideas in such a way that you discover the answer. Only when you discover, do you practice. The human mind is such! Sorry to say this, it is so unfortunate, but the human mind is so arrogant. It never practices the solutions given by others; it only practices the solutions discovered by it. So whenever people ask me the question ‘how’, I put two hundred things in front of them, they make the combination of that two hundred and come up with their own solution and they practice only that!

So practice the tattvas, and you will find your own solutions. And I repeat, integrity brings the space of positivity and authenticity brings the space of possibility in you.

I bless you all to achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with enlightenment! Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss – ‘Nithyananda’! Thank you!

Listen! The areas where you feel any kind of powerlessness in your inner space are the areas where you have allowed the incursion to happen. Life is all about reclaiming your inner space!